Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 19670, Jacob Frost, Mass.
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Service Mass
Name Frost, Jacob
Number  S 19670

Carded
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No 18228
Maine
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Jacob Frost
Of Oxford Co in the State of Maine
was a private Prt & Sergt in the Company commanded by Captain Trull of the Regt commanded by Col Bridge in the Mass Troops 

for 3 months Srgt----------------------15.00
for 14 " & 2 days Prv-------------------46,87
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------------------------------------------$61.87

===============================IIIncluded on the Roll of Maine
at the rate of 61 Dollars 87 cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March 1831
===============================Certified of Pension issued on the 1 day of August 1833 and sent to T. Clark
Paris Me
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arrear to the 4th of March 1833 -------$123.74
Semi-anl allowance ending 4 Sept 1833--30.93
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$154.67
Revolutionary Claim
Act June 7, 1832
Recorded by D. Brown Clerk
Book E   Vol 1  Page 15
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Mass. Frost, Jacob S19760
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STATE OF MAINE
County of Oxford ss

On this 13th day of September A.D. 1832 personally before Thomas Clark Esquire, Jacob Frost as resident of Norway in the county of Oxford and State of Maine age 80 years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7 1832. 
That on the 19th day of April 1775, on the alarm of the enemys being on their march from Boston to Lexington, at Tewksbury in the State of Massachusetts, his the residence, he then being a minute man he marched to Concord in the company commanded by Capt John Trull of the Massachusetts militia and pursued the enemy to Boston- and he immediately enlisted at Cambridge near Boston for the term of eight months, in the company commanded by Capt Benjamin Walker, in the regiment commanded by Col Ebenezer Bridge, and was employed on the night previous tot he battle of Bunker hill on the 17th day of June 1775, in throwing up beast works, was in the battle- and was then severely wounded in the hip, and entirely disabled, and he laid among the wounded until the day after the battle when he was taken up by the British & carried to Boston & there kept a prisoner until March 1776, at which time the British evacuated Boston, when he was put on board a British man of war ship called the Centurian & carried in Irons to Halifax in Nova Scotia and there kept in prison until the 21st of June 1776 when with some others found means to escape from prison & wandered almost without clothes & entirely without money through the words till he finally arrived at his residence in said Tewksbury the last of September 1776 being one year & five months absent from his enlistment aforesaid  until his return to his home.

In the month of July 1779 he again enlisted at Tewksbury aforesaid for the term of three months, as a private in the company commanded by Capt Amos Foster and was immediately appointed a sergeant, said company was attached to the regiment commanded by Col Jacobs and was marched to Rhode Island where he served said three months and was there honorably discharged. He further [[presents]] that he is an Invalid Pensioner, as will appear by the certificate hereunto annexed - and he prays that the Hon. Secretary at War that he may be place on the Pension Roll of the United States [[under]] the act of the 7th of June 1832-
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among the wounded until the day after battle when he was taken up by the British & carried to Boston & those kept a prisoner until March of 1176 at which time the British evacuated Boston when he was put on board a British man of war ship called the Centurian & carried in Irons to Halifax in Nova Scotia, and there keep in prison until the 21 of June 1776 when he with some others found means to escape from prison & wandered almost without clothes & entirely without money through the woods till he finally arrived at his residence in Tewksbury the last of September 1776 being one year & five months absent from his enlistment aforesaid until his return to his home.

In the month of July 1779 he again enlisted at Tewksbury aforesaid for the term of three months as a private in the company commanded by Capt Amos Foster and was immediately appointed a sergeant, said company was attached to the regiment commanded by Col. Jacobs and was marched to Rhode Island where he served said three months and was there and fully discharged & He further presents that he is an Invalid Pensioner as will appear by the certificate hereunto annexed - and he prays that the Hon. Secretary at war - that he may be placed on the Pension Roll of the United States under the act of the 7th of June 1832.

He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is only on the Pension Roll of the agency of the State of Maine as aforesaid.

Sworn to subscribed the day and aforesaid. 
Jacob Frost (signature)

State of Maine
County of Oxford ss.

September 13, 1832 - Then personally appeared Jacob Frost to me well known as a man of truth and made solemn oath to the truth of the above declaration by him subscribed - Before me.

Thomas Clark Justice of Peace & Notary Public within and for said  County of Oxford-----
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And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting in the interrogatories by the War Department, that the above applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states.

I  --------------Clerk of the ----------------------
do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of for a pension.

In  testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of this day __________A. D. 183-

CLERK
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Invalid
File No. 19670
Samuel Frost
Rev. War
Act: 17 March 
Index: - Vol, Page 163
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31042
Rev. Invalid

File No; 31042
Jacob Frost
Sgt, Rev. war

Act : June 7
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Frost, Jacob
(Mass) S-19670

This certifies that Jacob Frost, a soldier- an inhabitant of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, who belonged to the Mass Regt commanded by [[M Colo.]] Ebeneezer Bridge & in Benjamin Walker's Comp.y - in the service of the United States of America, aged thirty five, as appears by Certificates lodged in the Pension Office, having been examined by me, is found to be disabled in said service by a Musket ball, through his left hip bone -- -- -- 

And I do hereby certify that he is entitled to receive Fifteen Shillings per Month, commencing 17th March 1786 -- agreeably to the Resolution of Congress of the 7th of June, 1785, and to an Act of the Legislature of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, of the 17th March 1786, and that sd Frost is [[now]] fit for Guard or Garrison duty--

Given under my hand, at Boston this 29th Day of August in the year of our Lord 1788, and in the Thirteenth year of the Independence of the United States of America.-----

John Lucas, Commissary of Pensions
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Massachusetts to Maine
Jacob Frost, Private
Captain Mathers company of Col Bridge
Regt of the Revolutionary Army

Ratio of disability: One half
Date of discharge
Time of closing the testimony
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts
at Four dollars per month, to commence on the 24 April 1816

Formal Certificate of pension issued on the 18th of Oct 1831
and sent to J. Wingate Junr. U.S Br. Bank
Portland Maine

Arrears to 4h
Semi an'l all'ce ending

Act of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts 17th March 1786 v Resolution of Congress of [[   ]] 1785
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Letter to Thomas Clarke
27 December 1832

Susp. Obj.16 - 
26. Ap. '33

Also a Pensioner
Under the act of 7 June 1832
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We the Selectmen of Norway hereby certify that we have been well acquainted with Mr. Jacob Frost of said Norway for many years, & that he sustains the reputation of a man of truth & veracity

Norway Aug. 23rd 1832
Daniel Noyes}          Selectmen
Ichabod Bartlett}      of the town
Nathan Noble}          of Norway
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This may certify that I have been acquainted with the within named Jacob Frost for many years past & do cheerfully concur with the written recommendation.
Job Eastman Town Clerk
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Paris May 7, 1833

Sir

I herewith transmit the declaration of Joshua De, Besse with a certificate of the seal of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts as to the character of the Sloop " Hancock" and the declaration of Jacob Frost as amended-

Your obt. servt.

Thomas Clark

James L Edward, Esq
Commission of Pension
Washington--


STATE OF MAINE
Oxford County ss

I Rufus King Goodenow, Clerk of the Judicial Courts in and for said County of Oxford, hereby certify that Thomas Clark and Jonathan Swift whose genuine signatures are annexed to the foregoing Depositions of Jacob Frost  and Jonathan Shed are 
Justices of the Peace and for said county of Oxford.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office this thirtieth day of January  in the year A. D., 1833

R.K. Goodenow (signature)
Clerk of Oxford
County Courts
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Paris Me
Sept 13

Hon Lewis Cass

Secretary of War
Pension application Washington D.C

Pension Application 
12.722.25
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Paris, Maine September 13, 1732

Sir

I herewith enclose the declaration of Jacob Frost and his appreciation to be transferred from the Rol of Invalid Pensioner to that under the late act of Congress

With great respect

Your obt sert
Thomas Clark


Hon Lewis Cass
Secretary at War
Washington
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I Jacob Frost of Norway in the county of Oxford & State of Maine, aged eighty years on oath declare that during the period of three months, that I served as orderly sergeant in the Company commanded by Capt. Amos Foster in Col. Jacobs regiment - on Rhode Island in the year A. D. 1779 - the orderly Sergeant was appointed to act as a Lieut in consequence of the absence of one of the Lieutenants and I was thereupon appointed to fill the vacancy and served the term of three months in that capacity- and I further declare that I did not receive a warrant from my office but acted without one.

Jacob Frost (signature)

State of Main
Oxford ss January 28, 1833 - Jacob Frost above named personally appeared and made oath to the truth of the above affidavit by him signed - which signature was duly made in my presence - and who is the same person who signed the application for a pension herewith transmitted to the War department

Thomas Clark, Justice of the Peace -
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We Noah Hunt and Amos Strikney both of Tewksbury, in the County of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts being of Lawful age do depose testify and say that Jacob Frost late of Tewksbury served in the army of the Revolution as a soldier for the term of three months at Rode Island in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy nine in Capt Amos Fosters Company of infantry-
Noah Hunt
Amos Stukney


State of Massachusetts County of Middlesex ss
Personally appeared the above named Noah Hunt and Amos Strikney and made oath to the above deposition by them subscribed this twenty third day of July A.D. 1832

Before Me

Josiah Brown (his signature) Justice of  



Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Middlesex ss

I Elias Phinney Clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court for the said county of Middlesex, do certify that Josiah Brown Esquire is a justice of the Peace within aforesaid county & that his name set to the above certified is his own proper signature

In testimony where I have affixed the seal of said Court the fifth  day of September 1832

E. Phinney
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Norway January 25, 1833.

I Jonathan Shed of Maine a Albany in the county of Oxford and state of Maine a Revolutionary Soldier do hereby declare and say, 
That I served in the company of Capt Amos Foster & Col Jacobs Regt of Infantry stationed on Rode island in the year seventeen hundred and seventy nine for the share of three months and was Discharged the last of October in the same year. and I further say that Jacob Frost served for the same time in the same company and was the Orderly Seargent of said Company for the whole time. Said Frost now resides in Norway. 
Jonathan Shed

Oxford SS. January 25. 1833.
Personally appeared Jonathan Shed above named and made oath that the above Deposition by him subscribed was [[true]] before me.
Jonathan Swift, Justice of the Peace

Oxford SS January 26th. 1833. I hereby certify, that the above named Jonathan Shed is a credible person, and that his affidavit is entitled to full credit.
Thomas Clark, Jus. of the Peace