Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 35357, Thomas Trask, Continental R.I.
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Continental               Trask, Thomas                S. 35257
R.I.
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                            12223
                             Maine
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Thomas Trask
of Kenneber in the State of Maine
who was a Private in the company commanded
by Captain Tew of the Regiment commanded
by Colonel Hitchcock in the R. Island
line, for the term of one year,
from February 1776 to February 1777
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Inscribed on the Roll of Maine
at the rate of eight Dollars per month, to
commence on the 10 day of April 1818
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Certificate of Pension issued the 15 of July 1819
and sent to Josiah Robbins
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Arrears to 4th of March 1819              $86.63
Semi-anl. all'ce ending Sep. 1919          48.00
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                                                             $134.63
                                            {Revolutionary Claim,
                                             Acts March 18, 1818,
                                              and May 1, 1820}
....tored 22 April 1829 and
....ication sent to R.C. Vose, Esq.
....ion commencing 16 Feb 1829.
.... due 4 Sept. 1829  $52,74
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Thos. Trask Jr
Mass. line
C H Hitchcock
1 March 1776 - 12mo

Admitted upon the
evidence [illegible]
Admit

For Clks Certificate
see case of
Jas Robinson
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I Thomas Trask Jr. of Jefferson in the County of Lin-
coln and district of Maine, a resident citizen of
the United States, on oath declare and say: That 
about the first of March in the year 1776 I entlisted 
under Lieutenant Blunt into the Company of Capt
William Tea of Col Wilchcock's regiment, as a 
soldier in the  Massachusetts line on the continental
establishment in the war of the revolution, in the year's service, as it was called of the year 1776.
In the company I served out the year, being ac-
cording to my recollection ten months, for I ar-
rived before Boston, as L believe a fortnight or 
more before it was evacuated by the militia:
certain I am it was more than nine. At the 
end of the year, the army not being filled
up, it was [illegible] whom us to stay and serve two
months longer, which I did without any new en-
listment, and was in battle of Princeton where
I received a wound, but have had no pension as
an invalid: Thus I served in the whole about
twelve months, and received an honorable
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doscharge. On my return homeward, in Rhode Isl-
and, about 15 moles from Providence my pocket-
book containing my discharge and my continental
money was stolen from my pocket in the night.
When we arrived to Providence I said a few
days and received my wages for the last two 
months, which me to reach home.
                                              Thomas Task, Jr

                Commonwealth of Massachusetts
     Lincoln, Ss on the tenth day of April AD. 1818, before me
Josiah Stebbins, a Judge of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas
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I Morral Hilton if Wiscasset in said County 
of Lincoln on oath testify and say that I am well
acquainted with Thomas Trask Jun the aforesaid
applicant , that he enlisted in the War of the Revo-
lution in January or February 1776 to serve
from that time to the 1st day of January 1777, that he served out that time faithfully without in-
terruption & at the expiration thereof engaged again
for one month longer, & after serving out that month
I understood he received a regular discharge.
I was a soldier with him in the same company
during said year's service.
                                           Moral Hilton

I Abraham Walker of Alna in said County of Lincoln
on oath testify & say, that I am well acquainted with
Thomas Task Jr the aforesaid applicant, that he enlisted
in the war of the revolution in January of February 1776 to
serve from that time to the 1st day of January 1777- that I 
served i the same company as a soldier