Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 33282, Prince Hazeltine, Mass.
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(3 - 1776) SERVICE Mass CONTENTS Hazleton or Hazeltine, Prince (colored)
NUMBER S. 33282 B.L. Wt. 922-100.
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3668.
Massachusetts Roll
Prince Hazeltine, 4
Capt Warren
Private
Massachusetts line - 1777 - 6 years
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on
the 9 of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 15 of Oct. 1818
and Sent to the House Isaac Parker
Worcester, Massachusetts
Arrears to 4th Sept 1818 38.93
Semi-anl, all'ee ending 4th Mar 1819 48.00
Arrears Mo. 26/30 $86.93
{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March 1818.}
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Upton Worcester Co.
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Notification sent July 19th, 1820 to Abijah Bigelow, Worcester, Worcester Mass
Date of death not on 9B
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922 Prince  Hazleton
private 
2nd Regt Mass line 
Warranted June 6th 1820 
Wetzell & Mills
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I Ebenezor Cuttor do on oath testify and say that I was soldier in the army of the revolution from about two years. I was discharged in June 1783 according to the best of my collection, that I was in Capt Manns Company in the Worcester Massachusetts regiment & Prince Hazeltine to whom certa tion this is annexed was a soldier in said company say the whole of said time I do know that he was honourably discharged therefrom in June 1783 - and further declare that I am not interested directly or indirectly in said Hazeltine procuring a pension Ebeny Cater 
South ss Sept 23 183 
Then personally appeared the above named Ebenezer Cuttor and made solemn oath that the above affidavit by him subscribed contains the truth and I certify, that he is well known to me and is a credible witness 
Ezra Wood Justice of Peace
 I David Legg do on oath testify and say that I was a corporal & Sergeant in the war of the revolution three years in Col. Baileys Regiment, that Prince Hazeltine above mentioned was a soldier during the whole of said time in the same company with me. I sustained a good reputation. I never  was to my knowledge guilty of any mis conduct which required chastisement - and I do not doubt that he was honourably discharged and I declare that I have no interest directly nor indirectly in his procuring a pension. 
 David Legg
 North ss Sept 23, 1818 appeared the above named
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Application of Prince Hazelton of Upton

Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 
Worcester, ss. 
I, ABIJAH BIGELOW, Clerk of the Judicial Courts Holden within and for said County of Worcester,  certify, that Ezra Wood and Wm E. Green, Esquires, before whom the annexed affidavit have been made, are Justices of the Peace within and for said County, duly qualified for the purpose, acting under the authority of this Commonwealth, and that their names subscribed thereto are their own proper signatures.

IN testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the County seal, this twenty fourth day of September 
A. D. 1818
Abijah Bigelow Clerk

Application of Prince Hazelton 
of Upton
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 State of Massachusetts 
I Prince Hazelton* a Citizen of the United States, now resident at Upton in the County of Worcester in the State aforesaid, do on oath testify and declare, that in the War of the Revolution, in some time I think in the year 1777 I entered and was engaged in the land service of the United States on the continental establishment, and served accordingly from that time to the end of the war as a private soldier against the common enemy, without any interruption  absence; that I belonged to Captain Isaac Warren’s  company in Col. Baileys Regiment and afterwards to Captain James Manns Company in Col Sproat regiment the Massachusetts line and that I left the service on the eleventh June AD 1783 being honourably discharged which discharged have lost and that, by reason of my reduced circumstances in life and poverty, I stand in need of assistance from my country for support, being now of the age of sixty two years & infirm. 
And I hereby relinquish all claims to every pension heretofore allowed me by the laws of the United States, if any may be or hath been so allowed. Prince Hazelton his X made

BE IT REMEMBERED, That on this ninth day of April the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen pursuant to a law of the United States, entitled, "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War," made and passed on the 18th of March, A. D. 1818, personally appeareth before me, Isaac Washington Chief Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of said state. 

Prince Hazelton after due examination and caution to testify and declare the whole truth, he maketh oath by his mark being illiterate and not able to write to the declaration aforesaid, and subscribes the same in my presence; and, on examination due made by me the said Judge, it appear with to my satisfaction that the declaration is true. 
Witness hand & the of said Court the day & year aforesaid Isaac Parker CJ.SC

*[Written vertically along left edge]
There is probably a clerical error in this application. The name is Hazeltine instead of Hazelton. The applicant is a man of color and illiterate and was not (?) competent to detail it. He may be  found on the rolls.
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 David W. Leland of Lawful age do testify and say that I was soldier in the revolutionary war on the continental establishment and other in about two and a half years that I well knew Prince Hazelton within named in said service frequently saw him there doing the duty of a soldier & have no doubt that he served the United States as within mentioned further declare that full credit is to be given to his defor tions 
David W Leland  
Worcester ss Apr 10. 1848
Then personally appeared the above name David W Leland and made solemn oath that the facts contained in in the above deposition are true 
Before me W. E Gran Just  
Prince Hazelton
Upton 9 April - Not on rolls (crossed out)
Note 11 
found on Roll correct- Admitted 
Prince Hazeltine Upton
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Prince Hazeltine 
Upton 
3668 
March 1819
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 
COUNTY OF WORCESTER, ss. 
On this twenty second day of June 1820, personally appeared in open Court, before the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, being a Court of Record, within and for said County of Worcester, established as such by the laws of said Commonwealth, Prince Hazeltine aged sixty-three years, resident in Upton,  in said County, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows: Under my first enlistment which was for 3 years. I served under Col Bailey in the Regt commanded by Coll Sprout, first in the Company commanded by Capt. Warren afterwards in the Company commanded by Capt. James Maine, in the Massachusetts Line.  My certificate for a pension as 3668, and I do solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March, 1818; and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it, as to bring myself within the provisions of an Act of Congress, entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States, in the Revolutionary War,” passed on the 18th day of March, 1818; and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities, contracts or debts, due to me, nor have I any income, any property or securities, contracts or debts, due to me, nor have I any income, (crossed out: other than what is contained in the Schedule hereto) annexed, and by me subscribed. I am a laborer by occupation, but having broken my shoulder and incapable of performing but very little labor. I have no family whatever. Sworn to and declared, on the twenty second before the said Court.
Prince Hazeltine
Attest Abijah Bigelow
I, ABIJAH BIGELOW, Clerk of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, holden within and for the County of Worcester, do hereby certify, that the foregoing Oath, is truly copied from the Record of the said Court; and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said Court, that the (crossed out: total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule, dollars and on) said  Prince Hazeltine has no property whatever. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this twenty second day of June 1820 
Abijah Bigelow
Clerk of the Court for the County of Worcester
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No. 18246
State of Massachusetts 
County of Worcester 
I, Prince  Hazelton aged Sixty three years, a citizen of the United States, do, upon oath, testify and declare, that, in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy nine I enlisted in the army of the revolution, against the common enemy of my country, for the term of “during the war,”  and served in the company commanded by James Maine and in the regiment No. 2 under command of Colonel Sprout of the Massachusetts line; and that I continued in the service aforesaid until the close of the war, in seventeen hundred and eighty three, when I was regularly discharged from the regiment, commanded by Colonel Sprout.
My discharge is now lost or mislaid, so that I cannot produce it to corroborate the above statement. I further declare that I have never received a warrant for the Bounty Land promised to me on the part of the United States; nor have I ever assign ed or transferred my claim to that gratuity in any manner whatsoever: therefore, Know all men by these presents that I, Prince Hazelton aforesaid , do hereby constitute and appoint Witzell & Mills of the county of of the District of Columbia to be my true and lawful attorneys for me and in my name to demand and receive from the Secretary of War of the United States, or of such other person as is duly authorized to issue and deliver the same; a warrant for the quantity of Land due to me as aforesaid, and to sign a receipt or acquittance therefor; and my said attorney is thereby fully authorized and empowered to constitute and appoint one or more substitutes or attorneys under him, for the special purposes above expressed. 
Attest, Wood for Ward Baker 
Prince Hazeltine 
I, Wilson Rawson, aged sixty-eight years, a citizen of the United States, do upon oath, declare that acquainted with Prince Hazelton who has subscribed the above declaration in my presence, and well know that he is the identical person he therein represents himself to be; and I have no doubt that he did perform the military service therein stated. 
Attest, Ezra Wood     Wilson Rawson
Before me, personally appeared the above named Prince Hazelton, the subscriber to the foregoing declaration, and in my presence acknowledged the power of attorney thereto subjoined, to be his free act and deed, and, likewise, personally appeared Wilson  Rawson who hath subscribed the above certificate of identity, both to me well known to be men of respectability and truth, and made solemn oath to the truth of the depositions by them respectively subscribed, this twenty fourth day of May 1820 Ezra Ward Justice of the Peace
 
In testimony that the above written was a magistrate authorised to administer oaths, and take acknowledgments, &c. in the state of __ at the above date, and that his name there subscribed appears to me to be his usual signature, I have hereunto affixed the county seal, and subscribed my name and quality, at _ this __ day_  of  18__
C. Clerk, &c.
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VETERANS ADMINISTRATION 
WASHINGTON 
March 13, 1937 
BA-J/ELL 
Prince Hazeltine 
S.33282 
The data which follow are obtained from the papers on file in Revolutionary War pension claim, S.33282, based upon the military service in that war of Prince Hazeltine, a colored man. 

The date and place of birth and the names of the parents of Prince Hazeltine (the name appears, also, as Hazelton) are not shown. 

Prince Hazeltine enlisted, place not shown, May 15, 1777, served as a private in Captain Isaac Warren's and James Means' Companies, Colonels Bailey and Sprout's 2"" Massachusetts Regiment and was discharged June 11, 1783. It was stated that he received two badges of merit. 

He was allowed pension on his application on executed April 9, 1818, at which time he was aged sixty-two years and resided in Upton, Massachusetts. 

In 1820, soldier stated that he had no family. 

Date of death not on AB 

To be sent if ever called for It was written just to have a record of negro soldiers. 

Sol recorded in Mass Vol. 2 pages 646 & 648
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33282 
Revy INVALID 
File No. 33 . 262 
Prince Hazeltine 
Priv Rev War
Act: 18 March 18 
Index:--Vol. 2, Page 175 
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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[illegible] is No 922 
from Sam Blagge Esq. 
Boston. 
Identity of Prince Hazleton Revolutionary Claimant
Wetzell & Mills attorney
June 2d 1820
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Prince Hazelton 
issued No 922 
When at leisure see if the documents on which to in these cases have been issued are filed and 
Wm Stuart
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Commonwealth Massachusetts

Suffolk ss. Boston April 5 1820. Personally appeared before me Samuel Blagge, notary public by legal authority appointed and sworn, & dwelling in Boston aforesaid. Ezra Wood, and on Oath declared that he has been long acquainted with Prince Hazelton, late a Soldier in the army of the Revolution and that he is the identical person he represents himself to be, & the same who has executed a power of attorney hereunto annexed bearing date Feby 15th 1820 and further I know he did perform the Military services at stated in a Certificate signed by Adams Bailey, later a Captain in the 2 Massachusetts Regiment

Ezra Wood

[seal affixed] In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed my seal of office, the day & year first above written.

S. Blagge
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This Certifies that Ezra Wood Esq. who has signed the annexed Certificate, is well known to me as a person of respectability and one of the
Magistrates for the County of Worcester in this Commonwealth

S. Blagge
Notary Public

Boston 13 April
1820
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This may certify that I find in the Regimental Book of the 2nd Mass Reg't the name of Prince Hazelton who is inlisted May 15th 1777 for during the war, and was discharged with two bages of merit as he had served more than six years.

Adams Bailey late
a Cap't in the Said Reg't.

U.S. Marine Hospital
Feby 15th 1820

Commonwealth Massachusetts

Suffolk ss. Boston. Feby 15th 1820. Personally appeared before me Samuel Blagge Notary Public by legal authority appointed, Sworn and dwelling in Boston aforesaid, Adams Bailey late a Captain in the Second Mass Regiment and made Oath to the truth of the above Certificate by him Subscribed.

In Testimony Where of I have hereunto Set my hand & affixed my Seal of Office the Day & Year above written.

S. Blagge
Notary Public
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
By His Excellency John Brooks, Esquire, Governor and Commander in Chief in and over said Commonwealth.

To All Whom It May Concern:

Know ye, That Ezra Wood Jun Esquire is a Justice of the Peace within said for the County of Worcester in the said Commonwealth, duly constituted and commissioned, and that to his Acts and Attestations, as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given in and out of Court.
[signature in left margin] J. Brooks

In Testimony whereof, I have caused the Public Seal of the Commonwealth to be hereunto affixed, this twenty seventh day of May A.D. 1820, and in the forty fourth year of the Independence of the United States of America,

By His Excellency the Governor.

Alden Bradford Secretary of the Commonwealth.