Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 37565, Frederick Ballard, Mass.
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I, Icahabod Tucker of Salem in the County of Essex, [illegible] depose and say that I have in my  posession a record of the military proceedings in the town of Andover in said County of Essex in the time of the Revolutionary war, and, that, by that record kept by the late Genl. Nathaniel Lovejoy, then a captain in the said town of Andover it appears that Frederick Ballard enlisted in the the Continental Army for the turn of nine months from the time he should arrive at the Head-Quarters. He enlisted June 1st , 1778.
It also appears by the record aforesaid that the said Frederick Ballard enlisted for three months Dec. 18th 1776 to go to New York, and also for 3 1/2 months Aug 15th 1777 with Capt Samuel Johnson, as a Reinforcement to Genl. Gates in the Northern department.  
Ichabod Tucker
[illegible] July 28, 1825 Then the abovenamed Ichabod Tucker Esq made with that the above affidavit is true before 
[illegible] Merrill Justice of the Peace