Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 29,872, Philip Haskell, Continental Mass.
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Service 
Continental Mass.

Haskell, Philip

S 29872
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Massachusetts
Philip Haskell
Served in the State of Masstu he was a private in the [illegible] commanded by Captain Field of the Reg commanded by Col Shephard in the Masstu
Time for 2 years
Inscribed on the Roll of Masstu at the rate of 80 Dollars 00 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 7th day of Dec 1833 and [illegible]
Briggs [illegible]
Arrears to the 4th of Sep 33 $200
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 March 40
$240
Revolutionary Claim, [illegible] June 7, 1832
Recorded by Geo C Stiles Clerk
Book E  Vol 2   Page 33
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Philip Haskell
Application for pension
Old [illegible] could not be found.
Private 2 years [illegible]
Hon J W Briggs HR
HW Bishop [crossed out]
Sen of Mass
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I Phillip Haskill of Blandford in the County of Hampden + Commonwealth of Massachusetts do here declair and say that I was a private in the Army of the Revolution on the Continental establishment enlisted at Brookfield Massachusetts in the month of December 1775 under Capt’n Danforth. I was in Col. Shepard’s Regiment during the time of my service. I enlisted for the term of one year + served during [ye] time + was discharged at Morristown New Jersey. I afterward enlisted on the 7th March 1777 at S. Brookfield for the term of three years + served the whole time + was discharged at the Highland near West Point. I made applications for a Pension to the War Department the 5th March 1819 – under the act of March 18th 1818 - + on the 24th day of May 1819 a Certificate was issued at the War Department by virtue of which I [recd] a Pension until the additional act of Congress deprived me thereof by reason of my having more property than the act allowed. At the time I made application for a Pension I resided in S. Blandford + [illegible] [illegible] since resided [illegible] the Certificate which was issued in my behalf. I [illegible] [illegible] – [illegible] at Otis, the Eighth Day of August A.D.  1832
Berkshire, ss. I, Henry W. Bishop, Register of the Court of Probate in and for said County, do hereby certify that Lester Filley, Esquire, before whom the annexed deposition was taken is one of the Justices of the Pease within and for said County, duly and regularly appointed, and that I am well acquainted with his hand writing, and have no doubt that the Signature annexed to said deposition is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this twenty seventh day of August A. D. 1832. Henry W. Bishop, Register of Probate
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I Phillip Haskill of Blandford in the County of Hampden + Commonwealth of Massachusetts do here declair and say that I was a private in the Army of the Revolution on the Continental establishment enlisted at Brookfield Massachusetts in the month of December 1775 under Capt’n Danforth. I was in Col. Shepard’s Regiment during the time of my service. I enlisted for the term of one year + served during [ye] time + was discharged at Morristown New Jersey. I afterward enlisted on the 7th March 1777 at S. Brookfield for the term of three years + served the whole time + was discharged at the Highland near West Point. I made applications for a Pension to the War Department the 5th March 1819 – under the act of March 18th 1818 - + on the 24th day of May 1819 a Certificate was issued at the War Department by virtue of which I [recd] a Pension until the additional act of Congress deprived me thereof by reason of my having more property than the act allowed. At the time I made application for a Pension I resided in S. Blandford + [illegible] [illegible] since resided [illegible] the Certificate which was issued in my behalf. I [illegible] [illegible] – [illegible] at Otis, the Eighth Day of August A.D. 1832 –
Philip Haskill
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Berkshire [illegible] Aug. 8th 1832 there Personally appeared Philip Haskill to me personally known + made oath to the truth of the forgoing Declaration by him subscribed + I further certify that [illegible] Philip Haskill is entitled to [illegible]. 
Lester Filley Juris [illegible]
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Philip Haskell
Payable semi-annually. The first payment on this Certificate will be made on the 4th of September next, in Boston, at the United States Branch bank
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War Department
Revolutionary Claim
I certify that, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 18th of March, 1818, Philip Haskell late a Private in the Army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the Massachusetts Agency, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the 5th day of March one thousand eight hundred and nineteen.
Given at the War Office of the United States, this 24th day of May one thousand eight hundred and nineteen. 
J.L. Edwards
in the absence and on behalf of the Secretary of War.
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In reply to your request of ____, received _____ for a statement of the military history of Philip Haskell a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his application for pension on file in this Bureau.   S 29,872
Dates of enlistment or appointment | Length of Service | Rank |Officers under whom service was rendered | State
March 7, 1777 | March 1780 | Private | Captain Slayton Captain Moor Captain Field | Colonel Shepard | Mass.
Dec. 1775 | 1 year | | Captain Danforth | Colonel Shepard 
Battles engaged in Taking of [illegible]
Residence of soldier at enlistment Enlisted at Brookfield, Mass.
Date of application for pension, Mch 5, 1819
Residence at date of application Blandford, Hampden Co, Mass.
Age at date of application, not stated
Remarks: His claim was [illegible]. There is no family [illegible].
Respectully, 
1776 Asa Danforth Cap. of 3rd Contl Inf. Col Leonard Col. Shepard
Commissioner
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29872
[illegible] INVALID.
File No. 29,872 Philip Haskell 
[illegible]
Act: June 7 39
Index: Val. 2, Page 172
[Arrangement of 1870]
1915 July 28. Hist. to H.S. Dermott letter in W. 14853 Roger Haskell
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11.039 R
Massachusetts
Philip Haskell of Blandford in the state of Massachusetts who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Shephard of the Massachusetts [illegible], for the term of Three Years
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 5th of March 1819.
Certificate of Pension iossued the 21st of May 1819 and sent to Samuel Hinckley [illegible]
Northampton Mass
Arrears to 4th of September 1819 6 months $48.00
Payable on the 4th Sept. 1819 $48.00
Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818.
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Philip Haskell private
of Shephard's Regiment Massachusetts [illegible]
1777 3 years
On a Roll.
Adm.
Philip Haskell application for a pension
Saml Hinckley Judge
Northampton, Mass
[illegible] April 15, 1819
Enclosed
Adm.
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I Philip Haskell of Blandford in the County of Hampden in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts testify and say that I enlisted into the [illegible] of the United States in the Revolutionary war on the seventh day of March 1777 into the Company commanded by Capt. Slayton afterwards commanded by Capt. Moor & at or towards the 6 [illegible] of my enlistment the company was commanded by Capt. Field, and in the Regt. commanded by Col. Shephard. I enlisted for three years and I continued to serve in this company and regt. from March 7th 1777 to March 1780 when I was discharged at a place called Rudd's Highland in the State of New York, having served out the full term of my enlistment of three years. I was in Genl. Glovers Brigade in the Massachusetts Line. I was at the taking of Burgoyne. I am in reduced financial status and in need of assistance from my Country for support, and pray the Hon. Secretary at War that I may be placed on the Pension List of the United States [illegible] to tjhe statute, or law, of the United States of March 18. #1818
March 5, 1819  Philip Haskell
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Hampshire [illegible] March 5, 1819 Philip Haskell the above named, personally appeared before me the Judge [illegible] of the County of Probate of Wills in afor said county and made solemn oath that the foregoing declaration by him ascribed is true and I hereby certify that he is in reduced and indigent circumstances and needs the assistance of his country for support. In testimony whereof I have here unto set my hand and affixed my official seal the day and year aforenamed. Samuel Hinckley Judge
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I Samuel Bobbit [illegible] in the County of Hampshire & Commonwealth of Massachusetts being fifty eight years of age testify  and say I enlisted into the three years service in the Revolutionary War sometime in the year 1777 (I think in the month of April of that year into the Company commanded by Capt. Slayton in the Regt. commanded by Col. Shephard in Genl Glovers Brigade Massachusetts line - which company was afterwards commanded by one Moore and at the close or near the close of the [illegible] service Capt. Field commanded the same company, & I was discharged at the Rudd's Highland [illegible] in the State of New York on the fifteenth of April 1780. And Philip Haskell the one applying for a pension [illegible] in the same company aforesaid and a private soldier at the time I enlisted and he continued in the same company until March 1780 when his time of enlistment expired and her was honorably discharged at the Highlands aforesaid. I have obtained my pension for the same service and [illegible]
March 5, 1819
Samuel Bobbit X his mark
Commonwealth of Massachusetts 
Hampshire on March 5, 1819 Samuel Bobbit above named personally appeared and made solemn oath that the foregoing declaration by him subscribed is the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth - he is an [illegible] Before me Samuel Hinckley Judge of the [illegible] Probate of wills and a Just. of the Peace in aforesaid County.