Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 40296, for John Pratt, Pennsylvania
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(3-1776)     

SERVICE                                                  NUMBER

Penn.                Pratt, John                        S.40296
                                            B.L.Wt. 13901-160-55


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CONTENTS

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(Folded pre-printed form with fill ins)

Pittsburg agg 18,893.
Pennsylvania. to
________________________________________________________________________________________________________John Pratt,
of Greene Co. in the State of Pennsylvania, who was a private in the company commanded by Captain M. Springer, of the Regiment commanded by Colonel Broadhead in the ("Virginia" crossed out) Pennsylvania line, fir the term of 18 months in '78 + 79-
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Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania, at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 1st. of March 1823.
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 Certificate of Pension issued the 118th of Mar: 1823, and sent to Reese Hill, Esqr.
Harrisburg, Pa
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Arrears to 4th of Mar: 1823__________$ 1..03
Semi anl. all'ce ending 4 Sept:1823     48..00
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    4/31.                                                 49..03    ________                                               _____________      
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(ink stamp) 
{Revolutionary claim}
{Acts March 18, 1818,}
{and May 1, 1820.       }

(handwritten underneath)
    +
1 March 1823
(other side of fold)

Notification of transfer sent to P??? (illegible)
come of ?.(illegible) Archebold E
Woodsfield Ohio. 10. Nov. 32

(hand written perpendicular)

Reg SS m 55-85897
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Greene County}
Pennsylvania    } Ss.  Before me DavidGray Esqr. one of the Associate Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the county aforesaid, personally appeared John Pratt of said County who being duly sworn doth depose Can say that he first enlisted under Capt. Springer of Col. Danl. Broadhead Regt. at Fort Pitt, remained there about three months thenwe marched up the Allegheny River performing actual Service for a considerable time, returned to Fort Pitt, thenwe went to Mackintosha + after remaining there some time returned to Fort Pitt + was discharged after a Service of Eighteen months; This deponent cannot tell the number of the Regt. or Company to which he belonged further than as above stated; He further states that he was Honorably discharged, but by accident, his discharge has been lost, he further sayeth that he is poor + Stands in need of his country's assistance- for support       

                        /s/John EP Pratt ("EP" is "his mark")

Sworn + Subscribed   }
before me This Second}
day of May in the year one}
thousand and eight hundred and }
Eighteen                                        }

   /s/ David Gray
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Pennsylvania }
Greene County Ss}   I William J. Hays, Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County, hereby Certify that David Gray before whom the within Deposition appears to have been made is and was st the time of taking + signing the same an acting Associate Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for Said County, and that full faith +Credit are due and ought to be given to all his official acts as such. - In testimony where I have hereto set my hand + affixed the seal of said County  May 6th A. D. 1818
             /s/ Wm. J. Hayes Prothy.
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Application for a Transfer

State of Ohio  }
County of Monroe} Ss  On this 8th Day of October 1832 before me the Subscriber a Justice of the Peace for said County of Monroe personally appeared John Pratt who on his oath declares that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the Company commanded by Captain Micale Springer in the regiment commanded by Colonel Broadhead in the Service of the United States. that his name was placed on the pension roll of the State of Pennsylvania payable at Philadelphia from which State he has lately removed. that he now resides in Monroe County, State of Ohio. where he intends to remain and wishes his pension to be payable in future at Pittsburgh. The following are his reasons for removing from Green County Pa. to Monroe County, Ohio. he had two sons living in the latter County, near whom he wished to reside. he was unable to procure good + level land in the former County to cultivate

                   /s/ John EP Pratt  ("EP" is "his mark")

Sworn to and Subscribed before }
me the Day and year aforesaid}

/s/ Henry Mason Justice of the peace

Also on the day and year above written personally appeared before me, Joseph Morris who being duly sworn as the Law directs deposeth + Saith that John Pratt who has taken the above oath is the person described in his ( the said Pratts) affidavit

                                           /s/ Joseph Morris

Sworn to and Subscribed before }
me the Day and year aforesaid}

      /s/ Henry Mason JP          

I do hereby certify that Joseph Morris the above Deponent
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Via Person of veracity and worthy of credit on his oaths given under my hand and seal this 8 Day of October A D 1832

                                        /s/ Henry Mason JP 
                    (handwritten "Seal" affixed)

Monroe County Ss

I Robert F. Naylor Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County of Monroe Do hereby certify that Henry Mason Esquire before whom the foregoing proceedings were had was at the time and now is an acting Justice of the Peace for said County duly commissioned + qualified- And that the signatures there to purporting to be his are genuine 

In testimony whereof I have hereunto Set my hand + Affixed the Seal of Said Court at Woodsfield the 9th Day October 1832

                        /s/ R. F. Naylor Clerk
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[part of page is very dark and hard to read]

John Pratt 
Priv.
Va. Contl. Line
Capt Springer
Col Gibson
Col Broadhead
[illegible]
Revol War
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AO: 160 Acres Jany, 11th 1856
Ohio -- S. 23   Boynton
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J. Hollister    Vol P. page 140,

[the following written diagonally across the page]

No 13901 Ss Jany.
M     Boynton [very faint]
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85, 897
Claimant is a 
Pensioner
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New Application

State of Ohio  Monroe County
on this 16th day of April 1855 personally appeared before me a Justice within and for the County and State aforesaid John Pratt aged 104 years a resident of Monroe County in the State of Ohio  who being duly Sworn according to Law declares that he is the identical John Pratt who was a private in the Company Commanded by Captain Springer he thinks Uriah Springer in the Regiment Commanded by Col Gibson in General Broadheads Campain [Campaign] in the war of the Revolution  that he enlisted in Pittsburg for the term of during the war on or about the first day of April AD 1779  and continued in actual Service in Said war for nearly two years and was honorably discharged at Pittsburgh  - on or about the first day if Feb 1780  he has lost his memory. So as not to be cirtain [certain] about the Service and that he is the identical John Pratt who is a United States pensioner under the act of [1818 crossed out] March 18th 1818.  and his former Declaration will show ^ his service more fully he makes this declaration for 
the purpose of obtaining the Bounty Land to which he may be entitled under the act approved March 3rd 1855  he also, declares that he has not received a warrant for Bounty Land under this or any other act of Congress nor made any other application therefor 
John   X [his mark]  Pratt
MCH
John Hamilton
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We John Hamilton and William J Raper residents of Monroe County in the State of Ohio upon our oaths declare that the foregoing declaration was Signed and acknowledged by John Pratt in our presents [presence] and that we believe from the appearance and Statements of the applicant that he is the identical person he represents himself to be     
John Hamilton 
William J Raper 

The foregoing declaration and affidavits were Sworn to and Subscribed before me on the day and year above written and I certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons that the claimant is the person he represents himself to be and that I have no interest in this claim 
Joel F Randolph
Justice of the peace

The State of Ohio, Monroe County
I  James Mitchell  Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of said County certify that at the date of the above certificate Joel F Randolph was an acting Justice of the Peace within and for said County duly Commissioned and sworn and authorized by the laws of Ohio to administer oaths for general purposes, take Depositions & ____  that his official acts are entitled to full faith & credit & that his signature above is genuine
James Mitchell clerk
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Penn:  Roll.
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Pratt
Adm.@
J.L.E.
Penn: commence 1st. March 1823.
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Reese Hill, Esq 
Harrisburg
Penn.
recd. 1 March 1823
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No. 85.897
[illegible stamp]  additional 
[round stamp illegible ]
J Minot Com of Pensions 
Washington 
City DC

[written across the above]
85897 
John Pratt 
H 
Boynton
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Pri: act 18. 20 & 23.[illegible],
Boynton
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Your letter of the 2nd inst: relating to rev.
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Woodsfield  Ohio  April 16th 1855
Sir 
 Enclosed I Send you the application of John Pratt for Bounty Land under the act March 3rd 1855
Respectfully
Jon'  Hollister

L P Waldo Com of Pensions
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Woodsfield  Ohio  Jan 5th 1856

Sir 
I have to enquire after the Land warrant of John Pratt a Revolutionary Soldier  I had hope that if any Preference was made it would be in favor of Revolutionary Claims  I have received a Land warrant on an application numbered 114.363 and the number of John Pratt  application is 85.897 making a difference of more than 28,000.  pleas [please] send on his warrant immediately
Respectffully [respectfullly]
Jer Hollister

J Minot
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40 296 [hand written]
INVALID.
-Revy [hand written]
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File No. ......40, 296.[# hand written].....
John Pratt [hand written]
Prv  Rev  War [hand written]
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Act:  18  March 18  [hand written]
Index:----Vol.  3,   Page 402 [numbers hand written] 
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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I certify that John Pratt was an Enlisted Soldier in my Company of the thirteenth Virginia Regiment on Continental Establishment in the Revolutionary war and that John Pratt  Served about two years under my Command and that he enlisted Some time in Seventeen hundred and Seventy Eight for three years.  Given under my hand this 8th day of March 1822
Uriah Springer 
late a Capt. in the 13th Virginia Regt on Continental Establishment

County of Fayette Pa Ss  
Uriah Springer being duly Sworn deposoth and Sayeth that the above Certificate is just.  Sworn and Subscribed this 8th day of March 1822 before me a Justice of the peace in Said County 
Thos Hadder      Uriah Springer

I Certify that Uriah Springer is a Credible Witness given under My hand this 8th day of March 1822
Thos Hadder
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Fayette County
State of Penna}  Ss
I John B. Trevor, Prothonotary of the Court of Common pleas in and for said county do by these presents certify that Thomas Hadden Esquire before whom the within affidavit was taken was at the time of taking such affidavit and now is an acting Justice of the peace in and fore said County, duly commissioned and sworn to all whose acts as such, due faith and credit are and of right ought to be given throughout the United States and elsewhere ____ In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the said court at Uniontown the 12th day of March AD. 1822 & of the Independence of the U. States the 46th.
Jn B. Trevor  Prothy


John Pratt [written vertically]
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s
13, 901

{  Med Any
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File this
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[Typwritten letter with hand written entries]

DISTRICT OF Pennsylvania [hand written], 88.
   On this Twelveth [hand written] day of August [hand written] 1819, before me, the subscriber, one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas and Quarter Sessions for Greene County in & [hand written] for the said district, personally appeared John Pratt [hand written] aged Sixty  [hand written] years, resident in Greene County [hand written]  in the said district, who, being by me first duly sworn, according to las, doth, on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the provision made by the 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:" That he,  the said John Pratt  at Fort Pitts. [hand written] enlisted for the term of Eighteen Months [hand written] on the [blank] day of [blank] in the year 1779 in - - -[hand written]
in  [blank] in the state of Pennsylvania- [hand written] in the company commanded by Captain Uria Springer [hand written]  of the Regiment commanded by Colonel David Broadhead [hand written]  in the line of the State of Pennsylvania [hand written] on the Continental Establishment; that he continued to serve in the said corps, or in the service of the United States, until the  full term of his enlistment was up [hand written], when he was discharged from the service at Fort Pitt in the [[hand written] state of Pennsylvania [hand written], that he was in  the[crossed out] battles with the Indians up the Alligeny [Allegheny] River but does not recollect the exact time [hhand written]  and that he is in reduced circumstances, and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support; and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services. 
Sworn to and declared before me, the day and year aforesaid.
David Gray [hand written]

   I, David Gray [hand written] Judge, &c. as aforesaid, do certify that it appears, to my satisfaction, that the said John Pratt [hand written] did serve in the revolutionary war, as stated in the preceding declaration, against the common enemy, for the term of nine months at one time, on the continental establishment; and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me, to the Secretary for the Department of War, pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress.  I am also satisfied that he needs the assistance of his country for support.   Given under my hand and Seal of the Court  12th August 1819. [hand written] 
David Gray  [hand written]


SEAL OF 
THE COURT.
[boxed off in bottom corner of paper]
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Penna Greene County Ss

   On this day 18th June 1822 Personally appeared John Pratt of said County in Open Court being a Court of Records in and for said County aged upwards of Sixty years who being first sworn according to Law doth on his Oath declare and Say that he served in the Revolutionary War for at least Eighteen Months, in a Company commanded by Captain Uriah Springer of Col Broadheads Regiment as stated in his declaration as made the 2nd day of May 1818 before the Honorable David Gray late an associate Judge of said County of Greene which Regiment this deponent did verily believe was of the Penna line untill he was informed by Capt. Springer last fall that it belonged to the Virginia line.
And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident Citizen of the United States on the 18th March 1818, and that I have not since that time by gift, sale, or in any manner disposed of my property or [word crossed out] any part thereof with intent  thereby so to diminish it as to bring my self within the provisions of an Act of Congress entitled An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval Services of the United States in the Revolutionary War passed on the eighteenth 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 other than what is contained in the Schedule hereto anexed [annexed] and by me Subscribed, One Cow, Seven dollar  two large Kettles, Five dollars, One bake Oven  fifty cents, by occupation a farmer old and infirm, a wife old and feeble, two daughters, Nancy thirty years of age  Common Constitution. Polly Twenty three of delicate Constitution 
John   IP[his mark]  Pratt

 Sworn and Subscribed 
in Open Court 18th June 1822
Attest 
Wm T Hays  Prothy
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Penna Greene County Ss
   I  William T. Hays Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Greene aforesaid do certify that the annexed ia a true copy of the Record of said Court And I do further Certify that it the opinion of said Court that the whole amount in ^ value of the Schedule  hereto annexed is Twelve dollars and fifty cents -- 

  In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said Court this Twentieth day of November Anno Domini 1822

Wm T Hays  Prothy
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Woodsfield O
Oct. 9th]                    Free

The Secretary of War 
Washington DC 


(Pension Department)

[following written vertically on the side of the paper]
Oct. 15.
O. 
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appl. for
a Transfer
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Woodsfield  October 9.1832

Sir  
I sent on ^ an application for a transfer made by the same Individual.  some weeks ago to which I have received no answer.  I have been apprehensive that the Department, could not readily understand why  Mr Pratt should wish to be transferred from the  Philadelphia to the Pittsburgh Agency in consequence of a removal from Greene County Pa to Monroe County Ohio in as much as Greene County is  nearer to Pittsburgh than Monroe.  He states that he was placed on the Pension roll at Philadelphia before any agency existed at Pittsburgh & that as there was a constant commercial intercourse between Waynesburgh & Philadelphia he was not desirous of a transfer but between this place and Philadelphia there is no such intercourse nor a direct intercourse except by mail, whilst this place has a direct & frequent intercourse with Pittsburgh

E. Archbold
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District of Pennsylvania Ss

   On this twelveth [twelfth] day of Aprile [April] in the year of our Lord 1819 before me the subscriber one of the Associate Judges of the Court of Common pleas and Quarter sessions of the peace & in and for the County of Greene in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania aforesaid personally appeared John Pratt aged Sixty years resident in Greene County in said district who being by me first duly Sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the late 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 That he the said John Pratt enlisted for the term of Eighteen Months at fort Pitt  Now the City of Pittsburg in the Company Commanded by Captain Uria Springer of the Regiment Commanded by Colonel David Broadhead that he continued to Serve in said Corps untill the full term of his enlistment which was Eighteen Months as stated above when he was regularly discharged from Service at fort Pitt  That he the deponent was in a battle with the Indians up the Alligeny [Allegheny] River    And that he is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his Country for Support and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said Service that he can collect        Sworn and declared before me the day and year above said ---

David Gray      
John [ EP- his mark] Pratt

I David Gray one of the Associate Judges of the Courts of Common Pleas and Quarter sessions of the peas [peace] and & in and for the County of Greene in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania  Do certify that it appears fully to my Satisfaction that the said John Pratt did serve in the revolutionary war as stated in the preceeding [preceding] declaration against the Common enemy for the term of nine months at one time on the Continential [continental] establishment and also that the aforesaid Service was performed in the years of 1779 & 1780  and I now Transmit the proceedings and Testimony taken and had before me to the Secretary of the Department of War pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress  I am also Satisfied that he needs the assistance of his Country for Support 
Given under my hand and Seal of our Court  Aprile [April] 12th 1819
David Gray 

seal