Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 43571, Thomas Frink, Mass.
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Mass
Frink Thomas
S43571
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[Everything on page is crossed out except the following:]
Frink, Thomas
(Mass)
S-43571
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Camp hilands February 17, 1780
Thomas Frink fifer in the 13th   
Massachusetts Bay regt having served 3 years from the Date of his enlistment like a good and faithful  soldier therefore so Frink is Discharged from the Service.

To Whome it may consern

Daniel Pilsbury Capt & Com
13 AB Regt
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)Copy) 
Articles of agreement, indented, made, concluded, and fully agreed upon this 8th day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and twenty three. Between Wilhem Willink, Hendrik Vollenhoven, Rutger Jan Schimmelpennick, Wilhem Willink the younger, Jan Willink the younger son of Jan Cornelis Vollenhoven and Hendrik Seye, all of the City of Amsterdam in the Kingdom of the United Netherlands, by Jacob S. Otto their attorney of the first part and Loring Frink of the County of Chautauqua and State of New York of the second part. Whereas the said party of the second part is justly indebted to the said party of the first part in the sum of three hundred & forty seven dollars 83 Cents New York Currency, to be paid to the said party of the first part, their executors, administrators assigns in manner following, that is to say, the sum of five dollars immediately upon the executing of these presents, and the remaining sum of three hundred and forty two dollars & 83 cents in six equal yearly instalments, with the interest from the date hereof, to be paid yearly & every year (together with the said instalments), upon such part of the said last mentioned sum as shall at the time of such respective payments be unpaid; the first of the said instalments and annual payments of interest to commence on the 8th day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and twenty four. 

Now therefore, in consideration thereof, the said party of the first part, for themselves their heirs, executors and administrators, do by these presents covenant, promise and agree to & with the said party of the second part, his heirs, executors, administrators and assigns and every of them, that if the said party of the second part, his heirs, executors, administrators or assigns, or any of them, shall and do well and truly pay or cause to be paid unto the said party of the first part, their executors, administratorsor or assigns the aforesaid several sums of money at the times herein before mentioned for payment thereof according to the tenor & effects of the covenants and agreements herein after contained on the part of the said party of the second part that then and in such case, the said party of the first part, their heirs & assigns, shall & will well & sufficiently grant, bargain, sell, release, convey, confirm & assure to the said party of the second part, & to his heirs & assigns forever, or to whom he or they shall appoint or direct, all that certain tract of Land, situate, lying & being in the County of Chautauqua in the State of New York, being part or parcel of a certain township, which on a map or survey of divers tracts or townships of Land of the said party of the first part made for the proprietors by Joseph Ellicott Surveyor, is distinguished by Township No 6. in the 11th Range of said townships, and which said tract of land on a certain other map or survey of said township into lots made for the proprietors by the said Joseph Elliott is distinguished by the South part of Lot No 2 in said township according to the following plan, containing one hundred acres, be the same more or less

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Provided always, that if default shall be made in the performance of the covenant next hereinafter contained on the part of the second part, for the punctual payment of the said instalments and direct payments of interest in manner hereinafter mentioned, there then the said covenant next hereinbefore contained on the part of the said party of the first part shall become void & of no effect. And the said party of the second part for himself his heirs, executors & administrators doth covenant promise & agree to and with the said party of the first part, their to administrators and assigns that he will well and truly pay to the said party of the first part, their executors, administrators and assigns the remaining sum of three hundred & forty two dollars & 83 cents in six equal yearly instalments, together with lawful interest to grow due thereon from the date hereof yearly & every year in manner herein before mentioned; the first of the said instalments and ments of interest to commence on the 8th day of July in the year of our Lord, one thousand Eight hundred and twenty four 

In testimony whereof, the parties to these presents have hereunto interchangeably set their hands & seals the day & year first Wilhem Willink ----- L.S.
Hendrik Vollenhoven ---- L.S. 
Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck ---- L.S
Wilhem Willink the younger ------ L.S.
Jan Willink the younger son of Jan --- L.S.
Cornelis Vollenhoven ---- L.S.
 Hendrik Seye --- L.S. 
By this Attorney 
Jacob S. Otto ---- L.S.
Loring Frink ---- L.S.

Signed Sealed & Delivered In the presence of William Peacock
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State of New York
Chautauqua County
       On the fifteenth day of October 1823 personally appeared in open court (being the Court of Common Pleas held in and for the county and State aforesaid, and a Court of Record proceeding according to the (?) of the Common Law having a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount.  Keeping a record of proceedings, having a seal and power to fine and imprison) Thomas Frink resident of the county aforesaid, aged sixty years, who, being first duly sworn according to Law, doth, on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the acts of the 18th of March 1815, the 1st of May 1820, and the first of March 1823; that he the said Thomas Frink enlisted for the term of three years on the 17th day of February 1777 in the State of Massachusetts, in Captain Nathaniel Alexanders company, in the regiment commanded, first by Colonel Wigglesworth, and afterwards by Colonel Smith, in General (?) Brigade, in the line of the State of Massachusetts, on the Continental establishment, that he continued to serve in the Corps until the 17th day of February 1780, when he was discharged from the said service in the Highlands, near West Point in the State of New York. - And do solemnly swear tthat I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818, and I have not, since that time, by gift, sale or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof, wiht 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 services 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 other than what is contained in the Schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed.
     I have no real estate whatever either in Law or Equity.  I have a Bond for a deed, or an article of agreement from the Holland Land Company for 33 1/3 acres of land, on which five dollars were paid July 8th 1823, and on which was then due $110.66 ............$85.00
1/2 a yoke of oxen.................................. 20.00
1/2 a cow.......................................................5.50
2 sheep...........................................................2.00
3 pigs...............................................................4.50
                          Carried over ..........$117.00
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Copy  Endorsements on above or article
                                            Bro't up     $132.19
Amt bro't over    $117.00   3 old tin pans   0.19
1/2 a Calf                  1.50   1 Earthen pan   0.13
6 bushels wheat        5.25   2 augers           0.50
2 chairs                      1.00   2 chisels           0.25
1 table old                 0.50   1 old spin whl  1.75
3 chests                     1.00    1 churn            0.50
6 plates                      0.19   1 reel               0.06
6 cups saucers          0.19    1 ppr box       0.03
6 knives forks           0.75    1 funnel         0.06
2 pails                      0.37     1 sa iron        0.12
1 iron pot                0.50      1 tea kettle    0.50
1 kettle cracked      0.50      1 cream cup   0.06
1 shovel tongs         0.75     2 glasses        0.19
 1 hoe old                0.06     1 gls bottle     0.06
1/2 chain                 1.00      1 tea pot        0.50
3 barrels                   0.75     1 sugar bowl  0.13
1 tub                        0.50      1 Bible           1.00
1 andiron                  0.25     1 Coopers      0.25
5 spoons                  0.13                      $137. 47
   carried up         $132.19
The above is a true account and inventory of my estate, necessary clothing & bedding excepted.
Thomas Frink

My family consists of myself and my wife Sylvia, aged 60 years.  My wife is very infirm and unable for most of the time to cook her own food - - being entirely blind with one eye and almost blind with the other. - She contributes so little towards our support and the management of our domestic concerns, that I am obliged frequently to hire a girl to take care of and assist in my family. - I am unable to support myself and my wife, principally on account of lameness and Bilious complaint and ague chills.  I broke my ankle more than a year ago and was confined by Lameness more than 5 months.  My leg still continues to be lame and weak, so that I am unable to move about & exercise much. - I have been subject to Billious Complaints for 20 years, and have for the year past been attacked with two or three Billious Complaints, nervous head ache and ague chills generally every week. - My bodily strength is allmost gone, and I am able to do very little towards supporting myself and family by reason of my infirmities.
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My two sons, Sylvester and Alonzo, do not live with me now, so that myself and my wife are of my family.  I am a farmer by occupation, and when I am able to work at all, I work a small improvement of fifteen acres, which is all that is cleared of the abovementioned 33 1/3 acres.  That since the exhibition of my first schedule, the following changes have been made in the property, viz.
The notes due the 1 Oct. 1820 - $284
The notes due the 1 Oct. 1821 -     67 } were paid about the time they became due, out of which only one third was due me.  The remaining two thirds belongs to my two sons,  Sylvester and Alonzo. -   About $173.00 was paid to Eliphaz Strong of said county for his right and title toa Bond for a deed, or an article of a agreement for the land (of which the foregoing 33 1/3 acres is a third part) which land I, and my two sons owned together, each owning a third part.
    About $100 was paid into the Holland Land Company's land office as payment on said Bond or article so bought of said Strong by myself and my two sons, and the remainder, about $80, was expended by myself in providing necessaries and assistance for my family in my sickness.  
     That part of the foregoing sums of $173.00 and $100., which was applied on my said sons' twok third parts and proportions of said Bond or Article (in which I and my two sonswere equally interested) was due them from me for work done by them for me, on a piece of sand which I formerly owned in Madison County and State aforesaid, for money advanced by them to assist me in paying for the last mentioned piece of land, and for their labor and assistance in helping me in cleaning the 15 acres abovementioned.
     Since the making my last inventory and schedule, the Bond or article so purchased of Eliphaz Strong by myself and my two sons, has run out and expired, and the Holland Land Company did, on the 8th July 1823, renew the same by giving a new Bond or article of the same land, (a copy of which is hereto annexed) which, for the sake of convenience, was given to Loring Frink, my son, (as I was sick and unable to do any business when it expired) and by him, on the same day, assigned
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to me, two thirds of which I duly assigned to my two sons jointly as their share and interest.

The 1 yoke of oxen & 1 cow which were three years ago owned equally by myself and my two sons, Sylvester and Alonzo, were last summer purchased by my son Sylvester & myself, so that my son Alonzo has now no share in them, but the same are owned equally and jointly by myself and my son Sylvester.
6 sheep - My sons, Sylvester and Alonzo, took each, two of them as their share and right as joint owners with myself.
2 Hogs - These were consumed in ny family.
6 Bushels Wheat - Two bushels I paid to Dr. Orton, a surgeon, towards setting my leg.  The rest was consumed in my family.
5 Chairs- Three are broken to pieces and worn out.
4 Chests - One is broken to pieces.
1 Frying Pan - This I sold to Harvey Frink, my son, last winter for a pair of shoes.
3 Axes - These are all broken.
3 Hoes - Two I gave to my two sons, Sylvester and Alonzo, last spring, as their share and property.
1 Shovel - This is broken and good for nothing.
1 Chain - This is broken - I have one half.
1 Old Waggon - This is worn out and broken to pieces.
Some of the small articles set forth as now in my possession have been purchased since my first schedule.
I owe A. H. Camp & Co. for merchandise  $6.63
I owe A. Smith & Co. for do -- 6.00
" [I owe] Dr. James Orton for med                          3.25
" [I owe] Allen Munroe necessaries in sickness  3.25
" [I owe]  Iona Collildge for dressing cloth              4.00
" [I owe] Thomas Frink Jr. for work                          3.25
 [Total] ---  $28.13
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I have been endeavoring for the summer past to erect a small frame building for the accommodation of my family, but, with the greatest prudence and economy, shall be obliged to depend upon the charity of my neighbors, or the assistance of my sons who have families and are poor, to procure the means of making my family comfortable the ensuing winter.
All the amount of my property including the bond or article of agreement and furniture, except necessary clothing and bedding, does not exceed the foregoing sum of $137.47, and the debts which I owe now exceed $28.13.
                                           Thomas Frink

Sworn to and declared in
open court Oct. 15, 1823
John Dexter, Clerk

State of New York
Chautauqua County
I, John Dexter, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleasheld in and for said county, do certify that the aforesaid schedule and oath have been admimtted to the record of said court, and that thesame are truly copied there from.  And I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said court, that the total amount, in value, of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule, is one hundred and thirty seven dollars and forty seven cents.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the said Court on this Sixteenth day of October 1823
John Dexter
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Copy Endorsments on Bond or articles 

$5 - Recd of Thomas Frink July 8. 1823 five dollars being the first payment within mentioned  -- $5.
Jacob S. Otto by William Peacock 

For value received I do hereby transfer & assign over all my right title interest, property, claim & demand whatsoever of in and to the land and premises within mentioned and described, together with the appurtenances & improvements thereunto belonging to Thomas Frink his heirs & assigns forever

Witness my hand & seal this 8th day of July 1823 
Witness William Peacock   Loring Frink (L.S.) 

For value received I do hereby transfer and assign over all my right, title, interest, property, claim & demand whatsoever of, in and to sixty six acres and two thirds of an acre, being the west part of the within described premises with a line running parallel with the East line of said Lot, unto Sylvester Frink, & Alonzo Frink their heirs and assigns forever 
Witness my hand & seal this ninth day of July 1823. 
Francis Frink    Thomas Frink (L.S.)
 
Pension Papers of Thomas Frink a Pensioner  (now stricken off)
Renewed application 

J. Crane
Fredonia Chautauque County N.Y. 

Sept 1819
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Pension office Department 

letter written to A.W. of [illegible] 23. 1823
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J. L. Edwards Esq

House of Reps Washington Dec 20, 1823 
Sir
Enclosed are the pension papers of Thomas Frink of Chautauqua County New York for early attention to the their will 
Yours respectfully 
Albert N Tracy
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Mass.  l  Frink Thomas l S43571
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1 old waggon. 5 chairs - 3 [eligible] 3 [eligible], and worn out.  That he owes for Merchand $28.13. 
His age 60 years & a farmer. he has the billious complication, [illegible] chills, and a broken ankle.  Wife 60 years and blind in one eye and can scarcely see out of the other & infirm.  No other family given - Hon. A. H. Tracy H. Reps 
Recd Jan 23, 1824 [eligible] '19 

New York 
Thomas Frink, fifer from 1777 to 1780 --- 1st Sched: June 1820 runs thus: " I have an article or bond for a deed of 100 acres of land which I hold jointly with my two sons" -- there is now due on bond $ 550 with [illegible]. "We three also own notes to the amount of ----- $454.00,  Personal property 44.00 [Total] $498.00. 
The court certifies to 1/3 viz $166.00. Sched. dated 15 Oct. 1823  [illegible] being thus "I have no real estate and have an article of agreement for 35 acres of land, on which 5 were paid July 8th 1823 & on which was 
then due $110.50" - extended - $85. --
1/2 [eligible] of cost $25.50.
I keep pigs & furniture -- $26.97. 
Total $137.47.

He states that "the notes $284 & $67 were p. in 1820 & '21 & that $173 was p. to E. Sponge for his [eligible] on the article of agreement. $100 to Holland Land Co. & the balance $80 expended in support of his family [turn page] - over
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In the matter of Thomas Frink, applicant for a Pension
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in the matter of Thomas Frink applicant for Pension 

Copy of Article of agreement from the Holland Land Company to John Shaw 2d 

Articles of agreement indented made concluded & fully agreed upon this 7th day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventeen between Wilhem Willink, Hendrik Vollenhoven, and Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck, all of the City of Amsterdam in the republic of Batavia, by Joseph Ellicott their attorney of the first part & John Shaw 2d by his attorney William Jones of the County of Chautauqua State of New York of the second part. Whereas the said party of the second part is justly indebted to the said parties of the first part in the sum of nine hundred & one dollars and fifty eight unto New York currency, to be paid to the said parties of the first part, their executors, administrators or assigns in manner following that is to say, the sum of twenty dollars immediately upon the executing of these presents & the remain =ing sum of Eight hundred & Eighty one dollars & fifty Eight and in six equal yearly instalments with the interest from the date hereof to be paid yearly & every year, (together with the said instalments) upon such part of the said last mentioned sum as shall at the time of such respective payments be unpaid; The first of the said Instalments of and annual payments of interest to commence on the 7th day of " July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & eighteen, Now therefore, in consideration thereof, the said parties of the first part for themselves, their heirs, Executors & administrators, do by these presents ┃ covenant promise & agree to and with the said party of the second part, his heirs, Executors, administrators & assigns & every of them that of the said party of the second part, his heirs, executors, administrators or assigns, or any of them, shall & do well & truly pay or cause to be paid, unto the said parties of the first part, their executors, administrators or assigns the aforesaid several sums of money at the times herein before mentioned for payment thereof, according to the tenor & effect of the covenant & agreement herein after contained on the part of the said party of the second part, that then & in such case the said parties of the first part, their heirs & assigns, shall & will well & sufficiently grant, bargain sell, release, convey, confirm & assure, to the said party of the second part & to his heirs & assigns forever, or to whom he or they shall appoint or direct; all that certain tract of Land situate, lying being in the County of Chautauqua in the State of New York being part or parcel of a certain township, which on a map or survey of divers tracts or townships of Land of the said parties of the first part, made for the proprietors by Joseph Ellicott Surveyor is distinguished by township No 6. in the 11th Range of said townships and which said tract of Land, on a certain other map or survey of
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Said township into lots, made for the properties by the said Joseph Ellicott, is distinguished by the south two thirds of Lot No. 2 in said township, according to the following plan, containing two hundred and twenty one acres, be the same more or less. 
[Plat drawing shows property is bordered at the top just short of Lot No. 3, to the left by Lot No. 12, to the bottom by Lot No. 1, and to the right by T. 6 R. 11.]  
[Lot is 58.79 across the top, 37.78 down the left side -- where it borders Lot 12, 58.37 on the bottom -- where it borders Lot 1, and 37.80 to the right where it borders T.6 R. 11.]
[Plat measurements:] [eligible] 2/3 Lot 2. T.6;   R.11. 221 ac. [acres]

Provided always, that if default shall be made in the performance of the covenant next herein after contained, on the part of the said party of the second part for the punctual payment of the said instatements, & annual payment of interest in manner herein of the  mentioned, then the said covenant next herein before contained on the part of the said parties of the first part shall become void & of not effect.  And the said party of the second part of himself, his heirs, executors & administrators doth covenant, promise & agree to & with the said parties of the first part, their heirs, executes, and administrators, & assigns, that he will well & truly pay to the said parties of the first part, their executors, administrators & assigns the said remaining sum of eight hundred & eighty one dollars & fifty eight cents, in six equal, yearly installments, together with lawful interest to grow due thereon from the date hereof, yearly & every year in manner herein before mentioned, the first of the said installments, & 
annual payments of interest to commence on the 7th day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & eighteen.
In testimony whereof the parties to these presents have hereunto interchangeably set their hands & seals the day & year first above written. - 
Signed, sealed & delivered in the presence of Benjamin Evans }
Wilhem William Willink (L.S.)
Hendrik Vollenhoven (S.S.)
Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck (S.S.)
Wilhem Willink the younger (S.S.)
Jan Willink the younger son of Jan (S.S.)
Jan Gabriel Van Staphorst (S.S.)
Cornelis Vollenhoven (S.S.)
Hendrik Leye -- S.S.
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                                              "By their attorney
                                              "Joseph Ellicott
                                               "John Shaw 2nd (S.S.)
                                                "By his attorney
                                                "William Jones."

on which Said Article are entered the following assignment & receipts vz:.....

"For value rec'd I do hereby transfer & assign over, all "my right, title, interest, property, claim, or demand "whatsoever of the within article, being the south 
"part of Lot 2, in the 6th town, 11th Range, unto 
"Benjamin Jones, his heirs & assigns forever, as witness
"my hand & Seal, December the 23'd. 1817
"Attest Willard Jones          "John Shaw 2d (S.S.)
                                            "By his Attorney
                                            "William Jones"

"For value received I hereby Sell, assign, transfer, 
"set over unto Thomas Frink his heirs & assigns "forever all my right, title & interest in & to one 
"hundred acres of the within mentioned article and 
"therein described to be taken off from the South part 
"of within mentioned Lot by a line running parallell with
"the South line thereof To have & to hold the Said one 
"hundred acres of land above mentioned  & 
"described to the Said Thomas his heirs & assigns "forever, together with the appurtenances thereunto "belonging. 
"witness my hand & Seal the 27th day of October 1819.       
  "In presence of                   Benjamin Jones (L. S.)
 " J. Crane

"For value rec'd.  I hereby sell, assign, transfer & set "over unto Sylvester & Alonzo Frink jointly, their heirs "& assigns forever all my right, title & interest in & to ""sixty six acres & two thirds of an acre of the within "mentioned article & the same therein described to "be taken off from the South one hundred acres with "a line running parallell with the East line of Said Lot "being the West part .  To have & to hold the said Sixty Six "acres & two thirds of an acre above mentioned & "described, to Said Sylvester & Alonzo, their heirs & "assigns
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"forever, together with the appurtianous thereunto belonging "[illegible] any hand [illegible] the first day of January 1820 In presence of Esra Corbin Thomas Frink (S.S)
"For value [illegible] thereby sell, aforsign, transfer get over unto serving
"Frink his heirs & aforsigns, [illegible] all my right, title, interest, claim or [illegible] on the within mentioned article.
"[illegible] hand  seal. Dated August 18 1820
In presence of Alonzo Frink
Benjamin Jones (S.S)
Receipts, [illegible] foregoing Article, Viz
"Received July 7, 1817 of John Shaw 2nd by his attorney William Hones twenty dollars, being the first payment within mentioned.
$20.00
For Joseph Ellicott
Benjamin Evans
Received November 18th 1820 of Alonzo Frink three hundred & fifty one dollars, on the within article of agreement for Joseph Ellicott Benjamin Evans $351
Received November 9th 1821 of Loring Frink eighty three dollars on the within article of agreement $83 Joseph Ellicott by William Peacock
State of New York
Chicataugua County JS
Thomas Frink of the town of Hanover in said county being duly sworn deposth & saith that the foregoing is a true copy of the Article of Agreement mentioned in his inventory exhibited to the Court of Common Pleas in said county in June term eighteen hundred & twenty & since forwarded to the Secretary of War, and that the foregoing assignments & receipts are true copies, taken from
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the original assignments & receipts which are endorsed answer Article of Agreement. And this deponent further saith that he & his two sons, Sylvester & Alonzo are occupying & improving the one hundred acres of land mentioned in the assignment endorsed on said article of Agreement, in common, & have so done ever since the purchase of the same. That there is only about twenty acres cleard on said one hundred acres occupied by this deponent & his said two sons, and on the part of premises belonging to this deponent [illegible], there are only thirteen acres of cleared land; and this deponent further saith that he believes it will be impossible for him to pay the Holland Land Company for the land which he now occupies & which he purchased of them, if the pension which he once enjoyed, & which has been applied for the most part towards payment for his land, should now be withheld, in which case he & his two sons will be ejected & in all probability lose what they have already paid.
And this deponent further saith that the two notes against Elisha Crane mentioned in his said inventory, have been paid, taken up & he suposses, were destroyed, & the avail or the amount of the same has been paid to the Holland Land Company & endorsed on said article of Agreement, except about the sum of eighty dollars which was paid out by this deponent in defraying the expenses incurred by the sickness of his youngest son, Harvey Frink, and in furnishing necessaries for this deponents family. And this deponent further saith that the property mentioned in his said inventory has been reduced since it was made, having been obliged to sell a cow to procure grain & other necessaries for his family, & the other property which he has, real, as well as personal, has for two years past depreciated very considerably in value. This deponent further saith that his health & constitution for a year or two past have become more infeebled & impared, so that he is not able by reason of his age, Rheumation, a Bilious complaint & occasional [illegible] fits, to do any labor of consequence. His wife also by reason of age & disorder in her head proceeding from the loss of an eye is unable to manage the domestic concerns of the family without hired help.
This deponent further saith that he depends upon none of his children, for they are poor, for assistance, except his son Sylvester who lives with him at present, & by his personal services alone, contributes mostly to the support of this deponent
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and his family.  Another Deponant further saith that because of being in debt for his land, he is now owing the Sum of twenty six dollars & seventy four cents to sundry Persons for necessaries which he has purchased for his family & which he has no means of paying, but by sacrificing a part of that small property which he now owns & which he considers indispensably necessary to his comfort & support.             Thomas Frink

State of New York}
Chautauqua County}Ss     On the twenty ninth day of August 1822 before me the subscriber, one of the Judges of the Court of Common Please in said County, personally appeared Thomas Frink & made oath to the foregoing affidavit & signed the Same.  I further Certify that I am well acquainted with said Thomas Frink & believe him to be a man of strict integrity, of sober & industrious habits and a man of truth & veracity.
                                                   John Crane


State of New York,
Chatauqua County Ss. -  I John Dexter, Clerk of the County of Chautauqua do certify that John Crane was on the 29th day of August, 1822 a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in & for the said County of Chautauqua duly appointed, Commissioned & sworn, residing in said County and I do further certify that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said John and verily believe that the Signature of John Crane subscribed to the above Certificate is in his proper hand writing.

    In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the County Seal this thirty first day of August, A. D. 1822.
                                                             John Dexter


[there is the image of a  round, sunburst bordered seal but it is illegible]
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Revolutionary War Records Section 
3-525
Department of the Interior, Bureau of Pensions. Washington, D.C. 19
In reply to your request of , received for a statement of the military history of Thomas Frink a soldier of the Revolutionary war, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) [crossed out] application for pension on file in this Bureau. S.43.571
Date of Enlistment or Appointment Feb. 17, 1777 [Feb 17, 1780
Rank Fifer
Officers under Whom Service was Rendered
Captain Nathaniel Alexander
Captain Daniel Pilsbury
Colonel Wigglesworth
Colonel Smith
State Mass.
Battles engaged in, taking of Brandywine Rhode Island
Residence of Soldier at enlistment, in Mass
Date of application for pension, May 23, 1818, His claim was allowed
Residence at date of application, Eaton, Madison Co. NY [illegible] Chautaqua Co. [illegible]
Age at date of application, 55 years, he died June 9, 1852 (AB)
Remarks: In 1820 soldier's wife Silvia was 56 years of age, his son Sylvester 23 years, son Alonzo 20 years (who was married and had a family names not stated) In 1823 soldier refers to his sons Loring and Harvey (the youngest).
Respectfully,
Commissioner.
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      280 University Ave.
      Rochester, N.Y.
                                                     Feb 1st. 1877.
Hon, [Hon is scratched out]  Wm. Lochren__
Commisioner of Pensions
     Washington, D.C.
           Dear Sir.
      We are anxious to obtain some information regarding a   
near  of ours and Hon. John Van Voorhis of this city, 
gave us your name, and said you would be glad to obtain the desired information in your office _ It is in regard
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to my Father's Mother's Father Thomas rink, a soldier of the Revolution.  We do not know the date of his birth but I believe he was born in New Hampshire and enlisted in the early part of the struggle for Freedom at about 17 years of age.  I hear he was a member of Washington's body guard in the battle of Monmouth.  He drew a a pension the latter years of his life of 96 dollars a year. I am told.  He died in 1852. Nom
I would like to hear the
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exact dates, of the length of time he was connected with a regiment, and the number of regiments, and if was anything but a common soldier _ all, that you can find, about him and send us, will be thankfully received and appreciated.  As soon as I can get the necessary statistics, I want to join the Daughters of the American Revolution.
My Father is Prof of Modern Languages in the University and is equally interested with myself in obtaining this information.
 Your struly (Miss) Elizabeth A. Mixer
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P.S.  Thomas frink was married in South Hadley, Mass.  This latter part of his life was spent in Forrestville Chaut. Co. N. Y. where he died in June 1852.  If the exact date of his birth and death is on your records I would like them.
                                 E.A.  Mixer
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[rectangular stamp reads:]                     FEB 2, 1903
                                                            P         FILES       B
    [ handwritten over it  
are the letters:]    O. M. + N.

U. S. Pension Office
   Washington, C. C. 
     Dear Sirs - I am  desires of obtaining all the information, I can concerning Thomas Frink, a soldier in the Revolution.  He drew a pension for some time and I would like to know if there would be any charges and how much they would be, to have you look up any records you may have concerning him.
         Yours respectfully,
              Thomas W, Rolph
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 [rectangular stamp top left reads:]

OLD WAR & NAVY                              Sullivan O_ Aug 3 - 03,
   AUG 7, 1903
         FILES
[one of each letter appears
  in the corners: U. S. P. B.]

Hon E. F. Ware,
                                    Com _ of Pensions,
                                    Washington D. C.

Dear Sir,
    Would like much to make application for numbers high in the Order of "Sons of the American Revolution", recently in a talk with special Examiner Warren of The Pension Dept, he suggested I write you for the necessary information and instruction.  he said, I certainly was eligible as my great-great grandfather John Frink, and four of his sons one of whom, Thomas Frink, was my great grandfather, were in the government service in the Revolutionary war. My great-great grandfather John, and great grandfather Thomas Frink
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were both in the battle of Saratoga, and after the battle crossed the Delaware river on the Ice, and were then moved to Valley Forge, where they passed that terrible winter.
       I think Thomas Frink was in Captain Alexander's Co, am told the records are in the Congressional Library.  Will be very grateful if you will kindly advise me in this matter.

                                         Very Rspy Yours
                                        Maurice Frink,  P.ru
                                         Sullivan Ohio.

[round stamp at bottom left reads:]

          PENSION
      U.     O        S.
            AUG 
               4
              1903
            OFFICE
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                                                                  1437 Rosemary Streeet
                                                                   Denver, Colorado,
                                                                    July 20, 1938
Veterans Administration,
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sirs;     I am writing for an abstract of the record of the following Revolutionary War soldier;

THOMAS FRINK, Fifer, He applied for pension while living in Madison, County, New York.  Placed on Pension roll May 4 1819; Commencement of Pension May 22, 1818, age 70 years.    Massachusetts Line.

    In order that I may correctly transcribe our pension records here does the age 70 years specify his age at the time he made application for pension in 1819?
   
        Thank you for this record,

                                     I am, Very sincerely,
                                              Cecilia  Y. Hills
                                              Mrs. Walter E. Hills.

P. S. How would I go about finding the record of a pensioner named ...........Frink, who had a son Charles T. Frink living in Chenango County New York,  This son Charles was born and married in Preston or Stonington,  Conn. He was born in 1772-73, died in 1859.
Evidently his father did not leave Connecticut.


[at th etop of the letter is a large found stamp.  with a clock face motif around the edge. in the center is written:]
    
            RECEIVED
             JUL 25, 1938
            MAIL  (illegible) DIV
            VETS (illegible)
            (illegible)
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Revolutionary War
                                      Westfield, N. Y.Feb 9, 1915\Pension Pension Bureau:
            Washington, D.C.
                     Will you please furnish whatever the records of your department contains relative to the (1) military service, (2) family data, (3) personal mention of the following Revolutionary soldiers?
(A) Moses Allen (or Allin) who served in the 5th Conn Regt, or Levys:  Capt Morris Co, : Col Philip B Bradley Regt.  Born, New Haven, Conn., died Nov 5, 1831.  Sheridan Ctautauqua, Co. N.Y. His wife,Achsa, died March 4, 1834, ag'd 91 yr 6 mo.
(B(  Cornelius Phelps, a pensioner, aged 77 yrs. living in Hanover, Chautauqua County, N. Y. in 1840.  
(C)  Thomas Frink, a pensioner aged 77 years, living with Harvey Frink, Hanover Center Chautauqua Co. N. Y. 1840.


[round stamp reads:]   PENSION OFFICE 
                                    U              D         S
                                           FEB 11, 1915
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Revolutionary War
(D)  William Ingraham ( or Ingrain), who was a pensioner in Hanover,  Chautauqua Co. N.Y. in about 1850.      Served in the Line, 4th Conn Brigade, enlisted, Woodbury town, Conn, "for the War" served, at least 1777-81, Capt. Ferrand's Co.;  (Capt Ferrand's Co. is underlined)  Col Mcley

                               Your Respectfully
                                 Miss H Edith Craft
54 Academy St.
    Westfield, Chantauqua, Co.
         New York.

[there's a round stamp which says:]      PENSION
                                                           U      D         S
                                                                  FEB
                                                                    11
                                                                 1915
                                                               OFFICE
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                                        July 19, 1936

                                             (illegible)

Mrs. Walter E. Ellis
14 Rosemary Street
Denver, Colorado

Dear Madam:

   Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War record of Thomas Frisk of Massachusetts who received a pension in Madison County, New York in 1818, age seventy years.  You request to know, also, if he were aged seventy years when he applied for his pension in 1818, and to know where you can find the record of a pensioner with surname Frisk who had a son, Charles T. Frisk, who was born about 1772 in Stonington or Preston, Connecticut, lived later in Chenango County, New York, and died in 18(illegible).

The record of Thomas Frink is furnished you herewith.  His age recorded in the Report of the Secretary of War printed in 1836, as seventy years, means that his age at the time that report was compiled was approximately seventy years and not at the time he applied for pension.

    The Revolutionary War records have been searched further, and the only claim for pension on file based upon service in that war of a soldier with surname Frink, in which the name of a child is recorded as Charles, is that of Nathan Frink (W. (illegible number) whose record was furnished you January 21, 1938.

                           Very truly yours

                              A. D. Hiller
                              Executive Assistant
                              to the Administrator