Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W 17,488, for Moses Pratt, Vermont
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(3-1776)

SERVICE                                             NUMBER

Vt/ (Green Mt. Boys).  Pratt, Moses    W 17, 788
                                             Martha


CONTENTS
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1875
Burlington, Vermont

Martha Pratt
widow of Moses Pratt decd

who died on the 28 August 1828
of Addison Co in the State of Vt.
Who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Blanchard of the Regt. commanded by Col. Allen in the Vt. line for 8 months & 7 days Vt

Inscribed on the Roll of Burlington at the rate of 28 Dollars 56 Cents, per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 20th day of March 1838 and sent Hon. W. Slade Hos of Rep.

Arrears to the 7th of March 1838         $ 199.42
Semi=annual allowance ending 4 Sept     14.28
                                                               ________
                                                               $213.70

{Revolutionary Claim,}
{Act July 4, 1836,}
{Section the 3d}

Recorded by D. D. Addison Clerk,
Book A      Vol. 2   Page 40
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V1518
Martha Pratt
said of Moses
Vt.
Named 1779
died 1828

Allow 8 m 17 days
private, Comf 4 March 
1831

Vermont Militia
Cap. Blanchard
Col Allen


Capt            26.67
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                    28.56

Hon W. Slade
H. R.

Act 4 July 1836
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State of Vermont}
Addison County}
On the 14th day of November AD 1836. before me Orrin Field one of the Justices of the peace within and for the County of Addison aforesaid personally appeared Lydia Allen a Resident of Cornwall in the County of Addison aforesaid to me well known who being first duly sworn according to Law doth depose testify and say that he was seventy four years of age on the 19th day of August last part.  That during the Revolutionary War he resided at Shaftsbury in the County of Bennington and State of Vermont.  That he was well acquainted with Moses Pratt who has resided in Bennington in the County of Bennington aforesaid and he well remembers that in the fall of the year AD 1778 that the sd [said] Moses Pratt marched as a soldier in the term of the United States from Bennington of and two Quebec in the Province of Lower Canada and that sd [said] Moses Pratt returned from Quebec aforesaid in the summer following to Bennington aforesaid that the [illegible] length of his term as aforesaid she does now recollect but that according to his last recollection he marched some time in the month of October and then some time in June or July after that while the sd [said] Moses Pratt was in the term aforesaid she well remembers that it was said in the Neighborhood when he then resided that the sd [said] Moses Pratt had the small [illegible] at Quebec aforesaid.  She does not now remember the Regiment or Company to which the sd [said] Moses Pratt belonged.  And that in the year AD 1777 according to the  has
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I her recollection that said Moses Pratt was a soldier in the Army of the United States under General St. Clair at Ticonderoga at the time that place was evacuated and also at Fort Edward, that she has during the Revolution and since heard the said Moses Pratt state that he was taken prisoner by the enemy near Stillwater a short time before the surrender of  General Burgoyne and that he made his escape from the enemy in the night while marching under a quad of Hessian soldiers about the time of the Battle of Saratoga.  That she is acquainted with Martha Pratt the widow of the said Moses Pratt and that she was acquainted with the sd [said] Martha before her marriage with the sd [said] Moses Pratt that her name was Martha Wright.  That according to her best recollection the said Moses Pratt and that said Martha was married in the year AD 1779 and that the sd [said] Moses Pratt and his wife Martha Pratt frequently visited together at her fathers after their marriage and that she the sd [said] Lydia Allen used to visit the family of the sd [said] Moses Pratt.  That she has been acquainted with the sd [said] Moses Pratt until a short time before his decease and has also been acquainted with the sd [said] Martha Pratt until a few years since.  That she is informed that the sd [said] Martha Pratt is now living in Shoreham in the County of Addison aforesaid.  And further this deponent saith not  Sworn to and] subscribed this 14th day of November 1836 Before me]
                                                  her
                                           Lydia  Allen
                                                  Mark
Orrin Field Justice of Peace

I hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with the here named Lydia Allen and that she is a person of truth and that her statement is to be relied on
Orrin Field Justice
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State of Vermont}
Addison County js}

On the 25th day of February AD 1836. before Calvin Solan one of the judges of Addison County Court Martha Pratt a resident of Shoreham in the County of Addison and State of Vermont aged Eighty one years and upwards who being first duly Sworn according to Law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the pensions made by the Act of Congress passed July 4th 1836 section third.  That she is the widow of Moses Pratt who was a private soldier in the Line of the United States during the Revolutionary War.  That prior to her marriage with the sd [said] Moses Pratt her name was Martha Wright.  That she resided in her fathers family in Rutland in the County of Rutland and State of Vermont and that in the month of April 1777 she first became acquainted with the sd [said] Moses Pratt who then understood from him that he had been a soldier in the Line of the United States at Quebec in the Provence of Lower Canada during the fall and winter of 1775 and Spring and Summer of 1776 in the Army Commanded by General Montgomery  That on sd [said] Campaign he endured severe hardships and sufferings.  That during the Campaigns aforesaid he as well as many other of the soldiers had the small [illegible] at Quebec aforesaid.  That she then and ever afterward understood from the sd [said] Moses that he volunteered in to the term as a soldier as aforesaid and marched from Bennington aforesaid to Quebec and that according to her best recollection the sd [said]  Moses informed her that he marched in the fall of the year 1775 and returned home to Bennington aforesaid from sd [said] Campaign in the Summer of 1776 on his return he was sick at Rutland some days.  That  she then and [illegible] after when he comund  an the subject understood from the sd [said] Moses that he was absent from home as a soldier and sd [said] Campaign something like nine months, that she well remembers that in the summer of 1777 he the said Moses Pratt came to her fathers house in Rutland aforesaid for the purpose of getting her Brothers to go with him and a company of Volunteers to Clarendon
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in Vermont to take some Tories that were there assembled.  That she well remembers of the said Moses and that going to Clarendon for the purpose of aforesaid and of his and the rest returning but the officers belonging to sd [said] party she does not now recollect their names, and that according to her best recollection they were gone one week.  That in July 1777 her father with his family and neighbors fled from Rutland with the troops that were there stationed to Bennington and that she there remained until  winter after and that some time in the fall of 1777 after the surrender of General Burgoyne at Saratoga.  She again saw Moses Pratt who had returned from the Army as he informed her, that the sd [said] Moses informed her that he had been a soldier at Ticonderoga under General St. Clair was there at the time Ticonderoga was evacuated and that he situated with the American Troops and continued with the Army to serve until a short time before the surrender of general Burgoyne when he the said Moses was taken a prisoner by the Indians at a place called the Great Fly near Stillwater in the State of New York.  That the Indians striped  him of every thing except his shirt cna pantaloons and in that condition conducted him to the British Camp where he was attained as a prisoner.  While there an acquaintance of his  a man by the name of McNeal came to him and seeing his condition gave him a Sailors Coat and a Silver Dollar.  And she further declares that the sd [said] McNeal after her marriage with the sd {said] Moses Pratt came to their house and made them a visit and they related over the circumstances of his being a prisoner as aforesaid and of the sd [said] McNeals giving the sd [said] Moses the coat and Silver Dollar as aforesaid.  The sd [said] Moses Pratt after his marriage with the sd [said] Martha used to wear the aforesaid Sailors Coat for a Common Every day Coat and that the sd [said] Silver Dollar the sd [said] Moses left for some years after his marriage with her the sd [said] Martha cnas used to show it to people that called at his house and that he commonly stated to them the story and manner of his making his escape from them.  He said that after being kept a prisoner some days he told a fellow prisoner by the name of Nelson and one other prisoner that he meant to make his escape in the might and that they agreed to indeaver [endeavor] to make their escape together.
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It so happened that in a very dark and rainy night at the time when General Burgoyne was on his retreat that they were marching guarded by a band of Hessians sold in a night or two before the surrender of General Burgoyne they occasionally stumbled and fell down and finally him to and fell out of the [illegible] road as being dead they were not discovered they lay still until the guard passed then them when they crawled into the bushes where they lay quiet until they discovered them there day one of the American Searching parties. They then loosed the party and got safely back to the American Army.  That the sd [said] Martha was [illegible] to the sd [said] Moses being frequently out as a soldier in cases of alarms before she was married to the sd [said] Moses but the length of the times that he was out and the officers under whom he served she does not now recollect, and that after she was married to the sd [said] Moses he the sd [said] Moses was out as a Militia or Soldier in the fall of 1779.  And was under one Cole Grayham [Graham] and that according to the best of her recollection he was out then Eighty days.  It was at the time the enemy burned Branson in Vermont, and that he was again out as a soldier as aforesaid in the fall of 1780 and was stationed at Castleton Vermont that he was out according to her best recollection something like two months, but officers under whom he served she does not recollect, but another time he was gone from home as a soldier as aforesaid at least two weeks.  Somewhere near Lake Champlain that being on that part of Vermont in a frontier town close by a garrison and surrounded by Torries and Indians.  The alarms were frequent and the [illegible] Moses was as frequently called out for hours with others to serve his country in the pursuit of the enemy some time he would be gone two weeks some times one week and sometimes less than a week at a time.  So that it would soon be impossible to state the exact length of this [illegible] that he  performed as a soldier as aforesaid, but she thats that she can safely say that is the truth and respective time that he was out as a soldier as aforesaid after her marriage with the sd [said] Moses before the close of the War of the Revolution was at least one year and a half.  She further declares that when the sd [said] Moses was absent from home as a soldier as she has aforesaid that many times in the night she has been [illegible] fear of being discovered by the enemy.
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to put out any spark of fire in the house and set up [illegible] her child in her arms to keep it from crying for fear of being discovered by the Torries and Indians, at other time have him under the  [illegible] of fleeing to the fort in Rutland for reffuge [refuge] at other times of going to some distant neighbor to stay during the nights.  That she was moved to the land Moses Pratton the 13th day of May 1779.  At Rutland aforesaid by one Esquire Baneker and that after the close of the area she and her husband and family moved to Cornwall in the County of Addison aforesaid from then Lily Bridge in the County of Addison aforesaid and from thence to Shoreham aforesaid and from home to Manervia [Minerva] in the State of New York and from there after her said husbands death she moved to Orwell Vermont and from home to Shoreham aforesaid where she now resides and is blind and has resided at the latter place ten years last part.  That her eldest child Moses Pratt [illegible]  Mr. Moses Pratt was born March 22nd 1780.  That her second child Elisha Wright was born May 1st 1782.  That her third  child Betsy Pratt was born April 6th 1784.  [{That} crossed out] her fourth child was born May 4th 1796.  That her fifth child Polly Pratt was born Dec 28, 1788 that her sixth  child Rufus Pratt was born Sept 14 1793  That her seventh child was born April 2nd 1796 whose name is Joseph Pratt that her last child was Silas Pratt was born July 14, 1798.  That her husband the aforesaid Moses Pratt died on the 28th day of August 1828 at Manervia [Minerva] in the State of New York and that she has remained a widow ever since that period as will more fully appear by aforesaid to the press herewith annexed  That the lady relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that her husbands name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state and she further states that she has in her possession any documentary evidence of the service of her husband.
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid  Before Me                        her
                                                  Martha  Pratt
                                                         mark
Calvin Polace judge of Addison County Court
State of Vermont}
Addison County}

I Calvin Solan one of the judges of Addison County Court do hereby certify that the said Martha Pratt from her advanced age and [illegible] informity can not attend Court

Calvin Solan Judge of Addison County Court
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State of Vermont}
Addison County J.}

On the 21st day of November AD 1836.  before me Udney H. Everest one of the Justices of the Peace within and for the County of Addison aforesaid personally appeared Betsy Pratt, a Resident of Shoreham in the County of Addison aforesaid who being first duly sworn according to Law doth depose and say that she is the wife of Rufus Pratt of Shoreham aforesaid who is the son of Moses Pratt late of Manerva {Minerva} in the State of New York aforesaid and Martha Pratt ow of sd [said] Shoreham that she is thirty nine years of age.  That the said Moses Pratt the father of the said Rufus Pratt died at the home of the sd [said] Rufus Pratt on the 28th day of August 1828 at Manerva [Minerva] aforesaid that she has frequently heard the sd [said] Moses Pratt say while at the home of the sd [said] Rufus Pratt that he was a soldier during the Revolutionary War.  That he served in one Campaign at Quebec under General Montgomery and that he had the small pox at Quebec while on sd [said] Campaign  That he endured much fatigue that he was at Tianburg at the time that place was [illegible].  That he was 
[written between the lines { Schenectady New York}]
taken a prisoner by the Indians and that he made his escape in the night time about the time of the of the surrender of General Burgoyne.  That he was at Castleton and [illegible] as a soldier as aforesaid and then frequently heard him say that he had served as a soldier in the whole during the Revolutionary War two years.  She further said that he sd [said] Martha Pratt widow of the sd {said} Moses Pratt now resides in [ ] aforesaid and that she has remained a widow [  ] of her husband Moses Pratt and further this deponent saith not                      Betsey Pratt

Sworn and subscribed this day and year when written
Before me Udney H Everest  Justice of the Peace
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I hereby certify that the said Betsey Pratt who has  subscribed to the foregoing affidavit is a credible witness.
Udney H. Everest Justice of the Peace

State of Vermont}
Addison County}  

On the 21st day of November 1836 before me Udney H Everest one of the Justices of the Peace within and for the County of Addison personally appeared Benjamin Hunt of Shoreham in the County of Addison aforesaid who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on oath testify and say that he has been acquainted with Moses Pratt late of Manerva [Minerva] in the state of New York [illegible] the year 1810 until the death of the said Moses in 1828.  That he has [illegible] heard Moses Pratt tell of his being a soldier during the Revolutionary War.  That he was at Quebec during as a soldier in the Campaign commanded by General Montgomery.  That he was then sick with the small pox that many of the soldiers then died and that he came near being.  That he has heard the sd [said] Moses state his being a soldier at Ticonderoga at the time that Moses was [illegible] under General St. Clair.  that he which with the army.  That he continued with the American Army until he was taken a prisoner by the Indians marched [ ] New York/  That he made his escape from the enemy about the time of the Surrender of General Burgoyne.  That he has lived at Castleton Vermont at various other places both before and after his marriage and that the sd [said] Moses frequently said that he has served as a soldier in the whole over two years.
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He further deposes that Martha pratt widow of the sd [said] Moses Pratt now resides at Shoreham aforesaid that she is blind and that she has remained a widow ever since the death of her sd [said] husband Moses Pratt and further this afformant saith not.

Benj [Benjamin] Hunt

Sworn and subscribed this day and year above written
Before my Udney H Everest Justice of he Peace

I hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with the above named Benjamin Hunt and that he is a credible witness

Udney H Everest Justice of the Peace
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State of Vermont}
Addison County}

On the 21st of November 1836. before me Udney H Everest one of the Justices of the Peace within and for the County of Addison aforesaid personally appeared Joseph Smith sd [said] a resident of Shoreham in the County of Addison aforesaid who being first duly sworn doth upon certify and say that he is fifty four years of age.  That he has been acquainted with Moses Pratt late of Manerva [Minerva} in the State of New York [illegible] for thirty two years prior to the sd [said] Moses Pratt's death in 1828.  That from his acquaintance with the sd [said] Moses Pratt he understood from his that he had been a soldier of the Revolution.  That he served as a soldier at Quebec under General Montgomery   That he served the whole of the Campaign at Quebec  that he then had small pox.  That he had served as a soldier at various places and times during the Revolutionary War.  That he was taken as a prisoner by the Indians near Stillwater New York.  That he was reputed in the neighborhood where he resided to have been a soldier of the Revolution War.  That he the said Joseph Smith sd [said] concurs in that opinion.  That he is also personally acquainted with Martha Pratt the widow of the sd [said] Moses Pratt that she is an old lady.  and blind and that she is a person of truth and veracity and her statements are to be 
relied on , and that she has remained a widow ever since the death of her sd [said] husband Moses Pratt           Joseph Smith 2nd
Sworn and subscribed to the day and year above written

Before me Udney H Everest Justice of the Peace
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I hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with the above named Joseph Smith who has [illegible] and [illegible] to the foregoing affidavit that he is a credible witness
Udney H Everest Justice of the Peace
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State of Vermont}
Addison County}  
I Calvin Solan one of the judges of Addison County Court do hereby declare my opinion after the investigation of the matter on the application of the said Martha Pratt that the said Martha Pratt is the widow of the said Moses Pratt and that the said Moses Pratt was a soldier of the Revolution and served as she states and that Martha Pratt who has made the foregoing declaration and that Lydia Allen
Benjamin Hunt
[Illegible]
Nathaniel Blanchard 
Lyddy Nelson
Lemi Deatter
Rufus Pratt and Silas Pratt who has made the foregoing affidavits are credible witnesses and that their statements are to be relied on.

Calvin Solan Judge of Addison County Court

I Calvin Solan one of the Justices of Addison County Court do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Judge in the matter of the application of Martha Pratt for a pension.  
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 23rd day of February AS 1887.

Calvin Solan Judge of Addison County Court
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C

State of New York
Franklin County js

Nathaniel Blanchard of the town of Malone in the county of Franklin & State of New York being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he is more than eighty one years of age as he verily believes that during the war of the revolution he resided at Rutland in the State of Vermont and was well acquainted with Moses Pratt then of the said town of Rutland.  That this deponent from the year 1779 to the close of the revolutionary war commanded a company of militia belonging to Rutland aforesaid & that the said Moses Pratt was a member of the said Company and this deponent further saith that he well recollects the said Moses turned out on a tour of duty & marched with the said company under the command of this deponent in the autumn of the year one thousand seven hundred seventy nine as he believes from Rutland to Brandon where a party of British Torries & Indians had then recently committed some depredations on the inhabitants.  That such tour of duty was performed in three or four days, and this Deponent further saith that he knows that the said Moses Pratt in the autumn of the year 1780 as he believes was on duty as a private in the said Company of militia then under the command of this Deponent for four or five weeks at Castleton about twelve miles from Rutland and further he saith not
Subscribed  & sworn this 20th}
Day of December 1836 Before me}
Nathaniel Blanchard
Asa Hascall Justice of the Peace

Franklin County}
Town of Malone} js I certify that I am personally well acquainted with Nathaniel Blanchard the Deponent above named & that he sustains a good character and is a credible witness
A Hascall Justice of the Peace
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State of New York}
Franklin County} js
 I Uriah D Micker clerk of the County of Franklin do hereby certify that Asa Hascall Esquire whose
name is subscribed to the within certificate is a Justice of the Peace in and for said County. Duly elected and sworn that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of such Justice and know that the signatures to the said Certificat is the genuine hand writing of the said Justice
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixing the seal of the said County 
Decbr [December} 20. 1836.
U. D. Micker Clerk
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State of Vermont}
Bennington County} js
Personally appeared before me Liddy Nelson of Bennington County of Bennington and State of Vermont Deposeth and says that she is seventy nine years of age and was married to Joseph Nelson in the year of Our Lord one thousand seven hundred and Eighty nine and further states that before as will as after she was Married to the said Nelson she had heard him say that he the said Nelson and Moses Pratt were soldiers in the Militia of Vermont and said militia was raised in Bennington aforesaid and that he the said Nelson and Moses Pratt was out in the summer Campaign of seventeen hundred and Seventy seven and that with one other person was taken prisoner by the Indians at Stilwater {Stillwater} and were striped of all their clothing except a shirt and trousers and was very much abused and beaten by the Indians and every night each one of them had to lodge between two Indians and fastened to him, and at last was taken to Genl {General} Burgpons [Burgoynes} camp and delivered up to him and on a Dark scary night when Genl {General Burgoin [Burgoyne] was on his retreat they made their escape by agreement and returned to the American lines and after the surrender of Genl [General] Burgoyne they returned back to Bennington aforesaid and this deponent further states that shortly after she was Married to Joseph Nelson said Moses Pratt called on said Nelson and in her presence and hearing they talked over the whole of the foregoing transaction which is in substance as she has stated as near as she can recollect and further this Deponent saith not.
Sworn and subscribed before me this thirtyith [thirtieth] Day of December 1836
Joseph Stavin Justice of the Peace
                             her
                    Liddy  X  Nelson
                           mark

State of Vermont}
Bennington County} js

I hereby Certify that I am personally acquainted with Liddy Nelson the {illegible] subscriber of the foregoing Deposition and do certify that she is a person of truth and veracity given under my hand at Bennington this 30th day of December 1936
Joseph Stavin Justice of the Peace
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State of Vermont

To all to whom these presents shall come.

I Henry Robinson Clerk of Bennington County Court, hereby certify that Joseph Stavin Esq whose signature appears to the foregoing, is a Justice of the Peace in & for sd [said] County of Bennington, duly qualified by Law to take & Certify & Certify Deposition Jc & that I believe his foregoing signature to be genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto Subscribed my name & affixed the Seal of Our Said County Court at Bennington in the County of Bennington this 30th day of December AD. 1836. & of the Independence of the United States the Sixty First.
Henry Robinson
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I Rufus Pratt of Shoreham in the County of Addison and State of Vermont aged forty three years and upward do depose testify and say that I am the son of Moses Pratt late of Manervea [Minerva] in the State of New York deceased and Martha Pratt now of Shoreham aforesaid.  That I have frequently heard the said Moses Pratt say that he was a soldier of the Revolutionary War.  That he the sd [said] Moses Pratt enlisted in the fall of the year 1775 and marched from Rutland Vermont where he then resided to Quebec in the  Province of Lower Canada in the troops commanded by General Montgomery.  That he lived as a soldier at Quebec aforesaid during the winter and until the 19th day of May after on which day he said that he marched back from Quebec and arrived at his fathers house in Rutland Vermont  How the middle of time after that while at Quebec he had the small pox.  My father Moses Pratt also said that he was in the American Army at the time of the battle of Bennington and that at the time of the battle of Saratoga he was a prisoner having been a few days before said battle taken by the Indians at a place called the gnat fly not far from Stillwater New York and that he made his escape from the enemy and returned to the American Army.  I also understood from my father that he was a soldier at Castleton Vermont and was out on numerous sentry parties during the war and further say not Sworn and subscribed this 23rd day of Fbry 1837
Rufus Pratt
Before me Udney H Everest Justice Peace
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I hereby certify that I was acquainted with Moses Pratt during his residence in the town of Shoreham some years since and that he was reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resided to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that I concur in that opinion.
Silas H. Jenison 
Gov. of Vermont

Shoreham Vt.
Feby 23, 1837.
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I Silas Pratt of Rutland in the County of Rutland and State of Vermont. aged 73 years do depose, testify and say that Moses Pratt late of the town of Minerva in the County of Essex and State of New York deceased was an elder brother of him the said Silas Pratt.  That he the said Moses Pratt was Eight or nine years older than him the said Silas Pratt and that he the said Silas Pratt has been acquainted with the said Moses from his earliest recollection until the decease of the said Moses.  That he was also acquainted with Martha Wright before her marriage with the said Moses that she formerly resided in Rutland aforesaid and that she and the said Moses Pratt were lawfully joined in marriage at Rutland aforesaid in the spring of the year 1779.  They lived together as husband and wife from that time until the decease of the said Moses that they had two children born to them before the peace of 1783 and after that removed to Cornwall Vermont and he further deposes and says that in the year 1775 the said Moses Pratt resided in Bennington Vermont and that he the said Silas Pratt understood that the said Mr. Pratt in the fall of 1775 had enlisted at Bennington aforesaid into the service of the United States as a private soldier to go to Quebec in the province of Lower Canada and that he marched with the troops that was raised at Bennington aforesaid for said campaign that the said Moses Pratt on his march as aforesaid stopped at his Fathers house in Rutland where his father then resided and staid [stayed] all night and said that he was on his way to Quebec and left his fathers house for that purpose and that afterwards in the month of June 1776 according to the best recollection of him the said Silas Pratt-the said Moses Pratt returned from Quebec sick having the small pox in his absence that he the said Moses Pratt stops again at his fathers in Rutland aforesaid where he remained for a few days and then returned to Bennington aforesaid.  And the said Silas Pratt further says that in the year 1777 he with his fathers family was driven from Rutland to Bennington and was the the case with the most of the inhabitants of Rutland.
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And that his brother the said Moses Pratt was then private soldier and that immediately after the battle of Bennington on the sixteenth day of August 1777 [illegible] the said 
Silas understood and believed that the said Moses Pratt marched with the American Army from Bennington aforesaid in pursuit of [illegible] and did not see the said Moses Pratt again until the fall of the same year when the said Moses Pratt returned back to [illegible] Fathers from the army and on his return the said Moses Pratt stated that several days before the battle of Stillwater he the said Moses Pratt being on a scout was taken prisoner with two others by the Indians and that he remained a prisoner until a night of two after the battle while the British Army was on their retreat when he and our Nelson made their escape and returned to the American Army.  That when he was taken a prisoner, he was stripped of his clothing except his shirt and pantaloons and that a man by the name of McNeal with whom he was formally acquainted gave him a sailor coat, shirt and a dollar in silver, and that he had on the coat when he returned home. And that in November 1779 the said Moses Pratt had removed from Bennington to Rutland and belonged to the militia company there whereof [illegible] Wright was Captain.  At that time the Militia of that and the neighboring towns were called out to repel an invasion of the enemy from the north consisting of about one hundred Indians and troops that had come up the valley of Otter Creek as far as Brandon Vermont, at the time the said enemy burnt Brandon-the several companys turned out on that occasion and marched under the command of Lt. James Claghorn his brother Moses Pratt and he the said Silas Pratt marched on that occasion and were out on duty one [illegible] the greater part of the company turned out and was commanded by Nathaniel Blanchard who was an ensign, the Capt. and [illegible] both bring
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absent.  and further this deponent saith not 
Silas Pratt

State of Vermont}
Rutland County js}

Be it known that on the 4th day of February AD 1837 before me the subscriber a Justice of the peace in and for the county of Rutland personally appeared Silas Pratt who hath subscribed the preceding deposition in my presence and made solemn oath that the same is made agreeable to truth   And I do hereby certify that the said deponent is a credible witness

Francis Slason Justice Peace

State of Vermont}
Rutland County js}

I Robert Pierpoint Clerk of the County Court for the County of Rutland certify that Francis Slason is a Justice of the Peace for said county and that his certificate and signature above is his proper hand writing

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed this seal of said Court of Rutland this 4th day of February A.D. 1837
R. Pierpoint
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State of Vermont]
Addison County js}

I Samuel Swift Clerk of the County Court for the said County of Addison do hereby certify the Calvin Solace, before whom the foregoing proceedings were had is one of the Judges of said County Clerk, and his name hereto subscribed is his own signature.  And I further certify that Udney H. Everest before whom the aforegoing affidavits of Betsey Pratt, Benjamin Hunt, Joseph Smith 2nd Joel Doolittle & Rufus Pratt were made was at those several times a Justice of the Peace for said County & his name subscribed thereto is his own signature, and that [illegible] Field, before whom the foregoing affidavit of Lydia Allen was made was at the time a Justice of the Peace for said County.  And I further certify that it is known to me, that Silas J. Jenison, who had subscribed the foregoing certificate is the acting Governor of Vermont, and his name subscribed thereto is his own signature.  In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said Court, this fourth day of March 1837.
Saml [Samuel] Swift Clerk
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                                                                       Aug
Rev. and 1812
Wars Section.

                                               January 10, 1927
                                                Moses Pratt
                                                 W. 17488

W. Winter Pratt
1628 Walnut St
Philadelphia, Pa

Sir:

     I have to advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim W. 17488, it appears that Moses Pratt, while residing in Bennington, Vermont, served as a private in the Vermont Troops, as follows-
     In 1775, under Colonel Brush and marched to Johnston, and was there when the Fort was taken, length of service not stated.
     He enlisted in October 1775 and served in Captain Wait Hopkin's Company, Colonel Seth Warner's Regiment of Green Mountain Boys, went to Quebec and served until in June 1776.
     He enlisted in April 1777 and served in Captain Ebebeser Allen's Company, and marched to the Onoon River [Winooski River (also known as the Onion River] , on his return he joined Captain Robinson's Company and went to Ticonderoga, was there
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when it was evacuated and in the retreat; about the first of August he entered Captain Ebenezer Allen's Company, Colonel Herrick's Regiment. He was at the battle of Bennington. A short time before the surrender of Burgoyne, he was taken prisoner, by the
Indians, near Stillwater, and carried to the British camp, after a few days he made his escape, and rejoined his company.
     He served from November 7, 1778 to November 13, 1778 in Captain Simeon Wright's Company, Colonel Warner's Regiment; and in November 1779, three days in Captain Simeon Wright's Company, Colonel Gideon Wright's Regiment , and was at the alarm at Neshobe. 
     From October 12, 1780 to November 1778 in Captain Nathaniel Blanchard's Company, Colonel Ebenezer Allen's Regiment; and from October 21, 1781 to October 30, 1781 in Captain Nathaniel Blanchard's Company, Colonel Thomas Lee's Regiment, at the alarm at Castleton.
     He was also out on other alarms, no details stated.  Soldier married May 13, 1779 at Rutland, Vermont, Mary Wright. He died August 28, 1828 at Minerva, New York . She was allowed pension on her application executed February 23, 1836, while a resident of Sherborn,
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                                  3 -
Vermont, aged eighty-one years and upwards.
The date and place of soldier's birth are not
stated.
Their children-
Moses      born March 2 or    12, 1780.
Abely(?)       "    May              11, 1782.
Betsey          "    April               6, 1783 or 1785.
Abijah          "    May                4, 1786.
Polly W.       "    December     28, 1788, married --------------Hunt.
Rufus           "   September      14, 1793, married Betsey --------------.
Joseph         "   April                   2, 1796.
Silas             "   July                   24, 1798.
     It is stated that soldier's father, whose name
is not given, lived, at the beginning of the Revolution, in Rutland, Vermont.

     Owing to a lack of clerical force available for
such purpose, only two histories are furnished each inquirer.

Respectfully,



WINFIELD SCOTT
Commissioner.
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Lettr Hon. W. Slade
14 Janry 1840.  Copies of papers sent to Hon G P. Marsh
Apl 1. 1844
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Martha Pratt
Widow of Moses
Vermont
Sus. Let.. Saml [Samuel] Swift
June 8, 1837. Lettr Hon W. Slade, July 11, 1837. same July 25, 1837
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Washington March 4, 1844

Sir

I have applied to, in behalf of Martha Pratt of Addison County, Vermont, a pensioner, to obtain an increase of her pension, which I understand was refused by the Pension Office.  I know neither the ground of the claim not of the refusal, I am requested to ask you to furnish me with copies (or originals) of her papers to be laid before congress

Your respectfully
Geo P Marsh
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CHARLES WESTING PRESIDENT
F. HOPKINSON EVANS, VICE PRESIDENT
HERBERT J. EGMORE, SECRETARY  & TREASURER

CABLE ADDRESS
WESTEVANEG PHILADELPHIA

WESTING, EVANS & EGMORE, INC.
1628 WALNUT STREET
PHILADELPHIA
November 12th, 1926.
CABINET WORKS
21st AND FAIRMOUNT AVENUE

MAKERS OF HIGH GRADE FURNITURE
DECORATORS AND UPHOLSTERERS
INTERIOR CABINET WORK

Bureau of Pensions,
Washington, D. C.

Gentlemen:

     Is it possible for you to send me the war
record of MOSES PRATT, Revolutionary War Soldier?

     I am unable to supply you with any service
record, but it is my understanding that he served in the Revolution, and I believe he died in Sherburn, Vt.

     Also any family data that you may have on file. I am searching for this information for the purpose of obtaining membership in the society, Daughters of the American Revolution" 

Thanking you, I am

Yours very truly,
W. Vinter Pratt

WVP: RRB
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[Written vertically on left side]

1927 Jan. 10-Hist to W. Vinter Pratt Esq

[Written on the right side]

Rev WIDOW, &c.

Fine No.    17488
Martha Pratt
widow of
Moses Pratt
Pri Rev War

Act:  July 4th 36

Index:--Vol. M , Page  141

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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House of Reps Jan. 9 1840

Sir

     I send herewith additional evidence to sustain a claim of Martha Pratt to an increase of pension.
     I also send her pension certificate, which you will please return to me in case her pension should not be increased.
                   Very respectfully
                    You obedient servant
                    William Slade

J. L. Edwards Esq
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75    6        6
77 mo        1  
79- 3 dy           3         Mr Edwards
80-  4.5 wk     1    14
                      --------      I return herewith                         
                        8.17     the papers in the case
78.  v  7}                       of Martha Pratt,  with       
79. v   3dy}                    additional testimony        
or 8a v 1 mo}                   Please reexamine the           
81        4.}                       case & make report to           
Near Ark. 1939                       Your ob [obedient] 
                                                servant
                                        William Slade
                                                          March 14.38
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Town Club of Rutland
Certificate.

Copd [Copied]
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Town Clerk's Office
Rutland 5 Feby. 1838

I certify that upon careful examination of the Records in my office, no Record of the marriage of Moses Pratt & Martha Wright can be found
                                              A L Brown L. Clerk
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Allen Wardners
Certificate
Jany 8, 1838

1 m Rev of Cert

Copd  [Copied]


[Lower right corner written vertically]

235
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State of Vermont, Treasurer's Office
Windsor Ja y. 8. 1838

I Allen Wardner Treasurer of said State do hereby certify that there is on file in this office a paper purporting to be " A Pay-Roll of Capt. Simeon Wright's Company of Militia in Col. Gideon Warners Regiment, for an alarm at Neshobe for three days in the month of November 22nd AD. 1779  The Capt & Lieutenant being absent Ens Nathaniel Blanchard has the command of said Company" ---  I further certify that the name of Moses Pratt appears upon said Roll with an allowance for three days service annexed---said Roll appears to have been sworn to by said St. Blanchard on the 14 June 1781 before Joseph Bowker assistant--approved and ordered to be paid on the 4th of August 1781 by John Fasset & Tim. [Timothy] Brownson, Committee--and it appears that the Treasurer on the same 4th of August paid said Roll to Simeon Wright--  I further certify that there is another paper on file in this office purporting to be " A Pay Roll of Capt Nathaniel Blanchards Company of Militia in Col Ebenezer Allens Regiment in the State of Vermont for an alarm commencing the 12th of October  and ending the 12th November following" --and I further certify that the name of Moses Pratt appears upon said Roll with an allowance for thirty days service annexed---that on the 30 May 1781 said Roll was sworn to before Tim. [Timothy] Brownson afsid. [aforesaid] and on the same 30 May was examined, approved & ordered to be paid by Tho. [Thomas]
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Chittenden & Tim. [Timothy Brownson, Committee--and it appears also that on said 30th May the said Roll was paid by the then Treasurer of Vermont and I further certify that there is another paper on file in this office purporting to be " A Pay Roll of Capt Nathaniel Blanchards Company of Militia in Col. Thomas Lees Regt. for service done at Castleton in the State of Vermont commencing the 21st October and ending the 30th of the same year 1781"  --and I further certify that the name of Moses Pratt appears on said Roll with an allowance for four days service annexed--and that said Roll appears to have been sworn to on the 10th of the same Jany the said Roll was examined, approved and ordered to be paid by Isaac Tichenor & Tim. [Timothy] Brownson and it further appears that on the 11th of said Jany. the said Roll was paid by the then Treasurer of Vermont.

Allen Wardner
Treasurer of the State of Vermont
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1.  1777  Apl d7h  Canada expedition
2.  1777 Clarenden
3.    "     [illegible]
4.  fall' 79  8 days Brandon
5.   "     80-----2 mos  Castleton 40 2n 5 weeks
----------, 14 ds.---------------
h. [illegible]
h & h  Lydia Allen., Silas 3 Pratt
5.  Nathl [Nathaniel] Blanchard HonCom J. Officer
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War Department 
Pension Office
July 25, 1837

Sir, 

     Your letter of the 21st inat has been received and I herewith enclose the papers in the case of Mrs. Martha Pratt.  It is always customary when papers are required to be sent to persons at a distance, and are to be returned, first to obtain a promise of their return.  It is evident therefore that my letter of the 11th inst. was nothing more than a conformity with regulation from which I do not consider myself at liberty to depart.
I have the honor to be 
Very respectfully
Your Obt [Obedient} Svt [Servant]
J. L. Edwards
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✓1518
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[Written vertically]

July 25.

Martha Pratt 
papers

FREE

[Stamp {MIDDLEBURY  VT APL 21}]

James L. Edwards Esq
Commr of Pensions
Washington
D.C.
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Middlebury Vt. July 21. 1837

Sir

Your letter of the 11th instant is recd [received].
There was no necessity of making my promise to return the papers in Mrs. Martha Pratt's case, a condition precedent to their transmission to me.  An intiruration [itineration] from you to that effort, on sending them, would, of course, have secured their return, in case they should not be presented to Congress.  They will be returned agreeably to your suggestion , if that direction shall not be given to them.
Very respectfully
Your obedient servant
William Slade
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July 10

[Stamp [MIDDLEBURY VT APR 6]]

Martha Pratt
Vt   8  or NY

James L. Edward Esq
Commr [Commissioner] of Pensions

Washington
D. C.
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Middlebury  July 5. 1837

Sir

Your letter of the 8th of June to Samuel Swift Esq, relative to the case of Mrs. Martha Pratt, applicant for a pension, has been handed me, with a request that I could look into the case with a view of passing the claim further before you representing a petition to Congress.  I have to request therefore that you will transmit to me the papers as soon as convenient.

Very respectfully
Your obedient servant
William Slade
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State of Vermont
Secretary of State's Office, 
Jan. 22, 1839

I Chauncey L. Knapp, Secretary of State of said state, do hereby certify that there is on file in this office a paper, purporting to be " A Payroll of Capt. Simeon Wright's Company in Cole Warner's Regiment of Militia in the service of this and the United States, commencing 7th Nov 1778, ending 13, both days included."  I further certify that the name of Moses Pratt, a private appears upon said payroll, with an allowance of seven days' service annexed. 
I further certify that there is on file in this office another paper, purporting to be " a Pay Roll of Capt Nathl [Nathaniel] Blanchard's Company of Militia in Col.  Eben. {Ebenezer" Allen's Regiment in the State of Vermont for an Alarm commencing the 12th October, 1780, and ending the 17th Novr. [November} following."  I further certify that the name of Moses Pratt appears upon said pay roll, with an allowance of thirty days service annexed.
And I further certify that the said pay rolls appear to have been examined, approved and ordered to be paid, by a com-
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mittee appointed for the purpose, and that they were duly paid by the treasurer of the State of Vermont.
Given under my hand and seal of office at Montpelier, this 22nd day of January, A. D. 1839.

Chauncey L. Knapp, 
Secretary of State.
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Hon. W. Slade
HR

[Stamp [WINDSOR VT JAN 16}]

His Excellency

S. H. Jenison [Jennison]
Shoreham
Vt
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State of Vermont Treasurer's Office Windsor Jan. 15. 1838

I Allen Wardner Treasurer of said State do hereby certify that there is a paper on file in this office purporting to be "A Pay Roll of Capt. Simeon Wright's Compy [Company] in Col. Warner's Regiment of Militia in the service of this and the United States, commencing 7th Novr [November} 1778 ending 13th both days included"  I further certify that the name of Moses Pratt appears upon said Roll with an allowance for seven days service annexed-that on the 28 Jany [January] 1779 it appears that said Roll was examined, approved & the Treasurer ordered to pay the same, by Thos. [Thomas] Chittenden--and I further certify that on the said 28 Jany [January] it appears that the Treasurer  paid the amount of said Pay Roll to James Claghorn.
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Windsor Jany. [January] 15 1837

Dear Sir

Since I wrote you on the 8th enclosing certificate of Moses Pratt's service I have had occasion to look over all the pay rolls name by name, and in this search I have found Pratt's name on one other Roll for 7 days service, a certificate of which I now send you.

Very Respectfully
Y. ob Sevt [Your obedient Servant]
A. Wardner

His Excellency
A. H. Jenison [Jannison}
Shoreham
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R. Pierponts
Certificate
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State of Vermont}
Rutland County js}

I Robert Pierpoint clerk of the County Court for the County of Rutland certify that. I have been clerk of said Court for now these Sixteen years and have never seen any records or files of the late Justice Bowker in the office and as a large quantity  of papers of that discription [description] were destroyed at Castleton I presume if Justice Bowkers, papers were ever lodged in the office they were destroyed.  
Given under my hand at Rutland this 3rd day of February A. D. 1838

R. Pierpoint
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State of Vermont}
Addison County js}

Be it known that before me Udney H. Everest a Justice of the Peace within and for the county of Addison aforesaid personally appeared Hannah Benten of Shoreham in the County of Addison Hannah Benten of Shoreham in the County of Addison aforesaid he being first duly sworn according to Law doth depose testify and say that she is sixty four years of age and upward.  That she was acquainted with Moses Pratt late of Minerva in the State of New York deceased.  That she lived in Cornwall in the County of Addison aforesaid upwards of forty four years last past and that she first became acquainted with Moses Pratt who also knew him in said Cornwall.  The said Moses Pratt then informed her that he had been a soldier in the War of the Revolution and has been at different times through the whole of the Revolution and that he had then in his possession a gram that he had come through the Revolution.  He then stated that he had been a soldier in the American Comp  at Quebec under the command of Cole Arnold.  That in the campaign he volunteered at Bennington in September 1775. as he then stated and marched in [illegible] from Bennington and joined the troops commanded by General Montgomery and marched to Quebec when he was under the command of Arnold after the death of Montgomery and that he marched to Quebec during the winter.  That he left Quebec with the American Army in March 1776. and did not [illegible] at his home in Bennington for some time after.  That during sd [said] Campaigns he said he [illegible] many very close hardships and had the small pox.  She said Moses Pratt informed her she said Hannah Benten that he had been in Eleven engagements with the enemy at one time he was in a skirmish at Bridport at the Southern of Lake Champlain and several of their party were killed and several of the enemy.  That he was taken by the indians near Stillwater in the state of New York at that time before them surrender of Burgoyne.  That after being a prisoner a few days he and two others made their escape and returned to the American camp.  At them time he had one
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when then by the indians as aforesaid he served in said campaign five months as he the sd [said] Moses Pratt then said she said Moses Pratt aforesaid that after he was maimed he left his wife at home with an infant child of his [illegible].  And was [illegible] as a soldier in a campaign of three months on the border of Lake Champlain and that while out he was stationed on guard in a dark night and hearing a moving bit a short distance from him, and that he found in that direction of the noise an the next morning he found that he had shot an indian and then sd [said] Hannah Benten has also heard Elisha Wright was out as a soldier at the same time and in the same company with the sd [said] Moses Pratt.  The said Hannah Benten says that she understood the sd [said] Moses Pratt that he killed the indian in 1782.  The above statement of Moses Pratt the sd [said] Hannah Benten says she has often heard the said Moses Pratt make during his life that said Moses Pratt did some years since having his widow Martha Pratt who is now living in Shoreham aforesaid and further say not.
Sworn and subscribed to this fourth day of February 1838.
                                     her
                         Hannah X Benten
                                    mark

Before me Udney H. Everest Justice of the Peace certify that I am personally acquainted with Hannah Barton above named and that she is a credible witness.  
Udney H Everest Justice of Peace

Udney H Everest above named is & has long been a Justice of the Peace & the above is his signature.0
March 14 1838.    William Slade

[written vertically on left side]

Hannah Bentons [Bentens]
affidavit
C of ct
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I David Greswold of Middletown in the County of Rutland and State of Vermont depose testify & say that I am now in my  ninteenth [ninetieth] year of age.  That I was acquainted with Moses Pratt who lived in Bennington in the state of Vermont from about four years previous till after the close of the Revolutionary War.  In the fall of 1775 he went with me as a soldier in Col. Brushs Regiment to Johnstown and was present at the taking of a fort at that place & we returned to Bennington-and both enlisted into Capt Wait Hopkins Company and was attached to Col. Seth Warners Regiment, and said Pratt and myself with I think about ten others started immediately in advance of our Company for Montreal.  I was a corporal at the time we started but I acted part of the time as orderly sergent [sargeant] -said Pratt missed and slept with me- The reason we went in advance of our Company was on account of the small numbers of men that was left in the fort at Montreal- as the main body of our army at Montreal had gone to Quebec we were about two weeks in Montreal before our Company arrived.  We then started for Quebec we stayed at Quebec till the 4th of May 1776 the time of our enlistment closed about the first of April and the Regiment waited to have those whose terms had expired, stay another month.  We arrived at home about the first of June the whole time we were out was upwards of seven months.  
In the Spring of the year 1777 in the month of April said Moses Pratt volunteered and marched with me to Onion River under Capt. Ebn [Ebenezer] Allen
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to bring off the inhabitants-on our return we met Capt Robinson of Bennington with his Company and we joined his company and went to Ticonderoga and we were there at the time it was evacuated by Gen St. Clair-we remained in Capt Robinsons Company till the latter part of July or the first part of August.  I then enlisted in Capt Ebenezer Allens Company attached to Col. Herricks Regiment- Moses Pratt was after that time Col. Warners Regiment the two Regiments frequently encamped together but I do not recollect his captains name after that time.  I saw him occasionly [occasionally] from that time till after the surrender of Burgoine [Burgoyne] and know that he was in the service the whole of his service in 1777 must have been more than six months but I have no means of ascertaining the exact time.  I understood at that time that said Pratt and one Nelson were taken prisoners and made their escape  from the enemy-but I had no knowledge of the fact except by the report of others.
his
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The words "August" and "July"-on the second page and the word "that" on the first page of the foregoing deposition, are erased and the word July on the second page was interlined before it was signed.

Witness O Clark Justice Peace

The above named Orson Clark was a Justice of the Peace on the 8th of Nov. 1839. and the above signature is in his hand writing
William Slade . MC
Jann. 9.1840
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I Caleb Morgan of Brandon in the County of Rutland and State of Vermont aged Eighty six years on the 9th day of March last part being in the first place duly sworn according to Law depose certify and say that I was a soldier during the War of the Revolution, that I extend the service as a soldier in Capt Eli Nobles Company of Vermont Militia in the fall of the year 1776 and knew according to my best recollection about three months-and then returned home to Pownal Vermont where I then resided, and that I can after I returned home I went out again in Capt Nobles Company and Served in said Company until after the surrender of Burgoyne except a few days when I had cause of absence to return home, and that a short time after the Battle of [illegible] I enlisted under Lieut. [illegible] and served in Capt Robinsons Company the term of five months and was out as a soldier at [illegible] three times during the war as scouts in Vermont on the borders of Lake Champlain and at Lake George in the state of New York, that I was acquainted with Moses Pratt who family resided in Bennington in Vermont.  That I became acquainted with sd [said] Pratt when I was seventeen years of age and knew him during the war and some years after the war.  That according to my best recollection and belief Moses Pratt enlisted into Lieut. Hopkins Company in the fall of 1775 and served as a soldier in Canada and until our army left Canada in the Summer of 1776. and that he does well remember of Moses Pratt being a soldier and serving in the same regiment that I served in  (Ver} Col. Moses Robinson Regiment.  I well remember of Moses Pratt being a soldier at Ticonderoga Castleton Rutland Bennington and saw him at the aforesaid places under arms and also saw him at numerous other places and that he the said Moses Pratt according to the best of my recollection was taken a prisoner by the indians about the time of the Battle of Stillwater
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and I further certify and say that I have understand that the said Moses Pratt died some years since-and that he left a widow, who I have also understand is now living at Shoreham Vermont
                                                          his
Witness of B. Davenport          Caleb  X Morgan
                   H Curnst                          Mark

State of Vermont}
Rutland County js}
The above affidavit sworn and subscribed before me this 7th day of October 1839
B Davenport Justice Peace

I hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with the said Calbe Morgan and that he is a credible witness.
B Davenport Justice of the Peace
B. Davenport above named was a Justice of the Peace on the 7th of October 1839, and the above signature of his name is in his own hand writing

Jan. 9. 1840  William Slade

C of D
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I Asahel June of Brandon Rutland County & state of Vermont of sixty six years of age being duly sworn, do depose, testify & say that I was personally acquainted with Moses Pratt from childhood which was during the Revolutionary war, & during several years after the close of sd [said] war, say twenty five years) sd [said] Pratt lived in Rutland in the time of sd [said] war.  I have frequently heard Mr. Pratt, also my uncle Moses Ambler, say that said Pratt was in the service of the United States at the time the Indians burnt this town, (which was then called Neshoby [Neshobe], or that he served as a Militia man.  I can not more tell which.  That sd [said] Pratt was at sundry times in the fort (then in Pittsford.) called Fort Vengeance under the command of Colonel Claggor previously to the building of sd [said] for & after the building of the [sd] fort sd [said] Pratt, while in the fort was under command of Major Ebenezer Allen.  I was almost daily in the sd [said] Fort & saw sd Pratt [said] frequently.  Sd [said] Pratt frequently called at my Fathers house after having been out on a scouting party & would relate many of the incidents which occurred during sd [said] scouts, & my Uncle frequently being with him would relate the same transactions.  The length of time the sd [said] Pratt & my uncle Ambler, were out as sd [said] scouts I do not now recollect being quite young at the time     Ashel June

State of Vermont}
Rutland County ss}  Brandon 30 day of February AD 1838
Then Asahel June of Brandon, County of Rutland & State of Vermont, personally appearing, and after being carefully examined, & duly cautioned made solemn oath, that the foregoing deposition by him subscribed, contains the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
Before me J. Holcomb Justice Peace I also certify that I have been acquainted with the above named deponent fifteen years & consider him a credible witness
J Holcomb justice Peace
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Ashel June's 
affidavit

C of D
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State of Vermont}
Rutland County js}
I Robert Pierpoint clerk of the County Court for the County of Rutland certify that Jedediah Holcomb is a Justice of the peace for said county and that I believe his signature to the within certificate is genuine  In testimony whereof I  have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court at Rutland this 3rd day of February A.D 1838
R. Pierpoint
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I hereby certify that I have been acquainted with Dea. Moses Pratt late of Minerva State of New York deceased.  The said Moses Pratt moved from Cornwall in the state of Vermont in the year 1817 to Shoreham that he resided in Shoreham til a few years before his death.  he had a letter of commendation from the Baptist Church in Cornwall and soon after united in fellowship with the Baptist Church in Shoreham and continued in good standing until his decease  I further certify that I considered the said Dea. Pratt to be a man of truth and veracity and that full consideration may be placed in what he has stated in regard to his Revolutionary Services dated at Shoreham this 14th day of Decr [December] AD. 1839
Attest Joseph Smith 2d Church Clerk

This certifies whome it may concern, that Deacon Moses Pratt is a member of the Baptist Church of Christ in this place, and in good standing and as such we recomend [recommend] hin, to the Baptist Church of Christ in Shoreham, and when he may have joined there we shall consider him dejoined from us.  Signed by order of the Church
Ezra Allen Church Clerk
Cornwall April the 27th 1816

I was well acquainted with Moses Pratt, above named, during many years previous to his death, and know him to be a member of the Baptist Church in good standing as above tated by Joseph Smith 2nd & Eza Allen with both of whom I have been long acquainted as men of good standing
Jan. 9 1840.                   William Slade
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State of Vermont}
Addison County js}
Be it known that before me Udney H. Everest Justice of the Peace within and for the County of Addison aforesaid personally appeared Joel Doolittle resident of  the County of Addison aforesaid who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath testify and say that he was formily [formerly] acquainted with Moses Pratt late of Minerva in the State of Newyork deceased.  That the sd [said] Moses Pratt formily [formerly] resided in [illegible] and Shoreham in the County of Addison aforesaid and that according to the best recollection of him the sd [said Joel Doolittle something like 25 or 30 years since he first became acquainted with the sd [said] Moses Pratt and that the sd [said] Moses reportedly stated to him in connection with his concerning the war of the Revolution that he the sd [said] Moses was a soldier in the American Army at Quebec in the Provence of Lower Canada under the command of General Montgomery and of his illegible] and sufferings during the Campaign, and also that he belonged to the American Army at the time of the surrender of General Burgoyne at Saratoga in N.Y. and that about that time he was taken a prisoner by the Indians and that from then he made his escape and the sd [said] Joel Doolittle further states that the sd [said] Moses was reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resided to have been a soldier in the Revolution and that he concurs in the opinion.  And that the sd [said] Moses Pratt was a man of truth and veracity and his statements were to be relied on.  I do not recollect to have seen of Pratt for the last  or  years.    Joel Doolittle
Sworn and subscribed before me this 25th day of January 1837.
Udney H. Everest Justice Peace
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I hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with the witness Joel Doolittle and that he is a person of truth & veracity and is a credible witness
Udney H. Everest Justice Peace
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Henry Wrights 
affidavit
C of d
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State of Vermont}
Addison County js}

Be it known that before me Udney H Everest Justice of the peace within and for the County of Addison aforesaid personally appeared Henry Wright of Shoreham in the County of Addison aforesaid who being first duly sworn according to Law doth depose, certify and say that he is forty eight years of age and whereand that he is the son of Elisha Wright late of Milborem in the provence of Lower Canada deceased that his father the sd [said] Elisha Wright was the brother of Martha Pratt now of Shoreham in the County of Addison aforesaid and who is the widow of Moses Pratt late of Minerva in the State of Newyork deceased. That he has frequently heard his father Elisha Wright say that he and Moses Pratt during the Revolution resided at Rutland in the County of Rutland and State of Vermont, and that they were frequently out on  the line of the United States on alarms and that they acted as minute men under one Captain Simeon Wright.  That the sd [said] Elisha Wright and Moses Pratt were out in the line as soldiers at the time Brandon was burned.  and that at another time they were out on an alarm on the border of Lake Champlain near Otter Creek about fifty  miles from their home at Rutland and that they were gone from home not up their [there] three weeks according to the best of his recollection.  and that an other time they both were out together in the winter season on the  case of an alarm on the border of Lake Champlain near Crown Point and was gone from home about one week.  And that they were out at various other times during the war of the Revolution.  And that he the son Henry Wright has frequently heard the said Moses Pratt relate that he and the sd [said] Elisha Wright were out in the Service of their County as told in the aforesaid and further say not
Henry Wright

Sworn and subscribed to this 1st day of September 1837
Before me Udney H Everest Justice of the Peace
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I hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with the sd [said] Henry Wright and that he is a credible witness
Udney H Everest Justice of the Peace

The above named Udney H Everest has long been a Justice of the Peace & the above is his genuine signature

William Slade
March 14 1838.
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State of Vermont}
Addison County js}

Be it known that before me Udney H Everest a Justice of the Peace within and for the County of Addison personally appeared Polly W Hunt of Shoreham in the County of Addison aforesaid who being first duly sworn according to Law doth depose testify and say that she is now forty nine years of age and upward.  That she is the daughter of Moses Pratt late of Minerva in the State of Newyork aforesaid and Martha Pratt now of Shoreham aforesaid. And she further says that she has reportedly heard the sd [said] Moses Pratt say that he was a soldier during the war of the Revolution in the term of the United States.  That in the forepart of November 1775.  he marched from Bennington in Vermont to Quebec in the Provence of Lower Canada and heard the army under the command of Montgomery-and that he returned home to Bennington for said Campaign later on the month of June 1776.  He was out in the service of the United States in the Militia of Vermont at Arlington as he [illegible] six or eight days.  And that in April 1777. he was a soldier in Clarendon Vermont was out as he stated one week.  And that in the forepart of May 1777. he marched from Bennington as a soldier in the Militia of Vermont. to Ticonderoga and was there in the army commanded by General St. Clair and was at Ticonderoga until that fort was evacuated and  continued with the American until a few days prior to the surrender of General Burgoyne when he was taken a prisoner by the Indians, and made his escape from them a few days after he was taken a prisoner.
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as aforesaid and returned to the American Army.  He frequently informed her that he was once on a campaign at the border of Lake Champlain at a place called [illegible] harbor. and also to Brandon at the time Brandon was burned.  and also at Brandon at one other time when a girl by the name of Betsy Case was taken prisoner by the Indians.  was also at the building of Fort Vengeance at Pittsford.  and was reportedly at sd [said] Fort at other times in cause of alarms.  and was a soldier at Castleton Vermont and being in a frontier part of the County he was out almost constantly in the service of his country in scouting parties watching the movement of the enemy.  And that she has frequently heard her father Moses Pratt say that in the whole of his term as a soldier as aforesaid he was out between two and three years.  That his mother Martha Pratt is now living at Shoreham aforesaid.  and that she has remained a widow ever since the decease of the sd [said] Moses Pratt her sd [said] husband.  And further I say not
Polly W. Hunt
Sworn and subscribed to this 31 day of Feby [February] 1838

Before me Udney H Everest Justice Peace

I hereby certify that I am acquainted with the above named Polly W. Pratt and that she is a credible witness.  
Udney H Everest Justice Peace

Udney H Everest above named is & has long been a Justice of the peace, & the above is his genuine signature
March 14. 1838.
William Slade

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Polly W. Hunt
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