Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 7651, Prince Haskell, Mass.
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Service: Mass.

Haskell, Prince,
Leah

Number: W. 7651

Contents:
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[illegible] -Aug 3 1835
Let to Pen agt & L. B. Sturges
--t 29.1835______________
Transf  . Nov 11 1835 to Ohio
Pittsbg. from 4 Mar 1835 & No---
Sent to L. B. Sturges Norwalk
O
[illegible]: 5th Nov 42 L. B.
Sturges

Ohio P (Vermont crossed out)
No 17.528
Prince Haskell
Windsor Co in the State of Vermont
was in Drum. & priv.  in the company commanded 
Captain Haseltine [Hazeltine] of the Regt commanded
Col Fellows in the Massachusetts
3 mos Drummer             11.00
21 "    Private                  70. -
__________________           ___________

24                                     $ 81. -
_________________________________________________                                         
---scribed in the Roll of Vermont
----he rate of 80 Dollars annum
-----mmence on the XXXXX day of March 1834
-----tificate of Pension issued the  XXXX day of
August 1833 and sent to G. E. Wales
Barnard
______________________________________________
Arrears to the 4th  of XXXXXX '33   162.00
semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept '33  40.50
                                                              ________
                                                          $202.50
Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832.
[illegible, probably "Recorded"]rded by Jms office 
[torn, probably "Book"] E  Vol. 3  Page 69
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7643
Ohio
Leah Haskell
widow of Prince Haskell,
Mass
who was a Drummer
in the Massachusetts line
__________________________________________
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
76 Dollars 14
Cents per annum, to commence on 
the 4th day of March, 1843.
_____________________________________________
Certificate of Pension issued the 
26 day of March 1846,
and sent to Wm Baker
Toledo
Ohio

Act of March 3, 1843
& 17 June, 1844
Recorded in Book A
Vol. 2 Page 204
_________________________________________________
No 444.  Admd. under joint resolution & act 7 July 1838 see within__
[illegible] 28
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Prince Haskell


No..5561
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State of Vermont
Windsor County,  ss.
On this ninth day of August A.D. 1832 personally appeared in open court before the Judge of the Probate Court of Hartford, District, 
now sitting, Prince Haskell a resident of the county of Windsor and State of Vermont, aged seventy four years, who being first duly sworn
according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain 
the benefit of the act of Congress, passed June  7, 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers,
and served as herein stated.

I enlisted the first of May 1775 being then a 
resident of Hardwick in Worcester County in the State of Massachusetts, in Capt Hazeltons [Hazeltine's] company as Drummer and this company I believe was in Col.
Fellows Regiment and Gen'l  Ward's Brigade of
the Massachusetts troops for the term of eight
months-was stationed at Roxbury untill after the battle of Bunker Hill, then went to Dorchester. I served in this company untill the first of January 1776 the full period of my term
of enlistment eight months - there was at this time a request that as many as could of this corps of troops would serve one month more untill the army could be recruited-I remained and served another month- but who my captain was I do not remember- I returned home and was paid for nine months service- In the year 1776 there was a call for men for four months to march to 
 Ticonderoga. One Deacon Paige was called upon and he came to my father & agreed with him for me to go in his place which I did and served as drummer until December after & then returned home. I rec'd four months pay from Massachusetts. I served in Capt Hamiltons Company and Col. Brewers Regiment- In  August I believe 1777 at the alarm of Bennington battle Capt Timothy Paige of Hardwick called for volunteers on Horseback to go to Bennington- I went and returned to Hardwick and received for this service ten days pay---Immediately after this there was a call for men to go to the west to stop the Brittish [British] from going down the North River
I enlisted for these months as drummer 
I believe in Capt Crawfords Company & Col Cushings Regiment and had the good fortune to see Gen Burgoyne surrender his army-our service being not completed Gen'lWarners Brigade to which I belonged went down North River towards New York as far as White Plains and served then untill December after making four months service at this time-In the whole my service
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in the Massachusetts line was sixteen months and ten days- I was born in Rochester State of Massachusetts on the 24th day of April A.D. 1758


He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of the Agency of any State.
                                   Prince Haskell

Sworn to and subscribed the
day and year aforesaid
L A Marsh, Register

We, Preston Taylor a Clergyman residing in Barnard and Samuel Richmond residing in the same place, hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Prince Haskell who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be 74 years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Preston Taylor Lemuel Richmond

Sworn and subscribed the
day and year aforesaid
L A March, Register

And the said court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary
soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that Preston Taylor who signed the preceding certificate is a Clergyman, resident in Barnard and that Samuel Richmond who has also signed the same, is a resident in Barnard - and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.

I, Lyndon A Marsh Register of the Court of Probate of the District of Hartford do hereby certify, that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Prince Haskell for a Pension.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto 
set my hand and seal of office this ninth day of August A.D. 1832
L A Marsh, Register
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8.489, Leah Haskell widow of Prince Ohio Married in 1781 husb. died 23 March 1841
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Declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the Acts of Congress of the 7th July 1838 and the 23d August 1842 

State of Ohio, County of Huron Ss - On this 3d day October one thousand Eight hundred and forty two personally appeared before the Court of Common Pleas sitting in Norwalk within and for said County of Huron in said State Leah Haskell a Resident of Peru in the County of Huron in said State aged Eighty years who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the Acts of Congress passed July 7 1838 and the 23d of August 1842 granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the revolutionary War. That she is the widow of Prince Haskell who was a Drummer and enlisted and served as such for the following periods & at the following places viz That in the year of our Lord AD 1775 being then a resident in Hardwick Worcester County State of Massachusetts he enlisted in Captain Hazelton's [Hazeltine's] Company as a Drummer in Colonel Fellows Regiment in General Wards Regiment Brigade in the Massachusetts Line for the term of Eight months that he was stationed at Roxbury untill after the Battle of Bunker Hill then his Regiment went to Dorchester that he served in said Company untill the first of January in the year 1776 - that he among others of his comrads upon a request, served another month with the army could be recruited. He dont recollect who then was his Captain. He then returned home to Hardwick & received his pay from the State of Massachusetts his whole service was nine months.

Secondly that in the year 1776. His Father on being unable to military duty in the Service of the Country he the Declarant [illegible] in the [illegible] instead of his Father served as a Drummer for the term of four months at or near Ticondoraga [Ticonderoga] untill December 1776 and then returned home and received his pay for that term of time from the State of Massachusetts that he served in Captain Hamilton's Company & in Colonel Brewers Company Regiment 
Thirdly that in August 1777 at the alarm of Bennington
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Battle he served as a Volunteer on horseback at Bennington was in service & received his pay for ten days 
Fourthly that soon after his return home He enlisted & served for three months as a Drummer in Captain Conffords [Crawford's] Company and Colonel Cushings Regiment in order to prevent the British from going down the North river and he was present and and saw General Burgoyne Surrender his army to the Americans that his service not being compleated according to his Enlistment he went in Colonel Warners Regiment down the North river towards New York as far or White Plains & served there untill December making three months service in the Massachusetts Line and in the whole sixteen months and ten days. The above and foregoing facts appear from a memorandum left among his Family papers written before his decease in her own hand writing, which now accompanies this Declaration and which may probably any be found among the Evidence, when he obtained his Pension & Certificate on the 24 day of October 1833. That this Pension allowed & granted to him amounted to Eighty one Dollars per annum [illegible] and also appears from another memorandum in the hand writing of the said deceased before his death that in the year 1780 that when working on his Farm he was taken by the Indians from Canada that he was carried to Montreal and confined in Jail for the last of august untill the 15th of the the next July that he was then exchanged by the order of the then Governor of Vermont & returned to Hardwick in Massachusetts the last of September in the year 1781 which last memorandum also accompanies this declaration. [illegible] No 2.
 
She also declares that she the Declarant was married to the said Prince Haskell on the 4th day of October AD 1781 in the year Seventeen hundred and Eighty one, that her Husband the aforesaid died in Peru in said County of Huron on the 23d of March one thousand Eight hundred and forty one that  she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service but that the marriage took place previous to the first of January seventeen hundred and ninety four viz at
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the time first stated and that she is still a widow and the said Declarant further deposes that the enclosed leaves No 1 and titled "Family Record" were cut out of the Family Bible now in the possession of her family [illegible] in her presence by her daughter Harriet in this present month of October 1842 which to June 14 1805 including the beginning according of the marriage of her  deceased Husband marriage October 4 1781 by Cyrus Lawton her Son in Law about the year 1813 and was transferred and copied by said Lawton in the present Bible & that the remainder of the facts viz the Births and death in the the family were recorded by members of the Family as they occurred at the different times therein mentioned. That said ancient Bible from which said "Family Record" was copied is not now in existence and has been for many years worn out 
Inclosed & accompanying this declaration is the certificate of Pension aforementioned dated 24 August 1833 which was granted to her said deceased Husband for his services in said Revolutionary War. Sworn and subscribed to this 3d day of October AD 1842 before me and I also certify that the widow Leah Harkins and that Harriet Haskell the Deponent on the subsequent deposition are both persons of truth & veracity A G Sutton Judge of Huron Common Pleas

O Bowen [illegible] Judge

Leah Haskell
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State of Ohio Huron County ss. 3rd October 1842 Personally appeared before me Albert G Sutton an associate Judge of the Court of Common Pleas Harriet Haskell aged Fifty six a daughter of Prince Haskell & the present Widow Leah Haskell and being duly sworn on her Oath declares & says that she perfectly remembers & knows that the facts mentioned by and sworn to by her Mother Leah Haskin the declarant in the foregoing declaration on the foregoing Page previous to this [illegible, maybe "corolates"] to the ancient & the present family Bible and the "Family record" on the two leaves No. 1 & No 2. are true and that she the present Deponant herself did this present month of October 1842 cut the same out of said Family Bible and that the Deponent also knowing to Cyrus Lawton her Brother in Law copying about the year 1813 the "Family record" to June 14th 1805 as mentioned in her [illegible]  declaration. Sworn & subscribed this 3d day of October 1842 before me A G Sutton Judge of Huron Common Pleas
Harriet Haskell
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957
Family Record

MARRIAGES
Prince Haskell &
Leah Wilder were joined
in Marriage at Hingham Mass
Oct 4 1781

Deborah Haskell was married
to Cyrus Lawton Barnard Vt
Sept 6 1807
He was born at Hardwick Mass April 10, 1785

Prince Haskell jr was married
to Susanna Richardson Barnard
Feb 2 1813

Edward Wilder Haskell was
married to Elutheria Newton
Barnard Dec 7 1815

Michael Haskell &
Mary Cleveland
Married in Bethel by
the reverend Samuel
C Loveland
August 22 1819

Mariah Powers Haskell
married to Alonzo Nye
Barnard Vt May 6th 1832
by reverend Mr Garfield
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No. 1
958
FAMILY RECORD 
BIRTHS
Prince Haskell was born in [crossed out Middlebury] Rochester Mass. April 26. 1758 

Leah Wider was born in Hingham Mass. June 13 1762 

Edward Wilder Haskell in Hardwick Mass June 5 1782 

Deborah Haskell Born in Hardwick Mass March 18, 1784 

Harriot Haskell Born in Barnard Vt. June 9th 1786 

Prince Haskell Jr Born in Barnard Vt May 2 1788 

Edward Wilder Haskell Born in Barnard Vt September 29 1789

 BIRTHS. 
Nathaniel Haskell Born in Barnard Vt. Oct. 30 1791 

Michael Haskell Born Barnard Vt. Nov. 30 1793 

Lewis Foster Haskell Born in Barnard August 15, 1796 

Polly Haskell Born in Barnard Vt Feb. 6 1798 

Adeline Haskell Born in Barnard August 29. 1801 

Maria Powers Haskell Born in Barnard June 14, 1805 

Prince Haskell  & Leah his wife arrive in Bernard Vt Febry the 11th 1785

George Washington Haskell Born [illegible] 1822 

Orlando Chauncy Haskell born Novem 1 1824 

Wilder Haskell Born at Barnard VT 1826
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959
FAMILY RECORD
BIRTHS. 
Grand Children Joseph Lawton 
born Barnard April 21 1810
 
Maria Southgate Lawton B. Barnard 
August 3 1812

Nathaniel Haskell Lawton B. Barnard March 16. 1815

Susan Emila Haskell Born Duxbury April the 21 1814 

George Richardson Haskel Born at Duxbury H. April the 3 1816 

Eluthera Haskel Born at Barnard August 30th 1816 

Stamot Amelia Haskell Born at Barnard Vt
 March 27th 1818

Cyrus Lawton to Deborah Lawton Born at Bethel Sept 3d 1817 

Edward Washington Haskell Born at Barnard November the 29 1819 

Michael Henry Haskell born at Barnard  August 14 1820 

Mary Deborah Haskell Born at Barnard March 12th 1823 

DEATHS. 
Edward Wilder Haskell Died at Hardwick Mass Jan 1st 1785 Aged 2 years 6 months 

Lewis Foster Haskell Died Barnard April 23 1797 aged 8 months 8 days

Cyrus Lawton Son in law died at Bethel Vt. Jan 16 1817 Aged 36  & 9 months Buried at Barnard Jany 20th 

Cyrus Lawton to Deborah Died 
April the 17th 1818 

Nathaniel Haskell Lawton Born to Deborah Lawton Died  May the 5th 1818

 Polly Haskell Died Sept 2 1818 age 20 years 6 months & 24 Days 

Deborah Died April 16th 1822 the Widow of Cyrus Lawton aged 38 year & 28 Days 

Edward Wilder Haskell in Barnard Febry 21st 1826 Aged 36 years 4 months 22 days
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No 2 
960
FAMILY RECORD
DEATHS. April 8  1828 [illegible]. Collin Wilder Haskell Son of EWH. aged 2 years 2 months 11 days

Joseph Lawton Son of Cyrus Lawton, and Deborah his wife died at Chester 9th day of May 1828 aged 18 years 18 days

Elutheria [illegible] Haskell Daughter of Edward W Haskell his wife Elutheny died at [illegible] April 10th 1830 aged 13 years months & 10 Days 

My Mother Lydia Haskell Died July the 7th 1786 aged 51 years Was Born April 18th 1735

My Father Nathaniel Prince Haskell Born Febry 26th 1731

Prince Haskell born in Rochester Mass April 26th 1758 Died in Peru Huron County Ohio March 23th 1841 aged 82 years 10 months 27 Days

Births
Martha Edward Wilder Haskell Born in Royalston Sept 19th 1827, Daughter of Michael Haskell & Mary his wife

Hannah Curtis Born Sept 3d 1829, Daughter of Michael and Mary Haskell

Prince Haskell Nye Born April 9 1833 

Leanorah Nye Born  December 2 1835 Ohio
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Secretary's Office, Boston November 2d 1844, I hereby Certify, That at the date of the annexed attestation James S. Lewis was a Justice of the Peace for the County of Plymouth, in the said Commonwealth, duly constituted and commissioned; and that to his acts and attestations, as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given, in and out of Court. In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written John G. Palfrey Secretary of the Commonwealth
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts Hingham Plymouth County Nov. 1, 1844 

"Prince Haskell of Handwick & Leah Wilder of Hingham were joined in marriage by Rev. Daniel Shute pastor of the Second Church in Hingham October the fourth seventeen hundred and eighty one 

This may certify that the above is a true copy of the Record, with the exception of the date which is expressed in the Record in fair, legible figures, as follows, Oct. 4, 1781. 

Joseph Sprague Clerk of the town of Hingham.

I, Joseph Sprague, above named, depose and say that I hold the office of Town Clerk in the Town of Hingham aforesaid and that the above is a true extract from the Records of said Town of Hingham with the exception above named as certified by me. 

Joseph Sprague Town Clerk of Hingham Sworn before me James S. Lewis, Justice of the Peace.
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Whitman Methodist Episcopal Church. 
[crossed out: Whitman, MASS] Cotuit, Mass 
WILLIAM M. NEWTON MINISTER PARSONAGE, 503 SOUTH AVENUE
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6769 
-32233 BUREAU OF PENSIONS Finance Division July 7 1926 Chief Rev. Sect. [crossed out: division]. I have this day received from W.M Newton M.O. No. 51790 of $45/100, requesting photostat copy [crossed out post-office addresses] as per letter herewith. 
O. J. RANDALL Chief Finance Division
1926 July 10 
Photos mailed and Finance Div notf
H. C. L.
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[stamp:] OFFICE OT THE COMMISSIONER  July 28, 1926 U. S. BUREAU OF PENSIONS

Cotuit Mass,

Winfield Scott Commissioner of Pensions Washington, D.C. 

Dear Sir - In accordance with your direction in letter of June 30 I am enclosing money order for 45[symbol for cents] to pay for copying, photostatee, of pension application of Leah, widow of Prince Haskell, War of Revolution W. 7651 executed Oct. 3, 1842, I do not care for certification. 
Yours, W. M. Newton
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June 30, 1926. W.M. Newton, Cotuit, Mass. Sir: I have to advise you, that if you wish photostat copies of the pension application of Leah, widow of Prince Haskell, W. 7651, War of Revolution, which was executed Oct. 3, 1842, the same will be furnished you at the rate of fifteen cents a page, with twenty-five cents extra for certification, if that is desired. 

The number of pages to be copied is three. 

The proper amount should be forwarded to this Bureau by money order drawn to the order of the Secretary of the Interior, ( not to the order of the Commissioner of Pensions. Respectfully, WINFIELD SCOTT. Commissioner.
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Department of Pensions Washington, D.C. Gentlemen- I am preparing a history of Barnard, Vermont and am now working on the Indian Raid of Aug. 9 1780. .Prince Haskell was that day captured. I have a copy of his affidavit in application for pension of date Apr 7, 1818.

I desire a copy of a letter written by his widow Leah Haskell under date of Oct. 2, 1842 and is probably in the Widows File Rev. War, #7651 (though the number may be wrong) and any other papers she may have written. 

Sincerely, W. M. Newton 

Send 3 page decla of Leah ex. Oct 31 1842 Do not send af. of Harriet Haskell

he wants ac. of capture & soldier days nothing about it himself
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The order for photostat has been sent to Mr. Black Chief Clerk's room to stamp with no.
July 12 26
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Feby 21- 1900 Robt C. Burchard at Atkinson, Wis, June 25-1903 Hist D. Gardner Cox Holyoke, Mass - 
1909 Dec. 21, Rev. W. M. Newton advised that this Ba. does not copy papers in claims. V.L.M. 
1910 June 3. Hon Wm. P. Dillingham infd copies not furnished aw 
1926. July 12 Photos mailed to W.M. Newton

Rev WIDOW, &c. File No. 7651 Leah Haskell Wid. Prince Haskell Massh Mass line 
Act Mach, [illegible]June 17th 44 Index: -- Vol. A, Page 304 [Arrangement of 1870.]
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Record Division.
December 31, 1909.
Rev. W. M. Newton, Woonsocket, R. I. 
Sir: In reply to your letter dated the 7" and received the 8" instant, requesting a copy of the statement of the capture of Prince Haskell, in the claim Wid. File No. 7,651, Revolutionary War, you are advised that owing to lack of a clerical force available for the purpose, this Bureau is unable to furnish full copies of such papers, but any person designated by you will be allowed to examine and copy the papers in said claim. Very respectfully, Commissioner.
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January 2, 1910.
Hon. William P. Dillingham, United States Senate. My dear Senator:  In reply to your letter dated the 39" and received the 30" ultimo, requesting a copy of a portion of the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim of Leah widow of Prince Haskell, Wid. File No. 7,651, I have the honor to advise you that owing to lack of a clerical force available for the purpose, this Bureau is unable to furnish copies of such papers , but any person designated by you may examine and copy the papers in said claim. Very respectfully, Commissioner,
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BURCHARD FARM
Fort Atkinson, WIS.
OWN
Rev. War
FEBRUARY 5 1900
[square stamp:] O.W. & N. DIVISION FEB 14 1900 RECEIVED.
Commissioner of Pensions: Washington D.C.:

Sir:
 I have the honor to request that you furnish me with official record of Prince Haskell's being captured by Indians, and being taken to Canada. Was captured at Barnard on Aug. 9 -1780. Said Prince Haskell was granted a pension on this account. If any fee is necissary if you will notify me, I will remit at once.
Very respectfully Robert C. Burchard Fort Atkinson Wisconsin
[postmark:] PENSION U S OFFICE FEB 12 1900
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O. W. + N. ECL 
[stamp: O.W. & N. DIVISION JUN18 1903 RECEIVED]
O.W.& N.
Department of Interiot [Interior], Bureau of Pensions (Revolutionary).

Prince Haskell drew a pension from the Government while living in Barnard, Vt. about 1834. He was taken prisoner from that town Aug. 9, 1780 by the Indians from Canada. He lived neighbor to Amos Bicknell who pension dates Feb. 5, 1834. I put these down believing that you can find the data easier. I am to publish an account of that Indian raid and would like the substance of what Haskell states in his application for pension. He was taken to Canada and kept some time and then exchanged. Two of his neighbors Newton and Wright escaped that fall but Haskell was kept and exchanged the next year. I have written this all up once for a History of Barnard and had a letter of Haskell's that he wrote all about his captivity but that letter has fell into the hands of one W. P. Baxter of Chicago and I can not get a word from it. 

A pension examiner or Department official was in my office last year and told me he knew the hand writing and the man who has sent me Revolutionary Statement with these marks or letters in the left hand corner and he told me "not to be affraid " to write again if I wanted to. 

Sincerely, Dr Gardner Cox, June 13th. 1903 Holyoke, Mass.
[postmark: PENSION US OFFICE JUN 15 1903]
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W. File 7651 
WILLIAM P. DILLINGHAM. CHAIRMAN
United States Senate, COMMITTEE ON IMMIGRATION, WASHINGTON, D. C. 

December 29, '09. 
Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington, D. C. 

Dear Sir: - Will you kindly procure for me from the Record Division of the Bureau of Pensions an exact copy of a letter written by Prince Haskell, made oath to before a justice in Barnard, Vermont, relating the incidents of his capture and forming a part of his application for pension of his widow? Haskell was captured by Indians in Barnard, August 8, 1780. The date of the letter I do not know but I presume it was about 1834 for at that time most of the men of that section made application. Thanking you for the favor, I am, Sincerely yours, W. P. Dillingham
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3 - 2006  Date Request for Photostating (To be prepared in duplicate.) 3679 OFFICE OF THE CHIEF CLERK Ex. MW 
Job No... Date July 10. 26. 
Subject Prince Haskell. Rev. W 7651 
1 copies of 1  pieces consisting of 3 pages to be forwarded when completed to the Rev. & 1812 Wars Section Division [Division stricken out], Remarks: ___
Approved: M Wilson Chief [crossed out: Division] Sect.  Chief Clerk.
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9925 Ohio 
Leah Haskell, Widow of Prince Haskell, who was a pensioner under the Act of '32, and who died on the 23d March, '41, of Huron Co in the State of Ohio, who was a Drummer in the commanded by Captain ___ of the ___ commanded by ___ the Massachtts: ___ line for 19 ms 4 days 

Inscribed on the Roll of Pittsburgh at the rate of 70 Dollars 14 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836 

Certificate of Pension issued the 26th: day of March 1841 and Wm Baker Toledo Ohio

Total amount, $350.70 Act July 7, 1838.
Recorded by U M Stewart Clerk, Book D Vol. 1-- Page 389.
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8489
Leah Haskell of Prince Ohio Rejected See let. 5 Nov. 1842 S.B. Sturges 
Prince Haskells papers [illegible] 
(husband died after papers of act of Jul 5 1838)
Sent to Blake  Dec 8 '45
Act 7 July 1838
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8489 
Leah Haskell Ohio 
Act. 7. July 38 M. 87. 23 Mar. 41 
Dec[illegible] made in 1842 some 19 Mos. 4 days as Drummer $70.14 Also Acts 43 & 44 
Wm Baker Esq Toledo Ohio
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17528 
Prince Haskell Vt
Act. 7 June 32 [illegible] 24 aug and 33 for 87[illegible] 

The papers of his file were delivered to M. Williams (Clerk) & have all been lost by him except those within- The widow's pension is adjusted by the [illegible] certificate The papers were not lost by me. I left them on my table on leaving the office. They were misplaced by the clerk who took charge of them while I was absent at the Presidents H. C. Williams
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On the return of these papers to me in March 1846 all the papers in the case of Prince Haskell were found with them
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Consolidated
4722
P.O
Leah Haskell
Service: Widow Prince Haskell
Wid. Admitted file No. 7651
Enlisted:
Discharged: REJECTED
Application filed:
Alleges: 
Re-enlisted:
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No 7173
Leah Haskell
Ohio
Set to [illegible]
Mar. 3 1823
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Prince Haskell
Statement and 
Evidence to obtain Pension
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George Haskell Deposition January 19th 1820
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I George Haskell of Hardwick in the County of Worcester in the State of Massachusetts Testify & say that in the year 1775 & 1776 I was well acquainted with Prince Haskell then of P. Hardwick but Now of Barnard in the County of Windsor & State of Vermont and was with him moving to the said Prince Haskell enlisting in the Company of Capt Simeon Hazeltine's for the terme of Eight Months as a Drummer & was stationed at Roxbury & Dorchester Which time he actually served but Did not return with the rest of the Company but served one month longer then returned home sick & gave me in order on a Sergant Blake of the town of New Rutland Now the town of Barry (in Worcester County afore P.) for one months wages which Wages I actually received 
George Haskell 
State of Massachusetts Worcester County Hardwick 

January 19th 1820
Personally appeared George Haskell Subscriber to the fore going Deposition and made Sollem oath that it contains the truth & nothing but the truth Before me Daniel Ruggles Jus Peace 

I hereby certify that George Haskell the foregoing Deponent is a Credible Witness Daniel Ruggles Jus of Peace
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Judge Reyes & Selectman certificate of  Prince Haskell
Lincoln
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I Elias Reyes of Stockbridge County of Windsor State of vermont of lawful age testify and say that I moved from the State of Connecticut into Vermont the 13th day of April  1780 - in the town of Barnard and I became acquainted with Prince Haskell of said Barnard, and found him to be from 13th of April to the 9th day of August to be avery Laborus Man in falling down trees and Cleaning off timber in this then wilderness Land and on the 9th day of August 1780 He and two other men were taken prisoner by about 30 Indians and Carryed to Canada and he was kept in captivity about one year Said Haskell has since his captivity Married a wife which woman, has been a very weekly person by reason of which said Haskell has been under the Necessity of paying Grate doctor bills and it is my opinion that said Haskell stands upon far Better Ground to git a pention then one half of those that git pentions-- I expect that Mr Haskels property is Small Elias Keyes
Stockbridge Febry 28th 1820
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An account of my service on the Revolution War No 1
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This may Certify that I Prince Haskelll of Bernard in the County of Windsor & State of Vermont in the year 1776 then a resident in Hardwick Worcester County State of Masachusetts in Listed in Capt Hazeltons [Hazeltine's] Company as Drummer I believe in Col Fellows Regiment I believe in General Wards Brigade in Massachusetts Line for the term of Eight Month Stationed at Roxbury untill after the battle at Bunker hill then our Regiment went to Dorchester I served in the Company untill the first of Janawary [January] in the year 1776 then their was a request for as Many to serve one other month as could, untill the Army could be reunited their was a Number that served one other month  as I also served & who was my Capt I cannot recollect & then returned home to Hardwick received my pay from Massachusetts State in all for Nine Months (One other enlistment) 
2d in the year 1776 their was a call for men for 4 months to march to Ticonderoga one Deacon Paige was called on He came to my father & agreed with him for me to go in his place which I did. and served as Drummer untill December & then returned home received 4 month pay from Massachusetts  - Served in Capt Humboltons Company & in Col Brewers Regiment 
3d In August in the year 1777 at the Alarm of Bennington Battle Capt Timothy Paige called for Vollentears [volunteers] on Horseback to go to Bennington I went to Bennington & returned to Hardwick recd 10 days pay 
4 As soon as I Got Home their was a call for men to go to the West to stop the Brittish from going down Noth [North] river I enlisted for three month as Drummer. I believe in Capt Craffords [Crawford's] Company & Col Cushings Regt & had the good fortune to see John Burgoyne Surrender his Army Our service not completed General Warners Brigade (of which I was one) went down the North river towards NY as far as far as White Plains & served their untill December Making three month service in Massachusetts line on the whole sixteen months and ten Days
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Stewart Blake Deposion January 26 1820
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Steward Black Deposition
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I Steward Black of Dummerston in the County Windham & State of Vermont. Testify and say that in the year 1775 & 1776 was Well acquainted with Prince Haskell a Drummer in Capt Simeon Hazeltons [Hazeltine's] Company & Col Fellows Regiment & that he enlisted from Hardwick Worcester County State of Massachusetts and that He served the Term of Eight months and that at the End of the Eight Months and that at the end of the eight months service their was a call for as many as could to enter their Names for one months serves more which P Prince Haskell did & actually served which made Nine months actual & faithful Service without any Intermishon all which I will recollect as  I was then an Insign [ensign] in P. Hazeltons [Hazeltine's] Company of the army then Stationed at Roxbury & Dorchester Steward Black 
State of Vt.  Dummerstown Windham County January 26th 1820 
Personally appeared Steward Black the Subscriber to the foregoing Deposition and Made Sollom oath that it contained the truth and nothing but the truth Before Me Josiah Taft Justice peace I hereby certify that Steward Black the fore going Deponent is a credible Witness Josiah Taft Justice peace
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No 2 The Affidavit of Prince Haskell of Bernard in the County of Windsor & State of Vermont under Oath testifieth and Saith it That in the year of our Lord Christ 1775 may Ist Prince Haskell was then an Inhabitant of the Town of Hardwick in the County of Worcester in the State of Massachusetts of that I enlisted in Capt Simeon Hazeltines Company as a Drummer for the Term of Eight Months & Joyned Col Fellows Regiment at Roxbury in the State & constituted a Line of the army then Blockadeing [blockading] or investing the Town of Boston which was then in the possession of the troops of Grate Brittan [Great Britain] sent their to subject the then Colleny [colony] of Massachusetts Which Term I faithfully served My officers & Countery [country] in good helth & cheerfull obedience 
2ly at the Expiration of the first Eight months served their was a request for some of the then Troops to Enter their Names for another month service as the Lines were like to be left two Destatute [destitute] of Soldiers, I entered my name for one other months service which time faithfully served & then returned home (with the leave of my officers) to my fathers House [house] in Hardwick 
3ly in the year 1776 their was a call for men to serve against our Common Enemy on Lake Champlain I then entered the services of my country in the company of Hammilton [Hamilton] joined the regiment of Col. Brewer and was stationed on Mount hope about one Mile West of Tyconderoga [Ticonderoga] sold fort, which term of the four months which the Term faithfully served for which I engaged & returned home With my officer Lieutanant Hodgers: 
4th I resided at my fathers house in Hardwick (1777) hearing of the alarm of Bennington I turned out a vollentier [volunteer] under Capt Paige of Hardwich & went on horseback with about 30 other men in speed to Defend our frontiers from Brittish [British] Invasion We However Did not arive [arrive] (it being about 70 miles) untill the Blooddy Victory was obtained by our revolutionary heroes I returned home to Hardwick
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5thly Immediately on my return from Bennington Alarm their was a loud call for men to reenforce our thin army to stop the juntion of the Brittish General Burgoyn with the Brittish on the North river I then turned out for three months in Captain Trotter right Craffords company joyned Col Cushings Regiment General Warren Brigade & General Lintons Division at Bemis Height on the west sid the North river State New York I their Witnessed the Blooddy Battle & Glorious Triumph of the American arms  in the first Captivation of a large Brittish army 
After the surrender of Burgoyn Warners Brigade Moved Down of the North river to White Plains and their completed the time of my inlistment all which forms & faithfully & cherfully Served I never had the mortification to be arrested or ever receive ever receive even a Reprimand from any of my Superiors and that I am reduced in my circumstance and that I am need of operation from my contry for support. 
April 7th 1818 and [illegible]Prince Haskell
Also in the year 1790 While working on the Land I now live on was taken by the Indians from Cannida Lost By the Indians Between Seven Eight Hundred Dollars of Continental money & my Surveying Instrument Book, and all my clothing I was carryed to Montreal & confined in jale from the Last of August untill the fifteenth of the Next July I was Exchanged By the order of the then Govenor of Vt. and returned to Hardwick Massachusets the Last of Septr in the year 1781 to of
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May 10th 1833 -
Personally appeared before me the undersigned a Justice of the Peace within and for the County of Windsor and State of Vermont, Prince Haskell of Barnard in said County who being duly sworn deposes and says that he was born in Rochester in the State of Massachusetts on the 26th day of April A.D. 1758. that he has a record of his age in his Bible agreeably to the time above and which was made by information from his parents and knows of no other.

When I was first called into service he lived in Hardwick, County of Worcester & State of Massachusetts and since the Revolutionary war he has lived in Barnard aforesaid.

I was a volunteer for the first nine months service -  and [illegible, maybe “went”] a substitute in 1776 for William Paige four months..

I was a volunteer for three months at the taking of Burgoyne in the year 1777 – I was also a volunteer  ten days in the year 1777 at the alarm of Bennington battle.

In the first eighteen months I was in Capt Simeon Hazeltine's Company, Col. Fellows Regiment of Massachusetts Troops. I was also in Capt. Hamilton's Company & Col. Brewers Regiment (in the four months mentioned above) in the Massachusetts Troops.

For the three months I served as drummer in Capt. Crawfords Company Col. Cushing's Regiment of Massachusetts Troops in the year 1777.

I never received a written discharge - and I am known to Preston Taylor and Samuel Richmond of this vicinity.

Prince Haskell

Geo. E. Wales, Justice of Peace

Windsor Vt. June 13, 1833, I certify that Geo. E. Wales is a Justice of the Peace for the County of Windsor.

Horace Everett
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Timothy Newton
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I Timothy Newton of Bernard in the County of Windsor, State of Vt of Lawful age Testify & say that I Was well Acquainted with Prince Haskell in the year 1775 then of Hardwick in the County of Worcester State of Massachusetts. that about the first of May in [illegible] year Prince Haskell Enlisted in Captain Simeon Hazeltons [Hazeltine's] Company as Drummer. I Believe in Col Fellows Regiment. I Believe in Gen Wards Brigade of Massachusetts State line of Troops for Eight  onths and served out his Enlistment at Roxbury and Dorchester in Massachusetts State as Drummer. And that I have Been Constantly Aquainted With this P. Haskell from the year 1775 to this Day & I have Lived as Near Neibour [neighbor] for More than Forty years and that he is a man of Truth & Verassety [veracity].
Timothy Newton

State of Vermont
Windsor County Ss
Barnard in said County June 10th 1833.
Has personally appeared a Timothy Newton and made solemn oath that the above deposition by him subscribed contains the truth and nothing but the truth - and I also certify tha said Timothy Newton is a credible witness
Before me
George E Wales Justice of Peace

Windsor June 13 1933 I certify that Geo. E. Wales is a Justice of the Peace from the County of Windsor
Horace Everett
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John Foster
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I John Foster of Bernard in the County of Windsor & State of Vt of Lawfull Age Testify & say that I Was Acquainted With Prince Haskell Now of Bernard [illegible] in the year 1777 that he [illegible] served as Drummer in Captain Croffers Company & Col Cushings Regd. of the Massachusetts Line for the Term of three Months and that I Was in the same Company with him & that I Have lived in Bernard & Been Well Acquainted With P. Haskell More that 40 years & Believe Him to be a Man of Truth and Verassety [veracity].
John Foster

State of Vermont
Windsor County Ss. At Bernard this 10th day of June A.D. 1832. There personally appeared John Foster and made solemn oath that the above deposition by him subscribed contains the truth and nothing but the truth. And I also certify that said John Foster is a credible witness.
Before me George E. Wales Justice of the Peace

Windsor 13 June 1833. I certify that Geo. E. Wales is a Justice of the Peace for the County of Windsor
Horace Everett
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Thos M. Wright
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I, Thomas M. Wright of Barnard in the County of Windsor & State of Vt of Lawful age Testify & say that I was acquainted With Prince Haskell in the year 1776 then of Hardwick in the County of Worcester, State of Massachusetts that about the first of May in [illegible] year Prince Haskell Enlisted in Capt Simeon Hazelton [Hazeltine]. company as Drummer I Believe in Col Fellows Regiment & I Believe in General Ward's Brigade of Massachusetts State Line of Troops for Eight Months & served out his Enlistment as a Drummer and I had frequently seen him in the Army at Ticonderoga in the year 1776 as Drummer. And that I Frequently see him in the Army at Ticonderoga in the year 1776 as Drummer & that I have been Constantly acquainted With the said Haskell from the year 1775 to this Day. And have lived as Near [illegible] for More than forty years and that he is a Man of Truth and Veracity.
Thomas M Wright

State of Vermont
Windsor County Ss. At Barnard in said County
this 10th day of June A.D. 1833
Personally appeared Thomas M. Wright and made solemn oath that the above deposition by him subscribed contains the truth and nothing but the truth – and I certify that said Thomas M. Wright is a credible witness.
Before me George E. Wales Justice of Peace

Windsor Vt 13. June 1833
I certify that Geo. E. Wales is a Justice of the Peace for the County of Windsor.
Horace Everett
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I, Seth Dean of Barnard in the County of Windsor & State of Vermont, of Lawfull age testify & say that I Was Acquainted with Prince Haskell in the year 1776 then of Hardwick in the County of Worcester [illegible] State of Massachusetts that he served as a Drummer in Capt. Simeon Hazeltine's Company in Col. Brewers Regiment stationed on Mount Hope nearly one Mile West of Ticonderoga & served as Drummer. I Believe, for four Months. I Believe the service Terminated the first of December & that We were Messmates at the Encampment & we were in the Massachusetts Line. Also I have been Well Acquainted With the said Haskell for more than forty years & that he is a Man of Truth & Veracity.

Seth Dean

State of Vermont
Windsor County Ss. At Barnard in said County June 10th 1833

then Seth Dean personally appeared and made solemn Oath that the above deposition by him subscribed contains the truth and nothing but the truth – and I certify that said Seth Dean is a credible witness.

Before Geo. E. [illegible but likely Wales] Justice of Peace

Windsor Vt. I certify that Geo. E. [illegible] is a Justice of the Peace for the County of Windsor
[illegible signature, possibly Horace Everett]
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Payments to be made at Burlington
by [illegible] Prest. A. [illegible]
Agent for paying Pension. =
ers [Pensioners], in the Agency of
Vermont

Recorded in the Pension Of=
fice [Office], in Book E Vol. 3
Page 69 by
[illegible] Clerk.
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WAR DEPARTMENT.

Revolutionary Claim.

I certify that, in conformity with the law of the United States of the 7th June, 1832, [begin hand written] Prince Haskell of the State of Vermont who was a Drummer and private during the war of the Revolution is entitled to receive Eight one dollars and ____ cents [stricken out] per annum, during his natural life, commencing on the 4th of March, 1831, and payable semi-annually on the 4th of March, and 4th of September, in every year.

GIVEN and the War Office of the United States, this 24. day of August one thousand eight hundred and thirty. three -

Lewis Cass
Secretary of War.

Examined and Countersigned,

Geo. Wm. Crump
Acting Commissioner of Pensions.
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Prince Haskell
Ret
to
Ohio [illegible]
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Application for a Transfer
State of Ohio, Huron County [illegible]

On this twenty seventh day of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty five; before me the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace for the said County of Huron, personally appeared Prince Haskell, who on his Oath declared that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the company commanded by Captain Simen Hastleton [Hazeltine], in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Fellows; if he doesn’t misremember; his name was Fellows, in the service of the United States; that his name was placed on the Pension roll of the State of Vermont, from whence he has lately removed; that he now resides in Bronson [illegible] said Huron County State of Ohio; where he intends to remain and wishes his Pension to be there payable in future; by the United States Pension Agency at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

The following are his reasons for removing from Vermont to said Ohio – visz. That he was a Farmer, as a has two daughters and one Son residing in said Bronson, and one Son residing in Richland County, the adjoining County to said Huron County, and intends to spend the remainder of his life in the neighborhood of + with his Children, and his wife [illegible] also removed with him to said Bronson. The [illegible] says he [illegible] past seventy seven years of age. His memory has in some considerable degree failed but according to him best
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recollection in the year 1775. he served as much as Nine months in the militia of Massachusetts Worcester County, in Roxbury and Dorchester in a Company commanded by Captain Simeon Haslteton [Hazeltine] in Colonel Fellow’s Regiment. He don’t recollect who commanded the Brigades _ In the year 1776 he served in Massachusetts militia about four  months at Ticonderoga; in a Company commanded, as he thinks, by a Captain Crawford. He dont remember the name of the Colonel of the Regiment.

In the year 1777 he served in said Massachusetts militia at the capture of General Burgoyne; for as much as four months in [stricken out] according to his best recollection, in a Brigade commanded (as he believes) by a [illegible]. _ don’t recollect the Captain of the Company or the Colonel of the Regiment. 

That during most of his services as aforesaid he served as a Drummer. for a more particular statement of his services he refers to his Earlier ev. when he applied for his present pension. He has been paid his Pension to the 4th of March 1835. [illegible] Burlington, in said Vermont. he says he never has recd [received] a Pension at any other rate than the present one granted him by the War department.

When he lived in Vermont, he resided in Windsor County in that State. The following is a true copy of his Certificate of Pension
[illegible]

War Department
Revolutionary claim

“I certify that in conformity with the law of the United States of the 7th of June 1832, Prince Haskell of the State of Vermont who
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was a Drummer and Private during the war of the Revolution, is entitled to receive Eighty one dollars per annum during his natural life commencing on the 4th of March 1831 [illegible strike out] natural life commencing on the 4th of March 1831 [all striken out] and payable semi-annually on the 4th of March and 4th of September in every year. Given at the War Office of the United States this 26th day of August one thousand Eight hundred and thirty three

Lew Cass, Secretary of War

[illegible] L [illegible], No 7528
c.
Examined and countersigned
Geo. Wm Crump
Acting Commissioner of Pensions"
Prince Haskell [written in a different hand]
Sworn and subscribed to before me this day and year aforesaid,
Samuel Preston, Jus. Peace

State of Ohio, Huron County [illegible] 27th July 1835
Be it known that before me Samuel Preston, a Justice of the Peace within and for said County, Personally appeared Prince Haskill [Haskell] Junior; aged fifty seven years, son of Prince Haskell Senior, the above named [illegible] in said County, [illegible] being duly sworn, declares on his Oath, that except for sixteen years since he removed to Ohio, he has all his life been acquainted with his Father, Prince Haskill [Haskell] Senior, the above [illegible] named. He knows him to be the identical person named in the Pension Certificate above [illegible], and is the [illegible] identical person who has taken the above Oath, and who is described in [illegible] and sworn to the foregoing affidavit – and I also certify that the said [illegible] Prince Haskill Junior is a respectable man and of truth + veracity.

Sworn and subscribed to the day + date above [illegible]

Samuel Preston, Jus. Peace
Prince Haskell [illegible]
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The State of Ohio
Huron County [illegible]
I David Gibbs clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in + for the County of Huron aforesaid do certify that Samuel Preston Esq is a lawfull [lawful] magistrate as above and that the foregoing Signatures purporting to be his are his genuine Signatures.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto Subscribed my name and affixed the Seal of Said Court at Norwalk this 27 day of July A D 1835.

D. Gibbs clk H.C.P
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Aug 3
[illegible signature]
L Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
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Norwalk Ohio 27 July 1835
J L Edwards Esq
Commissioner [illegible]
I [illegible] enclose to you an application from Prince Haskell [illegible] for a transfer of the payment of his Pension from Vermont to Ohio. He wishes to have it payable in future at the Pittsburgh [illegible]
You will please enclose either to me or to my care at the Norwalk P. Office

very respectfully
Your O. Servt
Lewis B Sturgis
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Oct 29
Fru
J L Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
War Department
Washingtone [Washington]
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Norwalk [illegible] Cy Ohio Oct 21 1835
J. L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner
Sir,
Some months since I enclosed to you the necessary papers for transferring the payment of the Pension of Leah Haskell of this County from the State of Vermont to Pittsburgh Ohio agency, I don’t at present recollect the Christian name of [illegible] Haskell you will ascertain it by referring to my letter enclosing the papers.
Will you be so good as to comply with this request and enclose the authority to me or to my care.
I am very respectfully
Your Ob't Serv't
Lewis B. Sturges
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Bank of Burlington
Nov 4th 1835
J. L. Edwards Esq
Com'r of Pensions
Sir,
It appears by our books that Prince Haskell, a drummer, enscribed an $80 per annum, was last paid to 4th March 1835, and May 13th of the same month.
Very Respectfully,
Your Ob't Serv't
E. T. Englesby, [illegible]
[illegible signature]
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4th Nov 1842 [illegible] Allison
Leah Haskell
widow Prince  7 July 1838
Huron County Ohio
Agc S. B. Sturges
Norwalk. Ohio
 8. 489

Norwalk O. Oct 29 [postmark]

[illegible] L Edwards Esq
F R [illegible stamp] E
Commissioner of Pensions
Washingtone [Washington]
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Norwalk, Huron Co Ohio, 29 Oct 1842
Commissioner of Pensions

Sir,
I enclose to you the Pension Application of Leah Haskins [Haskell], widow of Prince Haskins [Haskell], deceased, for five years pension, the justice of which I think fully established.

You will observe by reference to the Clerk’s Certificate of this County, that the Judge of the Court before whom the [illegible] for seven years to come from January 1842 to which you may hereafter refer, when future papers may be sworn to before him. You have herewith the family records from a Family Bible + also a memorandums No. 1 + No. 2 written in the hand writing of the deceased previous to his death of his services &c – and also the deceased soldier’s Pension certificate.

I am respectfully [illegible],
Lewis B. Sturges

If you can consistently return the leaves of the family Bible & memorandums it will much oblige the relatives of the deceased.
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Norwalk Ohio April 1 1845

Dear Sir

I have made out the papers for the purpose of obtaining a pension for Mrs. Leah Haskell as far as the information at my command [illegible] enabled me to do. The original papers are in the possession of the war department as will be seen by the affidavit of Mrs. Haskell and we are not aware that any other evidence of the service can reasonably be obtained.

I hope the papers will be sufficient, - if not will the comm please send instructions and bring the matter to a termination [illegible] from as may be as the age and circumstances of the applicant makes it important.

Resptly [Respectfully] Your obd Srvt.
Wm Baker

[illegible signature]
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No 7173
Leah Haskell
widow of Prince Haskell 
Ohio
[indecipherable] 3 March 1843
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State of Ohio
Huron County ss

On this 18th day of September A.D. 1844 personally appeared before me a judge of the court of Common Pleas in and for the county of Huron and State of Ohio, Leah Haskell, a resident of Bronson in the county of Huron and State of Ohio, aged eighty two years, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of congress passed March 3rd 1843 entitled "an act granting pensions to certain widows of Revolutionary soldiers." That she is the widow of Prince Haskell who was a drummer and private in the army of the Revolution who enlisted as a volunteer in the year 1775 and served nine months until about the first of February 1776 in Capt. Hazelton’s company and Col. Fellows' regiment stationed at Roxbury and Dorchester in Massachusetts; who enlisted again about August 1776 to march to Ticonderoga and continued in service four months in Capt. Hazelton's company, Col. Brewer's regiment; and who served again as a volunteer for about three months and sixteen days in the year 1777; that further particulars she cannot state with definitivess [definitiveness] the proofs and papers being already in possession of the war department where they were sent when his claim were substantiated and allowed under the act of 7th June 1832.

She further declares that she was married to the said Prince Haskell on the fourth day of October seventeen hundred and eighty-one, that her husband, the aforesaid Prince Haskell, died on the 23rd day of March 1841; that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place prior to the first of January seventeen hundred and ninety four, viz.: at the time above stated. She further declares that she is still a widow.

Leah Haskell
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Sworn to and subscribed before me a judge of the court of Comm Pleas in + for the county of Huron and State of Ohio in open court this 10th day of September 1844.

The State of Ohio Huron County

I [illegible] Alling Clerk of the Court of Common Please in and for said County of Huron do certify that E Stewart Egs [Esq] is Judge of said Court as above and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine.

In testimony whereof I hereunto subscribe my name + affix the seal of said County at the Court House in Norwalk this 10 day of September A D 1844

P Alling, Clerk H.C.P
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston;
Aug. 7, 1845
I hereby Certify, That, from an examination of the Books and Documents, relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution, which remain in this Department, it appears that the name of Prince Haskell is borne as a drummer from Hardwick upon a return of Capt. Simeon Hazeltine's Comp'y in Col. John Fellows’ reg't in the 8 months service of 1775, dated Oct. 7th enlisted May 15th; — Upon several rolls his name appears as a drummer in Captain Nathan Hamilton's Comp'y, Col. Samuel Brewer’s regt. for service in 1776 + 1777, the precise commencement + termination of which is not shown — viz. upon a pay abstract of the comp'y dated at Brookfield, Feb. 6, 1777, he is allowed 8 days for the 160 miles travel home, and upon this abstract is noted “from June 1 to Feb. 6, 1777”, but from what this was ascertained, is not seen; _ this travel was from Fort Edward; —  Upon “an abstract monthly pay roll” of the comp'y from Aug. 3 to Sept. 30, 1776, 1 month, 29 days; —  Upon a receipt for pay for the month of Oct. of the same year; — Upon another “abstract monthly
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WILLIAM BAKER,
ATTORNEY & COUNSELLOR,
TOLEDO, OHIO.
Will give prompt and personal attention to business entrusted to him in North-western Ohio, and the adjacent counties in Michigan. He will also attend to the payment of Taxes and other business of non-residents.
REFERENCES:
Prof. Simon Greenleaf, LL.D. Cambridge Mass
Gen C. B. Goddard, Zainsville [Zanesville], O.
C. C. Convers….. do [ditto]
Kent, Kinnan & Co.. New York
C. L. Latimer……. Norwalk, O.
Hon. E. Lane……..Sandusky City
J. R Osborn………  do [ditto]
Hon. M.H. Tilden,.. Toledo

Toledo O. May 13th 1845
Sir,
An application has been made to the Pension department of the U States for a pension for the widow of Prince Haskell and we find it necessary to establish her husband’s service by the certificates of the Secretary of State of the State in which he served. The facts are believed to be that he served nine months in 1776 under Capt. Hazeltine, Col. Fellows four months in 1776 under Capt Hazeltine, Col Brewer as a [illegible] for Paige few days in 1777 under Capt Paige and three months in the same year (1777) under Capt Crawford Col Cushing as a drummer. 

From some oversight, the commissioner writes me Mr. Haskell was allowed two years [illegible] lifetime, whereas he only claimed for about seventeen months—which makes it necessary that the orders should prove anew.

I shall be obliged if you will look to the records and send me a certificate, properly authenticated for the Department of his of his time and kind of service with the necessary particulars.

A [indecipherable] reply is desirable—and it may be directed to me at Norwalk, Ohio where the parties live and where I shall be during the [illegible].

The charges will thus be forwarded.

I am, Sir,
Very Resplly [Respectfully], [illegible] Obt. Servt.
Wm. Baker
Secretary of State of Massachusetts
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pay roll for another portion of this service, made up for 1 month 28 days, but [illegible] for period of it is not shown, and the roll is not dated; these are all the rolls specifying any portions of the service found among the documents connected with it - but among them, is a printed form of an engagement for this service, dated July - 77 to serve till Dec. 1st 1777, and signed by a number of Templeton men, whose names are upon all these rolls - upon the first of these rolls for service from Aug. 3rd is endorsed a receipt signed by the 2. lieut [lieutenant] and dated Dec. 4th 1777 at Albany; - Upon a pay roll of Capt. Timothy Paige’s Comp'y [Company] for going to Bennington on an alarm from Aug. 21 to 31 1777 - 10 days and 90 miles travel, and further, upon a pay roll of Capt John Crawford’s Comp’y. in Col. Jeb Cushing’s reg. from Sep. 7 to Nov. 29, 1777, including allowance for 200 miles travel, 3 months, 3 days; - in all these services as a drummer. The preceding is all the evidence of service in the case.

And I further Certify, That, before search made for evidence of said facts, the application hereto annexed was filed in this Office, in the form in which the same now appears; that the search was made by myself and my clerks alone; and that said application, and the certificate above set forth, contain all the facts and circumstances within my knowledge, pertaining to the case.

In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.  

John G Palphrey

Secretary of the Commonwealth.
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WILLIAM BAKER,
ATTORNEY & COUNSELLOR,
TOLEDO, OHIO.
Will give prompt and personal attention to business entrusted to him in North-western Ohio, and the adjacent counties in Michigan. He will also attend to the payment of Taxes and other business of non-residents.
REFERENCES:
Prof. Simon Greenleaf, LL.D. Cambridge Mass
Gen C. B. Goddard, Zainsville [Zanesville], O.
C. C. Convers….. do
Kent, Kinnan & Co.. New York
C. L. Latimer……. Norwalk, O.
Hon. E. Lane……..Sandusky City
J. R Osborn………  do
Hon. M.H. Tilden,.. Toledo

Toledo O. May 13th 1845
Sir,
An application has been made to the Pension department of the U States for a pension for the widow of Prince Haskell and we find it necessary to establish her husband’s service by the certificates of the Secretary of State of the State in which he served. The facts are believed to be that he served nine months in 1776 under Capt. Hazeltine, Col. Fellows four months in 1776 under Capt Hazeltine, Col Brewer as a [illegible] for Paige few days in 1777 under Capt Paige and three months in the same year (1777) under Capt Crawford Col Cushing as a drummer. 

From some oversight, the commissioner writes me Mr. Haskell was allowed two years [illegible] lifetime, whereas he only claimed for about seventeen months—which makes it necessary that the orders should prove anew.

I shall be obliged if you will look to the records and send me a certificate, properly authenticated for the Department of his of his time and kind of service with the necessary particulars.

A [illegible] reply is desirable—and it may be directed to me at Norwalk, Ohio where the parties live and where I shall be during the [illegible].

The charges will thus be forwarded.

I am, Sir,
Very Resplly [Respectfully], [indecipherable] Obt. Servt.
Wm. Baker
Secretary of State of Massachusetts
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Norwalk O Aug. 20. 1845

Dear Sir,  

In your last letter in regard to the petition of Mrs. Haskell for a pension, you say that owing to a discrepancy between the time claimed by Mr. Haskell and the time for which he drew, it would be necessary to obtain proof of his times of service again.

I have accordingly written to Massachusetts and have [indecipherable] the proof. It will be seen that the proof of the whole time is not the highest, but it seems to me sufficient to make out the time at least as much as follows, viz:

8 months in 1775
8 days travel home
8 mos. 6 days from June 1 to Feb. 6, 1777
14 days on alarm to Bennington
3 mos. 3 days from Sep. 7 to Nov. 29, 1777

20 mos. 00 days

If the court will not allow the time from June 1 to Feb. 6 1777, the periods then will thus be

8 mos. in 1775
8 days travel home
1  29 Aug 3 to Sep. 30, 1777
1 Oct. 1777
1 28 Another roll
   14 On alarm to Bennington
3 3 Sept. 7 to Nov. 29, 1777

16. 22

According thus as the evidence is supposed to justify, it will be twenty months, or sixteen months and twenty-two days.

The proof of the marriage you write is sufficient and I hope no longer delay will occur in securing to this aged widow her pension as asked for in her petition.

Yours Resplly [Respectfully],
Wm. Baker
J L Edwards Esq. Comm. Pensions.
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Toledo O. [illegible] 14, 1846
J. L. Edwards Esq
Sir,
I wrote you under date of Aug 20 furnishing the facts of services in the case of the application of Leah Haskell of Huron County, O. for a pension. The marriage you wrote me was sufficiently proved, and you required a further proof of the time of service of [illegible] Prince Haskell. [illegible] from the Secy. of State of Mass, which I supposed would be satisfactory, and all that would be necessary.
As so long a time has elapsed I have doubted whether you read my letter.
Will you be kind enough to advise me if such was the case and what is the state of this matter without delay.
I am,
Very Respectfully,
Wm. Baker
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Jan 19. 1846
[illegible]
Leah Haskell
Toledo Ohio Jan 11 [postmark]
10 [circled stamp on envelope]
L Edwards Esq
Coms. of Pensions
Washington
D. C.
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The State of Ohio
Huron County
Personally came before me Samuel Pennewell,
a Justice of the Peace in and for Norwalk Township
Huron County Ohio, Prince Haskill [Haskell] & John
Printip & Reuben H. Smith. They being by me duly sworn on their oath say that Leah Haskill [Haskell], wife of Prince Haskill [Haskell], a deceased Revolutionary Pensioner, was living on the 23rd day of January 1845 and is still living.
Sworn & subscribed before me this 5th day of January AD 1846.
S Pennewell Justice of the Peace
Prince Haskill [Haskell] 
John L. Printip
Reuben H. Smith

The State of Ohio
Huron County
I, Samuel Pennewell, a Justice of the Peace do certify that I am Personally acquainted with the above named Prince Haskill [Haskell], John Pentip & Reuben H. Smith and know them to be of good moral character and entitled to full credit.
Given under my hand [illegible] this 5th day of Jeny [January] 1845.
S. Pennewell Justice of the Peace

State of Ohio
Huron County
I, David M. Barnum, Deputy Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas within and for the County of Huron do hereby certify that Samuel Pennewell is a lawful Justice of the Peace, duly elected, commissioned, and sworn, and that the above signature purporting to be his, is his genuine signature.

In testimony whereof, I hereunto subscribe my name and affix the seal of said Court at the Court House in Norwalk this 5th day of January A. D. 1846.

Attest: D. M. Barnum, Dept. Clerk H.C.P.
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Toledo O Jun 9 1846
J L Edwards Esq
Sir
In your letter of Dec 8 you say all the proof necessary in the case of Leah Haskell's application for a pension had been furnished except proof that she was alive on the 23 January 1845 to entitle her to the benefits of a resolution of that date.
I send herewith the proof which I hope will be considered satisfactory.
Hoping soon to receive the certificate.
I remain Sir your obediant
W Baker
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[illegible]61
Prince Haskell
Adm C
3mo’s Dummer
2d Private
G. E. Wales
[illegible]
L. A. Lanthgate
Massh
Page 86

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Alleged service, as they are known at the Department. A very full account of the services of each person will be indispensable to a favorable action upon his case. The facts stated will afford one of the principal means of corroborating the declaration of the applicant, if true, or of detecting the imposition, if one be attempted; and unless, therefore, these are amply and clearly set forth, no favorable decision can be expected. All applicants will appear before some Court of Record in the County in which they reside, and there subscribe and be sworn to, one of the declarations above provided, according to the nature of his case.
The Court will propound the following (m) interrogatories to all applicants for a pension, on account of service in the Militia, State troops, or Volunteers, except the Militia of New Hampshire and the State troops of Virginia.
1.	Where and in what year were you born?
2.	Have you any record of your age, and if so, where is it?
3.	Where were you living when called into service; where have you lived since the Revolutionary war, and where do you now live?
4.	How were you called into service; were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute? And if a substitute, for whom?
5.	State the names of some of the Regular Officers, who were with the troops, where you served; Continental and Militia Regiments as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your services.
6.	To a Soldier. Did you ever receive a discharge from the service; and if so, by whom was it given, and what has become of it?
To an Officer. Did you ever receive a commission; and if so, by whom was it signed, and what has become of it?
7.	State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can testify as to your character for veracity, and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution.
The Court will see that the answers to these questions are embodied in the declaration, and they are requested to annex their opinions of the truth of the statement of the applicant.
The applicant will further produce in Court, if the same can be done, in the opinion of the Court, without too much expense and inconvenience to him, two respectable persons—one of whom should be the nearest clergyman, if one lives in the immediate vicinity of such applicant, who can testify, from their acquaintance with him, that they believe he is of the age he represents, and that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood to have been a Revolutionary soldier, and that they concur in that opinion.
The traditional evidence of service is deemed very important, in the absence of any direct proof, except the declaration of the party. And the Courts are requested to be very particular in the inquiry whether the belief is general, and whether any doubts have ever existed upon the subject.
Applicants unable to appear in Court, by reason of bodily infirmity, may make the declaration before a Judge of a Court of Record, who will execute the duties which the Court is required to perform.
Whenever any official act is required to be done by a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, the certificate of the Secretary of State or Territory, or of the proper Clerk of the Court or County, under his seal of office, will be annexed, stating that such person is a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or a Justice of the Peace, and that the signature annexed is genuine.
No payments can be made on account of the services of any person who may have died before the taking effect of the act of June 7, 1832; and in case of death subsequent thereto, and before the declaration herein required is made, the parties interested will transmit such evidence as they can, proving his service, the title of the claimant, and the opinion of the Court upon the whole matter.

[a] The declarant must appear in open Court, unless prevented from doing so by reason of bodily infirmity; in which case the declarant will follow the rule laid down for his guidance.
[b] The declarant must make his declaration in the county where he resides. If he should fail to do so, he must assign a sufficient reason for not conforming to the rule.
[c] The age of the claimant must invariably be mentioned.
[d] The declarant must mention the period or periods of time when he served.
[e] Every continental officer or soldier must give the name of the Colonel under whom he served; otherwise, a satisfactory examination of the claim cannot be had. Every claimant must state, with precision, the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the Department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
"Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B., who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service; but, according to the best of his recollection, he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades: For ____ year(s) ____ months, and ____ days, I served as a ____ ; and for such service I claim a pension."
It is important, in all cases, to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of phrases “about three or four months" is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state that they served two years in the militia, &c., without specifying the tours, the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of declaration is highly objectionable. It must, in every case, be clearly shown under what officers the applicant served; the station of each term of engagement; the place or places where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority; that he was either in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit.
[f] The law makes the relinquishment indispensable.
[g] The opinion of the Court is always required.
[h] The Clerk must give his certificate in every case.
[i] The Clerk must affix his seal, and if it has no device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal, or if he has no public seal of office, the certificate of a Member of Congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers.

Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other papers authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.

Proof of Service.
[j] In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimant entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
The notes from [a] to [i] are all equally applicable to the cases of Militia men, Volunteers and State Troops. The proof required by rule [j] applies to continental troops only.
[k] This traditionary evidence is indispensable in militia cases.
[l] If no witness can be found, the declarant must state the fact.
[m] The answers to the interrogatories must all be written and sent to the War Department, with the declaration.