Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 33,497, for Levi Prutt, Massachusetts
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SERVICE
Mass.
Prutt, Levi
NUMBER
S. 33,497
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4138
Massachusetts
Levi Prutt
private
Capt Alexander
Massachusetts line - 1777 - 6 years
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of -8- Dollars per month, to commence on the 17th of April, 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 5th of Nov. 1818 and sent to Samuel Heriehley, Esq
Northampton, Mass
Arrears to 4th of Step 1818 4 and 18/30 36.80
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4th Mar 1819 48.00
$:84.80
[two signatures blacked out]
Revolutionary claim, 
Act 18th March, 1818
[signature blacked out]
[indecipherable]
[right-hand page, written vertically:]
Notification sent July 28th 1820 to
Josiato Gwighly North Hampton VA
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No 24
Levi Pratt ["Pratt" crossed out] Prutt
Prutt
4.138
5 Nov 1818
Habley   
Con

Mar 1819
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[printed document with fill ins]
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.

HAMPSHIRE SS.

At a Special Session of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Western
Circuit, begun and holden at Northampton, within and for the County of
Hampshire, on Wednesday, the fifth day of July, and de die in diem to the 
sixth day of said month A. D. 1820:

Personally appeared, in open Court, being a Court of Record, within and for said County, 
created such by the Laws of the Commonwealth, Levi Prutt 
aged sixty three years, resident in Hadley in said County, who, 
being first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on his oath, declare that he served in the Revolu-
tionary war as follows: [illegible] I enlisted into the Continental [illegible] in April of 1776 
into Col. Billings Regt. after 8 months I left Billings Regt. & joined Col. Porter for one 
year & then joined Col. Putnams Regt & continued in it through the war when I was 
honorably discharged. For which I have received a Pension certificate P4.138 dated 
the twenty third day of November. In 1819. he applied for a Pension on the 07th day 
of April 1818 -

And I do solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the 18th day of 
March, 1818; and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sales, or in any manner, disposed of 
my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within 
the provisions of an act of Congress, entitled, "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in 
the land and naval service of the United States, in the Revolutionary war," passed on the 18th 
day of March, 1818; and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property, or 
securities, contracts, or debts, due to me; nor have I any income other than what is contained in 
the following schedule by me subscribed. One [illegible] One [illegible] 50th [illegible] 25th
Sunday [illegible] of [illegible] 5,00    -- $14.25-
I am of the age of sixty three years     I have no family left.
as my children are all put out            am very infirm -I [blacked out],
unable to perform much labour      was last up a farmer.

Attest Sam^l Porter

his
Levi X Prutt
mark
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I'm of the age of sixty three years   I have no family left
[illegible] my Children are all put out    am very infirm & [word crossed out]  unable to perform much labor    was brot [sic] up a farmer
Attest  Sam^l Porter

        his
Levi  X  Prutt
        mark

Sworn to, and declared, on the {fifth} day of {July} 1820,
before the said Court.
Attest, Josiah Dwight  [signature] Clerk.

I, Josiah Dwight, Clerk of said court, do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath, and the ??hedule which follows it, are truly copied from the record of the said Court; and I do further
certify, that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule , is {twelve} dollars and {twenty five} cents.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this {sixth} day of 
{July} 1820.
Josiah Dwight [signature]
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Levi Prutt's application for a pension.

Admitted on the Mass. Rolls
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I levi Prutt of Hadley in the County of Hampshire & Commonwealth of 
Massachusetts [illegible] and say that in February or March [illegible] 1776 of
enlisted as a soldier under Captain Thomas Allixander in the Regiment 
commanded by Colonel Elisha Porter, and under the command of Gen
Thomas; that I went with said company and Regiment to Quebech, and
after our retreat went with the same to  Morristown in New Jersey at
which place I was discharged. about the middle of January 1777 the
discharge that I received at that time is lost and not in my power to produce
it. and I [illegible] testify and say that in the Spring of the Year 1777
                                                                     revolutionary
I inlisted again under Lt Samuel [illegible] for June in the^ War, and
                          the
that of [illegible] ^ [illegible] in the Company commanded by Captain
                               on the continued establishment & Massachusetts line
Joshua Benson in Col . R. Putnams Regiment. Sam Nixon, Brigade^
I further testify & say that I received my discharged in writing at the 
[illegible] is the owner but have left the same; must therefore refer
the further evidence to the war department. ---
And I further say that I have never received any pension from
the government, and from my reduced [illegible]
in need of assistance from my Co^untry for support, I am sixty
years of age.
April 14th 1818 - 
his
Levi X Prutt
mark

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Hampshire [illegible] April 17 1818 Levi Prutt
came before [illegible] the [illegible] judge of the Court
of Probate of will & being a Court of Record
wither [illegible] said County and being carefully
examined and [illegible] by me to testify the 
whole truth under solemn oath that the
[illegible] deposition by him [illegible] is the
truth the whole truth & nothing but the
truth, and it appears to my satisfaction
the said Levi Prutt served in the revo-
lutionary war against the common Enemy
taken and sworn to before me - In testimony
whereof I have here unto set my hand and
have affixed the seal of said Court the Day
& year above mentioned.
Samuel Hinckley, Judge of said
Court
x
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I Samuel Porter of Hadley in the County of Hampshire Testify I say I have for more than thirty years known Levi Prutt signer of the within Deposition & that he has always stated that he served till the Close of the war and it has been so considered by all who know him & I have no doubt but his statement as made on the other file is correct - he is a very poor man -
April 17, 1818
Sam Porter -

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Hampshire Co April 17, 1818 Samuel Porter Esq. personally appeared and on oath says the above Deposition by him Transcribed is true -
Before me Samuel Hinckley, Judge

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Levi Prutt's application for a pension

Admitted on the Mass. rolls
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[handwritten] 33497
[printed] INVALID.
[handwritten to side] Revy

[printed] File No. [handwritten] 33,497
Levi Prutt
[illegible] Rev War

[printed] Act: [handwritten] 18th March 18[illegible]
[printed] Index:-Vol. [handwritten] 2, [printed] Page [handwritten] 328
[printed] {Arrangement of 1870}
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[handwritten] Payable on the 4th of March and 4thn of Sept. in each year, at the Branch [illegible] US. Boston, Mapashusetts.
[swirled design]
[illegible] in dead letter July 25 1824

Recorded.
[swirled design]
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War Department
Revolutionary Claim

I certify, That in conformity with the Law of the United States of the 18th of March, 1818
Levi Pruitt late a private in the Army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the Massachusetts Agency at the rate of eight dollars per month, to the commence on the seventeenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.

Given at the War Office of the United States, this fifth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen. 

[Signed] J C Calhoun
Secretary of War
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[handwritten] Levi Pruett's [illegible] Nov. 14. 1819.
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I Levi Pruett of Hadley in the County of Hampshire in the Commonwealth of Masachusetts testify and say that [crossed out] in [handwritten] I am in the sixty [crossed out, handwritten, illegible] [illegible] years of my days and that on the 17th day of April 1818 I made oaths before Samuel Hinckley Judge of [illegible] for said County that in the [illegible] of the year 1777 I enlisted as a [illegible] soldier under 6 apt. Joshua Benson in Col. [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] in [illegible] [illegible] during the revolutionary war and I continued to serve in [illegible] Company + Regt. until the  [illegible] of the war and then was [illegible] discharged."
And I now [illegible] testify + say I have [illegible] [illegible]? From the Hon. testimony at War a Pension Certificate for my said Pension in [illegible] the Law of 6 [illegible] of March 18, 1818 granting Pensions to Revolutionary soldiers- and [illegible] [illegible] not- Nove. 17, 1819
[signed]
Levi X Prutt ["his" written over X, "mark" written under X]
Commonwealth of Masachussetts Hampshire [illegible] Nove. 17. 1819 Levi Prutt [illegible] named known to me to be a man of [illegible], personally [illegible] and made solemn oath that the [illegible] [illegible] by him [illegible] contains the truth the whole truth + nothing but the truth
Before me Samuel Hickley Judge [illegible] + a Justice of the Peace in the [illegible] county.
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[handwritten] Levi Prutt's
application for a Pension
April 17th, 1818

1777
[illegible]
[illegible]
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts

On the seventeenth day of April 1818 personally appeared before me the subscribed Judge of the Court of Probate of Wills [illegible] in and for the County of Hampshire in sd. Commonwealth Levi Prutt in sd. County and made solemn oath that in the Spring of the year 1777 he enlisted into the Company of Capt. Joshua Benson in Col. Rufus Putnams Regt. & in Nixons Brigade as a private soldier during the Revolutionary war and that he faithfully served in sd. Company & kept until the Close of the war and was regularly discharged, but that he lost his discharge, that he is in reduced circumstances & needs the assistance of his country for support - Signed by sd. Prutt and sworn to by him - 
Before me Samuel Hinckley Judge as [caret] aforesaid

Commonwealth of Massachusetts

To the Honorable Secretary for the Department of War I hereby certify and declare that on the 17th of April 1818 I administered the above oath to said Levi Prutt (as appears by a record before me of the same, and that I certified that he was a Pauper of the Town of Hadley, & that I had no doubt but he performed the service mentioned in his declaration, and that I actually enclosed the application & my certificate of the oath [illegible] and directed the papers to [caret] The Honorable J.C. Calhoun Secretary for the Department of War and with my own hand delivered the same at the Post Office in this town to be forwarded -

Samuel Hinckley Judge as aforesaid

The fact is I enclosed the applications of Levi Prutt Cotton Dickinson, Ralph Way, Joshua Boston Seth Clark William Towell & I think one or two others, all sworn to me the 17th of April 1818 - I have no record of the oaths [illegible] - yet in my possession -