Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 10,777, Job Haskell, Mass.
Page 1

Mass. 
Haskell, Job 
S.10.777

carded
Page 2

27.012
Massachusetts
Job Haskell

Plymouth in the state of Massachusetts who was a private in the Conif commanded by Captain -- of the Repr. commanded by Col. Pope in the Massachusetts line for 15 months and 12 days.

Transcribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 51 dollars 32 cents per annum, to commence on the 4th of March, 1834.

Certificate of pension issued the 16th day of December 1833 and [?delivered to?] to J. H. Loud 
Plymouth

Arrears to the 4th of Feb. '35
$129.30
Semi-annual allowance ending [?June] '34
$25.66

$154.96

Recorded by Geo C Stiles, clerk

Book [?E], Vol. 2, Page 35
Page 3

10.777
Invalid
File No. 10.777
Job Haskell
[?Priv.?] Rev. War
Act: June 7th, 1832
Index: Vol A, Page 163
Arrangement of 1870.
Page 4

Commonwealth of Massachusetts Plymouth County
At a Court of Probate holden by the Hon Wilkes Wood Judge of Probate for said County of Plymouth, at Rochester, within and for said County of Plymouth on the sixth day of November D. 1833 personally appeared in open Court. Job Harkell of said Rochester, aged eighty two years, having been born at said
Rochester on the sixteenth day of October, old style, one thousand seven hundred and fifty one, 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. D. 1832
That in the early part of the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy five he enlisted at Rochester in a Company raised by the State of Massachusetts to aid in the war of the revolution. The officers were Earl Clapp of Rochester, now living in the State of Connecticut, Captain, Isaac Pope and a man by the name of Church [illegible]. On the first of May 1775 said Company marched from Rochester to Roxbury where it remained till the close of the year 1775, and in
the first of January 1776, he, with the rest of the company, was discharged, but without any written discharge. He was during this term of [Illegible], tho in some skirmishes. He thinks
Major General John Thomas had the principal
command while at Roxbury. He was in the
regiment commanded by lit Cotton. He even
engaged in this [illegible] eight months.
He hereby relinquishes all claim whatever to any pension for services in the war of the revolution except the one now preferred.
Page 5

Early in the year [illegible] in 1776  he enlisted as a private in the company of militia raised by State of Massachusetts to carry on the war of the Revolution, of which Benjamin Dellingham of Dartmouth was captain, and a man by the name of Kaufton was one of the [illegible] and he [illegible] a man by the name of [illegible] away [illegible]. He enlisted in Rochester, but may not recollect precisely the time for which he enlisted, but he thinks for eight months. He served in said company, in the town of Dartmouth, over seven months; [illegible] of the town engaged in constructing a fort at a place called Fairhaven. within the [illegible] limits of said town of Dartmouth near Fairhaven in the County of Bristol. He was engaged in no battles during this period of service. There was no general officer and he recollects no filed officer. Job Haskell
He is know to Hon Chas J Holmes Hon. Abm Holmes, Gideon Barstow Esq, A. B. Hammond Esq + Rev Mr. Bigelow
Sworn to + subscribed (the above reference first interlined) in open Probate Court the day + year aforesaid.
Attest Jacob H Loud Register of Probate
Page 6

28.358
Job Haskell

Aourik[??]
15m 12 days for
51.33

J.H. Loud
Plymouth
MA
Page 7

We, Jonathan Bigelow a clergyman, residing in the town of Rochester and Amittai B Hammond residing in the same town hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Job Haskell who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be Eighty two years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the revolution, and we concur in that opinion. Jonathan Bigelow
Amittai B Hammond
Sworn to, and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid.
Attest Jacob H. Loud Reg Prob
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of that matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above name applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that Jonathan Bigelow who has signed the preceding certificate, is a clergyman, resident in the town of Rochester and that Amittai B. Hammond who has also signed the same, is a resident in the same town and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitle to credit. 
By the Court attest
Jacob H Loud Register

I, Jacob, H Loud Register of the Probate do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Job Haskell for a pension. 
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of my office, this sixth day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty three
Jacob H Loud
Page 8

I Gideon Hammond of Rochester in the County of
Plymouth Commonwealth of Massachusetts, (illegible) qualified to give evidence, testify and say that I entered in the spring of 1775 into a company of Militia (illegible) by the State of Massachusetts to and in the War of the Revolution. The company marched from Rochester to Roxbury the first day of May 1775 and remained there in service till first day of January 1776. Where the company was dismissed. The officers were Cecil Class, captain who is still living in the state of Connecticut, Isaac Pope and Charles Church (illegible) who are both dead. Job Haskell, then and still of said Rochester, was a member of service company marched from Rochester
till he was dismissed at the expiration of the term for which it was received at Roxbury as I believe. I do not remember now seeing (illegible) the day the company were dismissed but I have no reason to doubt that he remained till the day of discharge. I have been his neighbor  (illegible) the (illegible) meeting with him for more than fifty years. The term of service was eight months.
                     Gideon Hammond

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Plymouth Cty. Nov 6 1833 Gideon Hammond personally appeared and made oath to the truth of the foregoing deposition by him subscribed before me, the undersigned; and I hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with said deposant, and think he is of good character for truth and (illegible) to credit.
                     Charles J. Holmes, (illegible)
Page 9

Plymouth [illegible] I Jacob H. Loud Register of 
the Court of Probate for this County aforesaid do hereby certify that Ch. J. Holmes Esq is a Justice in the aforesaid County and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have
hereunto set my hand and seal
of office this sixth day of 
November 1833
Jacob H. Loud
Page 10

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Secretary's Office, February 4th, 1833

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 Job Haskell's name is found on the Roll of Capt. Benjamin Dillingham's Company, stationed at Dartmouth; on the Sea-Coast service, where he is allowed seven months and twelve days.

Edward D. Bangs [L?]