Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 35953, Samuel Frost, Continental Mass.

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(3-1776)

Service: Continental Mass.

Frost, Samuel

Number: S. 35953

Contents:

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[illegible handwritten words left page]

[handwritten] Deed Oct 27, 18[illegible]3

[illegible handwritten words left page]

[handwritten]

6063.

Maine

Samuel Frost
Sergeant,
Capt Pond

Massachusetts [illegible] 3 years [end handwritten]

in the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.

[ilegible]seribed on the Roll of [handwritten] the District of Maine [end handwritten] at the rate of [handwritten] 8 [end handwritten] Dollars per month, to commence on the [handwritten] 11th of May 1818. [end of handwritten]

Certificate of Pension issued the [handwritten] 28 of Jan[illegible] 1819 and [illegible] Augusta Maine [end handwritten]

[illegible]rrears to the 4th of [handwritten] Sep 1818. 3 [illegible]. 21/31. 4/30 30.47 [end handwritten]

semi-anl. all'ce ending [handwritten] 4th March 1819. 48. [illegible] 

78.47. [end handwritten]

{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818.}

[handwritten] Wayne [end handwritten]

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[all handwritten] Samuel Frost

Wayne. Sergt. Col. Lee'z

Mass. Reg. 

1777. to 1780

[check mark] May 11. 1818

Admitted

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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
 I Samuel Frost, aged sixty four years, a citizen of the United States, born in Wrentham in the state of Massachusetts, now resident in Wayne in the District of Main, upon oath testify and declare, that in April 1775 I enlisted as a private soldier in the war of the revolution against the common enemy, upon the continental establishment, for the period of eight months, being the first eight months service, in Capt Oliver Pond's company and Col Joseph Reeds regiment of the Massachusetts line or troops. This period I fully served out and was honorably but verbally discharged at Roxbury, Massachusetts, the last of December 1775 or the first of January 1776 - The last of June or first of July 1776 I again enlisted as a private soldier into the same service and upon the same establishment, for the remainder of the years service, being the term of five months in Capt Laurs Whiting's company and Col. Wheelocks regiment of the same line - This period I also fully served out and was honorably but verbally discharged at Great Barrington, Vermont the last of December 1776 - In June 1777 I again enlisted as a Sergeant into the same service and upon the same establishment for the period of three years in the company commanded by Ensign Enoch Pond, in Col. Lee's regiment of the Massachusetts line. After this enlistment I obtained a furlough to return home where I was taken sick and detained some days beyond the time limit in my furlough, in consequence of which I obtained from Ensign Pond this certificate which is hereunto annexed - I afterwards fully

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served out the period of my enlistment last mentioned and took my final and honorable discharge from the Army at, I think, in Morristown, New Jersey, in June 1780. My discharge is lost and not now in existence to my knowledge. I was at the battle at Rhode Island under General Sullivan. From my reduced circumstances I am in need of assistance from my country for support. And I do hereby relinquish all my claim to any pension heretofore allowed me by the laws of the United States, if any; but I am not to my knowledge borne on any pension list whatever. I request that I may be placed upon the pension list for the District of Maine.
[signed] Samuel Frost

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Kennebec SS

On the eleventh day of May AD 1818 Samuel Frost above named, after having been carefully examined, made oath to the truth of the above declaration by him subscribed.
Before me,
[signed] Nathan Weston Hon
Chief Justice of Court C
Pleas, Second Eastern Circuit

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Chief Justice of the Circuit
Court of Common Pleas.

[handwritten] A true copy,

Attest John Davis Clerk [end handwritten]

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Continental Mass

Frost, Samuel
S35953

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State of Maine
To the Honorable the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Counties of Lincoln, Kennebec, and Somerset

I Samuel Frost of Wayne in the county of Kennebee aforesaid, a pensioner on the Maine roll, under the law of the United States, 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 March, 1818, do hereby exhibit the following schedule of my whole estate and income (my necessary clothing and bedding excepted) viz:

The right of redeeming about fifty acres of land in Wayne aforesaid which is mortgaged to the person of whom I purchased, for the whole amount purchase may no part of which had him I paid, I therefore consider the right of redemption of no Value.

An old house unfinished without chimney neither clapboarded or shingled of the value of twenty dollars.
One cow of the value of eighteen dollars
Two sheep of the value of four dollars
One swine of the value of three dollars
Household furniture exclusion of my necessary Bedding of the value of five dollars
Implements of husbandry for the value of three dollars. 
I have no debts due to me, and owe more than one hundred dollars, which I am wholly unable to pay.
I have no income derived from property, trade or profession and from age and infirmity, having sixty seven years of age, am unable to labor but a very small part of my time.
Samuel Frost

A true copy
Attest John Davis, Clerk

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[handwritten] (Copy.) [end handwritten]

State of Maine.

I, [handwritten] Samuel Frost [end handwritten] within named do solemnly swear, than on the [handwritten] eleventh [end handwritten] day of [handwritten] May [end handwritten] 1818, I made application, in pursuance of the within mentioned law of March 18, 1818, before Judge [handwritten] Weston [end handwritten], and was afterwards placed upon the pension list roll of the United States, for the District of Maine Agency. And I, the said [handwritten] Samuel Frost [end handwritten], do further solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen ; and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner whatever, 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 eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen ; and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities, contracts or debts, due to me ; nor have I any income, other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed. 

[handwritten] Samuel Frost [end handwritten]

KENNEBEC, ss.

ON this [handwritten] sixteenth [end handwritten] day of [handwritten] May [end handwritten] 1820, [handwritten] Samuel Frost [end handwritten] before named, after being duly cautioned and examined, exhibited and subscribed the within schedule, and took and subscribed the foregoing oath, before me, 

Nath[illegible]

Chief Justice of the Circuit

Court of Common Pleas

[handwritten] A true copy,

Attest John Davis Clerk

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[illegible handwritten word in top margin]

April 21, 1933

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Mr. Andrew Holmes Burgess
5111 West 23rd Street
Ciero, Illinois

SAMUEL FROST
[illegible handwritten word in margin]
S. 35953
BA-J/MLB

Dear Sir:

Reference is made to your letter of April 14, in which you request the record of Samuel Frost, a soldier of the Revolutionary War.

The data contained herein were obtained from the papers on file in pension claim, S. 35953, based upon the service of Samuel Frost in the Revolutionary War. 

He was born in Wrentham, Massachusetts; the date of soldier's birth and names of his parents are not shown. 

He enlisted, place not stated, in April, 1775, served as private in Captain Oliver Pond's company, Colonel Joseph Read's Massachusetts regiment, and was discharged the last of December, 1775, or the first of January, 1776. He enlisted the last of June or the first of July, 1776, served as private in Captain Lewis Whiting's company, Colonel Wheelock's Massachusetts regiment, and was discharged the last of December, 1776. He enlisted June 29, 1777, for a term of three years, served as sergeant under Ensign Enoch Pond Pond in Colonel Lee's Continental Regiment, [crossed out] was at the battle of Rhode Island under General Sullivan [end crossed out] and was discharged in June, 1780.

[handwritten in margin] He was in the [illegible] + was [illegible] in June 1780. [end handwritten]

He was allowed pension on his application executed May 11, 1818, at which time he was aged sixty-five years and residing in Wayne, Kennebec County, District of Maine.

Samuel Frost died October 27, 1823, place not stated.

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No reference was made in the claim to wife or children.

In an old document which contains the name of the soldier, Samuel Frost, the name of Hannah Frost appears also, but no statement in regard to her, so it cannot be determined whether or not she was related to the soldier. 

Very truly yours 

A. D. HILLER Assistant to Administrator

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1933 April 21 to Andrew Holms Burgess

45953
Rev'y Invalid
File No. 35953
Samuel Frost
Serg Rev War

Act: 18th March 18
Index; - Vol. 2, Page 145

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The Bureau of Pensions
Case of Mr. E.W. Morgan
Washington, D.C.

Cicero Illinois, April 14, 1933
5111, rest 23rd St

My dear Sir: Thank you for the service and Pension Record of Israel C. Taylor a soldier of Civil war, as read on Feb 20, 1933, for use in our family geneology.
Will you kindly send, me the service and Pension Records of Samuel Frost, a solider of the Rev. War in the Mass. Line, a sergeant, He was placed on the Roll in 1819, as Pub. in 1835.
He died in 1823. I do not know where he was born or date of his birth. Which I hope your records still show, also where he died, and if any pension was granted to any one of the sect of his service.
He left many descendents, a large number of which are duly recorded in our Geneology. I shall deeply appreciate your full service record and such records as you have of his family. 
Again thanking you for this and past favors
Very cordially yours,
Andrew Holmes Burgess
Member of the Illinois Society S.A.R of Managers for 1935

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State of Maie
I John Davis Clerk for the County of Kennebec of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the second Eastern Circuit, embracing the counties of Lincoln, Kennebec and Somerset, do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath and the Schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of the said Court; and that the original was exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule, including debts to the declarant therein stated is fifty dollars, and deducting therefrom the amount of what the declarant owes as set forth in said Schedule, the value of said property in the opinion of said Court, is nothing 
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, or this twentieth day of June 1820
John Davis Clerk of said Court for the County of Kennebec

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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Secretary's Department July 8 1818

By this I certify, that it appears by public, official documents remaining in this Department that Samuel Frost served as soldier as a solder in Capt. Company and Col. Lees Regiment (being one of the Regiments in the Massachusetts Line, and on the continental Establishment, in the American Army, in the War of the Revolution enlisted June 29, 1777 for three years but when or how this changed was not officer
Adam Bradford
Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
To the Honorable the Secretary of the Department of War of the United States
I the subscriber, being Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Second Eastern Circuit of Massachusetts, embracing the counties of Lincoln, Kennebec, and Somerset, do hereby certify that Samuel Frost, a citizen of the United States, now resident is Wayne in the said County of Kennebec, in the District of Maine, on the eleventh day of May, A.D. 1818 made application to me to receive his declaration under oath, and such other evidence, as was in his power to produce and to transmit the same, and the proceedings had thereon, to your Honor; that he might be placed on the pension list of the United States, agreeably to the provisions of an Act, entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary War,", passed March 18 A.D 1818, which declaration, and the other evidence produced by the said applicant, is hereunto annexed.

And I do further certify to your Honor, that after a full examination of the said applicant and a careful consideration of the evidence in the case, it appears to me that the said applicant did serve as a non commissioned officer in the war of the revolution, against the common enemy upon the continental establishment, for more than nine months, as stated in his declaration aforesaid and that from his reduced circumstances, he needs the assistance of his country for support.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the Seal of the Court in which I preside, to be hereunto affixed, this twenty second day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
Nathan weston

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Commonwealth of Massachusetts. KENNEBEC, SS. 

THE Subscriber, Clerk of all the Judicial Courts, held within the said County of Kennebec, hereby certifies, that the Honorable NATHAN WESTON, Junior, Esquire, before whom the annexed proceedings were held, is Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Second Eastern Circuit of Massachusetts, embracing the Counties of Lincoln, Kennebec and Somerset; and that by the direction of the said Judge, I have affixed unto his Certificate bearing his signature, the seal of the said Court in which he presides. 

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand: Dated at Augusta, in said County of Kennebec, this tenth day of June, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.

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Cambridge
A Return to the Present Comp. of Col Leard
& Commanding officers | Rank and File | Wanting to Compleat. | Alteration Since Last Roll
[table that is too faint to read]

Saml Frost

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Service 
Continental Mass. Frost, Samuel  S35953

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Wayne April 23 1840 This may certify that Frost is an in habitant of the Town of Wayne is in indigent circumstances have no doubt was a soldier in the revolutionary war & really a fit subject for bounty of Government  to Sumen Allen Wing Cyrus (illegible) Wayne