Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B.L. Wt. 5790, Issued 1796, Amos Frost, Conn.

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(3-1776)
SERVICE
Conn.
[five pointed star]
Frost, Amos
NUMBER
B.L. Wt. 5790, issued, 1796

CONTENTS

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Discharge of
Amos Frost
Deposited with other Documents
to Substantiate the Claim of the Heirs
by the honrble Timothy Pitkin
22d Feb. 1816

The Sand [?] Wt to Satisfy this claim
was issued to "Joseph Whitton"
Number 5700 dated, Aug. 27 1796.

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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
Form VAM-51
12-5-41

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*

Division of Veterans Administration Archives

NAME Frost, Amos
GRADE Private
LINE Connecticut
WARRANT NUMBER 5790
ACREAGE 100
ISSUED Aug 27, 1796
to Joseph Whitton -

*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in the National Archives.

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By His Excellency
GEORGE WASHINGTON, Esq;
General and Commander in Chief of the Forces of the 
United States of America.
THESE are to CERTIFY that the Bearer hereof Amos Frost [name is handwritten], Soldier in the Second Connecticut Regiment, having faithfully served the United States from June [illegible] 1777 to June [illegible] 1783 and being inlisted for the War only, is hereby DISCHARGED from the American Army.

GIVEN at HEAD-QUARTERS the [illegible] June 1783

G Washington [handwritten]

By HIS EXCELLENCY'S
Command,
J

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Head-Quarters, June 8th, 1783.

The within CERTIFICATE shall not avail the Bearer as a Discharge, until the Ratification of this definitive Treaty of Peace; previous to which Time, and until Proclamation thereof shall be made, He is to be considered as being on Furlough

George Washington.