Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 24,242, Mark Frost, Mass.

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MASS

FROST, MARK HANNAH

NUMBER: W.24.242

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Copy for Law [illegible]
Maine | 6077
Mark Frost
of Kennebec Co in the State of Maine
who was a private in the company commanded
by Captain Williams of the regt
commanded
by Colonel Vose in the Massachusetts
line, for the term of three years
from
1781 to 1783
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine
and
at the rate of eight
Dollars per month, to
commence on the 16 day of April 1818
and
Certificate of Pension issued the 30 of January
1819
and deed to R. C. Vose
of August, Me
Restored to the Roll on 13 day of
September
1831 and notification sent to
R.C. Vose
at Augusta, Me.
Pension commencing on the 30th
of August
1831,
Amount due on 4th of
March 1831 | 49.57
Revolutionary Claim,
Acts March 18, 1818,
May 1, 1820 &
March 1823.

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Mark Frost, Belgrade
[illegible] Col Vose Mass. Reg.
1781 to 1783
April 16, 1818
Admitted

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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
I Mark Frost, aged sixty nine years, a citizen of the United States, born in Berwick
in the District of Maine but now of Belgrade, in the said District, upon oath
testify and declare, that in April 1782, I enlisted as a private soldier into the
war of the revolution, against the common enemy, upon the continental establishment,
for the period of three years, in the three years service, in Capt John Williams
Company and Col. Joseph Vose's regiment of the Massachusetts line, and served
therein until the twenty fourth day of December 1783, and then took my 
honorable discharge from the Army, at West Point, which discharge is hereunto
annexed. This was my last and only continental service -- From my reduced circumstances in life, I am in need of assistance from my country for support. I hereby relinquish all my claim to every 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-
Mark
His
X 
Mark
Frost
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Kennebec [illegible]
On the sixteenth day of April A.D. 1818
Mark Frost above named, after having been carefully examined
made oath to the truth of the above deposition or declaration
by him subscribed, the same having been first distinctly
read to him. Before me Nathan Weston [illegible] C. East
C. Court C. Pleas 2 Eastern Circuit.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
I Thomas Holmes of Belgrade in the District of Maine of lawful age
I upon oath testify and declare, that I am well acquainted with Mark Frost 
above named. From his reduced circumstances in life he is in need of assistance
from his country for support. He sustains the character of a man of truth.
Thomas Holmes

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Commowealth of Massachusetts
Kennebec [illegible]
On the sixteenth day of April A D.
1818 Thomas Holmes within named, after having been
carefully examined, made oath to the truth of the
within deposition by him subscribed. Before me
Nathan Weston [illegible] C. Clerk C. Court
C Pleas Eastern Circuit.

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421
State of Maine.
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 open 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,
including debts due to the declarant therein stated, is Two hundred
forty seven dollars
center 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 one hundred forty seven dollars.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said
Court on this twentieth day of June 1820
John Davis Clerk of said Court for the County of Kennebec

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421
Mark Frost
6077
[illegible] 30 Jan 1819
Robert C. Vose, Augusta
Maine
of the
John [illegible] Davis [illegible]

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Copy | State of Maine | 421
KENNEBEC COUNTY, ss.
On this Sixteenth day of June 1820,
personally appeared 
in open Court before
the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Counties of Lincoln, Kennebec and Somerset,
being a Court of Record for said Counties, proceeding according to the course of the common
law, having original jurisdiction, unlimited in amount, keeping a record of their proceedings, and
having the power of fine and imprisonment, Mark Frost  aged
Seventy three years, resident in Belgrade
in the County of Kennebec
within said Circuit, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, declare that he
served in the Revolutionary war as follows, viz. in the Company commanded by Captain
Williams and Regiment commanded by Colonel Vose
of the line of the State of Massachusetts upon the Continental Establishment, for
the period of three years

that his original declaration was made before Judge Weston on the Sixteenth day of April
1818; that he is now on the Maine
Roll, and that his pension certificate is numbered 6,677. And I, the said Mark
Frost 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.
Witness N. Weston
His
Mark X Frost
mark
The following is a schedule of my whole Estate and income, necessary clothing and bedding, excepted, viz
One hundred acres of land in Belgrade eighty
of which are very rocky and poor with a small unfinished house and small barn theron, of the value of Two hundred Dollars. One cow of the value of fifteen
dollars.  One yearling of the value of ten dollars.  Four sheep and four lambs of the value of eight dollars.
Two swine of the value of eight dollars, old household
furniture, besides necessary bedding, not exceeding
three dollars in value. One old axe and one old hoe both worth one dollar. One small harrow worth two dollars. I have no debts due to me that can be collected and I owe as much as one hundred dollars. My income from the above property deducting the interest of the money I owe does
not exceed twelve dollars a year

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I am farmer by occupation, but by reason
of age and infirmity having a bad cancer on the
side of my face and being also Rheumatic
am unable to labor. My family at home con-sists of myself, my wife Hannah aged seventy
one years, and my daughter Sarah aged thirty
years.
Except the foregoing and my necessary
clothing and bedding, I have no property or income whatever.
His
Mark X Frost+
mark
Subscribed, sworn to and
declared, both oath and schedule
on the sixteenth day of June
1820 before me
Nathan Weston Jr
C J C C C Pleas
A true Copy

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I am a farmer by occupation, but by reason
of age and infirmity having a bad cancer on the
side of my face and being also Rheumatic
am unable to labor. My family at home consists
of myself, my wife Hannah aged Seventy
one years, and my daughter Sarah aged thirty
years.
Except the foregoing and my necessary
clothing and bedding, I have no property or income whatever
his
Mark X Frost
mark
Subscribed, sworn to and
declared both oath and schedule
on the sixteenth day of June
1820 before me
Nathan Weston Jr
C J C C C Pleas
A true Copy
[illegible] John Davis [illegible]

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Mark Frost and Hannah Horsum both of
Berwick were joined in Marriage September 25 1770
by Matthew Merriam | Pastor of the 2d Church
in Berwick
Recorded October 1770 Nahum Marshall Town Clerk
iA true Extract of the Records of Berwick
Book 2 page 378
Attest Joseph Prime Town Clerk
Berwick Feb 7. 1837
York ss Feb 13, 1934
personally appeared the above named Joseph
Prime & made oath to the foregoing Certificate by him subscribed before me
Chas E. Norton Jus Peace
York ss Feb 13. 1837
 I hereby certify that
Joseph Prime Esquire is Clerk of the Town of
Berwick of good reputation & standing in said
Town & has been now Town Clerk [illegible] 42 years
Chas E Norton J Peace
Charles E Norton Esq is a [illegible]
man for the community of [illegible]
Massachusetts [illegible]

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Maine 905
Hannah Frost
widow of Mark Frost
who died on the 5th October 1835
of Kennebee Co in the State of Maine
who was a private in the company commanded
by Capt Williams of the regt commanded
Col. Vose in the [illegible]
was for three years from 1781
Subscribed in the Roll of Maine
at the rate of 80 Dollars 0 Cents per annum
to commence on the 4 October 1515
Certificate of Pension issued the 22 day of May
1837 and sent to Geo
W. Morton Esq Augusta
[illegible]
allowance ending Sept 1857 [illegible]
Recorded by [illegible] Williams Clerk
Book | Vole 4 | Page 7
Revolutionary Claim,
Act July 4, 1836,
Section [illegible] 3
C
Paid at the Treasury under the
Act of 6 April 1838
from 4th Sept 1838 to 18 Jany 1839.
Agt notified 24 May 1843

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1417
Hannah Frost
Maine
admitted
$80
died 5 Oct 1835
Geo W. Morton
Augusta
Maine

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DECLARATION
In order to obtain the benefit of the third Section of the Act of Congress, of the 4th July, 1836.
____________________
State of Maine.
__________
County, ss.

On this seventh day of February A.D. 1837, personally appeared before Nathan Winston, Chief Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of said state.
Hannah Front, formerly Hannah Horsum, a resident of Belgrade, in the County of Kennebec and State of Maine, aged nearly eighty-six 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 July 4th, 1836; That she is the widow of Mark Frost, late of said Belgrade, a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States, for a particular account of whose services, she reports to the War Department, where his pension was established under the Act of 1818.

She further declares, that she was married to the said Mark Frost, September, in the year seventeen hundred and sixty-nine; that her husband, the aforesaid Mark Frost, died on the fifth day of October 1835; and that she has remained a widow ever since that period, as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed.
[Signed with her mark: Hannah Frost]

Sworn to and subscribed, on the day and year above written, the applicant being unable, from age and infirmity, to attend in open court, before me.
[Signed: Nathan Weston] Ch J. S.J. Court

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State of Maine.
On the seventh day of February, 1837, I took the examination under oath of Hannah Frost, the applicant within named, at her residence, she being unable from age and infirmity to attend in open court. I am satisfied from the accompanying proof that she, said Hannah Frost, whose maiden name was Hannah Horsum, was married to Mark Frost, late, a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States, on the twenty-fifth day of September, 1770. She states her marriage to have taken place a year earlier, an inaccuracy, which is to be impartial to forgetfulness in her very advanced age. I am further satisfied that the said Mark Frost, deceased, on the fifth day of October, 1835, and that the applicant has never since remarried his widow.
[Signed: Nathan Weston]
Ch. Jus. S.J. Court of
said state.





STATE OF MAINE.
__________
[blank] ss.

I the subscriber [blank] hereby CERTIFY, That [blank] before whom the proceedings were had, is [blank]
I also CERTIFY, That the [blank] contains the original proceedings of said [blank] in the matter of the application of [blank] for a pension.

In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of the said Court, this [blank] day of [blank] A.D., 183 [blank].

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I, Benjamin Frost, aged sixty-seven years, upon oath, testify and declare that I am the eldest child of Mark Frost, late of Belgrade, in the state of Maine, a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States; that from my earliest recollection, she and my mother, Hannah Frost, now living, his widow, lived together as man and wife, up to the time of his decease, which was on the fifth of October 1835. I have always understood that they were married in Brunswick, Maine, by the Reverend Matthew Mariam, a settled minister of that town. [Signed: Benjamin Frost]

State of Maine
On the seventh day of February 1837, Benjamin Frost, above named, a credible witness made oath to the truth of the foregoing, by him subscribed. Before me.
[Signed: Nathen Weston] Ch. Justice
of said state.

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Mark Frost, Priv.
Maine Roll, No. 6,677.
August 24th, 1831





R.C. Vose
Augusta
Me.

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I, Jacob Frost, aged fifty years and upwards, son of Mark Frost, of Belgrade, Kennebec County, Maine, an applicant for a pension, do upon oath declare that my sister, Sarah, now upwardly fifty-five years of age, has always lived in the family + taken the beneficial care and charge of Father + Mother, now very aged persons. My father suffered very much by reason of a cancer on his upper hip, while now very bad. Having destroyed the farm nearly up to one of his eyes, she is also very aged, upwards of eighty-three years + has been unable to [illegible] to, for many years, have but a mere trifle. His property was very small, not exceeding two hundred acres at about two hundred thirty dollars + it was agreed between him + the members of his family for Sarah to remain at the home and take charge of the old folks, and to have a deed of the house when they died - My sister, Sarah, was never married, she has always been an [illegible] [illegible] and has taken care of our harvest to the satisfaction of all concerned and what she will receive is not more than the ought for the time [illegible] she has exhausted in taking care of the old folks - There never was any written obligation between my father and sister, as to her taking the care of the old folks + receiving the place when they died, to my knowledge, but it was
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verbally agreed between them + with the current of all [illegible] - The property as I before stated, does not exceed two hundred + fifty dollars, and I cannot say that it would sell for more than two hundred dollars, the town is very rocky + poor and the building is old and out of repair - I am myself upon man and have a [illegible] family to support, which is the care of my four brothers also - Three live in the same town with Father and one lives in Mariaville, Hancock County, Maine, I know of no one of our family, who is able to contribute anything, to the support of our aged parents, as we have all of us, as much as we can do to support ourselves + families.
[Signed: Jacob Frost]

Kennebec ss., Subscribed and sworn to the said deponent being in my opinion a credible witness - Before me, this 2nd day of Aug. 1830.
[Signed: Robert C. Vose] Just. Peace

State of Maine.
August 24, 1831. I am satisfied from the foregoing statement that the above named, Mark Frost, from his situation, age, and infirmities, is in need of the bounty of the government; and it does not appear to me that there is any just reason to doubt that the transaction between him and his daughter was fair and bone fide; and that she has already well entitled herself to the [illegible] [illegible] her.
[Signed: Nathan Weston] 
Just. S.J. Court

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State of Maine.
Kennebec County, ss.
Supreme Judicial Court,
May Term 1831 by Udjourment.
Be it known, that on this twenty fourth day of August 1831. it has been satisfactorily proved in open court, being a court of Record, that Mark Frost, of Belgrade, in the said County of Kennebec, now Eighty three years upwards, did serve in the Revolutionary War, as stated in his several declarations as on file in said court viz of the 16th day of April 1818 on the 16th day of June 1820 and on the 14th day of October 1829. against the common enemy for the term of nine months under one engagement on the continental establishment. I also certify that it has been satisfactorily prooved to said court that the said Mark Frost, is in need of the assistance of his Country for support._
In testimony whereof, I have here unto affixed the Seal of said Court, and subscribed my name this twenty fourth day of August in the year 1831._
R C Vose, clerk of the courts of Kennebec County

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WIDOW, &c.
__________
File No. 24242
Hannah Frost
Wid of
Mark Frost
Priv Rev War
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Act: July 4th, 1836
Index:-Vol. U, Page 255

[Arrangement of 1870.]

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6077.
Maine
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Mark Frost,
private

Massachusetts Line_ 3 years in the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
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Inscribed on the Roll of the District of Maine at the rate of - 8 - Dollars per month, to commence the 16th of April 1818.
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Certificate of Pension the 30th of July 1819, and del'd.
R.C. Vose, Augusta, Maine
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Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1818. 4 mo 19/30-
Semi-anl. all-ce ending 4th March 1819 -
37.06
48.00
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$85.06
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{Revolutionary claim,}
{Act 18th March, 1818.}

Belgrade.

[RIGHT PAGE]
Stricken off under Act of May 1820 - Notification sent 13th July, 1820 to R.C. Vose, Augusta, Maine.

[BOTTOM OF SCAN]
Mark Frost, Maine, Act 18 March 1818
To what time paid!
Per office
No. 2233 [?]

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FROST, MARK
(MASS.) W-24242

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BY THE HONORABLE
MAJOR-GENERAL KNOX,
Commanding the AMERICAN FORCES on Hudson's River.
Mark Frost, Soldier in the Massachusetts Regiment, being enlisted for Three Years, is hereby honorably DISCHARGED from the Service of the United States.

Given in the State of New York,
the 4th Day of Dec.
1783

By the General's Command,[Signed: Knox M.Gen]

REGISTERED in the Books of the Regiment,
[Signed: Ralph H. Bowles]
Capt. & Adjutant

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State of Maine}
Kennebec County ss.}
I, the subscriber, Clerk of all the Judicial Courts held within and for the County of aforesaid, hereby certify that the Hon. Nathan Weston, is the Chief Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of the State of Maine and that the signatures annexed purporting to be his are genuine.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of the said Judicial Court this twenty-second day of February A.D. 1837.
[Signed: J.A. Chandler]

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State of Maine.
Declaration, in order to be restored to the Pension list under the Act of first March, 1823.

Kennebec County, ss.
On this fourteenth day of October 1829, personally appeared in open court, before the Supreme Judicial Court, being a court of record of the said state. Mark Frost, resident in said county, aged eighty-two years, who being first and duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the pension made by the Act of Congress of the 18th March, 1818 + 1st May, 1820. That he, the said Mark Frost, enlisted for the term of three years on the not recollected day of July in the year 1781. In the State of Massachusetts, in the Company commanded by Captain John Williams, in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Joseph Vose, in the line of the State of Massachusetts, in the Continental Establishment, that he continued to serve in the said [illegible] until the 10th of December 1783, when he was discharged from the Service, at West Point, in the State of New York, that his name has been placed on the pension list, and dropped therefore on account of this property, that his pension certificate is numbered 6,677-
And, in pursuance of the Act of the 1st May, 1823, 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 since that time, by gift, sale, 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 served service of the United States in the Revolutionary War," papered 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 in case, other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me
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me subscribed - The following is a Schedule of my whole estate + income - vis - No Real Estate, and no personal property except one cow + the value of fifteen dollars. A few articles of old [illegible] hold stuff besides bedding vis 2 or 3 old chains, one old table, a few plates too very few knives + forks, all having been in service upward of fifty years and are not worth more than three dollars -
My family consists of myself, + my wife, Hannah, aged 81 years and my daughter, Sarah, aged fifty-four years, lives with us + has taken care of the family for many years past - That since the exhibition of my first schedule, the following changes have been made in my property. I have sold to my daughter, Sally Frost, the land and old  buildings maintained in my first schedule - My daughter had lived in our family from her birth + has always taken charge of her mother + myself and I thought it an act of justice to convey the land to my daughter to whom I was justly indebted - My deed ins dated 25th January 1825,  but was not acknowledged until March 4, 1826 - I have several other children, but never able to help. A copy of my deed is hereunto annexed.
[Signed with his mark: Mark Frost]
Attest R.C. Vose
Sworn to and declared on the fourteenth day of October 1829, before
[Signed Nathan Weston] Just.
Just. S.J. Court

I, Sarah Frost, of Belgrade, Kennebec County, Maine, aged forty-four years, subscribed, do declare and say that I lived in my father's family from my birth + [illegible] I became of the age of eighteen. I have lived upon his oath the appearance  that I should be paid out of the proceeds of the home place + I have so continued to live in the family home + have by  my labor contributed to the support of my aged parents. My mother is infirm + helpless and my father has been afflicted with a cancer in the hip for upward twenty years past, for the last four or five years, he has been unable to
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to labor but a [illegible] part of the time - my account for services exceed the sum of two hundred dollars, which was the fee agreed upon for the land purchased, + which is in fact, its true value - There was no written agreement or contract between my father + myself, but the contract was verbally made between us - namely I should live at home + take care of my Father + mother + have the homestead - That contains 100 acres as mentioned in the annexed copy of a deed, about 80 of which is poor land + rocky -  I have fully paid the consideration mentioned in said deed, by the labor of my hands - I expect to live in the family + take care of my parents so long as they live, should I leave them, they must be supported at the expense the town as paupers -
[Signed by her mark: Sarah Frost]
Attest R.C. Vose

Subscribed and sworn to before me, the deponent being in my opinion a credible witness and [illegible] on the 12th October 1829.
[Signed: Nathan Weston] Just.
Just. S.J.C.

I, James White, aged forty years + upwards do upon oath testify that I have been for many years acquainted with Mark Frost, an applicant for a pension. From my knowledge of said Frost, I could think the agreement entered into before him + his daughter, Sarah, was fair and honest. The old man had several very [illegible]  son who lived with him, he left the place about nine years ago + his daughter afterwards had the principal care pf the place - The farm is rocky and some of it very poor land. I should think two hundred dollars a fair price for the land sold by the old man to his daughter.
[Signed: James White]
Kennebec ss., July 29th 1830-
Subscribed + sworn to before me, the deponent being to be well known as a credible witness + [illegible] 
[Signed: R.C. Vose] Clerk of the Courts

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I, Robert C. Vose, Clerk of the Judicial Courts within and for the County of Kennebec, do hereby certify, that it appears to the satisfaction of the Court, that the said, Mark Frost, did serve in the Revolutionary War, as states in the preceding declaration, against the common enemy, for the term of nine months, and one engagement on the Continental Establishment. I also certify that the foregoing oath, and the schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the records 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 Eighteen dollars.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, on the fourteenth day of October Anno Domini, 1829 -
[Signed:] R.C. Vose, Clerk of the Courts
Kennebec County

I, Robert C. Vose, Clerk of the Judicial Courts, above mentioned, do upon oath, testify and declare that I have been for upwards of twenty years last past, acquainted with Mark Frost, of Belgrade, and applicant for a Pension - said Frost, has even said my acquaintance with him been afflicted with a cancer on the lip + nose - He has been a very hardworking man, but by reason of old age and the cancer, he has been unable to do but little labor, or take much care of his farm for the last ten or 12 years - He has three of four man, who are married + have families, they are poor + unable to [illegible] there father - His daughter has always lived in her father's family + [illegible] the old man has failed, in consequence of old age + the cancer, the said daughter, Sarah, has had the charge of the caring of the family. She is a very capable industrious woman, and has to my knowledge had the principal care of her father + mother + had it not been for the good economy of the said
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said Sarah, old Mr. Frost and his wife must have long since been supported as paupers - I have seen and am acquainted with the

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I, Pearlee Morrell, Equire, of Dearborn in the County of Kennebec + State of Maine, aged fifty-seven years + upwards, do depose and say, that I have been acquainted with Mark Frost, an applicant to be restored to the Pension Roll, for the last twenty years - said Frost, lives in a short distance from me in an adjoining town - He is very aged, infirm and has been for many years been subject to a cancer, on his hip - He has been severely afflicted with said cancer and at the present time suffers greatly - By [illegible] of old age + his cancer. Said Frost has been unable to labor much as the place where he has for many years mended - His daughter, Sarah, has always lived in the family, she never having been married, and has by her exertion and indemnity had the principal care of old Mr. Frost, + his wife. The said daughter is considered by all who know her to be very industrious and capable of taking of her parents, so far as my knowledge extends of their [illegible]. I have no doubt but that the conveyance if the place where the old man has lived, to his daughter, Sarah, was fair and bone fide - The property is not worth more than two hundred dollars, as estimated in the deed, and I have no hesitation in saying that from my knowledge of the services rendered + the payments made that the transactions between old Mr. Frost and his daughter in regard to the conveyance of Real Estate mentioned by said Frost in his schedule
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was fair and [illegible] - I have seen, read his said Frost schedule as on file in court.
[Signed: Pearlee Morrell]

Kennebec SS. On this eighteenth day of August 1830. Personally appeared before me the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace + Clerk of the Judicial Court within of said County of Kennebec - Pearlee Morrell, Esquire, to me well known as a credible and [illegible] witness and has made oath to the truth of the above + foregoing deposition by him subscribed.
In testimony where of I subscribe my name + affix the County Seal of the Said County of Kennebec, the day and year last above mentioned.
[Signed: R.C, Vose]

[WRITTEN ON LEFT SIDE VERTICAL]
Additional Proof
Pearlee Morrell, Esq.
depo. in the care
of Mark Frost,
applicant for
Pension




R.C. Vose
Augusta, Maine

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Mark Frost
Priv. Maine Roll
No. 6677

July 31, 1830

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Copy
Mark Frost to Sally Frost

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Know all Men by these Presents,
THAT I, Mark Frost, of Belgrade, in the County of Kennebec, State of Maine yeoman.

In consideration of two hundred Dollars paid by Sally Frost of Belgrade in the County and State aforesaid.

(the receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge) do hereby give, grant, sell, and convey unto said Sally Frost a certain piece or parcel of land situate in Belgrade aforesaid and bounded as follows, to wit, Beginning at Reuben Frost's Southwest corner as surveyed by John Crosby, and on the Northeast Jehabed Smith. No Seven, by the said Crosby's survey; thence zoning north twenty-two and a half digress east one hundred and ten zeds to the Southeasterly corner of a lot of land submitted for by Thomas Holmes being No nine; thence west twenty-two and a half degrees north, one hundred and fifty-nine zeds, by James Horsom's south line to a corner thence south twenty a half degrees west. One hundred and ten zeds to a corner; thence easterly one hundred and fifty-nine zeds to the first mentioned bounds, containing one hundred acres be the source more or less with the privileges and appoint names thereunto belonging and the buildings thereon standing.

TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the same to the said Sally Frost her heirs and assigns, to her and their use and benefit forever.
And I do covenant with the said Sally Frost, her and assigns, That I am lawfully seized in fee of the premises - That they are free of all incumbrances - That I have good right to sell and convey the same to the said Sally Frost - And that I will warrant and defend the same to the said Sally Frost her heirs and assigns forever, against the lawful claims and demands of any persons.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I, the said Mark Frost, have hereunto set my hand and seal this twenty-fifth day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty-five.

[Signed by his mark: Mark Frost; with Seal]

Signed, Sealed and Delivered
in presence of
Samuel Goodridge}
Ivory Ellis}


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Kennebec, ss. March 4 A.D. 1826. Then the above named, Mark Frost, to be his free Act and Deed, before me,
[Signed: Samuel Goodridge] Justice of Peace.

Kennebec, ss. Reviewed, January 25, 1828 entered and compared with the original by John Hovey, Register.

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I have copy as of Record
Attest, John Hovey, Register

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James L. Edwards, Esq.
Chief Clerk
Pension Office

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Augusta, ME. August 24, 1831

Sir,
I eclosed additional evidence in the case of Mark Frost, an applicant for a Pension - This old man is now upward of eighty-three years of age and in great poverty. The little property mentioned in his schedule in June 1820 exceeded the sum of $250.00, which has already been explained or is believed by the Department of War.

I am respectfully
your obd. serv't
[Signed: Robert C. Vose]

James L. Edwards, Esq.
Chief Clerk Pensions Office
War Department
Washington.

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TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
SECOND COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE
May 15th, 1843

Sir:
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An Act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," and the 3rd section of the Act of August 23, 1842, extending the time within which pensioners may receive their pensions from the pension agents, The children of Hannah Frost, dec'd} Pensioner on the Roll of the Maine Agency, at the rate of Eighty Dollars per annum, under the law of the 4th July 1836, has been paid at this Department, from the 4th Sept. 1838, to the 18th Jan'y 1839.

Respectfully yours,
[Signed: Albion K. Parris]
Comptroller.



To the COMMISSIONER OF PENSIONS,
Present.

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Augusta, Me. Feb'y 22, 1837

Sir,
I herewith have not the applications of Mrs. Rebecca Billington + Mrs. Hannah Frost for pensions under Act of Congress of July 4, 1836, upon the examination of their cases should they be untitled to pensions be pleased the [illegible] then pension certificate to me.

Very respectfully
your obd. serv't
Geo. W. Morton



J.L. Edwards, Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
D.C.

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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

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To the Honorable 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 to your Honor, that Mark Frost, a citizen of the United States, now resident in Belgrade, in the said County of Kennebec, in the District of Maine, on the sixteenth day of April, 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 private soldier, in the War of the Revolution, until the end there of against the common enemy, upon the Continental Establishment, and for more than nine months, as stated in his declaration of 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-third day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.

[Signed: Nathan Weston Jr.] C. Just.
C.C.C. Phas 2nd E. Circuit

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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

KENNEBEC, ss.

THE Subscriber, Clerk of all the Judicial Court, 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 this Certificate bearing his signature, the seal of the said Court in which he presided.

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,

[Signed: John Davis]