Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 35679, Josiah Trafton, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Trafton, Josiah
S. 35679
CONTENTS

8599
Maine
Josiah Drafton
of Dist. Penobscot in the state of Maine who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Prescott of the Massachusetts line, for the term of one year.
Inscribed on the Roll of the Dist. of Maine at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 15 th of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 30 th of March 1819 and sent to B. Greene, Esq. South Berwick - Maine
Arrears to 4th of March 1819 10 16 2/3 30.31 05. 29 Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 th Sept. 1819. 40. 00
$133.29
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
York County.

35 679 Rev INVALID.
File No. 35-679
Josiah n Grafton Pr Rev War
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 425-
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Jonas Dutton - Revale Col. Prescotts Regt Mapt June 1776 1 year
Dec. 15 th Aprie 1818
Admitted.

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
YORK, ss. }
ON this fifteenth
day of April
A. D. 1818,
before me the subscriber, Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the first Eastern Circuit in said Commonwealth, personally appears Josiah Trafton aged sixty four years resident in Shapleigh in said county of York, who being by me first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the late 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:"
That he the said Josiah Trafton in the month of April 1775, enlisted as a private soldier in the Continental Army, under Capt. Jonathan Nowell, in the Reg t commanded by Col. James Leavitt of the Massachusetts Line, for the term of eight months, & continued to serve in said comp y & Reg t untill the above-named term of eight months expired when he again enlisted under Capt. Nowell, in the Reg t then commanded by Col. Prescott, of the Massachusetts Line, for the term of twelve months, & continued to do his duty in said comp y & Reg t untill the above-named term of one year expired, when he was honorably discharged — but rec d no written discharge —
(And in evidence of the truth of the foregoing declaration made by the said Josiah Trafton. The above named Capt. Jonathan Nowell & Col. James Leavitt & Col. Prescott, Three credible witnesses, personally appear, and having been by me first duly sworn according to law, they upon their oaths do say, that the above declaration made by the said Josiah Trafton is true, that he did serve in the continental army under the said Capt. Jonathan Nowell & in the Regiment commanded by Col. Leavitt & Col. Prescott the whole of the time to which he has testified — that they served with him in the same comp y & Reg t & knows that he was according to a faithful soldier — and that he was honorably discharged at the expiration of the above mentioned twelve months as he has stated —)
That he is reduced in his circumstances and needs the assistance of his country for support, and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services.
Sworn to and declared before me the day and year above said.
Benj a Greene
I, BENJAMIN GREENE, Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the first Eastern Circuit, in the Commonwealth aforesaid, do certify, that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Josiah Trafton did serve in the revolutionary war against the common enemy, as he has stated in his declaration aforesaid—and that he is reduced in his circumstances, and needs the assistance of his country for his support.—And I do now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me to the Secretary for the Department of War, pursuant to the directions of the before mentioned act of Congress.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this
fifteenth
day of April
Anno Domini, 1818.
Benj a Greene