Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 21542, Retire Trask, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Frask Retire
S.21542
CONTENTS

9757 Vermont
Retired Troops
of Windsor in the State of Vermont who was a Sgt in the Compa. commd by Captain Clary of the Regt commd by Col Gerrish in the Mass. Mil. here for 6 months
Inscribed on the Roll of 60 at the rate of 30 Dollars Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.
Certificate of Pension issued the 12 th day of June 1833 and June 6, 1833 Windsor Vt
Arrears to the 4th of Mar 1833 $ 60:00 Semi-ant. allowance ending 4 Sep 33 15:00
date of death is not on Agency Book
$75:00
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by Geo B. Whiting Clerk Book 8 Vol. 7 Page 44

1 State of Vermont } At Bethel in said county Windsor county } on the 10 th day of August A.D. 1832 personally appeared in open court before the Hon. Esaias Raymond judge of the court of probate for the district of Hartford in said county now sitting at Bethel within said county said district Peter Frank a President in Bethel in said district and county aged eighty one years 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 the act of congress passed seventh of June A.D. 1832 - That he entered the service of the United States under the follow- ing named officers and served as herein stated, to wit: That at the time Burgoyne's troops were stationed as prisoners of war at Rutland Massachusetts at the age of twenty seven years at New Salem Massachusetts he enlisted in the spring of the year he thinks in 1778 as an orderly sergeant for 6 months in the Massachusetts militia in a company commanded by Capt. Clary that he had two subordinate lieutenants in his company Lieut. Stebins & Lieut. Camp or Rump - That he was marched from St. Ruland Mass. where the Burgoyne troops were stationed - that he & his company won immediately as far as Brookfield 12 or 15 miles distant to guard the magazine where he staid something like three months until the maga- zine was removed to the vicinity of Springfield. When he was ordered back to Rutland, that the two Lieut. Stebins & Camp or Rump returned home - that soon after he reached Rutland Lieut. Clary in command being in inferior health also went home - that he was left in command that after remaining about a month at Rutland the Burgoyne troops were called for as he supposed to be exchanged that he marched his company down to guard the prisoners till they reached Fort Connecticut River over into Washington Connecticut - that he then returned to Rutland with his men that when he reached there he found nothing remaining but a guard and the inva- lid prisoners of war that the other American troops had

2 Goes to Winter Hill near Boston; that as he reached Pullen's he found orders for him to take commissary and to carry the invalids & baggage & march the remaining troops all down to Winter Hill. That he so did and at Winter Hill he found out the nature of his six months enlistment and was discharged -
That he knows of no persons to be now alive, save Dr. Nathaniel Frank of Windsor Vermont, that has personal knowledge of his said services or that knows any circumstances that would throw any light on the same. That he has now no documentary evidence of the same
1 That he was born at Brimfield Mass on the 6 th of March in the year 1751
2 That he has a record of his age on the town books at Brimfield and had one in his old family bible but that within a few years it has dropped out or some way got lost -
3 That he was living in New Salem when first called into the service. He next lived in in Hampshire then came to Rockledge Vermont his present place of residence where he has lived for the last
4 th That he enlisted -
5 th That in addition to the names of officers and men as he thinks he has above stated he recollects that at Pullen's a Capt Woodbridge or Woodbury & a Capt. Huse who each commissioned a company or he now thinks - That at that station he recollects a Lieut. Brown and a sergeant Major Langly - That at Winter Hill Genl. Heath and Colo. Gerrish were in command -
6 That he was discharged by Colo. Gerrish & that he has not the same & that Colo. Gerrish signed the same - That he received a warrant as first sergeant & that it was signed by Colo. Gerrish
7 That Colo. Thos. Hopkins, D r E. Emerson, Jonathan Norton & D r Briggs Major Foster were persons to whom he is known in his present neighborhood; and who can testify to his character for truth and veracity - and their

3 opinion and belief of his services as a soldier of the revolution
That he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state - Peter Fratt
Sworn to and subscribed the day & year aforesaid
In Raymond Indg
We Thomas Hodgkins Aaron Mather and of Brattleboro in said county Residing in Brattleboro in the probate court of Hartford and county of Windsor aforesaid hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Dr Peter Fratt who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be eighty one years of age, that he is respected and beloved in the neighborhood where he lives to have been a soldier of the revolution, and that we concur in that opinion, and that we have never had any doubts of the same
Thomas Hodgkins age 76 Aaron Mather
Sworn to and subscribed the day & year aforesaid
In Raymond Indg
And the said court do hereby declare his opinion after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories subscribed by the war department that the above named applicant was a soldier of the revolution and served as he states and the court further certifies that it appears to him

That Thomas Hodgkins and Aaron Mosher 4 who have signed the foregoing certificate, are residents in the town of Rochester in the county of Windsor, spouses and credible persons, and that their statements are entitled to credit - and the said Court further certifies that the clergyman in said applica- cants vicinity has not resided there over one year and it is presumed by said court that he cannot have much knowledge of the reputation of the said applicants for revolutionary services - The Raymond Judge
I L. A. Marsh Clerk and register of the court of probate for the district of Hartford in the county of Windsor, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Dr. Peter Trask for a pension. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office and of said court this 10th day of August A.D. 1832
L. A. Marsh, Register

I Nahum Trask, of Windsor, in the county of 5 Windsor and state of Vermont, aged seventy one years, on oath, testify, depose, and say, that I was a soldier of the army of the United States, in the Revolutionary War, in a company of the Massachusetts Militia, under the command of Lieutenant Clary, for the term of six months which term of service I performed. — I enlisted at New Salem, Mass. I think in the spring of 1776, and I very well recollect that my brother Petire Trask , (who I think is something like ten years older than myself) enlisted at the same time, in the same company, and for the same term of service — that the said Petire Trask acted as Orderly Sergeants of the company, and, part of the time, (the Lieutenant being unwell) had the command; that I continued with him the whole time, as fifer of the company, and was discharged at the same time at Winter Hill. — I have carefully examined the Declaration of said Petire Trask , made before the Probate Court for the District of Hartford, in the state of Vermont, and certified, under the seal of said Court the tenth day of August, A.D. 1832, and have no hesi- tation, in saying, under oath, that said declaration is true, to the best of my recollection and belief — and further saith not. Nahum Trask

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State of Vermont,
Windsor County ss. — Windsor February 13, 1833 — Then personally appeared Nathan Frase, signer of the within affidavit, and made solemn oath that the contents thereof, are to the best of his knowledge and belief, true. — And I do hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with the said Nathan Frase, and in my opinion full credit and belief should be given to his testimony in the premises. — In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this 13th day of December February, A.D. 1833.
Thos M. Pomeroy Justice of the Peace.
State of Vermont } Woodstock County Clerks Feb'y 23 1833 I Benjamin Windsor County ss } I Swan Clerk of Windsor County Court, Do hereby Certify that Thomas M. Pomeroy is one of the Justices of the Peace within for said County, and that the above is his signature. — In Testimony whereof I hereunto affix the Seal of said Court, and subscribe my name the day & year last above. —
Benj. Swan

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Washington, D. C., _____, 19____
In reply to your request of _____, received _____ for a statement of the military history of _____ a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pen- sion on file in this Bureau.
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     Apr 1778 6 mos Colly Sgt Levi Plary Gerrish Mass.                                                   
Battles engaged in, _____
Residence of soldier at enlistment, New Salem Mass.
Date of application for pension, Aug. 10, 1832. Heir ch. was al.
Residence at date of application, Rochester Windsor Co. Vt
Age at date of application, about Brimfield Mass. Mar. 6, 1757
Remarks: It is not stated whether he was ever married
Respectfully,
Note  Gerrish com him while at Winter Hill & also discharged him.
Commissioner.

Revolution
21 542 INVALID.
1917 Jan. 10. Reist. to Julia T. Hazar.ew
File No. 21,542
Retire Track
Sergt Rev War
Act: June 7 th 82 nd
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 422
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Windsor Vt. March 11. 1833
To The Hon. Lewis Cass Secretary of War
Sir - I enclose documents to support the claim of Retire Grant to a pension -
I also suggest that - on the 7 th Aug. last I transmitted a parcel (ten) of declarations; on the 27 th Aug. eight; on the 14 th Sept. nine; and about the middle of October, four; and recently two more. Of these, with the exception of three previously enrolled, I have rec d . no information. I have, until now, supposed that the cases were to be disposed of in priority of their being entered in the office. Nor do I know that such is not the course pursued; and should not at this time trouble the department with enquiries, always too frequently made by impatient claimants, but for importunities which I have been unable to evade, or escape from. Some of the petitioners are, within my personal knowledge, in circumstances of extreme want, and they do not know how to understand why the case of Jon a . Hall, whose papers were in my hands five weeks ago, should have been acted on and a certificate obtained, while their cases have been in the office from 5 to 7 mos. I have literally been driven to move the department for information, to prevent it's being done by others whom these claimants would have otherwise employed. I will only add that the favor of an answer to this enquiry will be highly valued by yr. Ob dt . St.
Carlos Coolidge

Hazen

Rev Ser Kensington, Conn. En Jan. 3, 1917.
To the Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir —
I have learned that a Retiree Frank of Windsor Co. Vermont, had a pension for service in the Revolutionary War. and will I ask for an abstract of his service in the Massachusetts Militia. I wish particularly to learn the date and place of his birth.

There were several Retins Tracks in Beverly, Mass earlier. but I wish to trace Dr. Retins Track of Rochester, Vt.
Who was my great grandfather.
Thanking You for the favor
(Mrs.) Julia Trask Hazen.