Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 33,513, for John Pratt, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass
Pratt, John
S. 33, 513
CONTENTS

Application sent to Abraham Patten Esqr 22 d September, 1820 Cambridge Massachusetts
7779  Massachusetts
John Bratt of Natick in the state of Massachusetts who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel D'Arroy of the Massachusetts line, for the term of three years war
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 1 st of May 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 17 th of March 1819 and sent to William Melvin Esqr Salem Massachusetts
  Arrears to 4th of March 1819  $ 81.03    Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 Sept. 1819  $ 8.     $129.03  
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued

Leominster April 15th 1818
I hereby certify that John Pratt now a Gardner in the Town of Eastford is listed a soldier in the Continental service with me, in the Year 1780 I think in the month of December I marched with me to West Point and was I think but into the Smith & M'Falls North Regt and I know he served in said Regt more than two years & I have no doubt he was regularly discharged at the close of the Revolutionary war.
Nathaniel Pratt
Middlesex April 15th 1818
Then the above named Nathaniel Pratt personally appeared and made oath that the above certificate by him signed, contains the truth & nothing but the truth relative to the subject matter therein contained Before me John Maynard Justice Peace

Framingham April 15 th 1818
I hereby certify that I was one of a Committee to hire Soldiers for this Town, in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven Hundred & eighty & engaged John Pratt as a Soldier for the term of three Years, I think from the month of December & know that he was mustered and accepted as one of this Towns quota and have no doubt served his time or was regularly discharged.
Joshua Snowbridge
Middlesex ss April 15 th 1818
Then the above named Joshua Snowbridge personally appeared and made oath that the above certificate by him signed contains the truth & nothing but truth relative to the subject matter therein contained be fore me
Jonas Maynard Justice Peace

33 513 INVALID.
Reorg
File No. 33,513
John Pratt His Rev. Rev.
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 328
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Smo Pratt
1 May 20
Col. M. Jackson Regiment Massachusetts Line 1780 — 3 years
Admiral

State of Massachusetts
I John Pratt a Citizen of the United States, now resident at Natick in the County of Middlesex in the State aforesaid, do on oath testify and declare, that in the War of the Revolution, on in the year of Our Lord One thousand seven hundred & eighty
I entered and was engaged in the land service of the United States on the continental establishment, and served accordingly from that time to the year Seventeen hundred & eighty three in the Massachusetts line of the army.
as a private against the common enemy, without any interruption or absence: that I belonged to the ninth Massachusetts regiment commanded by Col. Michael Jackson & was afterwards transferred to the second regiment in the same line, that I joined Col. Jackson's regiment at West point, & was in the second regiment the last three years or thereabouts. and that I left the service on the expiration of the term of service being honorably discharged
and that by reason of my reduced circumstances in life and poverty, I stand in need of assistance from my country for support, being now of the age of sixty years. I have no other evidence in my power to offer than is herewith exhibits, being the Depositions of Joshua Trowbridge, and Nathaniel Pratt.
And I hereby relinquish all claim to every pension heretofore allowed me by the laws of the United States, if any may be or hath been so allowed.
John Pratt
BE IT REMEMBERED, That on this first day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen Pursuant to a 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," made and passed on the 18th of March, A. D. 1818, personally appeareth before me the subscribers one of the Appointed Judges of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Middle Circuit within the State of Mass & President pro hac vice
the abovenamed John Pratt and after due examination and caution to testify and declare the whole truth, he maketh oath to the declaration aforesaid, and subscribes the same in my presence; and, on examination duly made by said Judge, it appeareth to my satisfaction that the said declaration is true. In testimony Whereof I hereunto affix my name & the seal of said Court. I also certify that the Deponents within named are credible & disinterested & have been duly sworn
Wm Wetmore

27 John Pratt
7779
COW
March 1819
Cowd 22/4
1820

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
MIDDLESEX, ss.
At the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Middle Circuit, begun and holden at Concord, within and for the County of Middlesex, on the second Monday of June A. D. 1820.
Before the Hon. SAMUEL DANA, Esquire, Chief Justice, and
WILLIAM WETMORE, and } Associate Justices STEPHEN MINOT, Esquires, } of said Court.
In open Court here, being a Court of Record for said Circuit, proceeding according to the course of the common law, with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, keeping a record of its proceedings, and having the power of fine and imprisonment, John Pratt resident at Natick in said Circuit, who is named in Pension Certificate No. 7779.5 now in his possession, of which the following is a true copy, to wit,
“WAR DEPARTMENT.....REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.”
“I certify that, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 18th March, 1818, John Pratt late a Private in the army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the Massachusetts Agency, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the first day of May one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.” “Given at the War Office of the United States, this seventeenth day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.” L. S.
J. C. CALHOUN, Secretary of War,”
appears, and exhibits to the Court here a Schedule, subscribed by him, as follows, to wit,
SCHEDULE,
containing his whole estate and income, his necessary clothing and bedding excepted, to wit,
“He is in extreme poverty, having no property real or personal, he is sixty years of age has the palsy so as to disable him entirely from locomotion renders him a subject of public charity, with an aged wife, he belonged & served in the Regt commanded by Col. M c Jackson but does not remember the name of the captain of the company in which he was, his recollection & memory being nearly gone, nor the time; he afterwards served in the second Regt for three years being the last of the war in the whole and all in the Massachusetts line during the Revolution -any war.”
John Pratt mark
Sworn to & declared before Mr Wetmore judge etc

and at the same time he produces to the Court here the following Oath, taken and subscribed by him, before the Hon. Wm Wetmore a Judge of said Court as aforesaid, to wit,
" I, John Pratt do 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. So help me GOD.
his John Pratt mark
Middlesex ss. C. C. C. P. June Term, A. D. 1820
Then the abovenamed John Pratt took and subscribed the aforewritten Oath before me,
Wm Wetmore Judge of said Court. "
I, ABRAHAM BIGLOW, Clerk of the Court aforesaid, do hereby certify, that the foregoing Oath, and Schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record 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 nothing
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, at Cambridge, in said County of Middlesex, on this 20th day of July 1820
Attr.
Abraham Biglow cl