Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 19045, for Joseph Pratt, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Pratt, Joseph
S 19045
Carded
CONTENTS

12 Maine 11.412
Joseph Pratt
of Kennebec Co. in the State of Maine who was a Dr in the Company commanded by Captain Hamlin — of the Regt commanded by Col Thomas — in the Mass warp Troops
2 Do Poirali — $ 80
Inscribed on the Roll of — Maine at the rate of 80 Dollars — Cents per annum, to commence on the 14th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 29 th day of April and sent to. 1833 R. C. Dose. Augusta. Me.
Arrears to the 14th of March 1833 160 Semi-ant. allowance ending 4 Sept " 40
$ 200.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by J. S. Sprague Clerk Book E Vol. 1 — Page 42

Joseph Pratt
Private - Mafitt's troops.
Hamilton's Co: Thomas' regt. 8 months
Mount's Co: Whitney's regt. 10 months
— Col. Burbank 6 months
Snow's Co: 1 month
St. Shaw — 3 months.
24. months (at least) as a private proved. }
2 years $80. —
W. C. Stone. Augusta, Me.

Declaration.
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832.
STATE OF MAINE, } ss. KENNEBEC COUNTY, }
On this seventh day of August A. D. 1832 personally appeared before the Hon. NATHAN WESTON, Jun'r, a Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court, of said State, Joseph Pratt a resident of Palmyra in the County of Piscataquis and State of Maine, aged seventy three 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 provision made by the Act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832. That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year 1775 with Captain Hamilton and served in Col. John Thomas regiment of the Massachusetts line or troops under the following named officers: viz. Hamilton Capt. D. St. Col. John Bailey , That he enlisted in that company regiment in April 1775 as a private for eight months. That this period he fully served out & was verbally discharged the first of January 1776 at Dorbury, Massachusetts . That in May 1776 he enlisted for ten months as a private in Capt. Joseph Smart's company & Col. Whitney's regiment of the same troops. That this period he fully served out. I was verbally discharged at Nantasket Island in March 1777.
That in May 1777 he enlisted for six months under Col. Burbank to rebuild the breastworks in Boston harbor . That he enlisted for six months & after serving out that period was verbally discharged. That in November (as he thinks) of the same year he entered & was accepted as a substitute for Ebenezer Noyes for one month in Capt. Nathan Snow's company in what regiment he does not recollect, of the same troops. That he went to Rhode Island in what was called the secret expedition under Genl. Sullivan & after serving the full term of his enlistment was verbally discharged. That in Jan'y. 1778, he enlisted as a private for three months in a company of the same troops under the command of Lt. John Shaw , that this period he served out at North Kingston R.I. in guarding the shore & was discharged at East Greenwich in March of the same year.
And to the interrogatories propounded under the instructions of the War Department, he answers:
That he was born in Abington, Massachusetts in the year 1758, where he presumes his age is recorded & where his home was during his revolutionary services. That he afterwards lived in New Hampshire , & thence removed to Maine , lived in Bloomfield , afterwards in North Yarmouth about twenty years & now lives in Palmyra where he has lived about three years. That he enlisted & was drafted  as he has stated received as a substitute. That he never received a written discharge. That any of his neighbors will testify to his character for veracity & their belief of his services. (That he served in Capt. Nathan Snow's company one month as a substitute for Ebenezer Noyes as he has stated.)
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any agency in any State.
Joseph Pratt
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid. B. F. M.
Nathan Weston Jun. Dist. S. J. C.
And the said Judge does hereby declare his opinion that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states.
Nathan Weston Jun.

I Elam Pratt of Bloomfield a Revolutionary soldier aged eighty years do upon oath testify & declare, that I have served in the same company & regiment I well know that the within named Joseph Pratt served ten months in Col. Whitney's regiment as he has secondly within stated; that I also served with him on the castle under Col. Burbank for six months from May 1777. I well know that he performed that service as he has stated. That I well know of his serving one month as he has within stated in Capt. Nathan Knowles company in the secret expedition to Rhode Island. - I also testify that I was knowing to his enlisting under Lt. Shaw for three months in Jan'y. 1778 as he has within stated. - Said Joseph Pratt is my brother & I have always understood that he served the last three months as he has stated. -
Subscribed & sworn to August 7 1832, Elam Pratt the dep. certifying a true copy with the within witness before me S. J. C.
State of Maine.
KENNEBEC, ss.—I, JOHN A. CHANDLER, Clerk of all the Judicial Courts held within and for the County of Kennebec, hereby certify that the Hon. NATHAN WESTON, Jun'r, before whom the within proceedings was had, is a Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of said State; I also certify that the within contains the original proceedings of the said Judge, in the matter of the application of Joseph Pratt for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of the said Court, this 7th day of August
A. D. 1832,
J. A. Chandler

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
Bureau of Pensions,
Washington, D. C.,
Infant (?)
Ilb  See File 19045  Rev. War.
In reply to your request for a statement of the military history + of Joseph Pratt , a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     Apl. 1775 8 mos. Pri. (Ebenezer Hamblen) Hamilton John Thomas Mass.   May 1776 10 " " Joseph Trumbull Infant Whitney "   May 1777 6 " — Burbank   Nov. 1777 1 " Nathan Snow —   Jany 78 3 " " Lt. Joshua Shaw —  
1834 Bro. Elam Pratt testified to service
Battles engaged in, none mentioned
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Abington Mass.
Date of application for pension, Apl. 21, 1818
Residence at date of application, Northridgemark, Me.
Age at date of application, B. Abington, Mass. in 1758.
Remarks: Pens. allowed on appln Aug 7. 1832 res Palmyra, Somerset Co. Me.
Very respectfully,
Commissioner.

On file
11412
✓
Palmyra, Maine. June 30, 1906
Pension Bureau Washington D.C.
Sir;
Will you please give me any information that you have in regard to one Joseph Pratt, a soldier of the Revolutionary War, who was a U.S. pensioner, and who died at Pittsfield, Maine about 1849.
Very respectfully
Your obedient Servant Chas. H. Keene
1849 1758 91

P 19045
1906 July 12. History to Chas. H. Keene. V c
INVALID.
File No. 12,045
Joseph. Bragg Rev. Rev. War
Act: June 7 th 82
Index:—Vol. 1 , Page 305
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
To the Honorable the 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 certify to your Honor, that Joseph Pratt , a citizen of the United States, now resident in Norridgewock in said county of Somerset in the District of Maine, on the twenty first day of April A.D. 1818 made ap- plication 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 may 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 careful examination of the said applicant, and a full 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, against the common enemy, upon the continental establishment, it his service under Col. Whitney is to be so considered for more than nine months, as stated in his declaration 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 sixth day of May, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
Nathan Weston Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, 2 d Eastern Circuit.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
KENNEBEC, ss:
THE Subscriber, Clerk of all the Judicial Courts, 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 his Certificate bearing his signature, the seal of the said Court in which he presides.
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.
A handwritten signature in cursive, likely that of the Clerk, positioned to the right of the attestation text.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
I Joseph Pratt, aged fifty nine years, a citizen of the United States, born in Abbingdon Massachusetts - now a resident in Norridgewock district of Maine, upon Oath testify and declare that I enlisted into the United States army during the revolutionary war, upon the continental establishment against the common enemy for the period of eight months. I enlisted in the month of April 1775. into the company commanded by Cap. Hamilton and regiment commanded by Col. John Bailey, under Col. John Thomas. of the Massachusetts troops on line. I fully served out the period of my enlistment and was verbally discharged by the permission of Officer 1 st Jan'y 76. at Roxbury. Massachusetts.
I again enlisted into the same continental establishment against the common enemy in the month of May 1776. for the period of ten months into the company commanded by Capt. Joseph Truett and regiment commanded by Col. Whitney of the Massachusetts troops on line. I fully served out my last enlistment and took my final dischable, though verbal discharge from the army at Norratasket Island March 1777.
From my reduced circumstances in life I am in need of assistance from my country for support - I hereby relinquish all claim to any pension heretofore allowed me by the laws of the United States, if any; but I am not to my knowledge known on any pension list whatever, I request that I may be placed upon the pension list for the District of Maine - Joseph Pratt
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Somerset Co.
On the twenty first day of April A.D. 1818 Joseph Pratt above named, after having been carefully examined, made oath to the truth of the foregoing declaration by him subscribed. Before me
Nathan Weston Jun. C. Dist. Ct. Court C. Phas. 2 Eastern Circuit.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
I Elisha Lincoln, of Madison Maine, of lawful age testify and declare that I am acquainted with Joseph Pratt above named, I knew him to have served the first period above stated by him - as I belonged to the same company with him. From his reduced circumstances in life he is in need of assistance from his country for support - as far as in the character , he possesses the character of a man of truth. - Elisha Lincoln

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Somerset Co.
On the twenty first day of April, A.D. 1810 the within named Elisha Lincoln, after having been carefully examined, made oath to the truth of the within deposition, by him subscribed. Before me
Nathan Weston Jun C. Just. C Court C. Plus 2 Eastern Circuit.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts I Elam Pratt of Bloomfield Maine, upon oath testify and declare that I am acquainted with the within named Joseph Pratt - I knew him to have lived the period last stated by him, as I belonged to the same Company & Reg't with him for six months -
Elam Pratt
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Somerset Co.
On the twenty first day of April A.D. 1810 Elam Pratt above named, after having been carefully examined, made oath to the truth of the foregoing deposition, by him subscribed. Before me
Nathan Weston Jun C. Just. C Court C. Plus 2 Eastern Circuit.
Joseph Pratt
Joseph Pratt, Penobscot pr Col. Whiting's Mass Reg May 1796. (Thurs 1797) 1810 April 21. 1810 Rejected - Witness Affiant on Continent Establishment