Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 27,466, for Josiah Pratt, New Hampshire

SERVICE
NUMBER
Continental (N.H.) Pratt, Josiah Mary
No. 27,466
B.R.H. 13582-100
issued Mch. 25-1790 no papers
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Vermont. 1143.
Josiah Pratt, deceased, of Orleans Co. in the State of Vermont who was a Private in the Co. commanded by Captain _____ of the Reg. commanded by Col. Warren in the Revolution line for 2 years.
Inscribed on the Roll of Foulkney, VT. at the rate of 80 Dollars — Cents per annum, to commence on the 30 th day of March, 1822. 26 ending 12 August 1832, when he died.
Certificate of Pension issued the 7 day of April 1847 and sent to Stephen Thomas, West Fairlee, Vermont.
Arrears to the 14th of Semiannual allowance ending
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act Jan y 7, 1832. Act 15 th May 1823. Clerk.
Recorded by D. H. Wood Book 2 nd Vol. 3 rd Page
Payable to Catherine Wilson, Sarah Sweet & Mary Farraud, only children.

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Dec 21 March 1829
State of Vermont } On this March 12. 1829 Orleans County } I have personally appeared Isaac D. Dufield of Derby and on oath being offered said so says that some time in January last year he thinks on the 29 th . 31 st day of the month he wrote a statement of facts for one Isabella Pratt who then then resided in the town of Broome in the revolutionary war and that he was residing in the town of Broome in the County of Bedford & Province of Lower Canada. he conversed some time with said Pratt and knows that the town of Broome which said Pratt described is in the Province of Lower Canada and thinks it is in the County of Bedford.
Isaac D. Dufield Subscribed and sworn to this twelfth day of March in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty nine before me
Luther Newcomb Justice of Peace
I Isaac H. Allen Clerk of the Court of the County of Orleans in the State of Vermont do hereby certify that Luther Newcomb before whom the foregoing affidavit was subscribed and sworn was at the time a Justice of the Peace for the said County duly empowered to administer oaths. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court this 12. day of March in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty nine, Isaac H. Allen Clerk

REVOLUTIONARY CLAIMS.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
5 May 1829.
Josiah Pratt — of Broome — in the County of Bedford in the State of Lower Canada has applied to the Secretary of the Treasury for the benefits of the act, entitled "An Act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Revolution," approved the 15th of May, 1828. He states that he enlisted in the Continental line of the army of the Revolution, for and during the war, and continued until its termination, at which period he was a Private — in captain 's company, in Col Hazen's regiment of the line; and that he received a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars, provided by the resolve of the 15th of May, 1778; and further, that he was not on the 15th day of May, 1828, on the pension list of the United States, and that he has received as a pensioner since the 3d of March, 1826, nothing .
The Third Auditor is requested to report how far the several statements are corroborated by the records in his office.
By order of the Secretary T. H. Bicknell.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
THIRD AUDITOR'S OFFICE,
6 May 1829.
It appears by the records in this office, that a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars has been issued to Josiah Pratt in the Col. Hazen's Regiment . It further appears that Josiah Pratt — not — is now on the pension list of the  any — — — — — agency, and has been so since the 3 d March 1826 at the rate of  dollars per month .
Wm Hagner Secy
See # 27.466 Adm. Mds
Allowed
Act 1828
88,120-

For The purpose of obtaining the benefit of an act for the relief of certain surviving Officers and Soldiers of the Army of the Revolution. Approved on the 18 th of May 1828 I Josiah Pratt of Broome in the County of Bradford do hereby declare that I enlisted in the continental line of the Army of the Revolution for and during the war and continued in its service until its termination at which period I was a private in Captain William Schuyler's Company of Infantry in one of the Regiments so called, which Regiment was commanded by Brigadier General Moses Hazen. And I also declare that I was informed and justly believe I was entitled to receive a certificate for the reward of Eighty dollars to which I was entitled under a resolve of Congress passed May 15 th 1778 and I further declare that I was not on the fiftieth day of March 1828 on the pension list of the United States -
Josiah Pratt
Before me Luther Newcomb Justice of the Peace duly empowered to administer oaths in the County of Orleans and State of Vermont personally appeared this day Josiah Pratt man and Head Member of the Town County who the sincerely made oath that Josiah Pratt by whom the foregoing declaration was subscribed is justly reputed and believed to have been a private in the Army of the Revolution in manner as therein stated.
Witness my hand this twenty eighth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and twenty seven.
Luther Newcomb Just. of Peace

I Rev H. Allen Clerk of the Court of the County of Orleans and State of Vermont do hereby certify that Luther Newcomb before whom the foregoing Aff. depts were sworn was at the time a Justice of the Peace and by me empowered to administer oaths. 31. Jan. 1829- Rev H. Allen Clerk
Know all men by these presents That I Josiah Pratt of Brattleboro in the County of Ben- ford do hereby constitute and appoint Luther Newcomb my true and lawful Attorney with a power of substitution for me and in my name to receive of the Un- ited States the amount of pay now due to me under the act for the relief of certain sur- viving officers and soldiers of the Revolution approved the 15. th of May 1828 as a private in Genl Moses Hazen's Regiment of the Army of the revolution.
Witness my hand and seal this 24 th day of January 1829 Josiah Pratt Signed sealed and delivered in presence of us
Luther Newcomb Before me Luther Newcomb a Justice of The Peace duly empowered to administer oaths in the County of Orleans and State of Vermont personally appeared Josiah Pratt this day whose name is subscribed to the foregoing power of Attorney and acknowledged the same to be his act and deed Witness my hand this 24 th day of January 1829 Luther Newcomb Just. of Peace

I Isa W. Allen clerk of the Court of the County of Orleans in the State of Vermont do hereby certify that Luther Newcomb before whom the foregoing power of Attorney is acknowledged as a justice of the Peace and duly sworn to administer oaths in said County
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court this 31 day of January 1829. Isa W. Allen clerk
Before me Luther Newcomb a justice of the Peace in the County of Orleans and State of Vermont personally appeared this Twenty ninth day of January Timothy Remsen The Attorney named in the foregoing power of Attorney and made oath that the same was not given him by reason of any transfer or of any assignment lease or license by any legal process whatever of the pay thereof and that the same was intended to be received and that the said pay is intended to remain wholly to the benefit of the person by whom the said power was executed
Witness my hand this 28 day of Jan. A.D. 1829 Luther Newcomb Just. of Peace

I Ira H. Allen clerk of the court of Orleans County in the state of Vermont do hereby certify that Luther Newcomb before whom the foregoing Aff. David was taken and sworn was at the time a justice of the peace and duly empowered to admin- ister oaths In testimony whereof I herunto subscribe my name and affix the seal of said court this 31. day of January 1829-
Ira H. Allen clerk

Derby Feb. 2 nd 1829
1449.
Honble Richard Rush Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, Sir I here enclose the application of Josiah Pratt and if he is found entitled to the benefit of the act of Congress, approved on the 15 th of May 1828 you will please to deposit a draft on the United States Bank Boston Branch for the amount, and send the same to the Post Office in Derby in the County of Orleans and State of Vermont to Pam o Wimmer and likewise his certificate with the Discharge here in closed as the applicant is between 70 & 80 years of age yet fond of his Discharge should there be any thing wanting please to inform your compliance in the above will much oblige your Humble Serv t .
Timothy Wimmer

Re 21 March 1829
Derby - March 12 th 1829 Honble Richard Rush your communication stating that my - communication of the 2 nd of Feby inchoosing the Declaration of Isaac Pratt was lacking on the account that his place of residence was not sufficiently Described, he called on Isaac F. Redfield to make his Declaration and there made Isaac F. Redfield Affidavit, who is here a regular practicing Attorney, but Sir - if that is not sufficient please to in- form what will in the case of Mr Pratt I know that he did the same if every thing is wanting please to communicate to your Humble Serv t
Wm o H. Huns
Though we are so late now and old one we was young and brave & Bold.

Discharge by Genl. Washington dated 13 June 1783 - to Josiah Pratt of Col. Hazens Regiment for the War. —

10.240.
Michigan
Mary Pratt dec d , widow of Josiah Pratt, who died on the
of W in the State of who was a private in the by Captain of the by in the line for 2 years.
commanded commanded Revolution
Detroit.
Inscribed on the Roll of at the rate of 80. Dollars 00. Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836. and end March 29 th 1839.
Certificate of Pension issued the 12 th day of Decr 1853. and sent to
to the 4th of B. W. Baldwin, Semi-annual allowance ending Present.
Revolutionary Claim, Act July 7, 1838.
Recorded by C. W. Petty Clerk. Book 2. Vol. 1. Page 467.

12964 Application under the act of July 7. 1838
In the right of Mary Pratt deceased
Act of July 38 Final settlements - Vol II. p 131. $ 80. Rec. County Fund in 1790. m. 85. d. 32.
admr
2 years per
$80 to 24 March 1839 when she deed to Catherine Wilson Sarah Sweet & Mary Farrand only chil- dren
Stephen Thomas West Fairlee Vt In Waltham Senate 14

Declaration
State of Vermont } Orleans District } On this 18 th day of June A.D. 1846.
Personally appeared before the Probate Court at a Session thereof held at Derby within and for said District, Mary Farrand of Brome in the District of Montreal in the Province of Canada one of the surviving children of Josiah Pratt and Mary Pratt of said Brome deceased, aged 53 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 7, 1838. entitled "an act granting half pay and Pensions to certain widows" and of any other act applicable to her case - That the said Mary Pratt was the widow of Josiah Pratt who was a Private in the Revolutionary war in Genl. Hazens Regiment. That he enlisted into said Regiment at in the town of Haverhill in the State of New Hampshire as she has been informed and verily believes in the year 1779 for during the war and served to the end thereof. She further declares that the said Mary Pratt was married to the said Josiah Pratt at Newbury in the County of Orange & State of Vermont on the thirteenth day of October in the year Seventeen

Seventeen hundred and eighty five. That The Said Josiah Pratt died on the Twelfth (12 th ) day of August in the year Eighteen hundred and Thirty Two (1832), and that the Said Mary Pratt continued his widow until the twenty fourth day (24 th ) of March Eighteen hundred and thirty nine when She died also, that her maiden name was Mary Niles. That Catherine Wilson, Sarah Sweet, and the declarant (Mary Farrand) are the children and only surviving children of the said Josiah Pratt & the said Mary Pratt deceased - Mary Farrand
Sworn to and subscribed by the above Declarant on the day and year first above written
Before me.
Geo Nye Judge of Probate
State of Vermont Orleans District ss George Nye Judge of the Probate Court within and for said District, do hereby certify that satisfactory evidence has been adduced to said Court, before me, that Mary Pratt late the widow of Josiah Pratt deceased, died at Brome in the Province of Canada on the twenty fourth day of March in the year Eighteen hundred & thirty nine, & that Catherine Wilson, Sarah Sweet and Mary Farrand are the the children and

only surviving Children of the said Josiah & Mary Pratt, Given under my hand at Derby this 18 th day of June A.D. 1846, Geo Nye Judge
State of Vermont Orleans District ss
I Henry M Bates Register of the Probate for the District of Orleans aforesaid hereby certify: that the foregoing is the Original proceedings had in said Court at a Session thereof held at Derby within and for the District of Orleans, on the 18 day of June A.D. 1846. in the matter of the applic- -ation of Mary Ferrand for a Pension for the benefit of the Heirs of Josiah & Mary Pratt In witness whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of the Probate Court and subscribed my name at Derby in said Dist this 18 th day of June A.D. 1846
H M Bates Register

STATE OF MICHIGAN, } ss. County of Macomb, }
By the Hon.
Prescott B. Dunnington
Judge of the Probate of Wills, and for granting Letters of Administration on the estates of persons deceased, having goods, chattels, rights or credits in the County of Macomb, within the State aforesaid.
To Isaiah Pratt
of said county—GREETING:
Whereas, Mary Pratt late of said County, deceased, having while she lived, and at the time of her decease, goods, chattels, rights or credits in the County, aforesaid lately died intestate, whereby the power of committing administration and full disposition of all and singular the goods, chattels, rights and credits of the said deceased, and also the hearing, examining and allowing the account of such administration doth appertain unto me:— Trusting, Therefore, in your care and fidelity, I do, by these presents, commit unto you full power to administer all and singular the goods, chattels, rights and credits of the said deceased; and well and faithfully to dispose of the same according to law; and also to ask, gather, levy, recover and receive all and whatsoever credits of the said deceased, which to her while she lived, and at the time of her death did appertain, and to pay all debts in which the said deceased stood bound, so far as her goods, chattels, rights and credits can extend according to the value thereof: And to make a true and perfect inventory of all and singular the goods, chattels, rights and credits, excepting such articles as are by law to be omitted, and to exhibit the same into the Office of the Court of Probate for the County aforesaid, at or before the 10th day of March next ensuing; and to render a plain and true account of your said administration upon oath, at or before the 10th day of March which will be in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and fifty five . And I do hereby ordain, constitute and appoint you administrator of all and singular the goods, chattels, rights and credits aforesaid.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of the said Court of Probate.
Dated at Mt. Clemens , the 10 day of March A. D. 18 55
P. B. Dunnington JUDGE OF PROBATE.
Recorded Liber
Folio

Estate of Mary Pratt Deceased
Letters of Admin- istration
Macomb County Esq Probate Office
Filed & recor- ded this 10 th day of March 1855

State of Michigan County of Macomb
On this tenth day of March 1855
Personally came before me the undersigned Judge of the Court of Probate in & for said County Ann Richards of lawful age and a resident of said County & who being duly sworn deposes and says that she was well acquainted with Mary Pratt deceased and late widow of Josiah Pratt deceased; that I remember the death of the said Josiah Pratt but not the exact time; that I remember well the time of the death of the said Mary Pratt which about the 29 th day of March A.D. 1839; that I lived near neighbor to her till about the time of her death; that she died in Brome, Shefford County, Lower Canada
Sworn & presented before me March 10 th 1855
Ann Richards
Presented to the undersigned Judge of the Court of Probate in & for said County of Macomb which Court is a Court of record of said State
and at the same time came Abram Richards of said County of Macomb & of lawful age & being duly sworn deposes & says he was well acquainted with the said Mary Pratt & lived neighbor to her before her death which occurred at Brome, Shefford County Lower Canada in the Spring of the year 1839.
Sworn & presented before me March 10 1855
Abraham Richards
Proscote D. Thompson, Judge of the Court of Probate in & for said County of Macomb

State of Vermont County of Bennington
On this 10 th day of March 1855 personally came before me Mr. May of the Probate Court in and for said County Josiah Pratt, who being duly sworn according to law, declares that he is the son of Josiah Pratt, formerly Pratt deceased, and that he has been informed through the Pension Office at Washington City that an application had been made to said Pension Office for the arrearage of Pension due to his deceased Mother Mary Pratt, and this deponent says that he never made any such application except through his Agent John Sherman of Danvers Clarendon in said County, nor had he any knowledge of such application, until he was so informed by his said Agent. And he further says that he thinks and believes that his said deceased Mother died on or about the 12 th day of August 1830, and that his deceased Father died on or about the 29 th day of March 1839
Josiah Pratt
Sworn & Subscribed to before me the day Month & Year first above written. Prescott P. Thurston, Judge of the Court of Probate in and for said County of Bennington being a court of record —
And at the same time personally appears before me Samuel Shattuck a Esquire of Chesterfield in said County and to me well known to be Credible, who being duly sworn, says that he is well acquainted with the said Josiah Pratt, and that he has always sustained a good reputation for truth and veracity, and that he believes him to be such.
S. Shattuck
Sworn & subscribed before me March 10. 1855
Prescott P. Thurston Judge of the Court of Probate in and for said County of Bennington

State of Michigan } County of Macomb } ss
B Prescott & Sherston Juds of the Court of Probate
in & for said County of Macomb which Court is a Court of record of said State, hereby certify that Letters of Administration as hereto annexed was this day issued by me on the estate of Mary Pratt deceased to the said Josiah Pratt who previously this day filed a Sufficient in said Court which is now of record herein & is in the sum of One thousand Dollars & with Pinkham surety & that the proceedings stating of the foregoing testimony prior to granting such Letters of Administration, were all had before me; attest my hand & seal of Office.
B Prescott & Sherston Juds of Probate in & for said County of Macomb

Know all Men by these presents, That I Josiah Pratt of Armada
of the County of Macomb and State of Michigan have made, and do hereby make, constitute and appoint, BENJ. H. BALDWIN , of the CITY OF WASHINGTON, my true and lawful attorney, for me and in my name to pro- secute my claim for Bounty Land , as well as all other claims against the United States which I may have, either in my own right or as heir at law; giving and granting unto my said attorney full power to perform all and every act necessary to be done in the premises, with full power of substitution and revocation, hereby ratifying what my said attorney may do in the premises; and hereby making this instrument operative until formally re- voked by me under my hand and seal.
Signed, sealed and delivered in presence of the undersigned witnesses, this 18 th day of March , A. D. 1855.
P. B. Munster Witness, } Geo. Stark Witness, }
Josiah Pratt Josiah Pratt  L.S.

State of Vermont } Town Clerks Office June 18. 1846 - Orange County ss. } I David Johnson Clerk of the Town of Newbury in the County and State aforesaid do hereby certify that the following extract appears upon the Records of said Town -
"Josiah Pratt and Mary Mills were married October thirteenth One thousand seven hundred and eighty five."
I further certify that the above is a true copy of the Records, with the exception of date which is expressed on the Records in plain words and the figures as follows "Octob: 13 th 1785" The figure 8 in 1785 is blotted.
The Births of the four first Children as appears on said Records are as follows viz the first born "Decemb: 28 th 1785" - the Second born "Octob: 30 th 1787" - the third born "April 17 th 1790" - the fourth born "January 8 th 1793"
I David Johnson depose, and say that I hold the office of Town Clerk in the County, Town and State aforesaid and the above are true extracts from the Records of said Town of Newbury with the exception of above named as certified by me
David Johnson Clerk of the Town of Newbury -
State of Vermont } Bradford Probate District Orange County ss } Sworn to and Subscribed by the above affiant this 15 th day of June 1846 Before me Stephen Thomas, Register
State of Vermont } Bradford District ss } I J. W. D. Parker Judge of the Probate Court within & for said District, do hereby certify that Stephen Thomas is Register of said Court duly qualified & commissioned. That his Commission was dated on the 1 st day of

December 1845, and will expire on the 30 th day of November 1846, and that the Signature above written purporting to be his is genuine
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said Court at Newbury this 16 th day of July 1846 -
M. D. Parker Judge

I Archibald Mills of Topsham in the County of Orange Probate District of Bradford & State of Vermont aged 71 years the 13 th day of September 1846, depose and say, that I had a Sister by the name of Mary Mills who married Josiah Pratt, that the said Pratt worked for my Father (John Mills) about two years before he married my Sister, that he con- tinued to live with my said Father several years after he was married, and then bought a small farm in Newbury (the town where he married my said Sister & the same town where my Father lived) in the County of Orange where he lived according to my best recollection until about 37 years ago, and then moved to Brome in the Prov- ince of Canada; that in January 1812, I went with my wife to said Brome the said Pratt to visit the said Pratt & his wife (the said Mary) where we found them, before they left Newbury they had Seven Children who were living their names were Levi, Sarah, Jacob, Mary, Josiah Catherine & William, (Mary & Josiah were twins), Sarah was married when she was at Canada 35 years ago to a man by the name of Sweet, & I am not confident that either of the other Girls were married, William had died before I visited them at Brome, that I was informed about twelve years ago of that the first named Josiah Pratt died at said Brome, and about 3 years ago Mills Sweet of Brome son of the said Sarah Sweet was at my house in Topsham and informed me that his Grand Mother the said Mary Pratt wife of said Josiah Pratt was over

also dead & that She had been dead nearly four years; that when the Said Josiah lived at My fathers I frequently heard him talk of his Service in Hazens Regt t in the Revolutionary war, that he informed me that he enlisted into Said Regt t for during the war & that he served to the to the end thereof; he also had a brother by the name of Jonathan Pratt whom I was personally acquainted with, that the Said Jonathan came to my fathers house in Said Newbury while the Said Josiah was living there, to see him that Jonathan was going into the State of New York to live Josiah endeavoured to persuade him not to go, but Jon a Said that the climate here was too cold & that he wanted to find a warmer climate, I recollect that Josiah then told Jonathan that he should not ever see him again, and that when they took their leave of each other they were very much affected, that the Said Josiah always informed me that his brother Jonathan served with him in Said Hazens Regt t , that I was present at my fathers house in Newbury when Josiah Pratt Married my Said Sister Mary I do not recollect the time the Marriage took place but know that it was but a few years after the close of the war, that my Sister Mary (I think) was about 12 years older than myself, Archibald Miller
Subscribed and sworn to this first day of January A.D. 1847, Before me Stephen Thomas, Judge I further certify that the above affidavit is personally

known to me and that he is credible witness Stephen Thomas, Judge
State of Vermont
Bradford District ss I John W. Batchelder Register of the Probate Court within & for Said District do hereby Certify that the Hon Stephen Thomas is Judge of the Probate Court within & for Said District of Bradford duly qualified & commissioned. His Commission was dated on the 1 st day of December 1846 & will expire on the 30 th day of November 1849 & the Signature above written purporting to be his is genuine Given under My Hand & Seal of Said Court at Topsham in Said District this first day of January A D 1847
John W. Batchelder Register
Frederick Mills, affidavit

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Pratt, Josiah GRADE Private LINE Hazen's Regiment
WARRANT NUMBER 13581 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED March 25, 1790 to — not shown —
*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.

Mch 30, 1904, Hist. to Edward J. Wright, Lansing Mich
Rev WIDOW, &c.
File No. 27466
Mary Pratt Widow of Josiah Pratt Rev Rev War
Act July 7 th 38
Index: Vol. M , Page 148
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Josiah Pratt dec. Nt Act 15 May 1828.

12964
Mary Pratt de
Lit to Stephen Thomas and to Geo. Nye,
Apr 10. 1847 ✓
to Stephen Thomas May 4th '47
Lit to Stephen Thomas May 4 '47
to Geo. Nye Esq May 29 '47
to Stephen Thomas Aug 2 7/47
John Stockton Oct 28/47
B. H. Balton Mich 20/55 53

I Nathaniel Mills of Wolcott in the county of Linnville and State of Vermont aged 44 years do hereby say that I was born in Goshen in the county of Orange in said State, that Catherine Clark late the widow of Nathaniel Clark Mills is my mother, that I was personally acquainted with Josiah Pratt and his wife Mary Pratt late of Brome in the Province of Canada deceased, when they lived in Newbury in the county of Orange in said State, that the said Josiah was a Brother of my mother & the said Mary was a sister of my father that I was in said Brome in the summer of 1832 and visited the said Josiah and Mary Pratt at their Residence in said Brome, that I visited them about three days before I was informed of the said Josiah death he being sick at the time of my visit; I did not attend his funeral being at the time some 10 or 12 miles distance from their Residence & being so situated that I could not leave my business, I called to see the said Mary Pratt (in said summer of 1832) after the death of her husband the said Josiah Pratt, that I also saw three of the daughters of the said Josiah & Mary Pratt at said Brome, whom I had formerly known at Newbury (his) Sarah Mary & Catherine Pratt & visited them at their respective Residences, that Sarah was married to Mr Sweet, Mary to Mr Gorson & Catherine to Mr Nelson that I worked for the said Gorson husband of Mary about

twelve days after the death of the said Isaac Brall Nathaniel Mills
Subscribed & sworn to this 16 th day of January A.D. 1847
Before me
Whitman G. Ferrin Justice of Peace
I further certify that the above officer is personally known to me and that he is a credible Witness
Whitman G. Ferrin Justice of Peace
State of Vermont
Secretary of State's Office
Montpelier January A.D. 1847
I hereby certify that Whitman G. Ferrin Esq. whose name is subscribed to the foregoing certificate, is, and was at the date thereof, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Lamoille in said State, duly constituted and commissioned, and that full credence is due to the official acts of said Justice.
Given under my hand and the seal of this office this 18 th day of January A.D. 1847.
Ferrand P. Merrill Deputy Secretary of State

Eight Years in Auditor General's Department in charge of Tax Sales, and Four Years as Chief Clerk. Compiler of the Annotated Editions of 1898-1900 of the Michigan General Tax Law. Author of Wright's Assessor's Manual.
Edward J. Wright
101-102-103 CITY NATIONAL BANK BUILDING TAX ADJUSTMENTS AND STATE AFFAIRS BUSINESS TRANSACTED WITH ALL STATE DEPARTMENTS
REFERENCES:
HON. ROSCOE D. DIX, Ex-Auditor General. HON. STANLEY W. TURNER, Ex-Aud. Gen'l. HON. GEO. W. STONE, Ex-Auditor General. HON. H. M. OREN, Attorney General. HON. FRED A. MAYNARD, Ex-Atty. Gen'l. CITY NATIONAL BANK, Lansing. LANSING STATE SAVINGS BANK, Lansing. IONIA COUNTY SAVINGS BANK, Ionia.
Lansing, Mich. March 17, 1904.
Hon. Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir: -
I am desirous of getting the military record of Josiah Pratt a native of Massachusetts who was, as I am advised, in the Revolutionary army. His son Josiah Pratt was born in 1793 in Vermont. Whether Josiah Pratt, Sr. enlisted from Massachusetts or from Vermont, I am unable to state, certain family records being inaccessible. Josiah Pratt, Sr., as I am advised was granted for himself a pension and later a pension was granted to his widow.
The foregoing inquiry was made by me March 10, 1904 of the Adjutant General, and under date of March 15th I am in receipt of reply signed F. C. Ainsworth, Chief Record and Pension Office, stating as follows:
"The records of this office show that one Josiah Pratt, rank not stated, served in Captain Hatch's Company of Vermont Rangers, under command of Major Joab Hoisington, Revolutionary war. His name appears on a roll of that company, not dated, with remark showing that he enlisted August 25, 1776. No further information relative to this soldier has been found of record.
In view of the statement that a pension was granted on account of the service of the soldier concerning whom inquiry is made, it is suggested as a possibility that additional information may be obtained from the Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D.C., who is the custodian of the pension records of all wars, and whose office is separate and distinct from the Record and Pension Office of the War Department."
If you can favor me with further information in this regard

BOTH PHONES. NOTARY PUBLIC. BANK VAULT.
Eight Years in Auditor General's Department in charge of Tax Sales, and Four Years as Chief Clerk. Compiler of the Annotated Editions of 1898-1900 of the Michigan General Tax Law. Author of Wright's Assessor's Manual.
Edward J. Wright
101-102-103 CITY NATIONAL BANK BUILDING TAX ADJUSTMENTS AND STATE AFFAIRS BUSINESS TRANSACTED WITH ALL STATE DEPARTMENTS
REFERENCES:
HON. ROSCOE D. DIX, Ex-Auditor General. HON. STANLEY W. TURNER, Ex-Aud. Gen'l. HON. GEO. W. STONE, Ex-Auditor General. HON. H. M. OREN, Attorney General. HON. FRED A. MAYNARD, Ex-Atty. Gen'l. CITY NATIONAL BANK, Lansing. LANSING STATE SAVINGS BANK, Lansing. IONIA COUNTY SAVINGS BANK, Ionia.
C. of P. - #2.
Lansing, Mich.
I shall be greatly obliged. I am not at this moment able to state what the first name of Josiah Pratt's widow was.
Yours very truly,
W/B.

Treasury Department, Third Auditor's Office. Dec. 8 th 1833.
Sir.
I herewith return the papers in the cases of Josiah Pratt, under act 15 th May 1828, & Mary Pratt under act 7 th July 1838, enclosed in your letter of the 7 th inst. In reply I have to inform you that the name of Josiah Pratt does not appear on the Portney (Vt. (Burlington) roll as pensioned in 1847. Please state on what roll he was returned, at that time as pensioned, to this office. His name appears on the Treasury book, on file in this office, as having died 12 th of August 1830 & paid in full to that date.
As far as the accounts have been received Mary Pratt, under act of 7 July 1838, does not appear to have been paid.
Very Respectfully

Your Ob t : Serv t : Karl J. Thomsen Auditor
J. Minot Gay Comm ee of Pensions.

Washington Nov 21 st 1855
Hon J. Millet Comm r of Pensions,
Sir. I beg leave to enclose herewith the additional Evidence required in the case of Mary Pratt widow of Josiah Field from Vermont under the Act of July 7. 1838.
Also a certificate of Judge of Probate showing the appointment of Josiah Pratt (one of the Children) as Administrator - the amount of his bond &c
Respectfully
Brigham H. Baldwin

Washington March. 17 th 1855
Hon. L. P. Waldo Com d of Pensions
Sir. I beg leave to file herewith additional evidence, letter of Administration and declaration of Josiah Pratt one of the Children of Mary Pratt deceased, late widow of Josiah Pratt of Vermont whose claim for Pension under the Act of July 7. 1838 was at first admitted but afterwards suspended. Josiah was a pensioner under the act of 1828. and from your letter of Oct 28. 1853 to John Stockton it appears that it is known to your office that Josiah died in 1830. The necessity therefore of reiterating the proof on that point seems to be unnecessary as the law provides that proof on file in any of the Departments can be used Re. Re- The attempt at fraud indicated by your letter of Oct 28. above cannot if true prejudice the rights of the parties under the act of July 7. 1838 particularly the branch of the family which I represent who were ignorant of the whole transaction. I respectfully ask therefore

that the Certificate may be reissued payable to Josiah Pratt the Son of Mary who has herewith filed any letters of administration and probate. Bond
I am respectfully Yours Obedient Servt Rufus H Baldwin

Dumas Louisiana August 8. 1859.
Wm. P. Weld.
Comm Pension.
Sir.
I accompanied a letter of inquiry some time ago. to the then Commission of Pensions, asking information relative to the Heirs of Joseph Pratt. See a Voluntary Pension. It appears that he died in 1832. leaving a Widow, entitled to his Pension during her life term, and she died in March 1839. and the Heirs claim that they are entitled to the Pension from 32 to 39. I would respectfully request that you would cause the matter to be examined, and if from one of the Encl.
I find the name of Jonathan Pratt in Harry Regiment. as entitled to bounty land not yet claimed (Revolution) are the Heirs entitled to receive it.

The heirs of Lemuel Pratt, said. say that the deceased never received any bounty land, and that he served between four & five years, and was discharged when the army was disbanded and that his discharge, is to be found with his application for a Pension.
Very Respectfully Oppotat The Stratton

Mount Pleasant Oct 19. 1893
Dear Dr. Waldo Comt Pension
Sir
In reply to Your letter of Sept 23. I have to say that Isaiah Drell was a Pensioner, died in March 1839. and was last paid at the Town of Derby Vermont, and from this I presume his papers are Among the Vermont files
Very Respectfully Yr obed Servt Wm. G. Sturtevant

West Fairlee Vt. August 4 th 1827
Dear Sir
Yours of the 26 th of last May was duly received to the receipt of which I had not taken any course to investigate or give information upon the subject of the falsification in relation to the death of Josiah Pratt to any one save to Seth Hull & the Judge, thinking you would probably file a complaint against all who swore to the date of the death, or who had, had any thing to do with the case & I was determined that the case should be found as it was before I was informed of the falsification, but since then I have been to quite an expense to investigate the matter, Mr Hull informed me after learning of the falsification that he had concluded that Mrs Farrand might have knowingly misstated the time of the death, he said when he went to get further proof of the death that he spoke of the Clergymen's records & she assured him that he was unwilling to hunt up the records & give a certificate & that if any one called he would tell them they must go to Montreal where a duplicate was deposited & if he should look up the record that he would not swear swear that it was a true copy of record &c. Therefore he did not call to see him but obtained Dr Leonard Brown's affidavit — I have proceeded to Canada & seen Mrs Farrand & suggested to her that the department were not satisfied with the proof of the death, she thought they ought to be &c.

I found she had vouchers for the funeral expenses of her Mother (Mary Pratt) whose death took place (I think) at the time alleged, but she had not any vouchers or papers relative to her Father's death, (I had the opinion that she had but may have been mistaken); after talking with her for some length of time in relation to what way the death could be proved. She not being able to devise any way (first saying that the funeral was not attended by an Episcopalian Minister & therefore there would not be any record but one of her daughters corrected her & assured her that it was an Episcopalian) I asked her if she was sure she had named the true date of his death in her Deed. She was sure she had, I told her she had not & that the Pension Department was aware of the fact. She & her two daughters then went to reconciling from the date of some events that transpired on the year of the death & they fixed it to have taken place in 1832, but on calling upon the Clergyman who officiated at the funeral he found the record, by which it appears the death occurred "Aug. 12 th 1830," & I found the Clergyman to be a very kind accommodating Gentleman.
I am fully satisfied that she was the means of misleading Dr Brown. She says she took his book showed him two charges for attendance upon her family (or relations) & alleged to him that the death of her Father occurred between the two dates, I never saw Dr Brown but am informed that he is a worthy man.

In relation to the affidavits of Nathaniel Mills & Jane Mills you will see by referring to your letter of Nov 7 th 1846, that you suggest that the testimony previously forwarded "establishes the date of the death of each" I have not seen either of the affiants since they gave their affidavits but I have seen the justice of the Peace who took Nathaniel Mills affidavit, he recollects that the identity of "Josiah & Mary Pratt" was the only point that was wanted to be proved. The affidavit was taken in a public room where several persons were present & I recollect that the affiant after he had fixed the date said to the Land Lord that it was the year which he erected a certain building & they removed & made it 1832; I am confident that there was not any thing of wilful perjury in the Mills's affidavits; the date sets of the death at that time seemed to be an unimportant point & put in to give their whole story
I called to see Judge Dyer before whom the depts were taken he informed me he had wrote you upon this subject
What will be done with the claim in the right of Mary Pratt under the act of July 7. 1838? I have a desire that Mrs Gerrand should not have a mill from the U. States; but the claim may be prosecuted by some one & if the allowance can not be prevented I should like prefer to be able to obtain out of it something towards the expenses that I have incurred in the case, but

If the claim is or can be for ever barred so that Mrs. Farrand may be punished to the amount of her share of the claim I shall be satisfied
I have the Honor to be Very
Respectfully your
Obt Servt
Stephen Thomas
Hon J. L. Edwards
Comm. of Pensions
Washington D.C.

Brief in the case of Mary Pratt widow of Josiah County and State of Vermont Michigan act July 7 1838
Claim, ("original," for increase. )
Proof exhibited, (if original.)
Is it documentary, traditional, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance.
Her husband was pensioned under the act of May 15, 1828 at $80 a year,
Record of marriage
Cohabitation, general reputation of marriage,
(If for increase.)
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what?
Her identity as the pensioner's widow, his death, the date of her death, the names of her surviving children, and the administration of Josiah Pratt, all proven by credible witnesses and the proper certificates as required by the Regulations.
Name and residence of Agent,
B. B. Baldwin Esq Present
Thomson Tipton Examining Clerk.

Mary Pratt decd Widow of Isaiah Michigan Vermont
adms July 7/1838
2 yrs Pri $80, a year from 4th mch 1836 to 29th mch 1839,
when she died, Pay to Isaiah Pratt adms, for his own & the benefit of Mary Jasprand Pratt - Catherine Wilson - & Sarah Sweet - or any others who may be alive,
Bequeath B H Baldwin Esq - Present

Grasmere P.O. April 27. 1847
J. P. Edwards Esq. Sir
Yours of the 10 th inst enquiring of my knowledge of the matter of application of Mary Ferrand for a Pension in the right of Josiah Pratt is just received and in answer I regret to have to say that I can but give my best recollections of the matter so far as I was concerned.
In the month of June last a person (being a stranger to me) requested me to hold a Probate Court at Derby Line Village (some 20 miles from my residence) for the benefit of several Pensioners who wished to make Declarations for claims to Pensions: and was informed that Mr Stephen Thomas, (then Register & now Judge of Probate for Bradford District) would meet me there & present the cases to be examined. &c.
On the 18 of June I went to Derby Line and held a Court on the 18 and 19 as appears by my Records. I was there introduced to Mr. Thomas: found quite a number of persons for whom Mr Thomas appeared to be doing business, and among whom was the lady represented as being Mrs. Mary Ferrand whose Declaration was presented by Mr Thomas, and read by myself (I think) to Mrs Ferrand and by her subscribed and sworn to in usual form. A certificate of the death of J. Pratt &c. was drawn by Mr Thomas, and two witnesses (of respectable appearance) were offered who were sworn and testified to the facts set forth in the certificate.

my Register not being present at Derby. I took the papers to my Office at Newburgh where the seals were attached and forwarded the packet by Mail to Mr Thomas as directed by him,
Some time in Sept I think, I received a communication from Mr Thomas saying that „a certificate by him drawn and the proof taken before me: that „Catharine Wilson Sarah Sweet, & Mary Farand„ were the children and only surviving children of Josiah & Mary Pratt deceased„ was unsatisfactory for want of being properly expressed: that the Department required the certificate to read, that they were the only surviving children of either one„
From my then recollection of the testimony I think I felt no hesitancy in so wording the certificate: and sent to Mr Thomas, the certificate herewith enclosed
Some short time after this last transaction: the certificate was returned to me by mail being still unsatisfactory: and my impressions now are that Mr Thomas forwarded a certificate which on examination I supposed to set forth the same facts which I had certified to, and was still willing to certify, being differently expressed saying „the only surviving children of Josiah Pratt„ and only surviving children of Mary Pratt, &c. the last mentioned certificate was forwarded in Oct to Mr Thomas by H. M. Bates Esq. my then Register. which was the last I heard from the matter up to the receipt of yours. of the 10 inst.
At the time the Declaration of Mary Farand was taken, several cases were under consideration during the two days in which the Court was held at Derby Line, the Court was held in a public room, and most of the applicants & witnesses strangers to me, and not knowing who were interested in the business

and who were spectators merely it is difficult for me to distinctly separate in my mind the different cases so as to recollect what evidence was applied to each case, in some one of the cases. Mr Levi Spaulding of Derby Line, a gentleman personally & favorably known to me, was called to give evidence of the credibility of the witnesses who were not personally known to me but whether this was in the Mary Ferrand case I can not say; or whether in more than one case. Neither have I any definite recollection of the dates of events as testified to other than such as the papers themselves indicate.
In issuing certificates in matters relating to Pensions I have designed to use strict caution from the fact of having had my attention called to cases of frauds, and have no doubt but that the evidence to support of the time of the decease of Pratt &c. was such as at the time to leave no doubts on my mind as to the facts certified to; but in the investigation now, of what that evidence was I find myself embarrassed by a change of the Probate Office.
In most cases, the evidence the death &c of the Pensioner comes before the Probate Court in the form of Depositions or Affidavits in writing; where the testimony is oral as in the Mary Ferrand case, I usually took a brief memorandum of the names of the witnesses, facts &c, which were filed in the Probate Office.
The Probate Office & papers for this (Orleans) District passed into the hands of Judge Jacob Bates, (my successor) in December last, and I have not as yet been able to find any minutes, or memo of the case under consideration, and indeed I am not positive whether I made such memorandum or whether they have been misplaced or lost in the derangement of papers in the removal of the Probate Office.
I can now only say that I shall institute such

further search and enquiry as shall appear calculated to give better information than can be derived from my imperfect recollection of the facts and should I succeed in making any discoveries, or of obtaining any information in the matter I shall forward the same to you -
Judge Thomas resides at West Fairley some 80 miles from this place. is a stranger to me except the two days acquaintance had at Derby Line. perhaps he may be able to give more satisfactory explanation of this matter.
I am Sir Very Respectfully
Yours &c
H. D. Woodworth Esq
Geo Nye
Com d of Pensions Washington City D.C.
Sturtevant Vt.

Payment to be made at Poultney by M. Clark Agent for paying Pension- ers in the Agency of Vermonts Payable on the 4th March, and 4th September in each year.
Recorded in the Pension Office in Book D Vol. 1
Page 1 by _____
D. A. Wood Clerk.
Duplicate

WAR DEPARTMENT.
WIDOW'S PENSION.
I certify that in conformity with the act of July 7, 1838, Mary Pratt, dec d . late of Vermont whom widow of Josiah Pratt who was a Private in the Revolution and died on the 12 day of August 1832 is inscribed on the pension list at the rate of Eighty dollars and _____ cents per annum, commencing on the 4 th March 1836 and terminating on the 24 th of March, 184 39 , unless the Pensioner married or died before the above mentioned date; in which case the pension is not payable after the time of such marriage or death. Children.
Given at the War Office of the United States, this Seventh day of April one thousand eight hundred and Forty Seven.
Secretary of War.
Examined and Countersigned.
Commissioner of Pensions.
Duplicate.

West Fairlee Vt. April 19 th 1847
Hon: Sir,
Yours of the 10 th Inst. in relation to the Claim of Josiah Pratt deceased, asserted under the act of 15 th May 1828, recd. in which you say that "his claim was adjusted under that act and was paid to Mary Pratt his widow and Administratrix to the 12 th August 1830 when he died ", which very much surprises me, I have had the most perfect confidence that the claim was just and due, but by your letter it seems to be otherwise, where the wrong is I am unable to say but there must be a very great wrong some where,
I never saw the Declarant (Mary Ferrand) but once. To wit: the day when she made her declaration at Derby Vt. which place is about 80 Miles from my place of residence, I had been previously written to & requested to be at that place to aid & assist about some Pension Claims, the Man wrote saying that he had several claims and that the witness would be there on the day set, I accordingly went, and on examining the several cases, I found them all worthless (or I supposed them to be so) save the Pratt case which, I supposed to be good & just Mrs Ferrand appeared to be a very intelligent woman & she had brought with her a witness & some vouchers to prove the time of the death of her Father & Mother and from the appearance of the testimony adduced before

The Court I had not any doubt of its correctness, & can not think there could have been any in the mind of the Court, & I am fully satisfied that the Court Certified with full confidence, & that he supposed he was certifying to substantiate a fact -
Now as to the fact that the claim having been adjusted I think the Dept. must have been ignorant for the reason that any one would have known that the Department would have been aware of the fact, but she (I think) must have known the true day of her Father's death, as the date of the death of Parents is a fact generally remembered.
Is it not possible that there was an error in relation to the Statement or proof that the death occurred in 1830?
I should be led to think so unless the proof is clear and certain, after having talk with Mrs Catherine Clark She was & is as clear in her recollection as any person that I ever saw, I called to see her in company with a Justice of the Peace, and she related all the facts as set forth in her affidavit with most astonishing clearness, the Justice expressed his confidence that the story must be correct and I certainly, was of the same opinion, for her statement seemed to be corroborated (relative to the service) by the admission of the evidence of service in your Department, but as I have before stated where the wrong is I can not say, but if there is any thing wrong in the statements that the death occurred in 1832, (and if this it would seem that I can not doubt after reading your letter) there must be a great wrong or a horrible & inexcusable mistake and I feel a solicitude to know which for neither the error in relation to the

The time of the death was a wilful misrepresentation or made by mistake. I have been imposed upon & put to great trouble & expense, for which (I think), I am in a fair way to loose, besides having the disagreeable pleasure of asserting a claim which proves to be unjust, or to have been adjusted, & still further, I suppose you may think that I am a particeps criminis in the matter, for the reason that I have had the management of the case; but Sir, when you recollect that untill the day of the Deed the claim making the Deed the claim , I had never seen her nor any members of the deceased family, that I had not any knowledge of the the date of the death, nor of the fact that it had been paid, you will see that there is the appearance of an excuse for me, It certainly would be the height of folly for any man to present a claim that had been adjusted, for with all the guards & checks which you have against allowing claims the 2 d time, he must know that it would be detected.
I have acted in good faith & through the whole matter, I have never discovered any thing that led me to have a doubt about the correctness of the claim as asserted, untill the receipt of your letter, and I should be very willing to give you all of the details relative to the case which are within my knowledge or to the District Atty for the Vermont District. There could not have been any inducement, that I can see, on the part of the witness to have sworn false, they must be aware of the consequences of perjury, & without reward why should any witness perjure themselves, The Declarant would be situated otherwise she would have the hope of a greater sum, & if she willfully testified wrong that must have been her object

I have write this much very hastily and shall await any request which you shall be pleased to make upon me upon relative to this subject.
I have the Honor to be Very Respectfully Your Ob. Servt Stephen Thomas
Hon: J. L. Edwards Comr of Pensions Washington D. C.

West Fairlee Vt. March 25 th 1827
Hon. Sir,
Your letter of the 13 th inst. in relation to the case of Mary Pratt, deceased, under the act of July 7. 1838, and of Josiah Pratt, dec d , under act of 15 th of May 1828, late residents of Canada, is received, by which it is suggested that the date of their respective deaths must be ascertained by a very high grade of proof before certificates can be issued, by your letter of the 7 th of November last you say that "the additional testimony" - "establishes the date of the death of each" therefore I am led to conclude that in consequence of the voluminous of the testimony, that, that part of the testimony has been overlooked if so. I trust that certificates will be issued -
I am Sir Very Respectfully, Your O bt Serv t Stephen Thomas
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Hon J. L. Edwards Court of Pensions Washington
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D.B.

West Fairlee Vt. Feby 11 th 1877
Hon: Sir,
I herewith enclose the 3 d lot of additional testimony in the case of Josiah Pratt dec d under the act of May 15 th 1828, & Mary Pratt dec d under the act of July 7. 1838, and trust that it will be satisfactory to establish their claims, I am clearly of the opinion that this testimony when taken in connection with the testimony heretofore forwarded, especially the first lot of additional testimony including Dr Leonard Brown's affidavit makes the identity complete - I am satisfied that there never was a clearer & juster claim and if this testimony should fail to establish the claims I trust you will inform me what further evidence will be required in order to have them allowed.
I have the honor to be Very Respectfully Your Ob. Servt Stephen Thomas
Hon J. L. Edwards Comm r of Pensions Washington D. C.

Affidavits of Simson Stevens & James Bailey - to be in the case of Josiah Pratt.
Act of May 15 th 1828 -
Stephen Thomas West Fairlee Vt.

I, Simeon Stevens of Newbury, in Orange County, Vermont, aged seventy nine years last may, do depose testify and say, that I recollect well the fact, that Hazen's Regiment, so called, was stationed at Keene N.H. in the year 1779. that in that year, Josiah Pratt & Jonathan Pratt then both of Keene N.H. enlisted in said Ha- zen's Regiment and were among the troops of said Regiment. that said Josiah & Jonathan were both enlisted in said Regiment and were as soldiers and were brothers that said Josiah Pratt, after the close of the war, was married to Mary Mills, of said Newbury, and they lived together, as man and wife, at said Newbury, for many years, and afterwards went to Canada and never returned to Newbury to my knowledge. said Jonathan, after the war, went away and I do not know where he went to or what became of him. Simeon Stevens
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 25 day of December 1846. J. D. Parker Judge of Probate
And I also certify that said Simeon Stevens is personally known to me and that he is a credible witness. J. D. Parker Judge of Probate
I James Bailey of Newbury, in Orange County and State of Vermont, aged seventy nine years, do depose testify and say, that I came with my father from Newbury, Massachusetts, in the year 1773 to Newbury Vermont, that I well recollect that Hazen's Regi- ment, so called, was stationed at Keene N.H. in the year 1779 and that Jonathan Pratt & Josiah Pratt then both of said Ha- zen's Regiment and I well remember that said Jonathan Pratt was a tifer. they were brothers. I do not know

what became of the said Jonathan - but said Israel afterwards married and lived in said Newbury for many years. Thomas Houghton also enlisted in said regiment at the same time said Pratt enlisted - he also resided at said Haverhill. I resided within sight of the camp grounds at Haverhill and within two miles of the same - I was fre- quently at the camp and saw the soldiers there.
James Bailey
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 25 day of November 1846 and hereby certify that the said James Bailey is personally known to me and is a credible witness.
J. W. D. Parker, Judge of Probate
State of Vermont
Bradford District ss } I Stephen Thomas Register of the Probate Court within and for the District aforesaid, do hereby certify that J. W. D. Parker is Judge of the Probate Court within and for said District, duly Commissioned and qualified that his Commission was dated on the 1 st day of December 1845. and will expire on the 30 th day of November 1846, and that the Signature above written purporting to be his is genuine -
In testimony whereof I have hereunto Subscribed my name, and affixed the Seal of said Court at West Fairlee in said District this 26 th day of November A.D. 1846.
Stephen Thomas, Register

West Fairlee Vt. Nov. 26 th 1826.
Hon: Sir
I herewith forward an additional affidavit of Col. Simeon Stevens & an affidavit of James Bailey to be used in the case of Josiah Pratt deceased, under the act of May 15 th 1828, and of Mary Pratt deceased, under the act of July 7 th 1838, which I trust will be satisfactory to establish their claims, if so, the children wish to have the Pension made payable at the Pension Agency at Montpelier Vermont, which will be the most convenient place for them to receive the money. You will please Communicate with me at West Fairlee Vt.
I am Sir Very Respectfully your Obt Servt
Stephen Thomas
Hon J. L. Edwards Comm r of Pensions Washington D.C.

Montpelier Vt. Oct. 20 th 1846
Sir,
I herewith forward additional evidence in the case of Josiah Pratt decd. whose application is pending under the act of May 15. 1828, & also of Mrs Mary Pratt decd., whose application for a Pension is pending under the act of 1838 -
I trust that the affidavit of Leonard Brown when taken in connection with the certificate of the Probate Court upon the declaration will be satisfactory as to the death of each, the proof before the Court as to the deaths, was made by witness who were present at the deaths, & by vouchers for paying for the coffin of the said Josiah. I have always been required to furnish the certificate of the Probate Court, to establish the death, heretofore, and that to whom the testimony (as I think) was positive - You will also find an affidavit and the certificate of the Probate Court as to the credibility of Simon Stevens - You will please communicate with me at West Fairlee, Vt. - I am Truly your Obt Servt. Hon: J. L. Edwards Attorney at Law Vt. Stephen Thorne

State of Vermont, Orleans District
I Geo. Nye Judge of Probate for the District of Orleans aforesaid: Hereby certify: that at a Probate Court, holden at Irasburgh in and for said District on the 21 st day of September A D 1846, satisfactory evidence was adduced: that Catharine Wilson, Sarah Sweet, and Mary Farand are the children and heirs and only surviving children of Josiah Pratt late of Broom in the Province of Canada deceased. And I further certify: that at the Court holden as aforesaid satisfactory evidence was adduced that the said Catharine Wilson, Sarah Sweet and Mary Farand, are the children and heirs, and only children and heirs of Mary Pratt, widow of the said Josiah Pratt, both late of Broom aforesaid deceased. In testimony whereof I hereunto affix my Official signature at Irasburgh in said District this 21 st day of Sept r 1846. Geo. Nye Judge.
State of Vermont, Orleans District
Probate Office
Irasburgh 5 October 1846
I Henry M Bates Register of the Probate Court for the District of Orleans aforesaid hereby certify: that Geo. Nye is Judge of the Probate Court for the District aforesaid duly qualified and sworn and that full faith is to be given to his acts as such, and that the above signature purporting to be his is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of the Probate Court and subscribed my name on the day and year last above written.
Henry M Bates Register

I John E. Chamberlin of Newbury in Orange County and State of Vermont of lawful age do depose testify & say that I am acquainted with Col. Simeon Stevens of Newbury aforesaid and have been well acquainted with him for more than twenty five years, that he has been one of the first men in standing and character in said town of Newbury for said period - that his reputation for truth is unimpeached and unimpeachable - that his recollection of revolutionary events is clear and distinct - and all his faculties mental and physical are prime and good - remarkably so for a man of his years - and further say not.
J. E. Chamberlin
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 15 day of September AD 1846
M. D. Parker Judge of Probate
I certify that the above named John E. Chamberlin is personally known to me and that he is a credible witness - And I further certify that the said Simeon Stevens is personally known to me and has been for more than fifteen years - and that his character for truth and integrity is and ever has been pure and unspotted -
M. D. Parker Judge of Probate

State of Vermont
Secretary of State's Office Montpelier Octo. 21. 1846
I hereby certify that the Hon. J. W. D. Parker, whose name is sub- scribed to the foregoing certificate, is and was at the date thereof, Judge of Probate for the District of Bradford in said State, duly constituted and appointed, and that full credence is due to the official acts of said Judge of Probate.
In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and the seal of this Office this 21 st day of October A.D. 1846
Fernand F. Merrill Deputy Secretary of State

State of Vermont Orleans District
Probate Office
Irasburgh 21 Sep r 1846
I Geo. Nye Judge of Probate in and for the District of Orleans aforesaid - Hereby certify: that at a Probate Court held at Irasburgh in and for the District of Orleans aforesaid on the 21. day of September AD 1846. Satisfactory evidence was adduced: that Catherine Wilson Sarah Sweet, and Mary Ferrand, are the children and only surviving children and heirs of Josiah Pratt and his Widow Mary Pratt, both late of Bloom, in the Province of Canada deceased
In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of the Probate Court together with my Official signature on the day and year above written
Geo. Nye Judge

Senate Chamber
August 5 th 1846.
Sir,
Will you have the kindness to examine the papers accompanying this note and let me know your decision in the matter to which they refer, soon as convenient.
I am, Sir, Yours with great respect
William Upshur

West Fairlee Vt. July 30 th 1826
My Dear Sir,
I herewith transmit a declaration made by one of the surviving children of Josiah Pratt deceased, (under the act of Congress passed May 15 th 1828,) which I wish you to lay before the Commissioner of Pensions and ask of him to refer (for evidence of service) to the Rolls of Col. Hazen, which I understand are in the State department at Washington. And for evidence of identity I would refer him to the affidavit of Col. Simeon Stevens, in the files of the application of the same child, claiming a Pension in the right of the widow of said Josiah Pratt (Mrs Mary Pratt) deceased, under the act of July 7 th 1838. The last named papers I forward to you by the same mail in which I forward this, and also wish you to ask an examination.
I am Sir, Very Respectfully Your Ob t. Servant Stephen Thomas
Hon: William Upham U.S. Senator Washington D.C.

I Simson Stevens of Newbury in the County of Orange & State of Vermont aged 79 years depose & say that during the Revolutionary War I was acquainted with Josiah Pratt, that he at that time lived in Haverhill in the State of New Hampshire; and that at the time Col. Hazen's Regiment was at Said Haverhill Said Pratt enlisted as I then understood for during the war and when the Regiment marched from Haverhill he went also; I at that time lived in sight of where the Regiment was encamped & was frequently at the camp & will remember of seeing Said Josiah Pratt doing duty with the Regiment - after the war he married as I was informed Mary Mills, and he moved into this Town & lived with her for many years and Subsequently moved as I was informed to the Province of Canada. I was well acquainted with him from before he enlisted into Hazen's Regt untill he removed from this Town; that he had quite a large family of Children born in this Town Simson Stevens
Subscribed and Sworn to on this 16 th day of July A.D. 1826. Before me
M. D. Parker Judge

I further certify that the above affiant is personally known to me and that he is a credible witness
M. D. Parker Judge
State of Vermont } Bradford District ss } I Stephen Thomas Register of the Probate Court within & for said District, do hereby certify that J. N. D. Parker is Judge of the Probate Court for said District duly qualified & commissioned that his Commission was dated on the first day of December 1845, and will expire on the 30 th day of November 1846, and that his Signa- ture above written, is genuine -
In testimony whereof I have hereunto Subscribed my name & affixed the Seal of said Court at West Fairlee this 16 th day of July A.D. 1846.
Stephen Thomas, Register
M. D. Parker Judge

Application under the act of May 15 th 1828
Josiah Pratt deceased, Jt.
Act. 15 May 1828
adm d
2 years per
80. from 3 rd
March 1826 to Aug 1832 when he died - To. Catharine Wilson Sarah Sweet & Mary Farrand only living children
Stephen Thomas West Fairlee Jt.
Ben W. Upham Senat N.Y.

Declaration
State of Vermont 2 Orleans District ss On this 18 th day of June A.D. 1826, Personally appeared before the Probate Court at a Session thereof held at Derby within and for said District Mary Farrand of Brome in the District of Montreal and Province of Canada aged 53 years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following decl- aration in order to obtain the benefit of the Provision of the act of Congress passed May 15 th 1828, or of any other act applicable to her case -
That She is one of the surviving Children of Josiah Pratt & Mary Pratt deceased, That the said Josiah Pratt was a Private in the Revolutionary war That he enlisted at Haverhill in the State of New Hampshire in Col. Nares's Regiment for during the war and served to the end thereof as she has ever understood & verily believes, That the said Josiah Pratt died at Brome in the Province of Canada on the twelfth (12 th ) day of August in the year Eighteen hundred & thirty two (1832) That he left a widow by the name of Mary Pratt who also died on the twenty fourth (24 th ) day of March in the year Eighteen hundred & thirty nine, and That Catherine Wilson, Sarah Sweet, and the

Declarant (the said Mary Farrand) are the Children and only Surviving Children of the said Josiah Pratt Mary Farrand
Sworn to and Subscribed on the day and year first above mentioned Before me Geo. Nye Judge
State of Vermont } George Nye Judge of the Orleans District } Probate Court within & for the District aforesaid do hereby certify that Satisfactory evidence has been adduced to me that Josiah Pratt died at Brome in the District of Montreal and Province of Canada on the twelv- th day of August in the year Eighteen hundred & thirty two, that he left a widow by the name of Mary Pratt who died on the 24 th day of March 1839, and that Catherine Wilson, Sarah Sweet, & Mary Farrand are the Children & only Surviving Children of the said Josiah Pratt deceased.
Given under my hand at Derby this 18 th day of June A.D. 1846,
Geo. Nye Judge

State of Vermont } Orleans District }
I Henry M Bates Register of the Probate Court for the District of Orleans aforesaid: Hereby certify that the foregoing are the original proceedings had in the matter of the application of Mary Farland for a Pension for the benefit of the heirs of Josiah Pratt & Mary Pratt.
In witness whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of the Probate Court and subscribed my name at Derby in said District this 18 th day of June A D 1846
H M Bates Register

10.240.
Vermont.
Mary Pratt, dec d .
Widow of Josiah Pratt who was a pensioner under the Act of 1828 and who died on the 12 Aug. 1832 of Orleans in the State of Vermont who was a Pri. in the Company commanded by Captain _____ of the Reg. commanded by Col. Warren in the Rev. time for 2 years
Inscribed on the Roll of Poulney at the rate of 80 Dollars Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836, to 24 March 1839, when she died.
Certificate of Pension issued the 7. day of April 1847 and sent to S. Thomas, West Fairlee, Vt.
Total amount, $
[Act July 7, 1838.]
Entered by N.H. Wood clerk. bk D. Vol. 1. Page 135
Catharine Wilson, Sarah Sweet, and Mary Harland, only children.
RP Ind Stockton Octo 28 '53 B H Baldwin March 20 1853-
Cancelled
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I Catherine Clark of Topsham in the County of Orange Probate District of Bradford & State of Vermont aged 78 years the 8 th day of July 1846 do pose and say that Josiah Pratt and Jonathan Pratt were my Brothers that Josiah was a bout 8 1/2 years older than myself and Jonathan a bout three years & 2 months older than my self. that they enlisted into Hazens Regiment at Haverhill in the State of New Hampshire that I frequently used to attend Divine worship at the Regimental head quarters in Haverhill while said Regiment was stationed there and saw my said Brothers there very frequently during the summer among the soldiers of said Regiment, Hazens Reg t came to Haverhill in the spring of the year & four years before the close of the war, that the said Josiah & Jonathan enlisted for during the war, and were gone four years, that after the close of the war they both returned home & came to Newbury in Orange County aforesaid where my Step father then lived. that Josiah Pratt aforesaid married Mary Meills (a daughter of John Meills) of said Newbury sixty one years ago last October & that I was present at their Marriage. that Josiah after his Marriage continued to live in Newbury with the said Mary until 36 or 37 years ago when they removed to Brome in the Province of Canada that when they left Newbury they had seven children living by the names of Sister. Sarah. Jacob. Mary. Josiah Catherine and William (Mary & Josiah were twins) that the children all went with their parents to said Brome. that I was informed by Nathaniel Meills a son of mine who went to said Brome fifteen years

ago last summer that my said brother Josiah died while he was at said Brome. that I was not informed of the death of the widow of said Josiah until a bout one year ago. but was then informed that she had been dead several years. I have been informed that of the children of the said Josiah & Mary) five Jacob & William are dead I have also been informed that Sarah married a man by the name of Sweet. Mary married a man by the name of Farrendy and that Catharine married a man by the name of Wilson - that Mary Pratt wife of my brother Josiah came to my house from Brome a bout 28 years ago she then informed me that Sarah had married Mr Sweet & that Mary had married Mr Farrendy. that my said brother Jonathan when he enlisted, enlisted as a water but afterwards served as a Fifer. and that he left Newbury 61 years ago last December since which time he has never been back to my knowledge
Moses Wallace C.H. Watson
Catharine X Clarke mark
Sworn and subscribed on this twenty first day of January A.D. 1847 - Before me Moses Wallace Justice of Peace I further certify that the above affidavit is personally known to me, and that she is a credible witness - Moses Wallace Justice of Peace

I Jonathan Mills of Gosham in the County of Orange & State of Vermont aged 59 years do hereby say that Catharine Clark who has subscribed the foregoing affidavit is my Mother. that I was personally acquainted with her Brother Josiah Pratt & his wife Mary when they lived in Newbury in said County. that 15 years ago the present winter I was at Brome in the Province of Canada and then visited the said Josiah and Mary Pratt that they informed me that their daughter Sarah had married Mr Sweet. Mary Mr Farreny. and Catharine Mr Wilson. that I was informed of the death of my Uncle (the said Josiah) in the summer of 1832. being the next summer after I was at said Brome. and I was informed of the death of My Aunt (the said Mary) one year ago last fall.
Jonathan Mills
Sworn and subscribed on this twenty first day of January A.D. 1847
Before me Moses Wallace Justice of Peace
I further certify that the above affiant is personally known to me, and that he is a credible witness.
Moses Wallace Justice of Peace

State of Vermont
Secretary of State's Office
Montpelier January 22 d . 1817
I hereby certify that Moses Wallace Esquire whose name is subscribed to the foregoing certificates, is, and was at the date thereof, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Orange in said State, duly constituted and commissioned as such.
Given under my hand and the seal of this Office this 22 d day of January A.D. 1817.
Fernand F. Merrill Deputy Secretary of State
Stephen Thomas West Fairlee Vt.
Affidavit of Catherine Clark & Laura Dean Mott

State of Michigan } County of Macomb }
At a Probate Court held by the undersigned Probate Judge in and for said County and State at Macomb on the 16 th day of November 1865 it was, satisfied only proven and shown by the testimony of Josiah Pratt, Anna Richards and Abram Richards and other persons well known to me and whom I certify are credible and respectable witnesses and all residents of said Macomb County that Mary (widow of Josiah Pratt) deceased late of the town of Brame, County of Shippensburg Canada East, departed this life at the town of Brame aforesaid on the 29 th day of March A.D. 1839 leaving the following children her surviving and now others to wit Josiah Pratt Mary Farnand, Catherine Wilson and Sarah Pratt and that the said children of Josiah & Mary Pratt deceased are now living the said Josiah residing in the said County of Macomb and the said Mary Farnand, Catherine Wilson and Sarah Pratt in the said town of Brame Canada East, and I further certify that on the 10 th day of March 1865 the above mentioned Josiah Pratt son of Mary Pratt deceased was duly appointed by this Court Administrator of the Estate of his said Mother Mary Pratt deceased after having filed a bond according to law for the faithful discharge of such duty with a penalty of one thousand dollars with sufficient sureties. And I further certify that the said Josiah Pratt is at this time fully

Authorized to act as such Administrator
In witness whereof I hereunto set my hand and affix my seal of Office at Mt. Clemens in said County of Macomb this 16 th day of November 1855
P. J. W. Victor Judge of Probate in and for County of Macomb

State of Michigan                      Probate Office Mount County of Macomb                      Clement
D. Prescott D. Thurston
Judge of the Court of Probate in and for said County, hereby Certify That Letters of Administration of the estate of Mary Pratt late of the County of Sheffield in the Province of Lower Canada deceased, were on the tenth day of March, A.D. 1855 issued by me to Rosalia Pratt of said County of Macomb the first filing in this office his administrators bond with security to the satisfaction of this Court in the sum of One Thousand Dollars; And I further Certify That if in making out any former Certificate, Paper or Letter of Administration, the deceased is therein represented as being previous to her death a resident or inhabitant of said County of Macomb, the same is a clerical error, that the Mary Pratt therein wherein named are identical the same person, and that according to the proof given before me it was shown to & decided by said Court that she died in said County of Sheffield in Lower Canada aforesaid.
Witness my hand & seal of Office at Mt Clemens in said County of Macomb this 22 nd day of June A.D. 1855.
D. Prescott D. Thurston Judge of Probate in and for said County of Macomb

I Leon D. Brown Physician of the Township of Dunham, County of Memphrémagog District of Montreal and Province of Canada aged fifty four years do depose and say that I was the attending Physician of the late widow Pratt wife of the late Josiah Pratt of the Township of Browne County of Sheffield District and Province aforesaid deceased. That she died at the house of Otis Wilson her son in law in the aforesaid Township of Browne on or about the 24 th March A.D. 1889 - That I saw her several times during her last sickness but made no separate or distinct charge to her, being at the time in attendance upon her daughter the a- foresaid Otis Wilson's wife who was sick at the same time, and Mrs. Pratt being a hopeless case very little medical medical treatment was required.
I furthermore depose and say that I did in conjunction with two other persons arrange and settle the estate of the before named Josiah Pratt during the year A.D. 1889 at the request of the heirs and that the Josiah Pratt died at Browne in the month of August 1882.
Dunham 10 th September 1896
Leon D. Brown Physician & Surgeon
Sworn before me at Dunham this 10 th day of September 1896.
Stearns Pickering J.P.
I hereby certify that the above deponent is a gentleman of truth & veracity
Stearns Pickering J.P.

I the undersigned Notary Public duly admitted and sworn as such for that part of the Province of Canada heretofore constituting the Province of Lower Canada residing in the village of Melchisingu in the Seigniory of Saint Armand in the District of Memphrémagog in the said Province do hereby certify that Steven Baker of the Township of Dunham in the said District Esquire acts as one of Her Majesty's Justices of the Peace in and for the aforesaid District of Memphrémagog
In Witness whereof I have hereunto set and subscribed my name and affixed my seal at Melchisingu aforesaid this Tenth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty six
R. G. DUMONT
Notary Public
Leona Brown Affidavit of the death of Josiah Pratt Mary Pratt
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Payment to be made at Poultney by W. Clark Agent for paying pension- ers, in the Agency of
Vermont
Recorded in the Pension Office, in Book E 2 Vol- ume 3 Page by D. H. Wood Clerk.

WAR DEPARTMENT.
Revolutionary Claim.
I certify that, in conformity with the law of the United States, of the 15 th May 1828, Josiah Pratt, deceased, late of Vermont, who was a Private in the Revolution and died on the 12 th of August 1832, was entitled to a pension at the rate of eighty dollars per annum, commencing on the 3 rd March 1826, and ending when he died; and the amount is due and payable to Catharine Wilson, Sarah Sweet and Mary Farrand, only living children.
Given at the War Office of the United States, this Seventh day of April one thousand eight hundred and forty-Seven.
Secretary of War.
Examined and Countersigned. }
Commissioner of Pensions.
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