Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 33,499, for Joseph Pratt, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Pratt, Joseph
S. 33,499
CONTENTS

Notification sent to Elijah Alvah Esq 28 July 1820 Greenfield Mass
Massachusetts Rolls.
1,520
Joseph Pratt, Capt Reading Private, 4 Massachusetts line - 1777. 3 years In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 8 th of April 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 30 of June 1818, and sent to the Hon. Isaac Parker, Worcester, Mass.
Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1818.
Semi-annual
4 months 27/30. $ 39.20
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818 }
Continued
Willbury, Worcester Co.

Jos. Pratt
Millbury
8 April —
Correct JH

State of Massachusetts
I Joseph Pratt a citizen of the United States now resident at Millbury in the County, Worcester and State aforesaid do on oath testify and say declare that in the war of the revolution on the fifth day of April AD 1777 - I entered and was engaged in the land service of the United States on the continental establishment and served accordingly from that time until the 5th of April AD 1780 as a private soldier against the common enemy without any interruption or absence - that I belonged to Capt. Debadee Neddin's company in Colonel Gannalil Bradfords reg iment in the Massachusetts line in that I left the service on the 5th of April AD 1780, I was honorably discharged which discharge I have lost - And that by reason of my reduced circumstances in life & poverty I stand in need of assistance from my country for support being now of the age of 66 years and I hereby relinquish all claims to every pension heretofore allowed me by the laws of the United States if any may or hath been so allowed -
Joseph Pratt
State of Massachusetts, County of Worcester
On this Eighth day of April in the Year One thousand Eight hundred & Eighteen Personally appeared before me the subscriber Chief Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of said State - The above named Joseph Pratt who signed the above declaration in my presence, & being cautioned before to the truth of the same, and upon examination I was well satisfied with the truth of his declaration
Witness my hand & the seal of said Court
Isaac Parker C.J.S.C.

1.520
Joseph Pratt
Em
Sept. 1810

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
FRANKLIN ss.
At a Special Session of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Western Circuit, began and holden at Greenfield, within and for the County of Franklin, on Monday the tenth day of July, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and twenty, et de die in diem to the fifteenth day of the same month,
PERSONALLY appeared in open Court, being a Court of Record, within and for said County of Franklin, established as such by the Constitution and Laws of said Commonwealth, Joseph Pratt aged Sixty Six years, resident in Deerfield in said County, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows: that he enlisted in the year 1777 in the company of Capt. Lebedea Reading in the Regiment Commanded by General Bradford in the Massachusetts line for the term of three years; and served till my enlistment had expired, and was discharged at West Point, that the original declaration was made on the eighth day of April one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, that he has received a Pension on a certificate numbered 1520—

and I do solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March, 1818 ; and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it, as to bring myself within the provisions of an Act of Congress, entitled " An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States, in the Revolutionary War," passed on the 18th day of March, 1818 ; and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities, contracts or debts, due to me, nor have I any income, other than what is contained in the Schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed.
Joseph Pratt
Sworn to and declared, on the tenth day of July A. D. 1820, before the said Court.
Attest, E. Alvord CLERK.
I ELIJAH ALVORD, Clerk of the aforesaid Court, do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the Schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the records of the said Court; and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court that said Joseph Pratt has no property required by law to be  the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this fifteenth day of July, 1820.
E. Alvord CLERK.

Schedule of the estate of Joseph Pratt of Deerfield County of Franklin, and State of Massachusetts. Applicant under the Act. of Congress May 1. 1820—
The said Joseph comes and says that he has no property Real and Personal of any kind whatever excepting his wearing apparel, that he resides in the family of Noah Payer in Deerfield that he has no Children or Parents or any near relations residing with him that he is a Laborer by Profes- -sion and on account of his advanced age and bodily infirmities is unable to labor but little though he can occasionally work some, that he is wholly unable to support himself, that he has no other income and no friends or relatives liable by law to contribute to his support.—
Deerfield July 8. 1820—
Joseph Pratt—

33.499 Rev INVALID.
File No. 33,499
Joseph Pratt Rev Rev War
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 328
[Arrangement of 1870.]

I Joseph  Joseph Buck of Sterling in the County of Worcester of lawful age do testify and say that I well know Joseph Pratt of Milbury - that I was a soldier in the war of the revolution in Captain Ichadue Redding's Company in Col. General Brattleford's Regiment in the Massachusetts line for three years & that said Pratt was a common soldier in said company during the whole of said time
Israel Root
Worcester ss April 9. 1818
Then personally appeared Joseph  Joseph Buck above named and made solemn oath that the facts contained in the above deposition by him subscribed are true -
Before me
Joseph Wheeler Jur. Pacis

We the subscribers testify that from the information we have had we have no doubt but that the above named Joseph Pratt served as a private soldier in the revolutionary war as above stated. And that he is aged and infirm, and poor and unable to support himself is a matter of fact to our certain knowledge.
Josiah Stites Jus! Pean David P. Chase Sam! W. Viler. Charles Marsh Charles Boston