Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 33,509, for Paul Pratt, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Pratt, Paul
S. 33,509
CONTENTS

Abacus 11670
Letter 28. J no 1837 R. Baldwin
Paul Bratt
of Weston in the state of Massachusetts who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Vose of the Mass ts line, for the term of 3 years
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 9 th of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 8 th of June 1819 and sent to William Wetmore
Boston Massachusetts
Arrears to 4th of Mar. 1819 22 1/2 13. 12 1/2 - $ 86. 87
Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 Sept. 1819 $ 48.
$134.87
{ Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818. }

33 509 Rev INVALID.
July 26-97 To Ann W.A. Harris's U.S.S. as per copy - K
File No. 33,509
Paul Pratt
Dis. Rev. War
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 9 , Page 328
[Arrangement of 1870.]

July 26-1897
Paul Pratt $33509
Am W A Harris U.S. Senate
Sir
In reply to your request  inquiry for a statement of the military service of Paul Pratt in the Revolutionary War, I have the honor to advise you that from the papers in file in his claim pension, it appears that he rendered three years service from Dec 1780 to Dec 24-1783 in the Company commanded by Capt. Jno Mills of Col Jos. Vose's Regiment of the Massachusetts line.
At the time of his application for pension, which was in April 1818, he was 56 years of age and resided at Weston, Middlesex Co., Mass. A pension of $8 per mo was granted him in June 1819. No further information regarding his service and no information whatever regarding his family is afforded by the papers in file
Very respectfully (Signed) L. M. K.
Deputy Com.

Division. _____
(3-078.)
STATE: _____
Examiner. _____
INVALID.
Department of the Interior, BUREAU OF PENSIONS,
SIR: _____, 189____ In the Claim for _____ Invalid Pension No. _____, of _____, the testimony indicated in paragraph No. _____ should be furnished.
Circular Call No. 8. —The affidavit of a COMMISSIONED OFFICER, or first sergeant of claimant's company, setting forth when, where, and under what circumstances the alleged _____
If such testimony can not be obtained, the fact and reasons should be stated by claimant, when the affidavits of one or more enlisted men of his company will be considered. Only in exceptional cases, when good reasons are shown for inability to furnish testimony of members of the claimant's own company, will affidavits of members of other companies be accepted.
Circular Call No. 9. —The affidavit of the surgeon, of assistant surgeon, of claimant's regiment as to treatment for _____ while in the service. It is desirable that the description of the disability should be, as far as practicable, in the handwriting of the surgeon _____
☞ If claimant is unable to furnish any part of the testimony indicated, he should state the facts and reasons under oath.
☞ Each witness must state his post-office address and means of knowing the facts to which he testifies.
☞ All erasures and interlineations in testimony must be certified to by the officer before whom the affidavit is executed—who may be any person authorized to administer oaths, his official character and signature being certified to under the seal of the proper officer.
This circular should be returned with your reply, and have evidence properly filed and state "in reply to Call 8," or 9, as may be.
Very respectfully,
Grew B Rann
Commissioner.

✓ Paul Pratt.
Col. Vase. Rep- Massachusetts Line 1780 - 3 years
3 Adm o Imad. #
From the erasure of the word poverty it would appear that the applicant does not stand in need of assistance from his country. Explained in Judge Wetmore's Justified letter p. 10

State of Massachusetts
I Paul Pratt a Citizen of the United States, now resident at Weston in the County of Middlesex, in the State aforesaid, do on oath testify and declare, that in the War of the Revolution, on or about the month of December Anno Domini Seventeen hundred & eighty
I entered and was engaged in the Land service of the United States on the con- tinental establishment, and served accordingly from that time to the twenty fourth day of December Anno Domini One thousand seven hundred & eighty three. being three years as a private against the common enemy, without any interruption or absence: that I belonged to the Regiment of Colonel Joseph Rose & Captain John Mills' Company, in the Massachusetts line of the army
and that I left the service on the expiration of term, being then honor- ably discharged as will appear by my certificate thereof herewith exhibited — and that by reason of my reduced circumstances in life and poverty, I stand in need of assistance from my country for support, being now of the age of fifty six years.
And I hereby relinquish all claim to every pension heretofore allowed me by the laws of the United States, if any may be or hath been so allowed.
Paul Pratt
BE IT REMEMBERED, That on this ninth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen Pursuant to a law of the United States, entitled, "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States, in the revolutionary war," made and passed on the 18th of March, A. D. 1818, personally appeareth before me the Subscriber one of the Associate Judges of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas within the State & presiding pro hac vice
the abovenamed Paul Pratt and after due examination and caution to testify and declare the whole truth, he maketh oath to the declaration aforesaid, and subscribes the same in my presence; and, on examination duly made said Judge, it appeareth to my satisfaction that the said declaration is true. In test- imony whereof I hereunto affix my name & the seal of Court.
Wm Wetmore
May 4. 1819. I now also do further certify That

That on due examination by me this day made, it appear eth on good & sufficient evidence to to my satisfaction that the S d Paul Pratt the declarant is in such reduced circumstances in life & so poor that he stands in need of the assistance of his country for his support. Witness my hand & the Seal of the S d Court as within affixed -
W m Wetmore

24 June
R Baldwin
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Paul Root
Evans
Copy papers James L Edwards Esq Comm of pensions Washington

Sir
Boston Massachusetts June 20 1837
I have to request that you will forward me a Certified Copy of the Declaration and the accompanying Affidavits of Paul Pratt, of Middlesex County in this State, which were forwarded as proof in support of his claim to a pension under the Act of March 18, 1818, these Documents are respectfully solicited to enable his Widow to obtain from this Commonwealth, the State gratuity of Fifty dollars. A copy of his discharge from the Army (if in possession of the Department) is especially essential, as it is alleged that said Paul Pratt was one of the last three years Men in Col Joseph Vose's first Mass ts Reg t and no evidence being found in the Army Books in the Secretary's Office of this Commonwealth, it is necessary to have recourse to the Department for the above Documents.
I am respectfully
Sir Your Obs t
James L. Edwards Esq Comm r of Pensions Washington
Reuben Baldwin

PROVIDED IN THE DEEDS OF THE REGIME
By the Governor's Command
18
Date
Given to the State of New York
Watt 9 Ap
the Prince of the United States
being the Governor of New York by the power of the Crown

BY THE HONOURABLE MAJOR-GENERAL KNOX,
Commanding the AMERICAN FORCES on Hudson's River.
Paul Pratt Soldier in the first Massachusetts Regiment, being enlisted for Three Years, is hereby honourably DISCHARGED from the Service of the United States.
Given in the State of New-York, the twenty fourth Day of December 1783
By the General's Command,
Knox M aj Genl
REGISTERED in the Books of the Regiment,
Ralph H. D. Bauls Capt. & Adj.
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