Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 34230, Frederick Colton, Mass.

SERVICE
Mass.
Colton, Frederick
NUMBER
S. 34230
CONTENTS

34230 Rev INVALID.
File No. 34230
Frederick Colton
Rev Was
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 83
[Arrangement of 1870.]

✓ Massachusetts Roll.
1583
Frederick Colton, Capt Burt Private,
Mas t Line - 3 years - 80
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 10 th of April 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 20. of June 1818 and sent to Jn o Hooker, Esq. Springfield, Mass.
Arrears to 4th of Sept r . 1818.
Service extending
4 months 25/30. $38. 66
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818 }
Transferred
✓ Springfield Mass.
Massachusetts sent July 29th 1820 to John H. Hooker Esq. Springfield Mass.

Frederick Cotton enlisted 14 th Nov. 76. for 3 years, disch. 14 th Nov. 1879. E. A. S.
adm d
1879/1880
Hooper

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Hampden ss.
B E IT REMEMBERED, That on the tenth  April day of A. D. 1818, came before me, JOHN HOOKER,
Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Western Circuit in said State, and including the said county of Hampden the above named
Frederick Colton the Applicant & Joseph Kellogg severally
made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavits, respectively by him subscribed, and hereto annexed. I do thereupon hereby declare, that it appears to my satisfaction, that the said
Frederick Colton the applicant did serve in the revolutionary war, against the common enemy, for more than nine months, on the continental establishment, as set forth in his affidavit aforesaid, and that he is yet a resident citizen of the United States, is in reduced circumstances, and stands in need of assistance from his country for support. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the seal of the said Circuit Court for the said county of Hampden to be affixed hereto, this tenth day of April 1818
I therefore do hereby certify the above & annexed as the testimony & proceedings, had before me on the said Application & transmitted the same to the Secretary of the department of War of the United States
John Hooker

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Hampden Co. ss
On this tenth day of April 1818 personally appeared before John Hooker Esq Chief Justice of the Common Pleas for the Western Circuit in said Commonwealth in and during the said County of Hampden Frederick Colton a citizen of the United States & resident in Springfield in said County who being duly sworn deposes and saith, That in the year 1777 he enlisted under Capt Charles Colton at Tienderoga for three years service that he continued during the whole time in the service of the United States & was honorably discharged at Fishkill by Col Green which discharge he sent to Boston in order to get his pay & that he accordingly received his last six months pay for which he exchanged for one mug of Rhum but that he never saw the discharge afterwards & the Defendant further saith he is in reduced circumstances in life by reason thereof is in need of assistance from his country
In support
Frederick Colton
April 10 1818
We William Stearns & Joseph Kellogg both of Springfield do depose & say that we were in the service with the said Frederick & served in the same Company & Regiment & that we knew of his serving in the Continental Army in the revolutionary war as he has set forth in his affidavit aforesaid
Joseph Kellogg

COLTON FREDERICK (MASS.)
S-34230

Frederick Colton
1583, springfield
June 19 th
CM
Sept 1816

COUNTY of Hampden ss.
ON this tenth day of July 1820, personally appeared, in open court, before the Circuit Court of Common Pleas the same being a Court of Record and so established by a Statute of said Commonwealth, said Court being now in session at Springfield within and for said county of Hampden .
Fredrick Colton aged Seventy One years, resident in Springfield who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on his oath, declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows: In 1775 I went as volunteer to Roxbury and was under command of Capt Gideon Burt & Col: Danilson & staid there eight months - In 1776 I enlisted into Capt Charles Colton Company Col: Woodbridges Regiment & marched to Ticonderoga & staid there five months Afterwards I enlisted for three years under the same Capt. in Col: Grayton's Regiment & served three years & received my discharge which I have lost - I made application for a Pension April 10th 1815. Certificate dated June 30th 1815 No 1583. Fredrick Colton, Labourer has no family & has been for a number of years past supported by public & private Charity - he is infirm & feeble constitution and unable to support himself - that I have no property of any description except my dwelling house and am supported by Charity, except the support I have of late recd. from the United States on the within Certificate
Fredrick Colton
Act to provide for certain pensions... 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.
SCHEDULE.
Sworn to and declared on the tenth day of July 1820 before the Circuit Court of Common Pleas Attest John Ingersoll Clerk
John Ingersoll Clerk of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the County aforesaid do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of the said Court; and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is  Fredrick Colton has no  valuable property.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court, on this fifteenth day of July 1820
John Ingersoll
Clerk of the Court for the County of Hampden