Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 30,456, Joshua Haskins, Conti. Mass.

SERVICE
Haskins, Joshua
NUMBER
bontic mass.
S. 30.456
CONTENTS

10213
Massachusetts
Joshua Haskins
of Middlebury in the State of Mass who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Pease of the Regt. commanded by Col. Bend in the Mass line for 14 months
Cont
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of $10 Dollars 67 Cents per annum to commence on the 14th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 23 rd day of March 1833 and sent Jacob Haskins Plymouth Mass
Arrears to the 14th of March 1833 $93.34 Semi-annual allowance ending Sept 11, 23.33 $116.67
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by N. A. Adams Clerk, Book 6 Vol. 2 nd Page 31
79 Plymouth
$96 Engr May 1818 $19 Apr 1819 - Draft

J. Harkness No 25
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Plymouth ss. On this eighth day of August in the year 1832 personally appeared in open court before the court of Probate for the county of Plymouth Spurred Jeremiah Harkins of Middleborough in the county aforesaid aged seventy seven years last described who being first sworn according to law made the following declaration above in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the act of Congress of June seventh 1832.
That in the year 1775 in the month of December as near as he can recollect the day he came on  voluntarily enlisted into a company commanded by Capt. Abiel Pierce of said Middleborough. Lieuts. Amos Washburn & John Miller for the term of one  three months & thereupon marched to Roxbury near Boston in S. Cambridge where was afterwards stationed in Dorchester a few Capt. Isaac Wood's company was there: days of the expiration of his term of service; when he enlisted into a company commanded by Major Dyer of Dedham, continental service, for one year & afterwards marched with the last mentioned company to New York City, tarrying there about six weeks, when the company with others was detached on an expedition to Canada on which he with the rest marched under Col. Benedict that they  then penetrated Canada under General Sullivan to the River Sorelle. There returned to Diunkevaugh, thence they went to New Jersey; was at Morris Town & adjacent country & there his  my term of service expired; when by request of his Capt. he continued in the service six weeks over the said term, to protect the inhabitants from the depredations of the enemy. & was then dismissed.
Afterwards in the year 1777 in the fall of the year the

The day or month he cannot now ascertain he entered into a company commanded by Captain Job. Pierce, Zadock Leonard Secy. Abiel Hatheway Ensign (now all dead), for one month to some in the State of Rhode Island. Then Marched to Foggy's Ferry in Newton in said State, General Spencer Commander in chief. And was discharged a few days not to exceed one week before the month expired. —
That he was born in Middleborough aforesaid but  at the several times he entered the army or aforesaid belonged to the  State  of  Taunton ; but now and for many years has resided in Middleborough aforesaid. his  birth is  not recorded any where that he knows of but as it has been always told to him was born in the year 1755. March 26 th . —
That there is no person living that was with him in the first term of service except his Brother Elijah above mentioned; that he knows of; that there there is but one man living who was with him in the last months service above mentioned & he has moved out of Middleborough to some place unknown to the Declarant. —
That in the month of May 1818. he applied for the benefit of the provisions of the act of Congress passed March 18 th 1818 and his his name was placed upon the pension lists & that he drew from the United States one and a half years pay & was then dropped on account of property.
That he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to any pension or annuity except the present & he declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any agency of any State.
Joshua Haskins

The foregoing Declaration was subscribed & sworn to the day & year aforesaid in open Probate Court, Attest Jacob H. Lord, Register,
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter & after putting the inter- rogatories prescribed by the War Department that the before named Joshua Haskins was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as he states.
By the Court, Attest, Jacob H. Lord Register.
I Jacob H. Lord Register of the Court of Probate for the County of Plymouth do hereby certify that the fore- going contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Joshua Haskins for a Pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said Court this eighth day of August in the Year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & thirty two.
Jacob H. Lord

John Haskins Schenck St —
9490 Sept 1819
SA
entitled
STATE OF VERMONT
SCHEDULE

SCHEDULE.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
County of Plymouth ss.
On this seventeenth day of July 1820, before the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Southern Circuit, proceeding according to the course of the common law with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, having a power also of fine and imprisonment, and keeping a record of their proceedings, personally appeared in open Court, being a court of record for the said County of Plymouth Joshua Haskins aged sixty five years, resident in Middleboro 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, viz, for the term of twelve months in Capt Mose's company in Col Brant's Regt & afterwards by request served in the same company a Regt six months and that he has received a pension certificate dated April 19th 1819 and numbered 9440 in pursuance of his original Declaration made May 7th AD 1818 and also takes and subscribes the following oath, viz.
And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the 28th 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. That I am by occupation a Farmer and in consequence of the infirmities of age am unable to do one half the labor of an able bodied Man. My family consists of two besides myself viz my wife Hannah aged 63 years, who is in very feeble health & unable to support herself, and a Lucinda Reading a girl which I agreed to keep and support for her labor until she arrives at the age of eighteen years. She is now seven teen, & is in feeble health & unable to help herself. I am indebted to sundry persons about four hundred Dollars & have nothing due to me. I have no income other than from my labor & excepting wearing apparel & bedding I have no property other than what is stated below viz
  One low small house & sixty nine acres of land, twenty acres of which is dead swampy land  275    One Yoke of small oxen worth $45 - Three cows $45 - one yearling 6  96    One calf 3 - seven sheep & six lambs kept on the commons having no pasture for them 13 - Three small pigs 20  38    Necessary articles of furniture 20 - one old horse 15  35     442    Joshua Haskins
Sworn to, and declared, on the 17th day of July before
Nahum Mitchell Esquire 1st Court
I, John B. Thorne clerk of Circuit Court of Common Pleas 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 Four Hundred Dollars and 44 2/3 cents. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said court, on this twenty ninth day of December 1820
J. B. Thorne Clerk of the Court for the County of Plymouth

Rev. and 1812 Wars Section AWF/eel
December 12, 1929
Mrs. Ellen Anderson Reeder North Dakota
Dear Madam:
I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S.30456, it appears that Joshua Haskins was born March 26, 1755, in Middleboro, Plymouth County, Massachusetts.
While residing in Taunton, Massachusetts, he enlisted in December, 1775, in Captain Abiel Peirce's Company, marched to Roxbury, Massachusetts and served nearly one month when he enlisted in Captain Moses Draper's Company, Colonel Bond's Massachusetts Regiment, was in the expedition to Canada, also in a skirmish at Elizabethtown, New Jersey, and served until in February, 1777.
He enlisted in the fall of 1777, and served one month in Captain Job Peirce's Massachusetts Company, and was in General Spencer's expedition to Rhode Island.
He was allowed pension on his application executed May 7, 1818, at which time he was a resident of Middleboro, Massachusetts.
In 1820, he referred to his wife, Hannah, as aged sixty-three years. There is no reference to children.
Very truly yours,
E. W. MORGAN Acting Commissioner.

Glew
New Bedford, Mass
Aug. 27. 1900.
Hon. R. Clay Evans, Commissioner of Pensions Dear Sir:-
Will you kindly furnish me with what facts may be obtained from the Pension Office records in regard to the military history of a soldier of the Revolution named Joshua Haskins , a native of the town of Middleborough, Mass. Born in 1756 Died Aug. 1. 1848. He served (as I suppose) in a Mass. Regiment , His Captain's name was William Haskins . He was present at the battles of Bunker Hill, Crown Point & Ticonderoga Trenton & others. He received a pension for his services. His discharge papers were never returned to him when his pension was granted, and may still be in the Pension Office, and if it is possible for me to obtain them I would be very glad to have them. This Joshua Haskins was my great-grandfather, His son Joshua Haskins (My grandfather) served in the war of 1812.
I was a soldier in the Civil War (1861-65) and it is a source of satisfaction to me to be able to reflect that in

the times of trial and war which our Country has experienced, the men of the different generations of our name and family have been willing, when men were needed, to offer their best service even life itself, in their Country's defense.
If you can assist me to a more complete knowledge of the military record of my ancestor, I shall esteem it a great favor indeed.
Yours respectfully,
Herbert K. Haskins 87 Chestnut St. New Bedford, Mass.

South Weymouth
Jan 31, 1902
Chief of the U.S. Pension Office —
Dear Sir
Can I obtain from your records the Revolutionary War service of Joshua Haskins of Middleboro, Massachusetts? He was a U.S. Pensioner, and is so mentioned in the Sixth Census in 1840.
I wish to join a Chapter of the D. R. — and it is necessary to have his War record — which is not fully

given in the Mass. Records. He is said to have served a year in the Middlesex Reg't, of Mass., Col. Thos. Gardner.
Respectfully
Mrs. Charles H. Ramsay So. Weymouth Mass
Great-granddaughter of Saml Joshua Haskins

Reader No. Dak. Oct. 23rd 1929.
Bureau of Pension Washington D. C.
Gentlemen:-
I am anxious to join our D. A. R. which is being organized here and would like to have the war record of Joshua Haskins Born March (16th or 26th?) 1755 in East Taunton Mass. He was a soldier in the Revolution-
Please send me his complete record necessary to join the D. A. R. and Thank you
Respectfully
(Mrs. Ellen Haskins Anderson)
Address,
Mrs. Ellen Anderson
Reader No Dak.

30 456 Rev INVALID.
File No. 30 456
Joshua Haskins Rev Rev War
Act: June 7 th 32 nd
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 172
[Arrangement of 1870.]
Sept. 23-1900- H-25 Herbert H. Haskins new B
Feb. 25-1902-
Miss Chas H. Ramsay So. Weymouth Mass
1929 Dec. 12-Will to Mrs. Ellen Anderson

9,490
Massachusetts
Joshua Haskins
4
of Middleboro in the state of Mass who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Bond of the Mass line, for the term of one year.
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 7 th of May, 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 19 th of Apr. 1819 and sent to Nahum Mitchell Esq. East Bridgewater, Mass.
Arrears to 4th of Mar 1819, 9 mts. 79.48 Semi-ann. all'ce ending 1 st Apr 1819 48.00
$127:48
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Discontinued
Approved and May 3 rd 1821 by John B. Thomas Esq. Plymouth, Mass.

John Townsend, who has testified in this case is a credible witness, and was an officer in the revolution, but not in the same company with the claimant. I usually require the affidavit of some officer under whose command the claimant served, or of two soldiers, who served with him, where they can be produced, in every case where the claimant relies on the service of the year 1776. and refuse to forward their declarations till I am fully satisfied of their service. But I live in the country and all, who come before me, are residents in the vicinity, and are old established inhabitants of the country, and their revolutionary services are generally perfectly well known to their neighbourhood and there is but very little danger of imposition. In this case I am as well satisfied from the deposition of Townsend, as I should be if one or two more should testify to the same facts; and have no doubt of the service of the claimant during the whole of 1776 as he has declared. —
Nahum Mitchell } Judge for

Joshua Harkins - Middleboro' (1775)
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27 The Judge at East Bridgewater Mass.

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
Plymouth ss. This 7 th day of May Dom. 1818, before me the subscriber, one of the Judges of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Southern Circuit, personally appeared Joshua Haskins of Middleboro' Co. of Plymouth aged sixty three years, resident in the said Circuit, who being by me first duly cautioned according to law, on his oath made the following declaration, by him signed , in order to obtain the provision made by the late 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," viz. That he enlisted and enter- ed into said war on the first day of December 1775 at Dorchester near Boston for one year in Mores Dra- pers Company & Col. Bond's Regiment in the Mas- sachusetts line and continued to serve therein till the middle of February 1776 and was discharged at Morristown in New Jersey state-having by request continued six weeks over the term of one year for which he enlisted - that he had no written dis- charge as he recollects - that he was in the battle or skirmish of scouts near Elizabeth Town the very day he was discharged, in which 72 of the enemy were taken and several killed - that the prisoners were lodged in Morristown Gaol, and he was discharged at night having served thirteen months and a half - that he served in the militia several times besides - that John Townsend, who was an Ensign in the service

at the same time can testify to his services and that he has no further evidence in his power of his said service — that from his reduced circumstances he needs the assistance of his country for support —
And the said John Townsend was sworn and testified that he is well acquainted with the said Haskins and knows that he enlisted into the year's service in 1776 and served therein & returned in the beginning of 1777. —
And I, the said Judge, do certify, that it appears to my satisfaction, that the said Joshua Haskins — — — did serve in the revolutionary war, as stated in the preceding declaration, against the common enemy, for the term of nine months, on the continental establishment; and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me, to the Secretary for the Department of War, pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress, & that he needs the assistance of his country for support. —
Nahum Mitchell.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
ss.
1818.
I HEREBY CERTIFY, That I is one of the Judges of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Southern Circuit, consisting of the Counties of Plymouth, Norfolk, Bristol, Barnstable, Dukes and Nantucket in said Commonwealth—that the same Circuit Court of Common Pleas is a Court of record—that the signature to the above certificate is the true signature of the said Judge, and that the seal thereunto affixed is the seal of the said Court.
} Clerk of the Judicial Court for the County of

Joshua Haskins
March 1819
14 Months
Jacob H. Ladd Esq. Plymouth Mass

I Elijah Haskins of Farmton in the County of Bristol & Commonwealth of Massachusetts I swear I was a Soldier in the United States service in a company commanded by Capt. Abie Dyer of Middleborough in the County of Barnstable Mass. I with the company marched to Roxbury about the first of December 1775. My Brother Joshua Haskins then of Farmton now of said Middleborough entered into the same com- pany marched & served with me one month and on the first of January 1776. He entered into the continental service of the Revolution.
Elijah Haskins
Plymouth ss.
Sworn to & subscribed this eighth day of August A.D. 1832 in open Probate Court, Attest,
Jacob H. Lord Register
Sworn