Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 13,253, Samuel Haskell, Continental Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Continental Mass.
Haskell, Samuel
S 13,253
CONTENTS
Carded

14009 13638 New York
Samuel Haskell
of New York in the State of New York who was a private in the Company commanded by Captain _____ of the Regt commanded by Col Jackson in the Mass's m ch time for 14 mo.
Mass. and Continental Records completed Feb 24/30.
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 50 Dollars 00 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 6 day of May 1833 and sent to Applicant at New Rochelle
Arrears to the 4th of March 1833 $160.00 Semi-ant. allowance ending 4 Sept 40 00 $200.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by W. L. Williams Clerk Book _____ Vol. 4 Page 59

New Rochelle 3 October 1832 - 6 West Chester Street
The Hon. Lewis Cass Esq. Secretary at War (No. 8)
Sir, I pray leave to address you upon the subject of Claim to the Benefit of the late extension of the pension act in behalf of certain surviving Officers and Soldiers of the Revolutionary War and Sir, as there are always exceptions to general Rules, I would submit it to your consideration whether I cannot realize the Benefit of that Act without the formalities of those certificates substantiating my Claim, the requisitions of which are annexed to the Act as lately published. I Sir, am one of the oldest, and in fact the only Protestant Episcopal Presbyter in the State of New York who was in it at the time I first settled in it, and with the exception of the Right Rev. Bishop Moore now of Virginia, I believe the others have all fallen asleep. To me Sir, it would be a very delicate thing to apply to persons of the description mentioned in the Appendix of that Act for a certificate of what they believe with regard to my Claim, for it is what they know nothing of. It is a Nostrum Sir which I have communicated to no person in the country in which I live, save to Col. Samuel Young a Revolutionary Officer, & to him confidentially. After receiving Orders Sir in the Protestant Episcopal Ch. by the Right Rev. Bishop Provoost in the year 1794 I settled in the County of West Chester State of New York where I found the greater part of the people and especially of my Congregation strongly tinctured with Toryism & at that day so soon after the close of the War and while its contingencies were fresh in their memories their prejudices were strong against those who took an active part in bringing about that Revolution, so that a knowledge of the part I acted in it, would have answered no valuable purpose but might have destroyed, or rather have prevented any usefulness in the Ch. and rendered me very unpopular as a Clergyman for which reason Sir and seeing no benefit to be derived from communicating the fact, it is not known in this part of the country. You know well Sir after a lapse of fifty years the difficulty of obtaining personal proof of Facts however public, or Notoriety at the time, and whether the names of the men composing the Revolutionary Army have been preserved on Record, or whether they were lost at the time of the passing of the Record I know not. Perhaps Sir my name may be found on Record at Washington, if so, it will remove in part if not in toto, the difficulty which would otherwise attend the substantiating of my Claim. But Sir I will now proceed to give a simple statement of facts, and you will permit me to be a little circumstantial, and then you will be the better able to judge of the case - In the year 1781 at the time the French Troops were called from Rhode Island to join Gen. Washington at Kings Bridge in his contemplated Siege of New York, in cooperation with the French Fleet which was expected to enter the Waters of New York, in stead of which, having entered the Waters of the Chesapeake which caused Gen. Washington to change his plan & course of operations and proceed on to York Town which eventuated in the capture of

of Cornwallis and his Army - At that time Massachusetts raised a Regiment which under the Command of Lieut. Col. Turner succeeded the French Troops in the protection of Newport and the Island; I was one of that Regiment and enlisted for the Town of Harvard County of Worcester say for six Months - Under a New enlistment in the Month of March or April 1782 for three years I joined that part of the Continental Army which lay at Nelsons point opposite West point. My lot fell to the 1 st Company, 9 th Regiment 3 rd Brigade, called Jacksons Regiment, and Jacksons Brigade the one Michael & the other Henry, but as Col. Jackson was absent the Command of the Regiment devolved on Lieut. Col. Smith. Latter part of the summer and fall our encampment was at Verplank's point, where Gen. Washington collected and concentrated the greater part of the American Army, during which campaign was what was called the Grand Review, and a sham Battle between Regiments of our own Troops. Latter part of November went into winter Quarters back of New Windsor where and where in a dense woods we built huts for our accommodation, and also a large Building for the accommodation of the Officers of the Army to hold their public Meetings and which they styled the New Building; and in which in the Month of March following Gen. Washington convened his Officers and delivered that inimitable address to counteract, and which had the desired effect, the tendency of a certain Anonymous insidious letter which was then in circulation through the Camp. The following Month April on Gen. Washingtons proclamation of the cessation of hostilities between the United States of America and Great Britain and the Discharge of the During  War  Men , the two Mass ts Regiments were reduced to six, the Station then assigned me was in the 1 st Company of the 6 th Regiment and Col. Tupper assigned to the Command & his Son Lieut. Tupper appointed Adjutant of the same. My Captains Name was Daniels, and Lieut. Scamell. In the early part of the summer left our Encampment back of New Windsor and took quarters at West point. In the course of the summer a Division of our Troops and of which I was one, under the Command of Gen. Howe marched to Philadelphia to quell an Insurrection or Riot made by some of the disaffected discharged Soldiers, and who attempted to break open the Bank &c and after encamping South of Elephes Hill 3 Miles from Town for two or three Months we returned to West point. In the Month of November following I was one of a few, who accompanied a number of Officers of Rank to New York and entered the City 12 O'clock of the day at 10 A.M. of which the British Troops embarked on board of their Shipping 25 Nov. After remaining in New York a few days and witnessing the first celebration of the Evacuation in the

display of the grand Fire works prepared by the celebrated Engineer of the American Army Capt. Price, we returned to West Point where we passed the Winter. The following Spring the Troops were discharged excepting a sufficient Number to compose one Regiment, and which was called the American Regiment, I was still retained, which Regiment under the Command of Major Caleb Gibbes continued to garrison the point until October, when the whole Regiment was disbanded excepting one company commanded by a Major Daugherty left in charge of the Arsenal and Military Stores. - At that time Sir, October 1784 I rec d , an honorable discharge from the Army and returned to my Native State Mass s having served my Country better than 3 years. The following Month after my Discharge I entered a Student in Phillips Academy Andover in the Neighborhood of Boston. In Sept r 1788 entered a Student in Yale College New Haven graduated in 1790 under the Presidency of the Rev d Doct d Styles. Rec d . Deacons Orders in the Protestant Episcopal Ch h in 1794 and Priest's Orders in 1795 from the late Right Rev d Samuel Provoost Bishop of the State of New York - To prove to you Sir, that this statement as respects the Ch h is correct I enclose to you my Letters of Deacons Orders which you will have the goodness Sir, to return to me when convenient. In those Letters Sir, I am signed as belonging to New Jersey - At that time I was holding, and had for two years held a Professorship in Queens, now Rutgers's College New Brunswick New Jersey - I also enclose a travelling letter of Introduction from the Rev d Doct d Beach of Trinity Ch h N.Y. which you may also return if you please - I likewise enclose a leaf taken from the Journals of our State Convention for the Year 1822, on the 44 th page you will find my name with my Parochial Report - and if Sir you would deem my Religious Attestation to that part of the foregoing as respects my Revolutionary Services a sufficient warranty for its Truth, and that should be required, I would get Richard Riker Esq r Recorder of the City of New York to take my Deposition and send it on to you. I know not Sir, how the late act of Congress is to be construed but I see by its letter that two years services rendered entitles the claimant to a full annuity, and that any term of service less than two years and down to six months to a proportional Allowance, and that in no case shall it exceed that of a Cap t 's pay - Now Sir, if the ratio ascends from two years, as it designs, the annuity in my case would be increased as 2 to 3, however Sir of that you are to be the judge - I presume that you will judge righteously judgment, and do the thing that is lawful and right and whether the provision of this act contemplates an equivalent for rations or merely the Continental Allowance of wages exclusive of rations is for you also to decide. All of which Sir Submit

submit to your consideration, and if upon mature deliberation the Data I send you are not sufficient in your mind to justify you in allowing my Claim, you will have the goodness Sir, to point out to me what farther proof you require & if it be practicable I will meet the requisition. But if on the other hand Sir, they should prove satisfactory and you should think proper to acknowledge my Claim a just one, as I flatter myself you will, and as I am now infirm and incapable of performing the stated duties and labors of a Parish it would be very desirable as well as alleviating to my wants to avail myself of the Benefit as soon as may consist with the arrangement of that Department of State to which it belongs to carry into effect the provisions of the Act, of which Sir, you will please to advise me as early as may be convenient to yourself and
Sworn before me in the City Hall of the City of New York this fourth day of October 1832
P. Piker
with high consideration and great Respect subscribe myself Sir Your Most Ob d Serv t . Samuel Haskell
13.638 Recorder of the City of
New York
I am personally acquainted with the Rev. Sam t Haskell, and know him to be highly respectable & of strict veracity
P. Piker New York 6 Oct 1832

13638
Samuel Haskell New York County N.Y.
Found on final settlement certificates.
Admitted.
24 mos. Private.
Applicant New Rochelle N.Y.

BRIEF in the case of Samuel Haskell  of in the State of  (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Affid. made before the Recorder of the City of New York -  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity? no  3. How old is he? not stated  4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed. 
   Period. Duration of Service. Rank. Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.   Years, Months, Days.     In 1781 not stated As a Gen. Major's troops enlisted   Mar or April 1782 - do H. Col: Turner Regt 9th Regt.   served till Col: Jackson Continental   Oct: 1784 H. Col: Smith enlisted   Col: Tupper -  
 5. In what battles was he engaged? none stated -  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? not stated  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? no proof accompanies this claim  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? 
no regular Declaration made in this case, only an Affidavit as above stated - not Officially attested
I certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
E. Stephens
Examining Clerk.

O. W. & N. Division.
P.S.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
Bureau of Pensions,
Washington, D. C.,
January 18, 1895.
Sir:-
In reply to your request for a statement of the military history of SAMUEL  WASKELL a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     ----- 1781 6 mo. Pri. Not stated Furner Mass.   March, 1782 to Oct. '84 " " 1st. Company Henry Jackson "   Daniels Tupper "   Not stated American Regt "  
Battles engaged in,
None.
Residence of soldier at enlistment,
Harvard, Mass.
Date of application for pension,
Oct. 4, 1882.
Residence at date of application,
New Rochelle, N.Y.
Age at date of application,
Not stated.
Remarks:
No mention made of the names of any of his relatives.
Mr. Hollis B. Page,
Haverly, Mass.
Very respectfully,
Commissioner.

LEXINGTON STREET, WAVERLEY, MASS.
OH
My dear Sir.
I have the pleasure of acknowledging the receipt of the Revolutionary Records of Samuel Haskell and Sylvanus Gates for which I asked you.
With many thanks, allow me to remain.
Very Sincerely
Hollis Bowman Page.
Jan 19. 1895
To Wm. Latner
Commissioner
(O. W. & N. Division F. S)

HA 9. 692 692 P
LEXINGTON STREET, WAVERLEY, MASS.
To the Pension Department. Washington. D. C.
The question has arisen in regard to one of my great grandfathers as to where he was born and as to the name of his mother.
This great-grandfather had a brother, Rev. Samuel Haskell, who was a revolutionary pensioner , and if the papers relating to him are preserved and accessible, they may solve the questions. The facts are as follows. —

✓ Rev. Samuel Haskell was son of Ezekiel Haskell (of ? ) and ( ? ) He was born at ( ? ), Massachusetts, 1762.
He died at New Rochelle N.Y.
Aug 24 th 1845.
having received a pension for Rev- olutionary services for years before his death. Perhaps he held the rank of Sergeant.
If you have the papers What would you charge to make a certified copy of them, as far as his personal record and Revolutionary services are concerned.

LEXINGTON STREET, WAVERLEY, MASS.
He was never married, if the paper should state his legal heirs, (brothers & sisters) so much the better for my purpose, for I have a difficult piece of family history to untangle, and almost no data with which to do it.
Also. Have you papers relating to another of my great grandfathers Sylvanus Gates, who when he died on Feb. 10, 1836, was a resident of Mt. Pleasant, Pennsylvania. If you have

what would a copy of his Rev. services & his personal description & record, cost.?
If you do not have the papers, or if the enquiry should be addressed to others outside of the department to conduct the research, please let me know. Very Sincerely.
Hollis Bowman Page
Dec 18 th 1894.

1896 Jan. 16" Heir to Mr. Hollis B. Page Waverly, Mass.
Reborn
13.253 INVALID.
File No. 13.253
Samuel Haskell Brn. Rev. War
Act: June 7 th 1832
Index:—Vol. 1 , Page 134
[Arrangement of 1870.]

[Faint, mirrored bleed-through text from the reverse side of the page, mostly illegible.]
Samuel Haskell Mass. S 13250

BY THE TENOR of these Presents be it known unto all Men that WE SAMUEL PROVOOST by Divine Permission Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the State of New York, solemnly administering Holy Orders under the Protection of Almighty God on Sunday the Twenty Ninth Day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety four in St Pauls Chapel NY did admit into the Holy Order of Deacons our well-beloved in Christ Samuel Haskell A.M. of New Jersey of whose Virtuous and Pious Life and Conversation and competent Learning and knowledge in the Holy Scriptures we were well assured and him the said Samuel Haskell did then and there rightly and canonically ordain a Deacon He having first in our Presence made the Subscription required by the General Ecclesiastical Constitution IN WITNESS whereof we have caused our Episcopal Seal to be hereunto affixed - Dated the Day and year above written and in the eighth year of our CONSECRATION
Sam!
Provoost

This is to certify whom it may concern, that the Bearer hereof the Reverend Samuel Haskell is Rector of the Episcopal Church at Rye in this State; that I have been personally acquainted with him for the space of seven years, & that he hath uniformly maintained the character of a pious, discreet & faithful Minister of the Gospel. —————
New York 19 th Feby 1801
Abm Black, Asst: Minister of Trinity Church, in New York

measures are taken to establish a missionary association.—Exertions are making to rebuild the church, and a sum almost sufficient for that purpose has been subscribed.
St. John's Church, Phillipsburgh, Westchester county, the Rev. John Grigg, Rector.—Baptisms (adults 4, infants 21) 25—Marriage 1—Burials 9—Communicants 88.
An auxiliary Bible and Common Prayer Book Society has been recently organized in this Church, and it is expected that, in a short time, a Female Missionary and Sunday School Association will also be in operation.
Christ Church, Rye, Westchester county, the Rev. Samuel Haskell, Rector.—Baptisms (adults 7, children 10) 17—Marriages 26—Burials 18—Communicants about 50.
St. Peter's Church, Westchester, Westchester county, the Rev. Isaac Wilkins, D. D. Rector.—Baptisms (adults 7, children 8) 15—Marriages 5—Funerals 9—Communicants between 30 and 40.
The Clergy also rendered the following accounts of COLLECTIONS FOR THE EPISCOPAL AND MISSIONARY FUNDS.
   Episcopal. Missionary   $ cts. $ cts.     St. Peter's Church, Albany 23 74 43 6   Trinity Church, Rensselaerville, Albany county 8 87   Christ Church, Hudson, Columbia county 10 34 16 46   Trinity Church, Fishkill, Dutchess county 10 12½   St. James's Church, Hyde-Park, Dutchess county 5 63 8 17   Christ Church, Poughkeepsie, Dutchess county 9 25 11 50   Christ Church, Greenville, Greene county 3 13   Trinity Church, Fairfield, Herkimer county by an Association 5 18 20 00   St. Ann's Church, Brooklyn, King's county 19 38 53 00   St. John's Church, Johnstown, Montgomery county 8 00 6 00   Christ Church, New-York by a Male and a Female Society 39 65   Grace Church, New-York by an Association 154 67 219 00*   St. Esprit, New-York 364 87   St. George's Church, New-York 22 25 32 64   St. James's Church, New-York 66 77 95 15   St. Luke's Church, New-York 18 50 10 82   St. Mark's Church, New-York 41 29   St. Michael's Church, New-York 47 00 115 00   St. Paul's Chapel, New-York,† (by a Society) 16 62½ 30 41   192 66½  
* Of this amount, $ 35 are contributed to the permanent fund of the New-York Protestant Episcopal Missionary Society.
† The closing of this Chapel, in consequence of the yellow fever, prevented the Episcopal Collection from being made. The same remark also applies to Trinity Church; in which latter Church, also, the unhealthiness of the city put a stop to arrangements which were making for forming a Missionary Association. It is designed, however, to take measures to this effect in the course of the present year.
‡ $ 95 of which are contributed to the permanent fund above mentioned.

St. George's Church, Flushing, Queen's county, the Rev. John V. E. Thorn, Rector.—Baptisms (adults 25, children 19) 44—Marriages 9—Funerals 15—Communicants 90.
St. George's Church, Hempstead, Queen's county, the Rev. Seth Hart, Rector.—Baptisms 17—Marriages 19—Burials 19—Communicants about 130.
St. James's Church, Newtown, Queen's county, the Rev. Evan M. Johnson, Rector.—Baptisms 10—Marriages 5—Deaths 5—Communicants 70.
Christ Church, North-Hempstead, Queen's county, the Rev. Eli Wheeler, Rector.—Baptisms (adult 1, children 13) 14—Marriages 6—Burials 7.
St. Paul's Church, Troy, Rensselaer county, the Rev. David Butler, Rector.—Baptisms (adults 12, infants 46) 58—Marriages 11—Funerals 32—Communicants (added 17, removed 7, died 6) 143.
Christ Church, Balston Spa, Saratoga county, the Rev. William A. Clark, Rector.—Baptisms (adults 2, children 20) 22—Marriages 6—Deaths 6—Communicants 80.
St. Mary's Church, Charlton, Saratoga county, the Rev. David Huntington, Rector.—Baptism 1—Death 1—Communicants 12.
St. Paul's Church, Charlton, Saratoga county, the Rev. David Huntington, Rector.—Baptisms (adult 1, infants 10) 11—Marriage 1—Deaths 8—Communicants 40.
St. James's Church, Milton, Saratoga county, the Rev. Charles McCabe, Rector.—Baptisms 7—Marriages 5—Deaths 4—Communicants about 40.
St. George's Church, Schenectady, the Rev. Alexis P. Proal, Rector.—Baptisms 8—Marriages 4—Funerals 6—Communicants 64.
Trinity Church, New-Rochelle, Westchester county, the Rev. Lewis P. Bayard, Rector.—Baptisms 2—Marriages 3—Burials 5—Communicants about 30.
This report embraces the period since the 23d of June last, when the present Rector took charge of the parish. A Sunday school has recently been established, consisting of 69 pupils, 42 males and 27 females.* The ladies of the parish have formed a Bible and Common Prayer Book society, and
* It is due to the praiseworthy exertions of several persons, not members of the Church, who have assisted in obtaining and instructing scholars, to state, that this report was made under the impression that in their co-operation with us they considered this school as properly a parochial school, as the title expresses it, in the article of the constitution which was acceded to by them, and regularly adopted at a meeting convened at their request.