William Pratt, A.L.S. Freetown [Mass.], 15th Feb. 1835 : to the Honorable William Baylies

William Pratt, A.L.S. Freetown [Mass.], 15th Feb. 1835 : to the Honorable William Baylies

Dutchess County, [N.Y.] 1786

[4] p. on 2 conjugate leaves ; 34 cm.

MSS L2014F110 M MB

Addressed to Massachusetts Congressman Baylies, William Pratt, seeks back pay long overdue for his revolutionary war service. He writes "…methinks there are many of the few of my surviving brethren better off than myself but none who are worse off. Considering all those circumstances I do most earnestly hope & trust that ur honor will not give up the ship, but pursue the course you have engaged in with all that energy so just, reasonable * righteous a cause demands… the survivors of the present day are indeed few in number & miserably old, rapidly wasting away & falling off."
He was an original member of the Rhode Island Society.

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