Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 7336, for John Moore, New Jersey
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
New Jersey

Moore, John

NUMBER
R7336

CONTENTS
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State of Newyork
Monroe County

On the twelfth day of October in the year of our Lord 1831 Personally appeared in open Court being the Court of Common Pleas in and for the said County of Monroe John Moore formerly John Moore Junr Resident in the said County aged Seventy years on the 6th day of November next who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the acts of Congress of the 18th March 1818 and the first of May 1820 that he the said John Moore by the name of John Moore Juniour enlisted for the term of one year in the latter part of the year 1779 at Morristown in the State of New jersey in the Company commanded by Captain
Joseph Allen in General Washingtons Line of Express on the Continental establishment that he continued to serve in said Corp until the
fall of 1780 when he was discharged at Valley forge in the State of Pennsylvania Isaac Smalley of New jersey now a Pensioner and John Caton served with this deponent in the year
aforesaid
that he hereby relinquishes that he the said
John Moore by the name of John Moore Jur enlisted for the Term of one year and as this deponent believes in the month of May in the
year of an Lord 1781 at Hackensack in the State of New jersey in the company commanded by Captain Peter Ward in
the Regiment commanded by Colonel Fell or Bell in the Line of the State of New jersey on the Continental Establishment
that he continued to serve in said Corps until the Spring of 1782 when he was discharged the Elizabeth Town in the State of New jersey That he hereby relinquishes Every Claim
whatever to a pension Except the present that his name is not on the pension roll of any state that on the 4th day of June in the year of our Lord 1818 he made an application for his pension & left his affidavit with Micah Brooks of Ontario County as his agent that the papers remained in the hands of Micah Brooks until the month of June last when this
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deponent was looking for witnesses who served with him he called and obtained the papers Mr Brooks Informing this deponent it was necessary to have additional Evidence When the forepart of June he found Christopher Pope who served with
him in the army he was also informed that John Caton with whom he Served lived in Seneca County in the State of New York but when this deponent came to Seneca County he was informed that the said Caton had moved some there to the State of Ohio this deponent also is informed that Isaac Smalley a Pensioner in the State of New jersey is yet living & whose affidavit he hopes to procure if necessary the Great distance at which he resides the
the precise place where located and the Great Expense in procuring this witness and my Limited means, is the reason I have to
render for not at this time presenting his affidavit and to all the above I may add the Infirmity of Body which precluded me from pressing my claim.
And in pursuance of the act of the first of May
1820 I do solemnly swear that I was a resident Citizen of the United States on the Eighteenth day of March 1818 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 as 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 anexed and by me Subscribed that since the Eighteenth day of March 1818
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no changes have taken place in my property since the year 1818. I have at no time owned or been in possession in my own right of property to the amount of one hundred dollars for which I did not own, before the year of our Lord 1814 while a resident in the State of Newjersey I lost my property by Indorsing rates for merchants who were trading in the south & have at no time since owned property to the value of two hundred dollars
John Moore

Sworn to and declared on the 11th day of October AD 1831 before us
Sam Speare
James Smith
Saml Castle Judges of the County Court for Monroe County

I William Groves Clerk of the County of Monroe do hereby certify that it appears to the satisfaction of the Court that the said John Moore did serve in the Revolutionary War as stated in the preceding declaration against the Common Enemy for the term of two years under two different engagements on the Continental Establishment I also certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto anexed are truly copied from the records of the said Court and I do further certify that in the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is $47-74. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court on this 11th day of October AD 1831
William Groves Clerk
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State of New York Wayne County SS
Christopher Pope, of the town of Rose, in said County, being duly sworn, says that he enlisted as a regular soldier, in the Continental Army of the United States, in the year of our Lord one thousand and seven hundred and eighty oe, under Capt. John Outwater, in a regiment commanded by Col. Fell, as he now believes; that he continued to serve in said continental army, during two years from the time of his enlistment; that he is well acquainted with John Moore Jr. And that said Moore was a member of the company to which he belonged during the last year of his service, under Capt. Peter Ward, in the same regiment; that he the said deponent knows that the said Moore served for more than nine months in the continental army aforesaid, as a regular soldier, And further this deponent saith not.
Christopher Pope
Subscribed & sworn before me this 22nd June 1831
Daniel Chapmaan Comr. of Deeds Wayne Co.

State of New York County of Wayne SS
I Daniel Chapman, Dep Clk of the said county, do certify, that Daniel Chapman, before whom the preceding affidavit purports to have been sworn, was, at the date of the same a commissioner of deeds in and for said County; And that I am well acquainted with his handwriting, and verily believe his name subscribed to the said affidavit, to be his proper signature. Witness my hand & seal of office this 22nd June 1831.
D. Chapman Dep Clk
Wayne Co.
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Schedule

one cow and calf --- $13.00
one sow & five piggs --- 6.00
one iron pot 6/one table 16/one Stand 16/ --- 4.00
one looking glass 12/one bed (illegible) & bedslead --- 11.50
one small trunk 5/ 1 axe 8/ 1 sythe 4/ --- 2.12
part of 2 horse harness old 7/ 1 pair broken (illegible) /2/ --- 1 12
$37.74
Use of between 4 & 5 acres of land 
being in the (illegible) of my life --- 10.00
$47.74

John Moore
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reduced circumstances he needs the assistance of his country for support; And further this deponent saith not.
John Moore

Sworn and subscribed before me this fourth day of June AD 1818
Micah Brooks

I certify that this document is the original application of Mr John More for a pension, and that I did not forward it at the time on account of my not having the evidence of his (illegible) circumstances, and also proof of his service - that this paper has remained with until recently given up to Mr More at his request.
Micah Brooks
Bloomfield 19th Sept 1781 - 

State of New York Ontario County SS
I certify that Micah Brooks before whom the above affidavit was taken and whose signature appears to the jurat of the same was at the date thereof a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County duly commissioned and sworn. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court this 26th day of September
(illegible signature black smudge)
of Ontario County
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John Moore
New York
Act 18 Mar 1828

Rejected 17 Oct [illegible]
per letter to P Price
Sec do to do
7 Augt 1832
7336
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7336
P. O. ___________
John Moore
Service: __________
Enlisted: REJECTED, 18_____
Discharged: ___________, 18
Application filed: ___________, 18
Alleges: ___________
Re-enlisted: ________________
Attorney: ___________
P. O. ______________

__________ Recognized. [Check Mark] [illegible]
__________Cert. of Dis. Searched for _________, 18
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the Hon Secretary at War will please
to direct his communication in this case to Peter Price Esq of Rush Moor County State of New York when it come to the hand of John Moore the pen
[illegible]
J M
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N Y
P.O.
Rejected Oct. 17. 1832
Hon Secretary at War
Washington
Revolutionary Claim

FREE
[Postmark] Rochester N Y  Oct 12
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
Form VAN-51
12-5-41
Division of Veterans' Administration Archives
BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Moore, John  GRADE Fifer
LINE New York
WARRANT NUMBER 7465
ACREAGE 100
ISSUED Aug. 6, 1790 to Abm. Ten Eyck, assignee
The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800.
Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.