Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 13,016, Moses Filley, Conn.
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(3-1776)
SERVICE Conn.  Filley, Moses NUMBER S.13.016
Carded.
CONTENTS
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[partial text] 2040
Moses Filley [unknown text]
[unknown text] Co.  in the State of Conn. who was a [unknown text] in the company comm
By Captain Prior of the [blank] comm
By [blank] in the Conn
[unknown text] 16 month & 5 days
[unknown text] 9 25
Inscribed on the roll of Connecticut at the rate of 139 Dollars [blank] cents for [illegible]
To commence on the 4th day of March, 1831. & end 30 January 1837, when he died.
Certificate of Pension [illegible] the 15 day of May 1846, and sent to L.T. Pease of [unknown text]
Arrears to the 4th of 
Semi=anl. Allowance ending
Increased form $53:33/per annum.
Firmer payments to deducted.
Revolutionary 
Act June 7, [illegible] 83
Recorded by D. Brown
Book E 2. Vol. 3. Page 13
Payable to his children, Mary [incomplete text]
Filley and Perry Filley.
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[Bottom of page - upside down text]
Application of
Moses Filley of

[Top of page, all handwritten)
admit 
1 year 4 mo
53.33
Leut.Richard Niles
Hartford Ct

(handwritten to the side of the above, along the length of the paper)
In testimony whereof I have  set my hand and fixed my seal    of office this eighteenth day of August 1832HJames  Grissom (?) Glock (?) Cov. Est. HO.E
Connecticut
1341.
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Declaration  in order to obtain the benefit of the act of {unknown text} June 7, 1832.
State of Connecticut
County Of Hartford
On this 16th day of August one thousand eight hundred and thirty two the county court for said county of Hartford August term, I now sitting {illegible text} Moses Filley a resident of Windsor in said county aged eighty three years last January who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of congress {unknown} text June 7th 1832.  That’s he entered the service of the United State under the following named {unknown text} as herein stated {unknown text}.
That huge enlisted into the Armory of the United States about the first of December 1775 for four months.  Abner Prior was Captain Sam {unknown text} Lieut. Samual Mattock ensign of said company.  Philander Rowley {unknown text} Hosea Clark, Aaron Gillet and several others enlisted at the same time.  He was ordered to Boston and marched some time in Dec. 1775. {unknown text} through Hartford Woodstock and to Roxbury and encamped at a place called Jamaica Plains about three miles from Roxbury and made quarters at the House of Deacon Wells.
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Went the first night to work at the Fort and {unknown text} work on Dorchester hill the morning after this second night.  Helped collect about 1800 cannon balls of various sizes for which he {unknown text} of Whiskey for each ball.  {unknown text} the British burning the light house.  Thinks he did not sign a written discharge.  If he did it is now lost.  Does not recollect to what Regiment he belonged or the name of his Col.  Staid(sp) out the time for which he enlisted and returned home to {unknown text} the April following {unknown text} in 1776.  That he knows of no person living who knows of this service.  Except Philanderer Rowley who was with him the whole time.
He further states that in February or March 1777 he enlisted into the Army of the United States as a continental teamster for three years under Captain Gunder Wadsworth of Hartford.  Benjamin Clark, Asa Hoskins & several others enlisted at the same time.  That immediately after his enlistment he was inoculated for the smallpox & had it very severely but  continued to serve as a teamster under his said enlistment till April 1778 when he was discharged not being able any longer to perform that duty in consequence of {unknown text} by the smallpox.  Which has wholly disqualified him from doing any labor through his whole life since.  And that he is now a cripple and has been supported by the industry of his two daughters.  That while employed in teaming he went repeatedly to Litchfield and took beef and pork
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to Danbury. Went into the State of New York for flour, to Springfield Mass & back to Hartford, recollects of an attempt to stop him at Windsor for traveling on the Sabbath with a load of Corn. Capt. Wadsworth usually went with them & paid their expenses & for the provisions & grain they transported-- and that he remains in the service under Capt. Wadsworth fourteen months, and received from him a written discharge. He further states that under a former Law he applied for a Pension & his papers were forwarded to the proper department, but cannot now find any record of them, at the Office of the Clerk of the County Court. The business was done before the Chief Judge of the said Court & Capt Gurdon Wadsworth was then present with with his enlisting orders, he has since Deceased & the orders cannot to be found according to his recollection. His claim was rejected in consequence of Teamster not being entitled to a pension - that he served in the two tours(?) at least Eighteen months, but does not know whether the corps or Regiment to what he belonged were State troops or continental. And to the Interrogatories put by the Court as prescribed by the War Department the said Moses Filley [illegible]
1st I was born in Windsor in January 1749 
2d I have no record of my age
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(3-1776)
Service
Number

Conn. (handwritten)
Filley, Moses (handwritten)
S. 13,016 (handwritten)

Contents
Carded (handwritten)
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Enoch Frisbie & Asahel Clark both residing in Windsor in Hartford County, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Moses Filley who has subscribed & sworn to the above Declaration, & we believe him to be in his eight fourth year; that he is reputed & believed in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been or soldier of the Revolution, & that we concur in that opinion Sworn & subscribed the day & year aforesaid 
Enoch Frisbie 
Asahel Clark
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after investigating the matter, & after putting the interrogatoires prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier served as he states. And the Court further certifies that it appears to them, that Enoch Brisbie & Asahel Clark, who have signed the preceding certificate a resident of Windsor in said County & an each of thence credible persons, that their statement is entitled to credit. I, (?) Griswold, Clerk of the County Court for Hartford County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Moses Filley for a Pension In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set hand & the seal of said County Court this sixteenth day of August 1832, (?) Griswold Clerk Co. A. H. Co Co
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Conn Filley, Moses S 13016
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State of Connecticut
Hartford County Hartford Probate District
I William N. Matson sole Judge of the Court of Probation for the District aforesaid hereby, certify that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited to this court that Moses Filley late of Windsor in the County of Hartford aforesaid was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States at the rate of fifty three dollars thirty three cents per annum and that said Moses Filley died at said Windsor on the 30th day of January AD 1837, leaving no widow but two surviving children whose names are Mary Ann and Perry. In witness whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name of Hartford this 27th day of February AD 1846.
William N Matson Judge of Probate

State of Connecticut
I Edwin O Goodwin Clerk of the Court of Probate for the District of Hartford [illegible] hereby certify that William N Matson Esq whose [illegible] is subscribed to the preparing
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July 19, 1939

Miss Myrtle M. Jillson
56 Montgomery Street
Waterbury, Connecticut

BA-J/AWF
Moses Filley
S. 13016

Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War record of Moses Filley, of Hartford County, Connecticut. 

The data furnished herein were obtained from papers on file in claim for pension, S.13016, based upon the military service of Moses Filley in the Revolutionary War.

Moses Filley was born sometime in January, 1749, in Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut. The names of his parents are not given. 

While residing in Windsor, Connecticut, Moses Filley enlisted December 1, 1775, served four months as private in Captain Abner Prior's Connecticut company, marched to "Jamaica Plains", about three miles from Roxbury, and assisted in building the fort and breast works on Dorchester Hill. He enlisted sometime in February or March, 1777, served about fourteen months as teamster, under Gurdon Wadsworth, Conductor of Teams, and Nehemiah Hubbard, Quartermaster General. 

He was allowed pension on his application executed August 16, 1832, then a resident of Windsor, Connecticut. 

He referred in 18328320 two daughters, but he
1832 to
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did not state their names. 

The soldier, Moses Filley, died January 30, 1837, in Windsor, Connecticut. He left no widow at his death, and the name of his wife was not stated.

The following children were living in Hartford County, Connecticut, in 1846-- Mary Ann Filley, and Perry Filley. 

The papers on file in this claim contain no further discernible data relative to the famioy of Moses Filley. 

Very truly yours 
A. D. HILLER 
Executive Assistant 
to the Administrator
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13.016 
Rev War
INVALID. 
File No. 13.016
Moses Filley 
[intelligible]. Rev. War
Act: June 7th 1832 
Index:--Vol. 
Page 
[Arrangement of 1870.] 

1939. July 19. [intelligible] to Miss Myrtle
M. Jillson [intelligible]
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2040
Moses Filley
of Windsor in the State of []
who was a Private in the company commanded
by Captain Prior of the [] commanded 
by [not visbible] in the
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Moses Filley, dec?
Ach 7 June 1832.
                mo. days.
Teamster  14    5
Private        9   25
Increase to $139 per ann.
Deducting former payments --
The amount to be paid to his
children  Alofer Ann Filley &
Perry Filley - payable at
Hartford, Con. up to the 30th of
January 1834, when the Said
Alofer Filley died.
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Moses Filley

Filley, Moses
(CONN.)
S-13016
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Conn.   Filley, Moses  S. 13.016

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Gurdon Wadsworth "Comp" of Teamsters
1777
March 25th Gurdon Wadsworth---Captain 12--
27th Jesse Pain---- Teamster---4--10
27th Moses Filley----Ditto---4--10
27th Solomon Clark----Ditto---4--10
28th Reuben Andrews----Ditto---4--10
April 7th Asa Hoskins----Ditto---4--10
8th Amos Lawrence Jun----Ditto---4--10
9th Jared Olcott----Ditto---4--10
12th Benoni Clark----Ditto---4--10
26th Amos Whetland Jun----Ditto---4--10
May 1st Gideon Loomiss Jun----Ditto---4--10
May 12th Azrl Hills----Ditto---4--10
                                                 61--10
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Hartford June 5th 1778

Quarter Master General
To Gurdon Wadsworth Jr

To wages of myself as Conductor of Trans in the Continental army with the following

1778 Teamsters in my company........viz
June 5th 
Gurdon Wadsworth Conductor from March 2d to May 31 89 days @ 12£  35.12
Solomon Clark Teamster 96/~ 14.4.9
Reuben Andrews Teamster 96/~ 14.4.9
Asa Hoskins Teamster 96/~ 14.4.9
Amos Lawrence Jun Teamster 96/~ 14.4.9
Moses Filley Teamster 96/~ 14.4.9
Jared Olcott Teamster 96/~ 14.4.9
Bennie Clark Teamster 96/~ 14.4.9
Amos Westland Jun Teamster 96/~ 14.4.9
Gideon Loomis Jun Teamster 96/~ 14.4.9
Azel Hills Teamster 96/~ 14.4.9
______________
£168.10.9
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I certify that the first of the foregoing rolls is accurately transcribed from a small red covered book called "The Wadworth Book" and that the second of the foregoing rolls is accurately transcribed from one of the Hubbard Kay books both of which books have often been submitted to the inspection of the Commission of Pensions at Washington.
Hartford CT March 15th 1846
L. T. Pease

State of Connecticut
Hartford County}Ss
On this 15th day of March 1846 personally appeared L. T. Pease who hath subscribed the foregoing certificate & made oath in due form of law that the same is true.
Before me
Gideon Welles Justice of Peace
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Theadore Spencer of Hartford in the Coun ty of Hartford aged seventy-four years deposeth and saith that in the spring of the year 1777 he was acquainted with Moses Filly of Windsor in the county of Hartford knew of his having the small (illegible) at West Hartford and also knew of his belonging to Captain Gurdon Wadsworth's Company of Teamsters and understood that he enlisted for three years, in that line. Nechemiah Hubbard of Middletown was called Quarter Master Gen. of that corps of men. He further says that he knew of said Filley's teaming in the Continental establishment in the spring of 1778. He the deponent being then attached to the army and employed in Hartford.
Theadore Spencer

Subscribed and sworn this 18th day of August AD 1832 
Before Mr Richard Niles Justice Peace
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[ink bled through from the other side of the paper - below is the only part written on this side]

I certify that I am acquainted with the within named Theadore Spencer & that a sustains a fair character for truth & veracity.
Hartford August 18 1832
Reuben A Niles Justice of Peace
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All the pay rolls of Capt Gurdon Wadsworths company of teamsters, in which Moses Filley served, from the beginning of the service in March 1777 to the 1st of March 1778 are found in a Book now for the first time submitted to the inspection of the Comm. It being Col Wadsworth out with Genl Mifflin while said Wadsworth served as D. L. M. G.

P. 195
108 & 109} Moses Filley's Case
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I Thomas Moore of Bloomfield, in Hartford County State of Connecticut, aged 83 years, testify and say that I was acquainted with Moses Filley a revolutionary pensioner late of Windsor deceased, during the revolutionary war. I knew that said Filley was in the service, that he was a teamster in Capt. Gurdon Wadsworth's company - that I saw him in that service. After my acquaintance with him continued until his death, he ling in my neighborhood. I do not know the time from which he enlisted, but believe he served out the times for which he enlisted.
And further the deponent saith not.
Thomas Moore

Sworn and subscribed this 26th day of February 1846, before me, 
John Russell
Justice of Peace

I further testify that the aforesaid deponent is well known to me. That he is a person of good character, enjoying the respect and confidence of his neighbors, and that his statements are entitled to full credit.
John Russell,
Justice of Peace
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I, Silas Rowley of Bloomfield in the county of Hartford and State of Connecticut aged 85 years, testify and say, I was acquainted with Moses Filley, a revolutionary pensioner, late of Windsor, in said county deceased, from my childhood to the time of his death, which happened by a few years since. I well recollect that said Filley served as a teamster in Capt. Gurdon Wadsworth's company during the revolutionary war. I did not see him in the service, but he lived in the same neighborhood with me, and I know that he left home to engage in the service, and I then understood that he continued in it for about three years.  Said company of teamsters were employed in the transportation of stores from Springfield to Windsor, Hartford, Colchester and Danbury to the headquarters of the army at West Point.
and further the deponent saith not:
Silas Rowley

State of Connecticut,
Hartford County,  } SS
Sworn and subscribed this 26th day of February 1846, before me - and I further certify that the aforesaid deponent is well known to me - that he is a person of good character, enjoying the respect and confidence of his neighbors, and that his statements are entitled to full credit. 
John Russell Justice of Peace
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I George Latimer of Hartford in the County of Hartford State of Connecticut aged eighty eight years depose and say that I knew Moses Filley a Revolutionary Pensioner late of Windsor in said county deceased from a period prior to the Revolutionary War to the time of his death which happened but a few years since. That said Filley served for several years during the Revolutionary War as a Teamster in Capt Gurdon Wadsworth company being in the wagon service myself I often met the said Filley. I cannot be positive as to the time of his service but I then understood that said Wadsworths company was enlisted for three years and I believe that said Filley served the full period of said enlistment and further the deponent saith not.
Sworn to and subscribed this 26th day of February 1846.
Before me
George Latimer

John Russell
Justice of Peace

I further certify that the aforesaid deponent is well known to me, that he is a person of good character, enjoying the respect and confidence of his neighbors, and that his statements are entitled to full credit.
John Russell
Justice of Peace
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State of Connecticut
Office of the Secretary of State

I hereby certify that John Russell Esq, was on the 20th day of February A.D. 1846 a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Hartford duly appointed and commissioned, and I believe the foregoing to be his genuine signature.

In testimony to whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said state at Hartford this 27th day of April A.D. 1846

Danl P Tyler
Secretary of State
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Hon. Lewis Cass Secretary
of War Washington
care of J. L. Edwards Esq.
Pension Office
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Hartford Aug. 18, 1832

Hon. Secretary of War

Sir,
Enclosed is the application of Mr. Moses Filley for a pension, with his declaration and statement of fact and affidavits of service, which he wishes may be examined and the result made known to me as soon as may be convenient.

Respectfully yours  Richard Niles
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Moses Filley

[illegible - too light to read]
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Moses Filley of Windsor in the State of Connecticut was pensioned under the act of 1832 at the rate of about $53, per annum, for I know not what service, not having seen his original papers I [...] however [...] not for team service as that is usually designated.  He died in June of 1837 leaving no widow but two children now surviving.  
He is acclaimed by the calls now submitted to the [...] that Filley served a few days and thirteen months in Capt. Gordon Wadworth's Company of teamsters the last of March 1777 and ending May in 1778.
The pensioner's children whose name will appear from a finding of a Court of Probate ask for such arrears as may appear on a review of the evidence in the original files taken in Connection with the documentary evidence now submitted.
If this service (team service as a [...] on granting the pension to the deceased it was probably compensation only as for service of a private in the line and in that case they ask for an increase of compensation equal to the pay of a teamster.
By LT Pease
Atty
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Normal Butler of the City of Hartford aged sixty nine years deposeth and saith that he became acquainted with Mr. Moses Filley of Windsor in Hartford County in the month of May 1777 while said Filley was in the hospital, having the small pox. Said hospital being under the care of his brother, Daniel Butler, late of Hartford deceased, Physician, and associated almost entirely for the inoculation of persons engaged in the Continental service. That at the time said Filley was in said hospital and infirm I understood he was engaged as a teamster in Cap Gurdon Wadsworth Company of Teamsters of the Continental Army. Mr. Filley had the small pox very bad according to my best recollection as much as three months in the hospital. The disease having fallen into his legs making him very lame at the time & rendering him very unable for any active business ever since.
N. Butler

Subscribed & sworn before me this 16th day of August 1832.
Richard Niles Justice Peace

And I certify that I am acquainted with the said Norman Butler & that he sustains a fair character for truth & veracity.
Richard Niles Justice Peace
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I Philander Rowley of Windsor County of Hartford in the seventy seventh year of his age deposeth and saith that he was a private in a company which he believes was commanded by Capt Abner Prior of said Windsor. That he enlisted for four months under said Samuel Pierce, & marched for Boston Jamaica Plains in Dec 1775. & that he served there & in the neighborhood of Boston four months & was discharged in April 1776. That he is well acquainted with Moses Filley of said Windsor, an applicant for a pension & has been from his youth up. That said Moses enlisted with the same company with me & at the same time & served said term of four months with him in the neighborhood of Boston. We marched down to Boston together, & said Moses left then, after being discharged, in the evening & I the next morning; & this deponent knows that said Moses served said term of four months.
And he further testifies, that said Moses is a man of truth & veracity.
Philander Rowley

Sworn & subscribed this fifteen day of August AD 1832. 
Richard Niles Justice Peace

And I certify that I am acquainted with said Philander Rowley, & that he possesses a fair character for truth & veracity.
Richard Niles Justice Peace
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Waterbury, Conn.
June 2, 1939.

Department of the Interior 
Washington, D. C. 

ATT.: Revolutionary War Records. 

RECEIVED
Jun 5 1939
Mail Sub-Div.
Vets Adm
Reader 9

Gentlemen: 
Quoting from Connecticut Men in the Revolution: 
Page 382: Moses Filley, Capt. Prior's Company. Page 651: Moses Filley, pensioner, 1832, residing in Hartford County. 

He was undoubtedly: 
V Moses, s. Samuel and Jerusha (Drake) Filley, bp. Bloomfield, Conn., Feb. 2, 1752, d. where?, when?; m. where?, when?, Millicent, dau. and (), b. where?, when?, d. Bloomfield, Conn., Jan. 10, 1820, ae. 64; bur. Old Cemetery, Bloomfield (formerly Wintonbury), Conn. 

He had a son, Moses, Jr., who settled in East Granby, Conn., and married Betsey -----, whose surname is also missing from the family record. 

Any family data on the pension or service record of above Moses Filley would be very much appreciated; also, length of service, etc., which is not given in Connecticut Men In The Revolution. 

Thank you very much for any information you may give this matter. 

Very truly yours, 
Myrtle M. Jillson

Miss Myrtle M. Jillson
56 Montgomery Street
Waterbury, Conn.