Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 37658, Moses Allen, Conti
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
Conti
applied for pension in Va.

Allen, Moses 

NUMBER
S. 37658

CONTENTS
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18, 938

Virginia 

Moses Allen, 2nd 
of Washington Co in the State of Virginia, who was a private in the company commanded by Captain Finn of the Regiment commanded by Colonel Harrison in the Virginia line, for the term of 3 years to 1782.

Inscribed on the Roll of Virginia at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 1st of March 1823.

Certificate of Pension issued the 2nd of May 1823, and sent to Pensioner, Abingdon, Va

Arrears to 4th of March 1823  $1.03
Semi=anl. all'ce ending 4 Sept 1823  48.00
4/31  $49.03
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Revolutionary claim, Acts March 18, 1818, and May 1, 1820, & 1 March 1823.
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Order to pay
See letter to P. Agt. Hon. G. W. Hopkins Sept. 19 1857
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Moses Allen
Virginia

Va roll fol 75

Returned in order that the line may be stated, & the name of the Col. of Regt. also given in the Declaration
6th Decr. 1822
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Virginia towit
Washington County
On this nineteenth day of November 1822 personally appeared in open court being a court of record for the said county of Washington Moses Allen aged sixty four years, resident in Washington County aforesaid, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows - The said Moses Allen enlisted with Lieutenant Bedinger of the Continental Line and served three years, part of his time under Captain Ebenezer Findlay [Ebenezer Finley] and part of it under Captain Thomas Finn of the Artillery his memory has so failed him that he cannot recollect the precise time of his enlistment, but he recollects that he was discharged by Captain [Thomas] Finn in Richmond, after the capture of Cornwallis [General Charles Lord cornwallis]- During part of his service he was stationed at Cumberland Courthouse in Virginia - marched from there to Bacons bridge in South Carolina remained there about eight months returned to Richmond and was there discharged - He was in no battle during his said service. - And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the eighteenth 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
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[declaration page 2]

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 to wit:

 two small hogs valued to $3. 
1 old pot $1.50
one dresser and its furniture 50 cts
Two water pails 76 cts
Shoemakers Tools 1 dol -
2 old wheels & 1 Reel $2 
5 old chairs 1 dol - 4 axes $4. 
1 old plough $2- one frow & drawing knife $1.25 - 4 old hoes $1.50
1 pair of old stretchers $1 - 
one old loom & geers $3
one Do $3.50 - one old saddle 50 cts one old hay bushel 25 cts
one old box & table 25 cts
one old coffee mill 1 dol
one iron wedge 50 cts 
one Rifle gun $10 
in all $33.50

He further states that all his papers including his discharge were destroyed by fire.
Moses Allen [his mark] X

Sworn to and declared on the 19th day of November 1822 before the court of the said County of Washington then sitting, 
I John Campbell Clerk of Washington County in the State aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and schedule hereto annexed are truly copied from the record of 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 thirty three dollars and fifty cents.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said county this 20th day of November 1822 in the 47th yeat of our independence
John Campbell

[seal attached]
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Moses Allen

On Roll