Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 41,882, for William Moore, Pennsylvania
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(3-1776)
SERVICE
Penn. 
Moore, William 
NUMBER
S. 41. 882
B. L. Kt. 1427-200. Lieut.
Issued Feb. 5, 1794 -
No papers.
CONTENTS
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Two sided document
left side

1888 Jany 9 W S Long
with history Prior

written bottom to top 
(???????)  sent to C W Humphrey
Cochranville Pen Oct 21. 1820

right side
10.512
R
Pennsylvania
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William Moore
Cochranville in the state of Pennsylvania who was a Captain in the regiment commanded by Colonel Miles of the Pennsylvania line, for the term of Seven Years War
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Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania
at the rate of 20ty. Dollars per month, to commence on the first of October 1818
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Certificate of Pension issued the 12th of May 1818 and sent to Samuel Cochraner
Cochranville Pennsylvania
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Arrears to 4th of Mar. 1819. 102.58
Semi-annual all'ce ending 4 Sept. 1819 120.00
Mo: 4/31.               $222.58
20/64
14/3
{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818}
died June 6, 1824
see Agency Book

4 Sept. 1819
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Capt William Moore

10.512
Sept 1819
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COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA,
CHESTER COUNTY, SS:
ON this third day of August in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and twenty
Personally appeared in OPEN COURT of Common Pleas, held at Westchester, in and for the county of Chester, in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania; being a court of Record, proceeding according to the course of the Common law, with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, and keeping a record of its proceedings,
William Moore Cale: a Captain in the Army of the Revolution aged Sixty nine years and upwards, resident in the township of Sadsbury in the said county of Chest, and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania; who being first duly Sevoin according to law, doth make the following declaration, in order to obtain the provision made by the acts of Congress of the 18th of March, 1818, and the 1st of May, 1820; That he served in the Revolutionary war, as a Lieutenant in Captain Grubb's Company in the 2nd Pennsylvania Wia Regiment Commanded by Colonel Miles and was promoted to the Rank of Captain of the close of the war in the Pennsylvania Line on the Continental Establishment, and has obtained a pension under the act of the 18th of March 1818, his certificate being numbered 10512.
AND I the said William Moore do solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the eighteenth day of March, eighteen hundred and eighteen, and that I have not since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner whatever 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 in the Revolutionary War," passed on the eighteenth day of March, eighteen hundred and eighteen, 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.       [signature Wm. Moore]

Sworn to, declared and subscribed, on the third day of August 1820, in open court of Common pleas, in and for the county of Chester in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania; the said Court, being a Court of Record by the Laws of the said Commonwealth.
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William Moore  
 Captain
Col Miles Regiment
Pennsylvania Line
1776-7 years
Admitted
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To the Honorable Walter Finney Esquire one of the associate Judges of the Court of Common Pleas and quarter sessions of the peace in and for the county of Chester being one of the Counties composing the seventh Judicial district of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
The Petition of the subscriber one of the surviving officers of the Revolutionary army
Respectfully (??)

That your petitioners engaged in the service of his country as a private soldier in the month of February 1776 in one of the Pennsylvania Rifle Regiments commanded by Col. Miles. That he continued in the service until the close of the war having been promoted first to a third Lieutenant the commission for which office having been by length of time by accident or neglect lost and cannot now be found; afterwards in April 1777 to a first Lieutenant which with appears by his commission now produced and at the close of the war to the rank of Captain by (??) which commission is also preserved and now produced. That your petitioner having served from the time of his entering into the services to the end of he War and having thus spent the prime of his life in his countries service and being now sixty ("four" crossed off)eight years of age unable to support himself as heretofore by the labor of his hands and being also in poor and adversed circumstances without property for his future support, Prays that he may be admitted to verify on oath he facts above stated agreeably to the provisions of the Act of Congress relative to persons engaged in the land and in service of the United
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states during the Revolutionary War passed the 18th day of March A. D. 1818 so that he may be unable to prove from the Government of the United States a pension which he verily believes he is of right entitled to in pursuance of the provisions of the aforesaid law.
October 1st 1818
Wm. Moore

Chester county, SS
Before the Subscriber Walter Finney Esquire one of the aforesaid Judges of the courts of Commonwealth and Quarter Sessions in and for the said county Personally appeared the above named William Moore and his Solumn oath ____
duly administered according to law saith that the facts set forth in the foregoing petition are strictly true. And further I do certify that I was personally acquainted with the services rendered by said William Moore as stated in his petition, and believe him at this time to be in poor and indigent circumstances without property for his support. Also being therefore fully satisfied of the justice of his claim. Do recommend him as a fit subject for the Bounty of his Country.
Wm. Moore
The above Deposition taken & subscribed this first Day of Feb. 1818 before W. Finney
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I John G. Wersler Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Chester in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania do Certify that Walter Finney Esquire before whom the annexed affidavit of William Moore appears to have been taken, is and at the time of taking the said Deposition, was one of the associate Judges of the Court aforesaid, duly appointed Commissioned and qualified, to all whose official acts as such full faith & Credit are and ought to be given.-
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the Seal of said Court at West Chester in the County aforesaid the sixteenth day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
[seal on left side]
[signed] Mr J. Wersler Proth
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This is a printed and hand written document with lines and columns

information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.  
William Moore
Columns
1. DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. Feb. 1776 & served till close of War.
2. LENGTH OF SERVICE. Blank
3. RANK. Pvt., 3rd Lt., 2' Lt.
Brevel Capt.
4. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. Captain. Grubb: Colonel. Miles Rifle Regt., 2' regt.
5. STATE. Pa.   Pa.
Lines:
Battles engaged in, ___________
Residence of soldier at enlistment, _________
Date of application for pension, Oct. 1, 1818 Claim allowed
Residence at date of Application, Chester Co., Pa.
Age at date of application, 68
Remarks: two children alive in 1820, names not state 
no further data as to family- The Rev War pension records fail to afford any information in regard to a Wm. Moore, Scout of Westmoreland Bo Pa or of any Lieu. Wm. Moore of Pa. other than as above
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Commonwealth. Oct. 19th 1818
Sir.

I enclose the application of Capt William Moore for relief under the act of congress passed on the 18th of last March. Capt. Moore is in possession of the two Commissions mentioned in his application and produced to Judge Finney, but feels very reluctant at parting with them otherwise I would have forwarded them with his application. Judge Finney was an officer with Captain Moore from early in the War until the end of it, I believe in the same Regiment and is of course perfectly well acquainted with his service. I will thank you sir for information as to the success of this application or (page torn) then any additional testimony be necessary. I am well satisfied that a doubt cannot exist as to the right of Capt. Moore under the law above mentioned. A line directed to me at Cochranville Post Office Chester County Pennsylvania. will be immediately (??)
I am in very respectfully
your our, serv.
Sami. Cochran
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[notepaper]
[in top margin] 224 E. 8th St

Leadville Colo. Sept. 11-1929
Dept. of Interior
Bureau of Pensions
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir_
Will you kindly send me a copy of =
William Moore Revolutionary War. Pension No's 
S T. 18,983.
ST. 41,882
Wt. 25,718.
[stamped] Widow Division Sep 17 1929 Bureau of Pensions
All William Moores and all from Pennsylvania & are looking for a Thomas Jefferson Moore whose wife was - Miller. and hope to find name, in some of these records.
Sincerely.
Mrs. S.E. Burgess
Leadville - Colorado, -
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[note card]
[monogram JFM upper left]
Kittaming, Pa., July 5th, 1907.
Bureau of Pensions,
Dept. of Interior, 
Washington.
[stamped] U.S. Pension Office Jul 6 1907
Will you kindly inform me whether any of the following Revolutionary soldiers drew a pension, and, if so, give me what records you may have of them?
1 - James Francis Moore, Lieut.
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8. Frederick Deemer (Diemer, Deamer or Deimer) Private, 3rd Pa. Cont. Line. Possibly of John Brisbain's Co., Col Arthur St. Clair - 
[none written over the 8 in different writing]
9. Capt. John Deimer (Deamer or Deemer) Lancaster County, Pa. 
[none written over the 9 in different writing]

Thanking you in advance for any information you may be able to give me, 
I am, Very Respectfully
(Miss) Janet Moore Deemer.
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and Major, 8th Pa. Cont. Line.
2 - William Moore, Lieut. 1st Penna. Regt., Col. Daniel Brodhead.
[none written in different hand next to 2]
3 - Capt. Moore, 4th Pa. Battalion, Col. Anthony Wayne.
[check mark next to 3]
4 - Samuel Preston Moore. 
[none written in different hand next to 4]
5 - John Moore, Hannah's Town or Denniston-Town, Westmoreland County, Pa.
[none written in different hand next to 5]
6 - William Moore, Scout - Westmoreland County, Pa.
[none written in different hand next to 6]
7 - Thos. Moore, Capt. 5th Pa. Battalion
[none written in different hand next to 7]
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8. Frederick Deemer (Diemer, Deamer or Deimer) Private, 3rd Pa. Cont. Line. Possibly of John Brisbain's Co., Col Arthur St. Clair -
[none written over the 8 in different writing]
9. Capt. John Deimer (Deamer or Deemer) Lancaster County, Pa.
[none written over the 9 in different writing]

Thanking you in advance for any information you may be able to give me,
I am, Very Respectfully
(Miss) Janet Moore Deemer,
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Haddonfield NJ Dec 31, 1887
John C Black Hon.
Sir:
Will you kindly send me the Record of Capt William Moore who was one of the Revolutionary pensioners from Chester Co. Pa.
I am preparing historical sketches of a number of these old worthies.
Your very [illegible]
W.S. Long
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unfolded document

left side

41882
INVALID
Revy
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File No. 41.882
William Moore
Capt. Rev. War
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Act: 18th March 18th
Index: Vol. 3, Page 345
[Arrangement of 1870]

right side
1907 July 17. Hist to Miss
Janet Moore Deemer aa
1929 Sept 19. Mrs. S. E. Burges
adv. no reference to Thos.
Jefferson Moore A. D. Y.
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Rev.&1812 Wars Section,
ADY

September 19, 1929.

Mrs. S. E. Burgess,
224 East 8" Street,
Leadville, Colorado.

Dear Madam:

I advise you that in the Revolutionary War pension
claims of three soldiers named William Moore File Nos.
S. 18983, S. 41882, and W.25718) the name Thomas Jefferson
Moore does not appear.
Very truly yours,

EARL D. CHURCH,
Commissioner.