Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 13470, for Moses Huntoon, New Hampshire
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(3-1776) SERVICE NUMBER
N.H. Huntoon, Moses S. 13470
CONTENTS  carded
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5/62. New Hampshire Moses Huntoon of [illegible] in the State of NH who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain ~ of the regt commanded by Col. Po[illegible] in the NH line for 1 year. Inscribed on the Roll of Private at the rate of 40 Dollars ~ Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831. Certificate of Pension issued the 4th day of [illegible] 1833 and sent [illegible]
Arrears to 4th of Sept 1802 $60- Semi=anl. allowance ending 4 Mar 03 20- $80- 
{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832. Recorded by [illegible] McBlair Clerk Book D. Vol. [illegible. Page 61.
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Moses Huntoon
Admd
$40 per an

Hon J.W. Weeks HR
Feb 1
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State of New Hampshire
County of Coos
On this nineteenth day of September in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and thirty two personally appeared before the court of common pleas within and for the County of Coos aforesaid, Moses Huntoon a resident of Whitefield in said county of Coos and State of NewHampshire aged seventy six years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the Act of Congress passed June 7 1832. That he enlisted in the army of the United States on the first day of May 1775 with David Quinby Eli [illegible] Monk Pamit & others and served in the regiment commanded by Enoch Poor which he believes the [illegible] Regiment whiten of the service of the United States troops or troops rolled by the authority of the State of Newhampshire he cannot positively say but it is his firm belief that it was the [illegible] regiment of the United States troops under the following officers. Enoch Poor Cole
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[illegible] Lt. Colonel, Joseph
Cilley Major Jeremiah Frogg Adjutant
Fogg
Quarter Master
Philip Gillon
Captain William Rowell Lieutenant
and John Alton Ensign who filled
the office only a short time, after him
the office was filled at different times
by two persons whose names he does not now recollect that he was discharged
at Winter Hill in Massachusetts on the first day of January
1776 - that he resided in the town of
Kingston County of Rockingham and
State of New Hampshire at the time
he entered in the service - that he was not
engaged in any
battle - that he marched
through the southern part of the State of
New Hampshire and part of Massachusetts to Winter Hill at which place
he remained until he was discharged
That he again enlisted in the Army
of the United States
on or about the
first of August 1776 with
Bezaleel Beede
Samuel
Bean Nathanel Brown Joseph
Brown Lane March and
Edwards
Greely in a Regiment of [illegible] in the
number of which he does not now recollect
commanded by Col
Tosh under the
following named officers
Tosh
Colonel
Joseph Welch Colonel
John Calef Captain
Gile
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Lieutenant and
Benjamin Taylor [illegible]
that he was discharged on the fast day
of December 1776 having served four
months from the time of his enlistment
that re resided in the town of Kingston aforesaid at the time of his enlistment that
he
was not engaged in any battles but he
marched through New Hampshire
Massachusetts and Connecticut to
Peekskill
in New York when the Regiment halted a few days from that place for caucauses, of which Capt Calef
was one, were ordered to Fishkill to
guard the tories and this was the principal sum in which he was engaged
during the last term of his enlistment
He hereby relinquishes every claim what
was to a pension or annuity except the
present and he declares that his now
is not on the pension all of my
State
Sworn to and subscribed the day
And
year aforesaid
[signature] Moses Huntoon

And the said
Court do hereby declare the opinion that the above named
applicant was a revolutionary soldier
and served as he states
I William Farrar Clerk of the Court of
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Common Pleas
do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings
of the said Court in the matter of
the application of Moses Huntoon
for a pension.
In testimony whereof
I have hereunto
set my hand and seal of office
the nineteenth
day of September
in the year
of our
Lord Eighteen hundred and
thirty two
[signature]Wm Farrar Clerk

We Benaiah Bean a Clergyman residing
in Whitefield in the County of Coos
and
State of New Hampshire and
William Ridge
Post Master residing
in the same Whitefield hereby certify
that we are well acquainted with
Moses Huntoon who has signed
and sworn to the above declaration
that we believe him to be seventy
six years of age; that he is reputed
and believed in the neighborhood
where he resides to have been a
soldier of the revolution and that
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we concur in that opinion
[signature] Benariah Bean
[signature] William Dodge

State of NewHampshire
County of Coos
On the nineteenth day of September personally appeared the above named Benariah Bean and William Dodge befor the court of Common Pleas and subscribed the foregoing certificate. and the court further certifies that it appears to them that Benariah Bean who signed the above certificate is a clergyman resident in the town of Whitefield aforesaid and that William Dodge who also signed the same is a resident in the same town and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to redit.
I William Framan Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original procedings of said court in the matter of application of Moses Huntoon
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for a pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and seal of my office
this ninteenth
day of September in the year of
our Lord Eighteen hundred and thirty
two
[signature] Wm Farrar Clerk
Moses Huntoon

Admd $40 per an

Hon J W Weeks HR
Feb 1
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Rev. and 1812
Wars Section
MCS HMM
January 9, 1930.

Mr. E. M. Bowker
33 Elm Street
Whitefield
New Hampshire.

War Sir:

I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension
claim S. 13470, it appears that Moses Huntoon, while a resident
of Kingston, New Hampshire, enlisted May 1, 1775 as a private in
Captain Philip Wilton's Company in Colonel Enoch Poor's New Hampshire
Regiment and was discharged January 1, 1776. He enlisted about
August 1, 1776 in Captain John Calfe's Company in Colonel Pash's
New Hampshire Regiment and was discharged December 1, 1770.
In 1818 he was a resident of Unity, Cheshire County, New
Hampshire.
He was allowed pension on his application executed September
19, 1832, at which time he was seventy-six years of age and was a
resident of Whitefield, Coos County, New Hampshire,
There are no data relative to his family.
Very truly yours,
EARL D. CHURCH
Commissioner.
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Rochelle Ill
June 5 1900
Mr. H.C. Evans
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir:
Will you please write me the record of Moses Huntoon, who enlisted in the Rev. war in Massachusetts?
I wish the facts necessary to entitle me to join the "D.A.R."
Very Respectfully,
Eva Barker

[stamp] O.W.&N DIVISION
JUNE 12 1906
RECEIVED
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June 14 1900
Miss Era Barker
Rochell Ills
1930 Jan 9 hist to Mr E.M. Bowker, mcs

Rev war
13470
INVALID.
File No. 13,470
Moses Huntoon
Pri Rev War
Act: June 7th 1832
Index:- Vol. 1, Page 185
{Arrangement of 1870.}
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EDGAR M. BOWKER
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
JUDGE OF PROBATE COOS COUNTY.

33 Elm St
WHITEFIELD, N.H.

November 12th, 1929.

Commissioner of Pensions,
Pension Department
Washington, D.
Dear Sirs:-

 In re: Revolutionary War Pensioners.

I would appreciate your sending me certificate as
to war service of the following named pensioners of
Whitefield, N. H. on your pension roll in 1840.
John Burns, Moses Huntoon, Isaac Miner and the
husband of Susanna Eastman, also a pensioner.
Upon receipt of same with bill, I will be pleased
to remit, or if you will inform me as to the amount,
I will send you check in advance.

Respectfully,
[signature] E M Bowker
E. M. BOWKER.

EMB:FC

[stamp] U.S.PENSION OFFICE NOV 14 1929
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Inadmissible
not having served 9 months under any one enlistment on the continental establishment
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State of New Hampshire
Cheshire County April 5th 1818 then before Elisha Huntley a Justice of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said county of Cheshire formerly [illegible] Moses Huntoon before named and made solemn oath that the foregoing declaration by him subscribed contains the truth and nothing but the truth and it having been made to appear to my satisfaction that the said war against the common enemy in manner as by he is stated in his declaration I hereby certify and transmit the[illegible] to the honable John Chatham
Secretary of War
Elisha Huntley One of the Justices at the court of Common Pleas for said county

Cheshire  I Levi Chamberlain The town clerk of the court of Common Pleas for said county hereby certify that the above is the signature of the Hon Elisha Huntley a Judge of said court duly commissioned and that no particular impression is used as a seal by said court
In witness whereof I have hereunto subscribed and affixed a not in usual form as used by said court, this 26th day of May A.D. 1818
Levi Chamberlain
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I Moses Huntoon of Unity in the County of Cheshire and
State of Newhampshire Husbandman, do make the following
declaration upon oath
That in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred
and seventy five, in the month of May I enlisted as a privet
soldier in the Continental Army in the United States of America
at Kingston in the Province of New hampshire, under
Capten Philip Tilton and was attached to a Regiment Comm
anded by Colol Enoch Poor, and proceded to Winter Hill
to call in Massachusetts State near Charlestown and Jane
the Army under the command of General Folsome of Easter
in New hampshire, where I staid untill the first day of January
following, whom on said day I was dismist by Coll Enoch
on the time for which I enlisted having expired
and I do further declare under oath as aforesaid, That about
the first of August, one thousand seven hundred and seventy six
I enlisted as a private soldier in the United States Again at
Kingston aforesaid under Capt John Calf for the term
of four months in a Regiment commanded by Colo
Tash of Dover I think, and that I went in to immediate
and proceded to Fishkill in the State of New York with
the said Company under the said Capt John Calf where
we remained stationed about four months,
the first of December following I was dismist or discharged
by Colol Joseph Welch of Plasto in Newhampshire from
whome I received a pass to come home, and never joined
the Army afterwards, having served about twelve months
in the whole
I further this upon oath as above that II am in need of assistance from my country for support
[illegible] Moses Huntoon
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Daniel Quimley of Waterford County Caledonia
State of Vermont being duly sworn do depose
testify & say that I am acquainted with Moses
Huntoon who is now living in the town of Whitefield
Coos County State of Newhampshire, and that
he enlisted in the Town of Kingston in Newhampshire under one Capt. Phillip Tilton & in the
Regiment belonging to Col. Enoch Poor of
the Newhampshire line & that he served
said company Eight months in the year
1775 and that he was discharged about the
beginning of the year 1776. & that the said
Moses Huntoon Services was performed in the
Town Charlestown Massachusetts near winter hill and was myself a soldiers in the same Regiment at the same in and further your deponent saith not
Barret January 11. 1833
[signature]Daniel Quimby

State Vermont
Caledonia County  Barnet January 11. 1833
then Daniel Quimby of Waterford aforesaid personally appearing carefully examined made solemn oath that the
foregoing deposition by him subscribed contains the whole
truth and nothing but the truth before me
[signature] Levi Parks Justice Peace

I hereby certify that the above Daniel Quimby is a Credible witness
[signature] Levi P Parks, Justice Peace
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State of Vermont
Caledonia ss I Benjamin F Deming Clerk of Court   [illegible]Court do hereby certify that Levi P Parks before whom the [illegible] affidavit was taken is a Justice of the Peace for said Caledonia  County and that the within signature purporting to be his is genuine - In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court this 12th day January A.D. 1833
[signature Benjm Deming Clerk