Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 3853, Moses Haight, New York
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
New York

Haight, Moses
Furguson, Amy

NUMBER
R. 3853

Former widow

CONTENTS:

Return John
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V 4112
Amy Furguson formerly widow of Moses Haight v Act 4 July '38 and Joint Reso 7 July '38.

3853
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State of Vermont, on this 31 day of August 1838
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Regiment of Col. David Sutherland [illegible] the [illegible] length of time she does not remember. She further declares that after her marriage to the said Moses Height that he the said Moses Haight was paid out in the service of the United States in the Militia of the State of New York in late David Sutherland’s Regiment she well recollects some of the names of the captains that belonged to the regiment with whom the said Moses Haight served, viz, Silas German, Isaac Smith, [illegible] Hester [illegible]. She further declares that after her marriage to him the said Moses Height he served in the North River and on the lines she thinks at least three months. She [illegible] her said husband the said Moses Height being in the service at the time [illegible] was bound and also at the time a man was hung who was taken as a spy. That he was taken by a company of American soldiers in [illegible] they [illegible] duped a British [illegible], the man [illegible] then to be British Soldiers [illegible] to them his [illegible] soldiers was taken and being [illegible] by the North River, the mans name she does not remember but that he belonged as she then understood to a place this [illegible] on the North River & that from her advanced age and [illegible] lapse of memory she can not not the [illegible] length of his [illegible] as often but she thinks according to her that [illegible] he served in the army at least one year, she further declares that she was married to the said Moses Heights on the 33d day of May, Seventeen hundred and seventy eight at the [illegible] as said by the same minister of that place. That before her marriage to the said Moses Height her name was Amy Cuthbert, that her husband the aforesaid Moses Height died on the 22d day of April, A.D. 1787 at the [illegible], that she was afterward married to John Furguson of [illegible]borough [illegible]
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20th day of January AD 1794 who died on the 4th day of February A. D. 1815 & [ 3 words unclear] and that she was a widow on the 4th July 1836 and she remains a widow as will more fully appear by reference to the proofs hereto {[unclear]. She further declares that during her [marriage] with the sd. Moses Haight there were born [unclear] their four children. The eldest was a boy who was born 23rd September 1778 The second was a Daughter born 6th November 1780 the third was a Son was born May 15 1782 and the fourth was a daughter born 31st August 1784. She wholly relinquishes any claim to a pension except the [unclear] and declares that her name is not on the pension list or Roll of the [unclear] of any State.
Amy Fergeson X her mark
[unclear] and subscribed on the day and year 
[unclear] within
By me Saml. H. Holley Justice of Addison County Court
State of Vermont
Addison County
I Samuel H Holley one of the Judges of Addison County Court within and for the County of Addison aforesaid do [unclear] certify that the [unclear] named Amy Ferguson the applicant can not from bodily infirmity attend the court and I further certify that the said Amy Ferguson is a credible witness and that her statement is entitled to credit
Saml. H. Holley Judge of the Addison County Court
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State of Vermont, Addison County} Be it known that before me Udony H. Everest, Justice of the Peace within an dfor the County of Addison aforesaid personally appeared Mary Ferguson, aged fifty eight years who being first duly sworn [] testifieth and says that she is the daughter of Moses Height late of the Great Nine Partners in the County of Dutchess and State of New York and Amy Furguson, now of Starksborough in the County of Addison aforesaid who was formerly the wife of Moses Height aforesaid that her father the said Moses Height dies on the 22d day of April 1787 at the Nine Partners as aforesaid and that her mother Amy Haight was the widow of John Ferguson was afterward married to John Ferguson of Starksborough aforesaid on the 20th day of January 1794 and that he the said John Furguson died at Starksborough aforesaid on the 4th day of February 1815 and that his widow Amy Ferguson & family the wife of the said Moses Haight and [] of her the said Mary Ferguson’s now living at Starksborough aforesaid and that she has remained a widow ever since the decease of the said John Ferguson her said husband. The [] 
Mary Ferguson
Sworn and Subscribed to this 9th day of August 1898
Before Udny H Everest Justice of the Peace [] certify that the [] Mary Ferguson is a credible witness and that her Statement is [] to credit.
Udny H. Everest, Justice of the Peace.