Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 11106, for John Moore, Pennsylvania
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SERVICE
Penn.
VA

 Moore, John

NUMBER
S.11106
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7289
Kentucky
John Moore

Marcer Co in the State of Kentucky
who was a private in the company command
Captain Pigmen of the Regt. commanded
Col Gibson in the Penna
ne for 2 years

Pa and Va
Records completed Apr 3/05
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escribed on the Roll of Kentucky
the rate of 80 Dollars ____Cents per annum
commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
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tificate of Pension issued the 26 day of March
 1833 and sent to R B
McAfee Frankfort Kent
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Arrears to the 4th of March 1833 $160.00
emi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept $40.00
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$200
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Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832.

ecorded by Daniel Boyd Clerk
ook E  Vol 7  Page 18


Dead
papers copied & sent to B.F. Pleasan
Esq, Prest-- Set to Hon Jas Harlon
Aug 20 1836
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H. B. Mayo & Pen. Agent,
May 9, 1837
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Died July 26, 1836
(see letter within)


5/5/34
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State of Kentucky
Mercer County   vis

On this 3d day of December in the year our Lord
1832 personally appeared in open court before
the Justices of the county court of Mercer County now sitting John
Moore aged 75 years who being first sworn according to
Law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order
to obtain the Benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832

That he entered the service of the United States under the following 
named officers and served as herein stated, vis  I John Moore
do hereby solemnly declare on oath that I was born in the
County of Frederick and State of Maryland and that
I am now seventy five years of age and when very young
my father removed his family into the western parts of Pensylvania
near the Monongahela River on Muddy creek I believe the place
where we settled was then in dispute with Virginia but when
the line was afterwards run we were included in Pensylvania
and I lived about ten miles above Redstone old Fort (now
Brownsville) when the revolutionary war first commenced
and I was called into the service of my country as follows

In the latter part of May or 1st of June 1777 I was drafted for
three months in Capt Pigmans company and marched to
Fort Pitt when I was stationed as a guard with my company
under the command of Col Gibson, during the time we were at
this place the Indians made frequent attacks when our scouting
parties, and killed some of our men, I faithfully served out
my time and was honorably discharged.

Again in the fall of the same year I was drafted on a tour of three
months in Capt Swanns company march upon expedition
against the Shawanee Indians, and marched under a
[ chap ] Craycraft who was the commander, to Atkison Station
near the head of ten mile creek, and remained several was
and not being found by other troops who had been ordered
out my company was marched to Stradlers station on
Dunkards Creek a Branch of the Monongahala wheren we served
out the ballance of our time and was discharged.

Again in the spring 1778 I believe in the month of April I
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Enlisted in Captain William Harrods Company in a Regiment
raised by the State of Virginia called the Illinois Regiment s
under Col George R Clark, we rendezvoused near Redstone old
Fort and embarked in Battues and sailed down the Monongahela
and Ohio River to the Halls when we arrived about
the last of May where we remained about a month and were
joined by some men from Kentucky, we then took water again
and landed on the north bank of the Ohio below the month of
the saline near a place called the Rocky cave and marched
across by land to Kaskaska where we arrived about midnight
and captured the place before day by surprise, and in a
few days afterwards we took Cahokia, and we remained
Garrison at Kaskaskia the remainder of the year, but about
the of September Capt Hand resigned, and many of his men
returned home but myself and my Brother Thomas then enlisted
in Capt Edward Worthingtons company for the balancel of
our time or during the time the Regiment should be
kept in service our first enlistment was for twelve months
but when we enlisted with Worthington it was without limit
except at least the remainder of our time or while the Regiment
continued in service and in the month of February 1779 we
marched with Col Geo R Clark against Post Vincennes
I was detached with the large Barge with two small pieces
of Cannon to go up the Wabash to meet him but before
we arrived Col Clark had taken the place and Genr Hamilton
to who had  surrended two days before we arrived as 
well as I recollect and about the first of March I
was sent as [    ]   Guard with an Express sent by
Genl Clarke to Richmond, we arrived in safety at the fall
of Ohio, but after we had passed that place about four
miles the Express William Myers was killed by the Indians
and I was taken prisoner by a party of six Wyandott
Indians and I was carried to Detroit but not given
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up to the English, but was detained among the Indians at a
small place near Brownstown on the Detroit River, here I was
detained a closely watched Prisoner until the summer of 1782
I was permitted to go out and hunt with their warriors but was
never asked or allowed to accompany them or any of their war
parties until the summer of this year I was taken with them on
in expedition intended for the stations in Kentucky and which
eventuated in the Battle of the Blue Licks. then were about
seventeen hundred Indians, refugees and [ Bonthel ]   of which
later there were two companies called the Queen Rangers, Capt
McKee commanded the whole, when we reached
a small Indian village below old Chillicothe on the Little
Miami, provisions became Scarce, and I was sent back as far
as [   McNasy ]town on Wappatomica creek to hurry on supplies,  at
this place another party of Indians were collecting under Capt
Bratt, (a born Dutchman) to march against Wheeling fort
and this party being strangers and marching in a direction
toward my native land I concluded to go with them
as I had hopes of making my escape, we reach'd Wheeling and
surrounded the place and the second night myself & another
white man by the name of Benjamin Kelly made our escape
and reached the neighborhood of Washington then called [ ? }
camp - after my return I got a certificate of my services from
Geo Clark and my discharge which papers I sent on to Virginia
by Saml Taylor our first representation from Kentucky to Virginia
Legislature but I never received any pay for my services or land
These papers are either in the office at Richmond or Lexington
since lost or mislaid. I removed to Kentucky from the Monongahela country {to Kentucky} the the latter part of the year
1783. and settled where I now live when I have resided
ever since and I hereby solemnly declare that I served eighteen
months in the revolutionary war, and including my captivity
until the close of the war as I did not make my escape
until about the last of August 1782.  I have no documentary 
evidence of my service and I do not recollect
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of any person now alive by whom I can prove my services except
my Brother Thomas and Jacob Van Matren I am not now a
Pensioner of the United States or of any State, and I hereby relinquish 
all claim to any pension or annuity except the
present which I claim while a prisoner as well as before 
Witness my hand this 3d day of December 1832

John Moore {signature}


Mercer County   vis
On this day Thomas Moore Senrt being first sworn
personally in open court states. That he is the Brother of the above
John Moore who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration &
he know that his brother John Marched upon a tour of duty to
Fort Pitt in the spring 1777 and also another tour under Capt
Swann and is Marched to Atkinson & there to Stradlers station
I was with him during this tourn and in the spring 1778 we
both enlisted together in Capt Harrods Company of the Illinois Regt
under Col Clark and we served together in sd Haned company
and Worthingtons company until the Said John Moore was taken prisonor 
by the Indians from which he did not return to his friends
until the fall 1782.   I have read his declaration and
know that he performed the service in the revolutionary war
as he had set forth, Witness my hand this 3d day of December 1832

Thomas Moore  {signature}

Mercer County Viz
Also came into open Court the following persons, we Martin
C Duncan a Clergyman residing in sd County and [ ? ] James
Ray and George W Thomson residing in sd County and
State, do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with the
above John Moore who has subscribed and sworn to the above
declaration, that we believe him to be of the age he has stated
and that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood
in which he rides to have been a soldier of the Revolution
and we concur in this opinion and we further certify that he
is a man of truth and a respectable citizen, Witness our hands
this 3rd day of December 1832

Martin C. Duncan  {signature}
James Ray   {signature}
Geo W Thompson   {signature}
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John Moore 
2018
P Office 
July 31 1832

Sworn to by Jno Moore & Tho Moore
John Moore
Revolutionary 
Soldier



July 7th
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State of Kentucky
Mercer County, Set
December County Court 1832

This day, John Moore the within 
applicant for a pension herein together
with Martin C. Duncan a Clergyman and
Thomas Moore, James Ray and Geo. W.
Thompson came into Court and sworn
to the statements and certificate by them
within respectively subscribed: and thereupon
the Court do hereby declare their opinion
after the investigation of the matter, and
after putting the interrogatories prescribed
by the War Department, that the above named
applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and
served as he states; and the Court fund
then certify that it appears to them that
Martin C. Duncan who has signed the
preceding certificate is a Clergyman and
resident within the County of Mercer and
that Thomas Moore, James Roy and Geo
W. Thompson who have signed the preceding 
certificate are resident within
the County of Mercer, and are creditable
persons, and that their statements are entitled 
to credit- I Thomas Allen, jr. Clerk
of the Court of Mercer County do hereby
certify that the foregoing contains the original
proceedings of the sd Court in the matter of
the application of John Moore for
pension.
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In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set
my hand and seal of Office.  This 3rd day
of December, A.D. 1832.

Moore John

from 1777 {unclear
a year $80

Gen R. B. McAfee
Frankfurt
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Hardin County Ky 

This day Jacob Vanmeter aged
to years old infirm, came before me a justice
of the peace of Hardin County Kentk being in infirm
and unable to atend cort without grate dificulty to
attand cort and made oath that he is well acquainted with
John Moore Sinr whose name is subscribed above
and the services he has stated he has preformed
as he has stated, and I further certify that said
Vanmiter is a credible witness and a man of truth
given under my hand this 16th July 1832
Jacob Vanmeater
Thos Morrison  PHC

State of Kentucky
Hardin County   Set

I Samuel Haycraft Clerk of the County County
for the County aforesaid do certify that Thomas Morrison Esquire
whose name appears to the above certificate was at the time
of doing the same and still is an acting Justice of the peace
in and for the County aforesaid duly commissioned & qualified
and as such is entitled to due faith and credit
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and and the in the seal of
said County at my Office in Elizabeth
Town this 16th day of July 1832
Sam Haycraft  ceh
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Harrodsburg,
August 


Sir
John Moore of Ky in [ cut off]
was a Pensioner. He had an additiona[cut off]
against the Government for commuta[cut off]
Will you be so good as to inform me[cut off]
the records of your office show any pag[cut off]
him beside his pension; or whether there [cut off]
now pending and undivided by you for [cut off]
pay & or for any thing else.

I have written to
of the General Land Office for any inf[cut off]
can furnish in his office

I am very Resp
your obo
J. Han[cut off]
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Col J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D.C.


Jon Moore 
Ken
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Col J. L. Edwards
Comr of Pensions
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Dec. 11. 1903- [unclear]
B. O. Hunger Des Moines Iowa

Rev War

11.106
INVALID.
File No. 11,106
John Moore
Priv. Rev. War
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Act: June 7th 1832.
Index: - Vol. A, Page 264
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OFFICE OF
BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS
DES MOINES, IOWA
B.O. HANGER
W.W. WISE

Des Moines, Iowa, December 1, 1903,

FOR B O HANGER.

Alphabetical List of Revolutionary Soldiers of Pennsylvania,
Pennsylvania Archives, Second Series, Volume 13 Page 165 ( name of
John Moore,
Same Series, Volume 11 Page 755 Pennsylvania Pensions ( name of John
Moore, March 1803.

Des Moines, Iowa, December 1, 1903.

Hon. E. F. Ware, Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington, D.C.

Sir: -- I desire to obtain such information as the records of the
Pension Office contain relative to the service of my great grandfather, John
Moore, a soldier in the Revolutionary War from Pennsylvania who is said to
have drawn a pension.
By furnishing me with these facts you will confer a great favor on
Yours truly,
 B O Hangar {signature}

stamped:
PENSION OFFICE U.S.
DEC 4 1903