Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 6117, Moses Abbot, Mass
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SERVICE                                      NUMBER

Mass           Abbot, Moses          R6117
                    Loane, Allice

                                       Former widow
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12.567.
Alice Lane formerly
Widow of Moses Abbot
[illegible] 1846
Map
Act 7 July 1838
Married 1786
husband died 1802
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
County of Middlesex SS.

On this seventeenth day of February, eighteen hundred and forty five. Personally appeared in Open court at a Court of Probate holden in Charlestown in said County of Middlesex, Allice Lane, a resident of Charlestown aforesaid in said County, being eighty one years of age, who being first duly sworn according to Law, doth on her Oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the acts of Congress, passed July 7th 1838, and the twenty third of August 1842, granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the revolutionary War, also agreeable to the Subsequent Acts of March third 1848, and June seventeenth 1844. She is the widow of Moses Abbot, who was a private in different services from the town of Bedford in said County of Middlesex, and according to the best of her recollections of knowledge, the said Moses Abbot was in the service at Saratoga in the year 1777, at the Capture of Burgoyne, and in the summer or autumn of 1779 he enlisted in the Continental service for three months to Claverick (?) in the State of New York, and rendered service in Captain Solomon Pollards company in Col. Danneys Regt., and in the autumn of 1781, he again enlisted in the Continental service for three or four months this was at Pecks Hill West Point in State of New York was in Captain Samuel Jays Company in Col. Webbs Regiment. She also declares that she was married to the said Moses Abbot, on the seventh day of December in year seventeen hundred and eighty six. That her husband, the aforesaid Moses Abbot,