Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 30622, for Moses Nichols, Massachusetts
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE Mass.
CONTENTS
[Black stamp: Star] Nichols, Moses
NUMBER S. 30622
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30622
Revy INVALID.
File No. 30622
Moses Nichols
Pri Rev War
Act June 7" 32"
Index: Vol. 2, Page 298
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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1027
Massachusetts
Moses Nichols
of Plyo [Plymouth] Coy [County] in the State of Massets [Massachusetts]
who was a Private in the Company command
by Captain Sawyer of the Regt [regiment] commanded by Col Mitchell in the Mass [Massachusetts] Militia
line for 10 months & 17 days [illegible]
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts
at the rate of 35. Dollars 22 Cenn
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 30 day of March 1833 and sent to the Hon [Honorable] Lewis Cass Secy [Secretary] of War
Arrears to the 4th of March 1831 $7044
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept " 1761
$88.05  
Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by Benj. L Ball Clerk,
Book E Vol. 2 Page 59
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Dr Thacher & Major
Thomas certificate
 

Let this case herein to commence without delay the [illegible] communication to me for the information of such claim.
L. [illegible]
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We certify, that we have know(n) Capt. Moses
Nichols of this town for thirty years
and now petitioner for a pension &
cheerfully declare that in our opinion
Government may give full credit
to his declaration; that he command
ed a militia company in this town
for years since the Revolution.
Plymouth, Massachusetts
Dec 1. 1882
James Thacher M.D.
Joseph Thomas
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23109
Moses Nichols declaration
Private 10 mon 17 days
$35.22
Hon L. Cap for R
Hon J Q Adams
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REVOLUTIONARY PENSIONERS.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
COUNTY OF PLYMOUTH, SS.
On this thirteenth day of December 1832, personally appeared in open Court, before
the Court of Common Pleas now sitting at Plymouth within and for said County of Plymouth, Moses Nichols a resident of Plymouth in said County of Plymouth, and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, aged
70 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 act of Congress passed June 7, 1832. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State. That is to say, that he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and
served as herein stated. That he enlisted in August, he believes in 1779 at Berkley in Massachusetts, for six months marched to Howlands Ferry in the State of Rhode Island, & there, and on the land served said six months in the war of the Revolution a private in Capt Sawyer's company was duly discharged
That in the next time he enlisted at Taunton, Massachusetts, for three months and served that term principally in the fort at Butts Hill, on Rhode Island in Captain Jacob Hoskins company, Colonel Mitchell's Regt. Genl Sullivan
John
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John Burt was a Lt. [lieutenant] in this company
Soon after my return from Camp I was drafted for forty days in the same Jacob Hoskins company I served out that term, partly at Butts hill aforesaid & was duly discharged 
After this, I know not the year I enlisted for six months to march to White plains, but being taken sick, I was not marched I can find no living man, who was with me in camp, or that knows I was there but within a groat of property upon Earth I am impelled to rest my
claim upon character alone. For this I
can refer with great confidence to Dr James Thacher, & Major Joseph Thomas, my townsmen, & Veteran officers of the Revolution
I was born in Berkley Mass. but have no
record of my birth. Nor have I any discharge
Moses Nichols
Sworn & subscribed on the day & year aforesaid before the Court of Common Pleas
Attest
Jno W Thomas Clk [clerk]
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That one alarm. I know not the year, I volunteer
and marched in the company of the same
said Hoskins on upon Rhode Island &
there served one week a private on
Quaker hill & in a running fight pursued
the enemy into Newport from their
fort on said Hill.
[page appears tied on right side with ribbon]
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We, Thomas Conant a clergyman, residing in the town of Plymouth and Heman Churchill
residing in the same Plymouth hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Moses Nichols who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be 70 years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the revolution, and we concur in that opinion.
Thomas Conant
Heman Churchill
Sworn to, and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid.
Attest
Jno W Thomas Clk [Clerk]
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the
abovenamed applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that Thomas Conant who has signed the preceding certificate, is a clergyman, resident in the town of Plymouth and that Heman Churchill
who has also signed the same, is a resident in the town of Plymouth and is a credible
person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
By order of the Court
Jno W Thomas Clk [clerk]
Jno W Thomas of the Court of Common Pleas
do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court
in the matter of the application of Moses Nichols for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this twenty third day of March  in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and thirty three
Jno W Thomas Clk [clerk]