Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 14,159, for Moses Peck, Connecticut
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SERVICE
Conn

Peck, Moses

NUMBER
S 14,159

Carded

CONTENTS
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[Handwritten text to right]
Order to [Fray?]  11 Oct 1837.
Death date not on AB.

574
Connecticut
---
Moses Peck
of Wallingford in the State of Connecticut
who was a Private in the Companies commanded
by Captain Peck & others of the Regt commanded
by Col Douglass & other in the Connecticut
line for the term of 8 months from 1776

Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut
at the rate of 26 Dollars 66 Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 27 day of Sep.
tember 1832 and sent to the Hon.
SJ.A. Foot Cheshire

Arrears to 4th of March 1832  $26.66
Semi=anl. allowance ending 4 Sept 13.33
$39.99

{Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832.}

Recorded by Benj L Beale  CLerk,
Book D  Vol. 3  Page 61
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State of Connecticut County of New Haven
Probate District of Wallingford . . .ss
Town of Wallingford
On this 4th day of August 1832 personally appeared
in open Court before the Court of Probate for the District
of Wallingford said Court being a Court
Record and having by the laws of this State a Clerk
and seal and now sitting. Moses Peck a resident
of the town of Wallingford County of New Haven
and State of Connecticut aged seventy nine years
the 13th day of March AD. 1832 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 7th 1832. That he entered the service of
the United States under the following named
officers and served as herein station in the year
1776 on the 25th day of June I was enlisted by
Lieut Isaac Dickerman into the Regiment of
State troops commanded by Col Douglass
Lieut Col. Arnold - Major Porter, and into the
company of which Peck was Captain 1st Lieut
Brandt 2d Dr Isaac Dickerman. He enlisted
for the term of six months and served this his
term of enlistment and drew pay for that period
and was discharged the 25th day of December
1776 in the State of New York He resided in
the town of New Haven - Society of Mount Carmel
now town of Hamden when he entered the
service sometime after his enlistment say two
weeks he sailed for New York from New Haven
and was quartered in the City of New York
He was taken sick just before the battle on
Long Island and continued sick untill two
or three days before the battle of White Plains
when he again joined the army and was
in that battle which was fought in the for
part of the day, and in this battle he received
a wound from a musket ball in the right ┃
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am between the wrist and bow the
scar of which he still carries-- and he
was with the army on the retreat from
this place to the Camp-- and we did not ┃
more far from this place untill we
were discharged on the 25th day of
December 1776. His discharge was verbal
merely.
In the year 1779 in the months
of August and September he served as a
drafted militia man. He was drafted
out of Captain Goodyears company but he
does not recollect the name of the com
mander of the drafted Company the term
of the draft was two months, and we
served it out in the City of New Haven
our Guard House was on the wharf and
one term commenced soon after the
Brittish evacuated New Haven - In
reply to the queries of the Department the
applicant states. 1st That he was born in the
of New Haven Parish of Mount Carnel now
town of Hamden - In the year 1753 March
13th
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2d the only record I have
of my
age is in the town records of New Haven
when I understand it is recorded
3d At the time he was called into service ┃
he lived in the same town in which he was
born. In the year 1801. or 2. He removed
into the town of Walling force in 1810 He
moved into the town of Cheshire & in
1827 he returned to this town of Wallingford
when he now resides. 4th I have answered
the 4th question as well as able in the
body of my declaration. In addition to
the tour mentioned I have been called
out on alarms at New Haven when the
Brittish came in
but for this I make no claim
5th He does not recollect the ┃
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names of the other Regiments or officers
when he enlisted. But he now recollect the
Col who commanded him when he was drafted
His name was Sabin - The General Circumstances
of the service I have previously stated in the
body of my declaration
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6th I was a
private only and never received other than
a verbal discharge
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7th in reply to the 7th question applicant
refers to James Hummiston and Allen
John D. Reynolds  - Caleb Cook Justice
of the Peace Capt. - Levi Parker and Samuel
A. Foot Esquire Senator in Congress
He hereby relinquishes every claim what
ever to a pension or annuity except
the present and declares that had
name is on the pension roll of
the agency of any State
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Sworn and subscribed
the day and year aforesaid
Signature of Moses Peck

We Sedgwick Rice a clergyman
residing in the
town of Wallingford and John Andrews a Physician
residing in the same town, hereby certify that
we are well acquainted with Moses Peck who has
subscribed and sworn to the above declaration
that we believe him to be seventy nine years of age
that he is reported, and believed in the neighborhood when
he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution
& that we concur in that opinion
Sworn and subscribed the day year aforesaid
Signatures of 
Sedgwick Price
John Andrews
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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 above named applic
ant was a Revolutionary Soldier & served
as he states. And the Court further certify
that it appears to them that such
who has signed the preceding certificate is a
Clergyman resident in the town of Wallingford
and that Sir John Andrews, Physician who
has also signed the same is a resident in
the said town of Wallingford and is a
credible person. and that their statement is
entitled to credit. and the Court further certify,
that the applicant is sustained in as to his service
in 1776 as stated in his declaration, by the testimony
of Ichabod Jves, orally given under oath by Court
applicant + witness having served through this
tour in the same Regiment 
Jno.D. Reynolds Judge of Probate
for the District of Wallingford

I Randall Cook Clerk of the Court of Probate for
the District of Wallingford do hereby certify that the
foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said
Court in the matter of the application of Moses Peck
for a pension-
In testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand & seal of said office this
4th day
of August AD 1832
Randall Cook, Clerk
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January 18, 1938.
BA-J/ILL
Moses Peck
S. 14159

Mrs. Zola E. Scott
214 Oak Street
Dayton, Washington.

Dear Madam:

The data given herein are shown in the papers on file
in pension claim, S. 14159, based upon service of Moses Peck in
the Revolutionary War.

Moses Peck was born March 13, 1753 in New Haven, parish
of Mount Carmel, Connecticut, which was called later Harden. The
names of his parents are not shown

While a resident of New Haven, Connecticut, he enlisted
June 25, 1776 and served six months as a private in Captain Peck's
company (given name of this captain of his relationship to Moses
Peck not stated), Lieutenant Colonel Arnold, Colonel Douglas' Connecticut
regiment during this service, he was wounded by a musket
ball in his right forears in the battle of White Plains Moses
Peck was called out on the New Haven Alarm, officers and length of
this service not shown. He enlisted in August or September 1779,
and served two months as a private in Captain Goodyear's Connecticut
company.

Moses Peck resided in
New Haven, Connecticut, until 1801 or
1802, moved then to Wallingford,
Connecticut, where he remained
until about 1811, at which time he moved to Cheshire, and in 1827,
he returned to Wallingford, New Haven County, Connecticut.

Moses Peck was allowed pension on his application executed
August 4, 1832, at which time he resided in Wallingford, Connecticut.
There are no data regarding the family of this pensioner.
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In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, name of
person paid, and possibly, the date of death of this pensioner,
Moses Peck, you should apply to the Comptroller General, General
Accounting Office, Records Division, this city, and cite the
following:

Moses Peck
Certificate #574
Issued September 27, 1832
Rate $26.66 per annum
Commenced March 4, 1831
Act of June 7, 1832.
Connecticut Agency.

Very truly yours,

A. D. HILLER,
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator.
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I Ichabod Ives of Wallingford County of
shewhaven being of the age of seven of the
years depose and say- that in the year
1776. I was a number of Col Douglass
Regiment and in the company commanded
by Capt Bracket. That he enlisted in the
month of all and was discharged the
middle of the next winter the term for
which this Regiment were enlisted was I think
eight months. In this Regiment and in the
company of commanded by Capt Peck Brand
Lieutenant Moses Pick, now pending his said
Wallingford was a private. I do not know
the length of the time he lived - but I
know that he was a member of the same
Regiment with himself and the he served
the greater part of the tour for which
the Regiment were enlisted in the vice
of the United States in the City of New York
and vicinity thro the campaign of 1776
and further deponent saith not
Signature of Ichabod Ives

New Haven County S.S. Wallingford August
3rd
1832 personally appeared Ichabod Ives a credible person &
subscriber of the foregoing deposition &
made solemn oath to the truth of the
before me
Jno D Reynolds  Just Peace
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I Randall Cook Clerk of the Court of Probate
for the District of Wallingford, hereby certify
that John D. Reynolds a justice of the Peace and
that the accompanying Depositions of Ichabod
Ives to prove the service of Moses Peck and
purporting to have been sworn
been sworn to before said
Justice Reynolds each and all bear his genuine
signature, and that said Reynolds is qualified
to administer oaths-
In testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and seal of this Probate
office this 19th day of September AD 1832
Randall Cook Clerk
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1906 Nov. 15 History to
Mrs. S. J. Hall.
__________________________________
1935 - June 13 - Hist. to Mrs. Dorsey C. Makin
1938 - Jan. 18 - Hist. to Mrs. Zola E. Scott [?]

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[?]
                            
                           14159
                          INVALID.
                           __________

File No. 14,159
Moses Peck
Rw. Rev. War
________________

Act: June 7th 1832
Index: - Vol. 1, Page 293

{Arrangement of 1870.}
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Nov 8, 1906
Hon Commissioner
In filling out
application for markers of the graves
of Revolutionary soldiers, we find the
names repeated from different towns
and the Registrar advise that a
certificate be obtained from the Commision
of Pensions for the following names
Jehial Benham Wallingford, Died Sep.
1807 age 73.
Theophilus Jones D. Oct 8, 1815, age 91
Capt Solomon Johnson D 1799. Age 59
Reuben Jones Died Oct 6, 1843. 84.
Moses Peck born in Hamden, lived later
in Wallingford D Jan 18 1838 age 86
John Barker & Branford (?) or lived & Did
in Wallingford, Jan 12, 1801.

What we wish is to determine if these
persons named were from Wallingsford
CT. Thanking you for any favor received
respect, July Mrs S. J. Hall. 481 Main
Meriden Conn
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Neosha, Mo.
May 25, 1935

Department of Pensions
Washington D.C.

Dear Sir,
I wish to inquire if you have
in your Revolutionary war records the
record of Moses Peck of Newtown Conn.
Gideon Peck of Newtown Conn, and of
Thomas Goodwin of Dinwiddie Va. I would
appreciate very much a copy of these
records.
Very Sincerely
Mrs. Dorsey C. Mahin
202 W. Spring St.
Neosha
Mo.

{Note Received Stamp dated May 29, 1935]
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Dayton, Wm
Jan. 6, 1938

Veterans Administration,
Washington, D.C.
Dear Sirs::
Will you please send me the
Revolutionary War record of George
Peck who was born at Newton or
Newtown Conn. in Dec. 1752 and
died Mar 25, 1831 at Sandgate St
and also of Moses Pick
of
possible, but I have not the
of his life. (From Connecticut )
Thank you,
Yours very truly
Mrs. Zala E. Scott
214 Oak St.
Dayton
Wn

{Received stamp dated Jan 11 1938]
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January 18, 1938
XXXXXXXXXXXXXX
MA-J/EEL

Mrs. Zela R. Scott
21 Oak Street
Dayton, Washington

Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the
Revolutionary War record of George Peck, born in December, 1782,
at Newtown, Connecticut, and died in March, 1831, at Sandgate,
Vermont, also record of Moses Peck, Revolutionary War soldier
of Connecticut.

The records of these soldiers are furnished you herewith.

Very truly yours

A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator.
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June 13, 1935.
DA/ILL.
Thomas Goodwin
S. 13176
Moses Peck.- letter
S. 14159

Mrs. Dorsey C. Makin
202 West Spring Street
Neosho, Missouri.

Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request
the Revolutionary War records of Moses and Gideon Peck of Newtown,
Connecticut, and Thomas Goodwin of Dinwiddie, Virginia.

There is no claim for pension or bounty land on file based
upon service in the Revolutionary War of a Gideon Peck. The records of only one Moses Peck of Connecticut, and one Thomas Goodwin of
Virginia have been found; these two records are furnished herein as
found in pension claims based upon service in that war.

THOMAS GOODWIN - 13176.

Thomas Goodwin, the son of John Goodwin, was born May 25,
1765, in Hanover County, Virginia; the name of his mother is not
shown.

While a resident of Hanover County, Virginia, he enlisted
and served two tours of three months each, as private in the Virginia
troops, shown as follows from sometime in January or February 1781,
in Captain Thomas Dowell's company, Colonel Park Goodall's regiment,
and was with the troops under Lafayette when Petersburg, Virginia, was
burned, said tour rendered as substitute for his father; and from
May 26, 1781, in Captain William Norvell's and Isaiah Haden's company,
Colonel John Taylor's regiment.

After his service, he resided a part of the time in Louisa
County, Virginia, in Prince George County, in Prince William County,
in King George County, afterwards in Amherst County and Nelson County,
all in Virginia.

He was allowed pension on his application executed April 23,
1833, while a resident of Nelson County, Virginia. No reference was
made to wife or children of the soldier.
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MOSES PECK -- S. 14159.

Moses Peck was born March 13, 1753 in New Haven, parish of
Mount Carmel, Connecticut, which town was called later Handen; the
names of his parents are not shown.

While a resident of said New Haven, Connecticut, he enlisted
June 25, 1776, and served six months as private in Captain Peck's
given name of this captain or relationship to Moses Peck not stated
Company, Lieutenant Colonel Arnold, Colonel Douglas' Connecticut
regiment, during which period of service he was wounded by a musket
ball in his right forearm during the battle of White Plains. He
was called out on the New Haven alarm, officers and length of service
not shown. He enlisted in August or September 1779, and served two
months as private in Captain Goodyear's Connecticut company.

The soldier resided in New Haven, Connecticut, until 1801 or
1802, moved then to Wallingford, Connecticut, and remained until
about 1811, at which time he moved to Cheshire, and in 1827, returned
to Wallingford, New Haven County, Connecticut.

Moses Peck was allowed pension on his application executed
August 4, 1832, at which time he resided in Wallingford, Connecticut.

There are no data relative to the family of this soldier.

Very truly yours,

A. D. HILLER,
Executive Assistant to the Administrator.

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