Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 21816, for William Moore, New Hampshire
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE N. H. NUMBER W.21816
Moore, William
Margaret

CONTENTS
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936
New Hampshire 
William Moore of Rockingham in the State of NH who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain Dustin of the Regt commanded by Col Reed in the N H line for 8 mos. 24 days from 1780

Inscribed on the Roll of N H at the rate of
29 Dollars 33 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 22d day of October 1832 and sent to Hon S Bell
Chester N.H.

Arrears to 4th of Sept 1832 $43 99
Semi=anl. [ANNUAL] allowance ending 4 Dec [18]33 14 66
_________
$58.65

{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.}

Recorded by J H McBlair Clerk.
Book D Vol. 1st Page 170.
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6.468
Portsmouth
New Hampshire

Margaret Moore, Decd' [DECEASED] widow of William Moore who was a Private in the N.H. Line.

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 29 Dollars 33 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843. and ended March 27 [18]"44 when she died

Certificate of Pension issued the 4 day of Dec. 1844 and sent to Henry F. French, Exeter N. H.

[Act of March 3, 1843.] and June 17, 1844
Recorded in Book A. Vol. 2 Page 18
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Payl [PAYABLE] to Rufus W Moore, James Moore, Charlotte Moore, William Moor, Mary Ann Sanborn. Robert Moore, Mary T. Moore, & Sarah Moore, only surviving Children of Margaret Moore, Deceased.

2 Certs: Acts 1838 1843 & 1844
rep see lets [LETTERS] to Pen [PENSION]: agts [AGENTS]: 4 Dec: 1844. 
let. [LETTER] to Pagt [PENSION AGENT] Dec 31. 1844.
let. [LETTER] to Henry F. French May 2nd. 1845

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Mch [MARCH] 15 1885 J.P. Jackson (town committee) with personal history
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5875
Wm Moore Private
W.G.E

on Roll, of 6 Month's [illegible] termed "New Levies, March 5 Months & 24 days 
8 months & 24 days
Admd [ADMITTED] J L E 
$29.33.
Hon Saml [SAMUEL] Bell
Chester NH
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5875
BRIEF in the case of William Moore of Chester 
Rockingham Ss.  in the State of New Hampshire  (Act 7 June, 1832.)

1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? A Court

2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity? __

3. How old is he? 70 in October 1832

4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.
Period. | Duration of Service. | Rank .| Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served. |

In 1780 June to end of term | 6 months | Private | Col Reed Capt Dustin |
1781 last Aug. to 1 Dec ? | 3 months | private | Col Daniel Rennells - State NH
5. In what battles was he engaged? none mentioned

6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Chester

7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? a living witness - traditionary

8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect?
No Clergyman's Certif. [CERTIFICATE]

I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case
above mentioned.

W. C. Easton Examining Clerk.
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State of New Hampshire
Rockingham County} ss.

On this seventh day of August AD. 1832.
personally appeared in open Court, before the Superior Court of Judicature now sitting in Exeter within and for said County of
Rockingham William Moore a resident of Chester in the County of Rockingham and State of New Hampshire aged sixty nine years in October last past, 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

That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated. He the said William Moore enlisted as a private soldier the last of August 1781 into Captain William Boyes' company and Colonel Daniel Runnells' Regiment of New Hampshire State volunteers for the term of three months he immediately marched from said Chester to, number four, now Charlestown, on Connecticut river, in New Hampshire. Captain Boyes' company and Captain Webster's company crossed said river there, into Vermont and marched to Manchester and thence to Castleton in Vermont and thence to Skenesborough in the State of New York and from thence to Fort Ann on Lake George the said two companies then marched to Greenville in the State of New York. From thence they returned to Castleton in Vermont thence to Rutland and from thence back to Charlestown in New Hampshire and again joined said Regiment, said Regiment was raised for the defense of the United States he the said William Moore performed a soldier's duty in said Captain William Boyes' company during the whole campaign and served out the term of three months for which he enlisted and was discharged at said Charlestown about the first of December 1781, when said Regiment was broken up and dismissed. he further states that he resided in Chester aforesaid when he entered the service, and has no documentary evidence and that Captain Benjamin True can testify to his service. said Benjamin True is a native of said Chester and now resides there, and served as a soldier in the same company and was his messmate during his service in said Captain William Boyes' company and also in the six months campaign in Captain Moses Dustin's company and Col. George Reid's 2d N. Hampshire Regiment in 1780. 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.

Sworn to, and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid William Moore

Attest P Chadwick clerk

I Benjamin True residing in the town of Chester and County of Rockingham and State of New Hampshire do hereby certify that I served as a private soldier in the above named Captain William Boyes' company and Colonel Daniel Runnells' Regiment three months in the Fall of 1781 and was messmate with the above named William Moore during the whole campaign
I have been personally acquainted with said William Moore from our infancy, having lived in the same neighborhood and being of nearly the same age. I further say that said-William
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William Moore will be seventy years old in October next I further certify that I enlisted as a private soldier as a New Hampshire new levy, with the aforesaid William Moore in June 1780
and mustered with him for the term of six months and served with him in Captain Moses Dustin's company and the second New Hampshire Regiment commanded by Colonel George Reid six months from the time of our
enlistment and was a messmate with him during said service. ["Willaim Moore" crossed out] Benjn [BENJAMIN] True

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Attest Peter Chadwick Clerk

And We John Wilson and Michael Worthen residing in the town of Chester in the County of Rockingham and State of New Hampshire
hereby certify that we are well acquainted with William Moore who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that I believe him to be sixty nine years old last October; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the revolution

John Wilson
Michael Worthen

Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Attest P Chadwick Clerk

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter that the above named Applicant was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he states

I Peter Chadwick Clerk of the Superior Court of Judicature for the County of Rockingham in the State of New Hampshire do here by certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of William Moore for a pension

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this seventh day of August Anno Domini 1832

P Chadwick Clerk of the said Rockingham 
County

[sideways] William Moore [illegible]
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I Peter Chadwick Clerk of the Superior Court of
Judicature for the County of Rockingham in the State of New Hampshire do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the Court in the matter of the application of William Moor [sic] for a pension

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set
my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this
seventh day of August Anno Domini 1832

P Chadwick Clerk of the Court Rockingm [ROCKINGHAM] County

[top sideways] Hon S Belle Chester NH
[middle sideways] Wm. [WILLIAM] Moore
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State of New Hampshire
Rockingham County. } ss.

On this Seventh day of August AD. 1832 personally appeared before the Superior Court of Judicature of the State of New Hampshire now in session at Exeter within and for said County of Rockingham William Moore a resident of Chester in the County of Rockingham and State of New Hampshire aged sixty nine years in October last past who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth
on his oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832.

That he enlisted in the army of the United States in the year 1780 in the month of June, at said Chester, and served in the second Regiment of the New Hampshire line, as a new levy, under the following named officers. in the company commanded by Captain Moses Dustin and Colonel George Reid's Regiment.
that he marched to Kingston in said County of Rockingham and was there mustered as a private soldier, and returned to Chester and thence immediately marched through the States of Massachusetts and Connecticut
to West Point in the State of New York and there joined said company and Regiment and remained in the service of the United States six
months from the time of his enlistment, being the term engaged for.

He further declares that he was born in Chester in the County of Rockingham aforesaid and
and resided there when he entered the service. He further states that the company in which he served was stationed in the vicinity of New York City and that he received a written discharge signed by George Reid Lt. Colonel commanding the second New Hampshire Regiment at a place called
about the middle of December 1780 about three hundred miles from home, and that he lost his pocketbook with said discharge in it on his return home from the Army.

He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any agency in any State

Sworn to, and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
William Moore

Attest P Chadwick Clerk

and the said Court do ["certify their opinion" crossed out] hereby declare their opinion that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary solder and served as he states
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Rufus W. Moores [sic] case
Mary A Moore's afft [AFFIDAVITT]
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I Mary Ann Moore of Chester in the County of Rockingham & State of New Hampshire depose & say that I am seventy four years of age - that I am sister of William Moore late of said Chester - that he died October 31st 1840 - that his widow Margaret Moore died March 27th 1844 & that I attended the funeral of
them both - That I was present at the
marriage of said William & Margaret when
I was about twenty three years old. They were married by Rev Ebenezer Flagg. Her maiden name was Lock.

My said brother lived in Raymond when he was married but moved to Chester soon after -
I further say I am informed and believe that my said brother was a revolutionary pensioner at the time of his death & I have never heard of any other William Moore in said Chester who was a pensioner. The marriage above named took place on Thanksgiving day in the fall of the year -

Mary A. Moore
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Rockingham Ss.

1844 May 6. Subscribed & sworn to by said Mary A Moore whom I certify to be entitled to credit

Before me
Henry F. French Justice of the Peace

State of New Hampshire
Rockingham County ss.

I Ira B. Hoitt Clerk of the Judicial Courts within and for said County certify that that [sic] Henry F. French Esq is a Justice of the Peace within
and for said County duly commissioned and qualified; that his commission is dated January 17th 1842. and will expire in five years from that date, and that the signature to the above certificate purporting to be his is his own proper hand writing and genuine -

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the Seal of our Court of Common Pleas this first day of October Anno Domini 1844 -

Ira B. Hoitt Clerk
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State of New Hampshire
Rockingham ss.

I David A. Gregg Register of the Court of Probate for said County of Rockingham, do hereby certify that Henry F. French is a Justice of the Peace for and within said County duly
Commissioned & Sworn, that his Commission was dated January 17th A.D. 1842. and will expire on the 17th of January A.D. 1847. and that the signature to the foregoing certificate purporting to be his is his own proper hand writing & genuine

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the Seal of the Court of Probate for said County this 7th day of May A.D. 1844.
David A. Gregg Reg [REGISTER OF] Probate
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Town Clerks certificate
R. W. Moore's case.
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State of New Hampshire -
Rockingham County Ss. -

Town Clerks office in Chester in Said County -

November the fifteenth in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninetytwo [sic] -

"William Moore of Raymond & Margaret Lock of Chester."

I certify that the above is a true copy of record except the date which is expressed on the record in fair legible figures as follows "1792
Nov. 15th."

Attest Benj. [BENJAMIN] Fitts Jr Town Clerk. 

I Benjamin Fitts Jr above named depose and say that I hold the office of Town Clerk in the County, Town and State aforesaid, and that the above is a true extract from the book of record of said Chester purporting to contain a list of those persons who have been married by the Rev Ebenezer Flagg Since Sept 8th 1792 to Augt 20th 1794, with the exception above named as certified by me - that the record is ancient, and in my belief genuine.

Benj. [BENJAMIN] Fitts Jr Town Clerk of Chester
Rockingham Ss. May 1 1844

Sworn before me David Currier Justice of the Peace -
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State of New Hampshire
Rockingham County Ss.

I Ira B Hoitt Clerk of the Judicial Courts within and for said County certify that David Currier Esq is a Justice of the peace within and for said County duly  commissioned and qualified; that his commission is dated on the ninth day of January AD 1843 and will expire in five years from that date; and that the within signature purporting to be his to the within Certificate is in his own proper hand writing and is genuine-

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the Seal of our Court of Common Pleas this first day of October
Anno Domini 1844.

I. B. Hoitt Clerk
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State of New Hampshire
Rockingham Ss. 

I David A. Gregg Register of the Court of Probate for and within said County of Rockingham certify that David Currier is a Justice of the Peace for within said County    duly commissioned & Sworn that his commission was dated the 9th day of January A.D. 1843 and will expire in five years from said date, and that the signature to the foregoing certificate purporting to be his is his own proper handwriting & genuine.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the Seal of the Court of Probate for said County this 3rd day of May A.D. 1844.

David A. Gregg Regr [REGISTER OF] Prob. [PROBATE]

[sideways] (Fifth line from top interlining before signing & sealing. Att. D.A. Gregg  Regr [REGISTER OF] Prob. [PROBATE]
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10925 May 11 1844
Declaration of [crossed out "Rufus W. Moore"] Margaret Moore decd [DECEASED] 7 July 1838

Send certificate to "Henry F. French Exeter N H."
Mar 240
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State of New Hampshire-
County of Rockingham Ss -

On this first day of May A.D. 1844 before the Probate Court holden at Chester within and for said County, personally appeared Rufus W. Moore of said Chester aged 29 years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on behalf of himself & of James Moore of Atkinson in said County, Charlotte Moore of said Chester, William Moore of Peterboro [sic] in the County of Hillsborough and State aforesaid, Mary Ann Sanborn wife of Cyrus Sanborn of Sandown in said County of Rockingham, Robert Moore of Manchester in said County of Hillsborough, Mary T. Moore and Sarah Moore both of said Chester make the following declaration in order to obtain the arrears of pension due to Margaret Moore deceased, under the act of Congress passed
July 7th 1838, and also the act of Congress passed March 3. 1843- that the said Margaret Moore was the widow of William Moore, who was a private in the Revolutionary War, and a pensioner, and drew an annual pension of
$29. & that the evidence of his services is in the Pension Office at Washington - that the said Margaret was married to the said William on the 15th day of November 1792 - evidence of which marriage is hereto annexed - that the said William Moore died on the 31st day of October 1840 and the said Margaret died on the 27th day of March 1844 - That these declarants are the children, and the only surviving children of the said William and Margaret Moore who resided in said Chester and died there at the times above mentioned-- that the said Margaret Moore was never a second time married, but till the time of her death remained the widow of the said
William.

The figures " 1840" were interlined before signing. -

Rufus W. Moore

Sworn to and subscribed in open Court the day
& year first above written before me
Jno [JOHN] Sullivan Judge of Probate
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State of New Hampshire
Rockingham Ss.

I David A. Gregg Register of the Court of Probate for said County of Rockingham do hereby certify that the forgoing contains the original proceedings before the Hon Jno [JOHN] Sullivan Judge of Probate for said County in the matter of the application of Rufus W. Moore for a pension. And I further certify that the said Jno [JOHN] Sullivan is the Judge of the Court of Probate for said County and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine & in his own proper hand writing [sic]

The testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the Court of Probate for said County this third day of May AD. 1844.

David A. Gregg Regr [REGISTER] Probate
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State of New-Hampshire.
ROCKINGHAM, SS.

THE subscriber, Register of the Court of Probate for said County, hereby certifies and attests, that on the 1st day of May in the year of our Lord 1844, at a Probate Court then holden, at Chester in said County, by the Hon. Jno [JOHN] Sullivan Judge of said Court, 
satisfactory evidence was presented to said Court that William Moore late of said Chester, died October 31st 1840, - that Margaret Moore
wife of said William died March 27th A.D. 1844, and that she left the following named children who still survive & no others (Viz) Rufus W. Moore of said Chester, James Moore of Atkinson in said County, Charlotte Moore of
said Chester William Moore of Peterborough in the County of Hillsboro, Mary Ann Sanborn wife of Cyrus Sanborn of Sandown in said county of Rockingham, Robert Moore of 
Manchester in said County of Hillsboro, & Mary T. Moore & Sarah Moore both of said Chester.

Given under my hand and the seal of said Court, at Exeter, in said County of Rockingham, this 3rd day of May A.D. 1844

David A. Gregg REGISTER.
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Certificate
Margaret Moore
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State of New-Hampshire.
ROCKINGHAM, SS.

THE subscriber, Register of the Court of Probate, for said County, hereby certifies and attests that on the 19th day of March in the year of our Lord 1845, at a Probate Court then holden at Exeter in said County, by the Hon. Jno [JOHN] Sullivan, Judge of said Court, Rufus W. Moore of Chester in said County was duly appointed Administrator of the Estate of Margaret Moore late of said Chester deceased intestate, as appears by the original papers on file and of record in the Probate office in said County and the said Rufus W. Moore accepted of said trust, and gave bond for the faithful performance thereof, agreeably to the laws of said State. And I further certify, that said appointment has never been revoked, but remains in full force, as by the records of said Court appears. Given under my hand and the seal of said Court, at Exeter, in said County of Rockingham, this 11th day of April, A.D. 1845.

David a. Gregg Register.


STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE,
Rockingham ss. April 11th A.D. 1845.
I Jno. [JOHN] Sullivan Judge of the Court of Probate in said County, hereby certify that David A. Gregg is the Register of said Court; that full faith and credit are and ought to be given to his certificates and attestations as such; that his name subscribed to the forgoing
certificate is in his own proper signature; that the seal affixed thereto is the seal of said Court; and that said certificate is in due form of law.

Given under my hand the day above written.
Jno. [JOHN] Sullivan Judge of Probate.
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10.925
Margaret More
N. H.
Suspended
Let. [LETTER] to H F French
Sept 25 1844.
Act 7th July [18]'38
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Portsmouth Dec. 27, 1844

Sir,

In the case of Margaret Moore deceased, widow of William Moore who is in on my roll under the acts of 1838 [18]'43 [18]'44; the pension is payable to her only surviving children Rufus W. Moore & others - can the pension be paid to an administrator of her estate? - Can one of the children the proportion due them?

Yours very respectfully
Richard Jenness, P. Agt. [PENSION AGENT]

J L Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
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Exeter NH 15 Oct 1, 1844
Sir,
According to your suggestion, I have caused the affidavits of B. Fitz Jr. & Mary A. Moore to be properly authenticated. They
are to be used in the application of the
heirs of Margaret Moore widow of Wm Moore, now on your files.

Yours truly, 
Henry F. French
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8910
New-Hampshire
Margaret Moore, decd. who died March 27, 1844, widow of William Moore. - who was a pensioner under the Act of 1832 - and who died on the 31. Octo. 1840, of Rockingham Co in the State of N.H. who was a Pri. [PRIVATE] in the Com. commanded by Captain Dustin of the Regt commanded by Col Reed the NH
line for 8 mo 24 days

Inscribed on the Roll of Portsmouth at the rate of 29 Dollars 33 Cents per annum, to commence on the 3rd day of October 1840 and end on and on the 4th March 1841 -

Certificate of Pension issued the 4" day of
Dec. 1844 and sent to Henry F. French, Exeter, NH.

Total amount, $146.65

[Act July 7, 1838.]

Recorded by F.S Swann Clerk, 
Book D Vol. 1 Page 35
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Pay to
Rufus W. Moore, James Moore, Charlotte Moore, William Moore, Mary Ann Sanborn, Robert Moore, Mary T. Moore, & Sarah Moore,
only sur [SURVIVING]: children of Margaret Moore, Dec'd.
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10935
Margaret Moore decd [DECEASED], widow of William N. H. No act 1843-6760 No act 1844 - 300
Act 7 July 1838

Admd. [ADMITTED] 8 mo 24 day private $29.33 per annum from 31st October 1840, to 4 March 1841, payable to Rufus W Moore James Moore, Charlotte Moore, William Moore, Mary Ann Sanborn, Robert Moore, Mary T Moore and Sarah Moore only surviving children of Margaret Moore dec'd [DECEASED].

Admd [ADMITTED] Acts 3 March 1843 and 17 June 1844, $29.33 from 4 March 1843 to 27 March 1844 the day of her death, payable to her children named above.

Henry F. French
Exeter, N.H.
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Revy [REVOLUTIONARY]
WIDOW, &c.

File No. 21.816
Margaret Moore wid [WIDOW] of William Moore
Priv Rev. [PRIVATE REVOLUTIONARY] War

Act March 3rd [18]/'43 June 17th
Index: Vol. M, Page 65
[Arrangement of 1870.]
born & lived in Chester NH
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State of New Hampshire
Rockingham County Ss.
Declaration - In order to obtain the
benefits of the resolutions of Congress of the 23d January 1845 -

Whereas the act of the 30th of April, 1844 prohibited Margaret Moore, deceased, who was widow of William Moore who was a
Private in the revolutionary war, from drawing a pension for the said period during which her husband was a pensioner, I, Rufus W. Moore Administrator on the estate of said Margaret Moore now make the following statement under oath to obtain the benefit of the resolution above mentioned - The said Margaret Moore was the widow of William Moore who was a Private in the war of the Revolution; That the said Margaret has drawn a pension at the rate of twenty nine dollars and thirty three cents from the 31st day of October 1840 and now ask for the amount due me the Administrator as aforesaid from the 4th day of March 1836 to the 31st day of October when the former pension of the said Margaret commenced in the year 1840 at Chester -
Rufus W. Moore

Sworn to and Subscribed before me, on this 3d day of April 1845.
Henry F. French
Justice of the Peace

I certify that the declarant is personally known to me and that he is the same individual he represents himself to be in the foregoing
affidavit
Henry F. French
Justice of the Peace
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State of New Hampshire
Rockingham County Ss.

I Ira B. Hoitt Clerk of the Judicial Courts in and for said County, certify that Henry F. French Esq. is an acting Justice of the peace in and for said County duly commissioned and qualified; that his commission is dated on the 17th day of January AD 1842 and will expire in five years from that date, and that his signature on the within is genuine.

Given under my hand & the Seal of our Court of Common Pleas hereto affixed this 5th of April AD 1845 -
I. B. Hoitt, Clerk