Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 7336, for John Moore, New Jersey
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State of New York Ontario County SS
On this 4th day of June AD 1818 before me the subscriber one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in said County personally appears John More who is in the fifty seventh year of his age resident in the County aforesaid who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the late act of Congress entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States of America in the revolutionary war." passed the 18th day of March 1818; that he  is a citizen of the United States; that at the city of New York sometime in the month of June or July AD 1776, he enlisted (by the name of John More Junior) into a company of soldiers commanded by Capt Bailey (afterwards by Capt Jeremiah Dunn) attached to the regiment of the New Jersey line of the Continental Army, under the command of Col Johnson; that he inlisted for five months, and served during the whole time, at the expiration of which he was regularly discharged but received no written discharge; and this deponent further saith that he again inlisted, at Newark in New Jersey, in the month of May AD 1777 (to the best of his recollection) for six months; into the company of Capt Craig of Col Phillip Courtlandt's regiment of the New Jersey line of the army of the revolution; that he was discharged at Elizabethtown in New Jersey, sometime in the month of November following; that he does not recollect whether he received a written discharge, if he did, it is now lost; and this deponent further saith that he again inlisted at Morristown in New Jersey (he thinks) in November AD 1779, for one year, under Capt Joseph Allen, and under the immediate command of General Washington, denominated the express, and was employed solely in carrying orders and information from and to the different sections of the American Army; that he was regularly discharged at the end of the year, at New Jersey, but received no written discharge; and this deponent further saith that he bore a part in the battle of Flatbush, at Monmouth (while serving in the Militia) and at Middlebrook in New Jersey; and that by reason of his
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
Form VAN-51
12-5-41
Division of Veterans' Administration Archives
BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Moore, John GRADE Private
LINE New York
WARRANT NUMBER 7468
ACREAGE 100
ISSUED Oct. 12, 1790 to Stephen Hogeboon, assignee
The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800.
Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.