Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 35113, Moses Webb, S. C. Va.
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(3 - 1776)

SERVICE
S. C.
Va.

Webb, Moses

NUMBER
S 35113

CONTENTS
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                           At. 19991
Kentucky to Missouri
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Moses Webb
of Cumberland in the State of Kentucky
who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain McCamach of the Regiment commanded by Colonel Russell in the Virginia line, for the term of two years.  From the year 1777 to the year 1779.
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Inscribed on the Roll of Kentucky at the rate of eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 21 day of October 1828.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 8th of November 1828 and sent to Hiram S Emerson Esq. Burkeville, Kentucky
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Arrears to 4th March 1828 - 35.61
Semi-anl. all'ce ending
                                             $35.61

{Revolutionary Claim,}
{Acts March, 18, 1818,}
{and May 1, 1820.}

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Sent letter, 4 April 1832 to D. Rockwell & Ken. Pen. Agt.
See letter July 25, 1832 to Dennis
Rockwell Jacksonville (illegible)
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old case
Moses Webb
Cumberland Co Kty
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Milton King
agt.
Burkeville, Kentucky
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Rec'd 25 Oct. 1820
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Rec'd from Sec. State N. C.
27 Nov 18910

Transmitted to the Reg of the
state of N. Carolina for 
proof of service.
 P. Office, 17 Nov. 182.

Not on the Rolls of N. Carolina
                Wm. Hill

[vertical on right side of page]
Moses Webb
Sergeant
Declaration
dated 16 Sept 1818
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State of Tennessee}   Septr 16th 1818
Overton County}

     This day before me Danny McHain pledged one of the Judges of the Circuit Court in and for the State of Tennessee now presiding in said County came  Moses Webb in the 63rd year of his age and inhabitant of said county who being [illegible] by me duly sworn to declare & speak the truth &  nothing but the truth concerning his service in the Army of the United States in the Revolutionary war.  [illegible] to obtain the benefit of the provision of the Act of Congress [illegible] to provide for [illegible] person engaged in the war & in said Service of the United States in the Revolutionary war.  Declares & says that when he was a youth about 14 or 15 years of 
age he enlisted as a Drum man 
& bugle in the town of Rodney  in the state
of Pennsylvania for the term of 18 months & was
engaged in the [illegible] service. Capt.
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angle commanded & company of regulars on
Continental and estates may be on high
it he has not roomber he served the twen
of 18 months with him in the evening seven
pare of the time during the have of let 18
month said he was in the battle of German
town & had he down shot to pieces, & he had
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in five months in service before that time
in what was called the flying camp than
the war of the white plains a dam also
Some time after his service have lived his
then be moved to Boston in North
Cavan on the Comm save of
in James Corn Shelly troops & was at the Call
of Kings Mountain
Allevears he went with
Shelly to the State of South Cowland & with
Carl Elby who resided at the law
Springs he enlisted for one year he be
commanded a troop of horse in Col.
Mayham Requel or Canal by what has
time of his discharge does not know her
taken care of
-
The foregoing was taken before
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use the day & date above to refer
Jess Humphreys
Judge JC
State of Tennessee)
Overton County)
Third Judicial Cicuit
I Henry H. Atkinson clerk of the Circuit 
Court sitting in the County and State aforesaid do hereby
certify that Percy H. Humphreys whose signature appears
to the foregoing was at the time of subscribing the same
one of the Judges of the Circuit Courts of Law and Equity
for the State of Tennessee and now presiding in the Third
Circuit and that full faith and credit is due to his 
Official attestations as such.
In Testimoney whereof, I
have hereunto set my hand and private seal
(there being no Official yet provided this 1st
day of October 1818. and in the 43d year
of our Independence.
Henry H. Atkinson Clk
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Application for a Transfer.

State of Illinois}
Morgan County}ss

     On this sixth day of October 1832 before me, the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace for the said County of Morgan, personally appeared Moses Webb who, on his oath, declares that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the company commanded by Captain McCormack in the thirteenth Virginia Regiment of Infantry, under the command of Colonel Campbell in the Service of the United States during the Revolutionary War; that his name was placed on the pension roll of the State of Kentucky, from whence he has lately removed, that he now resides in the State of Illinois contiguous to St. Louis in the State of Missouri, where he intends to remain, and wishes his pension in future, to be payable at St. Louis in the State of Missouri.
     The following are his reasons for removing from Kentucky to Illinois, viz:  His desire to reside amongst his children.
                                   Moses Webb

Sworn and subscribed to,}
before me, the day and year aforesaid}
Geo. Rearick, J. P.}

State of Illinois}
Morgan County} s.s.

On this 6th day of October 1832, before me the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace for the said County of Morgan, personally appeared William Hays, who on his oath says, that Moses Webb, who has taken the above oath, is the same person described in the above affidavit.
                              William Hays

Sworn and subscribed to, before me,}
the day and year aforesaid}
Geo. Rearick, Justice of the Peace}
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     I certify that I am acquainted with William Hays, the person who executed the foregoing affidavit and that he is a person of veracity.  Given under my hand this 6th day of October A D 1832.
                              Geo. Rearick J.P (Seal)

                        
State of Illinois)
Morgan County) S. S.

I, Dennis Rockwell, clerk of the County Commissioners Court of Morgan County, certify that George Rearick is a magistrate as above, and that the foregoing signatures purporting to be his, are genuine.
     In testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed my seal of office, and subscribed my name this 6th day of October AD 1832.
                  Dennis Rockwell, Clerk of
                  the Comrs Court of Morgan County, Ill.
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Kentucky Cumberland County Sct.

On this day being the ninth day of October 1820 
and the first day of the October County Court 
it being a court of record for the ^County &^ State aforesaid 
Moses Webb aged 64 years, resident in Cumberland 
County and State aforesaid who being first 
duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath 
declare that he served in the revolutionary war 
as follows, and he makes the following declaration, 
in order to obtain the provision made by the acts of 
Congress of the 18th day of March 1818 and 
the 1st of May 1820.  That he the said Moses 
Webb enlisted for the term of and year on the
[space] day of November in the year 1781 in the 
State of South Carolina, in the company commanded by Captain McKelvey in the regiment commanded  by Colonel Mayham 
in the line of the State of South Carolina on the 
continental establishment, that ^he continued to 
serve ^as sergent^ in the said corps or service until the  day of November
1782, when he was discharged from the 
said service of the United States in County in 
the State of South Carolina.  That he served under 
Captain George Noyle of the Pennsylvania line 
as a recruting Drummer for the term of eighteen 
months prior to the entering the service in the State 
of South Carolina in the year 1781 and this declarant 
does not recollect the time and that he was 
honorably discharged by Captain Noyle in the year 
1777 and that his discharge from the officers of the 
lines of Carolina & Pennsylvania, was left in 
the State of Pennsylvania at his father's many 
years ago.  That he was in the battles of German Town 
Santee in South Carolina, at Simmerman's in 
South Carolina, and at Tazewell Point near Charleston 
in South Carolina ^at White Plains & Kings bridge^ Landing & many other small engagements.
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not recollected & too tedious to mention, and I 
do solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of 
the United States on the 18th day of March 1818 
and that I have not since that time by [illegible], sold 
or in any manner disposed of my property 
or any part thereof, with the intent thereby to 
diminish it, as to bring myself within the 
provisions of an act of Congress, entitled an 
Act to provide for certain pensions engaged in 
the land and naval service of the United States 
in the revolutionary war passed on the 18th 
day of March 1818 and that I have not nor 
has any person in trust for me, any property 
or securities contracts or debts due to me, 
nor have I any income, other than what is 
contained in the schedule hereto annexed 
and by me subscribed.
One rifle gun & shot pouch worth $25.00 - 
one mans saddle (old)
necessary bedding & clothing excepted

                                   Moses Webb

The declarant is advanced in life, unable to 
support himself from his own labor 
& frequently disqualified to do any sort of service 
or labour from age & infirmity, his wife has 
been dead near four years past, he has a 
widow daughter with two small infant children, 
Hannah Sevier my daughter & widow and 
her two children named Washington & Moses 
first about four years old & the latter about two 
years old and the declarant has four sons, 
John Webb aged about 19 years, Benja 
Webb aged about 14 years, Mary Webb aged 
12 years and Washington Webb aged nearing 
years and they now live in this county with sundry 
persons for their victuals & clothes,
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This Declarant again states, that he has one other child named Moses Webb aged about 14 years and a resident of Cumberland County and that the date of his first declaration is the 16th day of September 1818 - and which will accompany this declaration as schedule taken in pursuance of the Act of Congress passed the first day of May 1820 -- This declaration and schedule sworn to and declared on the day & year first mentioned in this Declaration.

     Kentucky Cumberland County, Sct
I John E King, the Clerk of the County Court for the County aforesaid, Do certify that the foregoing oath and schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the record of the court aforesaid and that is the opinion of the court aforesaid that the total amount of the value of the properly exhibited in a schedule is $7 dollars.

[physical seal affixed]

     In Testimony of which I have hereunto set my hand and caused the official of sd County to be hereto affixed at my said office in the Town of Buckmiller this 9th day of October 1821.
                                 John E. King

Kentucky Cumberland County Sct,
I Will Cole as presiding justice of the peace in & for the court a. Do certify that John E. King Esq whose name is subscribed to the above certificate is and was at the time and date thereof acting in the capacity therein specified legally appointed & qualified 
and that full faith and credit ought to be given 
to all his official acts as such and that hereafter taken is in due form of law.  
Witness my hand this 9th day of October 1820.

                     Wm Cole JPCC
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Affidavits in
behalf of
Moses Webb
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State of Tennessee Overton County March the 1st 1821.  This day came Thomas Cooper of said County before me Amos Richardson one of the Justices of the peace in and for the County aforesaid and made oath that sometime in the month of November in the year 1781 Moses Webb who had come out of North Carolina on a tour of duty under the command Colonel Isaac Shelby and out of his regiment enlisted in a regiment of light Dragoons belonging to the State of South Carolina commanded by Col Hezekiah Mahone that the said Webb was enlisted for the term of one year and served as a sergeant in the third troop commanded by Captain McKelvy.

                                Thomas Cooper

Sworn and subscribed
Before me this Day and
Date above ritten
Amos Richardson a Justices of the Peace
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State of Tennessee )
Overton County )

I Joseph Harris Clerk of the court of pleas and quarter sessions of said county do certify that Amos Richardson Esquire whose name appears attached to the written affidavit of Thomas Cooper is now and was at the time of attaching the same an acting justice of the peace in and for the court aforesaid 
and that all due faith and credit is and ought to be given to all his acts as such. In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court at office in Monroe this 19th day of March 1821.

                            Jo Harris, Clk
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State of Tennessee )
Overton County )

Be it remembered that on this 17th day of March 1821, Personally came Walter Green a respected citizen of said county Before me Joseph Bates one of the acting Justice of the Peace in and for said county and after being lawfully sworn as the said as the said Green deposeth and saith that Moses Webb did enlist in the year 1781 in the United States services in South Carolina in the month of November out of Colonel Isaac Shelby's Regiment into Colonel Hezekiah Mahone's Regiment of Light Dragoons in the State of South Carolina and that the sd. Webb enlisted for the term of one year.  I also have a perfect recollection seeing sd. Webb in the service some time after he enlisted and further this Deponent Saith not. Sworn to and subscribed before me this day and date above written.
                              Walter Green 
Joseph Bates J Peace
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State of Tennessee )
Overton County )

I Joseph Harris clerk of the Court of pleas and quarter sessions of said county of Overton do hereby certify that Joseph Bates Esquire whose name is attested to the within affidavit of Walter Green is now and was at the time of attesting the same an acting justice of the peace in and for said county and that due faith and credit is and should of right be given to all his official acts as such in testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court at office in Monroe this the 19th day of March 1821.
                                  Jos. Harris Clk
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Pension Declaration                     free
Secretary at War
           Washington City

Moses Webb
claim admd.
Pen: to comr. 21 Oct. 1828

(John Emerson's commission
is on file-evidence of 
his service is therefor
satisfactory)
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Burksville Ky. October 20th
Dear Sir
Enclosed is Moses Webb's declaration and
the affidavit of John Emerson in support of the
Applicants claim for a pension on account of Revolutionary 
services forwarded to the department and more
with the aim[?] in succeeding in obtaining the benefits
to which he conceives himself entitled as one of 6the survivors
of Revolution who took a considerable part in
those bloody scenes witnessed by our fathers and
which secured to us the blessing which ^we enjoy as a
free and Independent nation and peoples.
In your last you say his claim is very
doubtful unless John Emerson can make it
satisfactorily appear to the Department that he
was an Officer in the 13th Virginia Regiment
of the Continental line. I was some what surprised
ed to hear that requisition from the department
in as much as John Emerson now is and has been
[page torn] some years past placed on the pension rolls
[page torn]  Captain or Lieutenant in said Regiment
and his Commission forwarded to the Department
with his first declaration which I presume is
yet on file in the Pension Office. Yet I concluded
that it was his change of rendence which caused
the difficulty having fowarded all his documents
from Greensburgh where he then resided, and in
his affidavit Stating himself to be of Burksville
Ky it left room to presume that it was not the 
same John Emerson, it is a fact that he now
resides in Burksville Ky and did formerly reside
in Greensburgh and draw as a pensioner at the 
order of $240 per annume Yours truly
Herman[?] J. Emmerson
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Burkesville Ky. July 28th, 1821

Hon. J. C. Calhoun    for

I received all the papers 
of Moses Webb an old revolutionist.  
I discovered endorsed on the back of his original 
Declaration. "Transmitted to the Secty. of State 
of North Carolina for proof of service" and by Secty. endorsed "Not on the rolls of N. Carolina.  Wm Hill."  There was 
a mistake in your view as relates to the 
State.  It was in the State of South Carolina & not North  he served, enlisted and discharged in the State of South 
Carolina.  He has complied with the 
act of Congress of May 1820.  He has obtained 
certificates from two respectable 
citizens of his enlistment & service, with 
certificates & county seals thereon.  I here 
inclose  Gov. Isaac Shelby's letter in the 
behalf of the old revolutionary soldier, 
he speaks favorable of the old Gentleman.

Be so good as to attend to this 
claim.  The old man has been 
engaged for near 90 days in 
procureing the necessary vouchers 
and is much in need of the aid 
of his pension.  By his special request, I address you thus pressing 
& forwarding the results to me.
      I have the Honor to remain yours respectfully
                               Milton King
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                                               12

Mr. Milton King
Burkesville
Cumberland County,
K.Y.
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                       Danville 7th Feby. 1821

Sir,
     I received your note of the 29th letter f
for answers to which I state that I recollect you 
well, and that you did enlist into Col Mayams 
regiment of South Carolina Dragoons.  About 
the first of December 1781 and left the Army 
shortly afterwards to make preparations for coming to 
Kentucky.  I have no knowledge how long you continued in the service.
     I address you by the hand of another person, 
being unable to make any use of my right hand.
     I am Sir very respectfully your most obt servt.
                                        Isaac Shelby

Mr. Moses Webb
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Moses Webb

Milton King
Burkesville, Ky.

Rec'd 18 Augt. 1821.

Rejected See
Letter to applicant
20 Nov 1821.


Burkesville Ky.
July 30th 1821
Hon. J.C. Calhoun
Sectry of War
Washington City
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                                     Free

The Honorable
             Secretary of War
Pension Department Washington City
                                              D.C.
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                    Jacksonville, Ill. 6th. Oct. 1832

James L. Edwards, Esq.

   Dr, Sir,
     I enclose herewith Moses Webb's application for a transfer of his pension from the Roll of the Kentucky Agency to that of Missouri.  Altho' Mr. Webb resides in Illinois, it will be much more convenient for him to receive his pension at St. Louis, than from the Agency in this state.
     There is so little intercourse between this place and the Pension Agency in this state, that it is better for Webb to remain as he is, than to be transferred to the Agency of Illinois, but if it can be transferred to Missouri, it will be a great convenience to him.
     I hope the papers enclosed are sufficient.
                            Very Respectfully
                                  Your ob Servt
                                Dennis Rockwell
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State of Kentucky Cumberland County, Sct

     On this 21st day of October 1828 personally appeared in Open Court (being a Court of Record for the Cumberland Circuit holden at the Courthouse in the Town of Burkesville in the County and State aforesaid) Moses Webb aged sixty nine years resident in said County being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the acts of Congress of the 18th day of March 1818 and the 4th day of May 1820, that he the said Moses Webb inlisted for the term of two years on the __ day of ___ in the year 1777 the day nor month he does not now recollect but feels very confident & would state from his present recollection that it was in the latter part of the summer or fall of said year in the State of Pennsylvania in the Company commanded by Captain George McCormack in the Regiment commanded by Colonel William Russell in the line of the State of Virginia on the continental establishment that he continued to serve in said corps until the fall or winter of the year 1779 when he was discharged from the service at Headquarters in the State of Pennsylvania.
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That he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension except the present that his name is not on the pension roll of any State - and he deems it unnecessary here to assign reasons for not making an earlier application for the premises that upon an examination of the papers on file in the Pension Office it will be discovered that he made an application in the year 1819 for services in the Revolutionary Army in Capt. McKelby's Company in Colo. Mayham's Regt under Genl. Green in the Southern Quarters of the continental not knowing at that time a single officer or soldier who could testify as to the services on which he now relies, but was then enabled to procure the testimony of some persons who could testify as to his having been in the service but could not then satisfactorily shew that he or his officers under whom he served belonged to the continental line, consequently his claim was rejected he then believed that all the officers and soldiers with whom he was acquainted and who knew of his services in the 13th Ca. Regt. of the continental line were dead, but having met with John Emerson who was an officer in said Regt. & not long service removed from Greenburgh to his County they were enabled to recognize each
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each other as two of the few survivors who belonged to the Revolutionary Army and in the same Regiment, he was therefore induced to renew his application forward & upon those services rendered previous to the year 1780 and relinquishes his former claims.  And in pursuance of the act of the - day of May 1820, I do solemnly swear that I was a citizen resident of the United Sates on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any manner disposed of my property or any part things with intent thereby to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress, entitled [paper creased]
persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War passed on the 18th day of March 1818. And that I have not nor has any person  in trust for me any property or securities contract or debts due to me nor have I any income other than what is contained in my schedule hereto annexed, to wit, A few machine tools, not worth more than about $5.00.

                                       Moses Webb
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     A Schedule of the estate of Moses Webb an applicant for a pension under the act of Congress of the 18th March 1818 & pursuant to the requisitions of the act of May 1820.

To wit   One Broad axe  $1.00
One falling axe                  .12 1/2
Two planes                        .12 1/2
Two chisels ) ^All of the value of $5.00 & no more^       .12 1/2
One Oeger )           .37 1/2
One compass  )                  .12 1/2


He the said Webb is a Rough Carpenter and very old and infirm and has no family residing with him.

                       Moses Webb

We do state on oath that we believe the above schedule to be true and embrace all the property owned by the said Moses Webb
                       Michael Harris
                       N Glidewell
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35 113

Revy    INVALID
 
File No. 35 113
Moses Webb
Pri Rev War

Act 18th March 18
Index:-Vol.2, Page 444
(Arrangement of 1870.)

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1922 - Aug. 7 Hist. to Mr J. M.
Hays - MMH
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Revy Sold
Portland, Oregon.  June 12, 1922.

U. S. Pension Bureau,
Washington, D. C.

Gentlemen:
     My son, Grover G. Hays, wishes to join the association of the Sons of the Revolution, and I have gotten all the data necessary excepting that relating to his maternal grandfather, this is all the data we have of him:  Moses Webb, the maternal grandfather of our subject was a drummer boy in the Revolutionary War for four years under the immediate command of General Washington, he served two years in a calvary regiment, he spent the last of his life with his son-in-law, William Hays, and lived to be 72 years old.

     We also know that he drew a pension until his death and therefore I am writing to this department for this information.  Hoping you may be able to help me in this matter, also give me the name of the place and state of his enlistment.

     Thanking you for a prompt reply, I am,
                   
                             Very truly yours,
                                 J. M. Hays
[stamp] U.S. PENSION OFFICE F JUN 19 1922

Mr. J. M. Hays,
1036 E. 18th North,
Portland, Oregon

JMH/M