Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 8742, for Moses Hutchings, Virginia
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[typed form, with handwritten responses]

[3-1776]

SERVICE
Va.

Hutchings, Moses

NUMBER
S.8742

carded
CONTENTS
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[typed form, with handwritten responses]

6605. -
Virginia

Moses Hutchings
of Pittsylvania in the State of Va.
who was a pr [Private] -- in the Compy [Company] commanded by Captain Donalson of the Regt. commanded by Col. Shelby in the Va. line for 1 year from 1777

Inscribed on the Roll of Virginia
at the rate of 40 - Dollars - Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 5th day of Mar: 1833 and delivered Hon: Tho. Davenport H R

Arrears to the 4th of March 1832 – 80-
Semi=anl. [annual] allowance ending 4 Septr [September] 1833 
20
$100-

{Revolutionary Claim}
{Act June 7, 1832}

Recorded by Nathan Rice, Clerk,
Book D Vol. 7 - Page 123 -
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10. 883

$40 per ann.

Hon. Thos. Davenport
H R
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State of Virginia }
County of Pittsylvania } Sct. 
On this 22nd day of August 1832 personally appeared in open Court before Daniel Coleman, Walter Coles, William G Pannill & Coalman D. Bennett the Court of Pittsylvania County now sitting Moses Hutchings a resident in the County of Pittsylvania & State of Virginia aforesaid aged 79 years next March was born in Culpeper County Va. & has resided in Pittsylvania 60 years who being first sworn according to law doth on his Oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed the 7th day of June 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States an Ensign in the Militia of Virginia under Capt. John Donalson [Donelson], Hugh Henry Lieut. the first of March 1777, that his commission is lost or mislaid, that it was signed by Patrick Henry. He rendezvoused at Pitts’a. [Pittsylvania] Old Court House in the month of March 1777 from whence he marched with the Company aforesaid and Capt. William Witcher’s Company from the aforesaid County to Long Island on Holstein [sic: Holston River at present Kingsport TN] where he was put under the Command of Colo. [Evan] Shelby and was engaged against the Cherokee & Chicamaga [sic: Chickamauga band of Cherokee] Indians but was in no general engagement where he remained untill [until] some time in the month of July following when a treaty [sic: Treaty of Long Island, 20 June 1777] was agreed on by Colos. [Colonel's] Shelby, [William] Preston & Christie [William Christian] on the part of the U. States and Little Carpenter, Conestoga [sic: Oconostoto] & Dragon Canoe [sic: Dragging Canoe] Chiefs appointed on the part of the Indians when he was discharged by Capt. Donalson by direction of Colo. Shelby and returned to Pitts’a [Pittsylvania]. In the month of Decr. [December] following he enlisted under Capt. Thos. Dillard [Thomas Dillard] and was appointed Indian Spy and marched to Boonsborough [Boonesborough] in Kentucky where he arrived in the month of March 1778 and continued untill [until] he was discharged about the last of June and was discharged by Capt. Thos. Dillard which discharge is lost or mislaid. 
He further states that Capt. Thos. Dillard was the commanding
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officer Maj’r. [Major] Smith who was to have commanded the expedition never arrived, from whence he again ret’d. [returned] to Pitts’a. [Pittsylvania] where he remained untill [until] 1779 when he was commissioned as Lieutenant (which commission is lost or mislaid) and was signed by [blank] under Capt. Armistead Shelton and remained in Pittsylvania County untill [until] 1781 Feby. when Cornwallace [Lord Cornwallis] came on from the South when the deponent with 9 others took their Horses and Rifles and set out to harass as much as possible the British Pickets and proceeded as far as Powels[?] Tavern in North Carolina from whence they went to Thomas’s Mill where they found the Enemy by which time the Company had increased to about 20 where they attacked a House in which a part of the Enemy was quarted [quartered], the Enemy then turned into North Carolina and this deponent with his comrades returned and joined the troops of Pittsylvania County and the companies being all officered the deponent could not get a command as Lieut. and entered Capt. Thos. Smith’s Company as a private and marched to the high Rock ford in North Carolina where the Company aforesaid was attached to Colo. [William] Campbell’s Regiment and was in many skirmishes with the British and Tories untill the Battle at Guilford [Guilford Courthouse, 15 Mar 1781] where they joined the main Army and this deponent was in the whole engagement under Colo. Campbell on the left Wing, from whence he marched to Ramsey’s Mill on deep River North Carolina where he was discharged by Colo. Campbell in the month of April (say 1st day or 31st of March.) 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. 
[signed] M. Hutchings

We Griffith Dickenson a Clergyman residing in the County of Pittsylvania and Wm Tunstale residing in the said County hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Moses Hutchings who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we
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believe him to be 79 years of age that he is reputed to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion 
Sworn and Subscribed the day and year aforesaid 
Griffith Dickenson Sen 
Will Tunstale 

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after pulling the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant was an officer in the Revolutionary Army and served as he States and the Court further certifies that it appears to them that Griffith Dickenson who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman resident in the County of Pittsylvania and that Wm Tunstale who has signed the same is a resident in the County aforesaid and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit –
I, William Tunstale Clerk of the Court of Pittsylvania County Virginia do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Moses Hutchings for a Pension 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office this 29" day of August One thousand eight hundred and thirty two --- 
Will Tunstale
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October 8, 1931. 
BA-J/MLB own

Mrs. F. W. Hauser 
716 South 3rd Street 
Saint Peter, Minnesota 

Dear Madam: 

Reference is made to your letter relative to Moses Hutchings, a soldier of the Revolutionary War. 
The date which follow are obtained from the papers on file in pension claim, S. 8742, based upon his military service in that war. 
Moses Hutchings was born in March, 1754, in Culpeper County, Virginia. 
While residing in Pittsylvania County, Virginia, he entered the service March 1, 1777, as ensign in Captain John Donalson's company, Colonel Shelby's Virginia regiment and served until sometime in July, 1777. He enlisted in December, 1777, served as Indian spy in Captain Thomas Dillard's Virginia company, and was discharged about the last of June, 1778. In 1779, he was commissioned lieutenant of Captain Armistead Shelton's Virginia company, remained in Pittsylvania County, Virginia, until February, 1781, then marched to North Carolina, was in a skirmish near Thomas Mill, then returned to Pittsylvania County and joined Captain Thomas Smith's company as a private, served in said company in Colonel Campbell's Virginia regiment, was in the battle of Guilford and in many skirmishes and was discharged March 31, or April 1, 1781. 
He was allowed pension on his application executed August 22, 1832, while living in Pittsylvania County, Virginia, where he had lived sixty years. 
There are no family data. 

Very truly yours 

A. D. HILLER 
Assistant to Administrator
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[typed form, with handwritten responses]

[left side] 
8742

Revy War INVALID

File No. 8742

Moses Hutchings
Pri [Private] Rev War

Act: June 7th, 32
Index: - Vol. [Illegible], Page 185

[Arrangement of 1870.]

[right side] 
Mch. [March] 17, ‘08. Hist to Hampson Ga 
1910 Apl. 19. Mrs. N. E. Clement ¢
1912. Sept. 24. Hist. to Mrs. Martha Jane Allen
1931 - Oct. 8 Hist to Mrs. F. W. Hauser MLB 
(Rec Itr [received letter], in claim of Wm Hutchings, S.22320)
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Pittsylvania Co. Va.
Oct. 30, 1832

To J. L. Ed[wards]

[written sideways] Nov 2d 6605
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[duplicate]

Pittsylvania Co. Va.
Oct. 30, 1832

To J. L. Ed[wards]

[written sideways] Nov 2d 6605
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Pittsylvania County Va. 
October 21st 1835

Sir, 
My pension having remained undrawn for two years, I understand payment will not be made by the agent in Richmond without your authority, you will therefore please examine the foregoing, and if correct forward to the Pension agent in Richmond Va. with direction to pay to my attorney
Respectfly [Respectfully]
Moses Hutchings

To J. L. Edwards Esqr 
Commissioner of Pensions 
Washington City
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[typed form, with handwritten responses]

for a statement of the military history of Moses Hutchings a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his [crossed out - (or his widow's)] application for pension on file in this Bureau. Sur F. 8742. 

[column headings:] DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. CAPTAIN. COLONEL. STATE.
Mch [March] 1, 1777, to July 1777 [Rank] Ensign [Captain] John Donalson [Colonel] Shelby [State] Va.
Dec 1777 to June 1778 [Rank] Indian Spy [Captain] Thos. Dillard
1779 to Mch. [March] or Apr 1781 [Rank] Lieut. and Pri. [Captain] Armistead Shelton Thomas Smith [Colonel] Campbell

Battles engaged in, Guilford & in many skirmishes

Residence of soldier at enlistment, Pittsylvania Co. Va. 

Date of application for pension, Aug 22, 1832. His cl. was al. [claim was allowed]

Residence at date of application, Pittsylvania Co. Va.

Age at date of application, Born Mch. [March] 1754 Culpeper Co. Va.

Remarks:
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A

Ferguson Wis. 
Sept, 16, 1912. 

Commissioner of Pensions 
Washington, D. C. 

Dear Sir, 
Will you kindly inform me if you have any record of the services, during the war of the American Revolution of one Moses Hutchings of Pittsylvania Co. Va.? 
I should like to have a reference by volume and pay to the document or other authority upon which such record is found. 
Pittsylvania Co. Court records, year 1832 contain
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sworn statements of Moses Hutchings concerning his services. 
Data copied from Court record of Pitts. Co. Va. 1781 is as follows: - “Moses Hutchings is appointed 1st Lieut [Lieutenant] in Capt. Armstead Shelton's Co. of Militia” 
Thanking you in advance for the favor, I am, 

Respectfully yours, 
Miss Martha Jane Allen
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[stamped] APR 13 1910

I 8742 
Chatham Va.
April 12, 1910

Rev

The Bureau of Pensions = 
Washington D. C – 

Dear Sir -- I desire the Record of one Moses Hutchings who served in the Revolutionary War from Virginia. I know that he received a pension. 
My object is to join the of Daughters of American Revolution -
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your assistance will be appreciated.

Very truly yours 
Mrs. N. E. Clement 
Chatham Va.

[circular stamp] PENSION A APR 13 1910 U. S. OFFICE
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L. S. W.
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Ctf 6605

[letterhead] 
HAMPSON GARY. 
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW, 
SECOND FLOOR. 217 W. FERGUSON ST. 
TYLER, TEXAS. 

March 7th 1908

The Commissioner of Pensions, 
Washington. 

Dear Sir: 
Will you kindly furnish me any information you can about Moses Hutchings who served in the Revolutionary war from Pittsylvania County, Virginia, and as we understand afterward drew a pension United States government on account of said service – 
Assuring you I will appreciate your courtesy, 

Yours respectfully, 

Hampson Gary.

[circular stamp] PENSION A MAR 10 1908 U. S. OFFICE