Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 38,953, for Peleg Moon, Rhode Island
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engaged in the Land and Naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War; passed in the 18 March 1818; that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property, securities, written or debts due to me, nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by my subscriber, his mark, Peleg Moon
Schedules of property and income, necessary clothing and bedding excepted of Peleg Moon
said Peleg declares that he has no property of description whatever; that he is a labourer and works when he is able but is so afflicted with the rheumatism that he can do best little; that he has no means of support but his labour, and what he receives by way of charity that he must continue to be supported by either private or public charity unless he receives his pension to which he thinks himself entitled by reason of his service and decreased circumstances according to the provisions of the acts of congress aforesaid: his mark, Peleg X Moon
Rhode Island District
County of Kent for Clerk's Office of the court of Common Pleas for said County AD 1820.
I Jno G. Mawney Clerk of said court do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the schedules hereto annexed are truly copied from the record of the said court, and I further certify that it is in the opinion of the said court that the [illegible] is value of this.
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State of New York
Otsego County
William Green of the Town of Otego in the County of Otsego and State of New York being duly sworn says that he served in Col Varnum's Regiment of Rhode Island Continental Troops
and knows that Peleg Moon served in the same Regiment for two years and upwards and that the facts set forth in his petition are all true and he further says that the said Peleg is in reduced circumstances in life and is in need of assistance from his country for support and further saith not
William Green
Sworn and subscribed this 8th day of April, 1818
before me
Abijah H. Beach one of the judges of the court of Common Pleas for the County of Otsego and State of New York
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June 23, 1936
Miss Annie F. P. Corson
12 Brewster Road
Framingham, Massachusetts

Peleg Moon, S. 32953
Jonathan Knight, W. 13597
BA-J/MCS

Dear Madam: 
Reference is made to your request for the record of the Revolutionary War pensioner, Peleg Moon. You also wish to know in what manner the name of Abraham Yaw (Yeaw) appears in the papers of pension claim, Jonathan Knight, W.13597.

The data which follow were obtained from papers on file in the pension claim, S. 39953, based upon the military service of Peleg Moon.
He enlisted in May, 1775, and served eight months as private in Captain Joseph Hawley's or Holley's company in Colonel James M. Varnum's Rhode Island regiment. He immediately enlisted and served one year as private in Captain Oliver Clark's company in Colonel James M. Varnum's Rhode Island regiment and was in the battles of Long Island and York Island. 

He applied for pension April 8, 1818, at which time he was living in Otego, Otsego County, New York. The claim was allowed.

In 1820 he was living in West Greenwich, Kent County, Rhode Island. He was then 71 years of age and stated that Rhode Island was his native state. The date of his birth, the exact place of his birth and the names of his parents were not given and there are no data relative to his family.

Peleg Moon died November 13, 1822.