Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 34,438, for John Moore, New Jersey
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John Moore
Pensioner
Copy of Affidavit
2.959
March 1819
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District of New Jersey
Sussex County, Ss-
On this 16th day of August, at a Session begun at Newton on the third Tuesday of
August, of the Term of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty, personally appeared in open Court, before the Judges of the inferior Court of Common Pleas of the County of Sussex and State of New Jersey, the said Court of Common Pleas, being a Court of record in the said County, being a Court constituted and established by the Laws of the State of New Jersey as a Court of Record, having a Seal, with power to fine & imprison, and an unlimited Jurisdiction in civil cases, and whose Judgments are only reversible by writ of 
error at Common law. John Moore of the age
of Sixty five years, resident in the Township of Frankford in the County of Sussex and State of New Jersey, who being first duly sworn according to Law, doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War
as follows- 1st He enlisted and served in the Company commanded by Captain Polhemus, of the 1st New Jersey Regiment, commanded by Col. Ogden, in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and Seventy six or seventy seven, for during the Revolutionary war as aforesd some time after Capt Polhemus resigned his Commission, and Lieutenant Holmes of said Company was appointed Captain in his sted, and he remained in said Company, untill the close of the war- he was at the battle of Monmouth, at the Battle of Springfield N. J. and at the taking of Cornwallis
and many others, and was discharged at the close of war-
That on the fourth day of May, in the year of our LORD. one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, he applied for a pension, at the rate of eight dollars per month, he being a private in the army as aforesaid, and on the
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Lansing Mich Oct 25th 1938
Veterans Administration
Washington D. C.
[Stamp[ Received Oct 29 1938

Asst. Administrator Mr. Hiller:
Dear Sir
I am attempting to find my Rev. War Ancestor, and just have traced to New Jersey data, the names of Edmister Moor ( or it may have been Edward Moor) of Bernardstown Somerset Co. N. J. wife Catherine Ed died 1780 Warren Twp. Somerset Co. N. J.
Family on Will
Joseph, Gershom, Amy. John. Rachel Ruben, Jesse Levi, ENOCH & Lydia.
ENOCH my ancestor b. I., 68 d. Hector N. Y 1845. son Levi. 1801-1865.
son Peter 1842 N. Y. d. Battle Creek Mich. 1923, son H. Glenn Moore LXX Lansing Mich I.73. Writer, H G Moore
Have you any data of this man?

Also JOHN MOOR 1st Battalion Somerset Co. N.J. give his family if possible. This may be above JOHN in Edmister (Edward) Moor Will.
There is an Edward Moor 1st Reg. Monmouth Co. N. J.
Also a JOHN MOOR Monmouth Co. N. J.
Also an ISAAC MOOR Somerset Co. N. J. These are all mentioned on the Will of Edmister Moor Bernardstown Somerset Co. N. J. Sep.
1780 when will was proved.
Thanks for any information concerning any of these men.

H. G. Moore
1340 Roosevelt Ave.
Lansing Mich.
1340 Rose