Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 42121, Mosby Childers, Va.
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SERVICE
CONTENTS
Childers, Mosby
NUMBER
S. 42121
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111553
Rev. War
Mosby Childers
of VA
who was a private in the regiment  commanded by Colonel Febiger
one of the Virginia Line, for the term of 3 years


Inscribed on the Roll of Ohio
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 24 of June 1818

Certificate of Pension issued the 7 of June
and sent to E W Tupper
Gallipolis, Galiea County Ohio

Arrears to 4th of Mar 1819    66.36
Semi-anl  4 Sept.                    48.00
                                           114.36

Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818.}

Continued
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State of Ohio
Gallia County ⎬ Court of Com. Pleas June Term 1818
This day personally appeared before me John Thompson President of the Court of Common pleas of Second Court State of Ohio ,Mosely Childers of said County of Gallia aged about fifty five years and being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provisions of a late law of congress entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and Naval service of the United States
in the revolutionary War
That he the said Moses Childers first engaged in the same of the United States at Charlottsville  in the County of Albemarle, Virginia under Captain  Matthew Dewitt 7th Virginia regiment, the name of his Colonel not recollected, his term of same for two years, but does not recalled the date of his investment
previous to the termination of this term of service he engaged for a further term of three years during his said time of enlistment he
served under Capt Dewittsuntil the said Seventh Virginian regiment became so reduced as to be consolidated, or took the name of
the fifth Regiment & he was there uncalled in Captain Youngs company. (he thinks Henry Young,) and continued to do his duty in this company until he was discharged at Lancaster in Pennsylvania he thinks on the 19th day of March next following the Battle of Monmouth
at which time he received an honorable discharge. Col. Feebecken having been sent there to discharge those soldier whose term of service then expired & had been marched to that place for the purpose of being discharged his discharge however which he, herewith produces, and is the discharge he received when he left service, appears to bear date at Philadelphia, Jany 29th 1780
He fought in the battle of Brandywine & in several other Skirmishes - and that at this time he is in such reduced circumstances as absolutely to require assistance from his country for his support
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Wither affidavit sworn to by Mosby Childers
                                                 his X mark
Subscribed by me
John Thompson
June 26th 1818.

State of Ohio SS
I John Thompson of aforesaid do certify that for said examination it appears that affiant served  in the revolutionary war, and on examination of applicant and
neighbors it appears that affiant settled, and two beneficiaries preside over a family of seven children and that with such property he metes out to live by his daily labour but is some debilitated and pained and without his daily diligence and________
, and on these circumstances needs the assistance of the country provided  by the Statute of Congress
at Gallipolis County of Gillie
A Thompson
June 20 1818
County provided


State of Ohio 
 Gallia County ⎬
I, Francis Leclercq, Clerk of Court of Common pleas for the County aforesaid
Do hereby certify that the above certificates
are in the own proper hand writing of the
Honorable John Thompson president Judge of the County of common pleas for the second Circuit including the said County of
Gallia and that the foregoing are his signatures 
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set
my name and affixed the seal of said Court at Gallipoli the thirtieth day of June Anno Domini 1818 and in the 16th year of this State
Francis Seeley Clk
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Mosby Childers

Con
E. W. Tupper Esq
Gallipolis Ohio
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State of Ohio
Gallica County SS

County Court of Common Pleas. April Term
On this eighteenth day of April 182, personally appeared in open Court being a court of record for said County of Gallia) Mosely Childrers aged
about sixty six years, being a resident of Racoon Township in said County of Gallia who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he served in the revolutionary war as follows In the first place he served under Capt. Matthew Dewett in Col. Stephens regiment (he thinks) being then the seventh Virginia regiment under an enlistment for two years. Before this term of service expired, he enlisted under Capt Henry Young those company he was enrolled and in the 5th Virginia regiment then commanded and at the expiration of said term of three years he was honorably discharged at Lancaster and received a discharge signed by Col. Freebecken which discharge accompanied his former declaration, in which declaration his services, and dates of surties will more fully appear his memory having become much impared since he made his former
declaration. In which declaration he received a pension certificate numbered 11553 
And the said Mosby Childres do furthermore 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 gift sale or in any manner disposed of my property, or any part thereof with intent thereby to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of a late act of congress entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land & naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war passed on the 18th day of March 1888, and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property or surities, contracts or debts due to me, nor have I any income
of any kind or nature whatsoever, or any property of any description, other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed & by me subscribed
Schedule above referred to & valued

one horse                             - $15.00
cows                                          20.00                                          
two year old heifer -                   6.00
2 yearlings                                   8.00
2 Calves
Sheep                                          14.00
                                             ___________
                                            $      66.00                                                                                 _
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Amount brought over                            $66.00
5 Lambs                                                      5.00
7 of small hogs                                           5.00 
1 small Carshaw plough                             4.00
1  other Coller                                             1.00
1 drawing horse chains                               2.00
1 ax                                                             2.00
1. Sugar Kittle                                             3 .00
Small pot                                                     1.00
Dutch oven-                                                1.00
Skillet                                                           . 75  
old plates.                                                   2.00
2 old quart ______                                          .37
2 old tin pans                                                .25
2 delph bowls--                                             .25
5 Saucers  & 6 cups--                                    .75
4 spoons                                                        .40
iron                                                                 .30
Cidar pail                                                       .50
2 Small cider bucket                                      .75
Spinning foot wheel -                                   2.00
broken wedge                                                .30
3 old knives & forks                                        .25
                                                                  _________
                                                                  102.75


  And I the said Mosley Childers   do furthermore
saith that I have no trade or occupation but that of a farmer, and that from my age and infirmities I am unable to use but a small portion of my time & even then but feebly-- That my family consise of a wife who is about fifty five years of age a son the
elders about 18 years of age - the other about 14 years, the latter crippleed with the rheumatism Three daughters from 12 to 1 years
of age 2 grand children the oldest to 4 years of age. Their ages are inserted from recollection, the said Mosby being no scholar and his recollection of late much impaired.
Sworn to & subscribed in open court before me E Osborn President of said Court, this 18th day of April AD. 1821
Ezra Osborn 


State of Ohio
Gallia County
Francis Leclercq Clerk of the court of Common
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Pleas for the County of Gallia and State of Ohio do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and schedule thereunto annexed are truly copied from the record
of the said court. And I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule is one hundred and two dollars and seventy cents
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court on this eighteenth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty one and in the nineteenth year of this state
Francis Leclercq Clk
G.C.
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October 22, 1933

Mrs. Roy R. Roudebush
320 North State Street
Greenfield, Indiana

BA-J/EEL
Mosby Childers-S.42121
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the records of James Ryon, private Kentucky Militia, pensioned in 1833; James Wright, private United States Infantry, pensioned in 1815; Mosby Childers, pensioned in 1840, all of Hancock County, Indiana.
Because of the great demand for Revolutionary War and War of 1812 data, and the limited trained clerical force available for furnishing such information, it is impossible to comply in full with each request pertaining to soldiers of these wars. The record of Mosty Childers, S.2121, is furnished you herein, the data for which were obtained from his claim for pension based upon his service in the Revolutionary War.
The date and place of birth and the names of the parents of Mosby Childers are not shown.
Mosby Childers enlisted at Charlottesville, Albemarle County, Virginia, for two years, served as a private in Captain Mathew ofr De Witt's Company, Colonel Stephens' Virginia Regiment; before his term of service had expired, he reenlisted for three years, served as private in Captain Henry Young's Company, 6"" Virginia
Regiment and was discharged January 29, 1730. No dates of enlistment are given. Soldier stated that he was in the battle of Brandywine and in several skirmishes. He was allowed pension on his application executed June 26. 1818, at which time he was a resident of Gallia County, Ohio, and gave his age as fifty-five years.
In 1821, he referred to his wife as aged about fifty five
years and stated that his family then residing with him consisted



handwritten note: fee 3" and Report
at back of this correspondence
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of two sons, aged respectively eighteen and fourteen years, three daughters, aged from twelve to twenty years, and two grandchildren, the older, aged four years. He gave no names. In that year, he gave his own age as sixty-six years.
Mosby Childers died August 3, 1843, place of death and burial not shown.
He left no widow but was survived by the following children John, Hannah, William, Worby, Robert, Henry, Andrew, Martin, Nancy, Joseph and Abraham Childers, and seven grandchildren, names of grandchildren not shown.
It was stated that Mosby Childers had resided at one time in Hancock County, Indiana, date of residence in said county not shown.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator.
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Childers, Mosley
(VA)
S-42121

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page too faint/illegible
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Mosby Childers
clerk's fee $0.50 Paid
private
Colonel
7th 5th Regt
Virginia line
3 years
Admitted
&
Childers, Mosby
(VA)
5 -42121
fee paid
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Cart
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
Washington, April 2nd 1908

The Commissioner of Pensions,
Sir: In reply to your letter of 30th ult. in case of
Mosby Childers, Rev. War - act 1818 Certificate 11.553
Cincinnati Agency,                                             Roll,
You are informed that, according to the latest account rendered by the U. S. Pension Agent, the records of this office show payment to have been made at $8
per month to August 1843, date of death. There was no widow, but eleven children John Hannah - William Mosby - Robert Henry Andrew, Martin - Nancy - Joseph and Abraham Childers and seven grand children. The pensioner had resided in Hancock Co Indiana.
Letter herewith returned.

Respectfully,
By
(illegible)
Deputy Auditor.
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July 7, 1936
Mrs. Margaret McGauhy
23 West Street
Anderson, Indiana
BA JEEL
Mosby Childers-S.2121

Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the
Revolutionary War record of Mosby Childers, served in Virginia and was pensioned in 1818.
The data which follow are obtained from the papers on file in Revolutionary War pension claim, S.42121, based upon the military service of Mosby Childers in that war.
Mosby Childers enlisted at Charlotteville, Albemarle County, Virginia, for two years, served as a private in Captain Matthew's Dewitt's Company, Colonel Stephens' Virginia Regiment; before his term of service had expired, he reenlisted for three years, served as private in Captain Henry Young's Company, 6"" Virginia Regiment and was discharged January 29, 1790. No dates of service are given. He stated that he was in the battle of Brandywine and a several skirmishes.
He was allowed pension on his application executed June 28, 1818, at which time he was a resident of Gallia County, Ohio, and gave his age as fifty-five years.
In 1821, he referred to his wife as aged about fifty five
years, and stated that his family then residing with him consisted of two sons, aged respectively eighteen and fourteen, three daughters, aged from twelve to twenty years, and two grandchildren, the older, aged four years. He gave no names. In that year, he gave
his age as sixty-six years. He died August 3, 1843, place of death and burial not shown.
He left no widow but was survived by the following children John, Hannah, William, Mosby, Robert, Henry, Andrew Martin, Nancy
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Joseph and Abraham Childers, and seven grandchildren, names of the grandchildren are not shown.
It was stated that Mosby Childers had resided at the
in Hancock County, Indiana, date of residence in that county and state not given.
Very truly yours
AD KELLER
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator.
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Rev. & 1812
Wars Section

December 23, 1929
Mrs. S. M. Passmore
717 West Granite Street
Butte, Montana
Dear Madam:
I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 42121, it appears that Mosby Childers enlisted, date not stated, at Charlottesville, Albemarle County, Virginia, for two years, served as a private in Captain Mathew DeWitt's Company,
Colonel Stephens' Virginia Regiment: before his term of service had expired he re-enlisted for three years, served as a private in Captain Henry Young's Virginia Company, was in the battle of Brandywine and several skirmishes, and was discharged January 29, 1780.
He was allowed pension on his application executed June 26, 1818, at which time he was about fifty-five years of age and resided in Gallia County, Ohio.
In 1821 he referred to his wife, aged about fifty-five years, and two sons aged eighteen and fourteen years, three daughters aged from twelve to twenty years, and two grandchildren the older aged four years. No names are given.
He died August 3, 1843, leaving no widow but was survived by the following children: John, Hannah, William, Molly, Robert, Henry, Andrew, Martin, Nancy, Joseph and Abraham Childers, and seven grand
children.
It is stated that the soldier Mosby Childers had resided in Hancock County, Indiana.
Due to the very large number of requests similar to yours and the lack of a clerical force available for the purpose, only
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two histories are furnished each enquirer.
Very truly yours,
E. W. MORGAN
Acting Commissioner
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Greenfield, Indiana,
August 11, 1936.

Veterans Bureau of Pensions,
Washington, D.C.

Gentlemen:
I am very anxious to find war records of the
following men who were pensioners in Hancock County, Indiana.
JAMES RYON -- Private Ky. militia - pensioned in 1823
JAMES WRIGHT -- Private 8th U.S. Infantry - pensioned in 1815
MOSBY CHILDERS -- pensioned in 1840. 
If these men are revolutionary soldiers we desire to find and mark their graves.
These three are given in a printed list as being
pensioners living in Hancock County.
Very sincerely,
not
Mrs. Roy R. Roudebush,
320 North State Street,
Greenfield, Indiana.
2
RECEIVED
AUG
1936
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Rev. War Records Division

Anderson Ind.
April 11 1936

Veterans Administration
Washington D.C.
Gentlemen:
Please give the service Mosby Childers private of Va Pensioned 1818-- Can you give place of Burial -
Respectfully
(Mrs) Margaret McGaugley
723 W. 7th St
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UTAH Home Insurance Company
Salt Lake City UT

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WEST GRANITE STREET
BUTTE, MONT. Oct. 28 - 1929

U.S. Pension Bureau
Washington D.C.
Dear Sirs;
I would like the Rev. Record of Jacob Miller, he was a pensioner living in 1840, in Harrison Co. Kentucky age 75 born the 1765.                   
I do not know where but I think he married in Philadelphia, a Miss Bacon. Some of his people I know are buried at Cynthiana Kan. I wish this for D. A. R. Paper Also Mosby Childers living in Brown Co Ind. in 1840 the 93 yrs old bt1747 ) and Charles Kilgers, 76 in 1840 and living in a Daviess Co Ind. These were all pensioners so there must be records of them at Washington. Awaiting an early reply, I am
Yours very truly

Mrs S. M. Passmore
Registrar of Silver Bow Chapter D. A.R
717 West Granite St Butte Montana.
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Record Division.
Sur File No. 42121.
Mosby Childers
Rev.

Department of the Interior,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS,
Washington, D.C., Mar 30, 1908

SIR:
For use in the above-entitled claim for pension, you are requested to furnish this Bureau with a report in the case of Mosby Childers pensioned under the
Act of Mar 18, 1818 by certificate No. 11553, issued June 9, 1819 Ohio Agency, showing date of his death
Died 3 Aug 1843
 Vol E. File 184
Very respectfully,
JC Davenport
THE AUDITOR FOR THE INTERIOR DEPARTMENT
Treasury Department
J.L. Davenport
Acting Commissioner.
9-3
OFFICE OF AUDITOR FOR
INTERIOR DEPT.
MAR 31 1908
Pension Division.
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File No. 42121
INVALID.
Revy

Mosby Childers
Private Rev War

Act: 18 March 18th
Vol 3 Page 84

Arrangement of 1870.}




1908 Apr. 7 to R.R. Jones
His Sof R  info  date

1929, Dec 23, Hist to
Mrs. S. M. Passmore

1936 July 7. Hist to the
Margaret McGauley 

1934 Oct 12.hist. to
Mrs R. R Rondebuch