Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 18,987, for Zachariah Moore, Maryland
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Service
MD

Moore, Zachariah

Number
S.18987
B.L. Wt. 517-100
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Missouri Cert # 922
Zachariah Moore
in the state of 821
who was a blank in the blank commanded by Captain blank of the regiment commanded by b lank in the MD roll 
Md Troops
Sgt.

Inscribed on the roll of Missouri at the rate of 120 dollars per annum commence on the blank

Arrears to 4th of blank
semi-anl allowance ending - blank

{Revolutionary Claim Act 15 May 1828}

Recorded by - blank
Book Vol Page all blank

Letter to B. Orrick Oct 23, 1835
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1256

No of Original Payment - 821

REVOLUTIONARY CLAIMS
Treasury Department
13 December 1828

Zachariah Moore of blank in the county of Saint Charles in the state of Missouri has applied to the Secretary of the Treasury for the benefits of the act entitled "An act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the revolution" approved the 15th of May 1828. He states that he enlisted in the continental line of the army of the revolution for and during the war and continued until its termination at which period he was a sergeant in Captain Linn's company in the second regiment of the Maryland line and that he received a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars provided by the resolve of the 15th of May 1778 and further that he was not on the 15th day of May 1828 on the pension list of the United states and that he has received as a pensioner since the 3d of March 1826 nothing.

The Third Auditor is requested to report how far the several statements are corroborated by the records in his office.

By order of the Secretary,
F A Dickins

Treasury Department
Thid Auditor's Office
15th December 1828

It appears by the records in this office that a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars has been issued to Zachariah Moore in the Maryland Line. 

It further appears that Zachariah Moore is not now on the pension list of any agency and has not been so since the 3d March 1826.

Peter Hagner - Aud.
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1336

For the purpose of obtaining the benefit of an act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the army of the revolution" approved on the 15th of May 1828. I Zachariah Moore of Femme Osage Township in the county of Saint Charles in the state of Missouri do hereby declare that I enlisted in the continental line of the army of the revolution for and during the war and continued in its service until its termination; at which period I was a sergeant in Captain David Linn's company at that time commanded by William Pendergast in the 2nd Regiment of the Maryland line - and I also declare that I afterwards received a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars to which I was entitled under a resolve of Congress passed the 15th of May 1778.

And I further declare that I was not on the 15th day of March 1828 on the pension list of the United States.

Zach'a Moore

Before me William G Pettus a justice of the peace in the county of Saint Charles in the state of Missouri personally appeared this day Nathaniel Simonds and Osburn Knott of the said county who did severally make oath that Zachariah Moore by whom the foregoing declaration was subscribed is generally reputed and believed to have been an officer in the army of the revolution in manner as therein stated. Witness my hand this twentieth day of September in the year eighteen hundred and twenty-eight.

Wm G Pettus
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State of Missouri
County of St Charles

I William Christy Clerk of the county court within and for the county of St Charles do hereby certify that William G Pettus Esquire whose signature is subscribed to the foregoing instrument of writing is now and was at the time of signing the same a Justice of the Peace and duly empowered to administer oaths in and for the township of St Charles in the said county of St Charles duly commissioned and qualified as appears by his commission and qualification of record in my office; to whose official acts as such full faith and credit is and ought to be given.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said court at St Charles this twentieth day of September eighteen hundred and twenty-eight.

Wm Christy - Clerk

SEAL
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Know all men by these present that I Zachariah Moore of the County of Campbell and state of Kentucky do by these presents make ordain constitute and appoint Anthony New Esquire member of Congress to be my true and lawful attorney for me and in my name and to my use to ask for & demand and receive from Henry Dearborn Esquire (Secretary of War for the time being or his successors, a warrant for one hundred acres of land due me in consideration of my services as a Sergeant in the Maryland Line in the army of the United States to the end of the late war with Great Britain agreeable to an act of Congress and I do hereby ratify any receipt or other instrument in writing that he the said Anthony New Esq may necessarily sign or procure to be signed to which the promises as fully as I could do were I personally present. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 3rd day of March 1802.

Zach Moore

Signed & acknowledge in presence of 
Christ P Stuart.

State of Kentucky Campbell County to wit

I James Taylor Clerk of the County aforesaid being authorized by law to receive acknowledgements of such and other writings as well out of court as therein do
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hereby that this letter of attorney from Zachariah Moore to Anthony New Esquire was produced to me in my office on the day of the date of the same and acknowledged by the said Zachariah to be his act and deed for the uses and purposes therein mentioned. And I do more over certify that I have been personally acquainted with the said Zachariah for upwards of four-years last past and have good cause to believe him to be the person he represents himself to be.

Given under my hand & seal of office this 3rd day of March 1802 aforesaid.

James Taylor

SEAL
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I do transfer to Major Hazekiah Rogers atty powers to draw the warrant within mentioned.

As witness my hand & seal this 26th day of Jany 1808

Jas Taylor

Moore
to
New

Letter of Atty
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I do hereby transfer to James Taylor Esquire of Kentucky or his substitute all the powers given to me by the within letter of attorney.

Given under my hand and seal this 6th day of June 1805.

Anthony New - SEAL
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Zachariah Moore's
Claim to land
U. States

No 517
Zachariah Moore
Sergeant in the late
Maryland Line

Warrant issued 6th July 1810
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I hereby certify that Zachariah Moore late of Prince Georges County State of Maryland, now a resident of Kentucky did enlist in the Maryland Line in the revolutionary war under James or Thomas Moore recruiting sergeants & was promised the appointment of a sergeant and that he served until the close of the war.  Given under my hand this twenty eighth day of March 1808.  Thomas Moore

George Town District of Columbia 28 March 1808
Personally appeared before me Thomas Moore whose signature is affixed to the above certificate and made oath that the [crossed out "above"] said certificate is true to the best of his belief.
March 28th 1808
Thos. Corcoran
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In reply to your request of ____________, received ________________, for a statement of the military history of Zachariah Moore a soldier of the Revolutionary War, you will find below the desired information as contained in his [(or his widow's) crossed out] application for pension on file in this Bureau.
S. File 18987
Dates of Enlistment| Length of Service| Rank| Officers Under Whom Service Was Rendered| Captain | Colonel | State
Enl. for during the war and served to the end thereof.  Sergt.  {David Lynn Wm Pendergast 
[check mark] Md
Battles engaged in, ___________[check mark]
Residence of soldier at enlistment, [check mark] "Late of Prince Georges Co., Md."
Residence at date of application,  [illegible] St. Chas. Co., Md.
Age at date of application, [check mark]
Remarks:  His claim was allowed.  There is no family data on file.
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18987
INVALID

File No.  18987
Zachariah Moore
Serg. Rev War
Maryland line
No. 821
Act:  May 15th 28
on Missouri roll
Index:  Vol. 1   Page 267
{Arrangement of 1870}
[Side page notes]
Mar '98
Mrs. W. D. Burwell  [illegible]
1909 July 14  Hist. to Mrs. Jennie C. L. Foristell for tombstone
inquiring in S. File 17086
1910 Feb. 26 Mrs. W. Lee Parsons
1910 June 6  Mrs. Foristell ref to and for date of last payment of pension
1911 June 17 Hist to Mrs. W. C. Wilson
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Defiance Md
Feb. 10, 1910
Bureau of Pensions, Washington, D. C.
Will you please send me a record of the revolutionary services of Zachariah Moore, born in Maryland & died in Missouri and who served about the entire revolutionary period, with the dates of birth, death and marriage if possible.  An immediate reply will be greatly appreciated.  Very Truly,
Mamie J. Parsons, Regent
Mrs. W. L. Parsons
[Stamp Feb 15 1910]
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1913[illegible]
Annapolis MD
Feb. 18. 1898
Commissioner of Pensions,
Will you kindly send me he miliary record of Zachary Moore of Maryland.  He was my great-grandfather and my grandmother his daughter told me he was a major [side writing illegible]
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He was a pensioner and died in Mo.  In the historical records at the state capital St. Paul I found in the book entitled Senate Documents, Pension Roll 1st Sers. 23d Cong. Col. S. Zachariah Moore St. Charles County Md., Sergeant 2nd Regt. Md. line.  I also found in book entitled Historical Register Officers of the Continental
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Army 1778 - 1788 by Weitman on page 299 the name Zedekiah Moore (46d) 2nd Lieutenant 2d Maryland 27th May 1779; 1st Lieutenant 10th September 1780 and served to close of war.  I believe these two men are the same person.   I have always heard that my great-grandfather was an officer and as
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these men were in the same regiment from Maryland and the name being an uncommon one it seems to me the men are identical.  The same man intended in both cases but - the first - name taken wrong in one instance - I am confirmed it is the same man but desire you to verify it.  I thought he was a major but perhaps he was a lieutenant.  Please look in all the works you have on the subject and give me Zachary Moore's
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military record and I will be very grateful and willing to pay you for your trouble.  Would an affidavit given by my mother's sister Mrs. Maria Heacock daughter of Caroline Beatty who was a daughter of Zachary Moore be sufficient proof that I am
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his great-granddaughter in order to join either of the societies, the Daughters of the Revolutionary or he Colonial Dames.
Please reply immediately and oblige
Mrs. Wm. D. Burwell
1913 3rd. Ave. S.
Minneapolis Minnesota
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[Stamps Wentzville Mo. Jun 9 1913 4pm
Pension Office U.S. Jun 11 1913 and postage]
This side of card is for address only
Pension Bureau
Washington, D C. [illegible]
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Wentzville, Missouri June 9, 13
The Missouri Pension roll page 16 states that Zachariah Moore of Maryland (whose wife was Elsie Born) received a pension.  Can you tell me anything about his services in the Revolutionary War and how long he lived to receive the pension?  Would like to know date of death if possible.  Very truly Mrs. W. C. Wilson Box 22 Wentzville, Mo.
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POSTAL CARD
The space below is for the address only
Bureau of Pensions, War. Dep.
Washington, D. C.

[Stamps Wentzville Mo. May 30 1910 4pm [illegible] Pension Office U.S. Jun 1 1910 and Postage]
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Seal of Daughters of the American Revolution

Wentzville, Mo.
Com. of Pensions
Dear Sir Our D.A.R. chapter is anxious to mark the grave of Zacharian Moore, Rev. soldier whose record is on file in your department (File no. 18987) and we have yet been unable to get the exact dates of his birth and death, without which the govt. will of course not issue a marker.  Will you please refer to his application for a pension dated Sept. 20, 1828 and see if his age is not sated or date of birth, also giving us the date of death, which surely your records show as his pension must have been discontinued or transferred to his widow.  Very truly, Mrs. M. E. Foristell
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Act of 1828
Settled at Treasury Court with invalid file #18987
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Washington 11th Dec 1828
Sir
If the enclosed papers of Maj Moore, entitle him to the provisions he seeks, I will take the steps necessary to draw his money for him.  Please let me be informed as soon as convenient. Respectfully, D. Barton
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From 3rd Sept 33 to 2d Mar 34
His own [illegible] rec'd. dated 12 May 1834
Oct 20

Honorable Levi Woodbury 
Secretary of the Treasury 
[illegible sideway writing]
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St. Charles Mo. Oct 5 1835
Sir
I am requested by Major Z. Moore to send to you the enclosed certificates and to request your early attention hereto.  He also desires me to state that he has received no pay since the 3d March 1833.
I am respectfully yours
Benj. Orrick

Honorable Levi Woodbury
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I certify that it appears by the records of he Maryland Line on file in this office that Zachariah Moore Serg. enlisted for and served to the end of the war, he having been made up on the rolls for his gratuity which is the usual evidence of the above stated fact.
Dept. of War
Acct Office
July 5, 1810
Wm Simmons
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20 Augt
294 140[illegible]
St. Charles, Missouri
August 5th 1829
Hon. Sam D. Ingham
Sir I wish my revolutionary pension to be paid me at the U. S. Branch Bank in St. Louis.
This place St. Charles is my post office.
Your obt. Zachariah Moore
I certify that he above named Zachariah Moore is the same to whom a revolutionary pension was granted under the Act of Congress of 15th May 1828
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and that he is still in full life.  St. Charles 
5th August 1829
David Barton
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I do certify that Zachariah Moore late of he State of Maryland & County of Prince Georges was a sargeant in he Maryland line on continental establishment and was continued in service till the close of the war.& that I have understood the  [illegible] Moore resides in Kentucky.  Given under my hand [illegible] this seventeenth day of March [January crossed out] 1808.
Test. R. G. Stockett

Thomas Wood  x his mark  (Seal)
Anne Arundell County [illegible]
March 17th 1808 This day Thomas Wood whose signature is affixed to the foregoing certificate personally appeared before me R. G. Stockett ________________one of the Justices of the Peace for the county aforesaid & made oath that the foregoing certificate is true to the best of his belief.  Certified under my hand this 17th day of March 1808 
R. G. Stockett
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State of Maryland Anne Arundell County Sct
I hereby certify that Richard G. Stockett gentleman before whom the written affidavit was made was at the time of so doing a Justice of the Peace in & for the county aforesaid duly commissioned and serviced and to all acts done by him as such are faith & credits and ought to be given as well in courts of justice as thereout.
In testimony whereof I hereto subscribe my name and office the seal of the county aforesaid, this fifth day of May eighteen hundred and eight.  Nich Harwood
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REVOLUTIONARY CLAIMS
Under the act entitled "An act for the relief of certain surviving Officers and Soldiers of the Army of the Revolution," approved 15th May, 1898
Before me James D. Moore, Justice of the Peace the County of St. Charles in the State of Missouri personally appeared this day Zacharian Moore of Temmeosage Township in the County of St. Charles in the State of Missouri who exhibited to me a certificate issued by the Secretary of the Treasury, Numbered 922 and dated the 21st day of August 1829 setting forth that he is entitled to pay under the above-mentioned act, as a surviving sergeant of infantry in the Maryland line of the Army of the Revolution; and the said Zachariah Moore then and here made oath that he is the person named in the said certificate and in testimony thereof, signed his name to this affidavit.  And that I know Zachariah Moore to be the person whom he represents to himself to be.
Witness my hand, this 7th day of September in the year 1835.
James D. Moore J. P. 
Zachariah Moore 
Note.  The most convenient bank is the agency [crossed out illegible] of the Commercial Bank of Cincinnati at St. Louis Mo
The most convenient post office is at Missouriton Mo.
I, William Christy Jr _____,____Clerk of the Court of the County of Saint Charles in the State of Missouri ___ do hereby certify that James D. Moore Esq. before whom the foregoing affidavit was sworn was at the time a Justice of the Peace for the said County and duly empowered to administer oaths.  And I believe his signature to be genuine.  In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court this twenty-third day of September in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five.
Wm Christy Jr.
By Deputy J. D. Johnston
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Record Division
June 6, 1910
Mrs. M. E. Foristell
Wentzville, Missouri
Madam:
In reply to your undated communication received on the 1" instant, you advised that the papers in the pension claim of Zachariah Moore, sur. File No. 18,987, fail to show he dates of his birth and death, his age or any data relative to his family.
For the date of last payment of his pension and to whom paid, application should be made to the Auditor for the Interior Department, U. S. Treasury Department, citing the following data:  [illegible] icate No. 922, issued August 21, 1829, under the Act of May 15, 1828, at the Missouri Agency."