Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 38685, Moses Evans, New York Vt.
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original declaration made in 1828 only in file.
See letter to E Cummings 3 April 1833 - sent Feb. 11.1835 a copy of the letter to E. Cummings to Hon. Mr. Janes H. R.
Original certificates returned to Pension see let: July 13 1835.
See let. to Sec. C. Calhoun May 23 1836
let to Hon. J. Fletcher, Mar. 15, 1838 do do Apl. 6 1838 returning certificate
Paid at the Treasury under Act 6. April 1838. from 4 March 1836 to 19 Sep 1836 the day of Said Pensioners death. - Agent notified 6 July 1838. 

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19.926
Vermont
19926
Moses Evans
Caledonia Co in the State of Vermont who was a private in the Company commanded by Captain Benedict of the Regiment commanded by Colonel VanSchaick in the New York line, for the term of one year, from March 1776 to [blank] 77
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Inscribed on the Roll of  Vermont. at the rate of eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 25th day of April 182[obscured due to damaged paper]
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Certificate of Pension issu[obscured due to damaged paper] and [obscured due to damaged paper]
Cummings, Woods[obscured due to damaged paper]
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Arrears to 4th of September 1828 $34.66
Semi-anl. all'ce ending [blank]
$34.66
{Revolutionary Claim, Acts March, 18, 1818, and May 1, 1820.}
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33.691  2.
Moses Evans Declaration

Immediate attention

Geo. C. Cahoon, Esqr
Pres't 
33.691
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Moses Evans Declaration

In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832 - 
State of Vermont
County of Caledonia ss} At Lyndon April 20th 1836 Personally appeared before me Benjamin Connor one of the Judges of said Caledonia County Court Moses Evans a resident of Lyndon in the  County of Caledonia and State of Vermont aged about ninety six 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 June 7th 1832 
That in 1775 when Lexington battle took place he was a resident of Hartland in Vermont but happened at Northfield Massachusetts on business and turned int a volunteer and served at that time two or three [margin note: -14] weeks and was discharged - that soon after he enlisted under Lieut. Alexander Bonat into Capt. Benedicts Company of Infantry in Col. VanSchaicks Regiment - and after his enlistment was marched to Albany N. Y. where the Reg't was mustered - Maj'r Gansevoort took the command, the Col. being mustered Master, & the Lt. Col. having died. And marched to Crownpoint - there to Isle Aux Moix where the troops made a stand a few weeks reconnoitering and preparing for an attack on St Johns and Chamblee that Gen'l Montgomery had the command of the troops. that from Isle Aux Moix he was detached into a company of rangers under Major Brown and was in the engagement under his command at the taking of fort Chamblee which was in the fore part of October. that After the capitulation of St Johns they marched to Montreal which surrendered on the 13 Nov. - 
That at Montreal Capt Fisher of Col. VanSchaick's Reg't and three other Capt's the oldest in the Regiment were with their companies detached to march with Gen'l Montgomery to Quebec - that Capt Fisher's Col. ot being full men were detached from the Cos. of Capt. Benedict and Capt. Graham to make it a full Co. and that he was detached into said Co as an orderly sergeant - that they marched there to Quebec to reunite with the forces under Col Arnold in besieging that place - that he was present under the immediate commande of Gen'l Montgomery in his assault upon that place Dec. 31. 1775 when the General was killed and himself wounded. That after the death of Gen'l Montgomery, Col. Arnold took the command of the American forces at that place until Gen'l Wooster came - - that in the spring of the year 1776 after Gen'l Wooster took the command of that post Capt Jotham White a commander of
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a company of volunteers raised at and in the vicinity of Charlestown New Hampshire with whom and with whose company he was personally acquainted being desirous to return home on urgent business proposed to him as he may experience and intended to remain in the army, that he should take the command of his company which was to be retained there as was understood as they were fresh troops and the Regiments which had been there through the winter were to be sent out to recruit and that he assented to the proposition conditioned that the Company should be willing and that Gen'l Wooster should approve of it and give him a Captain commission - That said Company did express their willingness and that Gen'l Wooster approved it and give him a Capt's commission and that he served as such the remainder of the campaign in Canada that year and in the retreat therefrom and until the Company was disbanded - that Gen'l Thomas commanded when the army left Quebec but was taken sick and died soon after - That Gen'l Thompson took the command, was engaged in the battle at Three Rivers and was taken prisoner. And that Gen'l Schuyler afterwards took the command & that the said Evans was engaged in said battle at Three Rivers - and that he lost said commission im the Revolutionary war when out upon a scout - That after this and during the Revolutionary War, but not immediately after, he received three commissions as Lieutenant - that two of the commissions have been lost as he supposes soon after the death of his wife about seven years ago at which time he left his house alone which was broken open by some children and a great part of his papers ransacked and destroyed and that it is impossible for him to tell the precise dates of those commissions - that recently in examining an old pocket book which belonged to his wife he found the accompanying commission to him from Gov'r Chittenden dated February 3d 1780 as Lieutenant of a Company of Rangers raised for the defence of the State which had been lost to him for many years, but recollects upon finding it. that in returning from the service at one time he playfully told his wife that she should have a commission and supposes that it has remained in her pocket book ever since - That said commissions were intended for at least one year service each and that he served according to their intent - that during the  terms he was at home some short time
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each winter but reckoning the time of his service as an officer in Canada, the time of his actual service on duty he believes to have been all of three years as an officer - that he knows of no person living who can testify to his services while in Canada but as a portion of his services whilst a Lieutenant in the Vermont troops he would refer to the accompanying deposition of Thomas Tolman Esqr. former Secretary of State of Vermont, who was paymaster of said troops who is probably personally known to most of the Vermont delegation in Congress - and to show the existence of his other commissions a few years since he refers to the accompanying deposition of Ira Wilmarth Esqr. and as to his reputation for truth he would refer to the certificates of the Hon'e Isaac Fletcher of said Lyndon as he is told the personal friend of the Hon'e Levi Woodbury and of the Rev'd Reuben H. Deming of said Lyndon brother of the Late Hon. Benj'a F. Deming recent member of Congress from Vermont to both of whom he has been personally known for very many years - 
he further declares that he was in the army of the Revolution either as a private or an officer the most of the time during the Revolutionary War - except when a prisoner - that he was at Ticonderoga at the evacuation thereof y Gen'l St. Clair as a soldier - that he was also at the battle of Bennington in the Regiment commanded by Col. Warner - that he was subsequently in 1777 at Mount Defiance under the command of Major Brown and was with him at the taking of Portash landing and of the batteaux belonging to the British who at that time had a sentinel garrison occupying one of the Islands in Lake George which said Brown aimed to take but by the fortunes of war that a part of said Brown's men were captured and that he said Evans being sick was among the captives - that he was carried thence to Ticonderoga and into hospital at Mt. Independence where he remained a month until the Reddo came and took aboard about two hundred and fifty prisoners and sailed for St. Johns - went from St. Johns to Chamblee thence to Montreal, thence to River Lorell
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thence to Quebec - and thence to Isle of Orleans where he and four other prisoners made their escape and came out to the American Settlements near the head waters of Kennebec River - that they started from the Isle of Orleans the 13th May 1778 and were out twenty three and a half days before they came to the American Settlements and in the time endured many privations and hardships - That at another time he was stationed at Lake George the commandant Col Warner sent out on a scout with about two hundred and he was taken prisoner and carried to St. Johns, and made his  escape and returned to his post. That when a Lieutenant Capt. Jesse Safford was his Capt for the most part, that they were a portion of the time under the command of Maj'r Ebenezer Allen and a portion of it under the command of Col Warner - that they were for the most part stationed in the vicinity of Lake Champlaign at Arlington, Pittsford, Rutland and vicinity and that he was finally discharged at Arlington to the best of his recollection im 1783 - That in 1883 he made out his declaration to obtain the benefits of the act aforesaid and caused the same to be forwarded to Washington but the case was deferred for farther proof since finding which he has caused reported inquiries to be made for his former declaration at the Pension Office and has been as after answered that it cannot be found - If it should be found and there by any variance it may arise from imperfect recollection as to dates from the infirmity of years or the different views of the different writers as to the materiality of the relations given there - That he was born in Northfield Massachusetts and supposes that he shall be ninety seven years old the twenty sixth day of October next, that he formerly had a record of his age in a Bible which was given away and the record torn out and lost - That he the said Moses Evans hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and
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declares that his name is not on the Pension roll of any Agency of any State except that of the Agency of the State of Vermont at the rate of eight dollars per month under the Acts of Congress of the 18th of March  1818, 1st May 1820 and 1st March 1823 which commenced on the twenty fifth day of April 1828. 
/s/Moses Evans
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid  
Before me /s/Benjamin Conner - Judge of Caledonia County Court

We isaac Fletcher an attorney, counsellor & solicitor of the Supreme Court of Vermont residing in the town of Lyndon and County of Caledonia in said State and Reuben H. Deming a Clergyman residing in the same Lyndon, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Moses Evans who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing declaration and have been personally acquainted with him for more than twenty years, that he is a man of good reputation for truth, that we believe him to be over ninety years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been an officer and soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion.
/s/Isaac Fletcher
/s/R H. Deming

Sworn and subscribed this 21st day of April A.D. 1836
before me /s/Benjamin Conner Judge of Caledonia County Court
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And the said Judge does hereby declare his opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Officer and Soldier and served as he states - and the said Judge further certifies that it appears to him that the Hon'l Isaac Fletcher is professionally as he states and is also a magistrate and a credible person that the Rev. Reuben H. Deming is a Clergyman as he states, both of whom signed the preceding certificate and are resident in said Lyndon and that their statement is entitled to credit - That Thomas Tolman Esqr. whose deposition accompanies this declaration is an aged man of a highly established reputation - and that Ira Wilmarth Esqr whose deposition also accompanies this declaration is at the present a magistrate and that both are credible persons and that their depositions are entitled to credit - and the said Judge doth further certify his opinion that the said Moses Evans could not prudently travel to appear in open Court to make his declaration by reason of bodily infirmity, the distance being near twenty miles - 
/s//Benjamin Conner Judge of Caledonia County Court
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State of Vermont
Caledonia County, ss.} I Samuel B Mattocks Clerk of the County Court of the County aforesaid do hereby certify that the Hon. Benjamin Conner is one of the Judges of said County Court, duly commissioned & qualified that his term of office commenced on the first day of December 1835 and will expire on the last day of November A.D. 1836; and that his signatures to the annexed certificates, are genuine. 
[court seal affixed] In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 25th day of April AD. 1836 - 
/s/Sam'l B. Mattocks Clerk
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Copy of Declaration of Moses Evans & Certificate of Probate Court &c.
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20.589
Admitted by Mr Edwards
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State of Vermont
County of Caledonia ss} Original Claim
Declaration in order to be placed on the pension list under the act of Congress of 18th March 1818 & first of May 1820. On this 7th day of March 1828 personally appeared in open Court, said Court being a court of record agreeable to the Laws of said state at Probate Court in Danville in and for the district of Caledonia, Moses Evans of said County aged eighty seven years, who being duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the  provision made by the acts of Congress of the 18th March 1818 & the 1st May 1820, that he the said Moses Evans in the town of Hartford in the State of New York enlisted for the term of one year on fore part of March 1776 in the State of New York in the company commanded  by Capt. Benedict in the Regiment commanded by Col. VanSchaick in the line of the State of New York on the continental establishment, that he continued to serve in the said Corps almost one year & then was taken prisoner and carried into Canada & was their a prisoner almost one year & then he ran away from the British, that he hereby relinquishes every claim for a Pension except the present that his name is not on the roll of any State except the present, & the following are the reasons for not making earlier application for a pension, is because he could not obtain his evidence to prove his services - in pursuance of the act of the  1st May 1820 I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818 & 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 so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provision of an 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 1818 and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any contracts or securities contracts or debts due to in the scedule hereto annexed & by me subscribed - there has no changes taken place in any property since 18th March 1813
/s/Moses Evans.
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I have no family
Scedule:
one cow - $15.00
iron war - 4.00
one table - 1.00
three old chests - 3.00
1 ax 1.50 1 hoe .50 - 2.00
3 old chairs 0.50
tables furniture 4.00
5 mild pans 2. 1 pail .25 Meat tub 3.00
/$32.50
Sworn to & declared on the 7th day of March 1828 before me /s/Benj. F. Deming Judge of Probate } Moses Evans

I Samuel B. Mattocks, Register of the Court of Probate for the district of Caledonia, do hereby certify that it appears to the satisfaction of the Court that the said Moses Evans did serve in the Revolutionary war as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy for the term of nine months under one engagement on the continental establishment. I also certify that the foregoing oath & the scedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the records 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 thirty two dollars & fifty cents.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the said Court on this 7th day of March A.D. 1828
[court seal affixed] /s/Samuel B. Mattocks
Register of the Court of Probate for the District of Caledonia -
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38,685
Revy INVALID. [initials: own]
File No. 38,685
Moses Evans 
Priv Rev War
Act: 18" March 18"
Index: - Vol. S, Page 164,
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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I Thomas Tolman, of Greensborough, county of Orleans & state of Vermont, visiting for the time being in Hardwick, an adjoining town - a Lieutenant of Infantry in Col'o Warner's Reg't, in the Army of the Revolution, now receiving semi-annually, under the Act of May 15th 1820. - certificate No. 424 - Aged 79 - Do testify & say: - That in the interim between the Reduction of Col. Warner's reg't in 1780, & the close of the war, to wit, in the years 1781,-2, & -3, I was in the service of the state of Vt., & Paymaster of the Troops of s'd state, during s'd years & had personal knowledge of Moses Evans, of Lyndon, now an old revolutionary Pensioner, said to be over 90 years of age, & well knew him to be a Lieutenant in the s'd years 1781, 2, & 3, in a reg't in the Troops of the s'd state, during the s'd years, which Troops were discharged at about the time of the disbanding of the main Army [obscured] Washington, so that I have no doubt but his service as a Lieu't in the s'd Vermont Troops, was considerably over two years; although, as my Papers are all lost, it is impossible to determine months & days; but I well remember that he continued to the close
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close of the service, & that I made a personal, final, settlement with him, of his Pay-account. And I further testify & say, that the s'd Moses Evans is of a highly established reputation & character, as a man of honor, & pure morals. 
/s/Tho. Tolman

State of Vermont
Caledonia County ss } At Hardwick January 20, 1836 
Personally appeared Thomas Tolman Esq'r the above named deponent and made solemn oath that the foregoing Deposition by him subscribed contains the whole truth and nothing but the truth - Before /s/Ira Wilmarth Justice of the Peace

And the said Justice doth certify that he is personally acquainted with the above named Deponent and that he is credible person and that his Deposition is entitled to credit -
/s/Ira Wilmarth Justice Peace
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State of Vermont
Caledonia County ss } I Samuel B. Mattocks Clerk of the County Court of Said County do hereby certify that Ira Wilmarth is a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly commissioned & qualified that his commission is dated the tenth day of November 1835 and will expire the last day of November 1836; and that his signature to the foregoing certificate is genuine. 
[court seal affixed] In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of County Court aforesaid this 25th day of April A.D. 1836
/s/Sam'l B. Mattocks Clerk
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I Ira Wilmarth of Lyndon in the County of Caledonia and State of Vermont of lawful age depose and say that in the Spring of the year 1829 soon after the death of Mrs. Evans the wife of Mr. Moses Evans an old Revolutionary pensioner I was at the house of said Moses Evans  and he showed me two Commissions as Lieutenant from Gov'r Thomas Chittenden dated to the best of my recollection some time in the period of the American Revolution but their precise dates I cannot tell - I have this day been shown a Commission from the said Govr Chittenden to the said Moses Evans as Lieutenant dated February 3d 1780 - but do not believe that to be either of them, yet it may possibly be. I further depose that I have been personally acquainted with the said Moses Evans something like thirty years, that he is a man of good reputation for truth, and that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been an officer and soldier of the Revolution and that I concur in that opinion - 
/s/Ira Wilmarth
Sworn and subscribed this 20th day of April A.D. 1836 - 
Before me /s/Benj'n Conner Judge of Caledonia County Court
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I Simon Gillett of Thetford in the County of Orange and State of Vermont of Lawful age testify and say that I enlisted in the Service of the United States for one year in 1776 in the month of January in Capt Greens Company Col Bedels Regiment in the Newhampshire Line, in the month of April I was Marched into Cedars in Canada and I became acquainted with Moses Evans in the fore part of April 1776 - on our way to Canada and am knowing to his doing actual service nine months under one enlistment in Capt Benedicts Company Col VanSchaicks Regiment in the New York line under the Continental Establishment
my service was under the Continental Establishment in in the Revolutionary War ['in the Newhampshire line' crossed out] and I hereby certify that I am in no way Interested in in the event of his application for a pention
/s/Simon Gillet

State of Vermont
County of Orange ss} Thetford March 10th 1828 - Personally appeared the above named Simon Gillet of Thetford County of Orange County and State of Vermont after being carefully examined made oath that the foregoing deposition by him subscribed contains the truth and nothing but the truth before me /s/T. P. Bartholomew Justice of the Peace
and I hereby certify that the above named Simon Gillett is a credible witness
/s/Tim'o P. Bartholomew Justice of the Peace
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State of Vermont
Orange County Clerks Office March 10th AD 1828. - I H.E.G. McLaughlin Clerk of Orange County Court, do hereby Certify that Timothy P Bartholomew Esqr of Thetford in said County before whom the foregoing affidavit was Taken is a Justice of the peace within & for said County acting under the Authority of this State and that the signatures purporting to be his are Genuine. - In Testimony of all which I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the County Seal the  Day & year above written. 
/s/H.E.G. McLaughlin,
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Simon Gilletts Deposition for Moses Evans
H.E.G. McLaughlin Esqr
Chelsea Vermont

recd 27 March 1838
20-589
Moses Evans
Caledonia County Vermont
Act 18 March 1818

Pension Office 
27 March
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[addressed envelope]

Danville Vt
June 23

[margin note: June d29 Mr. Burdine]
Hon'l Lewis Cass
Secretary of War
Washington D.C.

[margin note: Moses Evans Vert. Lost certificate The original certificate was found on file - return'd to Pensioner, July 1st 1835 - no certificate of course granted on this application]
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Moses Evans Vert.
Lost certificate

[partial address: Cass Secretary of War
Washington D.C.]

The original certificate was found on file - return'd to Pensioner, July 1st 1835 - no certificate of course granted on this application
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To the Hon'l Lewis Cass Secretary of War
Your Petitioner Moses Evans of Lyndon in the County of Caledonia and State of Vermont would respectfully represent that he was inscribed on the pension list, roll of the Vermont Agency, at the rate of eight dollars p'r month to commence om the twenty fifth day of April 1828 of which he heretofore had evidence by an original pension certificate of which the following is substantially and I believe literally a true copy " War Department - Revolutionary Claim - I certify that in conformity with the Laws of the United States of 18th of March 1818 - 1st May 1820 and 1st March 1823 - Moses Evans late a private in Capt. Benedict's Co & Colonel Van Schaick's Regiment in the army of the Revolution is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the Vermont Agency at the rate of Eight Dollars p'r month to commence on the twenty fifty day of April 1828 - Given at the war office of the United States this twelfth day of May 1828 James Barbour Secretary of War"
and that I am the identical person named in said pension certificate and tht to avail myself of the benefits of the act of Congress of June 7. 1832 to obtain an increased pension in which I did not succeed for want of proofs, in September or October 1833 I forwarded to the  War Department with a declaration for such increased pension my above named original pension certificate to the care of the Hon'l Henry Hubbard of New Hampshire which certificate has never been returned to me nor can I although diligent inquiry has been made find the same. The person to whom I entrusted the the above named paper to forward as aforesaid was Mr. Ebenezer Cummings of Pomfret Vermont - Being unable to obtain my pension without a certificate - I would respectfully request that a new certificate may be issued to me for the aforesaid Pension of eight dollars per month as set forth above in the copy
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herein given of my old certificate of pension - 
Lyndon June 17. 1835 /s/Moses Evans

State of Vermont
Caledonia County ss} At Lyndon June 17. 1835 Then personally appeared Moses Evans of Lyndon aforesaid and after being carefully examined and duly cautioned made solemn oath that the foregoing deposition by him subscribed contains the whole truth and nothing but the truth - 
Before /s/George C. Cahoon Justice of the Peace
I certify that the above deponent is a credible witness /s/George C. Cahoon Justice of the Peace

I Caleb Marsh of Lyndon in the County of Caledonia and State of Vermont of lawful age depose and say that I am personally acquainted with Moses Evans the above deponent, that the said Evans has lived in my family near five years now last past, that he the said Evans is a revolutionary pensioner as he has set forth in his foregoing petition that I frequently saw his original pension certificate when he had it in his possession, that I was present when said Evans delivered said Pension Certificate with other papers for an increased pension to Ebenezer Cummings as he has set forth and think it was in October 1833 since which time I have not seen the same nor known of the said Evans having the same - but have frequently heard him say that it was lost and have known of search being made for it by sending to said Cummings & elsewhere - but more particularly to said Cummings & the Hon. Henry Hubbard of New Hampshire
Lyndon June 17. 1835 /s/Caleb Marsh
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State of Vermont
Caledonia County ss} At Lyndon June 17, 1835 
Then personally appeared ['Moses Evans' crossed out] Caleb Marsh of Lyndon aforesaid and after being carefully examined and duly cautioned made solemn oath that the foregoing deposition by him subscribed contains the whole truth and nothing but the truth - 
Before /s/George C. Cahoon Justice of the Peace
I certify that Caleb Marsh the above deponent is a credible witness - /s/George C. Cahoon Justice of the Peace - 

State of Vermont
Caledonia County ss. } County Clerks Office Danville June 20th 1835
I certify that George C. Cahoon Esq is a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Caledonia aforesaid duly commissioned & sworn as the law directs that his commission ['commenced on' crossed out] bears date the 6th day of November 1834. & expires on the last day November 1835 - and that his signature above written is genuine - 
[court seal affixed] In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand affixed my seal of office this 20th day of June AD 1835
/s/Sam'l B. Mattocks Clerk
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9 Feb
Act 15 1878
Case Moses Evans
DC
Cases papers get

H. F. Janes
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I Thomas Tolman Late of Greensborough County of Orleans and State of Vermont now resident of Hardwick in Caledonia County in said State in the Eighty first year of my age a Lieutenant and Paymaster in Col Warners regiment in the army of the revolution also paymaster in the years 1781 & 1782 to the Vermont State Troops and now receiving a Lieutenant pay under the act of May 15 1828
In addition to my deposition in favour of Moses Evans given about one year since before Ira Willmarth Justice of the peace do now further depose and say That the place of his service s Lieutenant was at the garrison and fort of Pittsford in Said state of Vermont, the most if not the whole time That the Brigadier General under which he served was Roger Enos or Benjamin Wait and I have no doubt in my mind but that the service of the said Evans as Lieutenant was over [illegible] then under two years in the Vermont State troops aforesaid, land further I say not. 
/s/Tho. Tolman
Hardwick January 21st 1837

State of Vermont
Caledonia County ss } Hardwick January 21th 1837
Then personally appeared before Thomas Tolman Esquire Signer of the above deposition and made Solemn oath to the truth of the same according to his best knowledge before me
/s/Levi Goodrich Justice Peace
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State of Vermont
Caledonia County ss. } I Samuel B. Mattocks clerk of the County Court of the County aforesaid do hereby certify that Levi Goodrich is a justice of the Peace in & for the County aforesaid duly commissioned & qualified: that his commission was dated on the 15th day of November 1836. & will expire on the last day of November 1837. and that his signature within written I believe to be genuine - 
[court seal affixed] In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & the Seal of said Court this 24th day of January AD 1837. - 
/s/Sam'l B. Mattocks Clerk
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Daniel Halls Deposition for Moses Evens
Lieut Hall for Moses Evans
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I Daniel Hall of Burk in the County of Caledonia and State of Vermont of Lawful age, testify and say that I entered the service of the United States as Lieutenant some time in the month of May 1776 I became acquainted with moses Evans a private Soldier who belonged to Col. VanSchaick's Regiment and Capt Benedicts Company, in the New York line and am knowing to his doing actual service more than Nine Months under one enlistment in the Northern Expedition under the Continental Establishment in the Revolutionary War - I further testify and say I am in no way Interested in the event of his application for a pention.
/s/Daniel Hall

State of Vermont
Caledonia County ss } Danville in Caledonia County on this 24th Day of April 1828. Personally appeared Daniel Hall of Burk in Caledonia County and State of Vermont after being carefully examined made oath, that the foregoing Deposition by him subscribed contains the truth and nothing but the truth
/s/Archelaus Sias Justice of Peace

I further certify that the above Daniel Hall is a creable witness - 
/s/Archelaus Sias Justice of Peace
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[addressed envelope]

Oct 15. Vt.
[postmark: WOODSTOCK VERT. OCT. 9]

FREE

Hon Lewis Cass
Secretary of War
Washington City DC 

[overwritten: old case]
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I have enclose the Papers of Lieutenant Moses Evans for to have a pension raised from Eight Dollars p'r month to a Lt's pay, and also the case of Abner Meighs for a pension I wish they may be examined and a return made to Ebenezer Cummings Woodstock Windsor County Vermont
/s/Eben'r Cummings
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James L. Edwards Esqr
Com'r of Pensions
Present -
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[handwritten letter]

Washington May 19. 1836

James L. Edwards Esqr.
Commissioner of Pensions

Sir, 
The result of the application for pensions presented by me is very unexpected and even it not that I am myself fully satisfied by their justness, I would not further trouble the Department, but as it is I feel constrained respectfully to solicit further attention to those cases - and herein to the case of Moses Evans - I had been apprized that Mr. Evans had previously made declarations to obtain pensions first under the act of 1818&c. & second under the act of 1832. through the agency of Eben'r Cummings, that under the first declaration he received a soldiers pension, that under the  second he did not receive as an officer as I learned because "his claim could not be recognized unless supported by his commission or if that had been lost by the certificate of the person in charge of the proper records that one was issued to him &c - as it regards those declarations I never said either nor had any agency about them - Who was known that Thomas Tolman Esq'r whose deposition accompanies Mr. Evans' papers was knowing to his  services as an officer I was applied to by the town authorities of Lyndon at the request of Mr. Evans ( for he had been chargeable to said town as a pauper) to obtain through the Hon'l Mr. Janes Member of Congress with whom I was personally acquainted, the last declaration then made with a view to add a supplemental declaration thereto - That I applied for said declaration as requested
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[handwritten letter]

but could not find it - application was also made to said Cummings for it but unsuccessfully - Said Tolman's deposition having been taken for the case and the former declaration being lost, as I confidently believe without any negligence or carelessness on the part of said Evans, it became necessary to make out another declaration, but before doing this, at my suggestion to an intimate friend of Mr. Evans a thorough search was made among said Evans' papers lest said declaration might be among them overlooked - At this search in which no declaration could be found - the commission to said Evans as Lieut was found which accompanies his papers and this long after the giving of said Tolman's deposition - In order to supply the place of the lost declaration presented by me, at the making of which I may personally present and believed him to testify truly and that under said declaration and the accompanying testimony that he was entitled to full pay as an officer - In this my opinion is not changed - I have known Mr Evans something like thirty years, he has sustained a good reputation, and has for many years been a member  of the Methodist Episcopal Church. but from his extreme age, mmight from a recollection of fifty years be liable to confound events as to time unaided by circumstances - this for aught I know may be the case of Mr. Evans as to
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his former declaration - then again the person who drafted his former declaration may have been omitted as immaterial what was not necessary to support the claim for which application was made. 
Mr. Evans has been given to understand that such evidence as has now been produced would be satisfactory - I must therefore suppose that there exists doubts as to its authenticity - these doubts I am confident will be wholly removed by references to gentlemen from Vermont now resident of Washington - and that the Department will not only be convinced that the documents are genuine, but that they are entitled to full credit - 
I am, Sir, Very respectfully, 
/s/Govr. George C. Cahoon
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Mar 3
Moses Evans Vt. roll
to be cop'd 
12 May 28
arr'd Mar 6. 1838
4 papers - Mr. Rowen
Mar 8. 
Hon. I. Fletcher HR
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[handwritten letter]

House of Representatives
March 2d 1838

Hon'l J. L. Edwards

Sir, 
will you please to enclose to me, all the vouchers & papers relative to the application for an increase of pention by Moses Evans of Lyndon, Caledonia County Vermont, left in your office about two years ago by the Hon'l Geo. C. Cahoon & oblige
Yours &c. /s/Isaac Fletcher of the House of Representatives. -
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Treasury  Department, 
Second Comptroller's Office, 
July 5. 1838.

Sir:
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States" Joseph H. Ingalls. Administrator on the estate of Moses Evans deceas'd, a Pensioner on the Roll of the Windsor, Vermont Agency, at the rate of eight Dollars and 0 - 0 - ['Cents' crossed out] per month ['annum' crossed out], under the law of the 18th March 1818 has been paid at this Department, from the 4th of March 1836 to the 19th of September 1836, the day of said Evans' death
Respectfully, yours, 
/s/Albion K. Parris
Comptroller

To the Commissioners of Pension, Present.
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Apl. 5
Imm. att-

Hon J. L. Edwards.
Pension Office
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[handwritten letter]

Ho of Reps Apl 4. 1838

Hon J. L. Edwards

Sir
Moses Evans late of Lyndon Co. of Caledonia State of Vermont died on the 19th day of September 1836. At the time of his decease there was due to him his pension as a private, of the Revolutionary army, from the 4th of March 1836 to the time of his decease to wit $52.00. His administrator informs me he cannot draw this because the original certificate given him when he was placed upon the pension roll is at The Pension Office, where it was left by the Hon. G. C. Cahoon sometime in the spring or summer of 1836. Will you please forward s'd certificate to me that I may sent it to the administrator. 
I am Sir Your humble serv't - 
/s/Isaac Fletcher
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[addressed envelope]

Ludlow Vt.
May 7th } Free

Hon James Barbour
Secretary of War
Washington D. C. 

[overwritten: Pens. Office 12 May 
Moses Evans act 18 March 1818
Caledonia County Vermont
Ebenezer Cummings agt - 
Woodstock Vt. ]
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[handwritten letter]

Woodstock May 6. 1828

To the Hon. James Barbour,
Sec'y of War, 

Sir, Enclosed are the papers of Moses Evans, claimant for a pension, wish you to examine them and send the certificate to me, at Woodstock, County of Windsor & State of Vermont - The said Daniel Hall, whose deposition is herewith enclosed, was a Lieutenant in the Revolutionary war - 
/s/Ebenezer Cummings
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office Letter

Geo C. Cahoon, Esq
Pres't
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[handwritten letter]

War Department
Pension Office
May 17, 1836

Sir, 
The papers relating to the claim of Moses Evans to a pension under the act of June 7, 1832 have been examined. The claimant states that in the Spring of 1776 he was appointed a Captain of a company of New Hampshire Troops, then at Quebeck, and received a Captain's commission from General Wooster and served in that grade one year; and that in 11780 he received the commission of Lieutenant which accompanies his papers, and served under it one year. This statement and that made in 1828, for the purpose of obtaining the benefits of the act of March 18, 1818, are at variance in most essential particulars. If that now made is to be relied on, that of 1828 may be considered as wholly discredited. His claim to service as a Captain cannot be admitted. Gen. Wooster had no authority for granting commissions. The claimant's account of his services in VanSchaick's regiment is more in accordance with the history of that period, and is altogether opposed to the claim for services in the grade of a Captain. Of the claim to service in the grade of Lieutenant it may be said that there is satisfactory evidence that the claimant ever served a day under his commission.
I am respectfully, Your Obt/ Servt'
/s/J. L. Edwards

Geo. C. Cahoon Esq'r Present
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THOMAS CHITTENDEN, Esq; Captain General, Governor and Commander in Chief, in and over the State of Vermont.

to Moses Evans Gentleman 
You being elected Lieutenant to a Company of Rangers Raised for the Defence ['serving in the Militia' crossed out] of this State; Reposing trust and confidence in your Patriotism, Valous, Conduct and Fidelity, I do by these Presents, in the name of the Freemen of this State, authorise and impower You to take charge of said Company as their Lieutenant of said Company by doing and performing all manner of things thereunto belonging: And I do Strictly charge all required all Officers, and Soldiers, under your command, to be obedient to your order as Lieutenant and you are to observe and obey such orders and directions from time to time as You shall receive from me the Governor of this State for the time being, or other your superior Officers, according to the rules and Discipline of War, and the Laws of this State. 
Given under my hand, and the Seal of this State, in Council, this 3d Day of February 1760
/s/Thos. Chittenden
By his EXCELLENCY's Command, 
Joseph Fay Sec'y