Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 11136, Moses Ware, Mass.
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Service Mass.(?)
Ware Moses
Ball, Ruth (former widow)
Number R11136
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"Moses Ware of Fitzwilliam & Ruth Conant of Ashburnham and Moses Tottitngham and Elizabeth Conant both of Ashburnham were married September 8, 1744 

A true copy of the records of the Congregational church of Abraham, MA.
Attent: J.D.Crosby, Clerk of said Church of Ashburnham September 10, 1857.

Mr. Prentiss,
Dear Sir,
I send extracts from church and town records as you request. I did not see how I would well separate the marriage of Ware and Nottingham and have sent it just as it is on the record.
Respectfully, J.D. Crosby
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Worcester, SS
Commonwealth of Massachusetts 
By the Hon. Joseph Dorr, Esq; judge of the Probate of Wills for and within the County of Worcester in the Commonwealth aforesaid.

To Samuel Wilder of Ashburnham in the County of the Commonwealth aforesaid, Esquire.  Greeting

Trusting in your care and fidelity, I do by there present, pursuant to the power and authority of the said Commonwealth nominate and appoint you to be Guardian unto Moses Ware, a minor of the age of eight years, son of Moses Ware, late of Fitzwilliam in the state of New Hampshire, yeoman deceased, with full power and authority to ask, demand? sue for, recover, receive, and take into your custody all and singular, such pair and portion of Estate, as accrues to him in sight of his father aforesaid, deceased, or which by any way or means whatsoever doth of Right appertain or belong to him and to manage employ and ?? the same ....and advantage, and to render a plain and true account of your guardianship upon ?, so far as the law will charge you therewith, when you shall be lawfully required and pay and deliver such and so much of the said estate, as shall be remaining upon your account (the same being first ?? ? by the judge or judges for the ?? , of :: unto the said minor when
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he shall arrive at full age or otherwise as the said judge or judges by his or their decree or ? pursuant to law shall ? and appoint.

In testimony whereof, I have herewith set my hand with seal of the said Court of Probate. Dated in Worcester the seventh day of October, Anno Domini 1783
Joseph Dorr, J. Prob.

Worcester AA
Record with he records of wills for said county of MA Joseph Wheeler, Req

I, Charles G Prentiss, Registrar of the Court of Probate within county aforesaid, do certify that the forgoing is a copy from the records of said Court.

In testimony whereof I do hereunto set my hand an the seal of said Court at Worcester the ninth day of September in the year of our Lord 1857.
Charles G. Prentiss, Rep.
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Inv. M. Wares
Deposition
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State of Illinois
County of Boone SS 
John M. Ware of the County of
Berrien in the State of Michigan being duly
Sworn deposes and says that he is the son of
Moses Ware who now resides in the town of
Bonns in the County of Boone in the State of
Illinois - that the Grand Mother of this deponent, Ruth Ware lived with said Moses Ware above named from the time this deponent
can remember till he was about sixteen
years of age - that during the time she so lived
with this deponents father, this deponent frequently heard her speak of this deponents Grand Father (Moses Ware) having entered the service of the United States in the Revolutionary War
and having died in the service at
Ticonderoga of [illegible] - that it was
generally understood and talked in the family
and among the neighbors that said Moses
Ware the Grand-father of this deponent had
died in the service of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
And this deponent further says that
he saw in the possession of his Grand
Mother a Continental Bill of the denomination
of one dollar, which she said she received from her said Husband before his death as part of his pay as a Soldier & that she kept it as a memorial of his service & of his sending it to her
and that said Ruth Ware was dependent
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upon her son, this deponents father for support and was so maintained & supported by this deponents father, during the time she so lived with this deponents father as above stated.
John M, Ware
Subscribed and sworn before me this 14th day of September 1857
James B Taylor JP
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State of Illinois,
Boone County SS.
I, LEONARD M. BEERE, Clerk of the County Court in
and for said County, the same being a Court of Record
do hereby certify that James B. Taylor Esquire, before
whom the annexed Affidavit
purports to have been executed & verified
was, at the date of such execution & verifying an acting Justice of the Peace in
and for said County, duly elected and qualified, and authorized to take such verifications
and that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of such Justice of the Peace
and verily believe his signature to the Certificate of such proof or acknowledgment to be
genuine.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand
and affixed the Seal of said Court at Belvidere, this the Fourteenth day of September
in the Year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty Seven
L M Beebe Clerk
By Wm McVecar Depty
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State of Illinois
Kane County
I Eben Conant of Geneva
Kane County State of Illinois, having
first been duly sworn doth depose and
say that according to my Fathers Record
I was born on the 6th day of June 1777.
and am now in my Eighty first year, that
I was acquainted from my earliest child-
-hood with the Widow Ruth Ware, who was
my Fathers sister and widow of Moses
Ware Senior, a Soldier in the early part of
the Revolutionary War, and also
with said Moses & Ruth Wares son Moses
Ware my cousin. We lived in the same
neighborhood during my minority which
was in Ashburnham in the State of Massachusetts.
After our majority I was acquainted with
him for some Years in Brandon Rutland
Co Vermont: that I knew of his mother living
with him for a number of years. As his Father
died before my personal knowledge, I can
only say that it was known and understood
by my Father and mother and often spoken
of before their children that Uncle Moses
Ware was an inlisted Soldier of the
Revolutionary War, and died of sickness while
in Camp [crossed out] at Fort Ticonderoga [end cross out], and
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that this was true I have no [crossed out] doubt [end cross out] the
slightest doubt. I say further from my
acquaintance with the family that Moses
Ware Junior my cousin was the only son
of his Father that I had any knowledge
of, and that if he had had any other
child I must have known it.
Eben Conant
State of Illinois
Kane County ss
This day personally appeared
before Paul R Wright Clerk of the Circuit
Court of said County, Eben Conant and
made oath that the above statement by
him subscribed was true to the best of
his knowledge and belief.

Witness my hand and Seal
of said Court at Geneva
in said County this 18th
day of Sept AD 1857.
P. R. Wright
Clerk
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State of Illinois
County of Boone
Moses Ware now of
the said County & State being duly
sworn deposes and says that he
was born in Ashburnham Worcester County Massachusetts in the
month of March 1775. That his
father Moses Ware as he has been
informed by his mother enlisted
for three months and was of the
army that blockaded the City of
Boston; that during that period
he enlisted for two years in the
army as organized by General
George Washington and was
sent with others to Ticonderoga
that he died in the service at
Ticonderoga but the time he is
not able to say but believes it
to have been in the year 1777.
That his mother remained a widow
& was supported by this Deponent from the year 1802 until the year 1819
when she married one
Ball residing at Sempronius
in Cayuga Co. New York.
That this Deponent was the
only child of his parents and
was about nine months old
at the time of his father's enlistment.
That neither his said mother
in her life time nor himself
ever received any thing in the
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way of pension or other wise from
the United States.
That his said mother died
in Sempronius in Cayuga Co
aforesaid but the date he cannot
give. That she was a second
time a widow at the time of
her death.
That these are the material facts in relation to his
claim to be allowed the [illegible]
of pension which would be due
to his mother had her application been made under the several Acts of Congress.
Moses Ware
Sworn & subscribed
this 14 Decr 1857
A H Bradley County Clk
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[crossed out] Acts of July 14, 1862 and March 3, 1873. [end cross out]
REJECTED
11,136
P. O.
Moses Ware
Service:
Enlisted:
Discharged:
Application filed:
Alleges:
Re-enlisted:
Attorney:
P. O.
Recognized.
Cont
Cert. of Dis. Searched for, 18
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No 39,154
Moses Ware Dec'd.
Illinois
Rejected
Hon E B Washburn
Dec 11/58
11136
Act Jun 7, 1832
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from
Eli Atwater
[illegible] 1857.
abt Mr Wares death.
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Sempronius July 14, 1857
Dear Brother

Your communication of
the 23rd ult came to the pastor of the second
Baptist Church by him was opened and publickly
read, it was evidently designed for the Church
at Kelloggs Ville, as that Church has become almost
Extinct the Brethren here after a little consultation
put it on me to ascertain the facts you require
there are many persons that remember your
Mothers Marriage to Br Ball but none that
recollect the year of her Marriage or year of her
Death. Several persons distinctly recollect that
she died before her Husband, [illegible] James Ball
is the person most likely to remember those facts, if living is in Webster Washtenaw
County Michigan, Br Slade and wife are yet
Living I calld on them and showed your Letter
recept my best wishes for your present and
future wellfare your Brother in Christ
Eli Atwater
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Reply from Concord N.H.
Secy of State department
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Concord N.H. Oct. 20. 1857
Rev. C. H. Roe
Dear Sir
Yours of the 8th inst in regard to the Military
service of Moses Ware was duly
received. I have examined carefully
all the Books and Documents, relating
to Military services in the War of the
Revolution, which are in this Office,
and the name of Moses Ware does
not appear thereon, at least I have not
been able to find it. This is the only
place in this State to find such record.
it is probable he might have enlisted
from the State of Massachusetts
Yours Respectfully
Nathan W. Gove Dep. Secretary
of State
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House of Reps
Dec. 7. 1838
Sir:
I send you a large
number of papers annexed
with the application of the
Rev. Moses Ware for arrears of Pension. Will
you have the case, as it
now stand, examined and
report the result to me.
Yours Respectfully
EB Washburn
Hon. Geo. C. Whiting
Com of Pensions
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Pension Office
February 21st 1857
Sir
From the letter of Moses Ware, which is
herewith returned, it appears that he desires to
procure record evidence of the service of his father
Moses Ware, in the Revolutionary war: and instructions to enable him to make application for
the arrears of pension to which his mother was
entitled. I enclose herewith, printed instructions
under the act of July 4, 1836. M Ware should
make a declaration under this act, he should
obtain record evidence of the marriage of his
father and mother from the Clerk of the town
where they were married. For evidence of the
service he should apply to the Secretary
of State of Mass. accompanying it with a sworn
statement of all he can recollect respecting. He
should prove the fact that his mother was a
widow, the date of her death, which must
have been since July 4 1836 to entitle him to
arrears. He must also prove the number and names of her only children
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now surviving, and there must be an administration of her estate.

I have the honor to be
Very Respectfully
Your Ob't Servt
Geo C Whiting
Commissioner
Hon E.B. Washburn
House of Rep's
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Calvin May
Probate Office
Keen N.H.
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Probate Office Receive September 18, 1857


Dear Sir
I send you the record of the settlement of the estate of Moses Ware as you request. The record of marriage I have not in this office. It should be in the town records of the town where the marriage was solemnized.
My fees are one dollar. You can send tin postage stamps
Sincerely Yours,
Calvin May, Jr.
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Certificates of the marriage of Moses Wall, [Junr?]
+
Ruth Leonard
of Ashburnham
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Probate Office Worcester, Mass
Sept.28,1857

Rev. Chas. Hill Roe

Dr. Sir
I enclose copy of both Church and Town Records of Marriage of Moses Ware and Ruth Conant.
If you require anything more formal you will please return the copies with directions and I will attend to the matter only charging my actual expenses.
Respy. yours
Geo. M. Prentiss
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Belvidere Boone Co. Ills.
Augt. 17, 1857

This is to certify that I now the Revd. Moses Ware, and aged Baptist minister, who resides in this vicinity. He is a member and a minister in good and regular standing in the Baptist denomination & has been so for upwards of 50 years. We have entire confidence in his integrity & Christian character for honesty & veracity and place entire reliance upon the truthfulness of his statements. He is now 82 years of age and entirely destitute. He much needs now the aid of those means which he expounded on his widowed mother's support for 18 years during her residence with him from 1801 to 1819-20 when she married the second time.
Signed by
Chas. Hill Roe
Pastor of the Baptist Church, Belvidere
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"Married, by the Rev. John Cushing, Moses Ware of Fitzwilliam and Ruth Conant of Ashburnham & Moses Tottingham and Elizabeth Conant,  both of Ashburnham, Sept. 8 1774".
A true copy from the Records of the Town of Ashburnham
Attest
Ashburnham, Sept. 10, 1817
William P. Ellis, Town Clerk
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Eben Conant
Letter
Genova, Kane Co. Ills.
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Genova, Sept. 18, 1857

Rev. Mr. Roe
Dear Sir
I attended immediately to your request for a Deposition in behalf of Mr. Ware and drew up a statement of what I know in the case. I want to have been glad to have been more particular as to the time and place and disease of which his father died but I have gone as far as my recollection is clear on the subject.
After drawing up I presented it to a lawyer who thought it very correct but wanted some formalities which he provided to fish out that afternoon, I called the next morning but found his office locked himself gone to Chicago, I waited another day, not finding him I went some distance to his house and learned that he would be home today. I have now just been to his office found he had neglected the business but promised it should be ready for this afternoons mail. I make these statements that you may see that the delay has not been through my neglect.
Tell my Old Friend Friend Ware that my son A. H. Conant is Preaching in Rockford and would be glad to see him. I would be glad to see him here and hope I may yet see him once more in the Flesh.
I am dear sir, yours, Eben Conant
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Prob. Officer Worcester, Mass.
Sept. 10, 1857

Revd.. Chas. Hill Roe,
Dr. Sir:
I enclose the copy as per requested. (illegible) managed to have the Records examined by Rev. Mr. Crosby of Ashburnham who kindly promised me his services without charge. Am to be about for 2 weeks after which I hope to send you results of the examination.
Respy. yours,
Geo. M. Prentiss
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Rev. Moses Ware
Riggsville, Lorain Co. Ohio


post mark-New York Mar 24
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Rev. Moses Ware Junr
Commission as a B. Homer clrg. in Ohio
1836
From H. M. Society in NY
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$100      COMMISSION                     2
Office of the American Baptist Home Mission Society Clinton Hale
New York March 23 1836

To the Rev. Moses Ware,
Having been assured of your regular standing, and promise of usefulness as a Minister of Christ; and desiring to assist and encourage the people in destitute places to procure and maintain the permanent administration of Christian ordinances, the "Executive Committee of the American Baptist Hom Mission Society" have appointed you to publish the Gospel in the North West Section of Ohio near the head waters of the Marimee for the term of twelve months from the time you notify us that your labor commence to receive from this Committee the sum of one hundred dollars exclusive of such sums as you may receive from the people to whom you shall minister.
Ther terms of this Commission are such, That,
1. You are required to bear credentials of your regular standing as a Minister or Licensed Preacher of the Gospel.
2. You are required to receive no additional aid from any other Missionary Society during the time of your receiving assistance from this Society, except it be from an Association or Society auxiliary to this, and by special direction or permission of this Committee, to be deducted from the amount herein granted.
(#2 above is X'd out)
3. You are required at the end of each quarter from the date of your Commission to render a succinct report of your labours; noticing the success or difficulties with which you may have met, and referring, as far as you have any thing interesting to communicate, to the several topics named in your "General Instructions".
4. You are required to forward, or report to the Corresponding Secretary, all contributions which may be made through you to the funds of this Society.
5. You are also required to collect, from the people among when you labour, as large a portion of your salary as shall be practicable.
(illegible-crossed out)
6. The salary stipulated in this Commission (illegible-crossed out) shall be paid to your order on the Corresponding Secretary, in quarterly or semi-annual payments, as you may desire; but in no case can your order be accepted until you shall have reported labour, as above required, for the full time which your draft is intended to cover.
BY ORDER OF THE COMMITTEE
Archibald Maclay, Chairman
Luther Crawford tht. Corresponding Secretary A.B.H.M.S.
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GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS.

Although the preaching of the Gospel holds the first and highest place in the vows of responsibilities of the ministerial office, yet there are a variety of subordinate measures, which with a view to the permanent and best effect of Gospel ordinances, require the diligent attention of every Pastor and every Missionary. This is especially the case in congregations where, from their recent organization or other causes, the importance of religion and of religious institutions is not generally understood and felt. The Committee therefore request your attention to the following measures, as important to be adopted and vigorously pursued in the station assigned you.
1. Without wishing to abridge your liberty and obligation, as a minister of Christ, as far as practicable to seek the spiritual good of the surrounding country, the Committee will expect you to confine your labours principally to the field designated in this Commission, that the people, for whose benefit the aid of this Society in your support is especially designed, may learn, from the influence of your uninterrupted efforts, suitable to appreciate the importance of a settled ministry, and that they may thus be induced and strengthened the sooner to maintain the administration of Christian ordinances without assistance from others.
2. The visitation of families, and of the sick, is particularly enjoined, as second in importance only to the public preaching of the word. In the performance of these duties, the Committee will expect you to visit every family within the limits of your charge, which is not under the pastoral care of some other minister; and that you will feel the importance of making your visits strictly religious and ministerial, urging upon individuals with faithfulness and affection, the necessity of repentance towards God, and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, and in families inculcating the importance of family religion.
3. The visiting of schools, and the establishment and superintendence of sabbath schools and bible classes, are objects which claim you careful and zealous attention, and which the committee urge upon your notice with strong solicitude. These measures, dictated by benevolence and pursued with christian humility and kindness, will not fail, with the blessing of God,  to give you access to the best affections of the youth of your charge, and will thus secure to you the delightful and important privilege of mingling a correct and powerful moral influence in the whole system of their education.
In schools, let it be your object to encourage weekly biblical instruments, and daily religious worship.
In the institution and conducting of sabbath schools, you will be expected to avail yourself of the recommendations of the most approved Societies or Unions for this purpose, and in pursuance of the same, to adopt the most economical and efficient methods of instruction, and of procuring sabbath school libraries.
In your manner of conducting bible classes, reference must of course be had to the capacity and present acquirements of the individuals who compose them. Of these classes, you will be expected to be yourself the Superintendent and Teacher; and it is important that they be so organized as to extend the advantages of biblical instruction, not only to youth, but to those of more advanced life.
4. Meetings for prayer should be held at such convenient times and places, as shall afford to all the families within your charge the privilege of attending them. These meetings the Committee will expect you to encourage and promote; and particularly that you will hold the Monthly Concert for Prayer, on the evening of the first Monday in every month. Of this it is desirable that you give previous public notice from the pulpit, and that you make it an occasion for communicating to the people in concise form, such missionary intelligence as you shall have received during the preceding month.
5. The Committee take a deep and lively interest in the cause of Foreign as well as of Domestic Missions, and in the objects of the Education, Bible, Tract, and Sabbath School Societies, and will expect you, by every means in your power, to promote these great enterprises of Christian benevolence. You are particularly desired to solicit the co-operation of your people, as far as they have the ability in the work of Home Missions; and where it is practicable, to form Societies or Associations auxiliary to this Society, or to the nearest Society connected with this.
For the purpose of supplying the destitute within the bounds of your missionary charge with bibles, tracts, and sabbath school books, you are desired to hold correspondence with the Societies for these purposes, and, according to their several recommendations, to promote the formation of Societies auxiliary to the parent Institutions, or to their Branches or Auxiliaries in the State of County embracing the field of your labour. By these measures, it is believed, you will be able to procure all needed supplies of bibles, tracts, and sabbath school requisites; and having procured them, you are desired yourself, as far as is practicable, to take a leading part in their distribution.
6. The Committee regard with great pleasure and gratitude to God, the recent efforts of many churches, physicians, and leading civilians of our country for the promotion of temperance. Among the numerous and deplorable evils resulting from the use of ardent spirits, none is more universal than that of counteracting all the means which God has appointed for the moral improvement of mankind, and the salvation of souls. You aree desired, therefore, publicly and privately to instruct the people to whom you minister, respecting the causes, symptoms, and fatal consequences of intemperance, and endeavour to persuade them to abstain from the use of intoxicating drinks.
Lastly, and particularly, it is desired, that not only "in doctrine you be uncorrupt", but that you "show yourself a pattern of good works; by manifestation of the truth, commending yourself to every man's conscience in the sight of God". As an ambassador of the Prince of Peace, "follow peace with all men"; and avoiding reflections upon other denominations of Christians, let your conversation in the world show that you have at heart, not the interests of a sect or party, but the salvation of souls, and the prosperity of the Redeemer's cause. Be eminently a man of prayer; and as you are bound to do by the terms of your own consecration to the work of the ministry, "preach Christ, and him crucified". Be faithful unto death, and the fruit of your labour will be "unto holiness and the end everlasting life".

You are requested to prepare a Schedule in form like the following and forward it to the Cor. Sec. of the A. B. H. M. S. on or before the first of April next after your appointment, and also at the close of the period embraced in your Commission, unless it be renewed. In filling the blanks, you are desired to reckon from the date of the Commission.
Name of the Church or Congregation and the Association with which the church is connected.
Additions
S. Schools
Bible Classes
Temp. Soc. 
Benevolent Societies
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Form of Draft usually adopted by Missionaries of the A.B.H.M.S.
Cor. Sec. of the A.B.H..S., 4 Bowery, New-York:
Pay A. B., or order, ...........dollars, due me for Missionary services up to......, 18...., reported on the ......., 18.....agreeably to the terms of my Commission.
(Signed)  C.........D............Missionary at ................

Dear Brother,
You were recommended to me by Bro. Hill. The region to which you are appointed is said to be very destitute. We therefore readily made the appointment hoping that by the blessing of God you might be the means of great good to the souls of men. We have not been at all (illegible) in marking out your bounds, but we shall expect you to use your own judgement in the (illegible) of the Lord. 
One hundred dollars we are aware is not enough to support a man, yet it is the best we can do at present. You must get the balance of a support from the people. They ought to be taught to give of their "temporal things" to the minister in spiritual things.  We hope to hear from you soon. (illegible) you go for the "making mention of His righteousness & his only."
Luther Crawford
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State of Illinois
Boone County
Personally appeared before me Abraham H. Bradley Clerk of the County Court of said County Luther W. Lawrence and Daniel H. Whitney who depose and say that they are acquainted with Rev. Moses Ware that he sustains a good moral character & that his statements are entitled to full credit & belief.
Luther W. Lawrence
Danie H. Whitney
Subscribed & sworn to before me this
11th Nov. A. D. 1838
Abraham H. Bradley, County Clerk of Boone County Illinois

House of Reps.
Dec 7, 1838
I can certify from personal knowledge to the high character of Mr. Ware and also to that of L. Lawrence and D. H. Whitney
E. B. Washburn
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Acct. rendered of the settlement in Probate of the Estate of Moses Ware Senr.
at Keen N. Hampshire
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The account of Ebenezer Conant Junr. of Ashburnham in the County of Worcester and State of Massachusetts Bay administrator of the estate of Moses Ware late of Fitzwilliam in the County of Cheshire and State of New Hampshire deceased.
The said accountant chargeth himself with all the estate of the said deceased amounting in the whole by Inventories exhibited into the Registry of the Court of Probate in said County to the sum of one hundred and thirty one pounds, sixteen shillings & eleven pence and prays for allowance as follows:
To a journey to Walpole to take administration.
Expenses & paying the appraisers & Judges fees 2/19/0
For 4 days in going to Framingham & expenses
1/16/0
For 2 days going to Fitzwilliam & expenses 
0/12/0
For 2 days going to Chelmsford & expenses
1/8/0
For 2 days journey (illegible) to Chelmsford
2/0/0
For two days (illegible) going to Fitzwilliam
0/12/0
One journey to Fitchburg
0/8/0
To cash spent of my own money as charges
0/8/6
To cash spent in going to let out the place
0/10/0
To cash paid Sampson Stoddard (illegible)  14/17/0
To cash paid Sergio Jucha
0/?/0
To cash paid Jacob Wilson
1/10/0
To cash paid Joseph Fox 
1/8/0
To cash paid Ebenezer Conant Senr.
3/14/0
To cash paid Moses Tottingham
2/12/7
To cash paid Peter Brooks
0/18/0
To cash paid William Lock
1/5/0
To cash paid Samuel Randall
0/9/0
To journey from Ashburnham to (illegible) expenses settling with thee Judge & Probate fees and Guardianship
5/13/0
To cash paid for recording a deed
0/4/0
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To cash for sheep & bringing them home
0/16/0
_________
47/0/1

Sum total of the estate  131-16-11
Sum total of the account  47-0=1
Remains in the administrators hands 84-16-10 
A true account-Ebenr. Conant

Cheshire SS, Walpole Feby. 4, 1778 Then Ebenr. Conant administrator of the estate of Moses Ware late of Fitzwilliam deceased personally appeared and made solemn oath that the within account of his administration was just & true.
Before me
Ichabod Fisher Regr. Probate

Cheshire SS Walpole Feb. 4, 1778 Then the within account was exhibited & examined & those being vouchers produced for the several payments and being further proved by the accountant is therefore allowed per order of the Judge.
Ichabod Fisher Regr. Probate

An additional account of the administration of the estate of Moses Ware late of Fitzwilliam in the County of Cheshire deceased
Mr. B. Ebenezer Conant Junr. late of Ashburnham was appointed administrator of the estate of the said deceased & he did before this additional account of said execution of the last will and testament of the said Ebenezer Conant exhibited the following account, having received sufficient authority so to do, he therefore in the name of the said administrator deceased (illegible) allowance for the following articles viz: Note these used in said administrators hands when he exhibited the first account of the administration of said Ware's estate in Ballance due to the
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estate  84=26=10
To sundry articles delivered to the widow of said deceased  which were as follows
Two chests 2 two tubs 12/ one bread trough (illegible)
3/11/6
One kettle 6/ one pot 3/7 one spider l/6 two book 1/6
0/12/7
Two sheets 20/ one bolster & pillow 8/ two beds 30/ one cornerbed 24
4/2/0
old basons 2/6 four chairs 10/6 sieve &n wooden plates
0/14/0
one firskin 1/ two sheep 24/ one cow 4-0-0
5/4/0
one bidstead 6/ one spinning wheel 6/
0/12/0
To cash paid Israel Michels
0/13/2
To cash paid the widow Ruth Ware for interest of her thirds
1/16/0
To cash paid Isaac Senter for a note of hand against the deceased
0/14/0
To cash paid Thos. Gowing
0/4/10
Paid the widow in full for the interest of her thirds to July 30 1783
To cash paid for Probate Fees & expenses of a journey
0/12/0
_________
20/16/9

Ballance due in the first acct to the estate of the deceased  84/16/10
Sum of the additional act   20/16/9
Ballance in the hands of the attorney  64/0/1

Cheshire SS (illegible) Feby 2, 1784
Then this additional account of the administration of the estate of Moses Ware late of Fitzwilliam in said County deceased by Deliverance Davis Attorney for the Executrix of the late will & testament of Ebenr. Conant Junr. late administrator deceased estate and he producing vouchers sufficient to prove that the said Ebenezer before his death did (illegible) the above accounts herein exhibited. I do therefore approve and allow the same. The ballance in the hands of sd. Attorney being the sum of Sixty four pounds and one penny, I do by virtue of the authority to me given order and decree that the
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same be divided and amoungst the heirs of the said Moses Ware, and you the said Deliverance Davis are hereby in your said capacity ordered to distribute and pay the said sum or cause it to be paid unto the widow and other heirs of said deceased their equal proportion as the law directs. per order of the Judge
Ichabod Fisher Regr.
A true copy attest
Calvin May Jr. Regr.