Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 7450, for Michael Moser, Maryland
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Service
Continental
MD

Name

Mooser, Michael
Catherine

Number
R.7450
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State of North Carolina
County of Stokes

Be it known that on the tenth day of October one thousand eight hundred and thirty nine before me Charles Banner a Justice of the Peace within and for the County and state aforesaid personally appeared Catherine Moser aged seventy-six years a resident of the county aforesaid widow of the late Michael Moser deceased who being duly sworn according to las declares that she is not able to travel to court to make a declaration that she is the widow of said Miachel Moser dec'd who she has just reason to believe served as a private enlisted Dragoon soldier in the war of the Revolution in the United States service first he enlisted as a dragoon for three years in the state of Pennsylvania County not known with his brother Thomas Moser under the command of a Colonel Cozel - Bossel or some such a name. She speaks very broken English she being of German descent. He said he entered the service in 1775 in March or April & was in the Battle of Bunker Hill in June 1775 and the Battle at White Plains in 1776 in October and taking the Hessians at Trenton in December 1776 and in the battle of Brandywine in Sept 1777 when & where he received a wound by a ball shot through his leg & killing his horse, he was carried off the battle ground by one of his *** mates named Benjamin Barham & taken to the hospital at Philadelphia & when he recovered from this wound though a cripple for life he went to Valley Forge & joined the army at headquarters in Feb 1778 where Gen'l Washington had kept winter quarters. The next he went as a substitute for one Bolsor Duderon nine months in which service he was in the battle at Monmouth in June 1778 and after serving out the nine months he immediately entered the service as a substitute for one Valentine Shrock for five months. The name of the officers not recollected but perhaps some proof will be had from Hartwell Barham who was in the service with her husband as he her husband told her. That said Barnham draws a pension and lives in the county of Stokes most of the foregoing items are taken from an old memorandum almost unintelligible that was found among said Michal Moser's old papers together with what she the said Catherine his widow can recoll
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1776 and after serving out the nine months he immediately entered the service as a substitute for one Valentine Schrock for five months. The names of the officers not recollected but perhaps some proof will be had from Hartwell Barham who was in the service with her husband as he her husband told her - that said Barham draws a pension and living in this County of Stokes most of the foregoing items are taken from an old memorandum almost unintelligible that was found among said Michael Moser's old papers together with what she the said Catherine his widow can recollect of his doings in the war & they were married in Kregertown Frederick County state of Maryland by a minister of the Lutheran Church after the Banz (banns) of Marriage had been published. They being both members of said church. The marriage took place in February 1785 after her said husbands service in the war and while they lived in union together as man & wife she had five children born of her body viz: John who died when young born in December 1785, Elizabeth born in November 1787, Polly in June 1789, Catherine in May 1793 and Jacob her youngest in August 1802 - there being no family record but expects their births is recorded in the Lutheran Church in this County of Stokes her said husband died in Stokes County NC on the 30th of June 1818 and she has remained
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remained unmarried his widow ever since. Sworn to and subscribed the day and year first above mentioned before me. She claims a pension under the act of July 7th, 1838

Catherine Moser
Her X Mark

C Banner - JP

On the 16th of November 1839 Hartwell Barham a pensioner of the U States at the rate of Ninety-six dollars per annum who is a person well known to me to be a respectable character a resident of Stokes County N. Carolina being sworn according to law declares that he knew the within named Michael Moser & was frequently with him in time of the revolutionary war & believes said Moser was in all the Battles as named in the within declarations as this affiant was in the same and was an eye witness when a cousin of his named Benjamin Barham a large strong man took up said Michael Moser behind him on his horse & rescued him from the British Moser being wounded in the leg in the Battle of Brandywine in September 1777 - said Moser & this affiant frequently met at Courts of Stokes County & would have a talk of their hardships & risks they had encountered in old war with England but don't remember the names of the officers, that Moser was under but he was a Dragoon horseman & after his recovery from his wound he entered the service under a Capt. Lucos in February or March 1778 he went as a substitute in the room of a sick man by the name of Dudron & he frequently saw said Moser acting his part as a horseman soldier and believes he actually served the four years & two months the time mentioned in the within declaration. Sworn to & subscribed the day and year first above mentioned before me.

Hartwell Barham

C. Banner - JP

PS I have wrote to Kregtown in Maryland for proof but no answer has been rec'd yet. C B.
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and believes he actually served the four years and two months the time mentioned in the within declaration. Sworn to & subscribed the day & year first above mentioned.

Harwell Barham

C Banner - JP

PS I have wrote to Kregtown in Maryland for proof but no answer has been rec'd yet. - C.B.

State of North Carolina
County of Stokes

I John Hill clerk of the court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for the county aforesaid do hereby certify that Charles Banner Esq before whom the foregoing declaration and affidavit were made and acknowledged and who has thereunto subscribed his name was at the time of so doing a Justice of the Peace within and for the county aforesaid, duly commissioned and sworn and that his signature above written is genuine.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of my office and subscribed my name this 19th day of June AD 1856.

John Hill - Clerk
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State of North Carolina
County of Stokes

Be it known that on this 28th day of March AD 1857 before me Peter Tuttle a Justice of the Peace within and for the county aforesaid personally appeared Peter Moser aged Seventy one years last April a resident of the County of Forsyth & State of North Carolina he being duly sworn according to law deposeth & saith that he remembers well the time when his uncle MIachael Moser & his wife Catherine together with his uncle Henry Moser & his wife came from the state of Maryland to his Father Peter Moser dec'd about the year 1789 or 1790 and his uncle Michael put his beds & other pieces that he brought into his father's smoke house until he got a better place. His uncle Michael & his wife Catherine had only one child and that is the identical Elizabeth Moser who now has made the declaration for a pension in right of her mother for military services done by his Uncle Michael in time of the Revolutionary War. The said Elizabeth is bout the same age as him this affiant as they were play mates together she growed up & married her cousin Henry Moser now dec'd a brother of this affiant - he understood that they had another older child called John who died in Maryland there was about eight or nine years lapsed between the age of Elizabeth aforesaid until their next child Polly was worn or perhaps ten years next was Catherine & the last was Jacob all living in Forsyth & Stokes County except Polly who married to Fiscus & removed to Indiana. Sworn to & subscribed the day & year first above mentioned.  Peter Moser

Peter Tuttle - JP

I certify that I have been acquainted with the above named Peter Moser many years he has always sustained the character of a person of truth & credibility & that I have no interest whatever in the above claim.

Peter Tuttle - JP
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State of North Carolina
County of Stokes

I John Hill Clerk of the County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for the county aforesaid hereby certify that Peter Tuttle is a Justice of the Peace within and for the county & State aforesaid duly commissioned and authorized to administer oaths and that the within signatures purporting to be his is genuine.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of the court and subscribed my name this 2nd day of April AD 1857

John Hill - Clerk
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additional & explanatory evidence in behalf of Elizabeth Moser & others.

State of North Carolina
County of Forsyth

Be it know that on the 4th day of April 1857 before me William W Terry a Justice of the Peace within and for the County and State aforesaid personally appeared Charles Banner Esq of said County he being duly sworn according to law declares that he drew a declaration for Catherine Moser widow of Michael Moser for a pension due to her for military services performed by her said husband in the war of the Revolution in which declaration and also in the late declaration made by Elizabeth Moser in right of her mother the aforesaid Catherine Moser now dec'd reference was made to an old piece of writing that was found among some papers of Michael Moser dec'd said old paper writing was scarcely legible being about half Dutch & the other half English badly spelled and was said to have been written in the lifetime of Michael Moser and at his request by Miachel Spainhour Gentleman now dec of which old writing with help of the old lady I tryed (tried) to make English of it on a new sheet which reads that no date thereto viz "Catherine Moser widow of Michael Moser was born in Pennsylvania and when quite small her parents moved to Maryland & dwelled in a town call Kregertown and at the age of twenty two years after the end of the war she was married to Miachel Moser who was a soldier in said war - they were both members of the Lutheran Church and the banns of marriage was published. Michael Moser served as a regular soldier first stretch three years under the command of a Col. Corel Bossel and was wounded with a bullet through his leg in Battle of Bunker Hill and after the three years he went as a substitute nine months for one Bolser Duderon and after the 9 months he served five months in the place of one Valentine Shreck (no officers named) they had five children viz: John, Elizabeth, Polly, Catherine & Jacob the oldest John was born in Dec 1785 in Kregertown & died there. The above is the sum & substance of the old paper alluded to
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to in the declaration which old paper was ragged & of no account I expect was put in the fire after culling what was touching the matter or considered useful in explaining the service, the widow Elizabeth Moser says she never saw the old paper as she knows of. Sworn to & subscribed the day and year first above mentioned before me.

C Banner

Wm W Terry - JP

I hereby certify that I am well acquainted with the above-named Charles Banner Esq who swore to & signed the above that he is a person of veracity & truth & his testimony is entitled to full credit - and that I am not interested in the claim of Elizabeth Moser & others for a pension.

Wm W Terry - JP

State of North Caroline
County of Forsyth

I A. J. Stafford clerk of the court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for the court of record in and for the County aforesaid do hereby certify that William W Terry is a acting Justice of the Peace within and for the county and state aforesaid duly commissioned & authorized to administer oaths and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of the court and subscribed my name this 8th day of April AD 1857

A.J. Stafford - Clerk
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State of North Carolina
County of Forsyth
 
Be it known that on this 9th day of January AD one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven before me Saml Stoltz a Justice of the Peace within & for the county & state aforesaid personally appeared William Huffman aged sixty six years a resident of Forsyth County aforesaid he being duly sworn according to law deposeth and saith that he holds the office of Clerk of the Church of Lutharians at Nazareth in the county aforesaid that it appears of record on the books of said church that the births of Michael Moser & his wife Catherine thru last children are as follows viz:) Poll Maria daughter of Michael Moser and Catherine was born November the 18th 1794 - Maria Catherine daughter of Michael and Catherine Moser was born June the 6th 1797 - John Jacob sone of Michael Moser and catherine Moser was born August the 13th 1799 - baptized by Berzeen. I William Huffman above named deposeth say that I hold the office of Clerk of the Church above mentioned at Nazareth in the county of Forsyth & state of North Carolina and the above is a true extract from the records of said church therein expressed in fair legible letters & figures. Sworn to & subscribed the day & year first above mentioned.

William Huffman - clerk of the Church at Nazareth 

Before me Saml Stoltz - SEAL JP

I certify that the above named affiant is the only acting clerk of the above named church that he is a credible person and a respectable character for truth & that I am not interested in the prosecution of the above claim.

Saml Stoltz - JP
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State of North Carolina
County of Forsyth

I A.J. Stafford clerk of the court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for the county aforesaid do hereby certify that Samuel Stoltz who signed the within affidavit is an acting Justice of the Peace within & for the county of Forsyth & state aforesaid duly authorized & commissioned to administer oaths and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of the court and subscribed my name this 20th day of January AD 1857.

A.J. Stafford - CCC
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Catherine Moser
Heirs
for a Pension
Deposition in 
their behalf
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State of North Carolina
County of Forsyth

On this 9th day of September AD 1856 personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace within & for the county & state aforesaid Henry Moser Senior aged Eighty eight years in May last a resident of Stokes County N. Carolina he being duly sworn according to law - declares on his oath that he recollects very well the time when his two brothers Michael and Samuel Moser enlisted as Dragoons or Horsemen soldiers in the service of the U. States in the Revolutionary war for the term of three years he believes the Col commandants name was Carrel Bossel at Brigertown in Frederick County in the State of Maryland and believes it was in the year 1776 or 77 he can't say which his Father Leonard Moser and family then resided in said Brigertown he further states that his said brothers Mich'l & Samuel were gone the full term of three years & returned home. Michael was lame in one leg from a wound he received in the Battle of Brandywine he said afterwards his said brothers went into the service again Mich'l Moser went as a substitute for one Bolson Duderon nine months & came home and next he served five or six months a substitute for one Valentine Shreck in these last services they were in the south & was in the Battle of Gates defeat near Camden in South Carolina and his brother Samuel never has been heard of since said battle - his brother Michael returned home safe and after the lapse of several years he said Michael Moser and Catherine Colson was married in the Lutheran Church of which they were members about Christmas in the year 1784 by a preacher of the church whose name he has forgotten, the banns of marriage being first published agreeable to the rules of the church he this affiant says he was present & saw them married they had a son born in December 1785 & called his name John
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John who died in Cregertown when about one month old and in March 1786 this affiants Father Leonard Moser & his family removed from Crigertown aforesaid to Surry County in N. Carolina and about three years afterwards this affiant went back to his Brother Michael Moser in Crigertown & lived with him about two years mean time he got married & on the fall or autumn of 1789 with his said brother Richard & wife & one child called Elizabeth all removed to Surry County N. Carolina which was shortly afterwards decided & made Stokes County out of part of Surry. They had five children in all to wit) John died, Elizabeth was born in Crigertown in 1786 he believes, Polly, Catherine and Jacob all now living there no family record as he knows of except perhaps in the church book where they were Christians, Michael Moser his this affiants brother aforesaid died in Stokes County thirty-eight years past last June leaving catherine his widow who remains unmarried his widow until the day of her death which occurred the first da y of July eighteen hundred and forty-four. Sworn to & subscribed the day & year first above mentioned. 

Henry Moser
His X Mark

C Banner - JP

The foregoing affidavit was sworn to & subscribed before me on the day above mentioned and I hereby certify that I know the said affiant to be a respectable person of truth and of remarkable good Memory of a man of his age that his evidence is entitled to credit in the case of Elizabeth Moser & heirs of Catherine Moser for a pension.

C Banner - JP
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State of North Carolina
County of Forsyth

On this 12th day of September AD 1856 the widow Elizabeth Butner aged eighty-six years a resident of Forsyth County aforesaid who is well known to me, to be a credible person of truth & veracity being duly sworn according to law declares that she first got acquainted with Michael Moser & his wife Catherine when they removed from the North & settled a few mile from her father Miachel Fry (that being her maiden name) about the year 1789 or 90, when the county of Surry was divided & her father gave a piece of land to erect a court house & town called Germantown in & for the new County of stokes, when said Michael Moser was trying her father to purchase a lot they the said Michael & Catherine Moser was then living together as husband & wife and did so until the days of their death. Had only two children when she first knew them viz: Elizabeth & Poly next was Catherine & Jacob. Sworn to & subscribed the date above mentioned.

Elizabeth Butner
Her X Mark

C Banner - JP

State of North Carolina
County of Forsyth

I A.J. Stafford clerk of the court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for the county aforesaid do hereby certify that Charles Banner is a Justice of the Peace duly commissioned & authorized to administer oaths within & for the county & state aforesaid and that the foregoing signatures purporting to be his is genuine.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of the court & subscribed my name this 15 day of September 1856.

A.J. Stafford - Clerk
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State of North Carolina
County of Forsyth

I William Huffman Rector & clerk of the Lutharian Church at Nazareth in the county aforesaid do hereby certify that it appears on the records of said church that Peter Moser the son of Peter Moser & his wife Catherine was born the 28 day of April 1785 & christened in said church by the Rev. Porter of church given under my hand this 9th day of April 1857

William Huffman
Rector of Nazareth Church
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REJECTED
7450
Catherine Moser
widow of Michael
of N.C.
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No. 15,418
Catherine Moser
wid. Michael
N. Carolina

Following scratched out:
Let J.N. Coffin June 26/56
same May 25, 1857
Same July 21. 1857

7450
July 7, 1838
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State of North Carolina
Couonty of Stokes

Amendatory deposition to one made 9th September 1856

Be it known that on this 31st day of March AD 1857 before me J W Spainhower Justice of the Peace within & for the county aforesaid Henry Moser son aged eighty-nine years a resident of Stokes County & state of North Carolina he being duly sworn according to law declares on his oath in addition to the deposition he made before Chas Banner Esq the 9th September 1856 that he never saw or knew one of the name of Moser but what was relations of the same family of his own that resided in the States of Maryland or North Carolina and that there was no one of the name of Michael Moser except his brother who served in the war of the revolution as mentioned in his former deposition and further to prove the service his said brother Michael was a cripple during his life from a wound he received in Battle of Brandywine with a bullet lodged in his knee which he carried to his grave in June 1818. Elizabeth his daughter was about four or five years old when we left Maryland & came to North Carolina in 1789 or 1790 - Sworn to and subscribed the day and year first above mentioned before me

Henry Moser
His X Mark

J.W. Spainhower - JP

I hereby certify that I am well acquainted with the above named Henry Moser that he is a person highly respected for probity & truth & retains his memory well for a person of his age, that I have no interest in the prosecution of the claim for a pension made by Elizabeth Moser in right of her mother Catherine.

J.W. Spainhower - JP
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State of North Carolina
County of stokes

I John Hill clerk of the court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for the county aforesaid do hereby certify that John W. Spainhower is a Justice of the Peace within and for the county of Stokes aforesaid duly commissioned and authorized to administer oaths and that the within signature purporting to be his is genuine.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of the court and subscribed my name this 17th day of April AD 1857

John Hill - Clerk
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Land Office of Maryland
November 18, 1818

I certify that it appears by a depreciation payroll remaining in this office that Michael Moser a private in the Regiment Maryland Line received L 56..18..07-1/2 [illegible] to the Maryland Quarter of Troops and continental establishment [illegible] 7th August 1783

In testimony whereof I hereto subscribe my name & affix the seal of the Land Office of Maryland the day and year first above written.

J [Illegible]
Commissioner of Land Office
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Washington Nov 19th 1856

Sir

I herewith transmit in the case of Catharine Moser (widow of Michael Moser) of North Carolina, Revolutionary pension case under the Act of July 7, 1838, the application & papers in which case, I transmitted to your office a few days ago - Certificate of James Murray Esq Commissioner of the Land Office of the State of Maryland, showing that said Michael Moser received L 56..18.07-1.2 as a private in the Maryland line.

I am
Very Respectfully
Your Obed Servt

Isaac N Coffin

Honorable George C Whiting
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D.C.
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Pension Office
Nov 26, 1856

Sir:

I have examined and filed the application of Elizabeth Moser one of the children of Catharine & Michael Moser claiming in her mother's right the benefits of the act of July 7, 1838 and you are informed that there is in Elizabeth's testimony that *** the proper which could identify the husband of the said Catharine or the soldier of his name who in the 7th August 1783 it was a [illegible] certificate for L 56..15..7 for the balance due him for his service in the Maryland Continental Line. It is stated in the declaration of Catharine Moser dated in 1838 that the statement of her husband's service was made from "an old memorandum" which was found among his papers. If that memorandum
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could be produced it may be useful in determining the question of identity. When any satisfactory proof that the parties were married prior to 1794 then it is alleged no original record which would show when they were married yet it would appear that there is a record of the births of the children. If so it should be sent to the office.

If an [illegible] not the justice or the legality of the payment of arrears due to Moser at the respective deaths to their children now before the Attorney General and that unless he saw [illegible] affirming it may not be necessary to obtain further testimony in this case.

J.N. Coffin - Esq
Agent

J.N. Coffin
Nov 26
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Washington Nov. 14th 1856

Sir

I herewith transmit Application of Elizabeth Moser of North Carolina daughter of Catharine Moser widow of Michael Moser being assertion of the claim of said Catharine Moser under the Act of July 7th, 1838, for Revolutionary Pension.

Also herewith transmit in same case the following evidence and papers viz:

Affidavit of Charles Banner & Anthony Betting showing day of death of said Michael & Catharine and names of their children now living.
Official certificate of Hon/ R C Puryear in regard to character of witnesses.
Certificate of Court of Forsyth County N.C. of day of death of said Michael & Catharine & names of living children.
Declaration of Catharine Moser deceased taken some years since, which was laid aside waiting for proof of marriage & services from Creagerstown, MD which was written for but not obtained.
Affidavit of Hartwell Barham a Revolutionary Pensioner, who was pensioned for three years' service from 1776 to 1779 - and who was in the battles of Brandywine, Germantown & Monmouth.
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As his service is proved by an Eye Witness who saw him not only in service, but severely wounded in the service so that he was helped and as taking all the papers together there is great reason to believe he served three years - I request that there may be some pension allowed in the case even if not more than for six months service.

I am
Very Respectfully 
Your Obed. Servant
Isaac N Coffin

Honorable George C Whiting
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D.C.
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Isaac N Coffin
July 21/57
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Pension Office
July 21, 1857

Sir

Your letter of the 22nd ultimo relative to the pension claim of Catharine Moser dec'd of N. Carolina, under the act of 1838 has been filed. The whole subject will receive due attention as mentioned in my letter of the 25th of May last.

Isaac N. Coffin Esq
Present
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Washington, June 22, 1857

Sir

In the case of Catharine Moser widow of Miachel of North Carolina under the Revolutionary pension Act of July 7, 1838 - I will mention certain facts which will shed light on this case.

On the rolls of the "German Battalion" in the pension office - in the 1st vacant company the pay by Col. Baron Arendt - the Payroll is signed by Lieut. Charles Baltzell - that is the pay roll for May 1777.

The payroll for June 1777 is signed by Charles Baltzell, Lieut.
The payroll for July 1777 is signed by Charles Baltzell Lieut.

Michael Moser is No 27 on each of these payrolls

As this was a vacant company of any Captain, Lieut. Charles Baltzer was the practical commander, and signed the rolls. This corroborates the oath
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of Mrs. Catharine Moser made at the comparative early period of 1839, wherein she swears that he served under Carl Bossel (Baltzell being thus pronounced and Carl being the term used by the Germans (of which she states she was one) for Charles.

It is probably known to you that the Maryland part of the German Battalion was raised in Frederick County - and in addition to the quotation from Griffith's History of Maryland proving the Colonel Weltner was a citizen of that county - and that several pensioners who served in that Regiment were from there - I add the additional fact that in the German Battalion signed payroll of William Rice, Lieutenant for March 1778 Berthe Engle No 15 and Robert Dell No 16 are entered as sick at Fredericktown facts in connection with the other showing it was raised in Frederick County. Of this county it is proved that the applicant Michael Moser was a resident - and by Henry Moser's affidavit it is proved that there was no other Michael Moser.

I am 
very respectfully
Your Obedient Servant
Issac N. Coffin

George C Whiting Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D.C.
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Pension Office
May 25, 1857

Sir

The additional evidence furnished by you in support of the case of Catharine Moser, dec'd of North Carolina, has been filed among the papers under the act of July 7, 1838, and will await the decision of the questions of the legality of issuing certificates of pension to the children of Revolutionary soldiers.

I.N. Coffin Esq
Present
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Washington, May 9th 1857

Sir:

In the revolutionary pension case of Catharine Moser widow of Michael of North Carolina under the Act of July 7, 1838, I herewith transmit Letter of the Assistant Secretary of State of 8th inst showing he enlisted on 30th July 1776 in Lieut. Col. Ludwick Weltner's Regiment Maryland Line.

I am
Very Respectfully
Your Obedient Servant
Isaac N. Coffin

George C Whiting, Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D.C.
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Dept. of State
Washington, 8 May 1857

Isaac N. Coffin

Sir

In reply to your note of the 5th instant, I have to inform you that Michael Moser served as a private in the war of the revolution in the regiment commanded by Lieut. Col. Ludwick Weltner of the Maryland Line.

He enlisted for the term of three years on the 30th July 1776

I am respectfully
Your Obedt Servant

John Appleton

Assist. Secry.
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Washington, May 5th 1857

Sir

In compliance with your letter of Nov. 26th 1856 in the revolutionary pension case of Catharine Moser of North Carolina widow of Miachel Moser under the Act of July 7th 1838 in relation to the "old memorandum" I herewith transmit an affidavit of the Honorable Charles Banner formerly of the Senate of the State of North Carolina proving that he "old paper was ragged & of no account I expect was put in the fire after culling what was touching the matter".

Also herewith enclose the affidavit of Henry Moser Senior proving that "he never saw or knew one of the name of Moser but what was relations of the same family of his own that resided in the State of Maryland or North Carolina and that there was no one of the name of Miachel Moser except his brother who served in the war of the Revolution."

It is well known to you that the German Regiment was raised din Frederick County. In Griffith's History of Maryland, page 69 it is stated the following "Among other gentlemen who entered the continental army from this state were
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here after naming several residing in the different counties the sentence concludes as follows: "and Ludowick Weltner of Frederick." Thus, it is a part of the History of the County that the Colonel of the Maryland part of the German Regiment was of Frederick County.

Richard Azelip a pensioner under the Act of March 18, 1818 in his declaration made on 39th Sept 1818 in Frederick County swears he "enlisted in Frederick town April 1779 in the company commanded by Captain Baltzell of the German Regiment commanded by Colonel Weltner that he continued to serve in the said corps or in the service of the United States until the 23rd of August 1783 when he was discharged from service in Annapolis". By the papers it is shown that Mr. Moser enlisted in Cregartown, Frederick Co. I herewith enclose two certificates of James Murray Esq Commissioner of the Land Office of the State of Maryland - one dated April 26th proving that "by a depreciation payroll" Michael Moser was a private in the German Regiment - and the other dated April 28th proving that "by a payroll remaining in this office & record an alphabetical list of German Regiment. Thus, it is proved he was in the German Regiment by two documents by the payroll and by the record.

In the declaration in all the papers it is asserted that he served under an Officer by the name of Bossell - this is the precise manner in which Baltzell is pronounced - and the word Carel was intended for Carl as the Germans call
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Charles. Capt. Charles Baltzell commanded a company of the German Regiment and was commissioned on the 10th of May 1777.

In proof of the Marriage, I herewith enclose affidavit of William Huffman, Clerk of the Church at Nazareth N.C. - proving that Polly Maria was born Nov 18th, 1784. Affidavit of Peter Moser proving that Catharine Moser had two children prior to moving to North Carolina John & Elizabeth and that Elizabeth they brought with them to North Caroline in 1789. Affidavit of henry Moser (latter part) proving that - "Elizabeth his daughter was about four or five years old when we left Maryland and came to North Carolina in 1789" Also enclose Certificate of William Huffman "Rector & Clerk of the Lutheran Church at Nazareth" proving that Peter Moser was born 28th April 1785" which said Peter swears "Elizabeth is about the same age of him this affiant as they were playmates together". 

As the right to the pension is established, I hope there may be no delay in admitting the same.

I am
Very Respectfully
Your Obedient servant
Isaac N. Coffin

George C Whiting Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions
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Land Off: of Maryland
April 28, 1857

I certify that it appears by a payroll remaining in this office [illegible] an alphabetical list of soldiers of the Maryland line to whom depreciation was paid that Michael Moser a private in the German Regiment rec'd L 56..18..7-1/2

In testimony whereof I hereto subscribe my name & affix the seal of the Land Off of Maryland.

J. Leeway CLO
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Land Office of Maryland
April 26th 1857

I certify that it appears by a depreciation in payroll remaining in this office that Michael Moser a private in the German Regiment Maryland line received L 56..18..7-1/2 depreciation money issued to the Maryland Section of Troops on the 7th August 1783.

In testimony whereof I hereto subscribe my name & affix the seal of the Land Office of Maryland.

J Leeway

CLO
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No
Catharine Moser
Wid of
Michael
N. Carolina
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Declaration
Catherine Moser
Heirs for a 
Pension
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State of North Carolina
County of Forsyth

On this 16th day of June AD 1856 before the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions in & for the county aforesaid personally appeared Elizabeth Moser a resident of the county aforesaid aged about sixty nine years daughter of Catharine Moser widow of Michael Moser who being duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to assert the claim of said Catharine Moser to the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed July 7th 1838 entitled "An act granting half pay & pensions to certain widows" That she said Catharine Moser was the widow of Michael Moser who was a private enlisted Dragoon soldier in the War of the Revolution for which service her mother the said Catharine Moser was entitled to & claimed a pension by signing a declaration which was kept back from the pension office for want of proof of marriage, officers names who her husband served under the said declaration & affidavit of Hartwell Barham is herewith annexed to prove the justness of the claim under the act of 7th July 1838, the said Elizabeth Moser daughter as aforesaid of Catherine Moser (whose name was Catharine Color before the marriage) was married to the said Michael Moser in February one thousand seven hundred & eighty four (1784) and her husband said Michael Moser died on the 30th June AD 1818 in Stokes County N.C. that the said Catherine Moser was not married to him before he left the service but it took place previous to the first day of January 1794 viz at the time above stated and that she remained unmarried his widow up to the time of her death which occurred on the first day of July one thousand eight hundred & forty-four (1844) leaving four children alive viz Elizabeth Moser this applicant
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applicant, Catherine Falk, Polly Fiskis and Jacob Moser. She the said Elizabeth Moser making this declaration in order to obtain the pension to which her mother Catherine Moser was entitled under the Act of Congress passed on July 7, 1838, for the use of herself & brother and sisters - Sworn to & subscribed on the day and year first above mentioned before said court.

A G Stafford - Clerk

Elizabeth Moser
Her X Mark

We Charles Banner & Anthony Betting aged residents of the county of Forseth state of North Carolina on our oath declare that we were well acquainted with the identical Michael Moser & Catherine his wife for the span of about thirty years previous to the death of said Michael Moser which occurred about the year AD 1818 and his wife Catherine aforesaid died on the first day of July AD 1844 or thereabouts both died in Stokes County N. Carolina leaving four living children viz: Elizabeth Moser the above named applicant, Margareth Falk, Polly Fiskis & Jacob Moser who we expect are still alive. The said Michael Moser & wife came to Stokes County aforesaid from Maryland they said and lived in union together as man & wife good orderly citizens and was esteemed & considered by the community to be lawfully married and nothing to the contrary was ever alleged or hinted to our knowledge. Sworn to & subscribed in open court

A G Stafford Clerk

C Banner
Anthony Betting

House Reps DC 18 August 1856

I am well acquainted with Charles Banner & Anthony Betting whose names appear above and I know them to be gentlemen of highest respectability who possess the full credit of all who know them.

R G Puryear
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State of North Carolina
County of Forsyth

I A G Stafford clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for the county aforesaid do hereby certify that Elizaeth Moser made oath to the foregoing declaration in open court and that satisfactory evidence was *** by the affidavit of Charles Banner and Anthony Betting who are credible persons and residents of the county aforesaid that the death of Michael Moser happened in the year 1818 & that his wife Catherine died the first of July 1844 leaving the four children alive as mentioned in said affidavit and that said Michael & Catherine Moser weas believed to be lawful man & wife by the community; the court concur in that opinion. 

In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of the court and subscribed my name the 16th of June 1856.

A G Stafford - Clerk