Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 21086, Moses Fay, Conn.
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
Conn.

Fay, Moses
Mary

NUMBER
W. 21086

CONTENTS
[blank]
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The following is an extract from the Record of the town of Shrewsbury, under the head of "Marriages."

Moses Fay of Bennington, Ver. & Mary Hagar of Shrewsbury, Oct. Sixth Seventeen hundred eighty five. I, Job C. Stone, Clerk of the town of Shrewsbury, in the County of Worcester & State of Massachusetts, certify that the above is a true copy of the Record, with the exception of the date, which is expressed on the Record in fair legible figures as follows.

Moses Fay of Bennington, Ver. & Mary Hagar of Shrewsbury, Oct. 6, 1785.
Attest, Job C. Stone, Town Clerk of Shrewsbury

I, Job C. Stone above named, depose and state that I hold the office of Clerk in the town, County & State aforesaid, and that the above is a true extract from the record of said town with the exception above named as certified by me.
[signed: Job C. Stone]

Worcester ss. May 15th, 1843 Then appeared the above named Job C. Stone and made oath that the above affidavit by him subscribed is true.
Before me
[signed: Henry Snow, Justice of Peace]
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Worcester ss. Jos. G Kendall, Clerk of the County of Common Pleas within & for said County, being a County of Record, certify that Henry Snow written named is a Justice of the Peace within & for said County, duly commissioned  & qualified & that the signature of his name within written appears to be in his own hand writing.

In witness whereof I have hereto set my name & affixed the seal of said Court, at Worcester, this twenty [second?] day of June A.D. 1843
[signed: Jos. G. Kendall Clerk]
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Hale of New York

Cattaraugus County ss. On the twenty first day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and nineteen before me the subscribed, one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the said county of Cattaraugus personally appears Moses Fay aged fifty seven year resident in the Town of Olean in the said county of Cattaraugus, who being by me first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provisions made by the late act of Congress entitled "an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war". That he the said Moses Fay enlisted  in the fall of the year seventeen hundred seventy nine at Newport Rhode Island in the company commanded by Captain Walker for three years in Col Webbs Regiment of Connecticut troops, that he was in the battle at East Chester not far from Williams Bridge in the Jerseys and that he continued to serve in said company in the service of the army of the United States until the fall of the year seventeen hundred eighty two at which time he was honorably discharged, which said discharge he has lost and that he is in reduced circumstances, and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support and that he has no other evidence in his power of his said service. Sworn to and declare before me the day and year first above written.

his X mark [signed: Moses Fay]

James Brooks Judge }
of Cattaraugus Com. Pleas }
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I James Brooks one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Cattaraugus do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Moses Fay did serve in the revolutionary war as stated in the within declaration against the common enemy, and I now transmit the proceedings and the testimony taken and had before me to the Secretary for the department of War pursuant to the directions of the within mentioned act of Congress. Given under my hand and seal of the said Court at Olean this
21st day of September AD 1819-
[signed: James Brooks]


Cattaraugus County Clerks Office

This may certify that James Brooks is a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Cattaraugus, and was duly qualified for the said office, and that due credit ought to be given to this and all other official proceedings, and that the above [^is] his signature, given under my hand and the seal of the said County of Cattaraugus at Olean Sept 21st 1819
[signed: Mills De Forest Dept Clk]


Cattaraugus County ss. 
I James Brooks Esquire one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County of Cattaraugus do certify that from my knowledge of the within named Moses Fay and from inquiries which I have made I believe him to be in reduced circumstances and that he stands in need of assistance for support dated this 21st day of September AD 1819
[signed: James Brooks]
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State of New York }
Cattaraugus County ss }
On the 19th day of June 1843 personally appeared before the undersigned one of the Judges of the court of Common pleas of the County & State aforesaid Mary Fay of Farmersville in the County & State aforesaid who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain 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 is the widow of Moses Fay who was a private in the Army of the revolution & had a pension certificate dated October 13th 1819.

She further declares that she was married to the said Moses Fay at Shrewsbury in the County of Worcester in the State of Massachusetts on the 6th day of October 1785 that her husband the said Moses Fay Died at Hinsdale in the County of Cattaraugus [^&] State of New York on the 11th day of March 1842 that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service but the marriage took place previous to the first day of January 1794 viz on the 6th day of October 1785 & that she has not since been married and am [is?] 81 years of age
[signed: Mary Fay]

Sworn & subscribed before me this 19th Day of June 1843
[signed: Peter Tenbroeck Judge of Cattaraugus Co]
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I certify that Mary Fay the within applicant [applicant] is unable to appear in court by reason of bodily infirmities.
[signed: Peter Tenbroeck Judge Cattaraugus Court.


State of New York }
County of Cattaraugus ss. } 

[seal]
I, George W Gillet Clerk of the Common Pleas Court of the County and State aforesaid do hereby certify that Peter Ten Broeck Esquire is a Judge as within and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine.

Given under my hand and the seal of said County the 20th day of June 1843
[signed: G. W. Gillet Clerk]
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[page on left]
Albany, N. York 4457
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Mary Fay
widow of Moses Fay
Con
who was a Private
in the Revolution
date of [^her] death not on
agency book
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Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
33 Dollars 33
Cents per annum, to commence on
the 4th day of March, 1843.

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Certificate of Pension issued the
17 day of Jan. 1844
and sent to Pensioner
Franklinville, N. York

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Act of March 3, 1843.
Recorded in Book A.
Vol. 1 Page 117.


[page on right]
Regd.

A. Patterson October
27 1836-

Date of her death
not on A.B.
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15.367
New York

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Moses Fay of Cattaraugus in the State of New York who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Webb of the Connecticut line, for the term of ten months

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Inscribed on the roll of New York the rate of 8- Dollars per month, to commence on 21st of Sep 1819

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Certificate of Pension issued the 13th of Oct 1819 and sent to James Brooks Esqr Olean, Cattaraugus Co.
[illegible]

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[crossed out: Arrears to 4th] Portion of
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Mar. 1820 $43.69
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$43.69


{ Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818.}

Court
Notified sent Dec. 19. 182? [last digit illegible]
to Henry Welles
Bath Steuben Co.
N York
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In the matter of
Moses Fay
a Pensioner

Exd.
15367
Oct 19 -
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State of New York }
County of Cattaraugus } ss. On this eighth day of November 1820 personally appeared in open court being a Court of record for said County Moses Fay aged fifty seven years, resident in the Town of Olean in said County of Cattaraugus who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he served in the revolutionary war as follows: that I served in Captain Benjamin Walker's company in the regiment commanded by Col. Samuel Webb of the Connecticut line on the Continental Establishment that my said service in said company and regiment continued nearly three years and ended at the close of the revolutionary war, as by my original declaration bearing date on the twenty first day of September 1819, on file in the office of the secretary of war of the United States will more fully and at large appear. That I have obtained a pension certificate under the act of Congress of the 18th of March 1818, granting pensions in certain cases which certificate bears date on the 13th day of October eighteen hundred & nineteen and is numbered 15,367 - And I do solemnly swear that that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the 18th day of March 1818, and that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any manner whatever disposed of my property or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions 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
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Revolutionary war" passed on the 18th day of March 1818, and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities contracts or debts due to me nor have I any income, other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed-

Schedule

I have no real Estate whatever 
Personal Estate - One Cow worth about ten dollars 2 hogs worth $1.50 each, [^one pot worth $1.00, one kettle worth $1.50] one half pail Kettle worth 50 cents, five common chairs worth 50 cents each, 2 chests made of pine, worth perhaps $1.00 each, one small looking glass worth perhaps 75 cents, nine plates worth about 12½ cents each 2 other large plates worth 12½ cents each, one pitcher worth 25 cents nine earthen cups & saucers worth about $1.12½ 2 tea pots worth about 75 cents each, 2 cream cups worth 12½ cents each, one sugar bowl worth 62½ cents- 6 earthen bowls worth about 12½ cents each - 2 earthen mugs worth 12½ cents each - not sufficient wearing apparel and bedding to make me and my family comfortable. My occupation is that of a farmer, but owing to breaking my collar bone by a fall about five years since, and general infirmity I am unable to do much towards supporting myself. My family consists of two persons besides
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myself, to wit, my wife Mary aged fifty six years-in tolerable health but owing to her age is unable to do much labour- Electa Place a bound girl, aged sixteen years and some months in a very bad state of health, owing to a fall she received about three years since which is supposed to have fractured her scull [skull] and is not able to do any thing of consequence towards her support-

His x mark [signed: Moses Fay]


Sworn to and declared in open  }
court this eighth day of November }
1820 }
before me Ebenezer Lockwood, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Cattaraugus -

I Ebenezer Lockwood Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Cattaraugus do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the records of the said Court. And I do certify further, that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is twenty seven dollars & thirty seven cents. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the said Court on this twenty fifth day of November 1820
[signed: Ebenezer Lockwood, Clerk]
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Rev. &1812 Wars Section

July 13, 1926

Miss Mary P. Hill
434 Centre St.,
Jamaica Plain, Mass.

Madam:

I have to advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim W. 21086 it appears that Moses Fay enlisted at Newport, Rhode Island in the fall of 1779, served as a private in Captain [^ handwritten note: This was Joseph & not Benj. so I omit given name] Walker's Company, Colonel Samuel Webb's Connecticut Regiment, was in the battle of East Chester and was discharged in the fall of 1782.

He was allowed pension on his application executed September 21, 1819 while a resident of Olean, Cattaraugus County, New York aged fifty-seven years. He died March 11, 1842 in Hinsdale, Cattaraugus County, New York.

Soldier married October 6, 1785 in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, Massachusetts, Mary Hagar of said Shrewsbury (he  then of Bennington, Vermont.) She was allowed pension on her application executed June 19, 1843 while a resident of Farmersville, Cattaraugus County, New York aged eighty-one years. [handwritten note: date of her death in claim not correct- her claim was made afterwards/after alias]

Soldier's son Jarvis was living in 1856. The name Lam-
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[from here]
bert Fay does not appear in said papers. The names Gershom Fay (in whose stead a part of soldier's service was rendered) and Nancy Fay appear, but no relationship is stated.
[to here is a handwritten note: This par. for this inquirer only]

Respectfully,
WINFIELD SCOTT
Commissioner.


[handwritten]
I looked at the claims of the other Moses Fay of [or?] Moses Foye so [to] see if there was any mix ups, on account of date of her death, but found nothing- 
Date of her death not on AB
[end handwritten note]
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[left hand page]
1926 - July 13- Hist to Miss Mary P.
Hill Mass?
1926. E.F Fay ad. Mar-
age & have to get widows
death.
1927 - Mch 23 [illegible] date Mary P [illegible]


[right hand page]
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 21,086

Mary Fay
Wid. of
Moses Fay
Priv. Rev. War.
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Act: March 3d 1843
Index: -- Vol. A, Page 228
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Payable semi-annually. The first
payment on this Certificate will be
made on the 4th of March
next, in the City of New York
at the Branch Bank
of the United States

[illegible last line]
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War Department

REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.

I CERTIFY that, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the [illegible, paper damaged] Moses Fay late a private in the Army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the New York Agency, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the twenty first day of September one thousand eight hundred and nineteen.

GIVEN at the War Office of the United States, this thirteenth day of October one thousand eight hundred and nineteen

[signed: J C Calhoun]
Secretary of War.
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[left side page]
[written vertically]
9,217
July 13, 1843.

[round stamp: NY. FRANKLINVILLE]

Mary Fay
July 7, 1838,
NY
[end vertical writing]

[stamp: FREE]

Meoses, [Moses,] 18

[right side page]
J.L. Edwards Esqr.
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City.
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Sir enclosed I send an application for the widow Mary Fay for half pay or Pension agreeable to an act of Congress passed July 7th 1838 together with the pension certificate of Moses Joy her late husband and the certificate of the Town Clerk of the Town of Shrewsbury County of Worcester State of Massachusetts with the affidavit of the Justice & the certificate of the County Clerk of the County of Worcester State of Massachusetts which I suppose is sufficient to entitle her to the benefit of said act passed July 7 1838 if there should be any defect please inform me as she is really needy and has no connections or livings able to support her without taking from them what they really need and you will much oblige an old & respectable lady.

Yours Respectfully
[signed: Isaac Carpenter]

JL Edwards Esqr.
Commissioner of Pensions

if it should be necessary for her to an agent thus or send any further proof please inform me

Franklinville July 10th 1843
Cattaraugus Co. N.Y.
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Rept Sept 20

7679

New York
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Mary Fay
widow of Moses Fay who was a pensioner under the Act of 1818 and who died on the 11th March 1842 of Cattaraugus in the State of New York who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain [blank] of the Regt. commanded by Col. Webb in the Conn line for 10 months

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Inscribed on the Roll of Albany at the rate of 33 Dollars & 33 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day March, 1836.

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Certificate of Pension issued the 20th Sept 1843 and sent to Isaac Carter Franklinville New York

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Whole amount due ... $166.65

[Act July 7, 1838.]

Recorded by Thos. Sumpkin, Clerk,
Book A Vol. 2 Page 78
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[stamp in black ink: FRANKLINVILLE NOV 13]

[written vertically from right to left]
4841

Nov. 19, 1843
Mary Fay
March ?/43
$33.33
NY

To the Pension at [agent?]
Franklinville
N. York

4841
[end vertical writing]

J.L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C.
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STATE OF NEW YORK, }
County of Cattaraugus } ss.

On this Sixth day of November in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-three before the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid personally appeared Mary Fay a resident of the town of Farmersville in said county, aged Eighty one years who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on her oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed on the 3d of March 1843, granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the revolutionary war:

That she is the widow of Moses Fay Deceased late of the town Hinsdale in the County of Cattaraugus and State of New York

She further declares that she was a Pensioner of the United States under the act of Congress, passed July 7, 1838, and that the annual amount of the pension which she received under the said act was thirty three dollars thirty three cents

She further declares that she is still a widow, and that she has not been married to any person since the death of her husband Moses Fay

her X mark
[signed: Mary Fay]

Sworn to and subscribed on the day }
and year first above written. }
[signed: Tilly Gilbert J. Peace]
[signed: Nancy Fay]


I Certify that the above declarant is personally known to me.
[signed: Tilly Gilbert J Peace]

I certify that the Pensioner has lost the use of her right hand which is the reason she does not write her name
[Signed Tilly Gilbert J.P]


STATE OF NEW YORK, }
County of Cattaraugus } ss.

I, George W. Gillet
clerk of
said county, do hereby certify that Tilly
Gilbert Esqr was on the day of the date of the above jurat and certificate, a Justice of the Peace in and for the said county, duly appointed and qualified, and that the signature above, purporting to be his, is genuine.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my seal of office and subscribed my name, this Eleventh day of November 1843
[signed: George W. Gillet Clerk]
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4993
Case of Moses Fay
James Brooks
Judge?
Cattaraugus Co. N. Yk.
[illegible] Oct. 7, 1819.
Active?
on Roll
in this place of
Gershom Fay
July 1, 1780 - to April 19th 1781
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[written vertically from left to right]
Oct 17, 1843
Mary Fay
N.York 38

ansd. by 4th paragraph
of New Circular
Oct 18, 1843

[end vertical writing]

[round stamp in black ink: FRANKLINVILLE N.Y.]
[stamped in black ink: FREE]

Hon. J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C.
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Franklinville Cattaraugus Co. N.Y. Oct 9th 1843
J. L. Edwards Esqr 
Drssir [Dear Sir] Mary Fay Widow of Moses Fay late of the town of Hinsdale has received a Pension certificate from which she is to receive $33.33 per annum, her husband received $96 per annum. we cannot account for her certificates being less then the [one?] [^half] of what her husband drew. will you write us the reason she is not entitled to forty eight dollars pr annum. please direct to the Subscribed.

am oblige your O.B.D. Servt. Tilly Gilbert
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No 9211.
Mary Fay
NYork
Act July 7th 38
Admd.
10 mo
priv
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$33.33
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Isaac Carter Esqr
Franklinville
New York
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A. Patterson
Oct 27/56
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Pension Office
October 27 1856

1843

Sir

I do not find that any application has been made by any one for additional pay to the representatives of Mary Fay deceased widow of Moses, of NY. nor does it appear that any is due.

A. Patterson Esqr.
Olean
NY
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State of NY

Olean Oct 13th 1856
Minton Commissioner on
Pentions [Pensions]

Dr Sir

at the request, of Jarvis Fay permit me to ask you, what has been done, by Mres. [Messr.]  Cary & Tallent in regard to the Pention [pension] or land claim for services of his father Revolutionary Soldier, of the Connecticut line. Said Cary & Tallent made application to your office for additional lands, back pay or something else. you will please inform me of the probable success, Report if any &c, & Return to me a Scedully [schedule?] of the amount of the said Soldier's, claim issued by Commissioner Edwards in AD 1819 or 1820. the same being sent by, Cary & Co

please let me here [hear] from you soon
[signed: A. Patterson]
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Sir
Moses Fay, Drew a pention [pension] I.E. that is the soldier's name his wifes Name is Mary Fay. She Drew a pention [pension] up to her death which was 20 June 1842 *

Yours truly
[signed: A. Patterson]

* [note: Error due applied for pension June 19, 1843]
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Rev.&1812 Wars Section

March 23, 1927

Mary P. Leland
602 1/2 Washington St.,
Olean, New York.

Madam:

I have to advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim W. 21088 it appears that Moses Fay enlisted at Newport, Rhode Island in the fall of 1779, served as a private in Captain Walker's Company, Colonel Samuel Webb's Connecticut Regiment, was in the battle of East Chester and was discharged in the fall of 1782.

He was allowed pension on his application executed September 21, 1819 while a resident of Olean, Cattaraugus County, New York aged fifty-seven years. He died March 11, 1842 in Hinsdale, Cattaraugus County, New York.

Respectfully,
WINFIELD SCOTT
Commissioner.
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Rev. & 1812 Wars Section.

Nov. 3, 1926.

Elton F. Fay.
428 3d. St.
San Francisco, Calif.

Sir:
I have to advise you, that in the Revolutionary War pension claim, W. 21086 of Mary, widow of Moses Fay, the date of her birth is not on record. She was married October 6, 1785, at Shrewsbury, Massachusetts to Moses Fay. and she was eighty-one years old when she applied for pension in 1843. Miss Hill was advised of these two facts in the Bureau letter of July 13, 1926.

For the date of last payment of her pension and date of her death, you should apply to the Civil Division, General Accounting Office, Washington, D.C. citing all of the following data. Mary, widow of Moses Fay, Certificate 4457, issued January 17, 1844, rate $33.33 per annum, commenced March 4, 1843, Act of March 3, 1843, Albany, N. Y. agency.

Respectfully,
[signed: Winfield Scott]
WINFIELD SCOTT,
Commissioner.
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Revolutionary War of 1812
Section 3-1865

CABLE ADDRESS
"DOANEMO"

DOANE MOTOR TRUCK
COMPANY
MANUFACTURERS
LOW-BED MOTOR TRUCKS
428 THIRD STREET
SAN FRANCISCO CALIF.
August 30, 1926



Department of Interior
Bureau of Pensions
Washington, D. C.

Attention Commissioner:

Gentlemen:
Referring to your letter of July 13, 1926, addressed to Miss Mary P. Hill, can you, from your records furnish dates
of birth, marriage, and death of Mary Hagar, wife of Moses Fay, Revolutionary War pension claim W- 21086.

Your reply with requested information will be greatly appreciated,

Very sincerely,
[signed: Elton F. Fay]

E F FAY: GM
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Box 68, Topsham Maine
June 23-1926

To the Commissioner of Pensions

Dear Sir:-
Will you kindly give me what data you have in your office regarding a Revolutionary War Soldier,
Moses Fay ?

He was a pensioner in 1840 resided in Hinsdale New York
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Cattaraugus Co.
a private in the Conn. Line


Des.
July 13, 1926
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Whatever you may have of dates names or other information regarding this Moses Fay who was in the Conn. Line - will be appreciated, as will also an early reply.

I am very truly yours,
(Miss) Mary Pelham Hill
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TOPSHAM-BRUNSWICK CHAPTER
DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION

[logo: DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION] 
MAINE


434 Centre Street
Jamaica Plain
Mass.

May 3, 1926
Dear Sir:
Will you kindly give me all the information which you may have at your office concerning a Revolutionary War Pensioner, viz.- Moses Fay, private in Conn. line

resided Hinsdale N.Y.
Cattaraugus County

Is his son Lambert spoken of in the records in any way?

I am trying to establish a line to him and will be most thankful for all information that may be in your possession.

I am very truly yours
(Miss) Mary Pellen Hill
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Olean N.Y.

Mar /81.

Jas. Bentley Commissioner of Pensions.

Dear Sir,
Please write & give me full information in regard to pension money allowed & paid By the Government for Jarvis Fay, the only surviving heir of Moses Fay who served in the Revolutionary War. The claim was
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Precented [Presented?] between the 
years of 1853 & 1857.

Very Respectly [Respectfully] Yours
Mrs. Le. G. Cook
Olean
Call [Cattaraugus] Co.
N.Y.