Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 43005, for David Moore, New York
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Service - New York
Moore, David 
Number - S. 43005
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15.863 
New York R 
David Moore of Cincinnatus in the State of N. York who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Livingston of the N. York line, for the term of 3 years. 

Inscribed on the roll of N. York at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence 16th of April 1818 – 

Certificate of Pension issued the 25th of Novr 1819 and sent to Stephen Phelps Esqr Canandaigua N. York 

Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1819 -16 19/30 132.26 
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Mar. 1820  40.00 
[totals] $180.26 
{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818.} 
Courtlandt Co
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State of New York 
County of Cortland ss }  David Morine being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he is a Resident Citizen of the town of Cincinnatus in said County of Cortland And that this deponent in the year Seventeen hundred and Seventy Six Enlisted into the continental Army into the company commanded by William Jackson which company belonged to a Regiment commanded by Col Henry Livingston in the York line for one year and served his year out faithfully and obtained an honorable discharge from the same but the discharge was not in writing Afterwards about a month after said discharge. And in the year Seventeen hundred and seventy seven this deponent again entered into a company commanded by Andrew Rickey belonging to the aforesaid Regiment commanded by Henry Livingston for the term of three years and served faithfully during the whole of said three years and was then honorably discharged from the same by a Major [illegible] who belonged to the said Regiment but his discharge was not in writing. And this deponent further says that his circumstances are so reduced that he needs the assistance of his Country to support him 
[signed] David Morine  + his mark
Subscribed and sworn this Sixteenth day of April Eighteen Hundred and eighteen Before me 
[signed] John Ballard Judge of Courtland Comm pleas
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State of New York 
Ontario County } ss  On this first day of June 1819. before me Stephen Phelps a Judge of Ont Com. Pleas Personally appeared David Mooer [or Moore?] the afore said applicant who being by me duly sworn deposeth and Saith that Judge Ballard who took the above declaration Mistook his name that his name is David Mooer not Morine and further saith not 
[signed] David Mooer x his mark
Sworn to and Subscribed the day and year aforesaid before me 
[signed] Stephen Phelps a Judge &c

I Certify by Satisfactory proof that David Mooer the aforesaid applicant is in very indigent circumstances and in need of the assistance of his Country for support 
[signed] Stephen Phelps a Judge of Ont Com pleas 

The Honorable Secretary of War if my claim an allowed will please to forward a certificate thereof to Stephen Phelps Esqr of Canandaigua who is authorized to receive the same as I Now reside in Ontario County 
[signed] David Mooer + his mark
Myron Phelps
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State of New York 
Ontario County Clerks Office } ss  In Testimony that Stephen Phelps whose name is subscribed to the foregoing affidavits was on the day of the date thereof A Judge of Ontario Common pleas and that David Stout whose name is also subscribed to one of the foregoing affidavits was on the day of the date thereof a Justice of the peace in and for said County and that the same are their respective Signatures I hereunto subscribe my name and affix the County Seal at Canandaigua this 12th day of November 1819 
[signed] Himan Norton Dep. Clk
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State of New York
County of Cortland ss } I John Ballard Judge as aforesaid do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said David Morine did serve in the Revolutionary war as stated in the preceeding declaration against the common Enemy and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me to the Secretary of the Department of war pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress dated 18 March 1818 all which is respectfully submitted 
[signed] John Ballard

Clerks Office
Cortland County to wit 
I hereby certify that John Ballard Esq. whose signature appears to the within affidavit is now and has been for three years anterior to this time a judge of the Court of Common Pleas for said County his acts therefore, in that Capacity are to be Regarded as such and I further certify that his signature which appears to the within is his hand writing - Given under my hand and seal of said Court, this 16 May 1818 
[signed] Saml Hotchkiss Jr.  Dep. Clerk

David Morine

David Moore (Private)
Livingston Regt N. York Line
1777 for 3 years
16th April 1818 –
Stephen Phelps, Esq
Canandaigua
Ontario County N.Y.

Admitted

Further proof, by two credible witnesses as to his services is required and the Judge has not certified as to reduced circumstances of Applicant
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State of Newyork 
Ontario County } ss  On the Second day of June 1819 before me Stephen Phelps a Judge of Ontario Com. pleas Personally appeared Charles Finlay to me personally known to be a credible witness who being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he is personally acquainted with David Mooer whose application for a Pension is hereunto attached and that the Deponent served as a Private Soldier in the Revolutionary army for one year commencing in the Spring of the year 1776 in the company commanded by Capt. Wm Jackson in the Regiment commanded by Henry Livingston in the York line and that he well recollects that the said David Mooer served as a Private in the sd Company & Regiment for the aforesaid Term of one year with him the Deponent and further saith not 
[signed] Charles Finlay
Sworn and Subscribed the day and year aforesaid before me 
[signed] Stephen Phelps a Judge of Ont Com pleas
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State of New York
Ontario County

Personally appears David Dean
to me Known to be a credible witness who
being by me duly sworn deposeth & saith 
that he is 56 years old that he has been acquainted with David Moore whose declaration is hereunto attached for a number of years and 
that this deponant has no hesitation in saying
that the aforesaid David Moore served in the
Revolutionary Service for the time and service
as mentioned in his declaration and further
the deponant saith not
[signed] David Dean

Sworn to and subscribed 
this the 24 day of June 1819
before me
[signed] David Stout JP
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Case of
David Moore

15863

Mar '20
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STATE OF NEW-YORK,
ONTARIO COUNTY, SS,
On this nineteenth day of August 1820 personally appeared in open Court, (being
a Court of Common Pleas in and for said county, and constituted a Court of Record by proceeding according to course of the Common Law, with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, and keeping a record of its proceedings, and recognized as such Court by the laws and judicial decisions of said State,) David Moore aged sixty seven years, resident in the town of Perrinton in said county, who, being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare, that he served in the Revolutionary as follows:

April 1 - 1776 I enlisted for 1 year in Captain
Wm Jacksons company and Colonel Henry
Leverston [Livingston] Regiment _  I continued one year in said Regiment then I enlisted for three years under Major Andrew Taylor for three year in the same Service and that he made application for a Pension on the Sixteenth day of April 1818 and that
he received a Pension Certificate, No. 15863 And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and that I have not since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an 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," 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, viz.

1 cow   10.00
2 pots 2.00 __ 2 trammels 2.50  __ tea kettles 2 __ 1.50
6 plates .75 __  I bason $1 __1 bason .25 __ 2.00
                                                                $ 18.50
[signed] David Moor  X his mark

And I do further swear and do declare that I am a farmer - I am am not able to do but very little labour am inclined to falling sickness and other infirmities. My family Consists of my wife Tabitha __ she is fifty one years of age- she is inclining to a Consumption Complaint not able to an any thing

[signed] David Moore X his mark
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Sworn to and declared this 19th day of August 1820
in open court before me

Wm Rogers
A Judge of Ontario Common Pleas

ONTARIO COUNTY, [  ]

I, John Van Fossen Clerk of said county, do hereby certify,
that the foregoing Oath, and the Schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the
Record of the said Court; and I further certify, that it is the opinion of the said Court,
that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule, is
eighteen dollars and fifty cents.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court,
on this twenty second day of August AD 1820 

J Van Fossen  Clerk of the Court aforesaid, in and for said County.
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REVOLUTIONARY WAR RECORDS SECTION. 3-525
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
AF.43.005-
Washington, D. C. , , 19__
In reply to your request of _____________, , received ______________
for a statement of the military history of David Moore
a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired
information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pen-
sion on file in this Bureau.
DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT
Mch 1776  
1777

LENGTH OF SERVICE
1 year
3 years

RANK
Pvt.

OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.
CAPTAIN.
William Jackson
Andrew Rickey

COLONEL.
Henry Livingston
   "           "
STATE
N.Y.

Battles engaged in, ______________________
Residence of soldier at enlistment, ____________________
Date of application for pension, Apr 16.1818 His ch. was ali
Residence at date of application, Cincinnatus, Cortland Co N.Y.
Age at date of application, 65 yrs
no other data as to family
Remarks: In 1820 his wife Tabitha was 51 years old
Respectfully,

Commissioner.
6-2856
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State of New York
Sullivan County
John McLaughlin of the town of Wallkill County of Orange and State of New York being duly sworn deposeth and saith that this deponent served one year in Capt. William Jacksons company first under Col Clinton and afterwards first under the command of Henry Livingston or Henry B Livingston (this deponent not being certain which) from the spring of 1776 in March of that year as this deponent believes until the same time in the year 1777 in the New York line on the Continental establishment as this deponent always understood and believes. That this deponent was during said year well acquainted with one David Moore, said now to reside in Armenia, County of Cortland in said State. That the said David Moore served during the said year in said Company. That this deponent frequently saw said David Moore in said year doing military duty in said Company and verily believes that the said David Moore served out the year faithfully as such soldier and further saith not
[signed] Johnnie Laughlin
Sworn to this 2nd day of November 1819 before me
[signed] A Dimmick
Commissioner to take affts -

Sullivan County New York State ss  I certify that John McLaughlin above named personally appeared before me the subscriber on the 2nd day of November 1819 and made oath to the above affidavit and that he is a credible witness the subscriber having known him for several years and knows him to be reputed as a man of truth.
Nov 2nd 1819
[signed] A Dimmick
Commissioner &c
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State of New York
Sullivan County
S: I John P Jones Clerk of the County of Sullivan and Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in & for said county do hereby certify that Alpheus Dimmick whose name is subscribed to the Jurat of the within affidavit & certificate is commissioned & sworn as a commissioner & duly authorized by law to take affidavits And that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Alpheus Dimmick & verily believe the within "A Dimmick" to be his proper handwriting & signature.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court this fourth day of November AD 1819

[signed] J P Jones Clk

David Moore 
Proof
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1915 Oct 13 Hist. to Miss Dora
Landon
43005
Revy
INVALID.
File No.
43,005
David Moore
Ser Rev War
Act : 18 March 18"
Index :-Vol. 3, Page 346
[ Arrangement of 1870. ]
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Rev Ser
C

The Commissioner
Bureau of Pensions
Washington D.C.
Dear Sir: Will you Kindly
send me copies of the
pension records of the follow
ing Revolutionary Soldiers.
Benjamin Thorne 2d regt. US inf. 
New York County who was
placed on the pension roll
Dec. 3 - 1819

David Moore New York line
Placed on the pension roll
Nov. 25-1819
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Asa C Stewart, private 1812 1st regt. U. S. Rifles placed on pension roll July 18, 1817 and Elijah Sexton Ct. Cont’l placed on pension roll April 25, 1833 Statement of Chenango Co. 
Respectfully 
(Miss) Dora Landon 
Hempstead  L I – N Y

21 Columbia St.
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Rev. War Section.
October 13, 1915.
Miss Dora Landon.
21 Columbia Street,
Hempstead
Long Island, N. Y.
Madam:
In reply to your undated letter, received on
the 11" instant, you are advised that Benjamin Thorne
of the Second regiment U. S. Infantry in 1819, and
Asa C. Stewart who served in the War of 1812, were
pensioned for the above services and not for service
in the War of the Revolution.
Very respectfully,
Commissioner.