Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 19048, for Moses Quimby, New Hampshire
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(8-1776)

Quimby, Moses
or Quinby

SERVICE
N.H.

NUMBER
S.19048

Carded

CONTENTS
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Vermont 18.669

Moses [strikethrough] Quinby[/s], Quimby

of Essex co. in the State of Vermont who was a private in the Compy commanded by Captain Hutchinson, of the Regt commanded by Col Reed in the N.H.Ma the for 20 months

Enscribed on the Roll of Vermont, at the rate of 66 Dollars 66 Cents per annum [to] commence on the 4th day of March 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 24 day of Sept 1833 and sent to claimant Lunenburg Vt.

Arrears to the 4th of Sep. '33 $166.65
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Mar '36 33.33

$199.98

{Revolutionary Claim
Act June 7, 1832}

Recorded by Ele Brown clerk,

Book E. Vol. 3. Page 86
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72Ch
Vt
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Declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the act of Congress of the 7th June 1832
State of Vermont,
Essex County ss, On this 15th day of August AD 1832

Personally appeared in open Court before the Hon. Williams Gates judge of the Court of Probate within and for the County of Essex in the district of Essex and State of Vermont now sitting. Moses Quinby, a resident of the Town of Lunenburg in the County of Essex and State of Vermont aged seventy six ^ years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress AD June 4th 1832 that he enlisted in the service of the United States under the following [...] officers and served as herein stated.

That the first part of May AD 1775 he enlisted in the town of Hampsted in the State of New Hampshire in a company commanded by Capt Hezekiah Hutchin's in Col James Reeds Regiment of the New Hampshire [...] for the time of Eight months immediately march to Mistic in Massachussetts and Bunker Hill that the Regiment was belonging to Gen Sullivans Brigade. he was at the battle of Bunker Hill was wounded by a musket ball in the shoulder in that Battle was carried to Cambridge and from thence to Mistic has little other he recovered he again joined the said Company which was there stationed on Winter Hill That he served in sd Company & Regt the full term of his enlistment which was eight months but cannot tell precisely the day of his enlistment [... ] Says he never received any written discharge. That the above service was in the Continental troops - he then returned home at Hampsted and the next year he came to Northumberland in the upper Coos in said State of New Hampshire where he resided untill AD 1778 and in the month of April 1778 he enlisted in sd Northumberland in to a Company commissioned [...] by Capt Luther Richardson in Col Timothy Bedels Regt New Hampshire State Troops raised for the defense of the frontier on Connecticut ^River for the term of one year. That he was stationed at Haverhill in the State of New Hampshire and served in sd Company & Regt one full year. That he was born as he has been informed in Kingston New Hampshire in the ^year 1757 and has been told that his birth is [...] in that town That in the year 1781 he ran away to Lunenburg where he now resides That he has no documentary evidence? and that he knows of no person who can testify to his service in the year AD 1775. he has the deposition Maj's James Lucas & Elijah Blodgett as to the service in Col Bedels Regt which are herewith transmitted
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he hereby reliquishes any claim ... ... ... or annuity except the present and ... that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State. Sworn and subscribed this day and year above said 

Moses Quimby

Mr Jeremiah Glines & Clergyman ... in Lunenburg in the County of Essex and State of Vermon[t] and Geo Carlton residing in the same Lunenburg hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Moses Quimby who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be 75 years of age That he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion

Sworn and subscribed the day and year above said

Jeremiah Glines
Geo. Carleton

And the court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after ... the ... ... proscribed by the War Department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states. ... the Court further certifies that it appears to them that ... ... Glines who has signed the preceeding certificate is a clergyman resident in the town of Lunenburg in the County of Essex and State of Vermont and that George Carleton who has also signed the same is a resident in said Lunenburg and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit

WM Gates, Judge

J William Heywood ... Register of the Court of Probate within and for the District of Essex in the County of Essex and State of Vermont do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Moses Quimby for a pension.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 15th day of August in the year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Thirty Four.

William Heywood ... Register
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State of Vermont & Essex County

I William Gates [...] of the County Court within and for the County of Essex do hereby certify that William Gates [...] before whom the within Declaration of Moses Quimby was taken & sworn to in the Judge of the Probate Court within and for the District of Essex in sd County of Essex and that his name hereto subscribed is his genuine signature

In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and office in the seal of sd Court of L[Lunenburg ...] County this 20th day of August AD 183[illegible]
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May 14, 1940.

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BA-J/ADY
Moses Quimby,S.19048

Mrs. Howard E. Berg
1620 Oneida Street
Utica, New York

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter addressed to The National Archives, in which you request the Revolutionary War record of Moses Quimby. Your letter has been referred, for reply,to the Veterans Administration, custodian of Revolutionary War pension claims.

The data contained herein were obtained from the papers on file in the Revolutionary War pension claim, based upon the military service in that war of Moses Quimby.

Moses Quimby was born in 1757, in Kingston, New Hampshire. The day and month of his birth and names of his parents are not shown.

While a resident of Hampstead, New Hampshire, he enlisted the first part of May 1775, served eight months in Captain Hezekiah Hutchins' Company, Colonel James Reed's New Hampshire Regiment and was in the battle of Bunker Hill,where he was wounded by a musket ball in his shoulder. In 1776, he moved to Northumberland, Grafton County, later Coos County, New Hampshire, and while living there enlisted in April 1778, and served one year as private in Captain Luther Richardson's Company, Colonel Timothy Bedel's Regiment.

In 1781 he moved to Lunenburg, Vermont.

He was allowed pension on his application executed August 15, 1832, while a resident of Lunenburg, Essex County,Vermont.

There are no family data.

In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension,the name of person paid and possibly the death date of soldier,you
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should apply to the Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division,Washington, D.C., and site the following data: "Moses Quimby, certificate No.[illegible], issued September 24,1833, rate $66.66 per annum, commenced March 4, 1831, Act of June 7, 1832, Vermont Agency.

Very truly yours

A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator
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October 2, 1934.

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BA-J/ady
Moses Quimby,S.19048
Garsham Boston,W.20739

Mr. Elden B. Hartshorn
11 North Balch Street
Hanover, New Hampshire

Dear Sir:

Reference is made to your letter in which you request the records of Gershom Boston and Moses Quimby, soldiers of the Revolutionary War.

Their records are furnished you herein as found in the respective claims for pension based upon service in the Revolutionary War.

Moses Quimby,S.19048

Moses Quimby was born in 1757 in Kingston, New Hampshire. The day and month of his birth and the names of his parents are not shown.

While a resident of Hampstead, New Hampshire, he enlisted the first part of May 1775, served eight months in Captain Hezekiah Hutchins' Company, Colonel James Reed's New Hampshire Regiment and was in the battle of Bunker Hill where he was wounded by a musket ball in his shoulder. In 1776 he moved to Northumberland, Grafton County, later Coos County, New Hampshire, and while living there enlisted in April 1778 and served one year as private in Captain Luther Richardson's Company, Colonel Timothy Bedel's Regiment.

In 1781 he moved to Lunenburg, Vermont.

He was allowed pension on his application executed August 15, 1832 while a resident of Lunenburg, Essex County, Vermont.

There are no family data.

In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, the name of person paid and possibly the date of soldier's death, you should apply to the Records Division,General Accounting Office, Washington, D. C., and cite the following
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data;

"Moses Quimby, Certificate No. 18669, issued September 24, 1833, rate $66.66 per annum, commenced March 4, 1831, Act of June 7, 1832, Vermont Agency".

Garsham Boston W.20739

The date and place of birth of Garsham the name is also shown as Gershom Boston,and the names of his parents are not stated.

While a resident of Wells, York County, Massachusetts, he enlisted in March 1776 and served as private in Captain Samuel Sawyer's Company, Colonel Paterson's Massachusetts Regiment; length of service one year.

About 1799 he moved from Wells, Massachusetts(Maine), to Lunenburg, Vermont.

He was allowed pension on his application executed April 17, 1818 while a resident of Lunenburg, Essex County, Vermont, and aged sixty-one years.

In January 1830 he was living with his son, his name not designated, in Jefferson, Coos County, New Hampshire. In December 1830 he was residing with his son, Samuel Boston, his age not stated, in Wolcott, Vermont.

Soldier died August 22, 1833 in Lunenburg, Vermont.

Soldier married May 19, 1785, Dorcas Cheney or Chaney. Their marriage was recorded on the records of the First Congregational Church of Kennebunk, York County, Main. In 1785, both were of Wells, Massachusetts.

Soldier's widow, Dorcas Boston, was allowed pension on her application executed January 15, 1839, at which time she was aged sixty-nine years and a resident of Lunenburg, Vermont.

In 1820 soldier's children, Polly was aged eighteen years, Joseph, sixteen, his son Orange, ten, and Irene was eight years old.

In 1839 Joseph Cheney or Chaney, aged fifty-nine years, a nephew of the widow, was a resident of Lunenburg,
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Vermont, having moved there from Wells, Maine, about 1789. There are no further family data.

In order to obtain the data of last payment of pension, the name of person paid and possibly the date of the widow's death, you should apply to the Records Division, General Accounting Office, Washington, D. C., and cite the following data:

"Dorcas Boston, widow of Garsham Boston, Certificate No.2366, issued October 23, 1843, rated $36.66 per annum, commenced March 4, 1843, Act of March 3, 1843, Vermont Agency".

Very truly yours

A. D. HILLER
Assistant to Administrator.
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MRS. HOWARD E. BERG
1620 ONEIDA ST.
UTICA, N. Y.

April 1 1940

Mr. P. M. Harner
Division of Reference
National Archives
Washington D.C.

Dear Sir,

Will you kindly send me anything of a genealogical nature you may have concerning Moses Quimby, revolutionary pensioner from the State of N.H. which in Lunenburg VT in 1840. I am trying to prove that this man was not my ancestor and if I could obtain the names of his parents, wife or children it would be a great help. Thanking you in advance I am

Very truly yours

Allyne {Allyce?] Tanner Berg

MOSES Quimby

[stamp] RECEIVED APR 8 1940 [...] SUB-DIV Reader No 11 VETS ADM

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APR 6 1940

Mrs. Howard E. Berg
1620 Oneida Street
Utica, New York

My dear Mrs. Berg:

This is in reply to your letter of April 1, 1940, requesting genealogical information concerning Moses Quimby, who served in the Revolutionary War.

The pension records of veterans of the Revolution are in the custody of the Veterans' Administration, Washington, D. C., and we are therefore referring your request to that office.

Very truly yours,

V. G. Setser, Acting Chief
Division of Reference

EB/gb
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Division of Reference

REFERRAL SLIP

DATE _APR 6 1940_

[IN]QUIRY FROM:

Mrs. Howard E. Berg
1620 Oneida Street
Utica, New York

DATED: April 1, 1940

SUBJECT: Genealogical information concerning Moses Quimby, who served in the Revolutionary War

[stamp] RECEIVED APR 8, 1940 [...] SUB-DIV Reader No. 11 VETS ADM

RESPECTFULLY REFERRED TO:

Veterans' Administration
Washington, D. C.

[signature] P.M. Harner
CHIEF DIVISION OF REFERENCE
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[stamp] RECEIVED SEP 15 1934 MAIL SUB-DIV VETS. ADM. READER 22

11 N. Balch St.,
Hauver, N.H.
Sept 13, 1934

Veterans Bureau,
Div. of Revolutionary Pension Records,
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir:

I am trying to get information about those Revolutionary soldiers who settled and lived in Lunenburg, Vermont. In some cases, I believe, such soldiers who were eventually pensioned filed considerable information about themselves with the Pension Office.

In the cases of the two following soldiers:

Gershom Boston ^ or (Baston)- Essex Co., VT. Pensioned under Law of 1818.

Moses Quimby - Essex Co., VT.- On U.S. Pension Roll of 1835.

I should like to know whether the papers on file in your office give any information regarding their parentage, dates of birth, places of residence before going to Vermont, names of wives with date and place of marriage, lists of children with dates of birth and date and place of death of the pensioner.

I wish to locate all Revolutionary soldiers who resided in Lunenburg, VT., for the purpose eventually of incorporating the information in a listing of this town. I shall be very grateful for any information you can give me concerning these two men.

Very truly yours

Elden B. Hartshorn
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Secretary of War

Pension Office
Washington City

Lunenburg Vt

June 15
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J L Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions

[stamp] EE

Mr. Moses Quimby
Lanenburgh Vermont

[stamp] MAY 28 WASHINGTON
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I Samuel Gates of Lunenburg in the County of Essex and State of Vermont testify and say that I have been acquainted with Moses Quimby of sd Lunenburg for more than forty years and I have uniformly understood by him that he served in the Continental army of the Revolution for the term of eight months in the year 1776 also was in the battle of Bunker Hill where he was wounded by a musket ball I have also generally understood that he served one year at Hauverhill N.H. in Col Timothy Beidel's Regt. N.H. State troops. I have always considered Mr. Quimby a man of truth and veracity and never had myself or heard any one express a doubt but what he served as a solider of the Revolution as he stated when I first became acquainted with him I saw his wound on his shoulder and he there told me that he received that by a musket ball at the battle of Bunker Hill.

Sam.l Gates

State of Vermont
Essex County p At Lunenburg August 15th 1832 Personally appeared Samuel Gates whose name is subscribed here to the above affidavit and made solemn oath that the fact therein contained are true

[...] Wm Gates Just Peace

I certify that the above named Samel Gates is considered appearance of truth veracity

WM Gates Just Peace
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State of Vermont
Essex County ps

I William Gates Clerk of the County Court within and for the County of Essex aforesaid do hereby certify that Wm Gates says before whom the ammended affidavits of James Lucas & Saml Gates was taken & sworn to in a justice of the Peace within and for the County of Essex and that his name thereto subscribed is his genuine signature

In testimony [...] of J Lucas hereunto subscribed my name and office [...] this seal of P Court of at Lunenburg this 20th day of August AD 1832

Wm Gates Clerk
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I Elijah Blodgett of Guildhall in the County of Essex and State of Vermont depose and say that I was a private soldier in Col Timothy Beatle's Regiment from New Hampshire in the year 1778 I belonged to a Company commanded by Luther Richardson and served in his Company one full year. I further depose and say that Moses Quimby then of Northumberland in the County of Grafton (now Coos) ^ Vermont and now a resident in Lunenburg in the County of Essex and State of Vermont was a private solider in said Richardsons Company and served with me in said Richardson's Company during the whole period I served therein. Mr. Quimby is an aged man I should think his age 76 or 77 years.

Elijah Blodgett

State of Vermont
Essex County ss. July 26th AD 1832 then personally affirmed the above man Elijah Blodgett and made solemn oath that the above affidavit by him subscribed is true

Before me. J L Wells Jus Peace

I further certify that I am well acquainted with the above mand Elijah Blodgett and should give full credit to this statement in relation to any matter whatever

JL Wells Jus Peace
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State of Vermont, William Gates Clerk of the County Court Essex County ss within and for the County of Essex do hereby certify that John S Wells [...] before whom the within affidavit of Elijah Blodgett was taken + sworn to is a justice of the Peace within and for the County of Essex [...] and that his name thereto subscribed is his genuine signature

Elijah Blodgett off.

In testimony whereof I have hereto subscribed my name and affixed the [...] of sd Court of Lunenburg in said County this 20th day of August AD 1832 WM Gates Clerk
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P 19048

INVALID

File No. _19048_
_Moses Quimby_
_Pri Rev War_

Act: _June 7th 32_
Index:-Vol. _1_, Page _306_

(Arrangement of 1870.)

1934 Oct. 2. Hist. to Elden B. Hartshorn AVY
1940 May 14 Hist to Mrs. Howard E. Berg AVY
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I James Lucas of Stratford in the County of Coos and State of New Hampshire testify and say that I am well acquainted with Moses Quimby now residing in Lunenberg in the County of Essex and State of Vermont and that in the year AD 1778 + 79 I was paymaster in a Regt commanded by Col Timothy Bedel raised for the defence of the frontier on and adjacent to Connecticut River called New Hampshire State troops our head quarters were at Haverhill in the State of New Hampshire in a Company commanded by Capt Luther Richardson in sd Bedel's Regt. I think and verily believe that said Quimby enlisted in the month of April AD 1778 and continued to serve in said Regt as a private for the term of one year I frequently saw sd Quimby during the year was well acquainted with him there and have been acquainted with him ever since and never had any doubt but what he served in sd company + Regt one full year as above stated.

James Lucas

State of Vermont
Essex County ss

At Guildhall on this 13th day of August 1832 personally appeared.

James Lucas who subscribed the above affidavit and made solemn oath that the facts herein contained are true before me WM Gates Just Peace

I hereby certify that I am well acquainted with the above named James Lucas and that he is a credible person + his statement is entitled to merit.

WM Gates Just Peace
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State of Vermont
Essex County ss

I Wm Gates Clerk of the County Court within and for the County of Essex do hereby certify that Wm Gates before whom the within affidavit of James Lucas was taken and sworn to was on the 13th day of August AD 1832 and [...] still is a Justice of the Peace within and for said Essex County and I believe his name thereto subscribed is his genuine signature.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said Court this 4th day of June AD 1833

WM Gates Clerk