Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 25,966, Moses Weld, Mass.
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Mass.
Weld, Moses
Miriam
Number W. 25966
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10.822
Vermont
Moses Weld
of Orleans in the State of Vermont who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Martin of the Regiment commanded by Colonel Bigelow in the Massachusettsline, for the term of three years, from May 1777 to May 1780.
Inscribed on the roll of Vermont at the rate of eight Dollars per month, to commenseon the first day of January 1830.
Certificate of Pension issued the 26th of May, 1830 and sent to Hon. B. Swift.  H Refs.
Arrears to the 4th of March 1830           $209.03
Semi-Anu'l all'ce ending 4 Sept 1830     $48. ~    
                                                               $257.03

Revolutionary Claims,
Act March 18, 1818 [crossed out]
and May 1, 1820 [crossed out]
May 20 1830

Rec: Vol 4 Book
[?]  fol: 91

[handwritten on other side of fold]
Let. to [?] A Willard
April 7, 1840
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Burlington 5878?
Vermont
Miriam Weld
widow of Moses Weld
who was a Private,
in the Mass. Line,
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
80 Dollars 00
Cents per annum, to commence on
the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the
22 day of July 1844
and sent to
S.A. Willard Esq. 
Morrisville, Vermont
Act of March 3, 1843, and June 17 1844
Recorded in Book A
Vol. 1  Page 32

[on other side of fold, upside down]
Refs 22 July 1844
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Married Moses Weld and Miriam Harding
Sturbridge
for Joshua Paine, Clerk
I certify that the foregoing is a true copy of the record with the exception of the date which is expressed in the record in fair legible figures as follows  "May 14th 1781"

I Jacob Corey above named depose and say that I hold the office of Town Clerk in the Town of Sturbridge in the County of Worcester and State of Massachusetts and that the above is a true extract from the records of said town with the exception above named as certified by me.
Sturbridge Jan'y 10, 1840.  Jacob Corey, Town Clerk of Sturbridge.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Worcester fs[?]
January 10, 1840.  I know the above named Jacob Corey personally of the above ap_[?] & made oath to the truth of the certificate by him [_?] - I certify that I am well acquainted with the [_?] Corey that his character for truth is good.  Geo. Davis Jus Pais
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Worcester, [?]   I, Joseph G Kendall, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, within and for the County of Worcester, do certify, that George Davis, Esquire, is a Justice of the Peace, in and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified; and that his signature to the certificate on the ^other side of this paper, is in his own proper hand writing.
In tesitmony whereof, I hereto set my name and affix the seal of said court, at Worcester, this twenty seventh day of January, in the year 1840.
Jos. G. Kendall, Clerk
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Moses Weld
Declaration for Pension ~
SerV
77 to 80
Bigelows Mass 15 Reg

[in large script]
On Roll
Correct
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State of Vermont
Orleans County JS3[?]
On this twelfth day of May Anno Domini 1818 before me, Samuel Cook Esquire, one of the assistant judges of the County Court, within and for the County of Orleans, Personally appears Moses Weld, aged svnty one years  resident of Morristown in said County of Orleans who being by one duly sworn, according to Law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the provision 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 of the fifteenth day of May 1777 enlisted in a Company commanded by Capt Adam Martin of Massachusetts for the term of three years, which company was attached to a Regiment commanded by Col Timothy Bigelow of the Massachusetts Line and Continental [establishment?] that he served his term out and obtained his Honorable Discharge from his Col on the fifteenth day of May 1780 at Highlands in the State of New York    that he was in the battle of Harlem Heights, [transcriber note: muster has him at Saratoga], the battle of Monmouth under General Lee and at the battle of Rhode Island under General Sullivan and that he is [a?] [reversed?] [pensionner?] and stands in need of the assisstance of his County for support and that he has no other [evidence?] now in his power of his [said?] services, except what is [hen?] with transmittal. And the said maps hast hereto [submitted?] his name sworn to and declares before me the day and year of service. Moses Weld
Samuel Cooke, Judge Orleans County Clerk
I Samuel Cooke assisstant Judge of Orleans County Court as [afore_?] do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Moses Weld [did?] in the Revolutionary War as stated in the preceeding Declaration against the common merry[?] and snow[?] transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and heard before me to the Secretary of the War Department parsuent the Declaration of the Constitutional act of Congress - - 
Samuel Cooke Judge Orleans County Court
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I Samuel Cook Esq assistant judge of Orleans County Court do certify that the said Moses Weld   is in reduced circumstances and absolutely stands in need of the assistance of his country for support haveing but a little property; and ^w [?] and [?] family [?] and [?] belief merits [?] 
Samuel Cooke [?] Judge Orleans County Clerk

State of Vermont
Orleans County fs[?]  
I certify that the Hon Samuel Cook is an assistant Judge of the County Court of Orleans County and that the above is his signature.
Attica[?] M Allen, Clerk 
Notary Public

This certifieth, That Moses Weld Sargeant has served Three Years in the 15th Massachusetts Regiment, being the full Term of his Inlistment; has conducted himself as a good and faithful soldier, and is hereby discharged the service.
Given my Hand at Highlands, this 15th day of May 1780.
Tim. Bigelow, Col.
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Moses Wills
declaration,
Morristown, Orleans
County, Vermont
10.822
Hon S. C. Crafts
Sur_for McE.
Discond August
4. 1821 and sent to
Ira H Allen
Craftsbury, VT
Ira H Allen Clk
Orleans County VT
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State of Vermont
Orleans County
On this 28 day of June 1820, personally appeared in open
Court being a Court of Record for the said County of Orleans, by virtue of a statute law of the State of Vermont Moses Weld aged
sixty three years, resident in Morristown in said County who being first
duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he served in the
Revolutionary war as follows, that he enlisted May 15, 1777 for three years,
and served in Col. Timothy Bigelow's Regiment and Captain Adam Martins company of the Massachusetts line of troops and served untill the 15 day of May 1780 as will appear from his original declaration of the 12 day of May 1818 and that he has a pension certificate dated at the war office the sixth day of May 1819 number ten thousand eight hundred twenty two. And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18 day of March 1818 and have not since that time by gift sale or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent hereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provision 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 18 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 of property, I live on a lot of land containing 100 acres, log house, no barn, mostly in a state of nature and for which I have no title only by bargain not paid for I have one horse, one cow, and twelve sheep & one hog
Furniture no more than is really necessary, an old chest of drawers
2 old chests
1 [2 part?] iron kettle
1 bake pan broke
1 Tea kettle
1 iron skillet
1 Case knives and forks
4 pewter platters
2 Earthen pots
2 Milk pans
2 Earthen bowls
6 Earthen plates
2 pails,
1 Table
2 old chairs,
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1 [?]
1 hoe
1 Shovel
1 hammer
1 Sickel
Occupation  a farmer and on account of a cancer and other infirmities unable to do much labour.
Family,  my wife Miriam aged 60 years has ever been in low health unable to labour - Daughter Lucy aged 38 years wholly unable
to labour and has been for thirteen years, Cynthia aged thirty years has been sick for the last ten years. Matilda aged 19 years, not able to do much labour, two last mentioned
daughters have been supported mostly the year past by their friends. Hannah aged 24 years in common health.
I have notes against me in interest amounting to three hundred dollars, and twenty four cents, in many other demands against me fourteen dollars, and I have obligations against persons for three hundred dollars, without interest, payable in meat stock or grains, ^payable in three yearly payments of the first day of [?] $300.

Notes  $300.24
Int. 16.00
other demands 14.00
$330.24
Moses Weld

Sworn and declared in open Court this
28 day of June 1820.
William Howe Judge of Orleans County Court

I, Ira H Allen Clerk of Orleans, County Court 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 [for]? [the]? 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 ninety nine dollars, sixty three cents. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court on this 13 day of July 1820.
Ira H. Allen Clerk of this Court
of the County of Orleans
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Feb 14, 1840
Miriam Wild
6783
VT
7 July 1838
[M.S.]? d. 39
---
18 or 32
Sam. A. Willard
Morrisville, VT
Agent
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State of Vermont
Lamoille District [fs]?
At a Probate Court holden at
Morristown within and for
the District of Lamoille on the
4th day of February 1840.
Present the Hon Samuel A Willard Judge.
Personally appeared Miriam Weld
a resident of Morristown in the County of Lamoille
and State of Vermont aged Eighty years.  who being
first duly sworn, according to law, doth on her oath
make her declaration in order to obtain the benifit of
the provisions [made]? by the act of Congress passed July 7th 1838 entitled an act granting half pay and pensions
to certain widows. That she is the widow of Moses Weld late of Morristown in the County and district
of Lamoille aforesaid, deceased: and who at the time
of his deceased was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States
. She says that she can make no proof of the services
of her said husband otherwise than by referring to
the evidences in the War Department.
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She further declares that she was married to the Moses Weld on the 14th day of May (1781) in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty one - that her husband the aforesaid Moses Weld died on the 22 day of November 1839 - that she was not married to him prior to his by the service but the marriage took place previous to the first day of January Seventeen hundred and ninety four at the time above stated
Miriam Weld

Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written, and the affidavits hereto attached or herein written [even]? on the same day sworn to and subscribed and sworn to before me - and I certify that the said Miriam Weld and Hannah Weld and the said Lucy Weld are credible witnesses and that the said Miriam Weld made oath to and subscribed the foregoing declaration before me
Samuel A Willard Judge
In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of said Court and subscribed my name at Morristown in said District of Lamoille this 4th day of January 1840
Samuel A Willard Judge
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I Hannah Weld of Morristown in the County of Lamoille and State of Vermont, of lawful age certify and say that Miriam Weld, who has signed the forgoing declartion is the widow of Moses Weld, the person therein named, and that the said Moses Weld died at said Morristown on the 22nd day of November 1839 as therein stated and was at
the time of his decease a Revolutionary pensioner
Hannah Weld

I Lucy Weld of Morristown in the County of Lamoille and State of Vermont of Lawful age certify and say that Miriam Will who has signed the within declaration is the widow of Moses Weld late of Morristown
deceased, a pensioner, and that the said Moses Weld died on the 22d day of Novr 1839 - as therein stated
Lucy Weld
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O. W. and N. Division.   3 -- 525.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
Bureau of Pensions,
Washington, D. C., _____, 190__
In reply to your request of ___, received ___
for a statement of the military history of Moses Weld a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired
mation as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.
W. File v5.966
DATES OF
ENLISTMENT OR
APPOINTMENT.
May 15, 1777
Dis. May 15, 1780 at the Highlands, NY
LENGTH OF
SERVICE.
3 yrs.
RANK.
Sergt.
OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.
CAPTAIN.
Adam Martin
COLONEL.
Timothy Bigelow
STATE
Mass.
Battles engaged in, Harlem Hghts, Mon, R.I.
Residence of soldier at enlistment, [check mark]
Date of application for pension, May 12, 1818
Residence at date of application, Morristown Orleans Co. Vt.
Age at date of application, 61
Remarks: "Married, Moses Weld Jr. & Miriam Harding, Sturbridge Mass May 14, 1781"
Died. Nov. 22. 1839 Morristown, Vt.
Ms.appd Feby. 4. 1840 ae 80.
res Morristown, Lamoille Co. Vt
27225631 - 07
Very respectfully,
Commissioner.

1820 - wife Miriam 60, Lucy 38, Cynthia 30, Hannah 24 Matilda 19
Wife & 9 dau.
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10.022
Vermont
Moses Weld
of Orleans Co in the State of Vermont
who was a private in the regiment commanded by
Colonel Bigelow of the Massachusetts
line, for the term of 3 years
Inscribed on the Roll of Vermont
at the rate of 8
Dollars per month, to commence on
the 12 of May 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 6 of May 19
and sent to Judge Saml Cook
Orleans Co. Vermont
Arrears to 4th of March 1819
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Sep: 1819.
9 mos 24/31  78.19
                      48 -
                    $126.19
{Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818.}
Discontinued

Notifn Sent to J.H. Allen Esqr August 1821
Craftsbury Vt
Atty Genl
opinion sent
Novr 1. 1821,
as before
J. H. A.
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6783
VT
Rejected
Let. to Saml A. Willard,
April 7 1840. ┃
Act 7 July 38
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Vermont 7373
Miriam Weld
widow of Moses Weld
who was a pensioner under the Act of May 20, 1830
and who died on the 22d November 1839
of Lamoille Co. in the State of Vermont
who was a Private in the company
commanded by Captain Martin
of the
regt. commanded by Col. Begelow in
the Mass.
line for 2 years
Inscribed on the Roll of Burlington
at the rate of
80
Dollars
per annum, to commence on the 4th day
of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 29th day of
June 1843 and sent to Saml A.
Willard, Morristown, Vermont,
Arrears to the 4th of March 1841 $400 -
Semiannual allowance ending
-
-
[Act July 7, 1838]
Recorded by D. Brown, Clerk, 
Book A.  Vol. 2. Page 62

Reported
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WIDOW, &c.
File No. 25.966
Miriam Weld
Wid of
Moses Weld
Priv. Mass Line
Act Mar 3rd 1843
June 17th 1844
Index: Vol. W, Page 325
(Arrangement of 1870.]


1907 Apl. 4 to
Hon. Redfield Proctor
letter in S.F. 22,226
David Earle
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Moses Weld
a paper from the  War
department, [restating]? to his  case -
this day filed with
the papers of Z. Ross, to
whose case it's also [aps]?
-pertaining
Dec 24 1827.
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see letter 19 Dec 1827 to the H. R. Swift
See Letter to
Hon: S. C. Crafts,
H. R
March 24th, 1824,
[See]? 17 Jan 1825.
See letter to M. Crafts
April 20, 1825
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[The]?
Hon. J.C. Calhaun
Sectretary of the War department
City of Washington
Dist Columbia
[?]
Oct 11th

Edit: The following was written over and 90 degrees to the address above:

Mr E___
For reconsideration [?]
[?] 20 Octo 1821
Moses Weld
Sept 1819
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Vt
Moses Weld-
=
served 3 years from 1777.
=
63 years old-- Wife aged 60, and
4 daughter aged 38, 30, 24, 19 years
=
Real estate - 100 acres of land
and log house-- not valued
Sundry Household and plantation articles, not valued.
Notes and claims against
Sundry persons for $330,24
-
Report to Hon. S. C. Crafts
Edit:  "Craftsbury, VT" is crossed out with "H.R" written above it. 

Rejected Sep 1819
See letter to Mr Crafts
4 Decr 1822-
See letter to Hon S. C. Crafts
Craftsburg, Vermont,
April 10th 1823.
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Vt:
Moses Weld,
Seved 3 years from 1777.
63 years old- wife aged 60, and
4 daughter aged 38, 30, 24, and 19 yrs.
-
Edit:  The following crossed out:
Real estate, 100 acres of land
with a log house, which with
his personal property ___
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James L Edwards, Esquire
Pension Office
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Washington Mar. 23d 1824 -
Mr Edwards
I herewith transmit the declaration of Moses Weld of Morristown Vermont-  I will only say
that I am well acquainted with him, and know
that he is miserably poor - and hope there will
exist no further impediment to his being placed on the pension list-- He is a very honest and worthy man.  and formerly possessed a snug little property - but it has all gone in consequence of the mishap of himself and family - none of it for
extravagance of any kind
Very respectfully
yours    S C Crafts
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Letter from J. L. Edwards
to Samuel C. Crafts
March 24 1824
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War Department
Pension Office
March 24th 1824
Sir,
The papers forwarded by you in the case of Moses Weld, have been examined. The claim cannot be decided on, until the affidavits of his
creditors are exhibited to this Department. They should state under oath, the time at which the debts were contracted,-- for what articles of property, the time when they were paid, and in what way. The official character and signature of the magistrate, before whom the affidavits may be taken, should be certified by the proper officer under his seal
of office
I am, respectfully,
Your Obt. Servt.
J.L. Edwards


Hon. S. C. Crafts
House of Representatives
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Letter from J. L. Edwards
to Samuel C Crafts
March 24 1824
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War Department,
Pension Office,
July 8th 1822.

Sir,
Yours of the 17th ultimo, has been received. It
appears from our records, that your claim has been reconsidered, and that a letter for you, stating, that, agreeably to the opinion
of the Attorney General of the U.S. (a copy of which accompanied the letter), your name could not be restored to the Pension List, was addressed to the care of J.H. Allen, Esq. at Craftsbury, Vt. on the 1st of November last.
I am, respectfully,
Yr Obt Sert.
J.L. Edwards

Mr Moses Weld
Stow, Vt.
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Morrisville, Vt
May 18
J. L. Edwards Esqr
Pension Papers
Commissioner of Pensions
City of Washington D.C.

Edit: text written at 90 degrees;
May 22 '43
Vt.
M Weld
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Morristown, Vt. - May 18 1843
J L Edwards Esq
Sir I herein send the declaration
of Miriam Weld of Morristown in the County and District of Lamoille and State of Vermont Widow of Moses Weld late of the same place who died in 1839. Mrs Weld to infirm by reason of age and can give no relation of the services performed by her husband, but
refers to the evidence already in the department. I have known the family for fifteen years, was well acquainted with Mr Weld and know him to have been an honest & industrous man. He left but small pecuniary means for his widow and she is now
dependant on public or private charity for her subsistance. I hope she is entitled to a pension-
Direct your communication to me at Morrisville, Vt.

Yours with Respect  Samuel A Willard
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Mr Crafts
March 1823
---
James L Edwards Esquire
Pension office

Edit: Text upside-down;
April 10th 1823
C. Crafts, Craftsbury, Vt.
See letter to David
Send rules to
Sept 1839
Moses Weld
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Washington March 1, 1823
James L Edwards, Esquire
Sir, I wish to call your attention once more to the case of Moses Weld - His case ^& papers are before you and he has been stricken from the roll and by the decision of the Attorney General you have considered yourself unable to replace him-- Under the act now passed
there former difficulties are removed. He is a very honest and worthy man & very industrious-- while his health permitted to labor he was able to gain a comfortable living - but for a few years past he has become very infirm - and must inevitably be supported by his town if his pension is not restored. - His children who are females cannot support him-
I shall be very much gratified
if he can be restored to the list.
Yours very respectfully
Samuel C Crafts
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Mr Moses Weld
Morristown
Vermont
Craftsburt, Vt  19 May
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Letter from J. L. Edward
to Samuel C Croft
April 20th 1825
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War Department
Pension Office
April 20, 1823

Sir,
No further decision can be had on Moses
Weld's claim to be restored to the Pension List, until he shall have produced the testimony of his creditors, shewing the time at which the debts were contracted, for what articles of property-- the time when paid and
in what way. The manner of taking the testimony will be found in the regulations herewith enclosed.
I am, respectfully
Yr. obd. sevt.
J.L. Edwards

Hon: S. C. Crafts
Craftsbury.
Vermont
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No 6783
Miriam Weld.
Vermont
Act 7th July 38
M. '81 d.'39
Service on Rolls
Admitted
2 years
priv
$80 per An
Saml A Willard
Morristown
Vermont
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State of Vermont
District of Lamoille
County of Lamoille

At a Probate Court holden at Morristown within and for the District of Lamoille on this 29th day of April A D 1843
Present Hon Samuel A Willard Judge
Miriam Weld a resident of Morristown aforesaid personally appeared in open court, aged Eighty three years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benifit of the provisions made by an act of Congress passed at this last session granting Pensions to widows of certain persons who served in the revolution.
That she is the widow of Moses Weld
who was a private soldier in the Army of the Revolution, that she was married to the said Moses Weld after the services were
performed, and has no knowledge of the services only from information given her by her said husband. She further says that her
said husband was a Revolutionary pensioner at
the time of his death and that the evidence on which he obtained his pension [?] in the war department and in refund to in this can[?]
She further declares that she was duly married to the said Moses Weld on the 14th day of May AD. 1781 in the town of Sturbridge in the State of Massachusetts that the "come"[?] with her said husband to reside in Morristown aforesaid in 1811 or about that time, and has resided in said town eversince.  That her said husband the said Moses Weld died in said
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Morristown on the 22 day of November 1839 and that he is now the widow of the said Moses Weld.  
She further says that the applied for a pension in 1840 soon after the death of her said
husband but did not succeed and that the certificate of her marriage was then forwarded with her declaration and such proof as she then made and on now in the department and referred to -  Miriam Weld
Deposition[?]  April 29th 1843

Sworn to and subscribed before me
Samuel A Willard Judge

I Lucy Weld of Morristown in Lamoille County and State of Vermont do depon and say that the said Miriam Weld who has made
the aforesaid application for a Pension is my mother and the said Moses Weld named therein was my father - that the Moses Weld died the 22 day of Nov 1839 and was in his lifetime a Revolutionary pensioner and that my said mother is now the
widow of the said Moses Weld -
Lucy Weld
Sworn to and subscribed before me 
Samuel A Willard Judge
I Hannah Weld of Morristown aforesaid, depon and say that the aforesaid Miriam Weld is my mother and the said Moses Weld was my father and died at the time stated above in the
application and was at the time of his death a Revolutionary pensioner. We formerly lived in Sturbridge in Massachusetts came to Morristown in 1811 - Subscribed & sworn to before me Saml A WIllard Judge
Hannah Weld
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The aforesaid Declaration of the said Miriam Weld and the affidavit of Lucy Weld and the affidavit of Hannah Weld were all subscribed and sworn to before me and I certify that the said Miriam, Lucy & Hannah are all of
good reputation for truth and veracity.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the Seal of said Court and subscribed my name at the Probate office in Morristown in said District of Lamoille this 29th day of April 1843
Samuel A Willard Judge
State of Vermont
Lamoille District 
Be it remembered that at a Probate Court
holden at Morristown within and for said
district of Lamoille on the 29 day of April 1843
Hon Samuel A. Willard Judge of the Court of Probate being present, said Court does certify that it was most satisfactorily proved to said Court that Moses Weld late of Morristown in the County and District of Lamoille and State of Vermont, died at Morristown aforesaid on the 22d day of November 1839 and at the time of his death was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States, and that Miriam Weld now living in said Morristown is the lawful widow of the said Moses Weld deceased
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my
name and affixed the seal of said Court at
Morristown in said District this 29 day of April
AD 1843-
Samuel Willard Judge
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I is[?]
being called on by Mr. Moses Weld on his receiving your letter with the printed form & explanation there of, for some advice - after I had read the form & explanation- & the coppy of his schedule it appeared to me as it did at the War Office Defected  I ever under
stood that he had about thirty dollars due to him more than what he owed- but it did not appear so by by the coppy he handed me -  Mr. Weld said he believes the Mistake[?]
is in the coppy- he said that it is not possible for him to obtain the evidence required by the War Department for the following reasons- he has paid some Debt in the State of Massachusetts- & some in the State of New
Hampshire & that he is not able to go there by reason of infirmity. neither had he anything to bair the expense or pay others- also because being unable to pay the land which he had made a bargain for he was obliged to leave it-- his friends let him have the privilege of living in a piece of wild land, while he & his wife should live & after their Depeap[decease?] the betterments, were to be prised & the amount paid to those of his family that were not able to provide for themselves - that he had hired about 10 acres cut down-- he then made a bee his Neighbours went & cut up a part & he got some cut - & then again his Neighbours went & helped him pile logs & he hired some piled - & that he had hired a small House Built on the land & has got the outside of the House finished the chimney put up & a little done to the inside but is not able to finish- that he has been about half the time since his first Schedule was made out without a Cow that he has had milk at many places-  that the
account was not kept on paper and after settlement was not preserved- & some other work & thing reckoned and sitted without ever having been regularly entered on a Book- for the above reasons he feels discouraged-  being borne down by Age Infirmity
& Care his memory has greatly failed-- but what wounds him Most is to think that some of his Neighbours who had served but a little time in the war compared with what the time that he had served & for that time received ample compensation- receiving a pension ^when he was in poor circumstances [?] one half his property to support [?] enough [?] which he was denied.
The above statement I believe may be supported by ample Testimony but ^not in every particular agreeable to the Declaration as it is explained -   I was
surprised to find under such restriction that Mr
John Cole and obtained a pension- not long since I was conversing with Mr Cole's son who had his father property about his drawing a pension-  I told Harvey that
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I believed that one half of his father's property
was enough to support him-  he s.d he thought it was would it ^not be a wife[wise?] act in Congress if they should Strike every one from the pension list- & let those only be restored who in addition to the former evidence could obtain the testimony of the Select Men & Civil Authority of the Town in which they reside who generally know their circumstances-- but why restore any except those who have received Continental money- the ^first three years Men who Enlisted when the money was good-- when they received their pay it was of little or no value
Others who enlisted after did not suffer, they
were not disappointed but received their pay according to agreement & why they should receive a pension any more than those who have served in the Poste rupture is unknown to me--
I see no way that Mr. Weld can under the embarrassed circumstances he is in procure the evidence required I expect that he
will send on to the War Department an account of his situation & such Testimony as he is able to get- & if no representation in his favor can avail any thing- & he cannot
strictly comply with the requirements he
must fail-- Mr Weld will keep a Coppy
or coppies of all the evidence that is produced
so that if he is not restored-- that he may
by his case before the House of Representatives it may be that they may hear and see the witness of his claim & grant
him some relief - I have given an account of Mr Weld situation & you will see that it is not in his power to procure the Evidence required- & I request you if you
conveniently to write to me & let me
know your opinion and what you can advise Mr. Weld to do-
this from yours with Esteem
Jacob Walker
14th of Febry 1825
To the Hon Saml C. Craft
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Hon Samuel C Craft [?]
in the City of Washington
House of Representatives

Morristown, VT
Feby 17th
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S
James L. Edwards, Esquire.
War Department
Washington
6
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Craftsbury
August 1. 1822-
James L Edwards Esquire,
Sir,
I forward certain affidavit taken to explain the situation of the property of Moses Weld of Morristown in this County, whose name was stricken from the pension roll, under the act of May 1820- on account of the amount[?] contained in his schedule. As I am personally acquainted with Mr Weld, and the circumstances of his family, I take considerable interest in his behalf. He has been [personally?] in comfortable circumstances, but of late years has been unable to labor but little on account of the badness[?] of his health, and
his family, who are all females & part of them have for years been sickly, and so far from being any assistance to him
have been a constant expense-- and are likely to continue so.  The inclosed certificate is signed by some of the most respectable citizens of this county, and shew that the land
contained in the schedule ought not to have been considered as adding any thing to his property-- and the 300 dollars due him in tack and grain in several annual payments were insufficient to pay his bona fide debts-- all which remain at this time due while 200 dollars of the notes due him have been sold at a discount to pay the expense of living and sickness in his family since his schedule was sent to you, leaving his debts wholly unpaid-
There are but few now on the pension list, who could not better dispense with the aid of his country than the present applicant - I hope therefore you will again reconsider his claim, & shall be highly gratified if the Secretary shall decree his restoration to the list-- and assure you that the act would meet the approbation of the best men in this county. Plan to direct your answer to Moses Weld, Morristown,Vt.  and accept the assurance of my respects
Samuel C Crafts
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James L. Edwards, Esquire
Pension Office

Mr. Crafts
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Washington Mar. 3d 1825
Mr Edwards,
I forward you a letter written in behalf of Moses Weld of Morristown, whose claim for a restation to the pension list remains suspended in your office-  I add nothing further than to state
that I am personally acquainted with Weld and know him to be a worthy but unfortunate man -without health and without property-
and I sincerely hope that he may be restored to the list
Very respectfully
yours- Saml C Craft
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Hon. Benj Swift Esq.
City Washington
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W
Morristown to 29 Nov. 1827
Hon. Benj. Swift
Dear sir by request of Moses Weld a Revolutionary Soldier & now a near neighbor of mine I direct to you a
few lines for the gratification of the old gentleman.  He is poor & needy but sustains as good a character as any man in our Town. his family are none of them save himself, able to do but very little towards their support. I have been their Physician for ten years or more & know them to be unable to labour & were it not for the charity  of the neighbors they must have long before this become chargable to the town. He has once been on the Pension list as you will find [?] [?] papers & by an other act of Congress which followed had his expectation of future[?] support blasted by being struck from the roll -- He has repeatedly attempted to comply with the requisitions
of the war department to be restored, but as
often failed. He is now for the last time at the
age of 70 years (I believe) by the admire[?] of his friends attempting to bring his case before
congress & for that purpose has made choice
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of you to lay his Petition before that honorable boddy; represent his penurious circumstances
& claim what in right belongs to him-
He is desirous of having you converse with the Hon. M. Chase on the subject from former acquaintance, being born in the town
when Mr. Weld resided for many years having
a knowledge of his Character & get all
the aid you can in his cause for [d verify behin]? that if there be one in these United States deserving of their countries gratitude it is Moses Weld.  He is owing many debts & has nothing to pay them with & will be anxiously looking for an act that will entitle him to pay from the time he was struck from the list.
If there should be any thing wanting, or in the
way of his obtaining, he wishes you to write me [relitive]? to it.  I would ask one favor that you would forward me a paper while
congress sits that would furnish your
friends in this vicinity with the news  I will
see that your an satisfied on your return
I am sir with esteem your humble servant
Hon Benj Swift     James Tucker
City Washington
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Robert Kimball
deposition
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I Robert Kimball
of Morristown in the County of Orleans and State of Vermont aged thirty two years
do testify and say that Moses Weld of said Morristown who has made his declaration before Honorable Samuel Cook Esquire to obtain a pension under the late act of
Congress is a man of truth and veracity and poverty[?]-  direst[?] circumstances stands in need of the assistance of his country for support.
Robt Kimball
State of Vermont, Orleans County ss Morristown, July ? 1818
Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and year aforesaid & I certify that the above named deponent is a man of truth & veracity and credible witness
Samuel Cooke, Ast Judge Orleans County 
Court
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May 24
[leolo?] J. L. Edwards
Pension Office
War Dept.
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Ho of Reps. May 22d 1830
Sir, 
The three persons mentioned by me
to you, this morning, as included in the
act in favour of Sundry Revolutionary
Officers & soldiers & an Zephaniah Ross of
St Albans, Asa Wilkins of Fairfax and
Moses Weld of Morristown. all in Vt.
and if convenient, I should be glad to
receive their certificate as early as Thursday next, or if not convenient send them
to me at St. Albans Vt.
I have mentioned your request to the
Clerk of the Ho. of Reps. but he declines
sending the papers without your written
order. He will do so immediately if
requested to do so by letter from you
I have the honor to be
with respect Yours
B Swift
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Amos McKinstry
deposition
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Amos McKinstry of Hydepark in the County of Orleans and State of Vermont of lawful age do testify and say that I was an enlisted Soldier in a Company commanded by Adam Martin of Massachusetts, which was attached to a 
 Regiment commanded by Col Timo Bigelow of the Massachusetts Line and Continental establishment
that Moses Weld at Morristown in the County of Orleans aforesaid was a Sergeant in said Company that I was constantly with him in service - for the Term of three years
----
That he is a man of truth and veracity and
[is he believed]? and that it is my opinion he is
reduced circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support 
Amos McKinstry

State of Vermont Orleans County Ss Morristown  May 13th 1818
Sworn to and subscribed before me the day & year aforesaid and I certify that the above named deponent is a man of truth and veracity & is a credible witness
Samuel Cooke Asst Judge Orleans County Court
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Moses Weld
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We the Subscribers do hereby Certify that previous to and at the twenty eighth of June 1820 we were intimately acquainted with the circumstances of Moses Will of Morristown in
the County of Orleans and State of Vermont, late a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States & at the date of his schedule to [?]
28th of June AD. 1820, he had bargained or agreed for a [Lot of Land ___ ___]?  In his said schedule, now as we are informed in the Pension Office of the United...for the price of two hundred dollars, and we do hereby
appraise the same to ^be worth two hundred
dollars in money, and of this he had no title, except by Contract, and that the sum due for said Land was not included on the amount
of debts due from said Weld In his said Schedule, but was omitted In his said Schedule [aB]? was also the price of the Land, upon the supposition that it would not be the taken into consideration by the pension department in estimating his property, he having no title and not having paid one cent for the same.  We further certify not as explanatory but as ^a distinct fact that a forfeiture had accrued and that said Land has been wholly taken from him, and conveyed to another person
Morristown July 24 1822
Samuel Cooke
Joseph E Westgate
Earl Westgate,
Charles Meigs
[edit: word cut off on bottom of page, "__whort"]
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State of Vermont Orleans County ss. [Morristown crossed out and Hydepark inserted above]? July 29th 1822  
Personally appeared before me the [__?] named Samuel Cooke.  Joseph E. Westgate.  Earl Westgate & Charles Meigs
made Solemn oath that the facts contained
the certificate by them Subscribed is true in all
its parts
Nathl Sawyer Asst Judge Orleans County
Court

State of Vermont Orleans County Ss [Morristown crossed out and Hydepark inserted above]? July 29th 1822
I hereby certify that the above named Samuel
Cooke, Joseph E. Westgate, Earl Westgate & Charles Meigs
are personally known by me the subscriber of authority and that they are credible [word crossed out] Witnesses, and sustain good [horaclers?] for truth & veracity and that full credence may be given to their testimony
Nathl Sawyer Asst Judge Orleans County
Court

The above ["affidavit" crossed out] certificate is submitted to the pension department as explanatory of the original schedule of Moses Weld, now in ["War" crossed out] Pension
department of the United States, which
Schedule hears date 24th of June 1820
by
me as appears by a letter from the War Department addressed to Moses Weld; Assistant Judge
of Orleans County Court

Nathl Sawyer Assistant Judge
of Orleans County Court
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State of Vermont
Orleans County 
I Ira H Alben Clerk of Orleans County Court do hereby certify that the Hon. Nathaniel P. Sawyer is second assistant Judge of said court.
In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and affix the seal of the said Court at Enosburgh[?] this day of August A.D. 1822. 
Ira H. Alben
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It is stated in the petition of Moses Weld that he was formerly placed on the list of Revolutionary Pensioners, which fact is proved by documents from the war department. It is also stated in [sd = said?] petition and proved by said documents that shortly after the passage of the act of Congress of 1820. (the exact time does not appear) that the name of Weld was stricken from said list. His pension certificate was dated the 6th day of May 1819 and on the 28th day of June 1820 he renewed his application agreeably to the provisions of the act of 1820. And it appears from a declaration of that date duly made under oath, that he was in debt to the amt of $330.24, and
that the whole amt. of debts due him, was $300 payable? in cattle or grain in three annual installments after the 1st day of Jany then next without interest. That he [possessed abbreviated?] one horse, one cow,12 sheep & one hog.  Furniture appraised at $199.63. That he had a wife & three daughters, all sick and dependent on him for support.  That after receiving his pension certificate he had bargained for a piece of land at the price of $200. but on being stricken from the list he abandoned the idea of paying for it, and it also appears in proof that since the time of making said declaration, he has removed from said land and that the original owner has since sold it to another.  ["That he hoped" is crossed out]
It is also stated in the petition and supported by
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proof that the petitioner  is not only aged but
very infirm, and that his wife and there daughters are still sick and dependent on him for support, and that he is in the most indigent
and distressing circumstances. It also appears
in proof that the Petitioner and family are very meritorious, and respectable, and that
his claims for the relief prayed for are of the
strangest kind that can be presented.
It [illegible] appears that the Petitioner has made several applications to the Secretary of War to be restored to the pension list but that his applications have ^all been rejected and as
he states in his petition in consequence of
his having purchased said land for which
he never[?] paid one cent, and for which
he has now no claim.
That the application of the said Weld, and the
facts stated in his petition are supported by
some of the most respectable citizens of Vermont one of which is the Hon S C Crafts 
 formerly a member of Congress from that State,
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No. Act 1843
6180
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No. act 1844
35

[following text upside down]
S. A. Willard
Morrisville,
VT
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State of Vermont
Lamoille County
Before me Samuel A Willard
a Justice of the Peace within and
for the County of Lamoille aforesaid. on this 10th day of July 1844 personally appeared Miriam Weld of Morristown in said Lamoille County aforesaid, aged Eighty three years and being by me duly sworn on her oath makes the following declaration. in order to obtain the benefits of the provisions of an act of Congress, passed the 17th day of July 1844 granting Pensions to the widows of certain
Revolutionary Pensioners or soldiers.  
She says that she is the widow of Moses
Weld late of Morristown, in the County of Lamoille aforesaid,  that the said Moses Weld died at said Morristown in 1839 and was at the time of his decease, a Revolutionary Pensioner
of the United States, at the rate of seventy six dollars a year. She further says that she was placed upon the pension list under the act of March the 3d 1843 at the rate of Eighty
Dollars a year, for the term of five years. which term had fully [expired]? when she obtained her certificate.  She further says that for proof of the services of her said husband, and of his being a Pensioner - and of his decease, and of her marriage to him - [illegible] of her having been a Pensioner as above stated - she refers to certificates already in the Department. 
she further say that she [^has]? lived in Morristown in
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Lamoille County and State of Vermont for more than thirty years and previous thinks she  resided in Sturbridge Massachusetts.
Miriam Weld
Sworn to and subscribed before me, and I certify that the said Marion Weld is the widow of the said Moses Weld and that the said Moses Weld was a Revolutionary Pensioner and that the said Miriam Weld was a Pensioner
under the act of 3d of March 1843 and is a person of truth.
Samuel A Willard Justice of the Peace
---
State of Vermont
Lamoille County
I, Phile G. Carrop of Hyde Park in the County of Lamoille, Clerk of Lamoille County Court, hereby certify that Sam'l A. Willard is a Justice of the Peace in & for the County of Lamoille duly commissioned & qualified that his commission is dated Oct 29. 1843 & will expire on the 1st day of Dec,1844 & that his signature above is true & genuine.
In Witness whereof I hereunto set my
hand & affix the seal of said Court in
my office in [Hydepark]? of this 12th
day of July A.D. 1844
P. G. Camp[Carrop?] Clerk
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To the ^Honorable Secretary of the War Department, Sir -
having pretty extensive knowledge of the circumstances of Moses Weld & family of this town who has recently been a revolutionary pensioner of the United States & stricken
from the pension list in consequence of his ostensibly appearing to have property to that amount that your department judged his claim for a continuation of a pension not admissible & believing that your conclusion was deduced from false premises, I would beg leave to subjoin a statement of facts in explanation of his schedule-
In his schedule was inserted "100 acres of land with a log home & no barn thereon & mostly in the state of nature and to which I have no title except by bargain it is not paid for" which said land it is presumed you conceived
to be worth in conjunction with his other property so much as to void his claim to a pension - But I would state that the land in consequence of the nonperformance
of the contract on the part of said Weld has unavoidably reverted back to the person of whom said Weld bought the
land within a few days after his schedule was sent on to your department as we feared would be the case, & entirely obliterated all hope of holding said land & he is obliged to quit the same immediately & has no where to go nor no means to procure any place for a home-
I have been acquainted with Mr Weld ever since he has lived in this town, which is eleven years & knowing to the distressed situation of his family; he did not nor does he now own any land nor has any concern in any except the 100 acres as above alluded to -  with
regard to the debts & credits, he owed $330.24 in cash some of which had become due when his schedule was made out & the remainder soon after & on interest
and the three hundred dollars due to him were obligations given for meat stock or grain payable in one two & three years without Interest which would not pay his money debts then due for no less than 25 or 30 and in some cases 50 percent discount -
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[Two lines crossed out at top]
so that he must be considered destitute of property when his schedule was made out according to my views of [word crossed out] his situation - However at this time
it is out of all question & as stated in the memorial has been under the care of a physician and ^ wholly unable to labour for this year past, - I do think considering his reduced circumstances & the distrest
situation of himself & family by reason of [_ing]? that he need the assistance of his country for support as much or more as any pensioner in the compass of my knowledge-
Morristown September 13th 1821
I am Sir Respectfully your [illegible acronyms]
[illegible] Samuel C Cooke [illegible] Judge
Orleans Cy. Court
To  J. C. Calhoun Secretary
of War United States
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To the Honorable Secretary of the War Depart
of the United States-
●
Humbly represent & sheweth your Petitioners
Selectmen and Magistrates of the Towns of
Hydepark & Morristown in the County of
Orleans & Stow in the County of
Washington in the State of Vermont
that they for many years have been
acquainted with the character & property
of Moses Weld of Morristown aforesaid and
as it respects the former we can state unequivocally that it has been uniformly honorable sober & correct maintaining an industrious & moral life under many afflictions & embarrassments for a series of years, by reason of severe sickness that his family has been composed of himself, a wife & nine daughters some of which have been for many years wholly unable to labor, as will appear
by the schedule of said Welds. transmitted
to your office under the last act relating
to pensioner that it has been the
common report that Mr. Weld has
ever since he has had a family been
constantly paying heavy bills for physicians
& that his bills have been extremely [burdensome?] for a person of his standing & property & that he himself has for a long time
been affected with a cancerous humor which
at intervals has rendered him unfit for laborious exercises upon which he [illegible]
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for subsistence depended, & of late it has
increased so as to deprive him entirely of
that only resource for support, that from
the known situation of his property & family
we consider that he must be an immedate
object of charity unless he shall receive
assistance from his government-- that we
are credibly informed & some of us knowing to the fact that the one hundred acres of land, included in his last schedule presented to your department, has become forfeit & lost by reason of non-fulfillment of the contract  That we are sensible of the inability of the War department to know the precise truth of every case which may come before them. And therefore we have thought fit to present the above facts to your honorable board under the full conviction that no case has or can arise
when the granting a pension could be
more just or necessary --
The sum then of Mr. Weld's situation
is that he is aged about sixty five years:
that he has in his family a daughter
languishing on the bed of sickness & may continue as she has been for years to come
that he has two others not in full health
& that he himself & his aged & infirm
wife are unable to labor. that he is not
the owner of a foot of real estate & that
his small pittance of personal included
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in his said schedule has been expended since
its presentation for a scanty support. he himself having been under a Physician's care a
considerable part of the time during the
last season - that the land above mentioned
was purchased upon the hope of a continuation of the pittance from Government
which he had begun to realize in the  twilight of life.  but the privation of that has operated as a forfeiture & is compelled [crossed out]
quit it immediately; & have him destitute of a place whereupon to rest his aged & wearied head. conjoined with that of a sick, destitute & respectable female household-- your petitioners know this to be without coloring a strong appeal to the feelings of humanity & that it is by no means an ordinary case.  A true
knowledge of the claimants situation
& character induces us to appeal in his
behalf to your honorable board for what
he absolutely needs to save him the heart
rending mortification of becoming with
his family an object of public charity-
We are by no means advocates for pensioners & are sensible that impositions have
been practiced - but in this case necessity
misfortune & character - compel us
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to become the petitioners in his behalf. And as in duty bound will [we?] pray-
Morristown
Sept 12th 1821
Selectmen for Morristown:
Samuel Cooke
David P. Noyes
Abiel Eaton
Selectmen of Hydepark:
Mark W North[?]
Nathl P Sawyer
Selectmen of Stow:
J.B. Danvers[?]
Asa Raymond
Daniel Moody
Jedediah Safford, Justice of the Peace
Joshua Sawyer, States Atty Orleans County
David [?],  Justice of the Peace
Oliver Noyes, Justice Peace
Charles Meigs, Justice of Peace
Jonathan Bridger,   Justice of Peace
River Canefe[?], Just of Peace
Joseph W Safford, Just of Peace
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Moses Weld's
Petition
--
Dec 13. 1827
Refs to Com Mil. Pensions
n
May 17 1828
See Bill No. 166
-
Decr 5th 1828
Refd to the born on Mil Pensions
---
Allowed $8
Dec. 16th 1829
Refd to com on Mil. Pension
Pen: to com: Jan. 1. 1828 at $8 per
month, under act May 20, 1830.
Vert Revo. Roll.
Hon. B. Swift H.R.
Swift  8. Pensions
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To the Honorable Senate and House of Representation of the United States of America in Congress assembled
Your Petitioner Moses Weld of Morristown in the county of Orleans and State of Vermont, presumes to lay before your honorable body his case, having for many years applied to the honorable Secretary of War for a restoration
to the Pension list, and to be again made the subject of a provision made for the indigent Officers and Soldiers of the Revolution. - But your Petitioner has as often been rejected by rules and regulations, which he was informed
by communications from the War Department were inseparable, and could not yield to particular cases. -
Your Petitioner was also informed that his case had been submitted to the Attorney General of the United States and a decision from that department had been made that your Petitioner could not be restored, and that this
opinion of the Attorney Genl formed the basis of theirs. -
A refference to a letter to your Petitioner from the Attorney Genl is made in the honorable Secretary's letter dated War Department Pension Office July 8th 1822, which letter from the Secretary of War accompanies this Petition.
The copy of the decision of the Attorney
Genl refered to in the above letter has not been received, by your petitioner, nor by Ira H Allen Esqr, to whom it is stated to have been addressed:  And your Petitioner never has been apprised of the reasons of that opinion,
and is yet entirely in the dark-
Your Petitioner also refers to a letter from the
War Department dated March 24th 1824 and also
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a letter from the same department dated April 20th 1825.
The two last mentioned letters were addressed to the Hon Samuel C Crafts then a member of your honorable body, acting in behalf of your Petitioner-
It is utterly out of the power of your Petitioner to procure the testimony required by the Secretarys letter last refered to, as some part of his debts were contracted and paid in the
State of Massachusetts, some in New Hampshire, (the former being being the place of his nativity, and the latter his place
of residence for many years), and some in Vermont his present place of residence. -
Your honorable body will find by a recurrence
to the copy of your Petitioners Schedule accompaning this Petition, that upon an accurate calculation of the debts
due him, and the outstanding debts against him, that there was a ballance against him of $30.24 which he had no means of paying -
His Schedule presents, that he lived on a lot of land to which he had no title except by bargain, and which was not paid for: which land your Petitioner contracted
for under a view of receiving some assistance from his country, and with no hope of paying for the same unless it was by the assistance of his Pension.
Your Petitioner would further state that the whole of the original purchase money, to wit $200. remained due for said land at the time of the exhibition of his Schedule to the War Department and that the above named sum was not mentioned in said Schedule as
any part of the debts outstanding against him;
and that your Petitioner on being stricken from the
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Pension Roll immediately abandoned the idea of the purchase, relinquished his claim, and removed from the premises, which have since been conveyed to another person. -
Your Petitioner supposing that he ought strictly to set forth in his Schedule his situation and pretentions to living, made mention of the land on which he resided, not having the least idea the it could by any means of operate as a bar to his claim.
It is with reluctance that your Petitioner attempt to urge the singularity of his case aside from the ordinary course pointed out by the War Department, but it is now
his last refuge in old age, in sickness, and in poverty, to pray your honorable body to take his case into consideration.
Your Petitioner is almost seventy one years of
age and has a family composed of four sick
females, dependent upon the exercise of his feeble limbs, which for a long time have been crippled by diseases, for subsistence.---- A severe cancerous humor has afflicted your Petitioner for a series of years, and
at times obstructed his labours, and thrown before him the paupers condition.-- Your Petitioner does not exaggerate his case by saying that he has maintained
in this manner a female house hold, respectable but helpless and bedridden for years to a degree scarcely equalled; He never has had a son to assist him in the arduous duties devolving on him, or to whom he could look for support and protection in the decline
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of life.
Your Petitioner has nine daughter now living
six are married and live in a State of decent mediocrity, neither indigent nor rich; His wife has always been a feble and sickly woman and has done nothing of consequence towards contributing to the support of the
family for forty six years. -
The three remaining daughters who are now
dependant upon your petitioner are all in a condition (by reason of ill health) which forbids laborious excise;  Two of them have been in this situation for a long series of years, and the other about four years. -
Your honorable body will here pardon your
Petitioner the freedom to state, that his family have maintained unblemished characters - That prudence, temperance, industry and frugality have been the guide of your Petitioners life, and that his family have not
deviated a little to his knowledge.-- A surrounding public can testify that his family are respectable ascending and descending, and that he is poor, with four sick females to support or give them over to the cold hand of Pauperism-
Your Petitioner served his country in the army
of the Revolution between three and four years, and received an honorable discharge, which was lodged in the War Office when first placed upon the Pension list. -  He asks nothing but bread under that human provision, designed for the helpless and indigent.- He wants it not to
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gloss the shreds of Aristocracy or declining
affluence, but to eke out a life honest but
poor, devoted to labour and acquiring a lean support.
He asks it not to spend at the tiplers board
or in luxury, but to support nature, and to ease
a fathers, and a husbands, anxious distress, for the feble and helpless near and dear to him in the twilight of life, and which may be left tomorrow languishing supplicants at the hand of cold charity's freaks. -  Your Petitioner presents his Schedule upon which his claim was rejected, and upon that alone, as no chalange was ever made as to the integrity
of that instrument - 
Your Petitioner therefore pray that his name
may again be placed on the list of Revolutionary claims, and that he may receive from your hands the amount which he would have received in case
he had not been stricken therefrom - And as
in duty bound will we pray.
Moses Weld
Morristown Vermont
November [6?] 1827 -
We the undersigned inhabitants of Morristown and its vicinity hereby certify that we are acquainted with the above petitioner Moses Weld, his situation and circumstances in life, and with the situation and circumstances of his family and do verily
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believe that the facts as set forth in the foregoing Petition from the best knowledge we can obtain are not exaggerated, but are substantially correct. And further that he is a man of verry respectable standing in society, and that his family are no less so; and that he is in our opinion meritorious and actually stands in need of assistance from
his country.-- And indeed, there is not within
the compass of our knowledge so strong a claim existing-
Selectmen of Morristown;
Philip Wheeler
Joseph C. Noyes
Asa Cole.
Samuel C Crafts
Samuel Cooke Justice of Peace
James Tinker P.M.
Denison Cooke T. Clk
Charles Meigs Just Peace
David P. Noyes Just Peace
Nathl G Sawyer
Ezra Butler
Luther Bingham
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Declaration of 
Moses Weld
1824
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Declaration
In order to be restored to the pension list under the act of the 1st March 1823 -
State of Vermont 
Orleans County ss.  ⎬
On this 28th day of February 1824 personally
 appeared in open court being a court of record for the County aforesaid - ^being expressly made so by the statute law of
this State, Moses Weld resident in said county aged sixty seven years, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath
make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the acts of Congress of the 18th March 1818 and the 1st May 1820 that he the said Moses Well enlisted for the term of three years on the 15th day of May in the year 1777 in the State of Massachusetts, in the company commanded by Capt. Adam Martin in the regiment commanded by Colo. Timothy Bigelow in the line of the State of Massachusetts on the continental establishment that he continued to serve in the said corps until the 15th day of May 1780 when he was discharged from said service near West Point in the State of New York that his name has been placed on the pension list and dropped therefrom on account of his property and in pursuance of the act of the 1st May 1820  I do solemn
swear 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 disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring my self within the provisions of the 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 owed to me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed   
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8 sheep valued at $8.0, 1 swine $1.5 - - - $9.50
1 chain $1.50, 1 shovel .75, 1 old hand iron .50 - - -  2.75
2 Augers $1.00, 1 Hoe .34, 1 Axe 1.00, 1 set of horse chains .50 - - - 2.84
1 old case of drawers $2.00, 2 old Chests $1.00
- - - 3.00
1 5 pail Kettle $2.00, 1 Bake pan broken .25 - - - 2.25 
1 Tea Kettle .75, 1 Iron Skillet .25 - - - 1.00
1 Case of Knives & forks .34, 3 platters $1.50 - - - 1.84
2 Cream pots .34, 3 milk pans 3.0, 2 quart bowls .25 - - -  .89
6 Earthen plates .34, 2 old pails .34, 1 old [?] .50 - - -  1.18
Total - - - 25.25
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I am by occupation a farmer and infirm and able to do but little labour  my family consists of my wife Miriam aged 64 years very infirm and not able to do any labour and Lucy aged 42 years and Cynthia aged 34 years neither of them able to do any labour or to contribute
to the support of the family that since the exhibition of my first schedule the following changes have been made in my property. The
lot of land containing 100 acres on which I then lived was sold by John W. Chandler (who was the owner) to another man in June 1822
and I was compelled to leave it.
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I sold to Rufus Wheeler 1 Horse in Sept 1820 and recd in payment said Wheelers demand against me for $40.00
To Asahel Raymond 1 cow Octr 1821
Recd Cash $15.00 and paid
the same for Doctoring my family
To Asahel Raymond 3 Sheep Oct 1821, Recd necessaries for my family, 1 sheep Oct 1821, Killed for use of my family  $4.00
One note of $100.00 against William Newman collected in Jany. 1823 and paid the same to John Stone on a note against me dated August
26th 1822 
Collected two other notes against William Newman in January 1824 amounting to $110.00 and paid the same to John Stone on a
note against me dated Augt 20, 1822 and one other note collected in February 1824 paid to Jonathan Cook and applyed on a note against
me to Darius Boyden dated August 20th 1822 Moses Weld
Sworn to and declared on the twenty eighth day of February 1824
before
William Howe Judge
I Ira H Allen Clerk of Orleans County Court do hereby certify that it appears to the satisfaction of the Court, that the said Moses
Weld did serve in the Revolutionary war, as stated in the preceding declaration, against the common enemy, for the Term of nine
months, under one engagement, on the continental establishment.  I also certify, that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto
annexed, are truly copied from the records of the said Court, and I do 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 twenty five dollars and twenty five cents.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court
on this 28 day of February 1824 -
Ira H Allen Clerk of the Court of the County of Orleans.
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Copy of
Moses Weld's
Schedule

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Copy of
Moses Weld's
Schedule
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State of Vermont 
Orleans County   ⎬ On this 28th day of June 1820 personally appeared in open Court being a court of record for sd County of Orleans, by virtue of a Statute Law of the State of Vermont,
Moses Weld aged sixty three years resident in Morristown in sd County, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his Oath declare, that he served in the revolutionary War as follows,
That he enlisted May 15 1777 for three years, and served in Col Timothy Bigelow's Regiment and Capt. Adam Martin's company of the Massachusetts line of troops, and served until the 15 day of May 1780 as will appear from his original declaration of the 12 day of May 1818. That he has a Pension Certificate dated at the War Office the sixth day of May 1819 No 10822.-
And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818, and 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 & Naval Service of the United States in the Revolutionary War, passed on the 18 day of March1818. 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 of Property
I live on a lot of land containing 100 acres, Log House, no Barn, mostly in a state of Nature and for which I have no title only by bargain, not paid for-- I have one Horse, one Cow and 12 Sheep and One Hog -
Furniture, no more than is really necessary. (see the other side)
Occupation a Farmer and on account of a Cancer and other infirmities unable to do much labour -
Family  My Wife Miriam aged 60 years has ever been in low health, is unable to labour
Daughter Lucy aged 38 years
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wholly unable to labor and has been for 13 years -
Cynthia aged 30 years has been sick for the last 10 years -
Matilda aged 19 years not able to do much labor -
The two last mentioned daughters have been supported mostly the year past by their Friends-
Hannah, aged 24 years in common health
I have a Note against me and Interest amounting to Three Hundred
Dollars and twenty four cents. In Money & other demands against me Fourteen Dollars
Note - - - 300.24
[?] - - - 16
Other Demands - - - 14
[Sum] - - - 330.24
and I hold obligations against persons for Three Hundred without Interest payable in at stock or Grain, payable in three yearly payments after the first day of January next - $300 -
Moses Weld

Sworn and declared in open Court this 28" day of June 1820
William Howe Judge of Orleans County Court
Furniture --
One old chest drawers, 2 Old Casks, 1 5-pail Iron Kettle, Broken Bake pan, 1 Tea Kettle, 1 Iron Skillet 1 Case Knives & forks, 4 pewter platters, 2 Earthen pots, 2 Milk pans, 2 Earthen Bowls, 6 Earthen Plates. 2 Pails, 1 Table,
2 old chairs, 1 ax, 1 Hoe, 1 Shovel 1 Hammer, 1 Sickle,
Property in the above Schedule is valued at $99.63
Judges:
William Howe
Timothy Stanley 
Samuel Cooke
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State of Vermont
Orleans County
County Clerks Office Scarburgh 14. October 1827
I certify the foregoing a true copy of the
of the original declaration of Moses Weld
now remaining on file in my office-
In testimony whereof I hereunto subscribe my name and affix the seal of said Court the day and year above written
Ira H. Allen Clk