Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B. L. Wt. 10-300, Moses Dustin, N.H.

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(3--1776)

Service
N.H.

Dustin, Moses

Number
B.L.Wt.10-300

CONTENTS

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3--1902.

OFFICE OF THE FIRST DEPUTY COMMISSIONER. 

Department of The Interior
Bureau of Pensions,
Washington

December 1, 1908

Mrs. L.A. Putnam
60 Cadwell Avenue, Mayfield Heights
Cleveland, Ohio

Dear Madam,

Referring to your inquiry made of Charles M. Bryant, you are informed that the papers on file in this Bureau show that one Moses Dustin served as a Captain in the 2nd New Hampshire Regiment, during the Revolutionary War.  December 10, 1794, on which date he made his will, he resided at Candia, New Hampshire.

The beneficiaries under said will were his wife Mary, (maiden name not shown) and seven children: Jonathan, Moses, [crossed out: Henry] Harry, George Washington, Nathaniel, Sarahh and Lydia.  All except Jonathan and Moses were under twenty-one years of age.  Jonathan was then living on a farm of a hundred acres, owned by his father and located in the town of Corinth, Vermont.

This will was offered for probate by the executor February 16, 1795.

Very respectfully,

First Deputy Commissioner.

Copy M.B

BRUI 10-300

H.M.M

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3--082.

Department of the Interior,

BUREAU OF PENSIONS.

[STAMP] FILE WITH CASE

Warrant No 10 [overwritten: Application No.]

Certificate No. 300 acres

NAME OF SOLDIER,

Moses Dustin
Capt, 2 Reg't N. Hamp.

INFORMATION DESIRED.

Revolution

[stamp] FILE WITH CASE

Please file with case.

[stamp with oval border] FIRST DEPUTY COMMISSIONER DEC 1 [NUMBER OBSCURED]8

[stamp] FILE WITH CASE

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3-082.

Department of the Interior,

BUREAU OF PENSIONS.

Warrant [overwritten text: Application No.]

Certificat No 10

NAME OF SOLDIER,

Moses Dustin
Capt New Hampshire [overwritten text: Co. Reg't]

INFORMATION DESIRED.
Troops Revolution

[illegible] please.

C.M.Bayaut

[stamp with oval border] FIRST DEPUTY COMMISSIONER NOV 1[faint numbers]

[stamp with rectangle border] Army and Navy Divisions FILES NOV 13 1908 RECEIVED.

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Moses Dustin
Claim Mil. Land
N. H. line



Lodged by M[illegilble]
Tomsey M. H. R.

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Know all men by these Presents That I Walter Robie of Candia in the County of Rockingham and State of New Hampshire [Erq??] Executor of the last will and Testament of Moses Dustin late of said Candia [illegible] late a Captain in the American Army Have Constituted and appointed and ley there presents Do in my said capacity constitute and appoint Samuel Tenny of [Eaton?] in said county [Esq?] my careful attorney in my name of [illegible] said capacity to ask Demand and Receive of the [illegible] , or any other proper office, the [covenant?] [illegible] for [illegible] due to the said Moses Dustin do as a Captain in the Second New Hampshire Regiment in the said late army of the United States and for the [recovery??] of the same to do all lawful matters [thing??] proper & neccessary to be Done [illegible]  I Hereby is my said capacity engaging to Ratify

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Rockingham
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To all People to whom these presents shall come a Samuel C Tenney - Esq.
Judge of the Probate of Wills, &c. in and for the County of Rockingham sendeth.  Greeting.

Know Ye, That on the Day of the Date hereof before me at Exeter in said County, the instrument, a copy of which is hereunto annexed, (purporting the last Will and Testament of Moses Dustin late of Candia in said County [illegible] deceased) was presented by Walter Robie Esq the Executor therein named, L. Simon French and Nathaniel Emerson Esq two of the Witnesses whose Names are thereto subscribed being then present made solemn oath that they saw the said Testae, Sign Seal and heard him declare the said Instrument to be his last Will and Testament.  That he was then to the best of their Judgement of Sound and Disposing Mind, and that [illegible] Daniel Dobbear subscribed their Names together as witnesses to the Execution thereof in the Presence of the said Testator -

I Do therefore prove approve and allow of the said Instrument as the last Will and Testament of the said deceased, and do hereby commit the Administration thereof in all matters the same concerning and of his Estate whereof he Died Seized and possessed in said County unto him the aforesaid Executor well and faithfully to execute the said Will and Testament, and to administer the Estate of said Deceased according to the same who accepted of his said Trust and is directed to ex[illegible] of said Estate [illegible] to Law -
and shall render an account (upon Oath) of his proceedings therein when lawfully thereto required.

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal of the Court of Probate for said County, Dated at Exeter aforesaid the 16th Day of February Anno Domini 1795

Sam Tenney - 

[illegible] W Parker [Key or Rey]

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A Coppey[copy] of Col. Dustin's Will

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In the name of God amen

I Moses Dustin of Candia in the county of Rockingham in the State of New Hampshire [illegible] Being in a weak and low state as to bodyley [bodily] health but of a Sound Disposing mind & memory thanks be give to God for the same. this tenth Day of December anno: Domini 1794
Caling [calling] to mind the frailty and mortality of my body- and Knowing that it is appointed for all men once to Die Do make this my last will and Testament and Princepally [principaly] and first of all I Becommend my soul unto the hands of God who gave it and my body to the Earth to be Deacently [decently] buried - and as to that worldly Estate which it hath please god to bless me with in this Life - I give and Demise and Dispose of in the following manner & form

Imprimus I give to Mary my well beloved wife my Watch and all the Remnants of English goods I have on hand together with all my household goods and furniture of every sort and kind for her to use improve and dispose of as she see cause and judges right & just amongst my Children (starting out what I have Perticularly [particularly] given away) I also allow her her [thirds??] in my Real and Personal Estate as the Law Directs

Item I Give and Bequeath to my two sons Namely Jonathan Dustin and Moses Dustin their heirs and assigns in Equal Shares all my Real and Personall [personal] Estate (saving out what I have Perticularly given away) upon Condition that they the said Jonathan & Moses their heirs and assigns pay or cause to be paid all the Legacies that I shall order in this my will

Item I give to my Daughter Hannah Dustin sixty pounds lawful money to be paid her when she arrives to the age of twenty one years - or at her marriage day to be paid by the above named Jonathan Dustin and Moses Dustin their heirs and assigns in Equal Shares


Item I give to my son George Washington Dustin one Hundred and fifty pounds lawfull [lawful] money to be paid him when he arrives to the age of twenty one years by the above Named Jonatha Dustin and Moses Dustin their heirs and assigns in Equal Shares

Item I give to my son Nathaniel Dustin one Hundred and fifty pounds lawfull money to be paid him when he arrives to the age of twenty one years by the

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the above Named Jonatha Dustin & Moses Dustin their heirs and assigns in Equal Shares

Item I give to my Daughter Sarah Dustin Sixty pounds lawfull [lawful] money to be paid her when she arrives to the age of twenty one years or at her marrage [marriage] Day by the above named Jonathan Dustin and Moses Dustin their heirs and assigns in Equal Shares

Item I give to my Daughter Lydia Dustin Sixty pounds lawfull money to be paid her when she arrives to the age of twenty one years or at her marrage Day by the above Named Jonathan Dustin and Moses Dustin their heirs and assigns in Equal Shares

Item I give to my son Jonathan Dustin all the Land I have already given him a Deed of Gift of lying in the Town of Corinth in the State of Vermont containing one hundred acres where he now lives, upon condition that the the said Jonathan pay to my son Moses Dustin twenty seven pound lawfull money

Item I give to my son Moses Dustin twenty seven pound lawfull money to be paid by the above named Jonathan Dustin

Item I do appoint my friend Walter Robe [illegible abbreviation] to be my Executor to this my last will and testament he to Receive & pay all my just Debts Due to and from my Estate and my funeral charges and see that this my will be fulfilled in all Perticulars, confirming this and no other to be my last will and Testament in witness to all above written and contained I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal this tenth Day of December anno Domini 1794- In witness to all above written signed and sealed published Pronounced and Declared by the said Moses Dustin to be his last will and Testament in Presence of us witneses [witnesses]

Simon French
Daniel Dolbear
Nathaniel Emerson

Moses Dustin [hand drawn square]

Rockingham February 16th 1795

This will [illegible common form by the oath of Simon French & Nathaniel Emerson & approved by Sam Tenney Judge Probate

[illegible] W Parkey [Reg?]