Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 30167, Moses Townsend, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Townsend, Moses
S. 30167
CONTENTS
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75- Eph
10.675. Massachusetts
Moses Townsend
of Salem in the State of Mass who was a Pirate in the company commanded by Captain Richardson of the regt commanded by Col Hutchinson the Mar time for 18 Mo 20 Days
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Inscribed on the Roll of Mrs at the rate of 62 Dollars 22 Cents per annum, to commence on the 14th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 18 th day of Apr 1833 and sent to Joseph G. H. Waters Salem Mass
Arrears to the 14th of Mar 1833 $124.44 Semi-ant. allowance ending 11 Sept " 31.11
$155.55
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by J. H. S. Blair Clerk Book 2 . Vol. 2 . Page 83 .

30167 Ray  INVALID.
File No. 30167
Moses Townsend
His Rev War
Act: June 7 th 82
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 421
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Moses Townsend
2181
deficiency in the 14 1/2th interest
Print 18 Mos 20 days
$62.22
Joseph G. Waters Salon Map.

BRIEF in the case of Moses Townsend of Salem in the State of Massachusetts (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Court -  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  3. How old is he? 73 Years  4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed. 
   Period. Duration of Service. Rank. Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.   Years, Months, Days.     July In 17 75 1 6 20 Private Gen. Capt. A. Richardson (Hatch)  
 5. In what battles was he engaged? none stated  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Salem  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Living witnesses 
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? Mono not stated as usual, I hope does not - is under the seal as required
I certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
D. L. Woodson Examining Clerk.

2181
Moses Townsend
2

Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832.
STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS : COUNTY OF ESSEX, ss.
On this fourteenth day of August A. D. 1832, personally appeared in open court, before the HONORABLE DANIEL APPLETON WHITE, Judge of the Court of Probate for the County of Essex aforesaid, now sitting, Moses Townsend , a resident of Salem , in the County of Essex and State of Massachusetts, aged 73 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 passed June 7, 1832:
That he entered the service of the United States, under the following named officers, and served as herein stated:
That he enlisted as a volunteer in the first part of July 1775 in the company commanded by Cap Addison Richardson late of said Salem, in the Regiment then under the command of Col. Hutchinson, and previously commanded by Col. Mansfield, who had been suspended from duty for some misconduct in the Battle of Bunker Hill. This company was stationed on Winter Hill near Boston, and remained there till the Winter of that year, when he marched to Cambridge, and afterwards to Roxbury and Dorchester heights where he assisted in erecting the fortifications, which compelled the British army to evacuate Boston. On the retreat of the British from that town, the American forces entered it, and said Townsend remained there till the month of June, when his company took up their line of march for New York. Said Townsend's company was soon after stationed at Fort Washington. As a greater part of his Regiment was composed of Sailors, he with others was employed in manning the flat bottom boats, row galleys &c in which the American Troops were transported to the City of New York, in the famous retreat from Long Island. After the evacuation of Long Island, said Townsend remained at Fort Washington, till it was captured on the sixteenth day of November AD 1776. The commander of the American forces at Fort Washington was Col. Magaw. The Lieut. Col. of his Regiment was Benjamin Holden of Massachusetts. Francis Cox was the first Lieutenant of his company and Jeremiah S. Putnam the second Lieutenant. Cap n Nathaniel Brown, commanded another company in the same Regiment. After the Capitulation of Fort Washington said Townsend was marched with the other prisoners to the City of New York, and kept in

confinement there till the middle of January 1777 when his Company was marched out to the lines and liberated. A sickness which said Townsend contracted from the ill usage which he received in prison detained him so long on the road, that he did not reach home till the middle of March 1777, and during his whole route he was obliged to depend on public charity for support - And said Townsend further states that he had no discharge given to him at the expiration of the term of service herein set forth That he was born in Salem on the seventeenth day of May AD 1760 and at the time of entering the service of his Country, he lived at Salem, and has continued to live there to the present time - he has a record of his age in his family bible. From the time of his first enlistment till he reached home, it was about twenty months. He has stated the times of his services as particularly as he can recollect them at this distance of time - said Townsend would appeal to the testimony of Jonathan Neal of Salem and Joseph G. Waters of Salem aforesaid for his character for veracity.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity, except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State. M. Townsend
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
D. H. Miller
JUDGE OF PROBATE.
We, Jonathan Neal  merchant aforesaid, and Joseph G. Waters  a clergyman , residing in Salem aforesaid, Esquire, a magistrate, residing in Salem aforesaid, do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Moses Townsend who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be 73 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.
Joseph G. Waters  Ben D. Lillie
Subscribed and sworn to before
Stephen P. Webb Jus. Pac.

And the said Court hereby declares its opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the abovenamed applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies that Jonathan Neal , who has signed the preceding Certificate, is a clergyman  merchant resident in Salem , and that the said Joseph G. Watson , who has also signed the same is a Magistrate resident at Salem , and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit.
D. A. White Judge of Probate.
I, NATHANIEL LORD Junior, Register of the Court of Probate for the County of Essex aforesaid, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Moses Townsend for a pension. and I further certify that Joseph G. Waters of Salem before whom the foregoing affidavits were taken & sworn to - is a justice of the Peace in & for said County of Essex - and that his signature annexed is his genuine signature - and that Stephen Webb who has taken one of the foregoing affidavits is a justice of the Peace and that his signature annexed to the same is his genuine signature -
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this fourteenth day of August , A. D. 1832.
Nathl. Lord Jr.
Signed and sealed anew this ninth day of January, A. D. 1833.
Nathl. Lord Jr.

I Jonathan Neal of Salem in the County of Essex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts Merchant, hereby Certify that I am well acquainted with Moses Townsend of said Salem, who has made an application for a pension on account of his services as a soldier in the war of the American Revolution. Said Townsend served as a private with me in the company of Cap n . Addison Richardson, which belonged to the Regiment commanded by Col. Hutchinson and which had been previously commanded by Col. Mansfield, who was suspended for misconduct in the Battle of Bunker Hill. Said Townsend was a private in said Company from the first day of July 1775 to the thirty first day of December of the same year. Said Townsend again enlisted with me, in the same company and in the same Regiment on the first day of January 1776 for the term of twelve months. We were captured in Fort Washington on the sixteenth day of November, and were marched to the City of New York where we were imprisoned till the twentieth of January 1777 when we were liberated and we walked home depending on charity for our support on the road. He arrived in Salem about the middle of March 1777 - I arrived about the first day of February AD 1777 -
Jon d Neal
Essex ss August 10 th 1832 Then the above named Jonathan Neal personally appeared & made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed. Before me Joseph G. Waters Jus Pac

County of Essex ss. Dec. 27 th 1882
I Joseph G Waters of Salem in said County of Essex, a Justice of the Peace and of the Quorum, in & for said County hereby certify unto all, whom it doth or may concern, that Jonathan Neal whose affida- -vit of the services of Moses Townsend a petitioner for a Pension, was subscribed & sworn to by said Neal before me, the said Justice, as will appear by my certificate of the same herein before given, is a credible person, and that full credit may be given to said Neal's affidavit so subs- -cribed & sworn to by him -
Joseph G Waters Jus Pac. & Quorum