Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 25860, Moses Wardley, Mass.

SERVICE
Nass.
Wardley, Moses Patience
NUMBER _____
N. 25860.
CONTENTS

14:202 Warrant
Moses Wadley
of _____ in the state of _____ who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Guaten of the Massachusetts line, for the term of 1 year
Inscribed on the Roll of D. of Maine at the rate of - 8 - Dollars per month, to commence on the 31 st of March 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 6 th of Sep: 1819 and sent to Benj o Green Esqr. South Berwick, Maine
Arrears to 4th of Sep: 1819 - $137 00 31 Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 Mar: 1820  48. 17 mo. 1/30/31  $185 00 31
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
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Warrant sent July 20th 1819 to Daniel Wadley, South Berwick, Maine

Maine 1236
let 28 July 1837 W. A. Mayer
Patience Wardley
widow of Moses Wardley MSS
who died on the 15 Sept r 1823. of York Co. in the State of Maine who was a private in the Company commanded by Captain Gray - of the reg t commanded by Col. Jackson in the Mass s Bt n . time for eighteen months & eighteen days from 1826.
Entered on the Roll of Maine at the rate of 62 Dollars - Cents per annum, to commence on the 14th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 28 th day of July 1837 - and sent to Mr. A. Mayer Esq r South Berwick
Arrears to the 14th of March 1837 $372. - Pension allowance ending 4 Sep r '37 31. -
$403. -
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act July 4, 1836, Section the }
Recorded by [Signature] Clerk, Book A, Vol. 1, Page 22

Moses Wadley
S. Park
Thurs
Con
March 1860

STATE OF MAINE.
York ss....At a Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the first Eastern Circuit, begun and holden at York within and for the County of York on the first Tuesday of July, being the fourth day of said month and by adjournment from day to day, on the day of in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty, before the Honorable Benjamin Greene, chief Justice Judge of said Court.
ON this fourth day of July in the year 1820, personally appeared in open Court
the same proceeding according to the course of the common law, having jurisdiction unlimited in amount, keeping a record of their proceedings, and having "the power of fine and imprisonment," and being a Court of Record for said Circuit, county, Moses Wadley aged eighty five years, resident in South Berwick in said Circuit, county who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows, viz. as a private in the company commanded by Capt. Gray in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Jackson in the line of the State of Massachusetts on the Continental Establishment, as is more particularly mentioned and described in his original declaration, made on the thirty first day of March A. D. 1818, and on which said declaration his Certificate of Pension, numbered 14,202 was granted. And I do solemnly 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 myself within the provisions of an Act of Congress, entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States, in the Revolutionary War," passed on the 18th day of March, 1818: and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities, contracts, or debts due to me; nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereunto annexed, and by me subscribed; that my occupation and ability to pursue the same, together with the number and other particulars of my family, are in fact and in truth as is herein particularly described, also subscribed by me.
his Moses Wadley mark.
Sworn to and declared, on the 4th day of July A. D. 1820.
BEFORE Benjamin Greene
Ch. Justice One of the Judges of the said Court.
Atty. Daniel Sewall, Clerk.

SCHEDULE of the real and personal estate, (necessary clothing and bedding excepted) belonging to me the subscriber, viz :
No property; and have been supported by the town, several years.
his Moses X Readley. mark.
SCHEDULE of the family residing with me Moses Readley — who, by occupation am a labourer — which I am unable to pursue by reason of age & infirmity.
   NAMES. AGES. Capacity of each to contribute to their support.     Patience ————— 79 unable to do any thing. his Moses X Readley mark.  
STATE OF MAINE.
I, York 88. Daniel Sewall, Clerk of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for said Circuit, within the county of York — do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath, and the schedules thereto an- nexed, are truly copied from the Record 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 nothing.  dollars and  cents. IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this eleventh day of July , A. D. one thousand eight hundred and twenty.
Daniel Sewall, { Clerk of the said Circuit Court for the County of York

Moses Wadley (Private.)
Phiney-Greaton & Jackson's Regt. Massch! Line -
1776 for more than 1 year -
31 st March 1810 -
proof of service was of John  of John  Wadley
This affidavit proves his service by the testimony of Daniel Wadley and John Knapp, two credible and disinterested witnesses, the authentication of whose admonished by myself letters have been to annexed - B. G. Green
And by the additional testimony of Stephen Wood, whose deposition I have annexed - B. G. Green
South Berwick, Maine.

I Stephen Wood of Shapleigh in the county of York and commonwealth of Mass- achusetts, testify and say - That I enlisted into the Continental service in the Massachusetts line in the month of December 1775 at which time at Cambridge Daniel Had- ley of South Berwick in this county, enlisted in the same service with me, in Col. Piney's Regiment, and I was personally acquainted with him in the vicinity of Boston while in the service.
In March following 1776, I left the vicinity of Boston for the northern campaign, when I left the said Hadley in Boston.
In February 1777 I returned to Boston and found Hadley in the service, but was soon discharged and returned with me to Berwick which was then our place of residence.
Shapleigh July 15 th 1817 Stephen Wood
York So. July 15 th 1817
Then appeared Stephen Wood and made oath to the above Deposition by him signed to be the truth
before me Harvey Morse Jus. Peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
York ss, I Brij. Greene Chief justice of the Superior Court of Common Pleas for the first Eastern Circuit in said Commonwealth do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with the reputation of the within named Stephen West, & am satisfied that he is a credible & untried witness - And I further certify that the within named Harry Moore is a justice of the Peace for the County of York, duly authorized & empowered to take & administer oaths -
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand & affixed my seal this 26 th day of July A.D. 1819
Brij. Greene

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
York ss.
On this 26 th day of July 1819 before me the subscriber Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Com- mon Pleas for the first Eastern Circuit in said Common- wealth personally appears Daniel Wadsworth of Sanford in said County of York, a credible and disinterested witness, who being by me first duly sworn according to law, he upon his oath does say that he has always been well acquainted with Mose Wadsworth of South Berwick. That in December A.D. 1776 he enlisted as a private soldier into the Army of the United States under Capt. Mose Whiting of the Regiment command- ed by Col. J. Grout of the Massachusetts Line for the term of twelve months and that the said Mose Wadsworth enlisted at the same time, under the same Capt. Whiting of the same Regiment & line, and for the same term of twelve months. That he served in the same Company & Regiment with the said Mose until the Spring following when he was detached with a part of the Troops & marched to the northward - & the said Mose still remained in the service in the vicinity of Berwick & was transferred to a Company belonging to Col. Jacks and Regt. - where he continued to do his duty until the expiration of the term for which he had enlisted. When he was discharged, & we both returned to Ber- wick the place of our nativity.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official seal the day and year first above written -
Brn. Greene

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
YORK, ss. }
ON this thirty first day of March A. D. 1818, before me the subscriber, Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the first Eastern Circuit in said Commonwealth, personally appears Moses Wadley , aged about  thirty years resident in South Berwick in said county of York, who being by me first 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 enlisted the said Wadley in the year 1776 enlisted as a private soldier in the continental army under Col. Moses Whiting of the Regiment commanded by Col. Gates of the Massachusetts line, and continued to do his duty in said Company until he was transferred to Col. Wentworth  Leavitt Company of the Regiment commanded by Col. Peirce & continued to do his duty in the last mentioned Company & Regiment about three months when he was again transferred to Col. Wentworth  Gray Company of Col. Jackson Regiment & that he continued to do duty in the last mentioned Company & Regiment for the term of twelve months at the expiration of said term he was honorably discharged—but that if he rec d . a written discharge he has long since lost it.
And the said Wadley further states (a fact he well knows as he has been treated by the Govr. in part for some time past)
That he is reduced in his circumstances and needs the assistance of his country for support, and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services.
Sworn to and declared before me the day and year above said.
Benj t Greene
I, BENJAMIN GREENE, Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the first Eastern Circuit, in the Commonwealth aforesaid, do certify, that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Moses Wadley did serve in the revolutionary war against the common enemy, as he has stated in his declaration aforesaid—and that he is reduced in his circumstances, and needs the assistance of his country for his support.—And I do now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me to the Secretary for the Department of War, pursuant to the directions of the before mentioned act of Congress.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this thirty fifth day of June Anno Domini, 1818.
Benj t Greene

I Seaman Chadbourne of South Ber- wick in the County of York and State of Maine aged eighty two depose and say that I was well acquainted with Moses Wardley before, during, & since the revolutionary war, we were both born in Berwick now called South Berwick, and always have lived in the same town till about fourteen years since when Mr Moses Wardley died - I can well remember that in April on the first of May 1775 Mr. Moses Wardley enlisted in Capt. Philip Hubbards company in the Massachusetts line in the Continental Army for eight months - I belonged to Capt Ebenezer Sullivans company of said eight months for which I now draw a pension The whole service was at Cambridge Brookline & Charlestown - I frequently saw said Wardley there - He was with me at the Battle of Bunker Hill, = and was with me discharged the last day of Decem- ber AD 1775 - I returned home when I did - He was married to Patience Grant before the revolutionary war & of course before the service aforesaid, His widow the same Patience Wardley is now still living in the Barn house in South Berwick, & has been a Widow ever since the decease of Moses Wardley her said Husband - I was not present when they

were married, but have no doubt they were lawfully married, as they always lived together as husband & wife, reared up a large family of children & I never heard their marriage doubted -
The said Moses Wandlely & I both belonged to the same regiment viz: Col. Scammons' of Dico - Moulton of York Lt. Col. - and Daniel Wood was our Major - I am confident that the said Moses Wandlely served the eight months as before stated - - the word eight interlined before signing -
Scammon Andover
State of Maine County of York ss. On this eighth day of June A.D. 1837, then personally appeared the aforesaid Scammon Chadbourne, whom I certify to be a man of truth and veracity and made solemn oath that the foregoing deposition by him subscribed in my presence is true.
Before me Wm. A. Hayes Just Peace, York County Maine

I Timothy Wentworth of Berwick in the County of York and state of Maine aged Ninety years - do depose and say that in April 25, 1780 I was an officer to wit: first Lieutenant in a company of Massa- chusetts Militia, and in April of that year I was drafted to serve in the army of the revolu- tion for eight months. The company was soon after mustered and marched to Salmon new called Portland, and afterwards a part of the company marched to Fort Western, the place at which the fort was situated is now called Augusta. I served as Lieutenant in said company for said term of eight months & returned home Nov. 24 th 1780. Moses Wendy who deceased about fourteen years since served under me as a sergeant in said company for the term of eight months as aforesaid in the war of the revolution. He was honorably discharged and returned home when I did. He was married some years before the commencement of the Revolution any war, and at the time he served under me he had several children, his wife & their mother was then living and she is now living supported at the Poor house in South Berwick. He and I were both born and always lived in the same town and I have no doubt they were lawfully married as they had a large family of children, always lived together till he died, both belonged to respectable families, were regarded as husband and wife, and never heard their marriage doubted - I further testify that said Wendy served in the war

of the revolution a great portion of the time though I cannot specify any particular service, except as aforesaid when he served under me -
Timothy Wentworth
State of Maine
County of York ss. On the twenty sixth day of May A D 1937 personally appeared the aforesaid Timothy Wentworth, who is well known to me to be a person of truth and veracity & that his statements are entitled to full credit & swore that the foregoing deposition by him & subscribed in my presence is true
Before me Wm. A. Hays justice of the Peace York County Maine

I Joseph Prine of Berwick in the County of York and State of Maine aged seventy three yrs. in June next depose and say that I was an and have been for the last twenty three years town clerk of the town of Berwick, and that all the books of records belonging to said town are in my possession. It appears by evidence now before me that Jacob Foster was minister of the gospel settled & ordained in said town from the year 1754 to the year 1777 and many marriages solemnized by him are recorded on the town records before 1760 and after 1762 many marriages are recorded as solemnized by said Jacob Foster, by from January 8th 1760 to October the 14th 1762 no marriages are recorded on the town books although the town at that time contained between two and three thousand inhabitants and I cannot on the town books find recorded the marriage of Moses Wardley to his wife Patience Wardley, but I do find on the church records kept by said Jacob Foster in his hand writing near beside me, that Moses & Patience Wardley's eldest son was by him baptised by the name of "Hannah" September the 17th 1762 I have known said Moses Wardley since the time I was a child, - My father Col. Joseph Prine commanded a regiment of Massachusetts Militia in the year 1780, & served eight months in Portland then called Falmouth, and the said Moses Wardley belonged to a company which went from this town & served eight months in said company during the war of the revolution from April to November 1780 - in my father's Regiment - He said Wardley served as a sergeant - I saw the company mustered at my father's house in Berwick

saw them when they marched for Salmons, & I visited my father while at Salmons & saw the troops under his command remained there six weeks, and I saw the troops when they returned to Berwick in the Autumn - of the said Wendell served the same time the others did - I do further depose and say that the said Moses Wendell was reputed to have been married many years before he served in the army as aforesaid, to his wife Patience who is now living in the South Berwick Penn County of whom I have seen within a few weeks - They had a large family of children, brought to respectable families and I never heard their marriage doubted - They lived together as husband & wife till about four ten years ago when he died & she has remained a widow ever since.
Joseph Prine
State of Maine County of York } on this eighth day of June A.D. 1837 - personally appeared the aforesaid Joseph Prine, whom I certify to be well known to me as a man of truth & veracity of his statements entitled to full credit, and swore to & subscribed the foregoing deposition Before me Wm. A. Hayes Judge of Probate District Court County of York Maine }

I Martha Bleisted of South Berwick in the County of York, and State of Maine, Widow aged eighty two the fourteenth day of November last past do depose and say that when I was in I was very young I have known Masey Wandley and his Wife Patience Wandley, and have lived very near them ever since I was married sixty two years since. I have always understood that they were lawfully married. They were respectable people & both belonged to respectable families, and I never heard their marriage indicated. They always lived together as husband and wife ever since they were married till he died except when he was in the army during the revolutionary war - their oldest child Abraham Wandley was drowned - & they had afterwards eight other children - I remember well when her husband was in the army during the revolutionary war, that she used to go out to work out doors at mens works cutting wood & farming work to maintain herself & her children - she was poor & worked very hard. Her Masey Wandley died in September in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred & twenty three, I was present in the house where he died - His Widow Patience Wandley is still living & has remained a widow ever since the death of her said husband -
Witness Wm. A. Hayes, Martha her X Bleisted Mark
State of Maine
County of York ss On the this thirteenth day of June A.D. 1837 Then personally appeared the aforesaid Martha Bleisted, whom I certify to be a person of truth & veracity, & her statements entitled to full credit & prove to & subscribed the foregoing Deposition.
Before me Wm. A. Hayes Just Peace

Moses Wardley
Payable semi-annually. The first payment on this Certificate will be made on the 4th of March next, in Portland, Maine at the Cumberland B ks
Record

War Department.
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.
I CERTIFY that, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 18th March, 1818,
Moses Windley . . . . . late a private in the Army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the District of Maine Agency, at the rate of Eight dollars per month, to com- mence on the 31 st day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighteen
GIVEN at the War Office of the United States, this Sixth . . . . . day of September one thousand eight hundred and nineteen
J. C. Calhoun
Secretary of War.
1-1. 2. 02

Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the third section of an Act of Congress of the fourth day of July A.D. 1836-
State of Maine County of York ss -
On this eighth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & thirty seven personally appeared before William Allen Hayes Esquire Judge of the Court of Oyer & terminer being a Court of record within and for the said County of York in the State of Maine Patience Wendley a resident of South Berwick in the County of York aged Ninety seven years who by reason of her great age and bodily infirmity is unable to travel and attend Court, and who being first sworn according to her oath doth on her oath make the following Declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed July 11 th A.D. 1836 -
That she is the widow of Moses Wendley who was a soldier in the Army of the Revolution, and since as stated in his declaration in the Pension Department at Washington on which he drew a pension in conformity with the Act of the United States of the eighteenth of March A.D. 1818 - agreeably to his certificate numbered fourteen thousand two hundred & two, and which is hereunto annexed - and the said Patience Wendley further declares that her said husband Moses Wendley the last of April or first of May A.D. 1775 enlisted as a private soldier in Capt Philip Habben's company in Col. Seamen's

Regiment Massachusetts line of the army of the United States for eight months. He immediately joined the said company, marched to Cambridge, served the term of eight months for which he enlisted, and returned home about the first of January A.D. 1776. While he was absent on this duty he was in the battle of Bunker Hill, as he has often told me.
Afterwards in the early spring of the year of our Lord seventeen hundred & eighty her said husband Moses Wendley was drafted to serve as a Sergeant in Massachusetts Militia in the army of the revolution for the term of eight months. On the first of April A.D. 1780 he joined the company commanded by Capt. Jeremiah Goodwin, & Lieutenant Timothy Wentworth in Col. Joseph Paine's Regiment marched to Falmouth near Portland, and served eight months there and at Fort Western as a Sergeant of his company was discharged & returned home the very last of November A.D. 1780. She further declares that her said husband Moses Wendley served his country in the army & in the navy nearly the whole time of the war of the revolution.
She further declares that she was married to the said Moses Wendley in the autumn of the year of our Lord seventeen hundred & sixty. By the Rev. Jacob Foster the minister of the town of Berwick, where my said husband & I then & ever since have resided; that her said husband Moses Wendley died on or about the fifteenth day of September in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred & twenty three, and that she has remained a widow ever since that period as will more fully appear by reference to the proof herewith annexed.
Witness Wm. A. Hayes - Patience W. Wendley marks

State of Maine County of York ss - On this eighth day of June in the year of our Lord eight hundred and thirty seven - Then personally appeared the aforesaid Patience Wendley, whom I certify to be unable, by reason of her very great age & bodily infirmity, to travel and attend court and prove to and subscribe the aforesaid Declaration on the day & year above written
Before me Wm. A. Hays Judge of Probate York County Maine
State of Maine. York county ss.
I William Cutter Allen, Register of the Court of Probate for the state and county aforesaid, hereby certify that the Hon. William A. Hays is the Judge of the Court of Probate aforesaid, as above stated, and is also a Justice of the peace within and for said county of York, and that his signatures hereto annexed are his genuine signatures.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this seventeenth day of June, 1837.
Wm. Cutter Allen, } Reg. Prob. York Co. }

2/66 Declaration of Patience Wm. Lay evidence to sup- port the same -
on roll Capt. Jedediah Goodwin Co. Vol 36 page 6 from May 3 to Nov 20, 1780 as a private for six months 18 days, disch 15 Nov 1780
Capt. Grayfield Jackson
admitted for 18 months & 18 days Pr. $ 62. -

Recd
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 25,860
Patience Wardley Wid of Moses Wardley Rev Rev War
Act July 11 th 1839
Index : Vol W , Page 314
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Moses Wardlaw Maine Act March 13. 1818. To what time paid?
Pen. Officr
p. 1. 4 Sep 1822 — (Deed) H
July 28. 1857

2166 Patience Wordley Maine
26 June 51
Rev. Almon H. Davis Washington

South Berwick (Maine) June 19 1837
Hon. Albion K. Parris
Dear Sir,
I have this day forwarded to the Pension department the declaration of Patience Wendley for a pension as the Widow of a revolutionary soldier deceased. She is ninety seven years old, and has been for many years supported as a pauper. She is now very well but must soon die by reason of her very great age. Now, Sir, the object of this letter is to request you to procure an early attention to this application. If the money should be received while she is living, she from her wants approximate to her death, will be able to remunerate the Government for their great expenses for her support for many years, but if she should die before the money should be received, it must go to her undutiful children who have never been willing to contribute a cent for her support.

There is no question of her right to a pension, and I apprehend the commissioners will find the declaration of the proof formal - You will do a great act of justice to the town of South Berwick, as well as a special favor to me if you will procure an early attention of the commissioners to Mrs. Wendley application.
Respectfully -
Yours &c
Wm. A. Hays

26 June to A. Mayes So. Berrish Patience Mardley Art. 4 July 31 Revaluationary Claims
Hon James L. Edwards Commissioner of Pensions Washington

South Berwick, June 19 - 1937
Dear James L. Edwards Commissioner of Pensions
Sir
Inclosed I send you the Application of Patience Wendley for a pension. As she is very old, and as there can be no doubt of her right to a pension, I must earnestly request you to forward her certificate as soon as possible. She has been for many years a town pauper, and she wishes to receive the money that she may make some remuneration to the town for her support for many years. If she should die before the money should be received it would mostly go to her children who have never contributed a cent for her support. Therefore in order that justice may be done, I hope you will in medi- ately, examine the case & forward the certificate to me.
Respectfully
Yours
Wm. A. Hayes