Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 11743, Moses White, Continental (Mass.)

SERVICE
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continental (Mass)
White, Moses
S: 11743
{ B.L. Mt. 2378-300-Sept. Issued Nov. 22, 1791 No papers.
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CONTENTS

Let 16 Hon C. H. Peaselee 15 May 52
32.9 2 / 4 0
District of Columbia Moses White
of Coos Co in the State of New Hampshire who was an Aid-de-Camp in the by Captain of the commanded by Brig Gen Moses Hazen in the Continental. line for 2 years
Inscribed on the Roll of District of Columbia at the rate of 6 00 Dollars Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831. & end on the 28th May 1833
Certificate of Pension issued the 31th day of Jan'y 1852
and sent to Hon Chas H Peaselee
HOR
Arrears to the 4th of
semi-annual allowance ending
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by A. H. Markland Clerk,
Bo Vol. 6 Page 119

No of orig Pay 287-
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIMS.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
July 26. 1828.
Moses White, of Lancaster, in the County of Coos, in the State of New Hampshire, has applied to the Secretary of the Treasury for the benefits of the act, entitled "An Act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the army of the Revolution," approved on the 15th of May, 1828. He states that he was as an officer on the Continental line, and served as such to the end of the war,
at which period he was a captain in the Hazen's regiment of the line; and that he received commutation certificates for the five years full pay granted by the resolve of 22 March, 1783; and, further, that he has received as a pensioner since the 3d of March, 1826, four hundred and eighty dollars, paid to him by the agent in the State of Massachusetts.
The Third Auditor is requested to report how far these several statements are corroborated by the records in his office.
By order of the Secretary, A. Dikins.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
THIRD AUDITOR'S OFFICE,
29. July 1828
It appears by the records in this office, that final settlement certificates have been issued for the commutation of five years full pay to Moses White - Captain in the Hazen's Reg't, amounting to Twenty four Hundred dollars.
It further appears that Moses White is now on the pension list of the Massachusetts agency, and has been since the 3 d March 1826 at the rate of Twenty Dollars per month.
Peter Hagner And
correct No 48,648

For the purpose of obtaining the benefits of an Act, entitled "an Act for the relief of certain surviving Officers and soldiers of the Army of the Revolution," approved on the 15 th of May, 1828, I Moses White, of Lancaster, in the County of Coos in the State of New Hampshire, do hereby declare that I was an Officer in the Continental line of the Army of the Revolution, and served as such to the end of the War, at which period I was a Captain in the Regiment commanded by Brigadier General Moses Hazen.
And I also declare, that I afterwards received a Certificate (commonly called a Commutation Certificate) for a sum equal to the amount of five years full pay; which sum was offered by the resolve of Congress, of the 22 nd of March, 1783, instead of the half pay for life, to which I was entitled under the resolve of the 21 st of October, 1780.
And I do further declare, that I have received of the United States, as a pensioner, since the 3 rd day of March, 1826, the sum of four hundred and eighty dollars, paid to me by the Agent for paying pensions in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Moses White
Before me, John W. Weeks, Justice of the Peace, duly empowered to administer oaths, in the County of Coos, in the State of New Hampshire, personally appeared, this day Benjamin Adams and John H. White of said County, who did severally, make oath, that Moses White, by whom the foregoing declaration was subscribed, is generally reputed and believed to have been an Officer in the Army of the Revolution, in manner as therein stated.
Witness my hand, this 25 th day of June, in the year 1828.
John W. Weeks Jus. Peace
I Adino N. Brackett, Clerk of the Superior Court of Judicature for the County of Coos, & State of New Hampshire do hereby certify, that John W. Weeks before whom the foregoing affidavit was sworn, was at the time a Justice of the Peace & duly empowered to administer oaths. In testimony of which I have hereunto set my hand, & affixed the seal of said Court, this twenty fifth day of June, in the year one thousand eight hundred & twenty eight. A. N. Brackett, Clerk.

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Moses White
Moses White

Act 1828
Settled at
Treasury
Cousin with
Small file
# 11.7.43

Lancaster N.H. June 25 th 1828.
Hon. Richard Rush, Secretary of the Treasury, United States,
Sir,
Inclosed are sent the documents, to obtain the provision made to the Officers of the Revolution, by the Act of 15 th May 1828, agreeably to the forms contained in the National Journal of the 31 st May, 1828, together with my Commission. Should the pay be sent me in an order, or check upon any of the Banks of the United States, the one in Boston would best accommodate me, as the intercourse between this place & Boston affords greater facilities than that of Portsmouth.
With sentiments of great respect, I have the honor to be,
Sir,
Your obedient serv t .
Moses White

30 Cong. 35. 175 1 Sess.
Petition of John H. White and other children of Moses White, dec. for arrears of pension.
1848, Jan. 5, Referred to the Com. on Pensions March 20, Bill S. 175 & report.
Mr. Hale

To the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives of the United States in Congress assembled.
Your petitioner respectfully represents that his father Moses White late of Lancaster in the State of New Hampshire, served seven years in the Army of the Revolution and at the close of the war was found to have been disabled in said service, and was placed on the Invalid Pension roll in consequence thereof. He was a Captain in Haysens Regt. was for some years Paymaster of the same and was also Aide camp to Genl. Haysen.
In 1828 on being admitted to receive the provisions of the act of the 15 th May 1828 his invalid pension which he had received from the 3 rd of March 1826 to the 3 rd March 1828 was deducted from from the said annuity or pension and has never since been refunded. The acts of May 31 st 1830 & the 14 th June 1832 among other things enacts, that the act "approved the 15 th day of May 1828 for the relief of certain Officers & Soldiers of the Army of the Revolution the 3 rd section of which shall not be construed to embrace Invalid pensioners". Understanding that the construction of the act of May 31 st 1830 by the Officers of the department was prospective and that the department could not refund any money that had been deducted prior to May 31 st 1830. This decision of the department seems not to have been in accordance with the views of Congress, for in the case of Richard Anderson, a case analogous to this, a special act was passed for the relief of his heirs, which act, I am informed may be found in the 9 th Volume of the Laws of the U. States, Chapter 495 Page 382.
Your Memorialist claimed the amount deducted as aforesaid of the department in 1833 soon after the decease of the Pensioner. He therefore now prays that Congress may pass an act authorizing the department to refund the amount deducted as aforesaid & interest on the same to the surviving Children of the said Moses White, And as in duty bound will ever pray.
John H. White, for & in behalf of himself & the other children of the late Moses White
Dec r 29 th 1847

Moses White, Massachusetts Invalid N. Hampshire Pension Role
(Old papers want.)
See letter to Hon. C. G. Atherton, 11 Dec. 1844—
See Let. to Hon. C. Bates, Jan'y. 45 1845
" " M c H. White, Mar. 9, '46 same, April 12. 46—
Wm. H. Johnson, Jan 29/48
let. to Hon. Alpheus Felch March 8 '47
let. to Hon. J. H. Johnson
May 13 th '48 do. to J. H. White & Conrad R. H. P. Agt. 6 Dec. 1848—

Washington Feb. 25. 1848.
Sir,
Will you have the goodness to inform me at what time the name of Moses White a Revolutionary pensioner, was entered on the invalid pension roll and at what rate per month, and what amount of his invalid pension was deducted from the pension received by him under the act of May 15. th 1828 - agreeably to the second section of the last mentioned act. —
I am Sir, Very Resp'y, Your Oat. Servt.,
M r . J. L. Edwards
Alpheus D. Ch ch

Jan 11 th 1825-
Mr Edwards.
I enclose you the petition of the heirs of Miss White. Will you inform the Committee that your administration has been in the report referred to and oblige yours,
J. C. Bates
Chairman of Comm on Pensions
Comm ee of Pensions

(Clements) Jan'y 18. 1834
Dear Sir
Mr Burns has this moment informed me that there will be no further objection to granting a pension to the Claims of the White I therefore return her papers -
Yours !
W. H. Chapman

Bertram
✓ 11.743 INVALID.
File No. 11.743
Neosis White Aid-de-Camp Capt. Rev. war.
Act: June 7 th 1832
Index:—Vol. A , Page 404
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Col. Hazen's Order to Engr. Movers -
300-
10
From M c Campbell

Camp Harmons Feb 22 d March 1785
Sir
Please to pay to Ensign B: Movers Three Hundred Dollars and share the same to account of your Hum ble Servant
300 Dollars
Morris Haren Col:
Lt. N: White } Paymaster — }

March 21 st 1700 Capt. Morris White
The contents of the within Order
Ben Macrinduff
Col. Marquis Order to Ens & Movers - 300-
10

no 5. Col. Hazen's Receipt -24.018. Dollars

Haverhill Coos August 17 th 1779, Then received of Captain Moses White A Paymaster of my Reg t Twenty Four Thousand Eight Hundred and Eighteen Dollars, which was drawn for the pay of the Regiment, and which I promise to be accountable for ————— Moses Warren Col.

Received Camp Croton Bridge October 21 st 1779. of Colonel Moses Hazen, Twelve Thousand Dollars, part of the within ————— H. White Capt.

Received Camp Croton Bridge October 21 st 1779. of Colonel Moses Hazen, Twelve Thousand Dollars, in part of the within ————— H. White capt n

Hazins, Certificate
No. 1

These may certify whom it may concern, that Major Moses White of Rutland in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, served as my aid-de-camp in the late Revolutionary War, from the first day of August One thousand seven hundred & eightyone to the close of the war; during which time I held the Rank of a Brigadier General & commanded a Brigade, or a detachment from the line of the Army, in a separate department: - and Major White was at the charge of keeping a Store & Quarters necessary to enable him to perform the  said Duties of said Office, which he executed to my full satisfaction.
Given under my hand, at Troy, in the State of New York, the fourth Day of September A. D. 1802.
Test Theod r Drake Ebene r Darling
Moses his  Nazen marks.

No. 6. Col Hazzins Receipt to July 31 st 1780.
4025

Received from Capt: Moses White Four Thousand and Twenty five Dollars in full for my Pay and subsistence from the first of January last, to the last of July following Camp Lopez 6 th Oct: 1780
4025 Dollars
Moses Haren Col:

No. 21. Major Torrey's Receipt for -3113 \frac{75}{100} Dollars
12

Received September 26 th 1780. of Captain Moses White Three Thousand one Hundred Thirteen Dollars \frac{75}{100} on account of my pay in Col. Hazen's Regiment in 1780. For which I promise to be accountably
John Dorey. Major

Col Hazen's order to Capt. Munroe Dec.
1862

800 Dollars
Camp Narmooris Town 21 st March 1780
Sir
you will please to pay to Capt: William Manson eight hundred Dollars which charge to account of your Humb l Servants
Moses Haren
Capt: Moses White } Paymaster to the Regt. }

Rec March 21 st 1700 - of Capt. Moses White the contents of the within Binder W m Munjan capt
Col. Morgan's Order to Capt. Munjan Dec -
1700

As Moses White, Sec y N.Y. Act 7 June 1832,
Adm o two years Aid de Camp $1000 per annum, less former pay at $480 per under Act of 15 May 1828 ann ly Comg 4 March 1831 & end g 28 May 1833,
Payable to
John H. White, Ester A. Putnam Charlotte L. White & Mary Jane Williams, only surv g children
H. C. Bell
Hon C. H. Peaslee W of R

Ho of Reps Dec 8 th 1851
Sir
I herewith enclose the declaration of Col John H White of Lancaster N.H. claiming arrears of pension on account of his father's services in the war of the Revolution and additional evidence clearly establishing his claim. I beg your early attention to this matter. I have the honor to be very respectfully C. H. Pease

Pension Office, January 29. 1848.
Sir,
The petition of John H. White, one of the children of Moses White, dec d . claiming arrears of Invalid's pension, is herewith returned.
I would respectfully refer you to the enclosed extract of my letter of the 11 th December 1844, to the Hon. C. G. Atherton which will shew why the Department cannot refund the amount claimed.
I have the honor To be, Respectfully Your obed t Servant. G. W. Humphreys
Hon. Henry Johnson, Senate W. S.

Pension Office, March 8th, 1848.
Sir,
In answer to your letter of the 25th ultimo I have to inform you that when Mosey White's name was placed upon the Pension roll, under the Act of 13th May, 1828, the amount he received as an Invalid Pensioner from 3rd March, 1826, to 31st May, 1830, at the rate of Twenty Dollars per month was deducted.
We cannot state the time his name was first entered on the Invalid Pension roll. It was, however, previous to 1814, as his papers were all destroyed with the War Department in that year.
I have the honor to be, Very respectfully, Your Obt. Servt. H. S. Evans for Comr of Pensions
Hon. Alpheus Fletcher, Senate United States.

Brief in the case of Moses White, dec d , late of Coos County and State of New Hampshire act 7 June 1832
Claim, ( "original," or "for increase.")
Proof exhibited, (if original.)
Is it documentary, traditional, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance.
(If for increase.)
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what?
Record evidence & rolls shew that the pensioner served as Paymaster V Redde Camp
Name and residence of Agent.
Hon C. H. Peabody Wash g
S. P. Col Examining Clerk.

Rec d the certificate of the Surgeon in the case of Mrs. White who was an invalid pensioner - and sent the same to Mrs. White.
W. H. Woodward

I hereby certify that I have no doubt the reason of Gen Morris Harn signing his name by a mark in 1802 was on account of a paralytic attack under which he labored for a long time - I have heard my father & other relatives of Gen Harn frequently say that he was confined to his bed for a long time by attacks of Paralysis and I think for about twenty years.
The high respectability of the parties applying for a pension places beyond doubt the genuineness of the papers & perfect reliance may be placed upon their statements.
C. H. Parker MC
Quincy N.Y.
Washington Dec 8 1817

Copy
Pension Office, Dec. 11. 1844.
Sir,
Mr. J. H. White asks the Dept. to refund the amount of his Invalid Pension from 3 d March 1826 to the 31 st May 1830, which was deducted from his pension under the laws of May 15. 1828. We have no power whatever to refund the money. The Attorney General gave his opinion that the Act of May 31. 1830 was prospective, and that the Department could not refund any money that had been deducted prior to May 31. 1830. In the case of Richard Anderson, a case analogous to this, a special act was passed for the relief of his heirs, which act you will find in the 9 th vol. of the Laws of the U. S. Chapter 495, page 382.
I have the honor &c.
Hon. C. G. Atherton, (Signed) S. L. Edwards Senate N. S.

Lancaster N.H. December 9 th 1833
Hon. Lewis Cass Secretary of War,
Sir. Your favor of the 6 th ult o together with the report of the Commissioner of Pensions in relation to the claim of My late father Moses White, was duly rec d wherein he says "It does not appear that any papers respecting his case have been rec d here since the 11 th Sept r ." I immediately procured a second set of papers agreeably to his requirements in a former report and enclosed them in a letter to you dated Nov. 15 th and lodged it at the Post Office in this town on the same day - supposing that sufficient time had elapsed to entitle me to a reply. I have been apprehensive that My communication of the 15 th ult o a similar fate of that of a former date. A sense of duty, therefore compels me, very reluctantly however, to trouble you further in relation to this Matter. I would respectfully ask the favor of you to inform me how the case now stands & if any thing further is required to enable me to receive what may be due from the Government to the heirs of My dec d father.
With great respect, I subscribe My self
Your O bt Serv t
John H. White

John H. White Sept. 27 - 1833
Encloses physician's certificate of disability of his father.
Moses White Capt Invalid - papers burned.
Section of War Dept. to J. H. White Dec. 20. 1833 Washington City
Hon. Lewis Cass Pension Office Dec 28. 1832
Oct 5. 1836 Pension Office J. H. White M ay 28

FINRR Oct 5 1833 Lancaster Sept 28 Pension Office
Dec 28 1832
Rev. Lewis Cass Pulaski, Michigan
Secretary of War
Dec 30 1833
Washington City to Mr. J. H. White
Uncle - before leaving
Dear White Capt.
Ohio State. certificate of disability Eastern physician
Apr 27 1833
John H. White

Lancaster N.H. September 27 th 1833
Dear Sir,
Agreeably to your letter of the 11 th Inst. I herewith have the honor to enclose the certificate of the Physicians - duly authenticated, agreeably to the report of the Commission of Pensions. Should it prove satisfactory, you will confer a favor by transmitting to me the amount which may be found due my deceased Father, by a check on the Branch Bank at Boston as the facilities between this place & that are very far preferable to that of Portsmouth.
With sentiments of great respect
I am, Sir,
Your Most O bt . Servant
John A. White
Hon. Lewis Cass

Hon. J. L. Edwards, It appears by your letter of Dec. 28 th 1833 directed to John H. White, that you require the Surgeons to give an explanatory statement showing why they made examinations respecting the disability of his Father Moses White in Sept. 27. 29 & 31 - In reply we would state, that, by the requisition of the law of 1819 we considered it necessary (as did the applicant) to make such examination in cases of those applying for the benefit of that act once in two years - we accordingly did make such examination at his request and certified accordingly in compliance with the said act of 1819, which was the reason why we made such examinations & certificates accordingly in 27. 29 & 31. and we would further state that his disability did continue from 1826 until the time of his death as stated within - What use was made of those certificates, or for what purpose he obtained them we are unable to say -
Eliph Lyman M.D. B Hunking M.B.
State of New Hampshire
Cooos ss Lancaster Jan 10 th 1834. Personally appeared Eliphalel Lyman & Benjamin Hunking signers of the above statement and made oath that the same was true -
Jared Williams Jur. Race

We the subscribers practising Physicians of the Town of Lancaster County of Coos in the State of New Hampshire do hereby certify, that we have formerly (to wit) in September 1827 in September 1829 & in September 1831 made a careful examination in the case of Moses White who was on the Massachusetts Invalidd Pension roll, & at those times, certified that the disease with which he was affected & for which disease (called Hæmoptosis) he was placed on the roll did continue — And further, that it continued, until his death in May 1833 — & was in our opinion, the remote cause of his decease and not less than the original degree of disability, for which he was placed on the pension roll — Eliphalet Lyman M.D. Benja Hunkins M.B.
Sworn, and subscribed to, before me this fifteenth day of November 1833 Jared W. Williams Just Peace
I certify, that the Physicians who have signed the above certificate, are reputable in their professions — Jared W. Williams Just Peace
I William Farrar Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Coos & State of New Hampshire. Certify that Jared W. Williams is a Magistrate as above, and that the foregoing signature, purporting to be his, is genuine. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed my seal of Office, and subscribed my name, this 15 th day of November in the year of our Lord A.D. 1833 —
Wm Farrar
Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for Coos County New Hampshire

Leicester N.H. Nov. 15 th 1833
Hon. Lewis Cass. Secretary of War.
Sir. Your favor of the 6 th Ins t with the Commissioners Report, I have rec d by which it appears that the evidence required in a former Report of the said Commissioners to enable me to obtain what might be found due the heirs of My Deceased Father Moses White, which evidence I did obtain & forwarded to you, did not reach the Dep t . I have therefore gone through the ceremony again & hope the enclosed will meet with better success - I would make a single remark in relation to a portion of P- Report of the Commissioners He says "It appears from the Rolls of the Mass s Invalid Pensioners that Moses White, a Captain, received a pension of $20 per month up to the 3 rd March 1826, and that under the act of May 15. 1828. he received the benefits of that Law. His Pension ceased in 1826. Under the act of May 30. 1830 he never applied to this Department to be restored to the Invalid Roll. Consequently the amount claimed by him in his letter to the Secretary of the Treasury was never paid. In answer to what I have understood

I would observe that the correspondence, of which, I forwarded you a copy, commenced with a letter to you, claiming the benefits of the law of 1830 - as that letter was never replied to, it is to be presumed it did not reach the Dept. and consequently ought not in the least to prejudice the claim on that account -
With sentiments of high respect -
I am, Sir, Your Most -
Obt. & humble servant
John H. White
N.B. For any elucidation of the surgeons certificate, herewith enclosed, reference may be had to his original certificate from the surgeons of the Army, now on file in the War Dept.; & likewise, to the various certificates he has rec d from surgeons, relating to the continuance of his disease.
J.W.W.

Lancaster N.H. Feb. 1 st 1847
Hon. S. L. Edwards Commissioner of Pensions
Sir:
Agreeably to Your letter to Hon. C. G. Atherton of Dec. 15 th 1844 in answer to My own to him of a previous date, I transmitted to him the documents which I relied upon to establish the claim or claims of the heirs of Moses White to a pension or pensions due him as Aid de Camp to Brig. Genl. Hazen And also as Paymaster of his Hazen's Regiment, in the Revolutionary war. These documents with Mr. Atherton's note enclosing them to You dated Augt. 8 th 1846 have somewhat in a mysterious manner been returned to Me without a single allusion in regard to them, I now respectfully address You personally upon the subject with the hope that You will enlighten Me in regard to it. In the first place I would remark that this matter is now & has been a bill of expense to Me for Agents are continually writing soliciting an agency. I have confidently trusted to the Magnanimity of the Proper Officers of the Government to do us justice without being compelled to give one half or fourth of the sum due the heirs of a Meritorious Officer, to an Agent, and I trust I may not be disappointed in this Confidence. In Your letter referred to above You direct Me to produce "record proof to show how long said Moses White was a Staff Officer, what appointment he held and the amount per Month he rec d in addition to his pay in the line."
The said documents were submitted to Your inspection as I infer from the letter of Mr. Atherton. If so You probably found all these points made out, and fully established. Among the same, there was a bill which passed the Senate & House of Representatives in Congress on or about the 2 nd day of Feby. 1803, ordering the proper accounting Officers to adjust & settle the claim of Moses White for his additional pay & emoluments as Aid de Camp to Brig. Genl. Moses Hazen from Augt. 1 st A.D. 1781 to Nov. 3 rd 1783 according

accompanying said bill was a report of the Committee of Claims on the Petition of Moses White, dated Jan'y 27 th A.D. 1803. The Case was then fully examined by both houses of Congress, and passed upon, and you will find on the records of Congress of those dates the facts recorded, I think, that said Moses White was Aid de Camp to Brig. Genl. Hovey for the time aforesaid. If tis necessary for me now renew the examination of the same facts which were then passed upon, I have the means to establish them beyond controversy again. I have the original Certificate of Genl. Hovey referred to on the 4 th Page of said report which once satisfied Congress that he was Aid de Camp for said time, I have the receipts of Genl. Hovey & other officers of his Regt. which My father received while holding the Office of Paymaster to Hovey's Regt. Then there is the bill which passed Congress ordering the payment to him of the sum which was due him for his services as Aid de Camp for said time "upon the same principles which have heretofore prevailed in the settlement of the accounts of Aid de Camps to Brig. Genls. in the Revolutionary Army."
The sum which was actually paid, I have no doubt you will find among the papers of the Department with said White's receipt for the same.
What the ordinary sum paid Aid de Camp is, I suppose, well settled by the rules of the Department. If I mistake not the points you mentioned are all fully made out by the documents referred to which you have seen unless some mistake has happened. The Claim is just and we feel willing to furnish the fullest proof. Please inform me whether the documents were satisfactory, and if any thing more is needed to establish the Claim. And also if Congress has made provision for refunding the amount deducted from My father's Invalid pension,
With sentiments of great respect
I am, Your Ob t Servt.
John H. White

March 24/52
Thank her soon
Mrs. White
Mrs. L. Edwards Commissioner of Pensions Washington City
PAID 10

Lancaster N. H. March 18 th 1847
Wm. L. Edwards.
Sir. I have the pleasure of acknowledging the receipt of your letter of the 9 th inst in which you inform me that "There is yet no evidence before us to shew that there was any staff service performed by the officer under whom this claim is set up." I now take the liberty to enclose directly to you a part of the papers which I alluded to in my letter to you of Feb 1 st 1847 as having been mysteriously returned to me, feeling confident they were never in your hands. For stronger proof of the service of my father as Aide-de-camp to Genl. Hagen, I presume would not be required, if it could be produced than the enclosed documents afford.
It may be proper for me to say, that Genl. Hagen was afflicted the last 17 years of his life with paralysis which deprived him of the power to write, consequently was obliged to resort to the +. Should the enclosed evidence be satisfactory you will confer a favor by transmitting to me whatever may be justly due. first Please inform me what further may be necessary.
With great respect
Your Ob t . Servant
John H. White

Dec 4/48
Leicester N.H. Nov 29/48,
John H. White.
Asks for amt. of pension allowed by Will for relief of heirs of Moses White
W 35-9. See Dec 4/48
Pension Office

N.H. Lancaster Nov. 29 th 1848
Hon. W. L. Marcy Secretary of War
Sir, I am informed that at the last session of Congress a Bill was passed in accordance with my Petition, Authorizing the Secretary of War to allow & pay to the heirs at Law of Mans White deceased, late a pensioner on the revolutionary invalid pension roll, the amount of his invalid pension, from the third of March 1826 to the 31 st day of May 1830.
Will you have the goodness to inform me, what will be required to entitle the said heirs to receive the Money, I would observe that My father the said Mans White died in May 1833 and in 1834 all the other heirs constituted me their atty. to receive from the Agent of the United States for paying pensions any sum or sums of Money which may be due the said Mans White or his heirs on account of his invalid pension &c. At that time I furnished the required evidence & received from the pension Agent in Boston, a considerable amount of arrearages. That Authority has never been revoked by the said heirs & I have acted under it up to the final accomplishment of getting the aforesaid bill through Congress.
Two of the heirs have deceased since My appointment to wit, Mrs. Peabody & Charles L. White the former leaving four minor heirs & the latter one, Should Your Honor

Consider me now Authorized to receive and receipt the amount designed by the said bill, You would confer a favor by remitting the same by a draft on the Treasury Agent in Boston. An early reply would oblige
Very Respectfully
Your Ob t Servant
John H. White

9 1/2 White Affidavit

State of New Hampshire Coos County. ss.
I John H. White of Lancaster in said County, do hereby declare and make oath that I am the son of Moses White late of Lancaster aforesaid, who was a Captain, Pay Master to Hovey's Reg t and Aid-de-camp to the late Brigadier General Moses Hovey in the War of the Revolution, who received a pension under the Act of May, 15 th 1828, and I am advised that the Act of June 7 th 1832 entitles the living Children of said Moses White to pay for the Staff Officers which he held as above stated. The pension certificate granted to My father by the Act of 15 th May 1828 has been surrendered to the proper Officer of the Government. I ask for an other certificate for the amount of Pensions which the Children of said White are now entitled to under the said Act of June 7 th 1832, and I hereby relinquish all and every claim whatsoever to a pension or pensions other than those now applied for. The names of the living Children beside Myself of the said Moses White are Esther A. Putnam Charlotte L. White & Mary Jane Williams. For the three Sisters I have Authority to act in this behalf. The evidence of My father's service has hitherto been presented to the proper Officer of the Government, accompanying this I forward proof of his serving as Aid-de-Camp from the first day of August 1781 to the close of the War. And as Pay master to Col o . Hovey's Regiment, his papers go to show that Mr. Clinn the real Pay master of said Reg t was early in the year 1777 removed from the Reg t to Albany as Commissioner of accounts.

and never joined the Regt. after. After which, from various accounts & receipts with Genl. Hovey & other officers of the Regt. now in My hands, some of which I transmit herewith to the Department, go to show beyond a doubt that My father did the actual duties of Pay Master for several years & was recognized by the Government as such.
John H. White
State of New Hampshire Coos Co.
Sworn to and subscribed to before me a judge of Probate for the County aforesaid this 1 st day of December A.D. 1857
Benja Hunking Judge Probate
I George A. Cassitt Register of Probate for the County of Coos do hereby certify that the above Benjamin Hunking is the Judge of Probate for the said County of Coos and the above signature of the said Benjamin Hunking is genuine
December 1. 1857
Geo. A. Cassitt Register of Probate
William A & Ellen A. White do solemnly swear that we are well acquainted with the said John H. White Estelle A. Putnam Charlotte L. White & Mary Jane Williams and know them to be the only surviving children of the late Moses White aforesaid
William A. White
Ellen A. White
State of New Hampshire Coos Co.
Sworn to and subscribed before me a judge of Probate for the County aforesaid this first day of December A.D. 1857 Benja Hunking Judge Probate

I hereby certify that I am acquainted with the aforesaid John H. White Estelle A. Putnam Charlotte L. White & Mary Jane Williams & know them to be the only surviving children of the late Mary White, and I am also acquainted with William A. & Ellen A. White the The witnesses aforesaid and know that they are creditable persons.
Benjamin Hunking Judge Probate
I George A. Cassitt Register of Probate for the County of Linn & State of New Hampshire do hereby certify that the above Benjamin Hunking is the Judge of Probate for the said County of Linn & the above signatures of the said Benjamin Hunking are genuine.
December 1. 1887.
Geo. A. Cassitt Register of Probate

Bill for the relief of Mr. White
No. 3
For the relief of Moses White.
 1 That it enacts, by the Senate and House of Representatives  2 that the proper accounting officers adjust and issue the claims  3 of Moses White, for his additional pay and emoluments as ad-  4 d-camp to Brigadier General Moore's division, from the time of  5 his arrival at Washington until the time of his discharge, to the third  6 day of November, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-one, to the third  7 day of November, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-one, to the third  8 upon the true principles which have heretofore prevailed in the  9 settlement of the accounts of officers of the army. 

2d FEBRUARY, 1803.
Read the first and second time, and ordered to be committed to a Committee of the whole House to-morrow.
A BILL
For the relief of Moses White.
1 Be it enacted , by the Senate and House of Representa- 2     tives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, 3     That the proper accounting officers adjust and settle the claim 4     of Moses White, for his additional pay and emoluments as aid- 5     de-camp to brigadier general Moses Hazen, from the first day of 6     August, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-one, to the third 7     day of November, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-three, 8     upon the same principles which have heretofore prevailed in the 9     settlement of the accounts of aids-de-camp to brigadier generals

[ 10 in the line of the revolutionary army ; and that they liquidate the 11 same in like manner as though a final settlement certificate, in 12 the customary form, had been issued therefor, when due.
Read the first and second time, and ordered to be committed to a Com- mittee of the whole House to morrow.
DUANE & SON, PRINTERS.
A BILL