Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 16257, for Moses Losey, New Jersey

SERVICE
NUMBER
New Jersey
Losey, Moses
S16257
buried
CONTENTS

Enclosed you have M rs Losey's paper for a pension, if it answer the requisitions, forward to Rising Sun Ind.
To Secretary of War
Caleb A. Craft Rising Sun Ind. Aug 19. 1822.

2037 Indiana
Moses Losey Doubtless Co. in the State of Indiana who was a private in the Company commanded by Captain Withers of the Regt. commanded by Col. Shrives in the New Jersey line for 9 months and 5 days from 1778
Enscribed on the Roll of Indiana at the rate of Twenty Dollars 34 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 15th day of November 1832 and sent to Caleb A. Craft Rising Sun Ind.
Arrears to 4th of Sept 1832 45.81 Pension, allowance ending 4 March 1833 15.27 $ 61.08
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Henry C. Sylvester Book G. Vol. 9 Page 188

BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of Moses Losey which require further proof or explanation.
I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides? yes II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides? yes III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so? IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served? yes V. *Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled? yes VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations? yes VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832? yes VIII. Has the Court given their opinion? yes IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate? yes X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal? yes & has a device,

XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service? 110 XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it? 120 XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had? XIV. † If the applicant has produced a witness or witnesses as to his service, has the magistrate who administered the oath certified that he, she, or they are persons of credibility? XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service? XVI. ‡ Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct? 110 XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered? 110
 EXPLANATORY NOTES.
* QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
“Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades: For _____ year _____ months and _____ days. I served as a _____. For _____ months and _____ days, I served as a _____; and for such service I claim a pension.”

35210.
Moses Losey Indiana
from 1778. private 9 mos. 5 days.
look in Col. Museum of Phila
on Roll.

BRIEF in the case of  Moses Lacey,  of Randolph Dearborn Co., in the State of Indiana  (Act 7th June, 1832.)
1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? In open court
2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?
3. How old is he? about 70 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.     Enlisted In 1778 July 1 st Left the Service 5 th March 1779 As a Private Gen. 2 nd Reg t Jersey line Capt Wilkinson Col o Shrews Lieut. Col o Lane  
5. In what battles was he engaged?
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Morristown New Jersey.
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls?  on Roll
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect?
X Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
Examining Clerk.

P 16257
INVALID.
File No. 16257
Moses Lacey
Tri Brew Mar
Act: June 7 th 89
Index:—Vol. 1 , Page 352
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Declaration of Moses Losy of Col. Shreeves Regiment
Certificate & Seal of the Dearborn Probate Court
Aug st 14 th 1832

State of Indiana Dearborn County } ss
On this fourteenth day of August 1832 personally appeared before the Honorable Dearborn Probate Court of the County of Dearborn in open court now sitting Moses Losy a Resident of Randolph in the County of Dearborn in the State of Indiana aged about seventy 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 provision made by the Act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832 in the agency of the United States 4 th July 1848 with Capt Wilkinson That he enlisted in the Second Regiment of the Jersey Line under the following named officers as far as he can recollect Colonel Shreves Commandant Lieut Col Lane other officers not recollect. That he left the service on the 5 th March 1779. That he enlisted in Morristown New Jersey and marched with the Regiment except when sick
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the pension Roll of any agency in any State
Sworn to and subscribed this day and year aforesaid
Moses X Losy
James Dill Clerk
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as he states
I James Dill Clerk of the Dearborn Probate Court do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Moses Losy for a pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office this 14 th August 1832
James Dill Clerk of the probate court