Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 24,609, for Moses Lunt, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER _____
Mass.
Lunt, Moses Sarah
W. 24,609
CONTENTS

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Corrected Certificate Altered June 23 rd 1831 to Aldinno to Mr. Dickins & Pen Agent notified of application same date
Maine Sarah Grant, aged widow of Moses Grant who died on the 5 th Oct r 1813 of Portland in the State of Maine who was a Sergeant in the Company commanded by Captain Foyes of the Reg t commanded by Col.  in the Mass line for 6 months
Inscribed on the Roll of Portland at the rate of 30 Dollars 00 Cts per annum, to commence on the 4 th day March, 1831 & to end 6 th August 1831 when she died
Certificate of Pension issued the 22 nd day of May 1831 and  Dickins & Coombs
Arrears to the 4 th of Present Semi-annual allowance ending
Revolutionary Act July Section 1 th
Recorded by J. H. H. H. H. Book  Vol. 

STATE OF MAINE.
CUMBERLAND, SS.
PORTLAND,
July 28.
A. D. 1850
Probate Office,
I,
Freeman Bradford
REGISTER OF PROBATE,
In and for said COUNTY OF CUMBERLAND, certify that
Joseph Hsley who administered the oath to the within named affiant Daniel Gunt.
was an
Acting Justice of the Peace,
within and for the County of Cumberland as appears by the paper hereto annexed, that he was
DULY QUALIFIED TO ACT as such; that the
COMMISSION of the said Hsley was is dated February 9th.
A. D. 1843 and will expired February 7th.
A. D. 1850.
and that the following SIGNATURE, purporting to be his is genuine.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the Seal official of said Court, the day and year first above written.
Freeman Bradford Register.

State of Maine
On this twenty second day of July July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty personally appeared before the Hon Ashur Ware Judge of the United States for Maine District Eunice Hamblitt a resident of Portland in the County of Cumberland aged sixty three years who upon oath makes the following declaration in order to obtain for herself and the other surviving children of Sarah Gunt late of Portland deceased the pension that was due to said Sarah her mother under the Act of Congress passed July 1836 And this declarant states that her father Moses Gunt was a resident of Falmouth now Portland in the time of the Revolution and she has been informed by her mother that she the said Moses Gunt was a soldier of the Revolution. She believes that her father entered the service in the spring of 1775, and that as soon as there was any regular organization of the troops, that he entered the service in the company of Capt. Joseph Noyes and that he served in his company more than six months as a sergeant and received an honorable discharge. She states that her mother made application for a pension many years ago and adduced testimony in support of her said claim to which she refers the

Commissioner. She further states that her mother proved from the records in Massachusetts that her father Moses Gunt served six months and five days as a sergeant in Capt Joseph Noyes Company in 1777, that she was married to her said father on the 30th December 1773, that her father died on the 5th October 1813 and that she remained his widow.
She further declares that her mother Sarah Gunt died on the sixth August 1846, and at that time she was a widow and that Mary Griffith Eunice Hamblet Sarah Thomas and Hannah (over) are the only surviving children of the said Sarah Gunt deceased. She therefore in her own behalf and in behalf of the other children of said deceased claims a pension as due their late mother from March 4th 1831, to the sixth of August 1846, computed agreeably to the testimony in the case.
Witness A. Wren
Eunice Hamblet
Signed & sworn before me the undersigned this 22nd of July 1850 -
A. Wren
Judge of the U.S. Dist. Ct. Distr. of Columbia.

I certify that it has been satisfactorily proved to me that Sarah Hunt late of Westland deceased was the widow of Moses Hunt a revolutionary soldier & that she died at Westland August 6 th 1846 & left Mary Griffith, Emma Hunt, Sarah Thomas - & Hannah Green her children by her said husband Moses Hunt & that they are the only surviving children of the said Moses & Sarah
Aspen Warren
July 22. 1812
Group of the United States for the Bishop of Mission

United States of America Maine District ss. First Circuit.
I Geo. F. Comery, Clerk of the Circuit Court of the United States for the District & Circuit aforesaid, hereby certify that
Ashe Nourse
before whom the foregoing proceedings were had, is Judge of the United States for the District of Maine - the foregoing signatures purporting to be his are genuine, and the foregoing contains the original proceedings of said Judge in the matter of the application of Eunice Hamblet for a pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the Seal of said Circuit Court this twenty third day of July A. D. eighteen hundred & fifty
Geo. F. Comery, Clerk U.S. Dist. Court Maine

I Daniel Lunt of Falmouth in the County of Cumberland and State of Maine on oath depose & say that I am eighty three years of age and upwards and was born in the town of Falmouth near Portland and lived there and within five miles of there ever since. In 1775 I was 13 years of age and then lived where I now do which is about five miles from what was then called Falmouth neck. I am a brother of Moses Lunt late of Portland who was my oldest brother and about ten or twelve years older than myself. My brother was married before the commencement of the Revolutionary War in 1775. and at that time lived in Falmouth and was a blacksmith by trade. My brother was a soldier in Capt Joseph Boyes Company in 1775. and served as I always understood and believed the whole season. I am not able to state the commencement or the end of his service but I recollect that I was in Falmouth one while he was in the service and staid with him all night. My impression is that my brother served from 6 to 8 months in the year 1775. Daniel Lunt
State of Maine
Cumberland County ss. March 3 d 1846 Then appeared the above named Daniel Lunt known

to me as a man of truth and veracity and made oath to the foregoing affidavit by him signed. Before me Joseph H. Slay Justice of the Peace

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
MAINE DISTRICT, SS.
Circuit Court Clerk's Office, } FIRST CIRCUIT, PORTLAND, July 23 d A. D. 1854 }
I Geo. F. Emery
CLERK OF THE
CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES,
Within and for said MAINE DISTRICT, certify that
Joseph D. Dingley
Is an Acting Justice of the Peace,
Within and for the County of Cumberland : that he is Duly Qualified to act as such : that the COMMISSION of the said Joseph Dingley is dated January 16 th A. D. 1857 , and will expire January 16 th A. D. 1857 , and that the SIGNATURE appended to the Affidavit of Dana Lunt hereunto annexed, purporting to be his, is GENUINE.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my Hand and affixed the Seal of the said Circuit Court, this twentieth day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty
Geo. F. Emery } CLERK. C.C.M.S. for Maine Dist.

I Amos Lunt of Brunswick in the County of Cumberland & State of Maine, aged eighty three years, on oath declare, that Moses Lunt late of Portland formerly part of Falmouth in said County of Cumberland was my cousin & that I have been well acquainted with him ever since my childhood till his decease some time ago. The said Moses Lunt enlisted at the same time with myself in a company of Provincial Troops, so styled, raised under the authority of the Province of Massachusetts Bay, at the time said company was raised in the year 1775 I do not recollect the month. Soon after our enlistment the Captain of the Company nominated non commissioned officers who were approved by a vote of the men. Moses Lunt was regularly appointed sergeant in said Company & served as such until the first day of December then next following when his term of enlistment expired. The Commissioned officers were Joseph Moyes, Captain, one Blaisdell was first Lieutenant & Abner Lowell was second Lieutenant. I know the said Moses Lunt served the whole time from the raising of the company till the said first day of December - and for a considerable part of the time I belonged to the same mess with him. The company was stationed during the whole time at that part of Falmouth now called Portland then called the neck & was there when the town was burnt by the British & the said Moses Lunt & myself were both present as members of said company - that occasion.
Amos Lunt
State of Maine. Cumberland ss. Brunswick February 9. 1837.
Then the abovenamed Amos Lunt, to me personally known as a man of good reputation for truth and veracity, appeared before me & was duly sworn

to the truth of the foregoing statement by him subscribed and written by me in his presence, & read read by me in his hearing.
Deborah Dyer At Justice of the Peace
Washington City
February 16 th 1846
I hereby certify that I was personally acquainted with the foregoing affiant Amos Lunt in his life time. Said Lunt was a man of truth and veracity, and in my opinion reliance may be placed on his statements under oath.
H. P. Dyer At J. P.

Moses Lunt entered his name and purpose of Marriage with Sarah Wayer, Both of Falmouth Decem r 3 d 1773 as
Moses Lunt and Sarah Wayer were joined in Marriage by the Rev Samuel Dean Decem r 30 d 1773 as it appears by the Book of Records of the Town of Falmouth
I Joseph Colley Town Clerk of the town of Falmouth on oath testify and say that the above certificate is truly copied from the Town Records of said town of Falmouth —
Falmouth March 1 st 1837
Subscribed ss. Joseph Colley Town Clerk
Personally appeared the above named Joseph Colley and was well known to be the person
Charles W West Justice of the Peace

United States of America Maine District
District Clerk's Office April 10. A. D. 1837
In testimony that Ebenezer Everett and Charles W. Wait Esquires are Justices of the Peace duly appointed and qualified as such for the County of Cumberland in said District & that the signatures to the within and annexed depositions are genuine and that full faith and credit are due their Of- ficial attestations. I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said Court the day and year first above written.
John Mufsen, Clerk D. C. Maine

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Sarah Hunt widow of Moses.
M c
July 4. 1836.
Vol. 36. p. 162.
Sergt. in Capt. Jos. Noyes Co. from 11 July to 24 Dec. 75 5 mo. & 23 days.
Hon. John Anderson Portland M.S.

Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the third section of the act of Congress of the 4 th July, 1836.
State of Maine County of Cumberland } ss
On this fourth day of March in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred and thirty seven personally appeared before the judge of the District Court of the United States for Maine District Sarah Leent a resident of Portland in the County of Cumberland and State of Maine widow, aged Eighty three years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 4 th 1836: That she is the widow of Moses Leent late of said Portland formerly deceased, who was a Sergeant in a company of Provincial soldiers raised under the authority of the Province of Massachusetts at the beginning of the War of the Revolution of which Company Joseph Vose was Captain and served as Sergeant in said Company at Falmouth, now Portland, in said County of Cumberland from the Spring of 1775 to December of the same year, when he was as your applicant has understood & believes honorably discharged.
She further declares that she was lawfully married to said Moses Leent on the fourteenth  thirteenth day of December in the year of our Lord Seventeen hundred and seventy three by the Rev d Dea n Dean, colleague of the Rev d Thomas Smith, Master of the First Parish in Falmouth, now Portland; that her said husband, died 1 st of August Moses Leent, died on the 1 st of the day of October in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred and thirteen and that she has remained a widow ever since that period, as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed.
and I do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true and correct copy of the original now on file in my office. Sarah X Leent
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written.
Attest: Wm. B. L. B. in the act of Maine

United States of America Maine District
District Court March 4 th A.D. 1837
It is hereby certified that it appears to the satisfaction of said District Court, being a Court of Record, that the within named Sarah Lunt was lawfully married on the thirtieth day of December A.D. seventeen hundred and seventy three, to Moses Lunt of Portland in said District, deceased, who was a Sergeant in the Company of Provincial Troops under Captain Joseph Noyes and who served as in the within declaration is set forth. That said Sarah has continued the Widow of said Moses ever since his decease, to the present time and unmarried.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said Court the day and year first above written
Alvin Mufsey Clerk U. States District Court, Maine

key  WIDOW, &c.
File No. 24,809
Sarah Gunt
Widow of
Moses Gunt
Sergt Rev War
Act: July 24 th 1836
Index:—Vol. A , Page 447
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Rejected.
Letter to Rev. Mr. Anderson June 17. 1837.
Same July 17. 1837.
2. F. Bradford 27. Nov 1844
1 Rev J. Herrick 17. Feb 1845
1 F. Bradford 10. July 1845.
Dickins & Coombs 22 Nov 1850

Washington, Aug. 13 th 1850
Sir:
Enclosed we have the honor to present you the declaration of Eunice Hamblett, daughter of Sarah Smith deceased, claiming the Pension due her said mother under the Act of 1836, as the widow of Moses Smith deceased, who was a Sergeant in the war of the Revolution. Mrs. Smith, as we are informed, presents a claim during her lifetime, pending which she dies. The additional evidence accompanying this declaration, we trust you will find sufficient to establish the claim.
Very respectfully
Your ob t serv t s.
Dickins & Coombs
J. L. Edwards, Esq
Court of Pensions.

Sarah Lunt Act of 1836
Washington Feby 14 1846
Sir
Sarah Lunt widow of Moses Lunt, claims a pension under the act of July 4 th 1836. The claim was presented to the Commr of Pension a short time after the passage of the act aforesaid and rejected on the ground that Moses Lunt served only 5 months and twenty days. In 1844 the widow renewed her application and filed with the Commr a certificate from the Secretary of State dated: showing a service of 6 months & 5 days as a Sgt in the Company of Capt Joseph Boyer in 1775. This testimony was transmitted with the second application and the claim was rejected on the ground that the original rolls of Capt Boyer show that Moses Lunt enlisted on the 11 th day of July 1775 and was discharged on the 31 st of December of the same year. A supplementary certificate was obtained showing that said Lunt was in the service 6 months & 5 days as Sergeant that he received a Sergeant's pay for that term of time; that the roll on which his name was borne was properly authenticated; that it was ordered in Council to be paid.
On this proof the case was again rejected on the ground that the service was calculated by lunar and not by calendar months.
The undersigned is unable to state whether the service of Moses Lunt was computed by lunar months or not, but he states that in the computation of service performed by other soldiers in that company the same rule has not been adopted. In the case of the children of Thomas Roberts for the benefit of the act of 1832, the whole amount

of service as given in the certificate of the Society of Mass: was allowed him.
The service of Moses Lunt undoubtedly commenced earlier than July 11 th 1775. and this will appear by the testimony of witnesses in the case now on file. The company of Capt. Boyes was enlisted for the 8 months service in Col. Plumer's regt: and that company did march to Cambridge that year, but was ordered back to Falmouth for the pro- -tection of that place. Hence the reason why the name of Moses Lunt does not appear on any roll before the 11 th of July 1775. which is a sea coast roll.
The declaration of the 9 th of Feby 1846 is herewith submitted and in behalf of the claim- -ant I request that the testimony relating to service previous to the 11 th of July 1775. be ex- amined -
I am Very Respectfully
Yours
F. Bradford
J. L. Edwards Esq Commr of Pensions Washington D.C.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston:
Jan y . 7. 1845.
Sir,
Herewith you have the explanatory certificate requested, which I presume will fully establish the claim. The amount of service allowed upon the roll is undoubtedly intended to include the mileage, in addition to the time the comp y were actually on duty during the term of enlistment, although the allowance of additional days to travel home is not stated upon it, as is frequently, if not generally the case: — but it sometimes occurs that separate mileage rolls are made up, in some instances accompanying the Muster and pay rolls, and occasionally, when the latter are not to be found, being the only records in this department of evidence that the individual claiming was actually in the service.
Your obedient servant,
John G. Parsons
W. Bradford Esq.

✓ 1740
Sarah Hunt, dec d widow of Moses Me
Oct 4 July 1831
Marr d 1773 Has d dec d 5 Oct 1813
refer this paper to Cole.
Can d
Adm d 6 mo Sept p 30 Jan annu m , Comg 4 March 1831 & ent d 6 Augt 1846 Payable to Mary Griffith, Emm a Hamblet Sarah Thomas & Wann a Owen, only surv children.
Richard Hoobly Present

Washington, May 20 th 1857.
Sir:
Some time in August 1850, we filed the application of the children of Sarah Lunt, dec d widow of Moses Lunt, late of Maine, for the benefit of the act of 4 th July 1836. The papers got mislaid, lost and for some time could not be found; but when Mr. Bradford was here a few months ago, the papers were found, and we examined them. Mr. Evans then promised us to have the case acted upon in a short time, but as yet we have received no report. We conceive the case to be a perfectly clear one - and as the time at which it should have been acted upon has long since passed by, we hope it will be taken up immediately.
Very respectfully &c
J. H. Heath Esq. Comm. of Pensions
Dickens & Coombs

Underwood Station St. Louis, Mo.
28 June Pro Anderson Add evidence Cure. Mr. Land's debt - P.O. 1740.
St. Louis
Hon James L. Edwards Commission of Pension
Washington D.C.

Dorland June 23 rd 1837
Sir. I herewith enclose to you the disposition of the Howell which proves that the husband of Sarah Leent Leent was in service eight months. Mr Howell is the oldest man in this City, but his health & mind & memory so good that perfect reliance may be placed on his statements.
No man sustains a fairer character than Mr Howell, & from the clearness of his mind & his perfect conviction that Leent served all the eight months. I am confident there must be an error in the Roll you refer to - He is sure Leent served as long as he did & his own service of eight months is admitted -
I have the honor to be, Sir, with great respect your obedient John Anderson
To Major L. Edwards Commiss y of Pensions Washington D.C.

Portland April 12 th 1837
Sir - I herewith transmit the deduction & evidence of Sarah Lent, widow of Moses Lent a Revolutionary Soldier, for a pension -
I have the honor to be Sir with great respect your obedt Servt John Russell
To Hon Jos L. Edwards Comm ee of Pensions
Washington D.C.

Portland 4 th September 1844
J. L. Edwards Esq Commr of Pensions
Sir
The applicant in this case is very desirous that a Pension Certificate may be issued to her with as little delay as practicable if all the proof that is required by the regulations of your Department is before you. The widow says that her former Agent has adduced the proof of Marriage, death of her husband &c and that the evidence of Service is all that is now required. If That is the Case the Certificate from the Secretary of the Commonwealth added to her Supplementary declaration as to service is all that may be required.
I have the honor to be
Very respectfully
Your Obedt. Servt
F. Bradford

166646
Sarah Lunt me

Washington City Feby 16 th 1846
Sir
Having submitted the claim of Sarah Lunt under a supplementary declaraton of the 9 th inst: in which I rely principally upon affidavits now on file, I have to request that you submit her papers to the Hon: R.P. Dunlop M.C. from Maine, in order that he may give a certificate or other information as to the character of the affiants, who were personally known to him in their life time
I am
Very Respectfully Your O bt Serv t : H. Bradford
J. L. Edwards Esq Commr of Pensions Washington D.C.

Portland July 11 th 1845
Sir
The Secretary of the Commonwealth of Mass. informs me that he has had no application from you for a copy of the Roll of Capt Joseph Noyes' Company, on which is borne the name of Moses Gunt as S er g t in 1775. It has probably escaped your recollection that you was to make application for a copy of this roll, to be used as evidence in the case of Sarah Gunt an applicant for a pension under the act of 1836.
I am very Respectfully,
Your O bt : Serv t :
H. Bradford
J. L. Edwards Esq r , Comm r of Pensions Washington. D.C.

I Silas Howell of Portland in the County of Cumberland & State of Maine aged Ninety one years old in oath testify & say that I was a soldier in the Revolutionary War. That I enlisted in April in the year Seventeen hundred and seventy five in Capt Joseph Chayes Company in Col. Ditchell Regiment. & served until December of that year. & am still in Falmouth (now Portland) check. I further say that Moses Leavitt late of said Portland since with deceased was a Sergeant in said Company & served in said Company as Sergeant from April until December. I further say that said Leavitt was engaged with said Company in throwing up a Fort on Falmouth Neck & was there when we first broke ground this, I think, was in May & we had been on duty at least a month before we commenced that Fort. We enlisted for eight months & served out the time faithfully & I am as confident that said Leavitt served from April until December as I am of any event of my life. For I was well acquainted with said Leavitt from the time I came to Falmouth, now Portland, which was in 1766, until his death & can not say I firmly believe he might have been living that any person, but rightly of that number is living Silas Howell
Cumberland ss June 23 d 1837
Subscribed & sworn to before me
John Burdick
I certify that the above named deponent is a highly respectable man & his statements entitled to full credit & belief.
John Burdick Just of the Peace

Supplementary and Explanatory.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Jan y 7. 1845.
I hereby Certify, That, from an examination of the Books and Documents, relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution, which remain in this Department, it appears that the name of Moses Hunt is borne upon a Muster Roll of the Sea Coast Company stationed at Plymouth, under the command of Capt s Joseph Rogers, from the time of enlistment to the 31 st Dec r 1775, "as a Sergeant, — and against the name of said Hunt, the date of his enlistment, "July 11" — " time in the service ", 6 months and 5 days , (understood to include the usual allowance of time to travel home,) "wages per month" $ 2.44. "wages received" $ 2.44. — " balance due " $ 11.7.10. The time of enlistment of the Capt s , was July 1. — and he appears to have been allowed 6 months, 2 weeks and 1 day , — and several upon the same roll who enlisted July 17, were allowed 5 mo s 3 wks 6 days the am t paid and bal ce credited, correspond in every instance with the term of service allowed — The roll is duly sworn to before a magistrate — certified to by a Committee of the General Court and ordered in Council to be paid in full. In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
John G. Palfrey, Secretary of the Commonwealth.

Isaac Dunt Declaration
H. Bradford Portland Maine

State of Maine
Cumberland ss. On this ninth day of February in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and forty six personally appear before the subscriber Freeman Bradford a justice of the Peace in said County Sarah Lunt a resident of Portland in said County aged ninety two years who being first sworn doth upon her oath make the following supplementary declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed July 4th 1836 -
And this declarant states that she is the widow of Moses Lunt who was a resident of Falmouth now Portland in 1775, at the commencement of the war of the Revolution and that her said husband resided in said Town to the time of his death which was October 5th 1813 as is set forth in her original declaration. She further declares that her said husband enlisted into Capt Joseph Noyes Company in May 1775 to serve in the Regiment of Col Phinney at Cambridge that year in the Continental Army. She further declares that her said husband did go to Cambridge in Capt Noyes Company in the early part of July 1775 and after said Company arrived at Cambridge it

was ordered to return to Falmouth, and did so return and was stationed at Falmouth as a Sea Coast guard for the residue of that year. She knows that the service of her husband in 1775 was more than six months and she knows that the enlistment of her husband to serve in Col. Phinney's Regiment was two months at least before he marched to Cambridge that year. And for proof of her husband's service she refers the Comr to the affidavits in her case now on file in the Pension office at Washington and to other Documentary testimony therewith filed.
And this declarant has been informed that she is deprived of the benefit of her pension on the ground that the muster rolls of Capt. Voyes Company shows that her said husband entered the service on the 11th day of July 1775 and that he could not have served six months. This declarant, now distinctly recollects, the term of her husband's service and many incidents thereof. During that year, she has now the belief and always has had the belief that her said husband served more than six months and that the service was called an 8 months service, and well she knows that he did

the duty of a soldier long before the time specified as the day of his enlistment on Capt Noyes Roll. And This declarant states That the justice of her claim is the only inducement she has in this time of her life to call the attention of the Commission- er of Pensions to a case that has been so often rejected, and although suffering under the bod- ily infirmities of four score & twelve years, yet she is in possession of her mental faculties and has not set forth anything in this her declaration but what she believes to be wholly true.
Attest: Mary N Griffith
Sarah Lunt
Signed and sworn to by the above named Sarah Lunt the day & year first above written
Before me Freeman Bradford Justice of the Peace

H. Bradford Portland Maine

State of Maine.
CUMBERLAND, ss.
Charles Cobb Clerk of all the Judicial Courts in said County, certify that, Freeman Bradford is a justice of the Peace
as appears by the paper hereto annexed; that he is duly qualified to act as such; that his Commission bears date February 14th A.D. 1839 and will expire February 14. A.D. 1846
and that the following signature purporting to be his, is genuine.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my Hand and affixed the Seal of the Supreme Judicial Court for said State, this fourth day of September Anno Domini 1844
Charles Cobb CLERK.

State of Maine
On this fourth day of September 1844 personally appeared before the subscriber a justice of the peace for the County of Cumberland Sarah Lunt widow of Moses Lunt a resident of Portland who upon her oath makes the following additional declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed July 4. 1836.
That her late husband Moses Lunt was a sergeant in the War of the revolution and served in the company of Capt. Joseph Noyes in 1775 at least 6 mos. & 5 days as will more fully appear by the testimony herunto annexed and that he was on the sea coast establishment and was stationed at Falmouth in that part of Massachusetts now called Maine. She further declares that she intermarried with the said Moses Lunt on the thirtieth of December 1773. Prior to his said service and that her said husband died on the 5th day of October 1813 and that she has remained a widow ever since that time. That the proof of her marriage is in her original declaration now in the office of the Commissioner of Pensions and also the other proof necessary to substantiate her claim except that of service which is herunto annexed. She therefore claims the pension under the Act aforesaid computed according to the

regulations of the Pension Department from the 4th of March 1831. Sarah her Lent Mark
Witness my N Griffith
Cumberland S.S. Subscribed and sworn to by the said Sarah Lent Before me Freeman Bradford
Justice of the Peace
The above named Sarah Lent being sick and confined to her bed which was unable to write.
F. Bradford J.P.

Portland 4 th September 1844
J. L. Edwards Esq. Com r of Pensions
Sir
I herewith transmit an additional declaration for the benefit of the act of July 4 th 1836. The evidence in the case so far as relates to my marriage and the death of my husband has been long since filed in your Department. I now forward the evidence of my husband's service and claim the benefit of the act aforesaid. In this application I have appointed J. Bradford my Attorney to present this my application and you are requested to forward my pension certificate to him.
I have the honor to be
Respectfully your O bt Serv t Sarah K Lunt mark

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Aug 1 st 1841 1/2
I hereby Certify, That, from an examination of the Books and Documents, relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution, which remain in this Department, it appears that the name of Moses Lunt is found upon the pay roll of Capt Joseph Noyes for 1775. In Company 1 st days on the sea coast as a Sergeant
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
John G. Palfrey, Secretary of the Commonwealth.

To the Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
The undersigned widow of Moses Lunt late of Portland deceased requests the Secretary of State to furnish from the rolls in his office evidence of the service of Moses Lunt in the Revolutionary war. The undersigned believes that her husband did serve in the year 1795 in Capt Noyes company and was stationed in Falmouth for at least six months or more. She has reason to believe that he served at other periods during the war but she is unable to state in what company he served or the time of his service. She therefore requests that an examination may be made of such rolls as are in the office of the Secretary of State for the purpose of establishing her claim to a pension.
Sarah Lunt
Cumberland S.S. August 12 th 1844
Signed by the said Sarah Lunt
before me Freeman Bradford Justice of the Peace.
Moses Lunt & Sarah Noyes Dec 30 th 1773 married
Died Oct 5 th 1873

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Lunt, Oliver GRADE Private LINE Massachusetts
WARRANT NUMBER 4605 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED Mar. 25, 1790 to — not shown —
*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.