Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 7438, for David Morse, Massachusetts

SERVICE
Mass.
Morse, David
NUMBER
R. 7438
CONTENTS
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Pittsburgh 9 Aug 1830
J. Hargreaves
Recd 14
Ans 14 8
informed of the reference.
Respectfully referred to the War Department Pension Office (Treasury Dept.)
3. War office
Aug. 14. 1830.
Rejected Aug. 14. 1830
J. Hargreaves
Washington City
Honorable Peter Hughes Esq.
FREE

Pittsburgh August 9. 1830.
Sir
I enclose the Declaration of Mr David Moss for a pension. He was fortunate enough to procure such evidence of his services as to satisfy the Court that he is entitled to pension. The old gentleman is very frail. He has no property whatever and is so destitute that were it not for the contributions of such as knew him in better days, he would long since have been a charge to the Township. His character for integrity & veracity stands high, and from the facts stated by himself and many other respectable men who were acquainted with him, he suffered great hardships, privations & sickness while he served in the Army. (You will oblige him, for-warding the enclosed declaration to the pro- per office, and use your influence to help a worthy & honorable old Veteran.)
I am Sir, Respectfully Your ob dt Serv t
S. Kingston
Peter Hagner Esq rs

David Morse Penn. Rev.
Rejected. See letter to S. Kingston, Aug. 12. th 1830.
7438

Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
REJECTED
7438 aw
P. O. David Morse
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.

Declaration in order to be placed on the Pension List under the Act of the 18 th March 1818
County of Allegheny ss.
On the 7 th day of August 1830 personally appeared in open court being a court of record in & for said County in the 5 th Judicial District of the State of Pennsylvania. David Worde a resident in said County, aged about 69 years who being first duly sworn according to Law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the provision made by the act of Congress of the 18 th March 1818 & the first of May 1820. That he the said David Worde enlisted in the regiment commanded by Col. Goolittle in 1776 mustered & served under him at Winter Hill Massachusetts for upwards of two month months then immediately after served at Cambridge in the same State (Massachusetts) under Captain Holmes in the regiment commanded, as applicant believes by Col. Reed, detached to guard Burgoyne's Troops, for upwards of three months. After which on same year, served in the Company commanded by Captain Walter McFarland in the first regiment of Infantry commanded by Col. Wheelock, and was stationed at and near Ticonderoga for five months; from this place was detached to guard & superintend in the Artillery Department to Rhode Island, in which department he served for at least three months, when he was duly discharged from the service, at his own special request in consequence of indisposition, arising from fatigue and great privation & bodily exertion. That he the said David hereby relinquished every claim whatever to a pension except the present. That his name is not on the Roll of any State except the State of Pennsylvania under this application; and that the following are the reasons for not making earlier application for a pension. viz First: At or about the time of passing the acts within mentioned, declarant being a good Mechanic was able then & until lately to support himself & family his sons lately having to do for themselves & families

have enough to do to support themselves. Having lost their services, and having had the misfortune about two years ago, of being affected by a Paralytick Stroke in his left side, the declarant has been thereby rendered utterly unable to obtain a livelihood, without the assistance of his Country for his support. And in pursuance of the Act of the 18 th May 1826, I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18 th day of March 1818, and that I have not since that time, by gift, sale or in any manner disposed of my prop- erty or any part thereof, with intent thereby to diminish it, so as to bring myself within the provisions of an Act of Congress entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land & naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary war" passed on the 18 th day of March 1818, and that I have not, nor any person in trust for me, any property or securities, contracts or debts due to me nor have I any income whatsoever. That having had no real property, no changes have taken place in my property but what has arisen from the sale of my tools &c, and household furniture, by voluntary disposition for my support & the payment of my debts since the 18 th day of March 1818. I further declare that I was merely acquainted with James Bellon, Nathl Newton, Thomas McFarland, Thomas Jones, Benjamin Butler, Joseph Welsh and a number of other men belonging to said Regiment, and that I was personally acquainted with & served under General Gates before the capture of Burgoyne &c.
Sworn & Subscribed in open Court the 7 th day of August 1830 Wm McCaneless Secy
David Morse

Pennsylvania { ss Allegheny County }
I William McEandless Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County in the State of Pennsylvania in the fifth Judicial District, within mentioned do hereby certify that it appears to the Satisfaction of the Court that the above
David Morse did serve in the Revolutionary War as stated in the preceding declaration against the Common enemy for the term of nine months under one engagement on the Continental establishment. I do also certify that the foregoing oath is truly copied from the Records of said Court & that the declarant appears to have no property whatever
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the said Court the 7 th day of August A. D. 1830 —
W m McEandless C lerk