Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 16,508, for Moses Perkins, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
★ Perkins, Moses
S. 16,508
carded
CONTENTS

16,508 INVALID.
File No. 16,508
Moses Perkins
Pr. New Mar
Act: June 7 th 82
Index:—Vol. 1 , Page 294
[Arrangement of 1870.]

admitted Rec 6 Augt 1832
Abijah P. Foster Esq. Asst - Concord N.H.

BY THE HONOURABLE MAJOR-GENERAL K N O X,
Commanding the AMERICAN FORCES on Hudson's River.
Moses Perkins Soldier in the Fourth Massachusetts Regiment, being inlisted for Three Years, is hereby honourably DISCHARGED from the Service of the United States.
Given in the State of New-York
the Thirtyfirst Day of Decr
1783
By the General's Command,
Knox M Genl
REGISTERED in the Books of the Regiment,
Thos H Bondr Adj P

1490.
New Hampshire
Moses Perkins
of Springfield La. in the State of N.H. who was a Rival in the Company commanded by Captain _____ of the Regt - commanded by Col. Shepard. in the _____ time for 2 (Years)
Mass. Line. Records corrected July 20 Ja. '03
Inscribed on the Roll of M c H at the rate of 80 Dollars — Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 5 th day of Nov 1832 and sent Abijah Perry Weymouth M c H
Arrears to 4th of Sept 1832 $120- Semi-ant. allowance ending 4 Oct 33 40 $160-
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by J. H. McBlain Clerk Book D. Vol. 1 st Page 176.

10.985 R
New Hampshire
Moses Perkins of Springfield in the state of New Hampshire who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Shepard of the Massachusetts line, for the term of three Years
Inscribed on the Roll of New Hampshire at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 1 st of November 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 24 th of May 1819 and sent to Blisha Kinsley Esq. Receiv d New Hampshire
  Arrears to 4th of March 1819  $ 32.23    Semi-ann. all ce ending 1 st Sept 1819  48.    3 Mo. 30 days annu us  $ 80.23  
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }

Moses Perkins, Private, Col. Sheppard's reg. Mass. line, 3 yrs. 4 th Novem: 1818.
Not found on rolls - discharge accomp d ?
Elisha Huntley, judge! Keene, N.H.
Which is here m to Annotated J. S. 1818

State of Hampshire
Cheshire ss November 4 th 1818 Then before Elisha Huntington a Justice of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County of Cheshire personally appeared Moses Perkins within named and made solemn oath that the within declaration by him subscribed contains the truth and nothing but the truth and it having been made to appear to my satisfaction that the said Moses Perkins did swear in the Revolutionary war against the common enemy in manner as by him is stated in said declaration and also that the said Moses Perkins is poor and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support and I hereby certify and transmit the testimony in his case being his oath and his discharge from Major General Knox
to the Honorable John C. Cabmann -
Secretary of War -
Elisha Huntington
one of the Justices of the Court of Common Pleas for said County -
State of New Hampshire -
Cheshire ss I Levi Chamberlain Assistant Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for said County hereby certify that the Hon Elisha Huntington is one of the Justices of said Court duly commissioned - that the above is his hand writing and that no particular impression is used as a seal by said Court In witness whereof I have hereunto subscribed, and affixed a seal in form as used by said Court this 23 rd day of Novr A.D. 1818
Levi Chamberlain

I Moses Jenkins of Springfield in the County of Cheshire ss and State of New Hampshire husbandman Do make the following declaration upon oath —
That in the year of our Lord one thousand Seven Hundred and eighty, in the month of Decem I enlisted as a private Soldier in the Continental Army in the United States of America at Tapsfield in the State of Massachusetts for three years and Marched to West Point and there joined the Army under Capt Gage in the forth Massachusetts Regiment commanded by Colonel — Shephard I was detached from said Regiment in the course of my service a number of times once under Colonel Scamell and was at the Taking of Fort Wallis at Little York and was from place to place until I had served out the term for which I enlisted and received an Honorable Discharge which is herunto annexed I then fifty nine years of age The Second of last May —
I further say that I am poor and stand in need of the assistance of my Country for Support His
in presence of Oliver Huntley
Moses Jenkins Mark —

I Moses Perkins of Springfield County of Sullivan & State of New Hampshire aged seventy three years , testify & say that I served in the Continental Army of the Revolution as follows (viz)
I enlisted into Capt Pikes Company of Infantry in the Massachusetts Line in the Spring of 1779 or 1780 & served  as a Private for the term of three years, & served faithfully till my time was nearly out when I was discharged at West Point & my discharge was signed by general Knox the discharge is now in the War Office that my name was inscribed on the Pension list Roll of the New Hamp- shire Agency on the 4 th day of November 1818 my Pension.
Certificate was dated 24 day of May 1819 & signed by J I Edwards in the absence and on behalf of the Secretary of War that under the act of 1820 from my name was stricken from said Roll that when I first applied for a Pension I belonged to Spring-

in the County of Cheshire in N.H. that I now belong to the same Town but the County of Cheshire has been divided and Springfield is now in the County of Sullivan
This declaration is made in order to obtain the benefit of the act of
Congress of the 7th of June 1832
The Number of my Pension Certificate is 10,945
Moses Perkins
State of New Hampshire } July 14 th 1832 Then the said Sullivan ss } Moses Perkins personally appeared and subscribed & made solemn oath that the above affidavit is true
before me Abijah Powers Justice of the Peace
I hereby certify that the said Moses Perkins is the same Moses Perkins that had a Pension Certificate as above stated that I have been well acquainted with him for twenty years & believe that his statement above is correct
Abijah Powers Jus Peace

old Car James Perkins Pine 2 years
$ 80--

I Benjamin R. French, Clerk of the Su- perior Court of Judicature for the County of Sullivan, in the State of New-Hampshire, do hereby certify that Abijah Fowles, before whom the foregoing declaration is sworn, is a Justice of the Peace and his foregoing sig- nature is genuine.
In testimony of which I hereunto set my hand and affix the seal of said Court This 27th day of July, 1832.
B. R. French