Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 7870, for Moses Page, New Hampshire

SERVICE
NUMBER
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Page Moses
R 7870
CONTENTS

Asa Page declares that his Father Moses Page died in the year of 1816 or 17 sent to the proper department at Washington an affidavit drawn and certified by Isaac Willson one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas for the purpose of obtaining such Bounty money as the then late act of Congress entitled him to.
That he was a Private Soldier in a Regiment of Continental Troops often called the Congress Reg commanded by Col Timothy Deadle. That he served for the term of he thinks three years.
That the said Judge Willson subsequently informed his Father that he had received returns from Washington and that his application was allowed if he Moses Page would obtain the affidavit of two witnesses that he served as sworn to. That his Father obtained and sent one affidavit (that of Ephraim Root) and was unable during his life time to obtain any further witness.
That his Father died at Alexander County of Genesee and State of New York about the year 1834 or 35.
Asa Page does not know what his Father set forth in his affidavit but has often heard him say that he was mostly employed with some seven or eight others as scouts in the Coos (now County of Coos) valley about the head of the Connecticut and St Francis Rivers about the Connecticut and other Lakes situated on the North West borders of the new State of Maine. That his name would not be as often found on the rolls as those who remained with the Army he having joined the Reg but once and then in the North Part of Vermont and near Sorel Lower Canada about the time of the Battle (or flight) of the Cedars that he remained was commanded by Lieut. Mearan & Sanders.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 19th day of July A D 1851 H. Burand
Asa Page
Justice of the Peace

State of Wisconsin } County of Marquette } ss.
On this 19th day of July A.D. 1857, personally appeared before me, the Subscriber, a Justice of the Peace, in & for the said County of State James W Page to me well known, who, being duly sworn according to law, deposes & says, that Asa Sage, the person who subscribed & took the preceding oath, is, to his knowledge the identical person described in the same, and whose deposition is worthy of full credit.
Sworn & subscribed before me } J W Page This 19 day of July A.D. 1857 J. Durand
Know all men by these presents,
That I, Asa Sage, of the State of Wisconsin, have constituted & appointed Clement M. Bennett of Washington D.C., my true & lawful Attorney, irrevocably for me & in my name to receive from the United States, all such sum or sums of money due me, on account of arrears of pay, or any money or moneys which may be due me by the United States, on any account whatsoever, and generally to do all lawful acts & things whatsoever, touching the premises, as an Attorney or Attorneys under him for the purposes aforesaid, to make & at his pleasure to revoke, hereby confirming all & whatsoever my said Attorney shall in my name legally do or cause to be done in & about the premises.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my name & seal this 19th day of July A.D. 1857 Attest my hand & seal this 19th day of July A.D. 1857 J. Durand } Asa Sage

Acknowledged & subscribed before me this  In presence of  F. Durand  ASA day of July A. D. 1851. Asa Page
State of Wisconsin Marquette County ss
Be it known that on the 19 th day of July 1851 before the Subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for Said County duly authorized by Law to administer Oaths personally appeared Asa Page above named and acknowledged the foregoing power of attorney to be his act and deed.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand above the day and Year first mentioned
F. Durand Justice of the Peace
my witness
M. Johnson Clerk

State of Wisconsin } County of Marquette }
I hereby certify that F. Durand being before whom the foregoing Affidavits & Power of Attorney were made and who has thereunto subscribed his name, was at the time of so doing, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, duly commissioned and sworn, and that his signature is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and I have sealed the seal of my Office, as Clerk of the Circuit Court of said County this 26 th day of July A.D. 1857
W. Johnson Clerk

December 16, 1935.
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Mrs. L. P. Verdon 2318 Glenwood Drive Kalamazoo, Michigan
RI-J/ady Nathan Fairchild, W. 25568 Moses Page, R. 7870
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letters relative to soldiers of the Revolutionary War.
Revolutionary War data furnished by this office are obtained from claims made to the United States for pension and bounty land based upon military service of soldiers in that war.
A careful search of the records fails to show such a claim on file on account of the services of John Page as described by you, all spellings of the names searched.
The records of Nathan Fairchild and Moses Page are furnished you herein as found in the claims for pension based upon service in the Revolutionary War.
Nathan Fairchild, W. 25568
Nathan Fairchild, son of John Fairchild, was born December 4, 1762, in Stratford, that part which was later Huntington, Fairfield County, Connecticut. The name of his mother is not stated.
In the spring of 1777 said John Fairchild, enlisted for two months in Captain Edmund Leavenworth's Company, Colonel Samuel Whiting's Connecticut Regiment, after serving one month, his son Nathan Fairchild served one month as a substitute for him as private in said company and regiment. In the spring of 1778 Curtis Fairchild, a brother of Nathan, enlisted for two months in Captain Joseph Birdsey's Company, Colonel Jonathan Diron's Connecticut Regiment, after serving one month, said Nathan served one month as his substitute in said company and regiment. Nathan Fairchild enlisted early in the summer of 1779, served five weeks as private in Captain Elnathan Nichols' Company of Light Horse, Colonel Noadiah Hooker's Connecticut Regiment and was in an engagement near the Saw Pits. Nathan Fairchild enlisted September

Date of widow's death not on A.B.
12, 1780, served as private in Lieutenant Samuel Deforest's Company, Colonel Philip B. Bradley's Fifth Connecticut Regiment, was present at the execution of Major Andre and discharged December 9, 1780 by Colonel Heman Swift. He enlisted as private in Captain Spalding's Company, Colonel Thomas Grosvenor's First Connecticut Regiment; in December 1781 he was detached from said company and served on General William Heath's Life Guard and was discharged December 25, 1781, by Major W. Clift, having served three months and twenty-two days.
He was allowed pension on his application executed September 28, 1833 while a resident of Huntington, Fairfield County, Connecticut, where he had always lived.
He died January 2, 1843 in Huntington, Connecticut.
Soldier married March 4, 1792, Sarah, the name is also shown as Sally, Bennett. Their marriage was recorded on the records of The First Ecclesiastical Society of Huntington.
Soldier's widow, Sarah Fairchild, was allowed pension on her application executed April 28, 1843 at which time she was aged seventy-nine years and a resident of Huntington, Connecticut.
In 1848 one Mary Bennet witnessed the signature, by mark, of soldier's widow, Sarah Fairchild, in Huntington, Connecticut, her age or relationship to the family not stated. There are no further family data.
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Moses Page, R.7870
The date and place of birth and the names of the parents of Moses Page are not stated.
In 1816 or 1817 he was a resident of Genesee County, New York. He died about 1834 or 1835 in Alexander, Genesee County, New York.
His son, Asa Page, his age not given, applied for pension on account of the service in the Revolutionary War of his father, July 19, 1851, in Marquette County, Wisconsin, and stated that Moses Page joined the army in the northern part of Vermont, near Sorel, Lower Canada, about the time of the battle of the Cedars, served in Lieutenants Marion's and Sanders' Companies, Colonel Timothy Bedel's Regiment, that he served as a scout in the Coos Valley, later called Coos County, and that he served three years.

His claim was not allowed as he failed to furnish proof of the service of his father, Moses Page, as required by the pension laws.
In 1851 one James W. Page made affidavit in Marquette County, Wisconsin, his age or relationship not stated. There are no further family data.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER Executive Assistant to the Administrator

1935 Dec. 16. Hist. to Mrs. L.P. Virdon. See her letter in clm. of Nathan Marchild. W. 255th. A.D.Y.
Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1865
7870
P. O.
Howard Page
Service: _____
RECORDED
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

✓ No 38402 Moses Page dec NY
C. H. Bennett Sep 8 1832
7870
act June 7 1832

June 29/52
Pow: atty & add. ev. Case of Moses Page deeds
Geo. Bennett
K. Present Kirby
no papers for See Reg or Indu of the  pleasure
E. Heath
Comr of Pensions Pension Office
Andrews Sept 8/52

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C. M. Russell Sept 8/52

Pension Office Sep 8 1832
Sir
I have examined the papers sent in the case of Moses Page see of 832 and filed them under the Act of June 7 1832. There are no papers on file in this Office in relation to any claim of said by Moses Page. If his son can establish his service he should make a declaration in proper form under the Act of June 7 1832
(W Bennett Esq Present

Washington, June 28, 1852.
Hon. J. E. Hutton, Commr. of Pensions. Sir:
I have the honor to enclose herewith an affidavit, power of Attorney &c. forwarded to me some time since by Mr. Asa Page, who represents himself to be the son of Moses Page, deceased, an applicant for a Pension on account of services in the Revolution. His father was at the time of his making application a resident of Herkco County in the State of New York. He states that the application was made in 1816 or 1817. I am requested to ask if such application was ever filed and if so, what action has been had upon it by your Office.
Very Respectfully (Yours Obt. Servt) L. M. Bennett.