Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 24,001, for Joseph Morse, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Continental Mass.
Morse, Joseph Mary
W 24,001
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Iss to Freeman Bradford Sept 25 1846.
Maine 1364
Mary Morse widow of Joseph Morse
who died on the July 1784 of Cumberland Co. in the State of Maine who was a Corporal in the company commanded by Captain Barnes of the Regt. commanded by Col. Nixon in the Main line for 1 year & 7 days
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of 44 Dollars 84 Cents, per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 31. day of August 1837 and sent Hon. John Anderson, Portland, Maine
Arrears to the 4th of March '37 269.04 Semi-annual allowance ending Sept. " 22.42
$291.46
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act July 4, 1836, Section the 3 — }
Recorded by D. Brown Clerk. Book 1. Vol. 2. Page 12

Reported
Maine 1347
Mary Morse, dec?
widow of Joseph Morse
Mass
who died at in July, 1784
of Cumberland in the State of Me
who was a Capt in the Compy commanded
by Captain Barney of the Regt. commanded
by Col. Nixon in the Maine
line for 2 years
Inscribed on the Roll of Portland
at the rate of 88 Dollars
per annum, to commence on the 4th day
March, 1831. and terminate 6th March
1848. when she died
Certificate of Pension issued the 5th day of
April, 1847, and sent to Freeman Bradford,
Portland
Arrears to the 4th of
Semi-annual allowance ending
Deduct what has been paid at rate of $44.84 for the time she was paid
Due to Ann True her
only child
Revolutionary Claim Act July 4, 1836, Section the
awarded by The Rumpkin Vol. 1. Page 1
for

The evidence in this case, although not strictly within the rules of the Pension Office appears suf- -ficient to establish the fact that the Applicant is entitled to a pension - allowed
J.B.P.

Providence August 26 th 1837
Sir - I herewith return the papers of Mrs. Sharp with the Clerks Certificate both to justice her late Official character & also her certificate of the Record of the Marriage as found on the Record of our Courts - Other officers can not remember the names of any officers under whom her husband served, & suppose his name may be found if there is any list of the wounded at the capture of Burgoyne - She thinks he was a prisoner in 1784 when he died. Can not his corps be found by reference to the pension Roll of that day - or by the deaths at the Fort in Boston of 1784, for he died in service -
I am aware that I am asking more than the ought of your time & patience, but as the Rolls are removed from Boston, it is not in her power to furnish any thing more definite - & as there is no doubt of the merits of her case I trust her name will be found.
I have the honor to be,
Sir, very respectfully your obedt Servt
To Hon Jas L. Edwards Commr of Pensions Washington D.C.
John Anderson

State of Maine Cumberland ss
Clerks office of the Judicial courts
I Charles Cobb clerk of all the Judicial courts in said county certify that it appears from the Records now remaining in this office that "Joseph Morse and Mary Puring- =ton" were joined in Marriage on the eighteenth of November one thousand seven hundred and sixty three ("Nov 18 1763") "by the Rev d Thomas Smith Minister of the Gospel of Falmouth"
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the court of common Pleas this 26 th day of August A.D. 1837
Charles Cobb clerk

2279
Mary Morse widow of Joseph Me
J. Anderson Portland Me

State of Maine County of Cumberland 28
On this twenty eighth day of June in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and thirty seven, personally appeared before the Honorable Ezekiel Whitman judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County aforesaid Mary Morse a resident of Freeport in said County aged Ninety two years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on her 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 Joseph Morse late of Falmouth, now Portland Soldier deceased, who was a soldier in the Revolutionary War. a commissary or a Quartermaster she believes. That he enlisted & was in service a year at the first of the War. returned home & enlisted again for three years or during the war she does not remember which. he was at the taking of Burgoyne & lost his leg by a cannon ball. That as soon as his wound healed he returned to duty & was stationed at a Fort in Boston in Mass. Chesapeake, where he died in July 1784. That he drew a pension for his wound at the time of his decease. and she can not remember the names of his officers under whom he served.
She further declares that she was married to the said Joseph Morse on the eighteenth of November in the year Seventeen hundred and sixty three. That her husband the aforesaid Joseph Morse died on the day of July 1784. and that she has remained a widow ever since that period, as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed.
Mary Morse
Sworn to, and subscribed, her mark on the day and year above written, before me in open court held at Portland within & for the County of Cum- berland in said State commencing on the Third Tuesday of June instant and I believe her to be of the age she states and had

no reason to doubt that she is a person of credibility.
Elizabeth Whelman Chf Judge of said Court

State of Maine
Cumberland ss.
I Charles Cobb Clerk of all the Judicial Courts in said County certify that Ezekiel Whitman is Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas being a Court of record for said State, and that Joseph Smith and Josiah Merrow are Magistrates as appears within, and that the several signatures purporting to be theirs are genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said Court this twenty ninth day of June A.D. 1837.
Charles Cobb Clerk

Dear Sir,
H. Bradford Portland Maine
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United States of America
District of Maine ss. On this nineteenth day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty six personally appeared before the Hon. Abner Ware judge of the United States for the District of Maine Ann. True a resident of Freeport within said District of Maine aged 63. years who upon her oath makes the following declaration in order to obtain an increase of Pension due her mother Mary Morse widow of Joseph Morse by virtue of the Act of Congress passed July 14th 1836.
And this declarant states that her father Joseph Morse was a resident of Falmouth in the time of the revolutionary war and she believes that he was a soldier in the Revolution for the most of the war. She believes that her father was in the service in 1775 and 1776 and during one of those years that he served in the Company of Capt. Prang. In 1777 she believes that her father enlisted into the Continental army for three years or during the war and that he served in the Company of Capt. Hoxen in the Regt. of Col. Bradford. Her said father received an injury while in the service and was transferred as she mother has heard her mother say to the Regiment

of Invalids and continued in the Invalid Corps for a long time. She believes that while on the invalid list of the army he was stationed in Boston. This applicant further states that her mother Mary Morse in her life time made application for the benefit of the Act of July 4 1836 and that she was pensioned under said act at the rate of $44.86 cents per annum. This applicant believes that her father served long enough to be entitled to a full pension under said act to be computed according to the grade of the corps in which he served.
This declarant states that her mother the said Mary Morse died on the 6th day of March 1841 and that she is the only child of said Joseph & Mary living.
And for the proof of marriage of her father and mother and the death of her father she refers to the declaration and proof made by her mother in her life time under the act aforesaid now on file in the pension office in Washington.
Anne True
Signed & sworn before me May 19. 1866
Attest

District of Maine ss: I Ashur Ware judge of the United States for the District of Maine hereby Certify that satisfactory evidence has been adduced to prove that Mary Morse late of Freeport was a widow pensioner under the Act of 1836, that she was the widow of Joseph Morse, and died a widow at Freeport on the 6th day of March 1841, and that Ann True is the child and only surviving child of Joseph & Mary Morse deceased.
Ashur Ware Ashur Ware
Signed & sworn to before me this 14th day of May 1846 Ashur Ware

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston;
June 25, 1846.
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 Joseph Morse , is borne upon an Account in Army Books as a Corporal in Capt J Holden's Company, Col Noyes' Regt, and there credited by his service from February 28 1777 to December 31 1779, 34 Months & 3 days, at $44 per Month, and also charged to a Bounty of £ 14 paid him by the town of Bradford . March 1777. It appears from said Account that said Morse was transferred to Invalid Corps. — Upon another account in said Books as a Corporal in Corps Invalids, Capt McFarland, and there credited by his service from January 1 to December 31 1780, 12 Months, at 40 per Month. — It is noted in said Account as follows — viz — "from Noyes' Regt," — Upon Book of Supplis for Soldiers as belonging to Falmouth. Supplied from September

1777. to October 1779.
No evidence of his having served as Quarter Master Sergeant.
And I further Certify, That, before search made for evidence of said facts, the application hereto annexed was filed in this Office, in the form in which the same now appears; that the search was made by myself and my clerks alone; and that said appli- cation, and the certificate above set forth, contain all the facts and circumstances within my knowledge, pertaining to the case.
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 State Mass:
The undersigned Ann True only child of Joseph Morse requests the Secretary of the Commonwealth of Mass: to furnish from the Books & Documents relating to Military service in the War of the Revolution the evidence of the service of Joseph Morse her late father.
And this applicant states that her father was a resident of Falmouth now Portland in the time of the war of the Revolutionary and she believes that he entered the service in the year 1775 and that he was in the service during the year 1776. And this applicant states that she has heard her mother say that her father entered the service for 3 years in 1777 and she believes that her father served in Capt Holden's Company in Col Bradford's regt: And this applicant further states that her father was wounded in battle in the time of the war and she believes that it was at the taking of Burgoyne. Her father was, (in the latter part of his service)

transferred to the Invalid Rest. and she believes that he was stationed while an invalid at Boston. She has heard her mother say that he served in some capacity higher than that of Private and she believes that he was a Quarter Master Serjt a part of the time during the 3 years service.
This applicant therefore requests the Secretary to give the evidence of all service that may be identified with Joseph Morris before named.
Witness F. Bradford
Ann Tame
Cumberland ss. May 19th 1846 Then appeared Ann Tame & signed the above application in my presence.
Joseph Isham Justice of the Peace
Ms. A. 9. 2. 53

I Washington Griffin of Westbrook in the County of Cumberland and State of Maine on oath depose that and say that I am thirty years of age and resided in 1841 in the Town of Freeport Maine. I am a Carpenter by trade and worked at that business in Freeport aforesaid. On or about the ninth day of March eighteen hundred and forty one I was called upon by Mr Solomon True of Freeport to make a coffin for Mrs Mary Morse a very old Lady who had previous to that time lived in the family of said True. Mrs Morse was repre- sented to be the mother of Ann True wife of Solomon I carried the Coffin to the house where Mrs Morse had died and assisted in placing her in it I also attended the funeral. In my day Book of original Entries made at the time of their respective dates I find the following to wit. "Solomon True Dr "
"March 9th 1841. To Coffin 3,50 00 "
The above is the only Coffin that I ever made for said True and the same was used in the interment of Mrs Mary Morse. I have no doubt that Mrs Morse died a day or two before the date of the above charge. I resided from a boy till 1842 within a quarter of a mile of Mr Solomon True and it has always been said that Ann True his wife in the neighborhood, was the only child living

of Mary Morse. I never heard or knew of any other child of Mrs Morse. Washington Griffin
State of Maine
Cumberland Co. Sept 1 st 1846 Then personally appeared Washington Griffin known to me to be a man of truth & veracity and made oath to the foregoing affidavit by him signed
Before me Freeman Bradford Justice of the Peace

United States Maine District
Circuit Court Clerk's Office.
I hereby certify that the Honorable Ashur Ware before whom the foregoing proceedings were had is Judge of the United States in and for Maine District and that the several signatures thereto purporting to be his are genuine signatures.
And I further certify that Joseph Doley and Freeman Bradford Esquires are Magistrates duly authorized and commissioned and that full faith and credit are due to their official at- testations.
In testimony of which I have hereunto set my hand and af- fixed the Seal of said Court this tenth day of September A.D. one thousand eight hundred and forty six.
John Mussey Clerk U.S. Circuit Court. Maine

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Washington, D. C., _____, 19____
W.F. 24001
In reply to your request of _____, received _____ for a statement of the military history of Joseph Morse a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT.  LENGTH OF SERVICE.  RANK.  OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.  STATE.    CAPTAIN.  COLONEL.      1775-1776  1 year   Knight   Mass.    1777  3 years   Holden  Nixon        Thomas Barnes        transferred to the Inland Corps & stationed at Fort in Roxton Mass. when he died in July 1784        He was drawing pension for his wound at the time of his discharge        Battles engaged in, capture of Burgoyne where he lost his leg        Residence of soldier at enlistment, Falmouth Me.        Date of application for pension, June 28, 1857        Residence at date of application, Freeport Cumberland Co. Me.        Age at date of application, 72 He died in July 1784 in Roxton Mass.        Remarks: He mar. Nov. 18, 1763 at Falmouth Me. Mary Parrington who died Feb. 6, 1841 at Freeport Me. In 1846 Ann, wife of Solomon Morse was the only surviving child.    
Respectfully,
Commissioner.
see his name in Mass. S. & S. Vol. XI p. 103.

Freeman Bradford Portland Maine

STATE OF MAINE.
CUMBERLAND, ss.
CLERK'S OFFICE, JUDICIAL COURTS.
Portland,
March 10 th A. D. 1847.
I, Charles C. Harmon  Pro tem CLERK of all the JUDICIAL COURTS in and for said COUNTY OF CUMBERLAND, certify that
Samuel Thing is an acting Justice of the Peace, within and for the County of Cumberland as appears by the paper hereto annexed; that
Duly qualified to act as such; that the Commission of the said Samuel Thing is dated May 2 nd A. D. 1846, and will expire May 2 nd A. D. 1853.
and the following SIGNATURE purporting to be are Genuine.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Supreme Judicial Court for said State, the day and year first above written.
Chas. C. Harmon CLERK Pro tem
was by me to he s b a c y nd ch rayo
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State of Maine
Cumberland Co. On this first day of March 1847 personally appeared before the subscriber a justice of the Peace in & for said County, Anna True only surviving child of Mary Morse late of Freeport in said County who upon oath makes the following supplemental declaration in order to obtain an increase of Pension due to her Mother Mary Morse under the Act of July 4 th 1836
And this declarant states that she is sixty four years of age and that she is the daughter of Joseph and Mary Morse, deceased. I have heard my mother say that my father Joseph Morse died in Boston when I was about 21 months old and at the time of his death was attached to one of the Forts near that place and was an invalid pensioner. She has told me that his death was occasioned by drinking cold water during a very warm day and that she my mother then resided with my father in a room belonging to one Abiah Balch McNeal situated near the fort. She has told me that he drew his rations took them to the house that she cooked them for him. I have heard my mother say that he enlisted for during the war and that he continued in the service the whole war and that he was wounded at the taking of Burgoyne by which wound he lost his leg and being thereafter incapacitated for active duty was

transferred to the Invalid Corps and even after that remained in Boston. She has heard her mother say that he was paid his pension by a Mr Lucas and that the arrear after his death was paid to her. She further states that she has heard her mother say that Dr Samuel Adams who died in Bath Maine was the surgeon who attended him after he was wounded. This declarant further states that she has heard her mother say that her father Joseph Morse was some kind of an officer while he was in the fort at Boston. He was a resident of Halifax State of Maine in the time of the revolutionary war.
Witness
Samuel Thing
Anna True
Cumberland Gt. March 1 st - 1847 Then personally appeared Anna True known to me as a person of respectability and of known integrity and made oath to the foregoing declaration by her sub- scribed
Before me
Samuel Thing Justice of the Peace
pub affid for by the cl

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston:
March 2. 1847.
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 Joseph Morse, is borne upon a List containing the names of men who enlisted into the Continental Army for the term of Three years or during the war. — town belonging to Falmouth. town enlisted for Bradford.
The names of Daniel Marston and John Majury are also borne upon same list as belonging to Falmouth, and enlisting for Bradford.
It also appears from Army Books in this Office, that Thomas Barnes served 26 months and 6 days as Captain in Col Nixon's regt, and 9 months and 26 days as Major in Col Sprague's regt, 36 months

as Captain and Major from January 1 1777 time of his promotion to Major not known from said Books. John Holden is credited in said Books, with service as Ensign and Lieutenant in Col Nixon's regt. 36 Months from January 1 1777, and again credited with service Nixon's regt, as Captain 36 Months, from January 1 1777 — pay as follows, viz: 26 Months at £ 8, and 10 Months at £ 12.
And I further Certify, That, before search made for evidence of said facts, the Commissioner's letter of January 25 1847 was filed in this Office; that the search was made by myself and my clerks alone; and that said letter, and the certificate above set forth, contain all the facts and circumstances within my knowl- edge, pertaining to the case.
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 Hon ble Council and House of Representatives of the State of Massachusetts Bay.
The humble petition of Joseph Moss sheweth. That he entered into the service of the United States in the year 1777, during the war and was in Col Nixon's regt, and Capt Barnes's Company and on the 12 th day of October, the year above named, was unfortunately wounded at Saratoga by a shot from the British Battery, by which he lost his right leg, and was sent to Albany Hospital, and was discharged from that the 22 d February following in order to join the caps of Invalids at Boston, which he joined the 24 th March and being at the expense of Fifty dollars at the most moderate rate to defray his necessary expenses to join the said Caps of Invalids, and also that he lost all his clothes when he was wounded the loss of which obliged him to be at great expense to purchase other clothing for which he suffered greatly. Your petitioner humbly prays your honors to consider him under his difficult circumstances of being rendered unfit to earn a livelihood by his industry and having a large family at home, he humbly prays your honors to make up his loss and expense as you shall judge proper, for which your petitioner as in your duty bound will pray. From your humble petitioner
(Signed) Joseph Moss

Secretarys Office Boston Feb. 24. 1847.
The preceding is a true copy of the original in this office.
John G. Parsons.

Secretarys Office, Boston, Feb 23. 1847.
Sir,
There are no papers relating to claims of Invalids for pension, or records containing the names of Invalids, who have received pension money from this state, remaining in this office.
Respectfully your ob. servant, John G. Palfrey.
Freeman Bradford Esq Portland Me.

V No 13180
Catharine Castneau
N.C.
Hon. James Graham
Jan. 1. 8. 1847,
act 9 July 18437.
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Additional Testimony in the case of Mary Morse widow of Joseph Morse decd.
Freeman Bradford Portland Maine

STATE OF MAINE.
CUMBERLAND, ss...
I Charles C. Warmon  Pro tem 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 is dated May 28. 1846. and will expire May 28. 1853. 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 twenty sixth day of December Anno Domini 1846.
Chas. C. Warmon CLERK Pro tem

I John Noyes Town Clerk of Falmouth on oath depose and say that I have in my possession the Books of Records belonging to said Town. In one of the ancient Books in my possession purporting to be a record of the doings of said Town and styled the "Fourth Book of Records for Falmouth began Feby 3 d 1774" I find the following entries to wit
"Falmouth May 18 th 1779"
"The town met according to adjournment, Voted. That the Selectmen be a Committee to agree with the soldiers wives in the best manner they can and to draw on the Treasurer for such sums as they can agree for, till Jan y . next."
I further state that the next entry in said Book after the foregoing is as follows, and under the same date.
"The account of sundry balances due to the following persons for supplying soldiers wives viz:"
To Joseph Ingraham for supplying Sam Toby's Family 75. 7. 7 " Benja Titcomb for Joseph Morris Do. 59. 3. 7"
The above are extracted from a large number of entries made in said Book of a similar character all purporting to be balances due to sundry individuals for supplies furnished to the wives and families of soldiers in the

time of the Revolutionary war. The entries in figures appear to be in Pounds Shillings and pence and said figures are plain & legible John Noyes. S Clerk
State of Maine Cumberland County ss. December 25 th 1846 Then appeared the above named John Noyes Town clerk of Falmouth and made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed Before me Freeman Bradford                      Justice of the Peace

I Timothy Noyes of Cumberland in the County of Cumberland and State of Maine Yeoman Aged eighty five years, on oath testify and say, that I was well acquainted with Joseph Morse late of Falmouth now Portland in the County aforesaid, and at the commencement of the war of the Revolution he enlisted and went away as a soldier was gone about one year and returned he again enlisted I think for three years and went away, after a time he returned having lost one of his legs in the battle with John Burguin as he says he the said Joseph Morse tarried in said Falmouth until his leg was healed and then he went into a regiment at Boston where he died about the year 1783 or 1784. Sign Timothy Noyes
Cumberland ss June 16 th 1837, Subscribed and sworn to before me Joseph Smith Justice of the Peace

Joseph Morse entered his name and purpose of marriage with Mary Purninton both of Falmouth November 5 th 1863, Stephen Langfellow Town Clerk
Married by the Revd. Thomas Smith Minister of the Gospel in Falmouth, Joseph Morse and Mary Purninton both of Falmouth November 18 th 1863,
I Joseph Colley Town Clerk of the Town of Falmouth on oath testify and say that the above certificates are truly copied from the town Records of the Town of Falmouth Joseph Colley } Town Clerk of Falmouth May 22 nd 1837, } the Town of Falmouth
Cumberland ss May 22 nd 1837, Subscribed and sworn to before me, and I certify that said Joseph Colley is Town Clerk of said Town of Falmouth
Joseph Smith } Justice of the Peace
State of Maine Cumberland ss.
I Charles Cobb Clerk of all the Judicial Courts in said County certify that Joseph Smith is a Magistrate as appears above and that the forgoing Signature purporting to be his is genuine
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of the Court of Common Pleas this 26 th day of August A.D. 1837
Charles Cobb Clerk

I Sarah Prinston of Bowdoinham in the County of Lincoln and State of Maine, Widow on oath testify that Mary Moose of Yarmouth in the County of Cumberland State of Maine, Widow of Joseph Moose late of Yarmouth in the County of Cumberland deceased, is my sister I was present at her marriage and testify that she was married at said Yarmouth now Portland on the 18 th day of November A.D. 1763, and the marriage ceremony was performed by the Rev d Thomas Smith, I further testify that her said husband Joseph Moose went away as a soldier in the war of the Revolution and when he returned he had lost one of his legs. I further testify that said Joseph Moose died at Boston State of Massachusetts in July about the year 1784, and that said Mary has ever remained the widow of said Joseph Moose, and is now and ever has been unmarried since the death of said Joseph Moose.
Sarah Prinston
Lincoln ss. June 1- 1837. Subscribed and sworn to before me. Josiah Merrill Justice of Peace
I certify that Sarah Prinston is a person of truth and her statements entitled to full credit. Josiah Merrill Justice of the Peace

Payment to be made at Parkland by John Woodbury Esq Agent for paying Pen- sioners, in the Agency of M. aird
Recorded in the Pension Office, in Book C Vol. 1 Page 12 by Thos. Dampier
Clerk.

WAR DEPARTMENT.
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.
I certify that, in conformity with the 3d section of the law of the United States, of the 4th July, 1836, Mary Morse dec? late of Maine, widow of Joseph Morse who was a Corporal in the Revolution
is entitled to receive Eighty eight dollars and cents per annum, during the time she may remain unmarried, commencing on the 4th of March, 1831, and payable semi-annually on the 4th of March and 4th of September terminating 6th day March, 1841. the day of her death which is payable to Anna Morse her only living child. There used from $44.84 per ann. Direct all payments at this rate for the same Given at the War Office of the United States, this fifte day of April, one thousand eight hundred and forty-seven.
Examined and } Countersigned. }
Secretary of War.
Commissioner of Pensions.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston December 28 th 1816
I hereby Certify, That at the date of the annexed attestation George Savary was a Justice of the Peace for the County of Essex,
in the said Commonwealth, duly commissioned and constituted; and that to his acts and attestations, as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given, in and out of Court.
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
John G. Palfrey,
Secretary of the Commonwealth.

I Moses Foster Jr. Town Clerk of Bradford in the County of Essex, on oath depose and say, that I have in my possession the books of record belonging to said Town. In one of those books I find the following to wit:
"At a legal Meeting of the Freeholders and other Inhabitants of the Town of Bradford held on Tuesday the 17 th of August 1779 the following
The Town made choice of Dudley Easton Esq. as Agent to attend the General Court on the second Wednesday of their next Session: in order to defend the Towns claim to 18 Continental Soldiers they hired for three years from the eastward parts, against the claims of several Towns to so men,"
Under date of August 29 th 1780 I find in the Treasurers book the following entry "Paid to Jonathan Shadwick the one half that was paid Joseph Mors by the Selectmen 15 ,, 0 ,, 0"
The above are true extracts from the records in my possession
Attest
Moses Foster Jr. { Town Clerk
Essex S.S. December 21 - 1846 Then personally appeared before me Moses Foster Jr. Town Clerk of Bradford, and made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit, by him signed.
Before me Geo. Sawary , - Justice of the Peace

William Lloyd 1844

Providence 14th Septm 1846
Sir
Enclosed is the declaration of Ann True, only child of Mary Morse widow of Joseph Morse, who claims an increase of Pension due her Mother Mrs Morse has been allowed a pension at the rate of $44,86 per annum. She now claims an increase and adduces the enclosed testimony in support of the claim
I am Very Respectfully Your Obt: Servant Freeman Bradford
J. L. Edwards Esq. Commr of Pensions Washington D.C.

Mary (horse) die?
Me
Act 4 July 36
increased
2 years Corp's
$88 to 6 4
March '41 when she died - To Ann True her only child - deduct what has been paid
Freeman Bradford Portland Me

Portland Decr 29th 1846
Sir
I herewith forward you extracts from the records of the Towns of Bradford and Falmouth in relation to the claim of the only surviving child of Mary, late widow of Joseph Morse. These extracts show that the Town of Bradford paid him 18 Continental Soldiers for 3 years from the Concord parts, and also that the Family of Joseph Morse was supplied by the Town of Falmouth during the time he was in the first three years service. The certificate of the Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, also shows, that Joseph Morse's family was supplied by Falmouth from September 1777 to October 1779 a period of more than two years while in the Continental Army.
The papers referred to in your letter on which an invalid pension was granted to Joseph Morse are undoubtedly in some of the Departments at Washington as also the Muster Rolls of Capt. McFarland's Company. Neither are attainable by the claimant.
I am Very Respectfully
Your Obt: Servt:
Freeman Bradford
J. L. Edwards Esq Commr of Pensions Washington D.C.

Portland March 11 1847
Sir
I herewith transmit additional testimony in the case of Mary Morse dec'd widow of Joseph Morse, and as you stated in your letter of January 25 th 1847, that you are not at liberty to overrule a decision of the Secretary of War by whom Mrs. Morse's Pension was adjusted, you will confer a favor, by laying all the papers and testimony in this case before the Hon: Wm B. Marcy for his decision.
I feel confident that few cases, presented for your consideration, are supported by stronger testimony, both as to service and identity, than this, and none I am sure more meritorious, and to which the beneficent intentions of Congress can be more appropriately applied.
I am Very Respectfully,
Your Obt: Servt:
Freeman Bradford
J. S. Edwards Esq. Comm re of Pensions Washington D.C.

Mary, widow of Joseph Morse Corporal 12 th 7 days Barre's Co. Vixen's reg t .
Please cut: & send to Hon. John Anderson Portland, Maine

Mary Morse M. o $44 84 act 36 cash p.??
March 31. 1847
[Signature]
Paid to 4 th March 1841.
[Signature]
D. Crump

Rev
WIDOW, &c.
1922 Feb. 14 H. H. L. Mrs. A. B. Dunham where is her letter?
File No. 24061
Mary Morse widow of Joseph Morse Corp Ser No
Act July 4 th 86
Index: Vol M Page 65
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Aug 31.
Can
to base act July '36
Mary Morse
FREE
Hon James L. Edwards Commissioner of Pensions Washington D.C.

Portland August 28 th 1877
Sir - I herewith transmit Mrs. Morse's papers certified as requested.
She is now very old, over 90, & can not remember the corps in which her husband served. But he was in the Regular service & in one of the Western Regts & the list of Wounded at the taking of Burgaine will undoubtedly show his name, for he there lost a leg.
I beg to refer to the remarks I made a page after the preceding her declaration.
I have the honor to be,
Sir, with great respect
Your obed Servt
John Anderson
W.H. L. Edwards
Commr of Pensions
Washington
D.C.