Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 7,292, for Enoch Moffat, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Moffat, Enoch or Moffatt, or Moffet.
R. 7292
CONTENTS
Hannah

Enoch Moffatt
22050
3/6. Clerk H. Mier. Paid

State of New York Otsego County ss. On this fifteenth day of October in the year One thousand eight hundred and thirty two personally ap- peared before the Judges of the County Courts in & for the County of Otsego at the Court House in Coopers Town in said County Brook Moffatt a resident of the town of Butternuts in the County of Otsego & State of New York aged Twenty Six years who being first duly sworn accord- ing to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provis- ions made by the act of Congress passed 7 June 1832. That in the year Nineteen hundred and seven the first he resided in the town of Gardner afterwards Pittston in the County of Lincoln & State of Massachusetts. That he then & there enlisted in the Army of the United States and served in the Regiment commanded by Colonel John Nixon in the Massachusetts line. This deponent enlisted in a company commanded by Capt. Samuel M. Cobb of Kennebec with the said company joined the Regiment of said Nixon at Cambridge on the 20 June 1875. That the officers of the said Regiment were according to the deponent's recollection Colonel John Nixon Colonel Lieut. Col. D. D. D. Major Pettis & the officers of the company in which this deponent enlisted were Samuel M. Cobb Captain, Benjamin Pettis first Lieut., John Riggs 2 d Lieut. one Wiltis orderly Sergeant, Stephen Hester 2 d Sergeant, & John...

2 d Sergeant. That in the latter part of the summer of 1775: volunteers were called for to join the expedition against Canada under Genl. Benedict Arnold, when this deponent & the whole of Captain Cobb's company voluntarily joined in the said expedition. That in proceeding towards Canada upon the said expedition, the companies in advance exhausted their provisions and sent to those in the rear for a supply, which the companies in the rear being Scott's Williams and Mr. Cobb's at first refused, but after a Council of War, decided to let those in advance have all the provisions not necessary to enable the rear companies to return & that those in the rear should return which they did. This deponent was one upon this expedition & engaged in this town of duty about two eight months. This deponent from the facts that in the year 1777. he again volunteered to go with the Massachusetts line of troops in the Continental Army to Canada and there joined a company commanded by Captain Timothy Hale in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Samuel M c Cobb, this deponent's former Captain. That this deponent was engaged in the said service at Canada about two months. This deponent received from Col. Joseph North of the Massachusetts Militia a Sergeant's warrant & was employed in looking up and arresting deserters from the Continental troops.

This deponent hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and he declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any agency in any state. Sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid Enoch Moffatt Horace Lathrop, Clerk
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier & served as he states. J.O. Moon } Judge J. Page } J.C. Mansfield }
I Horace Lathrop Clerk of the County of Olney and of the County Courts therein do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the Court of Common Pleas of said County in the matter of the application of Enoch Moffatt for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this nineteenth day of October in the year Eighteen hundred & thirty two. —
Horace Lathrop By J. R. Cogg Deputy

Otsego County ss. William Stranahan Jacob Morris James E. ... of the Town of Butternuts in the County of Otsego & State of New York hereby certify that we are all well acquainted with Enoch Hoffsalt who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, & have been so acquainted about sixteen or seventeen years, that we believe him to be twenty six years old, that we know him to be a man of truth and veracity, and that he is respected and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion - Subscribed and sworn the William Stranahan day & year aforesaid Jacob Morris Horace Lathrop, Clerk.

Albany County ss on this 18th day of June 1833 personally appeared in Open Court to being the Court of Common Pleas in and for the said county now sitting, James C. Walworth esquire one of the judges of the said court and being duly sworn deposes and saith that at the October term of the said Court of Common Pleas of the said county in the year 1832 he distinctly recollects that Enoch W Mott ap- peared as a declarant and read to the then and each declaration in Open Court then sitting, and that this declarant as one of the judges of the said court put all the interrogatories prescribed by the Order of Court and that the declarant answered all and each of the said interrogatories to the satisfaction of the said Court but that this declarant did not and the believed neither of the other judges did take the answers in writing to the several interroga- -ories and further saith not
Sworn & subscribed to the James C. Walworth 19th day of June 1833 in Open Court.
Horace Lathrop Clerk.

State of New York Otsego County p: 2
Ransom Moffatt of the town of Butternuts in said County personally appeared before the court of Common Pleas of the said County of Otsego and on his oath says that he has been acquainted with Enoch Moffatt late of the said town of Butternuts that he is the son of said Enoch Moffatt and is nearly eight years of age that the said Enoch is now dead that he died on the eleventh day April last past that since and at the time of his this deponent childhood he has at various time heard his said father relate the facts relative to the services by him rendered in the service war of the revolution and that they were uniformly the same and in accordance with the facts stated and set forth in his declaration made before this said court on the 15 th Day of October 1832 and points attached that I have heard the said declaration read and that the same is true according to his belief that the mother of this deponent the widow of said Enoch is now living in the said town of Butternuts and is seventy two years of age that the said Enoch always related and stated to this deponent that he was engaged and actually served under his enlistment in Captain Cobbs company for and during the term of eight months and that said Enoch always stated that he was in actual service in said Samuel H. Cobbs company at Canajoharie between two and three months that this deponent was present in open court on the 15 th Day of October 1832 before the court of Common Pleas of said county when the interrogatories were put by said court to said Enoch and that he then and there stated in reply to said the

following interrogatories in the following words as this deponent now distinctly recollects to wit. To the first interrogatory "Where and in what year were you born" he stated
"That he was born in the town of Killingly "County of Windham and State of Connecticut "in the year one thousand eight hundred and "fifty six on the fifth Day of May
To the second "Have you any record of your "age and if so where is it" he answered "That he had a transcript of the family record "given him by his mother which he had "forty years That said transcript was at "home and his age he had always understood "was correctly stated therein"
To the third interrogatory "Where were you "living when called into Service; where have "you lived since the Revolutionary war; and "where do you now live" he answered that "He lived, at the time he enlisted, in the town "of Gardner afterwards Pittston in the county "of Lincoln in the State of Massachusetts That "after the rendition of the services above stated he "had lived in Massachusetts Rhode Island and "from Rhode Island he moved to and lived in "the County of Seneca town of Greenfield "from there to the town of Hornell Springs "County New York and lastly to the town "of Butternuts aforesaid where he then resided
To the fourth interrogatory "How were "you called into the Service; were you drafted; "did you volunteer or were you a Substitute "and if a Substitute for whom" he stated "That he enlisted for eight months under "Captain Samuel M. Cobb for eight months "and that he served the whole term of his "enlistment That he enlisted in the year 1775 "That in the year 1777 he volunteered to go to "Camden and was in actual service under "Timothy Hali Captain and said Samuel M. "Cobb as Colonel over two months but how "much over he could not state"

To the fifth interrogatory "State the names of "regular officers who were with the troops "where you served, such continental and militia "regiments as you can recollect and the general "circumstances of your services" he answered "That he recollects the names of his captain Samuel "M. Cable his Col. John Dixor of the Massachusetts "line also Lieutenant Col. Ennis & Major Pethie "That the under officers of Cable's company were "Benjamin Pethie First Lieutenant John Riggs "That he had seen Gen. Washington Gen. Gates "and some others That he had never seen Genl. "Groom or Lee
"To the interrogatory "Did you ever receive a "discharge from the Service and if so by whom "was it given and what has become of it He answered "That he never received any
To the seventh interrogatory "State the names "of persons to whom you are known in your "present neighbourhood and who can testify "as to your character for veracity and their "belief of your services as a soldier of the "Revolution" He answered that Gen. Jacob "Mannis Col. William Stranahan & Daniel "Eastwood and the Revd. Russell Wheeler "of said town of Butternuts were all "acquainted with him and could testify "to his character for veracity and to their "belief as to his services as a soldier of the "Revolution" That the name of this deponent's "said mother is Hannah Moffatt and is "now living as above stated
Ransom Moffatt
Sworn & subscribed in Open Court
the 19 th day of June 1833.
Horace Lathrop Clerk

Albany County ss court of Common Pleas
And the said court doth hereby certify and declare their opinion that four the affidavits of the Honorable James B. Mansfield one of the Judges of the said court and the affidavit of the Rev. Russell Wheeler a clergyman residing in the town of Butternuts in said county and the affidavits of William Hanson Moffat a church person residing in the said town of Butternuts and the said court further declare their opinion that the said Rev. Moffat did herein serve as he has stated in his declaration and that he died on the Sabbath day of April last past
J. B. Mansfield Seth Chase Thos Rogers Judges.

Enoch Moffatt decd
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Gen. Law Morris
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Ransom Moffitt Butternuts

I Russell Wheeler a clergyman residing in the Town of Butternuts and County of Otsego and State of New York hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Enock Maffit that I believe him to be about seventy seven years of age; that he is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood where he resided to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that I concur in that opinion. Russell Wheeler Butternuts June 18 th 1833. -
Otsego County ss.
Appeared before me Benajah Davis one of the Justices of the peace in and for said County the Rev. Russell Wheeler and made oath to the following statement - viz that he is well acquainted with Enock Maffit that he is now dead and that he attended his funeral and performed the Burial services; and that the said Maffit died on the tenth of May eleventh of April

Certs. that is Ap l 11 th 1808, and further saith not. —
Rufus Wheeler
Sworn and Subscribed
This 18 th day June 1833
before me Benjamin Davis Justice of the Peace

State of New York
Otsego County - ss
I Horace Lathrop, Clerk of the said County, and Clerk of the Courts of Common Pleas in & for the said County, do hereby certify that Benajah Davis Esquire, before whom the annexed Affidavit of Russell Wheeler purports to have been sworn, was at the date of the same one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the said County, and that I am acquainted with his hand writing, and verily believe his name subscribed to the said Affidavit to be his genuine signature. And I further certify that the papers hereto annexed, contain the original proceedings of the said Courts in the matter of the application of Enoch Moffat for a Pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court this 22 nd day of June 1833.
Horace Lathrop, Clerk.

1 416 Hannah Moffat 11416 Widow of. Samuel  Samuel Moffat Enoch Moffat  Widow of Enoch for a Pension NY
Act 7 July 1838
A.
Christie Jarvis agent Butternuts Otsego County N.Y.

Hiram Kline Judge of Otsego County Courts
No 3
State of New York
On this 8th day of May 1843 personally appeared before me William Stranahan who being by me duly sworn Said he was personally acquainted with Enoch Moffat at and for the space of between twenty and thirty years that he was a credible man and worthy of belief that he heard him the said Moffat in his lifetime say he was a Soldier in the Revolutionary War that he was in the service at two different times and this deponent believes it to be true and it was understood and believed in the neighborhood that the said Moffat was a Revolutionary Soldier Subscribed & sworn to before me this 8th day of May 1843
William Stranahan
Hiram Kline Judge of Otsego County Courts
I certify that I am personally acquainted with the above named William Stranahan that he is a credible man worthy of belief
Hiram Kline Judge of Otsego County Courts

State of New York Otsego County - ss
MS
On this 12 th day of July 1844 personally appeared before me Oliver Jenks aged sixty nine years who being by me duly sworn deposed and said that he was personally well acquainted with the within named Enoch Moffat in his life time and is personally well acquainted with the within named Hannah Moffat the widow of the said Enoch Moffat that the said Hannah Moffat was married to the said Enoch Moffat on the third day of May 1790 at the Town of Gloucester County of Providence and State of Rhode Island that the Marriage Ceremony was pronounced by elder Philemon Hines that deponent was present at the wedding and heard the Marriage ceremony pronounced that deponent was acquainted with the said Enoch Moffat and Hannah Moffat for more than forty years during all which time deponent was informed and always believed the said Enoch Moffat was a soldier in the Revolutionary War has heard him frequently say he was that said Enoch Moffat died on the 11 th of April 1833 at Bullville, Otsego County that deponent attended his funeral that the said Hannah Moffat has remained and still is his widow and has not since his death intermarried
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 12 th day of July 1844 Gideon Kirtland Judge of Otsego County Court
Oliver Jenks
I certify that I am personally acquainted with the above named Oliver Jenks, that he is a credible person to whom statement of full credit is due Gideon Kirtland - Judge of Otsego County Court

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
MS
Secretary's Office, March 22 d . 1843.
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 Enoc Moffat is found in "a list of Capt s Samuel M c Cobb's Company in the 3 rd Regiment of foot Commanded by Col d John Nixon belonging to the Army of the United Colonies of North America", as a Private from Caddecenty. The above named list is dated "Camp on Winter Hill October. 7 th 1775."
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
Jno A. Bolles Secretary of the Commonwealth.
Fees $1.00

State of New York County of Allegany ss. I George B. Wilson Clerk of said County do hereby certify that Wiram Kinne Esqr before whom the annexed affidavits of Hannah Moffit, Ransom Moffit William Stanhaw and Oliver Jenkins purport to have been sworn was on the date of the same a Judge of the County Courts in said County duly authorized to take the same and further that I am well acquainted with this handwriting and believe his signature to the several annexed jurats and certificate to be his genuine handwriting Witness my hand seal of office this fifth day of October A.D. 1841 Geo B. Wilson Clerk

State of New York Otsego County
On the eighth day of May One thousand eight hundred and forty three personally appeared before Miriam Wines a Judge of Otsego County Court (being Court of Record) Hannah Moffat a resident of the Town of Butternuts in the County of Otsego aforesaid aged eighty years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath aforesaid make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 7. 1838 Entitled an act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows that she is the widow of Enoch Moffat who was a private in the Army of the Revolution that he enlisted at Gardner on the Kennebec River then Massachusetts now Maine in the Spring of 1775 at a place called Cobesecounty that he served Eight Months his first Campaign under Captain Samuel McCobb John Nixon Colonel Soon after his enlistment he was marched to Cambridge and at what other place he was during that Campaign this deponent cannot now remember he was one of the men that were selected to go to Canada with Col Arnold and went a part of the way and was marched back to Cambridge by Col Ennis at the end of his eight Months he was discharged at Cambridge in the fall of 1776 he again enlisted under Captain Timothy Hale Colonel Samuel McCobb and went to Cambridge and served either two or three Months this deponent cannot now distinctly remember which but thinks he served three Months at that Campaign this deponent cannot tell the day or Month upon which her said husband enlisted or was discharged she further declares that she was married to the said Enoch Moffat on the third day of May 1790 at the Town of Gloucester County of Providence and State of Rhode Island by Elder Philemon Hines and that her husband the aforesaid Enoch Moffat died on the 11th day of April 1837 at Butternuts in said County of Otsego that she

was not married to him prior to his leaving the Service but the marriage took place previous to the first day of January 1794 viz at the time above stated Sworn to and subscribed Hannah her Moffat on the day and year above mark written before me
Hiram Kim Judge of Otsego County Court
I certify from personal observation that the above named Hannah Moffat from age and debility is unable to appear in open court and I have for that reason administered the oath to her out of court that the reason she made her mark is that she never learned to write and that she is a credible person and worthy of belief
Hiram Kim Judge of Otsego County Court
State of New York Otsego County ss
ON 2
On this eighth day of May 1843 personally appeared before me Ransom Moffat aged thirty seven years who being by me duly sworn deposed and said that he is the son of the above named Enoch Moffat dec d that he has frequently heard his father say he was a Soldier in the Revolutionary War have heard him relate anecdotes of the War many times heard him mention the circumstance of a man by the name of Steel getting his shoulders dislocated when he was with Col Arnold going up the Kennebec and heard him say he was at Winter Hill the next day after the Battle at Bunker Hill was fought he always said he served eight months the first Campaign and two or three months at the Second Campaign am not certain which Subscribed sworn to on the Ransom Moffat day and year above written before me
I certify that I am personally acquainted with the above named Ransom Moffat that he is a man of integrity truth and veracity
Hiram Kim Judge of Otsego County Court

In reply to your request of _____, received _____ for a statement of the military history of Emoch Moffatt 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.
R. file 7292
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     June 28, 1775 8 mos. 1 Samuel McCobb John Nixon Mass.   expedition to Canada Benedict Arnold   1777 2 mos. 1 Timothy Hall Samuel McCobb   ✓ Sergt (appointed to apprehend deserters) Joseph North  
Battles engaged in, _____ Residence of soldier at enlistment, Wadsworth, Lincoln Co., Maine and after the war he resided Gloucester, R.I. Date of application for pension, Oct 15, 1832. Residence at date of application, Butternuts, Otsego Co., NY. Age at date of application, born May 5, 1756 at Killingly Conn - died Apr 11, 1833 at Butternuts NY. Remarks: Ad. mrs. Gloucester, R.I. May 3, 1790. Hannah Sprague, chs. 80 yrs. of age & a res. of Butternuts in 1843, Their son Ransom was 28 yrs. in 1833. This claim was not allowed for the reason that soldier died without having furnished satisfactory proof of his alleged service.
Very respectfully,
Commissioner.
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"Susp. for further proof by inspection of the rolls at Boston."

In the matter of the application of Hannah Moffit For a Pension
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Chester Jarvis agt. Butternuts Otsego Co. N.Y.
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The State of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations. Town Clerk's Office Gloucester
February 12 th 1845
I, Cloris H. Bowen Town Clerk of said town of Gloucester in the County of Providence, do hereby certify, that I have carefully examined the record of Marriages of said town in this office, and do not find the marriage of Enoch Moffatt to Hannah Sprague therein recorded. I further certify, from my own personal knowledge, that a great many marriages have been solemnized in said town, of which no record has been made in this office.
Cloris H. Bowen Town Clerk. State of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations Providence S.C. Gloucester Feby. 13 th 1845
Then the above named Cloris H. Bowen personally appeared and made solemn oath before me to the truth of the statements contained in the foregoing affidavit by him signed, and I certify that said Cloris H. Bowen is well known to me that he is Town Clerk of said town of Gloucester, is a credible person and that his statements and attestations are entitled to full credit and belief.
Asse S. Dourtellor Just. Peace

State of Rhode Island &c
Providence &c Clerk's office, Court of Common Pleas.
I, John W. Smith Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, within and for the County of Providence, & State aforesaid, being a Court of Record, do hereby certify that Jesse S. Foulkott Esquire, before whom the foregoing affidavits were sworn is a Justice of the Peace for the town of Gloucester in said County, and is by law authorized to administer oaths and take Depositions; (and that his aforesaid signature is genuine.
In attestation whereof I hereunto set my hand (and affix the seal of said Court) at the City of Providence, this Eighteenth day of February
D 1845.
John W. Smith Clerk

State of New York } County of Chenango } ss
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Be it known, that on the 8 day of March 1845, before the subscriber a Justice of the peace in and for said County personally appeared Joseph Richmond aged Seventy three years who being duly sworn according to law deponeth and saith, that he has long been personally and well acquainted with Enoch Moffat (now deceased) and his widow Hannah Moffat, that they formerly resided in Gloucester State of Rhode Island, that this deponent was present at their marriage, that the marriage was solemnized by Elder Philimon Hines, in the town of Gloucester County of Providence and State of Rhode Island on the third day of May Seventeen Hundred and Ninety, and that the Brides name was Hannah Sprague before marriage, this deponent was well acquainted with the said Enoch Moffat several years previous to his marriage, and it was generally understood in the neighborhood, that the said Enoch Moffat served as a soldier in the Revolutionary War, that this deponent has frequently heard him speak of being in the service, and of his officers, he served under but cannot now recollect their names, that this deponent moved into Chenango County in the year 1796, and that the said Enoch Moffat moved into the town of Butternuts Otsego County in the year 1813, at which place he died April 11. 1833, leaving his widow the said Hannah Moffat who still resides in said town and a widow. This deponent further saith that he heard Enoch Moffat say that he enlisted in the United States service at a place called, Cabanuty in the (now) State of Maine where he was engaged Tending Mill, this deponent further saith not.
Subscribed & sworn Before me this 8 day of March 1845
Thomas H. Hall Justice of the peace
Harris McIlwaine

The said Justice before whom the within Affidavit was taken do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with the said Joseph Richmond, and do know him to be a person of good character for truth and veracity and his statement entitled to full credit. Dated March 8 1845.
Harris Medbury Justice of the Peace
STATE OF NEW-YORK, Chenango County Clerk's Office
ss. I, John Sathams Clerk of said County, do hereby certify, That Harris Medbury whose name is subscribed to the certificate of the proof or acknow- ledgement of the annexed instrument, and thereon written, was at the time of taking such proof or acknowledgement, a Justice of the Peace in and for the said county of Chenango, dwelling in the said county, commissioned and sworn, and duly authorized to take the same. And further, that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of such Justice and verily believe that the signature to the said certificate of proof or acknowledgement is gen- uine.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said County, the 8 th day of March A. D. 1845.
John Sathams Clerk.

Hannah Moffatt Hannah's Brief Persian claim—

Hannah Moffatt Pension Claim.
In May, 1843, Hannah Moffatt, 80 years old, Declares That she is the widow of Enock Moffatt, who enlisted at Gardner on the Kennebec River in Mass. (now Maine) in the Spring of '75, at Cohasset. Served 8 months, under Capt. M c Cobb, Nippon Colonel. In the Fall of '76 he enlisted under Capt. Dale, Col. M c Cobb, and served 2 or 3 months.
She was married to him May 3, 1790 in Gloucester, Providence Co. R.I. by Elder P. Kings. He died 11 th Apl. 1833 at Butternut, Otsego Co. N. Y. (No 1 & A.)
Evidence.
1. R. Moffatt, 37 years old, is son of Enoch Moffatt. Frequently heard him say he had been a Revolutionary soldier. He always said he served 8 months the first campaign and 2 or 3 the next. (No 2 & A.) 2. Mr. Stranahan knew deceased between 20 & 30 years. Heard him say he was in Revolutionary service at two different times. He was a credible man. The neighbors believed it. (No 3 & A.) 3. Choir Lusk, 69 years old, knew deceased and knew his widow, the claimant. They were married 3 May, 1790, at Gloucester R.I. by Elder Kings. Deponent was present. Always understood that deceased was a Revolutionary soldier and often heard him say so during the 40 years he knew him. He died 11 th Apl. 1833. His widow has not since married. (No 4 & A.) 4. The Secretary of State of Mass. finds that Enock Moffatt was a private of Capt. M c Cobb's Company, Col. Nippon's Regiment, from Cohasset. The list is dated 7 th Oct. 1775. (No 5 & A.)

5, The Town Clerk of Gloucester certifies that he can not find the marriage of Enoch Moffatt and Hannah Sprague recorded. He knows that many marriages solemnized there were never recorded. (No 1 & B.)
6. Joseph Richmond, 73 years old, long and intimately knew deceased and claimant, his widow. Was present at their marriage, in Gloucester, Elder Kines officiating. It was on the 3 rd May, 1790. The bride's maiden name was Hannah Sprague. Deponent knew Enoch Moffatt several years before his marriage, and it was generally understood in the neighborhood that he had been a revolutionary soldier. Often heard him mention his service and his officers' names, but cannot recall them. He said he enlisted at Cobleskill, Maine, where he was engaged tending mill. (No 2 & B.)

Enlisted at Gardner on the Kennebec River then Mass. now Maine Spring 1795.
1 8 Mo Capt S. McComb. Col. Nigam, went with Arnold to Canada 2 2 or 3 months
Married 3 rd May 1790. Gloucester R. I.
Saw testimony -
Oliver Jenks, was present at the marriage aged 69. - 3 May 1790.
Secy of State confirms midwifes declaration
Town clerk certifies that many of the marriages have not been recorded.
Joseph Richmond, aged 73 was present at the marriage.

p. 4 J. L. Edwards Comr of Pensions Washington D. C. August 15. 1850.
Relative to the case of Hannah Moffatt. Pa- pers five in number, en- closed.

Pension Office August, 15. 1850.
Sir,
I herewith transmit the papers numbered from 1 to 5 inclusive, relating to the case of Hannah Moffatt, on which Mr. T. Lumphin's appeal, and a brief of the evidence. His letter is retained until other cases also called up in it shall be disposed of.
The identity of her husband, who seems to have been a citizen of Rhode Island, with the soldier who entered the service in Massachusetts is not established. None of the witnesses know personally any thing of that service and their recollections are too vague to found a claim upon. Nor is the date of her marriage properly ascertained. Her son who testifies in the matter was only 37 years old in 1843, and there is nothing to shew that she ever had an older child. Two witnesses, indeed, swear to the very day on which they allege she was married. But this event occurred when one of them was 16 and the other 18 years old, and they do not recite a fact which impressed with such distinctness upon their minds a date that no one could remember, after such a lapse of time unless it had been associated with some remarkable event in his own history. The

very positiveness with which they speak of the day of the marriage, therefore, so far from satisfactorily establishing the point, induces greater caution in weighing the other parts of their testimony.
Very Respectfully Your Obedt Servt J L. Edwards
D. C. Goddard, Esq. Secretary of the Interior. Ad. Interior.

No evidence of service
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of the service
the service of the court

Enoch Moffet died Rev. Army - New York case
Please have an examination, and report made of this case - what it is necessary to do, if anything, to enable him to obtain the amount due the Widow, who died three years ago. And oblige
J. P. D. Mowick of Meriontown, Pa. Agent & Atty.
The above is the case of Enoch Moffet of New York act 1832. - It will be taken up in after time. - D. Mowick

Hon. J. L. Edwards Com. of Pensions Washington D.C.
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Butternuts Otsego Co. N.Y.
Mar. 10. 1845
Hon. J. L. Edwards Com. of Pensions
Sir I herewith transmit to you Additional Evidence In the case of the Application of Hannah Moffatt (Widow of Enoch Moffatt) for a Pension. I trust the proof will be satisfactory Respectfully Yours
Justin Ferris

May 12, 1845.
Rev. Mr. Hall
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J. V. Edwards Com. of Pensions Washington D.C.

Butternuts, Otsego Co. N.Y. May 7 th 1845 Wm. J. L. Edwards Com. of Pensions
Sir, Your favor of the 30 th ult. is now before me, In relation to the Application of Hannah Moffat widow of Enoch Moffatt for a Pension, In reply I beg leave to state, that by reference to the affidavit of Oliver Jenkins You will discover that he swears that he was present at the marriage of Enoch Moffatt and Hannah Moffatt &c and was well acquainted with them both for more than forty Years &c, that he heard Enoch Moffatt frequently say he was a Solder in the Revolutionary War, &c. Joseph Richmind also swears that he was well acquainted with both the parties, was also present at wedding &c and well recollects the time It took place &c, and by whom performed &c that he heard Enoch Moffatt say that he was at a Place called Cobleskill, tending Mill and there he Enlisted under Capt. Samuel McCobb &c. which agrees with the certificate of the Secretary of Massachusetts, and also the Declaration of the said Enoch Moffatt, now on file in the Pension Office.
M rs Moffatt Is very much debilitated in body & mind and entirely unable in a pecuniary point of view to be at the expence of prosecuting her claim further, For my own part I cannot see wherein the testimony is defective, and I beg of You to review It, and inform me of the result. Very truly Yours Chester Parves

Enoch Moffatt.
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J. S. Edwards Esquire Comt of Pensions Washington City

Watkins Otsego Co NY Jan'y 26 1835
Dear J y Edwards -
Sir - I am requested by the Heirs of Enoch Moffatt Deceased - to request you to forward to me his pension papers - as they have discovered some more proof, and wish to make them new in order that they may obtain the pension which is justly due
Yours &c A. Moore

June 20 43
My Dear Enoch W. Hall
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Mr. A. S. Edwards Com. of Pensions Washington D.C.

Butternuts Otsego Co, N.Y. June 14, 1843 Hon. J. L. Edwards } Com. of Pensions } Dear Sir,
In reply to Your letter of May 6. th /43 In relation the claim of Enoch Moffat, for a Pension, I beg leave to state that In my former letter I did not intend to resubmit this claim for a Pension, he being now deceased (leaving a widow) I wrote the letter at the request of a son of the widow, to ascertain what other proof (If any) was necessary to enable the widow to obtain a Pension, he informed me that the fact of his death was known at the Pension office, and there was no design on my part to suppress that fact , any information which You can give that is not incompatible with the duties of Your office will be thankfully Recd. In my former letter I asked for forms and instructions in relation to the late Pension acts, which I have not yet received Respectfully Your Obedt. Servt., Christa Jarvis

Job
RECORD DIVISION.
Department of the Interior, BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Briefed by A. Mue D. 24/1/11
Claim No. _____
Certificate No. _____
Claimant _____
Soldier Enoch Moffett
Service Conn., R.F.
Additional Service Rev.
No. _____ claim, State records _____, 191____
No claim, combination records _____, 191____
No Rev. War Surv. REMARKS:
No Writ. any service
" Rej. at all
There is a
Enoch Moffat
Rej. 7292 (N.Y.)
Being killingly from Enl. 4th Reg. Maine
1832 - Butternuts, Otsego Co., N.Y.

11476
Hannah Moffat NY
see W. to Chester Jarvis.
Dec. 3. 1844.
" June, April 30 th 1845.
" July May 13. 1845.
Reprints to dec l of int er est, Aug. 15/50.
7292
act 7 July 1838

ap 6 1833 CENTERVILLE MAR 31 NY
Enoch Muffit
FREE G. Smith P.M.
Dear Sir, I. A. Edwards Com. of Pensions Washington D.C.

3 Butternuts Pkge 60 N.Y. Mar. 31. 1848 Hon. J. L. Edwards } Com. of Pensions }
Dear Sir, Mr. Enoc Moffitt a revolutionary Soldier, made application for a Pension some time since. Will You have the goodness to Inform Me, of the reason why he was not placed upon the Pension list.
Also please Send Me a copy of the law of the late Session of Congress Granting Pensions to Widows &c and the regulation of the Department in respect to obtaining the same
Your Ob t Serv t .
Chester James

20 June ^ 75.
Capt. M c Cobb. Col. John Nixon latter part of summer '75 M c Cobb's Comp y marched under Col. Benedict Arnold & served 8 mo.
77. Capt. Timothy Hale Col. ^  same M c Cobb 2 mo.

Letter to A. C. Moore 11 July 1835
No 22.050 Reos. New York
Brook Chaffee Suspended acc-7 Jn 3. letter 17 Oct 1833
let to Chester J. May 6 th 1843 " " " " " "
Amos Chaffee to Peter...

M. V.
J. H. Brinick Sept 27/53
7291
1832

January 21 st 1911
BOSTON CITY CLUB 9 BEACON STREET
Commissioner of Pensions My dear Sir -
I wonder if you can give me the Revolutionary War record of Enoch Moffitt of Killings or Putnam-born. or Gloucester - R. D. he was my great-great grandfather

by helping me with this you will greatly oblige
yours truly Alfred Moffitt
Boston - Mass. 25 Arch St.
JAN 24 1911

Jonathan Zebulon Daniel & Enoch.
The first three were Brothers Enoch was cousin to them then
Daniel Moffitt Private Capt Erieas Parkers Co. Col Benj Simonds Reg t Enlisted Aug 14 1777 Discharged Aug. 14, 1777 Sep 3 1777 Sep. 22 1777 Born April 18 1744 in Sturbridge Mass
843044 Zebulon Moffitt Private Capt. Lemuel Stewart Co. Enlisted July 12 1775 Disch Nov. 16, 1775 Born March 24 1748 in Sturbridge Mass

Daniel Moffitt Private Col. John Sherman Co. Col. Gideon Bur Reg entered service June 16 1782 Born Aug 2 1734
Enoch Moffitt from Cobereconter Certificate dated Cambridge June 24, 1775 signed by Capt Samuel McCobb From Killingley Conn or Gloucester, R.I. born May 7 1755 at Killingley Conn
Killingley Records.
There was two  Enoch Father & Son as I find one enlisted at Gardner Me at Cobereconter I would like to know if the records show that it is one and the same Enoch born May 7, 1755 if the Father he would have been 65 years old born about 1713. J. Moffitt

1911 Jan. 26. Hish. to Alfred Moffitt & 1912 Jan. 4. " " J. Moffitt
Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
7292
P. O. Hannah Moffat
Service: _____
REJECTED
Enlisted: _____, 18 .
Discharged: _____, 18 .

REJECTED
7291
P. O. Offizier 1832 Michael Moffatt
Service: Consolidated Oct 17 1882 with Widow Hannah rj d
Enlisted: files 7292 , 18
Discharged: _____ , 18
Application filed: 2 _____ , 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____ , 18

OPTICAL TOOLS AND DIES OF ALL KINDS
13 SPRING STREET
SOUTHRIDGE, MASS.,
190
Department of the Interior Bureau of Pensions Gentlemen
I would like to get the record of the following persons.
Those were in the war of the Rebel- -ution. As I am writing up my ancestry I would like the records. Thanking you in advance
I remain
D. Moffitt

Rev. War.
January 4, 1912.
Mr. J. Moffitt, 13 Spring Street, Southbridge, Mass.
Sir:
In response to your undated letter received the 29" ultimo, you are advised that the Revolutionary War pension records fail to afford any information in regard to Jonathan and Daniel Moffitt variously spelled; and that the enclosed statements are the histories of the only Enoch and Zebulon Moffatt, Moffett or Moffitt found on said records.
Very respectfully,
Commissioner.