Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 45051, for Moses Page, New Hampshire

SERVICE
NUMBER
Continental N. H.
Page, Moses
S 45051
{ B. L. Wt. 1626 - 200. Lieut. Issued Dec. 17, 1795 to William S. Thom, assignee No papers.
CONTENTS

Eastman Apr 11 '45
9361
lettd. 1
New Hampshire Moses Page
of _____ in the state of _____ who was a Lieut. Col. in the regiment commanded by Colonel Brig. Genl. J. H. H. of the N. Hamp. line, for the term of 2 years
Inscribed on the Roll of N Hampshire at the rate of 20 Dollars per month, to commence on the 11 of April 1858
Certificate of Pension issued the 16 of Apr 11 and sent to Judge Burfitt Concord, N.H.
Arrears to 4th of Mar 30  $255.95 Semi-ann. all'ce ending 10/11/58  $20. 10 30 35  $335.95
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Memorandum the ...

State of New Hampshire Secretary's Office
To whom it may concern
Be it known that by documents deposited in this Office it appears that Mons r Page served in the third New Hampshire Regiment from the 16 th March 1777 to the 20 th May 1779 as a Sergeant, that at the period last mentioned he was promoted to an Ensign in which capacity he served until the 13 th of September 1781 when he was promoted to a Lieutenant and in that capacity served until the end of the year 1781 - how much longer does not appear. —
Attest Sam t Sparkhawk Sec y

Moses Pages claim for a pension
1818
Lieutenants.
Beas New Hamp t Reg t
1781 War.
admitted
April 11 th 1818.

I Males Page of Concord in the County of Rockingham & State of New Hampshire Testify & declare that in the month of may 1775 I enlisted into the Continental Service in the Company commanded by Captain Daniel Moore in the Regiment commanded by Col o John Stark in the New Hampshire line in the Army of the United States in the revolutionary war against the common Enemy. I served eight months in said service according to my first enlist- ment. Then without any intermission I en- listed again for one year in 1776 in the Company commanded by Captain Ebenezer Fry in the same Regiment & line. I served a considerable part of that year in General Washingtons life-guard. & after said year was out I stayed six weeks more in said life- guard. Then I enlisted again for three years & served as a soldier in said Army untill some time in 1779. I was appointed & com- missioned an Ensign in said service in the Company commanded by Captain Daniel Sivermore in the Regiment commanded by Col o Scammon in New Hampshire line I served as an Ensign in said Company untill some time in 1781 when I was appointed and Commissioned a Lieutenant under Captain William Rawl in the Regiment command

ed by Col d Reid in N o Line. I served as a Lieutenant in said Army in said line until the close of said revolutionary war in which war I served more than seven years faithfully at the close of said war I was honor- ably discharged. I am in reduced circum- stances in life & need Assistance from my Country for Support
Moses Page
Allenstown April 11 th 1818.
State New Hampshire Rockingham ss The foregoing declaration made & sworn to on the day & year as above before me
Hall Burgin
one of the Judges of the Court of Com. pleas for said County of Rockingham
I hereby certify that it appears to my satis- faction that said Moses Page did serve in the Revolutionary war against the Common Enemy as he has stated in his declaration by him signed above & that he is absolutely reduced so that he needs Assistance from his Country for Support & I now transmit the Testimony in the case to the Secy & the Department of War
Hall Burgin
By order of the Judge
Attest L. Packard Clerk of said Court
Judge of the Court of Com. pleas for the County of Rock- ingham in the State of New Hampshire

Lieut Moses Page Concord N.H.

District of New Hampshire
County of Grafton
At the Superior Court of Judicature of the State of New Hampshire holden at Haverhill within & for said County of Grafton being a court of record for said County by law established on this twenty fifth day of May in the year of our Lord 1820 personally appeared in Open Court Moses Page aged sixty three years resident in Concord in said District of New Hampshire who first being duly sworn acor- -ding to law doth on his Oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows Viz a Lieuten- -ant in Capt Daniel Loverymore's Company & Col. Men- -amiah Scammons' Regiment in the New Hampshire line that his Original declaration was made & dated eleventh day of April 1818 that he has received a pension & that his pension certificate is numbered nine thousand three hundred & sixty one And 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 property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to di- -minish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and 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 has any person in trust for me any property or securities contracts or debts due to me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the Schedule hereto annexed

and by me subscribed I further declare that I am by occupation a farmer but own no real estate have occasionally hired land by the year or carried on and improved for a share of the income My health is not good being Afflicted with a sore on one of my legs which has not been healed over more than twice for twenty years My wife Sarah Page aged fifty eight years is in a very infirm State of health I have two children living with me, my daughter Sarah aged twenty two years works out for her living when she can get employ My Son Cummings Page aged sixteen years is a weakly boy on whom I cannot depend for future support  Moses Page
An Inventory of all the estate real and personal owned or possessed by Lieut. Moses Page of Concord in the State of New Hampshire a pensioner of the United States under the act of Congress of the 18 th of March 1818 ~
  1 Cow valued at . . . . . $17.00   1 Pig valued at . . . . . 1.50   a few articles of kitchen furniture at the 10.00   most valued . . . . . 28.50   Due from me to Stephen Ambros Esq r $25.00   Do. Do. to J. C. West & Co. . . . . 37.00 
Moses Page

Sworn to & declared before the Justices of the Superior Court of Judicature for the State of New Hamp- shire in Open Court on this twenty fifth day of May 1820 . . . . .
Attest S. P. Webster Clerk
I Stephen Peabody Webster Clerk of the Superior Court of Judicature for the County of Grafton and State of New Hampshire do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the record of the said Court; and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is twenty eight dollars fifty cents In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court on this 25. th day of May 1820. S. P. Webster Clerk

March 7, 1935
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Mrs. L. R. Verdon 2318 Glenwood Drive Kalamazoo, Michigan
Moses Page, S. 45051 BA-J/MCS
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your request for information in regard to Revolutionary War soldiers named Moses Page and David Page.
Revolutionary War data furnished by this office are obtained from claims made to the United States for pension and bounty land based upon the military service of soldiers in that war. A careful search of the records fails to show such claim on file on account of the service of a David Page who served in the Revolution as captain of New Hampshire troops.
The data which follow were obtained from papers on file in the pension claim, S. 45051, based upon the military service of Moses Page.
He enlisted in May, 1775, and served eight months in Captain Daniel Moore's company in Colonel John Stark's New Hampshire regiment. Immediately after the expiration of this service he enlisted in Captain Ebenezer Frye's company in the same regiment as previous enlistment and served one year and six weeks and during a part of this time he served in General Washington's Life Guard. He then enlisted and served from March 16, 1777, until May 20, 1779, as sergeant in the Third New Hampshire Regiment on which latter date he was commissioned ensign in Captain Daniel Livermore's company in Colonel Alexander Scamnell's New Hampshire Regiment and on September 13, 1781 he was promoted to lieutenant in Captain William Rowell's company in Colonel George Reid's New Hampshire regiment in which capacity he served until the close of the Revolution.
He was allowed pension on his application executed April 11, 1818, at which time he was living in Concord, Rockingham County, New Hampshire.

In 1820 he was living in Concord, New Hampshire, aged sixty-three years, and referred to his wife, Sarah, aged fifty-eight years, his daughter, Sarah, aged twenty-two years, and his son, Cummings, aged sixteen years. There are no further data relative to his family.
In 1828 Moses Page was living in Haverhill, Grafton County, New Hampshire.
The soldier noted above is the only Moses Page who served as lieutenant of New Hampshire troops that is found in the Revolutionary War records of this office.
Very truly yours
Death not in Agency, Boot
A. D. HILLER Executive Assistant to the Administrator

1935 Mar 7. hist. to Mrs. L. R. Verdon UCL
45051
Rev INVALID.
File No. 45051
Moses Page
Lieut Rev War
Act: 18 March 1818
Index:—Vol. 3 , Page 384
[Arrangement of 1870.]

New York
Col. J. C. Calhoun Washington City
Nov 30
Constance

Port Office Concord NH May 31/1820
Hon. J. H. Colbourn
Esq.
I am requested to send you the enclosed paper of London Post , where a discussion is had as he can will you please to notify him at Concord N.H.
Yours & With Much Respect you
Obedient Servant
Joseph Sargent Pillsbury Concord N.H.

M c L Original Document 553 REVOLUTIONARY CLAIMS.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
Aug t 26. 1828.
Moses Page, of Haverhill, in the County of Grafton in the State of New Hampshire has applied to the Secretary of the Treasury for the benefits of the act, entitled "An Act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the army of the Revolution," approved on the 15th of May, 1828. He states that he was as an officer on the Continental line, and served as such to the end of the war,
at which period he was a Lieutenant in the Second regiment of the N. Hampshire line; and that he received commutation certificates for the five years full pay granted by the resolve of 22 March, 1783; and, further, that he has received as a pensioner since the 3d of March, 1826, 480 dollars, paid to him by the agent in the State of New Hampshire
The Third Auditor is requested to report how far these several statements are corroborated by the records in his office.
By order of the Secretary, A. Dikins.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
THIRD AUDITOR'S OFFICE,
29 th August 1828
It appears by the records in this office, that final settlement certificates have been issued for the commutation of five years full pay to Moses Page - Lieutenant in the New Hampshire line, amounting to fifteen hundred dollars.
It further appears that Moses Page is now on the pension list of the New Hampshire agency, and has been since the 3 rd March 1826 at the rate of Twenty Dollars per month.
John Hagner Aud

State of New Hampshire
Grafton ss.
In the purpose of obtaining the benefits of an act intitled "An Act for the relief of certain surviving Officers and Soldiers of the Army of the Revolution," approved on the 15 th day of May 1823 - I Moses Page of Franconia in the County of Grafton & the State of New Hampshire do hereby declare that I was an officer in the Continental Line of the Army of the Revolution, and served as such to the end of the war, of which period I was a Lieutenant in the Second Regiment of the New Hampshire Line commanded by Col. George Brad.
And I also declare that I afterwards received certificates (commonly called commutation Certificates) for a sum equal to the amount of five years full pay, which sum was offered by the resolve of Congress of the 22 nd of March 1783 instead of the half pay for life to which I was entitled under the Resolve of the 21 st of October 1780. - And I do further declare that I have received of the United States as a pensioner since the 3 rd day of March 1826 the sum of six hundred dollars paid to me by the Agent for paying pensions in the State of New Hampshire Moses Page
Before me David Hovey Esquire a justice of the peace within & for said County of Grafton duly commissioned to administer oaths in said County of Grafton & State aforesaid, personally appeared this

day Benjamin Merrill Esquire of said Haverhill and Jonathan Sinclair gentleman of Haverhill aforesaid who did severally make oath that Moses Page by whom the foregoing declaration was subscribed is generally reputed and believed to have been an Officer in the Army of the Revolution in manner as therein stated. —
Witness my hand this 9 th day of July in the year of our Lord 1828. —
David Sloan Justice of the Peace
I Stephen P. Weston Clerk of the Superior Court of Judicature within & for said County of Grafton and State of New Hampshire do hereby certify that David Sloan Esquire before whom the foregoing affidavits were sworn, was at the time of the above date an acting Justice of the peace in said County of Grafton duly empowered to administer oaths. —
In testimony whereof I have here unto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court this 9 th day of July Anno Domini 1828.
S. P. Weston Clerk
1828 July 9 S. P. Weston Clerk H. 5051

Revolutionary Claims.
Under the act, entitled "An act for the relief of certain surviving Officers and Soldiers of the Army of the Revolution," approved 15th May, 1828.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
29 August 1828.
SIR:
I have the honor to inform you, that Moses Page formerly a Lieutenant in the Second Regiment of the N Hampshire line of the Continental Army; and who has heretofore received a pension at the New Hampshire agency, has been admitted to the benefits of the abovementioned act.
I have the honor to be,
Very respectfully,
Your obedient servant.
Richard Rush.
The Hon. the SECRETARY OF WAR.
No 94.
Set 19

Gilmanton N.H. Apr 7. 1845.
Sir,
Moses Page of New Hampshire, was a pensioner, I believe, under the first act granting pensions to Revolutionary officers and soldiers. He drew at Haverhill N.H. - was a Lieutenant in the Service and out during the whole war as I am informed -
Information has been received by his children from some person at the South, whose name I have not, that by some law or decision of the department

there is quite an amount due over and above what has been received.
Will you be kind enough to cause the papers to be examined and write me the result?
Very respectfully
H. L. Edwards Esq Comm. Publishing
Your Ob t Serv t
J. A. Eastman

Kalamazoo, Mich - Feb. 16 th , 1930
Pension Bureau, Washington, D.C.
Dear Sirs:
Will you kindly send me any information concerning his family that may have been given in the pension application of Lieutenant Moses Page of Lancaster, New Hampshire, who served in the Revolutionary War: - also of the family of Captain David Page of Lancaster, N.H. who likewise served in the Revolutionary War.
Thanking you,
Most sincerely,
Irene B. Verdon
(Mrs. L. R. Verdon)
2318 Glenwood Drive Kalamazoo, Mich.