Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 36700, for Mark Mors, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Mors, Mark
S. 36700
CONTENTS

7,395
Maine
Mark Morris /
of Gray in the Dist  state of Maine who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Phinney of the Massachusetts line, for the term of Nine months .
Inscribed on the Roll of Dist. of Maine at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence the 28 of April 1818 .
Certificate of Pension issued the 6 of Mar. 1819 and sent to John Maffey Jr Esq Portland, Maine
  Arrears to 4th of Mar 1819 —  81.83    Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 Sep r 1819  48 —       68/19  $ 129.83  
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }

36 700
INVALID.
Rev
File No. 36, 700
Mark Morris
Rev Rev Ind
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 2586
[Arrangement of 1870.]
1934 Jan. 12 hist. to Mr. H. E. Jones see letter of inquiry in Eliphalet Morse S. 29989 M.C.S.

Mark Mors -
Private.
Col. Phinnery - elapsed time
March '75 - 9 months
Apr 28, 1875.
Admitted
also appears In the Judges Certificate on file

I Mark Mors of Grey in the District of Maine and Commonwealth of Massachusetts aged sixty eight years being duly sworn do depone and say that I enlisted as a private for eight months in to Captain Samuel Boyes' company in Colonel Edmund Phinney's Regiment of the Massachusetts Line of the Continental Establishment and marched for Cambridge in July 1775 and faithfully served until the last day of December 1775 when I was honorably dismissed at Cambridge. I further declare that I again enlisted as a private in Captain Wentworth Sturtevant's company Colonel Phinney's Regiment of the Continental Establishment in March 1776 and faithfully served until the last day of December 1776 when I was honorably dismissed at Fort George in the State of New York. I further declare that I am in reduced circumstances in life and am in need of the assistance of my country for support; that I do not receive nor am I entitled to receive any pension from the United States except by virtue of the Act of Congress providing for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary war passed 18 th March 1818.
Mark Mors
Subscribed and sworn to this twenty eighth day of April one thousand eight hundred and eighteen
Before me
Alcion L. Parris Judge de

I Samuel File of Gorham in the District of Maine & Commonwealth of Massachusetts being duly sworn do depone and say that I saw in the year 1776 at Litchfield Mark Moss now a resident of Gray in said District who belonged to Capt Stewarts Company in the Seventeenth Regiment Colonel Phinneys Regiment of the Continental Establishment which Regt was enlisted for twelve months and said Regiment was discharged the first day of January 1779 - I further say he is the same person who subscribed the annexed declaration
Samuel File
Subscribed and sworn to this twenty eighth day of April one thousand eight hundred and eighteen
Before me
Alcoss L. Parris
Judge etc
I Richard Stubbs of North Yarmouth in the District of Maine & Commonwealth of Massachusetts being duly sworn do depone and say that I well know Mark Moss now a resident of Gray who to my knowledge served in the Revolutionary War in Colonel Phinneys Regiment as a private during the year 1776 and was discharged at Albany in the State of New York & that he is the same person who subscribed the annexed declaration
Richard Stubbs
Subscribed and sworn to this twenty eighth day of April one thousand eight hundred and eighteen
Before me
Alcoss L. Parris
Judge etc

Gorham 27 th April 1812 I hereby certify that Mark Mops of Gray County of Cumberland Commonwealth of Massachusetts, entered the service at the commencement of the revolution- ary war in Capt Sam l Noyes's Company Col d Edmund Winney's Reg t , and enlisted in Capt Wentworth's Sturtevant's company Jan y 1776 served till the last day of Dec r and was discharged at Fort George State of New York, from the above mentioned Reg t . • Josiah Jenkins Left in the Reg t aforesaid

I hereby certify that the within named Mark Morse served in Col d Edmund Phinney's Reg t the time mentioned in the within certificate.
Sarah Lewis

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
MAINE DISTRICT, ss.
BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the twenty eighth day of April in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, personally came Mark Mors — the applicant named in the papers hereunto annexed, and after being duly cautioned and examined, made oath that the several statements by him made in the annexed application, signed in my presence, are wholly true.
And the said applicant further offered in evidence the testimony under oath of Samuel Sile and Richard Stubbs that he served as a private in the Revolutionary War for nine months and upwards in continuation on the Continental Establishment and the certificates of Josiah Jenkins and Archibald Lewis, commissioned officers in the said army to the same effect and it also appears from said Mors's declaration under oath that by reason of his reduced circumstances in life he is in need of the assistance of his country for support
And it appearing to me in the examination here had, that the several persons above named are credible witnesses, I do hereby admit the annexed declarations as evidence, and certify the same as being satisfactory proof to me that the said Mark Mors — the applicant, served as a private in the revolutionary war, against the common enemy, for the term of nine months and upwards in continuation on the continental establishment. And I do further certify, that from the declaration of the applicant made before me, under oath as aforesaid, it does appear that in consequence of his reduced circumstances in life, he is in need of assistance from his country for support; all which I do hereby certify and transmit to the Secretary of the Department of War, agreeably to the provisions of an Act of Congress, passed March 18, 1818, entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war."
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused my Official Seal to be affixed the day and year first mentioned.
Almon H. Parris
Judge of the United States in and for the District of Maine.

Mr. H. E. Jones 116 North Ann St. Mobile, Ala.
Jan. 12, 1934
The data which follow were obtained from papers on file in pension claim, S. 36700, based upon the military service of Mark Mors, the only soldier of that name (searched under all spellings) who lived in Maine, as shown by the Revolutionary War records of this office.
He enlisted, place not given, in July, 1775, served as private in Captain Samuel Noyes' company in Colonel Edmund Phinney's Massachusetts regiment and was discharged the last day of December, 1775. He enlisted in January or March, 1776, as private in Captain Wentworth Stuart's company in Colonel Edmund Phinney's Massachusetts regiment and was discharged the last day of December, 1776, or the first day of January, 1777.
He was allowed pension on his application executed April 28, 1818, at which time he was sixty-eight years of age and was living in Gray, Cumberland County, Maine.
The papers in this claim contain no data relative to the soldier's family.
Death not in A. B.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER Assistant to Administrator
See Eliphalet Morse, D 27981 for letter of inquiry