Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 14,409, Moses Buck, Mass.

SERVICE
Mass.
Buck, Moses Hannah
NUMBER
No. 14,409
CONTENTS

1348 Moses Bueh
Copy
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. DISTRICT OF MAINE, ss.
At a District Court of the United States begun and holden at Portland — within and for the District of Maine, on the Tuesday, being the day of
not adjourned from day to day, on the twenty fourth day of September three in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty, before the Honorable ABRAHAM K. REED ,
Asher Ware Judge of said Court.
ON this tuesday twenty fourth day of September in the year above written, personally appeared in open Court, the same having "the power of fine and imprisonment," and being a Court of Record for said Maine District, Moses Buck  aged sixty three years, resident in Sumner  in said District,
who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revo-
make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the Acts of Congress of the 18 th March 1818 and the 1 st May 1820 that he, the said Moses Buck enlisted as a private at New Gloucester in this state on or about the third day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy seven for the term of three years, into the com- pany commanded by Captain Jeremiah Hill in the Regiment command- ed by Colonel Joseph Rose in General Glore's Brigade of the Massachusetts Line on the Continental Establishment: that he faithfully served the whole period of his enlistment and about the first of January A.D. 1780 being at that time sick, was furloughed at the high lands of Fishkill in the State of New York and went to Boston and joined the Invalid Corps under the care of Dr Warren — at which place I remained until after the conclusion of the Revolutionary War when Dr Warren discharged me. I was at the taking of General Burgoyne and also in some small skirmishes. The discharge which I received from Dr Warren I lost some years since. I made a declaration of my said services under the Act of March 18 th 1818 before Governor Paris then U. States District Judge on or about the 7 th of April 1818 which, together with the evidence of my services were forwarded to the War Department and were as I understood subsequently returned to Captain John Merrill on account of some informality. That said papers as I believe were either returned by said Merrill to the War Department or were misplaced and lost by him. That repeatedly I have called upon said Merrill for the same but have not been able to find them. And in pursuance of the Act of May 1 st 1820 —
BEFORE
District of Maine.

was granted. And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th 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 diminish 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 18th 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 ; that my occupation and ability to pursue the same, together with the number and other particulars of my family, are in fact and in truth as is particularly described on the back hereof, also subscribed by me.
Moses Bueh
Sworn to and declared, on the 24 day of September A. D. 1828 }
BEFORE
Ashur Ware
{ U. S. District Judge for the District of Maine.

ORDERED , that the said pensioner produce further proof of the value of the property contained in said schedule ;—And that
or either of them be, and are hereby appointed COMMISSIONERS , and authorised, at the proper expense of the applicant, to take the depositions of such credible and disinterested witnesses as he, the said pensioner, may cause to come before said Commissioners, or either of them, relative to the value of the property mentioned in said schedule, a copy of which is hereunto annexed. And the said Commissioners are hereby directed to cause the deponents particularly to describe the several kinds of property mentioned in said schedule, and to give the value of each article as well as the aggregate value of the whole. And the said Commissioners are further directed to examine no witnesses but such as are credible and disinterested ; and to annex to each deposition by them taken in this case, an official certificate that the deponent is a credible and disinterested witness .
ATTEST,
{ Clerk of the U. States District Court for Maine District.
ss UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

SCHEDULE of the real and personal estate, (necessary clothing and bedding excepted) belonging to me the subscriber, viz:
Real Estate — I have none
Personal estate — One old cow — 6 chairs, one pine table, a little crockery and a little iron ware barely sufficient to keep house with — I have no income except what little I obtain by labor — My son helps to support me by his labor
Moses Buck
██████████
Signed and sworn to
Sept. 24, 1823
Before
Asher Ware Judge of the United States for the District of Maine
SCHEDULE of the family residing with me Moses Buck who, by occupation am a farmer — which I am unable to pursue generally by reason of infirmity having been some years burst
   NAMES. AGES. Capacity of each to contribute to their support.     Hannah wife 50 able to support herself in part   Hannah, daughter 30 " — do — do   Beneca — son 22 " — do — himself  
Signed and sworn to
Before
Asher Ware Judge of the United States for the District of Maine
(Handwritten signature)

MAINE DISTRICT, ss.
I, JOHN MUSSEY, Esq. Clerk of the District Court of the United States for Maine District, do hereby certify that the foregoing oath, and the schedules thereto annexed, are truly copied from the war as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy for the term of nine months under Record of the said Court; and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said Court that the me engagement on the Continental establishment, I also certify total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule, is seventeen dollars and no more  cents.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this twenty fourth day of September A. D. one thousand eight hundred and twenty. three
John Mussey } Clerk of the U. States District Court for Maine District.

5620
Massachusetts
Hannah Buck widow of Moses Buck
who served in the Revolutionary
war, as a Wife
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 80 Dollars 00
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.
Certificate of Pension issued the 29 day of April 1831 and sent to
Hickson's Rooms Present
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 2, 1848, Page 8 . Vol. 2 .

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
On this Eleventh day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty, personally appeared before the subscriber Hannah Buck a resident of Easton in the County of Bristol and State aforesaid aged Eighty six years who upon oath makes the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the acts of Congress granting pensions to the widows of certain soldiers of the Revolution passed on and since the seventh day of July 1838.
And this declarant states that she is the widow of Moses Buck who was a soldier of the Revolution. She states that her husband was a resident of New Gloucester, District (now State of) Maine in the time of the Revolution and that her husband enlisted as a private soldier as she believes from said town to serve three years in the Continental Army and that said service was performed in Col Vose's Regiment in Gen Glovers Brigade of the Massachusetts Continental line. The facts set forth in the application hereto annexed made in May 1846 in the town of Sumner Maine, is in substance what her husband has informed her

relative to his service in the war of the Revolution according to her best knowledge.
She further states that her husband in his life time made application for the benefit of the act of 1818 but that in consequence of his name being found on the rolls as a deserter he was deprived of his pension although he continued to make application through his agents for several years prior to his death. She believes that her husband served out the term of his enlistment and that that the entry made on the rolls that he deserted was erroneous. She states that she was well acquainted with her husband from the time he came out of the army till her marriage to him, that he lived openly in said New Gloucester and that she never heard him called a deserter until he made application for his pension aforesaid. This declarant has been informed that the entry against his name in the army Books that he deserted was fatal to her claim for a pension, unless documentary testimony of a high character could be obtained to show such entry to be erroneous. In her application for proof of her husband's service she stated that her husband went to Boston some years after the revolutionary war &

by the aid of Doct. Warren obtained his final settle- ment certificates, and requested the Secy of State to certify said fact, if payment was made. No such certificate being given she supposed all evidence in relation thereto was lost. Your declarant now exhibits the proof that her husband was paid as she set forth in her declaration and under circumstances that can leave no doubt that the entry against his name was an error or a fraud. She further states that she was married to the said Moses Buck at New Gloucester by the Rev Samuel Foycroft on the 14th April 1781, and that her hus- band the late Moses Buck died on the 24 th Aug t 1826, and that she has remained a widow ever since. She states that since her marriage she has resided in New Gloucester Sumner and Canton Maine, and now with her youngest son Bencea Buck in Easton Mass: She claims therefore a pension by virtue of the acts aforesaid and adduces the following tes- timony in support of her claim.
Witnesses Oliver Prescott } Seneca Buck. }
her Hannah X Buck mark
Subscribed & sworn to on the day and year above written, before me.
Oliver Prescott Judge of Probate

I Oliver Prescott. Judge of Probate in and for the County of Bristol do hereby certify that Hannah Buck the within applicant for a pension, and affiant is unable, by reason of age and bodily infirmity, to attend the Court.
Oliver Prescott Judge of Probate
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Bristol County ss I Anselm Missett Register of the Court of Probate in and for said County, do hereby certify that Oliver Prescott whose signature is affixed to the foregoing certificates is the Judge of said Court of Probate.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said Court this eleventh day of September eighteen hun- dred and fifty
A Missett

I Joseph E Foxcroft of New Gloucester in the County of Cumberland and State of Maine on oath depose and say that I have in my possession & keeping the record of marriages solemnized by my late father the Rev d Sam- uel Foxcroft formerly minister of the Gospel in this town In said Record I find the following entry viz. "One thousand seven hundred and eighty one April fourth," "Moses Buck and Hannah Lehubb both of a place called a twenty mile River"
The above is a true extract from the Record with the exception of the date which is in fair legible figures thus "1781 Apr 4"
I further testify that the record from which the above extract is taken has upon it the following certificate viz.
"I certify that I have this day examined the foregoing "record purporting to be a record of marriages solemnized "by the Rev d Samuel Foxcroft late of New Gloucester of "this State commencing Nov 23 d 1765 and ending "January 6 1793. That it appears to be an ancient "record and to have been kept with entire regularity "and I have no doubt it is what it purports to be. "I further certify that I have examined this day

" under oath Joseph E. Foxcroft son of Rev Sam uel Foxcroft and personally known to me, to " be a man of undoubted veracity who certifies " he found this paper book among his father's " papers after his father's decease that he knows " it to be in his hand writing and that he re- " members being present at some of the marriages " in this Record.
" Portland Dec 18 1844
Asher Ware Judge of the United States for the District of Maine "
Joseph E. Foxcroft
Cumberland ss. September 24 th 1850 Then personally appeared the above named Joseph E. Foxcroft and made oath to the truth of the the foregoing affidavit by him signed
Before me Samuel Foxcroft, Justice of the Peace S

Rev WIDOW, &c
File No. 14409
Hannah Buck
(Widow)
Moses Buck
Prin. Rev. Ma
Act: Feb. 2, 1898
Index:—Vol. A , Page 103
[Arrangement of 1870.]

17,131
17,131
Mojos Duct Column
Rejected Oct 3. 1823
Deviated 3-
Von's Best
Maple Lane
John D. D. D. Secretary John D. D. D. John D. D. D. John D. D. D. John D. D. D.

17,131
17,131
• Nofis Buck Elam
Rejected Oct 3. 1823
Deerfield 3-
Vote's Best
Maftn Lane
John D. Dyer Secretary John Dyer Portland Maine

Portland Sept. 24. 1823
Sir
Enclosed I transmit the declaration of Moses Buck applicant for Revolutionary Pension. Buck applied under the Act of March 18 th 1818 before Judge Parris now Governor of this State, about the 7 th of April 1818 which papers after having been returned by the War Department for correction in point of form have been lost by his agent John Merrill as appears by his statement. The depositions of John Lawrence and Joseph Thomas which are enclosed fully prove the facts stated in his declaration. His request is that his claim if allowed may commence from the date of his first application, he having believed until lately that his papers would be found by Capt. Merrill but of which he now has no hope - I believe his service is fully and completely established by the evidence of said Lawrence & Thomas, two respectable men, and I trust if compatible with the regulations of the Department a certificate will be granted commencing from the 7 th of April 1818 his papers having been in fact before the Department & accidentally lost without any negligence on his part, while on their way for correction of form - I would request the certificate when granted may be transmitted
Your obedt Servt
Hon. J. C. Calhoun Secretary of War Washington

17131
Moses Bucko
Maine
act 18 March 1818.
claim Rejected.
see letter 3 October 1823 to John Murray Esq.
Deserted Deserted
1898
Copied from Land Office

No 14-215
Hannah Buck
wid: of Moses
Moats
Act July 7 th 18 28 18 29

Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
1398
RECEIVED
P. O. Mrs. Buck
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

11.069
Massachusetts.
Hannah Buck
Widow of Moses Buck who was a pensioner under the Act of 1831 and who died on the 24 Aug 1836 of Bristol in the State of Mass. who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Hancock of the Regt commanded by Col Dose in the Mass line for 2 years
Inscribed on the Roll of Boston at the rate of 80 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 27 day of April 1837 and sent to Dickins & Coombs Present
Total amount, $
[Act July 7, 1838.]
Recorded by H. Weightman Clerk, Book 2 Vol. 1 Page 67

8.9 67
Massachusetts Hannah Buck widow of Moses who was a Private in the Revolution
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 80 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the 2 nd day of April 1843. and sent to
Dickins & Coombs Present
[Acts of March 3, 1843, & June 17, 1844.]
Recorded in Book A. Vol. 2. Page 26

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston;
June 24. 1816.
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 Moses Buck of Bolton, is borne upon an Account in Army Books as a private in Capt Hancock's Company Col Vose's Regt, and there credited by his service from March 7. 1777 to December 31. 1779. is 33 Months and 24 days, at 40$ per Month — And charged to a Bounty of £ 10 — 16s paid him by the town of New Gloucester in April 1777. Upon an Account in Said Books, as a private of New Gloucester, in the Colonel's Company, Col Vose's Regt, and there credited by his service from January 1 to July 20 1780. 6 Months and 20 days at 40$ per Month — It is noted in Said Account as follows: "Deserted 20 July." Not upon Rolls of Capt Jeremiah Hill, or Invalid Corps.

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 application, 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. Perry;
Secretary of the Commonwealth.

To the Secretary of State Massachusetts
is undersigned Hannah Buck a resident of the Town of Sumner and State of Maine requests the Secretary of State Mass to furnish from the rolls and other documents relating to Military Service in the War of the Revolution the evidence of the service of her husband the late Moses Buck.
And this applicant believes that her late husband Moses Buck enlisted as a private soldier at New Gloucester in the State of Maine on or about the 3 d March 1777 for three years into the Company commanded by Capt Jeremiah Hill in Col Vose Regt in Gen Glovers Brigade of the Mass: Continental line and served out the term of his enlistment or until about the 1 st of January 1780, and being at that time sick was furloughed at the Highlands of Fishkill in the State of New York and went to Boston and there joined the Invalid Corps under the care of Dr Warren at which place he remained as she believes to the close or near the close of the Revolutionary War when he was discharged by the said Dr Warren from the service. She believes that her husband was at the Capture of Bennington in 1777 and also

in several small skirmishes. She believes that her husband lost his discharge which he received from Dr Warren. And this applicant further states that some years after the close of the Revolutionary War, that her said husband went to Boston and by the aid and assistance of Dr Warren aforesaid he obtained pay or his final settlement certificate for his service in the war of the Revolution. And this applicant therefore requests the Secretary to furnish all the evidence of the service of her husband either in the Company of Capt Hill or under Dr Warren in Boston and particularly she requests that the Secretary will furnish all the evidence in his Department in relation to any payments that may have been made to her said husband after the war of the Revolution.
Your applicant further states that being poor and destitute, she requests that a certificate may be furnished of her husband's service of her husband's service without delay.
State of Maine
Oxford ss. May 16. 1846. Then appeared Hannah Buck & signed the foregoing application in my presence.
Before me James Hovey 3 d J.P.
Hannah Buck
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STATE OF MAINE.
CUMBERLAND, SS.
Probate Office, PORTLAND, September 28th A. D. 1850 }
I, Freeman Bradford
REGISTER OF PROBATE.
In and for said COUNTY OF CUMBERLAND, certify that Samuel Foxcroft and Freeman Bradford , were at the time of their several attestations to the following papers —
Acting Justices of the Peace,
within and for the County of Cumberland as appears by the paper hereto annexed, that they were DULY QUALIFIED TO ACT as such; that the COMMISSION of the said Foxcroft is dated January 28th A. D. 1845 and will expire January 28th A. D. 1852, and that the Commission of said Bradford , was dated February 14, A. D. 1839 , and expired February 14 A. D. 1846
and that the following SIGNATURE, purporting to be theirs — are genuine.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the Seal official of said Court, the day and year first above written.
Freeman Bradford Register.

I William Chipman of Oxford in the County of Oxford in the State of Maine aged Eighty Two and upwards on oath depose and say that I was a resident of New Gloucester in the then Province of Maine from October 1774 to the time I went into the Revolutionary army in the Spring of 1782. I was well acquainted while I resided in New Gloucester with Moses Buck who was a resident of said Town, and who enlisted into the three years service, and went away from New Gloucester soon after his enlistment which was in 1777 as near as I can recollect, and I knew him after his return from the service. There was at the time, that said Buck enlisted several others from New Gloucester, to wit - Joel Simmons, Samuel Harmon William Goff & Richard Morse. I believe that Edmund Cleanes & Samuel Cleanes enlisted the same year and I believe the same time that Buck did. After said Moses Buck returned from the service I heard him and Thomas Pote each say that they knew each other while in the service. I heard said Pote say that he was in the battle at Monmouth. Moses Buck married Hannah Church of New Gloucester and after wards

went to Sumner where he died. I saw Moses Buck a few days before he went into the service and he told me he had enlisted & I saw him again after he returned to New Gloucester. He enlisted for three years as he told me, and I have no doubt but he served three years or more. When he returned he had a Rifle Frock, such a one as I saw while I was in the service. The first time that I saw him after he returned from the army said Buck had the frock on. I saw one of the persons whom I have named in this affidavit since in the army. William Goff & Richard Moore died also in the service. Wm Chipman
State of Maine Cumberland ss Sept 10th 1845 Then appeared before me at the city of Portland in said county the above named William Chipman known to me as a man of truth & made oath to the above affidavit by him subscribed
Before me J. Bradford Justice of the Peace

I Joseph E Foxcroft of New Gloucester in the County of Cumberland & State of Maine do hereby certify that I well recollect Moses Buck whose marriage I have this day certified to have been solemnized by Rev. Samuel Foxcroft late of this town, to Hannah Chubb living in a Plantation then called Twenty Mile River which Plantation is now Incorporated as a part of the towns of Buckfield or Minot. I also certify that I was well acquainted with several of his brothers. The family were respectable one of his brothers I knew to be a member of Massachusetts Legislature, and I think he was Master of a Lodge of Masons, I know I have sit with him in a Lodge of Masons he is now dead. I never heard it suggested that the said Moses Buck was a dissenter from the Army untill this day & I now have no reason to believe that he ever did dissent from the Army.
Joseph E. Foxcroft
Cumberland ss Sept 24. 1850
Then personally appeared the above named Joseph E. Foxcroft and made oath to the truth of the foregoing certificate by him signed.
Samuel Foxcroft - Just of Peace

I James Hovey of Sumner, in the County of Oxford and State of Maine, aged sixty six years & upwards on oath depose & say, that I have been acquainted with Hannah Buck a very aged person and the widow of the late Moses Buck of Sumner for more than twenty five years last past - I was also acquaint- -ed with her late husband and was present when he died - Moses Buck died in the town of Sum- -ner in the Summer of 1826. in the month of August according to the best of my recollection and left a widow Hannah Buck, who resided in the town of Sumner aforesaid until about five or six years ago, when she went from said town to reside with one of her sons in Canton Maine, and while in the latter town and pre- -viously, received aid and support from said town of Sumner, I have myself assisted her for three years past as a pauper. - said Hannah Buck now resides with her son Seneca in Easton he having taken his mother from Canton a few months ago - Hannah Buck is a widow and has never been married since the death of her husband - Moses Buck made application for a pension in his life time, and did not obtain one - it was said at or about the time he made his application that he was found as a debtor I never have heard previous to that (say a few years before his death, that he was reputed to

have been a deserter, although he had the reputation & was known by old men of his age, to have been a soldier for a long time in the Continental army and often times have I, when laboring in the field together (as we often did) heard him relate many incidents & occurrences, which took place while he was in the army of the revolution.
James Hersey
Oxford ss. Sumner, Sept. 18th, 1880.
Then personally appeared the above named James Hersey, a man of known truth and integrity, and who has for many years, been one of the Selectmen, Assessors, and Overseers of the poor in the town of Sumner, and made oath to the truth of the above affidavit - by him subscribed -
(for the county of Oxford.)
Before me. Rachel Chandler, Justice of the Peace.

STATE OF MAINE.
JOHN HUBBARD.
Governor of the State of Maine. To all who shall see these Presents,
GREETING.
Know ye, That Reuben Chandler of Sumner in the County of Oxford Esquire, was on the fourteenth day of July A. D. 1811. appointed and Commissioned, and on the twentieth day of August A. D. 1811. qualified as a Justice of the Peace
within and for our said County of Oxford that he still continues to hold said office:
John Hubbard
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 caused the Seal of the State to be hereunto affixed.
Given under my hand at AUGUSTA, this twenty seventh day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty one and in the seventy fifth year of the Independence of the United States of America.
By the Governor.
John G. Sawyer Secretary of State.

✓ Hannah Buck, mrs of Moses. Mass.
Set 7 July 1838 100 - 2 yrs Pri $80 per ann from 40 - Oct 1836, wch 2 years -
Cent rent to Dickinson & Combs Present
65 -
  8 1/3  130  15 = 6    39  125     145  115     55  105     20  95   

L 107.2
 Co 75  Bill 60  Mgs 50  Wagon 400  70 Sts 500  10 Svs 200  100g 40   1360 
L 107.2  2 1/4  5 3.50  $267.50
L 3334.1  2 1/4
3334.1  2 1/4  6668  1667
1392 | 8335 = 1216 8232 103 | 13 1392
24 d $240- $240-00 L $240. $240. L 107.2 2 1/4
267.50 240.  507.50  253.75
30. 40: 1 1/4 30 100 $267 1.23 1/2
$264.50
$267.50
7.75: 40.00 - 15
24 m 15 d 7 1/4 m 5 d 15 d. 24 m 15 d up 107.2 2 1/4 214 5 3.50 25 240 | 267.75 = 16.20 240 27

Herman Bedford Respecting Hannah Beck.

Portland Feby 12 th 1857
Gentlemen
Yours of the 8 th relation to the claim of Hannah Buck widow of Moses is before me & being too ill to go abroad will remark that there are no original rolls in the Secretary's Office Mass of the Continental troops except some few deposited there by individuals within the last twenty years, and those scarcely ever referred to. The evidence of service of the War men and the three years men is contained in what are termed Army Books and are mere abstracts of service in the nature of an account, in which the soldier is credited with a certain amount of service and balanced by charges for money and notes received.
These accounts are full of errors and when I am able to go to Boston I shall be able, I have no doubt to show by a certificate from the Secretary, that no person was ever paid his depreciation, who was actually a deserter, and that the Legislature never paid without a strict scrutiny of these same army books and if marked a deserter thereon, the claimant

was obliged to show that such entry was an error. One thing will strike you forcibly in this case and it is, that Moses Buck enlisted for 3 years only, and as his term expired on the 7 th March 1780, it will be difficult to show on what ground he was a deserter or could be one,
It is necessary that I go to Boston and there collect the Resolves of the Mass Legislature when such and such soldiers were allowed depreciation "notwithstanding their names are borne on the Army Books, as deserters which entry is erroneous". The fact that there is such an entry on the account in the Army Books, throws suspicion on the matter, but I have full confidence that we can clear it up. A deserter in New England in Revolutionary days could no more live openly than that the notorious Pirate Kidd - They were then held in about the same estimation that an Abolitionist now is in South Carolina, and I will add, in about the same estimation that Abolitionists will be in Maine, two years hence, if public opinion continues to run in the same healthful channel as it does now. I feel perfect confidence in being able to show that Moses Buck was not a deserter - and that too from the most reliable sources.
I am Very Truly
Your Obt Servt
Freeman Bradford.

Miss Dickinson's Rooms Washington D.C.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts,
Secretary's Office, Boston;
February 17 1857.
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 Moses Buck is borne on the Army Books in Capt. Hancock's Co. Col. Vose's Regt. as a private, of Bolton, enlisted for New Gloucester. service from March 7. 1777. 34 mo. & 23 days. - enlisted for 3 years, also on army books, in the Col. Co. Col. Vose's Regt. as a private, from Jan'y 1 st . to July 20. 1780. 6 mo & 20 days, marked "D.W." & "deserted July 20."
There are no original muster rolls of the 3 years & during the war's men in this office, except in a few instances, but the evidence of the service in those cases is made up in the form of accounts current for money had, and services rendered in the revolution, and it is known and understood that those accounts were made up from original rolls not now in this department.
Depreciation notes were not issued to deserters, and if Moses Buck had been a deserter, there would have been no notes issued on his order even if genuine; The Army books have been in the Secretary's Office since the war of the Revolution, and the fact of the entry therein could not have escaped

the committee to whom his petition was referred in 1799. It would appear quite conclusive that as the Legislature granted him his depreciation notes, that he was not in fact a deserter, and that the entry on his account of service in 1780 was satisfactorily explained.
There are many other cases marked "deserted" where the soldier overstaid his furlough, from a misunderstanding of the terms of it, but who returned subsequently. In most cases the mark remained, in some a reference was made to a certificate of their Capt. or other officer on file that they had returned.
There is no evidence on any original muster roll that Moses Buck enlisted for "during the war" after the expiration of his 3 years service.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth the date above written.
Agassiz Walker Secretary of the Commonwealth.

To the Honble the Senate and the House of Representatives in Genl Court assembled. The Petition of Moses Buck humbly Shews
That your Petitioner served the term of three years in the late Continental Army as a soldier and never received any pay for said service; and being a minor and having neither parents nor guardian he never applied for his pay till about eighteen months since, when he found the same had already been drawn by one Henry Foy, a name wholly unknown to your Petitioner, and without any order or power therefor from your petitioner, as he never gave one to any person for said purpose. Therefore your Petitioner prays your honors to take his case into consideration and order thereon as you think just. And as in duty bound will ever pray.
Moses Buck.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
In the House of Representatives. June 15. 1799
On the Petition of Moses Buck, a soldier in Captain Hancock's Company in Col: Vose's

Reqt. praying for his depreciation notes which have been drawn by one Henry Foye, in a forged order.
Resolved, That the prayer of said petition be granted and that the Treasurer be, and he is hereby directed to issue to the said Moses Buck a note or notes for his depreciation, a- mounting to the sum of two hundred and three dollars sixty seven cents, in specie, which will be in the same way and manner as if the same had never been drawn by a forged order.
Sent up for Concurrence
Edw d H. Robbins Spk r .
In Senate June 19. 1799
Read & Concurred
John C. Jones proil protem.
June 19. 1799.
Approved Moses Gill.
Secretary's Office Boston August 7. 1850.
I hereby certify the foregoing to be true copies from the files in this office. Witness the Seal of the Common- wealth, hereunto affixed
M c Duff
Deputy Secy of the Commonwealth

Resolves June 1799.
XXXVIII.
Resolve on petition of Moses Buck, directing the Treasurer to issue a new note or notes June 19. 1799.
On the petition of Moses Buck, a Soldier in Captain Hancock's Company, in Col. Vose's Regiment, praying for his depreciation notes, which have been drawn by one Henry Toy, on a forged order:
Resolved, That the prayer of said petition be granted, and that the Treasurer be, and he is hereby directed to issue to the said Moses Buck, a note or notes for his depreciation, amounting to the sum of two hundred and three dollars sixty seven cents, in Specie, which will be in the same way and manner as if the same had never been drawn by a forged order.

Cumberland ss.
State of Maine
Clerk's Office Jud. Courts
I Charles C. Harmon, Clerk of all the Judicial Courts for said County of Cumberland, hereby certify that the foregoing is a true copy, from the printed Resolves of the General Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, now in this Office.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the Supreme Judicial Court of said State, this fifth day of August A.D. 1850
Chas. C. Harmon, Clerk.

Washington 3 d Oct. 1850.
Sir,
Enclosed we have the honor to present to you the claim of Hannah Buck widow of Moses Buck, for a pension under the acts of 1838. 1843. 1844 & 1848. -
James L Edwards Esq Comm r of Pensions. -
Yours respectfully Dickins & Coombs

I John Lawrence of North Yarmouth in the County of Cumberland & State of Maine being duly sworn depose and say that I was a private soldier in Capt. Jeremiah Hill's company Col. Dore's Regiment of the Massachusetts Line on the Continental Establishment & enlisted on or about the first of March A.D. 1777 for the term of three years which term I faithfully served. I further say that Moses Buck who has this day made a declaration of his services before Judge Ware, is a person well known to me and that I knew of his belonging to Captain Hill's company and that he faithfully served the period of his enlistment which was for three years as particularly stated in his declaration. That he joined said company about the time I did and went to Boston together where we had the small pox together and that we served together until he said Buck was permitted to go to Boston from New-York on furlough, he being sick at that time. I further say that said Buck faithfully served on the Continental Establishment as above mentioned in the same company with myself as a private soldier for the period of about three years -
John Lawrence
Cumberland ss
September 22 nd 1823 Personally appeared the above named John Lawrence and made oath to the truth of the foregoing deposition by him subscribed. I further certify that in my opinion said Lawrence is a credible witness and that full faith and credit are due to his declarations above given
John Mufsey Justice of the Peace

I Joseph Thomas of Pownal in the county of Cumberland & State of Maine being duly sworn depose and say that I enlisted on or about the eleventh of January A.D. 1777 into Capt. Jeremiah Hill's company Col. Joseph Dose's Reg- iment, Greene's Brigade, Massachusetts Line, on the Con- tinental Establishment, for the period of three years which I faithfully served and acted as a Corporal in the com- pany the greater part of the time. I further say that I well know Moses Buck who has this day made a decla- ration of his services before Judge Ware and that said Buck joined the same company as a private at the North River New York; the first place of rendezvous was Boston & I went with a part of the company to New York from Boston before said Buck joined us - that said Buck served in said company until about the first of January A.D. 1780 when he received a furlough on account of sick- ness. I further declare that said Buck to my knowledge faithfully served in said Company & Regiment for a period of about three years under one enlistment as a private soldier in the Continental Establishment.
Joseph Thomas
Cumberland ss
September 22 nd 1823 Personally appeared the above named Joseph Thomas and made oath to the truth of the foregoing deposition by him subscribed. I further certify that in my opinion said Thomas is a credible witness and that full faith and credit are due to his declarations above given.
John Mussey Justice of the Peace

State of Maine Cumberland ss
William S. Vaughan Clerk of the Courts within and for the County of Cumberland do hereby certify that John Mussey who execut- ed the within and preceding depositions as a Magistrate is a Justice of the Peace in and for said County. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the Seal of said County this 24 th Sept. A.D. 1823
Wm S Vaughan