Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 36,993, Moses Coburn, Mass.

SERVICE
Mass.
Colburn, Moses
NUMBER
S. 36.993
CONTENTS
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13. 87. 2 R To Maine Massachusetts
Moses Coburn
of Synoborough in the state of Massachusetts who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Smith of the Massachusetts me, for the term of Three Years
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 8 of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 15 of July 1818 and sent to Samuel Dana Esq. Groton Massachusetts
  Arrears to 4th of  Mar. 1819.  87. 10    Semi-ann. all'ce ending  Sep. 1819.  48. 00    10 Mo 23 4      30 31        $135. 16  
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued
Moses Coburn sent to Abraham Peabody Esq. Sept 19. 1820 Cambridge Mass

Moses Coburn
Private
81 to 83
Smith Map to
Aug!
Judge's certificate as to indi- gence wanted
Admitted

To the Honorable JOHN C. CALHOUN, Secretary of the Department of War of the United States.
I, the undersigned Samuel Dana , Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Middle Circuit, (comprehending the Counties of Essex and Middlesex) in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, being a Court of Record, duly established by Law, Do hereby certify, That on the eighth day of April in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen Personally appeared Moses Coburn and made and subscribed the declaration which is hereunto annexed. And at the same time he exhibited to me a certain certificate purporting to have been signed by Isaac Pike and Asa Underwood both of whom are well known to me, and who are citizens of good credit —
from which it appears to me, that the said Moses Coburn did serve in the War of the REVOLUTION, against the common Enemy, upwards of nine months.
Wherefore, in pursuance of the directions of an Act of Congress, made and passed the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, entitled, "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States, in the Revolutionary War," I have transmitted the said Declaration & the Certificate aforesaid to you the said Secretary, that such further proceedings may be had in the premises, as the said Act may require.
In testimony of all which, I have caused the Seal of said Court to be hereunto affixed.
Given under my hand within the said Circuit, the eighth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and Eighteen .
I Samuel Dana Chief Justice above named Do hereby certify that Moses Coburn named in the annexed Certificate is a poor man in indigent circumstances. Sam l Dana
Sam l Dana
Sam l Dana

Moses Coburn
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Be it remembered that on the eighth day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen before me Samuel Dane, Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the middle Circuit (comprehending the counties of Essex and Middlesex) in the Commonwealth aforesaid, comes Moses Coburn of Tyngsborough in the said county of Middlesex, and on oath declares that he served in the war of the Revolution against the common enemy two years and six months, that he was hired by a class of men in the then town of Donstable  Tyngs to go into the continental army in the summer of the year 1781 - that he was mustered at Shelburne by Oliver Barron Esq., proceeded to Boston and was there received by Major Pitkin of the army, from thence he proceeded with a party to join the army, at Phillipsburg in New York where he was placed in the company commanded by Capt Benjamin Pike, in the sixth regiment of the Massachusetts line commanded by Lieut Col Calvin Smith - that he served under Capt Pike eighteen or nineteen months - then under Capt Frost about five months - when said regiment was broken up, and he was transferred to the the second Massachusetts regiment commanded by Col Sprout and was placed in the company commanded by Capt Judah Alden, in this company he continued to serve as a private till the last of December AD 1783, when he received a discharge at West Point which discharge he is not able to find and which is not to his knowledge in existence, that he is destitute of property and by reason of his reduced circumstances in life stands in need of assistance from his country for his support being fifty three years of age.
Moses Coburn
Thus made, taken, subscribed and sworn to at Chelmsford in said County of Middlesex, the day and year aforesaid.
Sam l Dane

Moses Coburn
13072
Residence
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
MIDDLESEX, ss.
At the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Middle Circuit, begun and holden at Concord, within and for the County of Middlesex, on the second Monday of June A. D. 1820
Before the Hon. SAMUEL DANA, Esquire, Chief Justice, and
WILLIAM WETMORE, and } Associate Justices
STEPHEN MINOT, Esquires, } of said Court.
In open Court here, being a Court of Record for said Circuit, proceeding according to the course of the common law, with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, keeping a record of its proceedings, and having the power of fine and imprisonment, Moses Coburn resident in
Lynxborough-
in said Circuit, who is named in Pension Certificate No. 13872, now in his possession, of which the following is a true copy, to wit,
WAR DEPARTMENT.....REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.
I certify that, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 18th March, 1818, Moses Coburn late a Private in the army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the Massachusetts Agency, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the eighth day of April one thousand eight hundred and eighteen. Given at the War Office of the United States, this fifteenth day of July one thousand eight hundred and nineteenth.
J. C. CALHOUN, Secretary of War,”
appears, and exhibits to the Court here a Schedule, subscribed by him, as follows, to wit,
SCHEDULE,
containing his whole estate and income, his necessary clothing and bedding excepted, to wit,
Table with 2 columns: Item, Value. Items include Cows ($20), Hog (8), Sheep & lamb (2), Table (0 50), Crockery ware (1 50), Glass ware (0 50), Pots & kettles (1 50), Chairs (1 00), 4 dung hill Fowls (0 80). Total: $35 80.
Moses Coburn
And the said Moses Coburn further saith that he served in the Revolutionary war as set forth

in his original declaration now in the Secretary of War's office to wit he entered the service in August 1781 for three years entered Capt Benjamin Pits company in Lieut Col Calvin Smiths Regt and continued in that Regt about nineteen months then was transferred to the second Regt in the Mass ts line and continued there until discharged having served about two and half years.
That he is now  fifty five years old his occupation is that of a common day labourer, that he is not able to do more than half as much as an able bodied man having been worn out with fatigue in the last and other war that his family residing with him consist of a wife aged fifty one years weakly and not able to support herself and three children Dorcas Coburn aged fourteen. Louisa Coburn aged seven years , Lot S Coburn five years neither of them able to support themselves.
Moses Coburn
Middletown ss C C C Pks.
June 2 d 1820 Then the above named Moses Coburn made oath that the above statement by him subscribed is true before me Stephen Minot Judge "

and at the same time he produces to the Court here the following Oath, taken and subscribed by him, before the Hon. Stephen Minot a Judge of said Court as aforesaid, to wit,
7 I, Moses Coburn do solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner whatever, 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 eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, 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. So help me GOD.
Moses Coburn
Middlesex ss. C. C. C. P. June Term, A. D. 1820
Then the abovenamed Moses Coburn took and subscribed the aforeswritten Oath before me,
Stephen Minot Judge of said Court.
I, ABRAHAM BIGLOW , Clerk of the Court aforesaid, do hereby certify, that the foregoing Oath, and 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
thirty five dollars and eighty cents
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, at Cambridge, in said County of Middlesex, on this 20th day of July 1820
Attr. Abraham Biglow

Hon. E. Lincoln, H. R.

APPLICATION FOR A TRANSFER.
County of Oxford ————— ss.
On this tenth day of February 1824, before me, the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace for the said county of Oxford personally appeared Moses Coburn who, on his oath, declares that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the company commanded by Captain Pike Frost & Selden in the regiment commanded by Colonels Smith Lappin & Howard in the service of the United States; that his name was placed on the pension roll of the state of Massachusetts from whence he has lately removed; that he now resides in the state (district, or territory) of Maine where he intends to remain, and wishes his pension to be there payable, in future. That he at present receives eight dollars per month. Moses Coburn
Sworn and subscribed to, before } me, the day and year aforesaid. }
Duke Peabody Justice of Peace
NOTE. The oath to be taken before a duly qualified magistrate, whose official character and signature must be properly authenticated.

State of Maine
Oxford ss
I Rufus King Goodenow clerk of all the Judicial courts in & for said county of Oxford hereby certify that Luke Reily, before the within declaration purports to have been made, is a Justice of the Peace in & for said county, appointed & sworn agreeably to the Laws & Constitution of this State, that he was such at the time of the date of said declaration & that full faith may be given to his official acts - that I am acquainted with his hand writing & believe his name within written to be his signature.
In testimony whereof I hereunto write my name & affix the seal of one of said courts this twentieth day of February A.D. eighteen hundred & twenty four.
Rufus King Goodenow

This may certify, that Moses Coburn of Syngeborough, was agreed with by us in 1781 to go into the Revolu- tionary war, and did go and stay until the war ended.
April 4 th 1818.
Grace Pike Asa Underwood Committee for the Colas Who hired him

Moses Coburn

We the Subscribers, Selectmen of the Town of Syngsborough in the County of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with, Moses Coburns late of this Town - and that he is extremely poor and not able comfortably to support himself without assistance
Given under our hands this 28 th day of June A.D. 1819. -
Daniel Richardson
Joseph Butterfield
Joseph Upton