Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 22,733, Moses Cass, N.H.

SERVICE
NUMBER
N. H.
Cass, Moses Mary
W 22,733
B.L.W. 9491-160-55
CONTENTS

Mar. 24, 1906 aw Sp. J. H.

Leass, Moses
His name appears on a list of invalid pensioners returned by the Circuit Court for the district of Maine, submitted to the House of Representatives by the Secretary of War on Dec. 14, 1792, and printed in the American State Papers, class 9, page 60.
Rank: Private
Regt: 3 d N.H.
Disability: Nearly lost the use of his right hand and arm, by the inoculation of the small-pox, being in the army at Valley Forge.
Date of commencement: March 4, 1789
Monthly allowance: $3.33 1 / 3
Arrears due: $143.17 8

May 2, 1906 at. 10:30

Coass, Moses
His name appears on a list of applicants for invalid pension returned by the District Court for the District of Maine, submitted to the House of Representatives by the Secretary of War on April 25, 1794, and printed in the American State Papers, class 9, page 86.
Rank : Private
Regt : 3 d N. Hampshire
Disability : Wounded in the right arm and right hand.
Residence : Hallowell
Monthly allowance : $3.33
Arrearages : $230
Remarks : Enlisted Mar. 8, 1777.
Evidence complete.

State of Maine.
I William Allen Jr , Clerk, for the County of Somerset , of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the second Eastern Circuit, embracing the counties of Lincoln, Kennebec and Somerset, do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath and the Schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of the said Court; and that the original was exhibited in open 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, including debts due to the declarant therein stated, is Seventy one dollars and  cents ; and deducting therefrom the amount of what the declarant owes, as set forth in said Schedule, the value of said property in the opinion of said Court, is Nothing  dollars and  Cents.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this twenty ninth day of June 1820.
William Allen Jr , Clerk of said Court for the County of Somerset

order to pay. see letters to P. Agt. to G. W. Morton Nov. 3. 1836 do. to Hon. R. T. Butler Sec. War Jan. 31. 1837. Let to Hon. J. Dowe, Mar. 14. 1838.
See Dean Myron's letter to G. W. Morton dated July 20th 1838
(B. 210) R
$5.33 1/3 $54.23
District of Maine
Mass. Caps
of Cornville in the state of District of Maine who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Scammon of the New Hampshire line, for the term of three Years
scribed on the Roll of the District of Maine at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 9 of April 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 5 of March 1819 and sent to Hon. Mr. Gage House of Representatives
Arrears to 4th of March 1819 $ 86.89 Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 Sept 1819 48.
Continued $ 134.89 Sept. 19
Revolutionary claim, } Act 18th March, 1818. } Difference between Revolutionary & Rev. Pension from  Sept. 1818 to March 4. 1819 $ 27.66

No. 18 Moses Capt Cornwall
6210
Mahh Bm
R. C. Vose Augusta, Maine

State of Maine.
Somerset
KENNEBEC COUNTY, ss.
ON this twinty sixth day of June , 1820, personally appeared before Josiah Stebbins a Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Counties of Lincoln, Kennebec and Somerset, being a Court of Record for said Counties, proceeding according to the course of the common law, having original jurisdiction, unlimited in amount, keeping a record of their proceedings, and having the power of fine and imprisonment, Moses Caps aged sixty four years, resident in Coonville in the County of Somerset within said Circuit, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, declare that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows, viz. in the Company commanded by Captain James Gray and Regiment commanded by Colonel Seammell of the line of the State of New Hampshire upon the Continental Establishment, for the period of thru years
that his original declaration was made before Judge Wilde on the tenth day of April 1818; that he is now on the Pension Roll, and that his pension certificate is numbered 6210 . And I, the said Moses Cops do further 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.
Moses Cops
The following is a Schedule of my whole Estate and income, necessary clothing and bedding excepted, viz: One Cow, two yearlings - six sheep and five lambs one small colt - three swine; - six chairs, two tables, one case of drawers, Shovel Plows and tea kettle; all which furniture I have had ever since my marriage thirty three years ago; one plow two old axes; 2 old hoes, Copse & Spade - I am by occupation a husbandman, have been healthy till within two years past, was lamed in the army after the capture of Burgoyne, by the small pox setting in my right arm, which contracted my fingers; and caused a destruction of one of the bones: left arm has been good; can now work but little. My family are my wife Mary aged 54, who has a cancer and has long been under the care of physicians; Daughter Eliza aged 18 Julia aged 17; Enoch C. and Caroline L. Davis aged 14 all in health. Ethan A. C. aged twelve not so healthy but tolerably well. I owe above five hundred dollars have nothing due to me, and no income but my pension. Moses Cops

Somerset, ss. Subscribed, sworn to and declared both the oath and schedule, this twenty sixth day of June 1820 before me, Josiah Stebbins, a Judge of the C. C. C. P. N. E. Circuit

State of Maine.
KENNEBEC, ss.—I, JOHN A. CHANDLER, Clerk of all the Judicial Courts held within and for the County of Kennebec, hereby certify that the Hon. NATHAN WESTON, Jun'r, before whom the within proceedings was had, is a Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of said State; I also certify that the within contains the original proceedings of the said Judge, in the matter of the application of Moses leaf for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of the said Court, this 8th day of August
A. D. 1832.
J. A. Chandler
Moses leaf Private - New Hampshire troops May's Co: Scamell's Regt Bryans
5 Mar 1816
Mr leaf, must prove his disability at the time, for
Applicant claims his invalid pension in addition to his pension under the law of 1818.
fore he can again be placed on the Invalid roll.
R. C. Rose Augusta Me.

Declaration.
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832.
Somerset
STATE OF MAINE, } ss. KENNEBEC COUNTY, }
On this eighth day of August A. D. 1832 personally appeared before the Hon. NATHAN WESTON, Jun'r, a Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court, of said State, Moses G. also a resident of Cornville in the County of Somerset and State of Maine, aged Seventy four years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832. That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year 1777 with Captain James Gray and served in Col. Scammon's regiment of the New Hampshire line or troops under the following named officers: Gray Captain, Scammon Col. That in March 1777, he enlisted as a private in that company & regiment for three years & at the end thereof was discharged in March 1780, and his discharge is annexed - was in both the battles at the taking of Burgoyne's at the battle of Saratoga and wintered at Valley Forge. At Valley Forge he sustained an injury in his right arm, for which he has had a pension as an invalid, which he was held to relinquish under the act of 1818. he now understands that he may by law reclaim it in addition to his pension under the law of 1818, and if so, he prays that he may be restored to his invalid pension
That he was placed on the Maine roll under the Act of Congress of March 18, 1818, and that his pension certificate is numbered 6,210 and dropped therefrom on account of his property. That at that time he resided in Cornville in the County of Somerset and State of Maine, and now resides in the same town
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any agency in any State, except as aforesaid.
Moses G. also
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid, Before
Nathan Weston Jun
not I.P.C.
And the said Judge does hereby declare his opinion that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states.
Nathan Weston Jun

Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7 th July 1838, entitled "An Act granting half pay & pensions to certain widows," — and An Act to amend the same, approved August 23, 1842.
State of Maine Somerset County ss. On this fourth day of June A.D. 1844, personally appeared before the Hon. G. Greene Judge of Probate for said County
of Somerset at a court held at her residence in the  the town of Vine, said County Cornville in the County of Somerset and State of Maine being too aged and infirm to appear in open court at any other place, aged seventy seven years who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed July 7 th 1838 entitled "An Act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows," and An Act to amend the same approved August 23 d 1842; — That she is the widow of Moses Cass, who was a Revolutionary pensioner of the United States under the act of March 18. 1818, upon roll of the Maine Agency; that he was paid his pension at this Agency up to September 4, 1843; that she received the pension from that time, up to January 13, 1844, the time of his decease, as his widow, at the same Agency! She refers, in support of her claim to a pension, to the evidence furnished by her said husband, Moses Cass, at the time of his application for a pension, under the above mentioned Act, — supposed to be in possession of the War Department. — She further declares that she was married to the said Moses Cass on the fifth day of May in the year Seventeen hundred and eighty four; that her husband the aforesaid Moses Cass died on the thirteenth day of January A.D. 1844, at Cornville in the State of Maine; that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first of January, Seventeen hundred & ninety four, viz

at the time before stated; she also stated that her maiden name was Mary Page, that she was married in Hallowell Maine by the Hon. Joseph North and that she has remained a widow ever since the decease of her said husband. —
Mary Carr
Subscribed and Sworn to on the day and year above written, before me
Chas Greene, Judge of Probate for Somerset County.
State of Maine County of Somerset ss. I the subscriber Registrar of Probate for said County hereby certify, that the Hon. Charles Greene before whom the proceedings were had is Judge of the Court of Probate for the County of Somerset. I also certify, that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the Application of Mary Carr for a pension. —
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the Seal of the said Court, this fourth day of June
A.D. 1844.
Thos. B. Jones, Registrar of Probate

Downey's Certificate in case of Mary B.

Moses Gass and Mary Page were joined in marriage May fifth, Anno Domini Seventeen hundred and eighty four, by
Joseph North, Esquire Justice of the Peace
A true copy of the record with the exception of the date which is expressed in the record in fair legible figures as follows viz: "May 5. 1784"
Attest. Daniel Pike Town clerk
I, Daniel Pike of Augusta in the county of Kennebec and State of Maine, do on oath state, that I hold the office of Town clerk of the Town of Augusta aforesaid, and that the foregoing is a true copy from the records with the exception above stated by me.
Daniel Pike
State of Maine
Kennebec County ss.
May 11. 1844.
personally appeared
Daniel Pike, Town Clerk, as above stated & made oath that the above statement by him subscribed is true, before me
R. D. Rice
Justice of the Peace

3369 Maine
Mary Cass widow of N. H. Moses Cass who served in the Revolutionary
war, as a private
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of Ninety six Dollars
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848. 1 st day of July 1848
Certificate of Pension issued the 28 th day of March 1851 and sent to
Geo. W. Morton Augusta Me.
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 2, 1848, Page 8 Vol. 1

82.447 } Act Mar 3/55 82.448 } Apt 19/10/55
Mary Cass Moses Cass. Wife Phila.
Mary Cass, Capt. Grey widow of Moses. Col. Skarmon.
11. W. Court Line, Reg. Street
Rev: Wm. Apt 160 A.C. Nov: 9 th 1855. The Rev. Wm. ...
By J. S. ...
E. Weston Skowhegan Me
Vol. No. 5.

Declaration
State of Maine
for the County of Penobscot ss. On this twenty fourth day of March AD 1855 before me a Justice of the peace in & for said County & State of Maine personally appeared Mary Capps aged Eighty Eight years a resident of the Town of Cornville in said State who being duly sworn according to law declares that she is the widow of Moses Capps deceased who was a soldier in the Company of Capt Gray in the Reg't of Col. Seamon as she thinks in the war of the Rebellion for the term of six years & was honorably discharged and that he was wounded & drew a pension (invalid) under the act of 1848 1790 as she thinks
She further states that she was married to her said husband on the month of March AD 1784 by Joseph North of Augusta who was a justice of the peace, and that her said husband died on the month of Jan'y (13 th day) AD 1848 1848 and that she remains a widow —
She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the bounty land to which she may be entitled under the act of Congress approved on the 3 rd of March AD 1855 and she begs that as she is aged & infirm that the warrant upon operation application may be transferred or located by Morris Hopkins
Mary Capps
We Caroline L Capps — & Edward H Capps — residents of the Town of Cornville in the State of Maine upon our oaths declare that the foregoing declaration was signed & acknowledged in our presence from her appearance & statements we believe that she is the identical person she represents herself to be —
Caroline L Capps
Edward H. Capps
N B Reference to her papers show in the pension office accompanying her application for pension omitted above by mistake and that draws a pension draw under the law of 1848

The foregoing Declaration & Affidavit were sworn to & subscribed before me on the day & year therein written & I certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons and that the claim- ant is the identical person she represents herself to be & that I am not interested in this claim
Eusebius Weston Justice of the peace
State of Maine
Somerset County, ss. I George A. Hobbs Clerk of the Judicial Courts of said County & State do certify that Eusebius Weston is a Justice of the peace in & for said County and that his signature above written is genuine — and he is duly commissioned & qualified —
Given under my hand & the Seal of the Supreme Judicial Court of said State on this fourteenth day of April AD 1855 —
Geo. A. Hobbs Clerk as aforesaid

June 3, 1918
Mr. Arnold C. Brown, 162 Clifford Street, Providence, Rhode Island.
Sir:
In response to your letter of the twenty-seventh ultimo, you are advised that the papers in the claim of Moses Cass, a rec of 21 84  W. File No. 22,733, Rev. War, show that he enlisted in March, 1777, as a Private, Captain James Gray's company, Colonel Scammell's regiment, New Hampshire Line; was at both battles of Stillwater and battle of Monmouth; and was discharged Mar. 20, 1780 served three years. He stated that he served at various other times, names of officers and details of service not stated.
While with the army at Valley Forge, he was inoculated for small pox and, as a result of said inoculation, lost permanently, almost the entire use of his right arm and hand, and was pensioned for said disability from March 4, 1789.
He married May 5, 1784, at Augusta Hallowell, Maine, Mary Page. He died January 13, 1844, at Cornville, Maine, where she was still residing in 1855, aged eighty-eight.
In 1820, he was sixty-four years of age, and referred to the following children: Eliza, 18, Julia, 17, Enoch C. and Caroline L. (twins), 14, and Ethan A. C., 12 years of age.
Very respectfully,
This man is shown all through the N.H. Archives as of Raymond N. H.  J. M. Cass papers

1905 June 26. Heir to C. S. C. Cass. Duney Ill. ag
1918 June 3. History to Arnold C. Brown. Fm.
Rev
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 22,733
Mary Cass
Wid of Moses Cass
Rev Rev war
Act: Lib. 28  1/48
Index:—Vol. A , Page 121
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Moses Case of the 3 d New Hampshire Regiment, formerly an Inhabitant of Rockingham in the County of Exeter and State of New Hampshire having Honourably and faithfully served as a soldier in the Service of the United States the Term of three Years, being the Term of his enlistment is Discharged the Service and has Liberty to Return to said State. Camp Danbury March 20 th 1785
Sam. Livermore Genl Comm d Officer of N.H. Troops D. D. [Signature]

No. 82417
ACT OF MARCH 3, 1855.
Received Apr 19 th , 1875.
Moses Galt Dec. Prin Capt. Grey F. H. Cont. Line Rev. War
9491-160-55-
E. Preston Skirhegan P Me.
June 2/77 let to Daniel B. Dickey, Clyde, N.Y. to give soldier's certificate of information denied
July 3/77 let to above stating that claim has already been satisfied see papers relative to above endorsements in pension claim of Moses Galt. Rev. W. 20223 where they belong erroneously placed and answered in this claim

Wood Cass -
Wick Co. Jan 1 , 44 -
Mary Page
Res. Cornville, Somerset Co. Me -
Age 47 - in 1844.
S. died Jan 13 44 Cornville Me.
Mar. May 5. 1784 Hallowell Me.
der. Apr. 9. 1818
Cornville Somerset Co. Me -
62
Children: Eliza 18 - Julia 17 - Enoch 6 + Caroline L. Burnes 14 - Eliza A. 6 - 12 -
est.
Apr. 1777.
Capt James Gray.
Put. 3 yrs -
Capt. Scammon N.H.
short terms smallpox which permanently disabled refused to fight again at Valley Forge. formed permanent foraging
at Stillwater, & capture of Burgoyne Morrisville

Oct 3 1843 Ol Mary Capt  July 7 1828 Oct 1843 widow of Moses Capt married 5 May 784 husband died 13 January 1844. acts 43 & 44 $80 per ann. to commence 13 January 1844  Geo W. Morton Augusta, Maine  Edward Gay  FRET  County of Washington S.C.

9491
S Neo Aug

Dear Sir 2 d Feb. 48, Me.
Boyle

257
Maine 6410
Mary Bass
widow of Moses Capi.
who was a Private
in the Revolution
Husband died 13 January 1844
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 80 Dollars
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1844. 13. January 1844
Certificate of Pension issued the 26 th day of Nov. 1844 and sent to Geo. W. Morton
Augusta, Maine
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book A. June 17, 1844.
Vol. 2, Page 2.
Rep d .
See letter to Hon. S. Sewer- rance, March 29, 1845.
16 Harris, Nov. 12/46
" New E. Kimball, May 10/48

3369
Marie
Mary Bass
widow of Moses
who served in the Revolutionary
war, as a Private
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 80 Dollars
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.
Certificate of Pension issued the 25 day of Jan'y 1849 and sent to
G. W. Morton Acadia Maine
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 2, 1848, Page 6 Vol. 1
Reported
Jan'y 25/49

Know all men by their friends that I Moses Cap of Lowell in the county of Sumner and State of Massachusetts - Late a soldier in Capt James Greys Company in Col Schammetts Regiment in Gen Poors Brigade in the New Hampshire line in the Revolutionary army - Having been placed on the list of pensioners by reason of wounds received while a soldier as aforesaid and having been inserted on the list of invalid pensioners on the 29th day of June 1792 for the district of Massachusetts do hereby relinquish and let over to the United States all my right title and interest in and to said pension as aforesaid in pursuance of a provision of the act of Congress of March 18th 1818 and hereby pray instead thereof to be inserted on the pension list of United States pensioners agree- able to the act of Congress passed March 18th 1818 to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and Naval Service of the United States in the Revolutionary war
Given Under my hand and seal this day of April 1818
In presence of - Moses Cap S. S. Wilde
State of Massachusetts Hampshire County } Personally appeared Moses Cap the signer of the above written instrument and acknowledged the same to be his free act and deed - before me -
S. S. Wilde Jas. S. G. G. South Justice of the Peace Thro' said Committee

662 Mary Guss.
Geo W Morton Augusta Maine

Declaration. In order to obtain the benefit of the Acts of Congress, of March 3. 1843 and June 17. 1844.
State of Maine Somerset County, S.S. }
On this Twenty Sixth day of Septem
ber personally appeared before me, a Justice of the Peace, in and for the said County of Somerset, Mary Cass a resident of Cornville, in the County of Somerset and State of Maine, aged Seventy Seven years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provisions made by the Acts of Congress, passed on the 3 d of March 1843, and the 17 th June 1844. That she is the widow of Moses Cass, who was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States under the Act of March 18. 1818, that his pension was last paid to him at the Maine agency, up to September 4. 1843, that she received at the same agency, as his widow, the pension from September 4. 1843 to January 13. 1844, that she offers in support of her claim to the benefit of the provisions of the above mentioned Acts, to the evidence furnished by her late husband, the said Moses Cass, of his service in the War of the Revolution, supposed to be in proportion of the War department. She further declares that she was married to the said Moses Cass on the fifth day of May in the year Seventeen hundred and Eighty four, that her husband the aforesaid Moses Cass died on the Thirteenth day of January A. D. 1844. Since which time she has remained unmarried
Witness E. A. G.
Mary Cass
Subscribed and sworn to on the day and year above written.
Before me
E. A. G.
Justice of the Peace

I Joseph Hinsman of Cornville, in the County of Somerset and State of Maine, do depose and say, that I resided for many years in the same neighborhood with the late Moses Gage, who I well knew as a person of the United States, and died in the month of January 1844, that his reported widow Mary Gage, is now living in said town of Cornville, that from my earliest acquaintance with them, which was more than forty years ago, they were then living together as husband and wife, and continued so to live till the decease of the said Moses Gage, they brought up a family of children, some of whom are reported to be upwards of fifty years of age, since his decease she has remained a widow
Witness E. A. Gage
Joseph Hinsman.
State of Maine.
County of Somerset ss.
On this twenty sixth day of September A. D. 1844 personally appeared Joseph Hinsman well known to me to be a respectable person and entitled to credit & belief and made oath to the truth of the above affidavit by him subscribed
Before me E. A. Gage
Justice of the Peace
State of Maine
County of Kennebec ss.
I the subscribed Clerk of all the Judicial Courts of this County do hereby certify that, E. A. Gage and R. D. Rice are Justices of the Peace as before stated, and that the signatures purporting to be theirs are genuine
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the said Court this 30th day of Sept. A. D. 1844. N. B. Anthony.

Mary Cass
all 6410
Geo W. Morton Augusta Maine

DECLARATION,
In order to obtain the benefits of the Act of Congress of February 2, 1848, entitled "An Act Making further provisions for the Surviving Widows of the Soldiers of the Revolution."
STATE OF MAINE, } ss. COUNTY OF Somerset , }
On this Eighteenth day of August A. D. 1848 personally appeared, before the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace, in the County of Somerset and State of Maine, Mary Cass a resident of Cornville in the County of Somerset aged Eighty one years, who, being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the Act of Congress, passed on the second of February, 1848, granting Pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War. That she is the widow of Moses Cass who was a Private during the Revolutionary War; that she was pensioned as the widow of the said Moses Cass at the rate of Eighty dollars and cents per annum, under the Act of June 17, 1844, which was paid to her at the Agency in Portland, in the State of Maine. She further declares that she is still a widow.
WITNESS:
J. K. Kingsman L. D. P. Palmer
Mary Cass
Sworn to and subscribed, on the day and year above written,
BEFORE ME,
L. D. P. Palmer
Justice of the Peace.
I certify that the declarant is personally known to me, and that she is the same individual who drew a pension as stated by her in the foregoing declaration.
L. D. P. Palmer
Justice of the Peace.
STATE OF MAINE, } ss. KENNEBEC COUNTY, }
I, William W. Stratton Clerk in the Courts of Kennebec County, certify that L. D. P. Palmer is a Magistrate as above, and that the above signatures, purporting to be his, are genuine.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto affixed the seal of the Supreme Judicial Court of Maine, and subscribed my name this 23 rd day of August in the year 1848
W. W. Stratton
Clerk of the Courts of Kennebec County.

✓ Oct 24
Moses Cap.
near M.
J. S. Edwards Esq. Barnesboro Pa Washington City Pa.
FREE

Augusta, Me., Oct 18 1836-
Sir
I enclose Mr Moses Lapp's power Attorney for eighteen months pension due him. The reason of his not receiving his pension as it became due, from the Agent at Portland, is that the papers heretofore executed by him for that purpose were found incorrect. This power has been presented and returned for want of authority from you to make the payment. I returned it to Mr Lapp to have another witness to his signature, and took the deposition upon the back of the power of Mr Joseph Tinsman who I know to be a respectable person & near neighbor to Mr Lapp. Will you be pleased to return it to me, and order the Agent at Portland to make payment,
Respectfully
Yours
W H Job Geo. W. Morton

Moses Cass. bornville Somerset County N. H. Col Scammell N. H. Reg 1777 to 1780—
April 9. 1818
Admitted ~
date certifi: 5 March Hon. W. Gage
Moses Cass is already H.R. a pensioner. he must return his pension certif- icate to the War Dept before he can be placed on the roll under the act of 18 th March 1818

Declaration, evidence & v In the case of Moses Cass n

Somerset I Moses Gann of Cornville in the County of State of Massachusetts being a Native citizen of the United States do on Oath testify & declare that I served in the War of the Revolution for the term of about five years seven years and that from reduced circumstances I now need the assistance of my Country for support - I first enlisted in the Spring of seventeen hundred & seventy seven as a private soldier for the term of three years into the company commanded by Captain James Gray of the Regiment commanded by Col. Scamell of the New Hampshire line - I was at the battles of Stillwater & at the capture of Genl. Burgoyne's Army & I continued in the service for the term of three years when I was honorably discharged at Danbury in the State of Connecticut - I afterwards & before this time enlisted for sundry short times, viz once for nine months - once for six months & once for three months - & once for five months - as soon as
I have not my discharge in my possession, & the last time I saw it was about twenty years ago, when I sent it to Boston by J. C. Page late of Hallowell deceased, to enable him to procure my arrears of pay - & I am unable to give any further account of it as I was placed on the pension list as will appear by a copy of the certificate of the Honorable Judge Sewall Judge of the District Court for the District of Maine which is herunto annexed
M c Gl e G ap
November 15.

Kennebec ss. Commonwealth of Massachusetts
On this 9 th day of April A.D. 1818 the within named Moses Barr after having been carefully examined made oath to the truth of the within written declaration by him subscribed.
Before me S. S. Wilde
Jas. Sup. Jud. Council
for ss. Com th
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Kennebec ss
The subscriber, Clerk of all the Judicial Courts held within the said County of Kennebec, hereby certifies, that the Honorable Samuel S. Wilde Esq., before whom the foregoing proceedings were had, is one of the Justices of the Supreme Judicial Court of this Commonwealth, and that by the direction of the said Judge I have affixed unto this Certificate bearing His signature, the Seal of said Court.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand: Dated at Augusta, in said County of Kennebec this sixth day of July, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred & eighteen.
Wm Davis

To the Honorable The Secretary of the Department of War of the United States.
I the subscriber being one of the Justices of the Supreme Judicial Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts do hereby certify to your Honor, that Moses Goss a citizen of the United States, now resident in Cornville in the District of Maine & Commonwealth aforesaid, on the 9 th day of April A.D. 1818 made application to me to receive his declaration under Oath & such other evidence as was in power to produce; & to transmit the same to your Honor that he might be might be placed on the pension list of the United States, agreeably to the provisions of an Act entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land & Naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War" passed March 18 th A.D. 1818 - which declaration & the other evidence produced by the said applicant is herewith annexed.
And I do further certify to your Honor that after a careful examination of the Applicant & a full consideration of the evidence in the case, it ap- pears to me that the said applicant did serve as a private soldier in the War of the Revolution, against the common enemy, & on the Continental establishment for the term of more than nine months as stated in his declaration aforesaid & that from reduced circumstances he needs the assistance of his Country for support.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & have caused the seal of the said Supreme Judicial Court to be hereunto affixed this first day of July A.D. 1818.
J. S. Wilde
J. S. G. South
for P. South

I Benj a Chase of Clinton County of Kennebec State of Massachusetts of lawfull age do testify & say that I am well acquainted with Moses Gage now of Cornville in the County of Somerset in this Common- wealth - That I knew him well in the war of the revolution, that I was well knowing to his enlisting into Capt Greys Company in Col. Scamells Regi- ment in the N. Hampshire line for three years, and that he continued in the Continental service till the end of his enlistment when he was discharged - I derive my knowledge of these facts from the circum- stance that I served in the same company with him for the like period and were both discharged about the same time - Benj a Chase
Kennebec ss. Commonwealth of Massachusetts On this seventeenth day of May A.D. 1818 the above named Benj a Chase made oath to the truth of the above deposition before me Moses Appleton Justice of the Peace

This may certify that Moses Caps before me John Lawrence one of the Justices for the County of Somerset and State of Massachu- setts and made oath that he is the same Moses Caps to whom the original certificate in his pos- session was given of which the following is a copy
District of Maine.
These certify that Moses Caps of Cornville in the District of Maine made appli- cations pursuant to the act of Congress of March 1792 to be placed on the pension list of invalids then upon considering the disability received while in the service of the united states it was my opinion that he ought to be placed on the pension list of invalids at the half pay of a private soldier and that he ought to receive a further sum equal to the half pay of a private for his arrearages of pension from the 31st day of July 1785 which was discontinued by reason of his removing from the State of New Hampshire the place of his former residence This opinion with the documents on which it was founded we transmitted to the Secretary of War the 29 day of June 1792. Given under my hand and seal this fifth day of April 1793
David Sewall Judge of the District Court of Maine
That he served in Capt. James Grays Company at the time he was disabled and he now resides in the town of Cornville in the County of Somerset & State of Massachusetts and has resided there the last twelve years.

District of Maine } These Certify that Moses Caps of Hollowell in the district of Maine, made Application Pursuant to the Act of Congress of March 1792 to be placed on the Pension list of Invalids. That upon considering the disability he received while in the service of the United States; It was my Opinion that He ought to be placed on the Pension list of Invalids at the half pay of a private Soldier. And that He ought to receive a further Sum equal to the half pay of private (for his Arrearages of Pension) from the 31. day of July 1785. (Which was discontinued by reason of his removing from the State of New Hampshire, the place of his former residence) This Opinion with the documents on which it was founded, were transmitted the Secretary of War the 22 nd day of June 1792. Given under my hand and Seal this 5 th day of April 1793
David Sewall { Judge of the District Court of Maine }

Augusta, Maine
Sept. 30. 1844
Sir
I herewith transmit papers in order to have the claim of Mrs. Mary Gage, widow of Stephen Gage, to a pension under Acts of March 3. 1843 and June 17. 1844 allowed. It will be noticed that she made a declaration before Probate Court in Somerset County for the purpose of being pensioned under Act of July 7. 1838. As the provisions of the Act of April 30. 1844 will pass her claim under that Act, she has made a declaration before a Magistrate claiming a pension under Acts of March '43 & June '44. It was supposed that declaration before a Judge of a court of record, although not entitled under the Acts, if accompanied by declaration before a magistrate would be satisfactory, and save her the trouble & expense of making another declaration before a Judge - Should her pension be sufficient, I would respectfully request you to allow her claim & send her a certificate for her.
Very respectfully
Yours O. H. Smith
Geo. H. Morton
James L. Edwards Esq. Commr of Pensions City of Washington D.C.

Mary Bass.
Geo. Wm Morton
Augusta
Maine,
Geo Wm Morton Augusta Maine

Declaration. In order to obtain the benefits of the resolution of Congress of the 23 d January 1845.
Whereas by the Act of the 30 th April 1844, prohibited me from drawing a pension for the same period during which my husband was a pensioner. I now make the following statement under oath, to obtain the benefit of the resolution above mentioned. I am the widow of Moses Bass who was a private in the War of the Revolution. I have been pensioned under the Acts of March 3. 1843 & June 17. 1844 at the rate of eight dollars per annum for the commencing the 13 th January 1844 and continuing on the 4 th March 1848, and now ask for the amount due me from the 4 th day of March 1836 to the 4 th day of March 1841, one from the 4 th of March 1843 to the 13 th day of January 1844.
Mary Bass
State of Maine Somerset County, S.S. }
Sworn to and subscribed before me on this tenth day of February A.D. 1845 at Cambridge, Maine. E. A. Capps Justice of the Peace
I certify that the declarant is personally known to me, and that she is the same individual she represents herself to be in the foregoing affidavit.
E. A. Capps Justice of the Peace

State of Maine
Kennebec p
I the undersigned Clerk of the Jud. Court for the County of Kennebec hereby certify that E.A. Capse. Esq. is a magistrate as within said, & that the within signatures purporting to be his are genuine. Witness the seal of Sup. Jud. Court Feb. 11. 1845 — Am M Stratton

Mary Cass $80.
Payment to be made at Portland
by
William Woodbury Esq
Agent for paying Pensioners, in the Agency of Maine
Payable on the 4th September and 4th March
27
Recorded in the Pension Office on the Roll of Pensioners under act February 2d, 1848, Page 6, Vol. 1
Geo. Perkins Clerk.

WAR DEPARTMENT.
WIDOW'S PENSION.
I certify that in conformity with the act of February 2d, 1848, Mary Cass. widow of Moses Cass. who was a Private in the revolutionary war, is inscribed on the pension list at the rate of Eighty dollars and _____ cents per annum, commencing on the 14th of March, 1848, and continuing for life, unless she should again marry; in which case the Pension is not payable after the time of such marriage.
Given at the War Office of the United States this 25 th day of January one thousand eight hundred and forty nine.
W. L. Marcy.
Secretary of War.
Examined and Countersigned.
J. G. Buruel Commissioner of Pensions.

Augusta Feb 11. 1845
Dear Sir
I enclose a declaration made by Mrs Mary Bass widow of Member to obtain the benefit of the resolution of Congress of the 23 d of Jany last. She has already been pensioned by virtue of the Acts of March 3. 1843 & June 17. 1844, and by the resolution of 23 d Jany, is entitled under Act of July 7. 1838. from March 4. 1836 to March 4. 1841 and from the 31 st of March 1843 to the 13 th Jany 1844. Will you have the goodness to present it to Col. Edwards and request him to allow her claim if satisfactory.
Yrs Respectfully G. W. Morton
Hon Luther Severance House of Representatives D.C.

Washington City May 8. 1848.
Sir:
I respectfully request the proper reference to the accompanying letter and a return of the letter.
I have the honor to be very respectfully your obedt servt E. K. G. Smith
Hon. S. L. Edwards Commr of Pensions Washington D.C.

May Bass for Inverness Pension.
3369—
Inct to 796, deg proper annu. comg 1 July July 1848
Geo W. Morton Augusta Maine.

Conville, Maine,
Nov 23 rd 1850
Hon James L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Sir, I am at the present time a pensioner of the U. States under the Act of Feb 2. 1848 at Eighty dollars per annum on account of the revolutionary services of my late husband Mary Lears who at the time of his death was  was a pensioner of the United States under the Act of March 18. 1818 and died January 13. 1844. my pension is payable at the Agency in Portland State of Maine and has been paid to Sept 4. 1850. I also rec d a pension at the above mentioned rate under the Act of March 3. 1843 from Jan'y 13. 1844 to March 4. 1844. I do hereby authorize Geo. W. Martin of Augusta, to act as my Attorney in establishing my claim to an increase of my pension.
Witness.
J. B. Kimball
Caroline L. Galt
Mary Galt

In at May 12.
Modes can help
5 Mar 19 me
Ch. Edw. and
Am Th Dacee Wa
Pension Office

Hon' of Reps U.S.
May 12 1838
Col Edwards Dr Sir
Will you be kind enough to give me the infor- mation requested by the enclosed for both cases and oblige
Yr friend & Ob Servt
Thos. D'Arce

Palmyra Illinois May 31 1905
Hon Comr of Pensions Washington D.C.
Sir: A work on the " Cass Family in America " intended to be a genealogical & historical account of the descendants of John Cass, (Hampton N.H. 1644) is now in preparation. I desire to obtain (to be used in the above connection,) the Military Record & History of the following named Soldiers of the Revolutionary War, (who were descendants of John Cass of Hampton, viz.
Moses Cass - of 3 d Reg't N.H. Line Continental Army,
Daniel Cass of same regiment, service 3 years and was discharged as Sergt - Mar 8 1780.
Both men I understand belonged to Capt. James Gray's Co. Col Alexander Scamuel's Regt (3 d N.H.)
I have heretofore obtained the Military Record of Major Jonathan Cass of the 3 d P. Reg't - Theo s P's of 1 st Reg'ts. N.H.
I have the honor to be
Your most obt. Serv't
C. R. C. Cass

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Dear Sir:-
Will you kindly send me a certificate of the service of a Revolutionary soldier, by name, Moses Cass, whose residence was Cornville, Maine.
We have been able to establish the fact of his residence in Cornville, and find he was listed as a "pensioner"
Are extremely anxious to obtain information relative to his service and would appreciate this record if you will kindly send the same at an early date.
Yours very truly,
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BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Bass, Theophilus GRADE Private LINE New Hampshire
WARRANT NUMBER 3008 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED Feb. 19, 1796 to William S. Thom, assignee
*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.