Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 33313, Moses Hoyt, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass
Hoyt, Moses.
833313
CONTENTS

18.262. R
Massachusetts
Moses Hoyt Junr
of Amerbury in the State of Mass who was a Artificer in the Regiment commanded by Colonel J. B. Aldron of the Mass line, for the term of one year
Inscribed on the Roll of Mass at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 4 of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 11. of Sept 1821 and jointly to Saml Vye & wife Salisbury, Mass.
Arrears to 4th of Sept 1821  360.26 Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 March 1822  48 —
48. Mo 1/30 8 360.26 $ 408.26
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
204 170. payn May 1. 1820

I Richard Hall of Hopkinton in the county of Hillsborough and State of New Hampshire. Both testify and say that being myself a Lieut. under Cap t Jacob Low in Col n . Baldwin's Regiment, in the late Revolutionary Army on the Continental establishment in the year one thousand seven hundred & seventy eight. I was well acquainted with Moses Hoyt Jr. as he now calls himself (by the death of one Moses Hoyt in Amesbury) being his native town in the county of Essex and State of Massachusetts. he being now in my presence I am satisfied that he did due duty in our company under Cap t Low nine months and over, and was at Queemans patent employed in Building Gun boats, from there we where marched to the White plains Vt. And I further say that I am knowing when I first saw him, and when he the said Hoyt Jr. (formerly known by Moses Hoyt 3 rd .) was discharged. which was on the last day of December 1778. at Friskill. —
Richard Hall
Dated at Hopkinton 12 th Feb y 1821.

State of New Hampshire. -
Hillsbr: S t . February 12 th 1821.
Then personally appeared before me Richard Hall of Hopkinton in said County and State aforesaid and made solemn oath, that the above or within Deposition by him signed contains the truth and nothing but the truth and I do hereby certify, and testify, from my own personal Knowledge that the said Deponent is a disinter- ested person, and a person of truth and veracity.
Benja B. Darling Justice.

State of New Hampshire Secretary's Office
February 14 th 1821
I hereby certify that Benjamin B. Darling Esq r whose name is subscribed to the foregoing certificate is a Justice of the peace & of the quorum for the County of Hillsborough in said State duly appointed and commissioned and that to his acts and attestations as such faith and credit are due.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my name and affixed the public seal of said State on the day of the date hereof
Sam l Sparhawk Secretary

Daniel A. White & Co. Moses Hoyt Esq. Judge.
It is required, that two or more disinterested and Credible persons, Certified as such , by the judge, prove, explicitly, from their own knowledge, of months' service of the applicant, on Continental Establishment.
Ichabod Tucker, agent, Salem, Mass. 21. Aug. 1820.
Moses Hoyt Esq. N. 17, 281.
Salem, Mass. Essex county, Mass.
Artificers not being mentioned, or provided for, under the act of Congress of the 18 th of March, 1818, the claim of this applicant is considered to be inadmissible.
Col. Jeduthan Baldwin's reg t . Artificers, Connecticut line, Feb y . to Dec r . 1778.
Not found on the rolls.

I Jonathan Greeley of Salisbury County of Essex & Commonwealth of Massachusetts testify & declare that being myself an Artificer in the late revolution- ary army on the continental establishment in the year 1778 in the company commanded by Capt Jacob Low in 1st Baldwin Regiment of Artificers, I was well acquainted with Moses Houghton of Amesbury in said county who also belonged to the said company & regiment, he being in the capacity of Shipwright & C of Blacksmith; that we were marched from West Point to Queen's Point, where we were employed in building Gunboats for Harbours or upwards - that from Queen's we were marched to the White Plains & from the White Plains to High Bridge - & that he was discharged at the close of the year & returned home in company
Jonathan Greeley
Essex ss April 4th 1818 Personally appeared Jonathan Greeley & made oath to the foregoing declaration by him subscribed -
Before me
Samuel Nye Judson

Amesbury County of Essex April 3 1888 We the subscri- bers hereby certify that we are well acquainted with the within named M c Name Hoyt, that he is now old & infirm being sixty six years of age, & that by reason of reduced circumstances stands in need of assistance from his country for support —
Robert Tatten } Selectmen Samuel Kendrick }
Merchiah Colby } Town Clerk
Names of Citizens David Lowell — Wilber Hoyt James Bayley Oliver Stearns Daniel Long

I Moses Hoyt 3 d of Amesbury in the County of Essex, and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Testify and Declare, That I enlisted in the year's service of the late Revolutionary War, on the Continental establishment, in February or March 1778, and served under Captain Jacob Low, in Col. Baldwin's Regiment of Artillery, and was discharged verbally, at Fishkill by my Captain, December eighth, 1778. And that by reason of my reduced circumstances, I stand in need of Assistance of my Country for support. I never had any written discharge.
Moses Hoyt 3 d
July 18 th 1820 Mr. Now Moses Hoyt J d by the death of Moses Hoyt who was a pensioner

Commonwealth of Massachusetts,
Essex:
I Daniel Alwhite Judge of the Court of Probate of the said County of Essex do certify that Moses Hoyt Esq. of Amesbury in said County personally appeared on the fourth day of April A.D. 1810 and made the declaration afore said & signed under oath before me. That the annexed affidavit of Jonathan Green was duly taken as therein certified. That it appears to my satisfaction that the said Moses Hoyt Esq. served in the revolutionary war as set forth in his said declaration.
Given under my hand & the seal of the said Court the fourth day of May in the year aforesaid.
D Alwhite.

Moses Hoyle Junr.
Contina
4 th April 1818

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
ESSEX ss.
At the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Middle Circuit, begun and holden at Salem, within and for the County of Essex, on the third Monday of June, A. D. 1820.
Present, Hon. SAMUEL DANA, Chief Justice. Hon. WILLIAM WETMORE, and Hon. STEPHEN MINOT, Associate Justices.
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 Hoyt Junr. of Amesbury resident in said Circuit, who is named in Pension Certificate No. 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, late a in the Army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the Massachusetts Agency, at the rate of dollars per month, to commence on the one thousand eight hundred and day of
***** L. S *****
Given at the War Office of the United States, this one thousand eight hundred and day of
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,
Real estate - A small house, one story, standing on the highway and so inconsiderable in value as to have been thought not worth taxing for many years past. - - - - - $ 10.00
3 acres 53 rods of land in right of his wife, but from which he derives no income or advantage 100.00
1 table, 25. 6 old chairs, 30 - - - - - " , 55
Iron ware $ 2.00. Tools $1.25. tub, 25 - - - - - 3.50
1 pail, 25. crockery ware, 25 - - - - - " , 50
Steel yard, 75. bellows, 12. looking glass 9 - 1.00
old pewter 2/6 hooks & trammels 1/6 - , 58
Moses Hoyt. Jn $116.13

I Moses Hoyst Jun o formerly Moses Hoyst 3 o . of Amesbury, testify and say that my occupation has been that of a shipwright, that my age is sixty eight years, that my ability to labour is much impaired by age and infirmity of body - that my earnings of late years have been very trifling & inconsiderable, that being unwilling to make myself burdensome to my town, I have frequently subsisted on fare both mean and scanty, that I have a wife who does not live with me, & who has a small real estate of which I never have had and never expect to have any benefit or advantage, and that I have no relative or friend from whom I may expect any material relief or assistance. And I do further testify & declare that I enlisted & served in the company of Artificers in the war of the revolution, as set forth in my former declaration before the Hon d . Daniel A White Esq o on the 4 th day of April A.D. 1818.- I further testify and say that I was in the service more than nine months, and that Dudley Maxfield and Stephen Worthen who served in the same company with me have been placed on the pension list, and that we were all discharged together

together, —
Moses Hoyt Junr.
Essex ss. July 10. 1820.
Subscribed and sworn to before me Stephen Minot, Judge of C. C. C. Pleas.
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,
I, Moses Hoyt Jr. 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 Hoyt Junr.
Essex, ss. C. C. C. P. June, Term, A. D. 1820.
Then the abovenamed Moses Hoyt Junr. took and subscribed the aforesaid Oath before me
Stephen Minot Judge of said Court.
I, ICHABOD TUCKER, 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
one hundred & fifteen — dollars
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, at Salem, in said County of Essex, on this 17th day of July , A. D.
1820
Attr.
Ichabod Tucker, Clerk

33 313 Rey INVALID.
File No. 33 313
Moses Hoyt Jr. Deficient Rev. War.
Act: 18 th March 1816.
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 331
[Arrangement of 1870.]

It is now hoped & confidently believed that the evidence in favour of Moses Hoyt Jun r , as an applicant for the revolution- ary pension, will be found to be ample & satisfactory — Should that be the case, the certificate may be directed to the care of the subscriber —
Salisbury (Massachusetts) July 11 th 1821.
Samuel Nye

I Stephen Worthen of Chester in the county of Rockingham & state of New Hampshire testify & say that I was born in the town of Amosbury, county of Essex & commonwealth of Massachusetts, & remained in said Amosbury until I enlisted into the continental service in the month of Feb'y of the year seventeen hundred seventy eight, in Capt Jacob Low's company & Col. Jed. Baldwin's Regt. — That I was at that time well acquainted with Moses Hoyt Jr of said Amosbury; having been born & brought up in the same neighbourhood with him — And I well remember that the said Hoyt enlisted into the said Jacob Low's comp'y. the day after I myself enlisted as above mentioned That we served together at various places in the state of New York, and were finally discharged together, at or about the close of the year, at Fish kill in said state — And that to my certain knowledge the said Hoyt Moses Jr was employ'd in the revolutionary service on the continental establishment more than nine months in the said year 1778 —
Stephen Worthen
State of New Hampshire
Rockingham ss } Chester June 21. 1821
Personally appeared the above named Stephen Worthen & made solemn Oath to the truth of the above before me
Henry Sweet Justice
I further say that the above named Stephen Worthen is a man of good moral character & his oath would be taken in every Court Henry Sweet Justice

State of New Hampshire ss. Rockingham County ss.
Pittsmouth
I James Ladd Notary Public by legal authority appointed & sworn, residing in Pittsmouth aforesaid, Do hereby certify and make known unto all persons whom it doth or may concern, That Henry Sweetser, whose name is subscribed to the within, is a justice of the Peace in and for the County & State aforesaid, and that to his attestation as such full faith and credit are given. —
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office this twenty second day of June A.D. 1821.
James Ladd Not. Pub.