Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 21407, Moses Hobson, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Hobson, Moses Sarah
W. 21407
CONTENTS

15784
Massachusetts
Oliver Hobson
of Essex Co in the State of Massachusetts who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Nichols of the 8th Regt commanded by Col. Putnam in the Mass. line for Boston
Mile
80 350
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 33 Dollars 33 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 30 day of May 1833 and Sept 7 W. Noark  Winbury post
Arrears to the 4th of March 1835 $ 66.66 Femi-ant. allowance ending Sept - 16.66
$83.32
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by W. L. Williams Clerk, Book E Vol. 2 Page 39

331
Massachusetts
Sarah Watson
widow of Nathaniel Watson decd.
who was a pensioner under the Act of 1832 and who died on the 1 st March 1837 of Essex Co. in the State of Me.
who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Higgin of the 8 th Regt. commanded by C. F. Gerish in the Me. line for 10 months
Hon. C. H. Upham 1 March 1855.
Inscribed on the Roll of Me. at the rate of 33 Dollars 33 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4 th day of March 1831 . 1 st March 1837
Certificate of Pension issued the 14 th day of Sept. 1838 and sent Thomas Gage Georgetown Me.
Arrears to the 4 th of Sept 1838 $50.00 Semi-annual allowance ending Mar. 29, 1839 16.66
$66.66
{ Act July 7, } 1838. }
Recorded by M. Addison Clerk Book 7 Vol. 1 st Page 94

Moses Hobson
Mass
March 10 Month
15093
M. Warts
Newburyport
Mass

BRIEF in the case of co of Essex
Moses Hobson in the State of  Mass (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Open Court  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  3. How old is he? 78  4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed. 
   Period. Duration of Service. Rank. Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.   Years, Months, Days. As a Gen.     April In 1775. volunteer ✓ 8 Private Capt. Michell Col. Gatchell   again " " 2 " Capt. Bowel Col. Titcomb.  
 5. In what battles was he engaged? None  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Essex Co Mass  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Traditionary Four Living witnesses  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? 
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
George Payson
Examining Clerk.

Mum Hobson

Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832.
STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS : COUNTY OF ESSEX, ss.
On this Eleventh day of September A. D. 1832, personally appeared in open court, before the HONORABLE DANIEL APPLETON WHITE, Judge of the Court of Probate for the County of Essex aforesaid, now sitting, Moses Hobson , a resident of Middlesex , in the County of Essex and State of Massachusetts, aged 73 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 Act of Congress passed June 7, 1832:
That he entered the service of the United States, under the following named officers, and served as herein stated:
That he voluntarily enlisted in the company commanded by Capt. Thomas Hightill; in the Regiment commanded by Col. Saml. Gerrish, who was succeeded by Command by Col. Baldwin, in the month of April in the year 1775, to serve eight months, and that he did serve at Cambridge and at Sewalls points so called, in the town of Brookline in said Commonwealth, the said term. That in marching to said places he went by the way of Ipswich, Danvers, Lynn &c. — This term of service he proves by the affidavits of
That he again voluntarily enlisted in the company commanded by Capt. Norwell, in the Regiment commanded by Col. Titcomb, to serve two months, and that he did serve said term

That he was born in Mowry in the year 1754. and his birth duly recorded in the Town Records of that town. He was living in Mowry when called into service, and has ever since the Revolutionary War, lived there, except about eighteen months, when he lived in the state of Maine, - he entered the service at each time by voluntary enlistments as before stated, - he recalls General Putnam having been at Cambridge & Sudbury points, - he never received any other than a verbal discharge from the service, - he names Willard Holbrook and Thomas Gage as persons to whom he is known in his present neighborhood.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity, except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State. Moses Hobson
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
D. H. White JUDGE OF PROBATE.
We, Willard Holbrook a clergyman, residing in Mowry aforesaid, and Thomas Gage Esquire, a magistrate, residing in Mowry aforesaid, do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Moses Hobson who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be 80 years of age; that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Willard Holbrook
Thomas Gage
Tho! Gage Subscribed and sworn to before to the above before D. H. White Judge of Probate
Willard Holbrook . Subscribed and sworn to same
before Thomas Gage , Justice of Peace.

And the said Court hereby declares its opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the abovenamed applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies that Willard Holbrook who has signed the preceding Certificate, is a Clergyman resident in Mowens and that the said Thomas Gaye who has also signed the same is a Magistrate resident at Mowens and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit.
D. A. White Judge of Probate
I, NATHANIEL LORD Junior, Register of the Court of Probate for the County of Essex aforesaid, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Maria Hobson for a pension. also that Thomas Gaye - John Scituate and William Wooten Justices of the peace for the said County of Essex, and that their signatures to the respective affidavits annexed are genuine
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this eleventh day of September A. D. 1832.
Nathaniel Lord Jr.

2140 Sarah Hobson wid of Mosy Mass Married 1778 died Mar 1837 Ad 7 July 1838 Allow $33.33 per ann
The Gage Ex Georgetown Mass

Declaration.
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress, of the 7 th of July 1838, Entitled, "An Act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows,"
Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Essex County ss.
On this Seventh day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight. Personally appeared before me, Daniel A. White Esquire, Judge of Probate for said County of Essex, Sarah Hobson, a resident of the Town of Mowry, in said County of Essex, aged eighty-three years and upwards. 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;" That she is the widow of Moses Hobson, late of Mowry aforesaid, now deceased, who was a private in the Army of the United States, in the War of the Revolution, and did perform the service set forth in the papers and documents which accompanied his application for the benefit of the act of Congress of June 7 th 1832, Entitled, "An Act Supplementing to the Act for the relief of certain certain surviving Officers and Soldiers of the Revolution," the benefit of which act he continued to receive, at the rate of thirty-three dollars and thirty-three cents per year, until his death, (In Massachusetts Agency.)
She further declares that she was lawfully married to the said Moses Hobson at Mowry aforesaid, in the month of August in the year Seventeen hundred and seventy-eight, By Revd George Lissie, now deceased. — That her husband, the aforesaid Moses Hobson died at said Mowry on the first day of March in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-seven.
That since the decease of her said husband she has never intermarried, but is still remaining the widow of said Moses Hobson.
That she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first of January eighteen hundred and ninety-four. viz: at the time above stated.
For evidence of said Hobson's Hobson's service she respectfully asks leave to refer to the papers and documents which accompanied his application for the benefit of said act of 1832, believed to be now on file in the office of the Secretary of War in Washington. — and for evidence of her marriage to said Hobson, his death, and her present widowhood, she asks leave to refer to such certificates and affidavits, as she has been enabled to annex hereto.
Sworn and subscribed the day and year first above written.
Before D. A. White Judge of Probate Sarah Hobson

I Joseph Conant, Clerk of the Church in Linebrook Parish, within the towns of Ipswich and Newbury, in the County of Essex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Whom Rev d George Lefolsie was formerly Pastor, do testify and say, that in the book of records of said Church, now in my possession, there is the following entry, viz:
"August eighteenth day, in the year Seventeen Hundred and Seventy-eight. - Moses Hobson junior and Sarah Jewett, both of Newbury, were joined in marriage, By me George Lefolsie, Pastor of Linebrook Chh h ."
I do certify that the above is a true copy of the record, with the exception of the date, which is expressed on the record in fair, legible figures, as follows, viz:
"August 18. 1778, Moses Hobson junior and Sarah Jewett, both of Newbury, were joined in Marriage, By me George Lefolsie, Pastor of Linebrook Chh h ."
I Joseph Conant, above named, depose and say: that I hold the office of Clerk in the Church in said Linebrook Parish, in the County, town and State aforesaid, and that the above is a true extract from the records of said Church, with the exception above named, as certified by me,
Essex ss. August 4. 1838. Joseph Conant , Clerk of the Church in Linebrook Parish,
I subscribed
Sworn before me,
(The words "I subscribed" were interlined before signing.)
Thomas Gage, Justice of the Peace.
I Mary Hobson of Newbury in the County of Essex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, aged fifty three years and upwards, do depose testify and say, that I was well acquainted with Moses Hobson named in the foregoing declaration, and do know that his death happened on the First day of March in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, my means of knowing the fact is, that I was with him at his house in said Newbury at the time of his death on said day.
And I further testify and say that I am well acquainted with Sarah Hobson who is now making application for a pension, and do know that she is the widow of said Moses Hobson, and that she is now living in said Newbury, and has not intermarried since the decease of said Moses.
Mary Hobson
Essex ss August 6. 1838. Then Mary Hobson above named, made oath that the above affidavit by her subscribed, is true.
Before Thomas Gage, Justice of the Peace
I certify that the above named Mary Hobson is a creditable witness, and that the above written affidavit by her subscribed, is entitled to credit.
Attest Thomas Gage, Justice of the Peace

Rev
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 21407
Sarah Hobson Widow of Moses Hobson Prin Rev War
Act: July 7 th 1838
Index:—Vol. 64 , Page 350
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Edward Hobson
Moses - Chap - 2838
the Honorable
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
D.C.
Hon C. W. McNamee

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
COUNTY OF ESSEX, ss. PROBATE OFFICE.
Nathaniel Lord junior, register of probate for said county, hereby certify, that
the honorable Daniel A. White, before whom the declaration of Sarah Hobson hereto annexed purports to have been taken, is the judge of probate for said county; and that his name subscribed to the certificate thereon appears to be his genuine signature; and that Thomas Gage esquire, before whom the several affidavits hereto annexed of Joseph Conant and Mary Hobson purport to have been taken, is a justice of the peace for said county; and that his name subscribed to each of the several certificates thereon appears to be his genuine signature.
as appears by the records in said office.
Given under my hand and seal of office, this tenth day of August, A. D. 1838.
The words "of Sarah Hobson" interlined.
N. M. Lord Jr.

House of Representatives Washington City Feb. 26. 1855
To the Honorable Commissioner of Pensions Sir
Will you be so good as to communicate to me the information asked for in the body of the enclosed letter from E. W. Jewett, of Rindley, Mass., and also in the postscript to the same?
With the highest respect
Your obh. Servt.
Charles W. Upham

Moses Hobson
15093.

I, Moses Hobson of Rowley in the County of Essex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, on oath do testify and declare as follows, vizt. I served as a private soldier in the Army of the United States, in the war of the revolution on the continental establishment for twelve nine months. I enlisted in Captain Thomas Hight's Company in 1775 in the Regiment (under the commands of Colonels Gerrish, who was succeeded in command by Colonel Prescott, the line under the command of General Putnam and under General Washington, in which I served nine months, afterwards I served in Captain Noyes's Company, in Colonel Pitcairn's Regiment, Massachusetts line (and also on the continental establishment at Rhode Island a further term of ten months - I had none other than a verbal discharge when I completed my term of service. - I do further swear that My reason of my reduced circumstances, I am in need of the assistance of my Country for support.
Moses Hobson
I Nathaniel Johnson of Rowley in said County of Essex do testify and say that I know Moses Hobson above named to have been a soldier in the Army of the United States, in the war of the revolution - I was a private soldier in Captain Hight's Company in the year 1775 and do know that said Hobson served in said Company with me the term of nine months - I do also know that said Hobson served afterwards in Captain Noyes's Company a further term of ten months. - I also served in said Company at the same time.
Nathaniel Johnson
Ex. S. Newburyport May 23 d 1840. Nathaniel Johnson above named personally appeared & made oath to the truth of the above written Affidavit before me - W. H. Dall Justice of the Peace.

We the subscribers, do hereby Certify, that Moses Hobson of Rowley who is now making application to the Secretary of War for a pension, allowed by an act of Congress of the United States, to provide for certain persons, engaged in the land and naval service of the United States, in the revolutionary war, is known to us as a Citizen of the said United States, residing in said Rowley and in need of assistance from his Country for support.
Given under our hands at Rowley aforesaid this third day of April in the year of our Lord 1818.
Thomas Gayson
Seleclmen
Sam. Clancey
Thomas Gaye
Overseers of the Poor

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Essex ss.
I Daniel Alchete Judge of the Court of Probate of the said County of Essex do certify that Moses Robson of Plainfield in said County personally appeared on the third day of April A.D. 1810, & made the declaration afore- said by him signed under oath before me that the affidavit aforesaid of Nathaniel Johnson was duly taken as therein cer- tified, & that it appears to my satisfac- tion that the said Moses Robson served in the revolutionary war & is in reduced circumstances, as set forth in his said declaration.
Given under my hand & the seal of the said Court the third day of June in the year aforesaid.
D. Alchete.

I Samuel Lancaster of Ipswich in the County of Essex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, aged seventy-five years and upwards, on oath do testify and declare that I am well acquainted with Moses Hobson of Nowley in said County, and do know that he enlisted in the company commanded by Capt. Thomas Michell, in the Regiment commanded by Col. Samuel Gerrish who was succeeded in command by Col. Baldwin, some in the month of April in the year 1775 to serve eight months, and that he did serve at Cambridge and at Sewalls Point, so called, in the town of Brooklyn, in said Commonwealth. the said term, My means of knowing the above stated facts are, that I was a private in the same company during said term, and in the same service. Samuel Lancaster.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts, County of Essex ss, Sept. 11, 1832. Then the above named Samuel Lancaster made solemn oath, that the aforesaid affidavit by him subscribed contains the truth and nothing but the truth. — And the subscriber further certifies that the Deponent is well known to him and that he is a credible witness. —
Thomas Gage, Justice of the Peace

I Joseph Brown of Rowley in the county of Essex Commonwealth of Massachusetts, on oath do testify and declare - That Moses Hobson of Rowley who has made application to the Government of the United States for a pension was a soldier in the Army of the United States in the war of the revolution, and I do know that he enlisted in the company commanded by Capt Thomas Wright in the month of April 1775. and that he did serve in said company in the continental establishment until February 1776. The regular enlistment at that time was for eight months only, but said Hobson to my knowledge exceeded that service by particular desire and did actually serve more than nine months in continuance on that enlistment - I have no interest whatever in said Hobson's application for a pension.
Joseph Brown
June 26th 1819.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Essex ss
Town of Newburyport
Be it known by these presents that on the twenty-sixth day of June, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, before me the subscriber Notary Public for the county of Essex, by legal authority admitted and sworn, and a Justice of the Peace and Quorum, in and for said county residing therein, personally came Joseph Brown, above named, and made oath to the truth of the above written instrument by him subscribed - (and I do certify that the above named Joseph Brown is personally known to me, that he is a credible witness and believed by me to be disinterested - I do further certify that Joshua Jewett whose name is signed to the annexed certificate is a respectable Magistrate for the said County of Essex, and that his signature thereunto is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have also hereunto set my hand, and affixed my seal of Office this twenty ninth day of September A.D. 1819.
W. W. Oates, Justice of the Peace
I made oath to the truth of the above written instrument by me subscribed - W. W. Oates

I Benjamin Emerson of Boxford in the County of Essex & Commonwealth of Massachusetts, on oath do testify & say, that during the Revolutionary war, I was a soldier in Capt. Thomas Mighill's company; in the Regiment, first commanded by Col. Gessick, then Col. Baldwin from April 1775 to January A.D. 1777. being one year & eight months, the first eight or ten months the Regiment was near Boston & from thence marched to New York & the Jerseys. I well remember Moses Hobson of Rowley in said County, served as a soldier in the said Thomas Mighill's Company the first eight months; and by the request of the Commander in Chief, he the said Moses Hobson with many others, continued in the service for a month or more, after the said eight months expired. Benj m Emerson
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Essex ss July 2 nd in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & nineteen. Then Benjamin Emerson made solemn Oath to the truth of the above deposition by him subscribed. Taken at the request of Moses Hobson, pursuant to an act making compensation for certain services in the Army & Navy in the United States in the Revolutionary war
Before me — Joshua Sewell Justice of the Peace
I certify that the said Benjamin Emerson the deponent above named, according to my best knowledge and belief, is a credible & disinterested & disinterested witness. Joshua Sewell Justice of the Peace