Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 4732, Moses Hastings, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass
Hastings, Moses Rebecca
R. 4732
CONTENTS

Moses Hastings & Rebecca Olds
2/3
J. Phillips 95 3/4 85 60 1/2

I Seth W Field Clerk of the Town of Brookfield in the County of Worcester and State of Massachusetts hereby certify that the following is a transcript from the Records of said Town viz.
Marrried by Rev d Nathan Fiske Moses Hastings to Rebecca Olds August the Twenty Seventh One Thousand Seven hundred and eighty One — And I certify that this is a true copy of the Record with the exception of the date which is expressed on Records in fair legible figures as follows Augt. 27 th 1781
I Seth W Field above named, depose and say; that I hold the Office of Town Clerk in the Town, County and State aforesaid, and that the above is a true extract from the Records of said Town with the exception above named as certified by me
Seth W Field Clerk of the Town of Brookfield for the year 1838
Worthington, Oct. 8. 1838 Then personally appeared Seth W. Field & made oath that the above is a true transcript of the records of the Town of Brookfield with the exception therein named. I further certify that said Field is Town Clerk of Brookfield & duly qualified to act as such Sylvia May, Justina Paine

Commonwealth of Massachusetts seventh County
On this ninth day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight, personally appeared before me William Judson of the Court of Pleas for said County. Helena Hastings a resident of Brookfield in said County aged eighty three 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. 1838 entitled an act granting half- pension pensions to widows & children.
That she is the widow of M c Kinley Has- tings late of said Brookfield deceased who was a soldier of the Revolution, and service as nearly as it is possible further to state as follows.
He always belonged to said town of Brookfield where he went into the service

and she belongs to the same town, but she has no particular acquaintance with him at that time, even of her own know- edge, though she can state but little as to his services. She has, however, undertaken and has reason to believe that he was out in the beginning of the war at the time the Regiments were in Boston; she has also an impression that he was out at Washington and at New York and but faintly, but it is wholly impossible for her to specify the services or the officers under whom he served. She is obliged to rely for the evidence of these services upon the departmental records and the rolls in the War Department. She has no documentary evidence thereof any light upon her case.
She further declares that she was mar- ried to the said Mrs. Harding, at said Middlesex by the Rev. Mr. Tinker, on the twenty seventh day of August in the year eighteen hundred and

lightly one; that her husband the afore- said Moses Hastings died at said Park- field on the fifteenth day of December in the year eighteen hundred and twenty, and that she has never been married since. That she was not mar- ried to him previous to his leaving the ar- my, but the marriage took place prior to the first day of January in the year eighteen hundred and nine- ty four, and at the time also noted —
Rebecca Hastings
I have to amply substantiate the day and year before written —
Mr. Nathan Judge of Probate for said County of Hampshire —

Rev. and 1812 Wars Section
MCS/HEM
February 10, 1930.
Mrs. Joseph S. Calfee 33 Kingsbury Place Saint Louis Missouri.
Dear Madam:
I advise you that in the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim R. 4732 it appears that Moses Hastings married August 27, 1781 at Brookfield, Massachusetts, Rebecca Olds.
He died December 15, 1820 in Brookfield, Massachusetts.
His widow, Rebecca, applied for pension October 19, 1838, at which time she was eighty-three years of age and was a resident of Brookfield, Massachusetts.
It was alleged that while a resident of Brookfield, Massachusetts, Moses Hastings enlisted in June or July 1777 and served until December 31, 1777 in Captain Wilson's Company in Colonel Danforth Keyes' Massachusetts Regiment.
The claim was not allowed as proof of at least six months service, which was the requirement of the pension law, was not furnished.
The Revolutionary War records of this Bureau fail to afford any information in regard to John Goldsborough (searched under all spellings of the name) of Brookfield, Massachusetts.
Very truly yours,
EARL D. CHURCH Commissioner.

O. Mayden
May 15 '39
OL

War Dept, Pm Offm 220 May 15, 1839
Sir
The papers in the case of Mrs Rebecca Hastings widow of Moses Hastings decd have been filed with rejected cases, it being found on referring to the rolls of Capt Francis Wilson's company of the Massachusetts troops in this office, that her husband served less than six months in said company. If he performed other service as stated in your letter and it can be specified, showing the officer's name and period of service, packets proof of the service may be found on the rolls, here.
Otis Hayden Esq Brookfield, Mass.
3132 ext 7 July 38

Brookfield November 6 th 1888
James L. Edmunds Esq.
Sir I send you the Declaration of Rebecca Hastings and other papers to prove her claim to a Pension in right of her husband Major Hastings deceased. There can be no doubt that he served at several times and at different places to the amount of from nine to twelve months, but she is unable at this date day to prove positively more than six months service as by the deposition her- mits included perhaps the Massachusetts Rolls will give some light on the subject
Very respectfully yours
Brookfield Worcester County Massachusetts
Otis Heydon

Rebecca Hastings Wapachunett 4737
Discontinued
see W. 15 th May 1839 C. Hayden
service less than six mths.
Acty July 1838

SAINT LOUIS CHAPTER, D. A. R. MRS. JOSEPH S. CALFEE REGENT 33 KINGSBURY PLACE SAINT LOUIS, MISSOURI
Commissioner of Pensions Interior Dept., Rev. Ser.,
Dear Sir,
Will you please tell me, if in your Revolutionary Records, you find that requests for pensions were made by
John Goldsborough (Goldsbury) Brookfield - Mass.
Moses Hastings (Hastings)
Brookfield - Mass.

Any information about either of these will be much appreciated, Thanking you in advance
I am Very Truly
Della Bandy Coffee,

Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
REJECTED
4732
P. O.
Rebecca Hastings
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
1852 list gives fol. reason for rejection. "He did not serve six months."
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

1930 Feb. 10. hist. to Mrs. Joseph S. Calfee N.C.

We Luther Walker aged sixty nine years and Zillah Jennings aged eighty three years both residents of Brookfield in the County of Worcester and Commonwealth of Massachusetts do hereby certify that we have been intimately acquainted with Moses Hastings Late of said Brookfield now deceased and Rebecca Hastings Widow of said Moses Hastings for fifty years past having always lived in the same neighborhood with said Moses and Rebecca. in the Fall or Winter of Eighteen hundred and twenty the said Moses died at his residence in said Brookfield. and we further certify that the said Rebecca Hastings has not since been married but is now the Widow of said Moses Hastings.
Luther Walker Zillah Jennings
Worcester ss. October 25 th 1838 Then the above named Luther Walker and Zillah Jennings personally appeared and made oath in due form of Law that the certif- icate above written and by them subscribed is just and true and I further certify that the said Luther and Zillah are persons of truth and entitled to credit as witnesses Before me Otis Heyden Justice of Peace

I William Rice of Brookfield in the County of Worcester and Commonwealth of Massachusetts aged Eighty years do depose and say that I am a Pension of the United States under the Law of the 7 th of June 1832 that I enlisted as a Militia Soldier into the service of the United States in the War of the Revolution for the term of six Months and entered the service the last of June or first of July in the year Seventeen Hundred and Seventy Seven. and marched to Providence in the State of Rhode Island in the company commanded by Capt Wilson in the Regiment of Col Davenport's Vols and was discharged the last of December following viz December 31 st 1777. Having served six months. I further depose and say that Moses Hastings of Brookfield in said County enlisted and entered the service as a Militia soldier at the same time, was in the same company and Regiment with myself that said Hastings served six Months and was discharged the last of December in the year Seventeen Hun- -dred and Seventy Seven. Thomas Henshaw was a Soldier in the same service and in the same Company and Regiment, with my- self and said Hastings
Wm Rice

Commonwealth of Massachusetts Worcester ss. October 20 th 1838
Personally appeared before the subscriber a Justice of the peace in and for said County the within named William Rice and after being carefully examined and duly cau- tioned to testify the whole truth and nothing but the truth made oath that the within deposition by him subscribed is true and I further certify that the said William Rice is a man of truth and fully entitled to credit as a witness.
Before me Otis Hovey Justice of Peace

J. Thomas Henshaw of Brookfield in the County of Norfolk and Commonwealth of Massachusetts aged Seven seventy years do depose and say that I am familiar under the Law of June 7 th 1832. That I enlisted as a Militia Soldier into the service of the United States in the War of the Revolution for the term of six months and entered the service the last of June or first of July in the year Seventeen hundred and seventy Seven and marched to Providence in the State of Rhode Island in the Company commanded by Capt Wilson in Col Keyes Regiment and was discharged the last of December following having served six months. I further depose and say that Myles Hastings of Brookfield in said County enlisted and entered the service as a Militia Soldier at the same time in the same Company and Reg- -iment with myself and was discharged the last of December Seventeen hundred and seventy Seven having served out the term for which he enlisted Vols Six Months
Thomas Henshaw

State of Massachusetts
Worcester ss. October 20 th 1838
Personally appeared before the subscriber an Justice of the Peace in and for said County the within named Thomas Henshaw and after being examined and duly cautioned to testify the whole truth and nothing but the truth made oath that the within deposition by him subscribed is true. and I further certify that the said Thomas is a man of truth and entitled to full credit as a Witness
Before me Otis Hoveydn Justice of Peace

3132 Rebecca Hastings. of Moses Wapachusett
vol 24 page 156 from 18 Augt 1777 to 31 Dec. — 4112

Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Worcester, ss.
I, Charles G. Prentiss, Register of the Court of Probate for the County of Worcester, do certify, that Ira Barton is the Judge of said Court, duly commissioned and qualified - and that his signature to the paper hereto annexed is true and genuine.
I further certify, that Otis Hayden and Jesse Bliss are Justices of the Peace, within and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified - and that their signatures to the papers hereto annexed are genuine.
In testimony whereof I do hereunto set my hand and affix the seal of said Court this fifth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight.
Chas. G. Prentiss, Register