HomeMy WebLinkAboutBiographies of Revolutionary War Veterans of Tompkins Co Joseph Moore2
Name:Joseph Moore
Date of birth:1761
Birthplace:Upper Freehold, Monmouth, NJ
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Date of death:Nov. 1850
Place of death:Norwalk, Huron Co., OH
Place of burial:OH
Children:
1) John B. Mooreb. 1788 NJ of Middlebury, Elkhart, IN
2) Anna Moore m. Mr. Ivins
Pension File #:S9041
Place of enlistment: Monmouth Court House, Monmouth Co., NJ
Service record:
State of New York
Tompkins County
On this 3rd day of October personally appeared in open court before the judge of the Court of Common Pleas now sitting, Joseph Moore, a resident of the town of Enfield in the county
of Tompkins and state of New York, aged seventy one 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 7th 1832. That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated:
That he resided at Upper Freehold, Monmouth Co., New Jersey at the time of entering the service-that in his 17th year, about 1st of October 1776, he enlisted at Monmouth Court House
in the militia under Capt Joseph Couperthwaite. The regiment was commanded by Major Thomas Holmes-that he enlisted for a month and was stationed at Monmouth Court House as a guard but
was out occasionally in scouting parties on the lines- that their company was dismissed at the end of the month.
That sometime in the spring, thinks in April 1777 he enlisted and served at Monmouth again for a month in the militia under Capt. Handie and thinks the regiment was commanded by Maj.
Holmes- the service was the same as mentioned above and at the end of the month the company was dismissed.
That in May 1777 he again enlisted at Monmouth for a month in the militia-that he cannot recollect the Captain’s name-that Samuel Saxton was Lieutenant-that he does not recollect the
Colonel’s name-that they were stationed at Trenton as a guard-that he served until within a week of the time being out when he was subpoenaed as a witness to Monmouth and his time ran
out before he could return. On reflection he recollects the Captain’s name was Furman Mount.. That the deponent afterwards resided at Mansfield, Burlington Co., New Jersey as an apprentice-that
about the 1st of June 1779 while residing at Mansfield he enlisted in the regular service for six months under Captain Marmaduke Curtis in Col. SylvanusSeely’s regiment-that they marched
to Elizabeth Town and was twice billeted for a part of the time- that they staid at Elizabeth Town for two or three months and then marched to Newark-they went from Newark by boats up
the river and joined Lord sterling at Cedar Swamp and from there marched to and took the fort at Pawkins Hook-that from there they marched back to Newark, staid there five or six days
and marched from there back to Elizabeth Town and there remained during the rest of the time-that at the end of the six months about the 18th December 1779 and returned home, that he
knew Adj. Thomas Mason in this expedition.
That he afterwards returned to Monmouth, his former residence, that while a resident there, he enlisted October 1781, cannot recollect the day., as a sergeant under Captain John Coward,
Col. Elisha Lawrence of the militia- that he marched with his regiment to Wintown between Tom’s River and Little Egg Harbor to oppose the British who had landed- General Pulaski joined
them with his light horse-the British left before the arrival of the militia and they returned home after being out about three weeks.
About the 1st of July 1773, while residing at Monmouth enlisted in the militia for three months under Captain John Coward-was ordered for West Point but was stopped at Hackany above
Newark for further orders-remained at Hackanyfor six or eight days and was marched back to Connecticut farms and there remained with his regiment until he was discharged about the last
of September or 1st of October 1783 when a cessation of hostilities was proclaimed.
That he has no documentary evidence,that he knows of no person whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his service.
Signed Joseph Moore
He further testified that:
He was born at Upper Freehold in New Jersey in 1761.
He has a record of his age at home in the Bible.
H lived at Upper Freehold when he enlisted the service, moved from there to Hanover, NJ-moved from there to Philadelphia, moved from there to Coshockton on the Delaware River, moved
from there to Great Bend on the Susquehannah, moved from there to Newfield, Tompkins, NY and from there to Enfield where he now resides.
Witnesses: Ezra Chase and Daniel Van Kirk
New York Pensioners, 1835:
Joseph Moore
Private
Tompkins Co.
Annual Allowance:$41.32
Service:New York militia
Placed on the pension roll:8 Nov 1832
Commencement of pension:4 Mar 1831
U.S. Federal Census Mortality Schedules Index
Joseph Moore
Year: 1850
Huron CO.
OH
Age: 88
M (Male)
Month of Death: Nov
State of Birth: NY
ID#:MRT197_22960
Cause of Death: OLD AGE
Sources:
Ancestry.com. Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files, 1800-1900 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010.
Original data: Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files (NARA microfilm publication M804, 2,670 rolls). Records of the Department of Veterans Affairs, Record
Group 15.National Archives, Washington, D.C.
Ancestry.com. New York Pensioners, 1835 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1998. Original data: United States Senate. Report from the Secretary of War,
in Obedience to Resolutions of the Senate of the 5th and 30th of June, 1834, and the 3d of March, 1835, In Relation to the Pension Establishment of the United States. [New York Section].
Washington, D.C.: Duff Green, 1835.
Jackson, Ron V., Accelerated Indexing Systems, comp.. U.S. Federal Census Mortality Schedules Index [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1999.
Original data: Compiled and digitized by Mr. Jackson and AIS from microfilmed schedules of the U.S. Federal Decennial Census, territorial/state censuses, and/or census substitutes.
Will or Administration of Estate:
Notes: Moved 1833 to Stark Co., OH, 1834 Bronson, Huron Co, OH and d, 1849 Norwalk, Huron Co., OH