Pension Application of Sarah Reid Moore widow of Andrew Moore: W1454
Transcribed and annotated by C. Leon Harris
State of Virginia
Rockbridge County SC
On this fourth day of September eighteen hundred and forty eight, Personally appeared before the County Court of the County aforesaid, Sarah Moore Sen’r of the said County, aged seventy one 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 29th 1848, entitled “An Act for the relief of certain surviving widows of Officers and soldiers of the Revolutionary Army”. That she is the widow of Andrew Moore, who was a Captain in the Virginia Line, on Continental establishment, in what was called Morgans Corps of Riflemen. She believes that the said Andrew Moore entered the service of the United States some time in the year 1776 as an Ensign, and continued in this service for three years, and was a Captain in the said Corps at the time he resigned his Commission. That he was a citizen of that part of the County of Augusta which now constitutes a portion of the said County of Rockbridge, at the time he entered the service of the U. states. That she believes he was in all the severe engagements or battles which immediately preceded the capture of Burgoynes Army at Saratoga [17 Oct 1777], and in many minor engagements, and marched through the States of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York, but she cannot state the precise time he entered the service or when he resigned, or what engagements he was in, but she presumes and believes that all the necessary evidence as to his rank and services in the Revolutionary War, are to be found on the Records of the War Department in Washington City.
She further states that she was married to the said Andrew Moore on the 31st day of March seventeen hundred and ninety five, that her husband, the said Andrew Moore, died on the fourteenth day of May 1821: that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first day of January 1800 viz at the time above stated. She further swears that she is now a widow and that she has never before made any application for a pension.
Sworn to and subscribed, on the day and year first above written, before the County Court of Rockbridge. [signed] Sarah Moore
State of Virginia}
Rockbridge County} SS
On this sixteenth day of February AD One thousand eight hundred and fifty six, Personally appeared before me William White a Justice of the Peace, in and for the County aforesaid, in the state aforesaid, Sarah Moore, Sr., who being duly sworn according to Law, declares that she is the widow of Andrew Moore Dec’d, who was a Lieutenant and Captain, in the regular service of the United States in the Revolutionary war with Great Britain; that she believes he went into the Service of the U States, in the year 1776 as a Lieutenant in a rifle company commanded by Capt John Hays, composing a part of Daniel Morgans Corps of Riflemen; That he continued in the Service as Lieutenant and Captain for about three years, when he resigned his Commission. She further states that she was married to the said Andrew Moore on the 31st day of March in the year 1795 by one William Graham, a minister of the Gospel; that her name before marriage was Sarah Reid; that her said Husband died on the 14th day of May 1821, at the place of his residence in the County aforesaid; and that she is still a widow.
She makes this declaration, for the purpose of obtaining the bounty land to which she may be entitled under the Act passed
Never having received or knowing she is entitled under any former act of Congress
[signed] Sarah Moore
NOTES:
For more on the service of Capt. Andrew Moore, see the pension application of William Leay (Lee): S38910.
The file includes a copy of a bond dated 21 Mar 1795 and signed by Andrew Moore and Andrew Reid for the marriage of Moore to Sally Reid, daughter of Andrew Reid of Rockbridge County.
With the pension application is a letter by S. McD. Moore stating in part, “I have in my possession a patent, granted to my Father, (Andrew Moore) in 1809, and signed by President Maddison, for a quantity of land in the State of Ohio, which upon its face is expressed to be granted, ‘in consideration of military service performed by Andrew Moore, (a Captain for three years) to the United States, in the Virginia line on Continental establishment.’ The patent is for eight hundred acres of land, and bears date the 31st day of March 1809.”