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Monday, June 23, 2014

THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR PENSION FILE OF MOSES COBURN PT2

Included with Moses Coburn's pension request is the following document: 






This may certify that Moses Coburn of Tyngsborough was agreed with by us in 1781 to
go into The Revolutionary War and did go and stay until the war ended.
April 4th 1818                                                                    Isaac Pike
                                                                                           Asa Underwood
                                                                                           ?)Committee for the Clas(?)
                                                                                           who hiered him


I've wondered about the circumstances that led to the 16 year old Moses Coburn being
"hired" by the townsman to enlist in the Continental Army. His father Caleb was 37
years old when the Revolution began and according to a family genealogy had fought in
the Revolution in 1776 "In Capt. Ford's Co., Col. Robinson's Regt.. Also, in 1779, in Capt. Solomon Pollard's Co., Col. Samuel Denny's Regt. Was Caleb still in Capt. Solomon Pollard's company or was he home in 1781, and if so, had he been wounded or taken ill? Did Moses Coburn join the Army to help support his parents? How much was he paid for enlisting? 

So far, I have no answer for those questions.

To be continued

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