Person:Moses Wade (1)

Military Service

American Revolutionary War Veteran

Revolutionary War Pension Information

Information from “Virginia/West Virginia Genealogical Data from Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Records”, Vol. 6, compiled by Patrick G. Wardell, Lt. Col. U.S. Army Ret. :

Wade, Moses - entered service 1777 in Hanover County, Virginia, in Virginia Regiment & served at Battles of Brandywine, Germantown, Monmouth, Paulus Hook (where he received bayonet wound in thigh), & Yorktown; granted Pension abt. age 61 in Wilkes County, Georgia in 1819; surname also spelled Waide. F-S38456, R2466.

Records in Georgia

Oxford, Edward, dec'd. Warrant of apprmt. Mar. 5, 1795. Jonathan Oxford sworn excr. of last will of said dec'd.

Returns Sept. 1, 1800, nothing paid out or taken in, and that the est remains in his hands and his mothers (not named) except the legacies paid Moses Wade, Elizabeth and Edward Oxford, as per receipts herewith, (not found).

Source: "Early Records of Georgia: Wilkes County", by Grace Gillam Davidson, pg. 268. [Note: Edward Oxford was the father-in-law of Moses Wade]

Wade, Acree (or Akree), dec'd. Moses and Mary Wade qualify as exrs. Feb. 24, 1800. Francis Gartrell and Jonathan Ogletree, Sec.

Returns, paid Henry Leverett $45.00 Dec. 1799, Dec. 1800 and $14.00 Dec. 1801.

Returns of Moses Wade and Mary McKnight, exrs. 1803.

Signed by Robt. McKnight

Source: "Early Records of Georgia: Wilkes County", by Grace Gillam Davidson, pg. 305. [Note: Acree Wade was the father if Moses Wade based upon Wade family researchers].

Page 81: Wade, Acre, dec'd. Sale Jan. 1, 1805. Moses Wade, admr.

Source: "Early Records of Georgia: Wilkes County", by Grace Gillam Davidson, pg. 116.

Page 95: Jan. 2, 1815.

Thomas Wade, dec'd. Moses Wade appointed Admr.

Source: "Early Records of Georgia: Wilkes County", by Grace Gillam Davidson, pg. 186.

1.   Graves, William T. Southern Campaign Revolutionary War Pension Statements & Rosters.

   Pension application of Moses Wade (Waide) S38456 fn12VA
   Transcribed by Will Graves 7/20/11
   
   Georgia Wilkes County: Personally appeared before me Thomas Anderson a Justice of the Peace for said County Moses Wade and deposeth & saith that he enlisted in January 1777 as a regular soldier in the revolutionary war in the County of Hanover & State of Virginia under John Johnson Lieutenant in Captain John Winston's Company in the 14th Virginia Regiment in the Continental establishment commanded by Colonel Charles Lewis & that he fought in behalf of the United States at the Battle of Brandywine [September 11, 1777] and at Germantown [October 4, 1777[ and also at the place called Bargain Point or Powler hook [Paulus Hook August 19, 1779] there he deposeth he received a Bayonet wound in the thigh from the enemy and further that he was engaged in the Battle at Monmouth [June 28, 1778] and in the month of January 1780 was honorably discharged by Captain John Winston in Philadelphia and after returning home he performed for Tours of duty in the Militia one of them was at Little York at the taking of Lord Cornwallis and that he is now in very indigent circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his Country. Sworn to this 17th day of February 1819.
   S/ Thos. Anderson, JP
   S/ Moses Wade, X his mark
   
   Georgia Wilkes County: Personally came before me Richardson Booker a Justice of the Peace for said County John Wingfield Senior¹ and made oath that he was acquainted with Moses way and knew him to serve in the 14th Virginia Regiment on the Continental establishment in the Revolutional War of the United States. Sworn to this 23rd of February 1819
   S/ R. Booker, JP ss
   
   Georgia Wilkes County: Personally came before me Thomas Sanderson a Justice of the Peace for said County William Triplett Senior and made oath that he was acquainted with Moses Wade and knew him to serve in the 14th Virginia Regiment on the Continental establishment in the Revolutionary War of the United States. Sworn to this 18th day of February 1819
   S/ Thomas Anderson, JP
   S/ Wm Triplett
   
   Georgia Wilkes County
   District of On this 6th day of July 1819, before me, the subscriber, one of the Judges of the Inferior Court for the said district, personally appeared Moses Wade age 61 years, resident in Wilkes County in said district, who, being by me first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the provision made by the late act of Congress, entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States In the Revolutionary War:" he the said Moses Wade enlisted for the term of three years on the __day of January in the year 1777 in Hanover County in the State of Virginia in the company commanded by Captain John Winston of the Regiment commanded by Colonel Charles Lewis in the line of the State of Virginia on the Continental Establishment; that he continued to serve in the said Corps, or in the service of the United States, until the year 1780, when he was discharged from service in Philadelphia state of Pennsylvania, that he was in the battles of Brandywine, Germantown, Powlers hook and at the last mentioned place received a wound in his thigh, and at Monmouth and that he is in reduced circumstances, and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support; and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services.
   S/ Moses Waide²
   Sworn to and declared before me, the day and year aforesaid
   S/ B. Porter, JIC
   
   Georgia Wilkes County: Personally came before me Rich'd Worsham3 and made oath that he was a Lieutenant in the 14th Virginia Regiment and Continental Establishment and that the said Moses Wade was a private in said Regiment and was attached to the Company of which I was a Lieutenant and the said Worsham further saith that he knew the said Moses Wade in 1777 which was attached to the same Regiment and that he did serve 9 months and that he further knew him and 1778 & 1779 in the same Regiment and believe he fought in the same actions already stated.
   S/ R. Worsham
   
   Sworn to before made this 6th July 1819
   S/ Thos. Anderson,
   [Veteran was pensioned at the rate of $8 per month commencing July 6, 1819 for 3 years service as a private in the Virginia Continental line.]
   
   ________
   ¹ FPA R11714
   ² I do not think this is the actual signature of the veteran since the handwriting appears to me to be identical to that in
   the balance of the document.
   ³ Richard Worsham S38478
   
   http://revwarapps.org/s38456.pdf

2.   The Pension Roll of 1835: 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. (Washington, District of Columbia: Duff Green, 1835).

   Name: Moses Wade
   Rank: Private
   Age: 62
   Birth Year: abt 1757
   Pension Enrollment Date: 6 Jul 1819
   Residence Place: Wilkes, Georgia, USA
   Service Description: Virginia cont'l line

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