Moses Ayer

Records: A letter to Marian Dunham Homan from the main State Library & the Daughters of the American Revolution froms submitted by Geneva A. Littlefield Franklin. Plus, another letter from Marian received from the State House Library in Boston, MA. Moses served several enlistments in the Revolutionary War & was a Marine on the ship, 'Hancock'. He was captured by the British ship, 'Rainbow' & sent to halifax as a prisoner of war (March 1777 - November 1777) until he escaped & went back to Boston. In 1791 he obtained Island 'H', on the Solon side of the Kennebec River, Solon, Somerset, Maine. This being a tract of 88 acres. Shortly afterward he got a small island adjacent (named, 'Ayer Island'). Of his ten children only two sons survived to manhood. He applied for a pension on April 22, 1818; which was granted.