Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 14877, John Woodward, Conn. Vt.
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(3-1776)

SERVICE 
Conn. 
Vt.  

 Woodward, John  

NUMBER
 S. 14877

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CONTENTS
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6860 New-York 
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John Woodward of Orange in the state of New York who was an Artificer in the Compny. commanded by Captain Knowlton of the Regt. commanded by Col. Putnam in the Connecticut and Vt. line for 2 years
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June 7.08
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Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 144 Dollars  [crossed out] Cents [end crossed out] per annum to commence on the 4th day of March 1831.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 8th day of March 1833 -- and Sent to Hon. G.C.Broadhead Present ---
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arrears to the 4th of Mar '33 |. $288--
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sep '33 | 72 
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[right justified] { Revolutionary Claim, }
[right justified] { Act June 7, 1832 }
 Recorded by G.C. Stiles [signature]  Clerk
Book E.  Vol. 4  Page 34

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Dead 
Letter to Pension Agt 21. Sep
1844
Lette G.C. Ames 16 Apil '51
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John Woodward
NY at 32
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May 1853
Ex [illegible] S A Peugh
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Be it known that at a Surrogates Court held in & for the County of Orange in the State of New York at the Surrogates office in the Village of Goshen in said County personally appeared Benjamin Woodward a resident of said County aged 54 years who being first duly sworn according to law in open Court & on his oath states that he is a son of John Woodward deceased a late resident of the County of Sullivan in the State of New York & that his father the said John Woodward died at his residence in the County of Sullivan in said State on the 20th day of February 1844. & that he left no widow, that he left him surviving the following named children to wit Timothy Woodward & William Woodward residents of the County of Dutchess in said State and Renda Letson a resident of the City of New York & Lucius Woodward who has gone to parts unknown & Benjamin Woodward this declarant & that they are now the only surviving children of the said John Woodward & that they are all of lawful age, this declarant further states that his father the said John Woodward was in the receipt of a pension at the time of his death at the rate of $144 per annum under the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832 & that he this declarant makes this declaration in order to obtain an increase to said pension which he claims was due his said father at the time of his death under the act of June 7th 1832 & that he now claims that said increase of pension in now due to the surviving children of his father the said John Woodward deceased
Benjamin Woodward [signature]

Sworn and Subscribed this 28th day of April, 1852 }
In testimony whereof I have herewith set my hand and affixed my seal of office the day and year above named.
James W Fowler
Surrogate.
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I, James W. Fowler, Surrogate in and for the County of Orange in the State of New York do hereby certify that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited before me in open Court that John Woodward, late of Sullivan County in said State, died at his residence in the County of Sullivan in said State on the 20th day of February 1884, and that he left no widow, but left him surviving married children, to wit -- Timothy Woodward, William Woodward residents of the County of Dutchess in said State, Renda Setson a resident of the City of New York, Lucius Woodward who removed to parts unknown, and Benjamin Woodward, who made the [crossed out word] Declaration, now a resident of the County of Orange aforesaid - and that they are now the only surviving children of the said John Woodward, deceased, and that they are all of lawful age

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In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of Office at Goshen in said County of Orange, this 28th day of April in the year of our Lord 1852
James W. Fowler
Surrogate
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[illegible]
T. Brief - N- 10842

John Woodward

5
Armory service
[written vertically at 45 degrees counter clockwise)12 Sep 1832
7 Dec 1832 [end vertical writing]

P137.

A Demmick
Bloomingburg
Sullivan Co
NY.
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No. 10. 842.
BRIEF in the case of John Woodward of Walkill County of Orange -- in the State o New York -- (Act 7th June, 1832.)

1, Was the declaration med before a Court or a Judge?
Before a court -
2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity? ---
3. How old is he? 77 years
4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.
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Period.  |  Duration of Service. |  Rank. | Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served
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 | Years, Months, Days. | As a | Gen. [crossed out]

fore past apl. In 1775  | - 7 - | private | Capt. Thomas Knowlton } Colo Putnam 

" | -- 1 --- |  . |Experience Storrs -[illegilble] 
1776 Febu | -- 1- -
1776 Feby C:: Squire Hill
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Mr. B Caves here tomorrow please let him have these cases and put on the certificates in lead pensil The age & name & County -
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POWER OF ATTORNEY.
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State of New York }
County of Orange } ss. Know All Men by these Presents, that I Benjamin Woodward of the State & County aforesaid do hereby authorize, constitute and appoint . George. C. Ames of Washington City. D.C. my true and lawful Attorney to prosecute for me and on my behalf, all and singular,  claim or claims, I may have against the General Government of the United States, on account of the service of my Father John Woodward deceased, in the war of the Revolution; the said power of Attorney to be irrevocable for the space of three years from the within date: and the said George C. Ames is hereby authorized to take all necessary and proper steps in the prosecution of said claim or claims on my behalf. 

In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal the 28th day of June 1851
William Jordan [signature] J.P.

Benj Woodward [signature]
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State of New York }
County of Orange } ss. Be it Known, That on the 28th day of June 1851, before the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly authorized by law to administer oaths, personally appeared Benjamin Woodward above named, and on oath declares he is directly interested as one of the claimants aforesaid, and acknowledged the foregoing Power of Attorney to be his act and deed.

In testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, the day and year last above mentioned.
William Jordan J. P. [signature]

State of New York }
County of Orange } ss. I, Nathan Westcott Clerk of the County and State aforesaid, do certify, that William Jordan Esquire is now, and was at the time of the date of the
 forgoing, a Justice of the Peace, duly commissioned and qualified to act as such in and for said County: and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his, is genuine.

In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and Official seal, this 23rd day of August 1851
Nathan Westcott Clerk [signature]
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State of New York }
County of Orange } ss. I Nathan Westcott Clerk of the [crossed out] Court [end cross out] of Supreme Court of said State held in and for said County certify that satisfactory proof has been made in Open Court of Record held in and for said County that John Woodward late of the county of Sullivan, New York died on the Twentieth day of February in the year eighteen hundred and forty four (1844). That the said John Woodward died leaving no wife surviving him but that he left six children only surviving him whose names are Orinda Lidia, Hannah Comfort, and Timothy, William, Lucius and Benjamin Woodward. And that the said John Woodward was a revolutionary pensioner of the United States at the rate of one hundred and forty four dollars per annum.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said Court and County this 4th day of March 1851
N Westcott Clerk [signature]
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Allowed.

alleged service as Second in Command to a Captain upon volunteer service under an [illegible word] without commission disallowed -

ccom'd

2 [underlined] years artificer
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State of New York
County of Orange ss  On this third day of September in the year 1832 personally appeared in open Court before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of said County being a Court of record, now sitting, John Woodward a resident of the town of Walkill (near to the Village of Bloomingburgh) in the County of Orange and State aforesaid aged seventy seven years who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of an 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 entered or enlisted as a volunteer into the Company of infantry, under & commanded by Thomas Knowlton a Captain, John Keys as first Leiutant, Daniel Allen as second Leutanant & Squire Hill as Ensign in a regiment under the command of (then) Colonel Putnam and shortly after on the promotion Lieut Putnam, of Col. Experience Storrs & one Major Durkee, in the fore part of April in the year 1775 (the day not being recollected) at the town of Ashford in the County of Windham and State of Connecticut, where deponent then resided, to serve seven months in said service. That in about ten days thereafter he marched with said company by the way of Pomfret, Killingly, Axbridge Mardon & several other towns to Cambridge near Boston & was there and served on the Picket guard on the day of the Battle of Bunker Hill, under command of Col. Whitney. That he continued there in said service during the whole of said seven months when he again volunteered & entered said service again in said Company for one month & served out said month and then returned home to Ashford aforesaid and shortly thereafter in the month of February AD 1776. volunteered & enlisted or entered into said service in the Company commanded by & under Captain Squire Hill at Ashford aforesaid to serve for two months. And that after serving a few days in said last mentioned Company he was placed or entered, by the consent & request of his officers & particularly of his said Captain, into an Armory & manufactory of [crossed out letters] fire arms where fire arms fo [blotted out, illegible words] use of the army were by & under the authority of the State of Connecticut made and repared and that he continued to serve in said manufactory in the repairing & making of such fire arms from sometime in the month of May AD 1776 until the 22nd day of May AD 1779 under
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the direction of one Hezekiah Huntington who was imployed by said State of Connecticut to make said fire arms for the use of the army_ Excepting however out of said last mentioned term of about two months, during which two months he served in the militia and marched to Groton opposite New London and arrived there just after the taking of fort Griswold at the time New London was invaded by Benedict Arnold. That at that time a draft of the militia was made and he was drafted or volunteered & went with them under Captain Nehemiah Tincker, Lieut. Wm Youngs & Ensign Moses Wolcott_ That immediately after arriving at Groton as aforesaid he was placed in an armory where he continued to serve & labour in repairing fire arms for and during two months and then returned back to the said manufactory at Windham  That he also served between a month & six weeks in the year of 1780 as a volunteer in the State of Vermont. That he entered said service at Randolf on a Branch of the White river with a Company consisting of 20 volunteers immediately after the burning by the Indians of Royalton & Sundry Mills and scouted during that time for the Indians under one Captain Blodget & deponent was second in command and remembers that Jehiel Woodward & Samuel Payne were of the company and marched to or near to Montpelier and various other places and directions principally in the woods & unsettled regions_ That he was born in said town of Ashford in the year 1755 as he has ever been informed and believes to be true_ That he has no record of his age except such as may by in the Clerks office in Windham County in Connecticut. That since the revolutionary war he has lived [several crossed out illegible words] three years in New Hampshire & Vermont then returned to Ashford & lived there twenty two years, then removed to Ulster County & lived there four or five years, then removed to & lived in Sullivan Coun[ty] four years, removed then to Orange County wher[e] he has lived for the last five years  That his said services were rendered as a volunteer & not as a substitute_ That he had a discharge but it is now lost_ He hereby relinquishes  his every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll [crossed out] of the agency of any State [end crossed out words]
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of the agency of any State
John Woodward

Sworn to and subscribed the day + year first above written Before Me
Asa Dunning Clerk

We Makar W. Horton Sheriff of the County of Sullivan in the State of New York, and John Anderson both of Bloomingburgh in the said County of Sullivan hereby certify that we are + have been for some Eight years last past well acquainted with John Woodward who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration. That we believe him to be seventy seven years of age. That the said John Woodward lives about two miles distance from us, and just aims a good reputation for truth + veracity; but that he having resided only for about eight years last past in the vicinity of our residence we have no knowledge of his reputation of having been a soldier of the Revolution
Makar W. Horton
John Anderson

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department and of the having read and examined the Depositions of Benjamin Dyer, Elisha White, Alfred Elderkin, Roger Huntington, Frederick Knowlton + Kaleb Hendee hereunto annexed that the above named John Woodard was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states - And the Court further Certifies that it appears to them that Makar W Horton, who has pened the preceding certificate is Sheriff of the County of Sullivan and John Anderson who has also pened the same are residents of Bloomingburgh in said County are credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit -
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I Asa Dunning Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Orange the State of New York
I do hereby Certify that the same contains the original proceedings in the matter of the application of John Woodward in a pensioner
In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal of office this Third day of September 1832
Aza Dunning
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John Woodward  10.842
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The Deposition of Benjamin Dyer, Roger Huntington, Elisha White & Alfred Elderkin all of Windham in Windham County & State of Connecticut & being each of us siding Seventy years of age, is as follows viz During the Revolutionary War, Major Hezekiah Huntington of sd Windham was employed by the State of Connecticut to make muskets & bayonets for the Army and had a manufacturing at sd Windham where gun barrels were bored by hand & by horse power & muskets made & finished & other implements of war were made; and we well remember that John Woodward in the years 1776, 7 & 1778 was then employed in that service & worked in said armory for a long time, we should think as much as two years or more.
Sworn to & subscribed this 25th day of August AD 1832
Benjm Dyer
Elisha White
Alfred Elderkin
Roger Huntington
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Deposition of Benj. Dyer
Elisha White
Roger Huntington
& Alfred Elderkin
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State of Connecticut}
County of Windham} | J. Woodword| 
 Aug. 25. 1832
Personally appeared before the Subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said County of Windham Benjamin Dyer, Elisha White, Alfred Elderkin, & Roger Huntington - all of 
and made Solemn oath to the truth of the written Deposition by them Subscribed - & I hereby certify that I am well acquainted with each & all of them & that they are men of respectability & are credible persons & their Statement is entitled to credit. 
Thomas Gray Justice of the Peace 

I Armin Bolles Clerk of the County Court within and for the County of Windham in the State of Connecticut do hereby certify that Thomas Gray Esquire before whom the foregoing affidavit was made is duly enrolled as a Justice of the Peace in and for said Windham County that the foregoing signature of his name is in his hand and seal and that full faith and custel bright to be given to his acts as such -
   In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal said Count at Brooklyn in said County this 27th day of August A.D. 1832
Armin Bolles Clerk
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I Frederick Knowlton of Ashford, Windham County and State of Connecticut of lawful age depose and say, that I was a Soldier in the Revolution War, and was in the service at Cambridge in Mafsachusetts, in the year 1775, and that at that time John Woodward then of Ashford in sd. county now residing in Bloomingburg in the State of New York, was a soldier with me, at that place and served for the period of Eight months in the service aforesaid, and that he belonged to the same company with me, and further the deponent saith not -
Ashford July 23 - 1832
Fredk. Knowlton

I Caleb Hendee of Ashford, in the State of Connecticut of lawful age depose and say that I was in the service of the United States in the Revolutionary war at Cambridge in Mafsachusetts in 1775 a soldier, and I well remember that John Woodward then of sd. Ashford, now residing in Bloomingburgh in New York, was a soldier with me there, and that said Woodward served there for the period of Eight months in the same company with me and further the deponent saith not -
Ashford July 23, 1832 -
Caleb Mendee

Windham County fs Ashford July 23? 1832 -
Personally appeared Fredk Knowlton and Caleb Hendee, and severally made oath to the truth of the foregoing deposition by him subscribed and I hereby certify that said Hendee and said Knowlton was each of them, men of truth and their Testimony is entitled to full credit -
Sworn before me _
Ichabod Bulkley Justice of Peace
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I Armin Bolles Clerk of the County Court within and for the County of Windham in the State of Connecticut do certify that Ichabod Bulkley Esq before to him the within affidavit was made is duly enrolled as a Justice of the Peace in and for said Windham County that the within signature of his name is in his hand writing and I put full faith and credit ought to be given to his acts as such -
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Public seal of said Court this 23d. day of July AD 1832
Armin Bolles Clerk
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Albany, N. York February 9. 1851

Sir,
Be pleased to permit S. J. Bowen of Washington City to examine the papers on which John Woodward of Chautauqua County was allowed a Pension.

L F Watkins
For John Jr & David Woodward
Chautauqua Co

To Comr of Pensions
Washington D.C.
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14877
INVALID.

Rev War

File No. 14,877
John Woodward
Artificer Rev War

Act: June 7th 32
Index:--Vol. 1, Page 416

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Orange County fs Personally appeared before me the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County of Orange + State of New York John Woodward, who being duly sworn, deposeth and saith that by reason of old age and consequent lofs of memory he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service except the first service mentioned in his declaration which he knows was seven + one month's making eight months in all at one time and in uninterrupted succefsion and according to the best of his recollection he served not lefs than the periods mentioned below and in the following grades - For eight months I served as a private soldier principally at + near Cambridge in Mafsachusetts: For two years + ten months I served as an artificer in the armory at Windham in Connecticut - For one month and seven days I served again as a Lieutenant in Vermont - and for two months (before my service in Vermont) I served as a private soldier aged artificer (Principally at Groton near New London) and for such several services I claim a pension - and I further depose and declare that for the term of time I served as aforesaid as artificer in the armory at Windham + always considered + believed myself under martial law subject + liable to the call + command of my superiors and while I served as aforesaid at Groton I knew I was under martial law
John Woodward
Subscribed + Sworn to this 20th day of December A.D. 1832 before me}
Henry Linderman J. Peace

State of New York}
Orange County} fs. I Abel Dunning Clerk of the County of Orange Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in + for the said County of Orange do hereby Certify that Henry Linderman Esq before whom the foregoing affidavit of John Woodward was sworn was at the time a Justice of the Peace in + for the said County of Orange and that the signature Henry Linderman subscribed herein to the said affidavit is his Genuine Signature
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 12th day of January 1833
Asa Dunning
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State of New York}
County of Orange} fs. Before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said county personally appeared Benjamin Woodward aged 52 years resident in the Town of Walkil in said county who being first duly sworn makes the following declaration
This declarant states that he is the lawful child of John Woodward who died in the County of Sullivan in the State of New York in the (20") Twentieth day of February in the year eighteen hundred and forty four (1844) and who was a revolutionary pensioner of the United States at the rate of 144$ per annum - and who died leaving no wife, but that he left 6 children surviving him only, whose names are Orinda Lydia, Hannah Comfort, + Timothy, William, + Lucius Woodward and your declarant {illegible]
Sworn to + subscribed on this 11th day of January 1851
Before me
William Jordon Justice of the Peace

I certify that the above named Benjamin Woodward is a man of credibility
William Jordon Justice of the Peace
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State of New York  }
County of Orange  }  ss I Nathan Westcott Clerk of said county certify that William Jordan Esqr is and was at the time of the date of the foregoing ^Declaration & certification^ a Justice of the Peace duly commissioned and qualified to act as such in the county aforesaid
And that the foregoing signatures purporting to be his are genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and official seal this fourth day of March 1851
N Westcott
Clerk
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Bloomingburgh
March 25

1834

J. L. Edwards Esq
Comr. of Pensions
Washington City
D C.

28. March,
New York

John Woodard
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Bloomingburgh Sullivan County
N. York. March 25th 1834

Dr Sir
Once more I ask a moments attention to the case of John Woodward a claimant for a pension - Mr Bodle our member of Congrefs wrote me that his pension papers appeared by the Books in your office to have been delivered last month to John C. Brodhead then our member - Mr Brodhead has been seen + says he has no knowledge nor recollection of having seen them under then circumstances I wish to be informed if they have not been found with you + if it is certain they were delivered to Mr Brodhead in March last. If they were, they must be lost and I presume must be supplied by new papers before any thing further can be done - I regret the necefsity  of so often troubling you on the businefs. But it seems necefsary + hope you will be able to give me an immediate answer - I remain
Your Obt Sevt
A Dimmick 

J. L. Edwards Esq
Comr. of Pensions
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POWER OF ATTORNEY.
State of New York}
County of Orange} ss.

Know all Men by these presents, that I Benjamine Woodward State of [illegible]
Aforesaid do hereby authorize, constitute, and appoint A P Norton of Pittsburgh Pennsylvania 
my true and lawful Attorney to prosecute for me and on my behalf all and singular claim or claims I may have against the General Government of the United States on account of the services of my Father John Woodward deceased, in the war of the Revolution.  
And the said A P Norton is hereby authorized to take all necessary and proper steps in the prosecution of said claim or claims on my behalf.  
IN WITNESS WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 4th day of November 1850
Signed in my presence.}

Benj Woodward
and A Woodward
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Jno Woodward
NY - 32- 6860



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Ex
H.H Sylester 

[appears stricken] March 21.
Maq 10-51
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Know all men by these presents, that I Benjamin Woodward of the county of Orange in the State of New York do hereby constitute and appoint   H H Sylvester my true and Lawful attorney to call on the Commissioner of pensions to Examine the declaration and other papers on file in his office which Contain the application of my father John Woodward deceased a pension as act der the act of June 7th 1832 March 17th 1851 

Joseph Ellis Witneys | Benjamin Woodward
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Washington March 10th 1851

Sir
Enclosed you will please find Power of Attorney from the Representatives of John Woodward late a pensioner under the act of 7 June 1832, an Artificer at the rate of $144 p ann to A. P. Norton Esq of Pittsburgh, authorizing him to prosecute their claim for an increase of the Allowance Made to their father.
Very Respectfully,
Your Obt. Servt.
Geo C. Ames

James E Heath Esq
Comr of Pensions
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Washington Sept 5 1851

James E Heath Esq
Dr Sir
Enclosed you will please find a second Power of Attorney from the heirs of John Woodward, late a Pensioner on the New York Role as an artificer
I desire that this Power may be filed with the papers of Woodward now in your Office
With Much Respect
Your Obt Servt.
Geo. C. Ames
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New York City Pension Agency
Sept 19. 1844

Sir
I herewith transmit for special authority to make payment [illegible - possibly voucher] of the heirs of John Woodward, a pensioner who died February 20th, 1844, and whose certificate is in the possession of an individual who withholds it on the plea that the pensioner died in his debt for supplies furnished to him & his family.  As it is the first case during my agency in which the balance due a deceased pensioner is claimed without a surrender of the original pension certificate, I have deemed it proper to submit the papers to you before making payment.

I am
Very respectfully
Your obedient Servant
Jno A Geotos [?]

J L Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City