Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 45454, Isaac Woolson, Mass. Vt.
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(8-1776)
Service
Meass Vt.

Woolson, Isaac or
Willson.

Number 
S. 45454

Contents
b. Nov. 1757. 
in 1820 res of Lewiston, Niagara Co N.Y. wife Mercy d, Oct. 11, 1820
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[left side written vertically] Notifn sent Nov. 11th 1820 to Bates Cooke Lewiston, N.Y.C

16.772
New York.
Isaac Woolson, or Willson,
of Niagara Co. in the state of New York
who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Bailey, of the Massachuetts 
line, for the term of nine months.
Subscribed on the Roll of New York,
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on
the 30. of April, 1818. . . .

Certificate of Pension issued the 27. of April, 182[] and sent to Bates Cooke, Esq; ag
Lewiston, New York. . .

Arrears to 4th of March, 1820 $137.30
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Sept. 1820. 48.00
17 mos. 1/30 & 4/31}. $185.30
Dead
[Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818.}
Continued
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State of New York
Niagara County ss: On this thirtieth day of April in the year 1818 before me the subscribed one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County personally appears Isaac Woolson aged Sixty years resident in the town of Lewiston in the County & State aforesaid who being by one first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the pension 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." That he the said Isaac Woolson Enlisted in the spring of the year 1775 at the Town of Northbridge in the State of Massachusetts in the Company commanded by Captain Bachelor in Colonel Joseph Reeds Regiment in the Massachusetts line of Continental Troops for the term of Eight months and served in said Company and Regiment during that term. That he again enlisted in the spring at fore part of the summer 1776 in the town of Sutton in the said State of Massachusetts as a waiter to Major Bachelor in Col. Woodburys Regiment for the term of five months and actually served in that capacity during the said five months - That he again enlisted in the spring of the year 1777 and joined the Company Commanded by Lieutenant Murry Stationed in the East side of the river apposite to West Point for the term of nine months & served in said Company during said term as near as he can recollect and was discharged at Fishkill or near that place; That he again enlisted in the Spring before the conclusion of the year at the Town of Croydon in the State of New Hampshire in the Company commanded by Captain Nelson in the Regiment commanded by Col. Benjamin Wait for the term of six months and served as a noncommissioned officer in said Company during said term and was then
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honorably discharged; and that he is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his Country for his support; and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said service -
Isaac Woolson
Sworn & declared before me the day & year aforesaid}
G Frisbee

I Gideon Frisbee Judge & as aforesaid do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Isaac Woolson did serve in the revolutionary war as stated in the preceeding declaration against the Common enemy - and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me to the Secretary for the department of war. Pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress -
G Frisbee

State of New York}
Niagara County }
Clerks Office} I Frederick B. Merrill, Clerk of the County aforesaid do hereby certify that Gideon Frisbee, before whom the preceding affidavit and certificate appear to have been taken is one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County acting as such under the authority of this State, and that same so signed is the propper hand writing of the Said Gideon Frisbee
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the County Seal at Buffalo this 2. day of May in the year 1818
F. B. Merrill

[vertically at left side] Isaac Woolson

[at bottom] regiment Line to [illegible] Lt. Murry's regt belonged must be stated.
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State of New York
County of Niagara Ss Isaac Woolson being duly sworn according to law doth further State in addition to what is stated and set forth in the affidavit hereunto annexed made by the said deponent, that during the previous month he the deponent hath procured from the hands of the aforesaid Lieutenant Robert Murry an original muster roll which is herewith annexed (the said Murry now residing at Richland County of Orange State of New York) that the company commanded by the said Murry belonged to the first Battallion of the Massachusetts Bay forces commanded by Colonel John Bailey of the Massachusetts line - that this deponent from reflection and inspection of the said muster Roll finds that the date of his enlistment in the said company commanded by the said Murry was in the month of June 1778 instead of "the spring of the year 1777" as stated in the former or annexed affidavit of this deponent, that the name of "Isaac Willson" on the said muster Roll was meant and intended as the name of this deponent and no other person - further that under the said enlistment for the said term of nine months this deponent did actually and faithfully serve the whole term thereof and further the deponent saith not.
Isaac Woolson
Sworn and declared before me this 18th. January 1820.
G Frisbee
Judge
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I Gideon Frisbee Judge & as within mentioned do further certify in addition to what is by me within certified that I am acquainted with the within named Isaac Woolson (usually called Willson) and knew him to be in reduced circumstances and stated in need of the assistance of his country for support - further that he is a resident citizen of the United States. Dated Lewiston 18 Jan. 1820.
G Frisbee
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Isaac Woolson
or Willson
16.772
Sept 1820

Sent to
Bates Cooke
Lewiston
Nov. 11. 1820
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At a court of common Pleas held at the court house in the village of Buffalo in the county of Niagara in the state of Newyork on the twenty third day of August 1820, in the August term of said Court, being a court of record in pursuance of the 41st article of the constitution of the State of Newyork, which has unlimited jurisdiction, keeps records of its procedings and has immemorially executed the power of fine and imprisonment.
Present Hon. Samuel Wilkeson Isaac Phelps Jr Gideon Frisbee } Judges

Niagara County ss. On this twenty third day of August 1820 personally appeared in open court Isaac Woolson or Wilson aged sixty three years in November next - resident in the town of Lewiston in the said county of Niagara, who being first duly sworn according to Law, doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows, to wit, he enlisted in Northridge Worcester County State of Massachusetts in the month of June in the year 1777 for the term of nine months in the company commanded by Isaac Warren or Lieutenant Robert Murry in Col Bailey's Regiment in the Massachusetts line, and that he was discharged near West Point in the state of Newyork at the expiration of the said nine months for which he was enlisted.
And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the Eighteenth day of March Eighteen hundred and Eighteen, and that I have not since that time by gift, sale or in any manner whatever dispersed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of congress entitled "An act to provide for Certain persons engaged in the land and naval services of the United States in the Revolutionary War" passed Eighteenth day of March One thousand Eight hundred and Eighteen, and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities, contracts or debts due to me; nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed - further I do solemnly swear and declare as to myself and family that I am by occupation a cabinet maker - that I have not been able to work at my trade for several years past for want of eyesight - that I am unable to perform any hard Labor in consequence of a rupture, a severe [illegible], broken ribs, rheumatism, loss of the use of one hand partly so  - that I have a wife named Mercy who is aged about fifty nine years and very infirm, so much so as to be unable to do any thing to account - that I have no child or children living with me to aid in my support. That he the deponent on the 30th day of April 1818 made his application for a pension, which was granted as appears by a certificate date 27 day of April 1820 number 16.772 which certificate is now in my possession. All the above facts being stated to the best recollection of the deponent, whose memory is very much impaired, & his recollection being very indistinct
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as to time and place of enlistment, the muster roll however on file, which the deponent forwarded to the war office will shew more fully.
Isaac Woolson

A schedule or inventory of the property owned by and debts due to Isaac Woolson or Wilson a Revolutionary pensioner Viz,

1 Table - .50
1 Hoe - .50
1 Cubbord - 1.50 
1 Adz 1.25
3 Chests - 3.00
4 Augers - 1.25
1 pair of tongs & slice - 1.00
a few old plains - .75
1 paid of hand irons - 1.50
a few small chisels - 2.50
1 small hand ax - .50
1 pair of Bellows - .50
3 Shavers - 1.00
7 old Chairs - 2.62
1 Hamer - .31
1 Frying pan - .75
4 Gimblets - .12
1 Bake Kettle - 2.00
3 Old Saws - 2.00
1 Dish Kettle - 1.00
8 Knives & forks - 1.00
1 Small Brass Kettle - 3.00
3 Pails - 1.25
1 Small Skillett - .25
1 pair of Shoes - .50
2 Old pewter platters - .75
1 pair of Boots past worn - 1.00
6 Old pewter plates - .50
1 Tea Kettle - 1.00
12 Earthen Plates - .84
1 Iron Baron - .50
1 Tin Coffee pot - .25
1 file - .12
2 Tea pots - .55
1 Rasp - .12
4 Earthen Bols - .50
2 flat irons past broken - .37
8 Cups & saucers - .50
1 candlestick - .18
1 Tin diper - .06
8 Spoons - .25
1 Earthen Crock - .25
4 Old pewter Basins - .50
1 Tin Funel - .12 1/2
1 Small Looking Glass - .50
1 Tea Canister - .25
7 Bottles & Phials - .31
1 Pepper Box - .06
1 Bible & hymn Book - 1.50
1 pair Small [illegible] - 1.00
3 Books - .60
1 Mustard pot - .06
1 Churn - 1.00
1 Sugar Bowl - .06
1 Saltmorter - .31
2 Glass tumblers - .25
1 pair Saddlebags - 1.00
1 Creamer - .12
3 pair Socks - .37
1 Tin Trumpet - .12
1 Tables cloth - .50
1 pair of Shears - .18
1 Meat tub - .75
1 Razor & Box - .70
1 Small Cag - .31
6 dry corks - 1.25
1 Bread tray - .25
3 Small pine tubs - .75
2 Small Boxes - .30
1 Wash tub - .37
1 Lantern - .50
3 Milk pans - .75
1 Axe - .50
Clothing mens one suite for Sunday ware past worn one every day suite very much worn - a few old clothes very much worn. 4 shirts past worn. 1 hankerchief - 12.50
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Brot for'd $66.03
Womans Cloathing
3 Gowns
1 Bonnet
2 Caps
2 Aprons
3 pair Stockings
1 Shall
2 Hankerchiefs
4 Shirtes paste worn} 10.62
$76.65
Debts due to Isaac Woolson or Wilson one note against one dollores two dollers and twenty five cents.
Several small accounts against several persons in all amounting to about Eight dollars. Also a demand or order on Amos S. Tryon for four dollars. I have no other debts due or income owing or to arrive to me to my knowledge or recollections
Debts owing by or due from Isaac Woolson or Wilson, viz To Isaac Wade of the state of Connecticut on a note given about several years since for the sum of about one hundred and fifty or one hundred and fifteen delay in the interest thereon
To John Woolson of Massachusetts on a note and account about twenty three dollars including interest.
To the town of Waterbury in Vermont the amount of a Judgment rendered on a bond with a penalty of five hundred dollars, the Judgment being rendered for a less sum, but what sum he cannot recollect.
To James C. Crane Missionary Minister, resident at the Tuscarora Indian village, fourteen dollars in cash borrowed in the year 1819 to enable me to go to Boston to procure evidence of my Revolutionary service, with interest thereon -
Dated Buffalo 23rd August 1820
Isaac Woolson
Sworn to & Subscribed & declared this 23rd day of August 1820
Before J. E. Marshall Clerk of Niagara Com Pleas.
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I John E Marshall Clerk of the court of Common Pleas in and for the county of Niagara do hereby certify that the foregoing oath, and the schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of the said court, and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is Seventy Six dollars and Sixty five cents. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court on this 23rd day of August 1820.
J. E. Marshall.
Clerk of the Court for the County of Niagara

[seal affixed at left]
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August 10, 1934

xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Mr. Harold F. Porter, Jr.
4 North Jefferson Street
Carthage, New York

BA-J/EEL
Isaac Woolson - S.45454

Dear Sir:

Reference is made to your letter in which you furnish additional information in regard to Alexander Brown, a soldier of the War of 1812; you ask, also, for information in regard to three soldiers of the Revolutionary War, Isaac and James Wilson and Benjamin Hosley.

A careful search of the records has been made and no record found of a claim for pension having been made to the United States based upon the military service of a James Wilson, as described by you, or of Benjamin Hosley in the Revolutionary War; the War of 1812 records have again been searched and no record found of a claim for pension having been made to the United States based upon the military service in that war of an Alexander Brown, as described by you. All spellings of the surnames were used in the search. The record of Isaac Woolson or Willson has been found and is furnished herein, the data for which were obtained from the papers on file in Revolutionary War pension claim, S.45454, based upon his military service in that war.

Isaac Woolson was born in November, 1757. The place of his birth and the names of his parents are not shown in the papers in the pension claim. He signed Woolson but stated that his name was generally spelled Willson.

Isaac Woolson enlisted at Northbridge, Worcester County, Massachusetts, sometime in the spring of 1775, and served eight months as private in Captain Batchelor's [written in left margin with an arrow inserted after Captain:  This was David Batchelor] Company, Colonel Joseph Read's Massachusetts Regiment; [written in right margin with an arrow after Massachusetts:  For this serv see Mass SrS Vol-17 page 882- Also. Vol 1 page 772]; he enlisted at Sutton, Worcester County, Massachusetts, in the spring or early summer of 1776, and served five months as waiter to Major Bachelor, in Colonel Woodbury's Massachusetts Regiment; [inserted in right margin with an arrow to Woodbury's:  Could not identify a Col. Woodbury Major Bachelor. Identified Capt Isaac Warren in Col. John Bailey's Regt. Found sol. on Vt book page 444 under Nelson & Wait]; he enlisted in June, 1778, served in Captain Isaac Warren's Company, Colonel John Bailey's Massachusetts Regiment and was stationed on the east side of the river opposite West Point; length of this service, nine months; he enlisted at Croyden, New Hampshire,
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in the spring before the close of the Revolution, exact date not shown and served six months in Captain Nelson's [inserted from above: This was Chas. Nelson] Company, Colonel Benjamin Wait's regiment. He stated that in this last service he was a non commissioned officer. [inserted in margin: Could not use Vt. as sol. did not use it -]

Isaac Woolson was allowed pension on his application executed April 30, 1818, while residing in Lewiston, Niagara County, New York.

In 1820, the soldier referred to his wife, Mary, aged fifty-nine years, but gave no further data in regard to her and no names of any children are given.

He died October 11, 1820, place not shown. [inserted in margin: From AB]

Very truly yours,

A.D.Hiller
Assistant to Administrator.
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In reply to your request of __, received __ for a statement of the military history of Isaac Woolson soldier of the Revolutionary War, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) [marked out] application for pension on file in this Bureau.

[Five column table: Dates of Enlistment or Appointment./ Length of Service./ Rank./ Officers Under Whom Service was Rendered. [subdivided into] Captain. Colonel./ Staff.

Spring 1775/ 8 mos./ Pvt/ Bachelor/ Joseph Reed/ Mass.
1776/ 5 mos./ Waiter to Major Bachelor/ Woodbury/ Mass
June 1778 9 mos./ Pvt/ Isaac Warren/ John Bailey/ Mass
6 mos./ NonCom Officer/ Nelson/ Benjamin Wait/ Vt.
[written vertically in right margin] (Vt. book p. 446 Isaac Wilson Sergt)

Battles engaged in, [check mark]
Residence of soldier at enlistment, First Enl. Northbridge, Mass
Date of application for pension, Apl. 30. 1818. Allowed.
Residence at date of application, Lewiston Niagara Co., N.Y.
Age at date of application, 60 yrs. born Nov. 1757. d. Oct 11. 1820 place not stated
Remarks: In 1820 he referred to his wife Mercy at abt. 59 yrs. He also states that his name was spelled Willson on the muster roll of Capt. Isaac Warren's Co. The names of his parents are not stated. D. Oct. 11. 1820 Agency book.
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5701  V
Case of Isaac Woolson.
or Willson
Niagara County, N.Y.
Bates Cooke,
Agt.
Lewiston, N. Yk.
rec'd January 31. 1820
30 April 1818
found on the rolls
under the name 
of "Isaac Willson"
for 9 months.
Admitted.

[written vertically] free 
Hon Secretary of War Washington City D. Col.
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[left and right edges of paper torn away]

cretary of War
Will ple

te of pension to be grante
aac Woolson to Bates
nty N.Y.
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[left side of page]
45454
Revy
Invalid.
File No. 45454
Isaac Woolson or Willson
Pri Rev War
Act: 18 March 1818
Index:-Vol. 3, Page 574

[Arrangement of 1870.]

[right side of page]1911 Jan. 16 History to
E. J. Kirkover - cents

1921 Jan 24. Hist. to E. E. 
Woolson

1934 - Aug 10 - Hist to
Harold F. Porter Jr.
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Isaac Woolson or Willson S. F. 45454

The muster roll of Capt. Isaac Warren's Co., Col. John Bailey's 1st Battln. Mass. troops for Sept. 1778. signed J. Bailey Col. Commandt. and dated Danbury Oct. 1, 1778 has been removed from this claim for safe keeping and locked up in the Record Division.

W.E.P. [?] Dec. 3, 1910

Sent to the War Dept. Jan. 16, 1913
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126 Oakland Place
Pension Bureau

Will you kindly mail me record of one Isaac Woolson who is from Erie Co. and is on The Pension List of 1818. And greatly oblige
E. J. Kirkover
126 Oakland Place
Buffalo
N.Y.
845454

[circle stamp] U.S. Pension Office D Jan 12 1911
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Lewiston N.Y.
Dec 16, 1920
[written diagonally at right] Rev

Commissioner of Pensions
Washington. D.C.

Dear Sir. Will you kindly inform me if you have any record in your Office of Nathan Woolson and his son Isaac being soldiers in the Rev. War? [written under Isaac:] S45454

They were from Hopkinton Mass. and enlisted from Middlesex County.

In a letter dated Jany. 28, 1820 after Isaac Woolson applied for a Pension He wrote to a brother in Hopkinton Mass. That the last time he enlisted he was in Capt. Isaac Warrens Company and "I was also in the service in the years 1777 and 1778 both years at West Point"

He also speaks of taking oath as to the spelling of Woolson that that the records had it spelled Willson.
Respectfully yours
(Miss) Eleanor E. Woolson

[oval stamp] Record Division Dec 20 1920
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4 North Jefferson St.
Carthage, N.Y,
July 25 - 1934

Veteran's Administration
Washington, D.C.
Dear sir:
Thank you for the information sent to me concerning George Raffale which proved very valuable. As you suggested I am sending additional information concerning Alexander Brown.
Alexander Brown [pencilled in] Browne, born about 1792 married Millicent Doolittle and lived in Herman, St. Lawrence Co., N. York, where he died July 6, 1859. His widow born 1803 died there Aug 31, 1859. He served in the War of 1812 as a captain in Jehiel Dimocle's
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(St. Lawrence Co.) Company of Major Benjamin Forsythe's Cavalry reg't from Jan. 24, 1813 to Apr. 13, 1813 at Sacketts Harbor, N.Y.
Should there be any material on the following Revolutionary War veterans, I would appreciate a copy of it:

1 - Isaac Wilson [different handwriting notation] Vt & N.Y. captured at Quebec 1775 (Lamb's artillery)
2 - James Wilson [different handwriting notation] (From Vt. troops)
3 - Benjamin Hosley

Thank you -

Very truly yours,
Harold F. Porter, Jr.

[circle stamp with numbers 1 through 12 around rim] Received Jul 30 1934 Mail Sub-Div
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