Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 11812, William Willison, Penn. N.Y.
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Penn. NY
Willison, William
S.11812
carded
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New York 20057
William Willison 20057
of Cayuga in the state of N. York
who was a private in the Company commanded by Captain Peoples of the Reg. commanded 
by Col. Miles in the Perlina 
time for 2 years.
Inscribed on the Roll of N. York
at the rate of 80 Dollars - Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Recorded by
Book.
Certificate of Pension issued the 30 day of July
1833
and Ruth J Miller
Socke
Arrears to the 4th of Mar 30 $160
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sep. 33
40
$200
Revolutionary Claim,
S
C. Stiles
Cler
Vol. Page.
78
C.
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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed the
7th of June 1832.
State of New York
County of Cayuga
S
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On this 16th day of July 1832 before the subchamber,  of the Judges of the Court of Common
pleas in aforesaid County personally appeared William Willison, a resident of Genese
 now in said County, aged eighty two years, who being first
duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following
declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision
made by the Act of Congress passed June 7th 1832.  That he enlisted into the service of the United States in the winter of 1775, at Chamberstown, Pennsylvania, which was the place of his residence in the second battalion of Riflemen of the Penn-
sylvania line, for the term of one year and nine months under the
following named officers viz Col. Miles-- Lieut Col. Fife Maj Batten- 
Capt. William People-- Lieutenant Scott & Burns, and
served his time out.
And he further saith that about the close of this term he returned
into the thirteenth regiment of said line, for the term of
three years - served his time out and was regularly discharged at Morristown, New Jersey- does not know but it was the continental line.
And he further saith that during the first named enlistment
on the 27th of August 1776 he was in the battle at Flatbush
on Long Island, and was taken prisoner by the British and
so remained until the January following.
On the 11th of September 1777 he was in the battle of Brandywine, and on the fourth day of October 1777 he was also in
Monmouth battle, after which his Regiment was consolidated
with the second regiment, under the command of said Col. Stuart.  Says he may not be correct as to dates.  
And he further saith that in the winter of 1779 or 1780
he was with the American forces on Staten Island, and assisted in capturing the enemy's military store house-- filled with arms,
ammunition & liquors.
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And this deponent further saith that in the year 1777, as he thinks,
late in the fall-- he assisted in guarding the prisoners of Gen. Burgoyne's Army from Sharon, Connecticut to Fishkill Landing in the said State of New York.
He hereby relinquishes every claim to a pension or annuity except the present-- and he declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the Agency of any state.
Sworn & subscribed the day
-
Wm
Willison
year aforesaid before me
Garsham Moore a Judge of
the Court of Common Pleas
for the County of Cayuga
We William Willison, a Clergyman residing in Summerhill
and Jesse Millerd residing in Locke in said County of Cayuga, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with William Willison who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration:
that we believe him to be eighty-two years of age; that he is reputed and believed in the neighbor-hood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the revolution, and that we
concur in that opinion.
Wm. Willison
Sworn and subscribed the day
⎬
Jesse Miller
year aforesaid before me
Garsham Moore a Judge of
the Court of Cayuga Comon Pleas
I hereby declare my opinion, after the investigation of the matter, & after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the war department, that the abovenamed applicant was a Revolutionary soldier, and served as he states; And I further certify that
it appears to me that the aforesaid William Willison, who has signed the preceding certificate is a Clergyman, resident
in the town of Summerhill in the County of Cayuga, Jesse Miller who has also signed the same, is a resident of Locke in the said County, are credible persons & that their statement is entitled to credit. And I further certify that the above applicant cannot from bodily infirmity, attend Court.
Garsham Moore a Judge of the Court
of Common Pleas of the County of Cayuga
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1812 Wars Section

December 4, 1938

Mrs. G. L. Reeves
937 Fifth Street
Columbus, Indiana

Madam: 
     I advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary
War pension claim, S. 11862, it appears that William Willison, while living in Chamberstown, Pennsylvania, enlisted in the winter of 1775 for one year and nine months, served as private in Captain William People's Company, Colonel Miles' Pennsylvania Regiment, was taken
prisoner at the battle of Flatbush and held until the following January. At the end of his term he re-enlisted and served for three years in Colonel Walter Stewart's Pennsylvania Regiment and was in the battles of Brandywine
and Monmouth.
      He also served in Colonel Cantine's New York Regiment, dates not stated.
     He was allowed pension on his application executed July 16, 1832, while living in Genoa, Cayuga County, New York, aged eighty-two years
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     There are no data on file as to his family.
     This is the history of the only soldier named William Willison found on the Revolutionary War records of this bureau.  
Respectfully,
WINFIELD SCOTT
Commissioner.

Decided date
death and on ab
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William Williams
Return No 1284
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Pension
Office
Pa Holli
Comr.
24 mo Pri
$80
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State of New York
Cayuga County
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I, Michael S. Myers Clerk of said County
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⎬
do certify that Garsham Morse Esquire before whom the foregoing affidavits were taken and subscribed was on the day the same purports to have been done a Judge of Cayuga County Court, duly qualified by law to take the same,  further that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Judge and verily believe that the signature purporting to be his, appended
to each of the said two several preceding appended, is genuine.
Witness my hand and the seal of our said County this 24 July 1832,
I the within named Judge do further certify, that the seven interrogatories prescribed by the war department, in relation to the pension act
passed 7th June 1832, were satisfactorily answered by the within named
Applicant, on the said 16th July 1832
Gartham Moore a
Judge of a Compleas
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Free
Miles P.M. Lock N.Y.

Miller

May 1821
Wm Willison
him
addl proof
May 11th

Wm Willison
L. Edwards Esq
Pension Officer
Washington
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Locke Cayuga Co N.Y. 16th May 1833
J. L. Edwards Esq
Dear Sir. 
In your favor of 9th Feby last, you say
the name of William Willison is not found on the roll of Pennsylvania nor is she any knowledge in this department, that the
was such a regiment as the 13th in the Pennsylvania line.  Soon after receiving your letter, I again investigated the matter, &
and from him, that at Monmouth battle the 13th Regt was To cut to pieces as to become extinct, & that he was attached to
the 2nd Reg. This fact I mentioned in one of my recent communications to you since which he has at considerable [?} obtained the enclosed affidavit of the Rev Andrew-Gray a respectable Presbytrian Clergyman of Livingston County, whose testimony with that previously forwarded. I hope may be judged sufficient to entitle the applicant to his country's benefit.
I am Respectfully
Sir your obedient servant
J. Miller
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State of New York
and
Livingston County ss. Rev. Andrew Gray of
Sparta in said County, aged Seventy four
years & upwards, being first duly sworn
doth depose & say, that he has been intimately acquainted with William Willison
Soldier of the Revolution, that he first became
acquainted with him, as such soldier, in
the Spring season, of the year one thousand
seven hundred & seventy six.  The said
Willison served in the war of the revolution
from the time he first knew him as such
Soldier in 1776, until the month of June in
that he served in the thirteenth Regiment
of the Pennsylvania line, commanded
by Col Walter Stewart, until the Battle of
Monmouth after which the said Willison
as such soldier in the same time, under the
same officer in a Regiment called the
Second Regiment until the month of June
in the year one thousand seven hundred
& Eighty
And this deponant further saith
that the said Willison was taken a prisoner
at the battle of Long island on the twenty seventh day of August in the year seventeen hundred & seventy six that the field officers under whom said Willison served at the battle of Long Island were Col Piper & Miles, and
Major Patten. The regiment under which
the said Willison served up to the time of the
battle of Monmouth this deponent then under
stood to be the thirteenth Regiment, & after which that the same was dissolved & assumed
another name, at least the one in which
the said Willison afterwards served to wit
the second regiment. this deponent would
further say that the service of the
said William in the revolution would
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amount to a period of four years
upwards commencing & Ending as
aforesaid & further saith not.
Sworn to & Subscribed
May the 7th day 1833
me and I certify that the said Rev. 
Andrew Gray is a person of veracity and
that his statement is entitled to credit
Rupel Day
State of New York
Livingston County
Chauncey R. Bond Clerk of said County

I certify that Rosel days before whom the
preceding affidavit purports to have been
sworn was at the date of the same a legally
authorized Justice of the Peace of said County
And that I am well acquainted with the
hand writing of such Justice & know that his name subscribed to said affidavit is his own proper hand writing & signature
witness my hand and seal of Office May 16th 1833 at
Genesee in said County
C. Bond Clerk
By. S.G. Havenseph
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Silas Bowker  off.
in case of Willison
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Silas Bowker
State of New York
County of Cayuga
Be it known, that on the 16th day of July 1832 before the subscriber one of the Judges of the court of common pleas of the said county, personally appeared Silas Bowker, to me personally known and made oath in due form of law, that he became personally acquainted with William Williston, in the same of the year 1781 at Marbletown, Ulster County, in the
State of New York, who was habited in the dress of a Continental Soldier, and which circumstance, excited suspicion that he was a deserter, & was arrested, & examined, & on his
trial produced a regular discharge from the Continental army on which the court released him, & this Deponent further saith, that he saw & read said discharge, which was a regular discharge certifying three years service in said
army and the Deponent further saith, that he further knew the said Willison, in the militia service in Col. Cantin's regiment & that he now knows him the said Willison & has been constantly acquainted with him ever
knows him to be the identical William Willison first above named, and further this Deponent saith not.
Sworn and subscribed on
the day & year first above
named before me
Gartham Moore a Judge
of the Court of Common pleas
of the County of Carnea
And I further certify that the above - Deponent is a credible person, & that his statement is entitled to full credit.
Gavenan Moore a Judge of
[day compleat]
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State of New York
Cayuga County  
Michael S. Myers, Clerk of said County do certify
that Garsham Morse Esquire before whom the preceding affidavit purports to have been sworn was on the day the same was taken
and subscribed a Judge of Cayuga County Courts, qualified by Law to take the same, and further, that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of such Judge and verily believe that the signature purporting to be his prefixed to said affidavit is genuine.
Witness my hand and the seal of the said County the 24 July 1832
G. Myers
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11812
INVALID
file no. 11812
William Willison
Pri. Rev. War
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June 7th 32
Index: -- Vol. A, Page 411
Arrangement of 1870.


1921, Aug. 22 hist to Mrs
June W. Sanford E
1924 Apr. 25. Hist law
Mrs F. E. Willison
1908 Dec. 4, Hist to Mrs. Reeves MINNF
1929, Apr.- variously 
at her request
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F. L. WILLISON
Frank L. Willison
CITIZEN'S PHONE NO. 40

HARDWARE
AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS, CARRIAGES, WAGONS.
PAINTS, ORS, STOVES, WIRE FENCING
SHARPLES CREAM SEPARATORS
Rev. Ed
CLIMAX, MICH. Aug. 3 1921


Pension dept.
Washington D. C

Dear Sirs,- I asked you to look
up the records of Wm. Willison of the
Revolutionary War and you asked me to
give the name of his widow, which
was Ester Bowker, and he was buried
at Genoa Hallow N York. and I understand
enlisted from near there. His
son Samual who is my great grand
father settled in Barry to Mich.  He
was born Oct 15 1797. I haven't the birth &
death of Wm Willison now but
expect to get them soon from an old
Bible
I also asked you to look up Joshua
Banks and you can't find any
records of him, who was also my
great, great grandfather. Other relatives
have found from "Conn. Men of the
Revolution" & I also understood from
the Pension dept, that he was
born Feb. 28, 1759 in Greenwich
Fairfield Co Conn. died in 1843 &
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F. L. WILLISON
Frank L. Willison
HARDWARE
AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS, CARRIAGES, WAGONS.
PAINTS, OILS, STOVES, WIRE FENCING.
SHARPLES CREAM SEPARATORS
CITIZEN'S PHONE No. 40
CLIMAX, MICH.


was buried in Levice Cemetary.  He
married Ruth Smith in 1787.
In the Revolution, they found he
served with his brother Obadiah
in Capt. Meads to from the town
Greenwich & marched to the
battle of White Plains Oct 22 1726
he was discharged Jan 11, 1777 after
serving 11 days. Their company was a
part of the 9th Regiment of Militia
under Gen Wooster after the war
the evidently lived near Stanwich NY
& in 1813 moved onto land given &
him by the government for his
services in the Revolution
Thanking you for past favors
Sincerely
Mrs June W. Sanford
Climax Mich
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2 cent postage stamp
canceled Clmax Mich aug 3 5 am 1921

Manford
Clay
Mich
Pension Dept
Washington
D. C
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408 East Spruce St
Sault Ste Marie, Mich
March 25-1924

Pension Office
Washington

To whom it may concern--

May I have a statement from your office, which I may use as a claim for membership in the D.A.R., that William Willison received a pension for services in the Revolutionary war?

Place of birth Cayuga County
Date of Birth October 16, 1752
Place of death East Genoa NY buried in Wilcox Cemetary
Date of Death June 24, 1836
Name of Wife, Ester Bowker

Thanking you for your kindness
I remain
Sincerely
(Miss) Frances Willison (over)
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A cousin has a statement from you concerning Wm Melisour as follows.  
EW   Aug 22, 1921
S11812

Dates of Enlistment Winter 1775
Length Service   
1 yr 9 mos /  3 yrs 
Rank Pvt
Captain Wm Peoples
Col Miles Stewart
State Pa

He was taken prisoner at the battle of Flatbush Aug 1776 & held till Jan.
Engaged in Flatbush Monmouth Brandywine.

Residence as enlistment Chamberstown Pa
Date applied for pension July 16,1832, claim allowed.  
Residence as date of application Genoa , Cayuga Co NY 
 Age at date of application 82 years

This may help in in sending my statement is  I want the same but must be able to sware I got it from the Pension Dept. F. Willison
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Rev & 1812
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MRS. JAMES B. CRANKSHAW, STATE REGENT
3128 FAIRFIELD AVE
FORY WAYNE, INDIANA



STATE CHAIRMAN
REVOLUTIONARY RELICS
MRS. LAURA D. FIX
COLUMBUS, IND.
Indiana Society
Daughters of the American Revolution.

Pension Department
Washington D.C.
Sir:  Wanted
Rev. war record of only
William Willison"
who enlisted from the state
of New York, was discharged from
same state & given a land gran located 
In Tompkins Co New York. 
Sincerely J Laura D Fix
send reply to the following address
Mrs G. L. Reeves
931 Fifth St
Columbus
Indiana
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Commissioner of Pentions
Washington, D.C.
Sirs:
--Wanted war record of William Willison, Penn Soldier who enlisted & was discharged from N.Y.
Was residing at Genoa N.Y. at time of receiving Pention at the age of 82 years.
date of Pention granted & last issued.
Sincerely
Ms. Laura D. Fix
Columbus Indiana
Feb 23, 1939
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Rev. & 1812 War Section.
April 25, 1924.
Miss Frances E. Willison,
403 E. Spruce St.,
Sault Ste. Marie, MICH.
Madam:

     I have to advise you that from the papers in Revolutionary War pension claim, S.11812, it appears that William Willison, while living at Chamberstown, Pennsylvania, enlisted
the winter of 1775 for one year and nine months, served
as private in Captain William People's Company, Colonel Miles' Pennsylvania Regiment, was taken prisoner at the battle
of Flatbush and held until the following January. At the end of his term he re-enlisted and served for three years in
Colonel Walter Stewart's Pennsylvania Regiment and was in the battles of Brandywine and Monmouth.
     He also served in Colonel Cantine's New York Regiment, dates not stated.
He was allowed pension on his application executed July 16, 1832, while living in Genoa, Cayuga County, New York, aged 82 years.
There are no data on file as to his family.
Respectfully,
Washington Gardner
Commissioner.
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and 1812
Section
rel

April 3, 1729
Wm Willison
7.11812

Mrs. Laura D. Fix
1001 Sycamore Street
Columbus, Indiana
 Madam:
     I advise you that the records of this bureau fail to afford any information in regard to Christ or Christopher Cook (Cooke) of Pennsylvania. It is suggested that the land referred to by you, may have been granted by the State of Pennsylvania.
     The history of the only soldier named William Williamson was furnished Mrs. G. L. Reeves, 931 Fifth Street, Columbus, Indiana, on December 4, 1926, upon your request.
Respectfully,
F. W. MORGAN
Acting Commissioner.