Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 11,627, William Williams, Md. Va.
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(3-1776)

SERVICE 
Md. 
Va.

WIlliams, WIlliam

NUMBER 
R 11.627

CONTENTS
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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7th 1832
The State of Ohio
Clermont County SS
On this sixteenth day of September 1835 personally appeared in open court, before the court of Common Pleas of Clermont County in said State aged seventy four 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 act of Congress passed June 7th 1832.
States he entered the service of the United States under the following named officer and served as herein stated. 
He was born he believes on the 24th day of April in the year 1761 but has no record of his age, in Washington County in the State of Maryland in which county he resided when he entered the service of the Unites States the same year Burgoyne was taken in the month he believes of May under the command of Captain Lowrie and Lieutenant Shryhock we marched from Hagerstown to Fort Frederick a large stone fort on the Potomac where we staid guarding the prisoners taken at Burgoynes surrender.  Lieutenant Shryhock commanded the fort.  Declarant does not know the name of the Colonel.  Lieutenant Shryhock had fifteen or twenty men under his command at the fort. there was two hundred prisoners at first but a good a many were let out on their word of honor. Declarant served on this tour at this fort not less than four months.  He was hired as a substitute but has forgotten the name of the
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person for whom he was substituted. Declarants 
father and brother James were at the same time at said Fort and also his brother Joseph. All four as substitutes.  Declarant was under the age of twenty one and his father hired him out and got the pay.  He does not know that he ever saw the person for whom he was substitute and if he ever heard his name he has forgotten it.  At the end 
of four months he was dismissed without a written discharge & went home.
In the fall of the next year after said service his 
father moved over the Allegany Mountains into Washington County Pennsylvania and lived 
sometime there and from thence he moved into 
Brook County in the State of Virginia on the Ohio 
River to Coxes Fort.  After Declarant had staid 
about a week in said Fort he designed to 
leave and go back into the settlement to work 
when an officer whom he thinks was Colonel 
Lindsey and William McMann who commanded the fort requested him to stay and promised if declarant 
would do so they would get two men to go out 
as scouts and see if the Indians were approaching 
or about the fort.  The did get David McBride and Charles Martin who with declarant 
acted as scouts or spies for that fort.  
Declarant was a volunteer & received no pay but 
his provisions.  At the time he was here at the fort an expedition under the command of Colonel 
Crawford marched out against the Indians 
Col Crawfords party was defeated.  As said expedition was going out they lay about two and a 
half miles above our Fort at an old (illegible) bottom.  Declarant staid in the fort till after Crawfords men returned.  and till the
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expirations of the three months for which he engaged to serve and was then discharged having served on this expedition not less than three months.  There was about ten families in said fort at the time declarant acted a scout for it.  He always served as a private & never received a written discharge. Moses Wood and Josiah Prickett know him in his present neighbourhood and can testify to his character for veracity and their belief of his service as a solider in the Revolution. He has no documentary evidence of his claim and knows of no person whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his service except his brother James Williams from Virginia he moved to Clemson Newtown Hamilton County Ohio and from thence he moved to Clermont County Ohio in which he has resided for thirty three years last past.  He hereby relinquishes every claim to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state. 
William Williams X his mark

Sworn to and subscribed in open court on this 16th day of September 1835.
J. D. Morris Clerk
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The State of Ohio
Clermont County SS
We Josiah Prickett and Moses Wood residing in Stonelick township in said County (in which township William Williams the present applicant for a pension resides) certify that we are well acquainted with said William Williams who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be seventy four years of age; that he is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion.
Josiah Pricket X his mark
Moses Wood

Sworn to and subscribed in open court this 16th day of September 1835. 
J. D. Morris Clerk

(written vertically left side)
33271 
William Williams
Ohio
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The State of Ohio Adams County SS
Before me Daniel Boyle, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County personally appeared  Williams who being duly sworn according to Law.  Deposeth and saith that he was raised in the State of Maryland and was Born in the year 1759 and that his Brother William Williams who now resides in Clermont County Ohio was raised with me in our Fathers house to the best of my knowledge he was born in the year of Our Lord 1763. We still resided in Maryland in Washington County until the year of 1778 in March or 1st April in 1778 when both of us hired as substitutes to go apart of Burgoyne's Armed Guard which was surrendered in October 1777 and mustered under Capt. Lowder of said County  and marched to to Fort Frederick in said State under the command of Lieutenant Henry Shryhock and there continued in service of the United States four months and was honorably discharged in the fall of 1778.  My father then moved over the Alleghany Mountains into Washington County, Pennsylvania and lived in said County until March in the year 1781 when we moved to Ohio County Virginia to guard a Frontier Fort and was commanded by Lieut. Linly of Pennsylvania and continued in the service of the United States until the 11th of June in the above year when I left my brother William Williams at the Fort we were guarding. I then volunteered and went out on Crawford Campaign and was absent about thirty days and when I returned with the Army my bother William Williams was still in the Frontier garrison but I cannot say on what tours he was detained there as I left the garrison after and went to Pittsburgh and did not return for some time and further this deponent saith not 
James Williams
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Sworn to and subscribed to this 13th day of August before me
Daniel Boyle
Justice of the Peace

The State of Ohio Adams County SS
I Joseph Darlinton Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the county aforesaid do hereby certify that the above named Daniel Boyle Esq. before whom the foregoing deposition of James Williams Esq. was taken & who has signed & certified the same was at the time of signing the above and still is a Justice of the Peace in & for County aforesaid duly commissioned and qualified & that full faith and credit is due to his paid certificate and all other official acts by him done as well in Courts of Justice as thruout and that his signature above written is the genuine signature of the said Daniel Boyle Esq. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the said Court at West Union This 13th day of August in the year of our Lord 1835 in the 33rd year of this State.
Joseph Darlinton Clerk AC

The State of Ohio
Adams County SS
I certify that James Williams who has signed and sworn to the within affidavit is a credible person and that his statement
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October 8, 1935.
xxxxxxxx
Miss Bessie R. Sample 
211 Fairmont Ave 
Fairmont, West Virginia 
BA-J/ady
William Williams
R. 11637
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War record of a William Williams of Maryland, whose son, William Williams and wife, Sophia Freshour, moved to Clarksburg, Virginia, in 1799.
The name William Williams is borne many times on the Revolutionary War records of this office.  With the data given by you it has not been possible to definitely identify the particular record in which you are interested, even if it were on file. The record has been found on one William Williams of Maryland who later lived in what is now West Virginia. 
His record is given herein as it may be of interest to you.  The data are found in Revolutionary War claim for pension, R 11627, based upon his service in that war. If this is not the record in which you are interested another effort will be made to aid you.
William Williams was born April 24, 1761 in Washington County, Maryland. 
He applied for pension September 16, 1835 while a resident of Stonelick Township, Clermont County, Ohio, where he lived for over thirty-three years, and stated that while a resident of Washington County, Maryland, he enlisted about May 1778 in Captain Lowder's Maryland Company, marched to Fort Frederick, Maryland, served under Lieutenant Henry Shryock and guarded prisoners taken at the surrender of Burgoyne and that he served four months in all.  His father, his name not shown, and his brothers, James and Joseph also served in said Fort.  In the fall of 1778 William Williams moved with his father to Washington County, Virginia to Coxes Fort.  William Williams stated that he served three months at said fort as a spy
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under Lieutenant Linly and Captain William McMan.  He moved from Virginia to Newtown, Hamilton County, Ohio, and then to Clermont County, Ohio.
His claim was not allowed as he did not render service of six months in a military capacity as required by the pension law. 
The date and place of soldier's death are not shown.
In 1850 the post office address of his widow, Mary Williams, was Gallipolis, Ohio.
In 1835 soldier's brother James Williams, was a Justice of the Peace of Jefferson Township, Adams, County, Ohio.  He was born in 1759.
In 1835 Zebina Williams was a Justice of the Peace of Clermont County, Ohio, his age or relationship to soldier not stated.  There are no further family data.
Very truly yours,

A.D. HILLER
Executive Assistant to the Administrator
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Rejected
723
See letter 9 Oct 1835 to J Jolliffe
(above words with line drawn through)

Ohio
did not serve six
months in a military
capacity.
Same Nov 2d 1835

Mrs Mary Williams 12 Nov 1850 (line drawn through)

11627
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J. Jolliffe
Oct 10, 1835
OC

Record Vol 28. P 159.
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War Dept. Pen. Office
Oct 8. 1835
Sir
The papers in the case of Okey Vanosdal  have been ex@ + his claim allowed. Enclosed is a pension certificate for him.
The papers in the case of William Williams have also been ex@. He alleges to have served a tour of four months in Maryland, and also to have served a second tour of three months, in Virginia, during which time he was at a fort on the western frontier of said State. The last mentioned service was not of that character provided for by the act of 7 June 1832, and that first service was lefs than six months which is necefsary in order to obtain the benefit of said act. The claim has therefore been rejected and the papers filed in this office.
The declaration of Zebulon Applegate has been ex@ + filed. He has not specified his tours of service with such precision as to entitle him to the benefit of the act of 7 June 1832, without which a favorable decision cannot be had
John Jolliffe Esq
Batavia, Ohio
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The State of Ohio Clermont County } ss
Before me Zebina Williams one of the Justices 
of the peace for sd [said] County came personally 
Josiah Prickett and Moses Wood both of the 
County aforesaid and after being duly sworn, 
say they have been personally acquainted with William Williams 
of the County aforesaid for the space of thirty 
three years past and have lived in the same Township 
during sd period, and that they have heard the 
said William Williams at divers times speak of Services 
rendered by him in the revolutionary War of the United States which conversations and statements 
were frequently made in their hearing previous to the 
year 1830, by the said William Williams and further these deponents say that they have ever considered 
and now do consider the said William Williams to be a man of truth and veracity, and further 
these deponents say not. 
Sworn to and Subscribed before me this 27th day of June 1835 
Zebina Williams JP

Josiah Prickett his P mark
Moses Wood
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is entitled to credit, and I further certify 
that I am acquainted with the said James[?] 
Williams and have been acquainted with him 
for the time of 3 or 4 years years past. September the 7th 1835 Daniel Boyle J.P. 

The above named James Williams has been an acting Justice of the Peace in Jefferson Township for 
Several years 
Daniel Boyle 

The State of Ohio Adams County ss.
I Joseph Darlington Clerk of the Court 
of Common Pleas of the above named County 
Certify that the above named Daniel Boyle is 
a justice of the peace in and for the above named 
County and that the signatures above which 
purport to be his are genuine.
In testimony whereof I have 
hereunto set my hand and affixed 
the seal of said Court this Seventh 
day of September in the year of our 
Lord one thousand Eight hundred 
and thirty five 
Joseph Darlinton Clerk A.C 

The above named James Williams is a Justice 
of the Peace in this County & is now 
Serving out his third term as Such Justice 
Joseph Darlinton Clk AC
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Clermont, Common Pleas 
September Term A.D. 1835 
“On this sixteenth day of September A.D. 1835 personally appeared in open Court before the Court of 
Common Pleas of Clermont County Ohio now sitting 
William Williams and made oath to his declaration 
in order to obtain a pension under the law of 
June 7th 1832 and the said Court do hereby declare 
their opinion that the above named applicant was 
a revolutionary soldier and served as he states 
And the Court further certifies that it appears to 
them that Moses Wood and Josiah Pricket who 
have signed the certificates accompanying the 
declaration of said Williams are credible persons 
and their statement is entitled to credit" 

The State of Ohio 
Clermont County ⎬ SS 
I Jonathan D Morris Clerk 
of the Court of Common pleas in 
and for the County and State aforesaid 
do hereby certify that the above is 
a true extract from the minutes 
of Common Pleas of Clermont County 
of Ohio of the term of September thereof 
A.D. [?]  it being the proceedings had before said 
Court on the application of William Williams for 
a pension and that the attached papers are the originals and that Zebina Williams before whom 
the accompanying affidavit of Josiah Pricket & 
Moses Wood appears to have been sworn to and subscribed 
was on the 27th day of June 1835 an acting Justice of 
the peace of said County duly commissioned & qualified 
and that his signature is genuine - In Testimony whereof 
I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said 
Court of Common Pleas at Batavia this 29th day of September A.D. 1875 
J. D. Morris Clerk
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126.
Pension Office
Nov 12th 1850
Madam:
You declaration has been received
and filed. The claim to a pension made by your husband was in his life time, rejected, because it did not appear that he had [illegible] 6 months service during the Revolution. He
declared for 4 months service in Maryland and 3 months in the Western frontier of Virginia. The latter
seemed to have been a more neighborhood [illegible] against Indian depredation, and were uncertain
by any competent testimony. His Maryland service should be sustained by hard evidence from that State, and the fact that those under whom he claimed to have acted in Virginia, were
regularly appointed officers, should be made to appear. The date of your [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] & certified by the Clerk of the County
in which it occurred or we [illegible] [illegible] he has searched for it he cannot find it. You must state whether you have any family word. And witness who knew the time of its occurrence or the last of its existence prior to 1800, must testify to
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[illegible] knowledge and share how they are enabled to remember the date.
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Mrs. Mary Williams
Gallipolis
Ohio
Nov 12/50
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[stamped]
REC'D
SEP 23 1935
Mail MUM-DIV.
VETS ADM
[illegible] 4

Lloyd Sample
Printing
320½ Masonic Temple
Fairmont W. Va 
Sept. 20 1935
U. S. Pension Dept.
Genealogical Dept.

Dear Sir

I am trying to get Revolutionary
evidence of William William's participation. He was settled near Baltimore before the Revolutionary War and his son William Williams Jr. & his wife Sophia Freshour came
to Clarksburg Va in 1779 they being my ancestors. I cant find
out from any living person and thought your place the best place
to enquire. Any historical information you can give me regarding
William Williams of Maryland near Baltimore any where in the
1700' will be very much appreciated
may I expect a reply
Thank you
Bessie R Sample
211 Fairmont ave. Fairmont W. Va

[printed]
NRA
MEMBER
U.S.
WE DO OUR PART
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Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
11,627
P.O.
William Williams
Service:
Enlisted:  ,18
[stamped] Rejected
Discharged:  ,18
Application filed:  ,18
Alleges:
Re-enlisted:
Attorney:
P. O.
Recognized.
Contract.
Cert. of Dis. 
Searched for. ,18

[handwritten}
1935 Oct. 7 Hist. to Bessie R. Sample
A.D.J.
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Oct 29
Ohio.
Batavia, O
Oct. 21
[illegible]

to the Hon. J L Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City D. C.
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Batavia Ohio
October 20th 1835
Sir yours of the 9th [illegible] incolsing a pension certificate for [illegible] Rey [illegible] has been this day received, in which you say the papers in the case of William Williams have also been examined. He alleges to have served a tour of four months in Maryland and also a second tour of three months in Virginia during which time he was at a fort on the western frontier of said State. The last mentioned service was not
of that character provided for by the act of the 7th of [illegible] 1932, and the first tour being less than six months which is necessary in order to obtain the benefits of said act the claim has been rejected and
the papers filed in their office.
with great deference to the above decision of the department I respectfully ask for a reconsideration of the case team by leave to refer you to the cases of
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Josiah Prickett and Philip Stories (both of this County) where favourable decisions were had under circumstances that (from my memory of the facts stated) appear to
be analagous to the present--
I have presented forty or fifty cases to
department from Clermont County Ohio and from my experience I have as much confidence in the rectitude and correctness its decisions as I have
in the decisions of any earthly
tribunal but where upwards of thirty thousand cases are attended to it would be almost a miracle if error
has not sometimes supervened.
I have to thank you for the [illegible]
with which my cases have been attended to and remain with great respect
Yours
R.A. [illegible] A
Jus.  Jolliffe
To J S Edwards [illegible]
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
D.C.