Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 11839, Jehiel Woodward, N.H. Vt.
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(3 - 1776)
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CONTENTS
Woodward, Jehiel
R. 11839

CONTENTS

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Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7. 1802


State of New York
County of Genesee
SS. 
On this Eighteenth day of November in the year of our Lord One Thousand Eight hundred and thirty four personally appeared before Isaac Wilson Esquire first Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the said County of Genesee, aged seventy Eight 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 7. 1802 -

That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated-
That in the fore part of April in the year 1777 at Hanover in the County of Grafton in the State of New Hampshire there came a call for the Militia to go to Ticonderoga
and that be this and Jehial Woodward volunteered to go and then and there joined Captain Edward Furmans Company and Colonel Jonathan Chases Regiment of the New Hampshire Militia and marched
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1777
mo
2-22

immediately to Ticonderoga and there remained in Garrison till the latter part of June 1777 and was then and there discharged
The said Captain and Colonel were with said Regiment at that time-- I served on that tour as a private for the full term of two months and twenty two days When he went we marched or went down or Connecticut River to Windsor Vermont - then to Castleton and from there to Ticonderoga  Wright was our ensign and Smith Major.-Colonel Longs Regiment was there-- The term of two months and fifteen days was above stated in my absence which I now correct to two months and twenty two days being
confident that it was not less than that time

That in the first day of September 1777 at Hanover aforesaid a call came for the Militia to go to the Hudson River and that he the said Woodward volunteered as a private in said Company and Regiment and the said Captain and Colonel were the officers that commanded us, and we marched with said Officers to the Hudson and served at that time
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1777
to
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as a private in said Company and Regiment in the field two months that I was discharged near Saratoga in the latter part of 1777 after serving two months as aforesaid -- When we marched from Hanover we went down Connecticut River to Windsor Vermont from thence through Vermont to the Hudson River at the mouth of Battenkill Creek which empties into the Hudson River-- We were stationed there and in that [quantity] till after Burgoin surrendered. I was on the East side of the River when the Battle was fought  I saw Colonel Morgans Regiment there The Troops with which I went and was included therein were all allowed and paid for two months service at that
time
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1776
1 mo
In the month of September 1776 the Militia was called out at Hanover aforesaid where I then lived and I volunteered as a private in Lieutenant Freemans Company of Militia we
in the said Jonathan Chase Regiment and on the forepart of September 1776 we marched with said Company and Regiment and the said Lieutenant Freeman and Colonel Chase with us from Hanover aforesaid and went down Connecticut River to Windsor in Vermont from there to Castleton in Vermont and thence to Ticonderoga and we were there in Garrison three weeks and there we soon marched back to Hanover  I served there at that time as a private in said Company and Rgt  went one month and was discharged in the forepart of October 1776 at Mount Independence The distance that we marched was about 130 miles the way we marched - our Company had no Captain
Captain Chases Company belonged to my Regiment - Colonel Bellows Regiment was there
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1780
3 mo
In the month of June 1780 I marched from Hanover aforesaid to Randolph in the State of Vermont and in the month of July 1780 I volunteered at Randolph aforesaid as a private for the term of three months in the scouting service in Captain Walbridges Company of Scouters or Rangers of the Vermont Militia. I served in said Company three months and was discharged in the month of October 1780 at Randolph aforesaid but received no written discharge - I joined the said Captain Henry Walbridges Company in the month of July and was discharged in October next following-- We had no Colonel or Major and belonged to no Regiment. I served the said 3 months in the field and when
we were not on a scout we were stationed in a log house in Randolph There was about 30 of us in number I never saw any officer in that term of service except Capt Walbridge-- We
were out on a scout almost all the time in Randolph and its vicinity to guard against the Indians.-
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1781
8 days
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9 months
Immediately after I was discharged from service in the said Walbridges Service I marched back to Hanover aforesaid - In the month of January 1781 an alarm came to Hanover aforesaid at the time Colonel Johnson was taken by the indians and carried off - I volunteered at that time as a private and went to Newbury in Vermont- I was out at that time Eight days-- I went in the said Capt Freemans Company and Colonel Chase Regiment Capt Freeman was with us-
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I was born in the Town of Lebanon
in the State of Connecticut in the year 1756

Have no knowl of my age

That when called into service I resided
at Hanover aforesaid and Randolph aforesaid
That since the Revolutionary War
I have lived in Randolph aforesaid also
in Ononandaga New York and
in Darien Genesee County New York
and I now live in Darien aforesaid

I never received a written discharge
from the service of the army in the Revolutionary War

That the names of persons to whom I am
known in my present my neighborhood and who can testify as to my character
for veracity and their belief of my services
as a soldier of the Revolution are William
Throop and Seth a Clergyman and
Seth Danley of Bennington with whom
I have been long acquainted-
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I have stated the names of all the officers and the particulars and circumstances of my service as truly as I can remember
the same--

That I served as a private soldier in the Revolutionary War as above stated in all of the said several terms of my service for the full term of nine months in the field and garrison as above him stated with an embodied Corps called into service by competent authority and during the terms of said service, I was not employed in any civil
pursuit - And for such service I claim a pension

And also I have no documentary [  ] and that I know of no person whose testimony I can procure who can testify to my Revolutionary services except John Durkee, Dan Parker and Daniel Kendrick whose affidits I have procured and are hereunto annexed-

I hereby relinquish every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that my name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State
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Sworn to and subscribed John Woodward
the day and year
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aforesaid before me
Isaac Wilson First Judge
of Genesee County

We William Throop a Clergyman of residing in the Town of Bennington in the County of Genesee and State of New York and Seth Dunley residing in the Town of Bennington in the County of Genesee and State aforesaid hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Jehiel Woodward who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be
seventy Eight years of age; that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood when he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution - and that we concur in that opinion

William Throop
Seth Danley

Sworn to and subscribed
the day and year aforesaid
before me

Isaac Wilson First Judge
of Genesee County
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And the said Isaac Wilson first Judge of the said Court of Common Pleas in and for the said County of Genesee as aforesaid does hereby declare his opinion after the investigation of the matter and after the interrogatories prescribed by the War department that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he states. And the said Judge further certifies that it appears to him that William Throop who has signed the preceding certificate is a Clergyman resident in the Town of Bennington in the County of Genesee and State of New York and that Seth Danley who has also signed the same is a resident in the Town of Bennington in the County and State aforesaid and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to Credit - And the said Judge does hereby further certify that the said Jehiel Woodward the applicant for a pension who has sworn to and subscribed the declaration for a pension hereunto annexed can not from bodily infirmity attend the
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State of New York
Genesee County
Clerks Office
Court to make the foregoing declaration
for a pension - Given under my hand
at Attied this Eighteenth day of Nov
ember 1834-
Isaac Wilson
State of New York
Give
Cler
in County
ks Office I
SS I Timothy Fitch Clerk of the Court of Common pleas in and for the said County do hereby certify that Isaac Wilson, before whom the foregoing affidavits hereunto annexed and the oath of Jehial Woodward the applicant for a pension and William Throop and Seth Danley purport to have been taken and made and who has signed the next
preceding certificate hereunto annexed was on the day of the dates thereof first Judge of Common Pleas in and for the said County of Genesee and that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Judge and that his signatures thereunto subscribed by him are genuine-

In testimony whereof I have here unto set my hand and seal of office this Sixth day of December 1834
Timothy Fitch Clerk
By R. Pringle Dep Clk
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I Daniel Kendrick of Hanover County of Grafton and State of New Hampshire depose and say that Jehiel Woodward of Darien (?)  in the state of New York lived in said Hanover in the time of the revolutionary war and belonged to Capt. Edmund Freeman's Company of militia in Col Johnathan Chase's regiment in said New Hampshire and that on the first of April in the year 1777 the said Jehiel Woodward and myself were called out in to the service.  We went from said Hanover to Ticonderoga.  We stayed there until we were discharged and then returned home.  We were gone about three months at this time.  Ticonderoga was taken by the British immediately after we left there.  I further say that I was at the taking of General Burgoyne and that the said Jehiel Woodward was there with me.  We were gone two months at time.  Capt. Edmund Freeman was our commander under Col. Jonathan Chase who was there at the same time.  We stayed there until the enemy was taken and displaced then were discharged.

                       Daniel Kendrick

State of New Hampshire )
Grafton JS                       )

Hanover Oct. the 14th 1834
then the above deposition was sworn to before me, John Durkee Justice Peace.  I hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with the above  named Daniel Kendrick the deponent and considers him to be good for truth and veracity.

John Durkee Justice of the Peace
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State pf New Hampshire

Grafton JS

I Stephen P. Webster. Clerk of the Superior Court & Common Pleas for said county do hereby certify that John Durkee Esq before whom the within deposition was taken, is and for a long time has been an acting Justice of the Peace in said county and that his signature within written is genuine.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixes the seal of said Superior Court at Havermill in said county this fifteenth day of October Anno Domini 1834.

S . P. Webster, Clerk
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I John Durkee of Hanover County of Grafton and state of New Hampshire depose and say that in the time of the Revolultionary War Jehiel Woodward of Darien (?) County of Genesee and state of New York lives in Hanover aforesaid and belonged to Capt. Edmund Freeman's Company of Militia in Col. Jonathan Chase's Regiment, New Hampshire time and that the said Jehiel Woodward was called out and went under the said Capt. Freeman and Col. Chase to Saratoga.  This was the first of Sept. in the year 1777.  About fifteen days after I was called out and went to Saratoga and joined the said Capt. Edmund Freeman's Company and Col. Jonathan Chase's Regiment and there stayed until Burgoyne was taken and his army and until we were discharged.  Then the said Woodward myself and many others returned home together. We got back to said Hanover the 30th or 31st day of Oct, but I am not certain which day.  The said Woodward was out at least two months at this time.  First he the said Jehiel Woodward went out the call or draught and I went out at the (illegible) call for men.  I further say that I have frequently heard the said Woodward say that when he lived at Randolph in the state of Vermont.  That in the year 1780 he volunteered as a scouter under Capt. Walbridge and that they kept up a line of scouts from Barnard to Onion River on the east side of the Green Mountains in Vermont until Royalton was burnt by the Indians which was in Oct. of that year 1780.  He said that he was in Capt.  Walbridge's Company more than two months.  After Royalton was burnt he moved back to Hanover.  After the danger of the Indians was over he moved back to Randolph.
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and lived there a number of years then moved to Darien in the State of New York where he now lives. I have not the least doubt that he belonged to Capt Walbridges Company of Scouters as I knew him to be a good soldier and an honest and upright man-
John Durkee
State of New Hampshire
Grafton Co,  Hanover Octr the 14th 1834
then the above and within Deposition was sworn to
by John Durkee the deponent before me

Elijah Miller Justice Peace Quorum unis
I hereby certify that I am well acquainted with John Durkee the deponent and that I consider him to be a man of truth and veracity
Elijah Miller Justice Peace Quorum Unis

State of New Hampshire
Granton J. P. Webster Clerk of the Superior Court of Indicature within & for said County of Grafton do hereby 
certify that Elijah Miller Esq whose name is above written is and has long been an acting Justice of the Peace in said
County, and that his signature above is genuine.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and
affixed the seal of said Court at Haverhill in said County
this fifteenth day of October Anno Domini 1834
S. P. Webster Clerk
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September 11, 1939.

Leerne Cooley,
8 Chestnut Street,
Batavia, New York.

BA-J/Co
Jehiel Woodward
R. 11839

Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War records of Jehial Woodward and that of his father, Captain David Woodward, who moved from Hanover, New Hampshire, to Randolph Vermont.

The record of Jehiel Woodward is furnished you herein as shown in the claim for pension, R.11839, based upon his service in the Revolutionary War. There is no claim for pension on file based upon service in that war of his father, Captain David Woodward of New Hampshire and later of Vermont,

Jehiel Woodward was born in the year 1756, in Lebanon, Connecticut. The exact date of his birth and names of his parents are not shown.
are not shown.

He applied for pension November 18, 1834, while a resident of Darien, Genesee County, New York and stated while a resident of Hanover, Grafton County, New Hampshire, he volunteered in September 1776, served as private one month in Lieutenant Freeman's company, Colonel Jonathan Chase's New Hampshire regiment, volunteered in the fore part of April 1777, served two months and twenty-two days in Captain E. Freeman's company, Colonel Jonathan Chase's N.H. regiment; volunteered September 1, 1777, and served two months under the same officers. In June 1780, he moved from Hancock, New Hampshire, to Randolph, Vermont, he stated he volunteered in July 1780, served three months as private in Captain Henry Walbridge's company of scouters or rangers, Vermont militia, and immediately after discharge moved back to Hancock, New Hampshire, that he volunteered in January 1781, served eight days as private in Captain E. Freeman's company, Colonel Jonathan Chase's New Hampshire regiment,
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His claim was not allowed as he failed to furnish proof of service of six months as required by the pension law.

That
He stated, after the Revolution he lived in Randolph, Vermont and Onondaga, New York.

No family data are shown.

Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator.
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I Dan Parker of Hanover in the County of
Grafton and State of New Hampshire depose and say that in the time of the revolutionary war Jehiel Woodward now of Darien in the
State of New York lived [  ] Hanover at that time he belonged to Capt Edmund Freemans Company and Col Jonathan Chases Regiment of Militia in said State of New Hampshire in the spring of the year of 1777 The said Jehiel Woodward and myself were called out and went to Ticonderoga under Capt Edmund Freeman The said Col Chase went in person at the same time. I think we started the fore part of April and returned home some time in the month of June but a few days previous to Ticonderoga being taken by the British army, we were out at this time nearly or quite three months.  I well recollect of seeing the said Jehiel Woodward at Saratoga when Burgoyn was taken but did not go nor return with him and do not know how long he was out at that time in the year of 1780 I lived with the said Jehial Woodward at Randolph in Vermont  I recollect his being  scouter under Capt Walbridge but how long he was in that service I cannot say-
State of New Hampshire
Grafton Js Hanover October 13th 1834 Dan Parker.

Then the above was sworn to before me
John Durkee Justice Peace
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Thereby certify that I am well acquainted with the within named Dan Parker and that I consider him to be good for truth and veracity. Thereby certify the am well acquainted with the within named Dan Parker and that I consider him to be good for truth and
veracity. John Durkee Justice Peace
Oct 13th 1834-

State of New Hampshire
Grafton js
I Stephen P. Webster Clerk of the Superior Court & Common Pleas for said County do hereby certify that John Durkee Esq before whom the within Deposition was taken is & for a long time has been an acting Justice of the Peace within & for said County, & that his signature above written is genuine.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said Superior Court at Haverhill in said County this fifteenth day of October Anno Domini 1834

S. P. Webster Clerk
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Jehial Woodward
Pension Papers

On Roll Chase
1st term 1.10 JS
2. "  1.03 "

To J. L. Edwards Esq
Comr of Pensions
Washington City

Direct letter or Certificate
to Moulton Farnham
[  ] Genesee County
N. York
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32368

Attica NY
Dec 8. 1834

Free
NY
J. L. Edwards Esquire
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
Revolutionary Claim
usions
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77. Car E. Freeman Chase Licend  2.22  1.10
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76 S "  "  "  1
80. Walbridges Vl. Rangers 3-
81. Freeman Chase -8.
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1939 - Sept 11. Hist to
La Verne Cooley cc

11.839
P.O.
Jehiel Woodward
Service:  , 18
Enlisted: REJECTED  , 18
Discharged:  , 18
Application filed:  , 18

Alleges: Printed list of 1852 - Rejected suspended claims, shows cause of rejection:
Re-enlisted: "He did not serve six months"
Attorney:
P. O.
Recognized.
Contrac
Cert. of Dis. Searched for , 18
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1834
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RECEIVED
AUG 2 1939
MAIL SUB-DIV
Reader No. 11
VETS ADM

8 Chestnut St.
Batavia, N. Y.
July 31, 1939.

Mr. A. D. Hiller
Exec. Asst. to Adm.
Veterans' Administration
Washington, D. C.

Dear Sir:
Would like to find out if there is a pension record on Jehial Woodward or his father, a Captain David Woodward. Both served from Hanover, N. H. Jehial Woodward ( sometimes Woodard) was discharged from Colonel Chase's regiment June 11, 1777 ( New Hampshire Rolls, Vol.n 2, p. 138) and was also on pay roll of Colonel Jonathan Chase's regiment of militia which marched from Cornish in New Hampshire in September, 1777 and joined the Continental army under Gates near Saratoga, Sept. 22d to Oct. 24th. Captain David Woodward was paid 18 pounds for service from July 5 to October 4, 1776 ( New Hampshire Rolls, Vol. 4). Account for scouting and provision, 9 pounds (Vol. 3, p. 528). Payroll of Col. Jonathan Chase's regiment of militia which marched from Cornish in New Hampshire in September, 1777 and joined the Continental Army under Gates near Saratoga. Sept. 22d to Oct. 24th, 1777. (Vol. 2). David Woodward moved from Hanover to Randolph, Vt. Jehial Woodward moved from Hanover to Randolph, Vt., and from there to Darien, N. Y. where he died March 27, 1836.

I wish to find out about the children of each of these and  any information you might have on the wife of Jehial Woodward.

Thanking you in advance for this information, I remain

Yours very truly,
La Verne Cooley
Laverne Cooley
1359
AUG 2
MALL SUB-DIV
Reader No. 11
VETS ADM
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32368
New York
Jehiel Woodward
Suspended 
Lett 27 Decr 1834
Moulton Furnham
11839