Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B.L.Wt. 2316-300, Aaron Woodruff, Penn.
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE
Penn.
CONTENTS
Woodruff, Aaron
NUMBER
B.L. Wt. 2316-300.
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State of New Jersey}
Borough of Elizabeth }
Personally appeared before me the Subscriber one of the Alderman and one of the Judges of the court in and for said Borough Henry Woodruff to me personally known and who I hereby certify to be a witness of credibility who being duly sworn according to law says that he is now seventy four years of age that he has allways [always] resided in said County [illegible] Borough that while in childhood he knew Aaron Woodruff who was a doctor and and a Surgeon in the Army he knows not what line but believes the Pennsylvania line that the said Aaron Woodruff Died at a verry [very] early day the precise time or year he does not know but says that it was some years before the Marriage of his Brother Lewis Woodruff which he understands took place in 1785, he says that Doctor Aaron Woodruff was single and unmarried and left no Children as well as he believes that [illegible] Woodruff was his [illegible] Brother and has also been dead many years having two sons as his only heirs to wit Hampton and Archibold that Hampton has been dead many years having three sons to wit Hampton and Charles of the City of New York and Archibald of this Borough as his heirs at law and further he saith not
Henry D woodruff
sworn to and subscribed before me this Eleventh of April 1843}
Elias Winans
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State of New Jersey, Borough of Elizabeth I William Chetwood Lord Mayor of the Borough of Elizabeth in the State of New Jersey, do certify that Elias Winans Esq before whom the foregoing affidavit was taken is one of the Alderman of the Borough of Elizabeth and as such a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of the said Borough and as such authorized to take affidavits and that full faith and credit is and ought to be given to his official acts, and I do further certify that
I am personally acquainted with Henry Wade the foregoing 
Deponent who is a man of credit and upon whose testimony full reliance may be placed. In testimony whereof I have subscribed my name as Mayor and affixed the corporate Seal of the said Borough this eleventh day of April Anno Domini 1843.
Wm Chetwood Mayor of the Borough of Elizabeth
[white paper with zig zag edges at left margin]
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Deposition
Henry Wood for Aaron Woodruff [illegible]
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Power of Attorney
[illegible]uff
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Know all men by these presents that I Archibald Woodruff of Elizabeth town New Jersey do hereby constitute and appoint Henry L Northrup of Washington City my true and lawfull [lawful] attorney with [illegible] of substitution for me and in my name to prepare papers and Collect [illegible] and vouchers necessary to establish the claim of my late great Uncle Aaron Woodruff to Bounty land from the United states in right of his services as a surgeons Mate of the Pennsylvania line of the army of the Revolution and to prosecute the same or cause it to be done before the proper departments at Washington City and when the same shall be allowed to ask demand and receive from the Secretary of war of the United States a warrant for the Bounty land
thus due. and to surrender the warrant when so received with the Commissioners of the General land Office of Washington City for land scrip and to ask demand [illegible] for the [illegible]tificates or
Land scrip due thereon And to endorse assign transfer and make sale of the same and my said attorney is hereby authorized and
empowered to do and perform all things touching the same which I myself might do were I personally present. In witness of which
I have set my hand and seal this Tenth day of April 1843
Archibald Woodruff
In Presence of Elias Winans

State of New Jery [Jersey]}
Borough of Elizabeth}
Be It Remembered that on this tenth day  of April A. D. Eighteen Hundred & forty three before me Elias Winans one of the Alderman of said Borough and of the Judges of the court of Common Pleas in and for the same Personally came Archibald S. Woodruff the Granter above named and is known to me as such and I having first made known to him the contents of the same when he acknowledged that he signed sealed and delivered the same as his voluntary act & deed for the purposes above mentioned
Elias Winans
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affidavit for Aaron Woodruffs Heirs
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City County and State of New York ss
Personally appeared before me Joseph Hoxie a Justice of the peace in and for said City Andrew Woodruff personally known to me and who I hereby certify to be a witness of credibility who being duly sworn according to law he says that he is now sixty eight years of age that his [illegible] for several generations [illegible] of Elizabeth town New Jersey where deponent lived more than thirty years of his life That his Uncle Aaron Woodruff was a surgeons mate of the
Army of the Revolution he believes of the Pennsylvania line that he departed this life without issue or [illegible] having [illegible] the precise [illegible] the deponent cannot state, but he says that amongst his earliest recollection is that of seeing his said uncle on
his sick bed at the time of his death. he says that his Uncle Isaac
Woodruff was his Eldest Brother and has been dead about twenty five or thirty years. he left two sons as his only heirs Hampton and Archibald the latter believed to be now living in Cincinnati Hampton is dead leaving Hampton and Charles of the said City of New York and Archibald of Elizabethtown as his heirs at law and further he saith not
And [Andrew] Woodruff
Sworn and subscribed before me this 7th day of April 1843}
Joseph Hoxie}
Justice of the Peace}
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STATE OF NEW-YORK.}
CITY AND COUNTY OF NEW-YORK,} ss
I, NATHANIEL JARVIS, CLERK of the City and County of New-York, and also Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for said City and County, DO HEREBY CERTIFY, That Joseph Hoxie before whom the
annexed deposition was taken, was, at the time of taking the same,
Justice of the Peace in and for the said City and County, duly
commissioned and sworn, and that I believe the signature of said Justice thereunto subscribed is genuine

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court and County, the 8 day of April 1843
Nath Jarvis Clerk
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I,    and presiding Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for the City
and County of New York, do certify that NATHANIEL JARVIS, whose name is subscribed to the within Certificate, is Clerk of the City and County of New York, and also Clerk of said Court of Common Pleas, duly elected and sworn, and that full faith and credit are due to his official acts. I further certify, that the seal affixed thereto is the seal of the said Court, and that the attestation thereof is in due form of Law.
Dated at New York, the   184
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Power of attorney Hampton & Charles Woodruff
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Know all men by these presents that we Hampton and Charles Woodruff of the City of New York do hereby constitute and appoint Henry L Northrup of Washington City our true and lawfull [lawful] attorney with powers of substitution for us and in our names to prepare papers and collect the necessary proofs and [illegible] to enable us and our [illegible] heirs to obtain from the United States a Land warrant for three hundred acres of land in right of the services of our great Uncle Aaron Woodruff as a surgeons mate of the Pennsylvania line of the Army of the Revolution and to prosecute the same before the proper department at Washington City and to ask demand and Receive from the Secretary of war of the United States a warrant for 300 acres of Bounty land and no more should there be more due in right of the said Aaron Woodruffs Services as Surgeons mate of our [illegible] and to deposite [deposit] the said warrant when so received in the General Land Office at Washington City for land Scrip and to ask demand receive and receipt for our [illegible]  proportion of Land [illegible] due in satisfaction of such land warrant and to endorse assign transfer and make sale of the same and to use do and perform all acts and things touching our distributive proportion of such warrant which we ourselves might do were we personally present Witness our hands and Seals this fifth of April 1843
H Wooduff [Woodruff] 
Charles Woodruff

City of New York Personally appeared before me the subscriber a Commissioner of Deeds for the City of New York Hampton Woodruff signed and sealed to the foregoing power of attorney and a person I with whom I am personally acquainted and 
acknowledged the same to be his voluntary act and Deed for the
purposes therein named, signed sealed and acknowledged before me this fifth of April 1843
[illegible] Watson
Commissioner of Deeds for the City of New York

City of New York sct} personally appeared before me the subscriber
John D. Campbell, Notary Public, [illegible torn] Woodruff Signer and sealer to the foregoing power of attorney and a person with whom I am well acquainted and acknowledged
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the sam to be his voluntary act and deed for the purposes therein [illegible] signed sealed and acknowledged before me this Eighth of April 1843 
In witness whereof I the said John D Campbell Notary Public duly
commissioned & sworn dwelling in the City of New York have hereto set my hand & Notarial seal at the City of New York this eighth day of April in the year of our Lord one Thousand Eight hundred and
Forty three-
John D. Campbell
Not [Notary] Public
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STATE OF NEW-YORK,- }
CITY AND COUNTY OF NEW-YORK, } ss
I, NATHANIEL JARVIS, CLERK of the City and County of New-York, DO HEREBY CERTIFY, That Alexander Watson whose name is subscribed to the Certificate of the proof or acknowledgement of the annexed instrument, and thereon written, was, at the time of
taking such proof or acknowledgement a Commissioner of Deeds for said City and County, dwelling in the said City, commissioned and sworn, and duly authorized to take the same. And further, that
I am well acquainted with the handwriting of such Commissioner, and verily believe that the signature to the said certificate of proof or acknowledgement is genuine.

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the Seal of the said County, the 8 day of April 1843.
Nath Jarvis Clerk.
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Aaron Woodruff
No. 2,316.
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Surrogates office of the County of Essex
State of New Jersey}
Essex County } ss
I John J. Chetwood Surrogate of the said County of Essex do hereby certify, that satisfactory evidence has been adduced to me
to prove that Aaron Woodruff late of the Borough of Elizabeth in said County was a Surgeon's Mate of the Pennsylvania Line of the
army of the Revolution, and departed this life at an early day, about the year seventeen hundred and eighty, without issue, and that Isaac Woodruff of said Borough was his eldest brother who has also departed this life, leaving two sons Hampton and Archibald, his only children and heirs at law. That Hampton Woodruff has been dead several years leaving three sons, viz: Hampton and Charles of New York, and Archibald of the Borough
of Elizabeth his heirs at law. all which I hereby certify 
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official Seal at the City of Newark in the said County this twelfth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty three.
Jno. [John] J. [illegible] 
Surrogate