Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 11816, Abner Woodman, Mass N H
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11178
Adner Woodman
11816
A role of Capt Dows
Co 1 month & 10 days only
Term as per his [illegible] of months personally

3 months & 10 days
rejected 28 Nov 1832
Let S Jones 23 July 1835

J.C. West Esq
Concorn NH
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DECLARATION.
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832.

State of New-Hampshire,
County of Merrimack ss
On this 29th day of August 1832, personally appeared in open Court before the Judge of the Probate for said county, now sitting, Abner Woodman 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, 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated
That he entered at Salem New Hampshire in the county of Rockingham and state aforesaid about the month of Decr & thinks in 1775 for two months as a substitute for John Woodman under Capt. McFarland of Havenhill Mass. Lieut not recollecting Mr Smith of Haverhill Mass was our chaplin marched to winter hill near Boston stationed there and served out the full term of two months and honorably dismissed but did not take a written discharge.
That he enlisted at Salem New Hampshire the last of July 1777 for four months under Capt. Daw, Lieut Gordon, he thinks Ensign Kimball. Cold not recollect but think Col Smith Regt in New Hampshire line marched directly to Bennington Vermont from there to Stillwater and Saratoga, and there saw the surrender of Burgoyne, saw the British prisoners march and give up to the American army without their guns, from thence to Lancaster Mass served out the full term of four months and honorably dismissed but did not take a written discharge
That he actually served in the two above enlistments six months.
That he has no documentary evidence he knows of no person whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his service
That he was born in Salem New Hampshire lived there until he entered the service of the said state and since that time lives in same place more than forty years and since lives in Warren in County of Merrimack and state aforesaid for eight years eat/west and since resides in the same place.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever 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

Abner Woodman
Sworn to and subscribed, the 29th day of Aug. 1832
We Aquila Davis residing in Warren NH hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Abner Woodman, who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be 74 years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Aquila David
Isaac Dimond
Sworn and subscribed the day and year above written

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named application was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states. And the Court certifies, that it appears to them that Gen. Aquila David who has signed the preceding certificate, is a resident of said Warren and that Isaac Dimond, who has also signed the same is a resident of the same Warren and are credible persons, and that their statement is entitled to credit. Boswell Stevens Judge of Probate
I H.B. Chase, Register of the Court of Probate for said county of Merrimack do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original procedings of the said Court, in the matter of the applicant of the said Abner Woodman for a  pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court, this 29th day of August, A.D. 1832
H.B. Chase Register of Probate
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Bradford N.H. July 2d 1835
To J.L. Edwards Comm of Pensions
The Accompanying this I send for
Mr. Brocklebank, his papers for a Pension, which
I hope will be sufficient to obtain for him a Certificate.
which will be forwarded to me as he lives some distance
from a P. Office
I am requested by Mr. Four Woodman of
Warner to state to you his case and he wishes and
answer, he says some time in Augt 1832 he
applied to C. West of Concord N.H. and related to him
his service and sd West made a declaration and he went
before the Probate Court and made oath, he has called
on the West several times and sent and has never sum
or heard from his Declaration only what Mr W told his
son that his father must provide his declaration or service
He says he first served 2 months at Winter Hill, near Boston mass as a substitute for his Bro John Woodman in
Capt Mc Farland Ceo as minister to
he next and in Capt Gilman Co. on two months
in the Winter after Bunker Hill Battle, which service he can
prover the next service was in Jeremiah Dows Co of
Salem N.H. in the fall of the year 1777, which service
you have, he thinks some over two months. he was
at the taking of Burgoyne he has called on me a
number of times within the year past and I have
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consented to write, he wishes to know what has
been done with his Declaration, and if nothing
he wishes to know if he would be entitled to
a certificate and that whether he could now make
a Declaration and Justice be done in the
promises-- I would say that from his conversation
with a soldier who served as a Barber
in McFarlands Co. at the time I have no doubt
but what he served as he has stated he can prove
the 2nd & 3rd the 3rd was from this State
I receivd Mr. Halls Papers returnd
have sent to the Secretary of Mass he says their
Rolls are not to be relied on he found one service
and requested to know the given name of the Officers
I have not seen Mr Hall since, his son says he
will go to Walpole Mass next sept. they are
both extremely poor, I have sent to Walpole
but have had no return as yet, as I stated before
I have no doubt he performed the service he
has stated, but has not at the mise time
when I have obtained all the information I can
shall return them. I am yours with respect
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Samuel Jones