Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 5169, Samuel Woodward, Va.
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Va.
Woodward, Samuel or 
Woodward Sarah
W5169
B.L. Wt. 2178-55
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The State of Ohio
County of Shelby 
On the 19th day of August AD one thousand eight hundred and sixty nine personally appeared before me N. R. Wigman sole Judge and ex officio clerk of the Probate Court within and for the County and State aforesaid Sarah Woodward aged seventh nine years years [repeated] a resident of said County of Shelby in the state of Ohio, who being duly sworn according to law, declares that she is the identical Sarah Woodward to whom was granted pension certificate No 3.64.3 Payable at Cincinnatie [sic] Ohio at the rate of Twenty nine dollars and Sixty six cents per annum issued under the 2d Section of the act of February 3, 1853: She further declares that she sill remains the widow of the said Samuel Woodward and that she has not since married since the date of his death.  She makes this declaration in order to secure the increase of the pension to which she is entitled under the thirteenth section of the act of July 27, 1868.
My post office address is Plattsville Shelby County Ohio
I further desire that all certificates and communication in relation to this application to be forwarded to Hugh Thompson Sidney Shelby County Ohio who is authorized to receive the same for me.
Sarah X her mark Woodward
Witnesses Present
Jason M Vay
Edward Comray
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Also personally appeared Jason McVay and Edward Conroy residents of said County of Shelby in the State of Ohio persons whom I certify to be respectable and entitled to credit and who being by me duly sworn say that they were present and saw Sarah Woodward make her mark to her name to the foregoing declaration; and they further swear that they have every reason to believe from the appearance of the applicant and their acquaintance with her that she is the identical person she represents herself to be and that they have no interest in the prosecution of this claim.
Jason M McVay [signature]
Edward Conroy [signature]
Sworn to and subscribed before me this Nineteenth day of August A.D. 1869 and I hereby certify that I have no interest direct or indirect in the prosecution of this claim In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said Court at Sidney in said Court the day and year last above written
N R Wyman Probate Judge [signature]
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Ohio  19.893.
Samuel Woodward of Dayton in the State of Ohio who was a Private in the Co. commanded by Captain Price of the 19th commanded by Col. Smith in the Virginia line for 8 months. & 27 days
66
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29.100
Inscribe on the Roll of Ohio at the rate of 29 Dollars and 66 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March 1834.
Certificate of Pension issued the 23rd day of Sept. 1833 and sent to home [illegible] Dayton, Ohio
Arrears to the 4th of Septr 33.
Semi-anl. allowance ending [illegible] 34
74.15
14.83
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$88.98
Revolutionary Claim Act June 7, 1832
Recorded by William Palmer [signature] Clerk, Book 6 Vol. 8. Page 29
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Increase
No. 3.642
Ohio
Sarah Woodward widow of Samuel Woodward who served in the Revolutionary war as a Private [illegible] Virginia
Cincinnati Agency.  Rate 96 dollars and 00 cents per annum Commencing July 27th 1868 Deduct payments made since 
Certificate dated 1st Sept 1869 and sent to Claimant Care of Hugh Thompson Sidney Shelby Co. Ohio
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 3 1853, Page 163 Vol [Illegible] & July 27/68 E N Smith
Date of death not on aB
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Ohio
Feby 53 - No 3643
Vol W2, Page 97
19743 act March 31 55 Recd " [ditto symbol under March] 26
Sarah Woodward Widow of Same. Woodward put
{Struck out:} Capt Col Washington
[struck out:}Ent Dis Revolutionary War
Received a Pension
Act of Feby 1853
Pri. in Virginia Militia
Admit 160 acres July 9th/58
Boynton
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Samuel Woodward
No 8096.
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State of Ohio
Montgomery County
On this 12th day of September 1832, personally appeared in open court before the Honorable Judges of the Court of Common pleas of the said county now sitting, Samuel Woodward, a resident of the said County of Montgomery in the state of Ohio, aged 72 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, 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, & served as here in stated. - He was born in Bedford County Virginia & resided there at the time of first entering into the service, which he did by volunteering in October 1779, for four months.  He was then in the 20th year of his age.  Capt John Robinson commanded the company to which he was attached; they were immediately engaged in the duty of carrying flour on pack horses from Bedford to Fort McIntosh on the ohio river. In this way he served until discharged at the expiration of his time.  Having returned home, in the latter part of the Summer or Fall of 1780, he was called out to march to Ninety Six in South Carolina; but hired, at his own expense, a substitute to perform the three months service required of him, who went in his stead.  Before these three months expired he was again called to proceed to South Carolina, & volunteered to enlist (preferring that kind of engagement to being drafted) for that service.  Two regiments were raised, of which his was one, & they marched & joined the army in Guilford County North Carolina.  His Captain on this occasion was
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Bowers Price, & the name of the Lieutenant he recollected was Joel Leftridge.  The regiment was commanded by Col. Charles Linch, & Major John Calloway.  There was corps of cavalry belonging to this regiment under the Command of Col. Washington.  The other regiment from Virginia was Commanded by Col. Campbell. After joining Gen. Green's army at Guilford, his regiment was detached the very next morning, to march in different directions through that County, in which duty they were actively engaged until the 15th of March 1781, when the battle of Guilford occurred, in which they fought through the hottest of the battle, & was the last to leave the field, after maintaining their ground three hours & three quarters.  From this engagement the applicant was with his company regiment to the last.  Retreating twelve miles to the place of rendezvous, the "old iron works." The army remained there about three days.  From thence they marched to Ramsowen's Mill on Deep river, to seek the enemy, his regiment leading the van, where the British retired to their shipping.  After a few days his regiment was discharged, making his service from the time of enlistment ten weeks.  Continuing at home till November following he was called out for another term of six months, & proceeded to the place of rendezvous, Prince Edward Court House, under order of Lieut Nathaniel Price, & there remained until on account of the death of his father he felt under the necessity of returning home.  Accordingly he obtained, with much difficulty & expense, a substitute, & received the usual conditional discharge on the 21st January 1782.  That discharge he has preserved, & presents with this application to the War Department.  He believes the whole of his
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Services as above stated, during the revolution, amounted to fifteen months or upwards.  He has no documentary evidence excepting the discharge before mentioned, and knows of no living witness to his services whose testimony he can now obtain.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or amenity except the present, & declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state.
[signed] Samuel Woodward
Sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid in  open Court
[signature C R Greene clk

[the following is struck out with 3 X's and is unsigned]
We [blank space] a Clergyman, residing in the County of [blank space] & state of ohio, & [blank space] residing in the same county, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Samuel Woodward, who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be 72 years of age; that he is reputed & believed in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the revolution, & that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn & Subscribed the day & year aforesaid
[end of X'ed out area]

And the said Court do hereby declare this opinion, after the investigation of the matter, after putting the interrogation prescribed by the War Department,
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that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, & served as he stated.   And the court further certify that it appears to them that Jacob Laros who has signed the ["preceding" crossed out and replaced by the following word ] annexed certificate, is a clergyman, resident in the county of Montgomery, and that Fletcher Ememly who has also signed the same is a resident in the same county, & is a credible person, & that their statement is entitled to credit.
By the Court Attest
[signed] C.R. Greene clk

I, Charles R. Greene, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in Montgomery County in the State of Ohio, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the Said Court in the matter of the application of Samuel Woodward for a pension.  In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the said Court, the 12th day of September 1832.
[signed] C.R. Greene clk

Samuel Woodard [sic] a six months soldier from Bedford County, this day delivered me a substitute by the name of Jacob Woodard, Therefore the Ss Same Woodard is hereby discharged from that service, given at Prince Edward Courthouse Jan 7th 1881
[signed] Naththl Rice Lieut Com. of Post

[added below signature]
SB if Jacob Woodard should desert before the six month is out, Sam Woodard is to be immediately called into service again [Initialed] NR
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The State of ohio Montgomery County 
Personaly [sic] came before me Wm Sawyer one of the Justices of the peace within and for said county Reverend Jacob Larose who being duly swoarn [sic] doth depose and say under oath theat [sic] he has ben [sic] acquainted with Samuel Woodard of Miami Township Montgomery Co for the last twenty years and from such acquaintances he verily believes he is of the age he represents himself to be and that the said Woodard is refuted and believed in the Neighborhood to have been a revolutionary soldier and that deponent can and does concur in that opinion and that the said Woodard is a man of truth and veracity at the same time and place personaly [sic] apeared [sic] Flecher Emily who being dewly [sic] sworn doth also depose and say that he has ben [sic] acquainted with Samuel Woodard of Miami Township & county & state aforesaid for the last seventeen years and from such acquaintance he believes him to be of the age he represents, and further the said Woodard is refuted and believed in the neighborhood to have ben [sic] a revolutionary soldier and that deponent does concur in that opinion and that the said Woodard is a man of truth and veracity.  
[signed] Jacob Laros
[signed] Fletcher Emley
The above depositions sworn to and subscribed before me this 12th Septembe [sic] 1832
[signed] Wm. Sawyer J.Peas
I further certify the above deponents are men of good caracter [sic] and veracity from a long personal knowledge.
[Signed] Wm. Sawyer JP
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The State of Ohio Montgomery County DS.
I Charles R Greene Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for the County aforesaid, Do hereby Certify that William Sawyer Esq before whom the above affidavit was sworn was at the time a Justice of the Peace within & for said County Duly Commissioned To and his official acts are entitled to full faith & Credit
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Official seal at Dayton this 12th day of Sept. D.D. 1832
[signed] C.R. Greene clk.
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Deposition of Revd Jacob Larose and Flecher Emley
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State of Ohio Montgomery County Personally appeared in open court before the honorable the Judges of the court of Common pleas of the said County, at their time of May 1833, Samuel Woodward, the above named applicant for a pension from the United States, whose papers annexed were heretofore certified by the said Court, &being now again first duly sworn he deposeth & saith. That he was born on the 12th day of February 1760 in Bedford County Virginia. He has no record of his age, the old family record having been lost. As to the precise length of his several periods of his service he can make no more specific statement, than in his former deposition-- his first service as a volunteer in the fall of 1779 was four months in duration; his second term in the spring of 1781 lasted ten weeks; this actual service in the winter of 1781 & 82 was from the early part of November till the 21st day of January, making he believes eleven weeks. The whole amount of his services including the furnishing & pay of a substitute three months in 1780 & three months one week from the 21st January 1781 or 82, was then as he believes full fifteen months. 
[signed[ Samuel Woodward
Sworn & subscribed in open County on the 27th day of May 1833 - 
C.R. Greene clk
I Charles R. Greene Clerk of the Court of Common pleas in Montgomery County in the State of Ohio do hereby certify that the above deposition of Samuel Woodward was made in due form in open court, to be affixed by order of said court to the
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former deposition of said Woodward for claiming the nature of his application for a pension.  In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my seal of the said County the 127th day of May 1833
C.R. Greene clk
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State of Ohio 
Shelby County
 On this 21st day of March A.D. 1855, personal appeared before me a Justice of the peace within and for the County & State aforesaid Sarah Woodward aged 65 years a resident. Shelby Co. this who being duly sworn according to law declares that she is the widow Samuel Woodward deceased who was a private in the Revolutionary war (and whose name Sarah Woodward is inscribed in the person list at the rate of twenty five 00/100 dollars per annum) that her husband was in the Company  of volunteers commanded by Col Washington and General Greene.  She states that she does not know when he volunteered, but states that he served fifteen months in said war, that he was discharged himself in the State of North Carolina and received a written discharge.  She refers to the application of her husband for pension for further evidence of her husbands service.  She further state that she was married to the said Samuel Woodward in Warren County and State of Ohio on the 19th day of August AD 1819 by William Dixon a Methodist Preacher of the Gospel and that her name before her said marriage was Sarah Robert. That her husband at Plattsville Shelby Co Ohio on the 25th day of September 1852, and that she is a widow at the date of executing this her declaration. She also states that her husband did draw a pension for nearly 18 years, before his death, that she has drawn a pension for his service in the Revolutionary War since Feb 3, 1853. She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the Bounty Land to which she may be entitled under the act of March 3d 1855. She also declares that her husband nor herself has never received nor applied for any Bounty Land under this or any other act of Congress except as above stated She refers to her declaration for pension for evidence of marriage.
Sarah X [her mark] Woodward 
Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and year above written and I certify that I believe the claimant to be the identical person She represents herself to be and that I have no interest in said claim.
[signed]  J. F. Fraser J P 
State of Ohio Shelby County 
On this 21 day of March A D 1855 personally appeared before me a Justice of the peace in & for said County & State aforesaid Jesse B Howe and James Smith Residents of Shelby Co
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State of Ohio
County of Shelby
I Saml. M Cowan Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County and State above mentioned do hereby certify that J F Frazer whose genuine Signature appears to the matter & foregoing declaration and affidavit  is and was at the time of signing the same a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid duly commission and sworn; and that all his official acts as such are entitled to full faith and credit and that the aforesaid County Court is a court of Record having general jurisdiction.

Given under my hand and Seal of the office at Sidney Ohio this 21st day of March A.D. 1855
[signed] Saml M Cowan Clerk
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Hon Com of Pensions
    Sir
     Enclosed find declaration of Sarah Woodward.  Her husband was a Soldier of the Revolution and drew a pension a long time before his death and the widow has drawn since her husband death a pension of $ 29.66 per annum.  She has forgotten the service of her husband  Her name is "Recorded in the pension office in the roll of pensioners under act of February 1853 page 170 Vol. A.  GZ Getty Clerk"
She refers you to her former declaration for proff [proof] of her marriage.
     Please forward the Warrant of the acres to me as soon as issued.
       Yours Respectfully
       M. C. Hale
P.S.
Acloluss
     M. C. Hale
         Sidney Shelby County 
         Ohio
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Court of Common Pleas of the County of Shelby in the Sate of Ohio, of the term of October in the year of Our Lord Eighteen hundred and fifty three.  On this fifth day of October AD. 1853 personally appeared in open court Sarah Woodward a resident of Green Township in the County of Shelby and State of Ohio aged Sixty three years who being duly sworn according to law on her oath makes the following statement and declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the act of Congress passed February 3r, 1853"  That she is the widow of Samuel Woodward late of Shelby County in the State of Ohio who was a private in the Army of the Revolution and from the 4th of  March 1831 until his death was a pensioner of the United States, and drew a pension of Twenty nine dollars and sixty Six cents per annum which was paid to him semiannually at the Agency of the United States for forgoing pension in Cincinnati in the State of Ohio; Hispension Certificate was issued to him on the 23d September 1833, No. 19.893.
She further states and declares that she was married to the said Samuel Woodward on the 19th day of August AD. 1819 at the County of Warren in the State of Ohio, as will appear by the accompanying Certificate of the Probate judge of seat County.  That her husband the aforesaid Samuel Woodward died on the twenty fifth day of September AD Eighteen hundred and fifty two at Shelby County aforesaid, that she was was [repeated] married to him at the time above stated.  She further swears that She was a widow at the passage of this Act, and is still a widow And that she has never before made application for a pension.  Sworn and subscribed to in open Court this 5th October 1853 
[signed] Joan Counts Clerk of Shelby Common Pleas
[signed Just H. Thompson
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Also at the same time and place came Cyurs Apples a resident of said County of Shelby of lawful age who being duly sworn according to law says that he knew the said Samuel Woodward when in life. That he was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States. That the said Samuel Woodward died on the twenty fifth day of September AD Eighteen hundred and fifty two leaving the above named Sarah Woodward his widow, that the said Sarah Woodward was not since intermarried but still continues the widow of the said Samuel Woodward 
[signed] Cyrus Apple
Sworn to and subscribed in open Court this 5 Oct 1853 
[signed] Jona, Counts Clerk of Shelley Common Pleas 

The State of Ohio Shelby County 
I Jonathan Counts Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Shelley County in the State of Ohio do hereby certify that the above named Sarah Woodward and Cyrus Apple, were duly sworn according to law in open Court. That the foregoing affidavits by them respectively subscribed were reduced to writing and by them subscribed in open Court

In testimony whereof I Jona Counts Clerk of said Court have hereto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said Court this 5th October 1853 Jona Counts, Clerk,
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Warren Probate Court Marrige License
Issue Record No. 1 Page 185
Date Aug 14th 1819
Two Whom Issued Samuel Woodward & Sarah Robert
Age Consent Both of lawful age
Record of Marriage Vol No 1 Pag 163
Date Aug 19th 1819
Persons Married Samuel Woodward & Sarah Robert
By Whom William Dixon M.G. 

State of Ohio Warren County Warren Probate Court 
I John C Dunlevy Judge of the Probate Court in & for the County & State aforesaid hereby certify that the above are true and correct transcripts and copies from the record of Marriage License issues & Marriage Returns as contained in said Records kept in this Court
 In testimony whereof I have here unto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Lebanon this 24th day of August AD 1853 
[signed] Jn C Dunlery Probate Judge 
Fee 50 cts paid
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PENSION OFFICE
US OCT 28  1882 

[The following was overwritten as indicated] 
3646 Sarah Woodward
[overwritten with] Wid File 5169
Sarah Wid Samuel Woodward 3643
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(3 - 405.) (PENSIONER DROPPED.) 
U. S. Pension Agency COLUMBUS O
September 4, 1882 
Hon Wm W. Dudley W Commissioner of Pensions 
I hereby report that the name of Sarah Woodward wid Sam'l (Act Feby 3 1853) who was a pensioner on the rolls of this agency under Certificate No. 3643 and who was last  paid at $8 to June 4, 1879 has been dropped because of failure to claim pension 
Very respectfully, 
[signed] A.T. Wikoff
Pension Agent 
    E.

Every name dropped to be thus reported at once,
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8096 
Samuel Woodward 
Ohio 
19.893 
[redacted] Return 5.16
Adm 8 months 
27 ddays
$26.66. [+] 3.00 [=] $29.66 [*] 2-1/2 [=] 59.32 [+ ] 14.83 [=] 74.15
8096
Crane J  Schenck Dayton Ohio
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BRIEF in the case of Samuel Woodward County of Montgomery in the State of [blank]
(Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Open Court
 2.  If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity? [blank]
3. How old is he? 72
4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.
In 1779 volunteered Duration of Service 4 months As a Private Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served Cap Robinson
1880 Drafted Hired a Substitute for 3 months
March " [below hired a substitute] about 10 weeks 
Called out about 2 months Rank Private
Cap Price  Col Smith
Discharged May 21 1871 He states that the whole of his service during the war would amount to 15 months
5. In what battles was he engaged? Battle of Guilford
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Bedford Co. V.a.
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, of by the rolls?  Traditionary document
8. Art the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? The exact length of service is not given -- the papers are not attached agreeably to the registration
I Certify that the foregoing statement and answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
[signed] George Taylor Examining Clerk.
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August 17, 1934 
XXXXXXXXXXX 
Mr. Stewart M. Woodward 
107 North Linden Street 
Richmond, Virginia
 BA-J/EEL
L. Benjamin Woodward-S.6435 
Samuel Woodward- S.5169 
Dear Sir: 
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the records of two Revolutionary War soldiers, of New Kent County, Virginia, with surname Woodward. 
There is no claim for pension on file based upon service of a soldier with that surname, of New Kent County, Virginia. The records of two soldiers with surname Woodward, of Virginia, are furnished you herein as found in the respective claims for pension, S.6438 and W. 5169, based upon their services in the Revolutionary War . 
Benjamin Woodward S. 6435 
Benjamin Woodward was born in October, 1758. The place of his birth and the names of his parents are not shown in the papers in the pension claim. While residing in Goochland County, Virginia, Benjamin Woodward enlisted sometime in 1776, served in Captain Samuel Woodson's Company, Colonels Thomas Fleming and Matthews' 9" Virginia Regiment and was in the battle of Brandywine: length of service, two years. 
He was allowed pension on his application executed August 30. 1832, while a resident of Goochland County, Virginia. There are no data as to soldier's family. 
● ● ● ●● ●
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August 17, 1934 
Samuel Woodward W.5169 
Samuel Woodward was born February 12, 1760, in Bedford County, Virginia. 
While residing in Bedford County, Virginia, Samuel Woodward (he signed Woodard was pensioned Woodward) volunteered in October, 1779, served four months in Captain John Robinson's Virginia Company and carried flour on pack horses from Bedford County, Virginia, to Fort McIntosh on the Ohio River; he volunteered in the spring of 1781, served in Captain Bowen Price's Company, Colonel Charles Lynch's Virginia Regiment, marched to North Carolina and was in the battle of Guilford; length of service ten weeks: he enlisted in the fall of 1781, served under Lieutenant Nathaniel Price in the Virginia Troops; while on this tour, receiving word of the death of his father whose name is not shown, and feeling it necessary that he return home in consequence, he obtained the services of Jacob Woodard as a substitute, and was discharged January 21, 1782. No relationship of Jacob Woodard to the soldier was shown. 
He was allowed pension on his application executed September 12, 1832, while a resident of Miami Township, Montgomery County, Ohio. He died September 25, 1852, in Plattsville, Shelby County, Ohio. 
The soldier married August 19, 1819, in Warren County, Ohio, Sarah Roberts, who was born in April, 1790, place not shown. 
Soldier's widow, Sarah, was allowed pension on her application executed October 5, 1853, at which time she was aged sixty-three years and resided in Greene Township, Shelby County, Ohio. In 1869, she was residing in Plattsville, Ohio. 
There is no reference to children. 
Date of her death not on aB
Very truly yours 
A. D. HILLER Assistant to Administrator.
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BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of Samuel Woodward which require further proof or explanation. 
I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides? ues
II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides? Yes
III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so? [no entry]
IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served? Yes
V. * Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amout [sic] of pension he is entitled? No
VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations? Yes
VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832? Yes
VIII. Has the Court given their opinion? Yes
IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate? Yes
X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal? Yes
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XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service? Yes
XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it? [no answer]
XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had? [no answer]
XIV. + If the applicant's name is not found on the rolls of military service, has he produced a witness or witnesses as to his service? [no  answer]
If he has produced direct proof as to service, has the magistrate who administered the oath, certified to the credibility of the witness or witnesses? [no answer]
Has the proper officer certified to the official character and signature of the magistrate as the regulations direct? [no answer]
XV. ++ Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service? [no answer]
XVI. Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct? NO 
XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered? yes
EXPLANATORY NOTES. 
*QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words: "Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades; For -- year -- months, and --- days, I served as a -- For -- months and --- days, I served as a --; and for such service I claim a pension.
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It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months is too indefinite , and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state they served two years in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours; the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is highly objection able. It must in every case be clearly shewn under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority; that he was either in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit. 
+ QUERE XIV.  Proof of Service.
In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office. 
++ QUERE XVI. Mode of authenticating papers. In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate. 
In every case where the clerk of the court, or other certifying officer, has no public seal of office, the certificate of a member of congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers.
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Samuel Woodward
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3.643 
Increase 
Brief in the Case of Sarah Woodward, Widow of Samuel Woodward Private [illegible]  Plattsville Shelby C County and State of Ohio Act 2d Sec Feb 3, 1853. 
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CLAIM FOR NEW PENSION CERTIFICATE. PROOF ExHIBITED, Pensioner act 29.66 per annum.  Certificate returned Claim for increase under 11th Sec Act July 27 1868 
I dutily [illegible] continued widowhood thence.
Admitted Aug 24. 1869 to pension act $96 per annum to commence July 27, 1868 deducting payments since. 
W. E Trask Examining Clerk.
Name and residence of Agent.
Claimant Cane Hugh Thompson 
Sidney. Shelby Co Ohio
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Beef in the case of Sarah Woodward, wid. of Samuel Shelby County and State of Ohio act 3d Feby:1853 
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Claim, (original, or "for increase.") [or for increase struck out]
Proof exhibited, (if original.)
Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance. 
Husband was a pensioner under the act of 7" June 1832 (If for increase.) 
Record evidence of Marriage 
(If for increase.) Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what?
 Messr. Conklin & Thompson Sidney, Ohio
Name and residence of Agent
S.C. Boynton
 Examining Clerk.
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Payment to be made at Cincinnati by Joel C. Green Agent for paying Pensioners, in the Agency of Ohio Payable on the 4th September and 4th March Recorded in the Pension Office on the Roll of Pensioners under act February 3d, 1853, Page 170 Vol. A
G.T. Getty Clerk
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR. 
WIDOW'S PENSION.
I certify that in conformity with the 2d section of the act of February 3, 1853, Sarah Woodward widow of Samuel Woodward who was a Private in the revolutionary war is inscribed on the pension list at the rate of Twenty nine dollars and Sixty Six cents per annum, commencing on the 3d of February, 1853, and continuing for life, unless she should again marry; in which case the Pension is not payable after the time of such marriage. 
Given at the Department of the Interior this tenth day of February one thousand eight hundred and fifty four.
R McClelland
Secretary of the Interior. 
Examined and Countersigned. 
L.P. Waldo 
Commissioner of Pensions. 
April 15/65 sent Power Atty to Allen & Co for J.P. Fray
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Sept 1855 14 yes stated as the residence in Shelby Co 
3.645
Sept 1858
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No 3388 
Sarah Woodward 
Wid of Samuel  
Let. to Conklin & Thompson
Oct. 25, 1853 
Act 3d Feby. 1853
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Oct 19 1853
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Sarah Woodward did: of Samuel Shelby Co Ohio Act /53 
$29.66/00 per An; 
Cpm: Feby 3d 1853 
Revy
Messes: Conklin & Thompson 
   Sidney
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Pension Office, Official Busi
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[postmark] SIDNEY O. MAR 22
Hon Commissioner of Pensions
Washington  City
D.C.
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[postmark] Sidney O.  Feb 2
[postage] FREE
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City D.C.
Sarah Woodward Wid Samuel
Boynton Feb 6/54
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[postmark] SIDNEY OHIO OCT 14
[postage] FREE
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City D.C.
1852 Rev. Origl
Oct 19, 1853
Appl. of Sarah Woodward Widow of Samuel
Shelby Co. O.
Com [illegible] Thompson
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2178
Neo [illegible]
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Rev. Ev: 25th Sept:/52. Boynton
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Clo:  Feb 3d/55. Cn: Boynton
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Sidney Feb 1. 1854 
Com of Pensions
Sir
We herewith send you supplemental affidavits in support of the application of Sarah Woodward Widow of Samuel Woodward a Revolutionary soldier, for pension which claim you informed us on the 25th October 1853 was suspended. We hope the evidence in the case will now be considered sufficient 
Very Respectfully Yrs
Conklin & Thompson
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Sidney Oct 13/53 
Comr of Pensions
Sir 
Herewith we send you application of Sarah Woodward widow of Samuel Woodward for Pension under the act of Feb 3, 1853 We hope the papers are all in due form to enable the old Lady to get the benefit of the law. Please advise us on the subject 
Respectfully Yours 
Conklin & Thompson 
Attorneys
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No. 16.743. 
ACT OF MARCH 3, 1855. 
Received Mar 26 1855
Sarah Woodward Wid of Samuel Woodward Revolutionary War 
Warrant No. 2178-160-55 
M. C. Hale Sidney Ohio,
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1934 - Aug 17, Hist to Stewart M. Woodward Lefter in case Benj Woodward 
Letter in case Benj. Woodward S6435 
Revy WIDOW, &c. 
File No. 5169  
Sarah Woodward Wid, of Samuel Woodward Pri. Rev. War --- Act: Feby 3"/53, 
Index: -- Vol. M, Page 352 
(Arrangement of 1870.]
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Sidney O. Aug 19th '69 
Sir
I send you herewith application of Sarah Woodward for increase of Pension, also her original Pension Certificate. Please let me hear from you so soon as the matter is acted on
 Very Respectfully
H. Thompson 
To the Hon the Commissioner of Pensions Washington D.C.
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3643
Ohio Cincinnati 
Sarah Woodward widow of Samuel who served in the Revolutiona war, as a private 
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Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 29 Dollars 66 Cents per annum, to commence on the 3d February, 1853. 
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Certificate of Pension issued 
10th day of Feby 1854 and sent to Conklin & Thompson Sidney Ohio 
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Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 3, 1853, Page 170 Vol. A
(32)
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Pension Off. 7" Feby 1854 
8 Feby 4053
Sir
Please Certify the time to which the within named pensioner was paid, of the date on his death. 
Very Respectfully 
S Cole
For the Commissioner
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Samuel Woodward Act 1832 $29.66 per ann. Paid to 4 Sept 1852 no death F Bush Auditor
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Francis Burt Esqr 
Third Auditor, Treasury
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Probate Court of Shelbey County Ohio 
February 1. 1854 
Be it known that on this first day of February AD. 1854 personally appeared in the Probate Court of Shelby County Ohio which is a Court of Record in and for said County, Sarah Woodward who being duly sworn deposeth and saith that she is aged Sixty three years in April last. That she is the Widow of Samuel Woodward late of said County deceased who was a Revolutionary Soldier, and at the time of his death and for several years previous, was a Pensioner of the United States. That she was legally married to the said Samuel Woodward as set forth in the certificate of marriage transmitted to the Department with her declaration made on the 5th October 1833. That her maiden name before her said marriage was Sarah Roberts. That she has not since intermarried but continues the Widow of the said Samuel Woodward And further saith not  
[signed] Sarah Woodward X her mark 
Abe Leckey
Sworn to and subscribed in open Court this 1st day of February 1854. and I certify that I am acquainted with the said Sam Woodward. That she is a person of credibility, and that I believe her statement above written to be true.
Given under my hand and seal of said Court this 1st Feby 1854 
[signed] Vincent Guerin Probate Judge
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Also at the same time and place Came Andrew Wancop of said County aged Sixty five years, who being duly sworn according to law deposeth and saith that he is well acquainted with the above named Sarah Woodward, and has been acquainted with her for the space of Eighteen years past, and knows her to be the widow of the said Samuel Woodward deceased. That he was well acquainted with the said Samuel Woodward when in life, that he was a Pensioner of the United States at the time of his death and for some years previous and that he died at Shelby County, Ohio on or about the 25, September 1852. Affiant further states that the said Sarah Woodward is entitled to full and implicit credit in any statement she would make, that he believes he forgoing Statement to be true.
[signed] Andrew Waucop 
Sworn to and subscribed in open Court this 1st. February, 1854. And I certify that the said Andrew Waucop is a person of undoubted credibility and that full faith and credit should be given to his Statements, Given under my hand and the seal of said Court the day and year above written 
[signed] Vincent Guerin Probate Judge
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The State of Ohio 
Shelby County 
I Jonathan County Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Shelby County Ohio, in which said Court on the 5th day of October AD. 1853 Cyrus Apple of said County testified touching the Application of Sarah Woodward for Pension. Do Hereby Certify that I have for several years been acquainted with the said Cyrus Apple that he sustains an excellent moral character, is entirely credible, and that full faith and credit should be given to his statement and testimony in above Case.
Given under my hand and Seal of said Court this 1st day of February AD 1854 
[written and crossed out} Vincent Guerin Probate Judge
[written below cross-cut] The name of Vincent Guerin was erroneously written above and erased)
[signed] Jona Count, Clerk