Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 18,378, Ebenezer Woodard, Vt.
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Vt.
Woodard, Ebenezer
or Woodward
Elizabeth

W 18,378

Contents
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repo.
Letr. to O. Jacques April 5./45

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New York   4155
Elizabeth Woodward
widow of Ebenezer Woodward
who died on the 24, March, 1831
of Niagara in the State of N York
who was a Private, in the Com commanded
by Captain -------- of the reg commanded 
by [struck through “N.Y.”] in the [struck through “N.Y.”]
line for 9 mos. 10 days,
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Inscribed on the Roll of Alban
at the rate of 31 Dollars 10
[paper torn] annum, to commence on the 24th 
March, 1832.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 27. day of [paper torn]
1845. and Sent to 
H. U. Soper   Batavia NY
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Arrears to the 4th of 
Semi-annual allowance ending

{Revolutionary Claim, Act July 4, 1836, Section the 3d}
Recorded by F. L. Swan
Book C Vol 1 Page 134
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To the Commissioner of Pensions
Care of the Secretary of the Treasury.
Washington City
District of Columbia.

[round stamp in top left]
[too faint to read except “kport 31”]

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Apl 4. 1845
Eliz Woodward
NY
4155 ‘36
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Lockport March 29d 1845.
To the Commissioner of Pensions
Sir.
Since three weeks since Mrs. Elisabeth Woodard widow of Ebenezer Woodward received from the Pension Office in Washington a certificate that her application for a Pension had been allowed. There is some misunderstanding as to the sum which she will be entitled to draw annually and also the amount of back monies to which she was entitled – and you would confer upon me a favor by writing and informing me upon both of these [illegible]. – Will you inform me also how much has been drawn for the benefit already. It is believed that she has received much less than other persons whose claims were precisely like hers, and if this is so, the reasons I should like to know- I write for her benefit – and by her request. and am her Grandson.
Yours respectfully, 
[signed] O. Jaques

Direct your answer to “M. M. Southworth.
Lockport, Niagara Co
N.Y.”
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State of New York
Niagara County } ss:
Milton Woodard, of New Fane, in said Niagara County and State of New York, being duly sworn doth declare and say that he is a son of Ebenezer Woodard, deceased and Elizabeth Woodard, his present widow, that he is aged Fifty years. That his father the said Ebenezer Woodard died on the 24 March 1832 and that his mother the said Elizabeth Woodard has remained a widow ever since the death of her said husband. And further that the Bible from which the annexed leaves, containing the Record of the marriage of the ^said^ Ebenezer Woodard to the said Elizabeth Woodard, has always remined in the possession of the said Ebenezer Woodard until his death and Elizabeth Woodard since that time  And further this Deponent saith not.
[signed] Milton Woodard
Sworn and Subscribed
on this 27 day of November 1843
before me by Milton Woodard,
who I know and believe to be
a person of truth and veracity
[signed] L. F. Bower Judge of
Niagara County Courts
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That her husband the aforesaid Ebenezer Woodard died on the 24th March 1832 and that she has  remained a widow ever since that period, as will near fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed. 
[signed] Milton Woodard “X” her mark
Sworn to and Subscribed
on the day and year above written 
before me and I certify that the said 
Elizabeth Woodard is unable to write
her name and made her mark for her
signature and is also unable to appear
before a Court of Record on account
of old age and bodily infirmity,
being most of the time confined to her bed.
[signed] L. F. Bower Judge of
Niagara County Courts
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Ebenezer Woodard Jr
Elisabeth Curtiss was Married, on the 22d Day of Decr AD 1774.
____________________________________ 
Elisha 
Our First Born Son was Born October 22d 1775
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Peter was born Jany the 15th Day 1777.
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Rachel our First Daughter
was born Feby 19th 1779

1832
1765
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059
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[left page is scripture – printed Bible]
saith the Lord of hosts.

13 Your words have been stout against me, saith the Lord. Yet ye say, What have we spoken so much against thee?

14 Ye have said, It is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the Lord of hosts?

15 And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, they that tempt God are even delivered.

16 Then they that feared the Lord spake often one to another: and the Lord hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the Lord, and that thought upon his name.

17 And they shall be mine, saith the Lord of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels; and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him.

18 Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not.
Chap.IV.
judgment on the wicked.
lijah coming and office.
Behold the day cometh 
as an oven, 
and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the Lord of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.

2 But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.

3 And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this, saith the Lord of hosts.

4 Remember ye the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel, with the statutes and judgments.

5 Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord:

6 And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.

[written at the bottom of the page is “Caleb Woodard”]
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Daniel Woodard was born July  18d 1781
David Woodard was born December 25th 1785
Lewis Woodard was born August [illegible- 1788]
Hannah Woodard was born Sept 26th 1790
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Milton Woodward was Born January the 13 AD 1793
Sarah Woodward was Born Sept. 11th Ad 1795

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Deaths
Ebenezer Woodward
Died 24 March 2832
Petter Woodward
Died 4 April 1822
Rachal Woodward
Died [illegible] Augt 1819
consort of Thos Ashley
Sona Dir consort of Peter Woodward Departed this Life 1821.
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[handwritten over the title page of this New Testament]
Ebenor Woodard
Elisabeth Woodard

[printed]
The
New Testament 
Of Our 
Lord and Saviour
Jesus Christ:
Newly Translated out of the 
Original Greek:
And 
With the former Translations
Diligently Compared and Revised.
By His Majesty’s Special Command.
Appointed to be Read in Churches. 
Oxford:
Printed by John Baskett, Printer to the 
University. MDCCXXV.
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State of New York
Niagara County} ss:
On this 24th day of November in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty three, personally appeared before the undersigned one of the Judges of the County Courts of the said County, Elizabeth Woodward, a resident of the town of New Fane in the said county of Niagara and said State of New York aged Ninety four years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed July 4 – 1836  That she is the widow of Ebenezer Woodard who was a private in the army of the Revolution in the service of the state of Vermont. That he first entered the army of the revolution about the year 1776 under Captain John Seaton & served about six weeks at the city of New York & then returned home. that shortly thereafter he entered the service again & served about nine months at the City of New York as she now believes & supposes but under what officers he served or what services he performed she does not recollect. That he was absent from home & in the army of the Revolution as he informed her most of the time during the Revolutionary war but the particular times he was so in the service & how ^long^ he served & under what officers she cannot now recollect. That she has heard her husband speak of serving under Lieutenant Nathaniel Holmes & she believes that her husband did during some part of the war serve under said Holmes. ---------------------------------------------- 
She further says that her maiden name was Elizabeth Curtiss, She furth declares that she was married to the said Ebenezer Woodward on the twenty second day of December in the year seventeen hundred and seventy four. That she has a Bible Record of her marriage, four leaves of which Bible are hereunto annexed, and that the said Record of her marriage is in the hand writing of her said husband and that said Record has always remained in her possession
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That her husband the aforesaid Ebenezer Woodard died on the 24th March 1832 and that she has remained a widow ever since that period, as will near fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed.
[signed] Elizabeth Woodard “X” her mark
Sworn to and Subscribed on the 
day and year above written
before me and I certify that the said 
Elizabeth Woodard is unable to write 
her name and made her mark for her
signature and is also unable to appear
before a Court of Record on account 
of old age and bodily infirmity,
being most of the time confined to her bed.
[signed] L. F. Bower Judge of the Niagara County Courts
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[Handwritten]
State of New York
Niagara County} ss:
Milton Woodard, of New Fance, in said Niagara County and State of New York, being duly sworn doth on his oath depose and say that he is the son of Ebenezer Woodard, deceased and Elizabeth Woodard, his present widow, that he is aged Fifty years. That his father the said Ebenezer Woodard died on the 24 March 1832 and that his mother said Elizabeth Woodard has remained a widow ever since the death of her said husband. And further that the Bible from which the annexed leaves, containing the Record of the marriage of the said Ebenezer Woodard to the said Elizabeth Woodard, has always remained in the possession of the said Ebenezer Woodard until his death and Elizabeth Woodard since that time. And further this Deponent saith not. –
[signed] Milton Woodard
Sworn and Subscribed on this 27 day of November 1843 before me by Milton Woodard, whom I know and believe to be a person of truth and veracity. –
[signed] L. F. Bowen Judge of Niagara County Courts
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State of New York
Niagara County} ss: 
Aaron Wood of  New Fance, in said County being duly sworn deposes and says that he is Fifty eight years of age. That he was well acquainted with Ebenezer Woodard at the time of his death & had been acquainted with him for about fourteen years before his death. That he died about March 24th 1832. That during all the time that deponent knew said Ebenezer Woodard  Elizabeth Woodard was his wife. That the said Elizabeth Woodard is yet alive & she has remained a widow ever since the death of her said husband.
[signed] Aaron Wood
Subscribed & sworn to this 24th day of November  A.D. 1843 before me Aaron Wood whom I know & believe to be a person of truth & veracity. –
[signed] L. F. Bowen Judge of Niagara County Courts

State of New York
Niagara County Clerks office ss: I David S. Crandall Clerk of said County do hereby certify that Levi F Bowen before whom the foregoing declaration &c, appear to have been taken was at the time thereof a Judge in and for said County duly qualified as such and that his signatures above written are genuine. 
Witness my hand and official Seal the 27th day of November 1843.
[signed] D S. Crandall
Clerk &c

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4022 
Widow Elizabeth
Woodward’s Declaration & Proof for Pension act of 1836

M74032
H. U. Soper
Agent
Batavia, Genesee
N.Y.
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Revolutionary War Records Section.  3-525
Department of the Interior,
Bureau of Pensions,
Washington, D. C., [blank], 19 _____. 

W18378

In reply to your request of  ………….., received …………. for a statement of the military history of Ebenezer Woodard or Woodward, a soldier of the Revolutionary War, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow’s) application for pension on file with this Bureau.
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[following is a table – columns are separated by “/”]
Dates of Enlistment or Appointment./Length of Service./Rank./Officers under Whom Service was Rendered./ Captain./Colonel./State.
Feb 1. 1780 to/Dec. 1 1780/Pvt/Parmalee Allen/Maj Ebenezer Allen/Vt
Dec. 27 1780 to/Apl 3. 1780/”/Lt. Nathaniel Holmes/check mark/blank
Oct. 18. 1781 to/Nov 8, 1781/”/John Gray/Ira Allen/blank
Battles engaged in, check mark
Residence of soldier at enlistment, check mark
Date of application for pension, Nov. 24, 1843 Her cl. was al.
Residence at date of application, New Fane, Niagara Co., NY
Age at date of application, 94
Remarks: Sol mar Dec. 22, 1774 Miss Elizabet Curtis 
He d Mar 24, 1832. He is referred to as Ebenezer 2”. Children Elisha, Peter, Rachel, Daniel, David, Sylva, Lewis, Hannah, Milton, Sarah, 
Respectfully, 
[blank]
Commissioner.


3-2856
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Rev Widow, &c.
File No. 18,378
Elizabeth Woodward
Wid. of 
Ebenezer Woodward
Priv. Rev. War
Act: July 4. 1836
Index: - Vol. M, Page 357
[Arrangement of 1870.]

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1921, Apl. 25 hist. to Dan’l C. Woodward. Letter in S. 41372 Ebenezer Woodward - En
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Widow Elizabeth Woodward
further affidavit. – 
H. U. Soper, Agt
Batavia
Genesee Co
N.Y.
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State of New York
Niagara County} ss.

Elizabeth Woodward of the town of New Fane in the said county, being duly sworn doth depose and say, that her late husband Ebenezer Woodward served a number of terms of service during the Revolutionary war and she is very sure that he served much longer than the times set forth in the proof obtained from the Records of the State of Vermont. That her husband was not called by any other name than Ebenezer Woodward to her knowledge or belief and was never called Ebenezer Woodward 2d. or 2nd. Ebenezer Woodward and she verily believes that her husband served one term of service of about nine months and further says not. –
[signed] Elizabeth Woodward “X” her mark
Sworn and Subscribed
this 4th day of Sept
1844 before me by
Elizabeth Woodward, who is
a person of truth and is of sound mind and a remarkable memory.
[signed] Anthony McKee Justice of the Peace 

Niagara County
Clerks Office} ss.
I James C Lewis Clerk of said County do hereby certify that Anthony McKee before whom the foregoing declaration purports to have been sworn was at the time thereof a Justice of the Peace in & for county duly qualified as such & that his signature above written in genuine.
	In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed my official seal on this Fifth day of September 1844.
[signed] Jas. C. Lewis Clerk 
[to the left of this is a round seal with folded edges. There is some text but it is illegible]
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State of Vermont
Secretary of State’s Office
Montpelier October 4. 1843

I hereby certify that there is on file in this office a paper purporting to be a “Pay Roll Of Lieut. Nathl. Holmes’ Company, in the service of the State of Vermont, commencing the 17th December 1780, ending the 3d day of April 1781 inclusive, the money being due from this State:” on which Roll is the name of “Ebenezer Woodard,” with an allowance for 94 days service as a private, commencing Dec. 29. 1780 and ending April 3. 1781. 
	Also, a paper purporting to be a “A Pay Roll of Capt. John Gray’s Company and Col. Ira Allen’s Regiment of Militia for service done in defence of the frontier of the State of Vermont, by order of Gen. “Ebenr. Woodard” with an allowance for eleven day service as a private.
	Also, a paper purporting to be a “A Pay Roll of Capt. Parmalee Allen’s Company of Rangers Major Ebenr. Allen’s Detachment, raised for the defence of the State of Vermont, commencing February 1st and the 1st of December A.D. 1780, both days included.”: on which Roll is the name of “2d Ebenr.
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Woodward” with an allowance for ten months service as a private, commencing Feby 1st and ending December 1st. And on the same Roll is the name of “Ebenr Woodward,” with an allowance for nine months and 10 days service as a private, commencing March 1st and ending December 1st.

All of said Pay Rolls appear to have duly authenticated and paid. 

In testimony whereof I hereto set my hand and affix the seal of this office this fourth day of October AD 1843
[signed] Ferrand F. Merrill
Acting Secretary of State
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[handwritten]
Hon. J. L. Edwards
Commr of Pensions
Washington
D. of C.

Free

[round postal stamp]
Batavia
N.Y.
Jan 14

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Jan 18. ‘45
N.Y.
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Batavia Genesee Co. N.Y.
Janry 14. 1845 – 

Dear Sir,
In the matter of Elizabeth Woodward on her application for a Pension, I have made diligent inquiries to obviate the objections raised in your letter of the 18th. November last and have not been able to succeed. I can see no other way than for her to take the pension for the time stated in your letter, nine months and ten days and hope you will forward a certificate to me immediately. –
I am Very
Resply Yours,
[signed] H. U. Soper

Hon. J. L. Edwards
Comr of Pensions
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Batavia Sept. 16 1843

Sir, 
I enclose a further affidavit of Widow Elizabeth Woodward which I trust will be satisfactory in establishing her claim  to a pension. May I hope for a near prompt attention in this case than has heretofore been given to it. It was about ten months after I sent the application before I heard a word from it. I really think I have reason to complain. I have other cases of later date that received earlier replies. 
	This old lady cannot have long to enjoy a pension but I am very anxious that she should feel the bounty of government before she dies. It would make her heart leap for joy. There is no way of further establishing her claim and I think there can be no doubt or other identity of her husband with the one certified as having served a number of term and the shortest term of service certified to Ebenezer Woodward and not d2 Eb. W. –
Very Respectfully 
H. U. Soper

Hon. J. L. Edwards
Comm of Pensions
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Batavia Decr. 18. 1843

Sir, I enclose the Papers in the application of widow Elizabeth Woodward for a Pension under the Act of 1836.
I am very truly
[signed] H.U. Soper

Hon. J. L. Edwards 
Comr. of Pensions
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4022
Elizabeth Woodard
N.Y
Let to H U Soper Augt 27 44
“     “    same 18. Nov. 1844
Act 4 July 1836
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4022
Elizabeth Woodward
Widow of Ebenezer
NY
Act 4 July 1836
Admd. 9 mos 10 d private
$31.10 per annum
Commencing on 24 March
1832-