Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 4,406, Samuel Woodruff, Conn.
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Service: Conn.
Woodruff, Samuel Chloe
Number: 4.406
B.L.W.A. 36545-160-55
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Mar 3
218842 Oct 20/55
Chloe Woodruff
Widow
Samuel Woodruff
priv. [private]
Capt. Bray
(illegible) [leut.?]
Gent 1777
Dir Revolutionary War
(illegible) 53 - 2406
ao: 16oa 31/56
(illegible(
A. Johnson 
Enfield
let.

Vol W = 2 = 107
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2584
Connecticut
Samuel Woodruff of Windsor in the State of Connect. who was a Private in the Comfoy (?) commanded by Captain Bray in the Regt. commanded by Col. Prout in the Connet Militia

for 4 mo. 20 days

Inscribed on the Roll of Connect. at the rate of 25 dollars 47 cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.

Certificate of Pension issued the 30 day of Nov. 1832 and (illegible) to Pensioner Windsor Cont

Arrears to 4th of Sep. 1832 Semi= ant. allowance ending 4 dollar 1833
$38.20
12.73
= $50.93

Revolutionary Claim
Act June 7, 1832

Recorded by Eras. D. Bullock Clerk 
Book D Vol. 3 Page 74
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2406
Connecticut
Chloe Woodruff widow of Samuel Woodruff Conn. who served in the Revolutionary War as a private 

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 25 dollars 53 cents [$20.53] per annum, to commence on the 3d February, 1853. 

Certificate of Pension issued the 12th day of October 1853 and sent to R.H. Phelps, Windsor, Ct (?)

Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 3, 1853, Page 67 Vol. a
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State of Connecticut
County of Hartford

On this thirtieth day of April A.D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty five [1855] personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace within and for the county and State aforesaid Chloe Woodruff aged eighty four years a resident of Enfield in the State of Connecticut who being duly sword according to law declares that she is the widow of Samuel Woodruff deceased who was a private in the company commanded by Captain Bray in the Regiment of volunteers commanded by the revolutionary War and that her said husband volunteered at Southington in the State of Connecticut on or about the ... day of ... Seventeen hundred seventy seven [1777] and continued in actual service in Said war for the term of more than fourteen days and was honorably discharged at Saratoga on or about the ... day of ... in the same year. 

She further states that she was married to the said Samuel Woodruff on the twenty eighth day of May eighteen hundred and nine [May 28, 1809] and that her name before said marriage was Chloe Phelps that her said husband died at Windsor on the twenty fifth day of November eighteen hundred and fifty [November 25, 1850] and that she is now a widow.

She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the bounty land to which she may be entitled under
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the act approved March 3rd 1855. 

Chloe Woodruff

We Seth C. Thompson and Chloe Thompson residents of Enfield in the State of Connecticut upon our oaths declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by Chloe Woodruff in our presence and that we believe from the appearance and statements of the applicant that she is the identical person she represents herself to be and we further testify that the following records are correct extracts from the family Record of said Chloe Woodruff in the Bible in her possession - to wit

"Samuel Woodruff Jr. and Chloe Phelps married 28 May 1809"
"Samuel Woodruff died Nov. 25 1830 at 1/2 past 12 noon Act. 90 y 9 mo."

Seth C. Thompson
Chloe D. Thompson

The foregoing declaration and affidavit were sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and year above written and I certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons that the claimant is the person she represents herself to be and that I have no interest in this claim. 

Aholiab Johnson Justice of Peace
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I, A. D. Sperry Secretary of the State of Connecticut, and Keeper of the Seal therof, do herby certify and make known to whom it doth or may concern, that Aholiab Johnson was, from the fourth day of July, A.D. 1854, to the fourth day of July, A.D. 1586, a Justice of the Peace within and for the County of Hartford in said State, duly appointed and commissioned - having full power and authority by the laws of said State, to take the Acknowledgment of Deeds and to certify the same; also administer Oaths, to take Affidavits and Depositions out of Court, and to give Certificates therof; and that full faith and credit may and ought to be given to his official acts and attestations. 

And I further certify, That I believe the foregoing signature of the said Aholiab Johnson to be genuine. 

In testimony whereof, I hare hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said State, at Hartford, this 55h day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty five [1855].

Secretary of State
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State of Connecticut
County of Hartford/  S J Enfield

On this 10th day of June AD 1853  personally appeared before the Probate Court for the District of Enfield in said State of Connecticut Chloe Woodruff a resident of Enfield in the county of Hartford and State aforesaid aged eighty two years who first being duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress passed on the third day of February 1853 [Feb 3, 1853] granting previos the widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War. That she is the widow of Samuel Woodruff who was a soldier in the war of the revolution and served in the campaign in which Burgoyne was taken at Saratoga in the State of New York.  That her late husband Samuel Woodruff was a pensioner under the act of and received his pension at Hartford in the State of Connecticut and that his Pension papers and the proof of his service are at Washington as has been informed and believes which will show all the particulars which the deponent does not now recollect sufficiently to state with accuracy.

She further declares that she was married to the said Samuel Woodruff on the 28 day of May in the year eighteen hundred and nine [1809]  That her said husband died on the 25 day of November eighteen hundred and fifty [1850]. That she was not married to him prior the second of January eighteen hundred [Jan 2, 1800] but at the time above stated. She further declares that she  is now a widow Chloe Woodruff

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year above as written before me

Aholiab Johnson Judge of Probate
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State of Connecticut
District of Enfield  This certifies that Aholiab Johnson is Judge of the Court of Probate for the District of Enfield and that the foregoing is his genuine Signature. I also further certify that the said Aholiab Johnson is a Justice of the peace for the county of Hartford in said State and this his signature to the deposition hereto attached is his genuine signature.  In Testimony whereof I have here to set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Probate court this 10th day of June AD 1853 [June 10, 1853]

Alonzo P Johnson Clerk of the Court of Probate for the District of Enfield
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State of Connecticut
county of Hartford

On this day 27 day of May eighteen hundred and fifty three [May 27, 1853] personally appeared before me Aholiab Johnson a Justice of the peace within and for the county and State aforesaid. R Homer Phelps of Granby in said county who being duly sworn according to law does depose and say that he is sixty four years of age.  That he was present at the marriage of Samuel Woodruff and Chloe Phelps. That said marriage took place at said Granby on the twenty eighth day of May in the year eighteen hundred nine [May 28, 1809] and that the ceremony was performed by the Reverend Mr. Asa Cornwell

R Homer Phelps

He also does further depose and say that he was present at the time of death of the said Samuel Woodruff which took place on the twenty fifth day of November eighteen hundred and fifty [November 25, 1850] aged more than ninety years. And that he had been well acquainted with the said Samuel Woodruff and his wife from the time of his marriage till his death

R. Homer Phelps
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Sworn to and subscribed this day and year above written before me

Aholiab Johnson Justice of Peace
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State of Connecticut, County of Hartford Ss.
 
On this twenty eight day of August AD 1832 before the County Court for said County, August Term, in open Court
Personally appeared Samuel Woodruff ^[a resident of Windsor] in the County and State aforesaid, aged between seventy two and seventy three years, who being 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 7th 1832 -

That he was born at Southington in the County and State aforesaid on the 19th day of February AD 1760, as appears by an original entry in his father’s hand writing on a blank leaf in his family Bible – that he is now between 72 and 73 years of age. - that from his birth until after the close of the war of the revolution he resided in said Southington but ^ [now] resides in said Windsor -   that on or about the 15th day of August, 1776, according to his recollection and belief, his brother Jason Woodruff, then of said Southington, ^ [and] then belonging to a militia troop of horse, was drafted for an unlimited tour of military service to be performed at White Plains and its vicinity - that this applicant was accepted as a substitute for said Jason and performed the service of that tour at White Plains, East and West Chester, and Marrineck; [Mamaroneck] and continued in that service to the 15th or 16 day of Novem[squiggle]. then following- Col. [Colonel] Trout, he believes, commanded the Regiment- the name of the officer commanding the company, not remembered. During the continuance of this term of service no battle of importance was fought in that section of country, excepting that at White Plains about the 28th of October, in which he was not engaged, and respecting which he is unable, from his own personal knowledge, to state any particulars. He has no documentary or other positive evidence that Col. [Colonel] Trout commanded the Regt. [regiment] in which he served, but distinctly remembers that once or twice while on this service he performed the duty of sergeant of the grand rounds with that officer in the night, visiting the sentinels and guards at the various posts and giving them the countersign - He remembers also that, for the first time, he had the pleasure to see Generals Washington and Fayette at White Plains.
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that on or about the 26th day of April 1777, he volunteered his service as a private soldier in a military company which marched from said Southington under Capt. Asa Bray of said Southington, since deceased, to perform a tour of military duty at Danbury at the time the British troops under the command of  Gen.[L loops up] [General] Tryon burned the public stores and several private buildings at that place, in this service he was absent from home twelve days -that while at Danbury, ^[he, together with] Whitehead Howd, Daniel Sloper, and Mark Newell all of said Southington and belonging to said company, but now deceased, went into a house where they found several of the family ill with the small-pox - they immediately withdrew from the house, but having been exposed to the disease, were advised by the officers of the company to be inoculated without delay - all of us except Howd, who had a numerous family of children, complied, and were inoculated. That about 8 or 10 days after our return home, said Howd broke out with the small-pox in the natural way - we went into the town hospital together, where this applicant was confined by said disease 35 days - the physician’s bill and all other attending expenses were paid by his father.

Respecting this tour of service, the applicant would state the following reminiscences. The different bodies of the American troops [ink spot] were commanded by Generals Wooster and Arnold of New Haven and Gen.[raised L] [General] Silliman of Fairfield - General Wooster was mortally wounded, and General Arnold’s horse was killed under him in a battle with the enemy between Danbury and Norwalk - Dr. Atwater of New Haven was also killed by a musket shot through his head, while firing upon the enemy from behind a stone wall.

This applicant further declares that on or about the 10th day of August, 1777, he was enrolled as a volunteer soldier in a military company under the command of said Capt. Asa Bray at said Southington, and marched with them through Albany to Saratoga, where on or about the 20th day of October, 3 days after the surrender of Gen’l Burgoyne with his army, our company was disbanded, and he returned home about the 1st or 2d day of November following - He would further state
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that while in this service at Saratoga, he was engaged in the battle fought by the hostile armies on the 7th of October; the following particulars of which, together with many others which might be related, he distinctly remembers (viz.), that about 11 o’clock in the [a]forenoon of that day, the British troops advanced under the command of Gen.[raised L] [General]Fraser who led up the grenadiers, drove in our picquets [pickets] and advanced guards, and made several unsuccessful charges with fixed bayonetts upon the line of the continental troops at the American redoubts on Bemus’ Heights, near the head quarters of Gen’l Gates. But meeting a repulse at this point of attack, the Grenadiers commenced a slow, but orderly retreat, still keeping up, a brisk fire. After falling back 2 or 3 hundred yards, this part of the hostile army met and joined with the main body of the royal troops commanded by Lord Belcarres and Gen. [General] Redcisel. 

Here, on a level piece of ground of considerable extent; called Freeman’s Farms, thinly covered with yellow pines, the royal army formed an extensive line with the principal part of their artillery in front. - By this time the America line was formed, consisting of continentals, state troops, and militia. The fire immediately became general through the line with renewed spirit, and nearly the whole force on both sides was brought into action. – 

General Fraser, mounted on a gray horse, a little to the right of their centre, and greatly distinguishing himself by his activity, received a rifle shot through his body (supposed to be from one of Col. [Colonel] Morgan’s sharpshooters), of which he died the next morning at 8 o’clock at the Smith house, then the headquarters of General Burgoyne - Soon after this occurrence the British grenadiers began reluctantly to give ground; and their whole line within a few minutes appeared broken - still, they kept up a respectable fire, both of artillery and musquetry.  At about this stage in the action, Gen. Arnold, while galloping up and down our line upon a small brown horse which he had that day borrowed from his friend Leonard Chester of Wethersfield, received a musket ball which broke his leg and killed the horse under him. He was at that moment about 40 yards distant from this applicant and in fair view. Isaac Newell of said Southington, since deceased, and one or two others assisted this applicant to extricate Arnold from the fallen horse, placed him on a litter and
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sent him back the headquarters of Gen.[extended L] Gates. A Regiment of the royal Grenadiers, with the brave Major Ackland at their head, in conducting the retreat, came to a small cultivated field inclosed [enclosed] by a fence. Here they halted, formed, and made a stand - apparently determined to retrieve what they had lost by their repulse at the redoubts in the commencement of the action. They placed in their centre and at each flank, a strong battery of brass fieldpieces. The carnage ^[became] frightful: but the conflict was of short duration. Their gallant Major received a musket ball through both legs, which placed him [underline]hors de combat[end underline]. Retreat immediately ensured, leaving their killed and some of their wounded with two brass fieldpieces on the ground - Ackland, leaning upon the stump of a tree in the corner of the fence, was made prisoner by Adjutant General Wilkinson and his servant who were passing by. They dismounted from their horses and, placing the Major on the servant’s horse, sent him to Gen. Gates’ head quarters to have his wounds dressed. – The retreat, pursuit and firing continued ‘till 8 o’clock. It was then dark. The royal army continued in their retreat about a mile further and there bivouac’d [bivouacked] for the night ours returned to camp, where we arrived between 9 and 10 o’clock in the evening. About two hundred of our wounded men ^[during the afternoon, and] by that time in the evening were brought from the field of battle in waggons [wagons], and for want of tents, sheds, or any kind of buildings to receive and cover them, were placed in a circular row on the naked ground. It was a clear, but cold and frosty night. The sufferings of the wounded were extreme - having neither beds under them nor any kind of bed-clothing to cover them - several surgeons were busily employed during the night extracting bullets and performing ^[other] surgical operations. This applicant, though greatly fatigued by the exercise of the day felt no inclination to sleep, but, with several others spent the whole night carrying water and administering what other comforts were in our power, to the sufferers, about 70 of whom died of their wounds during the night.

The next day (October 8th) this applicant was detached from our company to assist others detached from other companies, in burying the dead remaining on the field of battle. This was a sad and laborious days work. On the cleared field already mentioned,
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and within the compass of a quarter of an acre of ground we found and assisted to bury between 20 and thirty dead bodies of the royal Grenadiers. 

The brigade in which this term of service was performed, was commanded by Genl. Oliver Wolcott of Litchfield, former governor of Connecticut.__

That on or about the 5th day of July 1779 when a body of British troops under the command of General Tryon came to New Haven, this applicant was called out by alarm, and, as a volunteer, went to New Haven and West Haven with a military company from said Southington, and placed himself under the command of Gen’. Andrew Ward of Guilford, and was absent from home in this tour of duty ten days --- making in the whole of the different terms of his military service, including the time he was in the hospital with the small-pox, seven months and 20 days.  He indulges a hope that the 35 days spent in the hospital with the small-pox, will be admitted in the computation of the time of his public service, inasmuch as that disease was contracted under circumstances immediately connected with, and while he was in fact, in such service, and, as a further consideration, that expense was defrayed wholly without aid from the public. 

He further declares, that respecting the precise days of the commencement and termination of the terms of service herein before stated, he has no documentary ^[evidence] neither does he know whether any such evidence now exists – neither does he know any person now living whose testimony can be procured by which those different periods can be exactly ascertained – but that he confidently believes the length of time in those different terms of service was as great as herein stated. – That the said Jason Woodruff is supposed to be yet living; and if so, is now resident in some place in the western part of the state of New York unknown to this applicant, and whose testimony cannot be obtained without great expense and inconvenience – 

This applicant further declares that he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity, except the present, and that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state or territory in the Union. – That he never asked for,
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nor, to his knowledge received, any discharge from military service during the war of the revolution – and that he never received, nor, anterior to this application, solicited one cent for the small amount of his revolutionary service – but has enjoyed the satisfaction of having endeavoured to discharge his duty as a citizen of the State in the common cause of his country.

But at his advanced period of life, and in the decline of years, he would gr[ate]fully receive the benefit of the provisions made by the act of Congress passed on the 7th day of June 1832, and for that benefit he respectfully applies.

Samuel Woodruff

We Daniel Hemenway a clergyman settled in the Gospel ministry and now residing in the ecclesiastical society of Turky [Turkey] Hills in the Towns of Granby and Windsor, County of Hartford and State of Connecticut- and Appleton Robins, a citizen residing in the same society, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Samuel Woodruff of said Windsor, who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration: that we believe him to be upwards of seventy two years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in this neighborhood where he resides. to have been a soldier of the revolution, and that we concur in that opinion .....
Dated at Granby this 28th day of August 1832....
          Daniel Hemenway 
         ARobbins [signature with flourishes]

Sworn and Subscribed the day and year aforesaid

       Anson Bates Justice of the Peace
           for the County of Hartford

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the Investigation of the matter, & after pulling the Interrogations prescribed by the war Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, JS [can't read, looks like signature]
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he states and the Court further certifies that it appears to them, that Daniel Hemenway who has signed the preceding certificate, is a clergyman, resident in the Society of Turkey Hills in the towns of Granby & Madison, & that Appleton Robbins who has also signed the [same] (illegible) is a resident in @ Society of Turkey Hills, & is a credible persons & that their statement is intitled to credit. 

And the Court further certifies that said Daniel Hemenway & Appleton Robbins could not be produced in Court without too much expense & inconvenience to the applicants.

J Jared Griswold Clerk of the County Court for said County of Hartford do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the Court in the matter of the application of Samuel Woodruff for a pension.

And I hereby certify that Anson Bates, before whom the foregoing affidavits of Daniel Hemenway + Appleton Robbins was taken, was on the 28th day of August 1832 a Justice of the  peace for said Hartford County + that the signatures, purporting to be his, is genuine. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand + seal of the Office.  this twenty eighth day of August 1832

Jared Griswold Clerk Ci Court
(Illegible) County Connecticut
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Revolutionary War Records Section. 
3-525

[line with illegible handwriting]

Department of the Interior
Bureau of Pensions
Washington, D. C.    space, 19___

W.F 4406 (uncertain about first 2 characters)

In reply to your request of __________, received __________ for a statement of the military history of Samuel Woodruff 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 in this Bureau.

Date of enlistment or appointment Aug. 15 1776         
Length of Service Nov 15 or 16 1776
Rank. (illegilble)
check mark
Colonel Prout
State Conn.

Apr. 26 1777
12 days
Captain Asa Bray
check mark

Aug 10 1777
Oct 20 1777
Captain Asa Bray
check mark

July 5 1779
10 days
on alarm of (cannot read name)

Battles engaged in , Danbury, (illegible...Shill is the start)
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Southington, Hartford Co. Conn.
Date of application for pension, Aug 28 1832 His cl. was al.
Residence at date of application, Windsor, Hartford Co. Conn.
Age at date of application, b. Feb'y 19 1760 at Southington, Conn.
d. Nov 25, 1850 at Windsor, Conn.

Remarks: He was . May 28, 1809 at Granby Conn. Chloe Phelps. She was at (illegible....present?) on her app. ex. June 10 1853 at which time she was a resident of Enfield, Hartford Co. Conn aged 82 years

Respectfully, 

brother Jason

Commissioner
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Brief in the case of Mrs Chloe Woodruff widow of Samuel 

Hartford County and State of Connecticut
act of Feb 3 1853

Claim ("original"or "for increase") Husband a pensioners widow act of June 7 1832 at $25.47/100 per annum

Proof exhibited, (if original)

Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance.

A private in the Connecticut Militia 7 months + 20 days Pension paid to his death Nov 25. 1850

               mo
Alloued 7/24 80 = $ 23 33/100

               days
             20/30 3.33 = $ 2.22/100

                                    $  25.55
(If for increase)
      Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim?  If so, what?

Marriage period by R. Homer Phelps of said county who is certified to be a credible [illegible....witness?]

Death   auditor's report

Identity Circumstantial

Name and residence of Agent 

Examining Clerk 
J Le Gray
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Windsor 19th July 1853

Hon. L. P. Waldo 

Dr Sir - a few weeks since I sent by mail to your office the application of Mrs. Chloe Woodruff, the widow of Judge Saml. Woodruff for a pension due under the [illegible...late law?]. Nothing has since been [illegible] or heard in relation to the matter & Mrs. Woodruff is anxious about it. You will do me a favor by directing some of the force in your office to attend [illegible....to the?] case soon as convenient.
I hope to rely with confidence upon your influence for a post in your department next winter.

Yours Very Truly 
R.H. Phelps
June 18th
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Seal that says Hartford on it

Hon L P Waldo
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington 
D.C.
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Windsor 16th June 1853
Hon L. P. Waldo

Dear Sir

Enclosed is the application of Chloe Woodruff of Enfield for a Pension + the necessary evidence as you informed me would be required. I am personally acquainted will [with] all the persons therein named + know the statements to be correct The matter has been unavoidably delayed a long time + and will you have the goodness to disperment [?] the business to be accomplished without delay. You may direct ot me at Windsor or to Mrs Woodruff at Enfield

Yours very Truly + Respectfully

R. H. Phelps
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Chloe Woodruff

postmark from Windsor Con

Address [?]
then flipped:

Hon L. P. Waldo
Pension office
Washington
D.C.
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Windsor 22nd Augt / 53

Hon. L.P. Waldo
Washington D.C. 

Dear Sir

About the middle of June last I forwarded to you through the mail the application papers of Mrs. Chloe Woodruff of Enfield for a pension to which she is entitled under{?} the act of the last session of Congress. I have also since addressed to you a letter [illegible] your attention to the subject and have yet rec no intelligence from your department [illegible] it. The person who is [illegible] the [illegible] is a friend and distant relation of mine from [illegible] I am to receive no benefit whatever except the consciousness of doing good to a worthy recipient and I regret to intrude thus again upon your time and attention and may [illegible] hope you will have the kindness to cause the business to be soon completed. June 18th I remain with great respect 
Yours
R.H. Phelps
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To Hon. Loren P. Waldo Commissioner of Pensions

this certifies that R Homer Phelps whose deposition was taken before me on the _____day of 1853 on the application of Mrs. Chloe Woodruff for a Pension is a credible witness and if not so stated in my certificate attached to his deposition it was omitted through inadvertence and I regret that said certificate may be amended in that particular.

In testimony which I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the Court of Probate for the District of Enfield this 4th day of October A.D. 1853

Aholiab Johnson Judge of Court above named
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Left side:

1920 Oct 1 Hist to E. E. Taunton
1921 [illegible....Mar?] Hist to Dorr E. Felt
1921 Mar. 18 Hist to Wm Woodruff
1921 Mar. 19 Hon Edw. J King
Ad. Mr. Woodruff had been furnished desired data & letters returned (no letters from Mr. King only stamp on Woodruff's letter ask my consideration & return of same/ . aw. [illegible...initials?]

Right side:

Revy WIDOW, &c

File No 4406
Chloe Woodruff
Widow
Samuel Woodruff
Pri. Rev. War

Act; Feb 3, 1853

Index: - Vol. M Page 352

[Arrangement of 1870]
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Pension Office
Aug 31  /53

Sir

Please report time of last payment to or death of written named pensioners

Respectfully

F Burt Esgn
[illegible...aud?]

S. Cole
for Comm

Present
Samuels Woodruff
Act 7th June 1832 $25.47 p. an.
Died 25th Nov 1850. Paid to his death

F. Burt
Auditor
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Mr. Waldo

Dear Sir. If there is anything else wanting in the case please direct to me at Enfield as the old lady lives here & it will save her trouble too.

Respectfully yours
A. Johnson
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Enfield Con Oct 14, 1855

Commissioner of Pensions

Dear Sir

Enclosed herewith you have the application of Chloe Woodruff for Bounty land inasmuch as she is a pensioner on account of the Service of her late husband Mr. Woodruff.  I presume there can be no difficulty in this way.

The paper was accidentally mislaid and forgotten or I should have sent it long ago.

Respectfully Yours &c
A. Johnson
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Appl of Chloe 

Woodruff widow of

Samuel no 2233

Connl (?)
2584

Act 3rd Feb 1853

Rev

Alloued  $25 55/100 per ann
[Illegible] Feb 3 -1853

R. H. Phelps
Windsor
Ct

Vertical:
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Pension Office, Official Business
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Postmark Windsor Jul 20

Hon L. P Waldo
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
D.C
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Chloe Woodruff

W.B. Geddes

Hon. Loren P. Waldo
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington 
D.C.
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Postmark

Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
D.C.
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31,545

[Illegible...Rev Anes?]
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No. 2233

Chloe Woodruff widow of Samuel

Let/Set[?]

Aug 31/53

Gray
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Rev. War Section.

March 19, 1921

Hon. Edward J. King
House of Representatives

My dear Mr. King:

In response to the enclosed letter of Mr. William H. Woodruff, of 624 Kentucky St. Quincy Ill, dated Mar 15, 1921 which was forwarded by you to this Bureau for consideration, I have the honor to advise you, that Mr Woodruff was informed on March 19, 1921 in response to his two letters of Feb. 18, 1921 and Mar. 8, 1921, (copies of which were furnished you by hand that the Revolutionary War records of this Bureau failed to afford any information in regard to Samuel Woodruff who was born 1734 and died in 1816 as described by him.  He was also furnished the hist-ory of the Revolutionary War pensioner Samuel Woodruff of Hartford County, Connecticut who was born 1760 and died in 1850.

Very truly yours,

A D Wilkinson
Chief Clerk.
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Mine weights to govern settlements
Quotations not binding unless accepted by us in writing

Woodruff-Castle Co.
Wholesale and Retail
Coal and Coke
624 Kentucky Street
Quincy Ill.

March 8, 1921

Commissioner of Pensions
Washington,
D. C.
Dear Sir: --

I am in receipt of a letter from the Adjutant General of Connecticut stating that according to the records of his office, "Samuel Woodruff was a Connecticut pensioner in 1832 residing in Hartford County, and in 1840 residing in Windsor, Hartford Country, age 80 years."

Will you kindly furnish me with a copy of the certificate for the above.

I wrote you February 18th, enclosing copy of a letter from the Adjutant General's Office in Washington, D. C. to which I have had no reply.

Very truly yours
W. H. Woodruff

William H. Woodruff
2639 Maine Street
Quincy, Illinois

WHW/L

upper right corner:
Rev ?
MK
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Mine weights to govern settlements
Quotations not binding unless accepted by us in writing

Woodruff-Castle Co
Wholesale and Retain
Coal and Coke
624 Kentucky Street
Quinc, Ill.

Febuary 18, 1921

Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington,
D. C.
Dear Sir: --

I am seeking information as to the military service in the Revolutionary War of my great great grandfather

Samuel Woodruff born at Southington, Connecticut, October 3, 1734, died at Southington, Connecticut, July 7, 1816.  He married February 2, 1758 Ruth Lyman at Southington, Connecticut. [in handwriting next to this is "none"]

Also the service of my great grandfather

Samuel Woodruff, born Southington, Connecticut, February 19, 1760, died at Windsor, Connecticut, November 25, 1850.  He married May 25, 1784 Esther Sloper, at Southington, Conn. [in handwriting next to this is W4406]

I am enclosing a copy of a letter from the Adjutant General's Office, Washington and ask if you will kindly give what information you may have and a copy of pension certificate if granted to them. 

In the records I have there is confusion in the service of both Samuels, or rather, the same service is noted for both father and son and I would like to clear the record.

Very truly yours,
William H. Woodruff

WHW/L
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401 Stanton Place N. E
Washington, D.C.,
August 24, 1920

Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D. C.

Sir:

It will be very much appreciated if you will kindly furnish the records of following soldiers in the Revolutionary War:

Samuel Woodruff served in Conn. troops pensioned under the Act of 1832 and was then residing in Hartford Co., Conn.

Samuel Woodruff served in Conn. troops pensioned under the Act of 1832 and was then residing in Litchfield Co., Conn.

Thanking you, especially for any data relat-ing to the families of said soldiers, I am

Yours very respectfully,
Everett E. Taunton

apl. #1.
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Bureau of Pensioners
Revolutionary War Section
Washington, D.C. 

February 1st, 1921

Dear Sir: 

Will you furnish a certificate of the service of one Samuel Woodruff born in Southingto, Ct. 19th Feb, 1760 died Windsor, Ct. 25th November, 1850. 

Served in the Revolution and was pensioned, p. 660 Ct. Men in the Revolution shows this one, I believe. 

There appears to be several Samuel Woodruff's and for that reason we make this request in order to prove beyond any doubt the particular service. 

This applicant also has service for the father (none for this) of Samuel Woodruff who was Samuel Woodruff born 1734; died 1816. It is quite unlikely he received a pension. 

If it is possible, kindly give this early attention in order that we shall be in position to admit this applicant. Am of the opinion you have many calls for such, as our people say they experience much delay in getting replies. However we leave this to your kindness. 

Thanking you for reply, 

Very truly yours, 

Dorr E. Felt
President Illinois Society, S.A.R [Sons of the American Revolution]
Room 1333 Stock Exchange Building, Chicago, Ill.