Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 26124, Reuben Wooden, New York
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Service 
New York
Wooden, Reuben or Woodin
Number 
W.26124.
B.L.Wt57780-160-55
Patience


Contents [blank]
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End P 
Vol No 2. page 113

264.822  Act Mar 3 [cut off]
Dec 8.16
Patience Wooden wid.
Reuben Wooden pri.

[ writing over above information]
[ 5778 iss - crossed out]
57780 iss Febr 9/57
[Ad?]: 160 acres Feb 12/57
Boynton
Rev. War.

Pan? Act Feb 2 1848
N.Y. Feby 48-5794
S W. Higgins
Clifton Park N.Y.

Vol [illegible] page 113
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5794
New York, Albany
Patience Wooden
widow of Reuben Wooden NY
who served in the Revolutionary war, as a private
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 26 Dollars 66 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.
Certificate of Pension issued the 5th day of Nov 1851 and sent to John J. Shew Broadalbin N.Y.

Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 2, 1848, Page 244 Vol. 4
264822
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264.822
Application of Patience Wooden
FOR BOUNTY LAND,
Under act March 3, 1855
W. W. Higgins
Agent
Clifton Park
N.Y.
Presented by Lemuel Jenkins, Albany, N.Y. [struck through]
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No. 5. DECLARATION
Of a REVOLUTIONARY Widow who claims a Land Warrant under Act of March 3, 1855.
State of New York,
City and County of Albany.  On this Nineteenth day of March A.D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, personally appeared before me, a Commissioner of Deeds within and for the city, county and state aforesaid Patience Wooden aged Ninety years, a resident of Halfmoon Saratoga County in the State of New York, who being duly sworn according to law, declares that she is the widow of Reuben Wooden deceased, who was a private in the War of the Revolution and served therein as set forth in declaration made by her under the act of Congress of 2nd February 1848 and on which Declaration she received a Pension Certificate for twenty six dollars and sixty six cents per annum payable at the Albany Agency in the State of New York which certificate is recorded on the Roll of Pensioners under the act of Feb 2, 1848 on Page 244 Vol 4 which certificate the State draws pay on as the widow of the said Reuben Wooden and to which declaration as to the Service of the said husband in said war was on file deferring to the time, place and nature of Service as also the officers under whom he served she would respectfully refer for [conctuiss?]
She further states that she was married to the said Reuben Wooden in Stillwater County aforesaid on the Eighteenth day of December A.D. 1783 by one Elder Campbell a Clergyman and that her name before her said marriage was Patience Sanders that her said husband died at Halfmoon Saratoga Co. on the 31st day of January A.D. 1822, and that she is now a widow.  and has been so since the date of her said husband's death and has to the [illegible] marriage to her said husband on the date above stated she declares that her only testimony she has to offer and which she can obtain is the original family record now on file in the department which document and accompanied her declaration on which she was placed on the pension list and to which she would refer 
She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the bounty land to which she may be entitled under the act approved March 3, 1855, and she hereby requests the Commissioner of Pensions to forward her warrant to LEMUEL JENKINS, Albany, N.Y., and appoint him my attorney to receive the same for me.
Patience M. Wooden X mark
We Lucy Fry and Hapeum Martin residents of Half Moon Saratoga county declare, that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by Patience Wooden 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.
Lucy Fry
Hapeum Martin
The foregoing declaration and affidavit were sworn to and subscribed before me, on this 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.
  D. W. Wait  Justice
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State of New York
Saratoga County
I, Samuel W. Horton Clerk of the said county, do hereby certify that David W. Wait was, on the day of the date of the foregoing certificate, a Justice of the peace within and for the said County, duly appointed and qualified, and that the signature thereto, purporting to be his, is genuine.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed my seal of office and subscribed my name this 23 day of Oct A.D. 1856

James W Horton
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State of New York
County of Saratoga
On this 30th day of July in one thousand eight hundred and fifty one, personally appeared before me E. J. Van Woert a Justice of the peace, in and for the county aforesaid, duly authorized by law to administer oaths, Patience Wooden, a resident of the town of Halfmoon, in the County of Saratoga in the said State of New York, aged eighty-five years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on her oath, make the following explanatory or rather a supplementary declaration to that original declaration made by her in the fall season of the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight claiming a pension under the Act of Congress of July 7 1838, entitled "An Act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows" that her claim at that time was not allowed, because proof of her husbands services, to wit; (that of Reuben Wooden,) was not made satisfactory by S.W. Higgins Esqr. who, at that time acted as her Attorney or Agent in the matter; and whereas she has now been informed that proof of the services of said Reuben Wooden as a private soldier in the Revolutionary War is now attainable, therefore, she hereby renews her application for a pension under the above recited Act of Congress.
She further declares that, if it shall be decided that she is entitled to a pension under the above mentioned Act; that she hereby claims a pension at the same rate under under the Act of Congress of the 3rd of March 1843, also that Act of June 17th 1844, entitled "An Act to continue pensions of certain widows", and also the Act of 2nd February 1848 entitled "An Act making further provision for surviving widows of Soldiers of the Revolution".
She further declares that she has not intermarried but continues to be the widow of Reuben Wooden, named in her original declaration now on file in the pension office at Washington.
Sworn to and subscribed this 30th day of July 1851 before me
E. J. Van Woert
Justice of the Peace
Patience Wooden X her mark
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STATE OF NEW YORK
Saratoga County Clerk'S Office, SS.
I, JAMES W. HORTON, Clerk of the said county, do hereby certify, That E. J. Van Woert was on the day of the date of the above DECLARATION and CERTIFICATE a Justice of the Peace, in and for said County, duly elected and sworn, and that the signature to the jurat of the above Declaration and to the above Certificate, purporting to be his, is genuine,
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my name, and affixed the Seal of said County, this 31st day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty one
James W. Horton CLERK.
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State of New York
County of Saratoga

Know all men by these presents that I Patience Wooden, widow of Reuben Wooden, deceased named in the foregoing declaration, do hereby constitute and appoint John J. Shew of Broadalbin County of Fulton & State aforesaid, my true and lawful attorney for me and in my name, to renew or continue a prosecution of my claim for a pension under the Act of Congress of July 7th 1838 which was prepared and forwarded to the pension office by S. H. Higgins Esqr. of said County of Saratoga in the year 1838, and for want of satisfactory evidence of the services in the Revolutionary War of Reuben Wooden my late husband. The claim was not adjusted and whereas Congress has since passed several Acts granting pensions to widows, I hereby empower the said John J. Shew to continue the prosecution as above stated; and if he succeeds with the same, then to ask for and receive certificates under the several Acts of Congress which may be found since that time to accrue in my favor for a pension; hereby revoking all former powers of Attorney heretofore given by me.

Signed Sealed and delivered
in the presence of 

E J Van Wout
Peter S Woodin
State of New York
County of Saratoga

Patience her X mark Wooden


On this 30th day of July 1851 before me personally came Patience Woodin in the foregoing Amended Declaration and above Power of Attorney named to me personally known and She Subscribed and swore to said Declaration and She also Subscribed her name by making her mark to the above Power of Attorney and duly acknowledged the execution thereof. And I further certify that I am personally acquainted with the said Patience Wooden above and as thus named and that She is a Woman of Good moral character.
E J Van Woert Justice of the Peace
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STATE OF NEW YORK,
SARATOGA COUNTY CLERK'S OFFICE, SS. 
I, JAMES HORTON, CLERK OF THE SAID COUNTY, do hereby certify, That E J Van Woert was on the day of the date of the above DECLARATON and CERTIEICATE a Justice of the Peace, in and for said County, duly elected and sworn, and that the signature to the Jurat of the above Declaration and to the above Certificate, purporting to be his, is genuine, 
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my name, and affixed the Seal of said County, this 31 day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty one
[signed] James W Herter Clerk.
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State of New York
County of Saratoga
On this Eighth day of October
in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred and thirty Eight personally appeared before me Nicholas Boone one of the Judges of the Court of Common pleas in and in the County of Saratoga aforesaid  Patience Wooden a resident of the town of Halfmoon in the  County of Saratoga aforesaid aged Seventy two 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 act of Congress passed July 7th 1838." an act granting half pay and pensions to certain Widows, 
That she is the widow of Reuben Wooden who was a private in the war of the Revolution and served as set
forth in the annexed affidavit that she has no personal knowledge of her husband the said Reuben Wooden Services, Except what she derived from information from him during his life time and knows of no one living by whom he can prove said services excepting those whose affadavits are hereunto annexed
She further declares that she was married to the said Reuben Wooden at the town of Stillwater in said County of Saratoga aforesaid on the Eighteenth day of December Seventeen hundred and Eighty three that her husband the aforesaid Reuben Wooden died on the thirty first day of January Eighteen
hundred and twenty two at Halfmoon aforesaid that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first of January 1794 or at the time above stated
She further declares that the annexed Record purporting to or the family Record of Reuben Wooden and Identified by Revd Dan S Pammeler and Laura Higgins Is a Just and true record of the date of Marriage & death of her husband the said Reuben Wooden family including the date of her births & marriage and
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that said Entry was made on a leaf in a Book Entitled the life of Christ by James Dugan and with the direction and advice of her husband the said
Reuben Wooden some years previous to his death and that said Record has been kept by her and in her possession since that time
Sworn and Subscribed on the day and year above written before me

N.B. Doe
Judge of Saratoga County Court.
Patience her mark Wooden

I do hereby certify that the above named Patience Wooden is well known to me & has been for many years that she is a woman of good moral character & sustains a good character for truth & veracity-- and I do further certify that from ill health & bodily infirmities she is unable to attend the sitting of the Court in this County, and I do further certify
that in business transactions with her in years past she has always made her mark, not being able to write her name.
N.B.Doe
Judge of Sara Coy Court
STATE OF NEW-YORK,
Saratoga County Clerk's Office, ss
I, Alpheus Goodrich, Clerk of the county of Saratoga,
Do Certify, That Nicholas B. Doe
before whom the annexed affidavit purports to have been sworn, was at the date of the same, one of the Judges of the County Court in and for said county, and that I am acquainted with his hand writing, and verily believe his name subscribed to the said affidavit, to be his proper hand writing and signature.
Witness my hand and seal of Office the 15 day of October 1838
A Goodrich Clerk
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State of New York 
Saratoga County  I Laura Higgins a resident of the town of Halfmoon in said County of Saratoga aforesaid on oath depose and say, that for the last thirty years past I have been personally acquainted with Patience Wooden widow of Reuben Wooden deceased who has subscribed to the foregoing declaration that I was also personally acquainted with the said Reuben Wooden husband of the said Patience as early as thirty years ago and from that time to the date of his death 
that after the death of the said Reuben Wooden the said Patience came to reside with me, that I had frequent recurrence to the use of the said Patience Wooden Books and in one of these a Book called the Life of Christ was a family record which record is hereunto annexed and Identified by Rev Dan J Parmenter and known to me as the family record of the said Reuben Wooden deceased afore described for a great number of years past 
[signed] Laura Higgins
Sworn & Subscribed before me this 8th day of October 1838 
[signed] Seth W Higgins Justice Peace 

State of New York 
Saratoga County } ss.  I Seth W Higgins one of the Justices of the peace in and for the County of Saratoga aforesaid Certify that Laura Higgins above named who subscribed and swore to the above affadavit before me is well known to me and has been for the last Sixteen years past and that she is a woman of undoubted veracity a good moral Character and that her Statement is Entitled to the fullest credit 
[signed] Seth W Higgins Justice Peace Sarg [Saratoga] Co
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STATE OF NEW-YORK, Saratoga County Clerk's Office, } SS. - I, Alpheus Goodrich, Clerk of the county of Saratoga Do Certify, that Seth W. Higgins before whom the annexed affidavit purports to have been sworn, was at the date of the same, one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said county, and that I am acquainted with his hand writing, and verily believe his name subscribed to the said affidavit, to be his proper hand writing and signature 
Witness my hand and seal of Office, the 15th day of October 1838 
[signed] A Goodrich Clerk
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State of New York
Saratoga County ⎬ I Jacob Shew of the town of Northampton
in the County of Fulton aged Seventy
four years on oath depose and say that in the war of the Revolution that is in the year 1782 a Regiment of Infantry of the militia of the State of New York was [illegible] by order of Government and placed under the command of Colonel Marinus Willett, that said Regiment was Stationed at Johnstown Montgomery County and along the security of the Mohawk River and its fortification that I was attached to a company commanded by Captain Peter Tierce in said Regiment and served in said
company untill dismissed at the Expiration of nine months the time of service for which I entered. That on
my entering said service there was a private in said company by the name of Reuben Wooden who entered
the service as a private in the said Captain Tierce Company aforesaid, at the commencement of said town and continued to serve therein untill the full end and term of months the period for which he entered and that since the close of the Revolution I have frequently seen the said Reuben Wooden and that he there rids
at Halfmoon Saratoga County State of New York and I am informed & verily believe he continued to reside in said town of Halfmoon aforesaid untill the
date of his death
Jacob Shew [signature]
Taken Sworn & Subscribed this 25th July 1838
before me Seth W Higgins Justice of the Peace

State of New York
Saratoga County⎬
I Seth W Higgins one of the Justices of the peace in and for the County of Saratoga Certify that that I am personally acquainted with
Jacob Shew who appeared before me and subscribed & Sworn to the above affidavit on the date thereof and that he is a man of good character and his statement entitled to the fullest credit
Seth W Higgins
Justice of Peace
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STATE OF NEW-YORK, Saratoga County Clerk's Office, } SS. - I, Alpheus Goodrich, Clerk of the county of Saratoga Do Certify, that Seth W. Higgins before whom the annexed affidavit purports to have been sworn, was at the date of the same, one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said county, and that I am acquainted with his hand writing, and verily believe his name subscribed to the said affidavit, to be his proper hand writing and signature 
Witness my hand and seal of Office, the 15th day of October 1838 
[signed] A Goodrich Clerk
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State of New York
Schenectady County
I Gershom Vanderheyden a resident of the City of Schenectady aged eighty three years a Revolutionary pensioner of the United States on oath depose and say west that in
the year 1782 in the commencement of the same [illegible] Service of the United States in a Regiment commanded by Colonel Marinus Willett & was stationed in Johnstown Montgomery County, that I was
personally acquainted with Jacob Shew & Reuben Wooden who
were both privates in said Regiment and that they Entered the Service for nine months and  continued to serve until the full End and time for which they entered. And further this deponent saith not.
Gerham his X mark Vanderheyden

[different handwriting]
State of New York}
Schenectady County} I hereby certify
that on the 26th day of July 1838 personally appeared before me Gershom Vanderheyden &
made oath that the facts set forth in
the above affidavit by him subscribed are true & correct-
And I further certify, that I am well
acquainted with the said Gershom Vanderheyden & that he is a creditable man and that he cannot write his name in consequence of old age & the want of Education-
J.D.Harman
Justice of the peace
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STATE OF NEW YORK. 
COUNTY OF SCHENECTADY. CLERK'S OFFICE. } ss.  I William W. Tredway, Deputy Clerk of said County, DO HEREBY CERTIFY, That J. D. Harman Esquire before whom the foregoing Affidavit was subscribed and sworn, was at the time of taking the same a Justice of the Peace in and for said county, duly commissioned and qualified as such; and that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said J. D. Harman and verily believe that the signature to said Affidavit and Certificate is genuine. 
In Witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said county, this 26th day of November 1838 
[signed] W. W. Tredway  Dep Clerk.
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[check mark]
V 354[illegible letter]
Patience Wooden
Act of July 1838 
[above written on top of below in different hand]
[illegible] 18 Dec 1783
[illegible] 31 Jan 1822

N[illegeible]. 47. Capt Tearce
5 mo & 23 days in 1782
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Record of the family of Reuben Woodin

Reuben Woodin Born January 3. 1765 was Married Dec 18th 1783
Patience Woodin Born Jany 25th 1766 was Married Dec 18th 1783
Reuben Woodin Jr Born June 20th 1785 was Married June 24th 1806
Mary Woodin Born February 14th 1787 was married April 21st 1808
Lucy Woodin Born May 9th 1789
and Died Dec 18th 1793
Timothy Wooden Born Sept 12th 1791 was married Oct 9th 1811 Died Jan 28th 1815
Cornelius Woodin Born August 17th 1793.----- And Died Sept 4 1793
Lucy Woodin Born Novr 16th 1795
Zacheus Wooden Born Dec. 25th 1798
Aaron G Woodin Born Jany 14th 1801
Abner Woodin June 20th 1803
Peter Woodin Born May 19th 1805
Hannah E Woodin Born Dec [illegible]th 1807

Dan S. Parmelle
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State of New York
Saratoga County
I Dan S Parmelle a resident
of the town of Halfmoon in the County aforesaid on oath depose and say that the annexed Record purporting to be the record of Reuben Wooden deceased late of the town of Halfmoon and found in a family Book
entitled the life of Christ was detached from said book by me and hereunto annexed and that from
the manner in which the same was kept and preserved I am fully satisfied said Record is original Just and true and I further certify that Patience
Wooden widow of the said Ruben Wooden deceased aforesaid is well known to me as a person of good moral character and a member of a Christian Church in good standing with the issues over which church I
preside as pastor. Dan S. Parmelle [illegible] and subscribed this 16th day of August 1838 before Seth Higgins Justice Peace
State of New York ⎬
County of Saratoga
I Seth Higgins one of the Justices of the peace in and for the County of Saratoga aforesaid Do Certify that Dan S. Parnell who swore & Subscribed to the above affadavit before me on the date above named
is well known to me as a worthy man & Pastor of a Christian  Church in the town of Halfmoon aforesaid. And I further certify that the said Parmeller did in my presence and on the date above named detatch the annexed Record from the family Book of
Patience Wooden and annex the same by seal as now is and signed his name at the bottom as will appear
Seth W Higgins Justice Peace
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STATE OF NEW-YORK, 
Saratoga County Clerk's Office, } SS.  I, Alpheus Goodrich, Clerk of the county of Saratoga Do Certify, that Seth W. Higgins Esq before whom the annexed affidavit purports to have been sworn, was at the date of the same, one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said county, and that I am acquainted with his hand writing, and verily believe his name subscribed to the said affidavit, to be his proper hand writing and signature. Witness my hand and seal of Office, the 15 day of October 1838. 
[signed] A Goodrich Clerk
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February 18, 1927
Dora J. Woodin
Mechanicville
N. Y.
Madam:
I have to advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim W. 26134, it appears that Reuben Wooden or Woodin was
born January 3, 1765, place not stated.
He enlisted in the spring of 1782 and
served nine months as a private in Captains Henry's and Peter B. Tearse's Companies, Colonel
Marinus Willett's New York Regiment, and was out on scouting parties against the Tories and Savages.
He died January 31, 1823 at Halfmoon, Saratoga County, New York.
Soldier married December 18, 1783 at Stillwater, Saratoga County, New York, Patience Landers or Sanders, who was born January 25, 1766, place
not stated. She was allowed pension on her appl

[Written by hand in the right margin]: I only used this service as he was pensioned for 8 mos. and there were no witnesses to certify for any of his service [initials AWF?]
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application executed October 8, 1838, while a resident of Halfmoon, New York.
In 1848, she was in Hambden, Geauga County, Ohio; and in 1855 he was in Halfmoon, New York.
Their children-
Reuben, Jr. born June 20, 1785
Mary              "     February 14, 1787
Lucy               "  May 9, 1789, died December 18, 1793
Timothy          "   September 12, 1791
Cornelius        "   August 17, 1793, died September 4, 1793
Lucy                "   Nov. 16, 1795
Zaccheus       "    December 25, 1798
Aaron G.         "    January 14, 1801
Abner              "    June 20, 1803
Peter S.           "    May 19, 1805
Hannah E.       "    December 12, 1807

Reuben, Jr. married June 20, 1806 (name of wife not stated) and was living in Ohio in 1847, Mary married
April 21, 1808 ( name of husband not stated). Timothy married October 9, 1811 (name of wife not stated), he
died January 28, 1815.
Respectfully,
WINFIELD SCOTT
Commissioner.
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Revg
1927 - Feb. 18- Hist to Dora
J. Wooden [illegible]

WIDOW, &c.
File No. 26, 124
Patience Wooden wid of Reuben Wooden 
Pri Rev. War
Act: Feb. 2d 1848.
Index: -- Vol. W, Page 359
(Arrangement of 1870.]
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8 months
3542
Patience Wooden
N. Y.
Act 7 July, 1838
Let. to S. W. Higgins,
May 27, 1839

let. to S. W. Higgins June 21 1843
"    "   "   "       "        Oct. 25   "
"      "  Clt  May 19 1845 
let. to James Hathaway
Ded. 3. '49
25.
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{Bounty Land Declaration Act of 3 March 1855

Hon J Minot
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
DC

Free 

Clifton Park N.Y.
Dec 4
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57.780
[illegible]
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11. 197
New York Albany
Patience Wooden Widow of Rueben 
Wooden who died on the 31 Jany 1822 of Saratoga Co in the State of N.Y. who was a private in the Compy commanded by Captain    of the Regt commanded by Col in the Revolution for 8 months

Inscribed on the Roll of Albany
at the rate of 26 Dollars 66 Cents
per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.

Certificate of Pension issued the 5th day of Nov. 1837 and sent to
John J. Shew Broadalbin N.Y.
Arrears to the 4th of 
Semiannual allowance ending

{Revolutionary Claim}
{Act July 7, 1838}
Recorded by H.W. Weightman Clerk

Book D Vol. 1 Page 539
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9094
New York, Albany
Patience Wooden
widow of Reuben
who was a private
in the Revolution

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate
of 26 Dollars 66 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the
5th day of Novr 1837 and sent to
John J Shew Eq
Broadalbin N.Y.

Acts of March 3, 1843 & June 17, 1844.
Recorded in Book A Vol 2 Page 92
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Mechanicville N.Y.
Dec. 29, 1926.
Bureau of Pensions
Washington, D.C.
Sirs
Seeking menbership
in D.A.R. I wish the
information that would
make this possible.
We have these records at
home, of Reuben Woodin, born
1765 died 1822. Enlisted from
Putnam Co, received his discharge
at Tribes Hill Married Patience
Landers born 1766 died 1860. She
received a pension until her
death.
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At the New York State Library
at Albany, in the Book
"New York in the Revolution"
Reuben Wooden (Woodin, Wooding)
appears several times, but ┃
I cannot make the connection. Thanking you,
Respectfully,
Dora J. Wordie
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Clifton Park N.Y. Nov 27th 1838
The claim of Widow Patience Wooden
as Enclosed is forwarded for your approval. The cause of delay was owing to an expectation of obtaining an affidant from one of her husband's associates in arms who served with him on a tour of nine months as an Entlisted soldier in the New York State Levices previous to the date of service so within claimed
It is satisfactorially ascertained that this companion in arms is dead and therefore at present the claimant only can show a service of nine months
I am Yours with Esteem

S. W. Higgins
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In pursuance of a law passed the 27th of April, 1784, entitled ""An act for the settlement of the pay of the Levies and Militia, for their services in the late War, and for other purposes therein mentioned," the following certificates have been issued, bearing interest at five per cent per annum, viz:
1st July 1780 Reuben Wooden private 0.1.1
31st Augt D  D   D  2.13.4
27th Oct D D D   5.1.5
5th Novr 1781 D D 0.19.6
7th July 1782  D D 5.12.6 1/2
31st Decr D D D  15.7.6
[total line drawn across in pencil] 30.0. 10 [illegible] 
[calculation in pencil below]

STATE OF NEW-YORK,
COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE, Albany, April 14 1843.
I hereby certify the above to be true extracts from Book No. 2, 3 & 5 now remaining in this office, and that the service for which the certificates above named were issued, were performed under the following officers, viz:
First-under Capt. John Hermann in Col Morris Graham Regt
Second, ""Christian Miller " " D "
Third, " " D " '"D "
Fourth ""
Fifth " "  Nathanl Henry " Ma[illegible] Willett "
Sixthe " " Peter B Tearse " "  D "
Seventh, ""
Eighth,
Ninth,
Tenth,
[illegible signature]

[calculations at the bottom of the page in pencil]
 "
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11. May 1843
D C.
Patience Wooden

[written sideways:]
Clifton Park NY May 6th
SW Higgins 

Mr J L Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C
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Clifton Park
Saratoga County NY
May 6th 1843
Dr Sir
Enclosed is a certificate of the Service of Reuben Wooden, embracing  the claim of his widow Patience Wooden
for a Pension which claim is now on
file at Your Office for want of Sufficient proff as to length of Service Embraced in her first application
Mrs Woodens circumstances
are such that the amount which she
may be entitled to Will be of much
importance to her in her advanced age
If any further information, or statement is required from Mrs Wooden within her ability to give It shall be forwarded at
Your request
I am Your most [illegible]
SW Higgins
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State of New York
Fulton County
⎬
I Jacob Shaw a resident of the town of Broadalban in said County of Fulton and State aforesaid aged Eighty years
on the depose and say. That I was personally acquainted with Reuben Wooden now deceased late of Halfmoon Saratoga County State aforesaid and with his then wife now Widow Patience Wooden for many years prior to his death that my acquaintance with the said Reuben commenced in the year 1782 and continued to the date of his death. And I further depose and
say that in 1782 in the spring of that end I entered the service of the United States in a company of New York State Levies which company was commanded by Capt French and was in Col Marinus Willetts Regt. that after
Being in said Company a short time I was detached and Joined Capt
Tierces Company in the same Regt that in my entering the said Tierces
Company I found the Said Reuben Wooden there as Soldier in said
Company and with whom I formed an acquaintance he was a member
of that company at that time but I could not say whether it was the
Company in which he was enlisted or to which he had been detatched
after his enlistment as it was at that date not usual to take men
from one Company and place them in another for certain purposes
as the case required without refference to the company in which
the first enlisted as was the case with myself and others. My duty
and the purpose for which I was attached to Capt Tierces company was to act as a guide for scouting parties in the forest in pursuit of the
Tories & Savages in which I was employed most of my time and
in these tours of duty the said Reuben was first among the branch [?bravest] [illegible] detachments for these duties was made up by men from the
regiment and without any particular refference to the several companies to which the individuals belonged. I supposed that the said Reuben was an Enrolled member of Capt Tierces Company at that date yet I could not say whether his enlistment and pay came through the said Capt Jone French in Henry as all those Companies were in service at the same season and in the same his and in then same Right and their Operations were assisted as one company. We were dismissed from
Service in the last of December 1782 or first of January 1783. I think the
last of December 1782, and at which time the said Rueben Wooden
was also dismissed he having finished his town of Duty at that date which was nine months according to my best recollection
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And I further depose and say that in the Campaign afore alluded
to I used to hear the said Reuben relate [illegible] which transpird in
his service in 1780 & 1781 that many of those occurrances were then
familiar with those of his companions in arms who it would appear from Coroborating circumstances were with him in service in  the year afore aluded to. But as to the fact of his service I have no personal knowledge excepting for the year 1782, but that he served as aforestated in 1782. I am confident and have no hesitation in saying he also served as a Soldier in 1780 & 1781, from circumstances and
reports satisfactory.
And I further depose and say that after the close of the war said Reuben and Myself Established our residences within about thirty miles of each other when we continued
reside to the date of his death, that our family intercourse was
continued by social visits with each other and on which occasions our Serving in the Revolutionary Struggle was generally the topic of conversation. And that the said Reuben was an active and efficient solder in said Revolutionary War
ready at all times and under all circumstances when his country's  good required to act efficient regardless of danger or consequences
Sworn and Subscribed this 14th
day of August 1843 before me
Allen Burr Justice of the Peace┃
of Broadalbin Fulton County
Jacob Shew [signature]

State of New York
County of Fulton} I do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with
Jacob Shew above named, and that he subscribed his name to the foregoing affidavit in my presence, and that he made solemn oath to the same before me this 14th day of August 1843; and I further certify that the said Jacob Shew is a man of a sound mind, and uncommon good memory, and a worthy citizen in community, sustaining an irreproachable character,
and that his statements at all times are entitled to full credit.
Allen Burr Justice of the Peace of Broadalbin Fulton County
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State of New York
County Clerk office
Stephen Wait Clerk of the said County of Fulton, do hereby certify that Allen Burr the person before whom the annexed affidavit of Jacob Shew
purports to have been taken, was at the date and time of taking
the same an acting Justice of the peace in and for said County
commissioned and sworn, dwelling in said County, and legally
authorized to take the same, And further that his name subscribed
to the first and certificate following the same is his genuine
signature. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my
name and affixed the seal of said County this 24th day of
August 1843
S. Wait Clerk
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Hon J L Edwards
Com of Pensions
Washington
D,C
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Clifton Park Saratoga County
N. York. August 29th 1843
Dr Sir
I enclose the additional affidavit of Jacob Shew in the case of Patience Wooden Widow of Reuben Wooden. Mrs. Wooden has left for the State of Ohio and up to this date has not
yet returned. I forward the said affidavit it being the only one I am enabled to procure as the soldier with whom he was most intimate during his services generally I learned had died in Albany County N. York. And on enquiry I find that he died some year and half since and was a Pensioner at the date of his death obtained for services [rendered?] in 1780. 81 + 82 in company with the said Reuben Wooden, his residence was not known until a few months and when called on I was informed he was dead consequently we are deprived of
of that testimony from him which would be important.
I therefore forward you the papers for your examination and should it in your opinion fall short of your requisition I will make further enquiry and effort. her claim is for and founded in equity and She is a subject justly deserving attention.
I am respectfully your Obt Servant
S.W. Higgins
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May 19 1845
Patience Worden
Ohio [illegible]
Ⓧ

J. L. Edwards Comm of Pension
Washington City D.C.

free
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Hambden Geauga County of State of Ohio May 13th 1845
J.L. Edwards Esq Comm of Pension
Dear Sir
I am the widow of Reuben Wooden a Revolutionary soldier who died in Halfmoon Saratoga County of State of New York Jany 31st 1822 and that  I made a declaration for a Pension on account of the Revolutionary service of my said husband about seven years ago which was forwarded to your office by my agent S.W. Higgins Esq of said Saratoga County and that I have not received any information from said Higgins since March 8th 1844 nor from any one els in regard to my pension although I have wrote twice to said Higgins for him to inform me if he had got my pension granted or was like to establish my claim to a pension on the receipt of a letter
from said Higgins dating April 14th 1843 & by his request I executed a Power of attorney to my son Peter S. Wooden to act for me. Now Sir I wish you to inform me by letter if there has been a pension certificate issued in
my favor or not and if not what what proof is lacking in order for me to obtain a pension. I now reside in said Hambden Geauga County Ohio with my son
Signed in presence of
James Hathaway
Yours
Patience her X  mark Wooden
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[illegible]  847
Add by
Patience Wooden
wd of Reuben

Hon J. L Edwards Comm of Pensions 
Washington City D.C.
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Chardon Geauga Co. Ohio
November 1st 1847.
Sir, 
I am the duly authorized Agent of Mrs
Patience Woodin, widow of Reuben Woodin, deceased, who was a Revolutionary soldier. Mrs Wooden has an application for a pension on file in your office which was forwarded by her former Agent S.W. Higgins. Esqr, of Clifton Park, New York. She now resides in this State with her son Reuben Woodin.Therewith send in her case a Muster Roll where in the name of Reuben Woodin appears and should not said Document furnish any additional proof in Mrs Woodin's
case I request it returned to me
Very Respectfully Your most
O.B. Servant
James Hathaway
Hon J.L. Edwards Comm of Pensions
Washington City
D.C.
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Patience Wooden
wid of Reuben
N.Y
Acts 7 July 38
3 Mch 43
17 June 44 &
2 Feby 48.
8 Mo. [illegible] - $26.66
per ann:

Sent to
John J. Shew
Broadalbin
N. York
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Brief in the case of Patience Wooden, wid of Reuben
County and State of New York
act 7 July 38 & Supplemental
Claim, ("original," or "for increase.") [for increase struck out]
Proof exhibited, (if original.)
Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance.
Evidence of service; Documentary &
parole.
Ev. of Marriage. Documentary
(If for increase.)
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what?
Name and residence of Agent.
John J Shew
Broadalbin N.Y.
Kirby
Examining Clerk.
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Broadalbin, Fulton Co. N.Y.
August 11th 1851
Sir, About ten days ago, I forwarded by mail the claim of Mrs. Patience Wooden, widow of Reuben Wooden, claiming a pension under the
act of 1838, also all subsequent acts in continuation of the same.
The same claim was tried by S. W. Higgins in 1838 and for want
of satisfactory proof at the time, the claim was not allowed. Some two years ago a case quite analagous was brought before me and I carried it safely through, satisfactory to all parties interested therein to wit: the claim of Sarah Benedict, widow of
(formery) Christopher Hall. After succeeding with this claim. I
advised Esqr. Higgins & Mrs Wooden of Mrs. Benedicts success,
and they mutually agreed some time ago that I should undertake it; but by reason of sickness with me, together with more to do than I was able to do; in connexion with the distance between us, it was delayed until the date of her Declaration and the
power of Attorney attached thereto. The affidavit of Jacob Shew and certificate from the Comptrollers Office were taken by me last winter, as will be seen by the date of the same.
If you received the claim of Mrs: Wooden as above stated, it will
undoubtedly be acted on in turn, which course I am always content
with, unless circumstances alter cases. Counting time from 1838
until now Mrs. Wooden has considerable anxiety about the result,
and as Mr. G.C. Ames has heretofore caused some important claims
to be examined by personal attendance, earlier than by regular turn I wrote to him on the subject; I also wrote to you to let him assist in
the examination, and he replied that, as a separate power of att[orney]
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orney from the widow was not given him he could not act in the matter pending. I hereby wish to be understood that, it was not my design nor intention that, he Mr. Ames should urge or press the claim through whether right or wrong ["whether right or wrong" is underlined], or even that he should examine the papers at
all ["at all" is underlined], but that through his influence, (if requisite), the claim might be examined by the department immediately, or at least
only a few days of delay. With this explanation I let the matter rest, trusting for the future time to bring all things right.
The evidence is exactly the same as that of Sarah Benedict widow of James Benedict, and formerly widow of Christopher Hall, which claim was asserted in the fall season of the year 1849, and after a reasonable length of time was allowed
Respectfully
John F. Shew
Honl. J.E. Heath Comr. of Pensions
N.B. If it shall appear that any thing which Esqr. Higgins did in the matter differs from any act of mine now, which at first appears obscure; let us know what it is, and we will try to explain. I think, (however) that all is right, and that the claim will be allowed. If it should have so happened that the claim of Mrs: Wooden was not recd about eight days ago; you will confer a favor by informing me of it.

[This document is a continuation of document 11.  The first word is a continuation of hyphenated "attorney"]
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Oct 30th 1851
Rel: to case of
Patience Wooden
S
John J Shew
324 Lydins Street
Albany N.Y.
Triplett
Hon James E. Heath
Comr of Pensions
Washington Cy-
D.C.
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Claim for bounty land
[illegible] Act 20th Sept. 1850.

[postmark] Albany N.Y. Oct. 27
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Albany Oct. 27th 1851
Sir, Please examine the enclosed claim of Mrs. Elizabeth Brockway for Bounty land under the act of
Sept. 20th 1850 and report to me on your most favorable
decision thereon. Taken out of [illegible]
Respectfully
John S. Shaw
James E. Heath Comr
of Pensions

N. 13.  N. 13. N.B. For more than nine years past I was a resident of the town of Broadalbin in this State; and it now becomes requisite for me to advise you of my removal from that
place to the City of Albany, 324  Lydins St. Please direct all pending claims here to me.
For Triplett}  Did you or did you 
not in August last file an explanatory
and supplemental declaration in the case of Patience Wooden of Saratoga County N.Y. under the Act of 1838 &
all subsequent Acts?
Her first declaration was prepared by S. W. Higgins Esqr. in the fall season
of the year 1838. The claim was never allowed. I found additional evidence, and by consent of Mr. Higgins it was transferred to me. It is a doubt in my mind whether her claim was ever recd. by you, or it would before now have been allowed. Please let me know whether it was recd. by you or not.
Respectfully
John J. Shew
Honl. J.E. Heath Comm of Pensions
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Augt 5. 1851
Appl of Mrs Patience Wooden widow of Reuben
Mr Triplett
John J Shew
Broadalbin
New York
Free
James E. Health Esq
Comm. of Pensions
Washington D.C.
Official business -
Claim for Revolutionary service
Broadalbin N.Y. Aug [postmark] 

[appears to be an envelope, writing vertical and horizontal]
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Broadalbin N.Y. July 31th 1851.
Sir, I hereby send a renewal of the application of Mrs. Patience Wooden, widow of Reuben Wooden for a pension under the Act of 1838. Her papers were originally prepared by S. W. Higgins Esqr. of Saratoga County, and for want of satisfactory proof at
the time, the claim was not at that time allowed.
My venerable father, (Jacob Shew) gave an affidavit, (I believe
two of them) that he was acquainted with said Reuben Wooden while in service, and that he was in service nine months in Capt. Tierces [Tearce's?] company from the fact that those companies were raised for nine months in , not supposing or knowing at the time that he had been transferred from one company to
another. I have drawn up a new affidavit for him, according to
his request, or rather exactly as he states the facts to me
explanatory of the facts formerly stated by him, [illegible] in the pension office with her original claim.
On a careful examination of his affidavit herewith [missing text] the two last paragraphs are designed to explain the differen[ces] between this and the former affidavits; and also to establis[h] the fact that Reuben Wooden named in the enclosed certificate of the Comptroller of this State, and paid from the 7th July 1782 until 31st December of the same year, was the same individual, and identical person  identified by said [affida]vit given by Jacob Shew herewith presented.
Thus having established the fact that this wido[ws] husband served from the 7th July 1782 until 31st December
there can be no doubt but what he also served from the spring season until 7th July, because his name
appears in connexion with several other men in both companies, each time bearing the same name as appears from an examination of the Comptrollers certificate here
enclosed.
Respectfully [illegible]
John J. Shew

Comr of Pensions} N.B. Please let Geo. C. Ames Esqr assist in the adjustment of this
claim, and then you send me your most favorable decision.
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State of New York
County of Fulton
On this 14th day of April - 1851, personally appeared before me Henry W. Spencer, a Justice of the peace in and for the County aforesaid, Jacob Shew, aged 87 years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath depose and say, that in the month of August or September 1782, while this deponent was a Corporal in a company commanded by Capt. French, in a regiment commanded by Col. Willet, and that while in service at Johnstown, a company was selected
out of said regiment for the purpose of an expedition as a scouting
party, (prepared for an engagement,) from Johnstown to Schuyler some thirty miles north of Albany on the Hudson's river. While out; the said company passed through Fondas bush, Saratoga Springs & Stillwater, and from thence to Schuyler, above stated, and then returned by the way of Ballston and Galway to Johnstown, having been out six days.
That the said Company was commanded by Major Van Benscouter assisted by Adjutant Giles Fonda; and John Myers & Henry Shew were
Sergeants, and this deponent, selected out of Capt. French's company, a Corporal.
That by reason of the great length of time intervening between then
and now, it is impossible to give the names of all who were selected to go
on this expedition, except those above mentioned, and (privates, Rufus Hall, Reuben Wooden [underlined] and Christopher Hall. The expedition having lasted only six days, the time was too short to have had any familiar acquaintance with all of them, but of a knowledge of those above named, this deponent well remembers.
The men, or rather company of men selected, according to this
deponents recollection, were taken out of Colonel Willets regiment, and
mostly (if not all,) from Capt. Tearse's, Henry's and French's companies.
That on their return to Johnstown, each individual was assigned
his respective place, to the same company from which he had been
detached. 
That Reuben Wooden [underlined] above named was selected out of
Captain Peter B. Tierce's Company as above stated, and as this
deponent, (at the time,) understood that those companies were
raised for nine months, he therefore supposed [underlined], as a natural
consequence and took it for granted that Reuben Wooden above named had commenced service in the 
Spring season of the year 1782 in said Captain Peter B. Tearse's Company, and from the fact that he was a private
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soldier in said company at the time within mentioned as having been
out six days expedition to Schuyler. Hence the reasons which
this deponent now assigns for having given an affidavit heretofore
in the application of Patience Wooden, (widow of Reuben Wooden) for a pension under the act of Congress of the 7th July 1838, stating therein that the said Reuben Wooden had served the full time of nine months in Captain Peter B. Tearse's Company, which, if the record of the rolls now in the Comptrollers Office of the State of New York be correct.
he must have entered the service in Capt. Tearse's  company about
the 7th of July 1782; therefore he hereby solicits the favor, that what
ever may be found in this affidavit to differ from the facts set forth in the former affidavit or affidavits now on file shall not be considered to extend to corrupt or wilful perjury, but that it shall be construed to say that if he had known at the time of making his former affidavits that the rolls did not show that fact he would not have given an affidavit as he did
The companies having been raised for nine months, he supposed that said Reuben Wooden had commenced his
services in the spring season of the year 1782, in the same company which this deponent found him in, in the latter part of the summer, or early part of the fall to wit; that of Capt.
Peter B. Tearse, but instead thereof it appears that he must have served until the 7th of July in Capt. Henry's company as appears from the said records in the Comptrollers Office.
And further this deponent saith not.
Sworn to and subscribed this
day of April 1851, before me
Henry W Spencer, Just Peace
Jacob Shew his mark

I certify that I am well acquainted with Jacob Shew above named, and that he uniformly sustains a good reputation and the facts set forth in the foregoing affidavit are entitled
 to credit.
Henry W Spencer Just. Peace
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STATE OF NEW YORK,
Fulton County Clerk's Office.} SS
I, PETER W. PLANTZ, Clerk of said County, do hereby certify that Henry
W. Spencer Esquire, whose name is subscribed to the certificate of proof, & credibility & before whom the foregoing affidavit or declaration was made & taken, to which this is annexed, was on the date of the same a JUSTICE OF THE PEACE, in and for said County, duly qualified, and authorised by law to take the same, and further, that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of said Justice, and verily believe his signature to the said Certificate is genuine.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name, and affixed my
official seal, at Johnstown, this 23d day of April 1851
Peter W. Plantz
Clerk
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Extract from Book 2  Page 48
Capt. Peter B. Tearse in Comptrollers Office.
1782 - Dec. '31.
Reuben Wooden Private. 7388 15.7.6
John Williams.          "   7389 15.7.6
Ichabod Crippen      "    7386 15.7.6
Richard Granby        "    7385 15.7.6
Lawrence Corns       "  7384 15.7.6
Daniel Beckwith       "     7383 15.7.6
Christopher Coats   "     7352 15.7.6
Ebenr Welch            "     7361 15.7.6
Prospect Carpenter  "   7353 15.7.6
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Capt. Nathaniel Henry -
1782 - July 7
Reuben Wooden Private 7649. 5.12.0
John Williams          "    7650. 5.102
Ichabod Crippen      "   7647. 5.15.6
Richard Grandly       "    7646 5.15.6
Lawrence Corns     " 7645.  5.15.6
Daniel Beckwith     "  7644. 5. 19.1
Christopher Coats  " 7634.  5.19.1
Ebenezer Welch      "  7642. 5. 19.1
Prospect Carpenter "  7635. 5.19.1
State of New York     
Comptrollers Office Albany January 15, 1851.
I certify the above to be true
extracts from books of Revolutionary services remaining in this office-
Philip Phelps
Dep Compr [Comptroller]