Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 44105, James Woodbury, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Woodbury, James
S 44105
CONTENTS

See letter to pensioner respecting new certificate 12 May 1829, and May 2 1829. See also within April and
Verification sent 12 th Sept 1820 to Woodbury, Hampshire, N.H.
(S. 128) New Hampshire
James Woodbury
of Canaan in the state of New Hampshire who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Little of the Massachusetts line, for the term of one year
Inscribed on the Roll of New Hampshire at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 8 of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 6 of Sept 1819 and sent to Daniel Blaisdell Civ. Judge Court Common Pleas Grafton County, at Hanover
Arrears to 4th of Sep 1819. 16 mos \frac{27}{30} 135.20
Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 March 1820. 48 —
$183.20
{ Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818. }
Contiguous

James Woodbury
14, 120.
March 1820.
Cont.

State of New Hampshire
Grafton ss At the Court of Common Pleas being a court of record by law established holden at Haverhill within & for the county of Grafton on the first Tuesday of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & twenty by adjournment from the second Tuesday of July last past
Present the honorable
Ezra Bartlett } Esq rs Justices Dwight Bleasdale }
Personally appeared in Open Court Moses Richardson resident in Canaan in said county of Grafton who is the lawful Guardian of James Woodbury of said Canaan in said County of Grafton a pensioner who by reason of intemperance & neglect of business is under guardianship & is so crazy obstinate & wilful as will not nor is he considered capable by to give his oath And declares for and in behalf of said Woodbury that according to the best of his information said Woodbury served in the Revolutionary war as follows viz a private in Capt Jacob Gernish Company in Col o Moses Littles regiment in the Massachusetts line That his Original declaration is dated 8 th day of April 1818 And that he has received a pension & his pension certificate is numbered 14,128 And that the Schedule hereto annexed contains all the estate owned or possessed by the said Woodbury & is appraised at its just value said Woodbury is a farmer Alias tinker by occupation is aged 65 years his health is poor & unable to support himself The town have helped him for eight years previous to his receiving his pension & would now be a Town charge if he should not have it continued to him his wife is aged 56 years

her health is poor subject to derangement & incapable part of the time of taking care of herself they have no children at home with them & the guardian prays his said Woodbury's pension may be granted to him
Moses Richardson
The following is a schedule of all the property of James Woodbury
   1 Cow 10.00   1 Hog & pig 4.00   1 Ax & one hoe 1.50   1 Old ax & Old shave 50   1 Set of tinker tools 2.50   3 pine chests 75   4 Old Chairs 75   1 Old table 25   1 Tea Kettle 67   1 pot 75   1 Duh Kettle 75   1 pewter platter 50   6 pewter plates 75   Crockery ware 25   3 pewter Basins 40   1 Rake 20  
Moses Richardson
$24.52
States to and Declared before the justices of said Court on this first day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & twenty
W. Woodworth Clerk.

State of New Hampshire GRAFTON ss.
Edward Evans
E seal
Judge of the Court, for the Probate of Wills, &c. in and for said County of Grafton.
TO Moses Richardson of Canaan in said county Tanner
GREETING.
WHEREAS, it hath been made to appear to me, that James Woodbury of said Canaan tinker is by intemperance & neglecting business such as he is capable of & so wasting his estate so as thereby to subject said Town to expense for his support & the support of his family
And the appointment of Guardians in such cases, and the hearing, examining and allowing the accounts of such guardianship, by virtue of the laws of this State, appertains unto me.
Trusting therefore, in your care and fidelity, I do by these presents, constitute and appoint you Guardian unto the said James Woodbury hereby directing and empowering you to take care, as well of the person as estate, both real and personal, of the said James and to make a true and perfect inventory of the said estate, to be returned to, and filed in the Register's Office of the Court of Probate, within said County of Grafton, and you are to improve frugally and without waste and destruction, the estate of the said Woodbury and apply the annual profits and income thereof for the comfortable maintenance and support of the said James & his family and you are hereby empowered to settle accounts, receive (and if need be) sue for and recover all such just debts as shall be due to the said James Woodbury from any person or persons whomsoever; and to manage, improve, divide and take care of the real estate of the said James in as full and ample a manner as the said James could or might do
and you are to pay all such just debts, which are owing from the said James out of the personal estate of the said Woodbury or in case that be not sufficient, then out of the real estate, (being first empowered to make sale thereof, or of such part as shall be sufficient for that end, by the Supreme Judicial Court, upon application made to them therefor.) and are to render a just and true account of your Guardianship, when, and so often, as you shall be thereunto required; and in case the said James shall come or be restored to his liberty you are to return the residue of his estate, both real and personal, unto the said James or to his heirs, executors or administrators in case of his death, as the law directs.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of said Court to be hereto affixed, this first day of March Anno Domini, 1870
E. Evans Judge Probate.
Copy examined N. Woodbury Clerk

State of New Hampshire
Grafton
I Woodward Clerk of the court of Common Pleas within & for the county of Grafton, do hereby certify that the foregoing Declaration & Schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the record of said court I further certify that it is the Opinion of said Court that the Total Amt in Value of the property exhibited in said Schedule is twenty four dollars fifty two cents
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & Affixed the seal of said Court On this first day of August in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred & twenty
Woodward Clerk

No. 2
Evidence of Service

I John H. Harris of Concord in the County of Grafton and State of New Hampshire and one of the Selectmen of said town do testify and say that I have long been acquain- -ted with Mr. James Woodbury of this town, that he is extremely poor, and that he stands in absolute need of his country's assistance for support - Concord April 10. 1818 John H. Harris
State of New Hampshire Grafton ss April 10. 1818
Sworn to before me
Daniel Blandell { one of the Justices of the Court of Sessions held in said County

No. 3
Evidence of Poverty-

4 Eliphalet Richardson of Cossaw in the county of Grafton and State of New Hampshire of lawful age do testify and say that I have been acquainted with James Woodbury of Cossaw ever since the year 1776, and am well knowing to the said Woodbury's services in the Cossaw Company of Capt. Jacob Gerris in the Regiment commanded by Col. Moses Little in the Massachusetts line in the as he has set forth in his application this day made upon oath year 1776, I hereby served at the same time in the Cossaw Company commanded by Capt. Ezra Smith in the same Regiment. I further testify that the said Woodbury is extremely poor and is helped to his support in some part, at the expense of the town. Eliphalet Richardson Cossaw April 8, 1818
State of New Hampshire
Grafton ss. April 8, 1818
Sworn to before me
Daniel Blanchard
{ One of the justices of the Court of Cossaw. Pleas in and county

Jones Woodbury's Declaration for Pension
Private Little's Mass t Reg t 1776. February to Jan y 1 st 1777
April 8. 1818
The Seal affixed has no appearance of an official seal.
The deposition of this credible & disinterested witness before the duly so be taken & authenticated (or the Certificate of an Offi- cer of the Reg t .) to prove the service of Applicant,
not of the Army writing

State of New Hampshire
Grafton St.
On this eighth day of April 1818 before me the undersigned, one of the judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County, personally appeared James Woodbury aged sixty three years of age resident in Concord in said County, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, make the following declarations, in order to obtain the provision made by the late act of Congress, entitled "An act to provide for certain persons injured in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war"
That he the said James Woodbury enlisted in said service in the month of February 1776 for the term of one year, in the company commanded by Capt. Jacob Gerrish in Col. Moses Little's Regiment in the Massachusetts line and served in said line until the first day of January 1777 when he was regularly discharged at Pittsfield in the State of New York, that he now is and always has been a Citizen of the United States, that he has hitherto received no pension, and that he is in reduced circumstances, understands in need of the assistance of his country for support and that the only evidence of his service now in his power to obtain is the annexed affidavit -
Sworn to and declared before me the day and year above written -
Daniel Blair Judge as aforesaid
I Daniel Blair said Judge as aforesaid, do certify, that it appears to my satisfaction, that the said James Woodbury did serve in the revolutionary war, one year at a time in the preceding declarations, against the common enemy, and that from my own knowledge and the annexed affidavit his circumstances are reduced and extremely poor, and that he needs the assistance of his country for support - and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken before me to the Secretary for the Depart- ment of War, pursuant to the directions of the aforesaid act of Congress. In testimony of which have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal this fifth day
of April 1818
Daniel Blair } Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of said

State of New Hampshire
Grafton
Court Common Pleas Clerks Office
This certifies to whom it may concern that the Hon ble Daniel Blaisdell whose name appears on three papers herunto annexed in his own proper hand writing with which I am well acquainted, is an Associate Justice of this Court. And that no particular device or impression has ever been adopted or used as the seal of this Court.
Witness my hand and the seal of said Court as aforesaid herunto affixed this 28 th day of July anno Domini 1819
M c Woodward Clerk

44 105
Rev INVALID.
File No. 44 105-
James Woodbury Rev Rev Rev
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 3 , Page 574
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Passenger Office 25th May 1891
Passenger with May 18
1891
John H. Galt
City of Washington
28

To the Hon John H Eaton Secretary of the war Department of the USA The undersigned deposes & says that he that in conformity with the law of the United States of the 18th March 1818 that my name was inscribed on the pension list roll of the New Hampshire Agency at the rate of eight Dollars per month. I obtained my certificate & drew for two years in March 1820 & have been continued on said pension roll ever since. My certificate is now in the hands of a man who refuses to give it up so that I am unable to obtain my pension Therefore I pray your Honour to send me a duplicate of said certificate that I may obtain the pension due to me which I very much need James Woodbury Andover May 12th 1829
Andover May 12th 1829 Personally appeared the above named James Woodbury now of said Andover New Hampshire & formerly of Canaan New Hampshire and made solemn oath that the above affidavit by him subscribed is just & true before me Josiah Burbank Justice

old card.
Thos. J. C. Bathorn Esq. factory of Wm.
Washington City

Canaan N.H. July 27, 1819
Dear Sir,
Enclosed is the application of James Woodbury for a pension, and the accompanying evidence, with the Clerk's certificate as it respects seal or - I hope it will prove satisfactory as applicant is extremely poor, and should it be delayed until after Sept. the town must support him - full -
Also I have enclosed the application of C. Richardson (taken out) & evidence, hope it will be correct and a certificate forwarded as soon as possible.
I am Sir yours with esteem & Respect
Daniel Haisdell
By. Edg. H. Woodbury

Additional evidence in James Woodbury's case

I Samuel Huse of Newburyport in the County of Essex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts Gentleman on oath do testify and declare, that In the year 1776 I was a lieutenant in the Company commanded by Captain Jacob Ferrick, in the 12th Massachusetts Regiment, commanded by Colonel Moses Little, in the service of the United States, and I do know that on the 29th of February of the year aforesaid James Woodbury then belonging to said Newburyport, now of Canaan County of Westport in the State of New Hampshire, enlisted into said Jacob Ferrick's Company to serve for one year - I know that he served in said Company, in an expedition from Prospect Hill to New York, and afterwards to Fort Lee in the Jersey - (and detached from them to take care of the Sick in Tarrytown - Lieutenant Atkinson and Ensign Doot were both Sick there - that while taking care of the Sick, he was taken Sick himself and left there - - I am fully satisfied that said Woodbury was on duty in said Company before he was taken Sick more than three months - and have no doubt he served his full time out, but having been left among the Sick, Scarcely determine the time of his discharge - I have no interest in said Woodbury's application for a pension thereby -
Sam Huse
I Samuel Emerson of said Newburyport on oath do testify and say, that the above named Woodbury was a Soldier in said Jacob Ferrick's Company and served therein in the war of the Revolution - I think it was in February 1776 that he enlisted to serve for one year - I was a private in Capt. Porter's Company in the same Regiment, and was frequently on duty with him - I know that he was on duty in New York - (and left Long Island with said Regiment - I have no doubt that he (discontinued) more than three months the continuance of the continental establishment in said Company in the said year 1776. I have no interest in said Woodbury's application nor am I an applicant myself
Samuel Emerson

Common-wealth of Massachusetts
Essex ss Town of Newburyport
Be it known by these presents, that on the thirtieth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, before me William Hoar, Notary Public for the County of Essex by legal authority, admitted and sworn, and a Justice of the Peace and Sumner in and for said County residing therein, personally came Captain Samuel Hovey and Samuel Emerson within named, and made solemn Oath to the truth of the within written Affidavits, by them respectively subscribed. — and I do hereby that said Hovey and Emerson, are personally known to me, are respectable Citizens of said Newburyport, and witnesses entitled to full credit.
In testimony whereof I have also hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal this day month and year first above written.
W. Hoar Not. Pub.