Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 11750, David Witherill, Conn. Continental

SERVICE
NUMBER _____
Conn. Continental
Witherill, David Wetherly
R. 11 750
CONTENTS

No 12150 David Withville
Suspended
16-May 1 st 1933
P 366
L. D. Brown Hartford N.Y.

BRIEF in the case of David Witherill  County of Washington in the State of NY  (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Court  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  3. How old is he? 66  4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed. 
   Period. Duration of Service. Rank. Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.   Years, Months, Days.     While under the age of 18 In 1780 6 Byrswald enlisted Gen. Mobb, Capt. Allen   1781 substituted 3 for 12 for 12 drafted Col. Canfield, Capt. Cook  
 5. In what battles was he engaged? none  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Wethersfield Ct.  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? tradition  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? 
I certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above.
Simon Bolt Examining Clerk.

David Withersall of NY Power of Atty.
Papers of David Withersall of New York act 1832 Inherited care & Ruth Withersall of New York act 1838. — —
J. D. Woodward Atty.

State of New York County of Clinton ss.
On this third day of May 1855 before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said County personally appeared David J. Witherell a resident of the town of Chazy in said County aged 60 years and made oath according to law that he is directly interested in a claim against the United States for certain arrears or increase of pension, supposed to be due to him as one of the children of David Witherell who was a soldier of the Revolution, & his wife Ruth Witherell
and he hereby appoints J. DOUGLAS WOODWARD, Counsellor at Law, of Plattsburg, N. Y., his Attorney to prosecute said claim, and examine all papers and documents in relation thereto, on file in any of the Departments at Washington City or elsewhere, and to receive from the officer authorised to issue the same, a certificate for any arrears or increase of pension to which Deponent may be entitled, and to do all other acts and things in and about obtaining such arrears or increase of pension as Deponent might or could do, were he personally present at the doing thereof; and he hereby revokes all former powers if any inconsistent with the above, and authorizes his said Attorney to appoint Attorneys, one or more, under him, for any or all the purposes aforesaid, hereby ratifying and confirming whatsoever Deponent's said Attorney or those appointed under him shall lawfully do or cause to be done in the premises. In witness whereof the said Deponent has hereunto set his hand and seal the day and year first above written.
In the presence of
D. B. Neil
David J. Witherell
Sworn to, Subscribed and Acknowledged, before me, on the day and year first above mentioned, and I believe the Deponent to be directly interested in the claim above mentioned, and the identical person therein alleged and described, and I have no interest in the result of said claim and am not concerned in its prosecution.
D. B. Neil
Justice Peace.
State of New York County of Clinton ss. I, the subscriber, Clerk of  Member of Congress  D. B. Neil before whom the above affidavit and Power was sworn and acknowledged on the third day of May 1855, was at said time a Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly qualified, and that I verily believe his signature above written to be genuine; and I have no interest in the result of the claim to which the foregoing paper relates, and am not concerned in its prosecution. Witness my hand and official seal at Washington D.C. in said County this 5 th day of January 1856
[L. S.]
G. A. Simmons U. S. from New York

State of New York & Co County of Washington & Co
David Witherill of State aforesaid being being duly sworn accor- ding to law doth depose & say that he is the identicall person named and described in the depositions of Daniel Warner & Reuben Whaples herewith transmitted to the Pension Office, and that when this deponent was about Eleven years of Age he lost both his parents, who died in one night of the Small-Pox & that deponents family were called Wetherly generally by their Neighbors & deponent never (as he believes) had but about three Months in etcholding his life & was very young at the time he enlisted & did not know how to spell his name nor but that it should be spelled as his family were generally called & the name pronounced by their Neighbors & has no doubt he gave his name as Wetherly instead of Witherill as he has generally been called since he left the Army & deponent further says that on or after his return from the Army his deponents Brother asked deponent what his name was called

while he was in the Army & this deponent told his Brother (who was several years older than deponent) that he was called Wetherly and his Brother informed deponent that it should have been called Witherill & this deponent has since that time written his name Witherill & further this deponent lived in the town of Wethersfield in Connecticut about fourteen years after he left the Army & then moved to the State of New York & lived there up to this time
David Witherill
Sworn & subscribed before me This 18 th Day of November 1835
Plade D Brown Justice of the Peace

In The Matter of David Witherill for Pensioner
£2.150
Rolls
Whiting Webb
David Witherill
some 14 100 80
4-16-

State of New York } County of Washington }
On this 29 th — Day of August 1832. personally appeared in open Court before the Honorable the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Washington now sitting David Witherill a resident of the Town of Granville in the County of Washington & State of New York Aged Sixty Six Years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed June 7. 1832. That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the Month of May or June in the Year 1780 while yet under the Age of Fourteen Years and served in the Regiment commanded by Samuel B. Webb as Colonel (but who was then a Prisoner of War on Parole) & of which Ebenezer Huntington was Lieutenant Colonel commandant and one Willis was Major thereof but whose christian name he does not remember & that he served in the Company commanded by one Allen as Captain but he does not remember the names of the Lieutenant or Ensign of the Company; however one

Holmes was orderly sergeant of said Company & one Meigs was Adjutant of the Regiment that he enlisted for the term of six Months about the last of May or beginning of June 1780. and that he left the service in the last days of the Month of November or in the beginning of December of that year that he enlisted in the Town of Weath- ersfield County of Hartford & State of Connecticut where he resided at the time he entered the service that he went from thence under the command of a sergeant to the State of New Jersey where he joined his Regiment that he remained there until after the treason of Arnold & capture of Andre & was then marched to West-Point and remained there until the Army went into winter quarters at a place called the Highlands a few miles from West-Point and at which place he was honorably discharged & that he received at the time a written discharge which has been lost or destroyed by time & accident as he took no particular care to preserve it not supposing he should ever have any use for it.

That in the year 1781 and as he believes in the Month of July a company of men were drafted drafted for the Term of three Months by the State of Connecticut from the Town of Weathersfield and several other Towns adjacent thereto and that upon that occasion one Josiah Griswold was drafted for said service & that before the company were mustered that he the said Witherill agreed to take the place of said Griswold soon after said draft, & went to the officer who made the draft & there signed some writing which he now supposes was an agreement to that effect. and that in about a Week or Ten Days there after and about Ten Days or a fortnight after the draft he was mustered in the place of said Gris- wold & commenced service under the command of Captain Cook of the Town of Weathersfield & that he does not remember the names of the Lieu- tenant nor Ensign of the company that soon after he was mustered the company were sent as an escort to

guard & convey a quantity of Specie to a place about Ten or Fifteen Miles from Hudson River East & nearly opposite West-Point (as he supposed; and it was said there was said there was Eight Gallons of Gold & Ten Gallons of Silver and it was also said to be sent for the purpose of paying the Connecticut forces. After performing this service he was marched to West-Point and that he there joined a Regiment commanded by Colonel Campfield but who were the other officers he does not remember and that he remained there (except being sent some Twenty Miles off for (four or five weeks or so to Hop wood for winter) until he was honorably discharged which he believes was about two weeks before the three Months expired but for the reason that he had a lame hand & was unable to do any ordinary service there and upon his agreeing to take charge of a sick soldier on his way home & perform the remainder of the service in that way which he did as as he agreed but at more trouble & hardship than to have performed the service at West Point.

that he received a written discharge which has been lost or destroyed by time & accident as he took no care to preserve it never expecting to have any use for it & that he resided at the time he entered upon said service in the Town of Weathersfield County of Hartford & State of Connecticut. and that he has no documentary evidence of said facts or services & that he does not know of any person by whom he can prove said services.
And the said David Witherill further states in answer to certain interrogatories directed by the War-Department to be propounded to all applicants for a Pension in certain cases
Firstly That he was born in the Town of Chatham in the State of Connecticut in the year 1765 on the 8 th Day of December as he is informed & believes
Secondly That he has a Record of his Age in his Bible at home
Thirdly That at the time he entered the service he resided in the Town of Weathersfield County of Hartford & State of Connecticut where he continued to reside after the Revolution until about 1789 when he moved to the Town of Berlin in Connecticut where he resided two years

Then moved back to Weatherfield & lived about two years & then moved to Hartford county of Washington & State of New York where he now resides & has resided ever since.
Fourthly That in 1780 he entered the service by a voluntary enlistment for the term of Six Months and in 1781 as a substitute for one Josiah Grinwood who was drafted for Three Months.
Fifthly That he remembers General Starks Colonel Jackson & Captain Wells of the officers who served at the time he did and also the Officers of his Company & Regiment above named & does not now remember the names of any others.
Sixthly That he received a written discharge from said services but cannot remember who gave it to him nor by whom it was signed and that the said Discharges have been lost as he believes.
Seventhly That he is known to Clark Northrup James Wright & Joseph Eldridge who live in his present neighborhood and can testify as to his character for veracity and their belief of his services as a soldier in the Revolution.

And the said David Witherill further says 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 whatever.
Sworn & Subscribed this day and year aforesaid J. S. Leigh CLK
David Witherill
State of New York Washington County } ss; I Jesse S. Leigh Clerk of the said county do certify that the five half sheets of paper contain the original proceedings in the matter of David Witherill an applicant for a pension and that I have fastened a connected the same together at the top this day with red tape & placed my official seal thereon.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto sub- scribed my name and affixed the seal of the said County this 8 th day of May 1833.
J. S. Leigh CLK

We George Witherill a clergyman residing in Hartford in the County of Washington and State of New York and Abiel Flowers of Granville County & State aforesaid do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with David Witherill who is described and named in the above declaration; That we believe him to be Sixty Six Years of Age; that he is respected and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion.
Geo. Witherill Abiel Flowers
Sworn & Subscribed in Open Court this 29. day of August 1832 J. S. Leigh CLK
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War-Department that the above-named Applicant was a Revolutionary soldier, and served as he states. And the court further certifies that it appears to them that Henry F. Baldwin who has signed the George Witherill who has signed the

preceding certificate is a clergyman, resident in the Town of Hattford County of Washington & State of New York and that Abiel Flower of the Town of Granville County and State aforesaid who has also signed the same is a credible person and that their state- ment is entitled to credit.
I Jesse S. Leigh Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Washington do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of David Witherill for a Pension. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal of Office this 29 th Day of August 1832. J. S. Leigh C.R.

June 15, 1937
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Mrs. L. Baylis 123 Spaulding Avenue Syracuse, New York
DAVID WITHERILL R. 11750 BA-J/MLB
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the record of David Witherill or Wetherly (R. 11750), who served in the Revolutionary War from Connecticut.
The record of David Witherill (as soldier signed) follows as found in pension claim, R. 11750, based upon his service in the Revolutionary War.
David Witherill was born December 8, 1765, in the Town of Chatham, Connecticut. When David was about eleven years of age, his parents, whose names were not stated, both died on the same night of smallpox.
While residing in Granville, Washington County, New York, David Witherill applied for pension August 29, 1832, and stated that while a resident of Wethersfield, Hartford County, Connecticut, he volunteered and served from the last of May, the first of June or July 18, 1780, as a private in Captain Allyn's company, Colonel Samuel B. Webb's regiment, and that he was discharged the last of November, the first of December or December 4, 1780; that he enlisted in July, 1781, and served as a private in Captain Cooke's company, Colonel Canfield's Connecticut regiment, engaged a part of the time in conveying a quantity of gold and silver to a place about ten or fifteen miles from Hudson River East and nearly opposite West Point, and that he was discharged after having served a tour of three months. The soldier stated that his family name was formerly Wetherly at the place he enlisted in the Revolution.
David Witherill's claim for pension was not allowed as proof of service was not furnished in accordance with the requirements of the pension law.
David Witherill continued to reside in Wethersfield, Connecticut, until about 1789, when he moved to the Town of Berlin, in the same

state, remained there two years, then moved back to Wethersfield, where he lived about two years, thence to Hartford, Washington County, New York. June 23, 1859, he gave as his post-office address West Chazy, Clinton County, New York. The date of his death is not on record in this office.
David Witherill was survived by a widow, Ruth Witherill. The date and place of her birth and names of her parents are not given.
The only name in the claim which was designated as that of a child of the soldier, David Witherill, and his wife, Ruth, was the name of David J. Witherill who in 1855 was aged sixty years and residing in Chazy, Clinton County, New York.
In 1832, one George Witherell, a clergyman residing in Hartford, and Abdial Flowers, residing in Granville, both in Washington County, New York, made joint affidavit in behalf of the soldier, David Witherill, but did not state any relationship to him or to each other.
In 1835, the soldier, David Witherill, referred to his brother several years older than himself, who was living during the Revolutionary War, but did not give his name.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER Executive Assistant to the Administrator

11.750
P. O. David Withersell
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18 .
Discharged: _____, 18 .
Printed list of 1851 Rinkfield & rejected claims shows cause of suspension
Application filed: _____, 18 .
"Suspended for further proof."
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18 .
1935 Oct. 16 - Stated to Mr. E. E. Charles - m. L. B. 1937 June 15 - Stated to Mrs. L. Raylie - m. L. B.
REJECTED

New York
Rev:
David Withers
Suspended
let. to L. D. Brown #3
Augt. '33 let to same 24 Nov 35
to claimant 2 July 1839
Sept 1834
let to same 25 April 1840
to same 5 May 1840
Act. 7 June '32
11750

S. W. Brown
3 Aug 33
OC
Re. vol. 9 Pa 374

Ver Klepart
Pension off
Aug. July 31 1833
Sir.
The objections as to form having been removed removed the claim of David Witherside has been examined upon its merits & suspended for proof of service - He alleges a service in the Continental army which is not supported by the rolls & which should therefore be established by two credible witnesses - Disbursers are placed in file
act 7. June
S. D. Brown wd Hartford Washington Co NY

Sum of Cash on hand to make Cash on hand

Comptroller's Office Hartford Conn. Novem r . 6. 1835
I certify that the name of David Wetherly is found in a document remaining in this Office, certified by "In t P. Wyllie Maj r Comd t 9 th Conn t Reg t " "as a just & true Pay Abstract". In which abstract, headed "Abstract of Pay for the Six Months Recruits in the 9 th Conn t Reg t from the commencement to the expiration of their service", David Wetherly is entered as belonging to the Colone l s Company, and after his name follows: — Town Wethersfield — Private commencement of Service — 18 July — expiration of Service — 14 th Dec r . — Time in service — 4 Months 16 days" &c. And that the year in which the service was rend d is not mentioned in the Abstract.
I also certify that the above Abstract is countersigned "J. Huntington, B r General."
Gideon Wells Comptroller

July 1 Inverness N.Y. West Chazy N.Y. June 24 David Russell free J. L. Edwards Esq. Commissioner of Pensions Washington D.C.

West Chazy. Clinton Co. NY June 22 nd 1839
Dear Sir
I wish to enquire of you what decision if any has been made in regard to my application for a pension under the act of 1832. I made application by my agent Slade D. Prown Esq. of Hartford NY whom I suppose has neglected my behalf the last papers that I had executed and forwarded to your department was more than three years past. Since which time I have not heard any thing from them. Please inform me what is wanting in my case to establish my claim. Your immediate reply will much oblige your humble Servant.
Please Direct as above
David Walkerill
J. L. Edwards Esq. Commissioner of Pensions

S. D. Brown 24 Nov 1838 Al.
Rec. Vol. 38. pa. 85.

War Dept.
Pension off
Nov 35
Sir
The additional papers forwarded in  by of 18 inst your in the case of David Witherill have been examined & placed on our files -
The certificate of the Comptroller corresponds with the rolls of this office. David Witherly was enlisted on 18 July '80 & discharged 4 Dec. '80 but David Witherill alleged in positive terms that he enlisted in May '80 when he was under 14 years of age. Unless therefore he can by direct evidence prove that he was actually in service in that regt at that time, he can not be allowed the benefit of that entry - But it would not be sufficient if allowed to bring his case within the act of 7. June '32 unless he can establish the other item of service as the substitute of Griswold in the year 1781 when he was under 15 years of age.
J. D. Brown Esq J. D. Brown Esq Hartford N.Y.
Ab.

D. Witherell
2. July 1839
OC

37 War Department Pension Office July 2. 1839
Sir
I have
For a reply to your letter of the 22 nd  ultimo  inquiring inquiring what is necessary to establish your claim to a pension under the act of June 7. 1832 I give an reference to my letter on the subject under date of the 24. Nov. 1835 as addressed to S. L. D. Brown Esq. a copy of which is herewith enclosed.
Mr David Withers West Chazy N.Y.

M. J. Bovee
5. May 1840
OL

Provision Office
5. May 1840
Sir The In reply to your letter of the 29 th ulto I have to inform you that the first term of David Withnill, is said to have been renewed in Capt Allens company Col Webb's regiment Connecticut line; the second and last under Capt Cook Col Canfield's reg t Connecticut State Troops
Hon Mr J. Bovee Austine Lane New York

FREE
May 4. 1840
Genl. J. L. Edwards Comm. of Pensions Washington D.C.

Amsterdam April 29. 1840
Sir
In reply to your letter of the 25 th instants in the case of David With- -ill - you are correct as to the manner hav- -ing been formerly written Wetherly - as I reside a number of miles from the Applicant's Family - I wish you would do me the favor to state the names of the Officers as alleged in his detenuation - to enable me to make a thorough ex- amination in his case in Court.
I am yours respectfully
Matthias J. Boree
Hon J. L. Edwards

Pension Office
25. April 1840
Sir
For an answer to your letter relative to the claim of David Withersall under the act of June 7, 1832 you are referred to my letter on the subject under date of the 24 Nov 1835 addressed to G. D. Brown Esq, a copy of which is enclosed
M. J. Rowe Esq Austine & Co N.Y.

M. J. Bovee
25 th April 1840
OL

Nov 23. Washington Nov 19
Free
J. L. Edwards Esqr Commissioner of Pensions Washington D. C.

Sir
on the 3 d of August 1833 the Pension Department sent me a communication stating that Mr David Witherills papers were perfected as to form but suspended on the merits for proof of service, as he alleged a service in the continental Army, which was not supported by the Rolls & which must therefore be proved, by two credible Witnesses. Mr Witherill has made much exertion to find the two Witnesses but is unable yet to do so. It has however occurred to him that as his family were formerly called Wetherly at the place of his residence at the time he entered the Army, by many of their acquaintances instead of Witherill as it really was, that he would prove to the War Department that fact & that by so doing if his name as David Wetherly appeared on the Rolls as it does on the Pay Rolls of Connecticut (& of which he has no doubt) that in such case no further proof of service would be necessary. I therefore herewith send to your Department Mr Witherills Affidavit & also that of Daniel Warner & Reuben Whaples & the certificate of the Comptroller of Connecticut to prove those facts & also the latter affords strong & conclusive evidence

of 4 Months & 16 Days service Mr Witherill is much more deserving than most applicants & I hope will receive a speedy & if properly supported a favorable answer to his application. Hartford Washington County N.Y. Nov 18 th 1885.
To J. L. Edwards Esq. Slade D. Brown Com. of Pensions.

Hon. Lewis Cass Secretary of War Washington City

State of Connecticut Hartford County Town of Wethersfield 8 th day of November A. D. 1835
The subscriber deposeth and says that he is now seventy four years of age that he lived in the town and society that David Wetherel lived in and knew him well two or three years previous to his my enlisting into the army of the revolution and that he always was called David Wetherly when he was a young man
Daniel Warner
State of Connecticut Hartford County Town of Wethersfield 8 th day of November A. D. 1835
The subscriber deposeth and says he is sixty six years of age that he lived in the town and society with David Wetherel and that he was always called David Wetherly when he was a young man and when he enlisted into the army of the revolution
Reuben Whaples
State of Connecticut, County of Hartford, ss. Wethersfield 8 th day of November A. D. 1835. Be it remembered that on the day aforesaid, Daniel Warner, and Reuben Whaples, who have subscribed the foregoing depositions appeared before me, and after being examined and cautioned to speak the whole truth, made solemn oath to the above respective depositions; which are taken at the request of David Wetherel to be used at the proper Department as proof that when he enlisted into the Continental service he was called David Wetherly
To the honourable Lewis Cass Secretary of War The depositions of Daniel Warner and Reuben Whaples were taken, sealed up, and directed at Wethersfield in the county of Hartford this 8 th day of November A. D. 1835 by me
Hervey Francis Justice of the Peace

ap 23 1840
May
David Withers
FREE
Hon J. L. Edwards Comt. of Lousiana Washington D.C.

Amsterdam April 20. 1840
Sir I have this day been requested to make an examination in the case of David Withnill a Soldier of the Royal Artillery under the Act of June 7. 1840 of this State I wish a copy of the original Report made in his case
I am yours respectfully Matthias J. Bleecker
Dear J. L. Edwards

Syracuse, N.Y.
May 23, 1937.
Will you kindly send me a copy of the Pension Record of David Witherill also given Wetherly . The number is R11750
I believe the pension was rejected, I am anxious to know why and to know if it contains the names of wife and children, also home of the soldier. This is to be used to trace my ancestry.
Thanking you,
(Mrs.) L. Baylis
This soldier 123 Spaulding Ave., Syracuse, N.Y. served from Connecticut.

ELMER E. CHARLES GLENN E. CHARLES
E. E. AND G. E. CHARLES COUNSELORS AT LAW WARSAW, NEW YORK
only one Sept 2 1935-
In re Daniel Witherill (or Wetherill)
A. D. Hiller Esq. Ex asst. atty. Washington D.C.
Dear Sir: Replying to yours of the 23 rd ult.: Enlisted in Massachusetts (may have been Maine at that time) entered service Mch 27, 1779, discharg- ed Apr 17, 1779. Entered service again Apr 10 1779 served about 6 mos; again Aug 1, 1780 (9 days service) He moved to Orangeville Gene- see Co. ny about 1814. Am informed he died Dec 31 1839 in said Genesee County Widow's name not known. Yours E. E. Charles

August 23, 1935
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Mr. E. E. Charles Warsaw, New York
Dear Sir:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request information relative to David Witherill or Wetherill, who served in the Revolutionary War and settled in Orangeville, Genesee County, New York, about 1815.
In order to identify the record of the particular soldier named David Witherill in whom you are interested, should it be on file, please furnish as much as possible of the following data in regard to him, when another search of the records will be made and a report furnished: approximate dates of birth and death, places of residence at enlistment and after service and given name of widow.
Please return these letters with your reply.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER Executive Assistant to the Administrator

Mr. E. E. Charles
David Witherill
A. D. MILLER Executive Assistant to the Administrator
Very truly yours
Please return these letters with your reply.
of residence at enlistment and after service and given name of widow. I regard to him, when another search of the records will be made and please furnish as much as possible of the following data in order to identify the record of the particular soldier.
in order to identify the record of the particular soldier. I regard to him, when another search of the records will be made and please furnish as much as possible of the following data in order to identify the record of the particular soldier.
Dear Sir:
New York Warren, Mr. E. E. Charles
DA-1148
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August 22, 1922

October 16, 1935
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Mr. E. E. Charles Warsaw, New York
DAVID WITHERILL R. 11750 BA-J/MLB
Dear Sir:
Reference is made to your letter in which you furnish further information in regard to David Witherill or Wetherill, a soldier of the Revolutionary War whose record you desire.
You are furnished herein the record of the only soldier named David Witherill, under any spelling, found in the Revolutionary War records of this office. The data therein were obtained from the papers on file in pension claim, R. 11750, based upon his service in the Revolution.
David Witherill was born December 8, 1765, in the Town of Chatham, Connecticut. When David was about eleven years of age, his parents, whose names were not stated, both died on the same night of smallpox.
David Witherill, while residing in Granville, Washington County, New York, applied for pension August 29, 1832, and stated that while a resident of Wethersfield, Hartford County, Connecticut, he volunteered and that he served from the last of May, the first of June or July 18, 1780, as private in Captain Allyn's company, Colonel Samuel B. Webb's regiment, and that he was discharged the last of November, the first of December or December 4, 1780; that he enlisted in July, 1781, and served as private in Captain Cooke's company, Colonel Canfield's Connecticut regiment, engaged a part of the time in conveying a quantity of gold and silver to a place about ten or fifteen miles from Hudson River East and nearly opposite West Point, and that he was discharged after having served a tour of three months. The soldier signed David Witherill but stated that his family name was formerly Wetherly at the place he enlisted in the Revolution.
The soldier's claim for pension was not allowed as proof of service was not furnished in accordance with the requirements of the pension law.

David Witherill continued to reside in Wethersfield, Connecticut, until about 1789, when he moved to the Town of Berlin, in the same state, remained there two years, then moved back to Wethersfield, where he lived about two years, thence to Hartford, Washington County, New York.
June 22, 1839, David Witherill gave as his post office address West Chazy, Clinton County, New York. The date of his death is not on record in this office. He was survived by a widow, Ruth Witherill; the date and place of her birth and names of parents are not shown.
The only name which was designated in the claim as that of a child of the soldier, David Witherill, and his wife, Ruth, was that of David J. Witherill, who in 1855 was aged sixty years and residing in Chazy, Clinton County, New York.
In 1832, one George Witherell, a clergyman residing in Hartford, and Abdial Flowers, residing in Granville, both in Washington County, New York, made joint affidavit in behalf of the soldier, David Witherill, but did not state any relationship to him or to each other.
In 1835, the soldier, David Witherill, referred to his brother several years older than himself, who was living during the Revolutionary War, but did not give his name.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER Executive Assistant to the Administrator