Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 2982, Silas Wolcut, Penn.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Penn.
or Wolcutt Silas or Wolcott or Woolcott
N 2982
CONTENTS
Margaret

4648
Pennsylvania Phil a
Margaret Wolcott, widow of Silas Wolcott who was a private in the Pennsylv a Line
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 70 Dollars 00 cts per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the twenty fourth day of Jan y 1844 and sent to
O. D. Satterlee Athens Pa
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book A t. / Page 137.
New certificate issued 18. June 1844 sent to O. D. Satterlee P. M. Athens Pa Penn a July 3/43
Date of death of widow not on A.P.

Dead. See letter 5 Oct. 1838 to D. F. Barstow & P. 1838
18,457
Pennsylvania
Silas Wolcut
of Bradford Co. in the State of Pennsylvania who was a Private in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Miles of the Pennsylvania line, for the term of 21 months.
Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence the 22 of April 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 8 th of Jan y 1819 and sent to Hon. D. Woodcock, H. R.
  Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1821  $ 323. 40    Semi-ann. all ce ending 4 Mar. '22  48. 00    3 years  $ 371. 40    4 months  
13 30.
{ Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818. }
1 May 1820.

Commonwealth of Penn a
Bradford County ss.
Personally appeared before me Silas Wolcutt of Athens township Bradford County Penn a an appli- cant for a pension being duly sworn deposes and saith - That he enlisted as a private soldier in the Continental army of the United States in the revolutionary war the latter part of March or first part of April 1776 under Captain Whitehill in the regiment commanded by Col. Samuel Miles N o 13 Penn a line for the term of one year and nine months, and that he faithfully served the said term of one year and nine months in the said line that he was in the battles at Long Island, Brandy- wine Germantown Red Bank, Red Bank, Red Bank, Red Bank honorable discharged at Valley Forge in Chester County Penn a on the first day of June 1778 - That a mistake was made in the date of his enlistment and discharge as stated in his declaration made 22 nd day of April 1878 before Judge Scott - either by himself, Judge Scott or both -
Silas Wolcutt
Bradford County ss.
I hereby certify that Silas Wolcutt swore to subscribed the above affidavit before me on the 15 th day of April 1878 and that the said Silas Wolcutt is a credible witness
J. Herrick Pres: Judge
13 th Ind. Dist. Pa -

State of Pennsylvania Bradford County, ss
I Burr Ridgway Prothonotary Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for Bradford County, do certify that Edward Herrick, Esquire, is President Judge of the 13th judicial district, Penn t of which Bradford County forms a part; and that the name E. Herrick written on the opposite page of this paper is his signature. — Witness my hand & Seal of Office at Meansville in said County, April 18, 1821.
Burr Ridgway, Proth.

4647
4647
Margaret Wolcott of Pils Pennsylvania

State of Pennsylvania } Bradford County } ss.
On this 20 th day of July 1839 Before the Subscriber an associate Judge in and for the said County of Bradford personally appeared, Margaret Woolcott, Aged Eighty two Years last October the 12 th day, a resident of the County of Bradford and State of Pennsylvania aforesaid Who being first duly Sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed July 4 th 1836 and the Joint Resolution of July 9 th 1838 that she is the widow of Silas Woolcott deceased who was a private in the Army of the revolution and a Pensioner of the same on account of the services he performed in the revolutionary war. She further declares that she was married to the said Silas Woolcott on the twenty fifth day of March one thousand seven hundred and seventy seven (25 March 1777) and that her husband the aforesaid Silas Woolcott died at Southfield in the said County & State on the 24 th day of June 1834. and that she has remained a widow ever since that period as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed She also further states that she was married to the said Silas Woolcott in the time he was performing his duties aforesaid
Sworn to and subscribed before me the day & year first above written Jonathan Stevens, Associate Judge
Margaret Woolcott
Margaret Woolcott the above will show her signature as far as the first name goes -
And Jonathan Stevens Judge aforesaid
Do hereby certify that in consequence of the great age and debility of the above named Margaret Woolcott she is totally unable to travel to the County seat of Bradford County or to attend the Court a distance of twenty Miles. She states that she does not know that she can prove her marriage by any person now living whom deposition is in her power to obtain in place of it sends deposition of several persons to prove her long residence with her said husband as also the birth, names, numbers and ages of her children they have had & brought up together and that partly from personal knowledge and the respectable & well character of her witnesses I am satisfied that her statement is true. Jonathan Stevens Judge Pennsylvania Bradford County ss
On this 20 th day of July 1839 aforesaid before the Subscriber Judge as aforesaid personally appeared Elijah Woolcott who being Sworn in due form of law doth depose and say that from their family record and from his own recollection as he was always informed he was fifty eight years old the 29 th day of March last that from some source he is the Eldest living son of the aforesaid Silas Woolcott and Margaret Woolcott and was bred up by them that there may be which he has seen & knows are none in number and their names are or were
Mary (now) Mann, Elijah Woolcott (myself), Dorcas (now) Rees, Loviah Cushman, John, Woolcott, Minerva Read, Silas Woolcott, Benjamin Woolcott, Margaret Park & it said two died in infancy that the foregoing would correspond with the deceased father's family record which he saw cut from his Bible by Doctor Isaac Bunnell for the purpose of having it forwarded with his Mother's Declaration to the War Office that the said Silas Woolcott, his late father died on the 24 th day of June 1834 and that the said Margaret his mother has never been married since the death of the said Silas Woolcott but now remains a Widow.
Elijah Woolcott

Also at the same place on the same day aforesaid & before the Judge aforesaid was sworn in Due form of Law Benjamin Wolcott aged 44 years who on his oath Declares that by report he is the son of the aforesaid Silas Wolcott and Marget Wolcott That the said Marget his Mother lives with him and is a Widow and that he corroborates with the said Elijah Wolcott in his Statement with regard to the number and names of their family, the Family Record the cutting it from the Family Bible and in the time of the Decease of Silas Wolcott his father -
Benjamin Wolcott
Also Before the Judge aforesaid and at the time and place aforesaid was sworn in due form of Law Deborah Bunnell who on her oath declares that she was employed the aforesaid Marget Wolcott to go to Edward Court Esq: Attorney of law and engage him to assist the said Marget in making application to the War Office for the continuance of her said Husband's Pension to her, That he cut the leaf of their family Bible from it and delivered it to the said Attorney for the purpose of proving the names and births of her children That he has since called on the said attorney for the said Document who says that he cannot find it and that it is lost. That the said Marget is now a Widow -
Deborah Bunnell
The foregoing Depositions of the said Elijah Wolcott Benjamin Wolcott and Deborah Bunnell sworn to taken & subscribed before me the day & year first above written
Jonathan Owens Associate Judge
State of Pennsylvania Bradford County ss
I David Cask Prothonotary of the said County of Bradford Do hereby certify and Make known that Jonathan Owens is an associate Judge of the Courts of Common Pleas Quarter Sessions &c in and for the said County of Bradford duly commissioned and sworn in to Office as such, to continue during good behaviour, and that the signature to the foregoing purporting to be his is well known to me and is genuine Witness my hand & seal of the said Office hereto affixed, the at Towanda the 20 th day of July 1839.
David Cask Prothonotary per J. M. Wattles Sfy

Handing Stone 23 rd July 1939
The Testimony herewith Enclosed 5 th cert is that of Eleanor Allison, Elijah Wolcott, Benjamin Wolcott & Leah Bunnell. and  if needed wright  to prove it might be obtained that Solas Wolcott and Margret lived as Husband and Wife together, and as such raised a family of children I myself have known that such a family existed where they now reside for forty eight years Although never intimately acquainted with them, or any of them, to the credit of the family Mr Wolcott's sons are all respectable & his daughters married as far as I know to men of like character, Mr Wolcott was brought up in Chester County Penn d where records of Marriages are seldom made, and after a lapse of 62 years it is difficult to prove a Marriage by living person, who was present at the celebration.
As Mrs Wolcott resides remote from any Post Office and not on a Post Road she has desired me so far to assist her, as to forward her application to the Pension Office and receive for her such return, or such communication it shall think proper to make. It will therefore Please to direct to me at Handing Stone Post Office Bradford County Pa.
I am Sir very Respectfully Your Obedient Servant
Jonathan Stevens

Bradford County State of Pennsylvania ss.
Be it remembered that on the twenty second day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hun- dred and Eighteen before me George Scott one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Bradford in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Personally appeared Silas Wolcut of the township of Athens in the County of Bradford and Commonwealth aforesaid and after being duly sworn according to Law doth and did declare and say that he was born the fourth day of August 1755 in the State of New Hampshire and that he entered into the armies of the United Colonies of America (afterwards the United States) raised for the defence of American Liberty and for repelling every hostile invasion thereof and was duly enlisted a private soldier in the latter part of March or the fore part of April 1775 under Captain Whitescell in Colonel Samuel Miles Regiment Number thirteen in the Pennsylvania line for the term of one year and nine months and that he faithfully served the term of one year and nine months in the Continental established and that he was honorably discharged at the Valley Forge in Chester County Pennsylvania on the first day of January 1777 and when he was discharged the Regiment was commanded by Colonel Walter Stewart and the Company was command- ed by Captain John Babb and that he

received a regular discharge and in the Spring of the year 1778 he lived at Penni's Valley in Pennsylvania and the Indians were troublesome and murder ed several of his neighbours and he was obliged with his family to quit his house and home and he was pushing a canoe up the River and lost his pocket & took out of his pocket with his dis charge in it he further saith that he hath no pension allowed him by the laws of the United States to his knowledge and if any such exists he doth hereby entirely
release and relinquish the same to the said United States and that by reason of his reduced circumstances in life he needs the assistance of his Country for support and that he is a resident & citizen of the United
States
J. Elias Walcutt
Sworn & Subscribed this 22 day of April A.D. 1818
Before me
George Scott Associate Judge Bradford County

Declaration of Silas Wolcott
N. York.
To be returned to David Woodcock Havana New York
Vol. 120. 84.

The State of Ohio Wood County
I Horatio Conant one of the associate Judges of the court of Common Pleas in and for said county do certify that the within named Paul Woolcutt is a credible witness Given this seventeenth day of July A.D. one thousand eight hundred and twenty
Horatio Conant
Associate Judge. C.P.
Wood County
The State of Ohio Wood County
I do certify that Horatio Conant is one of the associate Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County and above and within is his signature
In testimony whereof I have set my hand and affixed the seal of the said county this seventeenth day of May A.D. one thousand eight hundred and twenty
Simeon Allen By Clerk

State of Ohio County of Wood
Personally appeared be-
fore me: Horatio Conner, an associate Judge of the court of common Pleas of Wood County, Paul Woolcut, a creditable and respectable citizen of Waynesfield, County and State above written, who being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, that he is sixty seven years of age: That in the year 1856 he became acquainted with Silas Woolcut, the person named and described in the above declaration; and this deponent further saith, that in the year 1876 sd Silas Woolcut enlisted into the United States service for the term of one year and nine months in the State of Pennsylvania and county of Northumberland in which place deponent resided at that time. This deponent further saith, that the said Silas served the term of time for which he enlisted and was honorably discharged at the Valley Forge in Chester county, Pennsylvania. And this deponent saith, that from his early acquaintance with the said Silas, he believes, that the facts stated in his declaration are true, and further this deponent saith that he saw the discharge of sd Silas after his return. Paul Woolcut
Sworn and subscribed before me This tenth day of July one thousand and eight hundred and twenty.
Horatio Conner, Associate Judge of C. Common Pleas Wood county Ohio

The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
STATE OF NEW YORK, } Bradford COUNTY, ss. }
On this _____ day of _____
1824 personally appeared in open court, being a court of Record for the said county, in said state Silas Woolcut _____ aged sixty five years, resident in the town of _____ in the said county, who, being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare, that he served in the Revolutionary War, as follows: That he enlisted as a private soldier in the latter part of March or the first part of April 1775 under Captain Whitehead in Colonel Mott's Regiment N.Y. P. the Pennsylvania line for the term of one year and nine months that he served that time in the Continental Army and was discharged at the Valley Forge in Chester County Pennsylvania on the first day of January 1777 when he was discharged the Regiment was commanded by Colonel Walter Stewart and the Company was commanded by Captain John Babb. That he received a regular discharge which discharge he lost while pushing a log down the river in attempting to escape from the Indians who had murdered several of his neighbors.
And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the 18th day of March, 1818, and that I have not since that time by gift, sale, or in any manner, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress, entitled "an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval services of the United States in the Revolutionary War," passed on the 18th day of March, 1818; and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities, contracts or debts due me, nor have I any other income than what is contained in the schedule hereunto annexed, and by me subscribed.
  One yoke of Oxen 2 Pairs   one耕犁 plow 1   one 18 prong fork 1   3 Doy. forks 3   1 old plough share 1   2 old axes 2   1 sheep 1   1 hand axe 1   2 old drawing knives 2   1 pair compasses 1   1 stone adze 1   1 barometer 1   1 old stone saw 1   1 round saw 1   1 riddle 1   1 broom 1   2 tables 2   1 pot 1   1 brass kettle 1   1 iron pot 1   1 pair iron tongs 1   1 pair shovel & tongs 1   1 pair of stilts   1 iron pan   1 white dish   Debts due me 13-00 
Aged 65 labourer under unable to work on account general ill health Family a wife aged 64 unable to labour - 14 and children aged 22 years
Sworn & subscribed in open court Silas Woolcut
This 11th day of Sept. D. 1820 George Scott Clerk of the court of common pleas in and for the county of
do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath, and the schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of the said court; and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said court, that the total amount in value of the proper- ty exhibited in the aforesaid schedule, is one hundred & twenty dollars and Eighty four cents cents. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court, on this Eleventh day of
Sept 1820
George Scott Prothonotary

Silas Wolcott Pension application

Commonwealth of Penna } Bradford County } B-3
Personally appeared before me, President Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of the Thirteenth Judicial district Col. Joseph Kingsbury of lawful age who being duly sworn saith, that he is and was the agent to James L. Ray de Chaumont who owned the land on which Silas Wolcutt of Athens township Bradford County Penna. an applicant for a pension, now residing sold the land in a state of nature about six years ago to Silas B. Wolcutt the son of the said Silas Wolcutt the applicant for three dollars per acre and gave an article of agreement to the said Silas B. Wolcutt for a conveyance of the said land on his paying for the same in six equal annual instalments, not one cent of which has ever been paid by the said Silas B. Wolcutt nor any other person for the same - about one year after the making of said contract the said Silas B. Wolcutt left the land & the State and about that time the said Silas Wolcutt the applicant went into the possession of the said land and has continued in the possession to the present time, that the said Silas Wolcutt the applicant has no title or contract of any kind for the said land or possession from the same nor any other person to my knowledge and furthermore saith that

the said land with the improvements thereon, according to his belief could not now be sold for the amount of principal and interest due for the same — The "words now read" & also the word "land" inserted before signed Sworn and subscribed — Joseph Kingsbury Before me this 17 Nov. 1821 — H. M. K. P. Judge
I hereby certify that Col. Joseph Kingsbury the witness to the deposition above mentioned is of unimpeachable character & entitled to full credit as a witness in any court of justice — Nov. 17. 1821 — H. M. K. Pres. Judge 13 th
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Bradford County
ss. D. Dist. Ct.
I Charles Whitehead duly appointed Recorder in and for the County of Bradford do certify that Edward Kenick Esq. is the President Judge of the Court of common pleas in and for said County and that full faith and credit is to be given to his acts as such. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said office at Towanda in said County, this 17 th day of November Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and twenty one
Charles Whitehead Recorder Bradford County

Application for Increase of Pension Benjamin Wolcott

Pennsylvania.  State of Pa County of Bradford 3
Be it known that on this Eighth day of April A.D. 1833. before me the undersigned a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid personally came Benjamin Wolcott a resident of Tioga Tioga Co New York and made oath according to law that he is the son and heir and administrator of the estate of Margaret Wolcott, the identical person whose name under Act of 7th July A.D. 1838 was placed on the Pension roll (pensioned in Pennsylvania) at the rate of Seventy Dollars per Annum, (who was the widow of the identical Silas Wolcott whose name under acts of the 18th March 1818 + 1st May 1820 was placed on the (Pennsylvania) pension roll at the rate of Ninety Six Dollars per Annum) (And that there are other heirs viz John R. Wolcott Mary Mumm. Levias Cuffman Minerva Reed + Margaret Park), children of the said Silas and Margaret Wolcott
That he is credibly informed that the said Pensions may and ought to be increased from their commencement and during their continuance, and that there are arrears due; that he is directly interested as a claimant in said increase, and makes this affidavit to be filed with such additional evidence as my Agent or Agents may use in prosecuting said claim
Countermanding and revoking all Powers of Attorney and authority heretofore given I hereby constitute and appoint John E. Lawrence of Athens Bradford Co Pa and Richard H. Clarke of Washington City or either of them my true and lawful Attorneys to prosecute the claim of Silas Wolcott and Margaret Wolcott for any amount of Revolutionary Pension or increase of Pension or arrears due, that may be due, and for the purpose of establishing additional service by the soldier for whom military duty in the Revolution, the aforesaid Pension was granted, I hereby authorize my said Attorneys to apply for and obtain from State Archives, or other sources, certified proofs of such service to examine all papers or documents in relation to said service on file in the Departments at Washington City or elsewhere

to file additional evidence or arguments and to receive for my benefit the Certificate for Increase or arrears which may be issued in satisfaction of said Claims, which Certificate I wish made payable at the Pension Agency of this State, to appoint one or more substitutes under them for the purposes herein expressed, and to do all things that I might or could do were I personally present. Hereby ratifying and confirming all that my said Agents and Attorneys or either of them shall lawfully do in the premises
sign here Benjamin H. Scott Sworn to subscribed and acknowledged before me the day and year above written, and I hereby certify that I believe the said Benjamin Wolcott to be directly interested in said claim as set forth and to be the identical party therein alledged, in whose claim I am in no wise interested Elijah Wolcott EJS
State of Pennsylvania County of Bradford
It is hereby certified that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited before me Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Bradford Co that Silas Wolcott was a revolutionary Pensioner of the United States at the rate of Ninety Six Dollars per Annum and that he died on the 4 th day of June 1834. leaving surviving the following named (Widow & Children) and none other to wit viz. Margaret Wolcott. (Widow) who died on the 20 th day of December 1844. and who was a pensioner at the rate of Seventy Dollars per Annum and John R. Wolcott Mary Munn Leviar Luffman, Minerva Reed and Margaret Park. & Benjamin Wolcott (Children). It is further certified that Elijah Wolcott before whom the preceding affidavit and Power of Attorney were made and acknowledged was at the time of so doing a duly authorized Justice of the Peace in and for said County and that the signature purporting to be his I believe to be genuine; and further that in the within claim for Increase of Pension or arrears I am in no degree interested
Allen M c Keen
Prothonotary

State of Pennsylvania Bradford County } ss
I Allen M'Kean Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of said County do hereby certify that Elijah Wolcott now is and at the time of executing the foregoing was an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Bradford
duly Commissioned & qualified &c In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said Court this 9 th day of April 1853
Allen M'Kean Prothonotary Per G D Watkins Deputy
State of Pennsylvania Bradford County } ss
I H. L. Scott Register for the probate of wills and granting letters of administration in and for said County do hereby certify that letters of admin- istration upon the estate of Margaret Wolcott deceased were on the third day of September A.D. 1845 granted to Benjamin Wolcott he having first given bonds and been duly sworn well and truly to administer said estate according to law as appears of record in said Register Office
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and official seal at Torrance this 4 th day of May A.D. 1853 H. L. Scott Register

February 26, 1935
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SILAS WOLCUT W. 2982 BA-J/MLB
Ruth M. Potter Lake Mills Wisconsin
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War records of Silas Wolcott, born about 1755, served in the Revolution from Pennsylvania, and died in 1834, who was a pensioner, also, of Charles Bingham who served in that war from Pennsylvania.
There is no claim for pension or bounty land on file based upon service in the Revolutionary War of a Charles Bingham, under any spelling of the name. The record of Silas Wolcut was found and follows as obtained from pension claim, W. 2982, based upon his service in the Revolutionary War. Such claims are the source of Revolutionary War data furnished by this office.
Silas Wolcut (as soldier signed, but surname also appears in the claim as Wolcott and Woolcott) was born August 4, 1755, in the State of New Hampshire, but was reared in Chester County, Pennsylvania; the names of his parents are not given.
He enlisted in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, the latter part of March, or early in April, 1776, served as private in Captain Weitzel's company, Colonel Samuel Miles' Pennsylvania regiment, and in Captain John Robb's company, Colonel Walter Stewart's 13 th Pennsylvania Regiment, was in the battles of Long Island, Brandywine, Germantown, some skirmishes, wintered at Valley Forge, and was discharged January 1, 1778.
Silas Wolcut was allowed pension on his application executed April 22, 1818, while a resident of Athens Township, Bradford County, Pennsylvania, where he was still living in 1821.
He died June 4, or 5, 1834, in Litchfield, Bradford County, Pennsylvania.

Silas Wolcut married March 25, 1777, place not stated, Margaret Rowan, who was born October 12, 1756, place not given.
Silas Wolcut's widow, Margaret, was allowed pension on her application executed July 20, 1839, at which time she was living with her son, Benjamin, in Bradford County, Pennsylvania, remote from any post office and not on any post road; in November of the same year she was residing in Litchfield Township, about twenty-six miles from Standing Stone Post Office, in said Bradford County, and was still living there in 1843. She died December 20, 1844.
Reference was made to the following children of Silas Wolcut and his wife, Margaret, who in 1839 were all residing in Bradford County, Pennsylvania, where the family had lived for forty-eight years:
Mary, who married ____ Munn (his given name not shown)
Elijah Wolcut, born March 29, 1781
Dorcas, who married ____ Pew (his given name not stated)
Loviah or Leviar Cuffman or Cuffman
John R. Wolcott
Minerva Read or Reed
Silas B. Wolcott
Benjamin Wolcott, aged forty-four years in 1839, and in 1853 residing in Tioga, Tioga County, New York.
Margaret Park
Two of soldier's children died in infancy, their names not designated.
The children who survived their mother, Margaret Wolcut, were: John R. Wolcott, Mary Munn, Leviar or Loviah Cuffman or Cuffman, Minerva Read or Reed, Margaret Park and Benjamin Wolcut.
In 1853, one Elijah Wolcott was Justice of the Peace for Bradford County, Pennsylvania, his relationship to the family not stated.
In 1820, reference was made to the soldier's grandson, then aged eleven years; his name and names of his parents were not given.
In 1820, one Paul Woolcut, aged sixty-seven years, was a resident of Waynesfield, Wood County, Ohio, no relationship to the family shown.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER Executive Assistant to the Administrator

5064 5064 Pennsylvania
Margaret Melton widow of Silas Melton, decd.
who was a pensioner under the Act of 1818 and who died on the 4 June 1834 of Bradford in the State of Penn a who was a private in the Comp y commanded by Captain Roll of the reg t commanded by Col. Stewart in the Pennsylvania line for 21 months.
Inscribed on the Roll of Philadelphia at the rate of 70 Dollars — Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 20 day of Feby 1840 to and Jonathan Stevens, Huntingdon, Bradford Co. Penn a .
Arrears to the 4th of Sept r 1839 $ 245.00 Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Mar ch 40 35.00
$ 280.00
{ Act July 7, } 1838. }
Recorded by D.M. Curdy Clerk Book A. Vol. 2. Page 169.

Margaret Wolfe Pennsylvanian Suspended Feb 20 Feb 1837 J. Stevens
Act 4 July 1836

Tracy
WIDOW, &c.
No. 2982
Margaret Wolcott Widow
Silas Wolcott Pr. Rev. War
Act: March 3, 1843
Index: —Vol. M. , Page 352.
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Sept. 9, 1904. Hist. Macafee, Wash. D.C.
to - Berlin Z.W.
1917, Apr. 10. History to Mrs. J. A. Adams. Fr.
1924, Apr. 28 - Hist. to Nancy C. Morrow u.m.
Sept. 7 - Hist. to Mrs. J. G. Giv - mhr
Feb. 26 - Hist. to Ruth M. Giv - mhr

Revolutionary increases & arrears.
C May 1880 Hon. L. P. Waldo Commr. of Pensions.

State of Pennsylvania } Bradford County } ss
I George Scott Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas in & for the County of Bradford aforesaid do hereby certify and make known that George Scott was at the time of taking and signing the foregoing deposition & certifying the same, Associate Judge of Bradford County in the State of Pennsylvania, and that the Signature is his proper hand writing & that full faith & credit are due to his acts as such previous to the 24 th April 1898 at which time he resigned the office of Associate Judge of Bradford County & took upon him the office of Prothonotary of said County. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal of office at Meansville the 25 th day of June A.D. 1898
George Scott Proth. J.

Pension Office
July 30, 1833
Sir,
The application of Benjamin Walcott, Adm r of Margaret Walcott dec d in behalf of the children of said Margaret, for an increase of pension, has been received and filed. It appears that Silas Walcott was pensioned under the Act of 1818, at the rate of $96 per annum, once said June 4, 1834. In February 1840 his widow Margaret was pensioned under Act July 7, 1835, at the rate of $70 per annum which was paid to the date of her death (Dec 20 1844). You claim first that the pension should have been allowed from March 4, 1831 instead of March 4, 1836, the marriage having been proven (as you allege) prior to the expiration of the first period of service. After an examination of the papers on this point, I am free to say, that if this were an original application for a

pension to the widow. I should pronounce the widow insufficient to establish mar- riage under the Act of 1838, certainly not sufficient under the Act of 1836. The children must allege that Mrs. W. s "arrears were only paid to Sept 4, 1839 instead of back to March 4 1836 as the pension called for" They do not exactly understand the indorsement on the pen- sion papers, "arrears to the 4, Sept 1839 $245" embraces the whole amount due from March 4, 1836 to Sept 4, 1839. After that time the payments were made regularly. The next and last claim is for an increase of their mother's pension so as to make it equal to that received by their father in his life time. Mrs. Walcott's pension was properly fixed by the Act under which she was pensioned, at $70 per annum. The Joint Resolution which allows the widow the same rate of pension which her husband had received was passed July 1, 1840, and is applicable only to widows living at its passage,

This not being the case with the mother of these claimants, their claim is ne- cessarily rejected.
Rich. H. Clarke Brent

Rio de Janeiro
July 30, 1853

5116 Dec 2 11 1843 Athens Pa Dec 1843
O. Satterlee Declaration of Margaret Ablecott
342. Dec 26/43 Penns office
Rev. J. M. Foster J. J. of New York Washington N.Y.
FREE
O. S. Satterlee Athens, Penn a

Declaration
In order to obtain the benefits of the act of Congress of the 3 d March 1843. Granting pensions for one year to Certain Widows who have received pensions under the act of July 7 th 1838.
State of Pennsylvania } ss.
Bradford County } On this twenty ninth day of November. One thousand Eight hundred and forty three. Personally appeared before the Subscriber a Justice of the peace in and for the County of Bradford and State aforesaid. Margaret Wolcutt a resident of Litchfield Township. County and State aforesaid. Aged eighty seven years to me personally known , who being first duly sworn according to Law. doth on her Oaths make the following declaration. in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress passed on the 3 d March 1843. Granting pensions to Widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War.
That she is the widow of Silas Wolcutt who was a private in the Revolutionary war. attached to the Penn a Line. the particular Regiment not recollected. That the annual amount of the pension which she received under the act of July 7 th 1838. was Seventy Dollars. She further declares that she is still a widow.
Margaret Wolcutt
Sworn to and subscribed
on the day and year above written
before me John F. Lattimer Justice of the peace

State of Pennsylvania Bradfords County } ss.
I. Aaron Chubbuck Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of Bradford County do hereby certify that John F. Sallerton before whom the within proceedings were had is a Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly commissioned and qualified, and that the signatures purporting to be his are genuine
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Towanda this fifth day of December A.D. 1823
Aaron Chubbuck Protho.
Yrs N. I. Keen Deputy

Silas Wolcut Private Col. Miles Regiment Pennsylvania Line A ct 1775 - 19 months

State of Pennsylvania } Bradford County } ss
I, George Hall and of the Associate Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in & for said County in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Silas Walcutt did serve in the revolutionary war as stated in the preceding declaration against the Common enemy, and that he is really in very reduced Circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support. And I now transmit the proceedings & testimony taken & had before me to the Secretary for the department of War pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress.
George Hall Associate Judge Bradford County

The deposition of 2 witnesses certified by the Judge to be credible proving Genl Sewell's continuance in continental establish- ment, is returned
Silas Nourse Clerk Fort Mifflin Regiment Pennsylvania Line 1775 - Monmouth

State of New York Genesee County ss
vs. Elijah Child of the Town of Gaines in the County of Genesee living at Lewiston Falls and saith that he is sixty five years of age that in the for- part of the year 1876 he enlisted in the United States Service in Captain Whitcomb's Company in Col. Samuel Miles Regiment Munroe Battery in the Pennsylvania line that when he formed the Company which was immediately on his muster he became acquainted with Silas Morton the latter named in the annexed declaration that the said Silas was then a soldier in said Whitcomb Company doing duty that this Depo- nant was intimately acquainted with the said Silas that he met with him during the Campaign of 1876 that this Deponent was with the said Silas in the Battle of Brandywine Germantown in the fall of 1877 that in the latter part of the same year the the Regiment was went into Winter quarters at Valley Forge about twenty five miles from Philadelphia that the said Silas was then discharged that this deponent also was discharged that the said Silas & this deponent were then discharged the same day which was the first day of January 1878 instead of 1877 as stated in the said Silas's declaration that this Deponent is knowing to the said Silas living as a soldier in said Company as above stated from the for part

of the year 1776 he believes the commencement of the campaign and that he served until his discharge at Valley Forge as above stated and that he is in no way interested in the applica- tion to obtain the said Elias Pension of which faith not  Elijah Hunt mark
State of New York Genesee County ss I hereby certify that Elijah Hunt of Gaines in said County personally appeared before me John Lee one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in said County and made oath and subscribed the above & within affidavit this 14th day of May 1821 and I hereby certify the said Elijah Hunt is a credible person  John Lee
State of New York Genesee County ss I Chauncy L Sheldon Clerk of the County of Genesee do hereby certify that John Lee before whom the above affidavit was taken was in the day of the date thereof a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for said County acting under the authority of this State and that the name subscribed to the above affidavit is in his own proper hand writing - In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of said County and subscribed my name this 15th day of May 1821  C. L. Sheldon Clerk By A Crippin Esq

Mary Woodcock
Phila
Offic. cert. not
due
FREE
J. L. Edwards Esq. Chairman of Printing Ct. Washington 10.6
Issue a duplicate premium Certificate & send it to
O. D. Satterlee Athens Pa.

State of Pennsylvania } Bradford County }
On this the sixth day of June A.D. one thousand eight hundred and forty four personally appeared before the Subscriber a Justice of the peace in and for said county, Orin D. Sattler who being duly sworn according to law, says, that he is post Master at Athens in the said county of Bradford, and that the pension certificate or power of Margaret Wolcott, said to have been forwarded from the war department at Washington, last January or February to the Post office at Athens, has not been rec d at said office, and further saith not
O. D. Sattler
Sworn and subscribed before me on this the sixth day of June A.D. 1844
C Park J.P.

State of Pennsylvania Bradford County } ss
I Aaron Chubbuck Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas in & for the County aforesaid do certify that 6 Pards before whom the foregoing affidavit was made & whose name is thereto subscribed is, & was at the date thereof an acting Justice of the Peace in & for said County duly commissioned & qualified & that his acts as such are entitled to full faith & credit.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office at Towanda this 8 th day of June A D 1844
A Chubbuck Prothon. By A. B. Allen Deputy

Edward Ely Commission of Pensions
Respected Sir
Enclosed - you will find my affidavit re P. M. on the subject of Mrs. Wolcott Pension papers
May I request in behalf of Mrs. Wolcott - that the papers be forwarded with as much expedition as convenient -
Respectfully H O. D. Satterlee

6642 #647
Margaret Wolcott of Silas Pennsylvania
admitted
Pa. inf. 1 yr 9 m. $70. - Capt Robt Col Stuart Pa.
died 4 June 1834.
Act of July 1838
Jonathan Stevens, Standing Stone, Bradford Co., Pa

Mr. H. H. H.
Sept 20 '39
66

392 War Dept. Pen. Offic Sep 20. 1839.
Sir,
The papers in the case of Mrs Margaret Woolcott widow of Silas Woolcott, decd have been examined and filed with suspended case. The proof of the marriage having been before the termination of her husband's service is not satisfactory. If it cannot be clearly shown that the marriage was before he left the service, the claim may be allowed under act 7 July 1838 upon a declaration being made under that act.
Jonathan Stevens Esq. Standing Stone Pa
4647 at 4 Feb 1/36

5. Oct. 1830
g. b.
Record V 36 page 253

War Dep.
Pension Office
Oct. 5. 1836
Sir,
The vouchers in the case of the widow of Silas Wolcut are herewith returned. I have directed the Agent to pay the amount due in this case.
In answer to the question whether Margaret Wolcut, or Wolcott, the widow, is entitled to the benefits of the act of 4 July 1836, I can only say that if she produces such proof as the law enclosed regulations point out, her claim will be investigated; and if a pension should be granted, she will be duly notified of the same. But no decision can be had in any case until the evidence is filed. The proof of
I
D. F. Barstow, Esq. Towanda, Bradford County Penn a

J. Edwards Consumption of Pensions

Tamanda Bradford Co. Penn a
Sept. 22 d . 1836
J s Edward, Esq. com d f c
Sir The widow of Silas Wolcott herewith transmits to the Department, the Pension certificate of her late husband, together with, her Power of attorney & the requisite proofs &c and wishes an order from the Department, to the Pension agent in Philadelphia to pay the arrears due from the time of her husband's last draft to the time of his death. Mrs Wolcott was married to her late husband at the commencement of the Revolutionary War and before the close of her husband's service. Is she not entitled to a pension under the late law? Please have the goodness when these papers are recorded to send me the regulations of the Department, under the law of 1836 very respectfully D F Barstow

Standing Stone Pass Nov 18 th 1839
Free
Pa. July 4 1838 July 7 July 7 1838 July 7 1838
to the Hon. Joel R. Poinsett Esquire Secretary of War Washington City

Washington May 10th 1853.
Hon. L. P. Waldo,
Commissioner of Pensions.
Sir: Enclosed I send you the claim of the Administrators for the Heirs of Margaret Walcott, widow of Silas Walcott, of the Penn. Line, Revolutionary War. The evidence on file in the Pension Office shows that their marriage took place before the expiration of the service of the Soldier, whose widow therefore is entitled to a pension from 4th March 1831 instead of from 4 March 1836. Besides it appears from the pension papers in Margaret Walcott's case that her arrears were paid only to 4th Sept. 1839 instead of back to 4 March 1836 as the pension called for. They also claim that their mother did not receive all the arrears due to her under the pension she received and the arrears due at her death. You will please have this case attended to and the increase and arrears allowed.
Very respectfully
Your obt. Servant
Richard H. Clarke.
P.S. The widow was entitled to the same rate with her husband. He received $8 pr. month or $96 pr. an. where she only received $70 pr. annum.
R. H. C.

on the Sixth day of May 1839 Personally appeared Eleanor Allison, Before me the Subscriber one of the Justices of the peace in & for Centre County & after Being Sworn according to law doth depose & say that she was partially acquainted with Silas Wolcott And Margaret Rowan before they were married & afterwards, & thinks they were married in the year Seventeen Hundred & Seventy-Seven, & that Eleanor Allison is now Seventy two years of age last mark, that Eleanor Allison by the information of her neighbours as well as her own knowledge that the above Silas Wolcott & Margaret Rowan was married, at the above mentioned time, Sworn & subscribed in the presence Of Lott Evans justice of the peace  Eleanor Allison
Witness Deborah Brunnel
Gregg Township Centre County May the Sixth 1839

This is to certify that within named Eleanor Allison is a good neighbour & Citizen & has been for many years a full & Respectable member of the Presbyterian Church, for which the veracity of her Oath no one need dispute Witness my hand the day & year within mentioned.
Lott Evans Justice of the peace
State of Pennsylvania Bentley County J.
I James McMillan Prob. of the Court of Common Pleas of Bentley County certify that Lott Evans before whom the foregoing deposition was taken is a Justice of the Peace duly Commissioned & sworn In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office at Bellefonte 6th May A. D. 1869 James McMillan Prob.

From Mr. Woodcock, N. R. Mr. Glavin
Hon John C. Calhoun Secretary of War Washington
Adm. Hon. J. L. G.
Hon. D. Woodcock, N. R.

Congreg Hall Dec 10 th 1821.
Dear Sir
Before I left home I recd from the war office a request that Silas Wolcott would furnish evidence to the department of the title to the land on which he resided, and that he could not be placed on the pension list until such evidence was furnished. I do myself the honor of enclosing the evidence.
Respectfully your Obt Servant D Woodcock
Hon J. C. Calhoun

War Department.
Widow's Pension.
I certify that in conformity with the act of March 3, 1843,
Margaret Wolcott
Silas Wolcott
widow of
who was a
private
and died on the
fourth day of June 1834
is inscribed on the pension list at the rate of seventy
dollars and _____
cents per annum, commencing on the
4th March, 1843, and terminating on the 4th of March, 1844, unless
the Pensioner shall marry or die before the last mentioned date; in which
case the Pension is not payable after the time of such marriage or death.
Given at the War Office of the United States, this twenty fourth day of January one thousand eight hundred and forty four
J. S.
Exact copy countersigned.
J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions.

6642 Margaret Worleth Pa
6642

State of Pennsylvania } Bradford County } ss
On this 13th day of November 1839 Before the Subscriber an Associate Judge of the Court of Common Pleas (being a Court of Record) in and for the said County of Bradford, Personally appeared Margaret Woolcott a resident of the Township of Litchfield in the County of Bradford and State of Pennsylvania aforesaid aged Eighty three Years, the 12th day of October 1839 Who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the Benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed July 14th 1836, and the Joint resolution of July 7th 1838: That she is the Widow the Late Silas Woolcott of the County and State aforesaid deceased, Who was a Private in the army of the revolution and was a Pensioner of the Pennsylvania line.
She further declares that she was Married to the said Silas Woolcott on the twenty fifth day of March in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy seven, that her Husband the aforesaid Silas Woolcott died on the 5th day of June 1834, and that she has remained a widow ever since that period, as will more fully appear, by a reference to proffs attached to or accompanying her former Declaration, Made on or about the 20th July Last (1839) on which Proff she relies, & Being filed with the said declaration in the War Office and she after having taken Great Pain, at Great expense has failed to obtain any further proff of her Marriage
Sworn and subscribed on the day and year above written before me
Jonathan Stevens Associate Judge
Margaret Woolcott
I Jonathan Stevens Judge aforesaid do hereby Certify that the foregoing was made before me at the residence of the said Margaret Woolcott She by reason of age and disability being Unable to attend before the Court as she resides twenty Miles or more from the County seat. And I further Certify that the said Margaret is a person of Good reputation especially for veracity that I have had knowledge of her husband & family more than forty Years though not intimately acquainted and am satisfied of the truth of her whole statement
Jonathan Stevens J. J.

State of Pennsylvania } Bradford County }
I David Cash Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of said County do certify that Jonathan Stevens is an Associate Judge of said Court duly commissioned and qualified and that the foregoing signatures purporting to be his are genuine
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said Court at Towanda this 15 th day of November A.D. 1839
David Cash Prothonotary per J. M. Wallis Dpr

Standing Stone 16th November 1839
J. L. Edwards Esquire
Sir
Since the date of your communication of the 20th of September last relative to the application of Margaret Woolcott Widow of the late Silas Woolcott deceased, for a Pension, she has been at the Expense of sending a person to a certain Mr Monk whom she recollects was present at her Marriage who now resides in Crawford County by a distance of 230 Miles from this (460 Miles Travel) Who by reason of old age or some other cause, although he well remembers the said Silas & Margaret, & recollects that they were reputed Husband & Wife, has forgotten the circumstance of Being present at their Marriage. Considering the great difficulty after a lapse of more than Sixty three years of ever finding any person able to give any more light on the subject that has been given by the Deposition already forwarded with her first application, and now as appears filed in the War Office on which she now relies she has made a new application declaration Under the provision of the Resolution of July 7th 1838 and submits her claim a second time to the Pension Department of the War Office.
I am Sir very Respectfully
Your Obedient Servant
Jonathan Stevens
Mr Edwards Will as before Please Direct to Standing Stone Post Office Bradford County Penns. although Mrs Woolcott resides 26 Miles from Standing Stone yet not being on any Particular Post route she can receive her papers by this office through the care of the undersigned with more certainty than by any other P.O.
Jonathan Stevens

Feb Conestoga, Pa.
March 27, 1917.
Pension Dept. Wash.
D. B.
I am trying to establish a line of descent from Revolutionary stock, and wish information concern- ing Silas Wolcott, Private, 1st Battalion of Pa. regiments of Riflemen, commanded by Col. Samuel Miles, Muster Roll of Capt. Casper Weigels, Camp near Kings Bridge, Sept. 1, 1776.
Was in the Battle of Long Island, Aug. 27.
(over)

Found in the Annals of Buffalo Valley, Page 118.
Will you kindly look this up, and greatly oblige the writer.
Would like to know the names of his family, if he had family.
Yours truly,
Ms. J. A. Adams.

THIS SIDE OF CARD IS FOR ADDRESS
Commissioner of Pensions, Department O, Washington, D. C.

Dear Sir:
Kindly send me the pension record (Revolutionary War) of Silas Wilcot of the Pennsylvania Line, who was 79 when he was pensioned Jan. 8, 1822, in Bradford County, Pa., I believe.
Sincerely yours,
Nancy C. Morrow
109 Hill St.,
Oil City, Pa.
March 26, 1924.

Mullen Nebraska Aug. 1. 1934.
Veterans Administration Washington D.C.
Dear Sir,
Will you please be so kind as to tell me if you have any Revolutionary War Record of one, Silas Wolcott, who was supposed to have served in the First Pennsylvania Rifle men. and he enlisted Mar. 30. 1776.
I will be very grateful for any information you may have of him. Thanking you I am Resp.
Era D. Lowe
(Mrs. J.E.)

VETERANS ADMINISTRATION WASHINGTON
August 17, 1934
YOUR FILE REFERENCE:
IN REPLY REFER TO:
BA-J/MLB
Mrs. J. E. Lowe Mullen, Nebraska
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the record of Silas Wolcott who served in the Revolutionary War from Pennsylvania.
With the data given by you it is not possible to make a proper search of the records, and in order to identify the record of the particular soldier named Silas Wolcott in whom you are interested, should it be on file, as much as possible of the following data in regard to him should be given: 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 Assistant to Administrator

Mullen N.H. Aug 27. 1934.
Veterans Administration Washington D.C.
Dear Sir,
In regard to the Silas Wolcott , I have ask you about. I have found the following.
He was born. Aug. 4. 1755 in New Hampshire. moved to Newark N.J. Then to Lancaster Pa. where he was when the Revolution began.
He enlisted in the First Pennsylvania Rifle men. Mar 30. 1776. The regiment he belonged to was authorized by Congress for home defense. & mustered in three months before the declaration of Independence. April 6. 1776.
Mustered out. in April 1778.
Silas Wolcott in his own discharge gives the date of his own discharge as January 1. 1778. But he was in border service, that is the militia, some time after that.
He married in Lancaster Pa. March 2. Margaret Rowan who lived in Donegal Township now Dauphin County Pa.
He died Jan 17. 1840. The last record I have of his residence was Litchfield Township Bradford Co. Pa.

I will be very grateful if you can give me a government record of his service. I have this family record. But I am tracing my lineage for a D.A.R. membership and I will need your record.
I thank you very much. and I am Resp.
Mrs. J. E. Love.
2 years old

Lake Mills, Wis.,
Feb. 11, 1935
Director of Pensions Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir:
Can you give me any genealogical information regarding Silas Wolcott who served in the Revolution in the 13 th Penn. Line. He was born about 1755 and died near Litchfield, Penn. in 1834. His tombstone says he was pensioned. I would be glad to know details of his Rev. service also.
Also, have you any information regarding Charles Bingham , born 1756 and died near Barton, Tioga Co. N.Y. in 1818, I am told, though this may not be date of death. He seems to have served in the Revolution in the 5 th & 7 th Companies of the Fifth Battalion of Militia of Northampton Co. Pa.
Thank you.
Sincerely
Ruth M. Potter

September 7, 1934
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Mrs. J. E. Lowe Mullen, Nebraska
SILAS WOLCUT W. 2982 BA-J/MLB
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War record of Silas Wolcott, born in 1755 in New Hampshire, moved to New Jersey, then to Pennsylvania, from which state he served, married Margaret Rowan and died in Litchfield Township, Pennsylvania.
You are furnished below the record of Silas Wolcut (as soldier signed, but the surname also appears in the claim as Wolcott and Woolcott). The data therein were obtained from the papers on file in pension claim, W. 2982, based upon his service in the Revolutionary War.
Silas Wolcut was born August 4, 1755, in the State of New Hampshire, but was reared in Chester County, Pennsylvania; the names of his parents are not given.
He enlisted in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, the latter part of March, or early in April, 1776, served as private in Captain Weitzel's company, Colonel Samuel Miles' Pennsylvania regiment, and in Captain John Robb's company, Colonel Walter Stewart's 13 th Pennsylvania Regiment, was in the battles of Long Island, Brandywine, Germantown, some skirmishes, wintered at Valley Forge, and was discharged January 1, 1778.
Silas Wolcut was allowed pension on his application executed April 22, 1818, while a resident of Athens Township, Bradford County, Pennsylvania, where he was still living in 1821.
He died June 4, or 5, 1834, in Litchfield, Bradford County, Pennsylvania,
Silas Wolcut married March 25, 1777, place not stated, Margaret Rowan, who was born October 12, 1756, place not given.

Silas Wolcut's widow, Margaret, was allowed pension on her application executed July 20, 1839, at which time she was living with her son, Benjamin, in Bradford County, Pennsylvania, remote from any post office and not on any post road; in November of the same year she was residing in Litchfield Township, about twenty-six miles from Standing Stone Post Office, in said Bradford County, and was still living there in 1843. She died December 20, 1844.
Reference was made to the following children of Silas Wolcut and his wife, Margaret; in 1839 they were all residing in Bradford County, Pennsylvania, where the family had lived for forty-eight years:
Mary, who married _____ Munn (his given name not shown)
Elijah Wolcut, born March 29, 1781
Dorcas, who married _____ Pew (his given name not stated)
Loviah or Leviar Cufman or Cuffman
John R. Wolcott
Minerva Read or Reed
Silas B. Wolcott
Benjamin Wolcott, aged forty-four years in 1839; in 1853 residing in Tioga, Tioga County, New York.
Margaret Park
Two of soldier's children died in infancy, their names not designated.
The children who survived their mother, Margaret Wolcut, were: John R. Wolcott, Mary Munn, Leviar or Loviah Cufman or Cuffman, Minerva Read or Reed. Margaret Park and Benjamin Wolcut.
In 1853, one Elijah Wolcott was Justice of the Peace for Bradford County, Pennsylvania, his relationship to the family not stated.
In 1820, reference was made to soldier's grandson, then aged eleven years; his name and names of his parents were not given.
In 1820, one Paul Woolcut, aged sixty-seven years, was a resident of Waynesfield, Wood County, Ohio, no relationship to the family stated.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER Assistant to Administrator

April 28, 1924.
Nancy C. Morrow, 109 Hill St., Oil City, PA.
Madam:
I have to advise you that from the papers in Revolutionary War pension claim, W.2982, it appears that Silas Wolcut or Wolcott was born August 4, 1755, in New Hampshire. He enlisted in March or April 1776 and served as a private in Captains Weitzel and John Robb's Company, Colonels Samuel Miles and Walter Stewart's Pennsylvania Regiment, was in the battles of Long Island, Brandywine and Germantown and in skirmishes and was discharged January 1, 1778.
He was allowed pension on his application executed April 22, 1818, while a resident of Athens Township, Bradford County, Pennsylvania. He died June 4, 1834, at Litchfield, Pennsylvania.
Soldier married March 25, 1777, Margaret Rowan who was born October 12, 1756. She was allowed pension on her application executed July 20, 1839, while a resident of Litchfield Township, Bradford County, Pennsylvania. She died

for a
December 20, 1844. Their children were: Elijah, born March 29, 1779, Mary Munn, Dorcas Pees, Leirah Cuffman, John R., Minerva Reed, Silas B., Benjamin, and Margaret Park.
Respectfully,
Commissioner.

In reply to your request of _____, received _____ for a statement of the military history of Silas Walcutt-Walcott a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his and (or his widow's) application for pen- sion on file in this Bureau. N. F. 2982.
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     Mch. or Apr. 1776 to Jan. 1, 1778. Pvt. Weitzel John Robb Samuel Miles Walter Stewart Pa.          
Battles engaged in, Long Island, Brandywine, Germantown, Residence of soldier at enlistment, not stated. Date of application for pension, Apr. 22, 1818. His ch. was al. Residence at date of application, Athens Township, Bradford Co., Pa. Age at date of application, B. Aug. 4, 1755, in N. H.
Remarks: He mar. Mch. 25, 1777, Margaret Rowan, who  was born Oct. 12, 1756. He died June 4, 1834, at Litchfield Pa.  she was al. pen. on her ap. of  July 20, 1839 while a resident of Litchfield Township, Bradford Co., Pa.  she died Dec. 20, 1844. Their children were: Elijah, born Mch. 29, 1779;  Mary Munn, Dorcas Rees, Leiah Cuffman, John B., Minerva Reed, Silas B.  Benjamin, Margaret Park Respectfully,
Commissioner.