Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 17210, Joseph Woodman, Mass. N.H.

SERVICE
Woodman, Joseph
NUMBER _____
NUMBER S-17210
Mass. N. H.
carded
CONTENTS

Maine 21. 545
Joseph Woodman of Cumberland in the State of Maine who was a Private in the Company comman- by Captain Gordon of the Regt comman- by Col Gilman in the Maine line for 9 months Mass & N.H.
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of 30 Dollars 00 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 24 th day of Sept 1833 and sent John Mussie Portland Maine
Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1833 $75.00 Semi-ant. allowance ending Sept 1833 15.00 $90.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by H. G. Johnson Clerk Book E Vol. 1 Page 64

17 210 INVALID.
File No. 17 210
Joseph Woodman
His Rev. was
Act: June 7 th 82
Index:—Vol. 1 , Page 416
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Joseph Woodman
Nov 1857.
Private 9 Months
on Roll of service of Capt Gideon's Company Last Gideon's Dist-
John Masey Esq. Portland Maine
W. Joseph E. Fox Esq.

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
MAINE DISTRICT SS.
At a Special District Court of the United States begun and holden at Portland  New Gloucester , within and for said District, on the thirteenth  thirteenth day of August  August A. D. eighteen hundred and thirty- two  two before the Honorable ASHUR WARE, Judge of said Court.
ON this thirteenth  thirteenth day of August  August aforesaid, personally appeared in open Court before said District Judge Joseph Woodman a resident of New Gloucester in the county of Lumbard in said Maine District, aged eighty three  eighty three 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 7th, 1832.
That he entered the service of America in the Revolutionary war, as a private soldier in a company of Militia of the Massachusetts line, commanded by Capt. Abner Merrill of said New Gloucester , that he volunteered into said company in the month of May or June, Seventeen hundred and seventy five to serve until the last day of December of the same year. that he went with said company some time during said June to Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he with the company joined the Regiment commanded by Col. Finney ; Gen George Washington was commanded by the troops then - that he served during the whole of the time in said company & Regiment as a private to said last day of December. and that at the expiration of said time, he was regularly discharged but had no written discharge - He further states that in December, seventeen hundred and seventy six  seventeen hundred and seventy six being at his father's in Kingston, New Hampshire, he then volunteered into a company of Militia, of New Hampshire commanded by Capt Gordon , in the Regiment commanded by Col Gilment Major Coffin of Exeter was his major - Lieutenant Birtlett was the first of the company - that he volunteered for two months to go to Peek's Kill, New York that he went to said Peek's Kill, then served out his two months and was duly discharged, but had no written discharge. that he was born in Kingston in the year seventeen hundred and forty nine - that he thinks he has a record of his age - and he thinks it is recorded in said Kingston - that he removed from said Kingston when he was twenty one years of age to New Gloucester aforesaid, where his name has been ever since. that he volunteered into the service aforesaid, both of said times, that the names of the officers as above given are all he now recollects - & that he had no written discharge at the expiration of either of said services - he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on any pension roll of any agency in any State, or (if any) only on that of the agency in the State of  the State of  Massachusetts
that false word man, Joseph Woodman was living at the time of his application and of his report to service as aforesaid
Sworn to and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid.
Before, Ashur Ware
} U. S. Judge for the District of Maine.
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier pensioner , and served as he states
And that Simeon Parsons Esquire who took the annexed deposition of Deborah Rowe , is a Justice of the Peace duly qualified & that his official attestations are entitled to full faith & credit
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I
John Nussey
Clerk of said District Court, have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this eighteenth  eighteenth day of August  August A. D. one thousand eight hundred and thirty- two  two
John Nussey
} Clerk of the U. States District Court for Maine District.
+ The said man does not remember the given name of either of said officers

State of Maine } Cumberland ss }
New Gloucester, June 4 1833 - Personally appeared before me the undersigned, a justice of the Peace within and for said County Joseph Woodman of said New Gloucester who being du- ly sworn, deposeth and saith that by reason of old age and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned be- low, and in the following grades: "For seven months I served as a private soldier, in the within named Capt. Merrill company, and for two months I served as a private soldier in the company of which the within named Bartlett was lieutenant, I also served nine months as a private soldier as aforesaid - and for such service I claim a pension - his
Joseph X Woodman mark
Simeon Parsons Jus. of the Peace
Maine District
District Clerk's Office June 4. 1833
In testimony that Simeon Parsons is a Magistrate as above & that the signature thereto purporting to be his is genuine I have hereto set my hand & seal of office the day & year last above written
John Mussey Clerk U.S. Courts

I Lebulon Rowe of New Gloucester, in the County of Cumberland, being eighty  eighty three years of age, do depose and say, that in the month of June to the best of my recollection, in the year seventeen hundred & seventy five, I was a volunteer in a Company of Militia of the Mass. achusetts line, commanded by Capt. Moses Merrill of said New Gloucester, to serve until the last day of Decem- ber of the same year. Joseph Woodman of said New Gloucester, whom I well know, was also a soldier in the same company. Said Company was ordered to Cambridge, Massachusetts, where it remained in the same place. Said Woodman I well know was with and served in said company during the campaign from June to the the last day of December aforesaid. He served as a private. The company was in the Regiment commanded by Col. Finney. Said service was performed in the Revolutionary war & his
Lebulon + Rowe Mark
State of Maine Cumberland ss } August 5 1832
Personally appeared Lebulon Rowe, with whom I am acquainted, and who is a credible witness and made oath to the truth of this deposition by him signed
Before me Sincere Parsons Jus Peace

WE Jabez Woodman a Clergyman residing in the town of New Gloucester and Joseph E Foxcroft of said New Gloucester Esq.
hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Joseph Woodman who has subscribed the foregoing declaration, that we believe him to be eighty three years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn to, and subscribed the day and year aforesaid. Jabez Woodman Joseph E Foxcroft
Before Arthur Dorr U. S. Judge for Maine District.
And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that Jabez Woodman who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman resident of the town of New Gloucester and that Joseph E. Foxcroft Esquire late Sheriff of Cumberland
who also signed the same is a resident of the same town and are creditable persons and that their statement is entitled to credit.
Arthur Dorr Judge.