Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 11,561, Joseph Willy, Va.

SERVICE
Va
Willy Joseph or Wiley Joseph Mary
NUMBER
R. 11.561
CONTENTS

The State of Ohio
Preble county 3 d . Before me Daniel Stephens a justice of the Peace within and for said county personally appeared John Sprowl of Darke county Ohio who being duly sworn according to law. Deposes and says I was acquainted with Joseph Wiley deceased and Mary Wiley his widow I was well acquainted with them both in Rockbridge county Virginia we lived near neighbours for a long time and until we moved to Ohio I knew them before they were married I recollect distinctly the time of their marriage. I was not present at the marriage but I then was at church the Sabbath after their marriage and know that they lived together as man and wife from that time until the death of said Joseph and raised a family of children they were always considered by their neighbors good moral and highly respectable people and no one who knew them ever doubted their having been lawfully married to my knowledge. Shortly before their marriage Joseph Wiley served I think two tours of duty in the war of the Revolution in the Virginia militia. he was drafted and served a tour in Captain Gilmore's company I think. and I do not now recollect whose company he served the other tour in. we all lived in Rockbridge county Virginia at that time and he was drafted there I was not in the Revolutionary war myself and did not see Joseph Wiley in the service but I have no doubt of his having served as above stated I think his service was rendered about or near the close of the war I can not now state how long he served they may have been three months four and they might have been more I can not say

John Sprout sworn to and subscribed before me the 16th day of June 1857
Isaac Stephens J.P.
The State of Ohio Preble County ss. I Richard Brunningham clerk of the court of common pleas within and for said county hereby certify that Isaac Stephens Esqr. before whom the foregoing affidavit was made. was at the time of making the same. an acting justice of the peace in and for said county. duly elected commissioned and qualified that full faith and credit are due to his official acts. and that his signature thereto officially attached. is true and genuine
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my name & affixed the seal of said court at Eaton. this 4th day of October 1857
R Brunningham. Clerk By Daniel Reid. deputy. clerk

No 1.032
Declaration of Mary Miller — wid Joseph Ohio
July 29. 18218.
Set Dec 29/51.
J. Stephens Eaton, Ohio

The State of Ohio
Darkie County 3 ds . on this 22 nd day of September A.D. 1851. Personally appeared before me the subscriber one of the associate judges of the court of common Pleas within and for the said county of Darkie and State of Ohio said court being a court of Record Mary Willy a resident of Harrison Township Darkie County and State of Ohio aged eighty one years who being 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 29 th 1848 that she is the widow of Joseph Willy who was a private in a company of the Virginia Militia commanded by Captain Gilmore in the Revolutionary War that her said husband was drafted at Rockbridge County in the said State of Virginia for the term of six months same time in the latter part of the summer or fall season of the year 1780 and that he continued to serve in said company for the term of six months and that during the term or time of his said service he was for the most part of his time in North and South Carolina and was in the Battle of the Cowpens. She further states that her said husband the said Joseph Willy afterwards served one other tour of duty she thinks a six months tour in the Virginia Militia but she cannot now state the name of his Captain or other officers nor in what way he entered the service but she knows that his services in the army in the War of the Revolution in the aggregate was more than one year and that they were rendered in the years 1780 & 1781 and that for the most part of his time when in the service he was in North and South Carolina and that he always claimed or said when speaking of his services in the army of the Revolution that

he had been in the Battle of the Cow Pond and some other engagements in the South.
She can not state the Regiment or Corps in which her said husband served other than that at the time he entered the service he was a resident of Rockbridge County in the State of Virginia and served in the mili- tia or troops raised in that state.
She further declared that she was married to the said Joseph Willy on or about the 30 th day of July A.D. 1791 (seventeen hundred and ninety- one) That her said husband the aforesaid Joseph Willy died on the 7 th day of July 1822 that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service but the marriage took place previous to the second day of January Eighteen hundred and twenty at the time above stated She further swears that she is now a widow and that she has never before made any appli- cation for a pension
Mary Willy her X mark
Sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and year first above written
Judson Lague Associate Judge
I certify that the above named Mary Willy can not from bodily infirmity attend the Court
Judson Lague associate Judge
To H. E. Heath Commissioner of Pensions Sir
If you please allow S. Stephens of Eaton O. to attend to this application for me as my agent please direct all communications on the subject to him.
Mary Willy her X mark

State of Ohio Vance County
I, J. W. Strigg, Clerk of the Court of Vance Common Pleas, do hereby certify that in due time a Roger, before whom the foregoing affidavit appears to have been made, sworn to, now at the time of subscribing the same, an Associate Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, within and for said County duly Commissioned, Qualified and sworn into office; And that the signature purporting to be his is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the Seal of said Office at Granville this 26 th day of September A.D., 1837.
J. W. Strigg clerk.

11061.
P. O.
Mary Willy or Wiley
Service: widow of Jas.
REJECTED
Enlisted: _____, 18 .
Discharged: _____, 18 .
Application filed: _____, 18 .
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18 .

No. 1032
Mary Willy wid: of Joseph Ohio
Act 29: July 1848
To L. Stephens. Decr 29. 1857
11561

THIS IS TO CERTIFY, That it appears from a list in this office of such Officers and Soldiers of the Virginia Continental Line as settled their accounts and received certificates for the balance of their Full Pay, according to an act of assembly, passed the November session 1781, directing the Auditors of Public Accounts to settle and adjust the pay and accounts of the said Officers and Soldiers from the 1st January 1777, to the 31st December 1781, (see Hening's Statutes at Large, vol. 10, p. 462,) that a settlement was made on the 15 th day of Augt 1783 in the name of Joseph Willey — as Soldier of Infantry and evidence of the indebtedness of the State to him for £ 68. 8. 11 and was delivered to Samuel Dyer — and was given, as appears by a copy of the settlement on file in this office, for services from the _____ to _____
Given under my hand at the First Auditor's Office, Richmond, this 13 th day of June 18 51.
Page 315 [No Seal of Office.]
G. W. Chittenden " act. Adr.

Eaton Ohio Oct. 7 1851
Sir Inclosed herewith I send the Declaration and papers of Mary Willy widow of Joseph Willy who claims a pension on account of the services of her said husband in the War of the Revolution. Please examine this application at your earliest convenience and advise me of the result &c
I E Heath Commr. of Pensions Washington City
Yours Respectfully Stephen Eaton O

State of Indiana
Jay County ss. Before me Isaac F. Thompson a justice of the peace in and for said county and state aforesaid Personally came Mary Wiley aged eighty two years a resident of Jay county in the state of Indiana who being by me duly sworn according to law deposes and says as follows. I was personally and intimately acquainted with Joseph Wiley (now deceased) in his life and with Mary Wiley (now his widow of Darke county Ohio) I was well acquainted with them both before and after their marriage and also at the time and before and after the said Joseph Wiley was out in the service in the Revolutionary War. We were raised from my first recollection when children near together in the same neighborhood in Rockbridge county in the state of Virginia and we lived near neighbors until about the year 1814. when the said Joseph Wiley left Rockbridge county and moved to the state of Ohio. I know that the said Joseph Wiley served two tours of duty in the Virginia Militia during the Revolution- ary War. The first tour of duty was six months tour he was drafted at Rockbridge county Virginia I believe in Captain Gilmer's company of Virginia Militia for six months and continued in actual service for six months and was honorably dis- charged as I understood and believed and returned from the service. The second tour was a draft also for a three months tour. I recollect distinctly said Joseph Wiley starting out and going into the service and also the time of his returning home on both occasions. The first draft above mentioned took

place in the latter part of the summer or fall season of 1780 and the other something like a year afterwards or perhaps not that long. I know that it was said and believed generally that said Joseph Wiley was in the Battle of the Cowpens, and that most of the time he was out in the service he was in and South Carolina. I recol- lect very well the marriage of the said Joseph Wiley and the said Mary Wiley now his widow they were married in Rockbridge County Virginia they were married by one Wm Graham a clergyman and that her name before her said mar- riage was Mary McCampbell and that the said Joseph and Mary Wiley lived together as man and wife from the time of their said marriage until the death of said Joseph and I think no person who knew them ever doubted their having been legally married nor do I believe that any person ever doubted the said Joseph being a soldier of the Revolutionary War and his having served as aforesaid I think no doubts have ever existed in relation to that mat- ter
Mary her Wiley mark
Subscribed and sworn to before me Isaac this 14 th day of March 1857.
Isaac H Thompson J.P.

State of Indiana } Way County } ss. Ira Denney Clerk of the Way Circuit Court hereby certify That Isaac H. Thompson Esq. before whom the foregoing acknowledgment appears to have been taken was at that time and now is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County of Way duly elected commissioned and qualified and that full faith and credit are due and of right should be given to all his official acts as such Justice In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court, at Portland this 14 th day of March A.D. 1851                      Ira Denney Clerk J. C.