Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 18,291, Israel Woodbury, N.H.

SERVICE
NUMBER
N.H.
Woodbury, Israel
S 18,291
B.L.Wt. 11152-160-55
CONTENTS

84688. Oct-March 3/55 April 27/55
Israel Woodbury Israel Woodbury Psic.
Capt. Robinson } M.H. Col. Hold } M.H. M. H. cont. line, Perseverance.
Rev. War.
At 160 ac. Nov: 29 "1855,
John H. June 30/1855
Vol W 2, page 100
Claimant Salem W.H.

New Hampshire
Israel Woodbury
of Rockingham in the State of N H who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain [blank] of the Regt commanded by Col Hale in the N H line for 3 Yrs from 1777.
Inscribed on the Roll of N H at the rate of 80 Dollars - Cents per annum to commence on the 14th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 21 st day of October 1832 and sent Peter Chadwick Esq. N H
Arrears to 14th of Sept 1832 $ 120 - Semi-annual allowance ending 21 March 1833 40
$160
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by S H [blank] Clerk, Book D Vol. 1 st Page 193.

4425
Israel Woodbury
Private
Col Hale's Regt N H
Old Care
Mr Wm C Mansfield
note on Book B- that
he is a Role and full
7 Aug 1862
Adm d
JE
Peter Chadwick Esq
Exeter
N H

BRIEF in the case of  Israel Woodbury of the County of Rockingham in the State of New Hampshire  (Act 7 June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Open Court  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  3. How old is he? 72 years -  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.     In 1779 April 23 d . 3 — — Private Gen. Col. Nathan Hale's Regt Capt. Caleb Robinson's Comp'y  
 5. In what battles was he engaged? None - but was taken prisoner by the Indians  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Salem in the County of State of New Hampshire  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? his Affidavit and his Pension Certificate returned annexed  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? All regular - 
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
Levin Bell Examining Clerk.

Payable semi-annually. The first payment on this Certificate will be made on the 4th of March next, in Portsmouth, N. Hampshire at the United States Branch bank
Recorded

War Department.
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.
I CERTIFY that, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 18th March, 1818, _____
Israel Woodbury. . . . . late a Private in the Army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the New Hampshire Agency, at the rate of Eight dollars per month, to com- mence on the 9 th day of August one thousand eight hundred and Nineteen.
GIVEN at the War Office of the United States, this 29 th day of September one thousand eight hundred and Nineteen.
H. Callow
Secretary of War.

Israel Woodbury born
No 4. 425
Page 3
Israel Woodbury born in 1725

1832 72 1760 State of New-Hampshire.
County of Rockingham, ss.
ON this sixteenth day of August A D 1832 personally appeared, in open Court, before the Justices of the Superior Court of Judicature now sitting at Exeter in said County  Israel Woodbury a resident of Salem in the County of Rockingham and State of New-Hampshire, aged Seventy two 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 entered the service of the United States about the 23d. day of April 1777 in the company commanded by Caleb Robinson in Colonel Nathan Hale's Regiment in the New Hampshire line & enlisted for three years: that he marched to Number 4 so called on Connecticut river thence through Vermont to Ticonderoga , — that on the 17th day of June the same year he with four others fell into an ambush of Indians, — two were killed, two were taken and one escaped; that he with William Person were the prisoners; that he remained a prisoner about three months when he was retaken by a party of militia at Ticonderoga ; that he continued in the service in said Regiment until the month of April 1780 when he was honorably discharged at Reading (he believes) in Connecticut: — That his discharge was forwarded to the War Office in 1829 where he supposes it now is; — that he has been placed upon the Pension roll and struck therefrom on account of insolvency — his Pension Certificate was numbered 15.162: — that he resided in Salem aforesaid when he entered the service and has constantly resided there since he left the service.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any Agency in any State.
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
Israel Woodbury Atty Phoebe Black

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion that the above named Applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states
I Peter Chadwick Clerk of the Superior Court of Judicature for the County of Rocking- ham in the State aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Israel Woodbury for a pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court this seventh day of August Anno Domini 1832.
P. Chadwick Clerk of the Court Rockingham County

Dear Woodbury
94-688
86,088
APPLICATION FOR Poultry LAND.

APPLICATION FOR BOUNTY LAND.
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, }
County of Hillsborough }
ss.
On this sixth day of April A. D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty five , personally appeared before me, a Justice of the Peace within and for the County and State aforesaid, Israel Woodbury aged ninety five years, a resident of Salem in the State of New Hampshire, who being duly sworn according to law, declares, that he is the identical Israel Woodbury who was a private in the company commanded by Captain Caleb Robinson in the Regiment of N.H. militia commanded by Colonel Alexander Hall in the war with Great Britain declared by the United States on the 18th day of June, 1812 ; of the American Revolution and is the identical Israel Woodbury who has a Pension Certificate for Revolutionary Service which certificate is recorded in the Records of the Pension Office Book D. Vol. 4st. Page 193. that he enlisted at Salem N.H. , on or about the twelfth day of May, A. D. 1777  A. D. 18 , for the term of three years and continued in actual service in said war for the term of fourteen days  about three years , and was honorably discharged at Danbury, Connecticut on or about the fifth day of May, A. D. 1780  A. D. 18 , as will appear by the muster rolls of said company.
She further states that she was married to the said Israel Woodbury in Salem on the 10th day of March A. D. 18 50 , by one Rev. Nathaniel Folsom and that her name before her marriage was Mary Folsom and that her husband died at Salem on the 10th day of March A. D. 18 50 , and that she is now a widow.
he further declares that he has heretofore made application for Bounty Land under the act of September 28th, 1850, and received a Land Warrant No. 12345 for 160 acres which he has since legally disposed of and cannot now return. That he makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the bounty land to which he may be entitled under the "act of March 3d, 1855, granting bounty land to certain officers and soldiers who had been engaged in the military service of the United States." he also declares that he has never applied for or received under this or any other act of Congress any Bounty Land Warrant except the one above mentioned.
We N. F. Stevens and W. S. Bradford residents of Salem in the State of New Hampshire upon our oaths declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by Israel Woodbury , in our presence and that we believe from the appearance and statements of the applicant that he is the identical person he represents himself to be.
Nathaniel F. Stevens William S. Bradford
The foregoing declaration and affidavit were sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and year above written: and I certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons: that the claimant is the person he represents himself to be and that I have no interest in this claim.
Mercy Hobbs
JUSTICE OF THE PEACE.
POWER OF ATTORNEY.
To the SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR:—Please deliver the certificate or warrant, to which I am entitled according to the tenor of the foregoing declaration and application to of Manchester, in the State of New Hampshire.
Signed in presence of me, }

State of New-Hampshire.
County of Hillsborough ss.
I, Perley Dodge Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County and State above mentioned, do hereby certify that Moody Hobbs whose genuine signature appears above, is, and was at the time of signing the same, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid, duly commissioned and qualified: that his commission is dated on the Third day of December A. D. 1852, and will expire in five years from that date; that all his official acts as such are entitled to full faith and credit; and that the aforesaid Court of Common Pleas is a Court of Record.
Given under my hand and seal of Office at Amherst, this 11th day of April A. D. 1855.
Perley Dodge CLERK.
[Faint, mirrored text from the reverse side of the page, likely bleed-through from the original document.]

In reply to your request of _____, received _____ for a statement of the military history of Israel Woodbury a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his ( or his widow's ) application for pen- sion on file in this Bureau.
S. File 18291
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     Apr 23, 1776 Apr 5, 1780 Pri. Caleb Robinson Nathan Hale N.H.   He was captured by Indians June 17, 1777 & held a prisoner three weeks before he was retaken (released) by the militia at Scituate.  
Battles engaged in, ✓ Residence of soldier at enlistment, Salem, Rockingham Co. N.H. Date of application for pension, Aug. 1, 1819 - His claim was allowed. Residence at date of application, Salem, N.H. Age at date of application, in his sixtieth year. Remarks: No family data on file.

4699 Case of Israel Woodbury.
Silas Beeton ag. Salem, N. Hamp.
rec d Aug. 30 th 1819
Woodbury, Israel NH 18291

Salem N.H. August 20 1819
To the Secretary at War
Dear Sir Justice of our Superior Court has requested me to forward the enclosed to your Office - should Mr. Woodbury be placed on the pension list, you will have the goodness to forward his certificate to me. I am Sir your most Obedient & humble Servant
Silas Metton -

Israel Woodbury S.F 18291 N.H.

This may certify that Israel Woodbury Private in the faithful service of the United States in the War for the rebellion, for the space of three years, at being the time for which he engaged, and he is hereby Honorably Discharged the Service. Given under my hand this 5 th Apr 1700 —
Whom it may concern } both Civil & Military }
Geo. Theide Col. Com. 2 nd Hamp. Regiment