Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 22605, Moses Woodburn, Conn. Privateer

SERVICE
NUMBER
Conn.
Woodburn hoses
S. 22605
Quarters
CONTENTS

N o 11,175 Pennsylvania
Moses Woodburn of Bradford Co, in the State of Penn s . who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Rathbone of the Regt. commanded by Col. Starr in the Connecticut troops time for 15 months Private $ 50.00
Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania at the rate of 50 Dollars — Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 6 th day of April 1833 and sent to D. Bullock M c Intoshfield P a
Arrears to the 4th of March 1833 100.00 Semi-ant. allowance ending 14. Sep. 1833 25.00 $125.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by D. Brown Clerk, Book H Vol. 5 Page 64

Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Bradford County ss
Seal Before the subscribers one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the said County of Bradford Personally appeared Nathaniel Woodburn & Nancy Woodburn and on their oaths both declare and say that they are acquainted with Moses Woodburn and have been from the time of his services in the army and that they have the  his the bible of his father that has a record of his age and that he was Born 2 d October 1764 in the Town of Stormington in the state of Connecticut and the said Moses served as a substitute for his Brother John in the year 1779 for the space of Six or Seven months for which service we think he had a Regular Discharge and in the Spring same time in the Month of May 1780 Enterted and joined the main Army at Peaks Kill and continued with the main Army at different places untill his Discharge in the Month of Jany 1781 same time in the Month of February same year Entred aboard of the Brigs Maria & Lafayette & the Randolph for which he continued for the space of about two years in 1781 & 82 as a mariner and sailor and further sayeth not
Nathaniel Woodburn Nancy M c Burn
Sworn & subscribed to this 19 th day of September 1832
foreme Alvin Tillyer Jus Peace
State of Pennsylvania ss I certify that the above named persons are persons of credibility & integrity - Certified the 12 th day of February 1833 Alvin Tillyer Justice of the Peace

I James P. Bell Prothonotary & Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Bradford County Pennsylvania do certify & make known that Alvin J. Myles & Harry Morgan whose names are affixed to the within depositions are and were at the respective dates of their signing the same acting Justices of the peace duly commissioned as such in and for said county & that their official proceedings in this behalf are entitled to full faith & credit
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office the 19 th day of September 1832
J. P. Bell Proth
State of Pennsylvania } I James P. Bell Prothonotary of the Bradford County ss } Court of Common Pleas of said county do certify & make known that Alvin J. Myles Harry Morgan & Albinus P. Pease are for more than one year last past have been each a justice of the peace in and for the county aforesaid and that their official acts and proceedings are entitled to full faith and credit
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office the 13 th day of February 1843
For J. P. Bell Prothonotary E. L. Goodrich Dep

No. 17. 515
Close Woodbine
80 Jan. '33
Off. 5. 14.
D. Bullock Smithfield
P 2 "
Adm 2 .
15 mo's
Private
$50 - P 200

BRIEF in the case of Moses Woodburne County of Bradford in the State of Pennsylvania (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? 68 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 Sept tilt May or June 1780 8 or 9 Private Substitute enlisted Gen. Capt. Bathbone   " " enlisted Capt. Douglass. Col. Hovey's Regt Gen. Huntington   tilt Jan. 9. 1781 about 4 Mountain Battery Amned Brig. Mung. La Fayette   Feb- " Capt. Peter Richards   " June about 3 do do " Elisha Himm in same ship   returned in Nov 4 do do " Frederick do   1782 March " 2 do do " Prince Amned Steph. Randolph  
 5. In what battles was he engaged?  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Huntington Conn.  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? 2 living witnesses not certified credible Traditional evidence  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? Defective Papers not attached 
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
Wm Luce Examining Clerk.

Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7. 1832
State of Pennsylvania } Bradford County } on this eighteenth day of September 1832 personally appeared in open court before the the honorable Edward Herrick President & the honorable John McLean & John Stearns his associates judges of the Court of Common Pleas of said county now sitting Moses Woodburn a resident of the Township of Sherburne in the county of Bradford and State of Pennsylvania aged 68 years in act. next who being the first duly sworn according to law on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7. 1832
that he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers & served as here in stated that he first served as a substitute for his brother John Woodburn at Stonington point for about eight or nine months in a sergeant's guard of about 17 or 18 men & in any sudden alarm guns were fired & the militia flocked in - William Clark was the sergeant on this duty & Capt. Rathbone who lived at Stonington had the chief care - we had the charge of a number of pieces of cannon in a battery facing the harbor & we kept two sentinels constantly stationed one on the battery and one at the point - this was in the month of September 1779 that he enlisted & he was discharged in May or June of 1780 & thinks he said a proper discharge which he has lost
Soon after being discharged as above he enlisted at Preston Connecticut under a Major Peter a recruiting officer & went with thirty or forty others & was mustered at Danbury Connecticut by Col. Cane officed & marched to Peekskill & joined the regular army under Gen Washington & was attached to Capt. Douglas company in Col. Sturges 1st Connecticut regiment - he thinks in June 1780 was drilled for three or four weeks and the army moved down to Kings Ferry on the west side of the river & remained eight or ten days - marched from there to Brantstown in Jersey opposite Sappan Bay & stayed there about two or three weeks - then went to a place called Pochus between Brantstown & Hack- -ensack & stayed a few days - then went to Hackensack and re- -mained as much as six weeks - then went to a place called Kimmerly Town back of Fort Lee where we were exercised under Baron Steuben - remained there he thinks 4 or 5 weeks during this time some Indians came along with Gen Washington

some treaty having been made with them - from there went back to Hackensack & built small chimneys to our tents & remained encamped about 6 weeks then marched to Orange- Town & remained two weeks or more during which time Major Andre was executed at Orange Town west of the stone church & this applicant was one of the guard who conducted him from the stone church to the place of execution & was near him when he was executed - that he thinks was in November or Decr. 1780 - from there they marched & crossed the river at Kings Ferry about into the Highlands about two miles east of West Point & encamped for winter & built huts till some time in January 1781 when he was discharged which discharge he has kept until within about two years at which time his house was burnt & he had not seen it since - he returned to Stonington after being discharged & in February 1781 he entered as a volunteer in the armed brig called Marquis La Fayette at New London & was about on a cruise under Capt Peter Richards off New York & off Charleston South Carolina & took three prizes - one a shipload from Charleston to Quebec which was retaken - one a sloop from Bermuda to New York & loaded with rum which we sent to New London where it arrived - and a brig from Liverpool to Charleston to Liverpool  laden with  two  hundred  tons  of  flour which we burnt after taking out some - some of the cargo - we returned to New London and in June 1781 went on another cruise under Capt Elias Hiaman in the same vessel off Halifax & the mouth of St Lawrence & was about about three months or more as he did not return - till shortly after New London was burnt & arrived there he thinks in November 1781 - took no prizes - went on another cruise in the same vessel under Capt Nicholas Goudie about the 1st of December 1781 and went off Jamaica & the West India islands & took one brig loaded with salt which we sent into Bedford where she arrived - was about about 4 months & thinks he returned in March 1782 to New London - went another cruise in the armed sloop Randolph under Capt Paine in April 1782 & cruised off New York - took three prizes near Gardner Island by the aid of a ship called the Confederary & went back to New London the first day we sailed saw them safe in & continued the cruise went off Sandy Hook & took a brig some distance from the Hook - she came from New York to Quebec - was chased by the British sloop Adament of 50 guns & were obliged to throw our guns overboard & returned to New London after an absence of

about two months - he was absent on his first cruise about 4 months He has no documentary evidence - his age is recorded in his father's bible at his brother's in Nyroa - he had no proof of his service except by his brother Nathaniel Woodburn who has some knowledge of his sea service - & Nancy Wood- burn who has seen his discharge & Solomon Kelly who reports of his service since then. His native place is Stonington Connecticut & he lived there at the time of the revolutionary war - since the war he has lived at a place called Noosaert for already about 14 years - moved to Cherry Valley & lived about 12 years & twenty four years in Bradford County Pennsylvania - he would add that his service in Col. Starks regt also in Genl. Huntington's Brigade
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatsoever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares his name is not on the pension roll of the army of any state known and subscribed
The day & year forementioned
Moses Woodburn
J. M. Bull, Prot.
We Samuel Stark residing in Nyseringtown & James Smith residing in the township of Conesville  Conesville  in the County of Bradford and state of Pennsylvania hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Moses Woodburn who has subscribed & signed to the above declaration that we believe him to be 68 years of age - of good character for veracity that he is respected & beloved in the neighborhood where he resides & have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion
known and subscribed the day & year
Sam l Stark James Smith
J. M. Bull, Prot.
And the said court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatory prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states and the court further state that it appears to them that Sam l Stark & James Smith who have signed the foregoing certificate are credible persons and that their statements are entitled to credit By the Court
J. M. Bull, Prot.

I James P. Bull Prothonotary and Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Bradford County Pennsylvania do hereby certify that the within contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Moses Woodburn for a pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office this 19 th day of September 1842
J. P. Bull
State of Pennsylvania
Prob
Bradford County ss } Personally appeared before me the undersigned a justice of the peace in and for said county Moses Woodburn who being duly sworn deposeth & saith that by reason of old age and the consequent loss of memory he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below and in the following grades
For nine months I served as a private in a company of light artillery guard in a company of which Capt. Rathbone had the command as set forth in the foregoing
For six months I served as a private under Col. Canfield as set forth in the foregoing
For 4 months I served as a private on board the armed brig Marquis Lafayette as set forth in the foregoing
For two months I served as a private on board the armed sloop Randolph as set forth in the foregoing - and for such service
I claim a pension Moses Woodburn Sworn & subscribed the 13 th day of February 1843 before me Hiram Paine Justice of the peace
Moses Woodburn
17575
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
S. Y. 22605 -
Washington, D. C., _____, 19_____
In reply to your request of _____, received _____ for a statement of the military history of Nosey Woodburn 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.
    DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     * Sept. 1779 May or June 1780 Pvt. Rathbone in Supt's Guard Conn.   June 1780 Jan'y 1781 Douglas Staff   Feby 1781 4 mos. Peter Richards on brig Margareta La Fayette Private   June 1781 3 mos Elisha Heman "   Dec. 1. 1781 Mar. 1782 Nicholas Fosdick "   Apr. 1782 2 mos. Prince on Sloop Randolph "   
* Substituted for his brother John.
Battles engaged in, captured several prizes at sea
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Sturtevant, Wis.
Date of application for pension, Sept. 16, 1852. This cl. was al
Residence at date of application, Sheskin Top Bradford Co. Penn
Age at date of application, in Oct. 2 1764 at Washington Conn.
Remarks:  He told me he was at the station of major Andre. Since the war Soldier has lived at Hossick N.Y. about 14 years. Cherry Valley about 12 years and in 1832 he said he had been in Bradford Pa. 14 years.
Respectfully,
Commissioner.

Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Bradford county ss
Before the Subscriber one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the County of Bradford
Personally came Nathaniel Woodburn & Nancy Woodburn and on them oaths both declare and say that they are acquainted with Moses Woodburn and that they know him by the records of his father to have been in the year 1764 in the town of Stonington, State of Connecticut and the said Moses had served as a substitute for John Woodburn in the year 1779 for the space of six or seven months for which they think he had a regular discharge and in the spring same time in the month of May 1780 Enlisted and joined the Grand Army at Peek's Kill undigested Washington and continued in the Army till some time in the month of January which he had a regular discharge which we have seen & read as a means and that he the said Moses had served aboard of the Brig Marcus Lafayette in the Randolph in the year 1781 & 82 for the space of nearly two years
The above not quite correct I have made it a new on the other Leaf A. J. Myers J.P.

Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Bradford County ss
Before me the Subscriber one of the Justices of the peace in and for Bradford County personally came Solomon Talladay who upon his solemn oaths doth declare that he is acquainted with Moses Woodburn and that he was acquainted with him in the year 1780 in different stations in the Jersey - in the United States Service, Cavalry at Peekskill. Having passed Orange town opposite Tappan Bay under General Huntington's Brigade Col. Stan? Regiment Capt. Duryea's Company was knowing to his being in the Service for nearly one year - and left him in the Service when I was called to head quarters and afterwards understood that Mr. Woodburn went on the ocean - and fear there more with nothing.
Sworn to this 15th day of Sept A.D. 1832
Solomon X Talladay mark
before me Harry Morgan Justice of the Peace
State of Pennsylvania } I certify that the above named Bradford County } Solomon Talladay is a man of creditability & veracity as I am informed by his neighbors Certified the 12th day of February 1832 - (the seven words above interlined before signing) instead of the year
Harry Morgan Justice of the Peace

Resolution 22605 INVALID.
File No. 22,605
Moses Woodburn
Prd Rev War
Act: June 7" 32"
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 261
[Arrangement of 1870.]

1893 Aug 22 Hist to W H Hyde Ithaca N.Y.
1916 Oct. 27 History to Clyde Elliott.

War Dept— Pension Office March 30. 1883
Sir
I have again examined the papers of Moses Woodburne, and herewith enclose to you for him, a pension certificate for 50 dollars.
His services on board the Marquis La Fayette the sloop and Randolph do not entitle him to compensation, as no evidence can be adduced to shew that they were public-armed vessels. Service in private ships does not obtain for an applicant the benefits of the act of 7 June 1882.
D. Bullock Esq. North Smithfield Pa

Rev Sec 1 212
727 Irving Park Blvd Chicago, Ill.
9-24-1916.
Dept Interior; Washington, D.C.
Yours of recent date rec'd. and thank you. The Moses Woodburn, of whom you have the pension record, is my great great grandfather. His father came from Eng-

land, with his wife, who was a daughter of Lord Carr of Eng, settled in Miss. The settlement was called Woodburn, until destroyed by Indians since called W d Burn. This child was born in Stonington Conn. and he lived in Bradford Co. Pa. and died in Sheshequin 30 th of Dec. 1836 - His daughter married a Williams - His grand daughter mar- ried a Davies - Davies Mrs Elizabeth Williams, Davies married Francis Elliott, who were my grandparents. Mrs. Elizabeth Williams Davies Elliott is

still living in Canton, Bradford Co., Pa.
Please send me the pension records and other data, so can use it for ad- mission to sons of American Revolution. Have another ancestor on other side of fami- ly, Timothy Scruggs, but have his record,
Thanking you very kindly I remain
Sincerely yours,
Phyllis Elliott.

Ithaca, New York Nov. Comr. of Pensions June 23rd 1893. The Old War Dept. -
Can you get me the following information:
Did one Moses Woodburn of Torranda, Pa., receive between the years 1830 - 1836 a pension for service in the Revolutionary War! I think the vouchers were made in Torranda, Brad- ford Co. Pa. Mr. Woodburn was my great grandfather & I wish to use the information.
Yours truly W. W. Hyde.
40 W. Seneca St.
Ithaca, N.Y.
(See inside)

Adjutant General's Office, Washington, June 26, 1893.
Respectfully returned to Mr. W. W. Hyde, 40 W. Seneca St., Ithaca, N. Y.
Application for information in regard to pension should be addressed to the Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D. C.
A. C. Conklin
Asst. Adjutant General.

M

O. W. and N. Division.
Old war
S 22605
Department of the Interior,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS,
Washington, D. C., July _____, 1893.
Sir,
In reply to your request for a statement of the military history of Moses Woodburn , a soldier of the Revolutionary War, you will please find below the desired information as contained in his application for pension on file in this Bureau.
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     Sept 1779 9 mo Pr Ralston Con t   June 1780 6 " " Douglas Starr "   Jan 1781 3 mos 28 days 3 d Lieut Richards, Hinman & Forde Brig. Genl. La Fayette "   April 1782 2 " " Finney Radolph "  
Battles engaged in, Captured several prizes at sea
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Stonington Con t
Date of application for pension, September 1832
Residence at date of application, Sheshequin, Bradford County Pa
Age at date of application, born Oct 2, 1764 in Stonington Con t
Remarks: The privateer service not recognized for pension - He was one of the guard that conducted "Andre" to be executed - (Lived in Housatonic 16 yrs, in Cherry Valley 12 years & in Bradford County Pa 24 years)
Very respectfully,
Mr W. W. Hyde
40 W. Seneca St
Ithaca N.Y.
Commissioner.