Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 19652, Jonathan Woodcock, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass,
Woodcock, Jonathan Caroline
W. 19652
CONTENTS
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H. 506 R
Massachusetts
Jonathan Woodcock
of Attleborough in the state of Massachusetts who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Read of the Massachusetts line, for the term of one year
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 11 th of April 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 7 th of June 1819 and sent to Gains War Dept Wrentham Massachusetts
Arrears to 4th of Mar: 1819: 10 2 / 3 mo $86.36
Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 th Sept 1819: $48
$134.30
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }

1156.
Massachusetts
Clarine Woodcock
widow of Nathan Woodcock
who was a Private
in the Mass Line
for 1 year 9 mo. & 15 days
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 71 Dollars & 67
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the 27th day of July, 1843. and sent to
A. Bassett
Taunton, Mass.
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book A Vol. 1. Page 57

Attleboro Aug. 9 - 1838
Sir
Mr Jonathan Woodcock and Mrs Caroline Freeman both of Attleboro after lawful publication were joined together in marriage Nov. Sixth One thousand seven hundred & eighty by Mr Elisha Carpenter Elder of the South Baptist Church in said town
I Moses Wilmarth certify that the above is a true copy of the record with the exception of the date which is expressed on the record in fair legible figures as follows
Mr Jonathan Woodcock and Mrs Caroline Freeman both of Attleboro after lawful publication were joined together in marriage Nov. 6 - 1780 - By Elisha Carpenter Elder of the South Baptist Church in said town
I Moses Wilmarth above named depose and say that I was the office of Clerk of the Town of Attleboro County of Bristol State of Massachusetts & that the above is a true extract from the Records of said Town with the exception above named as certified by me
Moses Wilmarth Town Clerk
Commonwealth of Massachusetts County of Bristol } To August 31 st 1838
Sworn and Subscribed by the said Moses Wilmarth before me
Nathan Claplin Justice of the Peace

Seven Certificate
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Bristol ss. I Amos Barrett Register of the Court of Nisi in for said County do hereby certify that Noah Clapp whose signature is affixed to the within Certificate is a Justice of the Peace in for said County of Bristol In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & the seal of said Court this 18th day of September Eighteen hundred & thirty eight - A Barrett

Commonwealth of Massachusetts County of Bristol. - - - } 10
On this fourth day of September A 1838 personally appeared before Oliver Prescott Esquire Judge of the Court of probate for the said County of Bristol at a Court this day held at Seekonk within and for said County Caroline Wood- cock a resident in Milfordborough within said County of Bristol aged seventy seven years who being first duly sworn ac- cording 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 the 7th of July A 1838 entitled an act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows - That She is the widow of Jonathan Woodcock late of said Milfordborough deceased Who was a Soldier in the war of the revolution That he was placed on the pension list roll of the Massachusetts Agency at the rate of eight dollars per month under the act of Congress of the 18 th of March 1818 That the said Jonathan Woodcock was in the Service at a number of different times to the amount as she has often heard him in his lifetime say and as she very firmly believes in the whole at least three years. He first enlisted and served as a private at Roxbury and other places near Boston from early 1775 to April 1776 eight months as appears by a journal which he kept of passing events as they occurred from time to time for the whole of said period that at the close of the said term in April he enlisted for one year to go to the westward to the State of New York That on March on the 5th day of April from Providence with others as appears by his journal through Johnson City into Pluinsfield and other Towns to Nantuxit in Connecticut State and from thence they sailed by water to New York and arrived there the 17th of the same month that from thence went to the main army and served when ever he was ordered that he was in the battles at Trenton and Princeton

The declaration of Caroline Lock

(1492)
Caroline Woodcock
admitted
1 yr 9 mo new m. $71. \frac{62}{100}
died Oct 24. 1819 Preston
papers at 15 March 1820
A. Bassett Santa

Commonwealth of Massachusetts - To all to whom these presents shall come, I, Anselm Barrett, Register of the Court of Probate in for said County do hereby certify that Oliver Prescott is the Judge of said Court & that the signature to the within certificate purporting to be his, is genuine -
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & the seal of said Court this fifth day of September Eighteen hundred and thirty eight - A. Barrett

and She believes in the battle at Brandy wine but is not certain that at the end of the term for which he enlisted he received a written discharge which She has often seen in his lifetime but has not seen it since his death She thinks it was sent on to the war office at Washington when he made application for his pension in 1818. That after he returned from the west in 1777 he was out in several campaigns In and about the State of Rhode Island and in Libertown Fall river and on the Island but She has no means of knowing the precise times or the officers he served under excepting She well remembers that in one of these campaigns She has often heard him say he was in Col. John Doyetts Regiment & was the Col's waiter there was a great number of our townsmen there with him but they are all dead and She knows of no man now living that was out in the Service with him in any of the campaigns unless it be Capt. Nathaniel Robinson who if living is very aged & has long since removed to a great distance into the State of Vermont that She has no means of knowing who his officers were and altho She has often heard him tell in conversation with his neighbors who were with him in the Service not feeling at the time that it would be of any importance She did not charge her mind with it and and cannot now recollect excepting one of them. She often heard him tell of serving under Capt. Pratt when he often spoke of as a very good officer She thinks he was under him at the west in his years Service.
She further declares that She was Married to the said Jonathan Woodcock on the Sixth day of November A D 1780 And that her husband the said Jonathan Woodcock died on the twenty fourth day of October A D 1819 That She was not married to him prior to his leaving the Service but the marriage took place previous to the first of January 1794. Viz at the time above stated Caroline Woodcock
Sworn to & subscribed on the day and year above written before me Oliver Prescott

Jonathan Woodcock
on roll vol 16 page 12 p 8 mo. 1775
Proof of service in Read's regiment.
Add: evidence enclosed 9 Ware
Adm

Woodcock.
I Jonathan Hilton a Citizen of the United States resident in Attleborough in the County of Bristol & Commonwealth of Massachusetts, on Oath declare, that I served in Capt. Caleb Richardson Company at Roxbury in Col. Walker Reg t . eight months, at the expiration of that time I enlisted into Capt. Moses Knapp's Company in Col. Jas. Read Reg t . of Mass. Line for one year. — I served in said Company and Reg t in N York N Jersey & Pennsylvania till the expiration of said time and was discharged at N. Jersey. but rec d no Certificate thereof — I then engaged, being urged thereto / six weeks longer in Capt. Ponds Company in the same Regiment at the expiration of which I rec d a discharge rec d in writing — I further state, that on acct t of dire misfortunes I am now in reduced circumstances & stand in need of the assistance of my Country for support. Jonathan Woodcock
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Weymouth Y s . April 11. 1813 Before me one of the Judges of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the S o . Circuit, personally appeared Jonathan Woodcock resident in S o . Circuit, who being cautioned on his Oath made the foregoing declaration by him signed, in order to obtain the provision made by the late act of Congress entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land & naval service of the U. States in the revolutionary War"
And.

And I the said Judge do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Jonathan Woodcock did serve in the revolutionary for a term of nine months or more against the common enemy. And I now under seal transmits the proceedings & testimony taken & had before me to the Secretary for the Department of War pursuant to directions of said act of Congress
Jairus Ware Judge of The Circuit Court of Com: 13th Nov for so Circuit

We Abiathar Richardson & Abiathar Richardson Jr both of Attleboro aforesaid on Oath do testify & say that we are acquainted with Jon a Woodcock before named and state he is in reduced circumstances in life, & need, the assistance of his country for support.
Abiathar Richardson
Abi n Richardson Jr.
Norfolk ss. April 11. 1818. Personally appeared
Abiathar Richardson & Abiathar Richardson Jr and made oath to the truth of the above affidavit by them signed. & being credible Witnesses I believe their statement true
Jairus Ware Judge

19652
3-088.
(Old No. 3-649.)
Bureau of Pensions.
Jonathan Woodcock
abt 16818 Attleboro Mass.
75
Mass
Capt. Caleb Richardson Cal Walker Pvt. 8 Mass
July 176 Cpt. Mose Knapp Col. Root Pvt - 17th
Mrs Caroline Freeman Jan. 6. 1780 Attleboro Mass D Oct. 24. 1819
No Bat
[Handwritten signature or mark]

Rev
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 19652
Caroline Woodcock Widow of Jonathan Woodcock Pris. New War.
Act: March 3 d 48
Index:—Vol. M , Page 367
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Mar. 17, 1904 Mrs. J. F. Whitehead -
Wist to Jackson River

JACKSON, TENN.
Feb. 11, 1904.
Bureau Of Pensions, Washington, D. C.
Dear Sirs:-
Please send me the record and National Number of Jonathan Woodcock, Mical Woodcock and Elkanan Woodcock who were in Col. Bedels Regt. in 1776 and oblige,
Mrs. J. T. Whitehead.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts County of Bristol — 5 th
Be it known that on this fourth day of September A D 1838 before the subscriber a justice of the Peace within and for the said County of Bristol personally appeared Noah Claplin and after having been duly sworn according to law doth on his oath depose and say, that he was well acquainted with Jonathan Woodcock the husband of Carolina Woodcock late of Middleborough in said County deceased, that he lived in the neighbourhood with said Woodcock at the of his death which took place in October 1819 that the said Carolina Woodcock was his wife and has remained a widow ever since the time of his death — Noah Claplin
Bristol ss. Sept. 4 th 1838.
Sworn to
Before me
John Doygett
Just. Peace
Commonwealth of Massachusetts —
Bristol ss. I Anselm Dorratt Register of the Court of Probate in for said County, do hereby certify that John Doygett whose signature is affixed to the above certificate is a Justice of the Peace in for said County of Bristol. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & the Seal of said Court this fifth day of September Eighteen hundred & thirty eight.
A B assd

I certify that the within named Noah Cluflin is a credible Witness A. B. Alcott Sept. 5. 1838
Deposition of N. Cluflin

9.51
Caroline Woodcock
#71: 67 ha a
A. Bassett,
Taunton
Mass.

State of Massachusetts County of Bristol - ss
On this Seventh day of April, one thousand eight hundred and forty three personally appeared before the subscriber a Justice of the peace within and for the County of Bristol upon said Caroline Woodcock of Milborough in said county of Bristol aged Eightythree years 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 on the 3 d of March 1843 granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary war. That she is the widow of Jonathan Woodcock who was a private soldier in the Army of the revolution and was placed on the pension list under the act of March 18 th 1818. at the rate of eight dollars p r month during his life and that he died on the twentyfourth day of October the 1818. That she verily believes that he served in the said war as he then declared and as further proved by evidence accompanying her declaration and claim for a pension of five years under the act of Congress of 7 th July 1838 that she was then placed on the pension list at the rate of seventy one dollars and Sixty six cents p r annum for five years that she was not married to the said Jonathan Woodcock prior to the close of his service but before the first of January 1798 to wit on the _____ as will appear by the certificate of the Town clerk annexed to her former declaration that she is still a widow
Caroline her Woodcock
Sworn and subscribed on the day and year above written before me. Noah Grafton Justice of the Peace I further certify that I have been well acquainted with the above named Caroline Woodcock for at least fifty years last past I know that she is the widow of Jonathan Woodcock

Who was the person who was placed in the pension list at the rate of eight dollars per month under the act of Congress of March 18th 1818
Noah Claplin Justice of the peace
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Bristol ss. I Ammi Barrett Register of the court of Probate in for said County do hereby certify that Noah Claplin, whose signature is affixed to the foregoing certificate, was at the date thereof still is a Justice of the Peace in for said County —
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said court this eighth day of May eighteen hundred forty three A. Barrett
Caroline Woodcock's declaration

SP 10 13 BOSTON MASS.
J. L. Edwards Esq. Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
179.17 35.83 143.34

Taunton Sept. 10. 1838
Sir, Accompanying this are the applications of eight widows for pensions viz -
Elisabeth Briggs W o of Darius Briggs Caroline Woodcock W o of Jonathan Woodcock - Sydia Perry W o of Constant Perry Sarah Stevens W o of Seth Stevens Sally Lincoln W o of S r Lincoln Mary Turner W o of Nathan Turner Mary Nuk - W o of Nely Nuk - Martha Blanding W o of Christopher Blanding
Any communication which you may be pleased to make, relative thereto may be made to me —
Very Respectfully Your O bt . Serv t
A t Basset
H. Edward Commissioner of Pensions Washington —

Additional Evidence.
I Abijah Pratt of Foxborough in the County of Norfolk on Oath declare that I served as a Soldier in the late Revo- lutionary War, was in Capt Moses Knapps Company in Col. Jos Reed Reg t (Mass: line) from Jan y 1. 1776 to Jan y 1. 1777. — I am well knowing that Jonathan Woodcock of Attleborough an Applicant for a Pension served as a Soldier the same time in said Company. Abijah Pratt
May 12.
I John Phillips of Mansfield in the County of Bristol on Oath declare that I served as a Soldier in the Revo- lutionary War, in Capt Moses Knapps Company Col Reed Reg t Mass line, from Jan y 1. 1776 to Jan y 1. 1777. Jonathan Woodcock of Attleborough in said County served as a Soldier in said Company the same term of time to my knowledge, and also Abijah Pratt above named. John Phillips
Norfolk Y s May 12. 1819 Abijah Pratt & John
Phillips above named, by me considered respectable & credible Witnesses severally made Oath to the truth of the above Affidavits by them subscribed which I believe true
Jairus Ware Judge of Probate

1162
Massachusetts
Caroline Woodcock widow of Jonathan Woodcock
who was a pensioner under the Act of 1818 and who died on the 24 October 1819 of Bristol Co. in the State of Mass.
who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain _____ of the Regt. commanded by Col. Read in the Mass line for 11 years 9 mos & 15 days
Inscribed on the Roll of Mass. at the rate of 71 Dollars 67 Cents per annum. to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834
Certificate of Pension issued the 24 th day of Nov. 1838 and sent to Bassett Taunton Mass.
Arrears to the 4th of Sept. 1838 $179.17 Semi-annual allowance ending 1 Mar. 39, 35.83
$215.00
{ Act July 7, } 1838. }
Recorded by H. H. Addison Clerk, Book A Vol. 1 st Page 143

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Woodcock, Peter GRADE Private LINE New York
WARRANT NUMBER 8003 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED July 30, 1790 to Edward Cumpston, assignee
*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.