Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 33,955, Dudley Woodbridge, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass
Woodbridge, Dudley
S. 33955
CONTENTS

15-492 R
Massachusetts
Dudley Woodbridge
of Andover in the state of Massachusetts who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Putnam 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 14 th of April, 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 25 th of October 1819 and sent to John Davis, Esq. Boston, Mass.
  Arrears to 4th of Sept r 1819. 16 mo. 21/30  133. 60    Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 th Mar. 1820.  48. 00     $181:60  
cont d { Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. } Notif. sent Dec r 21 st 1820 to Ichabod Tucker Salem Mass

No 4177 Dudley Woodbridge of Andover, Mass.
Cont. Journal.
P 1 to P 2
Putnam's Map to
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Proof service Image certificate as to claimants Adm l P l ces wanted
22. Sept. 1819. New Ev- idence marked B. & C.

United States of America.
State of Massachusetts, Suffolk, ss. Boston April 1818
I, Dudley Woodbridge of Andover a citizen of the United States, now resident at said Andover, in the County of Essex — declare, that I served, in the War of the Revolution, the full term of time required by a Law of the United States, made and passed in the month of March, A. D. 1818, entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States, in the Revolutionary War," as a requisite to entitle me to be placed on the pension list of the said United States, having entered the land service of the said United States, on the Continental Establishment, and served as a private soldier against the common enemy; from February 1781 to May 1782, being fifteen months in Capt. Goodale's company & Col. Rufus Putnam's regiment — I enlisted for three years, but in May 1782 having had a dangerous fit of sickness, and being  that I belonged  through hardship in the service, & being considered unfit for further duty, I was honourably discharged. — I also served at Saratoga when Genl. Burgoyne was taken in Oct. 1777. and that I left the service I also served at Albany three months in 1778 — In the fall of 1779 I was likewise in the Pueblo service and served three months. — My discharges which had all honourable discharges are lost —
And I hereby relinquish all claim to every pension heretofore allowed me by the laws of the said United States, if any may be, or hath been, so allowed. — and I further declare that, by reason of my reduced circumstances in life, I stand in need of assistance from my Country for support. Dudley Woodbridge marks
BE IT REMEMBERED, That on this 14 th day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eight Pursuant to a law of the United States, entitled, "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war," made and passed on the 18th of March, A. D. 1818, personally appeareth before me
the abovenamed Dudley Woodbridge and after due examination and caution to testify and declare the whole truth, he maketh oath to the declaration aforesaid, and subscribes the same in my presence.
W. Davis Dist. Judge Mass. Dist.

15492
Dudley Woodbridge
Ans d over
The Clerk Es d do hereby certify the opinion of the Court as to the full value of the property described in the Schedule
Mar 20 G M

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
ESSEX, ss.
At the Circuit Court of Common Pleas of the Middle Circuit, begun and holden at Salem, within and for the County of Essex, on the third Monday of June, A. D. 1820.
Present, Hon. SAMUEL DANA, Chief Justice. Hon. WILLIAM WETMORE, and Hon. STEPHEN MINOT, Associate Justices.
In open Court here, being a Court of Record for said Circuit, proceeding according to the course of the common law, with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, keeping a record of its proceedings, and having the power of fine and imprisonment, Dudley Woodbridge resident in Andover in said Circuit, who is named in Pension Certificate No. 15,492 now in his possession, of which the following is a true copy, to wit,
WAR DEPARTMENT.....REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.
I certify that, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 18th March, 1818, Dudley Woodbridge late a private in the Army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the Massachusetts Agency, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the fourteenth day of April one thousand eight hundred and eighteen
Given at the War Office of the United States, this twenty fifth day of October one thousand eight hundred and nineteen J. C. CALHOUN, Secretary of War
appears, and exhibits to the Court here a Schedule, subscribed by him, as follows, to wit,
SCHEDULE,
containing his whole estate and income, his necessary clothing and bedding excepted, to wit,
Real estate - 11 acres of light sandy, unimproved land, $66.00 a small old house & barn 17 by 18 feet & very much out of repair - - - 34.00
Personal estate - 1 pair of oxen 55.00 1 cow 12.00 1 swine 6.00 - - - 73.00 1 old desk 2.00 8 old chairs 1.00 old crockery ware 2.00 - - - 5.00 Iron ware 1.00 old table, tin & earthen ware 1.00 - - - 2.00 4 knives & 3 forks 25c and irons, shovel & tongs 75c - - - 1.00 a poor old house 15.00 farming tools, &c. 3.00 Desk, 50c - - - 18.50 $199.50
The house and barn stand on land of the heirs of John Fisk decd. and he owes them for ground rent more than one third of the value of the buildings - and he owes more than two hundred and ten dollars other debts -
He is sixty years of age, a laborer, but has not

enjoyed health for many years past, and is unable to labor but very little - His family are his wife aged 60 years and Nathaniel aged 27 and Gilman 4, their son and grandson - Nathaniel is a cripple and always has been so, and never was able to do man's labor - He has not paid any taxes for six years past and he has been assisted by charity for many years on account of the feeble situation of himself and family - Gilman is a grandchild thrown on them by an unfortunate deluded daughter who goes out to labor -
He enlisted Jan. 9 th 1780 for three years under Capt. Stephen Abbot a recruiting officer, and then joined Capt. Goodals Company, Col. R. Putnam's Regiment and served twenty two months and was then taken sick and obtained a furlough and before the expiration of said term the said Regiment was discharged - he was in the Massachusetts line -
Dudley Woodbridge
Sworn to and declared before Wm Wetmore Judge within named

and at the same time he produces to the Court here the following Oath, taken and subscribed by him, before the Hon. Wm Wetmore a Judge of said Court as aforesaid, to wit,
I, Dudley Woodbridge do solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the eighteenth day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner whatever, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress, entitled "an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war," passed on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property, or securities, contracts, or debts, due to me; nor have I any income, other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed. So help me GOD.
Dudley Woodbridge
Essex, ss. C. C. C. P. June, Term, A. D. 1820.
Then the abovenamed Dudley Woodbridge took and subscribed the aforeswritten Oath before me
Wm Wetmore
Judge of said Court.
I, ICHABOD TUCKER, Clerk of the Court aforesaid, do hereby certify that the foregoing Oath, and Schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of the said Court; and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said Court, that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule is one hundred and
dollars  sixty  ninety nine dollars fifty cents -
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, at Salem, in said County of Essex, on this 17th day of July - A. D.
1820
Attr.
Ichabod Tucker, Clk

Andover Feby 19 th 1781
Pursuant to a Resolve of the General Court of the second of December A.D. 1780 for filling up the Continental Army for the term of years and by virtue of a Vote passed (in consequence of said Resolve) by the Inhabitants of the South Pa- rish in Andover within the Limits of and belonging to the Alarm List & Training Band in Capt. John Abbot y s Company on the 7 th Day of this Instant We the Subscribers in behalf of said Inhabitants promise to pay to Dudley Woodbridge Ten Horn Cattle which shall be three Years Old at the Expiration of the term of three years which term he the said Woodbridge is engaged for in said Service likewise we promise to pay him One Hundred and Forty Two and a half Silver Dollars or other current circulating Money equivalent thereto to provided he shall continue in said Service the term of three years and in case he shall be discharged short of said term of three years said Cattle shall be as much short of the age of three years the one half of said Cattle shall Steers and the other half Heifers and shall be of a Medium Quality and In case he shall be discharged from said Service at the end of One Two or three years from the Date of his Inlistment said Cattle shall be kept out that Winter free of charge and in case he shall be discharged short of the term of One Two or three years after said during time commences said Cattle shall be kept till the year expires if he please he paying for the same and then shall be entitled to the above keeping, and the above sum of Money to be paid in proportion to the time he continues in said Service the Quality of said Cattle and Price of the keeping to be Deter- mined by a Committee Mutually chosen by said Inhabitants and Soldiers engaged as said Company Quota at the time of his discharge which is the time for payment of Money and Cattle
Per
Moses Abbot John Abbot Junr Nilemon Chandler Nathan Abbot Timothy Abbot Joseph Hott
Comtee

Andover Feb. 19 th 1781 Recd Thirty of the within Mentioned Dollars as advance pay as part of the within obligation I say Recd. pr me Dudley Woodbridge
Andover March 20 th 1781 Recd. Six of the within Mentioned Dollars in part of the within obligation I say Recd. pr me Dudley Woodbridge
Andover Decem r 21. 1781
Recd. Fifteen of the within Mentioned Dollars in part of the within obligation pr me Samuel Woodbridge
Andover May 12. 1783 Recd. Four Pound, Three Shillings, and Seven pence Silver Money in part Dudley Woodbridge
Andover March 10 th 1784 Recd. one Pound Sixteen Shillings in part of the within Mentioned obligation I say Recd. pr me Dudley Woodbridge
March 30 1784 Recd. of Philemon Chandler Cont. John Abbot & Moses Abbot Seven Shillings & four Pounds of the within Recd. by by order of S. Woodbridge Symonds Baker
Four Shillings & five Pence in Full obligation pr me
by order of S. Woodbridge Symonds Baker

of the Act entitled "An Act to provide for certain per-" MASSACHUSETTS DISTRICT, ss.
22. September 1819.
I AM satisfied that the above named, Bradley Woodbridge by reason of his reduced circumstances in life, is in need of assistance from his Country for support.
W. Davis
{ District Judge U. S. Massachusetts Dist.
TO THE SECRETARY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF WAR.

MASSACHUSETTS DISTRICT, ss.
Boston September 22 d A. D. 1818
IT appearing to my satisfaction, that Dudley Woodbridge subscriber to the annexed declaration, sworn to before me, did serve in the revolutionary war against the common enemy, as stated in said declaration, I now transmit the testimony in the case, with the proceedings had thereon, to the Secretary of the department of war, pursuant to the directions of the Act entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war;" the testimony and proceedings in the premises being the declaration aforesaid, with the accompanying documents marked A together with this certificate.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the District Court of the United States for this District to be hereunto affixed.
M Davis
} Judge of the District Court U.S. Massachusetts District.

John Hollis Deposition
Clarke Bethel
50 Cts
D

of Bathel, County Oxford
I John Hott, of Lawful Age do testify & say that Dudley Woodbridge enlisted into under Capt. Stephen Abbot, and afterward joined Capt. Goodale's Company, & there served about Twenty Months in the continental establishment of the United States under Col. Rufus Putman in the 5 th Regiment. I further testify that the said Wood- bridge performed said service in the year 1781 & 1782
John Hott
Oxford J s June 29 th 1819 Personally Appeared the above said John Hott the Deponent and made solemn Oath to the truth of the above Deposition before me.
Timothy Carter J s . Peace.
Oxford ss.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
I Thomas Clark Clerk of the Judicial Courts with in & for said County of Oxford, do hereby certify that Timothy Carter Esq. before whom the above affidavit appear to be made, is a Justice of the Peace within & for said county, acting under the authority of this Commonwealth, & that the above is his signature - In testimony, whereof
I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the said County this 2 d day of July A. D. 1819.
Thomas Clark

I hereby certify, that the within named deponent, John Hott, is "a credible & disinterested witness."
Timothy Carter Jus. Peace

Parvus Holt, Deposition
B
Ara Cumming Albany
50¢

I Darius Holt of Albany Maine of Lawfull age testify and say that Dudley Woodbridge of Andover in the County of Essex enlisted under Capt. Stephen Abbot and afterwards joined Capt. Goodale's Company and there served about Twenty months in the Conti- nental establishment of the United States under Col. Rufus Putman in the fifth Regiment. I further testify that the said Woodbridge performed said service in the years 1781 and 1782 1782 Darius Holt
Oxford S.S. June 30 th 1819 Personally Appeared the above named Darius Holt the Deponent and made oath to the truth of the above Deposition before me
Oxford 23 rd July 1819 Asa Cummings Jus. Peace I hereby certify that the above named Darius Holt is a credible and disinterested Witness Asa Cummings Jus. Peace
Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Oxford ss. I Thomas Clark Clerk of the Judicial Courts within & for said County of Oxford, do hereby certify that Asa Cummings Esq. before whom the above affidavit appears to be made, is a Justice of the Peace within & for said Coun- ty, acting under the authority of this Common- wealth & that the above is his signature.
In testimony whereof. I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the said County, this 2 nd day of July A. D. 1819. —
Thomas Clark.

33955 Rev INVALID.
File No. 88955
Dudley Woodbridge
Ph Rev No
Act: 16 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 152
[Arrangement of 1870.]