Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 19656, Peter Woodward, Continental Res. Of Widow N.Y.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Continental
Woodward, Peter
No. 19656
Mary
Res. of widow, N.Y.
{ B.L.W. 3359-200 Lieut. Issued Oct. 23, 1790 No papers.
CONTENTS

8256 New York Albany
Agree
Mary Woodward, dec d widow of Peter Woodward who was a Lieut. of Artillery in the Revolution Newber. 28 th August 1811
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 400 Dollars
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843. and terminates 26 th March, 1847.
Certificate of Pension issued the 14th day of Sept r 1847 and sent to Mrs. Mary Woodward, Dorchester New York
[Acts of March 3, 1843, and June 17, 1844.]
Recorded in Book 60 Vol. 1 Page 90
Pay to Mary Smith, Richard, Horatio Woodward, and Harriet Brown only living children

State of New York
Tompkins County p Sarah Baldwin of the town of Hector in the County of Tompkins aged Seventy seven years being duly sworn says she is a sister of Mary Woodward widow of Peter Woodward deceased and was present at the marriage of the said Peter & Mary - that they were married at Guilford in the State of Connecticut, according to her best recollection in the Spring of seventeen hundred & ninety two and she is positive it was before the first of January seventeen hundred ninety four - the said Mary was married before deponent and deponent from the time of her own marriage can fix very nearly the time the said Peter & Mary were married and she has no doubt in her own mind that it was in the spring of seventeen hundred ninety two though she cannot be certain as to the day - they were married at Guilford in the State of Connecticut by deponents father Amos Fowler who was a minister of the Gospel - this deponent has always understood & verily believes that the said Peter was an officer in the army of the revolution - that his widow now resides & has for about twenty five years past on a military lot in Hector which he obtained for his military revolutionary services - that the annexed family record was taken from the family Bible of the said Peter and she believes that the record of the marriage and all the other entries except the entry of his own death are in the hand writing of the said Peter Woodward with whose hand writing she was acquainted. That she has often seen the said Bible from

and was made by him soon after the marriage that the said Bible with the said record therein remained in the family of the said Peter Woodward until his death, and has continued in the possession of this declarant ever since - that the other entries on the said family record (except the last which is the entry of the death of the said Peter Woodward) are in the hand writing of the said Peter Woodward and were made from time to time at or near the times of the happening of the events there recorded. that the said Peter Woodward was not a pensioner he not having to the knowledge or belief of declarant ever applied for a pension. And she further declares that she has remained a widow ever since the death of the said Peter Woodward.
Mary Woodward
Sworn to & subscribed before me John Saylor a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Tompkins on the day & year above written. And I do certify that I am acquainted with the character of the said Mary Woodward and that she is a person of good credit and her declaration entitled to full confidence. and that she cannot from bodily infirmity attend Court & that the annexed family record was torn out of an old Bible in the possession of the applicant in my presence this day and annexed to this declaration.
John Saylor a Judge of Tompkins Com Pleas

State of New York
Tompkins County ss. On the Eleventh day of November Eighteen hundred & forty one personally appeared before John Saylor Esquire one of the judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the said County of Tompkins Mary Woodward a resident of the town of Hector in the county of Tompkins aged seventy six 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 July 7. 1838 entitled "An act granting half pay pensions to certain widows." That she is the widow of lieutenant Peter Woodward who was a lieutenant in the army of the United States in the war of the revolution - that the said Peter Woodward had two commissions both of which this declarant has present at the time of making this declaration - the first is dated at Philadelphia on the 21 st day of April 1780 signed "Sam Huntington President" and confers on the said Peter Woodward the rank of "a second lieutenant in the second battalion of artillery" "from the first day of February 1777" - the other is dated the twenty eighth day of April 1783 and gives the rank of "a first Lieutenant in the New York Regiment of Artillery" "from the 23 d day of March 1781" signed "Elias Boudinot" and by "B Lincoln Secretary at War". That this declarant has understood and believes that the said Peter Woodward entered the army at or soon after the commencement of the war and served until the army was disbanded but she has not in her possession any other commission than those above mentioned though she has always understood and believes that he entered the army as an officer.

And she further declares that the said Peter Woodward for such revolutionary services merited & received two lots of land from the State of New York one of which was lot number sixty eight in the township of Hector aforesaid the other lot number seventy two in the township of Fabias - that this declarant and such of the children of the said Peter Woodward as have remained in her family have resided on said lot number sixty eight in Hector since the autumn of eighteen hundred sixteen & still reside thereon. She further declares that she was married to the said Peter Woodward at Guilford in the State of Connecticut on the first day of May one thousand seven hundred & ninety two - that her husband the aforesaid Peter Woodward died on the twenty seventh day of August Eighteen hundred & eleven - that she was not married to him prior to his having the service but the marriage took place previous to the first day of January seventeen hundred & ninety four viz. at the time above stated - that her maiden name was Mary Fowler and the marriage ceremony was performed by her father Amos Fowler who was a minister of the Gospel. That search has been made at Guilford aforesaid where she was married to ascertain if any record of her said marriage exists and she has not been able to find any, and she believes there is none in existence except the annexed family record. That the annexed record is taken from the family Bible of the said Peter Woodward and the record of the marriage is in his hand writing

which the said annexed record is taken with the said record therein in the family of the said Peter Woodward and before and after his death and she knows the record of the said marriage of the said Peter & Mary was made therein as much as Forty years ago.
Sarah Baldwin
Sworn to and subscribed on the eleventh day of November 1841 before me. And I certify that I know the character of the said Sarah Baldwin and that she is a highly credible witness and her deposition entitled to full credit & confidence.
John Saylor a judge of Tompkins Co. Pls.
State of New York
Tompkins County ss. I Walter B. Bloodard Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Tompkins do hereby certify that the said Court of Common Pleas is a Court of Record having a seal, and that the above named John Saylor is a Judge of said Court and that I am well acquainted with his hand-writing and that the signature to the certificate of the declaration of Mary Woodward and the affidavit of Sarah Baldwin above & annexed hereto is his genuine signature. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set the seal of the said Court this 13 th day of November 1841
W. B. Bloodard Clerk

8.078 Mary Woodward N.Y.
act 7. July 38
m 9 2. d 11 -
Roll
Bundle 4 no. 12
adm d
2 yrs Lieut Arty
400 $
Lieut Saml Renda
23 March 1981, on Roll
April 1982
No deduction
Amasa Dana
Ithaca
N.Y.

Declaration
State of New York,
County of Seneca } ss
On this 25th day of May 1847 in Open Court personally appeared Rev Dr Thomas Lounsbury of said county, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath, make the following declaration, in behalf of the surviving children of Mary Woodward deceased, in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress passed on the 3 rd March 1843, granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary war and also the further law passed the 17 th June 1844 That the said widow Mary Woodward, widow of Peter Woodward who was a Captain or in any other office in the war of the Revolut- ion, & the said widow Mary Woodward was a pensioner of the United States under the law of the 7 th July 1838 at the rate of four hundred dollars per annum - That the said husband of the said Mary Woodward (the said pensioner) may have served as Lieut & Captain, or in various capacities as an officer, that the said pensioner Mary Woodward (who was a pensioner as above stated), remained a widow till her death, & that she died on the morning of the 26 th day of March 1847 eighteen hundred and forty seven, in Hector County of Tompkins and State of New York, at the same place where she resided when pensioned as above set forth, that at her death she left the following named children her surviving, being her only children her surviving & that each of them is over the age of twenty one years, to wit, Mary Gertrude Lounsbury of said County, Richard Woodward, Horatio H Wood- ward & Harriet Brown of Tompkins County in said State, The said court certifies that the said Rev Dr Thomas Lounsbury is a highly respectable person Subscribed & sworn before the Court the day & date above written
B. Whitney
Thos. Lounsbury
for my friend the said Rev Dr Thomas Lounsbury State of New York

Certificate of the Court
The Court further Certify that it appeared to the Satisfaction of the Court that Mary Woodward late of Tompkins County New York, was a pensioner of the United States under the law of 1838 at the rate of four hundred dollars per annum, and that she was the widow of Peter Woodward an officer in the war of the Revolution, and that the said widow Mary Woodward died a widow in said Tompkins County New York on the 26th day of March 1847 eighteen hundred and forty seven leaving at her death, the following named children her surviving being her only children her surviving that each of them is over the age of twenty one years to wit, Mary Gertrude Lounsbury of Seneca County New York, Richard Woodward, Horatio H Woodward & Harriet Brown of Tompkins County New York, Subscribed in Court this 25th day of May 1847
B. Whiting Grant prob of the probate of the State of New York in last years

Jan 6. 1842
NY
Mr. Woodward
Hon. J. Edwards Comm. of Pensions Washington city D.C.

Ithaca Dec. 30 th 1841
Hon J L Edwards Sir,
I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of yours of the 22 d Ult in relation to the pension application of Mrs Mary Woodward, in which you say, "Some proof should be adduced that her late husband was the Peter Woodward who received 1200 acres of bounty land for his services and resided thereon with the claimant at the time of his death." — By a re-examination of the papers you will find (unless my memory is greatly at fault) that they contain no allegation that the deceased husband ever resided on the land. His family removed there soon after his death. I send inclosed an affidavit which I presume will be satisfactory on that subject. It proves all that, in the nature of things, can be proved in such a case. Peter Woodward merited 1200 acres of land as appears by his commissions. a patent for 1200 acres was made to Peter Woodward, and Peter Woodward the husband of the applicant a revolutionary officer had the possession of the commissions & patent and the control of the lands in his life time and they still remain in the custody of his family. Can there be a shadow of doubt that the officer and the patentee are the same person? I think not. Be pleased to let me hear from you as early as convenient.
Very Respectfully Your Ob dt Serv t Amasa Dana

Peter Woodward & Mary Fowler were Married at Guilford by her Father the Rev M c Amos Fowler - May 1 st 1792
Richard Roswell Woodward Born at New Haven March 10 th 1793 being Sunday at 3 O'clock AM
Sarah Hart Woodward born at New Haven June 10 th 1794 being Tuesday at 8 O'clock AM
Henry Hart Woodward born at New York June 27 th 1796 being Monday at 11 O'clock PM
Mary Jennett Woodward born at New York July 1 st 1798 being Sunday at 1 O'clock AM
Charlotte Caroline Woodward born at New Haven March 29 th 1800 being Saturday at 4 O'clock PM
Harriet Henrietta Woodward born at New York July 23 rd 1803 being Saturday at 9 O'clock PM
William Henry Woodward born at New York Jan y 14 th 1806 being Wednesday at 9 O'clock AM
Horatio Hart Woodward born at New York March 17 th 1808 being Thursday at 12 O'clock Meridian

Deaths in Peter Woodwards Family
My Brother Richard Woodward, Junr died at Trinadada
June 21 st 1793 being Friday
My Father Richard Woodward died at East Haven
My Daughter Sarah Hart Woodward died at Guilford September 20 th 1795
Henry Hart Woodward died at New York Aug t 10 th
1797
My Brother Rowell Woodward was lost at Sea Sept r 1796 supposed to be the 5 th in a Gale of Wind
My Brother John Woodward died at East Haven
My Son William Henry Woodward died at Guilford July 13 th 1806
My Sister Sarah Russell died at Westchester August 8 th 1807
Peter Woodward died at New York August 29 th 1811 being Tuesday at twelve O'clock aged fifty Eight years, eight Months

State of New York Tompkins County ss. Richard R Woodward of the town of Hector in the said County of Tompkins aged forty eight years being duly sworn says. That he is the son of Mary Woodward of Hector aforesaid who is applying for a pension - that the Peter Woodward referred to in her application was always reputed to have been an officer in the revolutionary army and his two commissions are in the possession of the said Mary Woodward from which it appears that he was a lieutenant in the said army. That the said Peter Woodward referred to in the said application of the said Mary Woodward is the same person who merited and received from the State of New York Twelve hundred acres of land viz Lot number sixty eight in Hector and lot number seventy two in Fabius as this deponent knows from having seen the patent therefor in the possession of the said Peter Woodward in his life time frequently and for a long time, and from the said Peter Woodward having paid the taxes on the said lots and his having the control & management of the said lots up to the time of his death. That the said Patent ever since his death has been in the possession of the said Mary Woodward who still resides on the said lot in Hector and still has the possession of the said Patent. And the said lots have hitherto been held and still are held under the said patent granted to the said Peter

Woodward, and under no other or different title - And further saith not.
Richard R Woodward
Subscribed and sworn before me this twentieth day of December 1841 by the above named Richard R Woodward who is known to me to be a person of good character, and of veracity, whose statements are entitled to full confidence & credit.
Wm H Shinnock Justice
State of New York Tompkins County
I, Millet B. Goddard clerk of the County of Tompkins do hereby certify that William Shinnock whose name is subscribed to the above affidavit was at the time of taking such affidavit then a Justice of the peace dwelling in the said County commissioned & sworn and duly authorized to take the same and that I am acquainted with the handwriting of such Justice and verily being the signature to the said certificate is genuine.
in testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said County the 23 rd day of December 1841
M.B. Goddard Clerk

Rev
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 19656
Mary Woodward Widow of Peter Woodward Lt. Rev. War.
Act: Mar 3 rd 1845
Index:—Vol. m , Page 357
[Arrangement of 1870.]

State of New York
Seneca County Clerk's Office ss. I hereby certify that Warren Whiting Esq. whose name is subscribed to the foregoing Jurat & Certificate, was at the date thereof - Circuit Judge of the 7th Judicial Circuit in & for said State & was the Presiding Judge at the Court named in the foregoing & annexed Certificate & Declaration. - and that the said annexed Declaration was subscribed & sworn to in open Court. -
Witness my hand & the seal of the Court of Common Pleas of said County the 26th day of May 1847.
H. Montgomery Dep. Clk

Payment to be made at
Albany
by
J. W. Clegg
Esq.
Agent for paying Pensioners, in the Agency of
New York
Payable on the 4th September and 4th March
Recorded in the Pension Office, in Book 2 Vol. 2 Page 90
Thos. Rumpkin, Clerk.

WAR DEPARTMENT,
WIDOW'S PENSION.
I certify that in conformity with the act of March 3, 1843, & 17 th June, 1844, Mary Woodward, dec d widow of Peter Woodward, who was a Private s of Artillery, and died on the 27 th day of August, 1811, is inscribed on the pension list at the rate of four hundred dollars and _____ cents per annum, commencing on the 1 st March, 1843, and terminating on the 26 th March 1847, unless when she died the Pensioner married or died before the last mentioned date, in which case the Pension is not payable after the time of such marriage or death. Payable to Mary, daughter Richard & Nora M c Woodward & Harriet Brown (our) living children. Given at the War Office of the United States, this 14 th day of Sept. one thousand eight hundred and forty-seven.
Examined and Countersigned.
Secretary of War.
Commissioner of Pensions.

State of New York
Tompkins County 3 rd ss Soeta Edmund Brown whom I certify is a highly respectable person, after being duly sworn according to law, deposes and says that Mary Woodward late widow of Peter Woodward and late a pensioner of the United States, died a widow in said county on the 26 th day of March Eighteen Hundred and Forty seven, that this deponent attended her in her last sickness & that he finds from memorandum of his visits that she died on the day and date above mentioned. Sworn and subscribed before me - Edmund Brown this 31 st day of July 1847 Subscribed and sworn before me Grover S. Bailey J. P.
State of New York Tompkins County
Clerk's office ss Norman Crittenden Clerk of said County do hereby certify that Grover S. Bailey Esq. before whom the affidavit of Edmund Brown purports to have been made was at the date of the same a justice of the peace in & for said County, commissioned and sworn and duly qualified to take the same and that I am well acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe his signature to the jurat therein genuine. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said County at Ithaca this 18 th day of August A.D. 1847
N. Crittenden Clerk

State of New-York County of Chemung
Rev S. B. Shearer whom I certify to be a highly respectable person after being duly sworn according to law deposes and says that Mary Woodward late widow of Peter Woodward and late a pensioner of the United States died a widow in the county of Tompkins on or about the 26 th day of March eighteen hundred and forty seven (1847), this deponent was the Offi- ciating minister at her funeral, which was attended on the 28 th day of said month and further saith not
S B Shearer
Subscribed and sworn before me this 13 th day of August 1847 Enoch Armitage justice in and for said county

No 9353
Mary Woodward Widow of Peter NY
Act 3 March 1843 and 17 June 1844
to Mrs. Lydia, Land of Antrim
$400 00 per share
from 3 March 1843 to the 26 March 1847 the day of her death payable to Mary Genette, Richard Woodward, Horatio H. Woodward and Harriet Brown only surviving Children of Mary Woodward deceased
And Leg One NY

Pension Office Septm 1847
Sir
In answer to your letter of the 20 th ulto I have to inform you that the point involved in the curv of

June 14/47 Applicant: Heirs of Mary Woodworth Lee, for Increase -
L
Hon J. L.
Edwards
Court of Pensions Washington DC

Over N.Y. May 26 th 47
Sir
I inclose Application for a pension, so far as I am acquainted with the facts in the case, I am lead to the belief that a pension is honestly & justly due — If it is proper & in accordance with your regulations, I beg leave respectfully to say, or to suggest, why Mary Woodward was not entitled to more than $400 per annum, in this connection, I ask with deference, if there is not a higher pension due, as the family seem to suppose the husband Peter Woodward was a Captain, of course, although I ask these questions, I only ask what is justly & honestly due, & no more would I knowingly receive
Respectfully Your Ob l Servt Abad Loyo
Hon J L Edwards
Comm. of Pensions Washington DC

6,000-38 Aug 124 47
add to Mary Woodward
FREE
Hon J. L. Edwards Caret. of Pensions Washington D.C.

Ovid N.Y. Augt 19. 47
Sir
The proof that I inclose, is intended to be such as you require in yours of the 9 th June last
Respectfully Your Ob t Servt Abad Joy
Hon J. L. Edwards
Court of Pensions Washington D.C.

19. Nov 1841 8.078 for 6
to eng
Hon. J. L. Edwards Comr. of Pensions Washington City D.C.

Ithaca Tompkins Co NY Nov. 13 th 1841
Hon J. L. Edwards Dear Sir
I send you inclosed a pension application of Mrs Mary Woodward the Widow of Peter Woodward. She is a very respectable old Lady and there can be no possible doubt of her being entitled to the Pension she claims. I draw the papers and had before me the original Commissions to her husband of which no doubt you will find a record - I am well acquainted with Judge Saylor and his hand writing being first Judge of the Court of which he is a member. You will greatly oblige me by giving these papers your early attention and informing me the result. I am requested to ask that the family record annexed to the papers may be carefully preserved as it may be necessary to refer to it hereafter in relation to other matters.
Very Respectfully Your Ob d Serv t Amasa Dana

✓ 80/78 ny
Suspended Set to Hon ble Amasa Kland November 22 nd 1841
act 7. July 38

2 In 6 Arrear Pay June 9. '47
V 6508 Albany New York Mary Woodward widow of Peter Woodward dec
who was a pensioner under the Act of and who died on the 27 th August 1811 of of  of  in the State of New York who was a Lieut. Col. in the Comp y commanded by Captain of the commanded by in the time for 2 years
Inscribed on the Roll of Albany N.Y. at the rate of 100 Dollars — Cents per annum, to commence on the 14 th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 8 th day of Jan y 1842 out of Cond. Thomas Co. Kars Thurs N.Y. Arrears to the 14 th of March 1841 $1000.00 Semi-annual allowance ending
$1000.00 { Act July 7, } 1838. }
Recorded by W. A. Dusen Clerk, Book 2 Vol. 1 Page 1