Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 11,873, Bissel Woodford, Conn.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Conn.
Woodford, Bissel
S 11,873
Carded.
CONTENTS

New York 14 815.
Bisul Woodford Tioga Co in the State of N. Y. who was a private in the company commanded by Captain Hooker of the Regt. commanded by Col. F. L. Gray in the Militia line for
13 mo. 5 days May 31/65. Conv. Records completed.
Inscribed on the Roll of N. Y. at the rate of 43. Dollars 88. Cents per annum, to commence on the 14th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 27. day of June '37. and sent to William Bacon, Candler, Tioga Co
  Arrears to the 14th of March 1837.  87 76    Remun. allowance ending 4 Sept. "  21 94     $ 109 70.  
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by J. Francioni Clerk, Book E. Vol. 4- Page 38.

Dead Letter to Hon A. Dana of 3 rd Cuds. 23. May 1844
Paid at the Treasury under the Act of the 6. April 1838 from 4 March to 3 rd Sep 1836. Agents Notified 4 th June 1844 2 of 5 Children
Paid as above for to 3 of 5 Children Left notified 28 Oct 1844

No 11412
BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims , of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of Bijseel Woodford which require further proof or explanation.
I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides?
yes
II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides?
yes
III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so?
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IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served?
No
V. * Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled? No
yes
VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations?
yes
VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832?
yes
VIII. Has the Court given their opinion?
yes
IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate?
yes
X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal?
yes

XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service?
yes
XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it?
XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had?
XIV. † If the applicant has produced a witness or witnesses as to his service, has the magistrate who administered the oath certified that he, she, or they are persons of credibility? No
And is the official character and signature of the magistrate certified by the proper officer under his seal of office?
yes
XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service?
yes
XVI. ‡ Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct?
No
XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered?
No
EXPLANATORY NOTES.
333 505 433 458
* QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
“Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and 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 _____ year _____ months and _____ days, I served as a _____. For _____ months and _____ days, I served as a _____; and for such service I claim a pension.”

1 Brief - N o 11412 -
Bisell Woodford
4.5 14.16
7 Dec 1882
0137.
W m Bacon Agt
Candor Tioga Co N.Y.

No. 11412
BRIEF in the case of Bissel Woodford of Lander County of Tioga — in the State of New York (Act 7th June, 1832.)
1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge?
Before a Judge
2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?
Yes
3. How old is he?
78 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.     about middle of In 1776 Jan'y — 3 — Private Genl. Woodhull & Hooker Collo Fisher Gay — Lt. Col. Hart   1776 about 1 May — 8 — " Capt. Hooker — Col. Scott   1777 Augt — 2 — Teamster Capt. Norton   1780 Augt — — 21 " Lt. Lusk  
5. In what battles was he engaged?
None
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service?
Farmington Connecticut
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls?
Living witnesses — Traditionary
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect?
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
James B. Bissel
Examining Clerk.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
SECOND COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE,
June 10 th 1844.
Sir:
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An Act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," and the third section of the Act of August 23, 1842, extending the time within which pensioners may receive their pensions from the pension agents, Three of the five children of Bissel Woodford, dec d a Pensioner on the Roll of the Albany, New York, Agency, at the rate of Forty Three Dollars and 88 Cents per annum, under the law of the 7 th June 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 4 th of March to the 3 rd Sept. 1836.
Respectfully, yours,
Comptroller.
To the COMMISSIONER OF PENSIONS, Present.

Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7. AD 1832
State of New York } On this Twenty Seventh day of July, AD County of Tioga } 1832 personally appeared before me John P. Crake one of the Judges of the court of Common Pleas in said County. Brins Woodford a resident of of Conesville in the county of Tioga & State of New York aged Twenty eight years who being first duly sworn ac- -cording to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7. AD 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated viz: That he enlisted in the Connecticut State Troops about the middle of January AD 1776 in Captain Noadiah Hooke's Company, 1 st Lieut. Elisha Root 2 d Lieut. James Southwick, Ensign William Ford, Col Fisher Gay's Brig. Lieut. Col. Gideon Hart, Major forgotten; for the term of three months; that he marched to Boston and encamped at Roxbury under the com- -mand of Gen. Putnam, and there knew Major or Capt Mills & Lieut. Roger Hooke Regular Officers; that he was there discharged the 1 st day of April 1776 together with his company in consequence of the British Troops leaving Boston, it wanting a few days of being the full term of three months; that he was paid for three months full service on this engagement.
That on or about the 1 st day of May of the same year he enlisted for and served eight months in the Connecticut

State troops enlisted in Capt Mordiah Hooker's Company 1 st Lieut Skinner of Adron Co. 2 nd Lieut - Heath - Ensign Lem- uel Hotchkiss; Col - Mott's Regt Lieut Col. Northway Major - Sumner; that he marched to White Hall N.Y. Staid there about two months; from thence he went to Picoenderoga N.Y. - and continued there till his enlistment expired and was discharged on or about the 1 st day of Jan'y 1777.
That he was draughted in August 1777 and served two months in Captain Norton's company; Lieut Bull. Ensign Seth Woodworth. The Officers of the Regt forgotten, went to Brump Pond in Washington county N.Y. - there did duly in company with Mott's Regt knew Lieut Solomon Conrad in said Regt, that his time expired while there in Oct of the same year.
That he was again drafted in August 1780 and served two weeks under Capt James Clark - Lieut Fitzgerald, En- sign William Woodworth. Marched to Evan in Schen- nady county N.Y. and there demised in Sept.
That between the two last periods for already the whole time he served Leicester took all his pay in continental money which was of no value to him. That he resided in the town of Farmingdale County of Hartford and State of Connecticut at each and every time that he enlisted or was drafted; that in all his terms of service he did duty as and was a private soldier; that he never was in any regular battle; that he never had any written discharge ; that he has not any documentary evi- dence; and that he knows of no person whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his service except in his 8 months tour; that the above service was all performed in the Infantry.

Her hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that her name is not on the Pension Roll of the Agency of any State.
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year of grace before me
John Drake Esq. } West H. D. F. } Com. Pleas }
We Jeremiah Colborn & a clergyman residing in the town of Canaan aforesaid and William Bacon William Bacon residing in the same place hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Birt Woodford who has subscribed and sworn to the above declarations that we believe him to be seventy eight years of age; that he is respected and beloved in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion.
Jeremiah Colborn William Bacon
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year of grace before me
John Drake Esq. } Com. Pleas }
And I the said John D. Drake Esq. do hereby declare my opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the law and the court, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier and served in the States. And I do further certify that it appears to me that Jeremiah Colborn who has signed the foregoing certificate is a clergyman, resident in the town of Canaan aforesaid, and that William Bacon William Bacon who has also signed the same is a resident in the town of Canaan aforesaid.

and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit. And I do further certify that it appears to me that the above named Bissel Woodford is unable to attend court and cannot from bodily infirmity, and that I have attended at his place of residence to take this deposition.
John O'Drake Judge Tioga Com Pleas
State of New York. County of Tioga ss. I Greenell Fithill clerk of the said County do certify that John O'Drake Esquire before whom the preceding affidavit purports to have been sworn, was at the date of the same one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in & for said County. And that I am acquainted with his hand writing, and hereby believe his name subscribed to the said affidavit to be his pro- per hand writing & signature — Witness my hand and seal of office this 28th day of July A.D. 1832 —
Green B. Fithill
State of New York County of Tioga ss
On this third day of January A.D. 1833 personally appeared before me William Brase, a commissioner of Seeds for said County. Bissel Woodford known to me to be the same person who made and subscribed the foregoing declaration who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath depose and say; in explanation of his service as a teamster, that on or about the 1st day of October in the year 1778 he enlisted a teamster under Gershom Fithill conductus of teams in the said town of Farmington & served under him & found his own team till on or about the 1st day of June A.D. 1780 & dismissed in the said Town of Farmington — That the first fall and winter he cart- ed forage and deposited it for teams that were employ-

Bird Woodcock's
11. 112. Declaration
The answer may be sent to William Bacon
Canada
Tioga Coy. N.Y.
Team services under civil contract & disallowed?
Adm'd
13 mo. 5 ds. pri
$43.88

ed in carting from Boston to the North River; that in the spring he went to Newburg N.Y. and was employed during the summer & fall of 1779 in carting in New Jersey and from Ringwood & Pompton to New Windsor that in the fall of the same year he returned to Farmington carted forage for Col. Noadiah Hooker Reg't through the winter.
that he is informed & truely believes he was born on the 10 th day of April 1754. in the town of Farmington aforesaid has no record of his age but believes that it is on the town books. that he now resides in the town of Concord aforesaid. & has resided there for the space of two years & three months & that previous thereto he lived in the town of Farmington aforesaid. That the above is the best evidence that his ear admits of; and that he is unable to walk without a crutch in consequence of an affection of the hip and has been so for the space of more than a year. to recapitulate - he cannot swear positively as to the precise times on which he entered and was discharged from the different periods of his service but is certain that he served not less than the periods mentioned below, & in the following grades viz:
   As a private soldier mo. days     Under Capt. N. Hooker I served two months & twenty one days 2. 21   again Under Capt. N. Hooker I served eight months - - - - - 8. 00   Under Capt. Norton I served two months - - - - - 2. 00   Under Capt. J. Lusk I served two weeks - - - - - 14   As a private teamster 13 - 5  
Under Groom Tuttle conductor I served one year & eight months 1. 8. 00 making in all two years nine months & seven days 2. 9. 7
And for such service I claim a pension
Sworn to & subscribed this
20 th day of Jan'y AD 1833
before me
William Bacon Commr of Deeds
Ripley Woodford

State of New York County of Tioga ss I Green M Tuthill clerk of the county of Tioga aforesaid do certify that William Bacon before whom the preceding affidavit was =ports to have been sworn was at the date of the same a commissioner of seeds in and for said county and that I am well acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe his name subscribed to the said affi- =fidavit to be his proper hand writing and signature Witness my hand and seal of office this 14th day of Jan'y A.D. 1833
Green M Tuthill

State of Connecticut } ss: Farmington 26. day of Sept. A.D. 1832 Hartford County }
Personally appeared before me Jeremiah Hotchkiss a Justice of Peace for said Hartford County - Joseph Hills a resident in s d Town of Farmington, to me well known - who, having been first sworn as the law directs; deposes and says, that his age is 78 years, that he is well acquainted with Bissel Woodford, a Revolutionary Soldier, late of said town of Farmington, now of Candor in the state of N. York. - That he the s d Deponent, in the year A.D. 1776 enlisted on, or about the 1 st day of May, in the Connecticut State Troops in a Company Commanded by Capt. Moadiah Hooker: of which Compt y the 1 st Lieut s name was Skinner - the 2 d Lieut s name was Heath, & the Ensign's name was Lemuel Hotchkiss; in a Regiment, Commanded by Col. Matt - Lieut. Col. Weatherly - & Maj. Summerly: - and that the said Bissel Woodford enlisted in the same Company, on, or about the same day: - that they marched to White Hall N.Y., and staid there about two Months - From thence to P'keepsie, and continued there in the service, till on, or about the 1 st day of January A.D. 1777: And that the said Woodford served in the same Company with him this said Deponent during the whole of the s d term of eight Months.
Joseph Hills
Sworn and subscribed to this 26 th day of Sept. A.D. 1832.
Before me
Jeremiah Hotchkiss Just y Pacis
I certify that the above named Joseph Hills who has sworn to and subscribed the foregoing affidavit is a credible person
Jan y 11 th A.D. 1833. -
Jeremiah Hotchkiss Just y Pacis

State of Connecticut County of Hartford } p.
I, David Griswold, Clerk of the County Court for said County of Hartford, do hereby certify, that Jeremiah Hotchkiss, before whom the within affidavit of Joseph Hills was taken, was, on the 26 th day of Septm. A.D. 1832, a Justice of the Peace for said County, & that I am acquainted with his hand writing, & verily believe the signature, purporting to be his, is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of Office this 29 th Day of Septm. A.D. 1832
David Griswold Clerk
certificat. 50 cents

Mr Daniel B Wheeler & Co Bills of Exchange London - Wheeler & Co

I Return the papers of Bipsel Woodford corrected agreeable to the Brief - he has given a more enlarged account of his services as a teamster, than in the body of the Declaration as first sent - I then told him, that I supposed his services as teamster did not come within the meaning of the law as construed by the War Department - but upon a more careful examination of the Instructions, I find those teamsters  only are excluded who were occasionally , employed on private contracts , but as this claimant enlisted and was thereby bound to service - & did actually serve he probably is entitled to a pension for that service
Wm Bacon

In reply to your request of _____, received _____ for a statement of the military history of Bissel Woodford 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. F. 11,873.
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     Jan. 1776. 2 mos. 21 das. Pri. Noadiah Hooker Fisher Gay Conn.   May 1, 1776. 8 mos. Noadiah Hooker Mott   Aug. 1777. 2 " Norton. ✓   Aug. 1780. 14 days. James Lusk ✓  
Battles engaged in, _____ ✓
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Farmington, Hartford Co., Conn.
Date of application for pension, July 27, 1832. His cl. was al.
Residence at date of application, Canter, Tioga Co., N.Y.
Age at date of application, Born Apr. 10, 1754 at Farmington, Conn.
Remarks: He died in 1836, leaving five children, no names stated.
For date of soldier's death & name of person to whom arrearage of pen- sion were paid, address the Auditor for the Int. Dept., U.S. Treas. Dept., citing all of the following data: Bissel Woodford Cl. No 14,815 issued June 27, 1833, for $43.88 per an. from mch 4, 1831, under Act of June 7, 1832, N.Y. Agency.
Respectfully,
Commissioner.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
SECOND COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE,
May 24 th , 1844.
Sir:
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An Act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," and the third section of the Act of August 23, 1842, extending the time within which pensioners may receive their pensions from the pension agents, Two of five child ren of Bissel Woodford, dec d a Pensioner on the Roll of the Albany, N.Y., Agency, at the rate of Forty Three — Dollars and 88 Cents per annum, under the law of the 7 th June 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 4 th of March — to the 3 rd Sept. 1836;
Respectfully, yours,
J. Wm. L. Garrison
Comptroller.
To the COMMISSIONER OF PENSIONS, Present.

This Bureau can furnish the military record of only such Revolutionary soldiers as were pensioned or whose widows were pensioned for their services.
Such of the original muster and pay rolls of the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812 as are now in the possession of the Government are on file in the Record and Pension Office, War Department. Original rolls and other records pertaining to service in the Revolutionary War may also be found on file in the archives of many of the original States.
L. W. B. I. 11873.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS,
WASHINGTON, D. C.,
O. W. & N. DIV.
REVOLUTIONARY.
June 3rd, 1898.
Sir:-
Replying to your recent communication you are advised that Bissel Woodford made an application for pension on July 27, 1832, at which time he was 78 years of age and residing in Tioga County, New York, and his pension was allowed for thirteen months and five days' actual service as a private in the Conn. troops, Revolutionary war; a part of the time he served under Capt. Hooker and Col. Gray. He enlisted at Farmington, Conn.
Very respectfully,
Commissioner.
Mr. E. M. Woodford,
417 Front Street,
Owego, Tioga Co., N. Y.

This Bureau can furnish the military record of only such Revolutionary soldiers as were pensioned or whose widows were pensioned for their services.
Such of the original muster and pay rolls of the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812 as are now in the possession of the Government are on file in the Record and Pension Office, War Department. Original rolls and other records pertaining to service in the Revolutionary War may also be found on file in the archives of many of the original States.
L. W. B. I. 11873.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS,
WASHINGTON, D. C.,
O. W. & N. DIV.
REVOLUTIONARY.
October 26, 1898.
Sir:-
Replying to your recent communication you are advised that Bissel Woodford made an application for pension on July 27, 1832, at which time he was 73 years of age and residing in Tioga County, N. Y., and his pension was allowed for thirteen months and five days' actual service as a private in the Conn. troops, Revolutionary war; a part of the time he served under Capt. Hooker and Col. Gray. He enlisted at Farmington, Conn.
Very respectfully,
Acting Commissioner.
Mr. J. H. Woodford,
475 West Utica St.,
Buffalo, N. Y.

J. H. Woodford, REPRESENTING Coronet Corset Company. PARIS: 2 RUE DE ROROI. NEW YORK: 102 & 104 WOOSTER ST. 475 West Utica Street JACKSON, MICH.: MAIN & PEARL STREETS.
Buffalo, N.Y. Sept. 12th. 1898
Hon. H. Clay Evans
Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir:-
I am desirous of obtaining information in regard to an ancestor of mine, - Bissel Woodford - and would like if possible his record in the Revolutionary War. I understand that I must have this in order to become eligible to the Sons of the Revolutionary War . Kindly advise me if you can supply me with this information and what the charge would be. He was I believe in the Connecticut State troops - and enlisted at Farmington. Kindly advise me in reference to this as soon as possible and greatly oblige,
Yours very truly,
J. H. Woodford.
above address.

Manufacturers Pegwood Bitters, Marshmallow Compound, Golden Egg Poultry Remedy, Golden Stock Food, Black Pills.
PETRO & WOODFORD,
Druggists. ✓
PHONE 846.
839 KANSAS AVENUE.
TOPEKA, KANSAS,
July 2 1902
Bureau of Pensions O.W. and N Dir Sir
Kindly send me copy of service of Bissell Woodford in Rev War. Refer to L.W.B I, 11873
Respt W.D. Woodford 839 N Kansas Ave At a Topeka Kansas

Owego April 12. 1898
Pension Office Dept.
Dear Sir,
Will you please tell me if the name of Bissell Woodford of Avon or Farmington Conn. is on the list of Pensioners Junior to 1835. He was a soldier in the Revolution- ary War , and received a pension. He was from Conn. but came to Canador, New York, in 1825 where he died in 1835 we have lost the papers and would like to find out about

them. If you can not give the desired information can you tell me where to find it.
Yours Truly E. M. Woodford 417 Front Street Albany Troy Co. New York.

Edward G. Woodford,
Candor,
Living Co.,
N. Y.
Personal injury
of
June 30, 1916.

11873
Bissel Woodford
July 27, 1832 - 78
Tioga Co. N.Y.
Aug 76 Farmington Com
Capt. Adadial Hooker
Col. Fisher Gray
Pvt 3 mos
May 1, 76 - Capt. do
Col Mott
Pvt - 8 m
Aug 77 - Capt. Norton
Col -
Pvt - 2 m
Aug 80 - Capt James Lusk
Col - Pvt. 3 wks.
No Rank
Born Apr 10, 1754 Farmington
Ct.

June 3 '98 E. Woodford Owego N.Y.
Oct 26 '98 J. H. Woodford Buffalo N.Y.
July-12-1902 W. D. Woodford. Topeka Kan.
1916, July 3. History to Edw. G. Woodford, Canadar, N.Y.
Rev. War
11873
INVALID.
File No. 11873
Bissel Woodford
Brig. Rev. War
Act: June 7 th 1832
Index:—Vol. 2, Page 415-
[Arrangement of 1870.]