Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 30,227, Daniel Woodward, Mass.

SERVICE
Mass.
Woodward, Daniel
NUMBER
8.30227
CONTENTS

73
1400
Massachusetts
Daniel Woodward
of Bristol in the State of Mass who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Perry of the Regt commanded by Col. Grafton in the Mass. line for 18 months
This certificate is issued in lieu of one dated Nov 3. 1832.
issued on the Roll of Massachusetts the rate of 60 Dollars Cents per annum, commence on the 14th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 30th day of July 1832 and 5 cts per month J. D. Hedges. Treasurer Mass.
arrears to the 14th of March 1835 $120.00 semi-ant. allowance ending 1 Sept. 30.00
$150.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by N. Maddison Clerk, Book D Vol. 2a Page 93
Letter 7 Augt 18. to Pension Agent

1400
Massachusetts
Daniel Woodward of Bristol in the State of Mass who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain of the Regt commanded by Col Sergeant in the Spades line for Rear.
allow him 18 Mos
Inscribed on the Roll of Spades at the rate of 10 Dollars - Cents per Annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 3 rd day of Nov 1832 and sent Daniel Woodward Taunton Mass
Arrears to 4th of Sept 1832 $60 - Semi-annual allowance ending 1 st March 33. 20 - $80 -
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by J H McBlain Clerk, Book D. Vol. 2 nd Page 93.

MASSACHUSETTS DISTRICT, ss.
13. February 1819.
I AM satisfied that the above named, Daniel Woodward by reason of his reduced circumstances in life, is in need of assistance from his Country for support.
J. Davis
{ District Judge U. S. Massachusetts Dist.
TO THE SECRETARY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF WAR.

MASSACHUSETTS DISTRICT, ss.
Boston June 11 A. D. 1818
IT appearing to my satisfaction, that Daniel Woodward 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 c David
} Judge of the District Court U. S. Massachusetts District.

No 288.
Daniel Woodward (Private)
Sergeants Reg. t - Mass. t Line.
From about the commencement of the 1776, states to have enlist- ed for
1 year.
Off. t 10. th April 1810 -
Wanted, the Certificate of the Judge, that Applicant, in his belief, is in "reduced circumstances in life, &c."

United States
Massachusetts District
Daniel Woodward of Taunton in the County of Bristol and District of Massachusetts, a resident citizen of the United States, and applicant for a pension from the United States under 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, make the oath that he served as a private soldier in the war of the revolution for upwards of one year as follows - Enlisted in the summer of 1775 in the company commanded by Captain Perry in the Massachusetts Regiment commanded by Colonel Sargent, and served in said corps six months, when he enlisted again in the same company and in the same regiment, and served in the said corps one year when he was honorably discharged. He then entered the True Blue Privateer commanded by Captain Furlong, was captured in her and remained in prison in England until the conclusion of the war and is in such reduced circumstances as to require aid from his country -
Daniel Woodward
{ Massachusetts District } { Boston April 10 1818 }
Sworn to before me
J. H. Dyer
District Judge Mass. Dist.

Daniel Woodward
Pwah
Old case
1 year
claimant
Taunton
Mass

Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Bristol ss.
On this fourteenth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two, personally appeared in open court, before the Hon. Hodijah Baylies, Judge of Probate of Wills &c. within and for the County of Bristol aforesaid, now sitting at Taunton in and for said County, by Adjournment: Daniel Woodward a resident of Taunton in said County of Bristol, aged Seventy four years, who being first sworn, according to law, doth on his oath make the following statement or declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7. A. D. 1832 - viz.
That I have been on the pension roll of the United States under the act of Congress of March 18. 1818, and as I apprehend, have been struck therefrom, on account of property - I served as a private in the Continental army in Col. Seargeant's regiment - I resided in Taunton aforesaid, when my first application was made, and have resided there ever since - My first application was made through the Hon. John Davis, Judge of the U. S. District Court of Massachusetts. - Afterwards I procured additional evidence in aid of the first & forwarded the same to the proper department through James Sprout Esq. then Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Bristol aforesaid, since deceased - After drawing one or two semiannual payments, my pension certificate was given to said Sprout, who I am informed, forwarded the same to the Treasury or War department. -
Daniel Woodward

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Bristol ss. August 14 th 1832 —
Daniel Woodward subscribed and made oath to the truth of the within statement —
Before H. Baylies, Judge of Probate
I Anselm Bassett Register of the Court of Probate for the County of Bristol, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Daniel Woodward for a pension — In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office, this fourteenth day of August. Eighteen hundred and thirty two —
Anselm Bassett

Daniel Woodward
8334
Sept. 10/10
Mr. entitle
file these papers with the original

July 12 th 1820
Schedule.
About ninety six Acres of land, situated partly in Norton and partly in Taunton. . . . . 1500.00 The right to improve about 48 acres more of land belonging to Sybil Woodward, wife of the Daniel Woodward annual improvement worth about . . . . . 25.00.
 One pair of old Oxen.  One pair of four year old Steers.  One pair of yearlings.  Three Cows.  One heifer.  Two two year old calves  One yearling Heifer.  Ten Sheep.  Five lambs.  One Horse.  Two Slogs.  Three small pigs.  About one ton of old Hay.  About two Tons cut this year.  Two Geese.  Four Goslings.  Six Hens.  One Saddle  Several obsolete Books.  One horse-waggon.  One Ox-waggon.  One Sled.  Two Ploughs.  Three Hoes.  Two Axes.  One Chair  Two Pots.  Three kettles.  Three Basins.  One Jug  One Spade. 
 One Iron bar  Two Barrels.  Four dry Casks.  One Beetle.  Two Weages.  One Table.  Two Chests  About thirty bushels of Corn.  One earthen Platter.  Six earthen Plates.  One old Harness for horse.  One Tub.  Five Chairs.  Three Scythes.  Three Rakes.  Two Pitchforks.  One Grindstone.  Three Pails.  Four dry Tubs.  Two Boxes.  A Shovel & Tongs.  Two Trammels.  Two calves.  5 pieces of chairs  Some old lumber.  Some old cartir  & a small quantity of old Iron. 
I have about Seventy Dollars due to me, and I owe, as nearly as I can estimate, Two Hundred Dollars. Upon the best estimate I can make, my Stock, Farming Tools, Household Furniture, and all other personal estate, the amount, after deducting said seventy dollars from said two hundred dollar debt is two hundred and forty five Dollars.
Daniel Woodward

SCHEDULE.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
BRISTOL ss. Circuit Court of Court of Common Pleas.
On this seventeenth day of July 1820, personally appeared, in open court, being a court of record for the said county,
Daniel Woodward
aged sixty two years, resident in Taunton , in said county, who, being first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on his oath, declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows: viz.
For the space of eighteen months, in the Revolutionary War, in the Massachusetts Line, on the Continental establishment in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Paul Dudley Sergeant & for which he has received a pension Certificate N o 8334.
Whole Estate real & personal of Woodward valued at $2500.
And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the 18th day of March, 1818; and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner, 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 18th day of March, 1818; 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. That I have a Wife who has been sick for many years with chronic complaints, and is generally under the care of a Physician. That I have one Son who is a raving Maniac,
expensive and mischievous, an incapable of the least labour. That I have another Son who has been deformed and distorted from his birth, and is capable of scarcely any labour, and that his disorder, as I have understood from Physicians, can never be cured, but that he must continue to grow worse. That I have one Daughter, who was attacked with a bilious fever several years since, which has left her in a very languid and feeble state, in which condition she still remains, incapable of labour, and, for the most part, confined to her bed. That I have three grand-children, to whose support I am obliged, in some degree, to contribute.

That my Farm, including that part of it belonging to my wife, one half is covered with bushes, or thinly wooded, and the remainder is cleared land, low and cold, with a thin soil and unproductive: That my House is a one story building, in a wretched and dilapidated state, serving merely as a shelter: That the income of my place will not support my maniac Son: That I am afflicted with some bodily complaints, which are daily lessening my capacity for Labour:
Daniel Woodward.
Sworn to, and declared, on the seventeenth day of July A.D. 1820, in open court before James Speat Clerk of the Court Bristol
I, James Speat clerk of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the County of Bristol do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath and the 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 thirty five hundred dollars and _____ cents. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said court, on this twenty sixth day of July 1820.
Jas. Speat
Clerk of the Court for the County of Bristol.

Woodward, Daniel Mass. S 30227

I certify that Daniel Woodward was a soldier in my Company in the year 1776 - in the 16 th Massachusetts Regiment Commanded by Paul Dudley Sargent that after the British Troops evacuated Boston - said Woodward - was legally furloughed - to go to his friends in Norton a few days which time - was taken sick with the small pox - and did not recover his health so - to to camp for about sixty days - that in said time of sickness - from the public - nor Doctor or hospital stores - But reported him self in a Sickness
James Penny { Capt. at Said.
To whom it may concern

circu Aug. 9. 1819
see letter to the Sec y of War Dec. 21. 1819.
Notification sent the 16 th October 1820 to James Sprague Esq r & Garrison M ch 11
8334 Massachusetts Roll.
Daniel Woodward
of Bristol in the state of Massachusetts who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Sergeant 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 10 th of April 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 27 th of Mar. 1819 and sent to the Hon. John Davis, Boston.
Arrears to 4th of March 1819 . . . 86. 63
Semi-ann. all ce ending 4. Sept. 1819. . 48. "
ann o 10m o 21/30-4/31 $134. 63
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Discontinued

30 227 Ray INVALID.
File No. 30,227
Daniel Woodward Rev War
Act: June 7 32
Index:—Vol. 9, Page 163
[Arrangement of 1870.]
May 296 Ex 67 N P Netherell Bk of Rev. F.W.B
1907 July. 18 Wist. to Cora E. Burt
1908 Feb. 15: Date of death to Mrs. Edwd. Blake Groes.

442 Broadway Cambridge Mass. Feb 4 1908
Department of the Interior. Bureau of Pensions:
Can you give me the date of the death of Daniel Ward. You sent me his record but no date of death was on it and I am unable to obtain it elsewhere & know you must have it on account of his pension. I. S. C. Survivors. File 30,227 Rev. War. If you will kindly supply me with the date shall be grateful. Lora Burt Gross. (Mrs Edward Blake Gross)

F. M. Record Division.
February 15, 1908.
Mrs Edward Blake Gross, # 442 Broadway, Cambridge, Mass.
Madam:
In reply to your letter dated the 4 th and received the 6 th instant, you are advised that the date of death of Daniel Woodward, Survivor's File 30,327, Revolutionary War, appears upon the records as November 11, 1840.
Very respectfully,
Acting Commissioner.

See file 30.227 Daniel Woodward appln - Apl. 10, 1818. Taunton, Mass ae 64.
July 15 Hull Pot - Capt James Perry Jan'y 76 Col. Paul Dudley Sargent 1 yr 6 m -
Capt. Fairlong Privateer "True Blue"
was captured
Remained a prisoner in Eng. until the conclusion of the war -
1820 ae 62 wife Sybil, 2 sons 1 dau. + 3 gr. ch. (names not stated.)

James L. Edwards Esq. Hodges Pension Offic Present.

Flower of Rep.
Warkington Dec 28 th 1832
James L. Edwards Esquire
Sir, At your instance I enclose to Daniel Woodwards late pension Certificate for forty dollars per year, that you may, on inspecting the evidence in his case, (part of which was furnished under the Law of 1818 not part very recently) grant him one for sixty dollars a year, to which I have no doubt he is fully entitled. Please give me an early answer to this reference and to Caleb Merton's. The other numerous claims from my District (the County of Bristol, Murrells, I hope will be favoured by your early attention.
I am with respect Sir, James L. Edwards.
P.S. Please to acknowledge the receipt of Woodwards' Certificate. J.L.E.

Payments to be made at Boston Spauld by The Pres R & Ex Bank Agent for paying Pension- ers, in the Agency of Spauld
Recorded by J H S Blair Clerk, in Book D. / Vol. 2 nd page 93

WAR DEPARTMENT.
Revolutionary Claim.
I certify that, in conformity with the Law of the United States of the 7th June, 1832, Daniel Woodward of the State of Massachusetts who was a Private in the Army of the Revolution
is entitled to receive Forty ~~~~~ dollars and ~~~~~ cents per annum, during his natural life, commencing on the 4th of March, 1834, and payable semi-annually on the 4th of March, and 4th of September, in every year.
Given at the War Office of the United States, this Thir ~ day of November one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two.
Lee Secretary of War.
Examined and Countersigned. }
J. L. Edwards

I Simeon White of Mansfield in the County of Bristol do testify & say, that I was a sergeant in the Company & commanded by James Derry in the Regiment of Col. Paul D. Sargent in the Massachusetts line, in the year's service, beginning in January 10, 1776, that Daniel Woodward of Taunton in the County of Bristol, belonged to said Company, and served one year, in part near Boston, until the enemy evacuated Boston, and after that he marched with said Company to the State of New-York, and was stationed at Hell-Gate, and at the expiration of said year's service, he was honourably discharged at Duke's Hill, but not in writing. Simeon White
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Norfolk ss. May 9. A.D. 1818. Then personally appeared Simeon White above named and made solemn Oath to the truth of the Affidavit aforesaid by him subscribed
Before me James Ware Associate Judge of the Circuit Court Hams: P. P. for the Co. Circuit

Daniel Woodward.
To Hon. John Davis, District Judge of Massachusetts District.
Inclosed is the affidavit of Thomas Lincoln, Ishak Leonard, William Burt and Samuel Cypeland, taken and sealed up by me,
Laban Wheaton Just. Peace.
D. Woodward
Adm.
Ms. 288

FREE
James L. Edwards Esquire Commissioner of Pensions Washington - D. C.

I, Daniel Woodward of Taunton, Mass, now aged Seventy five years, enlisted as a private in the Army of War of the Revolution and served, as such, Six Months , beginning the first day of July and ending with the last day of December, in the year 1775, in a company commanded by Capt. James Perry of Easton Mass. Our Lieut. was a Mr. Nichols whose Christian name I have forgotten. The Colonel of the Regiment was Dudley Sergeant, I think, of Cape Ann. We were stationed during the whole Six Months at Gurney's point, in Cambridge, near Boston. This service was rendered in what was well known as the Eight months Service . Before the campaign had terminated I enlisted for one year's service, which commenced on the first day of January 1776, being immediately after the Six months's service, before stated.
Daniel Woodward
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Bristol ss. Taunton June 29 th A.D. 1833. Then personally appeared Daniel Woodward, who, in my presence Subscribed the foregoing affidavit, and made solemn oath that it is just and true in all its parts, according to his best knowledge and belief.
Before me,
James L. Hodges Jus. Pacis.

Inverness June 28 1833.
James L. Edwards Esquire Convent of Penicuik.
Sir
Having taken the affidavit of Daniel Woodward touching the Six months for which you recently in- formed me he had not sufficiently decl- ared and for which you remarked this affida- vit would be accepted, I now transmit it. The Certificate for one year's pension which you issued last December was returned by me to you soon after its receipt. Should you allow, as I doubt not you will to this man, for what he now clearly shows and proves, to wit one and a half years pension; I will thank you send the Certificate to
Yr. humble servant James L. Hodge.

Cambridge Mass Feb. 6-1907
Osborn J. Warner
Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir:
Will you kindly tell me if there is any record any where of a Daniel Woodward from Taunton or Norton who was in Dartmoor Prison or any other English Prison. during the Revolution. It has come down to the present generation that he was in Dartmoor Prison but we have been unable so far to find any record of him. Yours truly E. Burt.

8 288 William Hooper Payable semi-annually---the first pay- ment on this certificate will be made on the 4th of September next,
at the Branch Bank of the U. States, Boston, Mass.
Recorded

WAR DEPARTMENT.
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.
I CERTIFY That, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 18th of March, 1818, Daniel Woodward, 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 tenth day of April one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
GIVEN at the War Office of the United States, this twenty seventh day of March one thousand eight hundred and nineteen.
not enrolled
Secretary of War.

I Nehemiah Leonard of Mansfield in the county of Bristol & Commonwealth of Massachusetts Yoman being seventy seven years of age do hereby give evidence testify & say that in the year 1775 Daniel Woodward of Taunton served six months in the company commanded by Capt James Perry of Taunton, in Col. Sargents Regiment. This service was rendered in the eight months service, but began the first of July & served to the end of the campaign being six months only in that campaign - The said Daniel Woodward joined said company in Cambridge & continued in that place until the expiration of the six months service. Nehemiah Leonard Mansfield Dec 19, 1832.
Bristol ss. December 19 1832. When the above named Nehemiah Leonard personally appeared & made solemn oath that the above affidavit by him subscribed is just & true. before me Roland Green Justice of the Peace
This may certify, that for aught that I know, the said Nehemiah Leonard is a respectable & credible person. Roland Green
I further certify that the said Nehemiah Leonard is my townsman. Roland Green.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Bristol ss. I Anselm Bassett Register of the Court of Probate in & for the County of Bristol do hereby certify that Roland Green is a Justice of the Peace in & for said County of Bristol, and that the signature affixed to the within affidavit, purporting to be his, is a genuine signature.
In testimony of which I have hereunto set my hand and the Seal of said Court this twenty fourth day of November A.D. 1832 - Anselm Bassett

Continental Mass.