Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 17799, Dyer Woodworth, Conn. New York

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Conn. New York
Woodworth, Dyer
S. 17799
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7260 Indiana
Dyer Woodworth of Carmersville in the State of Indiana who was a private in the company commanded by Captain Childs of the Regt commanded by Col Livingstone in the New York line for 18 months Conn
State of death unknown
Inscribed on the Roll of Indiana at the rate of 60 Dollars — Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 21 day of March 1833 and Sept 1836 Samuel Carmersville Ind
Arrears to the 4th of March 33 $120.00 Semi-ant. allowance ending 4 Sept 30 00 $150.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by Daniel Bay Clerk Book 6 Vol. 7 Page 134

State of Indiana } In the State the Probate Court Fayette County } of the term of August A D. 1832 —
Be it remembered that among the Records of the Fayette Probate Court is the following (to wit)
Affidavit of the application of Dyer Woodworth for a Pension
Be it remembered that heretofore laid at a term of the probate Court of Fayette County in the State of Indiana Begun and held at the Court house in Connersville Within and for the County aforesaid before the honorable Philip Mason Judge of said Court on the Second Monday and thirteenth day of August in the year of Our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and thirty two and continued from day to day before the honorable Judge of said Court until Wednesday the thirteenth Juridical day of said term — then here came in to Open Court Dyer Woodworth a Resident of the County of Fayette and makes and subscribes therein under Oath the following Written declaration in his behalf (to wit)
State of Indiana }
Fayette County }
SS. On this fifteenth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and thirty two personally appeared in Open court before the Probate Court of Fayette County now Sitting Dyer Woodworth a resident of the County and State aforesaid aged seventy five years who First being duly sworn according to Law doth on his Oath make the following declaration in Order to Obtain the Benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832 —
That he entered into the United States Service under the follow- ing named Officers and served as herein stated —
That he enlisted in the town of Obong in the State of New York in the Company commanded by Captain Increase Childs in the Regiment commanded by Col. Livingston of the New York State troops — in the Second year of the revolutionary War, that he enlisted for one campaign and served for twelve months most of which time he worked in the Armory Shop under the direction of Jacob Reed, that he was at labour in

Shop when the Regiment to which he belonged was discharged, that they received their discharge at fourteen miles distance from the Shop and that he not being present at the disbandment of the Regiment Received no discharge in Writing - that after his discharge he returned to Salisbury in the State of Connecticut where he was born, and - about a year thereafter he again enlisted in Salisbury for six months in the Company commanded by Captain Ensign in the Connecticut State troops, which term of six months he served out and obtained a written discharge which is long since lost - The Regimental and other Officers of the troops to which he was attached he cannot now recollect - that he has no documentary evidence of his services and that he knows of no person whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his service The Court propounded unto the said Dyer the following questions (to wit) -
First - Where and What year Were you born? Ans. I was born in Salisbury in the State of Connecticut on the 20 th day of November in the year 1757 -
Second - have you any Record of your age if so Where is it? Ans I have none - the Record of my age is in the family bible which is in the possession of my Sister who when I last heard of her live in Housonfield in the State of New York
Third - Where were you living when called into service, Where have you lived since the revolutionary War and where do you now live
Ans. When I first entered the service I lived in Obong in the State of New York. When I was an apprentice to a gunsmith, and When I enlisted the second time I lived in Salisbury Connecticut. Since the revolution I have lived in Massachusetts in the town of Suffield - in the State of New York in the County of Senatoga, from thence I removed into the Hampshire County in the State of New York, from thence I removed about 18 or 20 years ago into Franklin County Indiana where I resided until about nine months since, when I came into this County where I now reside -
Fourth - how long you called into service, were you drafted; and you voluntary, or were you a substitute for a substitute for whom?

Ans I at both times of Enlisting the Service enlisted —
Sixth — State the names of some of the Regular Officers who were with the troops when you served, such continental and militia Regiments as you can Recollect, and the General circumstances of your Service —
Ans — I cannot now recollect the names of any Officers except those by whom I was commanded and Generals Sarge & James Clinton, I do not now Recollect any continental or militia Regiments, as to my Service the principal part of my first term of Service was as an armourer as before stated in the second term of Service I marched from Salisbury in Connecticut to White Plains in New York and from thence to West Point in the same State When I was discharged and returned home —
Seventh — Did you ever receive a discharge from Service — if so by whom was it given and What has become of it? —
Ans — I received no discharge of my first enlistment as before stated of my second I received one from my Captain Ensign but it has long since been lost —
Eighth — State the names of the persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood who can testify as to your character for Veracity and their belief of your Services as a Soldier of the Revolution —
Ans — I name Wilson Woodworth, Zimri Vetter, Henry Van Dorn and your honor the Judge —
And the said Dyer Woodworth hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of the Agency of any State —
Sworn to and subscribed the Day and year Aforesaid attest Dyer Woodworth
William Caldwell Clk F.C.P.C
And the said Dyer Woodworth now produces in Court the following Persons who make and subscribe under Oath in Open Court the following Certificates to wit —
I Zimri Vetter residing in the County of Fayette in the State of Indiana do hereby certify that I am Well acquainted with

Dyon Woodworth who has subscribed and sworn to the above Declaration, that I have known the said Dyon both in the State of New York & in this State for the last twenty five years that I believe him to be 75 years of age, that ever since I have known him he has been reputed and believed in the several neighborhoods in which I have known him and where he now resides to have been a Soldier of the Revolution; and I concur in that Opinion - and that his mind is now much impaired by Reason of age -
Sworn to and subscribed the day & year aforesaid Attest Zimri Potter Wm Greville Clerk
Mr. Wilson Woodworth and Henry Van Dalsum residing in the County of Fayette I do hereby certify that We are acquainted with Dyon Woodworth who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration - that We believe him to be twenty five years of age that he is Reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a Soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that Opinion Sworn to & subscribed in open Court on the day and year aforesaid Attest Wilson Woodworth Henry Van Dalsum
Wm Greville Clerk
And the said Court does hereby declare its opinion, after investigation and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the Court report that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and heard as he states and the Court further certifies that it appears that Zimri Potter Wilson Woodworth & Henry Van Dalsum who signed the preceding certificate are Residents of the County of Fayette aforesaid and of the immediate vicinity of the said applicant and are credible Persons and that their statements are entitled to credit And also appears to the Court that there is no Congregational Minister in the vicinity of the said applicant - And it is

Further certify by the Court that it has had Personal Knowledge of the said applicant for the last twelve or fifteen years, and for that Period it has been generally believed that the said applicant was a Soldier of the Revolutionary War - that from the General good character which the applicant has uniformly maintained during that time the Court entertains no doubts of the truth of his Declaration as above made, nor does any Doubt of its truth exist to the knowledge of the Court. And the Court further states that the recollection of the said applicant has recently become evidently impaired by Reason of Old age so much so that on his examination this day as to his residence since the revolutionary War it was with difficulty he could recollect them. Franklin County in this State where he had resided for a number of years and from whence he has but recently removed into this County ————— State of Indiana Fayette County
William Caldwell clerk of the circuit court of the County of on said county do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the Original Proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Dyon Woodworth for a Pension as the same remains of Record in my Office. In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the Seal of the said Probate Court this 24 th day of August A.D. 1832.
William Caldwell Clerk Fayette County Probate Court —————

March 28, 1932
Dyer Woodworth-S.17799 xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx BA-J/EFL OW
Mr. W.H.Brewer 2147 Poplar Street Terre Haute, Indiana
Dear Sir:
The data furnished herein are obtained from the papers on file in the Revolutionary War claim for pension, S.17799, based upon the military service of Dyer Woodworth in that war.
Dyer Woodworth was born November 20, 1757, in Salisbury, Connecticut. His parents were living during the Revolution; their names are not given.
In our statement, he gave 11 mos, in another 12 mos & he said he was dis in April 1777. But as these statements conflicted, I used 11 or 12 mos as it was stated that his memory was very bad.
While residing in Oblong, New York, he enlisted in February or March, 1776, in Captain Increase Child's Company, Colonel Livingston's New York Regiment; shortly after entering the service, he was assigned to an armory located at a fort opposite West Point, where he worked for eleven or twelve months assisting in repairing arms under the direction of one Jacob Reeder.
After his discharge from this service, he returned to his home in Salisbury, Connecticut, where he enlisted sometime in 1778, exact date not given, and served six months in Captain Ensign's Connecticut Company.
After the Revolution, he resided in Sheffield, Massachusetts, and in Saratoga County, New York; then moved, about 1810 or 1812, to Franklin County, Indiana; thence to Fayette County, Indiana.
He was allowed pension on his application executed August 15, 1832, while residing in Fayette County, Indiana, where, he stated, he had then lived for about nine months.
It is not stated that soldier was ever married.
He referred to a sister who at one time lived in Harpersfield, New York, but did not give her name and there are no further family data.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER Assistant to Administrator.
Date of death not on QB

1932 - Mar 28 - Hist To H. H. Brewer. E. L.
INVALID.
File No. 17799
Dyer Woodworth
Sci Rev War
Act: June 7 th 32
Index: —Vol. 1 , Page 416
[Arrangement of 1870.]

State of Indiana Fayette County Connersville Township
Personally appeared before me the undersigned a justice of the peace within and for the township and county aforesaid Myles Woodworth 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 services, but according to the best of his recollection not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades -
For one year and six months I served as a private and for such service I claim a pension.
The periods of the war in which the above service was rendered to the best of my recollection are as follows:
I enlisted under Col. Livingston as in my declaration is mentioned in the second year of the war, I think it was in 1776, that a short time after my entering the service (having been an apprentice to the gun smith business) I was at the call and request of Genl. Geo. Clinton placed in the ar repairing arms at a fort opposite West Point I think the fort was called Fort Constitution, as well as I remember - In my entry into the army I had the promise of 12 dollars per month - I served in the army for I believe 18 months after my entrance there and until the discharge of my regiment, which took place at a post called Fort Montgomery I think it was called, after the discharge of my regiment I was also discharged but never have rec d any compensation whatever. At this distance of time I cannot say what time I entered the service, I was then but a boy of about 17 years of age but there is an impression on my mind that it was in the month of February or March, and my discharge was in April in 1777 as I believe
The balance of the 18 months being 6 months was an enlistment at Salisbury in Connecticut for six months - This enlistment took place I believe in about a year after my former discharge I think this was the case from the fact that I have an impression on my mind that I was at home a year with my parents before my second engagement - It must have been in 1778 when I entered the second time - What marching & duty I performed are set forth in my declaration except that a part of the time

I was stationed at Fort Montgomery -
Dyer Woodworth
Sworn to and subscribed before me on the 14 th day of December 1832
Moses Fay Justice of the Peace Seal
State of Indiana Fayette County
I William Caldwell Clerk of the Fayette circuit court do hereby certify that Moses Fay Esqr, whose name is subscribed to the above Jurat was when the same was subscribed to wit on the 14 th December 1832, and is now an acting Justice of the peace in and for the said county of Fayette duly commissioned and qualified as such as required by law, & as such Justice has full power and competent authority to administer oaths, and further that I am acquainted with the hand writing of the said Moses Fay and that the above signature purporting to be his is genuine
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said circuit court at Connersville the 15 th day of December A.D. 1832
Wm. Caldwell Clerk. F.C.C.

Rev
Jerre Haute Durd
Feb 14, 1932
Veterans Administration Washington D.C. Director of Pensions Dear Sir:
Will you please give me copy of pension record for Revolutionary Service for:
✓ Dyer Woodworth
or
{ Born - Oct 20 - 1757 Salisbury Ct. Enlistment from - Conn. Res. after service - Brookville - Indiana Widow - ? Died - in Indiana (after 1835)
✓ Abner { Woodward or { Woodworth
- Abner Woodworth
{ Born - Aug 2 - 1724 Little Compton R.I. Enlistment from - Conn. Res. after service - Pompey N.Y. Widow - none (wife's name Hannah) Died - about 1809 in state of N.Y.
Yours Truly
W.A. Breuer
2147 Poyler St.

Hon. Secy. at War
Washington
D.C.

Connersville Ind. 15 th Dec. 1832
Sir Herewith are returned the papers of Rhyer Rootworth amended. If the amendment be not sufficient, and your time permits it, I will esteem it a peculiar favor, to forward to me a detailed form of what will be necessary - He is one of the many of the Revolutionary band whose mind by reason of age is nearly gone, & who is fast declining into second childhood - This misfortune is not the effect of dissipation & a negligent life, for he is a temperate, moral and worthy old man, and I have not a doubt but his statement is in the main true but the period of time at which he served he cannot recollect with certainty his neighbors who have known him for many years place the most implicit confidence in his statement -
If it will comport with the regulations of the department, I wish all the applicants who have been accepted & for whom I am acting to have their names placed upon the agency at Cincinnati Ohio -
We are here at the distance of 150 miles from Cincinnati, and between which hence this there is no communication except when pensioners send for their money, while between this place & Cincinnati there is daily intercourse. Much expense will be saved them by being placed on the Cincinnati agency - I am &c.
Sam l G. Samples
Hon. Sec. of War