Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 11858, Philip S Woolwine, Va Indian War 1790

SERVICE
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Va
Woolwine, Philip S. Elizabeth
R. 11858
Indian War 1790
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State of Virginia County of Augusta  ss.
I Wm A Burnett, deputy clerk of the County Court of Augusta in the state aforesaid (which is a court of record) do hereby certify that I have diligently searched the marriage records of the office of said Court, in order to find if the marriage of Philip S. Woolwine and Elizabeth Harris is of record in said office, and I do further certify that I can find no such record of the said marriage in the office aforesaid.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Court aforesaid, in office, at Staunton this 19th day of January A D 1836.
W. A. Burnett Dep. Ck

Isaac Campbell J. P. and also Presiding Justice of the County Court State of Virginia } of Monroe County Va. Monroe County. To wit: }
On this 18 th day of February 1858 personally appeared before me the said Isaac Campbell Presiding Justice as aforesaid of the County Court of said County of Monroe, and also a Justice of the Peace in and for said County. Jacob Woolwine and Francis H Reynolds residents of the said County of Monroe in the State aforesaid who being duly sworn according to law, declare, as follows. That is to say the said Jacob Woolwine declares that he is now 54 Years of age - that ever since his earliest recollection he has known Philip S. Woolwine and Elizabeth Woolwine (formerly Elizabeth Hanes) whose declaration for a Pension is herewith before annexed - that during all that time (or at least until the death of said Philip) they lived together as husband and wife, and were generally so reputed, and considered, and raised a family of children in Monroe, and that he (the said affiant) has no doubt, and never heard it questioned, but that they were legally married. He further declares that he was a relation of the said parties, and knew them intimately - that he always understood from them (from the time of his earliest recollection) that they removed from the County of Augusta to the County of Monroe, in Virginia the same year that he (the said affiant) was born (which was in 1802) - that they had been married in the Town of Staunton in the said County of Augusta, several years before their removal to Monroe, and that when they removed to Monroe in 1802 they had a little daughter then living named Polly and aged about 5 or 6, who died shortly after their removal to said County. He also declares that he understood from the said Philip himself, and that it was generally reputed and believed, that the said Philip had been a Soldier in the Revolutionary war and in the Indian war also. He further declares that the said Philip S. Woolwine died in the said County of Monroe on the 26 th day of June 1850, and that the said Elizabeth is still a widow, having never married since the death of her said husband - And that he (the said affiant) verily believes that she is of the age of 88. And he further swears, that there is no family, or other Record (so far as he knows or can hear of) of the marriage of the above named parties, and that he (the said affiant) is a disinterested witness. And the said Francis H Reynolds declares that since the death of said Philip S. Woolwine (who died in Monroe County on the 26 th day of June 1850) that his widow the said Elizabeth has been living and is still living with him - That he has known the said Philip for 25 Years, and always understood from him (and that it was generally so reputed and believed) that he had been a Soldier in the Revolutionary war also in the Indian war - that he has heard him say that he was honorably discharged from service, and that after the death of said Philip, that his papers were all diligently searched and examined, but that no written discharge, or writing of any kind touching his

Service could be found - that the said parties since he knew them, always lived together and passed for husband and wife, and were so reputed and believed by all who knew them - that the said Elizabeth (as he believes) is at least 88 Years of age, and that she is still a widow - And he swears he is a disinterested witness.
F. N. Reynolds Jacob Woolwine
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 18 th day of February 1856, and I do hereby certify that the said Jacob Woolwine and Francis N. Reynolds are credible witnesses.
Isaac Campbell J.P. and also Presiding Justice of the County Court of Monroe County
State of Virginia } Monroe County } ss.
On this 4 th day of March 1856 personally appeared before me Isaac Campbell Presiding Justice of the County Court of said County of Monroe and also a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, Samuel Clark, a resident of said County, who being duly sworn according to law declares, - That he is 92 Years of age - That he has known the said Philip and Elizabeth Woolwine (who are said to have come originally from Staunton, Augusta County, Virginia) ever since they came to the said County of Monroe to live (which was upwards of fifty years ago, as he thinks) and that ever since that time, until the death of said Philip, that they lived together and passed for husband and wife, and were generally so reputed and believed, and raised a family of children in Monroe, and that he himself always supposed and believed that they were married. And that the said Philip was generally reputed and believed to have been a soldier in the Revolutionary and the Indian War - And he swears he is a disinterested witness -
Sam V. Clark
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 4 th day of March 1856 - and I hereby certify that the said Samuel Clark is a credible witness
Isaac Campbell J.P. and also Presiding Justice of the County Court of Monroe County
State of Virginia } Monroe County } ss.
I, George W. Hutchinson, Clerk of the County Court of the said County of Monroe (which is a Court of Record) do hereby certify, that Isaac Campbell, before whom the foregoing affidavits were made, and who has thereunto subscribed his signature and name, was at the time of so doing; Justice of the Peace, in and for the County aforesaid, duly commissioned and sworn, and also Presiding Justice of the said County Court of Monroe, and that his signature to the said affidavits is genuine. And I further certify, that the annexed sheet of paper at the conclusion of page 4, was pasted and annexed thereto by me, and is properly a part of these proceedings. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed & annexed the seal of my office as Clerk of the said County Court of Monroe County this 4 th day of March 1856.
Geo: W. Hutchinson Clerk of Monroe County Court Virginia

State of Virginia } Monroe County } S.S.
On this 18 th day of February 1856 personally appeared before the County Court of the said County of Monroe (being a Court of Record having General Jurisdiction), Elizabeth Woolwine (formerly Elizabeth Harris) a resident of the said County of Monroe aged 88 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 provisions made by the Act of Congress passed July 2 nd 1838 (and of any subsequent act or acts, to the benefit whereof she may be entitled under the case as stated in her declaration. That she is the widow of Philip S. (alias Philip) Woolwine late of the said County of Monroe, but formerly of the County of Augusta, in Virginia, and who to the best of her knowledge, information, and belief was a soldier in the Revolutionary War, and also a soldier in the Indian War, (or Wayne's War as it is sometimes called), which commenced in 1790 and terminated in 1796. That owing to old age, infirmity, the lapse of time, and the imperfection of her memory, she cannot profess to be very accurate in her recollection of events or dates, and trusts that all due allowance for any mistakes may be made on that account, but that to the best of her recollection and belief, she understood and received from her said husband the following particulars connected with his aforesaid Service. To wit - That he first entered the Service of the Revolution as a volunteer, under a Captain (or other officer) by the name (as she thinks) of Perry, and remained for six months in the said Service, and was then honorably discharged therefrom. That she is unable to state either the day or the year precisely when her said husband joined the said Service or when he left it, although she thinks it was probably about the middle or towards the close of it. That at one time he had a written discharge, which she remembers to have seen years ago, and which showed that he had been honorably discharged from the said Service, but when, or where, or by whom the said discharge was written she does not now recollect, and that since his death it has been diligently searched for amongst his papers, and elsewhere, but cannot be found. That she has heard her husband speak about being at "the Point" whilst in the Service, by which it has been suggested, that he probably meant Stony Point, which was captured by General Wayne in 1779, but whether he did, or not, or what, in fact, he meant by it, she cannot say -
That he was a resident of the County of Augusta, in the State of Virginia, and went as a volunteer from that County when he joined the said Service as aforesaid. She further states that after completing his Revolutionary Service, (but on what particular day or year she cannot say), although she thinks it was in 1790, 1791, or 1792, that her said husband enlisted as a soldier in the Indian War, (or Wayne's War), before referred to. That he was still a resident of said County of Augusta at the time he so enlisted, and where he enlisted also, and that the recruiting or Commanding officer under whom he so enlisted

and joined the Indian Service was Captain (or, probably, Colonel) Gibson, but what Gibson she does not recollect - That the said Gibson (as she believes) was likewise from the County of Augusta, and that his Barracks, or Recruiting Station, at that time, and for some considerable time, was only a few miles from the Town of Staunton in the said County of Augusta - That she believes her said husband held, at one time, the rank of a Sergeant and that at another time a butcher for the Company to which he belonged. That she is unable to state the precise period that her said husband continued in said last named service but her recollection is that he remained therein for the full term of three years, and was then honorably discharged therefrom - That her said husband at one time and several years before his death had a written discharge from said Service which she remembers to have seen, but when where or by whom the same was executed she does not recollect. At least it was always said to be such a discharge but being unable herself to read or write she can only speak from what was stated to be its character and contents by her said husband and others of whose statements however she has no doubt - She further states that this last discharge (as well as the first hereinbefore referred to) became lost or destroyed in some way (she knows not how) during the lifetime of her said husband and cannot now be found, although since the death of her said husband his papers have been diligently searched and due inquiry has been made with a view to find them. She further declares that beyond what she has already stated she is unable to state at this time on what troop or Company or Regiment or Corps, or under what Captain, or other officer, or in what particular place or places her said husband served, or when he entered the said Service or Services, and the time when he left the same, or whether he was drafted or volunteered or went as a substitute, or the battles, if any he was engaged in, or the Country through which he passed - She further states, that her said husband died, leaving no written memorandum or documentary evidence, touching his said Service or Services, and that she does not know of any living witnesses, or witness, by whom the same could be established, and that she is therefore under the necessity of begging permission to refer to the Records and Rolls of the War Department for such information and proof in her behalf as they may be able to furnish on the subject, and to have the benefit of the same. She further states, that she was lawfully married to the said Philip S. Woolwine in the Town of Staunton, in the said County of Augusta, Virginia, at the house of a person by the name of Moore (she thinks John Moore) and by a preacher of the name of Hinkel or Hingle (as she now recollects) although his precise name perhaps is not correctly spelled, - That she does not now recollect either the precise day, or month, or year of her marriage, with perfect certainty, but that, to the best of her recollection and belief, it was in the month of April 1787 or 1788, and she knows and states positively, that her said marriage took place after the expiration of the last period of her said husband's Revolutionary service, as aforesaid, and before the first day of January 1790 - She further states, that none of those who were

present at her said marriage, besides herself, are now alive, or if living, that she does not know, and is unable to ascertain, upon due inquiry, where they or any of them now are. That she has likewise caused diligent inquiry and search to be made amongst the marriage records of the County Court of said Augusta (where the public record of her marriage, if any where, ought to be) and has likewise used diligent exertions to ascertain if any private or family record of said marriage can be had; but that, up to this time, that no such record of said marriage, whether public or private, can be found, or can be ascertained to be in existence. That she means to cause another search for such record to be made in the Clerk's office of the County Court of Augusta, and if successful in the attempt, that a duly certified copy of such marriage record will in due time be forwarded, or proper proof adduced, that no such record can be found. She further states that in the absence of any record proof as to her marriage, she begs permission to establish it by the testimony of credible and distinguished witnesses, and in such way and by such evidence as may be admissible. She further states, that her said husband (as she always represented as she verily believes) was born on the 3 rd of June 1766, and that he died in the said County of Monroe, on the 26 th of June 1850. That she was not married to him prior to his leaving the Revolutionary Service as aforesaid but the marriage took place previous to the first of January 1794 - viz at the time above stated - and that the said marriage took place before the expiration of the last period of his Indian Service herein before stated. She further swears that she is now a widow, that she has never again married since the death of her said husband, and that she has never before made any application for a pension.
Sworn to and subscribed, on this day and Year above written, in open Court before me her Elizabeth Woolwine Isaac Campbell. J. P. and also mark Presiding Justice of the County Court - State of Virginia } of Monroe County. Monroe County } S. S.
I George W. Hutchinson Clerk of the County Court of the said County of Monroe (which is a Court of Record, having General Jurisdiction) do hereby certify that the foregoing Declaration of Elizabeth Woolwine was this day duly sworn to and subscribed by the said Elizabeth Woolwine before the said County Court of Monroe, in open Court, and I do also further certify that Isaac Campbell Esq r whose name is signed to the above Declaration is the Presiding Justice of the said County Court of Monroe, and was so, at the time he so signed it, and that his signature to the same is genuine. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of my office as Clerk of the said County Court of Monroe County, this 18 th day of February 1856. Geo W Hutchinson Clerk of

4 State of Virginia } S.S. Monroe County }
On this 18 th day of February 1856 personally appeared before me the said Isaac Campbell Presiding Justice as aforesaid of the County Court of the said County of Monroe (being a Court of Record having General Jurisdiction) and also a justice of the Peace in and for said County, James Shanklin and William Connell residents of the State of Virginia and County of Monroe aforesaid, who being duly sworn, according to law, declare, that Elizabeth Woolwine (whose declaration is herewith before annexed) is a resident of the said County of Monroe and the reputed widow of Philip S. Woolwine, who died a few years ago in said County, having removed there (as it was said) from the County of Augusta in Virginia many years ago - That they (the said affiants) have known the said Philip S. and Elizabeth Woolwine, as husband and wife, in Monroe County, for nearly forty years - and that during all that time that they cohabited and lived together, and were reputed and known as man and wife, and raised a family of children, (the oldest of whom now living in this County they would suppose to be about the age of 60) and that they the said affiants always supposed and understood, and have no doubt of the fact that they were married - They further declare, that the said Philip S. Woolwine, after they knew him, was generally reputed to have been a soldier in the Revolutionary War, or the Indian War that followed shortly afterwards. And the said William Connell further swears that he is now in his 65 th Year - that he went to live in the County of Augusta in Virginia, in 1798 - that in 1808 (as he will remember) he saw the said Philip S. Woolwine in the Town of Staunton, in the said County of Augusta, at a public Dinner given by one Daniel Gibson (a near relation of the Captain or Col o Gibson, who was said to have recruited and raised a Company at or near to Staunton for the Indian Service under General Wayne) to the surviving members of the said Company or to such of them as were in reach - That the said Philip S. Woolwine was then and there publicly recognized and treated, at the said Dinner, as one of the said Company, in honor of whom the said Dinner had been given and who were stated and believed to have enlisted and served under Gibson in the Indian Service as aforesaid. That there were some fifteen in all then present who were said to have been members of the said Company and to have been engaged in the said Service, and that the said Connell has no doubt whatever but that the said Philip S. Woolwine was in the said Company and Service as represented. That after that that he the said Connell lost sight of the said Philip S. Woolwine until about the year 1818 when they had both removed to Monroe, and when and where the said Philip & Elizabeth Woolwine were living, and reputed as man & wife, as aforesaid, and had several children. And both of the said affiants swear that they are disinterested witnesses.
W m Connell James A. Shanklin
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 18 th day of February 1856, and I do hereby certify that the said James Shanklin and William Connell are credible

No. 15401 Elizabeth Woolwine Widow of Philip S Virginia Hon H. A. Edmonson Ap d 18/56
11858
July 7 1838

Mr Lauck. Pension Claims.
Rhett. 7th Apr
Elizabeth Woolvin - Philip S - Va - original
Department of the Interior, Pension Office, Official Business.
Hon. H. A. Edmonson

11,858
P.O. Elizabeth Woolwine
Service: Widow Philip S. Woolwine
REJECTED
Enlisted: _____, 18 .
Discharged: _____, 18 .
Application filed: _____, 18 .
Alleges: _____ _____ _____
Re-enlisted: _____ _____ _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____ _____ _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18 .

Salt Sulphur Springs Monroe Co. Va 30 th March 1851.
Hon. H. Edmundson
Dear Sir
I enclose a certificate from the Clerk of Augusta which will be probably necessary in the case of the application of Elizabeth Woolwine of Monroe, for a Pension on acct of Revolutionary & Indian services of her husband Philip Woolwine deceased - Will you do me the favor to have it filed with the other papers in the case & oblige
Yours truly &
N. Harrison