Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 39914, Ralph Woolman, Mass

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass
★ Woolman Ralph
S. 39914
CONTENTS

39914 INVALID.
Ray
File No. 39914
Ralph Wolman
Rev. Rev. Rev.
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 3 , Page 578
[Arrangement of 1870.]

4196
Pennsylvania Roll.
Ralph Woolman / Capt Bartlett Private - Massachusetts line
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War
Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania — at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 21 st of April 1818 —
Certificate of Pension issued the 5 th of Novem r 1818 and sent to Daniel Dingman Esq r Judge Milford Penn
Arrears to 4th of Sept r 1818. 4 \text{ mths } \frac{14}{30} — 35:73 Semi-ann. all ce ending 4 th March 1819 — 48: —
✓ $83:73
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
26/76 7 years war
(Continued)
Upper Smithfield — Pike Co
William J. Smith, Milford, Pennsylvania

Ralph Woolman
4190 Lake Jay M
No 578

District of Pennsylvania Pike County ss.
On the 23 rd day of August 1820 personally appeared in open Court of Common Pleas in and for said County of Pike, Ralph Woolman aged 76 years resident 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 in Captain Jonathan Druery's Company 1 st Massachusetts Regiment commanded by Colonel John Crane, and that he has received a pension as appears from the Certificate N o 4196 and dated the 18 th day of March A D eighteen hundred and eighteen.
And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident Citizen of the United States March 18 th 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift, sale, or in any other manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provision of an act of Congress entitled "An act to provide for certain persons in the Land and Naval Service of the United States in the Revolutionary War" passed March 18 th 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 hereafter and by me subscribed. Real or personal property I have none - By occupation a Labourer - but cannot pursue it, in consequence of age and inability sufficient to obtain my support and that I have no family whatever to contribute to my support.
Sworn & Subscribed in open Court to Common Pleas of Pike County, August 24. 1820. David Scott.
Ralph Woolman.
District of Pennsylvania Pike County ss.
I Daniel Sayne Clerk, and Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of the said County of Pike (the said Court being a Court of Record agreeably to the provisions of the Constitution and Laws of the State of Pennsylvania) DO hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the records of the said Court.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the said Court on this 24 th day of August Anno Domini eighteen hundred and twenty.
Daniel Sayne Clerk & Prothonotary

Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Pike County ss
on this twenty first day of April A. D. 1818, before me the Subscriber, one of the Associate Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the said County of Pike personally appears Ralph Woolman, aged seventy two years on the seventeenth day of May last, resident in the Township of Upper Smithfield in the said County of Pike who being by me first duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the provision made by the late 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". That he the said Ralph Woolman enlisted in December A. D. one thousand seven hundred and seventy five, in the State of Massa- chusets, in the Company commanded by one Captain Bartlet, belonging to a Regiment commanded as this Deponent thinks, by one Colonel Ward, for one year, that immediate- ly after the Deponent joined the Company above stated, he marched with the Company to which he belonged to Boston where they con- tinued according to the best of Deponent's recollection til some time in March, and then Deponent was marched with the Regi- ment to which he belonged to New London in Connecticut, and from thence to the City of New-York, that after Deponent arrived in New-York, there was a draft for Soldiers

Soldiers to turn out of the respective companies belonging to the Army in New-York, to fill up the Artillery, and Deponent joined a company of Artillery commanded by Capt. Nathan Drury, belonging to the Regiment commanded by Colonel John Crane in General Knox's Brigade. At the termination of the year for which Deponent had enlisted as above stated, he the said Ralph Woolman again enlisted at Trenton in the State of Pennsylvania at Brown's Ferry in the State of Pennsylvania eight miles above Trenton, during the War, in the same company of Artillery, that he continued to serve in the said corps, until the end of the War, when he was discharged from service, at West Point in the State of New-York - That he was in the battles of Long Island, at the White Plains, at Trenton, at the Battle of Strawberry Hill, at Prince town, at the Brandywine - and at Red Bank - and that he is in reduced circumstances, and stands in need of assistance from his Country for support and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services. -
Sworn to and declared before me, the day and year aforesaid
An erasure on this Page in tenth line from top made before signing
Daniel W. Dingman
I Daniel W. Dingman one of the Associate Judges

Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the said County of Pike, do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Ralph Woolman did serve in the revolution- ary war, as stated in the preceding declara- tion, against the common enemy, and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me, to the Secretary for the Department of War, pursuant to the di- -rections of the aforementioned act of Congress.
Daniel Wayne
Prothonotary and
I Daniel Wayne, Recorder of Deeds for and in the County of Pike in the State of Pennsylv- -vania Do certify that Daniel W. Dingman Esquire at the time of his signing the above and foregoing affidavit and declaration was duly commissioned and appointed an Associate Judge of the said County of Pike: And that due and full faith and credit ought to be given to his official and judicial acts.
Witness my hand and the Seal of the said Office at Milford this 25th. April A.D. 1818 hundred and eighteen
The words "Prothonotary and" in the first line - interlined for Daniel Wayne Prothonotary and Recorder Ebenezer Mott Jr.
Ebenezer Mott Jr.

Found on the Mass. U.S. roll.
The judge is desired to certify, that he is satis- -fied, the applicant is in indigent circum- -stances, and needs the support of his country-
The Clerk or prothono- -tary of the county, is required to certify under seal, instead of the Recorder of Deeds.
Admitted
Milford Penn

I Daniel W Dingman one of the Associate Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Pike aforesaid, do certify that I am satisfied that the within named Ralph Woolman is in Indigent circumstances and needs the support of his Country, and I now again transmit the proceedings and testimony heretofore had before me, to the Secretary for the Department of War pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress - July 31 st 1818
Dan d W Dingman