Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 11,846, Roswell Woodworth, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Woodworth, Roswell Celia
R. 11846
CONTENTS
Dis

Pension Office Oct 13/53.
Sir Please report time of last payment to or death of within named pensioner
Respectfully &c.
H Burt Esqr 3 Aud Rent
J. Cole for Commissioner
Died 31 st July 1847, and paid to his death, at $8. p. m. — Rosel or Roswell Woodworth is on Albany, Invalid Roll,
F Burt Auditor.

The following is a copy - we the subscribers abraham ten Brook and peter ganservoort guns do certify that upon an Examination in pursuance of the Law entitled an act making provision for officers Soldiers and seamen who have been disabled in the service of the United States passed the 22 d of April 1786 we do find that Roswell Woodworth residing in the - State of New York aged twenty four years late a private in Capt Levi Elyes Company in the regem t of massachusetts Levis commanded By Colonel Brown and claiming relief under the act of Congress - recited in the said Law as an invalid in fact and that he became disabled in the service of the United States in consequence of a wound in his Left arm on the 19 of October 1780 mohawk River and do further certify that upon the principles of the said act of Congress the said Roswell Woodworth is entitled to the pay of two dollars per month given under our hands in the City of Albany on the twenty fifth day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and Eighty eight
Abm ten Brook
Peter ganservoort guns
Copy of the original

N 35.471 Roswell Hoodman
Ad 7th June 1832
Feby 19th 1833.
for 11 months.
3 mo's Service 8 mo's in Hospital 11 mo's.
Rec 18.256 - discharged 22 Oct 1780 - battle 17 th 2 mo 21 ds serv
Merlin A. Clarke, Hudson New York Agent.

on the 19th day of october 1780 I Roswell Woodworth was wounded in the revolutionary war in an action when Cornel Brown was killed at Stonnoby on the mohawk river in my left arm near the shoulder joint that broke it all to peaces the day before our time was out for three months doct Brewster of Beekit was our surgeon of Cornel Browns ridgement he took out five pieces of bones the first time he drest it mayer Oliver root was present when it was drest he was in the action when I was wounded the next day we was carried to Shenectady in battour then it hurt me very much to git to albany hospital and had to stay there eight months from the second day from the time I was wounded I had to stay eight months in the hospital and the latter part of June 1781 I was carried to bla nford mass where my father lived and while I was in the hospital doct Townsend was the head doct of the hospital all the time I was there and when I went away I ast him to give me a discharge that would clear me from war for ever I should think so and that discharge I gave to gen Abram Ten Brook the 25th day of January 1782 when my pension was granted since that his house has ben burnt down and in one year from the time I was wounded the 19 day of october 1781 the last bone was taken out by doct Bohan of king of blanford mass and for one year after that time I was not able to doo nothing with that lame arm to speake of attall when I was in the hospital my arm used to swell up where the bones wanted to come out and when it was time doct Townsend him self cut my arm open six or seven times in that eight months and took about twenty pieces of of bones out of my arm in three or four places between my shoulder and elbo this is all true just as it was

and when doct Brewster after we got into the fort when he drest my arm he pulled of my coat and down dropt the ball that went threw my arm and did not go threw my coat sleeve the opposit side it appeared to be very much battered up and the doct pulled out five pieces of bones with his hand and laid them on the floor with the ball I never see no more of them farewell well bullet and them bones and in that Eight months my arm swelled up pretty bad just below my elbo and when it was best to lance it doct Townsend lanced it himself there is the scar now plain to be seen and since that there has been a sore close by that scar and always will be as long as I live I think so
This all true Russell Woodworth
x copy of my letter

Declaration.
In order to obtain the benefits of the acts of Congress of June 7. 1832 and February 19. 1833.
State of New York Columbia County } ss. On this 25 th day of February 1843 personally appeared before me William E. Heath, one of the justices of the justices Court of the City of Hudson in the said County — the same being a Court of Record Roswell Woodworth a resident of the town of New Lebanon in said County, an invalid Revolution- ary pensioner of the United States aged 79 years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the above named Acts of Congress and to obtain a pension in addition to the one he now draws.
That in the year 1780 he entered into the service of the United States for three months in Captain Ely's Company of Massachusetts Militia in Colonel Brown's Regiment. That he served said 3 months & was at the Battle of Stormy Arabia in the State of New York Shot in the Arm & disabled
That he served said 3 months & at About the time of its Expiring wounded and was by such wound a broken arm confined to the Hospital at Albany under the Care of Dr. Townsend for Eight months.
That he concaves himself

entitled to an additional pension for the 9 months service & for said 9 months confinement for making eleven months. That after his so far recovered as to return home to Blandford, he continued in feeble health for a long time & his Arm has ever since Snow is disabled. Sworn to subscribed Roswell Woodworth before me this 25th day of February 1843 and the said Woodworth also testified that the paper annexed is in his hand writing & contains a true account of his services, and wound and the time he was confined thereby in the Hospital. Wm B Heath Justice
State of New York Columbia County S S I William E. Heath etc Justice before whom, the above named Roswell Woodworth, made his said Declaration, do certify that the said Roswell Woodworth, was by reason of age unable to attend, before a Court of Record, being a resident of the town of Hudson in said County distant from the place where such Court is held about thirty Miles. That the narrative annexed is in the hand writing of said Woodworth, & sworn to by him Dated February 25 th 1843. Wm B Heath Justice

State of New York Columbia County } ss. I Edward A. Holley Clerk of the Justices Court of the City of Hudson in said County do certify that William E. Heath, whose name is subscribed, to the foregoing Declaration and Certificate, was on the day of the date thereof one of the Justices of the Justices Court of the said City, the same being a Court of Record, that I am acquainted with the hand writing of said Justice & verily believe his signature thereunto to be genuine. And the said William E. Heath in person, directs this Certificate to be made.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the Seal of said Court this 24th day of February A.D. 1843. E. A. Holley - Clerk

In the Matter of the application
of
Mrs Celia Woodworth for a Pension
Declaration & Affidavits
Chas M Hall Atty & Agent of Mrs Woodworth, New York City 44 Nassau St

State of New-York } County of Columbia } ss
On this Twenty fourth day of August in the Year Eighteen Hundred and fifty three personally appeared before John T. Hoogeboom Esquire County Judge of the County of Columbia and State of New-York Mrs. Lucia Woodworth who first being duly sworn according to Law doth on her oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provisions made by the Act of Congress passed on the 3 d of February 1853 granting Pensions to Widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War, and also to obtain the benefit to which she is or may be entitled (by the facts stated in this Declaration) under and by virtue of the provisions of any other Act or Acts of Congress granting Pensions: - That she is a resident of the Town of New Lebanon in said County and aged Seventy nine years; that she is the Widow of Roswell Woodworth deceased ; that said Roswell Woodworth served as a Private in the Army of the United States during the whole or a part of the Revolutionary War; that he was wounded while he was so engaged in such service and in the line of his duty; that said Roswell Woodworth was an "Invalid Pensioner," and was allowed and did obtain in his life time a Pension from the Government of the United States, as such "Invalid Pensioner," but under what Act or Acts of Congress the same was granted this Declarant does not know
John T. Hoogeboom

and is unable to State. That the sum paid said Roswell Woodworth as such Pensioner was eight Dollars a Month; that the name of said Roswell Woodworth, as this Declarant is informed and believes to be true was at the time of his death, upon the "Invalid List" of Pensioners for the State of New York to which List this Declarant would refer as a part of her Application for a Pension; that said Roswell Woodworth received such Pension as aforesaid, according to the her knowledge and belief for about thirty years and that at the time of his death he was in the regular receipt of said Pension; that said Pension was paid to him by the Agent of the United States for paying Pensions in the city of Al- bany in said State. That the Declaration and papers on which said Pension was allowed as aforesaid (if they are not now) were on file in the office of the Secretary of War or in the office of the Commissioner of Pensions If said papers are in existence and on file , this Declar- ant would refer to the same as a part of her application; that she has been lately in- formed that said Declaration and other papers (if any) of said Roswell Woodworth so on file as aforesaid were probably burned when the War office was destroyed by fire in the year 1814. That this Declarant is wholly unable now to prove all or many of the facts contained in said Declaration & papers from lapse of time, death of witnesses and

other caused. This Declarant would respectfully refer the Commission of Pensions to the name of said Roswell Woodworth now, & at the time of his death, upon the New York Invalid List of Pensioners as sufficient proof of all the facts which were required to be proved by said Roswell Woodworth to obtain his Pension. That this Declarant does not believe that she can now in any way prove the services of said Woodworth in the Revolutionary War or the length of time he so served for the reasons aforesaid. She further declares that she was married to the said Roswell Woodworth at the Town of Canaan in said county at the house of Mr John P. Peabody on the Eighteenth day of November in the Year One Thousand Eight Hundred and Eighteen by the Rev. Silas Church then and now a Minister of the Gospel of the Presbyterian denomination and now a resident of the Town of New Salem in said county.
That Roswell Woodworth her said husband died on the 31 st day of July in the Year Eighteen Hundred and forty seven; that he died at the Town of New Salem where he then and for many years previous thereto, resided; that she was not married to him prior to the second day of January in the Year Eighteen Hundred but at the time above stated. She further declares that

She is now and has been, since the death of her said husband a Widow. She further declares that said Russell Woodworth was, as she believes Eighty four years of age at the time of his death.
Signed in presence of Celia his X Woodworth mark David Pelland Attorney of Plaintiff D. M. D. A. C.
Sworn and subscribed on the day and year first above written before me And I hereby certify that Mrs Celia Woodworth the Declarant in the above Declaration named is unable by reason of bodily infirmity to attend Court And I further certify that I know the said Celia the person who signed the above Declaration to be the same person therein mentioned And that the above Declaration was read over and explained to said Celia before the same was signed by her, which was done by her making her mark as above in my presence. I further certify that the facts in this certificate above situated are within my personal knowledge.
W. H. Hogeboom County Judge Col. Co. New York.

State of New York County of Nassau County of Columbia ss Sarah Pollard being duly sworn deposes & says that she re- sides in the Town of New Salem in said County That she will know the said Roswell Woodworth in said Declaration mentioned that she will know Mrs Celia Woodworth also therein named that Respondent signed her name to the annex- ed Declaration of Mrs Celia Woodworth as attesting witness that she knows that said Roswell Woodworth died sometime in the year 1847 that she knows the said Celia Woodworth whom Respondent saw sign the said Declaration to be the Will of said Roswell Woodworth & knows that she is the identical person described & men- tioned in said Declaration & who executed the same Sarah Pollard
Subscribed & sworn to before me this 24 th day of Augt 1853. And I certify that said Sarah Pollard is a credible witness within my personal knowledge R. T. Hoagboom
County Judge Col. Co. N. Y.

State of New York } ss County of Columbia } ss Amanda Brown being duly sworn says that she resides at the town of Lee, Berkshire Co Massachusetts
That she well knew the said Roswell Woodworth in the annexed Declaration mentioned That she well knows the said Celia Woodworth also therein named That Deponent signed her name to the annexed Declaration of Mrs Celia Wood- worth as attesting Witness at the same time at which the said Celia signed the same, That she knows that said Ros- well Woodworth died sometime during the Year 1847 That she knows said Celia who signed the said Declaration to be the Widow of said Roswell Woodworth & to be the identical person mentioned & referred to in said Declaration & who executed the same
Amanda S. Brown
Subscribed & sworn to before me On this 24 th day of Aug 1853 And I certify that said Amanda S. Brown is a credible witness within my personal knowledge H. A. Hogeboom County Judge Columbia N.Y.

State of New York County of Columbia ss Charles M c Hale being duly sworn says that he resides at 129 Hudson St in the City of New York that he well knows Mrs Celia Wood- worth the person who signed the annexed Declaration that he well knows her to be the same person mentioned in & referred to in said Declaration that he knows said Celia Wood- worth to be the Widow of Ros- well Woodworth their names and he well knows said Roswell Woodworth in his life time & that said Roswell died according to his best recollection about six years ago that Deponent then signed said Declaration of said Celia as an attesting witness at the same time at which the same was signed by said Celia Woodworth
Subscribed & sworn to Charles M c Hale before me this 24 th day of Aug 1853 & De- ponent said Charles M c Hale is a credible witness within my personal knowledge B. T. Hogeboom County Judge Col. Co. N.Y.

State of New York } County of Columbia }
Silas Churchill of New Lebanon in said County being duly sworn deposes and says that he is and has been for the last forty years a Minister of the Gospel of the Presbyterian Denomination and a Resident of the said Town of New Lebanon in said County
That Deponent well knew Mr Roswell Woodworth now deceased, referred to and mentioned in the annexed Declaration of Mrs Belia Woodworth, that Deponent also knows and is well acquainted with Mrs Belia Woodworth the person making said Declaration. That the name of said Belia previous to her marriage was Belia Chapin That the said Roswell Woodworth and said Belia Chapin were, on the Eighteenth day of November in the Year Eighteen Hundred and Eighteen, duly united by this Deponent in marriage according to the forms and ceremonies of the Presbyterian Church, that such marriage took place at the residence of Mr J. P. Pebody
in the Town of Canaan in said County That this Deponent keeps books of Record of the Marriages solemnized by him, that in one of such Books there is a record of the said marriage, of which record or entry in said Book the following is a true copy:
"1818" "Nov 18 at" } $2.00" J. P. Pebody's to Belia Chapin both of Canaan gave certificate

And Deponent says that said Roswell Woodworth resided at the time of his death and for many years previous thereto at the Town of New Salem and that said Roswell Woodworth died at said Town according to Deponent's recollection and belief about six years ago. And Deponent says that he knows Mers Celia Woodworth, to be the Widow the person making the annexed Declaration, and mentioned, and referred to therein, to be the Widow of the said Roswell Widow Woodworth.
his Silas H. Churchill
marks In presence of - M. S. Hogeboom
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 24 th day of August 1853 whom I cer- tify to be a credible witness within my personal
knowledge. Said affidavit was read by him before signing. M. S. Hogeboom
County Judge
Col. Co. Mass.

{ State of New York Columbia County Clerk's office.
I, David C. Keefus County Clerk of the County of Columbia State of New- York hereby certify that John T. Hogeboom is, and was on the 24 th day of August 1853, County Judge of the County of Columbia, and as such County Judge is authorized to hold the County Court of said County which Court is a Court of Record and of which Court said Hogeboom is the first or chief Judge. I further certify that I am well acquainted with the handwri- ting of said Hogeboom, that the signature purporting to be the signature of said John T. Hogeboom appended to the certificate which immediately follows the foregoing Pension De- claration of Belia Woodworth is in the hand- writing of said Hogeboom and is genuine; and that the signatures attached to the jurats of the foregoing affidavits (being four in number) pur- porting to be the signatures of said Hogeboom, are in his hand writing and are genuine
In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed to this certificate the Seal of said County Court
at the City of Hudson in said County this 26 th day of August in the Year of our Lord 1853.
David C. Keefus Clerk

Rev.War Section.
mmcx June 3, 1922
Prof. Jay Backus Woodworth Geological Museum Oxford Street Cambridge, Massachusetts
Sir:
In response to your letter dated the 30" ultimo, you are advised that it appears from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, R. File No. 11,846, that Roswell Woodworth was born in 1764, place not stated, and enlisted in 1780 as a Private in Captain Levi Ely's Company, Colonel Brown's Massachusetts Regiment, and was wounded in the left arm in the battle of Stone Arabia, for which disability he was pensioned from January 25, 1788.
He married November 18, 1818, at Canaan, Columbia County, New York, Celia Chapin (born in 1774) and died July 31, 1847, at New Lebanon, New York. It is stated that soldier's father lived at Blandford, Massachusetts in 1781, his name is not given, and there is no other data on file as to his family.
Very respectfully,
Commissioner.

Cambridge
Oct 17 th / 53

Pension Office Oct 17-1853
214
Sir
The husband of Mrs. Celia Woodworth was an invalid pensioner, and his term of military service two months and twenty one days.
The widow is entitled to that pension, only, which her husband might receive if, now, living, under existing pension laws. By the decision of this office "invalid pension laws" are not the existing pension laws referred to in the act of July 29, 1848 and therefore the widows of invalid pensioners, can receive nothing by virtue thereof. Neither would the husband if now, living be entitled to the benefits of any of the general pension laws in force, by reason of the shortness of his term of service. The claim of Celia Woodworth is therefore rejected. Respectfully &c
Chas. M. Hall No 44. Nassau Street New York City
for

1917 Sept. 29 Hist. Lt. Mr. Oscar Rector. 1922 June 3. - Kick To Jay Backus Woodworth. mnr.
REJECTED
11,846
P. O. Celia Woodworth
Service: Widow Roswell Woodworth
Enlisted: _____, 18 .
Discharged: _____, 18 .
Application filed: _____, 18 .
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18 .

New Orleans 19 Feby.
Free
James Monroe President city of Washington
Mr Edw. Edw. new Orleans
Recd 26 Mar. 1824

Mr James Monroe president of the United States I write this Letter to you wishing for your good will 2 days past I sent a petition again to Congress for the same Back pension that is my just due I was wounded in the revolution the 19 th of october 1780 the Ball Brook my Left arm in to Bone twenty pieces near the shoulder joint when colonel Brown was killed att Stone Koby mohawk river I was caryed to the hospital at albany and had to stay eight month before I was able to go home in the cane of gen rocter townsend I heard died in Boston since I was put on the pension List the 25 th of jannuary 1788 att two dollars pr month and four dollars was my just due for 28 years the 23 of march 1808 it was raised to five dollars gen gansevoort was displeased at something when I was put on perhaps I lost that two dollars a month that way and I wish the congress to make that up to me two dollars a month 28 years is $672 and some interest when this petition is red I wish you to remember me for good it is directed to the chairman of revolutionary claims not noing his name as evidence I sent mr John whea then chairman near two years past a certificate from the major that was in the battle with me he certifies that my arm was broken all to pieces near the shoulder joint and the surgeons certificate went with it that was in the action with us in this petition I sent a certify from two physicians as to my disability which was sworn the 3 day of last sep and because it was one day too soon it was sent back I had it so sent it a long as evidence and near two years ago their was made a long report on a petition I then sent please to call all up that is in my favour
New Lebanon february 19 th 1824
Prospect Woodworth

The 18 th of march 1822 I sent the first certificate I had from our major to Mr John Rhea chairman and the 20 th sent and got another the following is a copy I the subscriber do hereby certify that Maxwell Woodworth was in the action at Stone Hobby in the revolution on the 19 th day of october 1780 at the time Col Brown was killed and I also certify that the said Woodworth recieved a wound in his Left arm near the shoulder at that time which shattered it severely and I further more certify he was a soldier in Capt Levi Ely's company and that I was then major of the Regiment and was in the same action and was personally knowing to the above named circumstances
Col Oliver Root
Pitts field march 20 th 1822
H t Oliver G Root Calvin Carpenter
I wish all the Congress to afford me their good will

New-York City Oct 17, 53
To the Commissioner of Pensions
Dear Sir,
Will you have the goodness to inform me whether you have allowed the claim of Mrs Peline Woodworth to a Pension? I sent you her papers about 6 or 7 weeks ago, & have heard nothing with regard to it since.
Please inform me & gratly oblige Yours Resptly Chas M. Hall.

New York Dec 17, 53
L. P. Waldo Esq
Comm r of Pensions,
Dr Sir,
Yours was rec d .
It was with regard to your decision on the application of Mrs Celia Woodworth, Widow of Roswell Woodworth dec d for allowance of a Pension, I wrote to the Sec'y of the Interior. The decision rejecting claim was made by you sometime in Oct last I believe
Resptly. Yours
C. M. Hall

✓ Chas. M. Hall New York Dec 28, 1853
Appeals from the decision of the Comm. of Revisions in the case of Mrs. Belia Woodworth.
Respectfully referred to The Comm. of Pensions for a Report.
Dept. Int. 5 Jan 3/54 H. A. Olcutt Clerk.
Geddes Jan 4/54
Postscript 2 Jan 1854

New York Dec 28/53
To Sec'y of the Interior
Dr Sir,
On the 17 th Oct last I rec'd a letter from the Court of Pensions a copy of which I enclose. It contained his decision rejecting the claim of Mrs Celia Woodworth Widow of Roswell Woodworth for a Pension. Mr R. in his life time & during many years rec'd a pension of $96. per year. The papers upon which his application for a Pension was allowed it seems were burned when the War office was destroyed by fire. I always supposed that no Rev. Soldier could obtain a Pension unless he proved a service of at least 6 Mths. And I think his papers must have shown that fact. Now & why the Court says that the "term of Mr W's Military service" was only "Two Months & twenty one days" I am at a loss to know, because I conceive that if that was so, he could not have obtained the allowance of a Pension in the first place. Even if Mr W's pension had been wrongly granted , I submit that the Court had no right to go behind the allowance of a pension to him & reject claim of widow upon that account .

I had supposed that if Mr W. was alive to day that he would be entitled to receive the same pension he did receive.
How is it that the Government can one day grant a Pension, & the next day claim that he is not entitled to it. but for the reason that he did not serve long enough? I do not think it was is possible that Mr W's term of service was only 2 Mo's 21 ds. - Until his death I had known him all my life. He was a man whose word could not be gainsayed. His assertions as to his term of service have always been shown a much longer time than 6 Mo's. I do not understand the doctrine as held by the Com r (as stated in his letter) that "Invalid pension Laws" are not the existing pension Laws referred to re. The Pension Laws are so intricate & involved that that their provisions are hardly understandable by any one I do not profess to understand them but by the plain reading of the Invalid Laws the Act of 29 th July 48 & Act of Feb 3 rd 53 it seems to me that the widow in this case ought to be entitled. I know it to be a highly meritorious case both

as regards the services of the deceased & his widow.
May I hope that this case will receive your careful attention.
I am Respectfully Yours
Chas M. Hall
P.S. Not having the letter of the Court to me, alluded to above, I do not enclose a copy, I suppose you have the Court's decision & the grounds thereof before you C.M.H.

No 35471
Roswell Woodworth
New York
let to W H Clark. Mar 1878/3-
Act 7 June 1852

✓ New York Dec 3 rd 1833
Chas. M. Hall,
appeals from the decision of the Commissioner of Pensions.
✓ Respectfully referred to the Commr of Pensions for a Report
Dept of War Dec 8/33
A. H. White Actg Clk
Transmit info as an appeal & so inform him
Bristol 5 Dec 1833

To Secy of Interior, New York Dec 3/53
Dr Sir,
Will you have the goodness to inform me whether an appeal lies to you from the decision of the Commissioner of Pensions rejecting a claim for a Pension?
I have understood that there was such a right of appeal
If this is so, will you have the goodness to inform me of the "modus operandi" & within what time appeal must be taken, if the time is limited
The Com r has lately made a decision which I consider to be against law & equity, but I do not know what remedy we have unless on appeal to you
Respectfully Yours Chas M. Hall

Department of the Interior Washington Jan'y 14 th 1854
Sir:
Your decision in the case of Celia Woodworth, widow of Russell Woodworth, a claimant for a Pension under the Act of February 3 rd 1853, has been affirmed, and the papers accompanying the report are herewith returned to your Office.
I am, respectfully, Your Obedient Servant
Robert Bell Secretary
Hon: L. P. Waldo Commr of Pensions }

July 13/84

Pension Office January 13/54
Sir,
The appeal, taken by you, in the case of Mrs. Celia Woodworth who is was a widow of an invalid pensioner and claimant for the benefit of the act of Congress passed February 3 1833; has been decided, by the secretary of the Interior, and the judgement of this office affirmed.
Very Respectfully Yours, &c. &c.
Charles M Hall Esq, 44 Nassau St. City of N York.

(copy)
Pension Office
Oct. 17. 1853
Sir
The husband of Mrs. Celia Woodworth was an invalid pensioner, and his term of military service two months and twenty one days.
The widow is entitled to that pension, only, which her husband might receive if, now, living, under existing pension laws. By the decision of this office "invalid pension laws" are not the existing pension laws referred to in the act of July 29. 1848 and therefore the widows of invalid pensioners, can receive nothing by virtue thereof. Neither would the husband if now living be entitled to the benefit of any of the general pension laws in force, by reason of the shortness

of his term of service. The claim of Celia Woodworth is therefore rejected.
Respectfully &c
Chas. M. Hall
No. 44 Nassau Street for N. York City

New York City 44 Nassau St. Sept 5 th 1853
To the Commission of Pensions,
As Attorney & Agent of Mrs. Celia Woodworth of New Salem Columbia Co. N.Y. I herewith enclose you her Declaration with accompanying affidavits in the matter of her claim for a Pension. I have endeavored to have the papers conform in all respects to the regulations of the Department & hope & trust that there is nothing to prevent its allowance by you. If the same is allowed please inform me at your earliest conven- ience. Whatever paper or certificate is usually sent on Pension being gran- ted you can send same to me here
Respectfully Yours
Chas. M. Hall

Mar 2 '43
ny
82 Wood St. ori Greenwich
Pension Office.
Genl. S. Edwards,
Comt. of Pensions, Washington.

Hudson New York, February 27 th 1843.
Sir,
Enclosed is the Application of Roswell Woodworth, an invalid Pensioner of the United States.
It is for a pension under act of 7 th June 1832 and 19 th February 1833.
Mr. Woodworth states 3 months service before he was wounded and 8 months confinement in the Hospital at Albany by that wound.
His former papers will I presume show the length of time he was in the Hospital. He thinks his discharge from the Hospital was handed Genl. Em. Brooks & Gansvoort. and it may be on file with his other papers. As the records may state the time of his confinement in Hospital.
It is presumed that the time he was confined to the Hospital by his wound is available, for the purpose of getting a pension.
If so he is entitled to a pension for Eleven months service.
Respectfully yours
Wheeler, H. Clarke.
Hon. Jas. L. Edwards.

Reg. 11,846.

Sept. 26. 33 New B. Orly
Sir
I merely write this anonymous letter to put you on your guard & to induce you to set on foot some enquires to detect our fraudulent impostor. Roswell Woodworth of New Lebanon Columbia County N.Y. has lately obtained a certificate from physician that his disability is total (wound in the shoulder) whilst both arms are as & he able to labor and appearance no incongruous relation from the wound he is perfectly cured of it. He tarry for six months in this place to get a certificate & could not obtain it, he is perfectly independent sound & healthy — John Bull I understand (the Revolutionary personage) has lately forwarded a schedule what it contains I know not, but I know he rides after a horse for which in their hard times as they are called) he paid one hundred and thirty dollars, and owns a handsome pleasure waggon or so or thereabouts things do not look like mending further or poor old charity, it is also doubted whether he some mind under his commission, but was most of the time a sutler. —
You must be aware that but few people are willing to volunteer in service against their neighbors, and on the amount I give you the information in this anonymous way, hoping that such in your will be set on foot as may result in the exposure of iniquity, & the furtherance of public justice, every attempt of Congress to correct abuses, seems to be rendered nugatory by corruption & falsehood.
Sidney
New Lebanon 12 June 1820

New York
Roswell Woodworth Jno.
In the army U. States Inscribed on the roll of New York. at $2 per mo. increased to $5 per mo. by Law of 25. of April, 1808 & further increased to $8 per mo. by Law of 24. of April, 1816.
Cert. ip o 4. March, 1820 & del o to Hon: Henry Shaw, House of Reps. U.S.
let to W H Clarke Mar 15 1848

Hon. John  Shaw The Secretary of War Washington

New Lebanon 12 Feb. 1820
Sir
At the request of Mr. Woodworth I take the liberty to state that by a late regulation of the Treasury department or loan office no pensioner can draw his pension without having in his possession the original pension certificate, I am assured further to state that he has never had in his possession any certificate from the War Department nor does he know that one was ever issued, the only document in his possession is the enclosed copy of the original certificate of Miss Len Brook - an parchment, furnished her - he thinks by Mr. Fairley of N York - he has always drawn his pension till last fall under these circumstances he is assured that a new certificate may be issued to him from the War Department
The Hon ble The Secy of War
I am Sir with due respect
Your hum ble Servt
E. Dyer
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Let to Chas. McNeill Jan 13/54
Sept 6, 1853.
Appel ofelia Woodworth, widow of Rev. Rev. Woodworth, 1853 Columbia co., Renss. N.Y.
Oct. 1853.
Commission of Rev. Chas. McNeill
Rev. Chas. McNeill, 44 Nassau St., City of New York.

No 3884
Celia Woodworth of Russell Let to Cha m Hall Oct 17 - 1853 Gray
" same Jan 13/54
118 H6

Department of the Interior. OFFICIAL BUSINESS
The Hon L. P. Waldo Commr of Pensions C.C.

My Mother Lucia Woodworth
Lucia Woodworth
FREE N.Y. REC'D P Waldo Comm. of Pensions Washington D.C.

Rev Sec Kenosha Wis Sept 23-1917 H
Officer of Pension Dept
Dear Sir
I am a Great Grandson of Rozuel Woodworth who was a pensioner of the Revolutionary War.
Served as private in Capt Levi Ely's Co in the regiment of Massachusetts Levies & was granted pension for wound in left arm. I desire a copy of all records on file in Pension Dept. in reference to said person. will you kindly look them out and mail to my humble servant and member of G A R.
Commanded by Col. Brown
Oscar Rector
596 S Newell St
Kenosha Wis
P S The name Rozuel is in some places spelled Roswell.
O Rector

HARVARD UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY AND GEOGRAPHY GEOLOGICAL MUSEUM
OXFORD STREET CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS
June 5th, 1922.
Hon. Washington, Gardner, Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D.C.
Sir:
I thank you for your courtesy in making for me so full an abstract of the pension papers(R.File No. 11846) relating to Roswell Woodworth, last of New Lebanon, N.Y.
Roswell Woodworth of the above named place is evidently the person of that name referred to in American State Papers, volume on "Claims," where in he states that he is the son of Nathaniel Woodworth, a soldier in the French and Indian war.
Very respectfully,
J. B. Woodworth Jay Backus Woodworth.
(Rev) old War Widow. Rejected.

HARVARD UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY AND GEOGRAPHY GEOLOGICAL MUSEUM
OXFORD STREET CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS
May 30, 1922.
Hon. Washington Gardner, Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D.C.
Sir:-
I want to thank you for your informing letter to Hon. F.W. Dallinger, Congressman from Massachusetts, giving me accurate information concerning WILLIAM WOODRUFF m Ruth Gridley 1788 in Bristol, Conn. I learn from Town Clerk of Farmington, Conn. that said William Woodruff is recorded as "William son Joshua born Nov. 9, 1760", all of which accords with his records in your office, proving that the publication of his name as William Woodworth is a typographical error. This error was reproduced in Wm. Atwater Woodworth's "Descendants of Walter Woodworth of Scituate", 1898, among the list of Connecticut soldiers in the Revolutionary War, the source of my interest in the record.
Of my family from Suffield, Conn. and Groton, Conn., there was a Nathaniel Woodworth b 1734 who had a son Roswell Woodworth said to have been at Lebanon, N.Y. in 1817. I beg leave to inquire if he have any records in the Bureau and if so the fee for photostat copies of same. I refer to Roswell Woodworth who seems to have lived in Vermont up to 1816 and to have been a soldier in the Revolution.
I have the honor to be
Very respectfully yours,
(Professor)
J. B. Woodworth Jay Backus Woodworth.

V.L.M. Rev. War Section.
September 29, 1917.
Mr. Oscar Rector, 576 S. Newell Street, Kenosha, Wisconsin.
Sir:
so will In response to your letter dated the 23 rd instant, you are advised that it appears from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, R. File No. 11,846, that Roswell Woodworth was born in 1764, place not stated, and enlisted in 1780 as a Private in Captain Levi Ely's Company, Colonel Brown's Massachusetts Regiment, and was wounded in the left arm in the battle of Stone Arabia, for which disability he was pensioned from January 25, 1788.
He married November 18, 1818, at Canaan, Columbia County, New York, Celia Chapin ( born in 1774 ) and died July 31, 1847, at New Lebanon, New York. It is stated that soldier's father lived at Blandford, Massachusetts in 1781, his name is not given, and there is no other data on file as to his family.
Very respectfully,
J. M. [unclear] Commissioner.