Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 11,851, Austin Woolley, New York

SERVICE
NUMBER
New York
Woolley, Austin or Wolley,
R. 11,851
Margaret
CONTENTS

14860
New York
Austin Wolley
Owaseo in the State of New York who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Wheeler of the Regt commanded by Col Baecher in the New York line for 19 months & 20 days
scribed on the Roll of New York the rate of 65 Dollars 53 Cents per annum, to commence on the 14th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 22 day of July 1833 and sent A Gould Auburn NY
Arrears to the 14th of Mar '33 - $131 06 Semi-ant. allowance ending 4 Sept '33 32 76
$163. 82
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Gno Cromwell Clerk.
Book E Vol. 4 Page 38

Austin Woolly
Oct. 5. 1)
adm. 2
P. 318
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A. Gould Esq. Auburn, N.Y.

BRIEF in the case of Austin Whalley  of Cayuga Co in the State of New York  (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? in court  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  3. How old is he? 72 years  4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed. 
   Period. Duration of Service. Rank. Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.   Years, Months, Days.     April In 1776 3 As a Private Gen. Capt Wheeler Col. Burcham   May 1777 4 " Capt Wheeler Col. Burcham   April 1778 6 " Col. Viel Col. Burcham   April 1779 4 20 " Col. Viel Col. Burcham  
 5. In what battles was he engaged? None  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? at Shipp 6: NYork  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Traditionary  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? Correct 
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
Richard Lott  Examining Clerk.

Austin Wolley  3
11739
undefined service under alarm dis- allowed
19 mo. 20 ds pri

State of New York
Cayuga County ss Personally appeared before me the undersigned a justice of the peace in & for said County Austin Woolley who being duly sworn deposes and says 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 he served not less than the period mentioned below and in the following grade For one year & ten months and twenty days I served as a private soldier - three months of which time I am not able to state when & where said services were performed. I was born in the County of Dutchess & State of New York AD 1750 and have a record of my age now in my possession. When called into the service I was living in the County of Dutchess aforesaid & now live in the town of Owasco & County of Cayuga. I further declare that I served during the whole time as a volunteer
Austin Woolley
Sworn & Subscribed the Eleventh day of April 1833 before me Cornelius Cuykendall Justice of the peace
I certify that the said Austin Woolley is a man of truth and veracity and that his statement above is, in my opinion entitled to credit - Cornelius Cuykendall Justice
State of New York

Cayuga County ss I Michael S Myers Clerk of said county do certify that Cornelius Cuy- kendall before whom the foregoing af- fidavit was made was on the day of the date of the same a justice of the peace in & for said County - that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of said justice and believe his signature to the said affidavit to be genuine Witness my hand and seal of office the 13 th day of April 1833
M. S. Myers Clerk

State of New-York.
Cayuga COUNTY, ss.
On this 25 th day of September A. D. 1832 personally appeared in open Court, before the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Cayuga and state of New-York, now sitting, Austin Wolley a resident of Oswego in the County of Cayuga and State of New-York, aged 72 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 act of Congress, passed June 7th, 1832: — That about the first of April A D 1776 at the town of Beekman, in the County of Dutchess and State of New-York he entered the service of the United States as a volunteer in the company commanded by Captain Valentine E. Whulock, Lieutenant Luke Wolcott, and William Wolcott ensign in Col Benjamin Benjamin's Regiment of militia that he marched with said company to Fort Montgomery on the Hudson River where he was stationed a term of five months, that he was engaged during said term in building and repairing the fortifications at said fort and in scouting through the surrounding country, that he was at that place when the British troops entered New-York, that at the expiration of said term of five months he was discharged & returned home. He further declares that about the first of May A D 1777 at the town of Beekman aforesaid he again entered said service as a volunteer in the same company and Regiment and under the same officers, that he marched with said company to Fort Montgomery aforesaid where he was stationed a term of four months when he was taken sick and was discharged and suffered to go home on furlough, that he did not return again to said service during that year.
He further declares that in the month of April A D 1778 he again entered said service as a volunteer at the town aforesaid in the Company of militia commanded by Captain Israel Neal, Lieutenant Samuel Curtis, and Isaac Neal Ensign in the Regiment

commanded by Colonel Benjamin Bencham aforesaid that he marched with said company to West Point where he was stationed a term of six months when he was discharged and returned home He further declares that in the month of April AD 1779 he was detached from the company of Captain Valentine Whelen aforesaid and entered said service in the company of Captain Israel Vial aforesaid in Col Benjamin Bencham's Reg- iment, that he marched with said company to West Point where he was stationed four months and twenty days when he was discharged upon furlough in consequence of a lameness received of his foot and ankle. He further declares that from the year 1779 to the year 1783 he was frequently called into said service in cases of alarm, that he is unable to state the number of times or the length of each time, but from his best recollection he thinks that said services were not less than three months - that whilst in said service he saw and knew the following named officers. Gen Knapp, Gen Washington, Gen La Fayette, Gen Arnold & others. that he never received a regular written dis- charge from said service, that he has not the proof of any living witness to said services and has not been able to procure any
He hereby relinquishes all claim whatever to a pension except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any state or territory Sworn & subscribed the day & year aforesaid - Austin Woolley

Asahel Fitch judge
We, Israel Hammond a clergyman residing in Owasco in the County of Cayuga and Elijah Drove residing in the same town do hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Austin Wolley who has subscribed and sworn to the preceding declaration; that we believe him to be 72 years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighbourhood where he resides, to have been a Soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion. Sworn, and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid.
Israel Hammond
Asahel Fitch judge Elijah Drove
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them, that Israel Hammond who has signed the preceding certificate, is a clergyman resident in Owasco and Elijah Drove who has also signed the same, is a resident in Owasco and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
Asahel Fitch judge
I, Michael S. Myers — Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Cayuga and State of New-York, do hereby certify, that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Austin Wolley for a pension.
Witness my hand and the seal of said Court the 25 th day of September A.D. 1832
M. S. Myers

State of New York Cayuga County ss
I Michael S Myers Clerk of said County do certify that Cornelius Cuy- kendall before whom the foregoing af- fidavit was made was on the day of the date of the same a justice of the peace in & for said County - that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of said justice and believe his signature to the said affidavit to be genuine Witness my hand and seal of office the 13 th day of April 1833
M. S. Myers Clerk

V1334
Margaret Woolley widow of Austin Woolley Oct. 1836
Agent D Gould Subm NY
11851

State of New York Onondaga County ss Personally came before me Sam l W. Merrill a justice of the Peace of said County John B. Wheeler a Resident of Fabius in said County and on his being duly sworn deposes and saith that he is the Brother of Margaret Woolley the widow of Austin Woolley late of the Town of Oswego in the County of Onondaga Deceased I was present at the time of her marriage to Austin Woolley and that she was the only wife that Austin Woolley ever had they were Married at the Town of Dover in the County of Dutchess & State of New York thinks they were Married by Elder Walden Preacher of that Parish at the time they were Married in the Winter of Seventeen Hundred and Eighty Austin Woolley said then that he was in the 1780 South of the United States and he was at the time Reported to be a soldier and deponent further saith that he is now in the Twenty First Year of his age and that he has been acquainted with Austin Woolley from the time of his Marriage up to the time of his Death and further saith not John B. Wheeler Subscribed and sworn before me at } Fabius this 31 st Day of January 1857 } Sam l W. Merrill Justice Peace
Onondaga County } this may certify that I have Town of Fabius ss } been personally acquainted with John B. Wheeler for this six years past and that from said acquaintance I have no hesitation in saying that he is a man of a good Moral Character of Truth and veracity Sam l W. Merrill Justice Peace
of our sister Mary

State of New York Onondaga County Clerk's Office
I, Cornelius Younglove Deputy Clerk of the said County do certify that Samuel W. Merrill, before whom the within Affidavit purports to have been sworn was at the date of the same one of the Justices of the Peace in & for the said County, duly Elected and qualified and that I am acquainted with his hand- writing and verily believe his name subscribed to the jurat of said affidavit to be his proper handwriting and signature. Witness my hand and Seal of Office, at Syracuse, this 8 th day of February in the year 1837
C. Younglove Dep. Clerk.
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He 0 State of New York Cayuga County ss On this sixth day of February 1837 personally appeared before me Joseph L Richardson First Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Cayuga County being a court of Record Margaret Woolley of Seneca in said County aged Seventy six years who being duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed July 4 th 1836. That she is the widow of Austin Woolley late of the town of Owasco in said County of Cayuga now deceased and still continues his widow. That the said Austin Woolley died at Owasco aforesaid on or about the twentieth day of June 1833. That she was married to the said Austin Woolley in January or day of February 1800. By a clergyman named Walder as she believes at the town of Dover in the County of Dutchess in the State of New York and continued to reside with him as his wife until the time of his decease as aforesaid.
She further says that she has no record evidence of said marriage and knows of no source from whence it can be obtained. That she knows nothing of the officiating clergymen who performed said marriage ceremony. She has not heard from him for a great many years, she presumes from his age that he is not now living and she has never obtained a certificate of said marriage from him or any other person and has no evidence of the kind of said marriage & is unable to obtain any as she believes. She further says that previous to the death of said Austin Woolley

He had made application for a pension under the act of June 7 th 1832. That said claim was allowed but not in time for him to draw any money before his death & she the said Margaret as his widow applied for & obtained the amount due him at the time of his decease.
She further says that she is unable to state & set forth his different tours of service & refers to his papers now on the files of the pension office as evidence of the same and she asks that the pension granted to said Austin Woolly under the act of June 7 th 1832 may be continued to her as his widow.
From the day of year aforesaid } Margaret her  mark Woolly before me J. L. Richardson just Judge of Peace.
I certify that said Margaret Woolly is very aged & infirm & too much so to be able to attend court by reason of such age & bodily infirmity -
Dated February 1837 -
J. L. Richardson just Judge of Peace

State of New York Cayuga County } ss Amos Goulet of Auburn in said County being duly sworn says that he was acquainted with Austin Woolly mentioned in the accompanying petition. That he acted as the agent for said Austin Woolly in obtaining a pension under the act of June 7 th 1832
That said claim was allowed as deponent believes in the month of May or June 1833. That deponent received the said Woolly's pension certificate from the commission of pensions but when deponent went to the residence of said Woolly to inform him of the allowance of his claim & prepare his power of attorney to draw his money deponent learned that said Woolly was dead
Deponent further says that he also acted as the agent in obtaining for the widow of said Woolly the amount of pension money due him at death that he prepared the papers and obtained said money and that the said Margaret Woolly mentioned in the accompanying declaration is the same person who then applied for & obtained said money as such widow as deponent believes
And further deponent saith not Sworn this 14 th day of February 1837 before me } A Goulet
J. L. Richardson first judge of Cayuga
I certify my opinion that said Amos Goulet is a man of truth & veracity
J. L. Richardson first judge of Cayuga

State of New York Cayuga County ss I Michael S Myers Clerk of said County of the Court of Com- mon Pleas thereof do certify that Joseph L Richerson Esq before whom the foregoing declaration & affidavit were made and by whom the foregoing certificate was made was on the day of the date of the same first Judge of said Court
That I am well acquainted with the hand writing of said Judge & believe his signature to said declaration affi- -davit & certificate to be genuine
Witness my hand & seal of office the fourteenth day of February 1857
M. S. Myers

Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
11,857
P. O.
Austin Woolley
Service: _____
REJECTED
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

New York
Margaret Woolley widow of Austin Woolley
Suspended - Let to A Gould - March 9. 1837 to M. J. Bottom 11 N. 1866.
Act July 6. 1836

Ansver
10 Oct 90. N.Y.C.
Rev. J. C.
Mr. West
Washington
Hon. L. D. Edwards
Redbank N.Y. Oct. 26

Sir
Rep Creek W.G. Oct 26th 1836
Austin Woolley a Revolutionary pensioner of Cayuga Co New York died on the 24th day of June 1833 lying a widower who also died on the 6th day of Sept 1835 leaving children who now wish to claim the benefit of the arrears of pension due the deceased mother.
The oldest child was born according to the old family record in 1779 living at present he that he was in service after marriage, he pleads to inform me for the benefit of the children concerning Mr Woolley's service as claimed by him in his declaration.
Yr Obey Servt - Wm J. Bottom
Hon J. L. Edward Washington D.C.

Red Creek N.Y. Oct 26 th 1816
Sir
George Hollett was a revolutionary soldier & died in 1813 leaving Betsy Hollett his widow then living who was married to Noah Metherell in 1815 who also died on the 16 th day of May 1839 leaving the above named Betsy his widow who died on the 2 nd of the same month /39. leaving children by George Hollett her first husband, now I would inquire is this claim admissible under the act of July 1838 on account of the first husband serving or will it be liable to the restriction of the act of 16 th or 23 rd of August /42
The papers in the above case are made out & executed in part but it is thought advisable to delay further expense till an answer is rec d to this
Yrs Cby Supt W m J Bottner

22 Feb A Gould
Can
Margaret Woolley
At 4 July '36
Lucy
St. Joseph's

Margaret Woolley widow of Austin Woolley -
3d paper cut of June 7, 1837
Washington D.C. -
Court of pensions
Rev. J. L. Richards
FREE

State of New York Auburn Feb'y 16 1837
Sir
Enclosed I send the papers of Margaret Woolley for a pension under the act of July 4 1837
Will you please examine them & send the result to me
I think there can be no difficulty in the allowance of the claim provided her husband's papers show service after the marriage
Yours Very Respectfully,
A Gould
Hon J L Edwards