Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 17207, William G Woodworth, New York

SERVICE
New York
Woodworth, William G.
NUMBER
S. 17207
CONTENTS
carded

New York N o 24,927
William G. Woodworth Montgomery Co. in the State of N. York who was a Corp t & Sergt. in the _____ commanded by Captain _____ of the Reg t commanded by Col. Van Wirt in the N. York Troops time for 6 months & 27 days Corp t 25.30 3 " 8 " Sergt. 16.33 $41.63
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 41 Dollars 63 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 20 th day of March 1834 and sent to John W. Berry Johnstown, N. Y.
Arrears to the 4th of March 1834 124.89 Semi-ant. allowance ending Sept. " 20.81 $145.70
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by D. Brown Clerk, Book E. Vol. 4 Page 129

110 1/2 Grand total
Admitted
Sergeant 3 mo 28 day
Corporal 6 " 27
10 5
110 1/2 Grand total
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State of New York Montgomery County ss On the Seventeenth day of December 1833 personally appeared in open court before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of said County, now sitting William G Woodworth a resident of the town of Mayfield in said County and State aged Seventy five years, who being first duly sworn according to law, took on his oath make the following decla- ration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7. 1832. In the year 1777 in the Month of June as he now thinks the day of the month he cannot state when he went out from Cambridge then Albany County now Wash- ington to a place called Fort Edward and Fort Ann and Salina in the same County, that he drafted as a corporal under Capt John McRillap, Gershon Woodward 1st Lieutenant, George Gillman 2nd Lieutenant, Lieut Col John Blair Major James Ashton and he says he served under the above mentioned officers two months & 15 days and was then discharged, in the month of August. In the year 1777 in the same year as above stated sometime in the Month of August he again drafted  volunteered as a corporal and went out from Cambridge aforesaid to Salina Helion then called Scotch Patent and east town under Captain Joseph Wells 1st Lieutenant Gershon Woodward varient which company was then commanded by Col. Wells  Wells two months he was out at this time under the last mentioned officer In the year 1780 on the sixth day of March he drafted and went from Cambridge to a place called Skeneborough now White Hall, under Lieutenant William Powell Henry Loop design where he remained until the twenty first day of March and was then taken a prisoner by a party of Indians, one Tory and three Frenchmen containing in all about sixty in number, from thence he was taken a prisoner to Canada to a place called Caughnawaga and was taken from Caughnawaga to Montreal and there strictly confined in the Jail at that place, this was on the ninth day of April and on the twenty ninth day of the same month he broke Jail and ran away and on the eighteenth day of May he arrived home at Cambridge and was out from the sixth day of March to that time which

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is two months and twelve days. He says that he was robbed of every thing he had a rifle he paid thirty dollars for. It was very cold weather and that he suffered much at this time. And this deponent says that he has proven that he was a prisoner of war which are placed on file. He says that he was four days without eating any thing except barks and things he could catch about in the woods. Your applicant says that he thinks if Mr Edwards was placed in the same situation that he your applicant was he has has no doubt but he would get a pension. In the year 1780 after he returned from Canada in the months of May or June he went out from Cambridge to Lake George, Lake Champlain as a sergeant he drafted and went under Capt McCallums Lieut Gershon Woodworth belonging to Van Voorst Regiment for 21 days and was then discharged. In the same year in the month of October he went out under Capt Wells as a sergeant, commanded at that time by Col Payne and went from Cambridge aforesaid to Fort Edward 7 days: he drafted at this time. In the year 1781 he again went out as a volunteer under Captain James Morrison Burrough, belonging to Van Voorst Regiment and went from Cambridge aforesaid to Fort George and to Saratoga he was out at this time as a sergeant 14 days.
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In the years 1781 or 1782 which one of those two years he cannot state he was out under Lieutenant Turner as a volunteer sergeant and went from Cambridge to Skeneborough 7 days and the in one of those years he again went out as a sergeant volunteer under Lieut Gershon Woodworth to Skeneborough and was out 7 days at this time for which I claim In the year 1778 in the winter of that year he went out under Lieutenant Gershon Woodworth 21 days for which I claim a pension for the remaining particulars this deponent refers to his declaration now on file at your office and has written discharge.
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Williams G Woodworth
Sum in Open Court this 17th Decr 1833. Geo: D. Ferguson, Clerk.

State of New York Montgomery County
I, George D. Ferguson, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Montgomery aforesaid, do hereby certify by the direction of the said Court that William G. Wood- worth appeared in open Court before the Judges of the Court aforesaid, at the last December term thereof to wit, on the 17th day of December 1833, and subscribed & swore to the annexed affidavit or supplemental declaration And the said Court further directed me to certify that after putting the interrogatories presented by the War Department and after an investiga- tion of the matter, they are of opinion that the said William G. Woodworth served in the position as he stated.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of the said Court this 27th December 1833.
Geo: D. Ferguson,
Mr. Edwards: Will see by the above papers, that the Supplemental Affidavit has been made in open Court agreeable to your letter. The warrant he has not got as must be stated in his original declaration. If he had it you would have had it before this. I hope you will not reject a claim so worthy, on such slight and technical objections, for the want of a warrant when he has given you proof of his service by two witnesses Yours obedient Servant Geo W Berry

State of New York. } Montgomery County } S.S.
On this 19 th day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two, personally appeared in open Court now sitting before the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Montgomery, William G. Woodworth, a resident of the Town of Mayfield in the county, and State of New York, aged seventy three 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 7. 1832: That he entered the service of the United States, under the following named officers and served as herein stated: Your applicant, says that he drafted in the service of the United States in the month of May, the day of the month he does not recollect, in the year 1777, in a militia company commanded by Captain John McCallaps, Lieutenant Gersham Woodworth & George Gilmore Second Lieutenant, belonging to Lewis Van Warts Regiment Colonel, Lieutenant Colonel John Blair, Major James Ash & Ebenezer Allen, & adjutant John Younglove, that he went from Cambridge then in the County of Albany, but now Washington County, to Fort Edward in the same County and remained at the latter place until Burgoyne arrived at a place called Skene's Borough now White Hall; And that this regiment was sent by Gen Schuyler who was the General, from Fort Edward to Big White Creek, now called Salem, Situate in Washington County, State of New York and remained there about a month and then in consequence of Burgoyne coming in that section of the country, this Regiment dispersed for the purpose of seeing to their families. Your applicant says that he was discharged at this time on the fifteenth day of August, that he was out at this time a little more than three months: When he was discharged he went from White Creek to the Town of Tyringham, Berkshire County Massachusetts, about sixty miles from White Creek, that he went there with his Father's family, for the purpose of getting them out of the way of the Enemy, who was then at White Creek, laying waste the country and places lying adjacent to White Creek, he was out about a week in going and returning to the place above stated, and when he arrived at home again, he immediately, volunteered into the service of the United States, and went out under the same officers as above stated, except his captain, who was Captain
Col Van Wart
James

Joseph Wells. Your applicant says that he was in the habit of changing officers, during the season that he was out, after his return that he returned from Massachusetts. He was out in Scouting parties through Washington and Albany Counties, after his return as before stated and was out under Captain John Armstrong, Lieutenants Long & Turner; belonging to Colonel John Williams Regiment of Militia. Your applicant says that he was out in the manner above stated from the time he returned which was in August until a few days after the capture of Burgoyne, which capture was on the 17 th of Oct 1777. Your applicant says that he was out the last time at least two months. Your applicant says that he again in the Springs Summers Autumns of the years 1778 & 9 was out frequently on scouts, as a volunteer and in different and divers places in the County of Washington & Albany and was out, to put it on the lowest scale at least one month in each year. His officers when he went out at those different times , was generally a Lieutenant, or Serjeant and sometimes he took the command himself as a Serjeant.
Your applicant says that sometime in the winter of 1780, he drafted in the Militia Service and entered upon duty on the Seventh of March of that year, under Lieutenant William Powell, & Ensign Henry Loop, belonging to Lewis Van Warts Regiment, that he went from Cambridge Washington County, then Albany, to Skeneborough, now called White Hall where he remained until the twenty first of March, this was a company & not the regiment that went to there. On the twenty first day of March your applicant, together with James Dugal a commissary belonging to the United States Army, Henry Loop, Robert Thomas, David Seely, Janies Ketch, Ephraim Bury, William Gray, David Norton William Blower, Aaron Bump, John Simison and Lemuel Bartholomew, were taken prisoners by a party of Indians Tories and three Frenchmen and carried to the Lower part of Canada to a place called Oughnawaga, where he remained nine days and was then taken by the Indians and carried down to Montreal and there sold by an old Indian Squaw, to a British officer by the name of Colonel Campbell for a half joe. Your applicant was taken down to Montreal on the sixth day of April and on the ninth put in prison and on the twenty ninth broke out of jail and escaped from the place and came home on the eighteenth day of May.

Your applicant says that after he got back from Canada, that he again volunteered into the Militia Service, sometime either in the latter part of May or the first of June, under Captain Wells. Lieutenant Woodworth belonging to Lewis Van Warts Regiment and went from Cambridge aforesaid to Crown Point and was out he thinks about a fortnight at this time.
Your applicant says that he was out during the years 1780 & 81, after his return from Canada, as aforesaid frequently on scouts, over and through the country of Washington & Albany and served at least one month in each year. And your applicant says that he has no documentary evidence of his services & knows of no persons by whom he can prove all his services.
Your applicant says that he has served in all during the revolution more than ten months. Your applicant says that he was born in Tyringham Town, County of Berkshire State of Massachusetts on the 13th of October 1758. He has no other Record of his age except a paper upon which his father kept the Record of his family. Your applicant says that he resided when called into service in Cambridge Washington County & State of New York and has resided since the Revolution in Mayfield Montgomery County & State aforesaid.
He is acquainted with the following persons residing in his neighborhood who can testify as to his character for truth and veracity and their belief of his services as a soldier of the Revolution, to wit, Jeremiah Wood & Collins, odell
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares his name is not on the pension Roll of the agency of any state.
Sworn to, and Subscribed, the day and year aforesaid
In Open Court Geo: D. Ferguson Clerk      William J. Woodworth

We Jeremiah Wood a clergyman, residing in the town of Mayfield and Collins Odell residing in the same town hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with William G. Woodworth who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be seventy three 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 and subscribed to the day and year aforesaid
in Open Court Jeremiah Wood Collins Odell Geo: D. Ferguson Clerk
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states: And the court further certifies, that it appears to them that Jeremiah Wood who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman residing in the town of Mayfield and that Collins Odell who has also signed the same is a resident in the same town of Mayfield, and is a creditable person and that their statement is entitled to credit.
William G Woodworth the app
George D. Ferguson Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Montgomery County, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of William G. Woodworth for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal of Office this 19th September 1852
Geo: D. Ferguson

William G. Woodward's application
residence

Montgomery County SS.
Your Applicant personally appeared before the under signed a justice of the peace in & for said county, William G Woodworth who being duly sworn says that he served as follows In the year 1777 I served as stated in my declaration 6 months as a corporal In 1778 I served one month under Capt Gillman, in Col Van Warts Regiment as a sergeant. In 1779 I served under Joseph Wells belonging to Col Van Warts Reg one month as a sergeant. In the year 1780 I served 2 months & 11 days as a sergeant as stated as stated by me in my declaration In the years 1780 & 81 I served two months & 14 days under Capt Wells and under the officers last mentioned in his declaration as a sergeant for which I claim a pension
Sworn & Subscribed this 28 th day of July 1833
Before me Aaron Haring Jus. Pacis
William G Woodworth
State of New York
Montgomery County
Clerk's Office. I, George D. Ferguson Clerk of Montgomery County do hereby certify that Aaron Haring, Esq. before whom the above affidavit purports to have been sworn, was on the date thereof a Justice of the peace of the said County. And that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of said Justice & hereby believe that his name subscribed to said affidavit is genuine
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office this 29 th July 1833.
Geo. D. Ferguson

State of New York } County of Washington } ss Town of White Creek }
James McRae of the said town and county aforesaid being duly sworn before me the undersigned justice of the Peace of said county makes oath & says that in the month of March in the year Seventeen hundred & eighty this deponent & William G. Woodworth were called into the service of the United States as Militia men from Cambridge then Albany County & now Washington County where this deponent & said William G. Woodworth then both resided and in said month of March marched to a place then called Skene'sborough & now called Whitehall in said County of Washington at which place this deponent & said Woodworth were ordered to remain for one month & on the twenty first day of said month of March about twelve o'clock in the day while we were in our garrison we were alarmed by the cry that the Indians had just taken our Sargeant whose name was Henry Luke who then had the command of the garrison and our forces that were stationed in it consisting of about sixteen men this deponent William Woodworth & two others immediately started out to see what they could discover & very soon discovered a small party of Indians & while preparing to make shot at them we discovered a large party of Indians very near us from another quarter then we retreated to the garrison & before we could get into the main garrison we received a hot fire from the Indians which drove us to the river intending to cross over but the boat was not there finding the Indians very near us this deponent & William G. Woodworth & two others jumped into the water thinking to swim across at which time the Indians came on to the bank and fired at William G. Woodworth and the ball glanced across the top of his head so as to stun him and cut grazed the skin which this deponent saw as this deponent was in the water near the bank under the end of a log which projected out over the water so as not to be discovered by the Indians & this deponent further states that said William G. Woodworth was then taken by the Indians & carried by them into Canada as this deponent was then informed & firmly believes where he was kept prisoner by them as this deponent

was then informed and believes for about the term of two months at which time he with others broke the jail where they were confined and returned home as this deponent is informed & verily believes said jail was said to be in Montreal and further this deponent says that he was well acquainted with said William G. Waddis at the time above mentioned and in all has been acquainted with him for about fifty years & says that said William is a man of a good moral character and a man whose character stands fair and good for truth & veracity James McKee
Sworn to by the above James McKee Subscribed by him and before me this 8 th day of September A D 1832
Benjamin Crocker justice of the Peace And I the above named Benjamin Crocker do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with James McKee who subscribed to and sworn to the foregoing affidavit before me as above specified and that the said James McKee is a credible person & his statement is entitled to credit Given at White Creek this tenth day of July 1833
Benjamin Crocker late justice

State of New York Washington county ss.
I Joseph S. Leigh clerk of the said county do certify that Benjamin Brockman Esquire before whom the within affidavit purports to have been sworn was at the date of the same one of the Justices of the peace of the said county - and that I am acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe his name subscribed to the said af- fidavit to the certificate of credibility is the proper hand writing and signature of the said Justice - In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said county this 20. day of July 1833. J. S. Leigh C.R.

State of New York Saratoga County
On the Day of September 14 th 1839. Personally appeared before the Court of Common Pleas of the said County of Saratoga now sitting, Aaron Bump of the town of Galway in the said County of Saratoga, who being first duly sworn Deposeth and saith he was now some  not years of age on the sixth Day of July last, that in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty he resided in the town of White Creek then in the County of Albany, now the County of Washington in the state of New York, and in the four Part of March of said year one hundred and eighty, he and several others of the Militia of the said County of Albany, now the County of Washington were drafted to guard the frontier of the said state of New York he in the Month of March aforesaid left White Creek and marched by the way of Salem, Herkian, and Granville to Schenectady at the head of Lake Champlain where he entered the service in a Company of Militia under the Command of Lieutenant William Powell, and Ensign Henry Cook, there were no other troops at Schenectady or Gammelsford  at the time a Commissary thinks his name was Began, that on the twenty first or twenty second Day of March aforesaid, Ensign Henry Cook, William G. Woodworth the Orderly Sergeant of said Company, together with himself, David Sibley, Ephraim Bunker, William Gray, James Pitkin, William Blowers, David Norton, Robert Thomas and some five or six others, were taken Prisoners by a Party of Indians and Tories consisting of about sixty or seventy Indians three or four Canadians, and a party by the name of Joseph Brant, the Indians on the first night they were taken Prisoners separated the Prisoners and each Prisoner was guarded by a certain number of Indians so as to keep the Prisoners separate until they arrived at St. Johns in Canada, they all arrived at St. Johns about the same time when the Prisoners were Put in Prison, and the British Soldiers and Tories held a time of Rejoicing, the next morning the
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the Prisoners started with him and some others of the Prisoners for a Place called Caghnawaga and when they arrived at Caghnawaga he and one other Prisoner by the name of William Gray were stripped of their clothing Painted an Indian blanket tied round their bodies and a rope round their waists in that situation they were taken about sixty miles to an Indian town by the name of Kanawaga where he was a Prisoner with the Indians for about three months, he was then taken by the Indians to Montreal and confined in the Jail at Montreal where he was informed that Sergeant William G. Woodworth and William Blawens had broke Jail and made their escape, he was detained in Canada a Prisoner to the end of the war that he has never seen the said William G. Woodworth from the time he left him at the Prison in St Johns until about three or four years since when the said William G. Woodworth called at his Residence in Galway, and from the interview which he then had and the several interviews which he has since had with the said William G. Woodworth, & the several accounts which he gave of what took place at St Johns - and on the way to and at St Johns he is fully of the belief that William G. Woodworth who was as taken Prisoner with him at St Johnsborough as aforesaid, is the same William G. Woodworth, whose Indictment in order to obtain the the benefits of the act of Congress passed June the 4th 1832 - is herunto annexed
William G. Woodworth 30, 127
Sworn and subscribed to in open Court the Day and year aforesaid in open Court Sept. 5 th 1832
Aaron Burr 149 Supt
J. V. Berry Johnston
Thomas Palmer Clerk
Send answer to M c C. Berry
Johnston Mont County N.Y.

information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau. William G. Woodworth P.F. 17207
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     May or June 1777 Served Corpl & Sgt. John M'Killip Lewis Van Wart N.Y.   at various Joseph Wells John Williams   times 6 mos. John Armstrong Payne   and 27 days Gilmont   as Corpl Oct. 21, 1780 he was captured by Indians +   and 3 mos. Louis, taken to Montreal and imprisoned and escaped   + 8 days as Apr. 29th and returned home.   Sgt.  
Battles engaged in, _____
Residence of soldier at enlistment, then Albany Co. of New York Cambridge Washington Co. N.Y.
Date of application for pension, Sept. 19, 1832 His ct. was al.
Residence at date of application, Mayfield, Montgomery Co. N.Y.
Age at date of application, born at Tyringham Berkshire Co. Mass. Oct. 13, 1758
Remarks: _____

BUREAU OF PENSIONS
Finance Division
Aug 24 1921
Chief of Pen. War Section Sir:
As I have this day received from Russell P. Lewis draft No. Cash for $1 00 / 100 requesting post-office addresses as per letter herewith.
$1 00 / 100 returned to Mrs. Russell P. Lewis and Finance Div. notified P.L.M. Sept. 19. 1921.
Very respectfully,
O. J. Randall Chief of Division.

Rev. War Section Record Division.
September 19, 1921.
Mrs. Russell P. Twiss, Cambridge, N. Y.
Madam:
In response to your letter of the 26 th ultimo, you are advised that this Bureau is unable to furnish the history of a soldier of the Revolution unless a claim for pension or bounty land has been made on account of his services and a careful search of the records fails to show such a claim on file for Abraham Wright described by you.
You are herewith furnished the history of the Revolutionary War pensioner William G. Woodworth, S. File No. 17,207 for which no fee is charged, and please find enclosed the one dollar forwarded by you in your above noted letter.
Very respectfully,
H. M. Vanderwoot
Acting Commissioner.

Received $1. 00 in currency P.B. W
Cambridge, N.Y.
Aug-26-1921
Bureau of Pensions Washington, D.C. Gentlemen
I have found two Rev. ancestors whose names I have found as serving under Colonel Van Woert in the Albany Militia. I saw the names in "New York in the Revolution" which is in the Public Library here.
The name of one man is Capt William Woodworth and the other one is Lieut Abraham Wright. I would like official proof of their services and will give their lines so they will not be confused with others.
Capt William Woodworth.
My name is Caroline Wright-Twiss. My father was William Woodworth Wright. My father's mother was Clarissa Curtis. Clarissa (Curtis) Wright's mother was Charity Woodworth, wife of John Bishop Curtis. Charity Woodworth Curtis father was Capt. William Woodworth. (4) Caleb (3) Benjamin (2) Walter (1) . Walter (1) lived at Little Compton or Seekonk, Mass.

Lieut Abraham Wright
7 th gen. My name is Caroline Wright Fiviss.
I am the daughter of William Woodworth Wright & Mary Fisher, his wife.
6 th gen I am the gr. daughter of Ebenezer Wright and Clarissa Curtis, his wife.
5 th gen I am the gr. granddaughter of Lieut Abraham Wright and Sarah Babcock his wife.
4 th gen I am the gr. gr. granddaughter of Ebenezer Wright Jr. and Eliza Mercy Leach, his wife.
3 rd gen I am the gr. gr. gr. granddaughter of Ebenezer Wright Sr. and Elizabeth Newcomb, his wife.
2 d gen I am the gr. gr. gr. gr. granddaughter of Ensign Abel Wright and Rebecca Ferry, his wife.
1 st - 1 gen. in America I am the gr. gr. gr. gr. gr. granddaughter of Lieut. Abel Wright and Martha Kitcherul, his wife, who was scalped by the Indians in 1708 and died by reason of it Oct 9 1708.
✓ I will enclose a dollar, and if it is not enough please let me know and I will remit at once.
Mrs Russell P Fiviss Cambridge N.Y.

17. 207 INVALID.
1911 Feb. 6 Hist. to Mrs. Margaret A Woodworth. V.L. etc. 1921 Sept. 19 Hist. to Mrs. Rand P. Loties and $100 returned to her.
File No. 17207
William F Woodworth
Sergt Rev War
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[Arrangement of 1870.]

Atchison Kas.
Feb 25 th 1911
Pension Dept.
Washington D.C.
I want all available information concerning William G. Woodworth. 1754-1838, who served in Captain Willis' Company of the 16 th or Cambridge regiment in the war of the revolution.
Please give Vol and Page as I wish to use this for reference.
Yours. very truly
Margaret A. Woodworth

817207
MAR 2 - 1911
Rep MAR 4 1911 aw

J. L. Edward Commr. of Pensions
FREE
John A. Perry Esq Johnstown
N. Y.
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War Department Pension Office 26 October 1833
Sir,
The papers in support of the claim of William G. Woodworth, have again been examined.
The applicant has enlarged his claim as to grade and duration of service. When this is the case in a supplemental declaration, it is necessary that the proceedings should be in open court. If the claimant served as a Sergeant his warrant should be produced.
The case is suspended and placed on file
I am, respectfully, Your obedient servant
J. Edwards Commr. of Pensions
Objections in this letter answered
John N. Berry Esq. Johnstown N.Y.