Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 4732, John Woollard, Va.

SERVICE
NUMBER _____
Va.
Woolard, John
S. 4732
Carded.
CONTENTS

Ohio. 7858.
John Woollard.
of Clinton in the State of Ohio, who was a Private in the Comp y commanded by Captain Hughes of the Reg t , commanded by Col. Strempfer in the Virginia Militia line for 9 months - $30.00
Inscribed on the Roll of Ohio, at the rate of 30. Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.
Certificate of Pension issued the 11 th day of April 1833 and sent to D. Hinton, Wilmington. Ohio.
Arrears to the 4th of March. 1833. 60.00 Semi-ann. allowance ending 4. Sept r 33. 15.00 $75.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Wm R. Delmer Clerk, Book G Vol. 8, Page twenty rights.
Date of death not on A.B.

8.654.7858 Clinton County — Ohio John Woodard
Admitted for 9 Months from 1980. — $30.00
B. Hinkson Wilmington P.O. Isabel Harrist Clinton Co Ohio

BRIEF in the case of John Woolford. of Clinton County in the State of Ohio (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? before a Court  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  3. How old is he? 88  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.     vol Sept 1 st In 1780 Private Gen. Captm Radion Leet Cavern   March 1 st 1781 discharged. 6 service - Colo Thompson   drafted July 1781 - - 3 Captm Hugh Douglass  
 5. In what battles was he engaged? none  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? London County Virginia  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.
John H. Watson
Examining Clerk.

John Woodland
8654
1634 1744 1854

Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June the seventh 1832
The State of Ohio County of Clinton ss On this 5 th day of September 1832 personally appeared in open Court George J Smith President Judge and Jesse Keughes Aaron Sewell and Jeremiah Zakin Esqrs his associates in office constitu- ting the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County now sitting John Wood- Card a resident of Richland Township in the said County of Clinton and State of Ohio who states that according to the best information he has or received he was born sometime in the year 1744 in the County of London and State of Virginia where he resided until about the 1 st of September 1780 when he volunteered on an expedition to the westward against the Indians. That he volunteered for 6 months and joined the Company Com- manded by Captain James Radican, his Lieutenant was Thomas Leavens and James Hutchison Ensign. That the Company first paraded in said County of London about the 1 st day of September 1780 aforesaid under the command of said Radican from thence the said Company consisting of about 70 or 80 noncommissioned officers and privates, was marched from said County of London to Pittsburgh or Fort Pitt as it was then called When they took water and descended the Ohio River to Wheel- ing when they arrived about the 1 st day of October and were then stationed in the Fort at that place under the command of Colonel James Shepherd who was the principal Officer then and there in com- mand. The said Company occupied said Fort until about the 1 st day of March 1781 when they were discharged having served a tour of duty for 6 months in which this deponent was engaged at the time as a member of said Company in the service of the United States. This deponent then returned to his residence in said County of London without receiving any written discharge it being in the same year that Cornwallis was taken. About a month afterwards he was re- fitted into the service of the United States on a tour of duty for 3 months He was attached to the Company Commanded by Captain Hugh Douglass; his Lieutenant was Thomas King and Abraham Mason Ensign. The Company was attached to the Battalion Commanded by Major Thomas Risley. The Battalion was marched to Richmond

From thence to Williamsburg Virginia and from thence down the country some distance below Williamsburg to an encampment where a certain Colonel Manyweather of the Regular Service had the command. The said Battalion was attached to said encampment and were detained there under the command of said Manyweather until about the 1 st day of July 1781 when they were relieved by the arrival of other Militia and were discharged having served a term of duty of 3 months. There was no written discharge given to this de- ponent for the former or latter tour as aforesaid nor to any other member of said Company to the recollection of this deponent but he solemnly avers that he did faithfully serve in both said tours for the terms aforesaid making in all 9 months in the service of his Country. After said last discharge he again returned to said County of Fauquier where he lived until the year 1817 when he removed to his present residence in Ohio where he has resided ever since and is now to the best of his knowledge and be- lief about 88 years of age. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension Roll of the Agency of any State. This deponent further saith that he does not at this time know one single member or officer of either of the said Companies to which he belonged as above set forth now living or any other person to whom he is known and by whom he can prove his service as above set forth, nor has he any documentary evidence whatever to pro- duce in proof of such service.
John his Woollard mark
Sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid, in Open Court.
Isaiah Morris. CMR.
We John Allen and William Sinclair residing in the Town- ship of Richland and County aforesaid hereby certify that we are well acquainted with John Woollard who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration. That we believe him to be 88 years of age , that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood

where he used to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion John Allen Wm St Clair Subscribed the day & year aforesaid in Open Court. Isaiah Morris, C.R.
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after hearing the evidence presented by  the applicant 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 John Allen and William St Clair St Clair who have signed the preceding certificate are credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit, and also that they reside in the Township of Richland in the neighborhood of the applicant
I saiah Morris Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, aforesaid, do hereby Certify that the foregoing contains the Original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of John Wollard for a Pension.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office at Wilmington the 15th day of September A D 1832. Isaiah Morris Clerk.

March 5, 1937
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Mr. Carl A. Spencer 102 North Fourth Street Miamisburg, Ohio
JOHN WOOLLARD S. 4732 BA-J/MLB
Dear Sir:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the record of John Woollard who served as private in the Virginia militia in the Revolutionary War and received a pension during his residence in Clinton County, Ohio.
You are furnished herein the record of John Woollard, as soldier's name appears in the claim, the data of which were obtained from the papers on file in pension claim, S. 4732, based upon his service in the Revolutionary War.
John Woollard was born in 1744 in Loudoun County, Virginia; the names of his parents are not given.
While residing in Loudoun County, Virginia, he volunteered about September 1, 1780, on a westward expedition against the Indians, served as private in Captain James Radican's company, Colonel James Shepherd's Virginia regiment, marched to Fort Pitt and was discharged about March 1, 1781. About a month after returning to his home, he enlisted, served as private in Captain Hugh Douglass' company, Colonel Merriwether's Virginia regiment and was discharged July 1, 1781, after having served a tour of three months.
The soldier resided in Loudoun County, Virginia, until 1817, when he moved to Richland Township, Clinton County, Ohio.
John Woollard was allowed pension on his application executed September 5, 1832, while residing in Richland Township, Clinton County, Ohio.

There are no family data shown in the claim.
In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, the name and address of person paid and possibly the date of death of John Woollard, you should write to the Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, this city, and cite the following data:
John Woollard Certificate #7858 Issued April 11, 1833 Rate, $30 per annum Commenced March 4, 1831 Act June 7, 1832 Ohio Agency.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER Executive Assistant to the Administrator

102 North Fourth Street Miamisburg, Ohio February 1, 1937
Veterans Administration Washington, D. C.
Gentlemen:
Can you furnish me with the military record of John Woolard , private in the Virginia Militia in the Revolutionary War ? I understand that he received a pension during his residence in Clinton County, Ohio. I am interested, too, in the names of his wife and of his children.
I shall appreciate any service you are able to offer.
Yours very truly,
Carl A. Spencer

(3-469.)
Bureau of Pensions.
File No Application No. 4732
Certificate No.
NAME OF SOLDIER,
John Woodard Co. _____, Reg't Rev. War.
INFORMATION DESIRED.
see papers.

1937, Mar. 5. Hirt to Carla Stanger MPL
Rev. Hirt
4432
INVALID.
File No. 4732
John Wollard Br. Va. Sta.
Act: June 7, 1832
Index: Vol. A , Page 414
[Arrangement of 1870.]

BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims , of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of John Woolard which require further proof or explanation.
I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides? yes II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides? yes III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so? IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served? yes V. * Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled? yes VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations? yes VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832? yes VIII. Has the Court given their opinion? yes IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate? yes X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal? yes

XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service? Citizens only
XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it?
XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had? yes
XIV. † If the applicant's name is not found on the rolls of military service, has he produced a witness or witnesses as to his service?
If he has produced direct proof as to service, has the magistrate who administered the oath, certified to the credibility of the witness or witnesses?
Has the proper officer certified to the official character and signature of the magistrate as the regulations direct? yes
XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service?
XVI. † Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct? yes
XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered? all answered -
 EXPLANATORY NOTES.
* QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
"Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades; For _____ year _____ months, and _____ days, I served as a _____ For _____ months and _____ days, I served as a _____; and for such service I claim a pension."

It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state they served two years in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours; the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is highly objectionable. It must in every case be clearly shewn under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority; that he was either in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit.
†QUERE XIV. Proof of Service.
In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
‡QUERE XVI. Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.
☞ In every case where the clerk of the court, or other certifying officer, has no public seal of office, the certificate of a member of congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers.