Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 2505, William Wooley, New Jersey

SERVICE
NUMBER
New Jersey
Wooly William or Woolley Sophia
W 2505 B.L. 26.516-160-55
CONTENTS

7.111
Act March 3/65 Rule " 189/65
Sophia Wooley - Pensioner Widow William Wooley Private
Capr } N 2 b.ot } Mil
Ent } War of the Dis. } Revolution
W: 160 Ac. May, 15/52 B. J. Barry
See
Wm B. Barry Cincin. natu Ohio
Set to Wm B. Barry, May 26/55, Sub 48-419
Vol 1002 page 104

449.4 Ohio.
Sophia Woolsey widow of William Woolsey who served in the Revolutionary war, as a Private W. J. Sine
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 80 Dollars 00
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.
Certificate of Pension issued the 16th day of Nov 784 and sent to
E. Easton, Cincinnati Ohio
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 2, 1848, Page 399 Vol. 1
July Book Q
Referred
Let. to E. Easton, Nov. 26/41
Let. to Hon M. B. Corwin July 20/50
Let. to Hon. M. Corwin March 19, 1850
Let to Easton, Apr 50
J. Mathis May 20/57

N o 6459 Ohio
William Wooley
of Champagne Co. in the State of Ohio who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Estel of the Reg t commanded by Col. Clark in the K. Ferry Militia time for 2 years Private $80.00
Inscribed on the Roll of Ohio at the rate of 80 Dollars — Cents per annum. to commence on the 14th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 2 d day of March 1833 and sent to Hon. J. Warner W. R.
Arrears to 14th of Sept. 1832 120.00 Semi-ann. allowance ending 4 March } 40.00 1833 $160.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by D. Brown Clerk, Book D. Vol. 10 Page 53

CY 12.256
William Roddy
(Schmidt)
Private 2 years $80
See letter of H. J.
Vance, as to credibility
of witness
H. J. Vance

BRIEF in the case of  William Mooty  in the State of  Ohio  of  Champaign Co,  (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Court  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  3. How old is he? 77 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.     In 1776 Sept. drafted for 1. Served 1 1/2 mos. Private Gen. Capt. Estot, Col. Clarke. N. J. det.   Oct. " 1 " 1 1/2 " " " Steelman,   1777 Jan. or Feb. about 1 1/2 " " " Motherby   drafted for 1 gone about 2 mos. " " Westcott   " 1 " 2 " " " Shively   1777 or 1778 " 4 " " " Westcott   " about 2 " " " Motherby   " 3 " " " Westcott, Col. Hillman   " 2 " " " Motherby   1778 or 1779 " 2 " " " Motherby   1780 or 1781 enlisted Served as Sailer on board the Privateer Rattlesnake , Capt. Fields " "  
 5. In what battles was he engaged?  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Monmouth Co. N. J.  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Traditionary & living  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? 
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
D Brown
Examining Clerk.

State of Ohio } ss. County of Champaign }
On this first day of August personally appeared in open court, before George B. Holt president judge and James Smith, William Runkle and Abel Hoss his associates judges of the court of common pleas of the county of aforesaid, now sitting, William Wooley a resident of Ashland township in the county of Champaign aforesaid and State of Ohio, aged seventy seven 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 (viz) That he entered the service in the month of September in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy six under captain Joseph Estel a militia officer at Little  Grange  Harbor  Hoback in the State of New Jersey - marched to Perth Amboy in the same State - was drafted for one month, and was in the service about one month and a half - General Clark commanded the forces at Perth Amboy there was a Colonel Clark there also. About one month after his return from the first tour, he was drafted again and went into the service under captain Stephen Steelman, marched to Trenton, then to Princeton, there was a battle at each place. General Washington was present at both places. The battle at Trenton commenced in the morning and continued till night, fires were burnt and we marched that night 14 miles to Princeton on a back road, in the morning we took prisoners and killed of the Hessians and British about four thousand as was said

From Princeton he marched to Somerset. This tour was for one month, gone out about a month and a half. In January or February 1777 he was drafted for a month and marched under Capt. Steelman to Somerset, gone about a month and a half. The next tour was a draft for one month, gone about two months under Capt. David Witherby, marched to Anboy and to Stratton Island, there was a skirmish on Stratton Island where we took 32 prisoners. He thinks there were 2000, or 3000 Americans at Anboy under Gen. Gage. And in the same year he was drafted an other tour of one month, out, about 2 months under Capt. Arthur Wescott, marched to Anboy thence to Stratton Island. There was a skirmish at Stratton Island where we took 17 prisoners and guarded them to Philadelphia. In the year 1777 or 1778 he was drafted for four months, and served the time under Capt. Shirley at a fort near the mouth of Sheligan river, built a fort there and guarded it. Major George Paine was an officer at the fort. In the year 1778 he was drafted again for 2 months and served under Capt. Wescott, built an other fort at the mouth of Bonches mill race. Major Paine commanded there. He then marched to Legis Point under the same Capt. and with Gen. McClasky, he was gone about 3 months this tour. In 1779 (he thinks) he was again drafted and served one month under Capt. Witherby at Somerset. He was again twice drafted and served one month each time under Capt. Wescott. Col. Hillman, Major Ellis, Gen. McClasky were officers under whose command he was at different times. He camped at Hattenfield, had a skirmish at Gloucester, retreated to Mount Holly, then to Coopers creek bridge, then to Gloucester where we had an other skirmish. This was He is uncertain what year this was in, but it was while the British lay at Philadelphia. He was again drafted twice for one month each time and served under Capt. Ebit at Somerset and on Raritan river. He cannot recall the year. He also was drafted and served twice one month each time. He cannot recollect the name of his officers or the year he was out. He was at a place called Petty coat bridge a part of the time, and part on the Delaware river at Red bank fort.
He volunteered and served for five months under Capt. David Witherby. (He thinks in the year 1778 or 1779) it was called the flying camp. Gen. Mercer commanded. He was

at Summerville, Morristown and Elizabethtown. He enlisted for four months and served out his time as a sailor on board the privateer vessel called the Rattle Snake which sailed from Egg Harbor in the State of New Jersey, he thinks in the year 1780 or 1781. He said he took the British Sloop called the Polly Sky, and an other vessel called the Yankee Witch, a privateer. John Fields commanded the Rattlesnake - returned to Egg Harbor, where he was discharged but did not take any written discharge. He has no documentary evidence of the facts above stated, and he never had a written discharge from any of the officers under whom he served, there is no person in Ohio and perhaps any where else by whom he can prove his services in the revolutionary war except his brother Stephen Woolsey who now resides in the town of Urbana in said county of Champaign, and who was with him nearly all the time in the war, except when he was on sea as a privateer. The last of his service was on the privateer as above stated - but the day or the month or the year when he left the service he cannot positively state only as above stated, it was in the year 1781.
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.
He was born in the year seventeen hundred and fifty-four at Egg Harbor in the State of New Jersey, where he lived till he went into the service as above stated, and where he lived after the war until about fifteen years ago, when he moved to the place where he now lives, near Urbana in the county of Champaign and State of Ohio.
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid. He has no record of his age. He is known to the following persons in his present neighborhood, who can testify as to his character for veracity and their belief of his services as a soldier of the revolution. (viz) William McDonald, Reverend John C. Pearson, Isaac S. Woolsey, Stephen Woolsey, Caleb Hill, Doctor Adam Mosgrove, Isaac White, John Mathis, Edward Brush and Samuel Woolsey.
William his Woolsey
Affirmed to in open court Subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
John C. Pearson etc

We John C. Pearson a regularly ordained minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, residing in the town of Urbana in the county of Champaign and State Ohio, and William Mc Donald, Adam Mosgrove, Caleb Hitt Isaac S. Woolley, Edward Brush and Isaac White residing in and near the same town of Urbana and township of Urbana, hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with William Woolley, who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be seventy seven 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 the day and year aforesaid.
By Order of the Court John C. Pearson clk
John C. Pearson William Mc Donald Adam Mosgrove Edward Brush Isaac Woolley Caleb Hitt
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 applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states, and the court further certifies that it appears to them that John C. Pearson who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman, residing in the town of Urbana aforesaid, and that William Mc Donald, Adam Mosgrove, Caleb Hitt, Isaac S. Woolley, Edward Brush, and Isaac White residing in and near the same town of Urbana in the township of Urbana aforesaid, and are credible persons, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
By the Court John C. Pearson clk
The State of Ohio. Champaign County ss. I John C. Pearson clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County aforesaid certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of William Woolley for a Pension.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this first day of August 1882
John C. Pearson Clerk
N. 122256

N o 12,256 William Wooley
12,258
In the matter of Stephen Wooley —
The affedavit of Stephen Wooley —

State of Ohio county of Champaign. ss.
On this first day of August personally appeared in open court before the court of common pleas of the county of said D. now sitting Stephen Wooley a resident of Urbana in the county Champaign of said who being first sworn according to law doth on his oath say that he is the brother of William Wooley who has this day made and sworn to his declaration in this court to obtain the benefit of the act of congress passed June 7-1832. Supplementary to the act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the revolution: And that he lived with his brother at Egg Harbor in the State of New Jersey until and during most of the time of the revolutionary war: That his brother was a soldier of the revolution in the revolutionary war; and that he did enter into the war & serve during the period mentioned in the declaration of said, which is well known to this deponent and is now fresh in his mind. This deponent further states that he was with his said brother, and served with him during all his terms of service mentioned in his declaration, except the first term of one month, in which this deponent was not out, but he is well knowing to his said brother going out at that time and that he was gone in the service more than a month, and that he was drafted, except also the term in which his brother served in the navy: that deponent remembers well that his brother did go into the navy and serve for about the length of time mentioned in his declaration; but he does not know the name of the vessel. This deponent knows the age of his brother to be about that mentioned in his declaration, and that he has lived at the places and times mentioned in the declaration. This deponent has always lived with or near to his said brother. That he never has had but little property. That he always has and still does earn his living by his labor. He is now feeble by age.
Stephen his X mark Wooley
affirmed to in Court Aug. 1 st 1832 I subscribe by making his mark
John C Pearson clk.
The State of Ohio Champaign County ss. I John C Pearson clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of said do hereby certify that Stephen Wooley on this day personally appeared in Court and was of the Court duly affirmed as above to the facts stated in said affidavit. In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my Seal of Office at Urbana this first day Aug. 1832
John C Pearson clk.

State of Ohio Hamilton County } City of Cincinnati }
On this the ninth day of March Eighteen Hundred and fifty Nine Personally appeared before me Not Public One of the Associate Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Hamilton and State of Ohio Mrs Hannah Black and Nancy Jane gathers and Mrs Mary Ann Levaley and thirty three years each being duly sworn according to law and whose testimony is worthy of full faith and credit declare that they are the Daughters of William and Sophia Woolley that their Father died at Warren Champagne County Ohio on the Eighth day of July Eighteen Hundred and thirty four They knew that their Father William Woolley did draw a pension as a Revolutionary Soldier at the rate of Eighty Dollars per year half yearly up to the time of his death and that he drew his Pension through William and Dennis McDonald of Warren

This as the Agents of their Father and that they know from having seen their father's Pension Papers that the money was paid at the Cincinnati Ohio Agency for paying Pensions They are running to their Mother receiving Thirty one 53 / 100 dollars through the Messrs McDonalds of Astoria Ohio the amount due on their Father's Pension up to the time of his death The depen- dants have the following named Brothers and Sisters John Aged Fifty one years William Aged Forty seven years Stephen Aged Forty years Phebe Aged Forty nine years Sophia Aged Forty five years Judith Aged Forty three years Maryut Twenty nine years All of whom are now living as dependants believe But the dependants are the only two children living at this place at this time. The dependants Mother Sophia Woolley is now living in the family of one of the dependants (Mrs Hannah Black) the other dependant is now present at her sister Hannah Black's House Their mother is much affected with the Rheumatism so that she cannot leave the premises without much pain and difficulty. The dependants are now both present at Mrs Hannah

Black Ann They have each heard the Affidavit carefully Read of their Matters which she has this day signed and swore to for the purpose of procuring a Pension in our presence to which our names are signed as Witnesses and so far as the memory of the deponents extend each they know it to be strictly true and that their Mother is now the Widow of of William Woolley deceased and that She has been a Widow ever since the death of their Father William Woolley
Mary Ann her Lumbly mark
Hannah her Black mark
Sworn and subscribed before me This 9 th day of March A D 1849
Robt Moore associate Judge
The State of Ohio } Hamilton County } ss
I Robert Moore one of the associate judges of the court of Common Pleas within and for said County do hereby certify that the above named Mary Ann Lumbly and Hannah Black were by me sworn according to law to testify the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth, and that they severally subscribed their names in my presence (by making their marks)

to the foregoing affidavit
On witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 9 th day of March 1949
Not Moon Esda Associate Judge
[Large decorative flourish or signature]

Sophia Woolley Application for Pension Widow of Wm Woolley who was a soldier and Pensioner of the Revolutionary War who died July 18 1834 Claims for Back Pension to the death of her Husband
E. C. ATTON.
Agent for claimant.
Cincinnati admitted.
Pr $80 per m 4 March 1848. —
E. Atton Cincinnati, Ohio Oct 29 Jan 1848

State of Ohio Hamilton County ss
on this Ninth day of March in the year one thousand eight hundred and Forty Three personally appeared before me the undersigned Robt Moore one of the associate judges of the Ninth Judicial district in and for the State of Ohio. Sophia Woolley who being duly sworn according to law declares that she she is the widow of William Woolley deceased late a Revolutionary United States Pensioner who died at Urbanna Champlain County State of Ohio on the Eighteenth day of July Eighteen hundred and Thirty four Aged Seventy five years That she was married to said William Woolley deceased on the Sixteenth day of September A.D. Seventeen hundred and Ninety Six at her fathers house about four miles from Tuckertown Burlington County State of New Jersey by Ebenezer Jugher who was then a justice of the Peace and one of the judges of the Court of the County of Burlington N.J. That she was credibly informed by her said husband W m Woolley deceased and others at various times and places that her late husband William Woolley deceased served in the Revolutionary Army of the United States from the beginning to the close of the War a part of the time on board of ship of War and a part on land. That she has heard her said husband say he served on the ship of War called the Battle Snake and that he was in service at the Battles of Princeton Trenton and Bunker Hill That she and her husband William Woolley deceased lived in Urbanna Champaign County Ohio for twenty five years previous to his death That her said husband William Woolley deceased drew a pension at the Cincinnati State of Ohio Agency of Eighty dollars per year for the term of nearly three years and a half to the amount in all of $276. 53 / 100 including thirty one dollars and fifty three cents. which was due her said husband at his death which was drawn by her (said Sophia Woolley) by her attorney William McDonald) as the Widow of said William Woolley deceased that on or about the first of Sept r 1834. at the Cincinnati Ohio Agency for Paying Pensions and that on or about the first day of of Sept r 1834 she gave the Pension Papers of her said husband to William McDonald her Attorney together with the satisfactory proof of her being the said Widow of William Woolley deceased to be delivered to the Pension Agent at Cincinnati State of Ohio which she was informed by her said Attorney William McDonald had been done and she believes that the proof of her being the Widow of said William Woolley deceased

and the Pension papers of her said husband William Woolley deceased are now on file in the Pension office at Washington City which she respectfully refers to as evidence of her being the Widow of said William Woolley deceased which is the best evidence she can furnish together with the affidavits herewith sent of William and Duncan M c Donald of her marriage and of her being the Widow of said William Woolley deceased. That she was Seventy five years old  Seven years old (77 years old) on the twentieth day of October Eighteen hundred and forty Eight and that she is still the Widow of said William Woolley deceased late Revolutionary Pensioner before referred to within and that she has never married since the death of her said husband William Woolley deceased within referred to, that there was never any record kept of their family. She respectfully refers the additional evidence of her two daughters herewith sent in support of her claim That she depends much on the records of the War Department at Washington City to prove the services of her said husband William Woolley deceased. That the object of the foregoing affidavit is to respectfully request a Pension as the Widow of said William Woolley deceased and she is advised that there is back Pension due her from the time of her said husband William Woolley deceased death, to this date, that she wishes her claim to Pension examined under the various acts which have been passed by Congress by which her claim can be allowed That she respectfully refers to the following acts of Congress under which she is told that she has a right to claim Pension viz. First the Joint Resolution of Congress passed on the 17 day of June 1838. Second the act of Congress passed on the 7 th of July 1838. Third The Joint Resolution of Congress passed the 16 th of August 1842. Fourth the act of Congress passed 3 rd of March 1843 Fifth the act of Congress passed the 17 th of June 1844 and Finally for the benefit of the act of Congress passed on the 2 nd of February 1848. That she wishes to draw the amount of Pension money due her at the Cincinnati State of Ohio Agency for Paying Pensions as also the amount of Pension money she may be entitled to hereafter. That she wishes to have all the papers and (carried up)

documents in reference to this application for Pension and back pension sent to her care of Elephalat Easton Cincinnati. State of Ohio, who she has employed to aid her in the foregoing Application. That she now resides in the City of Cincinnati State of Ohio and has resided there for the last ten years and that before she removed to Cincinnati, she resided at Urbanna Champaign County State of Ohio where she had resided for twenty five years previous to her removal to Cincinnati where she now resides with one of her married daughters Mrs Hannah Black
Attest Mary Ann Her Linder mark } Sophia Her Woolley mark }
Hannah Her Black mark }
Robt Moore }
Sworn and subscribed before me this 9 th day of March A D 1849 Robt Moore Sealed associate Judge
The State of Ohio } Hamilton County }
I Robert Moore one of the associate judges of the court of common pleas within and for said county, do hereby certify that the above named Sophia Woolley was by me duly sworn according to law to testify the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, and after being thus sworn, and after the foregoing statements were carefully read to her by me she signed the above and foregoing affidavit in my presence (by making her mark). And I do further certify that said Sophia Woolley is aged, and labors under such bodily infirmity as renders her unable to appear in open court - I further certify that said

Sophia Woolley is a Lady that sustains a good character in this com- munity - and in my opinion full cre- dence should be given to her statements On witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 9 th day of March A D 1849
Nob. Moore Esq d associate judge

STATE OF OHIO, } ss. Hamilton County, }
I, EDWARD C. ROLL, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas within and for said County of Hamilton, do hereby certify that
before whom the foregoing several affidavits of Sophron Woolley, Mary Ann Lemuel, and Hannah Black - hereto attached
appear to have been made was
(One of the Associate Judges of the said Court) at the time of taking and subscribing the same, - acting Justice of that Pleas in an for the County of Hamilton, duly commissioned and qualified, and that full faith and credit are due to all his official acts as such. And I further certify that the several signatures of the said Robert Moore to said affidavits are genuine
In Testimony Whereof, I, the Clerk aforesaid, have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the Seal of the said Court at Cincinnati, in the said County, this 10 th day of March A. D. 1849.
E. C. Roll Clerk, H. C. C. P. J. M. McMaster, Deputy

February 17, 1931
Mrs. L. J. Dunn 1615 South 20th Street Lincoln, Nebraska
Rev.& 1812 Wars Section AWF:MLB aw
Dear Madam:
You are advised that it appears from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, W. 2505 , that William Wooley or Woolley was born in 1754 at Egg Harbor, New Jersey.
While residing in said Egg Harbor, he served in the New Jersey militia from in September, 1776, as a private until in 1779, in companies commanded by Captains Joseph Estell, Zephaniah Steelman, David Weatherby, Arthur Westcott and Shesley, was in the battles of Trenton and Princeton, several skirmishes, and served in all about two years.
He also served after the above noted service, four months as sailor on board the privateer "Rattlesnake", commanded by John Fields. They captured the British sloop "Polly Sly" and another vessel "Yankee Witch".
He was allowed pension on his application executed August 1, 1832, at which time he was living in Urbana Township, Champaign County, Ohio, having lived there about fifteen years.
He died July 18, 1834 in Urbana Township, Ohio.
Soldier married September 16, 1796, Sophia, at her father's house, about four miles from Tuckertown, Burlington County, New Jersey. She was born October 20, 1771, her maiden name and the name of her father not given.
She was allowed pension on her application executed March 9, 1849, at which time she was living in Cincinnati, Ohio, with her daughter, Mrs. Hannah Black.

The following children were referred to in 1849:
John 51 years old Phebe 49 " " William 47 " " Sophia 45 " " Judith 43 " " Stephen 40 " " Margaret 39 " " Mrs. Hannah Black 35 " " Mrs. Mary Ann Lumley 33 " "
Very truly yours
E. W. MORGAN Acting Commissioner

Vance -
1860 - 1865
L. Edwards Esq.
Bureau office
War Dept.

Washington
Feb. 4 th 1853.
Sir
I take the liberty of returning the papers of Wm. O'Sullivan recently asking for a pension under the belief that you have mistaken the intention of the court in leaving testimony to the credibility of the witnesses. If I under- -stand these papers the court is full & ample in this re- spect. Indeed it could not be otherwise for they are at least 3 of them men of the first character and integrity - the other two are Mechanics but of equally fair reputation. They are all personally known to me & I have no hesitation in saying that what they have said may be relied on.
Very respectfully Your obedient servant
Joseph Vane
James L. Edwards Esq

Urbana April 27 1867
Dear Sir in the pensioners office your name I don't know I have a reason to call your attention on the account of miss Woolleys petition as I am the man that got a marriage certificate of seventeen hundred and thirty four of the wrong man that I did marry missis sophia  1800-1813 to William Woolley I am missisophia Woolley employed in the city and I am not sure whether Judge Tucker the man that did marry William Woolley and sophia his wife was living or not I did send to C.S. and found that Judge Tucker well and in good health missis Woolley said I should be well rewarded if I did get a certificate that that would entitle her to a pension you know dear Sir how Missis Woolley came by a petition never have got the credit of doing her any kindness as she says her agent got it by an act I leave that to your judgment to say whether the or her agent could have got a petition without a certificate of the right place dear Sir do give me a few lines so that I may shew Missis Woolley how she came by a Pension
Yours truly John Mathis

Department of the Interior Washington, June 8. 1855.
Sir,
Your decision, in the matter of the application of Sophia Worley, widow of William Worley dec d for homestead under the act of 3 rd March 1855 is affirmed.
I return, herewith, the papers in the case which accompanied your report of the 16 th inst. on the appeal, from your decision, taken by W m B. Barry of Cincinnati, who has been informed that your action in the case is approved.
I am Sir, very respectfully, Your ob t servant, Geo. O. Hinton Acting Secretary
Commissioner of Pensions.

7150 Act 3 rd March 1855 • Sec 8
Application of Sophia Woolley
Widow of William Woolly decd Pvt of New Jersey Mtl B
Revolutionary war
W m B Barry Cincinnati Ohio

STATE OF Ohio
COUNTY OF Hamilton
On this 15 th
day of March 1855
Personally appeared before me a Notary Public
within and for said County,
Sophia Woolley
aged 84
years, a resident of Cincinnati in said County.
who being duly sworn, according to law, doth, on her oath make the following declaration,
in order to obtain the benefit of provision made by the 8 th section of the Act of Congress,
passed 3 rd March 1855. granting Blankets to certain widows
THAT
She is the Widow of William Woolley deceased who was a Private in the New Jersey Militia in the War of the Revolution, and who was a pensioner of the United States under Act of Congress of 7 th June 1832, and who died at Urbana Champaign Co Ohio on the 18 th day of July 1835. that she is a pensioner at the Cincinnati Ohio Agency as such Widow at the rate of Eighty dollars per Annum under Act of Congress passed July 29 th 1848, on Certificate of Pension No 419 - She further declares that she has not intermarried but still remains the Widow of the said deceased
That she constitutes and appoints M c B Barry of Cincinnati Ohio her Attorney in the premises, with power to receive her Blankets
ATTEST
Samuel Block Richard Hill
Sophia Woolley mark
Sworn to and subscribed, the day and year first above written, before me,
My Hand & Seal, and I certify that I know the said Sophia Woolley, and that she is the person who represents herself to be - & that I have no interest in her claim -
Richard Hill Not Public

At Same time and place personally appeared Hannah Black & Samuel Black residents of Hamilton County Ohio who being duly sworn according to Law declare that they are well and intimately acquainted with the present Sophia Woolf who signed & made the within declaration in their presence, and that she is the identical person, who is a pensioner at Eight dollars per Annum as widow of William Woolf, dec d - They further declare that they have known her since the decease of the said William and that she has not again married but is still a widow and that they are disinterested Witnesses -
Hannah her Black
Samuel mark Black
Sworn to and subscribed before me this day and year first within written as witness my hand & seal and I certify that deponents are well entitled to credit -
Richard Hill Notary public

Feb Cin. 25. th 1878
JA Bentley
Dr Sir I Recd your Letter and I am very much Oblige to you for answerin, it you say that you can not find William Woolley nor Sophia Woolley well I have just found out that Stephen Woolley and William Woolley Drew there Pension the same day that is the first Pension they drew they both put there papers in the first same day and drew there first Pension the same day William Woolley died in the year of 1834 Sophia Woolley drew a pension up to 1857 when she died that much I do know so they must be some where Sophia Woolley died some time

in the fall of 1857 will you be so kind as to look again and see if you can find these records and Obilge Me Very so much
Samuel H Sumley No 295 west 8th street Cincinnati Ohio

Dear Sir
It would afford me great pleasure to assist your benevolent and disinterested efforts in behalf of the relief of the Revolutionary soldier, but unfortunately the first book of the record of marriages, in which this would be found, if recorded, has been lost from the office, and although I have endeavored to find it since I have been in the office, I have never done so. The next book B. commences some time subsequent to your date. With the hope that this may not interfere with your praiseworthy undertaking
I am with great respect &c. yours.
Col. W. Burr
2.
E. Easton

The within is the status Reqd of the Clerk of the County of Burlington N.J. as it is without Post of Send you the enclosed to return the Post Mark
I trust that with the Certificate herewith sent you will allow the Pension to Mrs Sophia Woolley without further delay If you delay much longer the old lady will be out of want for want of the benefit of this bill
Respectfully E. Easton
Glen Cunnun N.J. Sept 19th 1849

The Commencement of Pension Washington O. G.
4

247 Sophia Wooley widow of William Ohio,
Suspended
let. — May 1849
E. Easton
Letter to E. Easton May 23, 1849.
Act 29 July 1848

Commissaire of Deane Washington City
Sophie Woolley W. Williams - Ohio - Oct 23 rd 1848

Washington City 15 th March 1850
J. L. Edwards
Then have the goodness to inform me of Sophia Woolsey widow of William Woolsey deceased late of Ohio & that the said Dinner is or is not entitled to the dower allowed to her deceased husband during her natural life
Respectfully yours & etc. etc.
M. A. Brown
J. L. Edwards

State of Ohio Champaign County Town of Urbanna
Personally appeared before me Wm L. Keller a justice of the peace for the County and State foresaid John Mathews, who being duly sworn according to law, and who is personally known to me as worthy of credit declares that he is aged William Sixty Eight years old last February and that he was well acquainted with Woolly deceased up to the time of his death which took place in this County on the eighteenth day of July AD 1834 and Sophia Woolly his wife and knows his widow Mrs Sophia Woolly who now resides in the City of Cincinnati Ohio. The deponent is knowing to the fact that said Sophia Woolly was married to said William Woolly in Burlington County State of New Jersey on or about the six- =teenth day of September Seventeen hundred and ninety six, at her fathers House, and the deponent knew them as man and wife up to the time of the death of said William Woolly. The deponent was intimately acquainted with the family of said Woolly from the year seventeen hundred and ninety six to the present date, he knew said William Woolly and wife in Burlington County New Jersey and also knew them while they lived in Champaign County Ohio. Also the said widow Mrs Sophia Woolly now living in Cincinnati Ohio, since the death of said William Woolly And from all of the circumstances of his intimate acquaintance with the said William and Sophia Woolly, he is fully satis- =fied that they were legally married on about the time and place above stated, although the deponent was not personally present at the time of the said marriage, but being then a boy and being in the same neighbourhood at the time of the wedding of said William and Sophia Woolly. This Deponent is satisfied from Judge Tucker & the Marriage Certificate he received from him that the Marriage of Wm Woolly & Sophia Woolly took place the 16th  1796 as above stated John Mathews
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 17th day of August AD 1849 =
William L. Keller J.P.

State of Ohio Rampaigne County Town of Urbana
I Samuel H Robinson clerk of the Common Pleas Court of the County and State aforesaid do hereby certify that William L Heller is a justice of the peace in and for said County duly commissioned and qualified that his Commission was dated on the 10th day of April 1848 and was copied on the 10th day of April 1851 and that his signature within written is genuine.
Given under my hand and the Seal of said County this 18th day of August 1849
Samuel H Robinson CLK

Washington City 9 th Feby 1850
J. L. Richards
Dear Sir enclosed is a Letter all agree to me from John Elliott one of my constituents & an honest man directing me to inquire about the Pension of Sophia Woolsey the Widow of William Woolsey a Second Revolutionary Pension I am sure Woolsey will in his lifetime & obtained his Pension for him as a Revolutionary soldier. It would seem from the Letter the Widow has never received anything & that it is probable her agent has cheated her out of it. If your office offers any light on the subject please let me have it
Respectfully your obedt Servt
J. L. Richards
Mrs. Woolsey

Essex 8/10 William Ohio Sophia McCoy 4/19. 29 1/2
FREE
Rev. the Commissioner of Pensions Washington

Cincinnati - Ohio.
2nd April 1851.
Wm the Count of Pensions. Sir.
M rs Sophia Woolley (widow of Col n Woolley dec d who served in the Revolutionary War) and who was married in Sept r 1796 made application this m th for Pensions for the services of her said husband, and on 16 th Nov r 1849 you allowed her a Pension (N o 419), commencing 4 th March 1848 at the Rate of $80 per annum, payable at the Cincinnati, O. Agency.
I Respectfully refer you to the several documents on file in your office in this case, for proof of Agency in the matter, for the purpose of procuring your answer to the following Query, viz.
Are the Heirs of said W m Woolley Entitled to Bounty Land for the services of said Woolley, or to any other allowances?
M rs Woolley is very poor and as the State thinks the Heirs are entitled to the Bounty Land, I do not wish to put her to unnecessary expense without having just something certain to go upon.
Respectfully
E. CATON

✓ May 23/49
May 13/49
Elphinstone Easton
In behalf of Sophia Woolley widow of Mr Woolley of the Revolution -
W.W. Allerton
Immediate attention
207 1/2
Washington
Miss Lund Esq
Comm: of Pensions to be answered. Dept: of the Interior. May 21/49 White

Cincinnati May 15 1849
Hon
Thomas Ewing
Dear Sir
As I understand that you are at the head of the Revolutionary Pension department I wish to call your immediate attention to the Application of Mary Sophia Woolley Widow of Wm Woolley a Revolutionary Soldier The Application was sent to Pension department on the 9 of March 1849 As the old Lady is very Poor and as you will see that she is very infirm by looking at the application I am in hopes that you will take up the case immediately If the claim cannot be acted on immediately please advise me when it can be taken up and passed The old lady thinks that the young Widows can wait she has but little time to wait at best
Resp yr
Eliphalet Easton

H
Hon. J. Edwards Washington City D.C. MS. B.1.1 v.10 p.10

W. W. Allison Washington 1875 from J. C. Cunnings Atlanta

Cincinnati Nov 3 d 1849 Hon J. C. Edwards Dear Sir
What progress are you making with the Application of Mrs. Sophia Woolley Widow of William Woolley v. the Revolutionary War who was a Pensioner I sent you additional proof to support her claim and I did hope that you would see the necessity of giving the case immediate action as the old lady now knows it and will soon be beyond the help that it would now afford her The last proof I sent you was in the 19 th of Sept last.
Respectfully E. Caton

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Sophia Wooley widow of William Ohio,
Ad 29 July 1848

State of Ohio-Champaign County ss. Town of Urbana
Before me the subscriber a Justice of the peace in and for said Town and County personally appeared William M c Donald and Duncan M c Donald of said Town & County, who are personally known to me, and to whose testimony full faith and credit ought to be given, and being first duly sworn, said M c Donalds declare that they have resided in this County for the last twenty- three years, That said William is now fifty six, and said Duncan forty five years of age, That they were each personally acquainted with the person and family of William Woolley who was known to them as a Revolutionary Pensioner, for some two or three years prior to his death, That they acted as agents of said William Woolley, in drawing his pension, at the Cincinnati Ohio Agency, at the rate of eighty dollars a year, in the years 1833, & 1834, (before said Woolley died) That (as is shown by the books of these affiants) they drew for said Woolley, $160.00 in March 1833, being for two years, In Sept r 1833, $40.00, in March 1834, $40.00, That said William Woolley died in said Town of Urbana on or about the 18 th of July 1834, That he left a Widow by the name of Sophia Woolley, whom these affiants knew as the wife of said William Woolley, from the year 1825 up to the time of his death, That they are informed and believe that said Sophia Woolley is now living in the City of Cincinnati, Hamilton County Ohio, and that she is still the widow of said William Woolley, These affiants further declare that on or about the first of Sept r 1834, they drew (as the agents of said Widow) the sum of $31.53, the arrearage of the said William Woolley's pension at the time of his death, That said William Woolley's pension papers were then given up to the pension Agent at Cincinnati, and further they say not,
W m M c Donalds Seal Duncan M c Donalds Seal
Sworn to and subscribed before me this second day of March 1849,
Jam s L. Ward J. P. Seal

State of Ill s Campaign Co unty ss:
I Samuel H Robinson Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said Co unty , do hereby Certify that Samuel L Ward Esq r , who has taken the acknowledgment of the within named William and Duncan M c Donald, was at the date thereof, a Justice of the peace, within and for said Co unty , duly commissioned and qualified, that the signature is his, and that full faith and credit is to be given to all his official acts.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the Seal of said Court at Urbana this second day of March A D 1829
Samuel H Robinson Clk

26,516
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Mr Amy

Rev WIDOW, &c.
File No. 2505
Sophia Wooley Widow William Wooley Rev War
Act: July 29, 1848
Index:—Vol. M. Page 352.
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Rev WIDOW, &c.
File No. 2505
Sophia Wooley Widow William Wooley Rev War
Act: July 29, 1846
Index:—Vol. M. , Page 352.
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Mar. 8/78 Data as to service of soldier to Mr. Sumley.
1931 Feb. 17 - visit to Mrs. L. J. White unn. awg.

MRS. LEE J. DUNN 1615 SOUTH TWENTIETH STREET LINCOLN, NEBRASKA
Jan 28-31
Dear Sir:
I am very anxious to learn something of Moses or James near Bardeen - who was a Revolutionary Soldier - he married Catharine Cook!
Have you any information on be willing to give it to me - also of William Booley - I think from New Jersey.
Will appreciate very much in hearing from you.
Respectfully
Mrs L. J. Dunn

Nov 18 CINCINNATI Ohio Nov 18 CINCINNATI Ohio
Dear Commander of Pioneer — Washington City D.C.

Leicester March 21 1849
Dear James L Edwards Sir - Sir -
I have this day Recd the Pension Certificate in favor of Mrs Sophia Woolly Widow of William Woolly allowing her Pension from 4th of March 1848 Have you decided that she is not entitled to pension since the death of her husband on her application; Perhaps you intend to send a separate Certificate for the amount due prior to the 4th of March 1848 It is all right off not what more must I prove to have the amount of Back pension allowed from the time of the death of said Mr Woolly a Revolutionary Soldier and a Pensioner at time of his death as per application filed through me as the Agent of the Widow Sophia Woolly
Resp Yours
E EASTON