Oglethorpe County GaArchives Joseph Woodall
Revolutionary War Pension Application
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Joseph Woodall
Revolutionary Pension Application

Georgia
Oglethorpe County

On this 28th day of January eighteen hundred & thirty three personally
appeared in open court, before the Inferior court now sitting, Joseph
Woodall, a resident of the county & State aforesaid aged sixty nine 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 7th June 1832. That he entered the service of the United States under
the following named officers & served as hereinafter stated. He was born in
Buckingham County in the State of Virginia on the 11th July 1763 according
to the information he has always received from his parents, there being no
record of his age that he knows of, but he lived in Wake County N. Carolina
from the time he was eight years old until he entered the service & some
time after the war ended. He was a very poor boy & at the age of fifteen he
volunteered his services to perform a tour of three months in the militia of
the State. He thinks he entered the ranks some time in September 1779 under
the command of one Capt. Blakey. His battalion was commanded by Major
Collier & the regiment by Colonel William Moore. Marched from home to
Salisbury where he was stationed for the whole time of his enlistment, to
wit, three months, guarding a parcel of tories said to be 300 in number that
had been taken at Ramsour's Mills on the Catawba. He recollects no very
striking circumstances which occurred here beyond the fatiguing routine of
guard duty, except that the captain of the tories, said to be an Englishman
& whose name is now forgotten, made his escape one night from a rock jail in
which he was confined. He got a discharge from this tour made out by one of
his officers, but he has long since lost it. He was drafted the next time
for another three months tour of service which he performed under Captain
Hillsman. He was this time under the command of two Majors before the tour
ended, one by the name of Graves & the other by the name of Criddle & his
regiment was commanded by Colonel Caswell. Our first service on this trip
was performed at Wake court house where we were stationed about six weeks
guarding the general assembly of the State. From here we marched to Dupling
County intending to fall in with the main body of troops at Willmington. But
before we got told there had been a fight in which our side were
considerably worsted - we were stationed at Gotian Swamp till the main
forces all met there to rendezvous 2 or 3 weeks. The British run us from
here over the Neuse River, near a half mile from which on the north side we
encamped & remained until our time was up & we were discharged. He thinks
this tour was commenced in the month of June of the year 1780. The reason we
retreated before the British as above mentioned was that we were badly
provided with guns & worse off for ammunition. He got a discharge from this
service he thinks in September but does not recollect the precise date & the
discharge is lost. He never was in any battle at all & never got acquainted
with any of the regular officers nor served under any of them. In fact he
never saw but one corps of Regulars while he was out, & if he ever heard
what their style was or the name of the commanding officers he does not now
recollect them. He thinks all the documentary evidence he ever had to
support this claim has been long since lost, for he never supposed it would
be of any value. He met with a man by the name of Dodd 7 or 8 years ago who
had served with him, but where he now is & whether he is in life deponent
cannot tell. He thinks any of his neighbors who have been acquainted with
him for any length of time will testify cheerfully as to his being a man of
truth & the only minister of the gospel in the neighborhood is not
sufficiently acquainted with him, he expects, to enable him to testify. He
hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the
present & declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of
any State in the Union.

Joseph (x) Woodall

Sworn to & subscribed the day & year first aforesaid in open court.

John Landrum, Clk

We, William Galloway and George Lester residing in the county & State
aforesaid hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Joseph Woodall who
has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be
of the age therein mentioned, that he is reputed & believed in the
neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution, &
that we concur in that opinion.

William Galloway
Geo. Lester

Sworn & subscribed the day & year aforesaid.

John Landrum, Clk

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