Halifax County, VA - Moses Woosley, Revolutionary War Pension Application


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SUBMITTER: Pat Perkins
EMAIL: pperkins@oregonvos.net
DATE: Aug 03, 1999


Moses Woosley Revolutionary War pension application

What follows are several documents that are part of the file for Moses
Woosley, who originally applied for a Revolutionary War pension in 1832
and was awarded one in March 1834.

State of Virginia, To Wit:

On this Third day of September 1832 personally appeared before me John
L Jennings a Justice of the peace in Halifax County, Moses Woosley, a reside=
nt
of said county and state aforesaid, aged Seventy four 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 the 7th, 1832, that he enlisted in the Army of the United States to
the best of his recollection in the month of December 1776 or in the month
of January 1777 for Three years with Ensign Samuel Jones in the County
of Amelia in the State of Virginia and was attached to Captain James Foster'=
s
Company and marched to Dumfriese where we formed the 15th Virginia Regiment
under Col. Mason, at that place we were enocculated with the Small Pox
and remained there untill we became well, and them marched through Alexandri=
a
Georgetown to Baltimore and from thence to Philadelphia, and from there
to the best of my recollection to the White Plains in the State of New
York where we joined the Main Army under Genl. Washington. I was transfered
to Capt. Gray's Company and was under the command of Col. Ennis in Genl.
Woodford's Brigade and I was with them in the battle of Germantown and
at Stoney Point on the north River and I was in many skirmishes during
of the three years that I served under this enlistment. I was discharged
on the first day of January 1780 at Philadelphia and came home with Richards=
on
Booker, who was discharged with me at the same time, after which I served
three tours of duty in the militia service. I was at the siege of qb in
the battle near Camden when Genl. Gates was defeated, and was present when
lord Cornwallis surrendered himself and his Army to Genl. Washington. My
discharges are lost and cannot be found. I have no documentary evidence
and know of no living person that was in service with me that I can prove
it by --

I was born in the County of Buckingham in the State of Virginia in the
year 1758-the record of which is yet in my posession. I lived in Amelia
County Va. when I entered the service of the United States. After I was
discharged from the service I came to the County of Halifax and have lived
in that county ever since.

I hereby relinquish every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity, except
the present, and I declare that my name is not on the pension roll of the
agency of any state.

Sworn to, and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
John L. Jennings, J.P.

----

I John S. Jennings a Justice of the peace in the County of Halifax and
State of Virginia do hereby declare from my acquaintance with the above
named applicant, that it is my opinion & belief that he was a Revolutionary
Soldier and served as he stated. And I further declare my opion that from
bodily infirmity he is not able to appear before the Court of the County
in which he resides. Given under my hand this 3rd day of September 1832.

----

I Samuel Williams, clerk of the Court of the County of Halifax in the State
of Virginia, do hereby certify that John L. Jennings before whom the foregoi=
ng
declaration of Moses Woosley was made, was at the time an acting Justice
of the Peace of said county and that his ____________ in testimony ___
hereof. I have hereunto subscribed my name and have affixed the seal of
said County at my office this 31st day of January, 1833.

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You will note that in the last affidavit there were several words that
were ineligible to me.

I also have a War Department Pension Office letter, dated May 9, 1833,
apparently to Moses Woosley, that asks for him to address some objections
to the application before a pension can be approved. It appears the Pension
Office objected to the uncertain date he enlisted. The letter is from J.L.
Edwards, commissioner of pensions.

Another document looks like a receipt for a pension payment. "Inscribed
on the Roll of Virginia at the rate of 80 Dollars per annum to commence
on the 4th day of March, 1834." He was paid two years' worth of pension
and a semiannual payment, totaling $200. Recorded by Nath. Rice, Clerk,
Book E, Vol. 6, Page 31.





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