Military records for William Wooley.
State of Ohio, County of Champaign.
On this first day of August personally appeared in open court before George B. Holt presiding judge and James Smith, William Runkle and Abed Hass his associates judge of the court of common pleas of the county aforesaid, now sitting, William Wooley resident of Urbana township in the county of Champaign aforesaid and State of Ohio, aged seventy seven years, who being first duly sworn according to the 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 second 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 Hogebgue (?) In the State of New Jersey - marched to Peth Amboy (sic) 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 Peth Amboy (sic) there was a Colonel Clark there also. About one month after his return from the first tour, he was drafted again and went into service under Captain Zephariah Staalman, march to Trent, then to Princeton, ther was a battle at each place. George Washington was present at both places, The battle at Trenton commenced in the morning and continued till night, fires were built and we marched that night 14 miles to Princeton on a back road, in the morning we too 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 march under Capt. Starlman to Somerset, gone about a month and half. The next tour was a draft for one month, gone about two months under Capt. David Wetherby, marched to Amboy and to Stratten Island, then was a skirmish on Stratten Island where we took 3 prisoners. He thinks there were 2000 or 3000 Americans at Amboy under Gen. Gaucen. And in the same year he was drafted another tour of one month, out about 2 months under Capt. Arthur Wescott, marched to Amboy thence to Stratten Island. There was skirmish at Stratten Island when 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 foxbus near the mouth of Unligan River, built a fort there and guarded it. Major George Pane was an officer at the fort. In the year 1778 he was drafted again for 2 months and served under Capt. Wescott, built another fort at the mouth of Brushes mill race. Major Pane commanded them. He then marched to Seyes Po under the same Capt. And Gen. McClasky, he was gone about 3 months this time. In 1779 (he thinks) he was drafted again and served one month under Capt. Wetherby at Summerset. He was again twice drafted and served one month each time under Capt. Wescott, Col. Hillman, Major Ellis, Gen. McClaskey were officers under whose command he was at different times. He camped at Hattenfield, had a skirmish at Gloscester, retreated to Mount Holly, then to Caspers crut bridge, then to Gloscester where we had an other skirmish. 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. Estel at Summerset and on Rasitan river. He cannot recollect the name of his officers of the year he was out. He was at a place called Pettycoat bridge a post of the time (?) And post on the Delaware river at Red band river. 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 Summerset, Morristown and Elizabethtown. He inlisted for four months and served all his time as a sailor on board the privateer vessel called the Rattlesnake which sailed from Egg-Harbour in the State of New Jersey, he thinks in the year 1780 or 1781. He recollects taking the British sloop called the Polly Sly, and another vessel called the Yankee Witch, a privateer. John Fields commanded the Rattlesnake - returned to Egg Harbour, when he was discharged but did not take any written discharge. He has no documentary evidence of the facts above stated, and he never had an writt 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 Wooley 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 the sea as a privateer. The last of his service was on the privateer as above stated - but the day or the month when he left the service he earnest positively stated only as above stated, it was in the year 1781. He hearby 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 Harbour 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 fifteen years ago, when he moved to the place he now lives, near Urbana in the county of Champaign and the State of Ohio. He has no record of his age. He is know to the following persons in his present neighborhood, who can testify as to his character for veracity and their belief of his service as a soldier of the revolution (viz) William McDonald, Reverand John C. Pearson, Isaac S. Wooly, Stephen Wooley, Caleb Hitt, Doctor Adam Mosgrave, Isaac White, John Mathis, Edward Brush and Lasannah Wooly.
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Married name: Wooley, born ‎20 Oct 1771 Tuckertown, NJ
http://www.migrations.org/individual.php3?record=18970
Name Lifespan Where Born
William WOOLLEY 1750-1834 Egg Harbor, Atlantic County, NJ
Additional Notes Migration Steps
William Woolley, a Revolutionary veteran, his wife, Sophia Mathis (1771-1849), and their nine children: John C. (1797-1844), Phebe (1799-?), William (1801-1885), Sophia (1804-?), Judith (1806-?), Stephen (1809-?), Margaret (1812-1857), Hannah (1814-1898), and Mary Ann (1816-?) moved to Urbana Township, Champaign County, OH in 1817.

Sophia Mathis 4 SmartMatches
Birth: 20 Oct 1771 in Tuckerton, New Jersey
Death: About. 1856 in Hamilton County, Ohio 1
Sex: F
Father: Nehemiah Mathis b. 13 Jun 1728 in Oak Island, Burlington County, New Jersey
Mother: Elizabeth Cranmer b. About. 1732 in Tuckerton, Burlington County, New Jersey


Spouses & Children



William Wooley (Husband) b. 1754 in Little Egg Harbor, New Jersey

Marriage: 16 SEP 1796 in Little Egg Harbor, New Jersey
Children:
William Wooley, Jr. b. 4 Apr 1802
Sophia Wooley b. 1804
Judith Wooley b. 1806 in New Jersey
Stephen Wooley b. 1809
Margaret Wooley b. 21 Sep 1812 in New Jersey