Letter from Marinus Willett [American Revolutionary War hero], of New York, N.Y., to the honorable Walter Bowne, providing an endorsement for John Woodward, son of another Revolutionary War hero, for a judicial appointment to "the council." November 4, 1820. Letter relates not only the great sacrifices the senior Woodward made during the American Revolution, i.e. at the Battle of Monmouth, but also his important work before the war as a member of the New York [City] Committee of Safety; he goes on extensively about the senior Woodward's great financial suffering after the war, from his loans to the public and resulting business hardships.