Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 35,154, Thomas Wood, Md.
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(3-1776)

SERVICE | * | NUMBER
Md. | Wood, Thomas | S 35,154.

CONTENTS
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(2291)

Maryland Roll

Thomas Wood
3d Regt 
Private  4
Maryland Line 
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War

Inscribed on the Roll of Maryland 
at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on 
the 2d of June, 1818.

Certificate of Pension issued the 21 of August 1818 
and given to Tureene Watkinson

Arrears to 4th of Septr. 1818
[struck out: Semi-anl. all'ce ending]
3 months 3/30 $24.80

{ Revolutionary claim, }
{ Act 18th March, 1818. }
[Line to above] Two years

Anne Arundel
Co
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[Two panels]
[Left panel]

35 154
Revy INVALID.

File No. 35,154
Thomas Wood 
Pri Rev War

Act: 18" March 18"
Index:--Vol 2, Page 464

[ Arrangement of 1870.]

[Right panel]

1933 July 10. Hist to Lyman 
Wood. See his letter in 
Joseph Wood S. 24019, Rev. War.
A.D.Y.
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To the Honorable Secretary of War
City of Washington 

[illegible] by Tureene Watkinson who will receive & deliver 
any order on the within that the Honorable Secretary 
may think necessary.
J Watkins
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I certify that it appears by the Pay 
Roll of the Troops in the Maryland 
Line that Thomas Wood 4th a private 
Received arrears of pay from the 1st Jany 
1782 to the 15th Novr. 1783.
R Loockerman Aud. Genl.
Auditors Office Annapolis 22nd April 1818.
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Maryland, Ann [Anne] Arundal [Arundel] County: to wit 

Be it remembered that on this 
second day of June in the year eighteen 
hundred and eighteen, personally appeared 
before the subscriber, Associate Judge of the 
third Judicial District of Maryland, Thomas 
Wood, who [words struck out] did depose, say and declare on the holy Evangole [Evangely] of 
Almighty God, that he this Deponent did 
enlist as a private soldier in the third 
Maryland Regiment about the month of 
July in the year seventeen hundred and eighty 
one, and that he served [word struck out] from that period 
in the Revolutionary War till the conclusion 
of peace between the United States of 
America and Great Britain against 
the [illegible] enemy and the said Thomas 
Wood (the 4th) did further depose, say, and 
declare, that from his reduced circumstances 
(he)
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he stands in need of the aid of his Country 
for support.  Sworn to before the 
day and year aforesaid.
Richard Ridgely

Maryland Ann [Anne] Arundal [Arundel] County: to wit

I, Richard Ridgely Associate 
Judge of the Third Judicial District of the 
State of Maryland, do hereby certify that 
from the evidence produced before me I am 
fully satisfied that [struck out: John] Thomas Wood (the 4th) the 
person named in the aforegoing Affidavit 
and making the same, was duly enlisted 
and served in the Revolutionary War against 
the [illegible] enemy as stated in the said 
Affidavit-In Testimony whereof 
(I)
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I herewith have transmitted the said 
Affidavit, together with the testimony 
hard [heard] before me, to the Honorable The 
Secretary for the Department of War.
Witness my hand, this 2d 
day of June 1818.
Richard Ridgely

Maryland, Anne Arundel County to wit

I hereby certify that the honourable [honorable] Richard 
Ridgely Esquire who [remainder of sentence is illegible]
the aforegoing affidavit was at the time of so doing one of 
the associate Judges of the third Judicial District of 
Maryland comprehending the Counties of Calvert, Anne
Arundel and Montgomery duly commissioned and qualified, 
and to all his acts as such full faith and credit are and 
ought to be given as well in Court of Justice as thereout.
In Testimony whereof I hereto set my name 
and affix the seal of Anne Arundel County 
Court this first day of August in the year 
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred 
and eighteen
Wm S Greenwad Coty Cot
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Maryland, Ann [Anne] Arundel County, to wit

I, Richard Ridgeley, Associate Judge 
of the third Judicial District of Maryland do 
also further certify that [struck out: John} Thomas Wood, the Deponent 
named in the aforegoing Affidavit is in indigent 
circumstances, and stands in need of the aid 
and assistance of his Country for support.
Witness my hand this 12th 
of August, in the year eighteen hundred 
and eighteen.
Richd. Ridgeley
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July 10, 1933.
xxxx [illegible initials]

Mr. Lyman Wood, | BA-J/ADY
1433 Junction Avenue, | Joseph Wood, S.24019, and 
Racine, Wisconsin. | Thomas Wood, 4th, S.35154.

Dear Sir:

Reference is made to your letter relative to Joseph 
Wood and Thomas Wood, soldiers of the Revolutionary War.

The data contained herein are obtained from the papers 
on file in the Revolutionary War claims for pension, based 
upon their military service in that war.

Joseph Wood
S.24019

Joseph Wood, pensioned as Joseph Woods, was born in 
Hunterdon County, New Jersey, in 1760, day and month not 
stated.

While a resident of Hunterdon County, New Jersey, he 
enlisted about April 1, 1776 and served three months in 
Captain Growendyck's New Jersey Company.  He served in 1777 
under three enlistments; the first, he served more than two 
months in Captain Albert Updike's New Jersey Company, the 
second, he served three months in Captain Daniel Bray's New 
Jersey Company, the third, he served three months in Captain 
Lock's New Jersey Company and was in the battles at Elizabeth
town and Springfield.  In 1778 and 1779 he drove a continental 
team in the wagon service and went with General Sullivan's 
Army to Wyoming, served nine months and was discharged by 
Deputy Commissary General Burnside.  The latter part of 1779 
he moved with his father and family, no names stated, from 
New Jersey to Washington County, Pennsylvania.  While a resi
dent of Washington County, Pennsylvania, he enlisted in May 
1780, served six months in Lieutenant Parkenson's Pennsyl
vania Company and had several skirmishes with the Indians.

At the close of the Revolution soldier lived in Washing
ton County, Pennsylvania, and soon after went down the Ohio 
and Mississippi Rivers to New Orleans, where he stayed a 
short time, thence to Havana, Cuba, there two months, then 
sailed to Philadelphia, thence to Hunterdon, New Jersey, there
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two years, thence to Pennsylvania and lived in Cumberland, 
Perry and Mifflin Counties that state.

He was allowed pension on his application executed 
August 9, 1833 while a resident of Derry Township, 
Mifflin County, Pennsylvania, at which time he was known 
as Joseph Woods, Senior.

He died February 12, 1847, place not stated. [Note: On A.B.]

No reference is made to wife or children.
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Thomas Wood
S.35154

Thomas Wood, 4th, enlisted place not stated, about 
July 1781 and served as a private in the Third Maryland 
Regiment, names of officers not stated, until the con
clusion of peace.

He was allowed pension on his application executed 
June 2, 1818 in Anne Arundel County, Maryland.

He died August 2, 1819, place not stated [Note: On A.B.]. The date 
and place of his birth are not stated.

There are no family data.

Very truly yours,

A. D. Hiller
Assistant to Administrator.