Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 9030, Enoch Wood, New York
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(3─1776)
SERVICE
New York.

Wood, Enoch
Lydia

NUMBER
W. 9030
B.L.Wt. 9192-160-55

CONTENTS
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1885 Nov 18. Alonzo Wood; for more
any viz resedence before
after Reques
wise sumed her names are
what to be made of the information
requested
Day along Wood with history
1925 -
3561
New York
Albany
Lydia Woodwidow
of
Enoch Wood
who served in the Revolutiona
war as a private
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate
of 80
Dollars 00
Cents per annum, to commence
on the 3d February, 1853.
Certificate of Pension issued
2d
and sent to
day of February 1854
Grove Lawrence
Syracuse
W
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act
February 3, 1853, Page 88, Vol. A
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An: K.O.C. Purcell, Sept 20/55

Vol. No. 99.-

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56 of 66 Mch 3/55
Apl 10/53
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Lydia Wood  [??]
Enoch Wood  [??]
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N.Y. Troops
Reve War
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Pensioner  Bugnton 
NY Mch 53-Nov 3561
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Pd: 160 [?] Oct 23 1855
BO Yant[?] Clk
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O.C. Powell
Elbridge
N. Y
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NY to 9192 ifs Nov 2nd/55
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Albany
New York 31, 774
Enoch Wood
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of Onondaga Co. in the State of N. York
who was a private in the compy commanded
by Captain T. Collins of the Regt commanded
by Colo Gordon in the N. York
line for 2 years private
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Inscribed on the Roll of Albany
at the rate of 80 Dollars per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 14th day of July, 1840 and sent to Hon
N. H. Earl, House of Representatives
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Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1840 $760.00
Semi=anl. allowance ending 4 M. 41 40.00
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$800.00
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{Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832.}
Recorded by S.A. Elliot Clerk,
Book 62 Vol. 4 Page 82
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let to 3d And Ap 16 '49
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35.051
Enoch Wood of
Camillus County of
Onondaga & State of ⎬
New York
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application for
a pension
and
2 yrs pri
---
80$
See Certif: Comp. N.Y.
2 years prisoner
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Hon. N. H. Earl
H.R.
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State of New York
Onondaga County Ss:
Elijah Spragen of the town of Stockholm County of St Lawrence & State aforesaid being duly sworn says that he was eighty years old on the 25th day December last that he was born in the town of Sharon Litchfield County & State of Connecticut that in 1775 this deponent moved from Sharon aforesaid to Ballstown in the then County of Albany now County of Saratoga & State of New York that he was well acquainted with Enoch Wood in Sharon aforesaid he was about four years
Younger than this deponent, this deponent was residing at Ballstown at the time Burgoyne was taken soon after that Battle this deponent moved to the town of Sharon aforesaid & stayed till the month of February 1778 when this deponent again moved to Ballstown aforesaid & in the month of August after the said Enoch Wood moved to Ballstown aforesaid when this deponent & said Enoch Wood Join the Regiment of New York State troops under command of Colonel James Gordon, the Lieutenant Colonel & Majors names this deponent does not recollect Captain Tyrannis Collins commanded our Company the Lieutenants name was Waters & the Ensigns name was Caleb Benedict, the said company was stationed at Ballstown that then being the frontier town or settlement & no United States troops were stationed near there except a company at Fort Ann that on the night of the 17th day of October 1779 the said Tyrannus Collins Company was [attacked?] & twenty of them taken prison among whom was Capt Collins Lieut Waters Ensign Benedict this deponent & the said Enoch Wood & others. we were taken by two companies of British of about two hundred in all & fifty Indians The British were under command of Captain Munro & Captain Anderson & the Indians were commanded by an Indian called Capt John We were taken to Montreal in Canada Colonel Gordon was also taken
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prisoner at the same time & we were marched first to Crown Point through the woods This deponent was taken possession of by the Indians & said Enoch Wood was in charge of the British soldiers after we left Crown Point I did not again see him till I found him in Montreal in the month of January 1780 he went with the company of British and around then in about two weeks after taken as this deponent understood at the time, this deponent was kept the indians near three months before this deponent got to Montreal, this deponent & the number of said Prisons Except Col Gordon were kept at Montreal until the close of the war the said Col Gordon was taken to Quebek & this deponent was informed & believes made his escape across the river St Lawrence & retuned to Ballstown the summer before the war closed we were taken by water from Montreal by the [May?] of Hallifax to Boston when in around about the first of December 1781 from there we returned to Sharon aforesaid, the said Capt Collins Lieut Waters & Ensign Benedict and all except two or three that were taken prison at that time when with this deponent some of them died that this deponent knew-- there were about three hundred persons at Montreal at the time this deponent was there, at the time in we taken prisons one person was killed by the name of Stow & the [widow?\ of Captain Collins Company fled & escaped after this deponents return Col James Gordon took our names & obtained a certificate for our part & this deponent [recd?] a certificate for our sixty pounds which this deponent sold to Judge Thompson of Still Water & the said Enoch Wood got a certificate for the same amount which he sold to Nicholas Low of New York for Land as this deponent was inform at the time & believes to be true
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this deponent has been well acquainted with the said Enoch Wood from the time he was a child & knows he was near seventeen years of
age when he joined the army & was taken prisoner; this deponent moved from Sharon again to Ballstown after this deponent returned & moved then about twenty years then this deponent moved to Camillus Onondaga County & State of New York &
resided there one year then went to sea & sailed about ten years then returned & has resided in [New?] Swanton in the State of Vermont & in the town of Stockholm in St Lawrence County where this deponent now resides this deponent is now on his way to the town of Castile where he intends to visit with his son in the County of Genesee & State of New York
The word "Except two or three" interlined before signing
[signed]Elijah Sprague

Taken subscribed & sworn
before me this 28th day
of January 1840
Grove Lawrence First Judge
of Onondaga County
Counsellor &c

State of New York
Onondaga County ss Squire Patchen of the town of Camillus County & State aforesaid being duly sworn says he shall be Eighty five years of age on the seventh day of April next that this deponent formerly resided in Ballstown in Saratoga County & State aforesaid & that this deponent was well acquainted with Enoch Wood who has made the declaration
unto annexed in Ballstown & well understands 
the night on which he was taken prisoner by
the Brittish & indians, this deponent further saith that he was well acquainted with Elijah Sprague & James Bennett whose affidavits are unto annexed while they resided in Ballston aforesaid that in the month of October 1779 the Brittish & Indians to the number of toward three hundred ofnthis
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deponent then understood surprised the militia & inhabitants & took prisoners Colonel James Gordon Captain Tyrannus Collins Lieutenant Waters Ensign Caleb Rendent & the said Enoch Wood & Elijah Sprague & this deponents Father Jabez Patchin the whole number taken persons this deponent does not
recollect that two persons were killed during the attack belonging to the United States & belonging to the Militia & was under command of Captain Tyrannus Collins this deponent knows the said Enoch Wood & Elijah
Sprague & this deponents father and detained in Canada as prisoner over two years & returned at the same time together by way of Boston, that after the taking of said prisoners the Brittish & indians burned all the houses barns & stacks of grain belonging to the frontier inhabitants in Ballstown & Killed & drove off the cattle & hogs & such persons as
escaped were committed to remove back into the [with?] Country & some returned to the New England States & remand till the war closed-- this deponent has resided in Camillus aforesaid thirty four years & that this deponent has known the said Enoch Wood since he was a boy. that this deponent has known him well since he .lived in Camillus which this deponent should think is as much as thirty years or nearly that & this deponent should think he was seventy six years of age & upwards from this deponents [best?] recollection, this deponent further saith that the said Enoch Wood is a man of good reputation & has been a fair character through life & further with not
[signed]Squire Patchin
Subscribed & sworn before
me this 20th day of February
1840
Grove Lawrence First Judge
of Onondaga County
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State of New
Onondaga County ss
On this Twentyeth day of February One thousand Eight hundred and forty personally appeared before me Grove Lawrence, First Judge of Onondaga County Courts Counsellor &c. Enoch Wood, a resident of the town of Camillus County and State aforesaid, he the said Enoch Wood being unable to appear at the sitting of the Court of Common pleas in said County, aged seventy six 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 7th 1832 - viz. -
That he was born in the town of Sharon, Litchfield County & State of Connecticut in 1763. that he remained there until August 1779 when he went to Ballstown in the then County of Albany & State of New York Ballstown being then a frontier Town, that he soon after his arrival in Ballstown joined the Regiment of Militia Commanded by Colonel James Gordon of the New York Militia, the Captains name was Tyrannus Collins, the Lieutenants name was Waters and the Ensigns name was Caleb Benedict that he has forgotten the Lieutenant Col - and the Majors Names - that there were no United States troops nearer there than Fort Ann, that on the night of the 17th day of October 1779 Captain Collins Company was surprised by about two hundred British and about fifty indians and twenty of Captain Collins Company were taken prisoners-- among whom were the Captain Lieutenant, Ensign this deponent and a Number more whose names he does not  remember, Colonel Gordon was also taken at the same time-- Elijah Sprague of Captain Collins Company was also taken and whose affidavit is hereby appended-- that the British were commanded by Captains Munro and Anderson, the indians were under the command of an indian called Captain John that the prisoners were taken through the woods to Crown Point and thence to Montreal in Canada and that he was
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he was retained there as a prisoner until the month of November 1781 when he with a number more prisoners were put on board a British Vessel and taken to Boston by way of Halifax where they arrived about the first of December the same year from there this deponent returned to Sharon aforesaid and remained about one year he then went to Ballstown aforesaid in 1782 and that he remained there and at Saratoga until 1811 when this deponent removed with his family to the Town of Camillus aforesaid where he now resides. at the time this deponent was taken a prisoner the British burnt the buildings and grain of all the settlers on the road except those of the tories. the buildings and grain of his brother were burnt and his family driven off- one man by the name of Stow was killed by the enemy - after the return of the prisoners, Colonel James Gordon took down the names of the prisoners and obtained certificates of service and that this deponent received a certificate for some over sixty pounds, which he sold to Nicholas Low of New York for land-- that this deponent is known in his immediate Neighborhood by James Bennett David Munro, Abraham Wood Henry Wells. James R Lawrence Eliakim Edwards Daniel Bennett & Alvin Wood- that Squire Patchin knows him and was known to him at the time he was taken a prisoner. And the time this deponent was detained as such-

He hereby relinquishes every claim to a pension or annuity except the present and that he declares his name is not on the pension roll of any agency of any state. He further says he has no record of his Age except what has been made in his bible about Thirty years ago-- and which was made upon information from his parents
[signed]Enoch Wood
Sworn to & subscribed the 
day & year aforesaid
Before me Grove Lawrence
First Judge of Onondaga County Counciller
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State of New York
Onondaga County Ss: 
James Bennett of the town of Camillus County & State aforesaid being duly sworn says that he is sixty eight years of age that he formerly resided in the town of Ballstown County of Saratoga & State of New York went to Ballstown aforesaid to reside when this deponent was twenty one years of age this deponent became acquainted with Enoch Wood who has made the foregoing declaration the same [summer?] that he came to Ballston aforesaid to reside said Wood
was then a man of family & this deponent should think about thirty years of age it was a matter of general report among the neighbors at that time that the said Wood was a soldier of the revolution & was taken prisoner by the Brittish & Indians at Ballstown together with his Colonel James Gordon Lieutenant Waters Ensign Caleb Benedict & several others with whom this deponent was personally acquainted this deponent is also well acquainted with Elijah Sprague who has made the affidavit which is hereto annexed & whom this deponent was at the time he first went to Ballstown to reside was informed & believes was also a solder of the Revolution & was taken prisoner also at the same time with said Wood-- this deponent continued to reside in Ballstown till the year Eighteen hundred four when this deponent removed to Camillus aforesaid where this deponent now resides, the said Wood moved to Camillus aforesaid with his family in the year Eighteen hundred & Eleven where he has ever since resided; this deponent has been well acquainted with said Wood ever since he first became acquainted with him in Ballstown which was about forty seven years ago & this deponent verily believes him to be seventy six years of age & upward as he states & that he has [ever?] [since?] this deponents acquaintance with him been reputed in his neighborhood where he has resided to have been a soldier of the Revolution & this deponent concurs in
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that opinion this deponent further saith that said Wood has [ever?] maintained an unblemished reputation for truth & uprightness & is a worthy citizen & further saith not-
[signed]James Bennett
Subsisted & worn
before me this 20th
James Bennett
day of February 1840
Grove Lawrence First Judge
of Onondaga County
Counsellor &c
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State of New York,
Onondaga County ss We Elijah H. Sharrard a Clergyman residing in the town of Camillus County & State aforesaid & Alvin Wood of the same place hereby certify that we are well acquainted Enoch Wood who has subscribed &
sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be seventy six years of age that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution & that he was taken Prisoner by the Brittish & detained as a prisoner of war in Canada for two years & upward and that we concur in that opinion.
[signed]Elijah H Sherrard
[signed]Alvin Wood
Subscribed & sworn before
on February 20th 1840
Grove Lawrence First Judge
of Onondaga County
Counsellor &c.-
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State of New York
Onondaga County Ss: I Lawrence First Judge of the said County do certify that I am personally acquainted with the above named Enoch Wood who has made the foregoing declaration before me & I have known him over twenty years past & resided in the same town of Camillus in said County with him Eighteen years & he has always been reputed to have been a soldier & to have been taken as prisoner of war & came to Canada as he states of which fact I am well satisfied & the said Wood has always sustained a good & fair reputation
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and I do further certify that I have been personally acquainted with James Bennett Alvin Wood & Square Patchin who have made the affidavits unto annexed for over twenty years & resided within four miles of each of them about Eighteen years in Camillus aforesaid & they are all persons of good reputation & their testimony is to have full credit. I further certify that I have known the Rev. Elijah H. Sharrard for about Eight years & certify that he is a Clergyman of good standing & of fair character & resides in Camillus aforesaid-
Dated February 20th 1840
Grove Lawrence First Judge
of Onondaga County

State of New York
Onondaga County ss I Grove Lawrence First Judge of Onondaga County & State aforesaid do certify that Enoch Wood who has made the foregoing declaration before me is unable from old age & bodily infirmity to attend a court of record for the purpose of making his declaration to obtain the benefit of the Laws of the United States granting pensions to solders of the Revolution - and I do hereby declare my opinion after investigation of the matter & after putting the interrogators presented by the War Department that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier & served as he states & was taken prisoner as stated by him - and I do further certify that it appears to me that Elijah H Sharrrard who has signed the preceding certificate is a Clergyman resident in the town of Camillus in said County & that Alvin Wood who has also signed the same is a resident in of the town of Camillus aforesaid & is a credible person & that their statements are entitled to credit-- & that the said James Bennett & Squire Patton who have each made
affidavits before me which are hereunto annexed are each residents of the town of Camillus aforesaid & & are credible persons & that their statements are
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entitled to credit. Given under my hand at
Syracuse in said County this 20th day of
February A.D. 1840.
Grove Lawrence First Judge
of Onondaga County

State of New York
Onondaga County Ss: ⎬ I Elijah Rhoades Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas & of the County aforesaid do certify that Grove Lawrence whose signature is signed to the Jurat of the foregoing affidavits & certificates was at the date thereof & still is first Judge of said County duly commissioned & sworn as [member?] & I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Judge & do verily believe the said several signatures are in the proper hand writing of the said Judge 
In testimony whereof I have
hereto set my name &
affixed the seal of the said
Court & county this fourth
day of April A.D. 1840-
E. Rhodes Clerk
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Lydia Wood
widow of
Enoch Wood
Drummer[?]
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Application for
Pension

addnls
Grove Lawrence
Syracuse
NY
Atty for
applicant
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Certificate of Marriage
To Whom it may concern Onondaga Co
This certifies that Enoch Wood of the town o Camillius and Lydia Rockwell of the twon of Camillius absurance having been recieved that no legal impediment exists to forbid the soleminity were, by me, united in the Bonds of Marriage on the 30 day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty one conformally to the Laws of the State of New York and the Ordinance of God

E. Hean Campbell Justice of the peace
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State of New York
Onondaga County Ss
On this 22nd day of Dumber A.D. 1853 personally appeared before the Surrogate Court of the State of New York held at Syracuse in & for the County of Onondaga before the Surrogate of said Court Lydia Wood a resident of the Town of Camillus in the County of Onondaga aforesaid and State aforesaid aged sixty eight years who first being duly sworn according to Law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provisions made by the act of Congress passed on the 3d February 1853 granting Pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary war That she is the widow of Enoch Wood late of the town of Camillus aforesaid who was a private soldier in the army of the Revolution as she has been often informed by the said Enoch Wood when relating his service in said war & his sufferings while a prisoner in Canada where he was carried by the Brittish & detained as a prisoner of war for a long time in Canada during said revolutionary war she is unable to give the names of any of the officers under whom he served or the time entered the army or when he left it or when he was taken prisoner-- he formerly resided in the County of Saratoga & State of New York from which place she thinks he entered the service he was placed on the Pension roll & she thinks under the act of 7th June 1832
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and drew his pension up to the 4th of March previous to his death and that after his death she went before the court held at Syracuse in said County of Onondaga and found[?] his death & that she was his widow & provided the certificate of the Clerk of and County of the proof, taken in court together with the pension certificate of the said Enoch Wood to the Pension office & drew the balance due him up to the time of his death from the said 4th day of March previous to his death and the said Pension certificate she has, no doubt is now on file in the Pension office at Washington. she further declares that she was married to the said Enoch Wood on the 3d day of October A.D. 1831 by Ethan Campbell Esquire a Justice of the Peace of said County of Onondaga at the town of Camillus aforesaid and obtained from the said Justice a certificate of such Marriage which is hereunto annexed The said Ethan Campbell Justice of the Peace is still living at Camillus aforesaid but no record of such marriage was kept in said town to her knowledge or belief
That her said husband the said Enoch Wood died at the town of Camillus aforesaid on the 27th day of August 1847 that she was not married to him prior to the second of January
Eighteen hundred but at the time above stated she further declares that she is now a widow
[signed]Lydia Wood
Subscribed & sworn to on the day
and year above written before me
& the figures "22" [??] "1847" written on names before revision[?]

J. H. Hiscock Surrogate of Onondaga County N.Y.
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State of New York
Onondaga County Ss: I certify that L. Harris
Hiscock is Surrogate of Onondaga County & that
said Surrogates Court is a Court of record
of said State & that the foregoing signature
to the Jurat of the declaration & affidavit of
Lydia Wood made by said Surrogate is genuine
In witness whereof I have unto
affixed the seal of said court
& Subscribed my name at Syracuse
in said County this 19th day
of December A D. 1853
J. H. Hiscock 
Surrogate
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State of New York
Onondaga County
James R Lawrence of the City of Syracuse in said County being duly sworn says he was well acquainted with Enoch Wood in his life time & knew him for twenty years & upward previous to his death & a part of which time was a neighbor of his residing in the same town he was reputed to have been a soldier of the Revolution & drew a pension as I am informed & believe & he resided in the town of Camillus in said County he died some years since at Camillus aforesaid as deponent is informed & believes deponent was also acquainted with his wife Lydia Wood who was formerly Lydia Rockwell to whom the said Wood was reputed to have been married over twenty years ago & they cohabited together as husband & wife to the time of his death as deponent understood & believes to be true - deponent is informed & believes that the said Lydia Wood still remains his widow

The words "as I am informed & believe he" interlined before sworn to or signed

[signed]James R. Lawrence

Sworn to and subscribed on 
this 19th day of December 1853 before me
Samuel N. Holmes Comr. of Deeds Syracuse 

State of New York
Onondaga County ss William Burrell
of the town of De Witt in said County
aged fifty nine was being duly sworn
says he was well acquainted with
Enoch Wood in his life time & knew him
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for thirty years & upward previous to his death he resided during the whole of that time in Camillus in said County & for over twenty years deponent was a neighbor of said Wood & resided in Camillus aforesaid Deponent was well acquainted with Lydia Rockwell before her marriage with said Enoch Wood and married her Sister Betsey the 31st day of December 1818 This deponent & his said wife Betsy  were present at Camillus & witnessed the marriage of the said Enoch Wood to the said Lydia Rockwell on the third day of October 1821
the marriage ceremony was performed by Ethan Campbell Esquire who was then one of the Justices of the peace of said town of Camillus & in & for the County of Onondaga aforesaid, The said Ethan Campbell is still living in Camillus aforesaid Deponents wife Betsey died April 7th 1849. Otis Skinner & wife & other members of the family were present at the marriage. The said Enoch Wood drew a pension up to the time of his death & died at Camillus aforesaid  over five years since & the said Lydia Wood has since his death remained his widow & still resides in Camillus aforesaid and they cohabitated as husband & wife to the time of his death
[signed]Wm Burrill
Sworn to and subscribed on
this 19th day of December 
1853 before me
Samuel N. Holmes, Comr of Deeds
Syracuse
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State of New York
Onondaga County ss I. Samuel N. Holmes a commissioner of Deeds of the City of Syracuse in & for the County of Onondaga aforesaid before whom the foregoing affidavits  of James R. Lawrence & William Burrell were taken do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with the said James R. Lawrence he is the late United States attorney for the Northern District of New York and a man of the  finest reputability & credibility & that full credit is due to his statements under oath or otherwise - I further certify that the said William Burrell is a worthy & reputable citizen & reputable & credible & full faith & credit is due to his statements under water or otherwise-
Given under my hand this 17th
day of December at Syracuse aforesaid
AD. 1853.
Samuel N. Holmes
Comsr of Deeds
Syracuse
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State of New York
Onondaga County Clerk Office Ss
I certify that Ethan Campbell who has signed the annexed certificate of the marriage of Enoch Wood & Lydia Rockwell was at the time of such marriage a Justice of the Peace of the
town of Camillus in said County & duly qualified by the laws of said state to perform that ceremony & that I am well acquainted with the signature of said Ethan Campbell & that his signature to said certificate is genuine-

I further certify that Samuel N. Holmes before whom the foregoing affidavits of James R Lawrence & William Burrell were taken was at the time they are [sworn by?] taken before him a commissioner of Deeds of the City of Syracuse said County & authorized by the laws of said state to take the same & that I am well acquainted with his hand writing & his signature to the Jurat of Each is given In witness whereof I have hereunto set my name & affixed the seal of said County the 11th day of January AD. 1854
Barnard Slocum
Clerk
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56.766


Hon Oliver Collins Powell
Elbridge
Onondaga Co
N.Y.
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[unreadable]
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Revolutionary Widow

State of New York  
Onondaga County ⎬ ss
On this 17th day of March 1855, personally appeared before me a Justice of the peace within and for the County and State aforesaid, Lydia Wood, aged 70 years a resident of Camillus, in the State of New York, who being duly sworn declares that she was formally the widow of Enoch Wood, deceased, who was a private in the Revolutionary War, for whose service she now draws a pension, the following being a true copy: I certify that in conforming to the 2d Section of the act of Feby 1853 Lydia Wood widow of Enoch Wood who was private in the Revolutionary war is inscribed on the pension list, at the rate of Eighty dollars per Annum commencing on the 3d of February 1853 and continuing for life unless she should again marry in which case the pension is not payable after such marriage.

Given at the Department of the Interior the 2d day of February, One thousand eight hundred
and fifty four.
[signed]Robt McClelland
           Secretary of the Interior

Examined & Countersigned
L. P. Waldo
Commissioner of Pensions
Page 88 Vol A
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She further states that she is still the widow of Enoch Wood, deceased, and drew her pension at Albany up to the 4th of March 1855 and continues to draw said pension, she further states that she makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the bounty land to which she may be entitled under the act approved March 3 1855.
[signed]Lydia Wood

We Oliver C. Powell and Martha Rockwell residents of Onondaga County in the State of New York upon their oaths declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by Lydia Wood in our presence, and that we believe from the appearance and statements of the applicant that she is the identical person she represents herself to be
[signed]Oliver C. Powell
[signed]Martha Rockwell

The foregoing declaration and affidavits were sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and year above written, and I certify that I know the affiants to be credible witnesses, that the claimant is the person she presents herself to be, and that I have no interest in the claim,
[signed]James A. Richmond
Just of the Peace
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STATE OF NEW YORK.
ONONDAGA COUNTY CLERK' S OFFICE.

I Certify That Homer A Richmond whose name is subscribed to the Jurat of the annexed instrument, was at the time of taking the same a Justice of the Peace in and for said county, and duly qualified and authorised to take the same. And I further certify that I am well acquainted with his hand-writing, and verily believe the signature to said Jurat is genuine.

In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said County, at Syracuse, his 7th day of April 1855.
Barnard Slocum Clerk
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Rev. and 1812
Wars Section.

October 25, 1927

Miss Clara E. Wood
19 Cannon St
Dayton, Ohio

Madam:
I have to advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim W. 9030, it appears that Enoch Wood was born in 1763 at Sharon, Litchfield County, Connecticut.

He moved to Ballston, New York in 1779 and enlisted and served as a private in Captain Tyranis Collins' Company, Colonel James Gordon's New York Regiment, October 19, 1779 he was taken prisoner by a party of British and Indians and carried to Montreal, Canada, where he was held until in November
1781, when he was allowed to go home.

He was allowed pension on his application executed February 20, 1840, while a resident of Camillus, Onondaga County, New York. He died there August 27, 1847.

It is stated that he was a man of family, when
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he was about thirty years old, no names are given.

He married October 3, 1831, Lydia Rockwell, they were both then of Camillus, New York. She was allowed pension on her application executed December 22, 1853, while a resident of Camillus, New York, aged sixty-eight years.

A son, Alonzo, had a daughter, Charlotte, who married William G. Stevens. There are no further data as to children.

In order to identify any particular soldiers of the Revolution, named David and Daniel Wood, some of the following information is essential- approximate dates of birth and death, places of residence at enlistment and after service, and first name of widow.

Owing to lack of clerical force available for the purpose, only two histories are furnished each inquirer.

Respectfully,

WINFIELD SCOTT
Commissioner.
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State of New York Onondaga County
Syracuse April 6th 1840

Honl. Secretary of War
Sir
I enclose affts & application for a pension for Enoch Wood of Camillus who was an old neighbor of mine & who had been informed that he could not draw a pension because he had not served in the army six months, but I think he having served as a prisoner of war two years & drawed his pay for two years service he ought to be entitled to the benefit of the pension provisions- I submit his declaration &
proof & his claims if legal is abundantly 
proved:- you will please send reply to me directed to this place.-

I have heretofore sent the papers in the application of Margaret Schyrer widow for a pension & got returns that the marriage should be proved by Documents &c &  fortunately I got the copy of original record which lay by mistaken some time in my hand & [?? ??] to the pension office some time ago
will you please examine & if her proof is sufficient forward her papers to me
yr obt Servt
Grove Lawrence
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Honey Creek
Ogle Co. Ill.
Nov 23. 1885

Hon John C Black
Commission of Pensons

Received your reply to mine of Nov 6th I respectfully refer you to mine of the 6th I think in reading it over you will see I said that Enoch Wood was my Father and that by disastrous fires the family records were destroyed, thinking that there was not a possibility of any other Enoch Wood a soldier of the Revolution and who was pensioned under the act of 1831, and made application for his pension some years after, would be sufficient to identify him with the records may be I should have added, which I now do that at the time he obtained his pension he resided in the Town of Camillus Onondaga County State of New York. In asking for the information I do not expect any pecuniary benefit. you ask what use is to be made of it I answer, but to you it may look vain. My daughter Marred Wm G. Stevens a descendant of General Stevens a Revolutionary Officer whose records have been preserved, although looking old are in the hands of her husband, so his commissions and other papers,  has been put into a Nice frame with plate Glass  and hung up in their parlour. My daughter a descendant of a Revolutionary Soldier wanted something to hang up beside of it and wanted I should ask the secretary of War for what I have asked you, believing you would have it written in a nice engrossing hand
over
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and bear your seal and signature and would be fit to hang up in any parlour
Very Resply
Alonzo Wood

I trust I shall receive answer in due time
and that my answer to yours will be sufficient
for identification as to whom it is meant

I want this even if I have to
pay for it
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Pen. 53. War[?]
Boston[?]
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Brief in the case of Lydia Wood, widow of Enoch, Onondaga County and State of New York
act 3. Febry 1853
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Claim, ("original,")

Proof exhibited, (if original.)
Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance.

Husband was a pensioner under the act of 7 June, 1832,
Magistrates Certificate of Marriage filed & two person testify they were present.

(If for increase.)
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what?


Grove Lawrence, Esq
Syracuse, N.Y.
Name and residence of Agent

J.C. Boynton
Examining clerk
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56766
Boynton
Lydia Wood
Wid
Enoch
N. H. Feby 53-3561:


Hon J. Minot
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C.

[Postmark]
CAMILLUS N.Y. 
OCT 19

FREE
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N. York
Enoch Wood
let to G. Lawrence 28 May 1840




Act 7 June 1832
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Lydia Wood
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Additional Evidence
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Additional Evidence

ACT OF MARCH 3, 1855.
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIMS.
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PENSION OFFICE
September 20" 1855.

Sir:
The claim of Lydia Wood for bounty land under the act of the 3d of March, 1855, No. 56, 766 has been examined and suspended.

The revolutionary service of Enoch Wood the husband of the applicant, does not appear of record in this office.

The 3d section of said act requires " service of "FOURTEEN DAYS" to be established by "RECORD EVIDENCE."

Upon the production of such evidence of service, the claim will be favorably considered.

Very respectfully
J. MINOT,
Commissioner.

You are referred to the Controller of N. York
O.C. Powell, Esqr
Elbridge
N. Y.
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State of New York,
COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE.
Albany, October 15 1855

I Hereby Certify, That on searching the Records  in this office for the Registry of Certificates issued in pursuance of a law, passed April 27, 1784, entitled "An Act for the settlement of the pay of Levies and Militia for their services in the late war, and for other purposes therein mentioned,” I find the following, viz:

NAMES.
Enoch Wood Private
-
No. of BOOK
3
-
NO. OF CERTIFICATE.
10.637
-
DATE.
Dec. 8. 1782
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£  S.  D.
68 12 5
-
RANK AND NAME OF COMPANY OFFICER.
Capt Tyranus Collins
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RANK AND NAME OF FIELD OFFICER.
Lt. Col. James Gordon
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I have examined the Rolls for the items above set forth, and find them to be correct.
Jo.B. Haswell Clerk
--
Philip Phelper Comptroller
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Honey Creek
Ogle Co Ill.
Nov 6th 1885

Hon J. C Black
Comm of Pensions

Will you have one of your Clerks look over Revolutionary Pension rolls, and send me a statement of Enoch Wood my Father, who was a soldier and was put on the Pension Roll under the law of 1831- but did not apply for a pension until about 1840. I ask this favor as by a disastrous fire all of the family records were destroyed.
He was from the State of New York

Very Resply
Alonzo Wood
Please give the Company he belonged to
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27 Aug 47

Pension Office
18 Jany 1854
Sir,
Please Certify the
time to which the
within named pension
was paid on the
date of his death,
Very Respectfully
S. Cole

For the commissioner
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Enoch Wood, Act 1832
$80 per annum died
27 August 1847. Paid
F. Burt
Auditer
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Francis Burt Esqr
Third Auditor, Treasury
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Washington D.C.

Sir
Nothing but an imperative necessity
would induce me to remind you
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9192
160 Aug
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Mag. Cert. d2. Pur: 27 Aug: 47

Boynton
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13" Jany" 1854
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No 4,168
Lydia Wood. wid:
of Enoch
Onondaga Co:
N.Y.
Act/53
$80.00 per An:
Com: Feb. 3d 1853
Revy

Grove Lawrence


DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Pension Office, Official Business
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Honl. Mr Waldo
Com of Pensions
Washington 
D. C.
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Syracuse NY Jany 11. 1854
Hon Comr of Pensions
Sir I herewith transmit the
application of Lydia Wood of Camillus,
Onondaga County N Y for a pension
you will find the pension papers
of Enoch Wood on file which shows
his service; I believe the papers here [out?]
[whom?] all required of the applicant, if
not address a line to me & any
other proof required as to her identity or
Marriage can be had to substantiate
these facts -- respectfully your
obt svt
Grove Lawrence
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In compliance with your request of the 23d ult for the history of the services of your father, Enoch Wood, who was a soldier from the State of New York in the war of the Revolution, the following statement has been taken from his application on file for a pension-

On the 20th day of February 1840 he states that his residence was in Camillus 
Onondaga County NY, & that he was born in Sharon, Litchfield County Conn in 1763 where he remained until Augt 1779 when he removed to Ballston, Albany Co now in Saratoga Co. NY which place was then frontier Settlement.

Soon after his arrival in Ballston he joined a Company of Militia under the command of Capt Tyrannus Collins, that was in a regt commanded by Colo James Gordon & Stationed at Ballston, there being no U S troops nearer than Fort Ann - On the night of Octr. 1779, while on duty, the company was surprised by 250 to 300 British & Indians, who killed two men captured Gordon, Capt Collins with his Lieut & Ensign & 20 men of the Company, the rest having fled. The dwellings & barns in the town were destroyed by fire, the cattle & other animals were either killed or driven off - Among the Suffers in this desolation was his brother & family. Those of the inhabitants who escaped were compelled to remove back into the more settled part of the Country or returned to New England, where remaining until hostilities ceased with the close of the war.

The prisoners, including Mr Wood were conveyed to Montreal, Canada & on the road the Indians destroyed with fire the house & barns of the occupants as well as their grain, with the exception of their friends, the "Tories" He continued a captive until Novr 1781 when he, with other prisoners were put on board of a British vessel & carried
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by way of Halifax to Boston, at which place he arrived about the first of the following December & from thence he went to Sharon Cont. In about a year, but in 1782, he returned to Ballston NY & in 1811 he settled in Camillus NY Onondaga Co NY where he remained until his decease on the 27th of August 1847 -


He married Oct 3 1831 Lydia Rockwell of Camillus who was 68 yrs old in 1853
(probably 2d marriage)
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Department of the Interior
Pension Office
Washington, DC. December 7, 1885.
Sir:
The following facts relative to the service of Enoch Wood, a soldier of the Revolutionary War, who resided at Camillus, Onondaga Co. N.Y. in 1840, are set forth in his claim for pension: In the Fall of 1779, he enlisted from Ballston, now Saratoga Co. N.Y. in the company of Captain Tyrannis Collins, Colonel James Gordon's regiment, New York Militia. While on duty at Ballston, on October 17. 1779, the company was surprised by 250 or 300 British and Indians who killed two men, burnt the town, killed or drove off the cattle and captured Colonel Gordon, and Captain Collins with the Lieutenant, Ensign and twenty men of the company including Mr. Wood. He was kept a prisoner at Montreal until Nov. 1781, when with others, he was taken on a British ship to Boston, by way of Halifax, arriving at Boston about the first of December when he immediately returned to his birth place Sharon, Conn
Very respectfully,
Commissioner
Alonzo Wood, Esq.
Honey Creek
Ills.
(Ogle Clk)
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Sir:
In response to
your request, I enclose
a certificate relative to
the service of Enoch
Wood a soldier of the war
the Revolution who
resided of Camillus
Onondaga Co., N.Y. in
1840. No record of this
service has been found,
but it is supported by parol
testimony which may not
be absolutely accurate,
although upon this 
evidence pension was 
allowed.
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2)
[Mil]litia. While on duty at
Ballston, on Oct. 17, 1779.
the company was surprised
by 250 or 300 British and
Indians who killed two men,
burnt the town, killed or drove off 
the cattle,
and captured Col. Gordon
and Capt. Collins with the 
Lieutenant, Ensign and twenty
men of the company, including
Mr. Wood. He was kept a prisoner at
Montreal until Nov 1781, when,
with others, he was taken on a
British ship to Boston by way
of Halifax, arriving at Boston
2)
litia. While stand at
Ballston, on Oct. 17, 1779.
the company was surprised
by 200 or 300 British and
killed two
and captured Col. Gordon
and Capt. Collins with the Lieu
tenant, Ensign and twenty
men of the company, including
Mr. He was kept a prisoner at
Montreal until Nov 1781, when
with others, he was taken on a
British ship to Boston by way
of Halifax, arriving at Boston
[stricken]He returned & Ballston in 1782
settled at Camillus in 1811, where
he died]]
about the first of December
when he immediately returned to his
birthplace, Sharon, Conn.
Very resp
Com
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Sir:-
The following facts
relative to the service of Enoch
Wood, a soldier of the Revolutionary
War, who resided
at Camillus, Onondaga
Co. N.Y. in 1840, are set
forth in his claim for
pension.-
In 1779, he enlisted, 
from Ballston, now Saratoga Co. N.Y. 
in the company of 
Capt. Tyrannis
Collins, Col. James Gooding
regiment, New York Mi[litia].
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2
Mr. Wood states that he
was born a Sharon
Ct. in 1763, removed to
Ballston, N. Y. in Aug. 1779.
and soon after entered
service. On his arrival
at Boston in 1781 he went to
Sharon Ct. returning to
Ballston in 1782. He settled
at Camillus in 1811,
and died there on Aug
27, 1847. He married
Lydia Rockwell of Camillus,
Oct 3, 1831. She was
68 years old in 1853.
Very resp

Comr

Alonzo Wood, Esq.
Honey Creek
Ogle Co. Ills
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Revolution New York
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 9030
Lydia Wood
Wid
Enoch Wood
Privt Rev War ┃
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Act: Febry 3d 1853
Index: - Vol. M, Page 353
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Jan 31/95
Charlotte

Mil. Hist to Miss
W. Stevens, Dayville Ill
1927 Oct 25 Hist to Miss
Clara E. Wood [?]
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Revolution New York
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 9030
Lydia Wood
Wid
Enoch Wood
Privt Rev War
Act: Feby 3 1853
Index:-Vol. A, Page 353
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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[postcard]
[postmark] DAYTON OHIO MAY 31 1927 1PM

(THIS SIDE OF CARD IS FOR ADDRESS)

Pension Dept
Washington D.C.
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19 Cannon St
Dayton, Ohio
May 29, 1927
Gentlemen:
Can you tell me if pensions
were issued to the following:
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Enoch Wood (1763-1847) In 1779
was a soldier in Jacobus Van Schoonhoven's
N.Y. Regt. & was taken prisoner &
taken to land 1780.
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His father, David Wood, of Saratoga
Co. N.Y. who served in the militia
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Daniel Wood, N.Y. Capt of [Wirds?] Co.
N.Y. Oct. 12, 1777.
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Can you tell me the residence of
Daniel Wood? Also the with
places and early residences of
the above David, Enoch and 
Daniel Wood? Or of Theodorus or Theodric Eck? Any information 
will greatly oblige
Very truly
(Miss) Clara E. Wood
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Department of the Interion
Pension Office
Hon Hoke Smith

Dear Sir
Can you send
me a certificate relative
to the services of my
Grand Father, Enoch Wood
who was a pensioner of
the Revolutionary War-
I believe he enlisted
from Balston N.Y. in the
Fall of 1779.
He died at Camillus N.Y.
in 1847.
Charlotte Wood Stevens,
Daysville
Ogle Co. Ill
Dec 28 - 94,
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Enoch Wood
N. Y.

DEPARTMENT EDITED
OF THE
INTERIOR.
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BD. of APPEALS N 8 1895

Department of the Interior,
Respectfully referred to the
Commissioner of Pensions.
Jno M. Reynolds
Asst. Sceretary