Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 34922, Edward Hood, Md.
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Service
MD

Name
Hood, Edward

Number
S.34922
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(2764)
Maryland Roll

Edward Hood
Capt. Griffen 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 30th of May 1818.

Certificate of Pension issued the 22nd of Sept 1818 and sent to John Randall Annapolis.

Arrears to the 4th of Sep 1818 3mos. 1/31, 5/30 $25.57
Semi-anl all'ce ending 4 March 1819 $48.00
$83.57

{Revolutionary Claim Act 18th March 1818}

three years to 1780
25.57
18.97
6.60 1/2

Annapolis Anne Arundel Co
continued
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Notification sent November 11, 1820 to William S Green, Annapolis, Maryland

25.57
18.97
------
6.60
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I certify that it appears by the musters of Maryland troops that Edward Hood a private in the 3rd Regt enlisted on the 1st of Jany 1777 and was discharged on the 1st Nov 1780

R Loockerman - Aud. Genl

Auditor's Office Annapolis 25th June 1818
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Anne Arundel County

On this seventeenth day of October 1820 personally appeared in open court being a court of record made a court of record by the laws of the state of Maryland for the said county, Edward Hood aged seventy-three years resident in Anne Arundel County who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he served in the revolutionary war as follows: as a private soldier in the 3rd afterwards the 1st regiment of the Maryland line in the companies of Captains Samuel Griffen, Samuel Jones and Nicholas Gassaway and that he hath received a pension of eight dollars per month by virtue of a certificate granted at the war department on the 22 September 1818 which certificate is now produced No 1 and I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th March 1818; and that I have not since that time by gift, sale or in any manner disposed of any property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of said act of Congress entitled, "An act to provide for certain person engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War" passed on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities, contracts or debts owed to me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed; and that he is possessed of no real personal property (his wearing apparel and bedding excepted) that is of any real value, that he is sixty four years of age has a wife
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wife fifty-four years of age and one son thirteen years of age that resides with him. That his occupation is that of a farmer that his great age and bad health has long rendered him incapable of earning sufficient for his support without the aid of the government to relieve him from his indigent circumstances.

Edward Hood
His X Mark

Sworn to and declared on the 17th day of October in the year 1820 before the Judges of the Third Judicial district of Maryland sitting in open court indeed for Anne Arundel County.

Wm S Green - Clerk

I Will S Green Clerk of Anne Arundel County Cour do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed are truly copies from the records of said court.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court on this seventeenth day of October 1820.

Wm S Green - Clerk of Anne Arundel County Court
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Edward Hood
No 1 (scrathced out) then No 2764

March 1819
Cont

Wm S Green
Annapolis, MD

11 Nov 1820
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Edward Hood made oath on the Holy Evangels of Almighty God that he served six years in the revolutionary army in the first Maryland Regiment and was regularly discharged at the end of the war and has received annually a pension from the United States as a maimed soldier whose age, disability and circumstances render him unable to support himself by labor and that he needs the aid of his county for support.

Edward Hood
His X Mark

Sworn before
Jeremiah Townley Chase - Chief Judge of the Third Judicial District of the State of Maryland on the 30th May 1818

State of Maryland Anne Arundel County to wit

I hereby certify that the honorable Jeremiah Townley Chase Esquire who appears to have taken and signed the aforegoing affidavits was at the time of taking and signing thereof Chief Judge of the Third Judicial District of the State 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 due & ought to be given as well to courts of Justice as thereout.

In testimony whereof I hereto set my name and affix the seal of Anne Arundel County Court this eighteenth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.

Wm S Green - Clerk A.A.Co. Court
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I hereby certify that Edward Hood served in the first Maryland Regiment in the service of the United States as a private soldier was regularly discharged and has received an annual pension from the United States as a maimed soldier. Given under my hand this 30th Mary 1818

John Randall

I do further certify that the said Edward Hood is a very poor man and in need of the aid of his county for support which is claimed under the law of congress passed 18th March 1818.

John Randall - Mayor of the city of Annapolis

I the underwritten Chief Judge of the Third Judicial District of Maryland do hereby certify that the above-named Edward Hood is in indigent circumstances and stands in need of support from his county according to proof made to me. 

Jeremiah Townley Chase

Edward Hood
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I Edward Hood a pensioner of the United States do hereby agree t ogive up and relinquish said pension of five dollars per month to be enrolled and put on the list of pensioners under the late law of March last by which the pensioners are to receive eight dollars per month.

Given under my hand and seal this 25th day of August in the year 1818.

Edward Hood

Witness:
Denton Mallonee

The above-named Edward Hood appeared this day before me John Randall Mayor of the city of Annapolis and acknowledged the above instrument of writing to be his act and deed.

In testimony of which I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 25th day of August one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.

John Randall
Mayor of Annapolis

Correct
To John Randall Esq
Annapolis
Maryland
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34922
Revy
Invalid

File No 34922
Edward Hood
Pri Rev War

Act: 18 March '18

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