Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 42079, Sampson Wood, N.C.
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SERVICE: N.C.
Wood, Sampson
NUMBER: S. 42079 
CONTENTS: [blank]
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Died -
Feb. 4 - 1834 -
A. B


20427.
North Carolina
Sampson Wood
of Guilford County in the State of N. Carolina who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Donoho of the Regiment commanded
by Colonel Shepard in the North Carolina line, for the term of the year
from 25 May 1781 to 25 May 1782
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Inscribed on the Roll of North Carolina
at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 16 day of March
1832
________________________
Certificate of Pension issued the 28 of March 1832 and sent to the Hon.
A. H. Shepperd A R
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Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1832
Semi-anl, all'ce ending
                                                   $45. 18                                                         
                                           $45.18



Revolutionary Claim,
Acts March 18, 1818,
and May 1, 1820.}

Recorded Book D  Vol 8 page 46
                              P. S.B.
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Sampson Wood
Copy of Record
13. Copy sheets 48 ct. to Seal. 25
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State of North Carolina
Guilford County
                                     ⎬
Be it remembered that at a Court of pleas and quarter sessions, begun and held for the County of Guilford at the Court House in Greensboro, on the Third Monday of February, AD 1832. it being the 20th day of said month, Joseph Gibson, William Corsbie and Benjamin Moss Esqr made the following
declaration  & affidavit  and sworn to & followeth.
Original Claim, Declaration in order to be placed on the said list under the act of the
18th March 1818.


State of North Carolina
Guilford County 
Court of pleas and quarter Sessions, opened and of the County the Same personally appeared Sampson Wood of same County, aged about seventy years, who first being duly sworn according to law doth on the 24 th day of February AD 1803. gave his oath, and make the follow of declaration, in order to obtain the provisions that of the first of May 1821 that he the Sampson Wood enlisted of the 25 day of May 1781 in the town of Hillsboro. Orange County, North Carolina for the term of ____ mpnths and immediately was sent to Oxford Granville County but joined by me from the Lower part of the state to be and that he was  of the Regiment of North Caroline, commanded by Col Mahan and in Capt.  Donoho company when I joined the Grand Army &___ the high hills of Santee for some time thence he marched back to the East Spring was then engaged in Battle with the British that
said Wood was again marched back to the hills of Santee, and thence on different
part of the in the State of South Carolina, until he was finally moved to Big Bridge about 25 miles from Charleston at what place, on the 25th day of May 1782 he rec'd a discharge which he has long lost. The said Wood for previous to the time of his entered in Capt Donohos Company, he spent the month, in North Carolina but at the most of his time in Camp, in Sudbury Rowan County, of this State, that thereby requests any Claim whatever to ____That his name is not on the role of any State except North Carolina, that he has not before applied for a pension because he was unwilling to leave the Boundary of his County,
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long as he was able by his labor, to ( ) a subsistence, but by age & bodily infirmity
he is now (illlegible) unable to labour, he is therefore induced to make this his first
application for support to the Government of his County, & which support he now greatly
( )and out without which or some other source, that he now ( ) of he must differ
that from the death of some and mourning of other competent persons he knows of (  )
now living, by whom he can prove his identity.

And in pursuance of the act of the first of May 1820 I do thereby () that I

solen by or that
was a resedent City of the United States, on the 18th day of March 1818 & that I (  ) documents if as to bring myself within
the provisions of an act of Congress entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged
in the land and naval services of the United States as the Revolutionary 
or any part thereof, will be but, hereby so to disual it as to bring myself within
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in the land and Naval Service of the United States, in the Revolutionary War papers
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 due to me nor have I any incomes other
than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed & by me subscribed, that is to say
One bed, One axe, One hoe & one skillet, & that my property as Substantially the same on
the 18th day of March 1818. except an old mare which has since died, & that no change by
gift Sale or transfer has taken Place in his effects since that time that he (illegible) way and still is
(illegible) poore -  he further states that he is a former (illegible) occupation, that from old age &
decrepitude, he is unable to labour to make a subsistence, that he was married and had
Ten Children  William, Willis, John, Ned, Alfred, Nancy, Alexander Henderson, Maka,
& Sally shortly after which his wife died leaving her child of three days old, that all his
children are dead or have left him that four are gone to the State of (illegible) and are (illegible) poor (illegible)
reproof, and that one daughter married in Orange County of the State . Has Children
and is extremely poor for that its with much difficulty they can procure a
substinance once that he did (illegible) by begging, and by doing some little
work to obtain some Clothing and subsistance-
Sworn to and declared on 24th day February AD 1832
His
Sampson X Wood
Mark
JA Smith
John W. Caldwell  Mackey
J Millis
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State of North Carolina
I John Hanner
Clerk of the Court of pleas and Quarter sessions for the County
of Guilford and State of Carolina do herby Certify that I appear to the
Satisfaction of the Court that the said Sampson wood, did serve in the Revolutionary war
as stated as the preceding declaration against the Commisssioning for the
Time of Twelve Months under one engagement on the Continental establishment
Certify that the foregoing oath and schedule thereto annexed are truly copied
from the records of said Court that the total amount of property exhibited in ┃
the aforesaid schedule is $100 Dollars


in testimony whereof I have Set my hand and affixed
the seal of said Court at office the 16th day of March
AD1832-
John Hanner CCC
(illegible)
A. Hanno
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Mr. Walter A. Wood
Racine
Wisconsin.

September 5, 1933.
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BA-J/ILL
Charles Wood-S.42084
Sampson Wood-S.42079.

Dear Sir:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the
records of Charles Wood and Sampson Wood, Revolutionary War soldiers,
both pensioners.
The records of these two soldiers are furnished herein.
CHARLES WOOD -S. 42084.
The data given below are obtained from the papers on file in
pension claim, S. 42084, based upon the service of Charles Wood in
the Revolutionary War.
Charles Wood enlisted sometime in May, 1776, in Wake County,
North Carolina, served as private in Captain Philip Taylor's company,
6" North Carolina regiment, was in the battles of Brandywine, Germantown, Monmouth, in many skirmishes in the north, and in the siege of
Charleston, during which he was taken prisoner and was held fourteen
months, and was discharged at the conclusion of peace in 1783 by Captain
William Lytle.
He was allowed pension on his application executed May 9, 1818,
at which time he resided in Orange County, North Carolina.

In 1820, the soldier was about seventy-two years of age, and
his wife, whose name is not stated, was sixty-five years of age; the
dates of birth of the places of birth, of neither the soldier nor his
wife are shown. His daughter, then twenty-nine years old, and her two
small children lived with him, theirn names not stated.
Charles Wood died July 31, 1837.
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Sampson Wood - S.42079.
The record of Sampson Good is shown in the papers on file in
his pension claim, S. 42079, based upon his service in the Revolutionary War.
Sampson Wood enlisted, date and place not shown, and served three
months as private in the North Carolina troops, officers not named.
Afterwards, he enlisted May 25, 1781, in Hillsborough, Orange County,
North Carolina, served as private in Captain Donoho's company, Colonel
Abraham Shepard's North Carolina regiment, was in the battle of Eutaw
Springs and was discharged May 25, 1782, about twenty-five miles from
Charleston, South Carolina.

He was allowed pension on his application executed February 24,
1832, at which time he resided in Guilford County, North Carolina; he
was then aged about seventy-two years, the date and place of his birth
and names of his parents not stated.

The soldier had ten children, whose names are as follow: William,
Willis, John, Ned, Alfred, Nancy, Alexander, Henderson, McKee, and Sally
who was three days old when her mother died; the name of her mother and
the date of her death are not stated. In 1832, five of soldier's children
were living in Tennessee, and one married daughter, with children, was
in Orange County, North Carolina; no names were designated and there are
no further data relative to the family.
Sampson Good died February 4, 1834, the place not stated.
Very truly yours,

A. D. HILLER,
Assistant to Administrator.
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SAMPSON WOOD -S. 42072.
The record of Sampson Wood is shown in the papers on file in
his pension claim, S. 42079, based upon his service in the Revolutionary War.

Sampson Wood enlisted, datesand place not shown, and served three
months as private in the North Carolina troops, officers not named.
Afterwards, he enlisted May 25, 1781, in Hillsborough, Orange County,
North Carolina, served as private in Captain Donoho's Company, Colonel
Abraham Shepard's North Carolina regiment, was in the battle of Eutaw
Springs and was discharged May 25, 1782, about twenty-five miles from
Charleston, South Carolina.

He was allowed pension on his application executed February 24,
1832, at which time he resided in Guilford County, North Carolina; he
was then aged about seventy-two years, the date and place of his birth
and names of his parents not stated.

The soldier had tenchildren, whose names are as follow: William,
Willis, John, Ned, Alfred, Nancy, Alexander, Henderson, McKee, and Sally
who was three days old when her mother died; the name of her mother and
the date of her death are not stated. In 1832, five of soldier's children
were living in Tennessee, and one daughtardaughter, with children, was
in Orange County, North Carolina; no names were designated and there are
no further data relative to the family.
Sampson Good died February 4, 1834, the place not stated. A. B.
Very truly yours,
2.
A. D. HILLER,
Assistant to Administrator.
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Received
Aug 26 1933
Pension Div. 
(illegible)
This side of card for address
Pension Bureau,
Washington, D.C.
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Racine, Wis., August 22, 1933.
Dear Sir:
Please send family and Rev. War record
of the following Revolutionary War soldiers:
---
Charles Wood, N. Carolina, Cont ' 1. 5-9 -1818
Sampson Wood, Pvt. N.C. Cont ' l. 3-16-1832.
Address:
1433-38 Junction Ave.

Yours truly,
Walter A. Wood.
Walter A. Wood
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ILL
1933 Sept 5. Hist. to Walter A. Wood
ILL
42079
INVALID.
Revy
File No. 4.9079
Sampson Wood
Pri Rev War
Act: 18 March 18
Index: - Vol. 3 , Page 573
Arrangement of 1870.]
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State of North Carolina
Suritary of State's Office
I William Hill Secretary of State in and for the
State aforesaid, do certify that it appears from the
musterrolls of the Continental line of said State
in the revolutionary war that Sampson Wood a
private Soldier in Capt Donoho's Company of the 10th
Regiment enlisted on the 25th day of May 1781, for the
term of 12 months and left the service on the
25th day of May 1782
Given under my hand this
1st day of Decr 1831.
W. Hill
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Georgetown
Mar 
27

pen to com: March 16. 1832
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FREE
(illegible)
Pension Office
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James L.  Edward Eq
Sir 
I enclose you the application
Sampson Wood of Guilford Coungy NC
saying for a pension
Yr. Ob. Ser, 
A H Shepperd
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
Form VAN-51
12-5-41
BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
Division of Veterans' Administration Archives

NAME Wood, Samuel
GRADE Private
LINE Connecticut
Wood, Samuel Private
WARRANT NUMBER 6612
ACREAGE 1000
ISSUED June 24, 1797
to John Duncan assignee

Connecticut

The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of ""Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800"" which are
registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent
dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800.
Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.