Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 4,405, James Wood, Ga.
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE Ga.
Wood, James
Elizabeth
NUMBER
W.4.405
CONTENTS
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7348
Georgia
Elizabeth Wood
widow of James Wood
who was a pensioner under the Act of 1832
and who died on the 4th Sept. 1836.
of Heard Coy in the State of Georgia
who was a [illegible]: Lieut: in the company 
commanded by Captain Walton of the
Regt. commanded by Col. Elbert in the
Georgia - line for 6mos: private 
18 [illegible] Lieutenant
Inscribed on the Roll of Georgia at
the rate of 260-Dollars-
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 20th day of
June 1843 and sent to James Wood Corinth- Heard Co Georgia
Whole amount due $1300.00
{Act July 7, 1838.}
Recorded by [illegible] Clerk.
Book A Vol. 2 Page 201
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Let to Jas Wood ab C14. 1843
Georgia 12.617
James Wood
of Heard Co. in the State of Georgia
who was a Priv. & Lieut. in the company commanded by Captain Walton of the regt. commanded
by Col. Elbert-- in the Georgia
line for 6 months Pai. 18 months Lieut-
Inscribed on the Roll of Georgia
at the rate of 260 Dollars
Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 14th day of May 33 and sent James Wood
Newnan - Coweta Co Georgia
Arrears to the 4th of March 33 - 520
Semi-anl.  allowance ending 4th Sept 130
650-
Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832
Recorded by Rush Newman Clerk,
Book E Vol. 6 Page 106
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THE NEW TESTAMENT
OF OUR
LORD and SAVIOUR
JESUS CHRIST,
Newly Translated out of the
ORIGINAL GREEK,
AND
with the former TRANSLATIONS diligently compared and revised,
By his Majesty's Special Command.
Appointed to be read in CHURCHES
-
CAMBRIDGE
Printed by JOHN ARCHDEACON Printer to the UNIVERSITY
And fold by JOHN BEECROFT, JOHN RIVINGTON, BENJAMIN WHITE, and EDWARD DILLY, in London; and T. & J. MERRILL, in Cambridge. 1769.
CUM PRIVILEGIO.
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James Wood Born the 19th of January 1735.
Elizabeth Wood, born the 30th of January 1765
James & Elizabeth, was married 18th Dec. 1783
Mary Wood, born the 25th September 1784.
Elizabeth Wood, born the 22d August 1789.
Ann Wood, born the 4th of March 1792
Elizabeth Wood, died 16th February 1795
Augustus Wood, born 15th of November 1795
James Wood, born 26th February 1799
John Sandiford Wood born 10th February 1802
Thomas Wood born, 3, July, 1804.
Elizabeth Sandiford born 6th September
Mary Ann Wood Sandiford born 17th August 1808
James Wood died 4th September 1836
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9045
Elizabeth Wood
Georgia
Act 7 July 38
Admitted 
6 mo priv
18 mo Lt
Copies
1 " St
$260 peran
James Wood Esq
Corinth
Heard Co georgia
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State of Georgia
Heard County
On this the third (3, day
of May Eighteen Hundred and forty
three personally appeared before me
Thomas Hilley one of the Judges of
the Inferior Court of Heard County
and State of Georgia, the Reverent
William W Steagall and Ann
Steagall, who both being first
duly sworn, according to law,
doth on their oath, State, that they
were well acquainted with James
Wood, in his life time and that they
both Knows his (James Woods, hand
writing, and that the entry made on
the family record, (which is hereunto
annexed) of the marriage of James
and Elizabeth Meaning James
and Elizabeth Wood on the Eighteen
18, day of December Seventeen hundred
and Eighty three, is in the hand
writing of the said James Wood
deceased, and they further
they were present when
said James Wood died, which was on
the fourth day of September
Eighteen hundred and thirty six
and that Elizabeth Wood, the
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present applicant for a pension is
the Widow of the said James Wood
deceased, late a revolutionary pensioner
of the United States, and
that she has never since married
Sworn to and Subscribed
on the day and year above
written before me
4
Thomas Hilley 116
Wm. W. Stegall
Ann Stegall
State of Georgia ⎬
Heard County
I Thomas Hilley
one of the Judges of the Inferior
Court of Howard County and State of
Georgia, do hereby certify, that the
Reverent William W Stegall and
Ann Stegall are both persons of
respectability and are entitled to
full credit on their oath, this the
third day of May Eighteen
hundred and forty three (1843)
Thomas Hilley 196
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Georgia
Heard County ⎬ I William Davis
Clerk of the Inferior
Court of Heard County and State of
Georgia, do hereby certify that
the attestations of Thomas Hilley
as Judge of the Inferior Court, to the
foregoing declaration, affidavits
and certificates, are in his own
proper hand writing and that he is
one of the Judges of the Inferior Court
of Heard County and State of Georgia
and that all due faith and credit
ought to be given to his attestations
as such, Given under my hand 
and private seal, their being
no Seal of office, this the fourth
day of May Eighteen hundred
and forty three
Wm Davis  C.T.C.
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Declaration of
Elizabeth Wood, the widow of Lieutenant
James Wood deceased, late a revolutionary
pensioner of the United States; In order to
obtain the benefit of the act of Congress
of the 7th July 1838, entitled an act granting
half pay and pensions to certain widows
State of Georgia
Heard County
On this the third (3,
day of May Eighteen hundred and
forty three, personally appeared before
me Thomas Hilley one of the Judges
of the Inferior Court of the County of Heard
and State of Georgia Elizabeth Wood
a resident of Georgia in the County of
Heard, aged Seventy Eight years, who
being first duly sworn, according to law,
doth, on her oath, make the following
declaration, in order to obtain the benefit
of the provision made by the act of Congress,
passed July 7 1838 entitled "an act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows"
That she is the widow of James Wood
deceased, who this deponant believes, first
entered the service of the United States, as a
private in a volunteer company raised
in the State of Virginia, in the early part of
the revolutionary War, and was afterwards
promoted to the rank of Lieutenant, but
what company or companies, regiments or
Corps, he served in, or what officer or officers
he served under, or what service he did
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perform during the revolutionary war,
this deponent is unable to State, not knowing;
for all of the affidavits, with such documentary
evidence as James Wood deceased, the husband of this deponent had in possession or could procure at that day, proving his services in the revolutionary war, was forwarded on
by him, to the pension office of the United States, for the purpose of procuring him his
pension, under the act passed the Seventh
day of June Eighteen hundred and thirty
two on which testimony he obtained his
certificate and drew his pension during life;
to the above mentioned testimony of James
Wood deceased, now on file in the pension
office of the United States, this deponent will
most respectfully refer the department to,
to prove the revolutionary services of James
Wood deceased, the husband of this deponent
not being able at this distant day to procure
the testimony of living witnesses, to prove the
services of James Wood deceased, during the
revolutionary war, neither can she procure
any documentary evidence, proving the
services of James Wood deceased, further
than those now on file in the pension
office of the United States, in Washington. She
further declares that she was
married to the said James Wood, on the
Eighteenth day of December in the year
Seventeen hundred and Eighty three.-
That her husband the aforesaid James
Wood, died on the fourth day of September
Eighteen hundred and thirty six - That
she was not married to him prior to his
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leaving the service, but the marriage took
place previous to the first of January Seven
teen hundred and ninety four. Viz, At the
time above stated;
And this deponent further
declares, that she has no record proof of her
Marriage with James Wood, other than the
family record, which is in the hand writing
of the said James Wood her deceased
husband and that the said record of her
marriage with James Wood, which is taken
from the family Bible and is hereunto
annexed, who keep in his, James Wood's
possession during his life time, and since his
death, it has been keep in her, this deponent
possession and that the said James Wood,
the deceased husband of this deponent,
was a revolutionary Pensioner, and drew his
pension regularly at Savannah Georgia and
that the said James Wood, deceased
lived in Heard County Georgia during the
time he drew his pension and died
in the said County and State at the before
stated time -
Sworn to and subscribed
on the day and year above
written, before me
Thomas Hilley J J C  Elizabeth Wood
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State of Georgia
Heard County

I Thomas Hilley
One of the Judges of the Inferior Court of
said State and County, do hereby certify
that Elizabeth Wood, who appeared
before me this day and was sworn to this
written declaration, for the purpose of
procuring a pension, is unable from
bodily infirmity to attend and appear
in open Court, this the third day of
May Eighteen hundred and forty
three, 1843
Thomas Hilley JJC
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State of Georgia
Heard County
On this 17 day of August
Eighteen Hundred & Thirty two
personally appeared before me John M. Ware, one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of said County & State, James Wood, a resident of the
County Heard and State of Georgia aged 77 years. (the applicant not being able to attend in open court) 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, That I entered into the service of the U.S. in the company of Captain Jesse Walton, of second regiment continental Troops-- as a volunteer, about the 1st December 1776. the
said regiment was commanded by Col. Samuel Elbert, Col. John Stark and Maj. John Cuthbert, I left the Regiment Continental troops about the 1 July 1777 and accepted the appointment of a first Lieutenant in  Capt Folson's Company, in the Second Regiment of Georgia State Troops, commanded by Col. Stuart, Lieut Col Elijah Clark and Maj. Resa Howard. When I entered the service I was living in Prince Edward
County Virginia, I entered the service first as a volunteer and was rendezvoused at George Walton's in Prince Edward County Virginia, and were marched from their through Salisbury North Carolina, Camden South Carolina,
Perrysburg and to Savannah Georgia
When we arrived in Savannah, we were reviewed and sent up to Golfington in June 1777- where a treaty was
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then holding with the Indians, after the conclusion of the treaty, we were march to Falson's fort on the Ogeecher River for the protection of the frontiers of the State Georgia. In July 1777. I accepted the appointment of first Lieutenant in Capt Folson's Company in the second Regiment, Georgia State troops, commanded by Col Stuart Lieut Col E. Clark & May R. Howard, in March 1778 we were ordered on to proceed on an expedition to Florida, on my march to Florida. I received a wound in my right arm at Isreal Birds Mills then Chatham County Georgia from thence we were ordered to St Mary's, on arriving at St Marys we remained there a few days and were ordered
to march to Fort Toniau on arriving at Fort Toniau we found, Gen Robert Howe and the Continental troops and a Brigade of South Carolina Militia commanded by Gen Williamson, and a Brigade of Georgia Militia
commanded by Gov. John Houston. A council of war having been held a retreat was ordered on the 12th July 1778, being wounded myself, I was allowed to proceed to Savannah. Capt Folson was ordered back to his station
at Folson's fort on the Ogeechee, unfortunately after his arrival at the fort (Folsom's) Capt Folsom and seven privates were killed by the Indians. I was then the only surviving officer belonging to the company and was then wounded myself- I retired from the service the last of December 1778 I have no Documentary evidence without my copy Grant of my Bounty land for services performed during the revolutionary war in Georgia, be admitted as
such, which is hereunto annexed, neither do I know of
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any person now living, whose testimony I can procure, who can prove my services. I have never received a pension from any of States or from the United States and I hereby relinquish every claim whatever to a pension or annuity
except the present, and declare that my name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State
Sworn to and Subscribed
the day & year aforesaid
James Wood
John M. Ware JC
August 27th 1832
Answers to the following Interrogatories
Interrogatory 1st when and in what year were you born-
I was born in King & Queen County Virginia on
the 19th January 1755

Interrogatory 2

Have you any record of your age, and if so, where is it

Answer
I have no record of my age, and I cannot say that any was ever kept but learnt my age from my parents-

Int - 3

Where were you living when called into service, where have you lived since the Revolutionary war, and where do you now live

Answer
I was living in Prince Edward County Virginia. I have lived since the Revolutionary war, 15 years in Liberty County 27 years in Columbia County, & 2 years & 6 months Heard County Georgia, where I am now living
(over )
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Interrogatory 4 
How were you called into service; were you
drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute

Answer
I was at first a volunteer, until I received a
Commission

Int 5
State the names of some of the regular officers who were with the troops where you served; such continental & Militia regiments as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your services

Answer
I knew Col Joseph Habersham, Lieut Col John
McIntosh and Maj John Habersham of the first
regiment Continental Troops also Col. S. Elbert
Lieut Col. I Stark & Maj John Cuthbert of the second Regiment and Col Ray of the third and Col Who of the fourth regiments all continental officers  also General Robert Howe, also the officers commanding the regiment to which I was attached after I received a commission which was Col John Quart. Quit Col E Clark and May R Howard of the second regiment Georgia State troops - the general circumstances of my services were such as has been mentioned before in my declaration

Int 6
To an officer Did you ever receive a commission and if so, by whom was it signed, and what has become of it-

Answer
I did receive a commission of first Lieutenant and it was signed by Gov Treutlin, the then Gov of Georgia and I cannot now say, what has become of it, it is either lost or mislaid
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Interrogatory 7 
State the names of persons to whom you
known in your present neighbourhood, and who can testify as to your character for veracity, and their belief of your services as a soldier of the revolution

Answer
The Rev Jesse George and George W Tuerrentine
Jack Wood
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
John M Ware JC

Mr Jesse George, a clergyman residing in Hand
County, and George W Turrentine residing in Heard County hereby certify that we are well acquainted with James Wood, who has sworn to and subscribed to the above declaration, that we believe him to Seventy seven years of age; that he is reputed and believed
in the neighbourhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the revolution, and that we concur in that opinion
Jesse George
Sworn and subscribed, the day
and year aforesaid
Turrentine
And I John M Ware one of Judges of the Inferior Court of the County of State of Georgia, do hereby  declare it to be my opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories
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prescribed by the war Department, that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states. And I John M Ware further certifies that Jesse George who has signed the preceding certificate, is a clergyman, residing in the County of Heard and that George W Turrentine who has signed the same also, is a resident in the County of Heard and is a creditable person, and that their
statement is entitled to credit 
John M Ware

I Paschal H Taylor Clerk of the Inferior
Court of Heard County Georgia do hereby certify that John Ware is one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of the County of Heard and State of Georgia, and that all due faith and credit ought to be attached to his attestations as one of our Judges and that the foregoing contains the original proceeding of the said John M Ware as one of our Judges, in the
matter of the application of James Wood for a pension
In testimony whereof, I have here
unto set my hand and seal of office this 28th day of August 1832
Paschal W. Taylor CCJ
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Papers
Esquire for the
Grant made to
Wood
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land
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Lieut James Wood
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Scale of rocks to an inch
Georgia
Washington County ⎬
Warrant from the Honorable
in Habersham Esqr President of the Executive
incil, dated May 27th 1784 
And Surveyed July
Benjamin Catchug D.
Surv. Genr, Office
11th Nov 1819
No 953
The above is a true Copy of the
Record Book F. page 425
Dan Sturges Sv, Genl
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State of Georgia.

By the Honorable Edward Telfair Esquire,
Captain General, Governor and Commander in Chief in and over the said State.
To all to whom these presents shall come, GREETING:
KNOW YE, That in pursuance of the Act for opening the Land Office, and by virtue of
the Powers in me vested, I HAVE, by and with the advice and consent of the Honorable
the Executive Council, given and granted, and by these presents, in the name and behalf of
the said State, Do give and grant unto James Wood his Heirs and Assigns forever, ALL that tract or Parcel of Land, containing four hundred
and sixty Acres, situate, lying and being in the county of Washington, in the said state, and butting and bounding Northeast by Hinds's Northwest by Callan Compp Land, Southwardly by unknown and on all other sides by vacant Land
Bounty
having such shape form, and marks, as appear by a Plat of the same hereunto annexed; together with all and singular the rights, members and appurtenances thereof, whatsoever, to the said Tract or Parcel of Land belonging or in any wise appertaining; and also all the estate, right, title, interest, claim and demand, of the state aforesaid, of, in, to, or out of the same
. TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the said Tract or Parcel of Land, and all and singular
the Premises aforesaid, with their and every of their rights, members and appurtenances
, unto the said James Wood his
Heirs and Assigns, to his and their own proper use and behoof forever, in Fee-Simple.
GIVEN under my hand in Council, and the Great Set of the said State, this Twenty fourth
of May in the year of our Lord one thou
sand seven hundred and eighty six
and in the tenth year of American Inde-pendence.
signed by his Honor the Governor in Council the 24th day of May 1786
Edw.Telfair
Secretary of States office 11th November 1844
I certify that the above is a true copy from the
register of Grant in this Office Book JJJ
Page 583 illegible signature
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Georgia
Heard County 
Personally appeared before me the
undersigned James Stroud- a Justice of the peace of said State & County James
Wood, who being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades:                      
For seven months, I served as a soldier in the second company, in the second Regiment continental troops (to wit) from the first day of December 1776 until the first day of July 1777): For one year and six months, I served as a first Lieutenant in the Georgia State troops, (to wit) from the first day of July 1777 until the thirty first day of December 1778 and for such service I claim a pension
James Wood
Sworn to and subscribed
before me this 29 day of April
1833 James Stroud J.P


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State of Georgia
This is to certify that James Wood
was commissioned to serve as a Lieutenant in the Battalion of Minute men, raised for the
defense of the State, by resolve of Assembly, passed the 3d June, 1777; and that the said James Wood was not at the time of his being
commissioned, as inhabitant of this State, nor had he resided in any part thereof for
months proceeding his being commissioned, and further that he was in service at the time the said Battalion was reduced by a subsequent resolve of March 1st 1778.
Given under my Hand
at Savannah this Sixteenth
day of March 1784
Elijah Clark Colo
By order of Colo Clark
George Walton
Executive Department Ga
Milledgeville 6th May 1833
I do hereby certify that the foregoing certificate is truly copied from the original filed in this Office And further, that from various files in this Department it does satisfactorily appear, that the late Colonel Elijah Clark, was at the time of giving the afforsaid certificate, in the official command as Colonel appended to his name In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and caused
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the Seal of the Executive
Department to be affixed
at the State house in
Milledgeville this Sixth
day of May Eighteen
hundred and thirty three
-
Wilson Lumpkin
3
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Revy WIDOW, &c.

File No. 4405
Elizth Wood
Wid
Jas Wood,
Lieut, Ga. line
Act: July 1738
Index: - Vol. M, Page 352
(Arrangement of 1870.)
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Milledgeville Ga
May 1st 1833
To J L Edwards Esq
Dear Sir
Enclosed you will receive, again the application of James Wood for a pension, as amended, as far as his memory serves him since arriving at the seat of Government, and in searching over the old mutilated records of the Revolution, which still remain in the Executive department of this State, I was fortunate enough to find for the old man, the original certificate of Col. Clark, certifying, that James Wood was commissioned as a Lieutenant, in the State service, a copy of which Certificate is herein enclosed. On inquiry at the executive department, I  find that the old man was mistaken as respects, his name having been
returned by the Executive of this State, to the war department, the Governor informed me, that a list of the names of those officers and soldiers only, who had served in the Georgia Continental line to the end of the war, and
who had afterwards made application for their bounty lands, were returned as well as he recollects, the information therefore in my former letter to you, stating that the name of James Wood had been forwarded to the war
department is incorrect as he was in the State service at the end of the war, and not in the Continental. The certificate of Col. Clark, which is enclosed, I think that he applicant James Wood was commissioned the States in his application for a pension. At this late date, the applicant memory is so treacherous, that it is next to an impossibility for him to answer
the interrogatories put by the war department satisfactorily, the additional oath required by the war department, to be made in case of the decay of memory of the applicant is also enclosed. Also the certificate of the Governor proving the official character of P. H. Taylor, James Stone 
the Clerk of the Inferior Court, and Justice of the Peace, no member of Congress
having been personally acquainted with Mr Taylor. Your early attention to this case, may smooth over the few remaining days of an old soldier of the revolution, should he obtain his pension, please Sir inform me of the
success of this claim as early as possible and direct your letter to Newnan Coweta County Georgia and Oblige yours
James Wood
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Ent Horran
Comp Gral
United States of America.
STATE OF GEORGIA.
By his Excellency Wilson Lumpkin Governor and Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of this State, and of of the Milia thereof.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME:
Know Ye, That Paschal W. Taylor whose
attestation appears to the annexed application
for a pension is and was at the date of the same Clerk of the Inferior Court of the County
of Heard in said State, and James Stroud
whose attestation appears to the annexed
affidavit of James Wood is and was at the
of the same a Justice of the peace for the
County of Heard in said State, and that said
attestations are in due form and by the proper
officers
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Wilson
THEREFORE all faith, credit and authority are and ought to be had and given to their
attestation as such
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the Great Seal of this State to be put and affixed.
DONE at the State House, in Milledgeville, this seventh day of May in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and thirty three
and of the Independence of the United States of America, the fifty 
BY THE GOVERNOR:
Ernest Carriton
Secretary of State
Received 25 cents
W G Willborn
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Corinth Heard County a
J L Edwards Esq
Dear Sir
Enclosed you will receive the
application of Elizabeth Wood, for a pension
or five years pay of the pension that was
drawn by her deceased husband James
Wood, late a revolutionary pensioner-
From her extreme old age and loss of
memory, she was unable to relate any of
the circumstances in connection with the
services of her decd husband, and the the
found it impossible to procure any testimony
of the services of her husband, the only
documentary evidence which she could
have proceeded in a certified copy of
the grant of the Bounty land, that was
given to Lieut. James Wood for his revolutionary
services by the State of Georgia but I
concluded that it would be useless to forward
that to you, as I had myself forwarded
it to you for Lieut James Wood, when his
application for a pension was before you
she can obtain in other testimony of her
husbands services, but the James
Wood, which is on file in your office
I
hope will be sufficient to procure the old
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lady her pension, she applies under the
law of the 7th July 1838-- Should there be
any corrections which will have to be
made, or any other business relative to ^the claim
please address me in future at Corinth
Heard County Georgia
I am Sir Very Respectfully
Yours
James Wood
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Watson Post Office
7th April 1843
J L Edwards Esq
Dear Sir
I was called on a few days
age to make out the papers of Mrs
Elizabeth Wood, for the purpose of procuring
for her a pension-- She is the widow of
Lieut. James Wood, Decd late a revolutionary
pensioner of the U.S. who died on the 4th of
September 1836- but having no form
and not knowing what testimony would be
required of her, to entitle her to draw during
life, a pension, in lieu of her decd husband
(having never examined the late law on the
subject) I was at a loss how to [crossed out] (prepare) draw
them, and called on the Hon. Walter T Colgquett
the U.S. Senate for the necessary information
who directed me to write to you and stated
that you would forward on to me, blanks
and all the necessary information, and how
to fill them up and what would be required
of the widow to prove, before she would
be entitled under the law, to draw a pension
in lieu of her Decd husband. It has been
but a few days since, that she became in
possession of the fact, that she was entitled
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to a pension. She is an aged infirm old
woman and in indigent circumstances
and your early attention to this letter, should
you be in the habit of forwarding blanks
to such applicants, would confer a lasting
favor on an aged female, the wife of a faithful
Soldier of the revolution, please Sir direct
your letter to me at Watson's Post Office
Coweta County Georgia
Yours very Respectfully
James Wood
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
Form VAM-51
12 - 5 - 41
BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
Division of Veterans' Administration Archives
NAME Wood, James 1st GRADE Private LINE Maryland
WARRANT NUMBER 11789 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED July 8, 1797 to James DeBaufre, assignee
*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.