Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 44096, Thomas Wood, Continental Penn. & Sea Service
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Service  
Continental Penn. & Sea Service
Wood, Thomas
Number S44096
Contents
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81734
New York. 
Thomas Wood of Phelps in the state of New York who was a private in the regiment commanded Colonel Hartley of the Pennsylvania line, for the term of three years

Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence the 16 of April 1818

Certificate of Pension issued the 25 of Mar 1819 sent to Stephen Phelps Esquire Canandaigua New York

Arrears to 4th of March 1819 $85.56
Semi anl. all'ce [annual allowance] ending 4 Sept 1819 48
$133.56
{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818.}

continued
July Sept [illegible]

A B Died Dec 8-1840

Notification sent to Stephen Phelps 24 Sep 1820
Canandaigua N. Y.
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Thomas Wood
Pens Act 1818.
Ontario Co N. Y.
L M Class Esq
Please examine the papers refered [referred] to within and oblige
W G Wade
Ex
Sep 15 1852
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To the Commissioner of Pensions
Dear Sir
Please allow W.G. Wade of [illegible] Wayne Co N. York to Reopen & Examine the Pension papers of Thomas Wood my father late deceased who was a pensioner of the United States for services done in the war of the revolution in which I have an interest
Phelps Aug 27 1852
I am Sir with much respect
Your Obedent Servt [obedient servant]
John Wood
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Case of     Copy
Thomas Wood
8173
25 Mar 1819
Sep 19
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STATE OF NEW YORK,
ONTARIO COUNTY, SS.
On this 21st day of August 1820 personally appeared in open Court, being a Court of Common Pleas in and for said county, and constituted a Court of Record by proceeding according to the course of the Common Law, with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, and keeping a record of its proceedings, and recognized as such Court by the laws and judicial decisions of said State Thomas Wood aged Sixty five years, resident of the town of Phelps in said county, who being, first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare, that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows:
Under Capt [Captain] Stoddard in Colonel Hartland Regiment called the sixteenth additional regiment Pennsylvania Line as a Private for the term of three years commencing in Mar 1778 and at recevd [received] my discharge in January 1781
and that he made application for a pension on the Twenty fifth of March 1819 and that he received a Pension Certificate, No. 8.173 And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and that I have not since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it 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 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 due to me, nor have I any income other than what is contained in the Schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed, viz.
One Cow & Calf $18.00 One Hogg $4.00 one ax & hoe 1.00 23 00
Six old Chairs & one old Tubb ---- 1.00
One damaged 5 Pail Settle 2.00 or 5 [illegible] $0.90 2 90
Six Plates  0.37 Four knives & Forks 0.37   1 49
Set Cups & Saucers 0.37 Tea Pot 0.37 Tea Kettle 0.75-   1 49
One Bible & Hymn Book  1 00
Thos [Thomas] Wood

And I do further swear & declare that I am by Occupation a Farmer and that in consequence of a wound recvd [received] on Board of Ship Trooper Capt [Captain] John Earls, I am unable to perform, any [illegible] labour, [labor] and that my Family consists of my Wife Aged Sixty four years and from age unable to do any thing for her support, my Daughter Nancy aged Twenty four, and so far gone in a decline that she cannot last much longer
Thos. Wood
Sworn & declard [declared] this 21st day of August 1820 in Open Court before me
Wm Rogers
a Judge of Ontario Common Pleas
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ONTARIO COUNTY, ss.
I John Van Fossen in The Clerk of said county, do hereby certify, that the foregoing Oath, and the Schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the Record of the said Court; and I further certify, that it is the opinion of the said Court, that the amount in value of the property exhibited in the said Schedule, is Thirty dollars and Thirteen cents. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this 22d day of August 1820
J Van Fossen Clerk of the Court aforesaid, in and for said County.
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Claim of
Thomas Wood
April 14th 1818
Pennsylvania Line

The Honorable
Secry [Secretary] of War

Admitted
Phelps
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State of New York}
Ontario County } ss
Thomas Wood of the Town of Phelps in the County of Ontario and State of New York formerly of Prince Georges County in the State of Maryland being duly cautioned and Sworn does depose say and [illegible] that he the Deponant [Deponent] was a Natural Born and now is a Citizen of the United States and he Served this country in the Revolutionary war against the Common Enemy and  that he the Deponant [Deponent] enlisted in May 1778 for three years and was mustered as a private Soldier in Captain [illegible] Stoddarts Company in Colonel Hartleys Regiment called the 18th Additional regiment. His first year stationed at Wyoming on the Susquehanna River and in 1779 was in Sullivans Expedition
against the Indians and the third year he served under Lieutenant McCurdy [illegible] Company in Colonel Hoobleys Regiment in the Pensylvany [Pennsylvania] line stationed of Mourtown Considerable part of the time and on the 28th day of January 1781 about three months before his term of Inlistment [enlistment] [illegible] the other three years Men received an honorable Discharge . and that in 1782 he entered on Board the Merchant Ship Trooper at Baltimore [illegible] Soon Captured by his B-M Ship formerly Called [illegible]. and was wounded in the Action by a Musket Ball in his sholder [shoulder] which was Never
Extracted and that he by reason said wound was disabled from performing any business for Nine months as is yet a [illegible] Injury to him and that when he was Captured his discharge for the said three years Service was taken from him with other articles and never Returned and the deponant [deponent] further saith he is in Indigent circumstances and in need of support from Government being Sixty three years of age and
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therefore prays that he may be placed on the Pention [pension] list pursuant to an act of Congress passed March 18th 1818 entitled an act to provide for Certain Persons Engaged in the Land and Navel [Naval] Service of the United States in the
Revolutionary war and further saith not
Thos [Thomas] Wood
Sworn to declared and subscribed this 14th day of April 1818 before me Stephen Phelps a Judge of the Court a Common pleas in and for the County of Ontario and State of New York}

Ontario County ss
I Stephen Phelps a Judge of the Court of Common pleas in and for Said County do
Certify that it has appeared to his satisfaction that the said Thomas Wood did Serve
in the Revolutionary war as stated in the preceding declaration against the common
Enemy and I now transmit the precedings and testimony had and taken before me
to the Secretary for the department of War pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress
Stephen Phelps
Canandaugua April 14th 1818}
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Ontario County ss
I Stephen Phelps a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County do hereby certify from satisfactory evidence exhibited before me that Thomas Wood the aforementioned applicant is in reduced circumstances and in need of assistance from his Country
for support-- Canandaigua July 8th 1818-
Stephen Phelps

The Honorable Sucetary [Secretary] of war
if my claims are allowed will please to forward my certificate to Stephen Phelps Esqr [Esquire] of Canandagua [Canandaigua] who is my agent
Canandagua [Canandaigua] April 14th 1818
Thos [Thomas] Wood
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State of New York}
Ontario County} ss
Clerks office}

I Testimony that Stephen Phelps whose name is subscribed to the foregoing certificate was on the day of the date of the same one of the Judges of the court of common pleas in and for the County of Ontario and that the same was his signature I hereunto subscribe my name and affix the county seal at Canandaigua this 24th day of April AD 1818
Jon McNair Clk [clerk]
[white paper attached to left margin]
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June 14, 1939.

Mrs. Claudia Black 
Bon Air
Virginia.

RA-J/ILL             [written 'am']
Thomas Wood
S.  44096

Dear Madame,

Reference is made to your letter in which you request information in regard to your ancestor, Thomas Wood, who resided in Phelps, New York, in 1818.  

The data which follow were obtained from the papers on file in pension claim, S. 44096, based upon service of Thomas Wood in the Revolutionary War.  

Thomas Wood was born in America; the names of his parents and date and state in which he was born are not shown, nor his residence at the time he entered service.  

He enlisted in May 1778, served as private in Captain Benjamin Stoddard's company, Colonel Hartley's Continental regiment stationed at Wyoming on the Susquehanna River, served also in Sullivan's Expedition against the Indians, and later under Lieutenant McCurdy and Colonel Hubley's Pennsylvania regiment at Morristown and was discharged January 28, 1781.  Some time in 1782, at Baltimore he entered on board the ship, Trooper, Captain John Early, and was in an engagement in which he received a musket ball wound in his shoulder, on account of which he was unable to complete service of nine months for which he had enlisted.  

Thomas Wood was allowed pension on his application executed April 14, 1818, at which time he resided in Phelps, Ontario County, New York.  He stated then that he was formerly of Prince George's County, Maryland, but did not specify the time at which he had resided in Maryland.  

In 1820, the soldier gave his age as sixty-five years and that of his wife at fifty-four years; he did not give her name, nor the
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nor the date and place of their marriage.  A daughter, Nancy, aged twenty-four was the only child living at home in 1820.  

Thomas Wood died December 8, 1840.

In 1852, the soldier's son, John Wood, resided in Phelps, New York. 

Very truly yours, 

A. D. HILLER, 
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator.


2.
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REVOLUTIONARY WAR RECORDS SECTION.
3-525
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, 
BUREAU OF PENSIONS
Washington, D. C. , Oct. 11, 1920

In reply to your request of [blank] , received [blank] for a statement of the military history of Thos. Wood a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.  

DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT - May 1778
LENGTH OF SERVICE.
to Jan 28, 1781
RANK
Pvt.
OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.
CAPTAIN - Benj. Stoddard   
COLONEL - HARTLEY

LIEUT. McCURDY    
COLONEL  - HUBLEY
STATE - Pa


1782   ON SHIP 'TROOPER' Where he was soon wounded by musket ball in shoulder.

Battles engaged in,  Capt. Jno. Earley - Sullivan's Ex. against Indians
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Not stated
Date of application for pension, Apl. 14,1818 Cl. al.
Residence at date of application, Phelps Ontario Co., NY
Age at date of application,  63

Remarks:  In 1820 he refers to his wife as lost (name not stated) and daughter Nancy as 20. A son John was living in Phelps, NY in 1852.  No further family data.  

Respectfully, 

Commissioner


6-2856
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April 3-1938
Bon Air Va

Bureau of Pensions
War Department
Washington, D. C.

Gentlemen - I am trying to fill out an application blank to the Daughters of American Revolution and a request of this order tells me I have to have a certain statement from the above Bureau -- I do not want a pension -- I seem to need the "complete statement filed by my relative Thomas Wood when he applied and received his pension in 1818"

Thanking you for this favor I am
 Sincerely 
(Mrs) Claudia Black
Bon Air, Va.

[stamped received APR 5 1939]
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Two "Received" stamps,   showing Received 
APR 17 1939 OLD RECORDS DIVISION
APR 8, 1939 OLD RECORSDS DIVISION
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In regard to the enclosed letter -- I have this data --

"Thomas Wood enlisted in May 1778 and served three (3) years. He was a soldier in Col. Thos. Hartley's Regiment from Penn. and in Capt. Stoddard's Co.  He received a pension in Apr 1818 at the age of 63 years while living in Phelps, N.Y.  This record is found in the Pension Dept. in Washington, D. C.  

I need the complete statement filed by my relative Thomas Wood when he applied and received his pension in 1818.  

Thanking  you so much for this favor -- I am

Sincerely

(Mrs.) Claudia Black
Bon Air Va

[Stamped Received APR 15 1939_]
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 ORD/MN    1st Ind.

War Department, A.G.O., April 19, 1939. - To the Veterans Administration, Washington, D.C.

1.  Inviting attention to the letter of Mrs. Claudia Black who has not been informed of this reference.

E. S. ADAMS
Major General, 
The Adjutant General,
By H. C. Holdridge

1 Enclosure:
  Letter 4-8-39.

Stamp Showing
RECEIVED
APR 24 1939
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[written - 2 cl stamp & envelope enclosed]

189 Marsy Av.
Brooklyn, N.Y.
Sept. 1, 1920 - 

Dept. of the Interior
Bureau of Pensions,
Washington, D.C.

Rev. Sec CSW

Will you kindly give me the Revolutionary military history of Thomas Wood who received a pension in 1818 and resided at Phelps, N.Y.?

Will you also give me the same of Thomas Wood of Atkinson, N.H. who was 45 in 1775?

Truly yours
(Miss) Margaret M. Shaw
189 Marsy Ave.
Brooklyn, N.Y.
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2 Postal Stamps 
PENSION OFFICE SEP 3 1920

RECORDS DIVISION
SEP 4 1920
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8173    NOV 19 1802 FILES

Record and Pension Office
Washington, D.C.

will you kindly tell me of Thommas Wood who died in 1843, of Oneida, or Herkimer Co. New York State, he received a pension  from the Revolutionary War.  

Any information will be most kindly received by 
Miss Genieve Wood
Frankfort --
Herkimer Co.
N.Y.  

Nov "13" 1902
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POSTAL STAMP

PENSION OFFICE 
NOV 17 1902
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44096
INVALID.
Revy. 
File No. 44,096
Thomas Wood
Pri [Private] Rev War
Act: 18" March 18"
Index: - Vol. 5, Page 574.
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Dec - 3 - 1902

Miss Genieve Wood
Frankfort, N.Y.

1920, Oct 11 Hist to Miss Margaret - M Shaw - Ew

1939 - June 14 - Hist. to Mrs. Claudia Black - ILL
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Letter to T. E Clarke 9 Nov 1840

J L E

Nov 9: 40 
Mr Evans

[oval stamp UTICA N. Y.  Nov. 6]
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[stamp FREE] 
J. L. Edwards
Commission of Pension
Washington

[oval stamp UTICA N. Y. Nov. 6]

Nov 4: 40

Wm Evan

Letter to T. E Clarke 9 Nov 1840
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In the case of Thomas Wood, a pensioner I have since the [illegible] of your Letter of the 26' but made another fruitless attempt to get his half years pension money which was due in March last for the six months preceeding the 4th of that Month
It is impossible to get the money at the Albany Agency and I now wish to be informed whether having made three or four applications at the Albay office for this money I am at Liberty to Apply at Washington
Utica 5 Nov 1840 yours Thos [Thomas] C Clark
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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, Thomas 
GRADE Sergeant
LINE Maryland
WARRANT NUMBER 11800
ACREAGE 100
ISSUED February 1, 1790
to not shown-
*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 application 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.