Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 40722, Ebenezer Wood, Continental (New Jersey)
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE
Continental New Jersey
Wood, Ebenezer
NUMBER
S. 40722
CONTENTS
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Notification sent Sept. 11, 1820 to Daniel Millikin Esq. Hamilton Ohio

Ohio
134.
13491
Ebenezer Wood of Butler City in the state of Ohio who was a private Capt Rudolph (in the regiment commanded by) Colonel Lee's Legion of the Continental for the term of 4 years

ribed on the roll of Ohio the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 16 of June 1819

ificate of Pension issued the 31 of July 1819 sent to Daniel Millikin Esq. Hamilton, Ohio

Arrears to 4th of 
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Sept 1819 $21.06
[illegible] 19/30

{Revolutionary Claim, Act 18th March, 1818.}

Discontinued
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The State of Ohio
City of Cincinnati
Before me Mayor of the city of Cincinnati aforesaid personally came Cornelius Wood of said city who being duly sworn [illegible] and faith that his father Ebenezer Wood who resides in Reilly Township in the County of Butler & State Ohio, and who had applied for a pension this [illegible] words one of our representatives in Congress, owns no real of property of any description whatever the land on which said Ebenezer Wood lives belongs to me and I have the title for it in my own name and he resides there only by my permission.

Cornelius Wood
Sworn to and subscribed before me Jany 3, 1827
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name & affixed the seal of said city the day and year above
[illegible], Mayor
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1 March 1823
Ebenezer Wood
Ohio
a soldier of the Revolution
Schedule [illegible]
a copy
Hon. John Woods,
H. R.
Recd 6 Dec. 1826
1 Sept 1819
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The State of Ohio Butler County Js.

At a court of Common pleas holden at Hamilton in the county of Butler and State of Ohio before the Honorable Joshua Collett President and Robert Anderson, Henry Weaver and Robert Taylor Esquires Associate Judges of the said court of Common pleas, the same court of Common pleas being a court of record for said County of Butler, expressly created a court of record by the laws and ordinances of the said State of Ohio, on the twenty first day of September, One thousand eight hundred and twenty six, personally
appeared in open court Ebenezer Wood, aged sixty seven years, a resident of Hanover Township in the said county of Butler, who being duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows to wit, in the Regiment or Legion commanded by Colonel Henry Lee in the company or Troop of horse
commanded by John Rodolph on the Continental establishment; his original declaration was made on or about the sixteenth day of June 1819, his pension certificate is numbered 13491, he was in the battles of Somerset in New Jersey, and
of Guilford Court house in North Carolina, and at the taking of the Forts Enoree, Congaree, and Fort Golphin, 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 eighteenth day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities or contracts or debts due to me, nor have I any income or property other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and subscribed by me, to wit, my estate
real and personal is as follows, to wit, I occupy fifty acres of land on which about twenty acres are cleared.
I have no title or claim whatsoever to said land, other
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than the possession of it by the permission of my son Cornelius Wood, who is the owner of said land, who has permitted me to occupy it, but without any contract title or claim for the same. The Cabin and log burn situated on said fifty acres which I have heretofore occupied, are now nearly rotted down, and are unfit to be occupied. I have three cows, one yearling heifer and a calf, five small hogs and three pigs eight sheep and one spring colt, one table fire shovel and tongs & pair of andirons one candlestick, two iron kettles, two pots and one small brass kettle, one tea kettle, half a dozen plates, four knives and forks, two pewter dishes three pewter plates and old pewter basin, half a dozen milk crocks and two earthen jars, two buckets, one churn one old tub, one tea pot, half a dozen cups and saucers, half a dozen old chairs, two pork barrels, one half barre and four flour barrels, thirteen and one half bushel of wheat, three acres of corn, one old chopping axe, one old broad axe and one hatchet, one old sled and one set old gears and one old shovel. There is a balance in my favor in the hands of William and Archibald Addison of about five dollars: my occupation is
that of a farmer when able to labor, my family consists of my wife and myself, both of us aged, infirm and unable to labor, and a grand son aged about twelve years.

Ebenezer Wood

Sworn and subscribed in open court the said 21st September 1826
John Reily Clerk
The State of Ohio Butler County
Court of Common pleas
Be it known that in open court at the term of September eighteen hundred and twenty six, personally appeared Charles Sample and William Chancy creditable citizens, residents of the county aforesaid, who being duly sworn, depose and say that they are well acquainted with Ebenezer Wood the deponent in the deposition herein before contained, and that they know that said Ebenezer Wood is a man of verity, and have good reason to believe and do verily believe that the statements therein contained are correct and
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true, and further they say not.
Sworn and subscribed the 21st day of September 1826.
John Reily Clerk
Charles Sample
William Chancy

The court are of opinion that the property contained in the schedule within is of the value of fifty five dollars.
Robert Anderson Presiding
A true copy taken from the original on file.
In testimony whereof I John Reily Clerk of the said court of Common pleas have hereunto set my hand and official seal at Hamilton the twenty third day of September one thousand eight hundred and twenty six.
John Reily
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Ebenezer Wood
Independent Corps
Col. Lees Legion
1779 - War
Correct by Roll

Admitted
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State of Ohio
Butler County

On this sixteenth day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & nineteen, before me Daniel Millikin an associate judge of the court of common pleas, for the County of Butler in the seventh circuit of the court aforesaid, in the State of Ohio, personly appeared Ebenezar Wood, who being by me duly sworn according to law, doth make the following declaration, under oath, in order
to obtain the benefits of an act of Congress; entitled an act, to provide for certain persons engaged in the land & naval service of
the United States in the Revolutionary war; that he is about fifty eight or fifty nine years of age; that some time in the fall of the year seventeen hundred & seventy nine, (he thinks in the latter part of the fall) in the State of New Jersey about twenty miles from the town of Goshen in the State of New York, he enlisted as a private soldier to serve during the war, between Great Britain & the United States, in a company of light horse commanded by Captain Rodolph, who was under the command of Major Henry Lee afterwards Colonel Lee; he does not know to what line or State the corps of light horse to which he was attached, belonged, as a [illegible] were enlisted in New Jersey, in New York, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland & North Carolina; he supposes they belonged to the Virginia line on the continental establishment, he passed the ensuing winter at Burlington, in New Jersey; he was one of the life guards of General Washington, in Connecticut in the ensuing summer; the summer of seventeen hundred & eighty, he was in the States of New York & New Jersey; he was in an engagement at Somerset in New Jersey, in the spring of seventeen hundred & eighty one, he marched under the command of Colonel Henry Lee to the south; he was under the command
of Colonel Henry Lee, at Guilford during the battle; he fought at Mud Bank Fort, which was taken by the American troops; from thence he marched to the high Hills of Santee in South -
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Carolina, where he was in another battle, he was at the siege of a Fort further to the south, the name of which he does not recollect, which was also captured, he passed from thence into Georgia, he was engaged in several skirmish in the south, at or about the time that Lord Cornwallis and his army surrendered.
This applicant was at Charles Town in South Carolina when General [illegible] surrendered; from Charles Town, he sailed into the Chesapeake; about one hundred & fifty soldiers arrived in the same ship; he does not recollect the name of the village at which they landed; they then marched to the head of
Elk Creek, in the State of Maryland, where they were dismissed, he thinks that it was about harvest in the year one thousand seven hundred & eighty two. This applicant does not recollect whether he received his written discharge at Cape Henry or at the head of Elk Creek; he left his written discharge at the war
office in New York. This applicant further states under oath, that he is a resident of the County of Butler in the State of Ohio; that the aforesaid services were performed on the Continental establishment, during the Revolutionary war, against the common enemy; that from his reduced circumstances in life, he absolutely stands in need of the assistance of his country for support; and that he has now no other evidence in his power, of his having performed the aforesaid services.

Sworn to and subscribed before me, the day and year first above written
Da Millikin
State of Ohio
Butler County
Ebenezer Wood
Dan Millikin, an associate Judge for the county of Butler in the seventh circuit in the State of Ohio do hereby certify that I am satisfied from the preceeding declaration
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that the said Ebenezer Wood did serve as a private soldier in the Revolutionary war upwards of nine months as is set in the foregoing declaration on the continental establishment against the common enemy from the preceeding declaration from the affidavit of William Stewart.
I am satisfied that the said Ebenezer is a resident of the county of Butler aforesaid and that from his reduced circumstances in life he absolutely stands in need of the assistance of his country for support
June 16th A.D. 1819 Dan Millikin

The State of Ohio Butler County [illegible]
I John Reily Clerk of the Court of Common pleas of the county of Butler aforesaid do certify that Daniel Millikin Esq before whom the Depositors of Ebenezer Wood and William S Steward herein before stated and annexed and by 

whom the foregoing certificate were [illegible] was at the time of the taking and making thereof an Associate Judge of the said Court of Common pleas and that to all his official acts as such full faith and credits due and ought to be  given.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Official seal at Hamilton the nineteenth day of June One thousand eight hundred nineteen
John Reily
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13, 491-
Ohio Roll

Ebenezer Wood, Private, at $8 per month placed on the roll under the act of 18th of March 1818,
on the 31st July 1819-
[illegible] Sept. 11. 1820-
Restored - pension to commence 23d March 1827 - and notification issued and set to Hon. John Woods, Hamilton Ohio, on the 3d April 1827
Two persons named Ebenezer Wood on Ohio Roll. See letter to J Reynolds
Pension Apt May 31, 1828.
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40722
INVALID.
Re[illegible]y
File No. 40,722
Ebenezer Wood
Pri Rev War
Act: 18th March 1827
Index: - Vol. 3 , Page 573
Arrangement of 1870.
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Apl. 15. 190 [illegible] His to
C. M. Woodf
[illegible]
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40722
3 -o68.
Bureau of Pensions.
Ebenezer Wood
June 16. 1879. 58 or 59
Butler Co, Ohio
Fall, 79
Capt Rodolph
Col. Henry Lee
Pvt - 4 [illegible]
Harvest time 1782
Bat Somerset, Guilford, Mud Fort, several skirmishes

Enlisted in New Jersey about 20 miles from Goshen N.Y.
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State of Ohio
Butler County
Before the subscriber an associate judge of the court of common pleas for the County of Butler in the seventh circuit in the state of Ohio personally appeared William S. Stewart who being duly sworn according to law deposeth and saith that he is well acquainted with Ebenezer Wood now present and with his circumstances and that the said Ebenezer from his reduced circumstances in life from his infirmities absolutely stands in need of the assistance of his country for support and that the said Ebenezer now resides in the county of Butler in the state of [illegible] and further this deponent saith not sworn to and subscribed before me this 16th of June AD 1819 William S Stewart
Dan Millikin
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4239
case of Ebenezer Wood

Danl Millikin
Judge
Hamilton, Ohio
rec.d July 6 1819

Hamilton Ohio
22nd June 1819

Hon J C Calhoun Esq
Secretary of War
Washington City
DC

Free
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Schedule of Ebenezer Wood
No 13,491
July 1819
a copy
[illegible]
Sep 1819
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The State of Ohio Butler County
At a special court of Common pleas beholden at Hamilton in the County of Butler and State of Ohio Before Daniel Millikin Henry Weaver and Robert Taylor Esquires associates Judges of the said Court of Common pleas the same court of Common pleas being a court of Record for the said County of Butler expressly created a court of Record by the laws and Ordinances of the said State of Ohio. On the seventeenth day of July one thousand eight hundred and twenty personally appeared in open Court Ebenezer Wood aged sixty years resident in Reily township in the said County of  Butler who being duly Sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows towit, in the Regiment or Legion commanded by Colonel Henry Lee in the company or troop of horse commanded by John Rodolph in the [illegible] line on the continental establishment his original declaration was made on or about the sixteenth day of June 1819 his pension certificate is numbered 13491 he was in the Battels of Somerset in New Jersey, of Guilford Court house in North Carolina, and at the taking of the Forts Enoree Congaree and fort Golfin.
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 eighteenth day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighteen 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 towit," my estate Real and personal is as follows I have a little a claim to fifty acres of land in the township and County in which I reside I have two horses two cows and two heifers thirteen head of Sheep three head of hogs, shovel and tongs
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a pair of Andirons four Barrels half a dozen plates half a dozen knives and forks half a dozen milk crocks one churn two Buckets one tub two axes one hoe one oven one pot three kettels one table four pewter plates and one pewter plates four earthen pots one old scythe and a half a dozen chairs and a calf skin and the one third part of a cabbin and the third part of a log barn one set or half a dozen cups and saucers. My occupation is that of a farmer when able to follow it. My family consists of my wife which is aged and infirm and myself neither of whom are very able to labour

Sworn to and declared in open cour on the day and year first above stated before the Judges above named Attest

John Reily Clerk
Ebenezer Wood

I John Reily Clerk of the Court of common pleas aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the record of the said court and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property in the aforesaid schedule is three hundred and six dollars

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court on this Eighteenth day of July one thousand eight hundred and twenty 

John Reily Clerk of
Butler Com pleas
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The State of Ohio
City of Cincinnati
Be it known that before me Isaac G Burnet Mayor of the City of Cincinnati aforesaid, personally appeared Ebenezer Wood and made oath in due form of law that he is the identical Ebenezer Wood named in an original certificate in his possession, of which (I certify) the following is a true copy:
"War department Revolutionary Claim. I certify that in conformity with the law of the United States of the 18th of March 1818, Ebenezer Wood [illegible] a private in the army of the revolution, is inscribed on the [illegible] list, Roll of the Ohio agency, at the rate of eight dollars a month, to commence on the Sixteenth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen.
Given at the war office of the United State
this thirty first day of July one thousand
eight hundred and nineteen

J. C. Calhoun Scay of War
that he is entitled to a pension of eight dollars per month on account of services rendered to the United States during the revolutionary war, that he served Captain Rodolph's company of Col Henry Lee's regiment or legion, that he now resides in the State of Ohio where he has resided for thirteen years [illegible] previous thereto (he resided in the State of New York Sworn to [illegible] before me May 21, 1828 Isaac G Burnet, Mayor
Ebenezer Wood

at the same time personally came Cornelius Wood who being duly sworn deposeth and faith that he is the son of Ebenezer Wood the foregoing deponent; that his said father Ebenezer Wood removed
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from the city of New York to the County of Butler in the State of Ohio in the fall of the year eighteen hundred and fourteen and that he has resided in said County of Butler ever since and now resides there, and has not been out of the State of Ohio since that period (1814) except on two visits for a few days to the State of Indiana. Deponent knows him to be the same Ebenezer Wood who is mentioned in an original certificate now lying before deponent, a copy of which is contained in the foregoing oath of identity-
Sworn and subscribed before me May 21, 1828
Isaac G Burnet
Mayor
Cornelius Wood

At the same time personally [illegible] Albert Hopper who being duly sworn deposeth and faith that he had been acquainted with Ebenezer Wood the foregoing deponent for about twenty years; deponents first became acquainted with him in the city of New York where he and deponent both resided. Deponent removed to be accounts in the State of Ohio in the [illegible] of the year eighteen hundred and fourteen and said Ebenezer Wood came to be in Cincinnati in the Fall of the same year and after a few days said Ebenezer Wood removed to this County of Butler in this State where deponent believes he has resided ever since.
Sworn to and subscribed before me May 21, 1828
Isaac G Burnet, Mayor
Albert Hopper

at the same time personally came Samuel Stibbs who being duly sworn deposeth and faith that he has been acquainted with Ebenezer Wood
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the foregoing deponent (who is now present in the Mayor's office) for about twenty years. Deponent first became acquainted with him in the city of New York and in the Fall of the year eighteen hundred and fourteen, deponent removed from the city of New York in company with said Ebenezer Wood and his family to Cincinnati in the State of Ohio. Deponent together with Mr. Wood and family arrived in Cincinnati on the third day of November eighteen hundred and fourteen and  in a few days thereafter Mr Wood removed to the County of Butler in this State where deponent believes he has resided ever since.
Sworn to and subscribed before me May 21, 1828
Isaac G Burnet, Mayor
Samuel Stables

I do certify that I am well acquainted with Cornelius Wood and Albert Hopper and Samuel Stables the forgoing deponent and that they are persons of respectability and creditable witnesses.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of the  city of Cincinnati this twenty first day of May eighteen hundred and twenty eight
Isaac G Burnet, Mayor
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Ebenezer Wood
Ebenezer Wood
Ebenezer Wood
signatures of E Wood

recd May 31, 1828
See letter same date to J. Reynolds-
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James Monroe, President of the United States of America
To all to whom these presents shall come greetings:
Know Ye That Cornelius Wood of Fuller County having deposited in the General Land Office a certificate of the Register of the Land Office at Cincinnati, whereby it appears that full payment has been made for the Southwest quarter of Section eighteen, in township four, of range two (East, of the Meridian line drawn from the mouth of the Great Miami river of the Lands directed to be sold at Cincinnati by the Act of Congress, entitled "An Act providing for the sale of the Lands of the United States, in the Territory northwest of the Ohio, and above the mouth of Kentucky River," and of the Acts amendatory of the same, There is granted, by the United States, unto the said Cornelius Wood, the quarter lot or section of land above described: To have and to hold the said quarter  lot or section of Land, with the appurtenances unto the said Cornelius Wood, his heirs and assigns forever

In Testimony whereof I have caused these letters to be made patent, and the Seal of the General Land Office to be thereunto affixed

Given under my hand at the City of Washington, twelfth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and nineteen and of the Independence of the United States of America the forty third

By the President
James Monroe

Recorded Vol. 31 page 174 Josiah Meigs Commissioner of the General Land Office
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I certify the within to be a true copy of the original patent from the United States for the tract of land therein specified and which appears to be recorded in the General Land office in Vol 31 page 174 -
March 22nd 1827 John Woods
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Hamilton March 23rd 1827
Dear Sir
I [illegible] you with this line and copy of the deed of Cornelius Wood for the land on which his father resides by his permission. This I hope will supply the evidence on [illegible] of which the application of Ebenezer Wood was misplaced as stated in your lines to me of the 7th Dec and 19th Jany last. Your will [illegible] that the old man never had a title or claim to the land. The certificate of our recorder is already on file in your office showing that he has no conveyance or record and the copy of the deed will show that the land has always belonged to his son

I presume no further difficulty can exist and that the old man who resides on the land as stated in his declaration
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will be placed on the pension roll.

If the Evidence is satisfactory and the decision should be favorable by forwarding me the certificate you will add another favor to the number which I have received in behalf of our [illegible] soldiers

Respectfully
Your very
obt Servt
John Woods
J.L. Edwards Esqr
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Washington Jany 17th 1827
Dear sir,
I enclose your evidence which I hope will be satisfactory to show that E. Wood whose schedule & application to be placed on the pension Roll
I presented a short time since has no property and that the land mentioned in his schedule is not his.

The old man is in ind[illegible]nt circumstances and I hope may [illegible] in his application for relief
Respectfully
your obt srvt
John Woods
J. L. Edwards Esqr
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The State of Ohio Butler County ss.
I Charles R Smith Recorder of the County of Butler aforesaid do hereby certify that I have carefully examined the records of deeds of said Butler County, and do not find recorded therein any title to land in the names of Ebenezer Wood and Cornelius Wood or either of them.

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and official seal at Hamilton this fifth day of January One thousand eight hundred and twenty seven.

Charles R Smith
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JAMES M. WOODFILL'S SONS,
CLOTHIERS AND FURNISHERS.
Greensburg, Ind., Mar. 31st. /05 190
& NAVY
APR 4 1905
FILES.
P.B.

Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir:
In writing to the Military Secretary for information as to the date of birth and enlistment and general war record of one Ebenezer Wood, who served in the Revolutionary war, we have a part of his old pension papers, I was refered by him to your office, we have it that he applied for pension in 1818, and was granted it in 1819, any information you can give me will be a great help
Thanking you in advance for your trouble I am,
Yours truly,
C M Woodfill

Pension Office
U.S.
A
Apr 3 1905