Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 3,614, Jonathan Wood, Vt.
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Vt.  Wood, Jonathan      S3614
carded
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No 501
Ohio   Pittsburg
Jonathan Wood

of Stark Co in the State of Ohio
who was a private in the Company commanded
by Captain Seely of the Reg commanded
by Col Warner in the Vermont 
line for three years

Inscribed on the Roll of Ohio
at the rate of 80 Dollars  ~ Cents per ann
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 13th day of Sept
1832 and sent to Pensioner 
Massillon Ohio
Arrears to 4th of Sept, 32                         120
Semiannual allowance ending 4 Mar, 33    40
                                                                 $160
Revolutionary Claim
Act June 7, 1832
Recorded by R Elee Clerk
Book D Vol.2 Page 144
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Dead
Letter to Pension Agent & W.H.
[illegible] 5 Jany 1843




Date of death not on [illegible]
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One Case  1032
Samuel Coulter Judge
Canton Ohio
Recd July1st 1818


[three lines crossed out]

Adm. @ [?]
Sec at War  Washington City
Hon. W. Ruggles    
Senate   Canton Ohio
              18 June
rate cert  5 March
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State of Ohio
Stark County
Came Jonathan Wood in this County and State aforesaid [illegible] & upon oath makes the following declaration that the said Jonathan Wood (he thinks) [illegible] time in January in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and Seventy Seven enlisted as a private for the term of three years in Captain Abner Seelys Company of foot in Col Seth Warners Regiment in Vermont Line that the declarant Served faithfully the whole of said term  but was transferred from the Company above stated to Captain Gideon Brownsons Company in what two Companys the Declarant Served the full term  specified that the Declarant is in the fifty Eighth Year of his age and from his reduced circumstances in life is now in need of assistance from his Country for Support and that he relinquished his Claim to every Pension hereby allowed him by the Laws of this US This Declarant States that he never has received any Land or any other remuneration for his service other than his Simple Wages Sworn and Subscribed before the 16th day of June 1816  Jonathan Wood
Saml Coulter probate judge
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State of Ohio
Stark County 

On the 16th day of June A1818 personally appeared before Samuel Coulter one of the associate Judges of the Court of Common pleas in and for the County aforesaid Jonathan Wood [illegible] and in my Presence made oath & Subscribed the afore written Declaration & affidavit by him 
respectively made and it appearing to my satisfaction that the aforementioned Jonathan Wood served for the terms of more than nine months in the Continental establishment against [illegible] Common enemy  I hereby Certify the testimony in this Case whereof I have set my hand and Seal the date above mentioned
Saml Coulter associate Judge
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[handwritten]

Stark County Ohio ss 
Samuel Coulter Esqr is now one of the
associate Judges of the
Court of Common pleas in & for
said County acting as such by 
lawfull [sic] authority
In Testimony whereof I hereto
sign my name & affix the seal
of said County at
Canton 19 June 1818
W. Raynolds C
I am satisfied from the statement of the
Raynolds Clerk of the Court that the
within applicant is really in need
of the assistance of his country for
support
B Ruggles
Senator
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[handwritten]

The State of Ohio}
Clark County ss.}
Canton July 16 1832
seal [hand circled]
Be it remembered that on this day
personally appeared before me the undersigned authority
a Justice of the peace in and for the County and
State aforesaid Jonathan Wood who being duly sworn
doth solemnly depose and say that his name was
on the pension roll under the act of March 18, 1818,
and was subsequently dropped therefrom on account
of his having property of too large an amount that he
served as a Soldier in the Army of the Revolution for the
term of the grant that he enlisted some time in the
Winter of the year 1786 [1776] and served the succeeding
then year without any intermission - the Regiment in
which he enlisted was raised in the State of Vermont
the number of the same this deponent does not recollect
but the same was commanded by Colonel Seth Warner
and the Company in which he enlisted was commanded
by Captain Abner Seeley that he was subsequently transfered [sic]
to the company commanded by Captain Gideon Bronson
under whose command he completed his term of service
The said Jonathan Wood further deposes that at the
time when he made his application for a pension under
the Act of March 18 1818, he resided in the township
Tuscarawas in Stark County, Ohio and that he still
resides in the same Township
Jonathan Wood [signature]
Sworn to and subscribed before me
the day and year aforesaid
George Dunbar} Justice of the Peace

State of Ohio Stark County SS
I John Myers Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of
said County certify that George Dunbar Esqr before whom the above affidavit 
appears to have been made is a Justice of the peace in and for said County duly
and sworn as such and that the above signature purporting to be his is
genuine - In testimony whereof I hereto set my hand & affix the seal
of said Court at Canton the 16th day of July 1832
Jno Myers Clerk
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February 16, 1933
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Abraham Wood-W.3563
Jonathan Wood- S.3614
RA-J/REL

Mr. Lyman Wood
1433-35 Junction Avenue
Racine, Wisconsin

Dear Sir:

Reference is made to your letter in which you request information in regard to Abraham Wood, Washington County, Indiana, and Jonathan Wood, of Stark County, Ohio. Their histories are furnished herein:

Abraham Wood
W.6563 [handwriting to left] copied from MM[illegible]

Abraham Wood enlisted near Braptistown, New Jersey, February 8, 1776, served as a private in Captain Alexander Graydon's Company. Colonel John Patton's Pennsylvania Regiment, was taken prisoner at the surrender of Fort Washington and held until April 2, 1777, when he was exchanged, and in the same month re-enlisted in Captain Bush's Company in the above named regiment and served until in 1781 when he enlisted in Captain Jonathan Dayton's Company, Colonel Dayton's New Jersey Regiment, was in the battles of Brandywine, Germantown, Monmouth, taking of Cornwallis and was discharged June 3, 1783.

He was allowed pension on his application executed October 12,1819, while living in Washington County, Indiana, and aged sixty-one years. 

He died in said Washington County, in 1839 or 1840.

The soldier married September 15, 1807, in Clermont County, Ohio, Mrs. Nancy Bolin.
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Pension was allowed on the application of Abraham Wood's widow, Nancy, which application was executed August 23, 1853, while a resident of Parke County, Indiana, aged seventy-eight years.

She died in said Parke County, Indiana, September 25, 1853.

Soldier's son-in-law, Robert Guy, was resident of Fountain County, Indiana, in 1854, and was then aged fifty-five years. The name of his was was not stated. In same year, Robert and Nancy Guy made affidavit in Parke County, Indiana; their relationship to the soldier and his wife was not stated. 

In 1853, Barbara Pavey, then aged fifty-six years and residing in Parke County, Indiana, stated that she was the daughter of Mrs. Nancy Wood; that her maiden name was Bolin, and that she was present at the marriage of her mother, then Nancy Bolin, to Abraham Wood. In 1853, one Samuel Pavey was aged sixty-one years and resided in Parke County, Indiana; no relationship to the family was stated. 

There are no further family data. 

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Jonathan Wood
S.3614

Jonathan Wood enlisted, place of enlistment not stated, in 1777, and served three years as a private in Captains Abner Seelye's and Gideon Brownson's Companies, Colonel Seth Warner's Regiment. 

He was allowed pension on his application executed June 16, 1818, at which time he was aged fifty-seven years and resided in Stark County, Ohio. 

In 1831, he was residing in Tuscarawas Township, Stark County, Ohio, postoffice Massillon, Ohio, where he had resided for seventeen years. 

There are no data as to his family.

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[handwritten in left margin] Date of death not [illegible] AB
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Please make your requests over your personal signature. 

Very truly yours

A.D. HILLER
Assistant to Administrator.
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See letter to J Wood. March 28. 1831.

7245 Ohio

Jonathan Wood of Starke County in the state of Ohio who was a Private in the regiment commanded Colonel Warner of the Vermont line, for the term of 3 years

Inscribed on the Roll of Ohio at a the rate of 8- Dollars per month, to commence the 16th of June 1818

Certificate of Pension issued the 3d of Mar 1818 and sent to Hon M Ruggle of the Senate

Arrears to 4th of Mar 1819.8 10/30 4/30 [?] Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Sep 1819 
[addition to side illegible]
{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818}
Starke. County Ohio
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July 23 1839
Pension Office
[Verticle writing]

Canton Ohio
July 17th
Honorable Lewis Cass
Secretary at War
Washington City D.C.
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Canton July 16. 1832
Sir,
Enclosed in my application for a position under the Law passed June 7-1832 According to my construction [?] of the instructions of the War Department. it is not an [illegible] for an applicant who drew a pension [illegible] of March  18 1818. to make his declaration in open Court but that a statement under oath made before any officer authorized to a [illegible] an oath is all that is required by the department  I have, accordingly, made out such a statement.  Your communication to me informing me whether this is sufficient or whether I must yet take other steps in the matter.  you will please address to us at Massillon Stark Co. Ohio
With Great Respect
Lewis Cass
Jonathan Wood
[illegible] It would be conferring a favor to advise Mr Wood of the disposition as soon as practicable Which is made of his case.
J.W.
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[Post mark]
Jan 2' 43
[vertical]
J W Evans
FREE
[J. L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Pension Office
Washington City
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J L Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City.
Dear Sir.
The enclosed papers sent in to me in order to receive arrears of pension have been presented to the pension agent here who informs me that he cannot under this instance [illegible] pay the claim on account of the [illegible] of time which has [illegible]  since the date of the first [illegible], and he advises me to send the all to you for examination & instruction.  You will I hope at once perceive that reason of the delay after the date of the first [illegible], Was [illegible] by the difficulty of getting the signatures of all the [heirs?]. Several months since the papers were presented by me, but they were then imperfect I was sent back.  I have now had them in my posession in their present form near three months.  having neglected to [illegible] It advice given me by the agent until now.  If I am asking too much of you, I hope you will consider the advice of the agent here [illegible] difficulty of the case some answers
Resp yours 
W.H. Lowrie
Pittsburgh Dec. 29. 1842
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Pension Office
March 23: 1831

Free


Hon. Jno H. Easton
Secretary of War

Massillon 
Ohio
March 16 Washington City D. C.
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The State of Ohio
Stark County 
On this fifteenth day of March one thousand eight hundred and thirty one before me a Justice of the Peace in and for the said County of Stark personally appeared Jonathan Wood who on hs oath declared and says that he is the same person named in the original certificate from the War Department now in his possession of which 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 Jonathan Wood, late a Private in the Army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the Ohio Agency at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on sixteenth day of June one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
Given at the War Office of the United States this fifth day of March one thousand eight hundred and nineteen.
J.C Calhoun
Secretary of War."
And the said Jonathan Wood on his oath and aforesaid declared and says that in the fall of  the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy seven he enlisted in the Vermont line of the Army of the Revolution in a Regiment commanded by Seth Warner Colonel and Abram Seeley Captain that he was subsequently transferred to the company commanded by Gideon Brandors [?} a Captain in the same Regiment under whose command he served the remainder of his time amounting in all to the time of three years.  And he said Jonathan Wood on his oath was afforded further [illegible] that he now resides in the township of Tuscarawas in the County of Stark and State of Ohio and that he has resided here for the last Seventeen years.
Sworn to and subscribed
before me this 15th day of March
Ad 1831 at Canton.
Geo Dunbar Justice of the Peace

Jonathan Wood
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Canton March 15 1831
Hon Geo. H. Eaton Sir
Supposing that my case fall within the providing of the late act of Congress extending relief to the  Militi[black mark] of the Revolution I have sent the foregoing document to you for the purpose of obtaining a certificate Not having seen the provisions  of that act and being also unacquainted with its timing I am not sure that I have sent sufficient evidence to justify you in forwarding me one.  But as I have once established my right (under a previous act) and as this proof on which that was founded is now in the department on which you preside.  I thought the foregoing affidavit would be sufficient perhaps.
If it is not, if more proof is necessary, you would confer a favor by forwarding a blank such as was generally circulated after the passage of the Act approved May 15th 1828.  If what I have sent together with the proof on the files of your office is sufficient you will confer an equal favor by sending the certificate as soon as Convenient  In either case you will direct your communication "Massillon Stark County Ohio
I am Respectfully Yrs. [?]
Jonathan Wood
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J.3614
Revolutionary War
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The File Jacket should be corrected so as to read__as/[?]
Jonathan ^(in lieu of Jonothan)
Wood_
AHM
March 14/04
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1933-Feb 16-Hist to Lyman Wood.  Card use which request was made returned to writer-E [illegible]

Rev War
3614
INVALID
le No. 3614
Jonothan Wood
Privt Rev War

Act: June 8. 1832
dex:--Vol. eA, Page 414
[Arrangement of 1870]
Jonathan Wood.  Records corrected
Mar 21 '04