Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 35,424, Daniel Hood, Mass.
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Mass  Hood, Daniel  S. 35,424
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HO 19789
MAINE
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Daniel Hood
of Lincoln Co in the State of Maine who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain Holden of the regiment commanded by Colonel Nixon in Massachusetts line for the term of nine months from April 1778 to January 1779
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Inscribed on the Rolls of Maine
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 12th day of July 1827
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Certificate of Pension issued the 24 of July 1827 and sent to J. Bailey, Esq
Wiscasett, Maine
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Arrears to 4th of 
Semi-anl. all'ce 4 Sept 1827   $14-22

                                                $14.22

{Revolutionary Clain
Acts March 18, 1818
and May 1, 1820
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State of Massachusetts

I Daniel Hood a Citizen of the United States, now resident at Edgecombe in the County of Lincoln in the State aforesaid do on oath testify and declare that in the War of the Revolution, in the month of April or May 1778 I enlisted and entered and was engaged in the land service of the United States on the continental establishment and/ proceeded to Fishkill in the state of New York where I (ineligible) muster  & joined my company in the month of June 1778, I enlisted for nine months & served out that time (ineligible) 

as a private soldier against the common enemy, without any interruption or absence: that I belonged to a Captain's company which I have forgotten in Col. Nixon's Regiment Gen. Nixon's Brigade in the Massachusetts line.

and that I left the service in March or April 1779 at Fishkill Peekskill in the State of New York & received an honorable discharge verbally on the parade - and that by reason of my reduced circumstances in life and poverty, I stand in need of assistance from my country for support, being now of the age of seventy five years.

I enlisted in the month of April or May 1778 as I have before stated we marched Fishkill & was there mustered & served nine months from the time I was so mustered - when the nine months were out. I with some others agreed to stay two months more at the earnest request of our officers, which we (ineligible) did

And  I hereby relinquish all claims to every pension heretofore allowed me by the laws of the United States, if any may be or hath been so allowed.  

Daniel Hood (handwritten signature)

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Lincoln. BE IT REMEMBERED That on this fifteenth day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and  nineteen. Pursuant to a law of the United States, entitled, "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary way, made and passed on the 18th of March A.D. 1818, personally appeareth before me Jeremieh Bailey Judge of the Court of Probate within and for the County on Lincoln in the commonwealth of Massachusetts the same 

being a Court of Record of said County
the above named Daniel Hood
and after due examination and caution to testify and declare the whole truth, he maketh oath to the declaration aforesaid, and subscribes the same in my presence; and on examination duly made by me the said Judge, it appeareth to my satisfaction that the said declaration is true.
Jere Bailey (handwritten signature)

I John H Sheppard Register of the Court of Probate for the County of Lincoln
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State of Maine
County of Lincoln.. ss

On this ninth day of March in the year 1827 personally appeared before me the subscriber a Justice of the Court of Common Pleas the same being a court of record proceedings according to the course of Common law having jurisdiction unlimited in amount, keeping a record of there proceedings, and " the power of fine & imprisonment" and being a Court of record for said State; Daniel Hood resident of Edgecombe in said County, aged eighty three years, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the acts of Congress of the 18th March 1818. and the 1st of May 1820; that he said Daniel Hood enlisted for the term of nine months, in the month of April or May 1778 in the State of Massachusetts in the Company commanded by a Captain whose name he has forgotten, in the State of Massachusetts on the land Continental establishment; that he continued to serve in said Corps until the expiration of the nine months for which enlisted when he was discharged from service in Fishkill or Peakskill in the State of New York; and that he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension except the present; that his name is not on the roll of any state except Massachusetts; & that the following are the reasons for not making earlier application for a pension; viz That owing to is inability & old age he has never for many years past able to trans act but (ineligible) himself; that from his extreme poverty I want as a friend to sustain  the expense of searching out whether the witness were alive and where they lived; and obtaining their depositions he has (for these reasons) not made earlier application for a pension  (excepting the application to the Judge of the Court of Probate made May 15, 1819 to annexed to the deposions).

And in pursuance of the act of the 1st May 1820. I do solemnly swear that I was resident citizen of United state on the 18th day of March 1818 & that I have not since that time. by gift sale, or in any manner disposed
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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 & naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War, passed on 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 that what is contained in the schedule annexed by me subscribed. That since the 18th of March 1818, no change whatever has been made in my property.
Daniel Hood

And I further on oath declare, that by reason of extreme age & bodily infirmity being now confined to the house by rheumatic complaints in my back & limbs, I am totally unable to attend the next term of the Court of Common Pleas for this County & there is no probability that I shall be able to attend any other term of any Court in said County
Daniel Hood

Schedule of the real & personal estate (necessary clothing & bedding excepted) belonging to me the subscriber viz.

I have no Estate Real or Personal. 
I have nothing except a little common clothing
Daniel Hood

Copy (ineligible) 
Nat. Coffin Clerk
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Schedule of the family residing with me Daniel Hood who by occupation have been a farmer which I am not able to pursue by reason of age & great infirmity.

I have ho wife. I have no family. And I live with one of my grand children who takes care of me. I am helpless & wholly unable to take of myself being now eighty three years of age
Daniel Hood

Sworn to and declared on the ninth day of March A.D. 1827 before me.
Sami E. Smith Justice of C. Com Pleas State of Maine

Copy Attent Nat. Coffin Clerk

I Samuel E. Smith, a Justice of the Court of Common Pleas for the state of Maine, holden in the county of Lincoln where the declarant resides  do hereby certify, that the above named Daniel Hood is from general infirmity the effect of very advanced age & from a disorder in his back &n limbs called the rheumatism with which I am credibly informed & believe he has been afflicted for five or six weeks unable to attend the Court above named at its next session I have therefore in pursuance of the act of Congress of the 1st March 1823. attended at his place of abode & administered the foregoing oath

Sam E. Smith, Justice of Court of Com Pleas

____________State of Maine__________________
Lincoln ss. Clerks Office March 12. 1827 - I Nathaniel Coffin, Clerk of all Judicial Courts in said County of Lincoln Certify that Samuel E. Smith Esqr. is a Justice of the Court of Common Pleas for said State and that the Signature now in this office of which  the foregoing are copies are his own proper signatures to me well know and in testimony thereof and also that the foregoing are true copies of the originials in file Thereunto set my hand and the seal of said Court of Common Pleas

Nath. Coffin
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____________State of Maine_______________-
Lincoln ss - At the Court of Common Pleas begun and holden at Warren within & foresaid county on the fourth Tuesday of April A.D. 1827.
By the Hon. Samuel E. Smith Just of said Court the original Declarations, Schedules, & Certificates of which the  foregoing & within are true entered & filed. And I do hereby certify that it appears (ineligible) te satisfaction of the Court, that the said Daniel Hoods did serve in the Revolutionary War as stated in the( preceedings declaration and also in his additional declaration dated April 21, 1824 which accompanies this certficate on the Continental establishment.


I also certify that the foregoing Declaration, oaths, schedules, & certificates are truly copied from the Records said Court  and that it is the opinion  said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in said schedule in nothing

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said Court this twelfth day of July A.D. 1827
Nath Coffin.
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____________State of Maine_______________

Lincoln ss - I Nathaniel Coffin Clerk of all the Judicial Courts within aforesaid County of Lincoln, do hereby certify that the within oaths and the schedules thereto annexed are truly copied from the originals in the Clerk Office of said courts. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the Court of Common Pleas for said State this twelfth day of March A.D. One Thousand eight-hundred & twenty seven 


Nath. Coffin
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35424
Revy  INVALD


File No    35424

Daniel Hood

Pri Rev War

Act: 18 March 18

Index: - Vol. 2,   Page 232

[Arrangement of 1870]
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Handwritten deposition from Philip Mc Kenzie

I Philip Mc Kenzie of Waltham in the County of Addison and the State Vermont a Revolutionary Soldier do testify and say that I enlisted into the United States (ineligible) in the month of April or May 1778 at Topsfield in the State of Massachusetts for the term of nine months at the same time Daniel hood then of said Topsfield  also enlisted, into revolution and for the same (ineligible) of time. The said Hood with myself and others immediately after said enlistment were marched to Peekskill in the state of New York the said Hood and myself joined the United States army then attached to Col. Nixon; 
regiment Philip McKenzie Brigade of the Massachusetts line; The said Hood & myself being in the said Company the Capt of said Company  I now believe to be Stanferd but from the length of time I cannot said with certainty and I further say that during the whole of said nine months for which the Said Hood was enlisted as   prvt. I was well acquainted with him I messed with him. and well know mess dining the whole said term he faithfully (ineligible) his duty as a soldier and at the (ineligible) of said nine months the said Hood & myself were honorably discharged from the (ineligible)
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the said Dennis Hood now lives in the Town of Lincoln in the Sate of Maine and  (ineligible) noth Philip MacKery

State of Vermont
Addison County

Sworn and (ineligible) before me on this day of October A.D. 1826 and I further verify that the where (ineligible) is in my opinion a credible witness

Ernest D. Woodbridge Just of the Peace



State of Vermont
Addison County 

I Samuel Swift Clerk of the County Court for the said County of Addison do hereby certify that the above named Enoch D Woodbridge is a Justice of the Peace for said County. That full faith Verdict are to be given to his acts validation as such and that his name above written is his own signature

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court this 12th day of October 1826

Sami Swift Clerk
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I John Hood of lawful age testify and say that in the month of May or in the month of June in the year of our Lord 1778. Daniel Hood then of Topsfield in the County of Essex & Commonwealth of Massachusetts now of Edgecomb in the state of maine did engage to serve as as a (ineligible) in the regular army of the Revolution and that the said Daniel in company with the deployment marched to Fishkill in the state of New York and were there mustered and that the said Daniel was ordered to join one of the Massachusetts Regiments and that the said Daniel did Join one of said Regiments and did actually serve in said Regiment the full term of nine months and was then  honorably discharged. 

John Hood 
(handwritten by John Wood)


Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Essex ss: October 23d 1826. Personally appeared the above John Hood before me Nhehemiah Cleaveland one of the Justice of Peace within and fore said county of Essex and after due examination and caution to testify and declare the whole truth make to oath to the above deposition by him subscribed and written in my presence the said disposition is a disinterested person and of good credit in whose testimony confidence may be placed

N. Cleaveland
(handhandwritten written by N. Cleaveland



Essex
Octr. 31srt 1826 I certify that Nehemiah Cleaveland  Esq is a Justice of the Peace in aforesaid County duly qualified to administer the oats and that the above is his genuine signature

Ichabod Tucker} Clerk of all the judicial Courts within and for the County of Essex.
for Daivid Pulsifier 3d
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Wiscasseh July 17, 1827

Hon. Secretary of War.

On behalf of Daniel Hood of Edgecombe in the State of Maine I herewith enclose his papers for a pension as a Revolutionary Soldier - his great age & poverty heretofore prevented his providing the proper evidence of his services. 
     When his papers were returned the last time the defect was that he had not stated who his Captain was - he has now supplied that deficiency as well as his memory will permit as will appear by his affidavit - he appears very conscientious & does not wish to state things beyond his knowledge - I have also added a communication from the Rev. Mr. Kendrick the worth Pastor of the church to which Mr. Hood belongs.

He will appear by the papers that Mr. Hood made early application in 1819, but by reason od ill health & the difficulty of finding the evidence to support his petition, he has since been obliged to live upon charity

With much respect
Your most humble sece

J. Bailey
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I Daniel Hood of Edgecomb in the County of Lincoln in addition to my former statement made under oath on the ninth day of March last in my appreciation for a pension do now on oath declare that the continental establishment in different detachments I served in companies commanded by different officers & according to the best of my knowledge & belief did for some time served in a company commanded by Capt Holden in Col Nixon's Regiment. And I further declare that by reason of the infirmities mentioned in my former statement I am still unable to attend the next Court in the County & never expect to be able to attend any other Court.

(letter written for Daniel Hood)
Daniel Hood ( his handwritten signature)



State of Maine
Lincoln ss. on this  twenty first day of April, A.D. 1827  personally appeared the above named Daniel Hood before me the subscriber a justice of the Court of Common Pleas being a Court of Record for this State  proceeding according to the course of the Common law, having jurisdiction unlimited in amount keeping a record of these proceedings & having power of fine & imprisonment & mad oath to the above declaration by him subscribed 
Sam E. Smith Justice of C. Com Pleas


I hereby certify that the above named Daniel Hood by reason of the infirmity mentioned in my former certificate is unable to attend the Court  of which I am a justice which is next to be held in the County of Lincoln & for present affirmatives will not be able to attend the same. I have therefore in pursuance of the Act of Congress of the 1st of March 1823 attended at his place of abode & administered the foregoing oath 

Sam Smith Justice of Court of Com Pleas
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State of Maine

Lincoln ss. Clerks Office  April 21 1827

I Nath Coffin Clerk of all the Judicial Courts in said County Lincoln certify that Samuel E. Smith Esqr is a Justice of the Court of Common Pleas for said State once that the within are his own proper signature to me well known  -  and in testimony here I have hereunto set my hand & the seal Court of Common Pleas, this 21 day of April A.D. 1827
Nath l. Coffin
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Edgecomb April 21, 1827

Sir 
I have repeatedly visited Mr. Hood the application for a pension "He is the oldest member of the church to which I administer in this town; a man of undoubted piety and (ineligible) in this town; His poverty and his need of a pension cannot be attributed to want of temperance industry on economy but to the visitation of good. Of the fact that he spent Seven months in the Continental Establishment there is no doubt on the  minds of gentlemen who he communicated his suffering and the names of his officers many years ago. But owing to his great age and  extreme disability  his memory has failed to the degree that he seems to have lost all distinct recollection of names with which he was familiar during the Revolution 

I am Sir  respectfully yours
Daniel Kendrick, Minister of the gospel

 J.L. Edwards 
#84 years