Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W 8939, George Hood, Continental Va.
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(8--1776)
SERVICE                                           NUMBER
Continental     Hood, George            W8939
VA                        Catharine              B.L. Wt. 1487-100
                                                           B. L. Wt. 105-60-55

CONTENTS
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24 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Reported 
A. H. Mechlin
August 5, 1858

Catharine Hood, Widow of George Hood, who served in the Revolutionary War as a Dragoon. 
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 100 dollars 00 cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March 1848. 
Certificate of Pension issued 21st day of December 1848 [Missing Text] sent to John D. Clark, Present
[Missing Text] 
Book D, Vol. 1, Page 221
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April 19
78.952
Act 55
Catharine Hood
Geroge Hood
VA: Continental Line
[Illegible] Pension
[Illegible] November 7, 1835
PA July 1848 Boynton
Jno. H. Frick
Child
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Married January 30th in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety four (1794 by the Rev. N. Collin DD [Illegible] Rector of the Swedish Church in [Illegible]. George Hood, son of deceased Charles and May Hood of Virginia, past twenty eight by trade ship cooper, to Catharine Müller, daughter of Daniel Müller, 2 of his relief May, now wife of Turner Sleyven, past sixteen.
I hereby certify that the above is a true copy from the records of marriages belonging to [Illegible] (Swedish Church, [Illegible] Philadelphia that the dates given
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City and County of Philadelphia
I, Anthony Olwine, Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of said County, do certify that Rob Gaw before whom the [Illegible] affidavit was made, was at the time of so doing and now is an Alderman of said County and ex officio a Justice of the Peace duly commissioned and qualified to all [Illegible]. As such full faith and credit are ought [to] be given as well as [Illegible] elsewhere and that his signature thereto is genuine.
In witness whereof, I have let my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Philadelphia this fifth day of December Anno Domini eighteen hundred forty eight 1848. 
Anthony W. Olwine, Prothonotary
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December 1848
Further proof in Catharine Hood’s application for pension – to be filed with those papers which were filed on 20th November 1848.
No. 878
Paper filed 29th July 1848
By John D. Clark of Washington
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State of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia County
On this fifth day of December one thousand eight hundred and forty eight, personally appeared before me Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of said County,
Catharine Hood, a resident of the City of Philadelphia, in the County and State aforesaid, aged seventy one 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 provisions made by the act of Congress passed July 29th 1848. That she is the widow of George Hood, who was a Private in the Revolutionary Army, first in the Virginia State Regiment under General Gibson, marched there to Valley Forge in Pennsylvania, joined General George P. Muhlenberg’s Regiment, did fatigue duty in building the garrison of West Point under General Putnam, was with General[s] Wayne and Muhlenberg at the storming of the garrison at or near Stony Point in July 1779. Shortly after which his first three years enlistment expired. That her husband, the said George Hood, again [re]entered the service of the United States in July or August 1779 in Col. Washington’s Dragoons, went to South Carolina, joined the Regiment under General Greene, was at the Battle of Cowpens with General Morgan, at the Battle of Guilford Courthouse, at the Siege of 96, [and at] the Battle of Eutaw Springs under [General Greene]. She further declares that she was married to the said George Hood on the thirtieth day of January in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety four and that her husband, the aforesaid George Hood, died on the sixteenth
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Day of March One thousand and thirty five, and that she has not intermarried since the death of her husband the said George Hood but still remained a widow ever since that event, as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed.
Sworn to and subscribed before me this fifth day of December 1848
Anthony W. Olwine, Prothonotary 
Catharine Hood
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State of Pennsylvania
County of Philadelphia
I, Anthony W. Olwine, Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas holden at Philadelphia, in and for the City and County of Philadelphia on the fifth day of December 1848, do hereby certify that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited to said Court. That George Hood was a pensioner of the United States at the rate of one hundred dollars per annum, was a resident of the County of Philadelphia in the State of Pennsylvania and died on the sixteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and thirty five in the abovementioned place and that he left a widow whose name is Catharine Hood that the said George Hood left ten children, to wit five boys and five girls all of whom are believed to be living and of full age. 
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office this fifth day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty eight.
Anthony W. Olwine, Prothonotary
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O. 222
Application for Bounty Land Warrant.
Printed and Sold by Clark and Son, 
68 Dock Nt.
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Form of a Declaration to be made by the Widow of a Deceased Person who has not had a Land Warrant.
State of Pennsylvania
City of Philadelphia
On this thirteenth day of April A. D. one thousand eight hundred
and fifty five thousand personally appeared before me, an Alderman and ex officio Justice of the Peace within and for the City and State aforesaid, Catharine Hood aged 76 years, a resident of Philadelphia in the State of Pennsylvania, who being duly sworn to according to law, declares that she is the widow of George Hood deceased, who was a Dragoon in the War of the Revolution.
Commanded by [Blank] in the war with [Blank] declared by the United States on the [Blank] day of [Blank], that her said husband at [Blank] on or about the [Blank] day of [Blank] A.D. for the term of [Blank] and continued in actual service in said war for the term of [Blank] and was honorably discharged at [Blank] on the [Blank] day of [Blank] A.D. 
She further states that she was married to the said George Hood in Philadelphia on thirtieth day of January A.D. 1794 by one Rev. Collins [Illegible Ink Marks] and that her name before said marriage was Catharine Müller that her said husband died at Philadelphia on sixteenth day of March A.D. 1835 and that she is now a widow.
[Illegible Ink Marks]
She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the Bounty Land to which she may be entitled under the act approved March 3rd, 1855. She also declares that she has not received a warrant for bounty land under this or any other Act of Congress, nor made any other application therefor.
[Illegible Ink Marks]
Catharine Hood

We, Daniel Farrar, a resident of No. 50 Lombardy and Joseph Evans, a resident of No. 233 Lombardy, Philadelphia, in the State of Pennsylvania upon our oaths, declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged in our presence, and that we believe, from the appearance and statements of the applicant, that she is the identical person she represents herself to be.
That the said Catharine Hood was married to the said George Hood deceased[.]
[Illegible Ink Marks]
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The foregoing Declaration and Affidavit were sworn to and subscribed before me on the year above written; and I certify that I know the Affiants to be credible persons; that the claimant is the person she represents herself to be, and that I have no interest in this claim. [Illegible Ink Marks].

State of Pennsylvania
County of Philadelphia
I hereby certify, that [Illegible] and John B. Kenney, Esq. before whom [Missing Text] of the Court of Common Pleas [Missing Text], this fourteenth day of April 1855.
The Commissioner of Pensions will please deliver or forward to John H. Frick of Philadelphia, as my Attorney, the Warrant to which I may be entitled. 
Catharine Hood
Witnesses present.
Daniel Farrar 
Joseph Evans

78.852
Bounty Land Claim of Catharine Hood, Widow of George Hood, War of the Revolution
John H. Frick of Philadelphia, Attorney
Filed April 17, 1855
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State of Pennsylvania 
City of Philadelphia

George Hood of the City of Philadelphia, being duly sworn according to law, doth on his solemn oath deposed and declared: that he has recently received a pension from the United States under the Act of the 15th May 1821 for the term of “during the War.”
Colonel Washington’s Cavalry. Documents on file at the Office of the Secretary of the Treasury and the files of Congress transmitted with his petition.
He further declares that never has received his [Illegible Ink Marks] Bounty Land from the United States for his military service as a soldier in the Revolution. That he received his pay when discharged in South Carolina at the close of the War in 1783. 
And request the proper Offices of the War Department to refer to the resolve of Congress of the 7th June 1790 after the arrears of pay date and the Original Roll for pay. And [Illegible] him a Warrant for Bounty Land, No. 138 South [Illegible] Street, Philadelphia. 
Sworn and subscribed this 24th day of February 1829.
[Illegible Ink Marks]
George Hood
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October 5, 1901
Mrs. E. Twaddell 
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
February 4, 1902
To above, no further information
June 24, 1902
To above residences as [Illegible] and stated

Revolutionary Widow
File No. 8939
Catharine Hood 
Widow 
George Hood
Dragoon Revolutionary War
Act: July 7th 1848
Index:-Vol. A, Page 343
[Arrangement of 1870]
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Catharine Hood
Widow of Geroge
Pennsylvania Act July 7, 1838
Rejected
Letter to Honorable E. J. Morris
June 20 1846
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W. Clay Evans,
Please sir,
Your kind information of October 5th concerning George Hood, a soldier of the Revolutionary War received [Illegible].
You [are] to inform me of your earliest convenience as to which Regiment he served in and what battles he engaged – the statement
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Shows he served under Capt. Cassin, [whose] Regiment is not named. I heard from the older generation that he served in Col. Washington’s Cavalry, [whose] information must be as correct as can be of timed at this late date. 
[Illegible]
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[Illegible]
Sincerely yours,
Mary F. T. Twaddell 
Mr. Edward Twaddell 

1823 Arch St. 
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

[Illegible]
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1487 – 100 – RW 
105
[Illegible]
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November 28, 1848
For this Letter, see Ch. Richard Fenwick 
R.3497
Act 24 July 1848
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Act 29 July 1848 Pennsylvania
Boynton
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[Illegible]
Washington June 13, 1844
J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
I enclose to you the petition of Mrs. Catharine Hood asking a pension for the services of her husband. By the pension law recently passed, Mrs. Hood would be entitled to a pension. Please let me know what is necessary to be done in her case to substantiate her claim under that law. 
Very respectfully,
Hon. E. J. Morris
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No. 1487
George Hood
Record
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Philadelphia March 14th, 1829
Dear sir,
Your letter of the 11th just was duly received. And I now acknowledge the receipt of Land Warrant No. 1487 as the bounty served due me as a dragoon in Col. William Washington’s Cavalry in the Virginia line. 
Robert Taylor, Esq. 
I am sir respectfully your most obedient servant,
George Hood
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Washington 29 July 1858
C. Whiting, Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions

Dear sir, 
I have received the two enclosed papers from Mr. Hood of Philadelphia. These contents will explain their object and I take the liberty of sending them directly to you for the purpose of respectfully asking, that you will please be so good as to investigate yourself the matter to which they refer and inform me whether “there are still arrear of money or of land or both due” to the mother of the writer, or any increase of her pension either under the act of 29th July 1848, by which she was pensioned or under any subsequent legislation of Congress.
Your early reply and a return of the enclosed will [be] much oblige[d].
Very respectfully your obedient servant,
A. H. Mechlin
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No. 1487
George Hood
Pennsylvania
Mail to himself 
Philadelphia

The warrant in this case was granted when the certificate from the Treasury Department that the applicant was entitled to claim money under the ““An Act for the Relief of Certain Surviving Officers and Soldiers of the Revolution,” passed in 1827/28 and the opinion of the Secretary of War that such certificate ought to be received by widower of applicant’s title to land.
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Revolutionary Claims
Under the act, entitled An Act for the Relief of Certain Surviving Officers and Soldiers of the Revolution,” approved 15th May, 1828.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT
11 February 1829

Sir,
Your claim, under the abovementioned act, having been examined, you are found to be entitled to the pay of a Dragoon in the Continental Line. The amount which may be due, accordingly, will be remitted to you by the Treasurer of the United States.

I am, sir, very respectfully, 
Your obedient servant,
(Signed) Richard Rush

Mr.  George Hood
Philadelphia
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Revolutionary Claims
[B.]
Form of a Declaration to be made by the Non-Commissioned officers, Musicians, and Privates.
For the purpose of obtaining the benefits of the act, entitled An Act for the Relief of Certain Surviving Officers and Soldiers of the Revolution,” approved 15th May, 1828, I, George Hood of Philadelphia in the County of Philadelphia in the State of Pennsylvania do hereby declare, that I enlisted in the Continental Line of the Army of the Revolution, for and during the war, and continued in its service until its termination; at which period, I was a *soldier in Captain Cassin’s troop of Cavalry, Col. Washington of the Virginia Line. And, I also declare, that I afterwards received certificates for the reward of eighty dollars to which I was entitled, under a resolve of Congress, passed the 15th of May, 1778.
And I further declare, that I was not, on the fifteenth day of May, 1828, on the Pension List of the United States or at any time on any Pension Roll of the 11 States, or any State.
Witness my hand, this fourteenth day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty eight.
George Hood

Before me, the subscriber one of the Aldermen of the City of Philadelphia in the State of Pennsylvania, personally appeared, this day, George Gresham and Sylvester Roberts of the said County, who did severally make oath that George Hood by whom the foregoing declaration was subscribed, is generally reputed and believed to have been a soldier in the Army of the Revolution, in manner as therein stated.

Witness my hand, this 14th day of July, in the year 1828.
William Milnor, Ald.
George Gresham
Sylvester Roberts

I, Matthius Randall, Clerk of the Court of the County of Philadelphia
do hereby certify, that William Milnor, before whom the foregoing affidavits were sworn, was, at the time, as Alderman of the City of Philadelphia and duly empowered to administer oaths.
.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, this fifteenth day of July 1826.
Matthius Randall

*Sergeant, Corporal, Musician, or Private, as the case may be.
⸸The claimant, though not on the pension list on the 15th May, 1828, may have been on the list on or since the 3rd of March, 1826, and afterwards stricken off if so, he will add, and that 1 have received of the United States, as a pensioner, since the 3d of March, 1826, the sum of [Blank] dollars, paid to me by the Agent for paying pensions in the State of [Blank]
#Here insert a Justice of the Peace, or other Magistrate duly empowered to administer oaths.
§ Justice of the Peace, or otherwise, as the case may be.
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Declaration of Catharine Hood, widow of George Hood Revolutionary, for a pension under the act of Congress of July 29, 1848
No Dues

No. 21
Catharine Hood, widow of George Hood PA
Act 29 July 1848
Married 1794
Husband died 1835

No. 878
[Illegible]
2 years Dragoon
$100.00
4 March 1848

John D. Clark
Present
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Married, January 30th, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety four, by the Rev. Nicholas Collins D.D. [Illegible] of the Swedish Churches in Pennsylvania, George Hood, son of the deceased Charles and May Hood, of Virginia, past twenty eight, by trade ship cooper, with Catharine Müller, daughter of the deceased Daniel Müller and of his relief  Mary, new wife of Turner Sleyven, past sixteen. 

I certify that the above is a correct copy from the marriage records of Gloria Dei (bride’s church).
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal this seventeenth day of November A.D. one thousand eight hundred and forty eight. 
County of Philadelphia		

J. C. Clay 

Reverend of the above-named church
Sworn and subscribed before this 17th day of  November 1848

Robert Ganz
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Revolutionary Claims
Under the act, entitled “An Act for the Relief of Certain Surviving Officers and Soldiers of the Revolution,” approved 15th May, 1828.

Treasury Department
11 February 1829

Sir,

Your claim, under the abovementioned act, having been examined, you are found to be entitled to the pay of a Dragoon in the Continental Line. The amount which may be due, accordingly, will be remitted to you by the Treasurer of the United States.

I am sir, very respectfully, your obedient servant,
Richard Rush
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Treasury of the United States
Washington, March 25th March, 1829.

Sir,

Enclosed you will find my draft No. 246 on the Bank of the United States, for Dollars, 40, the amount of Warrant, No. 2025, issued by the Secretary of the Treasury, on receipt whereof be pleased to favor me with an early acknowledgement, specifying the sum received. 

With due consideration, I am, Sir, you obedient servant,

William Clark,
Treasurer of the United States
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State of Pennsylvania
City and County of Philadelphia

On this eighteenth day of November in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight, personally appeared before the subscriber, one of the Aldermen of the City of Philadelphia and ex officio a Justice of the Peace in and for the City and County in the State aforesaid, duly authorized by law to administer oath, Catharine Hood, a resident of the City of Philadelphia and State aforesaid aged about seventy two 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 pensions made by the Act of Congress passed. 
That she is the widow of George Hood, who was a Private in the Revolutionary Army of the United States, first in the Second Virginia Regiment under Col. Gibson, then in Pennsylvania under General Peter Muhlenberg, that he did duty in building the garrison at West Point under General Wayne and fought at Stony Point under General Muhlenberg and General Wayne and that after his first three years enlistment expired he enlisted in Colonel Washington’s Dragoons, went to South Carolina, joined the Regiment under General Greene and served in the Cavalry, making his services in the Army altogether more than five years, was in many battles in Pennsylvania, then at the Battle of Cowpens, that of Guilford Courthouse, the Siege of Ninety-Six, that of Eutaw Springs, and others. She further declares that she was married to the said George Hood on the thirtieth day of January, in the year seventeen hundred and ninety three; that her husband the aforesaid George Hood died on the sixteenth day of March in the year eighteen hundred and thirty five and that she has remained a widow ever since that period (that)
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That her husband, the said George Hood, received a pension of one hundred dollars a year which pension certificate is lost or mislaid and cannot be found after diligent search therefore as will more fully appear by reference to proof hereunto annexed and papers in the Pension Office in Washington City. 
Catharine Hood

Sworn to subscribed, on the day and year written before me. 
Chauncey Buckley
Alderman and ex officio a Justice of the Peace


State of Pennsylvania
City and County of Philadelphia

On this eighteenth day of November, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and forty eight,
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Eight, before me, the subscriber, one of the Aldermen of the City of Philadelphia and ex officio a Justice of the Peace in and for the City and County in the Srate aforesaid, personally appeared Charles Bard Reess and John Duncan and, after being duly sworn according to law, declared that they are disinterested witnesses and that they know Mrs. Catharine Hood to be the widow of the identical George Hood within named who received a pension from the United States at the rate of one hundred dollars a year and who died on the sixteenth day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty five and I further certify that they are entitled to full credit.

Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year aforesaid before me.
Chauncey Buckey					Charles Bard Reess 
Alderman and ex officio a Justice of the Peace		John Duncan  

I, Joseph Simon Cohen, Prothonotary of the Supreme Couty of Pennsylvania for the Eastern District, do certify that Chauncey Buckey, Esquire, before whom the foregoing affidavits were made and whose name is thereto subscribed, is his own proper handwriting, was at the time the same were made and now is an Alderman of the City of Philadelphia and ex officio a Justice of the Peace duly commissioned and authorized to administer oaths to take acknowledgements and to whose acts as such full faith and credit and ought to be given.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of the said Supreme Couty at Philadelphia, this eighteenth day of November A.D. 1848.
J. Simon Cohen, Prothonotary
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Married January 30 one thousand seven hundred and ninety four by the Rev. Collins of the Swedish Church in Pennsylvania. George Hood, son of deceased Charles and May Hood, of Virginia, to Catharine Müller, daughter of deceased Daniel Müller and relief Mary.
I certify that the above is true and correct copy from the marriage of Gloria Dei Church. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 30th day of March A.D. 1855. 
J. C. Clay Rector of Gloria Dei Church, Philadelphia 

Sworn to and subscribed before me this 30th day of March A.D. 1855.
C. Israel, Alderman and ex officio Justice of the Peace
City of Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania
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Philadelphia, June 3rd 1844
To the honorable, Senate and House of Representatives, of the United States.
Your petitioner, the widow of George Hood, a Soldier of the Revolution, a Virginian by birth, born in Charles City County; he entered the Army young, and swerved seven years and seven months, in most of the Battles that were both North and South and one of the number who served for the first to the last for Independence of this Country. In 1828 he applied for a Pension, which was granted him and which he received until the time of his death, which 9 years ago last month. At that time, we were living comfortable, but as soon as death closed his eyes, all was gone from me, and I was then at an advanced age compelled to exert myself in the capacity of Nurse to obtain support, but age and infirmities are increasing on me so much. But my exertions are but feeble towards my support. The prayer of your petitioner is that Congress will take the long and tried services of my husband into consideration, and also the fact of marrying 28 days too late, to fall within the provisions of the Act passed for the benefit of widows of Revolutionary soldiers. I was married January 28th 1794 and would humbly pray that the pension which my husband George Hood received,
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While living, may be continued to me now in my declining years, to smooth pillow of sickness, and infirmities, until I am called, to join who has fought his last battle.
Catharine Hood

Philadelphia 
June 3rd, 1844
The undersigned Citizens of Philadelphia, do certify, that Catharine Hood is the widow of George Hood, a soldier of the Revolution, and deserving of such aid as Congress may see fit to bestow. 
Joseph Evans
Arch Randall 
J. B. Sutherland
F. A. Raybold
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Philadelphia December 8th, 1828
To the Honorable Richard Rush, Secretary of the Treasury at Washington City
Dear sir,
I wish to inform you of a small sketch of my servitude in the Revolutionary Army. I am feeble and destitute, which I see my bounty is willing to compensate me among the rest of my services in the Revolution. I was born in Charles City County, Virginia, 1761. In October 1776, I left my school and entered in Second Virginia State Regiment, in General Peter Muhlenberg’s Brigade in the Fall of the year 1777. I joined General Washington at Valley Forge State of Pennsylvania in 1778 after the Battle of Monmouth, New Jersey. 
General Muhlenberg then took his station up the North River, wherein I was drafted on fatigue [duty] to build the West Point garrison under General Putnam in the 14th July 1889. General Wayne Howard Stony Point, on the North River, from the first and second Virginia State Regiments, there were men taken to strengthen his force, and [I] myself was one of the number, the next day,
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We took our wounded up to Fish River Brunswick, where General Scott had the [Illegible], his son in law Charles H. Knight, was the surgeon, he there detained me to help him in dressing the wounded. 
I do so after a short time he prevailed upon me to drive his father in law, General Scott, in his carriage, he being old and feeble. He was grandfather to Mr. John M. Scott, Attorney at Law in Philadelphia. I remained there for three months and better, until my three years service was expired. I then cam on to Philadelphia, the Brigade I was attached to had marched to the South. I had no opportunity at obtaining a discharge from Doctor C. H. Knight, [who] came with me as far as Philadelphia, and took in the same house with him to bound and advance me money toward [offsetting] my expenses home and then we parted ways a few days after. I happened to meet Lieutenant David Ballieu, belonging to Colonel William Washington’s Cavalry, wherein I was once acquiainted with him in Virginia. I told him my three years service was at an [Illegible] and I had not sufficient means to carry me home where I belonged. His reply was I have plenty of money and you can seen get home. I am recruiting for Col. Washington’s Cavalry and the Bounty for during the war was 700 dollars Continental Money in which I immediately entered with him during the war. I immediately got equipped and then set off [to] the South.
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We stopped a few days in Virginia and recruited. I got permission to go and see my mother. My father died before I entered in the service and to my great surprise my mother was no more. I had no friends nor relatives to draw any money. We then started to join General Greene’s headquarters at the [Illegible] in South Carolina. We then joined our respective Regiment, William Washington’s Cavalry, in the [year] 1780. I belonged to the first troop commanded by Captain Curson, [whose] light infantry was commanded by General Morgan, it is useless for me to mention [Illegible] in the South, it is now known by the community that we done our duty.
In the year 1781, I lowered the flag with Adjutant Simmons, into Charlestown, for the express purpose of relieving Colonel Haynes from being hung, who was at the time a prisoner with the English in Charlestown, South Carolina. We arrived as it might be about 12 o’clock in the day. The flag was stopped about opposite the garrison, by an [British Major] by the name Tenpenny, and the day previous he was executed. While we were detained, several of the British officers pointed out the spot their says they were there, the rebel was living. Major Tenpenny escorted the flag back to the quarter house, being six miles from Charlestown, and then remained there until we received orders from Lord Randon, about four o’clock the next day. We received [Illegible] and then returned to General Greene’s headquarters in a short time after General Greene marched for [the Siege of Ninety Six], being an English garrison in the [Illegible]
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Of South Carolina and was supposed we would have, leveled it, had it not been for a spy that was sent out of Charlestown by Lord Randon for garrison not to surrender, in a short time they should have reinforcements. This spy appeared in the habit of countrymen appearance, very awkwardly, as soon as he got a little distance from our main battery. He ran as hard as he could run and the balls falling after him, the English seeing him lowering their [Illegible]. Their commander horse flew out of the gate as soon as the spy entered the gate, the horse belonged to Col. Cruger, commander of the garrison, the horse ran into our encampment and Col. Washington made him a present to General Greene. The reinforcement did come and General Greene after a general attack with a lot of men, had to give his siege and retreat back to his stronghold at the high hills of Santee. This reinforcement from Charlestown was commanded by Lord Colonel Stewart, which in a short time after picked his quarters at the Eutaw Springs, soon after that General Greene fully determined to give the English battles at the Eutaw Springs, where you will know more about the outcome of said battles. Col. Washington charged the right of the English Army, which was called into battle of about 130 men in the cavalry assisted by George Grisham of a troop of volunteers. He was much a Captain and he is now in the custom house in Philadelphia an office he has signed on my documents there is now before your honor
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Also Colonel Meade Hampton was in the action with a troop of volunteers. The action was desperate. George Grisham was alongside of Washington when his horse was shot and fell on him. Sylvester Roberts, an officer in the late war, on the lakes has often solicited me to present my claims to government for my relief. I have so and still have received no satisfaction. I can everyday see those that have received and is receiving it, but I don’t wish to be the judge. I can hear people of those that have been in the service for a short time and receiving their pension, but sir I have been in the service seven years that is to say from 1775 to the end of the war in the Continental Line of Virginia and have never as yet received anything and some years ago I have seen better days, and never expected to ask for anything. That is well known by two members of Congress, M. John Sergeant, M. Joel N. Sutherland, and Samuel Humphrey, architect at the close of the war. The discharge that I got I returned home, not knowing when I would get anything. I had nothing to draw my attention then I turned my attention to the sea. I went to Petersburg in Virginia, from then on bound of the [Illegible] Connecticut, in 1784, I then shipped onboard of a sloop that had a load of horses, bound to Cape Draney in St. Domingo. We arrived safe in port. I then left the sloop and shipped on board of a brig called the Admiral Trough, bound to New York, we traveled at Jamaica and took in
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Part of cargo. We then sailed for New York in about seven days. We went up in the gulf stream in a heavy storm within about ninety degrees of Cape Antonie. We lost everything, except for what we had on our backs. I lost my chest and all my clothes and papers. We took to our boat and left the brig, there were ten of us in number our Captain’s name was [Illegible]. The next day, we were picked up by a Spanish [coastal vessel], we [spent fifteen days aboard that ship] and then taken in, where we remained sometime. I then [went on board] a ship that was bound for New York. The captain, [Illegible], [was from] Providence, Rhode Island. We arrived in New York safe and then wen up to Wilford, Connecticut. I then sailed out with Captain Joseph Whiten in the West Service Trade, where our present Commodore Hull was a lad on board at that time. We sailed several voyages together [after] which I left Captain Whiten in Cape [Illegible], Santa Domingo and met a man on board in my place and I took a house on short to dispose of venture. I also bought some from Captain Whiten, which I gave him my note for nearly thirty years ago. [Illegible].
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Sir, 

I mention these fine outing to see if they would bear any weight with your honor towards my claims. Sir, I have a fine [Illegible] or remember if I never get anything else. I sir, I have a wife and ten children, three of whom look to me for support, which I am not able to give them and what the result will be I cannot tell. I have not been able to earn a dollar this seven years, I am crippled. [Illegible].
Sir, I hope you will pardon me for troubling you so much. Sir, I should wish to know from you honor whether I am likely to receive anything or not. Sir, you will be kind enough to direct a [Illegible] in Philadelphia. 

George Hood

[P.S.:] Sir, I will mention a few names have signed my claim now before Congress

John Thompson, Esq.		Peter A. Bronn, Esq.
Richard Palmer, Esq. 		Josiah Randal, Esq.
Richard Renshaw		Geo M. Dallas, Esq.
John R. McCullen		John M. Scott, Esq.
Robert McCullen		Caleb North, Esq.
[Illegible]			Thomas Cadwalader, Esq.
Joseph Ralph			Andrew M. Prevost, Esq.
				Jacob Strembeck, Esq.
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If you would be so kind as to examine your pension list, you will find the name of William Dunahee, who belonged to the infantry that was in the same engagement with me. He was a neighbor of mine and I remember the time when he drew his pension; he often solicited me and said he would go forward and be qualified to my claims, my being in better circumstances than him. I did not need it at that time, I was convinced to make inquiry of him and found he had moved to the State of Delaware and then died about three years ago. I also have made any inquiry that possible could be made, then find none living, except the living witness whose name you have before you, that is George Grisham. I have a [Illegible] for 1796. George Washington was President at that time, signed by his secretary Timoty Pickering, stating that I was a native of Virginia, which was  given to me [Illegible].

George Hood
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Revolutionary Claims
Treasury Department
August 1, 1828

George Hood, of Philadelphia, in the State of Pennsylvania, has applied to the Secretary of the Treasury for the benefits of the act, entitled “An Act for the Relief of Certain Surviving Officers and Soldiers of the Revolution,” approved 15th May, 1828. He states that he enlisted in the Continental line of the Revolution, for and during the war, and continued until its termination, at which period he was a Private in [a] (Cavalry Troop), in Col. Washington’s Regiment of the Virginia line; and that he received a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars, provided by the resolve of the 15th of May, 1778; and further, that he was not on the 15th day of May, 1828, on the pension list of the United States, and that he has received as a pensioner since the 3rd of March, 1828, nothing.
The Third Auditor is requested to report how far the several statements are corroborated by the records in his office. 
By order of the Secretary,
A. Dickins 

Treasury Department
Third Auditor’s Office 
The name of George Hood cannot be found among those of the Virginia line, to whom certificate for the gratuity of eight dollars were issued. 
Peter Hagner, Auditor
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Revolutionary Claims
Under the act, entitled “An Act for the Relief of Certain Surviving Officers and Soldiers of the Revolution,” approved 15th May, 1828.

Treasury Department
3 September 1828

The annexed paper, relating to the claim of George Hood, under the abovementioned act, is respectfully referred to the Secretary of War, with any request that he will be pleased to cause me to be informed whether it appears, by any records in the War Department, that the claimant has received, or is entitled to receive, the bounty in land granted by Congress for service in the Continental line of the Army of the Revolution.
Richard Rush
The Hon. the Secretary of War

War Department 
Bounty Land Office
9th September 1828

George Hood of the Virginia Line, is not returned, as being entitled to land from the United States, nor has a warrant issued for him.
E. Stephens
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General Land Offering
24th December 1828
I certify that the name of George Hood does not appear on the List of Warrants found by the Register of the Land Office in Richmond, Virginia as far as those Lists have been received. 
Geo: Graham
Commissioner
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1823 Arch St. 
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Pension Office
Washington D.C.
Dear sir,
Will you kindly inform me whether or not the name of George Hood of PA is on the Pension Rolls. He enlisted and served his country for 7 years and 6 months in Col. Washington’s Cavalry during the Revolution. And I, a great granddaughter, am looking up information about the family as to how
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George Hood died in March 1835 and I am told his widow, Catharine Hood, drew his pensions, one from the United States and one from Virginia, where a pension was given to those from or enlisted in that State.
Any information that you can given me about the said George Hood will be thankfully received. Kindly send me information as to whether
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Or not his name is on Pension Roll, also amount given per annum. His widow, Catharine Hood, and [Illegible] at the earliest opportunity. 
Sincerely yours,
Mary F. T. Twaddell 
Mrs. Edward Twaddell 
1823 Arch St.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

September 28, 1901