Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 7959, Samuel Wood, Va.

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Wood, Samuel
S. 7959
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32,217 Yr Virginia
Samuel Wood, of Culpeper in the State of Va. who was a Private in the Com. commanded by Captain ~ of the reg commanded by ~ in the Virginia line for 14 Mo. 15 days
Inscribed on the Roll of Richmond, at the rate of 48 Dollars 33 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.
Certificate of Pension issued the 12 day of Octo. 1846 and sent to Hon. J. S. Barbour, Culpeper C.H. Va.
Arrears to the 4th of Semi-annual allowance ending
Recorded by { Revolutionary Claim, J. A. Swann. Clerk, { Act June 7, 1832. Book C Vol. 62 Page 39
See letters Oct 24. 1844 to the P.A.G. & James Barbour.
Letter to Gen B. Peyton & 3 Auditors March 1846 Letter to B Peyton & 3 the Pen Age 28 March 1846 Feb 63 and May 1. 1849 Let J. S. Barbour Nov 15. 49 N.P. Yager w H June 11 1853

Service allowed
77. to P 3. 79. Barracks - 5.15 81. Yorktown 3 - " Warrenton - 3 - 14.15

State of Virginia } Eleventh Circuit and County of Campbell } Sixth Judicial District
Supplemental Declaration made on oath by Samuel Wood of Campbell County Virginia before the Honble Richard H. Field of the Eleventh Circuit of Sixth Judicial District of the Commonwealth of Virginia, in order to obtain the benefits of the act of Congress of the 7th June 1832
The said Samuel Wood on his corporal oath in due form of law administered him, declares that he was eighty six years of age on the 14th of April of this year as he is firmly persuaded & verily believes, - That in the year 1777 he was absent from home in the Militia Service in the line of duty with the Continentals at that time in his former declaration the full amount of six months, That four months of that time he was in actual Military duty as a soldier, that for at least two other months in that time he was engaged by order in the other duties of sutler & purveyor of supplies out of camp or cooking & washing within the camp - That being familiar by practice with the business of cooking he was detailed for that duty & he did much of it. He was under the Military power, subject to its orders & would doubtless have been punished for disobedience, had he failed to serve in the capacity of sutler & purveyor of small supplies as he was commanded. And the said Samuel Wood says he was often

often sent out to procure supplies of powder of the line, and this duty, as he now believes that of working under Military orders, found Valley Forge where the troops were put up to Winter Quarters under Genl Geo: Washington - He is satisfied & declared on Oath that he was one month or more in this particular service, at Valley Forge & about it. It was Military Service under Military orders, in addition to his other time of duty with the Fungiaries Militia and it was useful service & service discipline & obedience to the Military power. It is whole Service from late in the Summer of the Year 1777 to his discharged from Valley Forge was more than six months. Whether it was Militia duty or working duty or procuring for small supplies it was under Military orders all of it, and more than three months as it was as a Soldier, besides the other Military duties, which were rendered under Military orders put on him for the duties above-mentioned, & for which he was detailed from the line of the Militia & in which he did continue & did serve as he herein states. His service in the first time of the Year 1781 on the invasion of the British was under Captain Atwell of the Fungiaries Militia. The bulk of the Militia or nearly all of it was in service below tide water & between tide water & the blue ridge of Mountains. After they got to Camp Hobbs: Forwards who was a regular officer of the State line & Major Wilson a regular officer of the State line, as he believes took command, & he believe believes those officers were in command of Militia from the year 1781 to the Siege of York, & afterwards until they found the British prisoners to Winchester, which service & procuring the

to the prisoners to Warrenton, he has before hinted and in his Declaration in June last made in open court. In this particular time he names Captain at well Major Wilson & Col. Bonner as his officers, (where it is said he failed to name his officers) & which failure must be the error he speaks of the writer of his declaration. The Scottish prisoners confined at Warrenton (Fauquier Virginia) were about fifty or sixty in number. They were prisoners with the peculiar dress, manner, dialect & behavior which was said to mark the Highlanders of Scotland. These prisoners were quartered at Fauquier & Warrenton after there. Said Wood was in that service more than four months & he believes on his oath more than six months. He put it at four months in his declaration by advice of the gentlemen who wrote his declaration, but he then believed it six months; & all his recollection confirms him in it. Major Martin Pickett of the Fauquier militia commanded that guard as the principal, & Lieut. Scott and Lieut. Blackwell were also in service & one of the Brooks was also in command, who was afterwards clerk of the Senate in Virginia, for he saw him afterwards in Richmond acting as clerk of the Senate. This was many years after when John Randolph was Governor of Virginia. After. He said Wood says that after the great loss of time he narrates with caution (& with apparently which that caution increases) events so far back. He is now very old with a wasted & waning memory, but the facts he narrates he well remembers where distinctly stated by him. He served the full time he stated in his former declaration & reiterated & enlarged in this. He was a healthy hearty young man in the vigor of the life, & if he could have escaped service in six years of service & fighting, he must have been both a coward & a Tony, & lucky enough to evade all the penalties for dereliction of duty & all the severe & anxiety to get  draw into the service many capable & efficient men. And he declares that this was & is his own suggestion not the suggestion of the person writing his declara- tion or any other person than his own. For old as he is, that matter is too plain to him to waste his thoughts.

for he remembers seeing the officers in pursuit of recreant soldiers of the militia, who were hiding & skulking from duty, when wanted. Subscribed by me as witness, my hand this 7 th day of Octo 1844.
Note. Colo Wood. Colo Taylor Samuel his Wood & Major Roberts were the officers in the Regiment of Guards or Chasseurs here which it is said cannot be clearly ascertained - after being there in the Guards five & a half months his brother John Wood took his place & he returned home to Genangier - Colo Wood was also there at one time. S.W.
Commonwealth of Virginia.
11 th Judicial Circuit
Halifax County. To wit:
I Richard St. Hill one of the Judges of the General Court of Virginia do hereby certify that on this 7 th day of October 1844. at my place of residence in the County of Halifax Samuel Wood of this said County appeared and made oath before me in due form of law that the foregoing declaration and statements therein contained are true I do further certify that I have known the said Samuel Wood personally for a period of thirty years, during the whole of which time he has resided within 1 1/2 miles from the place of residence of my own residence and grandfather which estate passed from my grandfather to my father and from him to me. I have no hesitation in certifying that Wood is a man of truth & honesty, and that I believe the foregoing declaration of his to be true - all of which is respectfully certified. and I do further certify that I am one of the Judges of the General Court of Virginia and also Judge of the Circuit Superior Court of Law and Chancery of the 11 th Judicial Circuit of which the County of Halifax is part. As witness my hand & seal this day & year last above written
To the Honorable
Richard St. Hill
Security at No. 11
Washington

I Robert G. Ward Clerk of the Circuit Superior Court of Law & Chancery for the County of Gilesburg in the State of Virginia do hereby certify that the Honorables Richard B. Freed whose signature & endorsement are immediately above, is a Judge of the General Court of Virginia & Judge of the Circuit Superior Court of Law & Chancery for Gilesburg County (which is one of the Counties of the eleventh judicial Circuit.) That full faith & credit are due all the acts of the said Judge in his official capacity & signature is genuine.
Witness my hand & seal, & the seal of my office as Clerk of the said Court This Eighth day of October in the year of Christ 1844
R. G. Ward

Power ally. Marshall Wood son Saml. Wood del?
Saml. Wood is believed to have belonged to the Virginia Militia Service and went into service from the County of Albemarle - does not know what company or regiment he served in.

POWER OF ATTORNEY.
Know all Men by these Presents, That I, Marshall Wood son of Samuel Wood deceased who was a Revolutionary soldier, of the County of Buckingham and State of Virginia do hereby constitute and appoint N. B. TAPSCOTT of said County and State
my true and lawful Agent and Attorney to prosecute my claim for any amount of Revolutionary Pension or increase of pension, back pay, or Bounty land increase that may be due me; and I hereby authorize my said Agent to examine all papers and documents in relation to said claim on file in the departments at Washington City or elsewhere, to file additional evidence or arguments, and to receive such certificate of pension or warrant as may be issued in virtue of the same; to appoint one or more substitutes under him, for the purpose herein mentioned; and to do all things that I might or could do were I personally present. Hereby ratifying and confirming all that my said Attorney and Agent shall lawfully do in the premises.
Witness my hand and seal, this 26 th day of May 1855.
Marshall Wood.
STATE OF Virginia } ss, County of Buckingham
Signed, sealed, acknowledged, and sworn to before me on the day and year mentioned in the foregoing power of Attorney. And I hereby certify that Marshall Wood is the son of one Samuel Wood deceased who is supposed to have been a revolutionary soldier. Jno. B. Turner J. P.
STATE OF } County of
Clerk of the County of
I, in the State aforesaid, do hereby certify that whose certificate appears attached to the foregoing Power of Attorney, is now and was at the date of the same, an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid, duly commissioned and qualified according to law; and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine.
Given under my hand and the seal of the Court, this day of
18 Clerk.

State of Virginia
Henrico County, ss.
Samuel Wood aged Eighty six & upwards a soldier of the Revolution made oath before me - Justice of the peace in the State & County aforesaid, that he was in the Militia Service in the War of the Revolution as set forth in his declaration before the Honble Judge Frost in June last, and he solemnly declares and states that he had not delayed his application until his comrades in arms were no more, so far from it as soon as the Battle of in June 1862 he applied to John S. H. at once his application in progress to attend to his application & have it allowed & paid him that his Brother reported him to the H. as a Brother, who was en- gaged in the War, that the applications were too numerous for him (the Brother) & that he could not attend to one without attending to all. That said Brother understood it, & after some time informed said

Sam l Wood that he had prepared the papers but they were not in form & were returned. That he said Wood always complained & thought hardly of the injunction done him; and being very aged & infirm & retired from the World, ceased to hope for justice until he met Mr Barrows at his house in April last, who expressed his sur- prise at learning that he said Wood had never obtained the benefit of the act of June 18 th 42, & by Mr Barrows advice, he made the present application.
Given under my hand & seal this 11 th day of Sept r 1844.
Samuel X Wood (seal) mark
Culpeper County to wit
Samuel Wood made oath before me a Justice of the peace for the County aforesaid, that the foregoing paper which he has made his mark this day is Just and true to best of his knowledge & belief. Given under my hand this 11 th day of Sept r 1844
William Major J.P.

State of Virginia County of Louisa 3 1/2
John L. Barbour of the State & County aforesaid this day made oath before me a petition of the bene- rally presented thereon to administer oaths, that he said Bar- bour were remembered that the foregoing Samuel Wood did apply to him soon after the passage of the act of June 7 th 1832 to obtain a pension for him Wood under that act of Congress, that he declined doing it, because the applications were so numerous that he could not attend to them all, & advised him as before Wood has stated. That said Barbour considered his claim to a pension for services in the war of the revolution to be a good one at that time, and supposed that he had long since obtained it, & was surprised to learn from Mr Wood this Spring (1844) that he never had obtained it. He has known Mr Wood for about thirty years, his character for veracity is as good as any man's - Said Wood is an unlearned & uneducated man & said Barbour has conversed with him on many of the incidents of the revolution, in which Wood was a soldier (as he believes) & from this conversation entirely held with him he said Barbour does verily believe that said Wood served the campaign he mentioned in his declaration as a militia soldier. Signed J. L. Barbour. & known to me this 24 th Septem- ber in the year of Christ 1844. Attest my hand & seal
Thos A. Houske (Seal)

State of Va. Guilford County ss: I Fayette Maugy clerk of the county court of said county do hereby certify that Wm Major & Thomas A. Fox who have made the foregoing certificates are & were at the time of making the same acting justices of the peace in & for said county and that the signatures purporting to be theirs, are genuine. Witness my hand & seal of the said court this 24th day of Sep Tember 1844.
F Maugy clerk

Virginia.
At a circuit Superior Court of Law and Chancery held for Culpeper County on Friday the 14 th day of June 1844. Samuel Hood a soldier of the revolution came into court and made his declaration in writing and filed the same, which are in the words following to wit:
Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed 7 th June 1832.
State of Virginia
Culpeper County S.S.
On this 14 th day of June 1844 personally appeared in open court before the Circuit Superior Court of Law and Chancery for Culpeper County, now sitting Samuel Hood a resident of Medway in the County of Culpeper and State of Virginia aged eighty six years (the 14 th day of April last past), who being justly duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as here in States; first under Colonel Armstrad Churchwell, Major Peabody, Captain Atwell & Lieutenant Blackwell into which service he was drafted from the body of the Fauquier Militia (of which Militia he was once, in the early part of August in the year 1777. That he marched under these officers to the north as far as the State of Maryland; when Colonel Churchwell returned to Fauquier, the rest of the said Militia of which this declarant was once, marched further to the north into the State of Pennsylvania and joined the grand Army under the command of General George Washington, that he said Hood with the rest of the said Militia and other troops were moved to Chestnut Hills (in Pennsylvania) and were there stationed some time (ten miles from Philadelphia); that said Hood and other troops were in Lancaster when the wounded soldiers were brought there. He remembers the battle of Brandywine Germantown and Red Bank, but was not in either of them, after remaining sometime in camp at Chestnut Hills he was marched into winter quarters at Valley Forge where he remained in service until his term of service was out & he was discharged - which discharge he has lost or mislaid, and he declares that he actually served four months in camp and on duty to the north in this tour and two months in Virginia and Maryland on that tour before reaching Pennsylvania making in all for that tour, he served as a drafted Militia man from Fauquier County the period of six months at least to the best of his recollection and belief.
The said Samuel Hood further declares on oath that he served as a drafted Militia man in the summer fall & winter of the years 1778 & 1779 under Captain Summerlane of the

Fauquier Militia, the Space and term of five & a half months, four months of which service he rendered as a drafted militia soldier in guarding the prisoners taken with Burgoyne at Saratoga & while prisoners were in barracks in Albermarle County Virginia, & this declarant served as a guard for them with other militia. Colo Wood & Colo Taylor and later in his said Sam Wood's service, Major John Roberts was among the field officers in said Regiment of guards at Albermarle barracks. He was four months & more at the barracks & five & a half months in that town as a drafted militia man. He also declares that he was drafted from the said Fauquier Militia in 1778 in summer or in 1779 in summer, he is not certain which to guard some highlands Scotch prisoners that were marched from the north to Fauquier courthouse (now Warrenton in Virginia) and he served as a drafted militia man in that service as a guard to those Scotch prisoners four months, - Colo Churchwell was the officer in command & afterwards Colo McPheat had command as he believes the prisoners were highland Scotch and wore the Kilt . - His said declarant's memory is uncertain as to the year 1778 or 1779 by reason of its waste by old age but the fact and length of his service in this duty he well remembers.
In 1781 the declarant Samuel Wood says on oath he served another tour of duty as a drafted militia man from Fauquier in the spring, at about Richmond a tour of two months, and in the month of July of the said year 1781, he said Wood was drafted & sent on to Yorktown in Virginia, under Captain Walker Grayson, of the said Fauquier militia, and was under command of Colo Elias Edmunds & Major Nathl. Greer, & that this service included the whole of the siege of York to the surrender of Lord Cornwallis and after his surrender said Samuel Wood was one of the guard commanded by Colo Edmunds & Major Greer, & a soldier in that guard who marched & guarded the British prisoners taken at Yorktown to four miles beyond Winchester in Virginia on a near the Romney Road to the left hand of that road where said prisoners were encamped or barracked and then he said Wood was with others discharged and returned home. In this tour he served more than four months for it was in cold weather before he returned & froze on the ground but he sets it down at four months to be within the time, & he is confident it was more than four months. Colo Edmunds and Major Greer were of the State line & regular officers in that line as he understood and believes. Colo Churchwell, Colo Pickett afterwards Major Pickett, Colo Brooke, Capt Atwell, Lieutenant Blackwell, Capt Scott, Capt Wm Graham were of the militia of Virginia. He also knew Colo James Barbour of the Culpeper militia & Major Wm Roberts, both of whom went to the north in the fall of the year 1777. Said Wood also knew Genl Washington, Genl Edward Stevens, Colo Thomas Marshall, Captain John Marshall, afterwards Ch. of Justice. Colo John Green of Culpeper & he saw said Green after he was wounded to the north in the fall of the year 1777. part of the term he was in service as a

drafted militia man at York he was detailed & assisted for a while in baking & other duties, but it was a service he performed as a detailed soldier of the line, under orders from the military power - He knew Col. Taylor, Wood, Major Roberts Robert and many others.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of Army State.
Sworn to and subscribed the day & year aforesaid.
Samuel his Wood
We Cumberland George a clergyman and John Shackelford residing in Culpeper do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Samuel Wood who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be eighty six years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier in the revolution & we concur in that opinion.
C. George
John Shackelford
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
The following questions were then put by the Judge to Samuel Wood and his answers following each question.
1 st Where & in what year were you born.
Answer. In Fauquier County Virginia about two miles from the Fauquier Springs on the 14 th day of April 1758.
2 nd Have you any record of your age, and if so where is it.
Answer None now. It is lost or destroyed my father had a record, I was always told & believe I was born the 14 th day of April 1758.
3 Where were you living when called into service, where have you lived since the Revolutionary War, and where do you now live.
Answer. In Fauquier County. I moved over to Culpeper County some years after the close of the Revolutionary War; and have lived in Culpeper more than fifty years and I live now in Culpeper.
4 th How were you called into service were you drafted, did you volunteer or were you a substitute for whom were you a substitute.
Answer I was drafted every time.
5 th State the names of some of the officers of the Regular Army and who were with the troops where you served I mean Continental & Militia Regiments as you recollect the general circumstances of your service.
Answer. I knew Genl Washington & the Marquis Lafayette Genl Muddock Genl H Woodford Genl Morgan Genl Wayne, Genl Stevens, Col John Green, Col Thomas Marshall, Col Edmonds Major Trite Capt Patwell Capt Marshall and many others. The names of the Regiments I cannot tell Scotts Regiments, Greens, Stevens, in 1777 of the regular army - I also knew the Regiments of Militia from Culpeper County commanded by Col Barkwell & the Fauquier Militia under Col Churchwell that I remained with in 1777 my services are

detailed in my declaration with its circumstances as well as I now recollect, these circumstances -
Question 6 th Did you ever receive a discharge & if so by whom was it given & what has become of it?
Answer. I remember very little of it, all that I received is lost or mislaid. I know I have got none now
7 th Question State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighbourhood; and who can testify as to your character for veracity & their belief of your services as a soldier in the revolution.
Answer. I have known the Judge of this Court for more than twenty five years. I have known John Shackelford Esq the atty of the State in this Court for more than fifty years, Captain Philip Hargrave, Captain A. P. Hill, Judge Scott of Fauquier & the whole neighbourhood in which I live some of whom are present and the Judge of this Court among my nearest neighbours.
And the said Court does hereby declare its opinion after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the war department that the above named applicant (Samuel Wood) was a revolutionary soldier & served as such States. and the court further certifies that it appears to it that Cumberland George who has signed the preceding Certificate as a Clergyman resident in the County of Culpeper and that John Shackelford Esq who has also signed the same is a resident in the County of Culpeper and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit
Richard H. Field Judge
I Robert G Ward Clerk of the Circuit Superior Court of Law and Chancery for the County of Culpeper do hereby certify that the foregoing contain the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Samuel Wood for a pension -
Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office this 14 th day of June 1844.
R. G. Ward clk

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Samuel Wood (Yrs)
82 Let to Gen Roger Jones of the 18. July 1844 Lt. to Hon. J. S. Barton Acty Genl. 1844
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I Philip Stoughton of the County of Culpeper & State of Virginia in the Eighty five year of my age formerly a Captain in the Virginia Continental line do hereby certify that I have been acquainted with Samuel Wood for upwards of twenty years - that we were Schoolmates While boys, that he was of sufficient age to be a soldier in the Revolutionary Service. I well remember when we were at School he was considerably larger than myself I suppose was one or two years older than I was when I went into the Eleventh Virginia Continental (Regiment) in the year 1776 & had served one tour in the Volunteer Minute Men in the year 1775. Samuel Wood says he was with the Virginia Militia from Virginia in 1777. I was with them in Pennsylvania in the year 1777. I well remember that the Virginia Militia found the Continental Army in Pennsylvania in the Month of October 1777 a few days after the Battle of Germantown Wood has made oath that he was in Pennsylvania with the Virginia Militia & that he served several tours in the Militia during the American Revolution. I have been acquainted with him from the time we went to School together up to the present time I am decidedly of opinion he ought to be believed on his oath given under my hand this fifth day of September 1844
Phil Stoughton formerly a Captain in Army of the Revolution
Virg a  Culpeper Culpeper County ss: This day Captain Philip Stoughton who has written the above wholly in his hand writing made oath before me a justice of the peace for the County & State of Virginia that the facts mentioned in it & opinions expressed are true, to the best of his knowledge & belief. Given under my hand & seal this 5 th Sept 1844.
Francis J. Thompson, Clerk

I Fayette Mancy Clerk of the county court of Gilesburg State of Va do hereby certify that Francis J Thompson who hath made the foregoing certif- icate is and was at the time of making the same an acting justice of the peace for said court & that his signature thereto, is genuine Witness my hand & seal of the said court this 10th day of Sep- tember 1844
F Mancy

Adm. J. S. Edwards
Sir.
Scituate Oct 8th 1844
The letter of Doctor Brown was recd at the place during my absence in an distant quarter of the country & from which I returned the night before the dusk. I learn from this communica- tion that you have every disposition to place the most "favorable estimate on all Mr Wood's claims," but that you can under the present aspect of his case allow him for three Years of duty only & three months for each Year. Viz The one to Phil a in 1777, the one to Albemarle Barracks & the one to York Town in 1781. And you require further evidence of service in both, the former the service he alleges in the Spring of 1781, and also in guarding the Highlanders or Scotland-prisoners in Lancaster in 1778 or 1779. You further say that you "cannot clearly decipher the names of his officers at Albemarle Barracks."
The accompanying supplemental declaration before Judge Field supplies all the additional informa- tion which the old man (Wood) can give in his present wasted state of memory. And his caution in stating anything of which he is doubt- ful also I am persuaded gives greater weight to his evidence. The Judge also testifies to Mr Wood's character for truth & honesty & that he has known him for thirty years.
(Capt. Stoughton previously testified to his having been from England -) This declaration proves that besides the three Months' tour in 1777, that he performed one other month of service, as a buyer of small sup- plies. Making 4 months which he did as a soldier & for which duty he was detached. If he did this service under the Military power, I pre- sume he should have credit for it, in computing the time of actual service. And this was in addi- tion to the regular tour of military duty.

I find on looking over the Journal of the Revolutionary Congress, that on the 22 nd of August 1777 the State of Virg a was requested to call out the Militia from the Counties of Prince W m Fauquier & C a to serve until the last day of November in 78. Vol. Journal page 236 (printed by Wray & Gilmer). This I understand as in the 3 months service, but then Militia were one month in getting homes. Were they not still in service? Mr Wood was detailed for Special Service & retained one month in that Special Service after his term expired. Is he not entitled to this month? I think it clear that he is, if his oath is entered, & your regulations make it certain when the character is fixed. This then should make two months instead of nine as mentioned in your letter. He now claims his Colonel & field officers in the Regiment of Guards. Captain Timberlake was named he says in his former declaration. - Timberlake was a Captain in that Regiment of Guards & was not long enough there to get laid. See the report of John H. Smith Commander of Virg a sent to the Legis- lature in 1833. 4. Where Capt. Wray? Timberlake is reported as "not entitled to Land he came not long enough in service". Mr Wood now swears he was five & a half months in that Regiment & that his brother John Wood (now dead as I know) was his substitute after the 5 1/2 months. On this proof I think 2 1/2 months should be added to the ten months above, & making 12 1/2 months. In the Spring of the year 1781, the invasions of Phillips Arnold & Tarleton successively made for the whole country under arms, and the Militia from Fauquier & Culpeper served two months. Several persons from this County & perhaps from Fauquier actually rec d pensions for that short time of two months. Colo Simmons & Major Welch were in command of Militia through officers of the State line from the 17th March 1781 to the Siege of York & afterwards, guarded the prisoners to Winchester. Old Mr Wood was out two months in the Spring of '81 & afterwards in the second call to the Siege of York. There is not a national doubt of this fact from the history of the times. As soon as Arnold & Phillips entered Virginia, Governor Jefferson, called out the Militia for two months - after the death of Phillips & retreat of Arnold the Militia was discharged but this service was two months only & that is all Mr Wood has claimed.
Several persons from this County & perhaps from Fauquier actually rec d pensions for that short time of two months. Colo Simmons & Major Welch were in command of Militia through officers of the State line from the 17th March 1781 to the Siege of York & afterwards, guarded the prisoners to Winchester. Old Mr Wood was out two months in the Spring of '81 & afterwards in the second call to the Siege of York. There is not a national doubt of this fact from the history of the times. As soon as Arnold & Phillips entered Virginia, Governor Jefferson, called out the Militia for two months - after the death of Phillips & retreat of Arnold the Militia was discharged but this service was two months only & that is all Mr Wood has claimed.

And it is also History that on the 1 st of March 1781 Govt Def- ferre by message to the Genl Assembly (Hening's Statutes or Vol 10 th  4572 large, page 570) communicated the reorganization of the 1 st & 2 d State Regiments & the Regiment of State Artillery.
By that reorganization the Executive called these State of the line troops to the command of Militia. Remains of the artillery & Artillery of the 1 st & 2 d State Regiments were put into command, of Militia the 17 th March 1781 at or near Richmond & remained in command until the close of 1781. I know this fact as well as history & the public records can satisfy me of any fact. I read the Executive journals of last Winter to that effect in looking over Washington's services, and in your enclosures filed in this case, you will doubtless find proof of it. I refer you to the case of Wm Lewis of Cumberland for proof of it for Lewis is a prisoner & in haste for two  three months . This I think is clear for 2 months more as his officers are all named & the service was unquestionably rendered. This makes 14 1/2 months.
Now as to the Highlanders, Scotch prisoners. Mr Wood names his officers in this Supplement to his former declaration. Major Pickett & the Capt Lieut & Ensign. These prisoners were taken by Capt Biddle of the h.s. Navy in 1778 in the Oxford Transport from Galye in Scotland. They were 217 in number. After this capture Capt Biddle put a guard on them & ordered them into port. The prisoners rose up & overpowered the crew. They made for Hampton Roads where they expected to reach Lord Dunmore. But the Governor of the Virgin- ia Navy captured them in Hampton Roads. Some fifty or sixty offered to become citizens  citizens at once & were sent to James City & kept kept for a time under guard. The others were kept at Richmond. If you have the 4 th Volume of the History of Virginia by Girardin you will doubtless find it mentioned in some way. Possibly in Capt Biddle's life you may find it. I will remem- ber the capture as a historical fact impressed on my memory from reading the histories of those times. Wood says he was in that service six months though he named four months. I for six months then as your own

own admission of the validity of his claims for nine months, & the additional claims now proved, that would make 20 & a half months - if only for four months it makes an aggregate of 18 1/2 months service.
You have now his whole case before you, & he asks the  your judgement upon his claims, under the favourable dispensation which he invokes, & in which he trusts. He is old, & feeble: & if he is to receive the public bounty it should come quickly or it will come too late.
With all Respect Yrs J. L. Patterson
admitted 9 months.
One month. 1. more proof of actual service in 1779. Albemarle Port 2 1/2 more allowed in the Regiment of Guards under Capt. Dickenson - Spring of 1781. 2. months at Brandy Phillips & Bartons in various in 1781. beginning in July or March Fangus C.R. 6. in guarding prisoners, Scotch Highlanders 20 1/2 months
If the last is so allowed at four months only , it will make 18 1/2 months in all. of six months 20 1/2.
The old man therefore that as he had his brother John to be his after the 5 1/2 months of his own service substitute at Albemarle barracks, that he ought to be allowed for his waiting term of service therein.
I suggest his views at his request & because he urges it - He might doubtless be allowed the whole of the time he was actually serving under Timboree. He states that at first & as half months ended in counting the time by the public records, it must have been 8 1/2 months. Roberts did not go there until March 1781. & Wood Island & Sohier were all colonels there at different times - J. L. P.

35774
June 23 1844
for Samuel Root
7 June 1832
By J. L.

35774
Samuel Wood Va
act 7. June '32
adm?
14 mo. 15 d/s/m
48.33
for
Dept of Pensions Washington City D.C. J. Barbour Culpeper Co. Va J. Edwards.

Sir
Quebec June 22 d 1844.
The enclosed declaration from old Mr Sam l Wood, of this County is sent to you at his request. You will please answer him to Quebecer C. H. - He well deserves the pension he asks. When I left public life ten years since he applied to me to get his pension and I thought he had been drawing it, until the past Spring.
He is very old, & was in personal attendance in open Court before the Judge of our Superior Court. Was interrogated by the Judge in the presence of the State's att o (Mr Shaughnessy) and the examination conducted in open Court personally by the Judge was recorded & is sent you.
Yrs Resp tly J. V. St. Armand
The Comm te of Pensions

Nov 13/
Miss A. L. Emerson
Concord, Mass.
Mass
A. C.
J. S.
Boston

most of the money is now in the hands of the Commissioner of the Revenue.
Decatur, Ga. September 10 th 1849
A few days ago I prepared the papers of a poor old man named Sam Wood, that Col. Parker of Redmond might draw his arrears of pension & send him a Pension Draft from Redmond for the amt.
Col. Parker told me that he wd cheerfully attend to it for him, but the papers had to be sent to your office for an order to pay as the pension was undrawn for eighteen months.
Since that time I learn that the old man died two or three days after I was at his house. Judge Field, his near Neigh bor , informs me of this fact & it may be fully believed. His pension is therefore not paya- ble on the papers I prepared, & will not of course I presume receive your order for its payment. The pension will now go to his children, & were it paid under the power of att y . to Col. Parker, the chapt- B. I presume be spent for his Wood's Exes or adms. - I have thought it

it was proper to communicate his brother's death. that error may be arrested at once.
With Much Respect & Regard
Yr. Affec. Son J. S. Parsons
to Mr. J. L. Edwards
Canon of Penruddock
Wiltshire
I have been in Mr. Barker but my letter will not reach him by two days or early as This will reach you, thro' his will.
J. S. G.

file with Sam Wood.
July 20 1849
Doc
6 No: J. L. Edwards
Account of Pensions.
Washington City D. C.

Sir.
Leicester July 18 th 1844
Will you allow me to call your early care to the application of my old comrade Richard Wood, for a pension under the act of June 7 th 1832. He has been long deferred & can claim lots of injustice. He says that he was in the War during its whole seven years. "off & on" as he expresses it. And all his neighbours concur in this opinion. He further says he was old enough to be in the War & if he was not in it he must have been a Coward or a Loner! & that no man who knows him will suspect him of either. And in this I fully concur. Having sent you his papers some weeks ago I ask for a reply.
Very Respectfully Sir
J. L. (G. Brown)
I write from my bed to day when I have been confined

FREE
19. Rev. J. L. Edwards. Museum of Pension Washington City D.C.

Dear Sir,
Scotstown Oct 8 th 1844.
The enclosed paper was filled up yesterday with notes for an advertisement letter to you. I have nearly no time to throw it into a shape more agreeable to Congress & more acceptable to you & others who may have to toil over my illegible writing. Please have it all connected with his new & supplementary declaration & allow him whatever is right & send him the certificate for it. I think it ought to be 20 & a half months as he undoubtedly did more service, and with the few select of the regular men who are not long to be with us, patriotism & gratitude forbids us to be niggards when the claim is really honest, & bona fide.
I have no doubt but Wood's is of this character. He says he was in Service during the whole war, and both he & Captain Mayhew say he did not have evaded service had he risked it. As to the Service of '77 I find from the Journal of Congress that he must have been drafted (for Service) from the last of August to the last of Novr 1777. Still he says he was two months before in other Service and was afterwards detailed to provide small supplies. I believe he was & wait & that he stood at Brattleboro till after Novr in 1777.

The month of no more ought to be allowed him in this Service. He claims more.
I think it very plain as a fuller conversation with him that he was a soldier in the Guards at Aberdeen Barracks in 1729 that he served 5 1/2 months then got his brother John to take his place & had him to do so. This is doubtless the truth.
There is no one living who knows of the highland prisoners at Worcester. But I have conversed with two highly respectable persons who heard of it & believe it - and the capture of the highlanders both by Col. Biddulph & others at Saragossa is historical fact.
Do give his poor an early examination & write me. Such a letter as I may shew him & that will satisfy him with what he will have your done. If you could hear his no- tation, I am persuaded you would give the fullest credence to him. The delay was well calculated to throw distrust on his claim. That is fully explained in other parts of his Testimony, & his reputation is as fair as any man's - With best Respect, Sir
J. S. BARTON

to Mr: J. L. Edwards
Comm ee of Pension
Washington D.C.
Please send an early reply

Sir.
Ketchikan Sept 24 th 1844.
Your communication to my friend Genl Jones in relation to the claim for a pension by old Mr Wood is now before me. If Mr Wood were a man of bad or of doubtful character the several criticisms through which you have carried his application would be every way proper. And the delay which has occurred in making his application is an apparent cause for the distrust that frowns upon it.
In this last I am culpable, & innocently so, for the delay. So long as I was a member of Congress I attended without one shilling of pay or fee, to all applications within my district, & to many without it. But after the passage of the several laws in June & July 1832 for pensions & liquidating revolutionary claims, I found true if I attended to one, I must attend to all, & if I attended to all, that it would engross my whole time & subject me to a profitless expenditure of money, in which my own sense of propriety forbade my taking anything in return. When Mr Wood applied to me, as he had a right to do, I found myself compelled to decline the toil, & refer him to an agent who was engaged in that business. A year & better after this that agent & Mr Wood split in their opinions & his case was neglected as I do believe, because he voted against the agent so employed for a seat in the Virginia Legislature. This Spring I found the old man at his home, the first time I had seen

him for some years & was really surprised when he told me he had not been for years past drawing a pension. He is as honestly & fairly entitled to it as any man upon your roll. He has complied with all your forms. His character is unspotted with a speck and his integrity & veracity. And standing now at eighty seven years of age, (with every religious obligation on him,) between two worlds, he has solemnly declared his services & sustained his reputation by testimony of the fullest & most irrefragable sort. viz The Judge of the Court, the ablest judge of the Genl Court in Virginia except one The Commonwealth att o a very old gentleman perhaps the very oldest in the state of Virginia. Capt P. Mangles an aged officer of the Continental army who knew his Wood from his boyhood. a member of the House of Delegates of great responsibility. besides other testimony. What stronger case can be made out? If your forms of office be exponent of the Law, then the Law is fulfilled, & more so. But your claim says in the letter to Genl Jones, that "his statement is wholly inconsistent with the service." I am unable to perceive it. His first service was in 1777 to the north. This is consistent with history and the records of Congress calling for the Militia from Kentucky & Virginia. It is in William V. & calling them for 4 months. The fact is in proof by Capt Mangles evidence, & it is Tradition too that the service was performed. All evidence

Volunteered & my Grandfather (James Barbour the Elder) as County Lieut t commanded his Regiment to Brandy Mill in Maryland & the other two were sent back for want of arms. So Too of the Fugitive Militia as I have heard - in part at least under Church ill & Pickett. You say there was no law of service in Virg a for a longer time than three months. In this you are mistaken - No Militia could be called into Continental Service for less than 4 months by resolution of Congress. And in Virginia, there was no definite time for Militia Service; - the time discretion was its only limit. Thus Dun more called for Militia for Six Months in Sept r 1774 to fight the Indians, at Point Pleasant on the Ohio. & in 1775 he called for Militia for Six Months to sustain the Royal Authority - See his proclamation at the end of Gerard's history of Virg a in the appendix. [This was in truth his Jefferson's history of Virg a for it was compiled from his documents & under his eye.] There was no legal limit to Militia Service until Oct r 1787 & May 1788. Though had been often ordered for 12 months & 18 months, to fill up the Army. And to appease their discontent, the Legislature passed a law in Oct r 1787 for a two months tour, in May 1788 & for 3 months tour for S o Carolina. Beginings after they received S o Car: & even then they were to be detained if the Genl. in command saw cause. & Genl.

How? Stevens, of this place, did detain them, (as you will see from preceding history) in V o Car. Stevens July 1780. to March 1781. He fought at Guilford Guilford in Aug t 1780 & at Guilford P. H. in March 1781 - See that history in which Stevens writes Gov r Gibson he did not "wipe out the Stearns" as the term of his men was expiring - yet he kept his men & did "wipe out the Stearns" of Cumberland at Guilford. It is also seen in the journals of Campbell & in Jefferson's correspondence that the Militia of V o did find the Saratoga prisoners from Brandywine or Red Bank 1778 until the Spring of 1779. The fifth day of March 1779 was the day on which the first of the forward regiment reached Charlesville to take the place of the Militia - Mr Wood was one of that Militia He has stated on his oath , that he was there, & the length of his service - His character for truth is more than sustained accord- ing to your official forms; & who then has a right to say that an aged man of fair & good name James St Stevenson , has now for the first time (in nearly a century) sworn falsely ?
As to his fencing, (with the local Militia) the Scotch Highlanders at Fergusson P. H. that too is confirmed by history. 1778
Capt Biddle of our Navy in 1778 from 1778 captured the British Transport the Oxford, with 217 Scotch Highlanders. See the history - They were put under a crew to be sent in. The pri- soners rose on the crew, overpowered them, & they (the prisoners) carried the Oxford into the their roads, hoping to find their countrymen.

Barrenmount Lord Dunmore at Hampton But in Hampton Roads they were cap- tured again by Col. Barron. Some of the Highlanders were sent first to Richmond & about fifty to Fauquier C. H. where Mr Wood was one of the guards. I have very little doubt that you will find this part (I mean of the capture by Biddle & the recapture by Barron & the character of the soldiers taken) in any history of the Revolution. I have a dis- tinct recollection of it, though I can't now put my finger on the history & its pages.)
The Declaration of States - The service to the north was Paris in 1777. This is consistent with history, with the records of Congress, & with the testimony of Col. Houghton. Is this inconsistent? The second at Albemarle Barracks is also proved, by the journals of the Virginia Legislature, by the journals of Congress, & by letters of that era. The Militia was afterwards withdrawn & the Regiment of Guards sent in their place; but not until after March 1779. This is not inconsistent either with history or other testimo- ny of the times. The Guard of the Scottish Highland- ers is confirmed therefore, that they were taken prisoners & sent into the interior of Virginia & Mr Wood has I suppose been every one of their guards at Fauquier C. H. for four months (Fauquier C. H. is now Warrenton Va.)

But in this as in other service, the regulations of the department which the law requires you to preserve make the Oath of the Militia Man given in open Court, in the face of day, & upon the interrogation that you have directed, full evidence of the fact of service . Is there anything in Mr Wood's case to deprive him of the credence credence that you award others? His character is vouched to you by the Judge, the Atty. for the State, & the Ministers of the Gospel on their Oaths, & Labaree & May say, Mr Ropke & others corroborate his respectability & credit. Why reject him? Is he not entitled by Law? Is he not within your regulations? Does he not prove to you an unblemished reputation?
Have an Executive Officer exercised a dispensing power, where there is not a solitary circumstance to excite suspicion or distrust? Will you refuse this old man now on the verge of the grave , because you have already delayed him too long?!!
As to the service at Yorktown in 1781, - Why Sir, it is part of the history of Virginia, that there was not a man in the State over sixteen years of age, who was not in service from Phillips' & Arnold's invasion in March 1781 to the Surrender of Cornwallis in Octo 1781 - Did Mr Rossow prove this

Service (whose affidavit is now sent) & until long after the surrender of Cornwallis. Wood was one of the Guard of the Prisoners who marched from York to Winchesster, a distance of little less than 300 Miles, & the Guard remained some short time with them. Then the case all was  all it is proved according to the form of office. fully. It is confirmed by the Judge - by the States Attorney, by the Prisoner - by Capt. Sturgis & by other proofs. And it has not a circum- stance ag st it. History confirms the facts of Service - for such Service was rendered as in Penn a . In all America. In favor of the Highland- ers, & in the Summer & fall of 1781. If the old Guard had stated a solitary circumstance in opposition with historical Truth, then the pre- sumption might pause. But even then pause w d be displaced by his general good character.
History corroborates him in everything, & his case is strong beyond doubt, by his own facts which the law makes evidence. & which there is neither right nor power to discredit. So give him Justice what you have given others & which he merits as his part
Schedule of proofs.  now sent
(With all Respect)
 A is Capt Sturgis def e ?  B is Lieut Ross aff d affidavit  C Lieut Wood aff d affidavit  D Lieut Barclay - ditto. 
J. S. Barbour
In behalf of Law: Wood
J. L. Edwards Esq: Comm r of Pensions

Oct 3 rd 1844
Resp d Rev. Wood
Rev. J. A. Stevens
Home of Purvis Waltham St. C.
free

Dear Sir. Cotahwa Oct d 1 st 1844 I rec d to day a request from our Bro Wood to know his fate. Will you give it with an early & a kind card? The old man well deserves it, & I am sure that his generous acts as well as the honorable manner furnished and in his declaration & the papers, ought to be sufficient to give him the hearty bounty of the Country which all who know him, think he well deserves. He has complied with all the forms -given you the fullest proof, which these forms require, & if you need any further evidence of general reputation for truth & honesty, he can give you his whole Country as spon- -sor for his integrity. In estimat- ing the length of his term of service, he computed from the time of leaving home to his return home. Whilst this is justice, it may not be Law; yet it ought to be Law, if it is

If he is in error the cause of that error is in me & in the judge of the Probate before whom his declaration is made; for we so construed the laws of persons.
The fact (and this not overlooked (I have made myself) - His declaration is not made before the County Court, where such matters are heard over , with a panel of magistrates who know little of their duty & less of what is done under their names. It was before no inferior court, before the judge who not only critically examined everything, but who required the oaths for the Commonwealth to be presented to cross examine the declarant & to certify his opinion on oath as well as that of the judge that his Wood was fairly entitled. It is not a common case but one thoroughly proved under the severest cross examination - and the judge on his Judicial responsibility & the attorney on Oaths, both say he is entitled. A personal examination, in open Court, under such tests, & with these guards, is no common case.
(Yrs With best regards)
Yours sincerely,
J. S. Babbitt

Mar 26. 46
Mr. Evans
To the Honble:
The Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City

M c Peckton will thank the Commissioners of Pensions to authorize the agent here to pay the second Pension, which he says cannot be done otherwise - M c P. Salter, M c E. with my great respect
Rich d V. 24 Mar. 1836

Treasury Department Third Auditor's Office March 28 th 1846.
Sir,
I return the vouchers in the case of Samuel Wood, received from you under date of the 27 th No portion of the pension claimed being payable at the Treasury under the Act of 23 d August 1842.
It appears from the papers, that the Agent at Richmond requires a special order in the case.
Very Respectfully,
Your Ob t Serv t .
Wm Hagan Aud
James L. Edwards Esq. Commissioner of Pensions

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B
aff. soil of Mr. Ransom Ross of Linn County

State of Virginia County of Campbell So:
This day Reuben Raper an aged man now nearly two years of age a Soldier in the War of the Revolution & now a pensioner of the U. States made oath before me a Justice of the peace for the said State & county duly authorized in virtue of my Office & the laws of the land to administer oaths; That he the said Reuben Raper was in the Militia Ser- vice of this State in the fall of the year 1781 ag st the common enemy, That he was at York Town in Virginia during the siege thereof & until the Surrender of Cornwallis & his forces to the allied arms of France & the United States; That after the said Surrender the British prison- ers were marched under a guard from York Town to Winchester: That this guard was of a large body of Militia part of which was commanded by Colo. Townsend of Fauquier & Major Wilson of that part of Campbell which is now Madison County; That they guarded & marched the said prisoners to Winchester & about four miles beyond it on the Romney Road, where they were stationed in barracks & after a while the Militia was discharged from that service. The Fauquier Militia were there & at York Town during

all the time of doing service; And he does hereby believe that Samuel Wood, then of Fauquier was a Militia Soldier from Fauquier in all that service. That he became well acquainted with said Wood some years after when he removed to Culpeper County, where he has lived (as he believes) some fifty or sixty years, - and moreover he gives full credit to the statement Wood says on oath to his service in the Revolutionary War
Given under my hand & seal this 10 th day of September 1844
C. C. Beckham (Seal)
I Francis Brannan Clerk of the county court of Culpeper in the state of Va do hereby certify that Coleman C Beckham who hath made the foregoing certificate is & was at the time of making the same an acting justice of the peace of said county & that his signature is genuine Witness my hand & the Seal of the said court this 10 th day of September 1844
F Brannan

Samuel Woods Va - Oct 1852
No other case in Va
Glenmore Va 24 June
Free
Honble G. P. Waldo
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
D. C.

Glennue Post Office
Buckingham Co. Va
May 29 th 1835
Hon ble Com r . of Pensions
Sir
I herewith enclose the petition of M c Marshall Wood son of Samuel Wood dec d a revolutionary soldier, asking an examination of the rolls of your department of his father's service. M c Wood says it is traditionally universally understood among the oldest inhabitants of Albemarle County Virginia that his father the said Samuel Wood was a revolutionary soldier and thinks if there is a particular examination of the rolls made his service will be found.
He believes he belonged either to the Virginia State line or militia service but what officers he served under he does not recollect.
Have the rolls examined if you please and inform me of the result at the earliest practicable period.
Very respectfully
Yr obt serv t
N B Tapscott
Glennue P.O.,
Buckingham
Va.