Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 35748, Samuel Wood, Conn.

SERVICE
NUMBER _____
SERVICE Conn.
Wood, Samuel
S 35748
CONTENTS

Notation on left page: Notation on left page: Samuel Wood, Private, Company A, 1st Regiment Connecticut Light Artillery, discharged at Hartford, Conn. June 1818.
7021
Connecticut
Samuel Wood
of _____ in the state of Connecticut who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Chandler of the Connecticut Battalion, for the term of 9 months
Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence the 11 th of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 5 th of March 1819 and sent to the Hon. Mr. Sherwood. House of Representatives No. 9
  Arrears to 4th of Mar. 1819  $ 86.40    Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 th Sept. 1819  48.00    Continued  $ 134.40  
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Connecticut

Samuel Wood.
1821
Sept 19
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At a County Court, held in and for the County of Fairfield, in the District and State of Connecticut, on the 25 th day of July 1820, the same being a Court of Record, and having a Seal, by virtue of the Laws of said State.
PERSONALLY APPEARED, in open Court, Samuel Wood a resident in the Town of Fairfield In the County of Fairfield, in said State, and exhibited and subscribed the following Schedule, and made Oath that the same is a true and perfect Schedule of all his income and property, necessary cloathing and bedding excepted, viz.
The use and improvement (for life) of a House & four acres of land
  1 Hogg - - - - -      1 Calf - - - - -      1 old Desk - - - - -      1 " Chest with drawers - - - - -      1 Small St o - - - - -      2 Tables - - - - -      1 St o & 1 Candle Stand - - - - -      13 Chairs - - - - -      1 fire bellows - - - - -      1 peal & tongs - - - - -      Iron ware - - - - -      Earthen ware - - - - -      1 Meat Cask - - - - -      1 wash tub - - - - -      2 small hogs - - - - -      1 Rake - - - - -  1 old cupboard - - - - -  1 Looking Glass - - - - -    12 spoons - - - - -  3 candle sticks - - - - -  2 pr And Irons - - - - -    2 pails - - - - -  1 old brass kettle - - - - -  3 Juggs - - - - -    1 stone pot - - - - -  1 ore - - - - -  1 trammel - - - - -    1 pr steel yards - - - - -    
(value found by court $117 75 )
Samuel Wood

District and State of Connecticut, ss. Fairfield County
BE IT REMEMBERED, That in the County Court, held in and for the County of Fairfield, in the District and State aforesaid, on this 25 th day of July 1820, the same being a Court
of Record, and having a Seal, under the Authority of said State, personally came and appeared in open Court Samuel Wood aged Sixty two years, resident in the Town of Fairfield in the County of Fairfield, in said State, and being first duly sworn according to Law, doth declare on his oath,
that he served in the Revolutionary War, as follows: (viz) in the Regiment commanded by Col. Chandler, Salmon Reed's company, Gen. Huddleston's Brigade in the Connecticut line; a will more particularly appear in his original declaration deposited in the office of the Department of War, amounting to the full term of nine months
that the original Declaration made by him, for the purpose of obtaining a Pension, under the Act of Congress of the 18th of March, 1818, was dated the 11 th day of April 1818 that in pursuance thereof he was entered in the List of Pensioners, and received a Pension Certificate No. 7021 And I do further solemnly
swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March, 1818, and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it, as to bring myself within the provisions of an Act of Congress, entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval Service of the United States, in the Revolutionary War," passed on the 18th day of March, 1818; and that I have not, nor has any person, in trust, for me, any property or securities, contracts or debts due to me; nor have I any income other than what is contained in the Schedule hereunto annexed, and by me subscribed. And I do
further declare that my occupation has been that of a Mariner, but by reason of age and infirmity, (having for a long time been afflicted with a Hernia in my groin) am unable to pursue it, or any other means whereby to contribute to the support of myself & family, and that I have a family residing with me consisting of my wife Rebecca aged fifty years, who on account of her age is unable to contribute but little towards her support - a daughter Alitha aged twenty three years, who by her labor (when she can obtain it) contributes in a small degree towards her support - Daughter Caroline aged 17 years, who also contributes in a small degree towards her support when she can obtain employ. A son Bradford aged 19 years of a weakly constitution and unable to labor at all whereby to contribute to his support
all which is subscribed by me the day and year aforesaid.
Samuel Wood.
Sworn to and declared in the Court aforesaid. Whereupon said Court is, on satisfactory proof exhibited in Court, of opinion that the total amount in value of the property contained in the aforesaid Schedule, is one hundred, seventeen Dollars and Seventy five Cents, and doth order these proceedings to be entered in the records of said Court.
Attest
David Sprague Clerk

State of Connecticut, ss.
I DAVID BURR, Clerk of the County Court for the County of Fairfield, in the said State, do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the records of the said Court, and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is of Samuel Wood is one hundred seventeen Dollars \frac{75}{100} .
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court at Fairfield, this 25 day of July 1820.
David Burr
Clerk of the County Court for said County of Fairfield.
District and State of Connecticut, ss. Fairfield July 25. 1820
I ROBERT FAIRCHILD, Chief Judge of the County Court for the County of Fairfield in said State, do certify that DAVID BURR, Esq. is the Clerk of said Court, duly appointed and sworn; and that the said Court is a Court of record, made so by the statute laws of said State; that it proceeds according to the course of the common law, has a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, with the power of fine and imprisonment, and keeps a record of its proceedings.
Robert Fairchild
Chief Judge of the County Court for the County of Fairfield.

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District of Connecticut
On this 11 th day of April A.D. 1810 Samuel Wood of Fairfield in said District under oath declares he fore Pienpoint Edmond District Judge of the United States, in said District in which District he declares he has resided and ever since the end of the war of the Revolution hath not lived that in the month of April Twenty Five Hundred and seventy six the declarant enlisted into the service of the United States as a private in Captain Johnson's Battery Company and Colonel John Chandler's Regiment in the Connecticut line on the continental establishment of the Armies of the United States in the war of the Revolution for the term of nine months which term of nine months the declarant faithfully served the United States in the war of the Revolution in their armies against the common enemy on Long Island & in New Jersey and after the retreat of the American Army therefrom therefor at the White Plains and at the end of said term was honorably discharged from said service which discharge the declarant hath by time and accident lost
And the declarant further saith underneath that he now is and ever since the declaration of Independence hath been a resident citizen of the United States and that by reason of his reduced circumstances in life he is in need of assist- ance from his country for his support
Sam l Wood

District of Connecticut Js April 11 th 1818 the within Named Samuel Wood came before me in my presence subscribed the aforesaid declaration & made Oath that the same is true
Richard D. — District Judge of the District,

District of Connecticut
On this 11 th day of April A.D. 1818 before me Pierpont Edwards District Judge of the United States for the District of Connecticut came Symmon Taylor & Joshua Dinslow both of Hous- field in said District respectable citizens there- of who being duly sworn depose & say that they well know the aforesaid Declarant Samuel Wood and that he is now and ever since the declara- tion of Independence hath been a resident citizen of the United States and that by reason of his reduced circumstances in life he is in need of assistance from his country for his support
Symmon Taylor Joshua Dinslow
April 11 th A.D. 1818 Sworn before me
Pierpont Edwards District Judge of the District of Connecticut

82 221 Lancaster St. Albany N. Y. Nov. 2 nd 1894
Nov 2 Commissioner of Pensions Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir:
I respectfully request a copy of the pension record of Samuel Wood of Westport, Fairfield Co. Conn. a revolutionary pensioner under the pension law of 1818, and mentioned in the census of pensioners of 1840. I should like also, if it can be furnished through your department, a copy of the service record in the revolutionary war of the Rev. Samuel Wood, Sr. father of the above, from Fairfield or Windham Co. Conn. a chaplain of the 5 th Conn. Regt. and perhaps

of other regiments, and who was taken prisoner at the capture of Fort Washington in 1776 and died soon after while a prisoner in or near New York.
Very respectfully,
Bradford R. Wood.
Bvt. Maj. U. S. Vols.

35 748
Rev INVALID.
File No. 35 748 Samuel XXXXX  Mod Rev  Rev  Rev
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 464
[Arrangement of 1870.]

1894 Nov. 21 Hightstown Maj. Bradford R. Wood,
Albany, N.Y. 1894 Dec. 3 Hightstown to Maj. Bradford R. Wood Albany N.Y.

Rev. Nathl. Shipley's Sermons

I Meshiah Ripley of Fairfield in Fairfield County Testify & say that in the month of June or July 1776 I entered the army of the United States in the Revolutionary war against the common enemy as Chaplain to Colonel John Chandler's Regiment in the Connecticut line on the Continental establishment, that I was then and am still well acquainted with Saml Wood of said Fairfield, then within applicant's & declarant's. That said Wood was at the aforesaid time when I joined the army as aforesaid a private in Captain Zohar Reed's Company under said Chandler, that I left said Regiment in the month of October following, that I found said Wood in said Company when I joined said Regiment, that said Wood was in said Company during the whole time of his with said Regiment, & I left him in said Company when I returned from the army - I further say that said Wood is my nephew, that I knew of his going to join the army in the spring of the year 1776, & I found him in the army when I went to find him when I came away.
Meshiah Ripley
State of Connecticut }
Fairfield County }
Jan 21 st 1819 }
Before me appeared the Rev. Meshiah Ripley A. D. the above named deponent & made solemn oath that the facts contained in the foregoing deposition submitted by him are true — Prepared Eliphalet Swift Justice of Peace

I am private Connecticut line. 11 th April 1818
Adm d
Returned for further proof
I certify that Samuel Wood is a man of good character
J. Sherwood M c
Pierpont Edwards Esq. Bridgeport, Connect.
Recd 27. May 1818 date cert: 5 March 1819.
Samuel Wood
It will be necessary for this claimant to state explicitly the time of entering & leaving the service, and for the Judge to certify that he is satisfied the party is in such reduced circumstances as to need the assistance of his Country for subsistence. (See Law 18 Mar: 1818. & the form enclosed)
War Dept. Pension Office Feb. 15. 1819

I Pierpont Edwards District Judge of the District of Connecticut do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that Samuel Wood who made the declaration contained in the annexed Schedule before in the Revolutionary War against the common enemy as stated in his said declaration & I now transmit the proceedings & testimony taken & had before me in his case to the Secretary of the Department of War pursuant to an Act of Congress in such case provided - said proceedings & testimony are contained in the annexed Schedule May 20 th 1818.
Pierpont Edwards —