Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 1605, Ellit Wood, Va.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Va.
Wood, Elliot
S. 1605
CONTENTS
carded

Wesley Fennaplee 23.282  Georgial
William Wood in the State of Ga. was a Pvt in the Comp commanded Captain Moore of the — commanded — in the Virginia for —
scribed on the Roll of Georgia the rate of 10 — Dollars — Cents per annum, commence on the 14th day of March, 1834.
Certificate of Pension issued the 18 th day of Dec. 33 — and Link Wm Lloyd — Decatur — Ga Ga
rears to the 14th of Sept 1833 — 50 — Rem-ant. allowance ending Jan 34 10 —
60 —
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Natl. Pica — Clerk, Book 6 Vol. 6 Page 106
air to Pen Aged 8 May 1838. To Alvest Fennaplee from 4 th Sept 1834. 30 July 1838. no -ificate was sent to T. H. Calab. Co Columbia Tenn. Letter to J. M. Bap & F. Auditor 21. Nov 1838 Letter to 3 rd Aud. 22 nd Nov 1838. Paid at the Treasury under the Act of the 6. April 1838. from the 4 Sept 1834 to the 4 March 1838. Age notified. 21 st Nov 1838.

Ellit Wood Georgia N o 17806
Res died as a private 6 mo p20
4. 5. 10 Int. 2. 7 Apl. 16. 33 T. 339
Wm Ezard Decatur Dekalb Co. Ga

BRIEF in the case of Elliot Wood  of DeKalb County in the State of Georgia  (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Court  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  3. How old is he? 80 years  4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed. 
   Period. Duration of Service. Rank. Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.   Years, Months, Days.     about In 1778 drafted an close of Rev. — 6. — Private Gen. Francis Moore Capt.   " Capt. Jas Lawrence  
 5. In what battles was he engaged?  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Orange County Virginia  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Traditional  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? 
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
Examining Clerk.

State of Tennessee
Maury County ss.
Be it known that before me Joseph Hornaday, a justice of the peace in and for the county aforesaid personally appeared Elliot Wood and made oath in due form of law that he is the identical Elliot Wood named in an original certificate in his possession of which I certify the following is a true copy
" War Department
Revolutionary Claim.
I certify that in conformity with the law of the United States of the 7th June 1832 Elliot Wood of the State of Georgia who was a private in the war of the Revolution is entitled to receive twenty dollars and — cents per annum during his natural life, com- mencing on the 1st of March 1831, and payable semi- annually on the 1st of March and 1st of September in every year.
Given at the War office of the United States this 18 day of December one thousand eight hundred and thirty three. J. W. Lewis
Secretary of War.
Examined and countersigned
J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
That he now resides in Maury Tennessee and has res- ided there for the space of three years past; previous ther- to resided in DeKalb county Georgia and that he has not received any money from the United States or any of its pension agents since his semiannual payment on the

lot of March 1835, which has happened in consequence of removal from his former residence and his distance from Savannah where said pension certificate is made payable. He prays that the same with all arrears may be ordered to be paid at Nashville Tennessee.
Sworn to and subscribed
before me this 26 th April 1838.
Joseph Menden Justice of the peace
his Ellit Wood (Mark)
Seal of Tennessee Maury County } ss.
I Joseph Menden a justice of the peace in the county above named, do hereby certify that I have the most satisfactory evidence, to wit, the affidavits of Alfred R. Howard and Martha O. Wood, that Ellit Wood who has this day appeared before me , to take the oath of identity, is the identical person named in the pension certificate which he has exhibited before me, numbered 23.282 and bearing date at the War Office of the United States, the 18 day of December 1833, and signed by Lewis Cass Secretary of War. Given under my hand this 26 th day April 1838.
Joseph Menden Justice of the peace

State of Tennessee } Maury County } ss.
Before the subscriber a justice of the peace in & for the county above named, personally appeared Alfred D. Howard and Martha C. Wood and made oath in due form of law, that they are personally acquainted with Elliot Wood who has made the foregoing affidavit - that they have known him 16 or 17 years - He is the father of said Martha C. and the father in law of said Alfred D. that they have always understood and believed that he was a revolutionary soldier. that they knew him in Georgia before his removal to Tennessee that he formerly resided in DeKalb county Georgia from when he removed to Maury County Tennessee on the year 1835, where has since resided and now resides - that he is the identical Elliot Wood and the person named in the pension certificate copied in the foregoing affidavit. which certificate is numbered 23.282 and bears date at the War office of the United States the 18 December 1833, and signed by Lewis Cass Secretary of War and that they believe he has not drawn his pension since the 4th of March 1835.
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 26 th day of April A.D. 1838 Joseph H. Gordon Justice of the peace
Alfred D. Howard for Martha C. Wood Mark

State of Tennessee 3 d District.
Maury County ss.
I William E. Erwin clerk of the county court of said Maury County hereby certify that Joseph Henderson is a justice of the peace duly qualified and commissioned for said county and that the foregoing signatures purported to be his are genuine. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office, this 26 th day of April A.D. 1838.
W. E. Erwin Clerk of the County Court of Maury County.

(Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of an Act of Congress passed June 7 th , 1832)
State of Georgia 3 On this fifteenth day of October DeKalb County 3 in the year Eighteen hundred & thirty three personally appeared in open court before the Superior Court of said County of DeKalb now sitting Elliot Wood a Resident of said State and County aged Eighty one years who being duly Sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in addition to the one made in October Eighteen hundred and thirty two in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7 th , 1832
That he entered the Army of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein- stated. In the year Seventeen hundred and seventy eight he states he was drafted for a six months' tour and entered the service under Capt. Francis Moore and Officer of Militia and marched from his residence in the State of Virginia Orange County, the distance of one hundred and fifty or two hundred miles and met a company of Regulars who had about a hundred Hispan's prisoners. They then were delivered to Capt. Moore and then he states marched to Albermarle County in Virginia to the Barracks. The prisoners were then put in the Barracks. He states he then served six months as a guard the time for which he was drafted he then received a verbal discharge and returned to his residence Orange County in Virginia

he states near the close of the war he was called out again under the command of Capt Lawrence an officer of the Militia but marched a very short distance before peace was declared. he states he only served five days during that time. He states he was in no general engagements, he states he has no documen- tary evidence of his having served nor knows of no person living who can testify as to his service He further states that during the time he served as a guard & all other services he performed he was engaged in no civil pursuit. that he served with an embodied corps and was called into service by competent authority. he states he served six months in guarding the Barracks or garrison as above stated as a private. He states he was born in Orange County Virginia the year no record of his age. he states that he has resided the greater part of his time since the revolution in the state of Georgia he resided part of his time in the County of Wilkes & part in Morgan he removed from Morgan to Detalle where he now lives. he states when he was called into service he was drafted and served as a private. He states he is known to Shas Richardson Nimrod Argo Abraham Gyor Robert Miller all of whom can testify as to his character for truth and veracity and also of their belief as to his service. 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 any state. I do hereby and subscribe Ellis Wood Grisby E. Thomas Judge of Supr Court St Geo

John Lunder a clergyman residing in the County of DeKalb and Thomas Richardson residing in the same do hereby certify that we are acquainted with Elliot Wood who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be eighty one years of age that he is respected and beloved in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier the revolution and that we concur in that opinion
John Lunder M.G.
Thomas Richardson
given to and subscribed
this day and year aforesaid
Grigsby E. Thomas D.D.C.
And the said Court do hereby declare their Opinion after putting the interrogatories presented by the War Department that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he states and the Court further certifies that it appears to them that John Lunder who has signed the preceding Certificate is a clergyman resident in the County of DeKalb and that Thomas Richardson who has also signed the same is a resident in the County of DeKalb and is a credible person and that their statement.
Grigsby E. Thomas Judge of Supr. Courts St. Geo.
Georgia
DeKalb County } I Charles Murphy Clerk of of the Superior Court of the County of DeKalb and State aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original pro- ceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Elliot Wood for a pension and I do further certify that Grigsby E. Thomas whose name is subscribed to the

Following certificate is the proceeding Judge of said court, and that the signature annexed is his genuine signature In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office this sixth day of November 1833
Charles Murphy Clerk

Treasury Department,
Second Comptroller's Office,
Nov. 24, 1838.
Sir:
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," Elliot Wood a Pensioner on the Roll of the Nashville Kn. Agency, at the rate of Twenty Dollars and Cents per annum, under the law of the 7 th June 1832 has been paid at this Department, from the 4 th of Sept. 1834 to the 4 th March 1838.
Respectfully, yours,
Wilson B. Patris Comptroller.
To the Commissioner of Pensions, Present.

Pension Agency Planters Bank Savannah 15 May 1838
Sir
In reply to your letter of the 8 th inst I have to state that Elliot Wood private, a pensioner, now on the Roll of this agency under the Act of 7 th June 1832, at twenty dollars per annum, was last paid on the 15 th January 1835, up to 4 September 1834.
Respectfully Mr Old Scott
J. L. Edwards Esq Commissioner of Pensions Washington City
Greenfield (unhired) to Pen. Agt

May 7
Ellis Wood Pensioner Savannah Geo. Application to change to Nashville Ten.
W Evans
Seaboard Office
James
Gen. S. P. Purnell.
Secy. of War
Washington City

Columbia Tennessee
April 26. 1838.
Hon Joel R. Poinsett, Secy. of War.
Dear Sir:
I forward an original pension certificate to Elliot Wood made payable at Savannah Geo. The old man has been in Maury County Ten. 3 years and has not drawn his pension since March 4. 1835. He wishes to be put on the roll of pensioners paid at Nashville Tennessee. I do not know what proof is required for this purpose or the form in which it must be exhibited. I send certain affidavits, but do not know whether they are sufficient. I presume the records of the Department will show that no payment has been made since March 4. 1835. If the application with the accompanying evidence will authorize the change, of course it will be done. If not please then direct in what manner it shall be done. He is old, poor and almost friendless as most of these men are. I dislike to trouble the officers of your Department, but I have no means of ascertaining in what definite form I ought to make this application for him. The amount of his arrears of pension up to 4 March '38 is $60. Advise me after him at Columbia Ten.
Respectfully,
Jerry H. Cahal.

Eldit Wood
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BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of Ellit Wood which require further proof or explanation.
I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides? II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides? III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so? IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served? No # V. * Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled? No VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations? VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832? VIII. Has the Court given their opinion? IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate? # X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal? No.

XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service?
XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it?
XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had?
XIV. † If the applicant's name is not found on the rolls of military service, has he produced a witness or witnesses as to his service?
If he has produced direct proof as to service, has the magistrate who administered the oath, certified to the credibility of the witness or witnesses?
Has the proper officer certified to the official character and signature of the magistrate as the regulations direct?
XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service?
XVI. ‡ Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct?
# XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered? 2. & 7 not answered.
EXPLANATORY NOTES.
* QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
"Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades; For _____ year _____ months, and _____ days, I served as a _____ For _____ months and _____ days, I served as a _____; and for such service I claim a pension."

It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state they served two years in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours; the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is highly objectionable. It must in every case be clearly shown under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority; that he was either in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit.
†QUERE XIV. Proof of Service.
In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
‡QUERE XVI. Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.
In every case where the clerk of the court, or other certifying officer, has no public seal of office, the certificate of a member of congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers.

Ellitt Wood
1780s

Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832
State of Georgia } On this eleventh day of DeKalb County } October personally appeared in open court before the Superior Court of said County of DeKalb now sitting. Eli- Wood a resident of said State & County aged eighty years who being duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to attain 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 herein stated. As well as he recollects about the year seventeen hundred seventy eight he was drafted & entered the service under Capt Francis Moore an officer in the regular service and marched from his residence in the State of Virginia Orange County the distance of one hundred & fifty or two hundred miles and met a company who had near a hundred of the Virginia prisoners the captain was ordered to take the prisoners and march back to his residence in Virginia Orange County and there remained stationary as a guard for six months which was the time for which he drafted and near the close of the revolution he was called out again under the command of

Capt James Laurence an Officer in the Militia he marched but a short distance before peace was declared he states he was in no battles. He further states he has no documentary evidence of his having served in the Revolutionary war. he knows of no person whose testimony he can procure, who can testify to his service. he further states he received no discharge. 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 any State
Sworn to and subscribed Elliot Wood
The day & year aforesaid
W. Colquitt J. H. C.
We Elyah Bird a Clergyman residing in the county of DeKalb and John Stephenson residing in (the same) hereby certify that we are as agree- -ted with Elliot Wood who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be eighty years of age. That he is respected and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion
Elijah Bird
Sworn to and subscribed
the day and year aforesaid
John Stephenson
W. Colquitt J. H. C.
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatory prescribed by the War Department that the

above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as he states and the court further certifies that it appears to them that Ezekiel Bird who has signed the preceding certificate is a Clergyman resident in the county of DeKalb and that John Stephenson who has also signed (the same) is a resident in the county of DeKalb and is a credible person & that their statement is entitled to credit.
Given under my hand the day and year aforesaid W. J. Colquitt, J. P.
I Charles Murphy Clerk of the superior court of the county of DeKalb & State aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court - in the matter of the application of Eli Wood for a pension, and I do further certify that Walter S. Colquitt whose name is subscribed to the foregoing certificate is the presiding judge of said court.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and private seal of office this 30th day of October 1832. C. Murphy (CLERK)

Rev. Grant.
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File No. 1605 Ellit Wood, Miss. Va Line.
Act June 7. 1832.
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