Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 27,506, Thomas Wood, Conn.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Conn
Wood Thomas Abigail
N 27,506
CONTENTS

4,184
Massachusetts Roll.
Thomas Wood, 4 Private Connecticut Line
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 23. of April 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 6. of Nov. 1818, and sent to John Hooker, Esq. Springfield, Mass.
Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1818 . . . $ 35. 20 Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4. Mar. 1819 . . . 48. " ann d 4m o 12/30. $ 83. 20
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818 }
Thur Grass
✓ Middlefield, Hampshire Co 27

2
Date of death not in a3
Massachusetts 357
Virgail Wood
of Middlesex in the State of Mass
who was a son in the company commanded by Captain of the commanded by in the
widow of Thomas Wood de late a private in the Revolution
Inscribed on the Roll of Mass at the rate of 50 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.
Certificate of Pension issued the 31 day of Decr 1836 and first Hon W. B. Calhoun Secy of War
Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1836 $440.00 Semi-ant. allowance ending 4 Mar 40.00 $480.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Abel Gaddison Clerk, Book A Vol. 1 Page 72

State of Massachusetts } County of Hampshire } Dec 5. 1830 }
On this fifth day of December A.D. 1830 personally appeared before the Judge of Probate of Wills &c. for the County of Hampshire aforesaid, Abigail Wood a resident of Middlefield in the County of Hampshire & State of Massachusetts aged eighty eight 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 provision made by the act of Congress passed July fourth A.D. 1830. That she is the widow of Thomas Wood who was a private soldier in the army of the Revolution, & also first served as a private in the militia that the first time said Thomas served he was drafted at Somers Connecticut in August she thinks, & went to Valley Forge & New York, in the year 1776, & was gone about three months - that his Captain was Emory Pease, & Major - Walbridge one of the superior officers - that the following Spring in 1777 said Thomas enlisted under Major Walbridge at said Somers for three years, the Captain's name not being recollected - that said Thomas served said three years in person except the last three months when he hired a substitute & gave him his accoutrements & his pay with the consent of his Major - That she recollects he came home in then February before the expiration of the three years - that she does not

Know the name of the substitute - that her husband served in it about the "Jerseys" & was in the battle of Monmouth - that said Thomas was at home only twice during said term of service for a few days on a furlough - In one part of the service he was under Capt Parsons who was taken prisoner, but not himself was not taken - She further declares that she was married to the said Thomas on the twenty fourth day of December 1768 seventeen hundred & sixty eight at Somers Connecticut by Samuel Brunsells Esq, of which marriage she has a record in her family bible copied from an older bible worn out & in which a record was made at the time, or near it - that she has no other method of determining whether it was the 24 th or 25 th of December aforesaid - that she knows no one living who was present at the marriage - that her husband the aforesaid Thomas Wood died on the eighth day of August eighteen hundred & twenty three & that she has remained a widow ever since as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed.
Abigail her Woods Mark
Witnesses to B. Huntington I know to & subscribed on the day & year above written before.
Jonathan Coney Judge of Probate

Abigail Wood's (widow) declaration -
Act of July 1836. 3 Section

Commonwealth of Massachusetts Hampshire ss. At a Court of Probate held at Southampton within and for said County before the Hon. William Conkey Judge of said Court personally appeared the above named Abigail Woods and made oath to the truth of the foregoing declaration by her subscribed and the Court hereby declares its opinion that the same is entitled to credit said deponent being proved to the satisfaction of said Court a credible person.
In testimony whereof I, Samuel F. Lyman Register of Probate for said Court & County have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said Court this sixth day of December A.D. 1856 being the day of the sitting of said Court - Sam. F. Lyman. Register of Probate

342ubah Tulus affidavit

I Azubah Fuller of Middlefield County of Hampshire and Commonwealth of Massachusetts aged 76 years, do hereby say that in the year 1775 in the month of December I went to live in the family of Thomas Wood of Somers, state of Connecticut with his wife Abigail Wood, who is now the widow of the said Thomas Wood deceased, and made it my home in said Wood family till the year 1784. And the deponent further says that the said Thomas Wood served in the army of the revolution three years while I lived in the family, and that at that time they had four children, and that the said Wood and wife after the war, removed to Middlefield Massachusetts, when the said Thomas Wood died, and that I have been intimately acquainted with said Wood and his widow ever since my first acquaintance in their family in the year 1775, and that the said Abigail Wood has remained unmarried and widow of the said Thomas Wood ever since said Thomas Wood's decease, and that I removed from Somers, Connecticut, to Middlefield Massachusetts, three or four years after said Wood and family's removal as aforesaid, where I have lived most of the time since -
Commonwealth of Massachusetts } ss Azubah Fuller
Hampshire ss Dec. 8th 1836
Then personally appeared Azubah Fuller, above named to me personally known to be a person of truth and veracity and made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by her subscribed. Before me
Matthew Smith } Justice of the Peace

I Simson Pease of Enfield County of Hartford & state of Connecticut now seventy eight years of age possessing my usual sound mind & memory do herein depose & say that I was well acquainted with Thomas Wood of Somers lying adjoin d Enfield And that we were both in the Revolutionary War at the same time I was in Captain David Parsons Company and I should think that Thomas Wood was a Private soldier in Major Walbridge, Company I saw s d Wood while stationed in New York, West Point, Fishkill, & Peekskill, several times and then at Valley Forge in Pa we were frequently together during the 7 or 8 months stationed there from November to June I should think that s d Wood was from 10 to 15 years older than myself
I would further say that Maj Walbridge was from Stafford Ct According to my best recollection I was in the habit of seeing s d Thomas Wood in the army of the Revolutionary War during the time of from two to three years I recollect calling on Thomas Wood at Middlefield Hampshire Co & state of Massachusetts same time since the Revolutionary War & that he was then living with a woman called his wife and further the deponent sayeth not
Simson Pease
Hartford County ss Enfield December 10 th A D 1836
Be it remembered that on the day aforesaid Mr Simson Pease who hath subscribed the fore- going

-going deposition & who is a man of truth & veracity & respectability appeared before me and after being examined & cautioned to speak the whole truth made solemn Oath to the same Deposition which is taken at the request of Horace Pease to be used in a case wherein Abigail Wood the Widow of Thomas Wood dec d who claims a Pension for services under an act of Congress passed the 4 th day of July AD 1836 giving a pension to the widows of soldiers who served in the Revolution- ary war & which Deposition is to be used be- fore the Hon Court of Commissioners for granting pensions at the City of Washington District of Columbia drawn up & Certified--
By G. Terry Justice of the Peace
State of Connecticut } County of Hartford } I, Milo A Goodwin, Clerk of the County Court for the County of Hartford, do hereby certify that G. Terry is a Magistrate & acting Justice of the Peace as above; that I am acquainted with his hand writing & that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine, & that he is regu- larly Commissioned &c; that full faith & credit are due to his official acts. Given under my hand & the seal of the County Court this 12 th day of Dec r AD 1836 Milo A Goodwin, Clerk

"Thomas Wood and Abigail Phelps, both of this town were joined in marriage December 25 th 1708" The foregoing is a true copy of record.
Attest Oliver Chapin 2 d Town Clerk of Simsbury, Tolland County and State of Connecticut.
Simsbury Dec r 13 th 1836.
State of Connecticut } Tolland County Simsbury December 13 th 1836
Personally appeared Oliver Chapin Esq r Town Clerk of said Town of Simsbury, whose name is subscribed to the aforesaid Certificate, & being duly sworn, made oath, that the same is a true copy of Record. before me Walter R. Kibbe Justice of Peace
State of Connecticut } S. S. County Clerks office (viz) County of Tolland }
I Jeremiah Parish Clerk of the Courts in sd County of Tolland do hereby Certify that Walter R Kibbe Esq r before whom Oliver Chapin Esq r made oath to the truth & correctness of the foregoing record from the town Clerks office in the town of Simsbury on the 13 th day of December 1836 is a justice of Peace within sd Tolland County legally appointed & commissioned, that his com- mission bears date the 4 th day of June 1836 & will expire on the 19 th day of June 1837. also that the signature to the above certificate purporting to be sd Justice Kibbe is genuine — In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed

The Public seal of said County at Tolland in sd County of Tolland this 13 th day of December A D 1836 -
Jeremiah Parish Clerk of the Courts in Tolland County in the State of Connecticut

The Public seat of said County at Tolland in the aforesaid County of Tolland this 13 th day of December A D 1856
Jeremiah Parish Clerk of the Courts in Tolland County in the State of Connecticut

Erastus I. Ingham's Deposition
to the truth of the foregoing appearance by him subscribed before me this 19th day of certify that said Erastus I. is a person of truth & integrity & has my full confidence in and made full

I Crastus J. Ingle of Middlefield County of Hampshire Commonwealth of Massachusetts of lawful age do testify depose & say that I have lived in said Middlefield - about fifty three years - that soon after I removed to Middlefield from Athol Conn. Thomas Wood the deceased husband of Abigail Wood, came with his wife to live in said Middlefield - that for more than forty years I have lived a near neighbor to them - that said Thomas from his first residence to the time of his death was reputed & believed by his neighbors to have been a soldier in the Revolutionary War - that I have often heard him speak of his revolutionary services & of the battle of Monmouth & of incidents therein from the time of his first coming to Middlefield - that said Thomas died about fourteen years ago last August of gradual decay, having pined away for a long time in apparent consumption that I saw him very often in his last sickness & at the time of his decease & afterwards I attended his funeral - I further state that Abigail Wood aforesaid since the decease of said Thomas her husband has continued to reside near me & that she has remained a widow & has never since been married

I that during his life & ever since my knowledge of them they lived together as husband & wife with a family of children - Said Thomas died of so slow a disease & failed so gradually that a physician did not very often see him. He was about eighty I should think when he died - Erastus G. Ingham
Hampshire Dec 6. 1835 Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Then personally appeared Erastus G. Ingham above named to me personally known & made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed, before me. I further certify that said Erastus G. is a person of truth & veracity & of the highest respectability in said middlefield.
Chas P. Huntington Justice of the Peace.

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
Hampshire ss.
I, SAMUEL F. LYMAN, Register of the Court of Probate within and for said County of Hampshire, do hereby certify that Charles P. Huntington Esquire, before whom the annexed deposition was taken, was, at the date hereof, one of the Justices of the Peace within and for said County, duly and regularly appointed, and that the signature thereto annexed purporting to be his, I know to be genuine.
IN testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court, this seventieth day of December A. D. 183 6
Sam d F. Lyman Register of Probate.

I Israel Pease of Middlefield Hampshire County Mass. of lawful age testify depose & say that I have known Abigail Wood Widow of Thomas Wood, & that I knew her husband, more than fifty years since & have lived neighbor to them forty seven years - said Thomas Wood was always called & supposed to have been a revolutionary soldier - I have often since my acquaintance heard him speak of his having been a "three year's man" & of hiring a substitute just before his time was out, & of his serving during that term - that he was in the Gersies, at Valley Forge & farther to the "Southward", & in the battle of Monmouth - that said Thomas died in August, thirteen years since, & that said Abigail has ever since to my knowledge remained a widow - that said Thomas died at eighty years or upwards of gradual & consumptive decay as old people die - that I saw him every day in his last sickness, & when he was dying, & after his death, & attended his funeral.
Israel Pease
Hampshire Dec 5. 1830 Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Then personally appeared Israel Pease above named, a person

of truth & veracity, to me personally known to be made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed before me
B.P. Huntington
Justice of the Peace.
[Faint, mirrored text from the reverse side of the page, likely bleed-through from the original document.]
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 7th day of March 1852
James M. [unclear] Justice of the Peace

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
hire ss.
I, SAMUEL F. LYMAN, Register of the Court of Probate within and for said County of Hampshire, do hereby certify that Charles P. Huntington before whom the annexed deposition was taken, was, at the date of, one of the Justices of the Peace within and for said County, duly and regularly qualified, and that the signature thereto annexed purporting to be his, I know to be his.
IN testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court, this Seventieth day of December A. D. 1836—
Samuel F. Lyman Register of Probate.

886. 3. Ser.
Mrs Agail Watt Widow for a pension
[Faint handwritten text, likely bleed-through from the reverse side] ... before the war ... moved
on rolls -
7 may 77. 3 years disch. 80 71m 29d
admitted
2 years pri
80 $
No deduction - died 30 Nov. 1824 & paid up
Am. W.B. Calhoun
AR
Israel Pease affidavit -

Hampshire Thorne Wood -
C. Webb's Con. Rgt.
for War
Correct
7 men pay. 3 years each 700 80

I Thomas Wood a citizen of the United States & now resident in Middlefield in the County of Hampshire State of Massachusetts do hereby depose & say that at Inner in Connecticut on the 28th day of May & I think the 28th day, in the year 1777 I enlisted with Lt Matthew Buel to serve in the revolutionary army in the Continental establishment for three years - that I soon after joined the Regiment commanded by Col. Eph Webb at Stamford in Connecticut & the Company of Capt. Amos Walbridge, said Regiment belonged to Genl. Huntington Brigade in the Connecticut line - that I continued in said Regiment during the whole of said three years - except that about two months before the expiration of said three years being unwell I was permitted to return home on furlough - that Col. Webb after continued to command said Regiment a few months after I joined it - he then left the command & it was then under the command of Col. Isaac Herriman - being absent on furlough at the expiration of said three years I never received any discharge -
And I do further depose & say that I am now seventy seven years old, am in reduced circumstances in life & stand in need of assistance from my country for support.
Thomas Wood
April 23.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Hampshire SS. B E IT REMEMBERED, That on the twenty third day of April — A. D. 1818, came before me, JOHN HOOKER, Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Western Circuit in said State, and including the said county of Hampshire the above named Thomas Wood (applying for the benefit of the provisions of the acts of Congress entitled An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land & naval service of the U. States in the revolutionary war) made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit, by him subscribed, and hereto annexed. I do thereupon hereby declare, that it appears to my satisfaction, that the said Thomas Wood — the applicant did serve in the revolutionary war, against the common enemy, for more than nine months, on the continental establishment, as set forth in his affidavit aforesaid, and that he is yet a resident citizen of the United States in reduced circumstances, and stands in need of assistance from his country for support. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the seal of the said Circuit Court for the said county of Hampshire to be affixed hereto, this 28th day of May 1818
I do therefore hereby certify the above & annexed as the testimony of proceedings had before me on the application aforesaid and transmit the same to the Secretary of the department of War of the United States -
John Hooker

I Thomas Wood a citizen of the United States & now resident in Middlefield in the County of Hampshire State of Massachusetts do depose & say that at Lanes in Connecticut in the month of May & I think the 26 th day, in the year 1777 I enlisted with Lt Matthew Bull to serve in the revolutionary army in the continental establishment for three years - that I soon after joined the Regiment commanded by Col. Eph Webb at Stamford in Connecticut & the Company of Capt. Amos Walbridge, said Regiment belonged to Genl. Huntington's Brigade in the Connecticut line - that I continued in said regiment during the whole of said three years - except that about two months before the expiration of said three years being unwell I was permitted to return home on furlough - That Col. Webb after continued to command said Regiment a few months after I joined it - he then left the command & it was then under the command of Col. Isaac Herriman - being absent on furlough at the expiration of said three years I never received any discharge -
And I do further depose that I am now seventy seven years old, am in reduced circumstances in life & stand in need of assistance from my country for support
Thomas Wood
April 23.
I Gideon Prufell of Middlefield do depose & say that in May 1777 I lived in Lanes in the State of Connecticut where Mr. Wood then lived - that I knew of his enlisting to serve in the said army for three years - & the reason of my knowing it is, that my father was one with others who went him to enlist & serve that term - I knew of his marching to join the said army - and I frequently heard from him while in said army & I knew of his returning home about the end of said three years - that I never heard any one of those who hired him to serve the said three years dispute or doubt but that he served according to his engagement with them - had it been doubted, it is scarcely possible but that I should have heard of it, living in a family concerned in hearing from them to serve -
Gideon Prufell
Nap ty Hampshire County ss. April 23 1810 - Then the above named Gideon Prufell being duly sworn examined & from made oath to the truth of the facts stated in the above Affidavit by him subscribed before me
J. M. Hooker Clerk of Court

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Hampshire ss. I Josiah Dwight Clerk of all the Judicial Courts of said Commonwealth for the County of Hampshire do certify that John Hooker Esq d is Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Western Circuit - that the within signature is his proper hand writing & that the seal hereunto affixed is the proper seal of said Court
Josiah Dwight

February 28, 1933
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Thomas Wood, S. 44104 Thomas Wood, W. 27506 BA-J/MLB
Mr. Walter A. Wood 1433-35 Junction Avenue Racine, Wisconsin
Dear Sir:
Reference is made to your request for the records of two Revolutionary War soldiers named Thomas Wood, one of Hampshire County, Massachusetts, and the other of Rockingham County, New Hampshire.
You are furnished herewith the records of both soldiers as requested, the data of which were obtained from the papers on file in their claims for pension based upon military service in the Revolutionary War.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER Assistant to Administrator

March 1, 1933
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Thomas Wood-W.27506 BA-J/AWF
Mr. Walter A. Wood 1433-35 Junction Avenue Racine, Wisconsin
Dear Sir:
The data furnished herein were obtained from the papers on file in pension claim, W.27506, based upon the Revolutionary War service of Thomas Wood.
The date, place of birth and the names of his parents are not stated.
Thomas Wood, while residing at Somers, Connecticut, enlisted in August, 1776 and served three months as a private in Captain Emory Pease's company, under Major Walbridge. He enlisted, May 26, 1777 and served in Captain Parsons' company, Colonels Charles Webb's and Isaac Sherman's Connecticut regiment; he was in the battle of Monmouth and served nearly three years.
He was allowed pension on his application executed April 23, 1818, then aged seventy-seven years and living in Middlefield, Hampshire County, Massachusetts.
The soldier, Thomas Wood, married December 25, 1768 at Somers, Connecticut, Abigail Phelps. They were both then of said Somers.
Thomas Wood died August 8, 1823 in Middlefield, Massachusetts.
His widow, Abigail Wood, was allowed pension on her application executed December 5, 1836, then a resi-

dent of Middlefield, Massachusetts, and aged eighty-eight years.
Their children are referred to, no names shown.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER Assistant to Administrator

October 24, 1928
Mrs. M. Theta Brown R.F.D. # 1 Albion, New York
Madam:
I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, W. 27506, it appears that Thomas Wood, while residing at Somers, Connecticut, enlisted in August 1776, and served three months as a private in Captain Emory Pease's  Pea's Company under Major Walbridge. He enlisted, May 26, 1777, and served nearly three years as a private in Captain Amos Walbridge's Company and Captain Parsons' Company, in Colonels Charles Webb's and Isaac Sherman's Connecticut Regiment and was in the battle of Monmouth.
He was allowed pension on his application executed April 23, 1818, at which time he was living at Middlefield, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, aged seventy-seven years. He died there August 8, 1823.
The soldier married, December 25, 1768  1776 , at Somers, Connecticut, Abigail Phelps. They were both of then of said Somers.
She was allowed pension on her application executed

December 5, 1836, at which time she was living in Middle- field, Massachusetts, aged eighty-eight years. It is stated that they had a family of children, no names given.
Respectfully,
E. W. MORGAN Acting Commissioner.

THIS SIDE OF CARD IS FOR ADDRESS
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Racine, Wis., Dec. 8, 1933.
Dear Sir:
Please send Rev. War records on the following: Thomas Wood , Hampshire Co. Private, Conn. Line, 1835 List. Lived in Mass.
Thomas Wood , Rockingham Co., N.H. Mass. Cont'l. line. Pension Roll, 1822.
Please send soon as I am very much in need of information on these two soldiers. Yours truly, Address, 1433-35 Junction Ave.
Walter A. Wood.
signature?

Rev WIDOW, &c.
No. 27,506 Abigail Wood Widow of Thomas Wood Rev Rev War Act June 7 th 39 Index: Vol. M , Page 339
[Arrangement of 1870.]
1928- Oct. 24-H. Fish to Mrs. M. Thelma Brown Aug. 1933- mch 1- " " Walter A. Wood Apr 3

Jan 9 1928
Albion, N.Y. RFD # 1
Dear sir, — Did Thomas Wood of Somers Conn. draw a pension? His wife was Abigail Phelps.
Have you any record concerning John Brown of Conn. He was born at Canterbury and lived there and at Preston Conn during the Revolution. Possibly at other places nearby. John Brown married Lucy Main, and he was born Mar. 9, 1757.
Yours truly
(Mrs) M. Theta Brown

Signature of Magistrate
Matthew Smith
Justice of the Peace
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Hampshire ss - I Daniel F. Lyman Register of Probate within said County hereby certify that Matthew Smith Esquire is a Justice of the Peace within and for said County duly commissioned and qualified that his Commission was dated on the 25 th day of January A.D. 1832 and will expire on the 24 th day of January A.D. 1839 and that his signature above written is genuine
Given under my hand the seal of said County this sixth day of December A.D. 1836
Daniel F. Lyman Register of Probate