Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 22,693, Jacob Wood, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Wood, Jacob Lydia
W. 22.693
CONTENTS

Reported
755. Massachusetts, Lydia Wood - widow of Jacob Wood who served in the Revolutionary war, as a pri't Corp't
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 42, Dollars 90.
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.
Certificate of Pension issued the 17. day of July 1848 and sent to
Peter H. Pierce Middleboro' Mass.
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 2, 1848, Page 172 Vol. 2

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Plymouth ss. I Jacob H Lord Register of Probate do hereby certify that Seth Miller Jr. & Benjamin P. Wood Esquires are Justices of the Peace in & for said County & that the signatures to the several annexed affidavits purporting to be signed by them are their true & genuine signatures.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & the seal of the Court of Probate for said County this ninth day of November 1838.
Jacob H. Lord

Commonwealth of Massachusetts Plymouth County
Town of Middleborough
"July, twenty fifth, seventeen hundred and eighty four then I published a purpose of marriage between Mr Jacob Wood & Miss Lydia Miller both of Middleborough for Nath l Wilder town Clerk,,
I certify that the above is a true copy of the record with the exception of the date, which is expressed on the record in fair legible figures as follows July 25 th 1784.
Allen Shaw Town Clerk of Middleborough
I Allen Shaw, above named, depose and say that I hold the office of town clerk of the town of Middleborough in the County & State aforesaid, and that the above is a true extract from the records of said town with the exception above as certified by me. I further depose and say that I have searched the records of said town and cannot find any record of the marriage of the said Jacob Wood & Lydia Miller
Allen Shaw Town Clerk
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Plymouth County
} On October 22 d 1838 I then Allen Shaw, above named, whom I certify to be a credible witness, personally appeared and made oath that the foregoing deposition by him subscribed is true
Before me Seth Miller Jr Justice of the Peace

I Priscilla Porter of lawful age to give evidence, do testify and say that I was well acquainted with Jacob Wood late of Middleborough deceased, and that the said Jacob Wood died in the month of January eighteen hundred and twenty four, I was at his funeral, He left a widow, whose name is Lydia Wood, who is now living in said Middleborough, and that she has never been married since the death of said Jacob, and still remains his widow, I further testify and say that I am now sixty five years old and that I was at the wedding of Jacob Wood & Lydia Miller, and I positively say I was not fifteen years old when they were married, and according to the best of my recollection the said marriage took place in the spring of the year seventeen hundred and eighty five.
Priscilla Porter
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Plymouth County
ss October 22 d , 1835 Then
the above named Priscilla Porter, whom I certify to be a credible witness, personally appeared and made oath, that foregoing deposition by her subscribed is true
Before me Seth Miller Jr Justice of the Peace

I Hannah Atwood of Middleborough of lawful age to give evidence, do testify, and say that I was well acquainted with Jacob Wood late of Middleborough deceased, I knew him before he was married, I was acquainted with Lydia Miller before she was married to the said Jacob Wood. I was present at the marriage and saw them married which was in the winter or spring of the year seventeen hundred and eighty five. Noah Hearing Esquire was the justice who married them. The time of the said marriage I remember from the age of one of my sons, my son Uriel was fifty four years old last February, and he was a little over a year old when the said Jacob & Lydia, were married, the said Lydia the widow of said Jacob is now living in said Middleborough
Hannah her  H Atwood mark
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Plymouth County
ss. October 27 th 1838
Then the above named Hannah Atwood whom I certify to be a credible witness, personally appeared and made oath that the foregoing deposition by her subscribed is true
Before me Seth Miller Jr Justice Peace

I Sylvanus Wood of Middleborough in the County of Plymouth and Commonwealth of Massachusetts aged Eighty years do testify and say that I was well acquainted with Jacob Wood late of Middleborough he was a Brother of mine and further testify and say that I was well knowing to the said Jacob Wood being in the Revolutionary war I will recollect that in the year Seventeen hundred and seventy six in the month of November or December at Tiverton Rhode Island he enlisted into a Company of Militia Commanded by Captain John Barrows Eliza Has Kell Lieut. for three months the Company was Stationed at Howlands Ferry in said Tiverton and did Military duty until the term of enlist ment expired which was three months which fact he well recollects for he and the said Jacob was called out with the Company Comman ded by the said Barrows on alarm and marched to Tiverton R Island He did not enlist served about two weeks then returned home
Sylvanus W Wood

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Plymouth County ss October 16 th 1838
Then personally appeared Sylvanus Wood subscriber to the foregoing affidavit and well known to me to be a credible witness and made oath to the truth of the same
Before me Benjamin P. Wood Justice of the Peace

Affidavit of Andrew Coole for Jacob Wood

I Andrew Cob of Middleborough in the County of Plymouth and Commonwealth of Massachusetts aged Eighty Three years do testify and say that I was acquainted with Jacob Wood late of Middleborough in the County of Plymouth and Commonwealth aforesaid and was in the Revolutionary war with him at North Kingston on the Isle of Rhode Island Three months I enlisted into a company of Militia commanded by Captain Nathan Wood in Colonel Ebenezer Sproats Regiment in the fall of the year of 1777 or 1778 I can not say which - There was snow on the ground when we were there - I served Three months at the aforesaid place and the said Jacob Wood was with me and I served the whole of the time that I there viz Three months in the Company commanded by Captain Nathan Wood in Col Ebenezer Sproats Regiment Andrew Cob
Plymouth County ss. September 20 th 1838
Then personally appeared Andrew Cob the subscriber to the foregoing affidavit and well known to me to be a creditable Witness and made oath to the truth of the same Before me Benjamin P. Wood Justice of the Peace

Lydia Wood 3134
admitted P ~ 7 m 11 days, $24.55 Cape 5 m 18.34  $42.89
on roll vol 2 page 102 from 1 Aug 1979 — Cape 5 m,
26 15  42
on roll Cal Pasture Putnam for 16 June 1978 to 26 Oct 1978 — 4011
Jacob M. Lend Plymouth Paill City

Commonwealth of Massachusetts Plymouth County
On this sixth day of November 1838 personally appeared before the Court of Probate held at Middleborough in and for said County of Plymouth, Lydia Wood a resident of said Middleborough aged seventy two years, who being first duly sworn, according to law doth upon her oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 7th, 1838 entitled "an act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows, That she is the widow of Jacob Wood late of said Middleborough deceased, and who was a soldier in the War of the Revolution, and who served as she believes in said war, the following times and periods viz that in the year seventeen hundred and seventy six in the month of November or December the said Jacob Wood enlisted into a company of Militia commanded by John Barrows for the term of three months, and was stationed at Howland Ferry in the State of Rhode Island, and that he served the said three months in said Company and was discharged
That in the month of February or March in the year seventeen hundred and seventy seven the said Jacob Wood again enlisted into a company of Militia commanded by Silas Hottin, which company belonged to Colo Robinson's regiment, for the term of six months, and marched to Providence, and then to North Kingston in the state of Rhode Island, and there served the said six months, and was discharged
In the fall of the year seventeen hundred and seventy seven or seventy eight the said Jacob Wood enlisted into a company of Militia commanded by Nathaniel Wood of said Middleborough for the term of three months, in Colo Sprouts Regiment, and marched to Rhode Island and was stationed at North Kingston, and under said officer the said Jacob served the said three months & was discharged
In the spring of the year seventeen hundred and seventy nine the said Jacob Wood enlisted into the Company commanded by Joshua Benson for the term of nine months, said company belonged to Colo Rufus Putnam's Regiment of the Continental Army, and the said Jacob Wood served in said company the said nine months and was discharged, this service was performed in the State of New York, at West Point & White Plains and some other places.
The said Jacob Wood lived in said Middleborough when he was not in the service during the time of the Revolutionary war.
She further declares she has no documentary evidence of his services. She further declares that she believes that he was a corporal at part of said time of service. She further declares that she was married to the said Jacob Wood

on the fifteenth or sixteenth day of March in the year seventeen hundred and eighty five, that her husband the aforesaid Jacob Wood died on the twenty fourth day of January in the year eighteen hundred and twenty four; that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first day of January seventeen hundred and ninety four viz at the time above stated
Lydia Wood
Subscribed and sworn to the day and year first above mentioned.
Willes Wood Judge of Probate,
Plymouth J. I Jacob H. Lord Register of Probate for said County do hereby certify that Hon. Willes Wood is Judge of Probate for said County & that the above is his true & genuine signature.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & the seal of the Court of Probate for said County this ninth day of November 1838.
Jacob H. Lord

let J. H. Lord Sept. 27. 1843 + 2
2840
Massachusetts Sydia Wood widow of Jacob Wood dec.
who was a pensioner under the Act of and who died on the 24th January 1824 of Plymouth Co. in the State of Mass. who was a First Capt. in the Comp y commanded by Captain _____ of the Regt. commanded by Col. Putnam in the Mass. line for 7 mos & 11 days Private } 5 " Corporal }
Inscribed on the Roll of Mass. at the rate of 42 Dollars 90 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 16 th day of May 1839 and sent Jacob Wood. Lord Plymouth Mass.
Arrears to the 4th of Mar. 39 $128.70 Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Sept. 21.45 $150.15
{ Act July 7, } 1838. }
Recorded by N. C. Addison Clerk, Book 1 Vol. 1 st Page 144

Chp Nov 29
2975
Massachusetts
Lydia Wood widow of Jacob Wood who was a First Capt in the Mass. line
for 7 mo & 11 dy. pri. 5 & 62 1/2
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 42 Dollars & 90 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the 29 th day of Nov. 1843 and sent to J. H. Lord Hymouth, Mass.
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book - 4 Vol. 1 Page 57

Ref
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 22093
Lydia Wood widow of Jacob Wood Coupl Rev War
Act Feb 29 48
Index: Vol 16 , Page 85-8
[Arrangement of 1870.]

2427
Lydia Wood.
42.90
J. H. Lord Plymouth Mass.

State of Massachusetts } ss. Plymouth County —
On this twelfth day of June, in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty three, personally appeared before me Seth Miller one of the justices of the Peace in and for said County of Plymouth Lydia Wood a resident of Middleborough in the said County of Plymouth and State aforesaid aged Seventy seven years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the Act of Congress, passed on the 3 d of March 1843, granting Pensions to widows of persons, who served during the Revolutionary War. That she is the widow of Jacob Wood of said Middleborough who served in said War, as a soldier, for the periods and in the manner as stated in my declaration now on file in the pension office, made to obtain a pension under the Act of Congress of July 7 th 1838, & from lack of memory I am not able to state the particulars of his service as I did then, to that declaration I now refer, she further declares she received a pension from the United States on account of his services under the Act of July 7 th 1838, and that she received a little over Forty Dollars annually under said Act. She further declares she is still a widow.
Lydia Wood.
sworn to & subscribed on the day and year first above written, by the said Lydia Wood, whom I certify to be a credible person, & with whom I have been acquainted many years.
Before me
Seth Miller justice of the Peace.

I certify that the within named Lydia Wood is well known to me to be the same person, who was a pensioner under the Act of Congress of June 7 th 1838
Seth Miller Justice of Peace.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Plymouth ss. I Jacob H. Lord Register of Probate in & for said County do hereby certify that Seth Miller Esquire is a Justice of the Peace in & for said County, duly commissioned & qualified & that the within & above are his true & genuine signatures.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & the seal of the Court of Probate for said County this first day of July 1843
Jacob H. Lord

Commonwealth of Massachusetts Plymouth County ss.
I John B. Thomas, Clerk of the Judicial Courts for the said County of Plymouth, hereby certify that Seth Miller, Esquire, before whom the within Declaration was sworn, was, at the time of the caption of the same, and now is, a Justice of the Peace for the said County of Plymouth, duly commissioned and qualified under the authority of said Commonwealth - and that his signature to the jurat of the same Declaration is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the Seal of the Supreme Judicial Court this third day of October in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty three.
John B. Thomas Clerk

Eleazer Wood, Affidavit
Notary Public State of New York
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 10th day of March 1840

State of Vermont } On this 4th day of September Windsor County } A.D. 1838 personally appeared before me Walter Palmer a justice of the peace within & for the County of Windsor aforesaid Eleazer Wood a resident of Woodstock in the County of Windsor aforesaid aged 76 years, who being first duly sworn according to law doth before me say; That he was acquainted with Jacob Wood late of Middleborough in the State of Massachusetts that in the spring of the year 1777 or 1778 the said Jacob Wood at said Middleborough enlisted into Capt. Hollis Company in Colo. Robinsons Reg- iment (State Troops) for five months, marched to North Kingston Rhode Island, was stationed there and did Military duty until the term of enlistment expired which was five months; which fact he well knows, for he enlisted at the same time and did Military at the same time and place with the said Jacob Wood, and was dismissed & returned home with him He further says that the said Jacob Wood did the duty of a corporal in the said Hollis Company.
E. Wood
The above testimony was before signing —
Walter Palmer Just Peace
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year first above named And I hereby certify that the said Eleazer Wood is a credible Witness —
Walter Palmer Just Peace

State of Vermont - Windsor County
I Benjamin Swan Clerk of Windsor County Court hereby certify that Walter Palmer who has subscribed his name to the foregoing is a justice of the Peace within and for the County of Windsor duly commissioned and qualified and that the same is his genuine signature
In testimony whereof I hereunto affix the seal of said Court and subscribe my name at Woodstock in the County of Windsor aforesaid this 5th day of September A.D. 1838
Benj. Swan Clerk

I George Shaw of Cohasset in the county of Franklin and commonwealth of Massachusetts of the age Seventy five years do testify and say that I was born in Middleborough in the county of Plymouth in said commonwealth at said Middleborough in the Month of January on Month one Thousand Seven hundred and Seventy Seven I and Jacob Wood enlisted both the same day for Six Months into Capt Solas Hollis Company of infantry in Col Robison Regiment and from said Middleborough we Marched to Providence R.I. from there to North Kingston in said R.I. and there we was Stationed during the Six Months and I and said Wood was both discharged and we both returned home Together, and in the Month of March one Thousand Seven hundred and Seventy Eight I enlisted for three years in Capt Joshua Benson Company in Col Rufus Dutram Regiment and from said Middleborough we Marched to Albany N.Y. from there towards the lakes from there back down the river to west poor from there to White Plains and while we was Stationed at White plains, in the Spring of the year one Thousand Seven hundred and Seventy nine Jacob Wood of Middleborough joined the company said with me for Nine months and the said Jacob Wood served in the same company with me during the whole term of nine months in said Capt Benson Company and was discharged and he left the army and for the this deponent saith not.
George Shaw
commonwealth of Massachusetts
Franklin ss Cohasset October 3 rd 1888
Then George Shaw personally appeared and made oath that the foregoing Deposition by him subscribed is True
Before me Charles Thompson Justice of the Peace

Franklin p Cohoes Oct 3 d 1838
I the Subscribed hereby certify that I have been intimately acquainted with Nathl George Shove for about twenty years past and can truly say that he is a man of Truth and Veracity
Charles Thompson Justice of the peace
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Franklin ss
I Elijah Alvord Clerk of the Court of Com- mon Pleas for the county of Franklin do hereby certify that Charles Thompson Esq. is a Justice of the Peace in and for said county - and that the within and foregoing signatures, purporting to be his, are genuine. In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and affix the seal of said court, this third day of October A.D. 1838
E. Alvord Clerk

Hon. J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
City of Washington
Chief

Sir
Middleborough July 5 1848
I enclose six applications for widows of Pensioners the form of which the Half Member of Congress from this district informed me would be acceptable to the Secretary of War although not so full quite as his printed form in that more was required than than 1/2 of these old Ladies could knowingly perform they cannot tell the Regiment in which their husbands served
Very Respectfully
Yours
Peter H. Pease
Comm: of Pensioners

L. Wood
ad
2975
admitted
Peter H. Pierce Middleboro' Mass.

State of Massachusetts 2
Plymouth County ss. ) On this 12th day of June 1848 personally appeared before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace of the County aforesaid Lydia Wood a resident of the Town of Middleborough in the County of Plymouth aged Eighty Two years who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress passed the 2nd day of February 1848 granting pensions to Widows of such persons who served during the Revolutionary War that she is the Widow of Jacob Wood who was a private in the War of the Revolution she don't know the Regiment in which he served she received a pension under the act of June 17 1834 of Forty two dollars & 66 cents per annum she further declares that she is still a Widow Lydia her Wood mark
Witness Elisha Tucker
Sworn to and subscribed on the day & year above written before me Peter H. Pierce
Justice of the Peace
I certify that Lydia Wood the above declaration is personally known to me
Peter H. Pierce
Justice of the Peace
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
I John H. Pierce Clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court of the County of Plymouth do hereby certify that Peter H. Pierce who is a Justice of the Peace in & for said County duly sworn, known to me qualified - and that his signature to the paper above written is genuine
Given under my hand at the said Court on this third day of July 1848
John H. Pierce Clerk

Probate Office Plymouth Mass ts July 1. 1843
Sir
I enclose the following applications for renewal of Pensions under the Act of March 3. 1843 Desire Smith of Rochester Lydia Wood of Middleborough Jedidah Davenport of Plymouth
Their Certificates when issued may be forwarded to me
Yours with respect Jacob H. Lord
J. L. Edwards Esq. Washington D. C.