Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 11790, John Wood, Conn N H

SERVICE
NUMBER
Coon N 76
Wood, John
R. 11790
CONTENTS
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New York Rev.
John Wood Rejected Lot. C. S. Ingalls Nov 15. 1833.
11790
Act. 7 June '32

REJECTED
11.799 P. O.
John Wood
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

27 3 87 In the matter of John Ward vs the Declaration

On this twenty ninth day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty three personally appeared in open Court before the Court of Common Pleas in and for the said County now sitting John Wood a resident of the town of Greenwich in the County of Washington and State of New York - aged sixty six years who being 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 1832 -
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated - he entered the service of the United States in the month of October 1780 - the year that Royalton in Vermont was burnt - as a volunteer in a company commanded by Captain House his company redeployed at Royalton in Vermont went to Bethel Middlesex and Randolph - in pursuit of Indians - The detachment to which he belonged was composed of five hundred men raised for the scouting service Captain House had the chief command - he was dismissed by General Hovey and returned home, he was out ten days -
10 Days -
The morning after he got home there was an alarm from the Alarm post in Lebanon New Hampshire when he heard when he entered the service he again volunteered into a company commanded by Captain Easton served his company in Lebanon

Marched to Haverhill in New Hampshire, and there his company joined a body of two thousand men, when he remained three weeks and was dismissed at Haverhill by his captain & returned home.
The winter following he returned to Mansfield in Connecticut where he was brought up - when he remained until 1781 - in the month December of that year - (being the same year New London was burnt - For four months he enlisted as a substitute for a Mr. Rice and another man, whose name his daughter now recollects they had been drafted and were obliged to furnish a man - At Mansfield and went to Fort Greenwald where he enlisted into Captain Cliffs company - On Gill's was Ensign - in Col. McClains Regiment - he served out his whole time at Fort Greenwald gathering materials and repairing the Fort - and was discharged at the Fort after serving out the full period of his enlistment. After the close of the war
In the month of October 1783 - he again enlisted for one year under Captain Dyer at Mansfield of course and joined his company at New London Connecticut - but when he served in his company for three months and then found a substitute was discharged and left the company - his company were engaged principally in answer to the questions put by the Court - he says - he was born in the year 1767 at Falmouth in the Province of Halifax

He has no record of his age -
He was living at Lebanon New Hampshire when he entered the service -
Immediately after the Revolution he went to the Town of Enfield New Hampshire - where he resided about one year, from there he moved to Lebanon in the State of New York & staid about two years. from there he moved to Lenox Massachusetts, where he lived about one year - From there he moved to Pittsfield Vermont - lived there about a year - from there to the Town of Kingsbury Washington County - where he resided seven years - from there he went to the Province of Upper Canada staid about six years - then came back to Greenfield County State of New York and lived there about two years - from there he went to Ohio and lived about seven years - and from there came back to Greenfield where he now resides -
He entered the service as a volunteer
The names of his officers that he recollects are those already named viz Col McLean, Captain Cluff and Ensign Gillett -
He received a Discharge from Captain Cluff and has lost it.
He is known to Elders Washburn, Lockwood, Wright, Samuel Heath Junior and Elders Barlow, who can testify as to his

for veracity, and their belief of his services as a soldier of the revolution.
The hereby relinquishes every claim whatsoever 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 John Wood
Sworn to and subscribed the day
and year aforesaid.
J. S. Leigh CLK
We Robert Washburn a clergyman residing in the town of or thereabouts County of Sonataga and state of Vermont and Charles Knapp  Brooks of the Town of Goshen  Kingsbury County of Washington hereby certify that we are well acquainted with John Wood who is described in the above declaration, that we believe him to be sixty six years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood to have been a soldier of the revolution, and that we concur in that opinion
Sworn and subscribed the 29th day of May 1833
before me - by Charles Baker in an cause J. S. Leigh CLK
Sworn & subscribed by Robert Washburn this 26th day of
August 1833
Robert Washburn
S. Charles Baker
Joseph Bores Justice of the peace
And the said do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories 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 Robert Washburn who has signed the proceedings is a clergyman resident in the Town of Northumberland County of Saratoga - and that Charles Baker who has also signed the same is a resident of the Town of Kingsbury in the County of Washington and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit.
I Joseph S. Leigh Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and and for said County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court - in the matter of the explication of John Wood for a pension
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 29 th May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty three - J. S. Leigh C.C.P.

John Woods
Pioneer Declaration

State of New York
Washington County ss. John Wood being
before me makes oath and saith that he knows of no persons, whose testimony he can prove who can testify to his services and that he has no documentary evidence of his services - specified in the annexed declaration.
Given the 22 nd day of August 1853 - before me
John Wood
Joseph Bais Justice of the Peace
State of New York
Washington County ss. I Jesse S. Lough clerk of said County do certify that Joseph Bais before whom the above affidavit purports to have been sworn was at the date of the same one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the said County - and that I am acquainted with the hand writing of the said Joseph Bais - and amply believe his signature name subscribed to the said affidavit to be his proper handwriting and signature.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said County the twenty seven th day

August 1833-
J. S. Leigh C.M.
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