Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 22674, Amos Woods, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Woods, Amos.
NR 22674
Betsey
CONTENTS

Pelsey Wood under of Amos Wood Maps.
At $40 per ann. no deduction.
Map box line box Turner Co Papp
Hon L. Hoar A. P.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts Middlesex County ss.
On this first day of November A.D. 1836 personally appeared before the Hon. Samuel P. Fay, Judge of the Probate Court of Middlesex County in said Commonwealth, Betsey Woods, a resident of Dunstable in said Middlesex County, aged 78 years who being first duly sworn according to Law, doth on her oath make the following declarations in order to ob- tain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed July 4, A.D. 1836. That she is the widow of Amos Wood, late of said Dunstable, & that he the said Amos Wood her late husband was a Private in the Army of the Revolution, for which service he received a pension under the Act of Congress passed March 18th A.D. 1818, as will appear on reference to the records & files in the War Department.
She further declares, that she was married to the said Amos Wood at Groton on the seventh day of July 1778 before Josiah Sackett, Esquire of said Groton, who was a Justice of the Peace, duly au- thorized by the laws of Massachusetts, to join per- sons in marriage. And she further declares, that the said Amos Wood her late husband, died on the 28th day of November A.D. 1829, and that she has ever since that period remained a widow, as will more fully appear on reference to the proofs herewith annexed. And she further states and declares, that she lived with the said Amos Wood, as his lawful wife from the time of their said mar-

riage, (his absence in the war excepted) until the day of his death; and that she had fourteen children by him, one of whom was born before his return home from said war; to wit, William Wood, now of Dunstable aforesaid, who was born on the 17th day of August A.D. 1783.
Betsey Wood her mark
Subscribed & sworn to before me
J. P. Fay Clerk
And the said judge does hereby declare after investigation of the matter, in opinion that the statements made by said Applicant in her declaration aforesaid are true & entitled to full faith & credit, and that she is a credible person. —
J. P. Fay Clerk
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Madison ss.
I, Isaac Pitkin Myrle of the County of Probate in and for the County of Madison & Commonwealth of Massachusetts hereby certify that Lord P. P. Fay Esq. is the Judge of said Court duly commissioned & qualified & that his signature heretofore above written is his genuine signature.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said Court this seventh day of November in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred & thirty six.
Isaac Pitkin Myrle

I, John G. Park of Groton in the county of Middlesex & Commonwealth of Massachusetts do depose & say, that I am now, and have been Town Clerk of Groton aforesaid, for more than two years last past, and have by virtue of said office the custody and keeping of the records of said Groton, that it appears by a certificate on record in said office of Town Clerk, of Josiah Sawell, Esq. late of said Groton, deceased that Amos Wood & Betsy Labell, both of said Groton, were joined in marriage by the said Sawell, at Groton aforesaid on the seventh day of July A.D. 1778.
And further I say not.
John G. Park
Commonwealth of Massachusetts County of Middlesex ss. Be it known, that on the twenty fifth day of November, 1836. before me, Caleb Putter, Notary Publick, by legal authority ap- pointed and sworn, and dwelling in Groton in said county, personally appeared John G. Park, abovenamed and made solemn oath, that the above affidavit by him subscribed is true. And I certify, that said John G. Park, is a credible person, and worthy to be believed in the premises.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my notarial seal the day & year aforesaid
Caleb Putter.

Amos Woods
COMMISSION MERCHANT
No. 10 State Street
Boston, Mass.

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
BE it remembered, that on this First day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and Eighteen before me, SAMUEL DANA , Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Middle Circuit, (comprehending the Counties of Essex and Middlesex, in the Commonwealth aforesaid) comes Amos Woods of Groton in said county of Middlesex and on oath declares, that he served in the war of the revolution upwards of two years.
That he was hired by a class of men in said Groton to go into the Army of the United States, upon the Continental establishment, and in November in the year of our Lord One Thousand Seven hundred, and Eighty one, he was mustered at Concord in the County of Middlesex by Jonas Heywood Esq. as a Soldier for the Town of Groton, when he proceeded to Boston, was there mustered by Major Pattenall of the Army from thence he proceeded to West Point, in the month of January AD 1782, where he was inoculated, with the small pox, and after he came out of the Hospital, he was placed in the Company of Capt. Thomas Severy, in Col. Benj a Tupper's Regiment being the col th in the Mass a line, where he remained until January following when he was transferred to the 5 th Massachusetts Regiment Commanded by Col. Esra Nashall , at this time, he was sick of a fever called a pleurisy, and by the terms of his engagement with his class, he was to be released, at the expiration of one year and after having served thirteen months, and eight days under his engagement, he was discharged. He is now Sixty eight years of age, destitute of property and has no way to procure a support, only by his labor and his ability to, this is now declining and
by reason of his reduced circumstances in life he stands in need of assistance from his country for his support.
Thus, made, subscribed, and sworn to, at the day and year aforesaid.
Groton
in said county of Middlesex
Amos Woods
Sam d Dana

Affidavits to support the application of Amos Woods

I Hannah Spaulding wife of Ephraim Spaulding do repose say, that in the year of our Lord One Thousand Seven hundred Eighty one, I was the wife of Jeremiah Farmer, who that year took a small farm on shares of Amos Woods, & we lived in a house with him, his wife was my Sister, and in November, or December of that year, the said Amos Woods, was hired by a class of which he was one, to go, in lieu of a man for three years into the Continental Army, and at the end of one year the class agreed to find another man, & send to the Army, to take the place of said Woods, I well remember, that my Sister fitted out her Husband, with cloaths & other things, and in December my Husband set off with said Woods to go & see him as far as Barton, on his way, my husband came back from Barton, & car- ried on, said Woods place, during the season of 1782, and during that year said Woods occasionally wrote home from the Army to his said wife, and I heard the letters read, and on the next February 1783. said Woods returned home to his family from the Army. I well know the above facts as to time, I had a Child born that year who would if alive, be thirty seven years of age next April -
Hannah Spauldings mark \text{H}_s
I Betsey Woods wife of Amos Woods, do depose and say that I well know & confirm all the above facts related by my Sister, Hannah Spaulding, during the absence of my said Husband. I occasionally received from Capt Solomon Woods the head of the Class, assistance to maintain myself, & Children, particularly money with which he purchased a Cow for me, I am certain as to the time when my said Husband was absent and for my Son William Woods was born the next August after my Husband went away, & he was thirty six years old last August. —
Betsey Woods mark \text{H}

I Amos Wood in addition, to my declaration heretofore made As further testimony, and declare, that after I was mustered at Concord delivered over to Major Dillingham of the Army, which I gained I was placed in Capt. Fournier's Company, there were all belonged to Scituate in Massachusetts, and to that part of the State called Old Colony in the vicinity of Plymouth, I did not know but two Soldiers of my Company during the whole period I served, there were Bartholomew Mosley of Dracut, and Reuben Bootman of Shirley none of the next kind nearer to me than sixty miles, and I never saw any of them before or since — When I agreed to go for my discharge as before stated Capt. Solomon Wood, who was the head of the discharge, gave me his written Obligation to procure a man to take my place in one year, this obligation was not strictly complied with, but in 13 months & eight days, a man came to relieve me , who was sent to the Army by one Isaac Abbott, who was sent by my discharge, and I understood the man who came to relieve me was from Connecticut, I was not in good health, and said Abbott paid me five crowns, which was allowed to my discharge when we settled — I have made inquiry for some of my Officers & Brothers Soldiers but can not find any of them except Capt. Fournier — and all the discharge, are dead or removed from their former residence except one, who is so old as to be unable to give any information — Amos Wood
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
On the 27 th day of January in the year of our Lord One Thousand eight hundred and nineteen, the above named Nannah Spaulding, Betsey Wood and Amos Wood personally appeared before me the Subscriber Chief Justice of the middle Circuit Court of Common Pleas, and a justice of the Peace throughout said Commonwealth, and severally made Oath that the above Depositions by them respectively subscribed as aforesaid —

are just and true — And I do certify that all the Deponents are persons of good credit and honest fame. —
And that the said Anna's Words, is well known to me to be in poor and indigent circumstances, wholly desti- tute of property —
Sam l D. Dana

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Amos Woods
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Amos Woods
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Amos

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
MIDDLESEX, ss.
At the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Middle Circuit, begun and holden at Concord, within and for the County of Middlesex, on the second Monday of June A. D. 1820
Before the Hon. SAMUEL DANA, Esquire, Chief Justice, and WILLIAM WETMORE, and STEPHEN MINOT, Esquires, Associate Justices of said Court.
In open Court here, being a Court of Record for said Circuit, proceeding according to the course of the common law, with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, keeping a record of its proceedings, and having the power of fine and imprisonment, Amos Woods resident in Groton - in said Circuit, who is named in Pension Certificate No. S. 932 now in his possession, of which the following is a true copy, to wit,
“ WAR DEPARTMENT.....REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM. ”
“ I certify that, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 18th March, 1818, Amos Woods late a Private in the army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the Massachusetts Agency, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the first day of April one thousand eight hundred and eighteen ”
“ Given at the War Office of the United States, this twenty seventh day of March one thousand eight hundred and nineteen - ”
J. C. CALHOUN, Secretary of War,”
appears, and exhibits to the Court here a Schedule, subscribed by him, as follows, to wit,
SCHEDULE,
containing his whole estate and income, his necessary clothing and bedding excepted, to wit,
Real Estate - none.
Personal Estate viz.
  1 cow of the value of 15.00 1 age .50 - - - $ 15.50   1 rake .25 1 old chest .50 1 table .50 knives & forks .25 1.50   1 pot .75 1 kettle .33 1 spider .17 1 gun 4.00 - - - 5.25   $ 22.25 
Amos Woods
And the said Amos Woods having been first duly sworn according to law does on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary war about two years in the whole, the longest term in capt. Gora. Turner's company, 10th Regiment Massachusetts line commanded by col. Benjamin Tupper thirteen months and eight days - all which services are more parti-

cularly set forth in his declaration on file in the war office dated April 1, 1818 - that he is seventy two years of age a husbandman by occupation nearly past all, by reason of his age - that his family consists of his wife Betty aged 65 years very sickly and unable to labour and his daughter Roxana aged 16 years.
Amos Woods.
Sworn & declared to before me
S. Dana judge

and at the same time he produces to the Court here the following Oath, taken and subscribed by him, before the Hon. Samuel Dana — a Judge of said Court as aforesaid, to wit,
4 I, Amos Woods do solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner whatever, 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 eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, 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 hereto annexed and by me subscribed. So help me GOD. Amos Woods.
Middlesex ss. C. C. C. P. June Term, A. D. 1820
Then the abovenamed Amos Woods — took and subscribed the aforewritten Oath before me,
Samuel Dana, — Judge of said Court.
I, ABRAHAM BIGLOW, Clerk of the Court aforesaid, do hereby certify, that the foregoing Oath, and Schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record 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
Twenty two dollars & twenty five cents
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, at Cambridge, in said County of Middlesex, on this 20 th day of July, 1820
Attr.
Abraham Biglow

aw Record Division.
May 19, 1911.
Mr. H. E. Woods, Commissioner of Public Records, State House, Boston, Massachusetts.
Sir:
In response to your letter dated the 13 th and received the 15 th instant, you are advised that from the papers in the claim, Widow File No. 22,674, it appears that Amos Woods was hired by a class of men in Groton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, to enter the service, was mustered at Concord, Massachusetts, by Jonas Heywood, Esq. in November 1781, as a soldier for the town of Groton, proceeded to Boston where he was mustered by Major Pottengill for the army, and then went to West Point in January, 1782, where he was placed in Captain Jonathan Turner's company Colonel Benjamin Tupper's 10th Massachusetts regiment, was transferred the following January to the 5th Massachusetts regiment, name of his officer  captain not stated and was discharged in camp at New Windsor on January 28, 1783, by Lieut. Colonel Ezra Newhall.
He was allowed pension on an application executed April 1, 1818, while a resident of Groton, Massachusetts, at which date he alleged that he was sixty-eight years of age, but in 1820 he stated that he was seventy-two years, and his wife Betty sixty-five years old.
A transcript from the records of the town of Groton, Massachusetts,

Wid. File No. 22,674--2
shows that Amos Woods and Betsey Tarbell both of Groton, were married July 7, 1778. He died November 28, 1829. They had fourteen children, William born August 17, 1783, and Roxana aged sixteen years in 1820, are the only ones whose names are stated.
His widow Betsey was allowed pension on an application executed November 1, 1836, while a resident of Dunstable, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, at which date she alleged that she was seventy-eight years of age.
Very respectfully,
Commissioner.

Groton Amos Woods
Amos Woods M7.22674 Mass.

Camp New Windsor January, 20 th 1783
Amos Wood, soldier of the 5 th Massachusetts Regiment, having served the full term of his engagement, & being relieved by another able bodied man, is hereby discharged the service, with liberty to pass to Groton Mass. State. —
Given Under my hand,
Gra. Vose Col. Com.
Middlesex ss April the 23 rd 1787 the above named Amos Wood made oath before me that he never gave any order to draw the Wages due to him for the above mentioned service nor never had received any pay therefor Israel Hobart Justice of Peace

Amos Woods / April
Nelson Pills 27
Adm

To the Honorable JOHN C. CALHOUN, Secretary of the Department of War of the United States.
I, the undersigned Samuel Dana , Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Middle Circuit, (comprehending the Counties of Essex and Middlesex) in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, being a Court of Record, duly established by Law, Do hereby certify, That on the first day, of April in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen — Personally appeared Amos Woods and made and subscribed the declaration which is hereunto annexed. and at the same time, he exhibited to me, the discharge therein mentioned
from which it appears to me, that the said Amos Woods — did serve in the War of the REVOLUTION, against the common Enemy, upwards of — nine months. upon the continental establishment
Wherefore, in pursuance of the directions of an Act of Congress, made and passed the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, entitled, "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States, in the Revolutionary War," I have transmitted the said Declaration and the discharge aforesaid to you the said Secretary, that such further proceedings may be had in the premises, as the said Act may require.
In testimony of all which, I have caused the Seal of said Court to be hereunto affixed.
Given under my hand within the said Circuit, the first — day of April — in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen —
Sam d Dana

I Jonathan Turner, of Situate in the County of Plymouth late a Captain, in the Revolutionary War, Aged about Seventy five years, depose testify and say:
That it appears by a Book which I kept, while in the War, that in 1782, and untill some time in Jany 1783. Amos Woods, was a Soldier in my company, as a great part of my papers relating to the Army were destroyed, it does not appear, what time said Woods enlisted and joined my company, but in a return of Clothing delivered to the Soldiers, I find over the head of it. "For Amos Woods, alias Nuel Bastwick" account of Clothing delivered from Nov. 2 to May I also find by a Descriptive Roll of the company for 1783, that Nuel Bastwick, a cooper by trade, born in Salisbury, Litchfield County, enlisted at New Windsor Jany 27. th 1783, and from their being coupled together, in the Clothing return, it seems as if Bastwick came to take the birth of Woods - the time of Bastwicks enlistment being one day before Woods discharge, and further saith not.
Jonathan Turner
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Plymouth ss, Nov. 12 12. th 1840. Then personally appeared Jonathan Turner, and made solemn Oath to the truth of the above written declaration, by him subscribed.
Before me Chas. Turner J. D. S. J. Thro' the Commonwealth.

Cap t Jon a Turners dipon ts to support the ap plication of - Amos Woods

W Lowell, Mass. Nov. 24, 1897 Hon. H. Bley Evans Commissioner of Pensions: Washington, D.C. Sir:
Please read me the military record of Amos Wood of Tewksbury Mass. a pensioner of either the Revo- lutionary War or War of 1812, most probably the former.
Yours respectfully J. M. Chase Care Old Lowell Natl. Bank Lowell, Mass.

U. S. N. H. NO. 29 1897 P. RECEIVED.
O. W. & N. DEC 2 1897 RECORDS.

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts COMMISSIONER OF PUBLIC RECORDS STATE HOUSE
13 May 1911.
U.S. Bureau of Pensions, Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C.
I desire to get all the genealogical and biographical information from the papers connected with the Revolutionary pension (said to have been granted 29 Mar. 1819) of Amos Woods of Middlesex County, Massachu- setts, who was born at Groton about 1748.
With thanks for any assistance in the matter, I am
Very respectfully, H. C. Woods

22674
Recd
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 22674
Betsey Woods
Widow of
Amos Woods
Pris. Rev War
Act Inne 7th 32
Index: Vol. 4 , Page 357
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Dec. 15/97- To-Mr. F. W. Lowell, Mass
Chas
1911 May. 19. H E Woods list aw

I, Hannah Cochran, wife of Abner Cochran, aged forty years, do depose and say, that I have long been well acquainted with Betsey Woods, widow of the late Amos Woods of Dunstable, a pensioner of the United States; That I was present at the death of said Amos Woods, which happened November 28 th A.D. 1829. That said Betsey has remained, a widow ever since said Amos's death, and that she now resides in Dunstable in the County of Middlesex & Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Hannah Cochran
I, Roxana Wheeler, wife Benjamin Wheeler, aged 32 years, do depose & say, that I have been well acquainted with the late Amos Woods of Dunstable, a Pensioner of the United States; That I was present at his Death, which happened on the 28 th day of November A.D. 1829; That I have also been well acquainted with his wife Betsey Woods, now his widow, that she has remained a widow ever since his death, & now resides in Dunstable in the County of Middlesex & Commonwealth of Massachusetts -
Roxana Wheeler
Commonwealth of Massachusetts - County of Middlesex ss. On this first day of November A.D. 1836 personally appeared the above-

named Hannah Cochran, and Roxana Wheeler, and severally made oath before me, one of the Justices of the Peace within and for the County of Middlesex aforesaid, that the affidavits by them respectively subscribed, are true:— and I the said Justice do certify, that said Hannah & Roxana, are credible persons, and well situated to know the facts in them sworn to —
Caleb Butler, Justice of the Peace.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Middlesex ss. I do hereby certify that Caleb Butler Esq. is a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Middlesex and Commonwealth aforesaid hereby certify that Caleb Butler Esq. is a Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly commissioned & qualified and that his signature above written is his genuine signature.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the said Court of Probate this seventh day of November AD 1836. Isaac Pitkin Clerk of Probate

Betsey Woods
713. 3. Sec.
Betsey Woods
C. Billingsley
Dec 1842

477 Massachusetts
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Betsey Woods
Middlesex in the State of Mass a
who was a my in the commanded by Captain my of the commanded by in the
late widow of Amos Woods dec. late a pirate in the Revolu- tion
Inscribed on the Roll of Mass a
at the rate of 40. Dollars — Cents per annum, to commence on the 14th day of March, 1834.
Certificate of Pension issued the 11 th day of Febr y 1837 and Secy H. Gen. S. No. of Rep y
Arrears to the 14th of Sept 1836 $220.00
Service-ant. allowance ending 4. Mar 37 20.00
$240.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by M c Adams Clerk, Book A. Vol. 1. Page 72

Notification sent October 24th 1820 to Abraham Higginson, Cambridge, Mass
8333 1 Massachusetts Roll.
Amos Woods,
of Groton in the state of Massachusetts who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Crewell of the Massachusetts Line, for the term of two years upwards.
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 1. of April 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 27. of Mar. 1819, and sent to Saml. Dana, Esq. at Groton, Massachusetts.
  Arrears to 4th of March 1819 . . . .  89. 03    Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4. Sept. 1819  48. "    amt. 11 m s 4/31  $137. 03  
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
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