Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 29,556, Abner Wood, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER _____
Masa
Wood, Abner
L. 29,556
CONTENTS

15732
Massachusetts
Abner Wood
Esq. in the State of Massachusetts who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Gage of the 1st Regt. commanded by Col. Putnam in the Mass. line for 10 m.
Cut home
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 33 Dollars 33 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 25 day of May 1833 and sent to W. Woart Newburyport
Arrears to the 4th of March 1833 $66.66 Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Sept - 16.66
$83.32
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { No. June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by W. L. Williams Clerk Book E Vol. 2 Page 91

29 556 INVALID. Rev
File No. 29,536
Abner Wood
His Rev Mr
Act: June 1 st 32 nd
Index:—Vol. 9 , Page 169
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Stones Wood Map
Prints 10 Months
15111
M. Noart Newburyport Mass

BRIEF in the case of  Abner Wood  of Essex  in the State of  Mass  (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Open court,  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  3. How old is he? 70  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. As a Gen.     a Substitute In 17 th Regiment 1 Private Col Gage Col Gires   Spring " " 3 " Col Badger " "   1799 " " 3 " Col Mawburn "   1791 " " 3 " " Col Putnam ex Col Brooks  
 5. In what battles was he engaged? None  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Dorchester Mass  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Traditional two living witnesses  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.
George Taylor
Examining Clerk.

Stoner Wood
15111

Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832.
State of Massachusetts: County of Essex, ss.
On this eleventh day of September A.D. 1832, personally appeared in open court, before the Honorable Daniel Appleton White, Judge of the Court of Probate for the county of Essex aforesaid, now sitting, at Newburyport Abner Wood a resident of Newburyport in the County of Essex and State of Massachusetts, aged, seventy years, who being first 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 first enlisted at Boxford in the company commanded by Captain Gage in the regiment commanded by Jacob Gerrit as a substitute for his brother Ephraim Wood, and served in said company about one month in the year 1778 and was then discharged and no written discharge.
Enlisted at Boxford in the Spring of the year 1778, in the company commanded by Captain Badwell, in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Lyman, and served at Winter Hill three months and no written discharge.
Also enlisted at Boxford in the company commanded by Captain Malcom and in the year 1779 served in said company in the said year three months and was then discharged, had no written discharge, served at Boston and Castle William.
Also enlisted at said Boxford in the year 1781 in the company commanded by Captain Malcom under Colonel Putnam or Colonel Stark and served at West Point three months and no written discharge.
was born at Boxford the year 1761, has a family record of the age, lived in Boxford when he voluntarily enlisted - refers to Jonathan Gage & William Wood - Lyman for his character for morality and his belief of his revolutionary services -
since lives in Newburyport and has resided there for more than forty years last past, previous to this resided at Boxford - except a few years in Newburyport.
He hereby relinquishes any claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State.
Sworn to and subscribed this day a year last since the
Abner Wood
D. Appleton White
Judge of Probate

We James Morris D.D. a clergyman residing in Newburyport aforesaid, and Jeremiah Nelson Esquire, a Magistrate residing in Newburyport aforesaid, do hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Ebenezer Wood, who has subscribed and sworn, to the above declaration that we believe him to be seventy years of age, that he is reputed, and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution; and we concur in that opinion.
Subscribed and sworn to, before
William Worth Justice of the Peace
James Morris
Jeremiah Nelson
And the said Court hereby declares its 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 the Reverend James Morris D.D. who has signed the preceding certificate, is a clergyman resident in said Newburyport, and that Jeremiah Nelson Esquire who has also signed the same is a Magistrate resident at Newbury in said county, and is a credible person — and that their statement is entitled to credit. —
J. A. White Judge of Probate
I Nathaniel Lord Junr Registrar of the Court of Probate, for the County of Essex aforesaid, do hereby certify, that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of Ebenezer Wood for a pension. Also that William Worth is a Justice of the Peace for the said County of Essex, and that his signature to each of the affidavits annexed is genuine. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand (and seal of Office this Eleventh day of September A.D. 1832.
Nathaniel Lord Junr

I Asa Ward, of Dover, in the county of Rockingham, (and State of New Hampshire aged seventy four years, on oath do testify and declare, that I am well acquainted with Abner Wood, of Newburyport, in the county of Essex, (and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, merchant, and I do know that said Abner Wood was a private soldier in the Company commanded by Capt Malcom, in the year 1779. (and that he served therein as such at Boston in the said Common- wealth, Three months, at part of which time said Company was stationed at Castle William near First Independence.
A. A. Root
Newburyport August 1 st 1832.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Edes ss August 1 st 1832 Then personally came Asa Ward above named and made oath in due form of Law to the truth of the above written deposition by him subscribed in my presence. — I do also certify that the said Asa Ward is believed by me to be a credible witness.
H. W. Gann, Justice of the Peace

I Ancill Stickney , of Boxford , in the county of Essex , and Commonwealth of Massachusetts , aged seventy years and upwards, on oath do testify and declare, that I was a private soldier and served in the army of the United States in the war of the revolution in the year 1781. in the company commanded by Captain Malcom - and I do further testify that Abner Wood now Deceased and who was formerly of said Boxford , was a private in the same company, in the regiment commanded by Colonel Putnam , and served therein at West Point until the expiration of three months
Newburyport August 11 1832
Ancill Stickney
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Essex ss. August 11 th 1832, Then personally came Ancill Stickney above named, who is personally known to me, and made oath in due form of law, to the truth of the above written deposition by him subscribed in my presence - I do also certify, that the said Ancill Stickney is believed by me to be a credible witness.
W. W. Dorr , Justice of the Peace