Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 30,805, Ichabod Wood, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Wood, Ichabod
S. 30,805
CONTENTS

10403
Massachusetts
Isaac Merrill
of Hampshire in the State of Mass who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Wood of the Regt commanded by Col. Jacobs in the Mass line for NY and
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of - $ - Dollars Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.
Certificate of Pension issued the 6th day of April 1833 and sent to J. H. Dickinson Amherst Mass
Arrears to the 4th of March 1833 $161.12 Semi-ant. allowance ending 7 Sept. " 38.88 $200.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by W. H. Merrill Clerk, Book 6 Vol. 2 Page 90
Date of death unknown

Disposition of Solomon Wood & Ocean Hawks.

I Solomon Wood of Suffield in the County of Hampshire & Commonwealth of Massachusetts, aged sixty years , testify & say, that I am the brother of Ichabod Wood, who applied for Pension as companion in this affidavit; that my father & his family living in Bridgewater in the County of Plymouth in said Commonwealth, I well remember my said brother Ichabod's enlist- ing into the service of the United States, as a continental Sol- dier, in order to go on to Rhode Island with the army station- there; that he did go there , & never out his term; whether this term was eight or nine months I do not remember - I well remember he was in the battle there - it was so said at the time, & he has always spoke of being in it - My father's house was not more than ten or twelve miles from that battle ground, & we heard the firing very distinctly.
I further testify, that towards the close of the revolutionary war, I believe in 1781, in that section of the country, men were di- vided into classes, & each class obliged to furnish a man for three years - & the men were so much worn out with the war, if one could not be obtained from the class for the whole term, some one enlisted for six months, & others were to supply his place in rotation after his six months were out - & yet he must stay until relieved by a new recruit from the class to which he belonged - my said brother, I well remember, enlisted from his class into the continen- tal service for three years, & yet was to be relieved by a substitute from his class - but his substitute was not sent until he had served more than nine months - I well remember that it was said at the time, & always since that he served at that time more than nine months, as his substitute did not arrive. This was, at that time, & in that part of the country, the only way the army could be supplied - they were really three years men, although, the class should it, each serving six months. And this, I have no doubt is the reason, why Col. Putnam

in his discharge calls his service six months - although he actually served more than nine , his substitute not arriving.
I further testify, that when the law of Conscription first passed, granting Perseverance, my said brother Ishakab Wood, finding that his name was not regularly returned with others of his Company, attempted to get a discharge of his service & procured the deposition of Lewis Finney, his unit comrade; but, from extreme poverty, & discouraged by ill success ill success, was compelled to give up his application, & submit to discharge of ever obtaining his right.
I also testify that I have always understood from him & his wife, that his discharge was lost - & this was one discouragement in urging his application; & that I understood lately when the said discharge was found, & being within ten days past, - since which he has been advised & encouraged to renew his application -
I further testify that the said Ishakab is very infirm, having had, during the summer past, two fits of the nervous palsy - & that he is extremely poor, & altogether dependent on charity - & that he has no child, excepting one daughter, who is married to a man very poor.
Solomon Wood
I Oscar Hawks of Duluth in the County of Koochiching, of lawful age, testify & say; that I have been acquainted with Ishakab Wood of said Duluth since applying for a pension; for nearly twenty years, & that he is in very poor health, & extremely poor & needy. Oscar Hawks

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Hampshire ss. August 21. 1830. Personally appeared before me, the subscriber, one of the justices of the Peace, within & for said County, Capt. Solomon Wood & Osean Hanks, respectively by them subscribed to the deposition above written; & well known to me, as respectable citizens, & credible witnesses; & made solemn oath, each one, to the deposition aforesaid by him subscribed, that the same & the matter therein contained are true.
Samuel F. Dickinson Justice of the Peace
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
HAMPSHIRE ss.
I, SOLOMON STODDARD, Clerk of the Judicial Courts of the Commonwealth for the County of Hampshire, do certify that Samuel F. Dickinson Esquire, whose signature is affixed to the certificate on the paper hereto annexed, was, at the date thereof, one of the Justices of the Peace, within and for said County, duly commissioned, and acting under the authority of this Commonwealth—and that full faith and credit is, and ought to be given, to his acts and attestations done in that capacity—and that the signature to said certificate is known by me to be the hand writing of the said Dickinson
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the Court of Common Pleas for said Commonwealth, this twenty eighth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty
S Stoddard Clerk

No. 4.378. Ichabod Wood
of 2 years
4 & 5 Interrogatories not completed with
Nov 14 1832
S. F. Dickinson Asst. Map.

BRIEF in the case of Ichabod Wood of the County of Hampshire in the State of Mass.  (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Court,  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  3. How old is he? 71 years  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.     In 1775 — 3 — As a Private Gen. Capt. Pierce   " 78 — 9 — ditto Col. Jacobs, Capt. Wood   — 3 — ditto Same   — 3 — ditto Col. Groot, Capt. Wood   " 81 May — 9 — ditto Col. Putnam, Capt. Bowman   " 80 — 6 — Marine Capt. Dennis - Sloop Revenge  
 5. In what battles was he engaged? R. Island  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Middleborough  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Depositions & Documents.  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.
Levin Belt Examining Clerk.

Schabro Wood
Militer & animal
N o 4378

DECLARATION, IN ORDER TO OBTAIN THE BENEFIT OF THE ACT OF CONGRESS OF THE 7TH OF JUNE, 1832 STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS, } ss. COUNTY OF HAMPSHIRE. }
ON this fifteen  fifty  the day of August 1832 personally appeared in open court, before Samuel Hinkley Judge the court of Probate now sitting, Ichabod Wood a resident of Enfield in the County of Hampshire, and State of Massachusetts, aged Seventy one 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 provision made by 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.
1. In the summer of 1775. I enlisted for three months as a volunteer of in the Company of Capt. Pierce of Mass. Militia at Middlesex, my in Massachusetts, County of Plymouth, being then in my 15 th year of age from Middlesex to Newbury - went into barracks there for about eight 8 weeks - there advanced to Dorchester Heights - employed there the  whole nearly the whole time of this enlistment in erecting fortifications, & the each Regt. being engaged in erecting a fort - My Regt. worked on fort No. 1. Soon after the forts were completed, the men were dismissed & returned home.
p. iii with Ward ward the
encamp, on a retreat of seven miles.
2. After the expiration of the above mentioned nine months, I again enlisted into the same service for a further term of three months, and served during the whole term, at Newtown, then called "Oldikes", in the State of Rhode Island.
3. At the expiration of the last mentioned three months, I again enlisted into the same service, for a still further term of three months, in Capt. Stark  Stark  Ward's  Ward's Company, in Col. Stark's  Stark's Regt. and served during the whole of this term, at a near Howard's Ferry, in the State of Rhode Island.
4. Soon after the end of the last mentioned three months, I removed to Bridgewater in said County of Plymouth, & the class of Militia to which I belonged, was required by the Government to furnish for the Continental Service a man for the term of three years. I enlisted for six months, expecting that at the end of six months, some other person in the class to which I belonged, would come & take my place, as my substitute - but no one came to take my place, until I had served more than nine months; as I could not be discharged until a substitute should be furnished. And when discharged, as I was by a regular written discharge from Col. Stark's  Stark's Putnam, a copy of which is hereto annexed, I was only said, in said discharge, to have served six months, as I only enlisted for six months; when in fact I served nine months, under the circumstances above mentioned.
This last term, I served in Capt. Bowman's Company, & Col. Stark's  Stark's Putnam's Regt., and was stationed during the summer, at White Plains in the State of New York, and was discharged at West Point, January 18, 1782.

DECLARATION,
IN ORDER TO OBTAIN THE BENEFIT OF THE ACT OF CONGRESS OF THE 7TH OF JUNE, 1832
STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS, } ss. COUNTY OF HAMPSHIRE. }
ON this fifteenth day of August 1832 personally appeared in open court, before Samuel Hinkley Judge the court of Probate now sitting, Chabod Wood a resident of Enfield in the County of Hampshire, and State of Massachusetts, aged seventy one 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 provision made by 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.
2. In the Spring of the year, 1778, he thinks , in the month of March or April, at Middleborough, in the County of Plymouth in the State of Massachusetts, I enlisted into the Army of the United States, under Capt. Samuel Wood of P. Middleborough our Company was Mustered at Abington in P. County of Plymouth - then Marched to Providence in the State of Rhode Island, and joined the Reg t . under Col. Jacobs, in the Army under Genl. Sullivan - I enlisted, as above, for the term of nine months - and having served out the whole term, when I was regularly discharged, although I had no written discharge. While on Rhode Island I was in a battle with the British - was one of the Vanguard of the retreating Army, and fought, exposed to the fire of the enemy, on a retreat of Seven Miles.
3. After the expiration of the above mentioned nine months, I again enlisted into the same Service for a further term of three months, and served during the whole term, at Newtown, then called "Oldikes", in the State of Rhode Island.
4. At the expiration of the last mentioned three months, I again enlisted into the same Service, for a still further term of three months, in Capt. Watkins Company, in Col. Spencer's Reg t . and served during the whole of this term, at or near Housatonic the State of Rhode Island.
5. Soon after the end of the last mentioned three months, I removed to Bridgewater in said County of Plymouth, and the class of Militia to which I belonged, was required by the Government to furnish for the Continental Service a man for the term of three years. I enlisted for six months , expecting that at the end of six months, some other person in the class to which I belonged, would come & take my place, and my substitute - but no one came to take my place, until I had served more than nine months; and I could not be discharged until a substitute should be furnished. And when discharged, as I was by a regular, written discharge from Col. Reuben Putnam , a copy of which is hereto annexed, I was only said, in said discharge, to have served six months , as I only enlisted for six months ; when in fact I served nine months , under the circumstances above mentioned.
This last term, I served in Capt. Bowman's Company, & Col. Reuben Putnam's Reg t ., and was stationed during the summer, at White Plains in the State of New York, and was discharged at West Point, January 18. 1782.

said, in said discharge, to have served six months , as I only enlisted for six months ; when in fact I served nine months , under the circumstances above mentioned.
This last term, I served in Col. Bowman's Company, & Col. Rufus Putnam's Regt., and was stationed during the summer, at White Plains in the State of New York, and was discharged at West Point, January 18. 1782.
In April 1780. at Middletown . He enlisted for the term of six weeks as a volunteer on board the privateer sloop Revenge , Captain Dennis Nesport  Hunter . Dexter was sailing-master, the other officers he does not recollect. The vessel was manned by 76 men, including officers, & carried 14 guns, besides some swivels on deck. They sailed from Newport on the 18th day of April (he thinks) & after being 3 or 4 days out, captured a British brig, having a cargo of spermaceti candles. Sent her into Newport. were taken themselves after being about 4 weeks out (he believes the 19th day of May) by the British frigate Delight carrying 36 guns, & sent into New York, confined on board a prison-ship, & detained for about 6 months , when he was exchanged.
In proof of these last services he is not able to offer any testimony, whatever documentary or otherwise, & knows of no person who can testify to them. Having changed his residence since that period, he is at a distance from all those now living who were his associates in the army at that time , & does not know of one now living whom he might call upon. Besides his bodily powers are much impaired & his memory extremely feeble in consequence of his advanced age, being now in his 72d year, as he believes - than at the time

I was born at Easton in the County of Plymouth in the Commonwealth - January 1761. I do not know what day of the month, and no record was made of my birth - lived there till 3. y rs old - then moved to Middleboro, lived there till 26. y rs old - then to Bridgewater, when I lived about 2. y rs - then to Middleboro - lived there several years - then moved to Pelham, lived there 7. or 8. years, then back to Middleboro - Staid 4. y rs - then to Chelsea - staid there 4. y rs - thence Belchertown, oftentimes set off to Enfield, when I staid there 24. y rs - then moved to Pelham, where I have ever since lived -
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any agency in any State, or (if any,) only on that of the agency in the State of
Sworn to, and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid.
Before me Samuel Hinckley Judge of Probate of Plymouth County
We, Joshua Crosby a clergyman residing in the town of Enfield and William Stone residing in Enfield hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Ichabod Wood who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be Seventy one years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn, and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid.
Samuel Hinckley Judge of Probate Joshua Crosby William Stone
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the abovenamed applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that Joshua Crosby who has signed the preceding certificate, is a clergyman resident in Enfield and that William Stone who has also signed the same, is a resident in Enfield and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
Samuel Hinckley
I, Sam l F. Lyman Register of the Court of Probate do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Ichabod Wood for a pension.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this fifteenth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two -
Sam l F. Lyman Register
Seven.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Hampshire ss. Decr. 14. 1832 Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a justice of the Peace within & for the County of Hampshire aforesaid, Ichabod Wood, who is personally & well known to me as the same individual who has subscribed the within declaration, who being duly sworn, deposeth & saith: that, by reason of old age, and consequent loss of memory, he can not swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection, he served not less than the periods mentioned below, as a private soldier, and he refers to the several periods mentioned in his declaration, with the following explanations & additions, which reflection on the
subject, has brought to his recollection: that is to say;
1 As to the first term of three months - that he enlisted early in the spring, instead of the summer of 1778 - that he went winter to Capt. Paine, being then in his fiftieth year - that near the close of his three months' enlistment, it was made known to the troops, that men were wanted to go to Canada, with Gen. Arnold - he enlisted, at the request of his Capt., but orders came that his company was not wanted for that expedition, & he did not go to Canada. He can not state the month of enlistment - but now remembers distinctly that it was in the spring, & he knows he stayed out his term of three months - 2. As to the second period, viz., of nine months - He knows he enlisted in the spring of 1778, believe, on or near the first of April - in Capt. Samuel Wood's company, but afterwards, by Gen. Sullivan, his company was put under Capt. Fuller - he joined the company, at Hatties Ferry over Saunter River, near Hog Island; then marched to Norland's Ferry, there crossed with the army under Gen. Sullivan, on to Rhode Island. The first night after crossing the Ferry, the army encamped in tents between Battle & Lucken hills - that there was then a great storm, which destroyed all the provisions of the army - the army then marched near Neshannet, & on the fifteenth of August, as he thinks, commenced operations against Neshannet, there in the possession of the British - he says they went on to Rhode Island on the ninth of August, being the coldest - that the battle alluded to in this enlistment was when Gen. Sullivan retired from Rhode Island, on the 29. or 30 th of the same - August. After crossing back, over Norland's Ferry, the army went to Peter's Campden, where they remained till about the first of November, then moved up between Norland's & Hatties Ferries, where the army was quartered in private houses, & then remained till 1. Jany 1779, when they were discharged - the Regiment to which he belonged was discharged, & he returned home - having been out nine months. He thinks his enlistment began on the first of April, 1778. 3. As to the third term of service, viz., 3 months - He can not state the year - but knows it was after his three months service at Neshannet & Rhode Island above - & before the nine months mentioned also above - for when on Rhode Island he remembers looking over to Newtown, or Old Point, where he had spent three months before that time - He says he enlisted in Capt. Nott's Wood's company, 8 th Col. Spence's Regiment - This Col. Spence was the father of Col. Spence who was Col. in the Continental Service - the Christian name of Father & son was Ebenezer. He thinks he was mistaken in saying that this term was after the nine months, it was before. 4 th As to the fourth term of service within mentioned, he thinks this a mistake of the writer of his declaration - 5 th As to the fifth period, viz., 9 months - he can add nothing to what he has declared -

6 th As to his time on the water, he says, that he is confident he embarked on the 10 th April, & entered New York as a prisoner on the 19 th May, being the well known dark day in New England, so called. That he remained in a Prison Ship, lying in an Eddy between the North River & the land, until September following - that there were on board said Prison Ship, the average number of 1400 - & that many were sick in it. & the average number of deaths, ten , daily ; that he took the small pox, before leaving this ship, was taken sick on his return to his home, which was by water - & put into the hospital near Newport, where he lay sick, not less than three weeks, & making in this condition, not less than six months.
Further states, that his brother Solomon lived at his father's, during all the period above mentioned, and was frequently or otherwise knowing to all his said brother's - excepting those three months, given at Newtown - being the third term of his time above mentioned, which he does not remember.
Ichabod Wood
Subscribed & sworn to the day & year above mentioned,
Before me Samuel Dickinson justice of the Peace.
I Solomon Wood of England in the County of Hampshire aforesaid, aged thirty two years, do further depose & say, that I am the same
Solomon Wood, whose deposition is filed in this case, and the brother of said Ichabod Wood; that during the Revolutionary war, I resided in my father's family, & his family lived either in Middlebrook or Bridgewater, in the County of Plymouth in the Commonwealth; and my said brother Ichabod then made one member of my father's family; that I distinctly remember the several terms of his time above mentioned (excepting the three months, at Newtown, being the third term mentioned above, about which I can recollect nothing). I know he embarked, as it was said, at the time, for the friends, as stated above; & when on Rhode Island, I well remember the sighs, & tears, & agonies, in my father's family, knowing distinctly the time, & knowing that my said brother was in the battle field, being within ten or twelve miles of the battlefield. I also well remember all the circumstances, which he has related above, relating to the blackwater, his embarkation, his being taken a prisoner, being carried & detained in New York, in a prison ship, the small pox, as they were told of at the time - but I do not remember the length of time - but well remember he was gone all the summer season. And from my personal knowledge at the time, & the above facts, & circumstances attending, I believe them all true.
I further testify, that my former deposition was taken, at the date will show, to support a Petition of my brother to Congress for a Pension - & that I did not testify as above at that time, because it was said to be unnecessary, in as much as the fact then to be proved was the entire time of nine months, & no other was thought necessary.

all the summer before. And from my personal knowledge at the time, & the above facts, & circumstances attending, I believe them all true. I further testify, that my former deposition was taken, at the date will show, to support a Petition of my brother to Congress for a Pensions & that I did not testify the above at that time, because it was said to be unnecessary, in as much as the fact then to be proved was the contested  heirship of six months , & no other was thought necessary.
Solomon Wood
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Hampshire ss. Decr 14. 1832 Personally appeared Solomon Wood, subsci- ber the above affidavit, well known to me as a credible witness, & made oath to the truth of the same -
Before me Samuel F. Dickinson justice of the Peace
I further certify, that the former deposition of the said Solomon Wood was taken by me, but to support the petition to Congress of said John Wood, wherein it was deemed necessary only to prove a six months  contested  heirship ; and that, through inadvertence, my deposition was not entered in support of the present application, till now. They are both persons of undoubted integrity. Decr 14. 1832. Samuel F. Dickinson 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 Samuel F. Dickinson Esquire, before whom the annexed depositions were taken, was, at the date thereof, 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 eighteenth day of December
A. D. 1832
Sam F. Lyman Register of Probate.

July 19, 1932
BA--J/AWF XXXXXXXXXXXXX Ichabod Wood S.30805
Mr. Lyman Wood 1433-35 Junction Avenue Racine, Wisconsin
Dear Sir:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request information in regard to Ichabod Wood, a Revolutionary War pensioner.
The data furnished herein were obtained from the papers on file in pension claim, S.30805, based upon the military service of Ichabod Wood, during the Revolutionary War.
Ichabod Wood was born in January, 1761 at Easton, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, and moved from there when about three years of age, to Middleborough, Massachusetts.
He enlisted, while residing in said Middleborough, in the spring of 1775 and served three months as private in Captain Pierce's Massachusetts company, and worked on the fortifications at Dorchester Heights. He served three months, dates and officers not given; after which he served another three months in Captain Nat Wood's company in Colonel Ebenezer Sprout's Massachusetts regiment, dates of service not given. He enlisted April, 1778 and served nine months in Captains Lemuel Wood's and Fuller's companies, Colonel Jacob's Massachusetts regiment, and was in the battle of Rhode Island.
He enlisted in April, 1780 and sailed from Newport, April 18, 1780 on board the sloop "Revenge" commanded by Dennis Dexter, Sailing Master, they captured a British brig, and were captured, May 19, by the British frigate

"Delight" carried to New York and held on prison ship six months, when exchanged.
While residing in Bridgewater, Massachusetts, he enlisted in the spring of 1781 and served in Captain Phinehas Bowman's company in Colonel Rufus Putnam's Massachusetts regiment, from which he was discharged January 18, 1782.
Ichabod Wood was allowed pension on his application executed August 15, 1832, then a resident of Enfield, Hampshire County, Massachusetts.
In 1830 his wife and a married daughter were referred to, their names not shown.
The soldier's father and family resided in Middleborough and Bridgewater, Massachusetts during the Revolution, and at the time of the battle of Rhode Island his father's house was ten or twelve miles distant. His father's name is not given. relationship shown
The soldier's brother, Solomon, was sixty-two years old in 1832 and living in Enfield, Massachusetts.
One Wilkes Wood was a Justice of the Peace for Plymouth County, Massachusetts in 1830. no relationship shown
There
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER Assistant to Administrator

quest of _____, received the military history of Schabed Wood the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pen- sion on file in this Bureau. S. File 30,805
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     Summer 1775 2 mos. Hirzel Mass.   Apl. 1, 1778 9 mos. { Lemuel Wood (captured) } Gardner Jacob   Before April 3 mos. } Nat. Wood Cheney Sprout   After " 3 mos. } Dennis Sloop "Revenge"   Apl. 18 1780 1 yr.   Failed from New York They took a British brig loaded with spermaceti candles, but she was captured May 19, by British frigate "Delight" & confined on prison ship in N.Y. harbor. exc   Spring 1781 to Jan. 18, 1782 9 mos. Shinches Bowman Rufus Putnam  
Battles engaged in, Bunker Hill 39 yrs old served there Residence of soldier at enlistment, Middleborough Mass. 1781  Bridge- Date of application for pension, Aug. 15, 1832. Residence at date of application, Enfield, Mass.  Heenfield Age at date of application, born Jan - 1761, Easton, Plymouth Co., Mass.
Remarks: This claim was allowed.  one man claim - no name Lived in Braintree Mass. - Middleboro - Pelham - Chelsea - Belchertown - Enfield B20 John Solomons - 62 yrs - 1832 res Enfield Very respectfully,
Father's family res. Bridgewater Mass house 10 or 12 miles from B.R. I.
1565b3m10-08 1751 26 1787

3:12 1:6:0
Wood, Ichabod Mass. 530805

To the Hon ble John Avery Esq r Secy of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts; or whomever it may concern in this way Certify that Ichabod Wood who hath presented to us a Discharge Signed by Rufus Putnam Col o 5 th Mass is now an Inhabitant of Middleborough and we have reason to suppose that said Discharge is a genuine Discharge signed by said Col o Putnam and that we recommend that he by himself or order might be paid the wages and perquisites that are found due to him for services in the Late Continental Army Given under our hands this 17 th day of August 1789
Thomas Nelson Isaac Dyer Rufus Putnam Middleborough Homer Dyer Richard Dyer

Col: Zachariah Wright of Wolford
48/90 1st Aug 1788 —

West Point January 10 th 1782 I hereby certify that having served six months as a good and faithful Soldier and now relieved by John Doty hence is here by Discharged the Service and permitted to pass to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Horatio Gates Col l Gen l

(Copy)
West Point January 15 th 1792.
Schabed Wood having served six months as a good and faithful soldier, and now relieved by John Doty junr. is hereby discharged the service, and permitted to pass the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
(Signed) Rufus Putnam, Col 5 M.R.
I hereby certify that the above is truly copied from the original on file in this office
War Department Pension Office
December 27, 1830
J. L. Edwards

Deposition of Lewis Finney -

I Lewis Finney of Middleborough in the County of Plymouth & Commonwealth of Massachusetts of lawful age to give evidence do testify & say that in the month of April or the first part of May in the year seventeen hundred & eighty nine Ichabod Wood then of Bridgewater but now of Enfield in the Commonwealth of Mass. in the County of Plymouth, marched with me as a continental Soldier to White-Plains in the State of New-York - we were attached to Capt. Phinehas Barren's Battery Col. Rufus Putnam, Reg. t & Genl. Patterson, Brig. de United States Service. we were enlisted as three year men but the said Wood was discharged at West-point in the Winter following and according to the best of my recollection past the middle of January said Wood regularly & openly left the army and I have no doubt had a regular discharge, altho I did not see it. And further say not. - June 6 th 1820. Lewis Finney
Plymouth ss. June 6 th 1820. Personally appeared the above named Lewis Finney & after being astrand carefully examined & cautioned by me made oath to the above deposition by him subscribed. taken at the request of Ichabod Wood & to be used by him in establishing his claim to a pension from the United States.
Before me Wilkes Woods Justice of the Peace
I further certify that the (above named) Deponent is a man of truth & veracity & that I have known & been well acquainted with him for more than thirty years last past
Wilkes Woods Justice of the Peace for the County of Plymouth

Deposition of Lewis Ferry.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
I, John B Thomas, clerk of the Judicial courts for the County of Plymouth hereby certify that the Hon. Wilkes Wood is a Justice of the Peace for the County of Plymouth duly qualified to administer oaths & take depositions and that the signature to the foregoing attestation is the true signature of the s d Justice.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Courts this Thirteenth day of March A.D. 1821.
John B Thomas

Schabod Wood Revo. Mass.
Rejected. See letter 2. Sept. 1830 to S. F. Dick- inson.

20.630
Ichabod Wood Massachusetts Act 18 March 1818
Claim Rejected. Vide letter 2 d Sept r 1830 to S. F. Dickinson. also 27 Dec r  1830 to Hon. George Grennell jun

Schabod Wood

Racine, Wis., June 20, 1932.
Pension Bureau, Rev. War Section, Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir:
Please send war and family record of the following Rev. War soldiers:
✓ Ichabod Wood or Woods, Hampshire Co., Mass. (Mass. Con.) Pension List 4-16-1833 age 73.
✓ Asahel Wood, private Mass. line Pension Roll, 11-5-1818. Worcester Co., Mass. Mass. Rev. War rolls gives the following concerning him: Residence Conway when enlisted. Complexion "black" . Be sure and watch out for information if this soldier was a negro as it is desired he be placed.
Mass. Vital Records says that he died, Dec. 16, 1822 in Hardwick, Mass.
Yours truly,
LYMAN WOOD.
Address, 1433-35 Junction Ave.

30 805 Recy INVALID.
1912 May 13. Hist. to Verne S. Pease & Co. 1932 July 19 - list to Lyman Wood 6-3
File No. 30,805-
Schabod Wood
Rev Rev War
Act: June 7 th 82 nd
Index: -Vol. 2 , Page 468
[Arrangement of 1870.]

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May 7, 1912.
Dear Sirs:—
In the matter of pension to Ichabod Wood, Rev. War veteran:
L.A. 30.805
Ichabod Wood served in Capt. Amos Washburn's Co., Col. Ebenezer Sproutt's regt., enlisted May 6, 1778, discharged May 7, 1778, two days. Alarm at Dartmouth. Rolls sworn to at Middleboro, Mass.
Also, served in Abiel Peirce's Co., Col. Nicholas Dike's regt.
Also mentioned as of Col. Jacob's regt., also in Capt. Lemuel Wood's Co., and as private in Capt. Jacob Fuller's Co., Col. John Jacob's regt. He lived in Pelham, after the war and drew pension.
As to Ezra Wood: He was a private in Col. Warner's regt., Continental army, and is supposed to have served through.
Mr. 26.099
As to Seth Wood: Pelham, private in Lieut. Col's. Co., 6th Mass. regt., also in Lieut. Col. Whiting's Co., 6th Mass. regt. (Probably a repetition) Also, in pay-roll of 6 mos. men for service in Conti. Army during the year 1780, for town of Pelham, Mass. Marched to camp July 10, 1780; discharged, Jan'y 10, 1781.
This is as explicit as the Mass. records give the items.
I shall be under obligations for information regarding the above.
Yours truly, Verne S. Pease, Room 11, 189 High Street, Holyoke, Mass.