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I KNOW NOTHING ABOUT JOHN HOOD LINE; AM MERELY SHARING THIS DOC. In the course of my research, I ordered & transcribed several Hood Rev War pensions, may as well share. I "believe" my descent is from Matthew Hood who was in Lancaster Dist., SC, no pension.
HOOD, JOHN Rev. War Pension S1534, served SC Line
Transcribed/Extracted by Mary Lu Johnson, Trafford, AL
John Hood Sen, enrolled on rolls of West Tennessee, lived Fentress Co., was private in company of Capt. Moore of the regt commanded by Col. Middleton in the NC Militia for one year from 1781, received $40 per month. Certificate of Pension issued 17 Oct 1833 and sent to J. B. Rogers, Henlopen Coal Mines, arrears to 4 Sep 1833.
Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June 1832
State of Tennessee } Fentress County } On the 23rd day of April 1833 personally appeared before the County Court and Court of Pleas and quarter Sessions mow sitting for the County of Fentress aforesaid, John Hood Sen. a resident of said County and State aforesaid aged about Seventy three (73) 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 7th 1832 - That he enlisted in the Army of the United States some time in the month of May 1781 for the term of Ten months (as he now remembers) under Captain Godfry Adams and was in a little time thereafter placed or transfered to one Captain Moore. Captain Moors Company was attached to Colonel Middletons Regiment, the particulars are not remembered but believes it was called the North Carolina line and that General Sumpter Commanded. His enlistment took place in Burk County North Carolina from which place he was marched to Ramsours Mill, from there he was marched to Columbia in South Carolina where the Broad and Saluda rivers unite to form the Congaree River within 110 or 115 miles of Charleston SC where he found the Army under Generl Sumpter. He was then marched from the Congaree to Camden on the ?Watera/Wateree River and Pine Tree Creek distant 30 or 40 miles from Columbia, from thence he was marched to W. Cords Ferry on the Congaree, where the Army was detained some days. From there he was marched down the country The army was marched about and about from place to place where it made various short delays (the precise time of the different delays he cannot undertake to state with any degree of certainty) consuming some thing like four months of this time, when he set out for the Eutaw Springs, where they had a battle with the enemy on the 9th day of September 1781 - He was in the battle on that day, and was wounded (by a musket Ball as was supposed) through the inner part of the left thigh. On the day of Battle he was still Commanded by Captain Moore, Colonel Campbell was killed on that day. He saw General Henderson on the day of the Battle, Commanding from the Eutaw Springs. He was taken to one Taylors place, then waste, and not far distant, here he remained untill he got measureably well of his wound. His wound was Doctored by one Cornelius Dizard - from that place he was marched as he now remembers to Orangeburg where he was detained a month or six weeks. He was not well of his wound when He heard of the surrender of Lord Cornwallis to General Washington. He has often seen General Washington, he has also seen Colonel Washington, and was reve_ _ _ d by him he cant say whether Colonel Washington was in the Eutaw Spring [2 or 3 words cut off in copying]. From Orangeburgh he was marched from one place to another until some time late in the month of April 1782 - at which time he received a written permit to be about one month or so unless sooner Called into Service, he did not go home after he received this permit untill the expiration of the month, now making more than one year that he was detained in service. The precise day of enterence into the Army or the day of his being told that he was discharged and that he was no longer needed, he cannot undertake to state precisely, after the expiration of the time of the permit, he was told by his Captain he could go home, and that at home he would thereafter receive a written discharge, which he states he never did receive. Or that he never thereafter saw his Captain, one thing he knows certainly that he was more than one year in actual Military service and by calculating the time of his permit he thinks he went something over one year. He has no documentary evidence whereby to show his servitude. He was in no one pers_ _ _ ____ in the military Service as above stated, He hereby relinquishes any claim whatever to a pension or an annuity except the present, and he declares his name is not on the Pension Roll of any agency in any state or Territory. He believes he was born in 1760, but has no record of his age, his age was set down in his Fathers Bible, which Bible is now or was at the time he last heard of ___ in the possession of his Brother Thomas now of the State of Illinoise. He will be able to prove by his Brother Andrew Hood that he left his home and departed for the Army and was gone for more than one year, with some other particulars. His Brother Andrew Hood is an infirm man so much so that he is unable to attend court but he has obtained his affidavit given before a justice of the peace.
[Sworn by John H. Richardson, Clk John (his X mark) Hood
We Peter Reagan a clergyman residing in said County of Fentress and a neighbour of said John Hood Sen and John ?Culon residence aforesaid, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with John Hood [ink smear] and subscribed the above as cl[ink smear] that we have also examined the [ink smear] the wound in his left thigh, that we believe him to be a Revolutionary Soldier and Seventy three years of age as he states. That he is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution, & that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn and Subscribed the day U year aforesaid. s/s/ John Cullen Peter (his X mark) Ragan
Jno H. Richardson, clk
State of Tennessee} Fentress County} This day Andrew Hood came before me, being a citizen of said County & State, and after being duly qualified and sworn by me, made the following statement as a witness for John Hood Sen. in his application for a pension towit. That he saw his brother John Hood set out leave home and start to the army of the Revolution ____ sometime in the year 1781 in the spring perhaps about the month of May of that year. That said John was absent on the tour over one year before his return. He has often examined the place his Brother was wounded in the left thigh. That said wound was inflicted after he departed from home and before his return. This Witness has often seen many of the soldiers that went with his Brother John to the Army and heard several of them say they saw John while he was down with his wound, He has heard Richard Scott, George Brown & Richard Brown often make this statement, That they started from Burk County N.C. to the Army that being the then residence of them all at that day. He further States that owing to his great infirmity, he would ride on horse back & that he is wholly unable to walk to Jamestown to give his evidence in open Court, it being a distance of something like Ten miles.
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 23rd day of April 1833. Andrew (his X mark) Hood
Jn B. Rogers ?Sen Justice of the peace.
Letter dated 19 Oct, 1923 from Robbie K. (Mrs. J. M.) Clark, then living 7 N. Kingston Ave., Rockwood [Roane Co.] TN to Commissioner of Pensions requested pension records of Samuel Evans age 84 in 1840 and John Hood age 78 in 1840. Also letter dated 17 February to Mrs. William J. Smith, Kingston, TN (Roane Co., TN) from Commissioner of Pensions, giving typed outline of John Hood's file; another letter from Mrs. Smith stated he lived in Roane Co., TN..
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