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http://southerncampaign.org/pen/s38039.pdf
Pension Application of Thomas Hood S38039
Transcribed and annotated by C. Leon Harris
District of North Carolina To Wit
On this 14 day of May A.D. 1818 – before me the Subscriber, Chairman of the Court of record for
the County of Person in the said district, personally appears Thomas Hood, Sergeant Major aged
65 years Resident in the said County of Person & the aforsaid district, who being by me first
duly sworn, according to law, doth, on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to
obtain the provision of the late 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” That he
the said Thomas Hood enlisted the 21 day of February 1776 in the State of Virginia in the
County of Gloster [sic: Gloucester] in the company commanded by Captain James Ennis [James
Innis] which was a company of Artillery; which company was afterward [26 Nov 1776] detached
to the first Regiment of Artillery in the Virginia line, on the continental establishment, and
commanded by Col. Charles Harrison; that he continued to serve in said Corps, or in the Service
of the United States, until 20 of July th 1783, when he was discharged at Charleston S. Carolina by
Capt Lewis Booker; That he was in Batles of Guinns Island [sic: Gwynn Island VA, 8-10 Jul 1776],
Monmouth [28 Jun 1778], Stony Point [15 Jul 1779], Gates defeat [defeat of Gen. Horatio Gates
at the Battle of Camden SC, 16 Aug 1780] & the Siege of York [Yorktown VA, 28 Sep - 19 Oct
1781]. That he is in reduced circumstances, & stands in need of the assistance of His country for
support Tho’s Hood
I James Pendleton late Capt. In the first Regiment of Continental Artillery in the American
Revolution, do Certify that Tho Hood late Sergent Major of said Regiment not only served to the
close of the war, but to the best of my recollection was one of the men who enlisted for the war.
Given under my hand &c this 12th day July 1813. Pendleton
I Lewis Booker late Capt. in Harrison’s Regiment of artillery, do Certify that I have a clear
recollection of Thomas Hoods having Inlisted in the above Reg’t. and that he served therein
during the war, I also have no doubt but he inlisted for the war as the whole Regiment I believe
was. Given under my hand and seal this 23d July 1813. Booker
State of No. Carolina } On the 12th day of Septem’r 1820.
Person County } Personally appeared in open Court Thomas Hood aged sixty eight years,
who first being duly sworn in open Court according to law, doth on his oath make the following
declaration, in order to obtain the provission made by the act of Congress of the 18th March
1818 and the 1st May 1820. That he the said Thomas Hood enlisted on the 21st of Febry 1776, for
the Term of Two years, in the artillery Company, commanded by Colo. Charles Harrison, in the
line of Virginia Continental establishment & that he continued to serve during the war. That he
was in the battle at Guins Island in Gloster [now Mathews] County, and the battle of monmouth,
of Gates defeat near Camden, and at the taking of Lord Colo Wallace [sic] at York & recei’d
Twenty three wounds and in pursuit of the act of the 1st May 1820 I do solemnly swear that I
was a resident citizen of the County of Person & State of No. Carolina the 18th March 1818, and
that I have not since that time, by gift sale or in any other way disposed of my property or any
part thereof, with intent thereby to diminish it so as to bring my self within the provission of the
act to provide for certain persons ingaged in the land and navel services of the united States in
the revolutionary war, passed on the 18th March 1818, that I have not nor has any person for me
any property, contracts or debts due to me, nor have I any income, Other than what is contained
in this Schedule hereto annexed & by me subscribed–
459½ acres land very poor 25¢ pr acre $114.70
1 Old mare 30.—
1 negro woman 70 years of age 20.—
3 Cows & calves 25.
6 head of Hogs 12.—
11 head of Sheep 11.—
2 Beds & furniture 30.—
3 old Tables 1.50
½ doz Chairs 3.—
1 Spining wheel & cards 1.—
1 lomb (old) [loom?] 1.—
2 axes 1.25
4 old hoes —.40
2 old ploughs —.90
1 Set knives & forks 1.—
plaits & dishes 2.—
small quantity of wheat 3.50
small stack of Oats 2.—
old set silver Tea Spoons 3.—
Several old pots & kitchen Furniture 7.70
$270.95
I am a planter by occupation, my Family consists of my self and wife who is 54 years of age, old
negro woman 70 years of age. I am very much aflicted, my wife unable to labour. I reside in the
County of Person & State of NoCarolina. I have rec’d three pensions my Cer[ti]ficate bares date
the 14 May 1818. Subscribed and Sworn to in Open th Court this 12th Septemb’r 182[0]
sign’d Thomas Hood
At a Court of Hustings held for the City of Richmond at the City Hall on Wednesday the
eleventh day of February in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty four.
Thomas Hood, a resident of this city, this day appeared in open court, and being first duly
sworn, made the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made for private soldiers
who served in the war of the revolution for the term of nine months on the continental
establishment by an act of the Congress of the United States passed on the eighteenth day of
March 1818.
That he the said Thomas Hood enlisted for the term of two years on the twenty first day
of February in the year 1776 in the state of Virginia in the company commanded by Captain
James Innis in the regiment commanded by Colonel Harrison in the line of the state of Virginia;
that he continued in the same company under Captain Doutry Arumdelys[?], a french officer
who was killed at Guinns Island in an attack on Dunmore; that he remained in the same
company under Captain [sic] Charles Harrison when the companies were increased and formed
into regiments of ten companies, and taken on continental establishment, and he was allotted to
the company commanded by Captain James Pendleton in which he remained and continued to
serve until June or July 1783 when he was discharged from said service on Smiths Island [sic:
James Island] in the state of South Carolina; and that his name has been placed on the pension
list, and dropt therefrom on account of his property.
And in pursuance of the act of Congress in addition to the before recited act, passed on
the first day of May 1820, the said Thomas Hood did exhibit to the court a schedule of his whole
estate and income (his necessary clothing and bedding excepted) and produced to the court, and
take an oath, which schedule and oath are in these words… [the oath similar to the one in the
1820 declaration] …nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto
annexed and by me subscribed, viz debts to the amount of $179-72, a horse worth $20 – 2
chairs worth 50 cents, an old negro woman about 75 years of age and 150 acres of land for
which he has offered to take 1 shilling per acre, and could not obtain it. The said Thomas Hood
further maketh oath, that his occupation has heretofore been that of a Farmer, but that from his
great age and infirmity, he is no longer able to prosecute it; that his family consists of his wife
aged about 56 years and an old negro woman slave about 75 years of age; that his wife from her
age and infirmities can render but little, if any, aid in procuring for him & herself a subsistence;
that since the rendering of my first schedule the following changes have been made in my
property.
Property in first schedule Names of
persons to
whom sold
Time of sale Amount of money or
description of property
received in return
3 Cows, one died, one went
off, and one was sold to
11 sheep; 7 were killed &
eat, and four disposed of
as the above cow
1 Mare
309½ acres of land
Tea kettle & some plates &
saucers, all of which are
broken
Lewis Ramsay
To Haywood
Jones
William Browne
100 acres, John
Garret 209½
in January 1824
same time
December 1823
Paid for by transporting
him to Richmond
$8 & a counterpane not yet
paid
$136 in cash & applied to
his debts & $179 due him
next December
Richm’d May 16th 1824
I knew Serjeant Major Hood from the beginning of 1781 untill he was discharged I think
by myself on James Island South Carolina in 1783, he belonged originally to Pendletons
company, Harrisons Regim’t of artillery, but when the fragments of companies were united
served the two last campaigns in Singletons [Anthony Singleton’s] company of which I was a first
Lieutenant, and acted as Serjeant Major of the Park of artillery composed of the Broken
regiments of Virginia Maryland and Pennsylvania, from the officers of the various regiment who
knew him before I did I always heard that he was a gallant and faithful soldier, he maintained
that character during the two campaigns that I knew him personally if there is any mistake in
his affidavit attached to his Schedule I am sure it has proceeded from defect of memory. it
corresponds in every respect with what I have heard of him he was with Singleton & Gains [sic:
William Fleming Gaines] at the defeat of Gates, who I have often heard speak of him in very high
terms of praise, of his gallantry and good conduct, he is now upwards of seventy years of age,
infirm, from that cause and from wounds which I have understood he received at the Battle of
Camden – and is certainly a fit object of the bounty of his country. Major Gibbon informs me he
knew him in Pendletons company, at Stony point and he and Mr Scott of the executive council
who has interested himself in behalf of the worn out veteran, have made unavailing efforts to
procure the Schedule of his property [illegible word], in N Carolina in his case there are peculiar
circumstances and it his hoped that his former Schedule will be dispensed with Francis Brooke
NOTE:
A Feb. 1779 payroll for Capt. Nathaniel Burwell’s company in the 1st Artillery Regiment
lists Thomas Hood as Sergeant Major.
The complete file contains another deposition made in Person County on 12 Sep 1820
that is substantially identical to the one made on the same day and transcribed above, except
that the number of wounds is said to be 22.
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