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All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/sc/scfiles.htm Contributed to the SCGenWeb Archives by: Mary Lu Nelson Johnson ************************************************ HOOD, ANDREW, NC Line, RWS #7030 Transcribed by Mary Lu Johnson 5 March 1833, Declaration of Pensioner State of South Carolina, Anderson District } Personally appeared in open Court before the Court of common Pleas, now sitting, ANDREW HOOD a resident of the state and District aforesaid aged eighty nine 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 7th 1832. That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated - I volunteered under Captain McCLURE in Charlotte County, North Carolina – COLONEL POLK was Commander of the regiment - this was in the year A.D. [blank] I served at Fort Johnston in Brunswick, under COL. POLK. - I also served under GENERAL WINN in South Carolina - I was Six months in actual service - after this service I joined a Scouting party commanded by CAPT. WALKER, we took a rout after the British and one after the Tories - my whole time of service was Six months on this - I was discharged verbally by CAPT. McCLURE in the year A.D. The year of his discharge not known. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a Pension or annuity except the present, and Declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state. Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid. ANDREW [his X mark] HOOD In open Court 5 March 1833 [Signed] VAN A. LAWHORN C.C. We, WILLIAM CARLISLE a Clergyman residing in the Said District and A. SIMPSON, Esq. residing in the said district hereby certify that we are well acquainted with MR. ANDREW HOOD who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, and we believe him to be eighty nine years of age - that he is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution, and that we concur in that opinion. [Signed] WILLIAM CARLISLE, ARCHIBALD SIMPSON [Signed] JOSIAH J. EVANS, Presiding Judge 17 May 1834, Anderson District, South Carolina } Before me JAMES A. BLACK a Justice of Quorum in and for the State of South Carolina & District of Abbeville, personally appeared ANDREW HOOD and made the following declaration amendatory to his original declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congres of the 7th June 1832 that he entered the Service under CAPTAIN McCLURE, in COL. POLK'S Regiment of Infantry North Carolina Militia, at Charlotte court house as stated in his original declaration as he believes in August 1779 and served as stated in his original declaration. He also saith on his oath that by reason of old age & consequent loss of memory he cannot swear positively as to the precise day & date when he entered the service or the day on which he was discharged nor can he precisely fix the length of his service but according to the best of his recolection he served not less than six months as a private as stated in his original declaration, and as he believes in the latter part of the year 1779 and Spring of 1780. Sworn to and subscribed this day and year above written before me. [Signed] JAMES A. BLACK, J. Q. ANDREW [his X mark] HOOD He also makes the following answers to the 7 interogatories perposed by the war office - 1. Where and in what year were you born? A: I was born in the county Antrim (Ireland) in the year 1744. 2. Have you any record of your age if so where is it? A: I have no regular record of my age I have seen an entry of it in my fathers Bible in Ireland but I have not seen it for the last Sixty years. 3. Where were you living when called into the service, where have you lived since the revolutionary war and where do you now live? A: I was living in Mecklenburg County North Carolina when I entered the service. I have lived in Pendleton District (now Anderson District) ever since the Revolutionary war and still live there. 4. How were you called into the service, were you drafted, did you volunteer or were you a substitute, and if a substitute for whom? A: I was a volunteer. 5. State the names of some of the regular officers who were with the troops when you served, such Continental and Militia Regiments as you can recolect, and the general circumstances of your service. A: I was acquainted with COL. POLK, GENERAL PINKNEY, GENERAL WINN and GENERAL RUTLEDGE. I do not recolect the name or Number of any of the Regiments with whom I served as to the general circumstances of the service see my original declaration. 6. Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so by whom was it given and what became of it? A: I never had a regular writin discharge but verbally discharged by CAPT. McCLURE. 7. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood and who can testify as to your charecter for varasity and their belief as to your service as a soldier of the Revolution. A: I am acquainted with the REVD WM CARLILE; ARCHABALD SIMPSON, ESQ; GENL JOSEPH N. WHITNER; WILLIAM SHEROD; JOEL H. BERRY and the REVT EBENEZER PRESSLEY. ANDREW [his X mark] HOOD JAMES A. BLACK, J.QRM SOUTH CAROLINA, ANDERSON DISTRICT } I JAMES BLACK one of the Justices of the Quorum in and for the State aforesaid do hereby certify that I do believe that ANDREW HOOD (who has sworn and subscribed in my presents the foregoing ammended declaration and answers to the perposed interogatories) is ninety years of age as he states, that his mind is much impaired in consequence of old age and bodily disabilities. I am satisfied that he is a man of truth and varasity, that he was a soldier of the Revolution, and properly entitled to the benefits of the act of Congress of the 7th June 1832. Given under my hand and seal this 1st May 1834. [Signed] JAMES A. BLACK, J.QRM P. S. You will see by the clerk certificates which accompanies the claim of JOHN McADAM ESQ, SAMUEL PORTER, SOLOMAN HALL and others that I am an acting Justice of the Quorum for Abbeville District South Carolina. [Signed] JAMES A. BLACK 5 June 1834, Certificate of Pension #27823 issued to ANDREW HOOD of Anderson in the State of So Car who was a Private in the [blank] of the Regt commanded by COL. POLK in the No Car line for 6 months. $20.00 per annum, arrears to 4 March, $60.