Asa Rood (1763 - bef. 1838)

Born 28 Jul 1763 in Lebanon, Connecticut

Ancestors

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Biography

Asa was born 28 Jul 1763 in Lebanon, Connecticut. ^[1]

He was the son of Jeremiah Rood and Hannah Briggs. ^[2] Hannah Briggs Grover was the daughter of James Briggs.

He died before his brother Joseph filed for a Revolutionary War pension on 27 Oct 1838.^[3]

Research Notes

It is not probable that he is the same Asa Rood who applied for a Revolutionary War pension in 1818 at age 68 in Broome County. He would have only been age 55 in 1818. This means that he is probably not the Asa who settled in Broome County with his son Asa. Unless the age in the pension application was incorrect.

Also, based on his brother Joseph's Revolutionary War pension application, he was not fighting in the war between April 1775 and February 1776, when Joseph said he was "crazy", becoming rational again in February 1776.

Sources

1. ↑ Connecticut Town Birth Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection) [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006. Original data: White, Lorraine Cook, ed. The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records. Vol. 1-55. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1994-2002. Lebanon Vital Records, p. 179. Vol 1. p. 272
2. ↑ Mayflower Births and Deaths, Vol. 1 and 2 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2013. This collection was indexed by Ancestry World Archives Project contributors. Original data: Roser, Susan E. Mayflower Births and Deaths: From the Files of George Ernest Bowman at the Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants. Volumes 1 & 2. Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc., 1992. Standish, p. 325,
3. ↑ U.S., Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files, 1800-1900 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Original data: Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files (NARA microfilm publication M804, 2,670 rolls). Records of the Department of Veterans Affairs, Record Group 15. National Archives, Washington, D.C. Joseph Rood. Archive Publication Number: M804 Archive Roll Number: 2080 Image

Lebanon (Connecticut). Registrar of Vital Statistics, Records of births, marriages, and deaths, vols. 1-4, 1700-1915." Manuscript on Film. FamilySearch, Salt Lake City, Utah. Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1981. p. 272 annotated Page 270 in Old Record. https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9BT-49HQ-3?i=157&cat=299680