This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Greenwood, Hooper, Spittler, Robidoux Classification: Military Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/1713.1.2 Message Board Post: STATE OF CALIFORNIA. County of San Bernardino.--On the 3rd day of December A.D. 1860, before me a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State above named, personally appeared before me John Greenwood, aged 37 years, a resident of San Bernardino County, California, who being duly sworn according to law, declared that he is the identical John Greenwood who was a private in Captain Grigsby's Company "E", in Fremont's California Battalion in the war between the United States and Mexico; that he volunteered at Sonoma in the month of October 1846 and continued in actual service for six months and upwards and was honorably discharged at San Gabriel near Los Angeles, California, on the __?__ day of April A.D. 1847. He makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the Bounty Land to which he may be entitled under the act of Congress approved March 3rd 1855. And he hereby authorizes Hon. William W. Hooper to receive said Warrant as his attorney - and he declares that he has made no other application under any law than this, nor has he ever received a warrant.--He signed 'John Greenwood' by making an X. We, John D. Spittler and Louis L. Robideaux, formerly of "Fremont's California Battalion", the former of Company "E", the latter of Company "F", now residents of San Bernardino County, California. upon our oath decalre that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by John Greenwood in our presence and that from the appearance of the appplicant and their acquaintance with him, they know that he is the identical person he represents himself to be, and that they have no interest in this claim.--Signed "John D. Spittler" with his X; Louis F. Robidoux. N.B.: There was one "William W. Hooper" who served in the Oregon Battalion at Old Fort Kearney in 1847 - 1848. There is no reason to believe that he could not have known John Greenwood during this time.--W.F.