Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 9824, for Peter Smith, Pennsylvania
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Service Number
Penn. Smith, Peter, R.9824

Contents
Rec. of enl Northumberland, Pa
at(?) Sept. 9 1829
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State of New York
County of Seneca } SS John Simpson whom I certify is a respectable person, aged forty nine years, after being duly sworn according to law, deposes & says that he was personally acquainted with Peter Smith & his late widow Ruth Smith, that the said Peter Smith died in 1829, leaving his widow Ruth Smith who remained his widow till her death, and that she died in 1832, that the following named children are the only children her surviving & that each of them is over the age of twenty one years, to wit, Rachel Smith, John W Smith, George Smith, Jacob W. Smith, Mary Henry, Ralph Smith and Hannah Banker
Subscribed & Sworn before me this 9th(?) day of October 1847
John Simpson
James Foster
Justice of the Peace of Seneca County
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State of New York
Seneca County ss } I do hereby certify that the within proceedings were held in open court, at the October tern of the County Court of said County, that James K Richardson whose name is subscribed to the within seal & certificate was the presiding Judge at the said Court, and that I am acquainted with his handwriting, and verily believe his signature aforesaid to be genuine, and further that James Foster before whom the within affidavits were sworn, was at the date thereof a Justice of the Peace of said County and that his signature to the within Seals are genuine.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the Courts of Said County this 9th day of October 1847
H. Montgomery
Deputy Clerk of Seneca Co. of the court above named
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Declaration

In order to obtain the Pension under the act of Congress passed the 15th May 1828
State of New York
County of Seneca } SS Ralph Smith of said county in behalf of his late mother Ruth Smith & in behalf of all of her surviving children. On this 6th day of October 1847 personally appeared before the court, in open court, and 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 on the 15th day of May 1828 That this deponents fathers name was Peter Smith who as this deponent from a boy had been informed was a resident during the war of the Revolution of Northumberland Pennsylvania, that he served in the war of the Revolution as this deponent was informed & believes as a ware man, that is, enlisted to serve to the close of the war and did serve to the close of the war and therefore drew bounty land, that this deponent has often & many times heard his father speak of his having served to the close of the war & of his having drawn bounty land, that as this deponent believes, his said father served in the same Company with Samuel Knopp, John Skillings, Jonathan Pray and Joseph Hall, the latter drew land adjoining the land drawn by this deponents father, possibly the said persons only served in the same region and with this deponents father, that as this deponent has understood, Moses Van Campen, a Mr Spencer & a Mr Lemon were of the same Regiment, that this deponents said father Peter Smith died on the 9th day of September 1829 eighteen hundred and twenty nine, leaving at his death the above named widow Ruth Smith this deponents mother, who remained his widow till her death and that she died in May 1832 probably the 23rd May 1833 eighteen hundred and thirty three, leaving at her death & who still survive her the following named children being her only children now surviving & that each of them is over the age of twenty one years, to wit, Rachel Smith, John W Smith, George Smith, Jacob W Smith, Ralph Smith, Mary Henry and Hannah Banker - Sworn before the court the date above & the court certify that the said Ralph Smith is a credible person
J.K. Richardson County & Judge of Seneca County } Ralph Smith
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The court certify, that satisfactory evidence was adduced to satisfy the court that Peter Smith died on the 9th day of September 1829 eighteen hundred and twenty nine, leaving at his death a widow, to wish Ruth Smith, who remained his widow till her death and that she died on the 23rd day of May 1833, eighteen hundred and thirty three, leaving at her death the following named children who now survive her, being her only children now surviving and that each of them is over the age of twenty one years, to wit, Rachel Smith, John W Smith, George Smith, Jacob W Smith, Ralph Smith, Mary Henry and Hannah Banker, the proof that was satisfactory to the court, was the declaration of a Ralph Smith, and the affidavit of John Simpson & Job A Banker whose affidavits are attached
J.K. Richardson 
County Judge of Seneca County.
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December 9, 1936
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Mrs. Lucille H. Milliron
Hasson Heights
Oil City, Pennsylvania

Peter Smith, S. 4850
Peter Smith, R. 9824 [arrow is drawn pointing to this name]
Peter Smith, W.C. 12067
BA-J/MLB

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter in which you designate Peter Smith as the Revolutionary War soldier in whom you are most interested who served in the Continental line and Northumberland County, Pennsylvania militia, wife's name possibly Susan, and the War of 1812 record of Peter Smith who may have lived in Center County, Pennsylvania, and whose wife's name may have been Lydia. You state that you would like the records of all soldiers with the name Peter Smith to aid you later to determine the one you seek.

The Revolutionary War record has been found of a Peter Smith, who enlisted in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, and of one who lived there later, and the War of 1812 record of a Peter Smith of Center County, Pennsylvania. Those records are furnished you herein and may aid you in your research.

PETER SMITH
S. 4850
The data herein were obtained from the papers on file in pension claim, S. 4850, based upon service in the Revolutionary War of Peter Smith.
Peter Smith was born in 1756, within eight or nine miles of Longswamp, Berks County, Pennsylvania. The names of his parents are not given.
While residing in Longswamp, Pennsylvania, he enlisted the middle of July, 1776, and served as private in Captain Jacob Druckenmiller's Pennsylvania company, length of tour seven months. About a year and a half after being discharged, he enlisted and served two months as private in Captain Daniel Good's Pennsylvania company against the Indians and was in an attack upon them while out on a scouting party.
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After the soldier's enlistment he lived in a near Kutztown and other parts of Berks County, Pennsylvania, about twenty-one or twenty-two years, then moved to Sunbury, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, where he lived for fifteen years, thence to Lewistown, Mifflin County, Pennsylvania, where he resided four or five years, and from there to Wayne County, Ohio.
Peter Smith was allowed pension on his application executed March 19, 1833, at which time he was a resident of Lake Township, Wayne County, Ohio.
There are no family data shown in the claim.
In order to obtain date of last payment in pension, the name of person paid and possibly the date of death of this soldier, you should write to the Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, this city, and cite the following data: Peter Smith, Certificate No. 13073, issued May 9, 1833, rate $30 per annum, commended March 4, 1831, Act June 7, 1832, Ohio Pittsburgh Agency.

PETER SMITH
R. 9824
The record follows of Peter Smith as found in pension claim R. 9824, based upon his service in the Revolutionary War.
The date and place of birth and names of the parents of Peter Smith are not given.
Peter Smith died September 9, 1829, survived by his widow, Ruth, who died May 23, 1833, and their children: - Rachel, John W., George, Jacob W., and Ralph Smith, and Mary Henry and Hannah Banker (the given names of Mary's and Hannah's husbands not shown).
October 6, 1847, Ralph Smith, son of Peter Smith and his wife, Ruth, while residing in Seneca County, New York, applied for pension which might have been due on account of the Revolutionary War service of his father. He applied in behalf of himself and the other surviving children. It was stated that Peter Smith, the soldier, while residing in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, enlisted and served to the close of the Revolutionary War; date of enlistment, length of service, and names of officers not given.
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The claim was not allowed as proof of six months' service was not furnished in accordance with the requirements of the pension law.
In 1847, one Job A. Banker, aged fifty years, was residing in Seneca County, New York, his relationship to soldier's family not shown.

PETER SMITH
W.C. 12067
You are furnished herein the record of Peter Smith as found in pension claim, W.C. 12067, based upon his service in the War of 1812.
The date and place of birth and names of the parents of Peter Smith are not shown.
Peter Smith enlisted at Bellefonte, Center County, Pennsylvania, and served from April 12, 1813, to November 8, 1813, as sergeant in Captain George Rickord's company of Pennsylvania militia.
After the War of 1812 the soldier resided nine years in Potter Township, Center County, Pennsylvania, then moved to Cranberry Township, Venago County, same state, where he was residing in 1850, then aged sixty years. He was still living in Cranberry Township in 1855 and died there January 31, 1863.
Peter Smith married Mary Anna Tate in Nittany Valley, Center County, Pennsylvania, January 8, 1818. Neither the soldier nor his wife had been previously married. The date and place of her birth and names of parents are not given.
Soldier's widow, Mary A. Smith, was allowed pension on her application executed May 4, 1878, at which time she was aged eighty-two years and a resident of Cranberry Township, Venango County, Pennsylvania. She also received a pension from the State of Pennsylvania, no further details of which were given.
It was stated that Peter Smith and his wife, Mary Anne, reared a family of ten children, but the only names designated in the claim were:- Margaret Allison, their fifth child, who in 1878 was aged fifty years, and Martha Ziegler, then aged forty years, who was their ninth child, both of them residing then in Cranberry Township, Pennsylvania. The older children were at that time living in a western state and territory.

Very truly yours
A.D. Hiller
Executive Assistant to the Administrator
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[REJECTED stamp on top]
9824
P.O. Peter Smith
Service:
Enlisted: _, 18 .
Discharged: _, 18 .
Application filed: _. 18 .
Alleges: Not found on the list of rejected claims printed in 1802.
Re-enlisted: [word is crossed out]
Attourney:
P.O.
Recognized.
Contract
Cert of Dis Searched for
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1936, Dec. 9- Hist. Co Mrs Lucille H. Milliren Rec Her in claim(?). W. C. 12067 of Peter Smith MLB.
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Hon. H. S. Conger
Apl 22 '48
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Pension Office
April 22 1848
Sir,
I have the honor to inform you that the papers transmitted some time since by Arad Joy in the Case of Peter Smith died have been examined and filed.
The act of 15 May 1828 under which this application is made prender(?) for those only who entered the service in the Continental Line for the term of "during the war" and served to the end thereof. No evidence has been adduced shown for what time Peter Smith entered the Service of the Pennsylvania Line, the period he continued there in, the time or manner of his leaving the same or the rank he held. The papers now filed do not show that he had any claim to a pension under the act above referred to

Hon H S Conger
House Rep
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Ovid Oct 9th 1847
Sir
I inclose application for a pension for Ruth Smith, or her now surviving children, the history of the Service, is all that the applicant recollects, he says he remembers to have seen at this fathers house several of the Ad soldiers named in the declaration
Respectfully
Your Obl Serve
Arad Joy
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N 2A74
Peter Simth ad
NY
Act 15 May 1828

Pa Soldier
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House of Representatives
March 27, 1818

J.S. Edwards Esq
Sir: I am desired by a friend interest to ask your decision in the case of Peter Smith of N.Y. an applicant for a pension under the law of 1828, the papers in which were sent to your office in Oct. last,
I am respectfully Yours
H. S. Conger
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State of New York
County of Seneca } SS I Job A Banker aged fifty years, of said county & whom I certify is a respectable person, after being duly sworn according to law depose and say, that for he was for several years before the death of Peter Smith, personally acquainted with the said Peter Smith & his wife & family, that he well recollects of his death, & that he has to day examined the Tomb Stone erected over the Grave of the said Peter Smith, & that he find upon the Tomb Stone as follows "Peter Smith Died Sept 9th 1829 eighteen hundred and twenty nine, that he left a widow, to wit, Ruth Smith who remained his widow till her death, and that she died on this deponent recollects and as he has seen inscribed on her tomb stone on the 23rd day of May 1833 eighteen hundred and thirty three, that the Tomb Stone at both of the above Graves were erected soon after the death of the parties above mentioned, that at the death of the widow Ruth Smith above name and who still survive her, she left the following named children, her surviving being her only children now surviving & that each of them is over the age of twenty one years, to wit, Rachel Smith, John W Smith, George Smith, Jacob W Smith & Ralph Smith, & Mary Henry, and Hannah Banker - Subscribed & Sworn before me this 7th day of October 1849 } Job A Banker

James Foster Justin