Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 32524, for Thomas Smith, North Carolina
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SERVICE
N.C.

Smith, Thomas

NUMBER S.32524

CONTENTS

b. on 1763 in Pittsylvania Co. Va.  moved thence when about 17 yrs old to Washington Co.
enl. in Hillsborough, Orange Co. N.C.
res. in 1833 Johnson Co. Ind.
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25599
Indiana
(smudged) Thomas Smith
(smudged) in the State of Indiana who was a private in the com commanded by Captain Sayles of the regt commanded by Col. Mellins in the N Carolina line for 9 months

Inscribed on the Roll of Indiana at the rate of 30 Dollars -- Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 7 day of Feby 1832 and Hon John Tipton S.U.S.

Arrears to the 4th of Sept.                    75.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 March    15.00

$90.00

{Revolutionary Claim, 
Act June 7, 1832.}

Recorded by Danl Boyd Clerk,
Book E. Vol. 7, Page 129

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Date of death not in AB.
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Declaration of
Thomas Smith
for a pension
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State of Indiana 
Johnson County ss
Johnson Circuit Court March Term 1833 
     On this 19th day of March 1833 personally appeared before the Honorable Johnson 
Circuit Court now in Session Thomas Smith a resident of Johnston County in the State of Indiana aged sixty-nine years who being first duly sworn according to law in open court doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832. 
     That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year 1780 with Captain Henry 
Conaway and Served in the twentieth Regiment of the North Carolina line under the following named officers Colonel Tilghman Dixon Lieutenant Colonel Henry Dixon Major Francis Graves & Captain Henry Conaway a part of the time & Captain Henry Williamson the balance of the time.  That he was taken sick & afterwards he was transferred at Hillsboro North Carolina to the twenty second Regiment of the North Carolina line commanded by Colonel Thomas Williams & 
Captain Cornelius Layles from which Regiment he was discharged according to the best of his 
recollection in the year 1782 having served eighteen months that he entered the service in 
Hillsboro Orange County in the State of North Carolina that he served in the battle of Alamans under the command of Captain Campbell about eight days before the battle of 
Guilford at Guilford battle he was detached to guard the wagons.  He marched from Guilford to the Shallow Ford of the Yadkin River where we met General Green under whose command we marched into Caswell County on the retreat with Cornwallace
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in our rear afterwards he was employed chiefly to guard the wagons & forage.  This Declarant says he received a discharge signed by Captain Henry Conaway which he says he has long since lost.  He also says he has no record of his age at this time he says his father had his age set down in a book & at the death of his father his eldest Brother got the same. The Declarant says he was born in Pittsylvania County in the State of Virginia in the year 1763 & lived in said County until he was about seventeen years of age (with the exception of the time he was in the service) & from thence he removed into Washington County in said State and 
remained there several years & from thence he removed to Fayette County in the State of 
Kentucky & from thence into Henry County in said state & remained in the two last mentioned counties about forty years & from thence he removed into Jennings County in the State of Indiana & remained there about six years & from thence into Marion County in said State & he resided there about four years & from there into Johnson County where he now lives. That he is known to Henry Musselman, William Poor, Nathaniel Poor, John L Jones and Daniel Boze who can testify as to his character for veracity and their belief of his services as a soldier of the Revolution that he knows of no person whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his services and that he has no documentary evidence thereof. 
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 or territory. 
                 Thomas X Smith
                  (X his mark) 
Sworn to and subscribed the day & year aforesaid 
Saml. Herriott, Clk.
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We John L Jones a clergyman residing in the County of Johnson and Daniel Boze residing in the same county hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Thomas Smith who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be sixty nine years of age that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion.
                     John L. Jones
                     Daniel Boaz
Sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid.
                  Saml Herriott Clk

And the said court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as he states and the court further certifies that it appears to them that John L. Jones who has signed the proceeding certificate is a clergyman resident in the county of Johnson & that Daniel Boze who has also signed the same is a resident in the same county of Johnson and is a credible person & that their statements is entitled to credit. 
                   B.F. Morris Prest. Judge

I Samuel Herriott Clerk of the Johnson Circuit Court do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Thomas Smith for a pension.
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      I testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 19th day of March AD 1833.
              Saml. Herriott Clk
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Thomas Smith
Indiana
from 1780 pr
9 months
$30.

Can only allow for 9 months.  The applicant it is believed belonged to the militia.  There were some militia in militia ranks for 9 mo. wo served under Col. Dixon.

Hon. J. Tipton
S.U.S.
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Indiana to wit 
Johnson County 
     Personally appeared before me the undersigned a Justice of the peace in and for said County Thomas Smith a soldier of the revolution, and being duly sworn saith that in the war of the revolution he performed a term of service of not less than 18 months commencing in the fall of the year of our Lord 1780 and ending in the spring or beginning of the summer of 1782, according to the best of his recollection: for which service he claims a pension.  That the service in his declaration mentioned, he cannot prove by any living witnesses to his knowledge, he having removed from the places where they were performed unaccompanied by any of his 
former companions in arms "in the time set tried men's souls."  That from age and its consequent infirmity, together with a life of hardship and penury most vile, the morning of his days having been "spent in the tented fields" he is not at this late period of his existence, able to travel "down South" where his services were rendered to search for witnesses, who were they present would 
amply certify to the services in his declaration stated.  That he was not a Continental soldier but simply enlisted in the North Carolina militia.  The foregoing facts together with those in his declaration mentioned are all upon which he can rest his claim or pretense to a pension from the munificence of the laws of the land and further saith not. 
                     Thomas Smith 
Sworn to & subscribed December 11, 1833 
John Foster, J. Peace

State of Indiana
County of Johnson
     I Samuel Herriott Clerk of the Circuit Court for the County of Johnson hereby certify that John Foster before whom the foregoing affidavit appears to have been made is and was at the time of the making thereof an acting justice of the peace in and for said county duly commissioned and sworn into office, and that as such all his official acts deserve full faith and credit.
     Witness my hand and the seal of said Court at Franklin the 11 day of December 1833.
             Saml Herriott Clk
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May 5, 1933
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Thomas Smith, S.32524
John Steel, S. 17706
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Mrs. Monroe Martin
R.R. 6
Franklin, Indiana

Dear Madam:
     You are furnished herein the histories of Thomas Smith and John Steel, soldiers of the Revolutionary War, as recently requested by you.

THOMAS SMITH, S.32524
      He was born in 1765 in Pittsylvania County, Virginia, where he resided when he entered the service.  The names of his parents are not shown in the claim.
    H enlisted in Hillsborough, Orange County, North Carolina, in the fall of 1780, and served at various times until the spring or early summer of 1732, amounting to eighteen months in all, as a private in the North Carolina troops, under Captains Henry Conaway, Henry Williamson, Cornelius Sayles, and Colonels Tilghman Dixon, Thomas Willias and Campbell, was in the battle at Allamance Creek and stated that at the battle of Guilford he was detached to guard the wagons.
     During the Revolutionary War, he moved to Washington County, Virginia, where he remained several years, thence to Fayette County, Kentucky, from there to Henry County, Kentucky (he lived in those two counties of Kentucky about forty years);  he then moved to the State of Indiana where he lived in Jennings County about six years, in Marion County for about four years, then moved into Johnson county, of that state.
     He was allowed pensions on his application executed March 19, 1833, while a resident of said Johnson County, Indiana
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     No reference was made in the claim of Thomas Smith to wife or children, and the only family data given was a reference by the soldier to an elder brother whose name he did not give.
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JOHN STEEL, S.17706
     John Steel was born January 25, 1761, in Hampshire County, Virginia.
     While a resident of Hampshire County, Virginia, he enlisted in April or May, 1781, served three months as a private in Captain Michael Stump's company "Colonel" Muhlenberg's Virginia regiment, and was engaged in defending the town of Richmond from British invasion and while marching to that place was in a skirmish at Silver Creek.  He enlisted in July or August, 1781, and served three months under Lieutenant Blue and was at the siege of Yorktown, in the Virginia troops.
     The soldier lived in Hampshire County, Virginia, until 1794, when he moved to that part of Montgomery County which was later Bath County), Kentucky, where he remained thirty-seven years, and from there he moved to Morgan County, Indiana.
     John Steel was allowed pension on his application executed November 14, 1832, while a resident of Morgan County, Indiana.
      No reference was made in the claim to wife or children.
     In 1832, soldier's brother, Henry Steele, was living in Morgan County, Indiana.
               Very truly yours

                       A.D. HILLER
                       Assistant to Administrator

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1933, May 2 Hist. to Mrs. Monroe Martin (rec ltr in clm. S.17706
of John Steel)  MLB

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32524
Revy INVALID.

File No. 32,524

Thomas Smith
Pri Rev War

Act: June 7 32
Index: - Vol. 2, Page 382

{Arrangement of 1870.}
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May 5, 1933
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Thomas Smith, S. 32524
John Steel, S. 17706
BA-J/MLB

Mrs. Monroe Martin
R.R. 6
Franklin, Indiana

Dear Madam:
     Reference is made to your letter in which you request the records of Thomas Smith and John Steel, soldiers of the Revolution, who, you state, are listed in the 1840 census as living in Johnson County, Indiana.
     The name of neither of those soldiers has been found on the list of pensioners reported in the 1840 Census of Pensioners.  The pension record of Thomas Smith, of Johnson County, Indiana, has been found, but no John Steel, of that county.  In the Report of the Secretary of War printing in 1835, the name of John Steel was erroneously placed on the list of Johnson County, Indiana pensioners as a Pennsylvania soldier.  That John Steel was a Virginia soldier and a resident of Morgan County, Indiana.
     The records of Thomas Smith and John Steel are furnished herewith, as found in their claims for pension based upon service in the Revolutionary War.
     Very truly yours

               A.D. HILLER
               Assistant to Administrator