Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 5174, for Dan Smith, Connecticut
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SERVICE
Conn. 
Continental

Smith, Dan
Betsey

NUMBER
W. 5174
==========
CONTENTS

Res. at enl. Sharon, Litchfield Co., Conn.
In 1818 res. of Rutland, Vt. aged 61 Yrs.
He died Feb. 15, 1833.  She died Sept. 23, 1845
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Power of Attorney

For ascertaining whether any incense or arrears of Pension are due the Widow or heirs of Revolutionary Pensioners

State of Vermont County of Rutland

Be it known that before the undersigned
a Justice of the Peace in & for the County & State aforesaid personally appeared George W. Strong aged 37 years who being duly cautioned & then sworn in due form of law
states that he is the Grandson of Dan Smith who was a Revolutionary Pensioner and that he died Feby 15 1833 at Vergennes Vt and his Grandmother Betsey Hunter Smith died on the 23d Sept 1845 and they were married on the 20th day of August 1780 they were then residents of Sharon Conn - they resided there a few years when they moved to Vermont.  That he resides at Rutland Vermont - and
that furthermore he by these presents constitute appoints & fully empowers F. E. Hassler of Washington City D.C. as his lawful attorney for him & in his name & shall to examine unto to prosecute to demand & to receive from the U.S. Government & State Offices his rights in all & in any manner of claim for arrears of pay half pay or commutation pay for pension increase of arrears of Pension or land that are or may be due him as Grandson of Dan Smith as in right of Law or may be entitled: and I furthermore
make all & any powers of attorney heretofore executed in favor of any person or persons.  

In witness whereof he has on this 1st day of February 1856 hereunto signed his name & affixed his seal
George W. Strong 

Witness J.W. Hopkins 
Witness Chas L Williams 

Signed sealed acknowledged & sworn to before me; and I further certify that George W. Strong has always by the Community
been known as the Grandson of Dan Smith and I am not interested in the result of this claim.
Dated on this 2d day of February 1856
Chas L William Justice Peace
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State of Vermont }ss.
County of Rutland }

I hereby certify that Charles L. Williams Esq. before whom the forgoing affidavit & acknowledgement were made & who has hereunto subscribed his name was at the time of so doing a Justice of the Peace in & for the County aforesaid duly commissioned & know that his signature as written is genuine.

[SEAL]  In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the Rutland County Court this 2d day of February 1856.
F.W. Hopkins, Clerk
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State of Vermont } ss
Addison County }

On this seventeenth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and Thirty Eight, personally appeared, before the Honorable Probate Court for the District of New Haven in said County of Addison, holden at the City of Vergennes, within & for said District, Betsey Smith a resident of Panton in said County of Addison, aged seventy six years the fifth day of October next, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit
of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed July 7th 1838, entitled, "An 
act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows" - That she is the widow of Dan Smith, late of Panton aforesaid, deceased who was a Surgeon's Mate in the army of the Revolution & that she understood from him & others, verily believes the same, that he acted as Surgeon's Mate at the "Cedars" in the province of Lower Canada & at the taking of Burgoyne at Stillwater in 1777.
How long he remained in the service she has no means of ascertaining.
Her late husband, the said Dan Smith, was in pursuance of the act of Congress of 1818, placed on the Pension Roll of the United States for the Vermont Agency in the latter part of the year 1818 or in the former part of 1819 - the exact time she cannot state, at the rate of Twenty dollars per month, which said sum was paid by the United States up to the time of his decease. And for a particular description of the said Dan Smiths services she would refer to his declaration on file in the Pension Office, made by him at the time he was placed on the Pension Roll as aforesaid.

She further declares that she was married to the said Dan Smith at Sharon in the County of
Litchfield, State of Connecticut on the twentieth day of August, one thousand seven hundred & eighty, by the Rev. Cotton Mather Smith, the Minister of the Gospel settled in said Town of Sharon - that her husband the aforesaid Dan Smith died at Panton aforesaid on the fifteenth day of February 1833
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that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but that the marriage took place previous to the first day of January 1794 - viz. at the time above stated, & that she is now & has remained the widow of the said Dan Smith since his decease as aforesaid.  
(The words "pension" - "United States"  "for" interlined before signing)

Betsey Smith 

Sworn to & subscribed in open court on the day and year first before written - before
Harvey Munsill Judge 


State of Vermont. }
New Haven Probate District } ss
I hereby certify that Harvey Munsill Esq. before whom the above declaration was made is the Judge of the Probate Court for the District aforesaid & that his signature affixed to the declaration is his genuine signature.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my signature & affixed the seal of said court at Vergennes this 17 day of September 1838.

J. Pierpoint. Registrar
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1745
Betsey Smith

Wd of Dan
Vt

Act 7 July 1838

married 1780
died 1833

Allan 5 m. pri 16.66
10 mo. Surgeons mate 200.
--------------------
per ann. $216.66


W.H. Smith
Panton
Vt

Betsey Smith 1748
Declaration etc.--
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State of Vermont }
Addison County } ss.

I William H. Smith of Panton in the County of
Addison & State of Vermont, aged forty nine years the 30th day of January and being first duly sworn, do depose & say. That I am the son of Dan Smith late of Panton aforesaid, deceased, & his Widow Betsey Smith, now residing in said Panton - and that my Father, the said Dan Smith died at Panton aforesaid, on the 15th day of February AD. 1833 -  that my late Father, the said Dan Smith regularly drew his pension of 20 dollars per month as Surgeon's Mate in the Army of the Revolution, from the time his name was placed on the pension Roll of the United States Vermont Agency, up to the time of his decease - and
that my mother, the said Betsey Smith, is now & has been since the death of my Father, the said Dan Smith, the widow of the said Dan Smith and further the deponent saith not.

Wm. H. Smith 


State of Vermont }
Addison County } ss
Vergennes 17th Sept. 1838.

Personally appeared William H. Smith and made solemn oath that the above affidavit by him subscribed is true. And I further certify that I am well acquainted with the said William H. Smith Esq and that he is fully entitled to credit, & that his signature annexed to the above affidavit is in his own proper hand writing.--

Certified by me
Harvey Munsill Judge
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Dan Smith
Hospital Surgeon; mate

Dr Smith must shew by whom the appointment 
was given, or state some prior
circumstance to shew that it was an
appointment made by the proper authority.  It is probable it was only a temporary
Engagement, between him & the Director of
the Hospital.
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To the Secretary of the department of War of the United States -
Dan Smith of Rutland in the County of Rutland & State of Vermont respectfully applies to be
on the Pension List of the United States agreeable to the provisions of the Act of Congress passed the 18 March AD 1818 entitled An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land & naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War.  Rutland, March 31 1818
Dan Smith 

I Dan Smith of Rutland in the County of
Rutland & State of Vermont of the age of sixty years do depose and say that I served the United States in the war of the Revolution against the Common Enemy on the Continental establishment as a private soldier  & in the Hospital department for the periods following viz. that in the month of January AD 1776 I enlisted into the Connecticut Regiment commanded by Col Burrell in the Company commanded by Capt Downs for the term of one year.  I marched with the regiment to Canada, & on the retreat of the Army from Canada in the month of June that year I was sent forward to Fort George with a detachment of sick.  There I became acquainted with Doct'r Potts then Director of the Hospital for the Northern department.  I was appointed by him in July a Surgeon's Mate in the Hospital after which I did no duty in the Regiment. That I served as Surgeons Mate for the period of ten months viz. until the month
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of May AD 1777 that is to say I entered the
hospital in July 1776 as Surgeons Mate
under Doctor Oreman  one of the Senior Surgeons.  I continued with him until the fall of that year when the Hospital as moved to Albany.  I then served in the hospital at Albany as Surgeons Mate until the month of May
aforesaid when I was regularly discharged by
Doctor Stringer then Director of the Hospital.  The original appointment & discharge I have lost long since not considering them of any service- I further say that I am now & have ever been since the declaration of Independence a Citizen of the United States actually resident therein - & I further swear that by reason of my reduced circumstances in life I am in need of assistance from my Country for support.  

Subscribed and sworn to
this 31st day of March AD 1818 -
Dan Smith 

before me
Thos. Hammond Assistant Judge of the County Court for Rutland County

 
I Charles L Williams of Rutland in the County
of Rutland State of Vermont one of the Justices of the peace for said County do certify & say that I am well acquainted with Dan Smith Esqr of Rutland who has made the foregoing affidavit.  That he is a Gentleman of 
veracity & [illegible] , & the fullest reliance may be placed on his faith & no person
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Who is acquainted with him will have any doubt of the truth of his statement - I further say that hehas been in the mercantile line & has been unfortunate & by reason of his reduced circumstances in life I think he is need of assistance from his country for support.
Ch. L. Williams 

Subscribed & sworn to 
this 6th day of April 1818
Before me

Thomas Hammond 
Assistant Judge of the county Court for the County or Rutland 

I Thomas Hammond Assistant Judge of the
County Court for the County of Rutland & State of Vermont do hereby certify that it appears to my satisfaction that Dan Smith who applies for a pension under the act of Congress passed March 18 1818 served in the Revolutionary war against the Common Enemy agreeable to his declaration aforesaid.  I therefore certify & have at the testimony
in the case consisting of his own declaration & the affidavit of Ch. K. Williams Esq. to the Secretary of the department of War agreeable to the provisions of the said act.  In testimony whereof I have caused the seal of said County Court to be hereby affixed.  Given under my hand at Rutland this 6th day of April AD 1818
Thos Hammond 

I Thomas Hamon Judge as aforesaid do certify that I am satisfied the said Dan Smith is in indigent circumstances & by reason of his reduced circumstances in life is in need of assistance from his County for support.
Thos Hammond 
Rutland July 27, 1818
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I Thomas Hammond Judge as aforesaid do further certify & transmit to the Secretary of War the additional affidavit of Dan Smith Esq & the Affidavit of Asa Goodrich agreeable to the Act aforesaid. 
Given under my hand at Rutland this 8th day of December AD 1818
Thos. Hammond 


State of Vermont
I Robert Temple Clerk of Rutland County Court do certify, that the Hon. Tho. Hammond who subscribed the foregoing certificate, is one of the Judges of said Court, and that I have affixed the seal of said Court to these presents by order of said Judge at Rutland this 6th day of April 1818

R. Temple
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Dan Smith and Betsey Hunter both of Sharon were married August twentieth, one thousand, seven hundred and eighty – 
I Mason Grosvenor of Sharon, County of Litchfield and State of Connecticut do certify that the above is a true Copy of the record, with the exception of the date which expressed on the record in fair, legible figures as follows (viz) “Aug 20 1780.”  
I Mason Grosvenor above named depose and say that I hold the office of Pastor of the First Congregational Church in Sharon aforesaid, and that the above is a true extinct from the records of said Congregational Church, with the exception above named as certified by me. 
Mason Grosvenor Pastor of the First Congregational Church in Sharon Conn. 
State of Connecticut
Litchfield County } Ss. Sharon August 25th 1838 
Personally appeared Rev’d Mason Grosvenor and made solemn oath to the above certificate by him subscribed and that the same is true -  before me 
Richard Smith, Justice of the Peace.
I Richard Smith do hereby certify that the above named Mason Grosvenor is fully entitled to credit, and that his signature above written is genuine 
Richard Smith, Justice of the Peace
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STATE OF CONNECTICUT
Litchfield County } ss  Litchfield.
I Geo C. Woodruff Assistant Clerk of the County Court of the County and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that Richard Smith Esq is a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified, and by law authorized to administer Oaths and to take the acknowledgment of Deeds. And that his commission was dated on the 29th day of May A.D. 1838 and will expire on the 20th day of June, A.D. 1839 and that the preceeding signature which purports to be his is genuine.   
Given under my hand and the Seal of said Court this 28th day of August A.D. 1838 
Geo. C. Woodruff Assistant Clerk
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Dan Smith Esq
5084
For Mr. Edwards
March 1819
Decision
Mr. Edwards is desired to [unreadable] to a letter from the Hon Wm Hunter & C. Rich members of Congress from this State, addressed to him (in the Dept of War) about the time this pension was allowed.   
R. Temple 
Conn
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STATE OF VERMONT, 
Rutland County, }  ss. 
On this 28th day of June 1820 personally appeared before the County Court for said county of Rutland in open court, said court being a court of record, agreeably to the laws of this state, having the power of fine and imprisonment, &c.) Dan Smith aged 62 years, resident in Rutland in said county of Rutland who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on his oath declare, that he served in the revolutionary war, as follows:   in 1776 enlisted in [unreadable] Regt [unreadable] company Connecticut Line for one years as a Surgeon’s Mate in the Hospital of the Northern Department under Doct. Picotts [unreadable] as was more fully appears in his former declaration
That he made his original declaration on the 31 day of March 1818, has received a Pension Certificate, No. 5084 And I do solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March, 1818; and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it, as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress, entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States, in the Revolutionary War,” passed on the 18th day of March, 1818; and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities, contracts or debts, due to me; nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed. 
Sworn to and declared on the 26th day of June 1820 before said court. R. Pierpoint Clerk  
STATE OF VERMONT. 
Rutland County, } ss I Robert Pierpoint  clerk of the County court for the county of Rutland do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath, and the schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of the said court:--And I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said court, that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is one hundred seventy one dollars. & that said Smith owes $3000.00 
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of said Court, at Rutland this 26th day of June 1820 
R Pierpoint
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Real Estate I have none except it be a part of a pew in Fairhaven Meeting Place.  I have a Small library of about 30 Vol., House hold furniture viz 4 tables, 4 Candle stands, 1 desk, 1 bureau, 1 Clock,  Looking Glasses,  2 ½  doz Chairs, 3 trunks,  3 chests, 1 case bottles, 2  wheels, 1 Reel, hatchell , 4 andirons, 1 Snuffer, 4 pails. 2 wash tubs, 6  baskets, 3 wooden trays, 6 table & 12 teaspoons, & sugar tongs, 1 ½  doz knives & forks,  2 Pewter dishes, 1 tea pot, [unreadable] of cockery & 2 tea & 2 Coffee pots, 4 kettles, 8 dishes,  4 butter boats, 2 washbowls, 3 chambers, 1 bowl, 3 milk, 3 sugars, 12 curains, 2 qt mugs, 1 cruet, 2 pr salts, 3 ½ dox plates, 2 ½ doz coffee 7 tea cups, 2 decanters, 2 tumblers, 12 overs, 4 haboards or servers, 4 Sugars, 4 Custards, 4 tea hasons, ½ doz milk pans, 2 steel pots, 1 cider stove, 3 thrall & tongs, 2 brass kettles, 1 copper & iron tea kettle, 2 dish kettles, 2 pots, 1 bake pan, 1 skillet, 1 spider, 1 waffle iron, 1 grid iron, 1 frying pan, 1 pr. said irons, 1 brass skillet& cedar, 1 chopping knife, tools, 1 ax, 1 hoe, 1 pitchfork, 1 rade, 1 shovel, 1 spade, 1 garden stand, 1 lace, 3 plains, 4 augers, 12  Grindstone, 1 1 harrow, 1 pincers, 1 small scale & nest of weights.  1 coco, 1 [unreadable] 4 pigs, 7 duringhill fowls, the above mentioned articles of furniture are principally plain & by reason of  & wear are very much reduced fom their original value and is all I possess unless may be small articles that has escaped my notice, bedding & clothing excepted.  As to my occupation for thirty last past except about three of the last years have been engaged in merchantile & manufacturing business,  about three years since I failed in business, and after disposing of all my real & personal estate except what is mentioned in this seal towards the payment of my debts, I am still invested in the sum of more than three thousand dollars for which sum I am now imprisoned in this place & must he remain until by law I can be released by this situated & also infirm I am unable to support myself much less to contribute to the support of my family which consists of my wife Betsey of the age of 58 years, one grand child named Eliza L Breeman,   6 old a boy named Lester Queco ten years old all of which enjoy comfortable heath for most of the time & by the assistance which I have already received from my grateful Country my family has been made comfortable & my heart glad.
Dan Smith
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4531
Burlington [unreadable]
Betsey Smith
widow of Dan Smith who was a Private & Hos Surg Mate in the Conn Line
Increased from $216.67 per annum
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 266 Dollars 66 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the 19 day of August 1844 and sent to H. H. Sylvester Esq. Charlestown N.H.
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book A Vol 1 Page 33.
3 certs
Inc’d under
1833
1843 } repd Aug 19 1844
Papers under act of 1832 – within rep. see Let Aug 19, 44
Let to D. D. Addsion
Augt 11, 45
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32.195
Burlington Vt.
Dan  Smith dec’d 
of  - in the state of Vt. who was a Pri & Hos Surg mate in the Co. commanded by Captain - of the -  commanded by – in the -  line for 
5 mos. Pri
10 mos Hos Surg Mate 
Inscribed on the Roll of Burl. At the rate of 266 Dollars 66 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March 1831  and ending 15 Feb 1833 when he died.  
Certificate of Pension issued the 19 day of Aug 1844 and Sent to H. H. Sylvester Esq. Charlestown N. H. 
Arrears to the 4th  - 
Semi-anl. allowance ending – 
Pay’l to  Betsey Smith his widow 
{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832}  
Recorded by F. L. Swann, Clerk 
Book E 2 Vol 3  Page 100 
[unreadable] under act 1818 at [unreadable] per annum from 4 Mar
[unreadable] 
[unreadable] see Let. Aug 19 ‘44
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WAR DEPARTMENT 
NEW ORLEANS QUARTERMASTER DEPOT 
POLAND AND DAUPHINE STREETS 
NEW ORLEANS, LA.   9 August 1936
[stamp] RECEIVED AUG 12 1936 MAIL SUB.DIV VETS ADM READER #8
Subject: Revolutionary soldier father of Elias Smith, 1775 - 1861.
To: The Veterans Administration, Washington, DC  
I wish to locate a military record of the father of Elias Smith, born Dec 6, 1775 at Ashford, Windham Co, Conn, married Mahala Whitaker of Providence, RI, at Rutland, Vt, May 16, 1802, occupation, blacksmith, lived at Bethany, Genesee Co, NY, Stockbridge, Mich, died and buried at King's Corners, Eaton Rapids, Mich. His father must have been born from 1740 to 1750, and must have lived in 1775 at Ashford, Conn, but may have moved to Tinmouth or Rutland, Vt, shortly thereafter. He had children named Elias, John, Hannah, Mary ( Polly ), Candace and probably others. Elias always claimed his father lost a leg in the Revolutionary War and wore a wooden leg thereafter. By tradition the father's name was Elias Smith but might have been Elisha or Elijah or some other name. 
None ser Connt 6   no Elias
Cephas Smith is almost certainly a brother of the Smith, whose record is sought. Cephas Smith served in Capt John Spofford's company, Col Ebenezer Allen's regiment of Vermont militia. He was born in 1736 in Suffield, Hartford Co. Conn, married in 1736 Sarah Bulkeley (1733 - 1802), and he died in Rutland, Vt. The 1790 Census shows him residing at Tinmouth, Rutland Co, Vt. It is possible that Cephas Smith, instead of being the uncle, may have been the father of Elias Smith ( 1775 - 1861), who named one of his sons Cephas and one Elias Jr. 
none
The soldier whose record is sought may have been the Elias Smith who served as a private in Capt John Ely's Company, Col Samuel H. Parson's ( 6th ) Conn Regt on muster roll, Oct 9, 1775, / Roxbury Mass and on an undated roll without special remark; or he may have been Elias Smith, grade not given on undated muster roll of 8th Co, Col Wm Douglas's Conn Regt, Rev. War, enlisted June 21, year not stated. Perhaps he might be Jonathan Smith, who enlisted at Ashford, Conn, and died May 2, 1824 at ?.   The pension claim of his widow Polly or Molly, was W19375 BL Wt 7436-160-55. He might have been the Josiah Smith, born Dec. 20, 1747, Windham Co, Conn, enlisted there and pensioned there in 1832, S14533. It is less probable that he might be the Dan Smith, who enlisted at Sharon, Litchfield Co, Conn and in 1818 was in Rutland, Vt, aged 80 years, and died Feb 13, 1833. His widow, Betsey, died Sept 23, 1845. Her pension claim was W 5174. Connecticut in the Revolution shows one Elias Smith from Haddam, one from Saybrook, and a third whose residence is not given. 
Any information on file or that is likely to lead to the record elsewhere will be much appreciated by the writer and others interested in the same soldier. 
Mark L. Ireland 
Mark L. Ireland 
Colonel, Quartermaster Corps, US Army.
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September 2, 1936
BA-J/MMHF/eel
Colonel Mark L. Ireland 
Quartermaster Corps, 
United States Army 
New Orleans, Louisiana 
Dear Sir 
Reference is made to your letter in which you state that you are trying to obtain the name of the father of Elias Smith, who was born December 6, 1776, at Ashford, Windham County, Connecticut, married May 16, 1802, in Rutland, Vermont, and lived later in Genesee County, New York, and Stockbridge, Michigan, in which state he died. You state that his father may have been Elias Smith, or Elisha, or Elijah, or Cephas, or Jonathan whose widow received a pension, W. 19373, or Josiah, pension claim, S.14533, or Dan, whose widow received a pension, W. 5174.
There is no claim for pension on file based upon service in the Revolutionary War of an Elisha Smith, who served in the Connecticut Troops, nor of an Elias or Cephas Smith. The pension claim, W.5174, Dan Smith; S.14492, Elijah Smith; S. 14493, Elijah Smith; W. 17829, Elijah Smith;  W. 17835, Elijah Smith; R.9717, Elijah Smith;  R.9740; Elijah Smith; all six last named of Connecticut, or service in the Connecticut Troops;  W. 19373, Jonathan Smith; and S. 14533, Josiah Smith; have all been ermined very carefully and no reference found in any of them to a son, Elias Smith. The War of 1812 records have been searched and no claim for pension found based upon service of Elias Smith, who was born in 1775 and died in 1861, and more fully described by you. 
Very truly yours A. D. HILLER 
Executive Assistant to the Administrator.
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1936, Sept 2 – Letter to Col Mark L. Ireland in regard several soldiers with surname Smith, who may have been the father of Elias Smith MMHF/eel
Revy WIDOW &c
File No. 5174
Betsey Smith
Widow of Dan Smith 
Surgeon Conn Line
Act: Mch 3d / 43
Index:- Vol M. Page 49
[Arrangement of 1870]
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Lt. Daniel Smith
Vermont
Act 1818
Vt. 43-4531
L. D. Woodward
Jany 7th ‘57
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Vergennes Vermont 
Dec. 9. 1843. 
J. L. Edwards Esqr 
Commissioner of Pensions 
Sir 
I return the application of Betsey Smith Corrected agreeably to the instructions contained in your favor of the 4th instant, the certificate first sent having been torn by accident I sent a new one from our City Clerk, all which I hope may prove correct. 
I am very respectfully 
Your Obt Svt 
J. Scott
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Jany 26 1844
Vt
Betsey Smith
For increase
Hon J. L. Edwards
Commissioner Pensions
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Washington City Jany 23, 44
Sir
I enclose a declaration of Mrs Betsey Smith of Vermont, widow of Daniel Smith, late of that State, who was a Hospital Surgeon at Albany in the years 1776 & 7 and who was pensioned under the Acts of July 7, 1838 and March 3 1843 as Surgeons Mate only, $20 per mo.
I will respectfully refer you to the Journals of [unreadable] Congress July 17, 1776, where you 
will find that Hospital Surgeons were paid $50 per mo. and ranked with the Surgeons in the field.  It is then said that Dan’l Smith was an asst Dep Surgeon in 1781 with pay of 50 # per mo & 16 $ sub. The length of this last service not known.
I [unreadable] hon’ble Respectfully
H. H. Sylvester
J. L. Edwards
Commr Pens
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35.822 
Dan Smith decd 
Vt 
Act 7 June 32 
increase 
5 mo pri 10  
10 mo Hospl Surgeons Mate 
266.66
to 15 Feby 33 the day his death to Betsey Smith his widow 
deducting what was paid him under act of 1818 from 4 March 41 
H.H. Sylvester 
Present
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I Asa Goodrich of West Haven in the County of Rutland & State of Vermont living of the age of sixty two years do depose & say, that I was acquainted with Dan Smith now of Rutland in the County & State aforesaid before the revolutionary war; that in the year 1776 he went into the army enlisted into Capt [unreadable] Company in Col. Burrells Regiment in the Connecticut Troops – that he returned to Sharon Connecticut in the summer of 1777 – I recollect that he was a Surgeon’s Mate in the Hospital for a considerable length of time, both before & after the time expired for which he enlisted in the regiment, but for what particular time I do not know, as I was not attached to the service, I do not know this otherwise than by the information my brother & others who were in the same company, but remember it from many persons at the time & have no doubt of the fact.  I have lived a near neighbor to Dan Smith about thirty years; that he is a man of strict veracity & integrity, that he has sustained much loss by living in the washin manufactory, by fire & other losses in so much that he is in reduced circumstances & stands in need of aid from his country for support –
Asa Goodrich
Subscribed & sworn to this first day of Decr AD 1818 before me Moses Strong Just Peace in & for County aforesaid
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State of Vermont
Rutland County ss}  New Haven Decr 1 1818
I hereby certify  that Asa Goodrich who subscribed & swore to the foregoing affidavit is a man of truth & veracity & a credible Witness
Moses Strong Just Peace
State of Vermont
I Robert Temple Clerk of Rutland County Court do certify that Moses Strong Esq before whom the foregoing deposition was taken is a Justice of the Peace acting under the authority of this state and that the above is his signature.
In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand & the seal of said County of Rutland this 1 Dec 1818
R. Temple
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Vergennes 17 Sept 1835
J. L. Edwards Esq
Dear Sir – Enclosed you have the declaration of Mrs Betsey Smith together with the evidence of her marriage & the death of her husband, showing that she is entitled to a pension under the Act of Congress passed July 7th 1838.
I hope the papers will prove satisfactory – if not please inform me without delay. The old Lady is very respectable & I have no doubt her husband performed the services stated in his declaration.  She is really wanting the pittance allowed by the act.
Respectfully Yr Obt Svt
E. D. Woodbridge
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Washington 34th Decr 1818
Sir,
The undersigned having for many years been well acquainted with Dan Smith Esqr, whose papers accompany this note; they take the liberty to state their [unreadable] belief in the most absolute strict veracity  of the said Smith; whose circumstances have become destitute in the extreme, in consequence of losses by fire, flood, illnesses in woolen and other manufactories and mercantile pursuits.
The undersigned respectfully suggests that considering the length of time which has elapsed since said Smith was in service, and the absence of documentary evidence of the early proceedings of the revolution; it is presumed the testimony offered being the best of which the [unreadable] will be deemed sufficient; particularly as it cannot be rejected but upon the presumption that the facts sworn to by the deponent are untrue.
Charles Rich
Wm Hunter
The Honorable Secretary of War
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Washington 24th Decr 1818 
Sir
Enclosed herewith, you will receive the original papers in the case of Dan Smith, with some additional testimony on which the undersigned is desirous of  an early decision; and should you entertain any doubts on the propriety of passing the claim; it is desired, that the papers, together with the accompanying notes may be presented to the Secretary of war for his decision thereon.  
Charles Rich 
Mr J. L. Edwards
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affidavit of Dan Smith
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Dan Smith of Rutland in the County of Rutland State of Vermont the applicant for a Pension under the act of Congress passed March 18. 1818 in addition to his form declaration further states and declares, that being at Fort George with the detachment of such as mentioned in his former declaration Dr. Potts who was acquainted with his uncle  Dr. Simon Smith with whom this deponent had lived, offered him the appointment of Surgeon’s Mate & gave him an appointment thereby signed by himself; the appointment was either during the pleasure of Congress or during the war according to his best recollection was considered by this deponent as a permanent appointment during the continuance of the war,  that he removed with the Hospital to Albany in the fall of 1776, in May 1777 in advantageous offer was made this deponent to enter into mercantile business &c at N Haven with Dr. Simeon Smith his uncle, where upon he applied to Dr. Stringer the then Director of the Hospital for a discharge and was accordingly discharged, that the appointment & discharge was kept by him for a time but have been long since lost, that 
Dan Smith
Subscribed & sworn to this 8th day of Decr 1818 before me
Thos Hammond Judge of the County Court for the County of Rutland
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S.1610  Dec 22d
Decr 22 1838
Pension Office
Jurat
Betsey Smith 
FREE
[stamp] VERGENNES VT DEC 13
Papers rec’d 21 September To Hon Joel R. Poinsett
Secy of War Washington
433.34
108.33
541.67
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Panton Decr 15. 1838 
Hon J. R. Poinsett 
Sir  By the request of my Mother (Betsy Smith) I have taken the liberty of writing you, respecting her claim to a Pension under the act passed the last session of Congress for the relief of  widdows of officers & soldiers of  the revolution, the papers substantiating her claim  were forwarded the forepart of Septr by E D Woodbridge of Vergennes, and as she has heard nothing from them in the fears they have miscarried – and if this is the fact hopes you will have the goodness to inform me that she may renew her claim.   I hope the anxiety of an aged widdow will be a sufficient excuse for my troubling you.  
Very Respectfully your Obt Servt 
Wm H. Smith 
M 1780 
AD 1833
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Betsey Smith
Vt. 
For arrears
Act 7 July 38 & 3 March 43
Admd [admitted]
10 mo Hosp Surg Mate
5 mo Priv
266.66 deducting under both acts what has been paid
H. H. Sylvester
Present
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State of Vermont
Addison County ss}  On this 21st day of December 1843, personally appeared in open Court before the Hon. Harvey Munsill, Judge of the Probate Court in and for the Probate District of New Haven in the County of Addison & State of Vermont, now sitting Betsey Smith a resident of the town of Panton in said County of Addison aged eighty one years who having first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7 1832.
That she is the widow of Dan Smith, late of said Panton deceased, who as she understands & fully believes, entered the service of the Untied States during the revolutionary war & served in the first plan as a Private soldier by [unreadable] & afterwards as a Surgeon’s Mate & for which services he subsequently received & enjoyed during his lifetime a Pension under the Act of the 18th March 1818 for the sum or about the sum of two hundred & forty Dollars per annum, to the records & evidence of which allowance she refers for proof of his said services.  
That her husband the said Dan Smith died on or about the 15th day of February 1833 & that she had ever since remained his widow single & unmarried.
That since his said decease she applied for & received a Pension for his said services under the act of July 7 1838 for five years & for the sum of two hundred & sixteen dollars & - cents or about that sum per annum.  And the object of the present application is to obtain the amount of the arrears of Pension to which her said husband the said Dan Smith was entitled under the aforesaid Act of June 7 1832 in his lifetime, had he lived & applied for the same & also to the arrears of his said Pension to which he has become entitled in consequence there of other in or [unreadable] & Certificates as may be adjudged most proper.
Betsey Smith
Sworn to & subscribed the day & year above mentioned before me.
Harvey Merrill Judge of Probate Court
I Electa S. Smith a resident of the town of Panton aforesaid aged 48 years do testify, depose & say that I am well knowing that the above named Betsey Smith is the widow of the said Dan Smith deceased & that she has remained his widow ever since his said decease, as I have resided in the same house wit her ever since that period & that I am also well knowing that she received a Pension for his services during the revolutionary ever since the time of his death for the same as about the sum of two hundred & forty Dollars per annum, & that since his decease she has also received a Pension for his
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said services for the term of five years for the sum or about the sum of two hundred & sixteen Dollar & - Cents  
Electa S Smith  
Sworn to & subscribed in open Court the day year before me. And I do further certify that I have the evidence, as well as from my personal knowledge that of the above affiants are credible persons, & of the utmost respectability.
Attest Harvey Munsill Judge of Probate Court
I John Pierpoint Register of the Probate Court within & for the Probate District of Newhaven aforesaid, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of Betsey Smith for a Pension In testimony whereof I have hereto affixed official signature the seal of the said at Vergennes, this 21st day of December AD 1843 & of the Independence of the United States sixty eight.  
J Pierpoint- Register
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3833
Betsey Smith
$216.67
J. Scott
Vergennes Vt.
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Declaration of Betsey Smith 
State of Vermont 
Addison County ss 
On this 24th day of August 1843. personally appeared before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said County Betsy Smith a resident of Panton in the County of Addison and State of Vermont, aged eighty one years who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on her oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed the 3d March, 1843, granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War. That she is the widow of Dan Smith who was a Surgeons mate in the Army of the Revolution and attached to the medical staff.   
That the receives a pension of Two hundred sixteen dollars to cents per annum under the act of 7th July 1838.  She further declares that she is still a widow.   
Betsey Smith 
Sworn and subscribed on the day and year above written before me 
Isaiah Scott Justice Peace 
I hereby further certify that the applicant above named, is personally known to me, and that she was a Pensioner under the act of the 7th July 1838. 
Isaiah Scott Justice Peace
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State of Vermont 
Addison County }  ss I Frederick E. Woodbridge Clerk of the Court of the City of Vergennes do hereby certify that Isaiah Scott was Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Addison, on the 26th day of August 1843, duly commissioned and qualified, and that the signature to the within declaration of Betsey Smith purporting to be his, is genuine.  In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said City this 9th day of December A.D. 1833 
F. E. Woodbridge  Clerk
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State of Vermont 
Addison County ss}  
I Henry C. Lawrence Clerk of the Court of the City of Vergennes do hereby certify that Isaiah Scott is a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Addison duly commissioned and qualified and that his signature to the annexed declaration purporting to be his is genuine.
In testimony hereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said City this 24th day of August A. D. 1843
Henry C. Lawrence
Clerk of Vergennes City Court
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1528
Vermont
Betsey Smith
widow of Dan Smith who was a pensioner under the act of 1832 and who died on the 15 Feb 1833 of Addison Co. in the State of Vt. who was a Pri & Hos S. M. in the Co. Commanded by Capt – of the – commanded by Col. Burrell in the Conn line for 10 mos. Surgeon
5 mo. Priv
Inscribed on the Roll of Burl. at the rate of 266 Dollars 66 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March 1836. Incr from $216.67
Certificate of Pension issued the 19 day of Aug 1844 and Sent to H. H. Sylvester Charlestown N. H. 
Total Amount $ - 
[Act July 7 1838]
Recorded by F. L. Swann Clerk
Book 2 Vol 1 Page 139
Rep’d
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Rep’d  Jan 20 1844 
Papers under  ‘38 & ‘32 inside 
4531 Rev. 
Vermont 
Betsey Smith 
widow of Dan Smith was a Surgeon & Private the Connecticut line 
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 216 Dollars 67 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843. 
Certificate of Pension issued the 20th day of January 1844 and sent to J Scott Vergennes Vermont
[Act of March 3, 1843.] 
Recorded in Book A Vol. 1 Page 33
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1528
Burlington Vermont
Betsey Smith
widow of Dan Smith dec’d
who was a pensioner under the Act of 1818 and who died on the 15 February 1833 of Addison Co. in the State of Vt. who was a Surgeon &c in the Company commanded by Captain – of the Regt commanded by Col Burrell in the Ct. line for 10 mos Surgeon
5 mo Private
Inscribed on the Roll of Burlington Vt at the rate of 216 Dollars 67 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March 1836
Certificate of Pension issued the 3d day of Jany 1839 and sent to W. F. Smith, Panton Vt.
Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1838   $541.67
Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Mar ’39 108.33
$650.00
{Act July 7, 1838}
Recorded by S. A. Elliot Clerk
Book A Vol 2 Page 56
Dec’d 3 March rec’d to J. Scott
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5,084
Vermont
Dan Smith
Surgeon’s Mate
Burrill’s Regt Conn’t
In the Army of the United States during the Revolutionary War
Inscribed on the Roll of Vermont
At the rate of 20 dollars per month, to commence on the 31 of March 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 23 of Decr 1818 and sent to C. Rich House of Reps.
Arrears to the 4th of Sep’r 1818 103.31
Semi-anl all’ce ending 4 Mar 1819  120 –
5 mos: 1/30 of 7/30  $223.31
{Revolutionary Claim, Act 18th March 1818}
Rutland 
Continued
10 Month 1776
Died 15th Feby ‘33
Rept June ‘33
Notification sent October 25, 1820 to R. Temple Rutland Vermont
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State of Vermont 
Addison County 
Town of Panton }  ss Know all men by these presents that I Betsey Smith widow of Dan Smith, deceased, resident in the town County and State aforesaid, a revolutionary pensioner, aged Eighty two years, do hereby make, constitute and appoint and by these presents have made, constituted and appointed Nicholas Carroll of the City of New York and Washington City, and William Weston of Bennington, Vermont, jointly and severally my true and lawful attorneys for me and in my name place and stead to prosecute all and singular, whatever claims I have against the Gennal Government of the United States on account of the Revolutionary services of my late husband, Dan Smith, deceased, but the prosecution of this claim shall not bar me from any further or future claims I may now or hereafter have, and said claim, when passed for payment, shall be payable to me in person or to my order.   
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 10th day of February, 1845. 
Betsey Smith
Sealed and delivered in presence of
Jno D. Smith
Electa S. Smith
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I hereby authorize, appoint & constitute D. D. Addison Esq of Washington City my sole attorney to prosecute the claim of Betsey Smith whose Power of Attorney is hereto annexed 
New York May 10th 1845 
N. Carroll
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Vergennes Vt
Aug 25 1843
J. L. Edwards Equire
Commr of Pensions
Dear Sir
I enclose the declaration of Betsey Smith a Pensioner under the act of 7 July 1838 for your examination.
Very Respectfully
your Obt Svt
Isaiah Scott