Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 43154, for Abel Smith, Rhode Island
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Service:  Conn, RI

Smith, Abel

S.43154
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17559

New York
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Abel Smith 2nd
of New York in the State of New York who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Olney of the Rhode Island line forthe term of 1 year.
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Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 11th of June 1818
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Certificate of Pension issued the 22 of June 1820 and delivered to Pensioner
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Arrears to 4th of Mar 1820 - $166. 36
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Sept 1820 - $48.00
(total) $214.36

Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818.
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Notification sent to M Meyers & Co New York 21 Sept 1820
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17559

Abel Smith 2nd

City of New York

Olney's regt
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NEW YORK MAYOR'S COURT.
Sold by J.B. Jansen.

In the Court of Common Pleas, called the Mayor's Court of the City of New-York, held at the City-Hall, in and
for the said City, before the Judges of the same Court, of July term, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty

PRESENT the Honorable Peter D Jay

City of New-York, ss. Be it Remembered, That on the eighteenth day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty personally appeared in the Court of Common Pleas, called the Mayor's Court of the city of New-York, in open court, the said court being a court of record for the city and county of New-York, according to the charter of the said city and the laws of the state of New-York, Abel Smith 2nd aged fifty six years, resident in City of New York who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare, that he served in the revolutionary war as follows:

That he enlisted at the Town of West Greenwich in the State of Rhode Island in April 1781 in Col Olney Regiment of the Rhode Island line in the Continental Establishment, in Captain Ebenezer Macomber Company for Nine Months and served during the full term of his enlistment, when he was honorably discharged.

That he has no wife or children and is by occupation a Taylor but from a defect in sight and bodily infirmities he is unable to obtain a livelihood by his personal labor, but is in indigent circumstances and requires the aid of his Country or private Charity

and that his original declaration is dated the Eleventh day of June one thousand eight hundred and Eighteen and that his pension certificate is No. 17559
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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, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen: 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, to wit:

Real Estate - none of any description
fixed Income - none of any description

Personal Estate viz:
1 coat, 2 pr Pantaloons 1 Shirt
1 pr Shoes & hat

(worth) $5

Abel Smith 2d

Sworn in open court this 18th day of July 1820
Benj Ferris, Clk
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I, Benjamin Ferris, Clerk of the city and county of New-York, and Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, called the Mayor's Court of the city of New-York, Do hereby certify, That the foregoing deposition and the schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the records 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 not more than twenty dollars.

In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, this first day of August 1820

Benj Ferris
Clk
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State of New-York,
CITY AND COUNTY OF NEW-YORK, SS.

I BENJAMIN FERRIS, Clerk of the City and County of New-York, and Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the said City and County, Do hereby certify, That RICHARD RIKER, Esquire, before whom the annexed Affidavits were made, and who hath subscribed his name to the Certificate also hereto annexed, was on the day when the said Affidavits were made and the said Certificate signed, Recorder of the City of New-York, and a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, called the Mayor's
Court of the City of New-York, and duly commissioned and sworn. And further, that the said Court is a Court of Record of the State of New-York, and that the signature of R. RIKER subscribed to the said Certificate, is the proper hand writing of the said Richard Riker.

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, this Sixth day of August 1818

Benj. Ferris
Clerk
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State of New-York, ss.

To the Hon. Richard Riker

Recorder of the City of New-York, and one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas, called the Mayor's Court of the City of New-York, which is a Court of Record of the State of New York.

The Declaration under Oath of Abel Smith formerly a soldier engaged in the Service of the United States
during the Revolutionary War, now a Citizen of the United States and resident of the City and County of New York, respectfully showeth

THAT the said Abel Smith inlisted sometime in the month April AD 1781 Capt James Danas Company and col Shipman's Regiment in Genl Waterbury's Brigade in the Connecticut line, under the continental Establishment in the Revolutionary war and served untill May.  was then taken a prisoner of war at Westchester in the State of New York and held a prisoner in the City of New York untill July. was then
exchanged and returned to the above mentioned regiment and then served untill April 1782.  was then honorably discharged and inlisted again in Capt Ebenezer Macomber Company, Col Olney Regiment in the Rhode Island line under the continental establishment and served untill the end of the Revolutionary War 1783 against the common of the United States and was then honorably discharged.

And the declaration further sheweth, that the said Abel Smith is now a citizen of the United States, resides in the city of New-York, and is by reason of his reduced circumstances in life, in need of assistance from his country for support and on account of ill health caused by service rendered in the late war to the United (States) as a soldier on the Northern front line.

Therefore the said Abel Smith conceives himself entitled to the benefit of the Act of the Congress of the United States, entitled, "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and Naval Service of the United States in the Revolutionary War," approved 18th March, 1818, and requests your Honor will examine into the truth of the matter aforesaid, certify and transmit
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the testimony in the case, and the proceedings had thereon, to the Honorable the Secretary of the Department of War, to the end that such relief may be had in the premises, as is by law in such case made and provided. And in support of the facts above set forth, the said Abel Smith refers to affidavit of Capt Joseph Colter and Asa Holden

City and County of New-York ss. 

Personly appeard Abel Smith of the City and County of New-York, being duly sworn, saith, that the matters by him set forth in the foregoing Declaration, are in all respects just and true.

Abel Smith

Sworn before me this Eleventh day of June 1818

R Riker, Recorder of the city of New York

City and County of New York ss. 

Joseph Cutler of the City of New York one of the Inspectors of the Custom House of the United States, being sworn, saith, that he is well acquainted with Abel Smith the above named Petitioner and remembers that the said Abel Smith served in the Battalion commanded by Major Shipman for one year this Deponent being at that time an officer in the said Battalion

Joseph Cutler

Sworn before me this 7th day of April 1820 
P. A. Jay
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State of New-York,
City and County of New-York, ss. 

I, BENJAMIN FERRIS, Clerk of the City and County of New-York, and Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, in and for the said City and County, do hereby certify, That PETER AUGUSTUS JAY, Esquire, before whom the annexed affidavit was made, and who hath subscribed his name thereto, was on the day when the said Affidavit was made, Recorder of the City of New-York, and a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, called the Mayor's Court of the City of New-York, and duly commissioned and sworn. And further, that the said Court is a Court of Record; that I am acquainted with the hand writing of the said Peter Augustus Jay, and verily believe that the signature of P A Jay subscribed to the said affidavit is the proper hand writing of the said Peter Augustus Jay.

In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, this Sixteenth day of June 1820

Benj Ferris, Clk
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43154

INVALID

Revy

File No:  43154

Abel Smith
Pri - Rev War

Act: 18th March 18

Index:  Vol 3, Page 469

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