Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 7184, for Ralph Smith, South Carolina
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(3 - 1776)
Service S.C.
Smith, Ralph
Elizabeth
NUMBER W. 7184.
B.L. Wt. 12737-160-55

CONTENTS
b Aug 23 or 24 1763
[illegible] York District SC
Pen in 1832 Lincoln Co. Tenn
D. Nov 2 1853
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order to pay July 27. 1837
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26734
West Tennessee
Ralph Smith
of Lincoln in the State of Tennessee who was a private in the com commanded by Captain Burnet of the regt commanded by Col Hampton in the Carolina line for 
4 Mo. of Infantry
20 " " " Cavalry
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Inscribed on the Roll of West Tennessee at the rate of 96 Dollars 66 Cents per annum. to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 18 day of May 1834 and Davis Eastland Fayetteville

Arrears to the 4th of March 290.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending Sept 1832 48.33
$328.33

Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832 
Recorded by Dan Boyd Clerk
Book E Vol 7 page 97
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4757
Tennessee [Pulaske?]
Elizabeth  Smith widow of SC Ralph Smith who served. in the Revolutionary war, as a Priv. of July + [?]

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 96 dollars 66 cents per annum, to commence on the 3d February, 1853.
Certificate of Pension issued 29th day of November 185[? due to page tear] and sent to Hon. G. W. Jones
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94.331- Act March 3/55
April 2 of 55
Elizabeth Smith wid of Ralph Smith
Pri of cav
S. C. State Troops
Revolutionary War.

Ad 160 Acres Dec 11" 1858
Feb 23 Boynton

Hon. Geo. W. Jones
Ho Reps

[left side]
C. G.W. Jones, Nov. 28155
Dec 21 55 let to Hon. Geo W Jones House of Reps [illegible]
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No 17378
Ralph Smith
Lincoln County
Tennessee
From 1781 Pr Cav & inf 2 yrs
Pr Cary 20 mos. $83.33
Pr inf 4 mos..13.33
$96.66

14 p of S.

Papers again out 27 Sep 31 for more satisfactory proof of service

Davis Eastland
Fayetteville
Tennessee
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BRIEF in case of Ralph Smith of Lincoln County of the State of Tennessee
(Act 7th June, 1832.)
1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? a Court
2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?
3. How old is he? 69
4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.
Period.
Enlisted in 1781
Enlisted in 1782

Duration of Service.
Years Months Days.
10 months
3 years

Rank. As a Private
 
Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.
Col. Wade Hampton
Capt. Barnett Maj. Rutherford
Capt Barnett Maj. Conyers

5. In what battles was he engaged? None
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? York Dist. S>C>
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Living witness
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? Correct
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above
Dyer Caster Examining Clerk
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Geo. H. Jones
House of Reps
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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefits of the 2d Section of the act of February 3d 1853

State of Tennessee - County of Lincoln 55
On this 28th day of October A D. 1854 personally appeared before me one of the Justices of the County Court of said Lincoln County Elizabeth Smith a resident of the County and State aforesaid, aged Eighty six years, who first being duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by an act of Congress passed on the 2d February 1853, granting Pensions to widows of persons who served during the
Revolutionary War; that she is the widow of Ralph Smith who was a Private of Infantry and Cavalry in the the Revolution, as will more fully appear by his original Pension Certificate herewith presented.

She further declares that she was married to the said Ralph Smith some time in the fall of the year A.D. 1788 the precise date not now remembered her first child Joseph was born October 10th 1790. She was married in York District in the State of South Carolina, but of her marriage she has no record either public or private; that her said husband did on the 2d day of November 1853; that she was married to him prior to the Second day of January 1800 and at and about the time above stated. She further declares that she is now a widow
[signed]Elizabeth X Smith her Mark
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written, before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace and Justice of the County Court of said Lincoln County in the State of Tennessee and I further certify that said Elizabeth Smith the applicant from bodily infirmity to is unable to attend Court
William A. Hicks
Justice of the Lincoln County Court
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State of Tennessee
County of Lincoln
On this 30th day of October A.D. 1851 personally appeared before me the undersigned a Justice of the Peace within and the County and State aforesaid, William Stephens and Samuel J Bland citizens of the County aforesaid, to me personally known and are credible witnesses, who being first duly sworn according to law depose and say that they have been personally acquainted with Elizabeth Smith the within declarant and her husband Ralph Smith Decd from about the year 1817 and Continuously from that time to the death of said Ralph in about the time and in the within declaration; and that during all that time, the said Ralph and Elizabeth lived together regularly as man and wife, and was so considered by their neighbors and the community in which they lived, They also say that they are and have been acquainted with said Elizabeth since the death of her husband to this time and that she is now the widow of said Ralph Smith Deceased. They further state that said Ralph and Elizabeth Smith and family of children, among whom were Joseph, Margaret, Nancy, Thomas, James, Elizabeth, Ralph & John twins, Susannah and Jonathan the youngest of whom must now be over forty years of age, And further that they are disinterested
[signed] William Stephens
Sworn to and subscribed before me the date afore written
Samuel J. Bland
Justice of the Peace
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State of Tennessee County of Lincoln, SS
I, Eli L. Hodge Clerk of the County Court of said Lincoln County in the State aforesaid, Certify that the same is a Court of record and that William W. Hicks before whom the foregoing declaration of Elizabeth Smith was sworn to was at the time of attesting the same a Justice of the Peace within
and for said County and a Justice of our said County Court duly elected, commissioned and qualified as appears in the records in my office. I further certify that William Royer before whom the affidavit of William Thomas and Samuel J. Bland was sworn to was at the time of attesting the same, a Justice of the Peace within and for said County of Lincoln duly elected commissioned and qualified as appears remaining of record in my office, and that the respective signatures of said William A. Hicks and Samuel J. Bland are genuine.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto scribed my name and affixed the seal of our said County Court, at Fayetteville this 30th day of October A.D. 1851
Eli L. Hodge Clerk

Fayetteville Tennessee Oct. 30. 1834
Hon L. P. Waldo Com DC
Sir
I knew old Ralph Smith for some twenty or twenty five years before his death. I knew several of his sons Will, James and also Ralph & John who were twins, and John the one now living, must be about fifty years of age, the old people must have lived together about sixty five years, & I also know both witnesses, Stephens and Bland and have for twenty five or thirty years. We have no better or more truthful men amongst us. This case is all right beyond even the possibility of a doubt
respectfully
G.W. Jones
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Address To the care of Davis Eastland
Fayetteville Tennessee

Ralph Smith
17378
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State of Tennessee
Lincoln County
County Court October Term 1832
On this 19th day of October 1832 personally appeared in open court before Justices of the County Court of Lincoln County Tennessee Ralph Smith a resident of said County aged 69 years, on the 23d 24th of August last 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 June 7th 1832

That he enlisted in the army of the United States in the year 1781, some time in the month of April for a term of ten months with Captain Jacob Barnet and served in the 1st Regiment (as I now think) of the South Carolina cavalry, the No of the regiment I do not know, but I recollect that our regiment was always was always placed on the right - our regiment was commanded by Colonel Wade Hampton & Major Rutherford, the company to which I belonged was commanded by Capt Jacob Barnet, 1st Lieutenant William Barnet and William Rogers-- I lived at the time of my enlisting in York District, S. Carolina- I had been drafted for a tour of three months, and when I arrived at head quarters, on the Congaree river just below where Columbia is now situated I enlisted as above stated, which I think was on the 5th of April 1781-- there were two other regiments there besides the one in which I enlisted one commanded by Col Middleton and the other by Col Polk and all under the command of General Sumpter
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during the time of my ten months enlistment, I was not engaged any battle-- about the beginning of summer, we marched towards Ninety six, but understanding that the British had evacuated it and 
were marching towards Charleston, we turned our course and took some of them prisoners, but had no engagement with them-- we pursued them to what was then called Congaree fort, we were there engaged principally in scouting parties, until some time in September our regiment was ordered to join the forces under Genl Greene, in order to attack the British under Lord Rawdon & the two armies met & had a battle at Eutaw Springs but I was not engaged in the battle, having been left at the Congaree, to take care of the those who were sick in the hospital, in consequence of having no horse-we were then engaged in scouting parties against the Tories on the High Hills of Santee and in that vicinity until the end of my ten months service. - Before the term of my first enlistment expired. I again enlisted in the same company & under the same Col Hampton & Majr James Conyers (Maj. Rutherford having been killed at the Eutaw Springs) for the term of three years. after we had become properly equipped, we marched down on the same river, when Col. Hampton married and retired
from service-- we were then placed under command of a col. whose name I think was Maham, but
he was not with as much and Majr Conyers had the principal command of our regiment, until he
died, which was a short time before Christmas in the year 1782, when his place was supplied by Capt
Thos Giles who was promoted to be a Major-
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we were then engaged in scouting parties in the neighborhood of Charleston until the British
evacuated that town, when we were dismounted and stationed in Charleston, where we remained
until the end of the war, when were sent home upon a furlough about July 1781 which stated, that we might remain until called upon by the proper authorities, and if not called it was to be considered as a final discharge - my furlough was signed by Maj Henry Hearn, as well as I now recollect who was placed in the command when we were stationed in Charleston, but it is now lost

I have no documentary evidence of my services nor do I know of any person by whom I can prove them, except one Manyard Colley who enlisted in the same company that I did about the time that I enlisted the last time for three years & whose affidavit will accompany this declaration. I continued to live in S. Carolina about twenty years since when I moved to this county where I now live. I hereby relinquish every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declare that my name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state
[signed] Ralph Smith
Sworn to & subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Test Robt Inge Clerk

And the said Court, hereby declare their opinion that the abovenamed applicant was a revolutionary
soldier and served as he states
Abner Steed
Wm Edmiston
Samuel Buchanan
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I Robert S Inge Clerk of the County Court of Lincoln County Tennessee, do hereby certify that the
foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of
Ralph Smith for a pension

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand the seal of said Court at office this 19th
day of October 1832
Robt Inge Clerk
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94331
Declaration of
Elizabeth Smith
for Bounty Land
Act March 3. 1855
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State of Tennessee County of Lincoln
On this 10th day of April 1855 personally appeared before me, a Justice of the Peace within and for the County aforesaid Elizabeth Smith aged 86 years a resident of said Lincoln County, who, being duly sworn according to law, declares that she is the widow of Ralph Smith, deceased, who was a private of Infantry and Cavalry in the war of the Revolution, and was a pensioner of the United States under the act of June 7, 1832 and that she was as the widow of said Ralph Smith inscribed on the Pension at the rate of Ninety Six dollars and sixty six cents per annum commencing on the 3d of February 1853 on the 29th of November 1854.

She further declares that she is now a widow and has never married since the death of her husband
the said Ralph Smith for proof of her marriage, the service and death of her husband she refers to her application for Pension in the year 1854 and now on file in the Pension office,

She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the bounty land to which she may be entitled under the act approved March 3d 1855.
[signed] Elizabeth X Smith her Mark

We John Smith and Elisha H. Stedman residents of Lincoln County in the State of Tennessee on oath declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by Elizabeth Smith in our presence; and that we believe, from the appearance and statements of the applicant, that she is the
identical person she represents herself to be.
John Smith
Elisha H. Stedman
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The foregoing declaration and affidavit were sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and year above written; and I certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons, and that the claimant is the person she represents o herself to be, and that I have no interest in this Claim
William N. Hicks
Justice of the Peace

State of Tennessee County of Lincoln
I Eli L Hodge Clerk of the County Court of said County, do hereby certify that William N. Hicks whose signature appears to the foregoing declaration and affidavit, is and was at the time of signing the same a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly elected, commissioned and qualified and that the signature purporting to be his is genuine.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto Subscribed my name and affixed the seal of our said County Court at Office in Fayetteville this 11th day of April 1833
Eli L. Hodge Clerk
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September 14, 1935
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
BA-J/MCS
Ralph Smith, W7184

Miss Ethel Smith
c/o Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.
195 - 197 West Main Street
Gastonia, North Carolina

Dear Madam:

The data which follow were obtained from papers on file in the pension claim, W. 7584, based upon the Revolutionary War service of Ralph Smith,

He was born August 23 or 24, 1763. The place of his birth and the names of his parents were not given.

While living in York District, South Carolina, he enlisted in 1780 or April 5, 1781, and served until about July, 1783, as private with the South Carolina troops under Captains Henry White and
Jacob Barnett, in Lieutenant Colonel Henry Hampton's Regiment of Light Dragoons and under Colonel Maham and Kimball.

He was allowed pension on his application executed October 19, 1832, at which time he was living in Lincoln County, Tennessee, having moved there from South Carolina about 1812.

Ralph Smith died November 2, 1853.

He married in York District, South Carolina, in the fall of 1788 Elizabeth whose maiden name was not given.

She was allowed pension on her application executed October 28, 1854, at which time she was eighty-six years of age and was living in Lincoln County, Tennessee.
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Their first child, Joseph, was born October 10, 1790. They also had the following children: Margaret, Nancy, Thomas, James, Elizabeth, Ralph and John who were twins, Susannah and Jonathan.

Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant to the Administrator
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[left side]
1935. Sept. 14. hist to Miss Ethel Smith MCS
[right side]
Revolutionary War
WIDOW, &c.
File No.7 184
Elizabeth Smith 
Wid
Ralph Smith
Pvt Infty. Cavry Rev War
Act: Feb. 3d 1843
Index: -- Vol. A, Page 219
{Arrangement of 1870.}
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12.737

160 acres
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Please give me the residence of the [illegible]
named Smith [illegible]
Com Pension
Geo W Jones
Senate
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94331
BL act 3d M 55
Chief Clerk Dec 10/55
Eliz Smith, widow of Ralph
[illegible] ad 53-4757
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Pens act 53  Tenn

Boynton
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No. 5.254
Elizabeth Smith
Widow of Ralph
Lincoln Co Tenn

Act 53
$96.00 per annum
Com. 2d Nov. 1853

$96.66
Revy

Hon' Geo Jones
House Reps

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Pension Office, Official Business
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Pen Off: Nov. 13, 1854.
This case is already for admission
wait until Hon: Geo Jones arrives then send Cert: to him at the Ho. Rep.
Boynton
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Pension Office
Nov. 14 1854
Sir. Please certify the
time to which the within
named Pensioner was
paid, or the date of his
death.
Very Respectfully
LP Waldo
Commissioner

R. J. Atkinson, Esqr
Third Auditor, [illegible]
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Ralph Smith paid to 4 Sept 1853
Robt J Atkinson
Auditor
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Ralph Smith
Tenn.
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The State of Alabama
Limestone County
Personally appeared before me James Simpson a Justice of the peace in & for the County aforesaid
Mainyard Colly aged seventy four years whom I certify to be a credible witness who being duly
Sworn according to Law states, that he is well acquainted with Ralph Smith, now a resident of the County of Limestone in the State of Tennessee that in the month of October 1781 affiant first became personally acquainted with said Smith & that he was then a private in the Company of Light horse commanded by Captain Jacob Barnett in which William Barnett was Lieutenant & that said company belonged to the regiment commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Wade Hampton, that said Regiment belonged to what was called the South Carolina State Troops were under the command of General Green - affiant and said Company shortly after the battle of Eutaw Springs as a substitute in the place of one John Stevenson whose term of service he agreed to perform that he served in said Company four months, together with said Ralph Smith that the original term of service of said company of Light horse was ten months, that at the end of said four months said affiant enlisted together
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with said Ralph Smith for the Term of three years in the same Company & Regiment with the same
officers except that Minor Wynn became Lieutenant in the place of Lieutenant William Barnett that said Smith served with said affiant in said Company of Light horse under said enlistment of three years until December 1782 at which time said Light horse dismounted & marched into Garrison in Charleston South Carolina at which time affiant left said Smith doing duty in said company in the garrison of Charleston affiant left said troops because by the Terms of enlistment he considered himself discharged when said troops were dismounted, but that said Smith continued with said troops when he left. Affiant knew personally that said Smith served in said troops from October 1781 to December 1782 during all which time he served with him I always understood from his fellow
Soldiers that said Smith had served six months in said Company when affiant found them that
he served about six months after affiant left them as said affiant states that he is now a Revolutionary 
Pensioner in the enjoyment of his pension-
[signed] Mainyard Colley
Subscribed & sworn to before me this 19th of April 1834 James Simpson Do
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State of Alabama Limestone County 
Robert Austin Jr Clerk of the County Court of the County aforesaid do hereby certify that James
Simpson whose name is signed to the foregoing affidavit was at the date thereof an acting justice of the peace in and for said County and that full faith and credit are due to all his official act and deeds as such and that his said Certificate is in due form of Law

In Testimony whereof I have hereto set my name and affix the seal of said Court at office this 19th
day of April 1834 and 58th year of American
Independence Test Robert Austin, Clk

State of Alabama
Limestone County
I George W Lane Judge of the County Court of the County aforesaid do hereby certify that Robert
Austin Jr whose name is signed to the above certificate is and was the Clerk at of said Court at the time of signing the same and that due faith and credit  - due all his official act and that his certificate
is in due form of law.  Given under my hand and seal and 19th April 1834
Geo W Lane
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Brief in the case of Elizabeth Smith, widow of Ralph
Lincoln County and State of Tennessee
3d Feby. 1853
Claim,(original)
Proof exhibited, (if original)
Is it documentary, Traditionary, or supported by the Rolls? If either state the substance.
Husband was pensioned under the act of 7th June 1832 at a rate of $96.66 per annum. Two witnesses testify to general reputation of marriage& cohabitation since 1817 that parties said had large family of Children. Pensioner died 2d Nov 1853 as per affidavit of two credible witnesses & report of the third Auditor intestate. Widowhood and identity established by the affidavits of two credible affiants. Hon Geo Jones presents the claim for
affiant that affiants to be Jues present the claim for Mrs. Smith & says in his letter "he knew the Ralph Smith 9the pensioner) for some twenty or twenty five years before his death. Knew several of this sons as well. The old people must have lived together about fifty-five years, years. This case is all right, beyond even the possibility of a doubt"
J. C. Boynton
Examining Clerk.
Name and residence of Agent
Hon Geo. W. Jones Ho: Rep:
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Payments to be made
at Nashville by the
Agent for paying Pensioners
in the Agency of West Tennessee

Recorded in the pension Office in Book E Page 9 by Dan'l Boyd Clerk
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WAR DEPARTMENT.
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.
I certify that in conformity with the law of the United States of the 7th June, 1832, Ralph Smith of the State of Tennessee who was a private of Infantry & Cavalry in the Army of the Revolution is entitled to receive ninety six dollars and July six cents per annum, during his natural life, commencing on the 4th of March 1831, and payable semi annually on the 4th of March and 4th of September in every year.

Given at the War Office of the United States this 9th day of May one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four.
Lew Cass
Secretary of War.
Examined and Countersigned
J.L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions.
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Ralph Smith
Tennessee
(14)

Davis Eastland
Fayetteville Tennessee
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BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which these answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the case of Ralph Smith which require further proof or explanation.
1. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides?
II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides?
III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason
assigned for his not doing so?
IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served?
V. Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he
served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amount of pension
he is entitled?
VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations?
VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of
June 7, 1832?
VIII. Has the Court given their opinion?
IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate?
X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished
from any other seal?
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2
XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to
their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service? No
XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it? No
XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had? Living Witnesses
XIV. If the applicant's name is not found on the rolls of military service, has he produced a witness
or witnesses as to his service? No
If he has produced direct proof as to service, has the magistrate who administered the oath,
certified to the credibility of the witness or witnesses?
Has the proper officer certified to the official character and signature of the magistrate as the
regulations direct? No
XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service?
XVI. Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct?
XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And,
if not, which of them is not so answered?

EXPLANATORY NOTES.
QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
"Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being
duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he
cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades; For ____ year ____ months, and ____ days, I served as a____  For ____ months and ____ days, I served as a _____ ; and for such service I claim a pension.
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It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served,
and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three four months is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state they served two years in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours; the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is highly objectionable. It must in every case be clearly shewn under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority; that he was either in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit.

QUERE XIV. Proof of Service.
In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must
prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.

QUERE XVI. Mode of authenticating papers.
In every case where the clerk of the court, or other certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which  must pass attached to the certificate. under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly. 

In every case where the clerk of the court, or other certifying officer, has no public seal of
office, the certificate of a member of congress, proving the official character and signature of the
certifying officer, should accompany the papers.
[handwritten]
Two witnesses are required by the regulations as there is but one witness he must give a more full
and satisfactory account of his knowledge of the applicant service. If any additional testimony can 
be obtained it should be exhibit
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Ralph Smith
Rev. War.
Bounty land.
94331
Elizabeth Smith
wid
Ralph

Boynton

Hon Geo Jones
H of R.
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Comptroller Generals Office
Columbia So. Ca.
Dec. 7th 1855.
It is hereby certified that it appears from a Pay Roll of Capt. Barnett Troop in Lt Col Henry Hampton's Regt of Light Dragoons Commanded by Brigadier Gen Sumter 16 March 1882 that Ralph Smith Served ten months as a private in the same and it is further certified that account No 598
Book on file in this office shows that Ralph Smith served
42 days private horseman under Maj Robt Crawford, Genl Ashmore
14  "   "   "   " Capt Harry White  "  "  "  "
20  "  "   "  ' Col Kimball  "   "   "   "
in the years 1780 & 1781 and that he was also paid for a Rifle gun lost in Sumter's Defeat Aug 1780 and for a mare lost in action at "Great Savana" Feby 1781. That the account is Sworn to by Ralph Smith before Wm Tate J.P. & the other vouchers proven before Justice of Camden District 1783 & 1784, as it was then known & subsequently by act of Assembly [illegible] in several of the present Districts
J. C. Ashmore
Comptroller General
no seal of Office
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[letterhead] METROPOLITAN LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY
FREDERICK H. ECKER, PRESIDENT
GASTONIA DISTRICT
MILTON O. CULPEPPER, MANAGER
195-197 WEST MAIN STREET
GASTONIA, N. C.,
[end letterhead] 
7/17 /30

United States Dept of the Interior.
Bureau of Pensions
Washington D.C.

Dear Sirs:
Please he kind enough to send me the Revolutionary pension records of William C Smith who served in North Carolina: William Smith who served in Virginia troops and Ralph Smith who served in South Carolina Militia, all three of these soldiers drew pension in Lincoln Co. Tenn.

Thanking you for your courtesy
(Miss) Ethel Smith

WHEN REPLYING TO THIS COMMUNICATION, BE SURE TO GIVE CORRECT POLICY NUMBER
[three stamps showing receipt Jul, 18, 19 & 20 , 1935 respectively
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[stamp]
RECEIVED
AUG 20 ??
MAIL SUB-DIV
READER 10
VETS ADM
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September 14, 1935
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
BA-J/MCS
Ralph Smith
W. 7184

Miss Ethel Smith
c/o Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.
195 - 197 West Main Street
Gastonia, North Carolina

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your request for records of Revolutionary War soldiers, Ralph Smith, William Smith and William C. Smith who were pensioned from Lincoln County, North Carolina.

Because of the large number of requests for records of Revolutionary War soldiers and the lack of clerical force available for furnishing such information, this office is unable to send more than
two records to each inquirer.

You are furnished herewith, the records of Ralph Smith and William C. Smith,

Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant to the Administrator