Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 29,464, for Simeon Smith, Massachusetts
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
Mass.               

Smith, Simeon

NUMBER
S. 29,464

CONTENTS
A. Oct. 1753 in South Hadley Mass.
resi at enl. & in 1832 West Springfield, Hampton Co. Mass.
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts County of Hampden
On this twenty seventh day of August 1832 personally appeared in open court, before the Judge of the court of Probate for said county now sitting Simeon Smith a resident of West Springfield in the county of Hampden aforesaid & state of Massachusetts aged seventy nine years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers & served as herein after stated. That in April 1775 he was ordered to Roxbury as one of the minute men belonging to the militia of the town of West Springfield, & that soon after his arrival there, he enlisted for the term of eight months. That he was ordered out immediately after the battle of Lexington. That he remained in the service at & near Roxbury during the whole period of his enlistment, & was dismissed in the month of January 1776 when he returned home. That George Blake, Oliver Bagg, & several others from the town enlisted & served with him & returned at the same time. That Timothy Davidson of Bromfield was the Colonel, William Sheperd of Hertford, the Lieut. Colonel, & David Leonard of West Springfield the major of the Regiment to which his company belonged. and that Enoch Chapin, Samuel Flower & Luke Day were the Captain & Lieutenant of the company in which he served.
That he was born at South Hadley in this state on the twenty fourth of October 1753. That he knows of no record of his birth, unless there may be one on the record of the town of South Hadley. That he left the town of South Hadley in the month of February 1772 & came to the town of West Springfield, where he has made it his home to the present time. That in the service above mentioned, as well as in those which are hereafter mentioned he served by voluntary enlistment. That he enrolled himself as a minute man in the case above mentioned by voluntary signature.

The said Simeon Smith further declares that some time in the forepart of September in the year 1776 he again enlisted for the term of three months in a company of which Nathan Rowley was Captain, Roger Cooley & Joseph Merrick, Lieutenant, all belonging to this town. John Moseby of Westfield was Colonel of the Regiment, Wells Lieut. Colonel & May was Major. That he was marched to the neighborhood of Kings Bridge, in the vicinity of New York. Then to (illegible) neck where we remained two or three days. Then