Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 21,489, for James Smith, North Carolina
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(3-1776)
SERVICE
N.C.
Va.
Smith, James S. 21.489
carded
CONTENTS
b. Aug 6.1765 in Augusta (Hardy Co.) Va. there at ent. In 1834 res. of Jefferson Co. Tenn.
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27.550
East Tennessee

James Smith
Jefferson Co. in the State of Ten.
who was a pri. in the Company commanded by Capt.--- of the Reg't commanded by Col. Neiswonger in the Carolina line for Militia N.C. and Va.
6 moths. $20.00

Inscribed on the Roll of E. Ten.
at the rate of $20 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 19th day of Aug't. and sent to 
'34 Hon. Joseph Anderson, Treasury Dept.

Arrears to the 4th of March '34  60.00
Semi-anl. allowoance ending 4 Sept. 10.00 =
$70.00
{Revolutionaory Claim,}
{Act June7, 1832.}
Recorded by P.F. Springer Clerk,
Book E2 Vol. 7 Page 14
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31.735
James Smith
Tennessee
for 1700 per 6 - $20



Hon. Joseph Anderson
1st Comptroller
Treasury Dept.
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State of Tennessee}
County of Jeffeson} SS.

On this 25th day of June 1834 personally appeared before me Charles Harrison a Justice of the Peace in and for the county of Jefferson and State of Tennessee, James Smith, a resident citizen of the county of Jefferson and State aforesaid, aged Sixty Eight years and ten months, 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 the Declarant James Smith was born on the 6th of August 1765 of which he has no record - on the South fork of Potowmac river, in what was then called Augusta County, afterwards Hardy County, in the State of Virginia. He lived in this county untill the year 1782 when he moved to the county of Washington the State of North Carolina, now the State of Tennessee. Declarant has lived in different counties in the State of Tennessee, since he moved to the State. Many years ago he moved to Kentucky where he lived five years. He then returned to Tennessee, where he has lived ever since and where he now lives in Jefferson County, near Frenceh Broad
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river. Declarant does not recollect the precise period of his residence in the different counties in which he has lived in the State of Tennessee. In the month of October 1781 Declarant was drafted in Hardy county, State of Virginia, at his company muster ground, at John Spoor's house, by Capt. James Stephenson. Our rendezvous was at the town of Romney. At this place Declarant was placed under the command of Captain Joel Berry. John Hornback was the Lieutenant and ---- Wilson the Ensign of our compapny. The non-commissioned officers are not recollected. There were two comapnies at Romney. From Romney we were marched to Winchester, Virgina, where we were placed under the command of Colonel Joseph Neiswonger. At Winchester we were empoyed in guarding the prisoners taken at the Siege of York. There was a larbe body of prisoners, the number being unknown to Declarant. We were here kept to guard the prisoners, untill orders were received to convey them out of the State of Virginia; when we marched with them to Shepherdstown, on the line between the States of Virginia and Maryland. At Shepherdstown we put them on the Potowmac river. We were then marched back to Winchester and there discharged in the
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month of January day not recollected in the year 1782 Declarant received a written discharge from Capt. Joel Berry for this tour of three months. Declarant left this discharge among his father's papers, when he emigrated to the Western Country, and he has since ascertained that it has been lost when or where he does not know. In the Spring of the year 1782 Declarant emigrated to the county of Washington then the State of Tennessee. In August day not recollected, 1782, orders were received from Colonel John Sevier for raising men to march against the Cherokee Indians. Declarant volunteered in this expedition in August 1782 day not recollected under Captain Beane our militia Captain. The names of the subaltern and non commissioned officers are not recollected. The appointed, place of rendezvous was Evan's ferry on French Broad river, at which place a large body of men, several hundred convened under Colonel John Sevier. The route of the expeditin was as follows, from Evan's ferry, by the Indian trace to the Chota ford on the Tennesee river.
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Thence to the Tellico Plains, where we attacked and burnt the Indian towns and destroyed their corn and provisions. Here Several Indians were killed. Thence crossing the Tellico river, we marched to the Tennessee river, and then burnt a town. Thence up the river, crossing the Tennessee on the Coosa river, where we burnt several towns. From the Big Swamp Spring on the Coosa river we returned by a rout near the mountain and after being lost in the Chilldown mountains, were at length safely piloted to the old trace and by it returned home. This Declarant received a verbal discharge from his captain for this tour of three months, in the month of November 1782, Captain Beane promised the men written discharges for their tours, upon their application for them Declarant never believing that it would be of any service to him to get one, never applied for a written discharge. Declarant shortly after his return moved to Greene County, N. C.  and thus he never received any thing for either of these tours - each of them being a tour three months. Major Rupell was a major in this expedition. There were no regulars employed in either of the tours, in which Declarant served. Declarant has no
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documentary evidence in regard to his services, nor does he know of any person living by whom he could prove his services. He hereby relinquishes his 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; Declarant would refer to the Reverend Henry Randolph a;nd Mr. Willis Taylor who can be examined touching his character for veracity and their belief of his servcies as a soldier of the Revolution. Sworn to and Subscribed this 25th day of June 1834 before me.
[Signatures]
James Smith
Charles Harrison
Justice of the peace 
for Jefferson County

We Henry Randolph a Clergyman, residing in the county of Jefferson and State of Tennessee and Willis Taylor residing in the same county and state hereby certify that we are well acquainted with James Smith who has Subscribed and Sworn to the foregoing declaration; that we believe him to be sixty eight years and ten months
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old; that he is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to be a man of veracity and to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn to and Subscribed this 25th day of June 1834 before me.
[Signatures]
Henry Randolph
Willis Taylor
Charles Harrison Justice of the peace
for Jefferson County

And the said Justice of the peace hereby declares his opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogtories  prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a revoolutionary soldier and served as he states. And the said Justice of the Peace further certifies, that it appears to him that Henry Randolph who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman, resident in the county of Jeffereson and that Willis Taylor who has also signed the same is a resident in the same county and is a credible person , and that their statement is entitled to credit. And the said Justice further certifies that the Declarant is unable to attend Court on account of bodily infirmity.
[Signature]
Charles Harrison
Justice of the peace
for Jeffereson County
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State of Tennessee}
Couny of Jefferson} SS.

I Joseph Hamilton Jr. Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions of Jefferson County and State aforesaid hereby certify that Charles Harrison Esq. who has attested the signature and oath of James Smith to the foregoing Pension Declaration who has attested the signatures and oaths of the testifying clergyman and citizen to their certificate, and who has himself signed the foregoing certificate in behalf of said Smith, is now and was at the time of Attesting and signing the same, a Justice of the peace in and for the county of Jefferson and State aforesaid duly commissioned and qualified, and that full faith and credit are due to all his official acts as such. And I further certify that his signature wherever it appears in the foregoing papers is in his own proper handwriting.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal of office this 24th day of July 1834.

Joseph Hamilton Jr. 
Court of Jefferson County
[Signature]
[Seal]
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21489
Revolution
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File No. 21,489
James Smith
Pri. Rev. War
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Act: June 7" "32
Index:-Vol. 2. Page 372
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
Form VAM-51
12-5-41

Division of Veterans' Administration Archives

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*

NAME Smith, James GRADE Private LINE Pennsylvania

WARRANT
NUMBER 10376 ACERAGE 100 ISSUED January 28, 1793 to - not shown - 
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*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 176, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.