Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 7532, for Richard Smith, New Jersey
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(3-1776)
SERVICE
New Jersey
Smith, Richard
NUMBER
S. 7532
carded
CONTENTS
b. at Maidenhead (Lawrenceville) Hunterdon Ct. N.J. Dec. 8 1761.
and res. there at end.
Res. in 1834 Montgomery Co. Ohio
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Ohio 26.987.
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Richard Smith
[illegible] in the State of Ohio
who was a Private in the Company commanded
by Captain [ill.] of the [ill.] commanded
by Col [ill.] in the New Jersey
line for [ill.]
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Inscribed on the Roll of Ohio
at the rate of [ill.] Dollars 0  Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
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Certificate of Pension issued the [ill.] day of Aug
[ill.] and sent to [ill.]
Cains Hamburg New Jersey
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Arrears to the 4th of Aug '34 [ill.]
Semi-anl. allowance ending [ill.]
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by [ill.] Clerk,
Book [ill.] Vol. 8 Page 27

[right side]
Hon. L. D. Campbell,
April 17, 1850
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House Reps
Wash April 15th 1850
Sir-
Richard Smith was a Revolutionary Pensioner 
(in Record E. Vol 8 p. 27) is now deceased.
His children write to me to ascertain whether they
as his heirs are entitled to any land by reason of
his Record. Will you please give me the information

Respectfully
L D Campbell

Hon J. L. Edwards
Commr of Pensions
Washington D.C.
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31,651
U.S. Pension
Declaration & certificates of
Richard Smith for pension
Ohio
for 1777 [illegible] 6-
$20.
Can only allow as above
Messrs Crane & Schenck
Dayton
Ohio
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(1)
The State Ohio
Montgomery County ss
On this twenty second day of July,
1834 personally appeared in open court before the Judges of the
Court of Common pleas of the said County now sitting, Richard
Smith, a resident of the said County of Montgomery in the
State of Ohio, aged seventy three years on the third day of December
1833, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his
oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the
benefit of the provisions made by the act of Congress, passed
June 7th 1832. That he entered into the service of the United 
States under the following named officers, served as herein stated.
He was born in the village of Maidenhead (now Lawrenceville)
in the County of Hunterdon in the State of New
Jersey, on the third day of December 1761; he has no record
of his age in this country, but supposes there is one now, as
he remembers there formerly was, extant with those of his
family who are still living in New Jersey. He was living at his
native place when called into the service, & continued to reside
there after the revolutionary war, & up to the year 1829, at
which time he removed to Middlesex County in the same state,
& from Middlesex in 1831, he emigrated to Montgomery County
in Ohio, where his home now is. He was enrolled, at the age
of sixteen, in the winter of 1777-8, as a Scout or Minute Man,
whose duty it was to protect, by monthly tour of duty,
that portion of New Jersey in the neighborhood of Brunswick
& Morristown from the incursions & depredations of the
British. At different periods, from the time of his enrollment
on to the end of the revolutionary war, he was out
on these monthly performances of duty, until the whole of
aggregate of his active service amounted to seven months.
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Of that time, he passed his first month of service in August 1778,
& his second in the fall of the same year, on duty at Morristown
constantly on the alert & occasionally seeing the enemy,
but without any skirmishes. During those months the company to
which he was attached was that of Captain John Mott of
Trenton, the Lieutenants' names were Israel Moore & Roger Lawson.
His next service was in Capt Philip Phillip's company, along
Raritan river & in the neighborhood of Steele's mountain,
guarding the stores of the Army. All of his subsequent service
was also in Capt Phillip's company - his Lieutenant being
Asher Mershon. The third tour mentioned lasted three
weeks, & was in the winter of 1778. In the spring of 1779 he was out
on the same service & in the same quarter of the Country that
month. In the winter of 1779 he was engaged in attending on
the wagons which carried provisions & stores from
Trenton, under the employ of the United States, to the troops
about Morristown which was the last of his actual service,
excepting a tour of three weeks in the spring of 1780, as a musket
man, still under the command of Capt Phillips, in the
neighborhood of Springfield, & at Plaquemine & Scotch
Plains. He was always during this time attached to the same
militia regiment, which was commanded by Col Joseph
Phillips with Major - Phillips & Lieut Colonel Joab Houghton.
There was also another Colonel, by Vanamber, subordinate
to Phillips, who came with that portion of the regiment
who were enrolled from Bordentown. He never received
any written discharge from the service. He has no documentary
evidence of his service; nor is he acquainted with any person
by whom he can prove his service from their personal knowledge
of the facts. He does not remember the names of any
officers whom he knew in the Regular service with the militia
to which he belonged. in his own neighborhood here he
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(3 )
refers to Jonathan Pierson, Horatio G. Phillips (descended from the
family of his old Captain) & George C. Davis, who are respectable
men, who will testify to his character for veracity, & that they
believe he has served in the revolution as he has stated.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or
annuity except the present, & declares that his name is not on
the pension roll of the agency of any state.

Richard Smith

Sworn to & subscribed in open
Court on the day & year aforesaid
E. W. Davies Clk

We, Jacob Mulford 
a Clergyman residing in the County
of Montgomery & Horatio G. Phillips & George C. Davis residing
in the same county hereby certify that we are well acquainted
with Richard Smith who has subscribed & sworn to the
above declaration; that we believe him to be seventy three
years of age; that he is reputed & believed, in the neighborhood
where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution,
& that we concur in that opinion.

Jacob Mulford
H. G. Phillips
Geo C Davis

Sworn & subscribed on the
day & year aforesaid
E. W. Davies Clk

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion,
after the investigation of the matter, & after putting the
interrogatories prescribed by the war department, that the
above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier, &
served as he states. And the Court further certify that it
appears to them that Jacob Mulford who has signed the
preceding certificate, is a Clergyman, resident in the County
of Montgomery, that Horatio G. Phillips & Geo. C. Davis who
have also signed the same are residents in the same
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(4)
County, & are credible persons, & that their statement is entitled
to credit.

I, Edward W. Davies Clerk of the Court of Common
pleas for the County of Montgomery
in the State of Ohio, do hereby certify that
the foregoing contains the original proceedings
of the said Court in the matter of the
application of Richard Smith for a
pension.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand & seal of office, this
twenty second day of July eighteen
hundred & thirty four.

Edward. W. Davies Clk.
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Pension application   Free
Hon. Lewis Cass
Secretary at War
Washington City

[written vertically]
Aug. 2
Ohio.

[Postmark]
DAYTON JUL 27
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The declaration & certificates for a pension of Richard Smith
an applicant under the law of June 7, 1832, are herewith
transmitted to the department.

Any communication for the deponent, touching the
application will be addressed to

Crane & Schenck
Dayton, Ohio
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7532
Rev War INVALID.
File No. 7532
Richard Smith
Priv. Rev. War
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Act: June 7th 1832
Index:-- Vol. 1 eb, Page 347
(Arrangement of 1870.}