Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 9749, for Jacob J Smith, North Carolina
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SERVICE                                                                                     NUMBER
	N.C.         Smith, Jacob J			    R. 9749

contents	
born in 1763 in New Jersey
res of   [illegible] Roane Co. N.C.
in 1834 res Grant Co. Ky.
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9749.____________________
P.O.   Jacob J Smith__________
Service:  __________________ 
[stamp]   REJECTED
Enlisted: _______________  , 18
Discharged: ______________.18
Application filed: _____ ____,18	
Alleges:  The printed list of 1802 gives cause of rejection as “not military service”.
Attorney;___________________
P.O. _______________________
______Recognized. ____Contract.
__Cer. Of Dis   Searched for ______,18
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31.228
Jacob J. Smith
Kentucky
Rejects  [illegible]  part of the time  
see letter 18 June 1834 to Hon R M Johnson, [illegible] 1 Sep 34 {Cannot find this letter} 	
9749
[illegible]
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Hon R M Johnson 
18 June 1834
O.C.
Record Vol25/p.504
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War Department Pen Office
June 17/18 1834	[17 strike through]
Sir,  
The declaration of Jacob J. Smith sent to you by Mr [illegible] has been examined. The details for six months in 1780, as a volunteer. During his service he was engaged in hauling camp equipage [strike through-   No allowances can be made for said service under the act of June 7, 1842.] He also claims for three months [strike through pension] services as a minute man.  [strike through The act which he claims requires six month services in a military capacity in order to be entitled to a pension. The claim is therefore rejected and the paper filed in this office.] 
The first mentioned service is not provided for by [strike through army pens] the act of June 7, 1832, or any other granting pensions.  the only wagoners whose cases are embraced by the act of Congress are those who was enlisted into the continental army.  The last mentioned service for three months while not entitled him to a pension, as the law requires active of at least six months in a military capacity.  The claim is therefore rejected.  The papers will remain in our files. 

Hon R M Johnson 	N.R.
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State of Kentucky, Grant County  Set
On this the 12th day of May 1834.  Personally appeared in open court before the justices of the Grant County court now sitting Jacob J. Smith a resident of said county on Eagle Creek  and therefore said aged 71 years who being found duly sworn accounting to him 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 and served as here as stated.	To wit That he served under General Rutherford and Col Francis Lock who were our field officers and commanded by Ensign Longhorn by some called Capt Longhorn and entered in the service in the year 1781 as a volunteer for the term of six months and left the service in the same year.  That he was in a skirmish at the Trading Ford on the Yadkin River.  That at the time he lived in Rowan County State of North Carolina.  That he went from Salisbury North Carolina -to the high hills of Santee over the Caughtawba [sic] River hauling camp equipage.  That he had no documentary evidence by which he can [illegible] his service in the Revolution. That he had a discharge given by the same General Rutherford but inattention and time has destroyed it.  And he knows of no person now living by who he can prove the assistance of S2 discharge or his service in said war.    And this declarant for further said history would state that team  {[illegible]  to the trading ford on Saturday night laid on the opposite side of the River from that on which this declarant and troops move.  That there was a great Rain and rise in S2 river that the boat was over the side of the river that they took the ferryman a provision.  They being afraid to end up in S2 boat and being unable to ford
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In consequence of said rise.  He [illegible] and his troops marched thence to the Shallow ford on the Yadkin from thence to Gilford where they had a battle from thence to Little York   This declarant would further state that previous to said year 1781 he served three months in said state of North Carolina as a minute man to quell the Tories. That Captain Loss was his commander^ at times. That Loss was am [illegible] officer – that he likewise served under Captains Carson and Haydon.   That he thinks it was in the year 1779 he rendered said minute service.  He would further state that said minute men frequently took Tories missions and hold them under guard for a short time; and the set them at liberty after having rendered a severe rebuke from Captain Lock--- I hereby relinquish every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except for the present and declare that my name is not on the pension roll of the agency of my state.  
Question 1st Where and in what year were you born? Answer:  In the State of New Jersey in the year 1763 and aged 71 years.
Question 2nd: Have you any record of your age, and if so, where is it?  
Answer: I have it in my Bible at home on Eagle Creek Grant County Kentucky. 
Question 3rd Where were you living when called in to service? Where have you lived since the Revolutionary war, and where do you now live? 
Ans:  I lived in Roann county North Carolina when called into service.  Removed from Roann to the State o Kentucky and now live ins said Eagle Creek Grant county.
Question 4 How were you called into service? Were you drafted? Did you volunteer? Or were you a substitute and if a substitute for whom?  
Ans:  There was a call for volunteer and I turned out to volunteer and in defence of my country’s rights
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Quest: 5  State the names of some of the senior officers who were with the troops where you served, such regimental and militia Regiments as you can recall oh and the general circumstances of your service? 
Ans:  General Rutherford commanded us in 1781 Capt Loss I was acquainted with Colonel Lee and Col Washington
Question 6.  Did you ever receive a discharge from the service and if so by whom signed and what has become of it?  
Ans: I received a discharge from General Rutherford, and it has been destroyed by time and neglect. I received no discharge in the year 1779 being engaged only in militia service. 
Quest: 7 State the names of person to whom you are know in your present neighborhood, and who can testify as to your character for veracity and good behavior, your service as a soldier of the Revolution?  
Answer. John Thornhill Esq Wm Evans Esqr Jessie Edwards, W. Bigger & Samuel Kenman.
Sworn: to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
Mr Geroge S Gravit   Clergyman {Jacob J Smith [illegible]
Residing in said county and state 
Aforesaid, and ^ HB Smith clerk of the Grant Circuit & County court  residing in the same  Thereby certify certify that we are each acquainted with the above mentioned Jacob J Smith who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe to be 71 years of age, that he is reputed and believe in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier in the Revolution and we concur in that opinion. 
Sworn to and subscribed to the day and year aforesaid and the said court do herby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the  interrogations prescribed by the War Department that the aforesaid named  
applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as he states it appears to them that George S Gravit who has signed the aforesaid certificate is a clergyman residing in Grant County and HB Smith who has also signed resides as a resident in Grant County and is a credible and that these state marks in hand to credit 
} GS Gravit 
} H B Smith
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The Commonwealth of Kentucky   Grant County Set
Personally aforesaid be   and the under signed a Justice of the peace in and for the County and State aforesaid Jacob J Smith who having duly sworn deposed and [illegible] that by reason of of old age and the consequence loss of memory he can not swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but see only to best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following State for six months in one tour I served at a private volunteer—and for three months and for three months I served as a minute man and private soldier--- and or such service I claim a pension.
The above statement sworn to by said Jacob J Smiths before me as aforesaid this the 12th day of May 1834   Jesse Woodyard  I.P.G.C. 
 [sideways]   31.228  Jacob J. Smith    Kentucky 
I H.B. Smith clerk to the court of Grant County do hereby state that before certainly the ///proceeding in the matter of the application of Jacob J. Smith for a pension ----

In testimony whereas I have here unto  set my hand and seal of the office this 6th day of June 1834.   W.M. Venable for H.B. Smith  C.G.C.C.
[sideways   R M Johnson}