Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 7538, for Peter Smith, North Carolina
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
N.C.

*Smith, Peter

NUMBER
S. 7538

carded

CONTENTS
to Apr. 12, 1750 in Lancaster Co. Pa.
res at [illegible] Surry Co. N.C.
res in 1832 Stokes (Surry) Co. N.C.
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2965
North Carolina
Peter Smith
of Stokes in the State of N. Carolina who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain Smith of the ----commanded by ------ in the N. Carolina line for 11 months from 1776

Inscribed on the Roll of N. Carolina at the rate of 36 Dollars 66 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 11 day of December 1833 and sent to Hon. A. H. Shepperd, House of  Reps.
Arrears to 4h of Sept. 1832  54.99
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 March '33  1833=
$73.32

{Revolutionary Claim,}
{Act June 7, 1832.}
Recorded by Nathan Rice Clerk
Book D. Vol. 8 - Page 44 -
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8509
State of North Carolina} September Term A. D. 
Stokes County} 1832.
On the 14th day of September A. D. 1832 personally appeared in Open Court before the Justices of our Court of Pleas and quarter sessions for the county and state aforesaid Peter Smith a resident of said county aged eighty two years the 19th day of April 1832 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 the 7th June 1832 - that he entered the service of the United States as a private soldier under the following named officers & served in the Revolutionary War as herein after stated - that he was drafted as a malitia soldier & served faithfully the Term for which he was drafted of five months under Captain Henry Smith & Lieu. Peter Pinkley (or Binkley) [Pinkley] and Ensign Jno. Strape the exact year he honestly states he has forgotten - that he entered the service in Surry County North Carolina where he was drafted the first of the month of September or October & was dismissed near Savannah River the following March or April shortly after the battle of Brier Creek - that he was first marched from Surry County N. C. to Salisbury through Mecklenburg County & thence thro South Carolina to Savannah River - that Gen'l. Rutherford was the commander of the troops - that the regular officers who commanded, who commanded the Carolina Companies that marched with him, were Capt. Wm. Lewis & Lieu. Joel Lewis of Surry County aforesaid
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the other officers he does not remember their names that he was within three miles of the Battle when it happened at Brier Creek on the Georgia side of Savannah River - that he does not know of an now living who was with him in said service who can testify to his services all being dead or removed - that after he was discharged in So. Ca. he shortly after returned home & volunteered himself to serve as a minute man & served as a pilot & Ranger under Col. Martin Armstrong during the Revolutionary war, commanded by Jacob Niell or duty Sergeant in guarding the military stores or magazine from Salem in N. Carolina to Henry Court House VA. a distance of more than sixty miles that with the Virginia troops commanded by Capt. Campbell against the Tories & British he marched a number of routs in N. Carolina and at different periods when was called out into service by the orders of Col. Armstrong the exact number of months or weeks he cannot now recollect owing to his memory having become greatly impaired from age and decrepitude but only believes that he served a great deal more than six months - tat he is very poor and never received any compensation from his country for his services - that he is afflicted with cancer on his nose which has eaten off a great portion of it - that he was born in Lancaster County Pennsylvania and immigrated in May 1768 to Rowan County N. Carolina, which was divided and left him
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living in the part called Surry, which (Surry) was afterwards divided and left him again in the new part called Stokes in which he has lived ever since - that he has no documentary evidence of his services, and knows of no one now living who can from his personal knowledge testify to his services - that he is known to John Siger & Isaac Vernon who an and are willing  to testify to his credible character and known veracity & their belief of his services as a soldier of the Revolution - that he is not known to any minister of the Gospel as there lives none now in his neighbourhood who can testify to his character and he hereby relinquishes every claim whatsoever to a pension except the present and declares that his name is not on the Pension roll of the agency of any state. Sworn to and Subscribed in open court the year and day above written.
[Signatures]  Peter Smith
Jno. Hill C.C.C.

We John Siger & Isaaac Vernon of the county & state aforesaid hereby do certify that we are well acquainted with Peter Smith, who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be more than eighty years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood and county where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion
[Signatures]
John Siger
Isaac Vernon
Subscribed and Sworn in open court.
[Signature] Jno. Hill C. C. C.
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And the said Court do hereby certify and declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter & putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant Peter Smith was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states and the court further certifies that it appears to them that  Jno. Siger and Isaac Vernon are residents of Stokes County are credible Persons and entitled to full credit.
[Signatures]
A.B.M. Winston J. P.
Leonard Ziglaw J. P.
Wm. Cox J. P.

North Carolina}
Stokes County} I John Hill Clerk of our court of Pleas and quarter sessions for the county & state aforesaid do certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings ,of the said court in the matter of the application of Peter Smith for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office September 14th A. D. 1832.
[Signature] Jno. Hill C. C. C. 

from 1776 present  11 months.
$36.66
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7538
Rev. War
INVALID.
File No.7538
Peter Smith
Pri. Rev. War
Act: June 7th 1832
Index:-Vol. 103, Page 347
[Arrangement of 1870.]