Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 9,805, for William Smith, New York
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(8-1776)
SERVICE  NUMBER
New York
Smith, William 
R. 9.805
Mary
CONTENTS
res. at end Orange Co. N.Y.
he died June 28, 1870.
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Suspended Claim
Act of July 4, 1836
Mary Smith
widow of William
New York
Power of Attorney 
to examine claim
9805
Chas. C Tucker Atty
Present
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Know all men by these presents that I, Jemima Sigler of Fayette Seneca County New York Sole surviving heir at law of Mary Smith, widow of William Smith, do hereby make constitute &
appoint Charles C. Tucker Esq of
Washington City, my true & lawful
attorney for me & in my name Stead
to Examine & prosecute all & any claim
which I may have against the United States
for pension or accrual of Pension
due my late Mother, Mary Smith, &
also all & any claim I may have
as widow of my late husband, Ames
Sigler decd & to collect & receive any
such arrears or purses.
Deed Dec 19th 1854
In Presence of
Jemima Sigler
State of New York
Seneca County
On this 19th day of December AD 1854
before me personally came Jemima
Sigler to me personally known to be the same
person described in & who executed the
foregoing Instrument & acknowledged to me
she Executed the same & I do further certify that I am not in any way related or
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connected with Jemima & am not in any way or manner interested in any claims she has against the United States.
Reuben Saeger
a Justice of the Peace in and for Seneca County
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STATE OF NEW YORK.
Seneca County Clerk's Office,
I, ISAAC FULLER, Clerk of said County, and also Clerk of the
Court of Record thereof, DO HEREBY CERTIFY that Reuben
Sage-
Esquire, before whom the the annexed instrument
was proved or acknowledged, was at the time of taking
such proof or acknowledgment a Justice of the Peace, in and for
said County, duly qualified, and authorized to take the same; that
I am well acquainted with his hand-writing, and verily believe that the
signature to the Certificate of such proof or acknowledgment is
genuine; and I further certify that said instrument is executed and
acknowledged according to the laws of the State of New-York.
In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said County
and said Court, this 19th
day of December 1854,
Isaac Fuller Clerk
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On the matter of Mary Smith
No 5153
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State of New York
Ontario County ss

   On this first day of September 1838, personally appeared before me Bowen Whiting one of the judges of the court of common pleas is and for said county Mary Smith a resident of the town of Goshein in the county of Ontario and state of New York, aged eighty five years and upwards who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on her oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 4, 1836: that she is the widow of William Smith, who ws a Sergent in Captain John Newkirks company in Colonel Newkirks regiment of militia. John English was a lieutenant in the company, and Major Phillips belonged to the regiment. they were men under the command of General James Clinton. That he first entered the service as a volunteer in the said company in August 1776, marched to Long Island, was stationed there some time, was in the neighborhood at the time, but not engaged in the Battle of Long Island, returned home for a few days, then went to White Plains, was engaged in the Battle of White Plains, and remained in that neighborhood three or four weeks after the battle and returned home the first of December 1776, having benign service near four months. In January 1777 was ordered out, was engaged in the battle of Hackensack and remained in service about one month, was called out again in October of the same year, was at the Battle of Fort Montgomery and remained in service at that time six weeks. In May 1778 he was ordered under the same officers to the frontier, in the neighborhood of the Mimiusk where he remaining on duty the greater part of the time until he close of the war, visiting home occasionally on furlough. That he was a volunteer Militiaman, and that at the time he entered
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entered the service they resided in the county of Orange in the State of New York, and that she has no documentary evidence of his service.
  She further declares that she was married to the said William Smith on the ninth day of December, in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy two, at Goshen in the Count of Orange by the Reverend McFarr of the Presbyterian Church, that her husband, the aforesaid William Smith died on the twenty eighth day of June 1810, and that she has remained a widow ever since that period, as will more fully appears by reference to my proof hereto assessed.
  Sworn to and subscribed, on the day and year above written, before Bowen Whiting, a judge as aforesaid and I further certify that the said Mary Smith is unable to attend in open court by reason of the distance she resides from the court house and her debility from extreme old age.
prescribed and sworn to this first day of September 1838 before me.
Bown Whiting
First Judge of Ontario County
New York
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State of New York
Ontario County Js.
on the first
day of September
before me Bowen Whiting First Judge of the court of Common sufficient in and for said county, 
 personally appeared Benjamin
Smith of the Town of Gorham in said County, who
being duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath
did and say that he is sixty six years old and up
wards, that he was born in Orange County in the said
State of New York. and that he is the son of William
and Mary Smith as he has allways been told by them
and verily believes - That the said William Smith died
in the month of June 1810 and that Mary Smith
still remains a widow. that said William and Mary
Smith allways said together, since the recollection of
this deponent until the death of said William Smith
that they always were reputed to be man and wife
and that this deponent has no reason to believe that
they were not and this deponent further states that
he has it deeply impressed on his recollection that his father
often told him that he was of long Island at the time
of the Battle and also at White Plains - that previous
to the close of the Revolutionary war he recollects that
his father returned home from the frontiers. that his
father was then at work on a fort, called Norders
Fort, as it was built around his house, at the foot 
of the Shawangunk mountain, back of New Burgh
that this deponent went out there with his fathers than
which was employed on said Fort - That he was
from home at the Frontiers until the close of the War
that on one occasion said William Smith came home
on furlough, and that this deponent returned with
him as for Westmanma cotton. Hollow-- and that
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the said William Smith as this deponent was allways told was a Sargent during the whole time of his service. Benjamin Smith transcribed sworn this first day of September 1838 before me.

Bowen Whitting
First [illegible] of Ontario Pleas. New York
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Rejected
9805
P.O.
Mary Smith
Service: [illegible] Service
Enlisted: ______,18
Discharged: _____,18
Application filed: ______,18

Alleges: The printed list of rejected claims in 1802, gives cause of rejection as "Not six months service nor wedding day proved satisfactorily".

Attorney: _______
P.O. _________
________
_____ Recognized.   _____Contract
______ Cert. of Dis.  Searched for _____,18
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5153 N York 5153

Mary Smith, Wm
lot to J.G. Brooks 10 Sept. 1840
as to D. H Alstead 28..
To James Hall Jan: 20 '42
read [illegible] Aug 5, 1843
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15 January 1842
No. 6
Mrs. Smith

J.L. Edwards Esq
Pension Office
Washington D.C.
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J. L. Edwards Esq
Albany Jany 10th 1842

Dear Sir
There has been heretofore some
correspondence with your office relative to the services of
the individual named in the certificate and I understand
that this is all which is required in order to receive the
widow her pension. A friend of mine had the matter
in charge and since his death I have volunteered
to do all in my power to aid Mrs. Smith in obtaining
her pension. The speaks of services performed in 1776 but
the records at the Comptrollers office do not extend
so far back. Should any thing more be required
be so good as to inform me and I will attend
to it-- I understand that some papers relating
to the matter are on file in your office and
probably those contain any other information
which may be required-- Mrs Smith says her husband
left home as a volunteer in Col. Newkirk's regiment
as a volunteer, this may be stated in the papers which
are in your office.
Please to have the [illegible] inform
me on
as possible regarding this matter
that I may inform Mr. Smith, and I hope give her
some return for her past sufferings and relief in her
present poverty,
Very Respectfully yours
James Hall
P.S. Mr Smith is now residing in the village of Bethel
town of Gorham Ontario County
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In pursuance of a law passed the 27th of April, 1784, entitled "An act for the settlement of the pay of the Levies and Militia, for their services in the late War, and for other purposes therein mentioned: the following certificates have been issued, bearing interest at five per cent per annum, viz:

1780 Nov 3 8968 William Smith Sept 2 18 0
1779 Nov 5 9028 William Smith Sept 2 10 8
1780 April 2 9052 William Smith Sept 0 18 2
1779 April 30 9097 Williams Smith Sept 1 19 5
1779 August 20 9118 William Smith Sept 1 15 3
1780 March 31 9168 William Smith Sept 1 6 9

State of New York
Comptroller's Office, Albany January 10 1842
I hereby certify the above to be true extracts from Book No. 2 now remaining in this office, and that the service for which the certificates above named were issued, were performed under the following officers, viz:

First-under Capt. John Armstrong in Col. Alexr Webster Regt.

Second " " John Armstrong " " Alexr Webster "

Third, " " John Armstrong " "Alexr Webster "

Fourth, " " John Armstrong " "Alexr Webster "

Fifth " "John Armstrong " " Alexr Webster "

Sixth, " " John Armstrong " " Alexr Webster "

Seventh " " John Armstrong" "Alexr Webster"

Eighth " " 

Ninth " "

Tenth " "

W.W. Tredway
Dept. Comptroller
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3 Sept 27

St. 303

Sept 28, 1840

From Pension Office

[stamp here that says GORHAM Sept 23 NY]

To: Hon. Joel R. Poinsett
Secretary at War
Washington, D.C.

Air Sept. 28, 1840
File into her paper
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Bethel
Ontario Co N.Y.
Sept. 21. 1840
To Hon. J.R. Poinsett

Sir
On the 17th of August a letter was
forwarded to you from this Post Office
enclosing the application of Mrs. Mary
Smith for a Revolutionary pension
under the act of 1838, as no answer has
been received it is thought that the
letter may have been lost on the
way. Will you be so kind as to direct the
enquiry to be made whether it has been
received at your office & the answer
to be forwarded to her as the old
lady is anxious to hear if any further
step be accessary while he has health [illegible] be necessary while she takes them.

Very respectfully yours [illegible]

David Halstead Halstead Sect
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James Hall

Jan. 20, '42
[illegible]
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279

Pen Office
January 20, '42

Sir

The certificate of the Corporal
forwarded by you as evidence
in the case of Mrs. Mary Smith refers
to the services of another, bearing her
late husband's name, as her declaration
& proof set forth a different
service as having been rendered
by him. He is represented as
having served in Col Newkirk
Reg
on the Minisink during the
years that his namesake was serving
being under Capt Armstrong Hall Webb
stern regiment.
The evidence is insufficient to establish
either the date of the marriage or as
much as 6 mo. service.

James Hall [illegible]
Albany
NY
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Albany NY

Aug 5 '43
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Pension Office

Aug 5. 1843

Sir,

In the case of Mary Smith
widow of William Smith, dec'd I have to
inform you that the objection to the
allowance of the claim on the proof produced
was contained in my letter of
the 20th of January 1842 to Mr. James Hall
a copy of which I herewith enclose.

Arad Joy Esq.
[illegible] New York

No. 5153 NY
ret. 1836
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Yates County Ss. Jeremiah Gillett of Milo Yates County State of New York being
sworn says that he is aged seventy two years & upward that fifty two
years ago, he knew & was acquainted with William Smith &
Mary his wife who then lived near Bloomingburgh now in Orange
County & then know the in as much as fifteen years, and afterward
knew them in the town of Benton Yates County for several years
previous to William Smith death. That said William Smith is
dead, deponent attended his funeral and that he left as his widow
the said Mary Smith who resided in Gorham Ontario County
That during deponents acquaintance with the said William & Mary
they lived together as man & wife and were reputed to be such

Subscribed & Sworn
this 13th day of February
Jeremiah Gillett
1836 before me
George Young Justice
of the peace of Milo

I certify that I have been for a long
time acquainted with Jeremiah Gillet and that 
he is credible witness this 13th
July 1836 George Young the
of the peace of Milo

State of New York, Yates County Clerks Office SS: I hereby
certify that George Youngs Esquire
before whom the annexed affidavit
was taken, was at the time of taking
the same a Justice of the Peace in and for said County
legally authorized to take same. And further that I am well
---
acquainted with hand writing of the said Justice and
verily believe that the signature to the said certificate
genuine. Witness my hand and official seal this
thirteenth day February
1838.
Abner Woodworth Clerk
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Ovid July 31. 1843 
Hon J. L. Edwards 
Dr. Sir 
Widow Mary Smith, widow of William Smith, made application for a pension from Ontario Co under the law of July 1836 some years since, I am the agent in this case, & I beg leave to ask, what further proof is wanted to establish the claim to a pension, & a copy of your answer to her former agent, I respectfully ask this, that I may have a better understanding of the case – 
Respectfully your obt Sert
[signed] Arad Joy
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Pension Office    Free

Hon. Joel R Poinsett
Secretary at War
Washington D.C.

Copy of letter smb 
Oct 10. 1840

[postmark]
Gorham NY  Oct
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Bethel Ontario Co
New York Oct 3, 1840.
To J. L. Edwards Esq
Comr. of Pensions
Sir,
[first line illegible]
Alluded to in your letter
[much of the rest of the letter illegible]
… at my request  … claim of … as to forward me a copy of it & oblige
Yr mo obt st
[signed] James G. Brooks
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J G Brooks
10 Sep 1840
OC
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121
Pension Office 
10 Sept. 1840 
Sir 
The papers of Mrs Mary Smith widow of William Smith enclosed in your letter of the 18th ulto have been examined & filed - The proof in relation to the date of the claimants marriage is insufficient - a certificate should be produced from the successor of the Revd Mr Carr shewing what evidence if any there is in his possession for the marriage: Proof of the services of her husband may be obtained from the office of the comptroller of New York - on making the application the names of the officers should be specified as well as the period 

J. G. Brooks Esq 
Bethel New York
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Dav Halstead
Sept 28. 1840
O.C.
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257. 
Pension Office, 
Sept 28 1840 
Sir, 
In answer to some letter of the 21st inst to the Secretary of war respg. the claim of Mary Smith I have to inform you that her papers were examined on the 10th inst and placed on file for reasons given in a letter of that date addressed to J. G. Brooks, Esq. at Bethel, by whom they were transmitted.
A copy of the letter will be furnished if the original should not have reached him 

David Halstead, Esq
Bethel 
Ontario Co 
N York
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No 5153. Aug. 24. 1840
NY.
July 4 1836 
Mary Smith 

Free

Hon. Joel R Poinsett
Secretary at War
Washington D.C.

"Pension papers."

Gorham NY
August 19
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Bethel Ontario Co N. York
Aug. 19th 1840.
Revolutionary claim under the act of July 4th 1836 for pension & back pay to Mary Smith. If the papers be correct it is requested of Mr Edwards to forward the certificate of pension to Mrs S. care of Doctor Francis Dean Bethel Ontario Co. New York. If there be any defect in the form of the papers will [illegible] please give prompt information to the subscriber.
very respy
[signed] James G. Brooks
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Yates County ss Silas H Maupes of Milo in said County being duly sworn says he was well acquainted with William Smith and Mary his wife was first acquainted with them in Orange County in the town of Wallkill in the year Seventeen hundred and Eighty three and lived neighbor rising of twenty years to the said William Smith and Mary his wife and this deponent further says he was well acquainted with the said William Smith and Mary his wife in the County of Ontario for the term of between [illegible] and [illegible] years and this deponent further says that he knows of the said William Smith serving in the revolution and in Captain John Knewkirks Company in Seventeen hundred and Eighty three - for the term of six or eight months and this deponent further says that the said William Smith died in the town of Benton in Ontario County about twenty five years ago and that his wife Mary has remained a Widow ever since the death of the said William Smith her husband and she now resides in the town of Gorham in the County of Ontario and this deponent further says he is sixty six years old the 29th day of March 1839 
[signed] Silas H Mapes
Subscribed & Sworn this 21st day of February 1839 before me
[signed] George Youngs Justice of the peace 

I certify that I have been acquainted with Silas H Maupes for twenty five years and upwards and believe him to be a credible Witness 
21st February 1839 
[signed] George Youngs
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STATE OF NEW YORK. 
YATES COUNTY CLERK’S OFFICE, } ss.
I, ABNER WOODWORTH, Clerk of said County, hereby certify, that George Youngs Esquire, before whom the annexed proceedings were had, was, on the days of the dates thereof, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, legally authorized to act as such: and that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of the said Justice, and verily believe that his signature to the annexed certificate is genuine. 
Witness my hand and Official Seal this 25th of February 1839 
[signed] Jno. Sloan Jr Dep Clerk.