Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 7543, for Joseph Smidt, Pennsylvania
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Penn.  Smidt, Joseph  S.7543
carded
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7543

INVALID

Revluon[?]

File No. 7543
Joseph Smith
Pri Rev. War

Act: June 7th 1832
Index:--Vol. [illegible], Page 347

[Arrangement of 1870]

Joseph Smidt. Oct. 4/04
Records corrected

[a black star  is affixed to the page above the name "Smidt"]
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26.323,
Pennsylvania
Joseph Smidt [illegible]
of [illegible] in the State of [illegible]
who was a pri in the Company commanded by Captain Sible in the Rgy commanded by Col Sadit in the [illegible] line for [illegible] $20.00
Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsa at the rate of 20 Dollars and 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 20 day of May and sent to [illegible] Honb D. Magar
Arrears to the 4th day of [illegible] 60000
Semi-anl allowance ending 4 Sep 1000
$1600
Revolutionary Claim
Act June 7, 1832
Recorded by [illegible] Clerk,
Book 6 Vol. 5 Page 54
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Paid at the Treasury under the act of the 6th April 1838 from 11th March 1838 to 4 Sept 1838 
Agt notified 17 June 1839
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Penn    Smidt, Joseph    S.7543

      carded
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David D Wagoner
L Edwards, Eqr.
(Commissioner of Pensions)
Washington City, D. C.
Hon DD Wagoner [written vertically on right side of page]
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J L Edward, Ss,
Enclos'd you will received an application from Schmidt for a Pension, and when you have examined it, please inform me your decision.  I should be pleased to know it, as soon as convenient-
Yours
Daniel D Wagener
Send.
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30.650
Adm 6 Months-
Hon DD Wagener
Ho of Reps.
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Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Northampton County SS.

     On this Twenty Second day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight Hundred and thirty-four formally appeared in the open Court of the Common Pleas of said County, Before the Honorable Garrick Mallery President and Daniel Wagener Esq one of the associate Judges (the other being Sick and not on the Bench) of the said Court, Joseph Smidt a resident of Pocono Township in said county aged near Eighty-one years who being first duly sworn according to law doth [obliterated words crossed out] 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 in stated.  In the fall of 1776 he was Drafted and Called out as a militia man under Captain Benjamin Sigle and marched from his place of residence in Bucks County Penna. to Amboy in the State of New Jersey, where the company to which he belonged joined other forces under the Command of Col Joseph Santos, and Major Conell, that he remained there until the Two months for which  he was drafted under the said Captain and in the 3rd Class, had expired and was then discharged, Came Home and Remained Home for about one year and was again Drafted in the 3rd Class under Captain Mellinger, shortly after being called out the Company to which he belonged was ordered to take British Soldiers from the Delaware River across Pa to the Maryland Line and there deliver them on to other forces, which they did, which they returned the Two months for which they were Drafted had not expired, and they joined the forces above Philadelphia until the Two months did expire and were then discharged, and returned home.  In a few months he was again called out as before in the 3rd Class under Captain Tater and march to Newton in the County of Buck's aforesaid where they joined other forces, he thinks, under the command of Majr. Conell remained in and about that Station until the Two months, (and a five Days more) for which he was Drafted had expired and was then discharged, making the whole time which he served six months and upward, which on his oath aforesaid he says he  forthfully Sends.  He has no Documentary evidence and Knows of no person who can testify to his Service, neither is there any clergyman rending in his Township whose testimony he can procure
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He hereby relinquishes any 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 or (if any) only on that of the Agency of the State of Pennsylvania
Joseph Smidt his mark
Sworn & Subscribed this 22nd day of April 1834 in open Court, }Garrick Mallery
Pres. Judge
Henry Edinger & John Fenner Esq. being duly sworn according to Law  do depose and say that they are well acquainted with Joseph Smidt the above named  applicant who has Sworn & Subscribed the foregoing declaration that they are his neighbors that they believe him to be near the age of Eighty-one years, that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood  where he resides to have been a Soldier of the Revolution, that they never heard it doubted, and they concor without hesitation in that opinion
Sworn & Subscribed the 22 day of April 1834 in Open Court
Garrick Mallery
Prest Judge}
Henry Edinger
John Fenner

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the  Investigation of said matter, and after putting the Interrogations presented by the War Department,that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and found as he states. And the Court further Certifies that it appears to them that Henry Edinger & John Fenner Esq. who have signed the foregoing affidavit are neighbors of the said applicant, and are men of high standing  and credibility and speak without hesitation to their Belief, and that there statements are entitled to full Credit of Belief.
Garrick Mallery Pres. Judge
Daniel Wagener a Judge [illegible]
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I William L. Sebring am the notary of of the Court of Common [illegible] of Northampton County, Do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceeding of the said Court in the matter of the Application of Joseph Smidt of  [illegible] Township for a lennin
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto  set my Hand and affixed the Seal of the said Court at Easton in said County this 22nd day of April A.D. 1834
Wm Sebring Prob