Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 18,605, for Samuel Smead, Massachusetts
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(8-1776)

SERVICE
Mass.

Smead, Samuel
or Snead

NUMBER
S.18,605


carded

CONTENTS
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13430
Ohio Pittsburgh
Samuel Snead.
of Geauga Co. in the State of Ohio
who was a [illegible] and sergeant in the Co commanded by Captain Locke of the Regt commanded by Col. Woodbridge in the Mass
line for 7 mos.

Seg. 2. =10.00> $26.67/100
 Pte. 5 = 16.67>

Inscribed on the Roll of Ohio Pittsburgh
at the rate of 26 Dollars 67 Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 20th day of July 1833 and sent to D D. 
Acken. Chardon. G. Co. Ohio.

Arrears to the 4th of March '33,                 53.34
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept 33      13.33
                                                                      $66.67
                                  {Revolutionary Claim,}
                                  {Act June 7, 1832.}

Recorded by Wm R. Palmer Clerk.

Paid at the Treasury under the
Act of April 6th 1838 from March
4th to 26th [illegible] 1841  Ag [illegible]
May 28th 1842
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18640

Sam Snead
Ohio
13.430

Adm 7 months
2 months there of as
sergeant

16.67
10.
26.67

D. D. Acken Ilk
Chardon
Geauga Co.
Ohio
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BRIEF in the case of Samuel Snead
County of Madison in the State of Ohio
(Act 7th June, 1832.)

1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge?   Judge

2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  Yes

3. How old is he?  84

4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.

Period.
Duration of Service.
Years, Months, Days.
Rank
As a
Names of General and Field Officers
under whom he served.
Gen.

In 1775, about 1 [month] as a minute man, Capt. Jos [Suek]

Sub  1 month as a private Capt Leonard, Col Woodbridge

enlisted 1776  3 months as a private Capt Sam Taylor

Vol    about 2 months as a private Capt Sheldon

5. In what battles was he engaged?  None

6. Where did he reside when he entered the service?  Massachusetts

7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls?  living witness and traditionary.

8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication?  and if so, in what respect?  the affidavit of the witness not properly attached.

I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.

Charles Torress
Examining Clerk.
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The State of Ohio
Geauga County Ss  Madison April 16th 1833

Then personally appeared before me the undersigned, an Associate Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for sd. County of Geauga, Samuel Smead, who being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, & the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his services, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades - 
For five months I served as a private Soldier - For two months I served as [ILLEGIBLE CROSS OUT] Sergant [SIC]; and for such services I claim a pension -  He also states that his first declaration was made in the County of Geauga, where he now does, and then did, reside -  In answer to objections of the War Department, to his answers to the 2d - 5th - 6th - & 7th Interogatories [SIC] prescribed by the War Department, he answers as follows, to wit - 2d Interogatory [SIC], he answers that, he has no record of his age, but supposes there is one on the Town records in the Town of Montague in the State of Massachusetts - 5th Interogatory [SIC] - He states that he cannot state the names of any other officers who were with the troops where he served except that of Gen ? Poor who commanded the Brigade on his last tour of duty.  6th Interogatory [SIC] - He says he never recd a written discharge from the Army, he served with the State troops of Massachusetts, and had a verbal dismission at the end of each tour of duty.  7th Interogatory [SIC] - He answers that he has neighbours [SIC] who will testify to his caracter [SIC] for the truth and veracity, and it was omitted in his first declaration on account of having forwarded the evidence of his former neighbours [SIC] in the State of Massachusetts - John Hubbard Associate Judge

 We David Woodard, and William B Cady residing in the Township of Madison, hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Samuel Smead who has subscribed & sworn to the declaration dated Oct. 22d 1832, and who has also been sworn to the statement herein above made that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
David Woodard
W m B Cady

Sworn and subscribed the day and year first above written
Before me John Hubbard Associate Judge
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The State of Ohio
Geauga County Ss } Madison Apr 16th 1833

Personally appeared before me, Samuel Smead and made solemn oath to the truth of the foregoing statement in relation to his Revolutionary services, and I do declare my opinion, after this further investigation of the matter, and after putting the interogatories [SIC] prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as he has stated, and I do further certify, that it appears to me that David Woodard & William B Cady who have signed the preceding certificate are reputable residents in the Township of Madison, and the nearest neighbours [SIC] of the sd. Samuel Smead; and that they are credible persons, and their statement entitled to [to CROSSED OUT] credit.
John Hubbard Associate Judge

The State of Ohio
Geauga County Ss }
I D.D. Aiken, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for said County, do hereby certify that John Hubbard Esquire, before whom the foregoing oaths appear to have been taken, on the sixteenth day of April A.D. 1833 and whose signature, in his own proper hand writing and annexed to the certificates thereof, was, at that time, and still is one of the associate judges of said County duly commissioned and sworn according to Law.
In Testimony whereof, I hereunto set my hand and affix the Seal of said Court, at Chardon, this 7th day of May A.D. 1833
D.D. Aiken, Clerk
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The State of Ohio
Geauga County Ss - 
On the 22d day of October A.D. 1832 personally appeared before me John Hubbard an Associate Judge of the Court of Common Pleas within & for sd. County. Samuel Smead, a resident of Madison in sd. County, aged eighty four years on the 18th day of January last past, 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 June 7th 1832 - 
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated - He belonged to a minute Comy [COMPANY] commanded by Joseph Lock [LOCKE?] Stebbins & Bordwell [BARDWELL?] Lieuts, in the Town of Deerfield in the State of Massachusetts, which was formed previous to the commencement of the War of the Revolution, battle at Lexington we marched to Waltham from Cambridge, where a certain number of men were required to enlist for six months from each company, his company cast lots for the member required, and it fell to his lot to return home which he did after an absence in the service of about one month.  The winter following in the month of December - he went as a substitute for Wm Tryon for one month in the company of Capt. Leonard Col. Woodbridge commanded the Regiment, served but the month at Cambridge & returned home.  The latter part of August 1776 he enlisted for three months and served in the Cmpy [COMPANY] of Capt. Samuel Taylor, marched from Deerfield to Dorchester Heights, served the time out & again returned home.  When the news came of the American Army fleeing from Ticonderoga, before the Army of Burgoin [BURGOYNE], he again volunteered into the service under Capt. Sheldon & Lieut Bornard [BERNARD?] marched & joined the main Army about four miles above Fort Millar [MILLER] Falls, from there the Army retreats before the British Army, down the River to Stillwater, there remained on duty untill [SIC] dismissed by his officer, and returned home after an absence of about two months in the service.  He was born in the Town of Montague in the State of Massachusetts, and had removed into Deerfield in the same State previous to the War, since the War he has lived in Shelburn [SHELBURNE] in the State of Massachusetts, untill [SIC] he removed to Madison in the State of Ohio, where he now lives, which last removal took place about five years ago.  he has no documentary evidence, that he knows of no person whose testimony he can procure who can testify to all of his services.
He hereby relinquishes every 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.
Samuel Smead

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
John Hubbard Associate Judge
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And I H. John Hubbard associate Judge as aforesd. do hereby declare my opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the abovenamed applicant was a Revolutionary soldier, and served as he states, and is unable from bodily infirmity to attend Court.
John Hubbard Associate Judge

The State of Ohio
Geauga County Ss }
I, D.D. Aiken, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for said County, do hereby certify that John Hubbard Esquire before whom the foregoing oath was taken on the 22d day of October A.D. 1832, was at that time, and still is [a Justice of t CROSSED OUT] one of the Associate Judges of the said Court, duly commissioned and sworn, according to Law and further that I was well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Judge, and do verily believe a foregoing signature purporting to be his own[?] true and genuine -  In testimony whereof, I hereunto set my hand and affix the seal of said Court, at Chardon, this 3rd day of November A.D. 1832

D.D. Aiken, Clerk.
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT. SECOND COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE. 
May 10th, 1842. 

Sir:
Under the date of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," The children of Samuel Snead deceased, late a Pensioner on the Roll of the Pittsburg, Pa Agency, at the rate of Twenty Six - Dollars and Cents per annum, under the law of the 7th June 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 4th of March, to the 26th October 1841 
Respectfully yours
Albion K. Parris 

COMPTROLLER. To the COMMISSIONER OF PENSIONS, 13.430 Present.
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REVOLUTIONARY WAR RECORDS SECTION. - DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR. BUREAU OF PENSIONS. Washington, D. C., 19 
S.F.18605

In reply to your request of____ received____  a statement of the military history of Samuel Snead, a soldier  of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau. 

[table headings]DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. | LENGTH OF SERVICE. | RANK. | OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. CAPTAIN. | COLONEL. | STATE. 
[row 1] 1775 | 1 mo. | Minute Man | Joseph Locke | [checkmark] | Mass.
[row 2] Dec 1775 | 1 mo. | [blank] | Leonard | Woodbridge  | [blank]
[row 3] Aug. 1776 | 3 mos | Samuel Taylor | Nicholas Dike  | [blank]
[row 4]  [blank] | 2 mos  | [blank] | Sheldon  | [blank] | [blank]

Battles engaged in, none state
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Deerfield Mass
Date of application for pension, October. 22, 1832 this cl. was al.
Residence at date of application, Madison, Geauga Co., Ohio
Age at date of application, born Jany 18 1748 in Montague, Mass. Died Oct. 26 1841
Remarks: No Children in referred to, but as names are stated and there is no other data on file as to his family --
Respectfully, Commissioner.
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18605
INVALID

File No. !8605
Samuel Snead
Serg Rev Was

Act: June 7" 32
Index: -- Vol. 4 Page 337 (Arrangement of 1870.)

[crossed out: May]June 2nd 1902
Irvin S. Childs Painesvill Ohio
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1931 Nov. 19 Hist to Alice B. Corbitt
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McMinnville, Oregon
October 25, 1921
Department of the Interior
Bureau of Pensions
Record Division
Revolutionary War Section
Dear Sirs;
Have you a record of a Revolutionary War pension granted to Samuel Smead?  He probably enlisted from Massachusetts, but of
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Samuel Smead
Born - January 13, 1749
Died - October 26, 1842

His wife,
Mary Hawkes Smead
Died March 15, 1838
aged 79 years
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that I am not certain.
His wife was Mary Hawkes Smead.  He is buried at Madison, Ohio and there is a Revolutionary War marker on his grave.  What I want is to prove my eligibility to become a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution, and his son, Oliver Smead, was my grandfather.  Have you any information that will help me, and what is the expense connected with sending it to me?
Very truly yours,
(Mrs) Alice B. Coslett
(Over)
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Franklin SS

I Elijah Alvord, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, for the County of Franklin do hereby certify that Joseph Griswold Esq before whom the annexed deposition of Samuel Taylor was verified is a Justice of the Peace for the said county; and that Elam Kellogg Esq before whom the annexed affidavit of Theophilus Packard and Giles Lyman was verified is also a Justice of the Peace for the said County and that the said Joseph Griswold Esq and Elam Kellogg Esq. are severally qualified according to the Constitution and Laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to administer oaths and take affidavits and depositions within the said county. And I believe their names severally subscribed to the certificate of the caption thereof to be their true and proper signatures 

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court at Greenfield in said county on the twenty first day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two 
E. Alvord Clerk
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I Samuel Taylor of Buckland in the County of Franklin and Commonwealth of Massachusetts of lawfull age do testify and say Samuel Snead of Madison in the County of Geauga and State of Ohio entered a company of Militia under my command the latter part of August in the of our Lord 1776 and marched from Deerfield in the County of Franklin and Commonwealth of Massachusetts to Dorchester Height and served with me in a detachment of the Massachusetts Militia the term of three months and a quarter in a Reg. command by Col. Nicholas Pike Bubkland Sept. 6. 1832 
Saml Taylor 

Commonwealth of Massachusetts Franklin SS. Sept. 6 1832 The above named Samuel Taylor Esq personally appeared and made oath that the foregoing Deposition by him subscribed is true he being known to me as a person of reputed truth and veracity
Before me Joseph Griswold Justice of the Peace 

Mr. Theophilus Packard a Clergyman residing in the Town of Shelburne, County of Franklin, Commonwealth of Massachusetts and Giles Lyman residing in the Town County and Commonwealth aforesaid, hereby certify that we are, and have been for many years well acquainted with Samuel Smead, who has recently removed from this Town to the Town of Madison County of Geauga, State of Ohio, and who is mentioned in the foregoing deposition - that we believe him to be about eighty years of age, that he is reputed and believed in this neighborhood where he has long resided, to have been a Soldier in the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion, and we also certify that we believe the above named Samuel Smead to be a man of veracity and truth
Theophilus Packard. 
Giles Lyman
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Saml Smead 18640
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Commonwealth of Massachusett Franklin Ss
Sept 13th 1832 the within declaration this day sworn to and subscribed by Theophilus Packard within named who is a Clergyman residing in the Town of Shelburne aforesaid and and Giles Lyman an inhabitant of said town is reputed to be a man of integrity and truth

Before me Elam Kelley Justice of the Peace -