Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 7539, for Hardy Smith, North Carolina
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(3-1776)
SERVICE N.C.
Smith, Hardy
NUMBER
S. 7539
carded
CONTENTS
[erased - b. in Johnson Co. N.C.
res at ent. Cumberland Co. N.C.
In 1833 aged 76 yrs + res. of Laurel Co. Ga. where he died in Feb. 1852 his wife Rebecca died in Aug. 1835]
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33.288
Georgia
Hardy Smith, dec'd
of  in the State of who was a private in the commanded by Captain of the commanded by in the Revolution line for Six months
Inscribed on the Roll of Savannah at the rte of 20 Dollars 00 Cents per annum. to commence on the 4th day of March 1831. ending 1st February 1842.
Certificate of Pension issued the 12th day of February 1853 and Sent to Isaac N. Coffin, Present
Arrears to the 4th of 
Semi-anl. allowance ending

{Revolutionary Claim.}
{Act June 7. 1832 }
Recorded by G. T. Getty Clerk
Book E. - Vol. 6 Page 101
*N.C. Line Oct 4, 1904.
Records [corrected - struck through] completed.
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1796
Nov 16. Hardy Smith to Rebecca Thompson,
State of Georgia } I Haywood Brookins Ordinary
Washington County } in for the County and State aforesaid and keeper of the records of marriages do hereby certify that the above is a new copy of the record of the marriage of Hardy Smith to Rebecca Thompson as appears of record in this office.
Given under my hand and seal of office in Sandersville this 27th day of November 1854
Haywood Brookins Ordinary
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Washington Feby 6th 1855.
Sir:
In compliance with your letter to me of the 23rd Dec. Past in the Revolutionary pension case  (Act of 1832) of Hardy Smith which states, "Please let the office have correct information upon this point," I herewith enclose Letter of Hardy Smith son of Hardy dated Jany 5th 1855 received a few days ago, and I furnish he information requested, as follows, It appears that Mr. Hardy Smith supposed that such child might prove the facts relative to his own part and the Pension Office would act on that part separately and issue separate Certificate or Allowance of the claim of each as he states at the foot of the 2d page of the letter herewith enclosed - "To establish the claim of my Brother Stephen Smith I presume it will be necessary for him to furnish the Department with affidavits or showings similar to those which I have sent you," and therefore he sent the Affidavit of Stephen B. Hester showing that the children of his father by his 2d wife were living, leaving his brother Stephen to sent the proof in regard to his part of the claim. And as persons living at a great distance from Washington cannot be expected  to be familiar with the custom of the Pension Office which allows all the parts of the claim at once and place the names of all the children
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in one Certificate instead of separate Certificates, it is not at all strange that he should not be conversant with that practice and believed that if he proved that the three were living, he was not bound to prove in relation to the fourth share - especially as he knew (as proved by his letter herewith) the Certificate of Court was placed on the Pension Office Files but a very short time previous, showing the names of the four children living and that you would probably make, as you have done, all enquiry with that evidence (the Certificates) in your possession, prior to allowing the claim.
The Certificate of Court shows that Evidence was before it proving that Thompson Smith, Hardy Smith, Lofton smith and Stephen Smith were [the children - double underlined] of Hardy Smith - the Affidavit of Stephen B. Hester,(who is proved by the Certificate of the Honorable James L Seward of the House of Representatives to be a person of respectability + credibility proves that Thompson Smith, Hardy Smith and Lofton Smith are [now living - double underlined], the letter of Hardy Smith herewith filed admits against his own interest, (as that admission lessens his own share from one third down to one fourth) and therefore proves that Stephen Smith is a [surviving - underlined] child of Hardy Smith - as he states at foot of 3d page "This decision" [that Stephen Smith is a son of Hardy Smith and "is yet alive"] [ is correct - double underlined].  I now request that the Certificate maybe issued as soon as conveniently practicable.
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I am Very Respectfully Your Obed't Serv't Isaac N. Coffin

Loren P. Waldo, Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D.C.
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Hardy Smith Georgia Lauren's County
Sus. see let. Dan'l McNeel Oct. 3d 1833
P-262

W dep
4.5.1

Sp L Hon G M Troup
US
feb 22/1833

Hon. G M Troup
H.R.
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BRIEF in the case of Hardy Smith County of Lauren in the State of Georgia
(Act 7th June, 1832.)

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

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

3. How old is he? 76

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

Period. | Duration of Service. | Rank. | Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.

In 1781 | 3 Months | Private | Capt. King Col. Johnson Genl. Lincoln and Butler

then volunteered again | 3 Months | Light Horse | Cap. Hadley Col. Armstrong

immediately volunteered again during the war and was discharged at the Capture of Cornwallis.
and all together served 5 3-durint the war

5. In what battles was he engaged? Battle of Stono

6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Cumberland Co. North Carolina

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

8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? the person of service, nor the length of service are not stated clearly - the seal of the Court is a Common [Wafer - underlined]

 Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
George Taylor
Examining Clerk.
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Hardy Smith's Certificate for Pension. May 6th 1833 -
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State of Georgia }On this sixth day of May in Lauren County }the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & thirty three
Personally appeared in open Court, it being a Court of Ordinary & a Court of record according to the Constitution & laws of
Georgia now sitting, Hardy Smith a resident of said County & State, aged [smudged out] six years who being first duly sworn, on his oath makes the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress
passed June the 7th 1832. This deponent hereby relinquishes every claim whatsoever to any pension or annuity, except the present & declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State, that he
was born on the waters of Nuce river Johnson County, North Carolina;
The first tour of his revolutionary service, commenced as a drafted malitia soldier on the tenth day of April 1779 for three months in Cumberland County North Carolina (where he resided after the time under the command of Capt. Nathan King & Col. Jonas Johnson, there remained for about 3 weeks, then marched to Camden South Carolina, proceeded on to Orangeburgh, same State, there remained
ten days or a fortnight, then marched on to Bacon's bridge by way of Parkey Ferry, there remained for 3 or 4 days, then marched to Stono river there remained stationed two months, during this stay at Stono, had a severe
battle with the British troops on Sunday morning the 20th day of June 1779 according to the best of his memory. Genl. Lincoln then commander in Chief the battle about an hour & an half or two hours, during this battle
the Col of our Artillery, whose name is now forgotton, was badly wounded carried of to head quarters about 6 or 7 miles from the scene of action died & was buried on the evening of the same day, was then & there discharged from the first three months service which appears by the written discharge in closed & marked [tear} bearing date the 10 July, the year neglected by the Officer Jonas Johnson whose name it bears, but it was in the year 1779: after being thus discharged returned home to Cumberland County North Carolina. 
Second tour of duty commenced as a volunteer on the second of July 1781 in Cumberland County North Carolina (where he resided at the time) in the light Horse company for  three months under Capt Thomas Hadly & Lieut.  Col Thomas
Armstrong & performed all the various duties required to performed during the three months for which he entered and volunteered & by the same officers were then discharged, whose written discharge bearing date the
2d October 1781. marked B. herewith in closed will satisfactorily show
to the Department. On the 7th or 8th of October 1781, again volunteered
for the third Tour of duty (for nine months) under the same officer, to wit Capt. Hadley + Armstrong in Cumberland County North Carolina where he {illegible} in the light Horse troop. I  was not any more called out of the State of North Carolina, but continued scouring about through Cumberland County the adjacent & various other Counties of said State untill it was distinctly understood that Lord Cornwallis surrendered
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at Little York to the American forces on the eighteenth or nineteenth day of October
1781, when all those soldiers in our light Horse Company were discharged, but owing to the length of time having elapsed since that
period all the documentary papers calculated to offer more satisfactory & further proof, except the two discharges annexed, are lost & destroyed. and all those compatriots in arms with this deponent, are either dead or if living, it is unknown to him where they live, so as to
obtain their living testimony: that he has no other means whereby to establish his revolutionary claims than thus this stated according to the act of Congress of the seventh of June 1832, sworn to & subscribed
the day & year aforesaid.
Hardy Smith [looks like a mix between 4 and a 6] his mark
We Thomas Moore Senr. who is a Citizen + Ezekiel Smith a Clergyman residing in the
County of Laurens & State of Georgia, do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Hardy Smith who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be seventy six years of age that he is reputed & believed in the neighborhood where he lives to have been a soldier of the revolution, that we concur in that opinion:  certified & subscribed the day & year aforesaid.
Tho Moore private Citiz.
Ezekiel Smyth, P. Gospel

We the associate Justices of the said Court of Ordinary now sitting in open Court, it being a Court of [Ordinary - struck out]  Record according to the constitution & laws of the State of Georgia, whose names are hereto officially signed, do hereby certify & declare that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, & served as he States, & we the Court further certify that it appears to them that Thomas Moore [illegible] + private citizen +Ezekiel Smith who have signed then the preceding certificate are one a clergyman + the other a Citizen and both resident in the said County of Laurens & State of Georgia & are both credible persons whose statements
are entitled to full credit.
H. C. Fagner J.C.S.C
Lewis Maddux J.S. C
Benjamin W. Hampton, J.J.Clk
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I Thomas Moore clerk of the said Court of Ordinary do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, [(struck out and illegible)] in the matter of the application of Hardy Smith for a Pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand + private seal, there being no public seal of office belonging to this court in this county, this 6th day of May 1833.
Tho Moore Clerk of the Court of Ordinary.

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Rev. and 1812
Wars Section
AWF/[illegible]
April 10, 1930.
Mrs. D. A. Smith
312 W. Gains Street
Dublin
Georgia.
Dear Madam:

I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim S. 7539, it appears that Hardy Smith was born in Johnson
County, North Carolina, date not stated.
While residing in Cumberland County, North Carolina, he enlisted and served as a private with the North Carolina troops as follows:
From April 10, 1779 three months in Captain Nathan King's Company, Colonel Jonas Johnson's Regiment and was in the battle of
Stone; from July 2, 1781 three months in Captain Thomas Hadly's Company of Light Horse, in Colonel Thomas Armstrong's Regiment, and from October 7, or 8, 1781 in the same company and regiment, and
was discharged after the surrender of Cornwallis.
He was allowed pension on his application executed May 6, 1833, at which time he was living in Laurens County, Georgia, aged seventy-six years. The soldiermarried November 16, 1796, in Washington County,
Georgia, Rebecca Thompson. She died in Laurens County, Georgia, in August 1835, and
he died there in February 1842. Their surviving children in 1852 were Thompson, Hardy and
Loftin, all residing in Laurens County, Georgia.
A son, Stephen, by the soldier's first wife (her name is not given) was living in Baker County, Georgia, in 1852.
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Herewith is returned your drawing of the sword. We can give you no data as to the period of service in which this sword was used.
Very truly yours,

EARL D. CHURCH
Commissioner.
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[ top left corner folded over during copying and covered the S. # and any information above it.]

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSONS.
Washington, D.C., ____________, 19__

In reply to your request of _______________, received _________________ for a statement of the military history of Hardy Smith a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for a pension on file in this Bureau.
DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. |
LENGTH OF SERVICE. |RANK. | OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDEED. | STATE.| CAPTAIN. | COLONEL. 

Apr. 10 1779 | 3 mos. | Pvt. | Capt. Nathan King | Col. Jonas Johnson | N.C.

July 2 1781| 3 mos. | | Capt. Thos. Hadley - Light Horse | Col. Thos. Armstrong | |

Oct. 7 or 8 1781 |* | | Capt. Thos. Hadley - Light Horse | Col. Thos. Armstrong | |
*dis. after Surrender of Cornwallis

Battles engaged in, Stono
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Cumberland Co. N.C.
Date of application for pension, May 6, 1833. His claim was at Laurens Co. Ga.
Age at date of application, 76. born in Johnson Co. N.C.
Remarks: Sol. mar. Nov. 16 1796 in Washington Co. Ga. - Rebecca Thompson. She died in Laurens Co. Ga. in Aug. 1835 and he died there in Feb. 1842. Their Surviving children were Thompson, Hardy and Loftin res. Lauren Co. A son Stephen by  his first wife whose name is not given was alive in 1852 res. Baker Co. Ga.
Respectfully,

Commissioner.

d-285C
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1920 Jan. 6 Hist. to Roberta Smith, ow.

1930 Apr. 10 Hist. to Mrs. D.A. Smith ow

Revolution 7539
INVALID.

File No. 7539
Hardy Smith
Priv. Rev. War

Act: June 7th 1832
Index: - Vol. 1st, Page 347

[Arrangement of 1870.]