Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 40471, for Jacob Smith, Pennsylvania
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Penn.       Smith, Jacob      S40471

Contents:

(Unintelligible) Westmoreland and Co. Pa., res there in 1825 aged 70 years.
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Penn. Smith, Jacob S 40471
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War Department
Jmaie S Washington D.C.
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The Desired alteration  has been made agreeably to directions. It was inscribed by Mistake, in the first (unreadable) It was obviously an error. John L. Barclay
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Westmoreland County.
Doctor David Marchand on his solemn Oath declareth that he is one of its  executors of the Last Will & Testament of David Marchand deceased and one of the plaintiffs in a court of juditions Exponas sued out of the Court of Common Pleas of said County at the trust of Doctor David Morland Executors against Jacob Smith upon which tract of land said Smith of 200 acres more or less in Hempfield Township was bought by the (unreadable) of said County to this Deponent for the term of sixty five Dollars. That the debt which was the foundation of the Judge and Executors against said Smith occured in the lifetime of this Deponents (Unreadable) to said Smith at the time said Smith was one of the Commissioners of said County-that the suits  was instituted to November Term 1817 No 7 and was tried before a jury in open Court on first day of November 1860 and a verdict was rendered then in favor of said Marchand Executors for$308.40 Dawayer against said Smith, that a write of error  was taken to the Judgement of the Court on said Judicial by the said Smith & the proceedings in said case (unreadable) removed to the Judicial Court of Pennsylvania and upon hearing arguments the proceedings  judgement of the Court were affixed. Deponent then directed Executors against said Smith and had said Smith
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Deponent further saith that the widow of the said Judgment after deducting for the proceedings on the sale of said land as aforesaid remains due and unpaid and further (unreadable words)
Sworn and subscribed before me. This first of March 1825 A Johnston     D Marchand
Westmoreland County
I David Marchand Clerk of the Courth of General (unreadable words) of the peace in and for the County of Westmoreland do hereby certifty that Alexander John Esquire before whom the above deposition was made, at the time thereof was and now is a Justice of the peace in and for said County duly commissioned Sworn and acting as such to all whose acts of faith and credit are due. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court at Greensburgh the Seventeenth day of March in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and twenty five 
D Marchand, Clerk
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Westmoreland County
I John Nicolls Sheriff of Westmoreland County Do hereby certify that by writing a will of petition Restitution Exponas to me directed from the Court of Common pleas of said County at the (unreadable word)   of David Marchand, Daniel Marchand, John Kuhan Executors of the Last Will and Testament of David Marchand and I did on the fourteenth day of April 1824 at the Court House in the  Borough of Edinburgh implore  to sell  a certain tract of land of Jacob Smith, the deponent in said courts,  to Sale it provides kindness and Courtesy and sold the said tract of land to Doctor David Marchand for the sum of sixty five Dollars he being the highest and best bidder and the the Highest and best price that could be as obtained. Said tract contained two hundred acres more or less and situated in Hempfield Township in Said County
John Nicolls  Sheriff
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$19.59 Fees $1.00
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Pennsylvania Westmoreland County
On the first day of March 1825 personally appeared in open court in the Court of Common Pleas of Westmoreland County being a Court of Record in and for said County and proceeding according to the County of the Common Law with a Jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount and keeping a record of its proceedings. Jacob Smith resident in said County aged 70 years who being just duly sworn according to law doth on his Oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the act of Congress of the 18th March 1818 and 1 May 1820. that he the said Jacob Smith enlisted for the term of three years from the 12th Aug. 1776. Sometime in the month of August in the County and State aforesaid in the Company then commanded by Captain Nence Curry in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Moyer being the Eighth Regiment of Pennsylvania, in the line of the State of Pennsylvania in the Continental Establishment: that he continued to serve in the said corpses until the said term of three years into fully expired and received an honorable discharge form Colonel S. Bayard who then commanded the said eighth Regiment as well appear by his discharge of the 11th 'December 1779 herewith exhibited. He was discharged at Pittsburgh in the state of Pennsylvania that he hereby relinquishes all claim whatsoever to a pension except the present that his name is not on the Roll of any state except Pennsylvania and that the following are the reason for not making earlier application for a pension That your petitioner was on the 18th Mar. 1818 and in the 1 May 1820 the proprietor of a acre  of land in Hempfield Township in said county of 200 acres and found upon the same land and were able from the proceeds thereof to support himself comfortably and was unwilling to be dependent on the count of his country until every other man of support failed him, said land has since been sold from him by the Sheriff of said county on a Judgment obtained by the Executor of Doctor David Marchand and deceased against him for the sum of $60.00 as well as by the Certificate of said Sheriff and by the affidavit of David Marchand one of the said Executors herewith transmitted And in pursuance of the act of 1 st May 1820 I do solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 8th day of March this and that I have not since that time by gift, sale or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof  with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled and act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and Naval Service of the United States in thee Revolutionary War"  passed on the 18th day of March and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me and my property contracts or debts due to me, nor have I any income other than what is contained in the Schedule hereunto annexed and by me subscribed by. One bed and Beding One Cow Three Sheep-Kitchen furniture Value about $10.00 One Judge is Joseph Morgtoys admr for $45.00 and against Samuel Craig $4.00 A note against John Kuntz  $2.00 A Judgement against  John Nagle for $2.  who is in(uanreadable)  Balance  Due on Note of David Marchand (of Frederick) about $2. Jacob Smith
That since the 18th day of March 1800 the following changes have been made in my property viz. I was then the proprietor of 200 acres of improved land in Hempfield Township said land has since been sold by the Sheriff of said County as above stated. And I do not now own any land
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whatsoever - I am by profession a farmer but my  reduced circumstances and my advanced age disable me from pursuing it. That his children have all grown up and left him and contribute nothing to his support and that he is in indigent circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support.

Sworn & subscribed in open court
the day and year first aforesaid.     

                    D. Marchand Prothn'y                                      
                                                      Jacob Smith

Westmoreland County ss

I David Marchand Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of Westmoreland County do hereby testify that the preceeding in a true copy of the original declaration made on oath in said court and now filed in my office and that the said court is of opinion that the total amount in value of the property of said Jacob Smith specified in the schedule does not exceed fifty dollars.. And the Court were satisfied that the applicant did serve in the Revolutionary War as stated in the written declaration against the common enemy for the term of nine months under one engagement on the continental establishment. 

    In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court at Greensburgh the fifteenth day of March in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and twenty five.
                                   D. Marchand Proth'y
 The word "militia" erased in the original filed in my office.
                                     D. Marchand Proth'y


                                      



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40471
INVALID.
Rev.

File No. 40471

Jacob Smith

priv.   rev  War

Act:  18th March 1800

Index:-Col. 3,  Page 867

{Arrangement of 1870}