Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 25002, for Charles Smith, Maryland
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SERVICE  Md
NUMBER  W. 25002
Smith, Charles  
Mary

CONTENTS
He died in 1787 or 1788
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Declaration of H Dyer
in the case of Mrs Smith
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State of Maryland
Prince Georges County
On this 14th day of September
1847 Personally appears in open Court
Horatio Dyer
of the State and County aforesaid aged about fifty
three years, who being duly sworn according to Law doth
on his oath make the following declaration in order
to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by an act
of Congress passed 7th of June 1832 and by other acts
that he married a grand Daughter of the late Captain Charles Smith who was in the Maryland line
of Continental establishment and whose widow Mrs
Mary Smith was, She was also my Wifes Grand Mother
and who resided in Georgetown D.C. who received a pention [pension] to the time of her death which is believed to have
been in the year 1843 as the widow of the said Smith
amounting only to that of a Lieutenant instead of a
Captains pay when she was at the same time in the
receipt of a pention [pension] from the State of Maryland as the
Widow of Captain Charles Smith. Now the object
of this deponent is to recover the balance of Pention [pension]
due the said Mrs Smith being the difference between
that of a Lieutenant and a Captains pay under the
aforesaid acts of Congress as will fully appear that
she is entitled to by reference to the accompanying
proofs and the proofs now in the pention [pension]  Office upon
file upon which the pention [pension]  of a Lieutenant was
only granted to his Captain Smith said Widow
Sworn Before James Harker Regr [illegible]
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I Thomas Duckett Chief Justice of the
Orphans Court of Prince George County hereby certify that the aforegoing deponent 
Horatio Dyer is known to me and believed to be entitled
to the utmost credit as a man of truth and
further certify that the aforegoing oath was administered to the said Dyer by James Harper
Register of said Court in open Court and
that the foregoing affidavit is the original
proceedings which has taken place before
said Court in reference to said matter
Witness my hand and seal this 14th day
of September eighteen hundred and forty seven
Thos. Duckett [handwritten seal]

Maryland Prince Georges County Sct
I James Harper Register of Wills for said County do hereby
certify that the attestation of Thos Duckett Chief Justice of the Orphans Court of Prince Georges County
above made is entitled to full faith and credit he being
at the time of making same and now the chief Judge
as stated
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed
my name and affixed the seal of the
Orphans Court of Prince Georges County
this 14th day of September Anno Domini
1847
James Harper Reg of Wills P. G. Cty
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District of Columbia
Mary Smith decd
widow of Charles
who was a Lieut Captain
in the Revolution
Incd from  $320
-
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate
of 433. Dollars 33
Cents per annum, to commence
on the 4th day of March, 1843.
& Edng 17 October 1863
-
Certificate of Pension issued
the 17 day of March 1837
and sent to
J. C. Brent J.C. Digges
Present
[Acts of March 3, 1843 [crossed out & June 17, 1844]]
.
Recorded in Book W
Vol. 2.  Page 1321
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* when last heard from which was in February
1839, and Charles E Bowman living in Ohio
and was heard from a few months ago
which includes all the heirs or Representatives
of the aforesaid Mary Smith

[seal affixed]
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Printed by Huber & Jarvis.
United States of America 
STATE OF  MARYLAND, to wit:
I, DAVID HUDSON, Notary Public by Letters
Patent under the Great Seal of the State of Maryland, commissioned
and duly qualified, residing in the City of Baltimore, in the State
aforesaid do hereby Certify, Attest and make known that
on the day
of the date hereof before me personally appearing Mrs
Louisa Precass known to me as a creditable witness, who
after having been solemnly sworn by me according to
Law, did depose and say, that she is the Niece of Mrs
Mary Smith, widow of Charles Smith Decd of the revolutionary
war, and that her aunt, Mary Smith, at her death
left no children, her only daughter Mary Smith was married
Raphel W Boarman, & had four children namely Mary Rose
Boarman, who marrie Horatio Dyer of Prince Georges County
Maryland, said Mary R Dyer died on the 31st day of August
1836 and left four children namely Louisa Jane Dyer now
aged about twenty two years, Mary Olivia Dyer aged 19 years
Louis C Dyer aged 17 years & Julia Frances Dyer aged 14 years
and one Grand daughter named Marcelina who married
James P Kirby now living in George Town, D.C. and two
Grand Sons namely, Ignatius W Boarman living 
in Alabama --*

Of which an Act having been of the requested, I have granted
these presents, to serve and avail as need and occasion may require.
In Testimony whereof, I, the said Notary, have hereunto set
my hand and affixed my Notarial seal the Eighth
day of November in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and fifty
D W Hudson
---
Notary Public.
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I hereby certify that on the nineteenth day of
October in the year one thousand eight hundred
and forty three I buried Mary Smith for whose
funeral expences I was paid by Ninian Beall
Nov. 7th 1850
Wm King
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324
Mary Smith, Widow ┃
of Capt Chs Smith
Application for
Pension
in roll  State
Debt as bt.
admitted
a yrs bt $320
James Gettys
Prest
-
Aug 20 '38
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District of Columbia County of Washington Sct
On this 18th
day of August in the year of our Lord 
Eighteen hundred and thirty eight, personally appeared
before me the Subscriber assistant Judge of the United States
Circuit Court for the District of Columbia
Mary Smith a Resident of George Town in the
District aforesaid aged Seventy three years
who being first duly sworn, according to Law, doth on her oath, make the following declaration, in order to
obtain the benefits of the Provision made by the act of Congress passed the 7th July 1838, entitled, "an act granting half pay and Pensions to Certain Widows" that
she is the widow of Charles Smith who was a Captain in the Maryland Line of continental Troops and that as the 
Widow of said Charles Smith she is now in the receipt of a Pension from the State of Maryland as will fully appear by reference to the Certificates of George
G. Brown Register Land Office Western shore
Maryland and Brooke Mackall a Notary Public
hereunto annexed
She further declares that she
was married to said Charles [inserted many years ago the precise time cannot recollect but believes the certificate is hereto annexed saying the time [illegible] viz on or about 19th] day of January Seventeen hundred and Eighty two
that her husband the aforesaid Charles Smith
died five or six years after their marriage that
she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to first of January Seventeen hundred and ninety
four viz in the month of January Seventeen hundred
and Eighty two, at the time above stated
[signature] Mary Smith
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year
above written before me
James S Morrell
I do hereby certify that the aforesaid applicant
Mary Smith cannot from bodily infirmity appear in Court - being for some time past and at present her attending Physician -
Augt 18th 1838.
H. Magruder  M.D.
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District of Columbia County of Washington Sct
On this 18th day of August in the year of our Lord
Eighteen hundred and thirty eight, personally appeared
before me the Subscriber a Justice of the peace in and
for the County aforesaid Dorothy O Brien aged sixty
two years in October next ensuing the date hereof
a resident of George Town in the District aforesaid
who being first duly sworn, according to Law, doth on
her oath make the following declaration, that she
was well acquainted with Charles Smith of
[blank] County State of Maryland a Captain
in the Revolutionary war and his Wife Mary Smith
now his widow residing in George Town aforesaid, that
she know them as man and wife from her earliest
recollection being near neighbours, and was at
the funeral of the said Charles Smith in the year
Seventeen hundred and Eighty seven or eight- she
further declares that the said Mary Smith has
ever remained and is now living, the widow of the said Charles Smith -
Dorothy O'Brien  her mark
Witness James Gettys

Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year
above written, before me
James Gill [handwritten seal]
Justice of the Peace

we do hereby certify that the above
named Dorothy O Brien is personally known
to us, and considered a respectable woman, of
veracity, and that her aforesaid declaration is
our opinion entitled to full faith and credit
James Gettys
Justice of the Peace
in & for the County of
Washington District of
Columbia
Henry Trument
John Gevelon
Wm J. Gorzler
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Land Office Annapolis, March 7th 1834.
I hereby certify, that it appears by the Muster rolls,
remaining in this office, that Charles Smith, was appointed a Lieutenent in the 1st Maryland Regiment, on
the 10th of December 1776, and on the 18th of February
1780, resigned;-- and I also further certify, that it
appears [crossed out from] by from the Army Ledger, that Charles Smith, afterwards held the rank of Captain of an Extra Regiment,
and that his accounts stand stated and settled upon said
Ledgers up to the 30th of November 1781
George G Brewer
Regd Land of W. S. M.
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State of Maryland Charles County to wit
I Hereby Certify that it appears from the
Record of the proceedings of Charles County 
a marriage license was issued on the nineteenth
day of January one thousand seven hundred
Eighty two to join together in the
Holy Bonds of Matrimony Charles Smith &
Mary Bowling
The Testimony whereof I have
hereto subscribed my name
and affixed the seal of charles
Court this 16 day
August Eighteen hundred
and thirty Eight
John Barber Clk of
Charles County Court
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District of Columbia County of Washington Sct
This 18th August 1838- I Brooke Mackall
Notary Public for the County aforesaid, do hereby
certify that the within named applicant Mary
Smith residing in George Town in the District
aforesaid, is personally known to me as the widow
of the late Charles Smith a Captain in the
Maryland Line of Continental Troops, and
that as the Widow of the said Capt Charles
Smith she is now and has been for some time
in the receipt of a Pension from the State of Maryland
In testimony whereof I have hereunto
offered my Notarial Seal -
B Mackall
Not Pub
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WIDOW, &c.
File No. 25002

Mary Smith
Wid of
Charles Smith
Capt Rev War
Act Mar 3rd 1843
Index: Vol   S   Page 225

[Arrangment of 1870]
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Mary Smith
Dist of Columbia 
Suspended
Subt 24th Aug
1838   J Gettys
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District of Columbia
Mary Smith
Widow of Charles Smith
who was a Lieutenant
in the Revolution

Inscribed on the Roll at the Rate of
320 Dollars  _____
Cents per annum, to commence on
the 4th Day of March, 1843

Certificate of Pension issued the
14th day of Sept 1843
and sent to N Beall, Present
Payable to Ninian Beall, Committee

[Act of March 3, 1843]
Recorded in Book A
Vol 1    Page 246
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See Letter to P Agt June 1839


86
District of Columbia
Mary Smith
widow of Charles Smith decd
who died on the about 1788
of Geo Town in ghe [crossed out state] District of Columbia
who was a Lieut in the company  commanded
by Captain __ of the __ commanded 
by __ in the Md line for 2 years

Inscribed on the Roll of Dist of Columbia
at the rate of 320 Dollars )) Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March 1836

Certificate of Pension issued the 28 day of Augt
1838 and sent James Gettys present
Arrears to the 4th of March 1838        $640.00
Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Sept  160.00
                                                              $800.00

{Revolutionary claim, Act July 7 1838 [illegible]}
Recorded by D D Addison   Clerk
Book A  Vol 2  page 234
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86
District of Columbia
Mary Smith  Decd
Widow of Charles Smith
who was a pensioner under the act of */*
and who died in the year 1788
of GeorgeTown in the [crossed out State] District of Columbia
who was Lieut & Capt  in the ___
commanded by Captain ___  of the 
____  commanded by ___  in
the Maryland line for 17 months Capt and 7 months Lieut

Inscribed in the Roll of Washington City
at the rate of 433 Dollars 33 cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March 1836

Certificate of Pension issued the 17th day of March 1851 and sent to J C Brett & J C Digges
present 

[crossed out That amount] increased from $320.00

[Act July 7, 1838]
Recorded by H P Weightman Clerk,
Book  D  Vol 1  Page 481
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George Town 27th August 1838
Col J L Edwards
In

Your letter under date of the 24th
Inst was duly received, & in reply accept on the part of
Mrs Mary Smith Widow of the late Capt Charles Smith
of the Maryland line, the Pension granted him by Law
as the widow of a Lietenant, reserving the right to
claim, hereafter, any additional pay, upon
satisfactory proof being presented to the Deponent
of her husbands service as a captain
Very Respectfully Yours Truly
James Gettys
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WAR DEPARTMENT.
Five years Pension.
I certify that in conformity with the first section of the
act of July 7, 1838, Mary Smith
widow of Charles Smith decd
who was a Lieutenant in the Revolution
and died about 1788
is entitled to receive five years pension at the rate of Three hundred & twenty
dollars and ___ cents per annum [crossed out month] commencing on the
fourth day of March, 1836; and in case of the death or
marriage of said widow before the expiration of said five years,
the pension will cease on the day of such marriage or death.  

Given at the War Office of the United States, this 28th day of August
one thousand
eight hundred and thirty eight
S. Cook
Acting Secretary of War
{Examined and
Countersigned. }
J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions.
20 years 6 March 1839
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Washington July 27th 1838
Sir
Mrs Mary Smith Widow of Capt Charles Smith
of the Revolutionary War, Maryland line is considered
intitled to the Benefit of the Pension law of July 7
1838, and her Relations intend sacking her interest
in due time and therefore have addressed
a letter to the Court a copy of which is furnished you that you may be advised that
untill they appear in her behalf nothing may
he matured in your office yet &
R. Baylis

James L Edwards
Commissioner of
Pensions
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State of Maryland
Prince George's Cty  viz
Be it remembered and it is hereby certified
that on this sixteenth day of November in the
year one thousand Eight hundred and fifty before
the subscriber a Justice of the peace of the said
State in and for the County aforesaid personally
appeared John B Spalding aged about fifty
eight years a credible witness and of good repute
and made oath on the Holy evangely of Almighty
God that he was well acquainted with Mrs
Mary Smith widow of Captain Charles Smith
deceased of the Revolutionary army: [inserted and of the Maryland Line] that said
Mrs Smith died on or about the seventeenth of
October one thousand eight hundred and forty three
and that at the time of her death she had no
children living
Sworn to before
John J. Lambert J.P.
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Maryland Prince Georges County Sct
I hereby certify that John J. Lambert Esq
before whereas the aforegoing affidavit appears to have been made and who has thereto signed
his name was at the time thereof, and still is a
Justice of the Peace in and for the state and
County aforesaid duly commissioned and sworn
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and affixed the
seal of Prince Georges County
Court this 19th day of November
Anno Domini 1830
Mr B. Brooke Clk
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STATE OF MARYLAND. -- To wit:
I, WILLIAM GRASON, GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF MARYLAND,
do hereby certify that the Honourable JOHN BUCHANAN, who has signed the annexed Certificate is, and
at the time of so doing was Chief Judge of this State for the Court of Appeals, and that full faith and
credit are due and ought to be given to his acts as such.

In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and
affixed the Great Seal of the State of Maryland, on this
twenty seventh day of March
in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and
forty one and of the Independence of the
United States the sixty fourth year
GOVERNOR,
Wm Grason

J Murray
Secretary of State.

[seal affixed]
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MARYLAND, SCT.
I, RICHARD W. GILL, Clerk of the Court of Appeals
for the Western Shore of Maryland, do hereby certify, that the foregoing
is a full and true copy of the Resolution of the
General Assembly of Maryland of which it
purports to be a copy as taken from Liber
J.J.  No 2 folio 277 one of the Law records of
of the State of Maryland belonging to the
office of the Court of Appeals for the Western
shore of said State

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand as Clerk, and affixed the seal of the said Court of Appeals, this twenty Seventh day of March A.D. 1841
Richard W Gill Clerk

MARYLAND SCT
I, John Buchanan    Chief Judge of the State of
Maryland for the Court of Appeals, do hereby certify, that RICHARD W. GILL is Clerk of the
Court of Appeals for the Western Shore of Maryland, and that the foregoing attestation by him is in due form and by the proper officer.
Given under my hand and seal this twenty seventh day of March in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred forty one
J . Buchanan
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Maryland Sct

At a session of the General Assembly of Maryland begun and held at the City
of Annapolis on the last Monday of December being the thirtieth
day of the said month in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
thirty three, and ended the fifteenth day of March one thousand eight hundred and thirty four
His Excellency James Thomas Esquire Governor

The following Resolution was enacted to wit.
No 54. By the House of Delegates March 7th 1834
Resolved by the General Assembly of Maryland that the Treasurer
of the Western shore, be and he is hereby authorised and required to pay to Mary
Smith (widow of Capt Charles Smith of the District of Columbia, or to her order
during life in quarter yearly payments a sum of money equal to the half pay of
a Captain in consideration of the services rendered by her husband during the
revolutionary War.
By the Senate March 8th 1834
By Order Louis Gassaway Clerk
Read the second and by special order the third time and assented to,
By Order Jos H Nicholson Clerk
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In [illegible]
Mary Smith decd
D. C.
ad'd  Capt 17 mos $340.
         Lt        7  --       93.25 1/2
                               $433.33 1/3

In arrears from 4 March 1836
to 17th Oct 1843 --
except 2 yrs

Payable to Horatio Dyer , Admin

letter sent to 
J C Brant & D C Digges
present
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Washington April 16th 1857.
Sir
as attorney for Horatio Dyer, admr of Mary Smith Widow
of Charles Smith a Captain in the war of the Revolution, & to whom
by Warrant from your office of March 18th you allowed difference of pay
for services of said Smith under act of July 7, 1838  from the 4th March
1836 to 4th March 1841 I beg leave to submit an additional claim, on the part of said Administrator for an allowance of a similar difference between the Pension of a Lieutenant & Captain 
for her said Husband's services under the act of 24th February 1832.
I flatter myself that in as much as you have found  & decided, that the widow ought to have received during her life, the full
pension of a Captain, & hence have allowed to her administration,
that, if you shall find that she received, under the act of 1832,
as the widow of a Lieutenant standing, by mistake, on the Rolls
as such you will, upon the evidence already filed in the case allowed, & by your office to deemed satisfactory, issue another warrant
to said administrator correcting the error made against her, under the Law of 1832, as you have done under that of 1838.
Respectfully Your of faith servant
John Carroll Brent
Attorney at Law

James E Heath Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
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Washington September 11th 1830
Sir
We respectfully submit the claim of
the Legal Representation of Mary Smith, deceased
widow of Charles Smith, of Prince George County Md
for difference of pay due to the said Husband between that of a Lieutenant and Captain in the Revolution, she the said Mary Smith having been allowed five years pension, by certificate from War Department
of 28th August 1838, under act of July 7th 1838s
A Claim for these arrears was made in 1847
to your office, and in your Letter of December 7th same year, you observe that "the deposition filed are
defective - they are not authenticated and the credibility of the Deponent is not certified" To cure these defects, and as new Testimony to show that Charles Smith was a Captain in the war of the Revolution
and that, therefore, his Representatives are entitled
to be relieved from the injury of a mistake not made through their neglect, we beg leave respectfully to submit
herewith, the following certificate affidavit
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State of the late Mary Smith, from the Orphans
Court of said County, and dated 15th May 1850 the same being duly signed and authenticated.
2d a certificate from George G Brewer, Register of Land Office
of Maryland, dated 21 June 1850, that it is shown from the Muster Rolls of the Revolution in his office (the services of Charles Smith, as a Lieutenant from 10th December 1776 to 18th February 1780, when he resigned, being set forth) that the name of Charles Smith
appears upon said Record to have received $350- on the 30th March 1781, and the date or entry of his appointment
in the Extra Regiment is blank on said Roll

3d Affidavit of James Alden, of Prince George County,
of 5th August 1830, that "he was well acquainted with
Captain Charles Smith of the Revolutionary
Army- that said Smith served in the Revolutionary war until its close as a Captain in a Maryland Regiment or Battalion, & that at Wigges Landing where Fort Washington stands on the Potomac River
in a conflict with the British Troops was
wounded in the face &c-"
R B Latimer, a Justice of the Peace, took-
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W Alden's acknowledgment & say "he is to be relyed on"
the Justices quality is duly certified by Jno B Brooke
Clerk of Prince George County -
We respectfully commit the case, with the proof
already
on file in your office, upon which the
Pension of
Five years was granted to Mr Smith to
your early
attention,
hoping that you will see fit
to correct the mistake, and allow the difference or
arrearage in question
With great Respect
Your ob servant
Daniel C Digges
John Carroll Brent
Attornies at Law,
for the
Representation of the late
Mr Mary Smith

Col J L Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
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Washington November 23d 1850
Sir
Agreeable to the call in your Letter of 19th 
I submit herewith, as additional Testimony in the case of Mary Smith, Widow of Charles
1st The certificate of William King, that on the 19th October
1843, he buried Mary Smith & for whose funeral Expence
he was paid by Ninian Beall - We understand that W King's Signature & character are well known at your office, but if his affidavit be absolutely necessary it
can be obtained Certificate dated the 7th of present month
2d The certified affidavit of Ninian Beall, of Montgomery County,
Md & made on the 9th inst. that as [illegible] for Mary Smith a [illegible] he received an annual Pension of $320, under the
act of 7th July 1838, until her death which occurred the 17th October 1843
3d the certified affidavit of Mr Louisa Precuss, of Baltimore
made the 8th inst, as to the names & residence of the Heirs
or Representation of Mary Smith, & that her aunt Mrs Smith
left no children, at her death, living-
4th a certified affidavit of John B Spalding, of Prince George County, made the 16th inst, that he was well acquainted with Mrs Mary Smith, that she died on or about the 17th Oct 1853.
& at her death had in children living -
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5th A certified copy of a Resolution of the General Assembly of Maryland, granting half pay during her
life to Mary Smith, widow of Cap Charles
Smith for services rendered by her husband during the
Revolutionary War as a Captain
We would beg leave also to remark, that if
as we flatter ourselves will be the result, you should deem it fair & just to admit this claim
for difference of pay, you will, we suppose,
extend it also for the time for which a Pension
was allowed the widow Smith, under the act
of February 24th 1832, by virtue of which as
we are informed, she received the benefits of Congressional Liberality-
Your early attention to & favorable action in
this case, would much oblige
Respectfully your ob servants
John Carroll Brent
Daniel C Digges
Attornies for Representating

Col James L Edwards 
Commissioner of Pensions
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No 2
Certificate of the Service of Capt Charles Smith, an officer in the War of the Revolution
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Land Office
Annapolis, 27th June, 1850
I hereby certify, That it appears by the Muster
Rolls of the Revolution remaining in this Office, that
Charles Smith, was appointed a Lieutenant, in the 1st Maryland Regiment, on the 10th day of December, 1776, and on
the 18th day of February, 1780, resigned and I further certify 
that it appears by another Record of the Revolution also remaining in
this office, and headed as follows, "An account of monies paid
by the State of Maryland to officers of the extra Regiment
in service of the United States" That the name of said Charles
Smith, appears upon said Record, to have received $350.00
on the 30th day of March, 1781, and the date or entry of his
appointment as Captain in the Extra Regiment, is blank on said roll.--
George G. Brewer
Regr Land Office Md

In Testimony whereof
I have hereunto set my hand
and affixed my official Seal,
this 21st day of June, 1850,
George G Brewer 
Regr Land Off Md
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State of Maryland
Prince Georges County to wit
Personally appears before the subscriber a Justice ┃
of the peace of the State of Maryland in and
for Prince Georges County on this 5th day
of August 
in the year of our Lord one
thousand Eight hundred and fifty James L
Alder of said County aged about Eighty
nine years and a witness of respectable
character and standing and being just
duly sworn deposeth and saith that he
was well acquainted with Captain Charles
Smith of the Revolutionary Army; that said
Smith served in the Revolutionary War until
its close as a captain in a Maryland
Regiment or Battallion, and that at Digges's
now where Fort Washington stands on the
Potomac River in a conflict with the
British troops was wounded in the face
and that then the said Captain Charles Smith
repaired to
Tyler's House as the head of his company
that said House was then set on fire
burned by the British troops and
and Smith assisted in taking several
prisoners

[illegible] sworn before
Randolph B Latimer
Justice of Peace
I hereby certify that I have known Mr Jas L Allder for more
than thirty years, and that altho he is now advanced in
years his mind and recollection is sound and to be relied on
R.B. Lattimer  J.P.
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State of Maryland Prince George County Sct.
I hereby certify that Randolph R Latimer Gentleman before whom the
aforegoing deposition was taken, was on the day of the date thereof
and still is one of the said State Justices of the peace in
and for said County duly commissioned and sworn
In Testimony whereof I have herewith
Subscribed my name and affixed the seal of
Prince George County Court this Seventh day of
August A.D. 1850
Jno. B. Brooks Clk of
P. George, Cnty Cot
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No. 1
Exemplification
to
of Letters of
Mary Smith
Comm I [illegible] allow 
the claim for Capt
from the time of
raising the present
to June 1780 to Mr
1781. I am per throu
July 1780 to 30 Nov 1787
deducting what has been
paid at $320 p an, Show 
such claims to administer 
such the office of the
Atty Genl
17 Nov Capt 340
June Same      9333
                      43333

[illegible]  $320
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Maryland Sct
The State of Maryland
To all whom these presents
shall come Greeting.
Know ye that on the Fourteenth
day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and forty seven by and before James
Harper Register of Wills for Prince Georges County within
the State of Maryland duly thereto constituted and
appointed for probate of Wills and granting administration according to the directions of the act of
Assembly in that case made and provided Administration  of all and singular the goods, chattels
and credits which were of Mary Smith
late of Prince Georges County deceased was granted
and committed unto Horatio Dyer of said County
he having first [illegible] into Bond with sufficient
surities for the due performance thereof and also
taken the oath will and truly to administer the same. To exhibit a true and perfect Inventory of the
said goods chattels and credits and to render a
Just account of Administration when he should
be thereto required-
Witness Horatio C. Scott Esquire Chief Justice
of the Orphans Court of Prince George County this
Thirteenth day of May in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and fifty
List
James Harper Reg
of Wills for 
P G Cty
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Maryland Prince George County Sct
I Horatio C. Scott, Chief Judge of
the Orphans Court of said County, do hereby
certify that James Harper whose attestation
is hereto affixed was at the time of attesting the same
and is now Register of Wills for Prince
George County and that full faith and
credit is to be given to all his acts as such
Horo. C Scott

Maryland Prince Georges County Sct
I, James Harper Register of Wills for
said County do hereby certify that Horatio
C. Scott whose attestation is hereto affixed,
was at the time of attesting the same and is
now chief Judge of the Orphans Court of Prince
Georges County, and that full faith and
credit is to be given to all his acts as such

In testimony where of I have hereunto
subscribed my name and affixed
the seal of the Orphans Court of
Prince George County this 13 day
May Anno Domini 1850
James Harper Regr
of Wills for P. G. Coty
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Mary Smith
W'd Charles Md 
WA, Act 1836 perhaps

wants permission to
Copy G.G. Brewer's Atte[missing]
Page 43

Pension Office
16th August 1847
Hon J.L. Edwards
Comr Pensions,
Sir

You will oblige me
by permitting me to copy a letter from G. G. Brewer Annapolis Md. in the case of Mrs. Mary Smith
widow of Captain Charles Smith of the State of
Md who was a pensioner from the Dist
of Columbia, I think under the "act of 1836",
the object of which is to trace the records of
Maryland in the case as Mr Brewer informs
me that he kept no copy of said letter, It is
dated I believe" July 1838.
Very Respectfully
S A. Pugh
Page 44

House of Representatives
Washington April 3d 1838
as one of the Committee on Revolutionary
claims. I desire to be informed if there 
is evidence either upon Record or on file
in your office going to show that Charles
Smith of [illegible] Maryland, was a
captain in the continental army of the
Revolution  Whether he resigned & at what
time, or whether he
remained in office to the
close of the War
It is apostated by the [illegible]
of Capt. Smith that his widow Mrs. Mary Smith
late of the District of Columbian drew a pension
as his widow and that she filed in your office
certain papers going to prove that her husband
was a captain in the Rev War If so, be
or good as to send me copies of such paper
[section of document clipped off] 
Signature missing
when claim was
opened by me, Aug 2, 1917 -
A W
J. L. Edwards  Esq
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Washington June 20th 1850
Sir
Having been associated with Daniel C Digges
Attorney for Horatio Dyer, of Prince George County, Md Admr de bonis non of the late Mrs Mary Smith
widow of Cap Charles Smith, who was in
the Md Line on Continental Establishment, I
respectfully ask permission to examine the
Papers on file in your office whereupon the
said Mrs Smith received a Pension up to the
time of her death in 1843.
My object is to endeavour to recover for
the Admr the difference of Pension between a Lieutenant
& Captain, Charles Smith, as we expect to prove
having been of the latter grade
Respectfully
Your ob faith servt
John Carroll Brent
for Admr

Col J L Edwards
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Washington City  D.C.
5th October 1847.
Honl J. L. Edwards
I herewith submit the declaration of Horatio Dyer Admr upon the estate of Mary Smith
late of George Town D.C. for an amount of Pension due
estate as the widow of Capt Charles Smith of the
line during the war of the Revolution. The evidence
filed in support of the case is the Deposition of Elizabeth Bowling & James L. Alder & the Register certificate from
the Land Office of Md. There is also additional
testimony in the Pension office upon which a pension was granted to Mary Smith under the act of 1837,
I am very Respectfully
S A Peugh for [illegible] Bigelow L Peugh
Page 47

Affidavit of Elizabeth A Bowling
Page 48

State of Maryland Court
Prince Georges County
on this 22nd day of
June in the year of our Lord one thousand
Eight hundred & forty seven personally
came & appeared before me Richd J. Earlen
a Justice of the peace within & for said
County Elizabeth A. Bowling of this State
County aforesaid who being by me
duly sworn upon the holy Evangely
of Almighty God, deposeth & says that
she was well acquainted with Capt
Charles Smith of the Revolutionary war
that the said Smith commanded
a company at the Burning of Lyle's
House on the Potomac assisted in the
capture of several Prisoners, this
deponent further states that about
the year 1782 Capt Charles Smith
married my sister Mary Bowling
and this deponent distinctly recollects
that the said Capt Smith served
in the army untill the war was finally
ended & this deponent further States
that Capt. Smith was under a furlough
at the time of his marriage & further
sayeth that she is now about 85 years
of age, & further this deponent sayeth not
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Elizabeth A. Bowling
her mark  [handwritten seal]
Signed sealed and sworn to before
me on  the day & year first within
written

Rich J. Earlen   [handwritten seal]


Affidavitt of 
Elizabeth A. Bowling
Page 50

State of Maryland
Prince Georges County
on this 22nd day
of June in the year of our Lord one
thousand Eight Hundred & Forty
seven personally came & appeared
before me Rich J. Earlen a Justice
of the peace within for the said County
 James L Alder of the State & County
aforesaid who being by me duly
sworn upon the Holy Evangelists
of Almighty God deposeth and
saith that during the War of the
Revolution, this deponentt was will
acquainted with Captain Charles
Smith of the Maryland line and
he served in said war untill its
final close as Captain and at Diggs
now where Fort Washington stands
Whilst Captain Smith was stationed
at Diggs the received a severe
wound in his face by a cannon
Ball striking a Rock near him
the fragments striking him in the
face & injuring him very much and after
his wound at Diggs he marched
round at the Burning of Lyle House and 
assisted in the taking of several 
prisoners
James L Alder [handwritten seal]
Page 51

Sign sealed and sworn to before me on the 
day and year first written within 
Richd J Earlen   J.P.

Affidavit of James L Alder
Page 52

Certificate of G G Brewer
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Land Office, Annapolis
29th July, 1847
I hereby certify, That it appears by the Muster rolls of the
Revolution, Remaining in this office, That Charles Smith, was
appointed a Lieutenant, in 1st Maryland Regiment, on the 10th
day of December 1776 and on the 18th day of February, 1780, resigned
And I further certify, that it appears by a record also 
remaining in this office, on page thereof, headed "An Account of monies paid by the State of Maryland, to officers of the Extra Regiment in service of the United States". That the name of
Charles Smith, a Captain, appears to have received £350" on the 30th day of March, 1781.
George G Brewer
Regr Land Off Md

Mem'r The Records of the Maryland troops in the War of the
Revolution being very imperfect, they do not show how long the "Extra Regiment" in which Charles Smith, was a captain, was in service.
I am therefore only able to give a certificate from the above account
as to the amount he received as a Captain in the said Regiment
George G. Brewer
Regr Land Off Md
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No 1
A copy of an application
of Horatio Dyer
Admr of Mary Smith
filed in the pentions 
office in Washington
to receive a difference
in pay from a 
lieutenant to that of 
A Capt
Page 55

State of Maryland
Prince Georges County
On this ___ day of ___
1847 personally appeared in open Court Horatio Dyer  Admr of Mary Smith
of the State and County aforesaid aged about
__ years who being duly sworn according to law
doth on his oath make the following declaration in
order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by
an act of Congress passed 7th June 1832 and other
acts that he married the Grand daughter of the
late Captain Charles Smith who was in the Maryland line on Continental establishment and
whose widow Mrs Mary Smith of George Town was
my wifes Grand Mother who received a pention to
the time of her death which is believed to have
been in the year 1843, as the widow of the said
Smith amounting only to that of a Lieutenant instead of a Captains pay when she was at the same
in the receipt of a pention from the State of
Maryland as the widow of Capt. Charles Smith
Know that the object of the deponent is to
recover the balance of pention due his said ancestor
being the difference between that of a Lieutenant and
a Captains pay under the aforesaid acts of Congress
as will fully appear that she is entitled to by
reference to the accompanying proof and the
proofs now in the pension office  upon file
and upon which the pention of Lieutenant was
granted to his said widow
The original
of this paper was executed in the
Orphans Court of
Prince Georges County of Maryland  certified  by the date 
J Sand JP
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3216
Mary Smith, payable to 
Ninian Beall, committee,

act March 3. 1843

D.C. Roll
$320 per annum

Cert to N. Beall
Present
Page 57

District of Columbia
County of Washington To Wit
On this 12th day of September in the
year 1843, Personally appeared before the
subscriber a Justice of the peace in and for
said County, Ninian Beall of said County,  Committee and Trustee under an appointment by the Circuit Court of the District of Columbia of Mary Smith
a lunatic, and made Oath on the Holy Evangely
of Almighty God, that this said Mary Smith
is the same person who is reported to be the widow of Charles Smith who was a Lieutenant of Infantry
in the Maryland line during the War of the
revolution, and that the following is a true Copy of the warrant granting her a pension under the act of 7th July 1838, now in the possession of said Ninian Beall, and that said Mary Smith is still a widow and in Lunacy

War Department.
Five years pension. I certify that in conformity
with the first section of the act of July 7th 1838, Mary Smith
Widow of Charles Smith Decd who was a Lieutenant in the Revolution and died about 1788, is entitled
to receive five years pension at the rate of Three
hundred & twenty dollars per Annum commencing
On the fourth day of March, 1836. And in case of the death or marriage of said widow, before the expiration of said five years, the pension on the day
of such Marriage or death. Given at the War
Office of the United States, this 28th day of August
one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight.
[handwritten seal] 
G Cooper
Acting Secretary of War

Examined and countersigned
J L Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Page 58

Subscribed by Ninian Beall Committee and Sworn tp before me the day and year first before written
[signature] Ninian Bell Committee
ThoS Holtzman [handwritted seal] JPeace
Page 59

District of Columbia County of Wash'n Sct
I hereby certify that Ninian
Beall was on the 24th day
of May 1839 appointed Committee
to Mary Smith a Lunatic, and
that said appointment still
stands & is unrevoked
In testimony whereof I
have hereto subscribed my
name & affixed the Public
Seal of the Circuit Court of the
District of Columbia for the
County of Wash'n this 4 September
1843.-
W M Brent  Clk

62 1/2 cents
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Land Office, Annapolis, 31st July, 1838
Dear Sir
Mr James Gettys of Georgetown, D.C. has called on
me with a certificate furnished him from this office, on the 7th
of March, 1834, respecting the revolutionary services of Charles Smith
a Lieut. in the 1st Maryland Regiment, and afterwards appointed
a Captain in the Extra Regiment.-- Mr Gettys, informs me,
that you will not receive the certificate as evidence of service,
without it is given under the Seal of my office, This I do not
feel altogether authorized to do, the records of the Revolution
were placed in my charge a few years ago, by Act of Assembly
of this State, which act does not say, that I am authorized to
certify from the rolls under Seal of office, I am therefore unwilling to do so, although I can see no impropriety there would be
in giving a certificate of the kind under Seal but I do not like
to do any thing, that is not positively required of me by Law
The Depar't, nor the Committe on pension and Revolutionary Claims
in Congress, have heretofore required any thing more than a certificate
from the rolls of the revolution in this office as evidence of service
The Auditor of this State, who had charge of the revolutionary
records before the abolition of his office, had no seal of Office,
and the certificates furnished by him from the rolls, were received as
evidence. In regard to the Extra Regiment of Maryland, of
which Charles Smith was appointed as Captain, I have to state
that I have been examining the different acts of Assembly, to
ascertain if possible, whether the Extra Regiment of Md were
in fact on the Continental Establishment. The Extra Regiment
was
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was raised in virtue of the 12th section of the act of June session 1780, Chapter 10, and which may be found at length in the 1st
Volume of the Laws of Maryland, revised by William Kelly but
I also find another act of Assembly passed in the same year, at
the October Session of 1780, Chapter 33, (and which is not published with the laws). This act goes to repeal the act of June
1780, Ch 10, and requires the non commissioned officers and privates of
the Regiment Extraordinary to be drafted into the old Battalions
of the quota of this State into the Continental service, and that the
field and Commissioned officers of said Regiment be recalled.
It provides however that Col Alexander Lawlor Smith, shall hold
the rank of Lieut Colonel as supernumery officer of this State
in the Continental service, there can therefore, I think be no doubt, that the Extra Regiment was raised to serve in the Continental line, but how long they were in service, or whether
in service at all, I am unable to state, - The rolls are very imperfect, and it is impossible in many cases, to ascertain the term of
or period of service of officers and Soldier in the revolution
I am very respectfully
Yr Obt St
G. G. Brewer

J. L. Edwards, Esqr
---
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Washington County
District of Columbia
On this 9th day of November 1850
Personally appeared before me the Subscriber a Justice
of the peace in and for the County aforesaid Ninian Beall [crossed out of the said county]  
[illegible]  of Montgomery
County St. Maryland, Committee and Trustee
under an appointment by the the Circuit Court
of the District of Columbia of Mary Smith a lunatic
and made oath on the Holy Evangelist of Almighty God
that the [illegible] Mary Smith is the said person
who is reputed to be the widow of Charles Smith who
was a Lieutenant in the Maryland line during the
war of the Revolution and hath heretofore received
an annual pention of three hundred & twenty dollars under the act of the 7th July 1838 untill her
death which occured on the 17th day of October
1843. This Deponent further certifies that he received
a pention from the State of Maryland as the trustee of Mary Smith, under a resolution in these words by the House of Delegates March 7th 1834
Resolved by the General Assembly of Maryland that the treasurer of the Western shore be and
he is hereby authorized and required to pay to
Mary Smith Widow of Capt Charles Smith of the
District of Columbia or to her order during life in
quarter yearly payments a sum of money equal
to the half pay of a Captain in consideration of
the services rendered by her husband during the Revolutionary War
by the Senate March 8th 1834
this deponent certifies that he received the payment as above
stated from the State of Maryland untill her death
which occured as above stated I further certify that Mary
Smith named in the above resolution and reputed as the
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Widow of Capt Charles Smith of the Maryland
line is the Identicle same Mary Smith in which
I received a pention as Lieutenant widow from the War Department up to the 17 day of October 1843
further this deponant sayeth not
[signature] Ninian Beall

Sworn to and subscribed
before me
J. H. Morsell  JP