Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 42320, for Isaac Smith, Rhode Island
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(8-1776)
SERVICE
R.I.
Smith, Isaac
NUMBER
S42320

CONTENTS
res. at enl. R.I,
Ju 1821 age 74 yrs and a resident of Greenfield, Saratoga Co. N.Y.
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42320
INVALID.
Ray
File No.  42,320
Isaac Smith
Pri Rev War
Act: 18th March 18th
Index:--Vol. 3, Page 468
(Arrangement of 1870)
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Isaac Smith
3rd Copy
17.173
Sept. 1820
C

H. W. Palmer, Esq.
Ballston Spa
N. York
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State of new-York
County of SARATOGA,  ss.
ON this thirtieth day of January 1821 personally appeared in open Court, in the Court of Common Pleas of the said County, the same being a Court of Record for the said County, proceeding according to the course of the common law with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, keeping a record of its proceedings and having the power of fine and imprisonment,  Isaac Smith, 3rd of the Town of Greenfield aged Seventy Four years, resident in the said County in the State aforesaid, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, declare that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows:
That for the particulars of his services he refers to his original application on File in the office of the Secretary of War, made the twentieth day of April 1818.
That his original declaration was made on or about the twentieth day of April 1818 and that his Pension Certificate is numbered 17.673
  AND I solemnly Swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March, 1818; 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 "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States, in the Revolutionary war," passed on the 18h day of March, 1818; and that I  have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities, contracts or debts, due to me; nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed.
Isaac Smith 3rd.
  SWORN to and declared on the thirtieth day of January 1821. before me in open court.
Thomas Palmer
Clerk

I Hunloke W. Palmer Dep Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Saratoga do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed, are duly copied from the record of the said Court; and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule, is Twenty three dollars and Ninety Seven cents.
  IN testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said court, on this First day of February 1821
H. W. Palmer Deputy
Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the
County of Saratoga.
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I have the following property: to wit
2 trammels worth 1.30
1 old Iron kettle 1.25
1 small pot .75
1 dish kettle .75
1 Tea Do .75
1 Spider .62
1 Loom 8.00
1 Pig 1.50
1 saw/cooper, Adz 2.00
2 drawing knives 1 axe 1.00
1 Cooper  Trow .60
Small lot of crockery .75
2 old chairs .75
1 old case of drawer 1.50
1 table 1.50
$ 23.97
  I have a wife like myself poor and old and unable to support ourselves.  I  stand very much in need of the assistance of my Country.
Isaac Smith 3rd
Sworn in open Court 31st January 1821
Thomas Palmer 
Clerk
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Isaac Smith,
Affidavit
To 
S. C. Calhoun
Secretary of War
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The application of Isaac Smith of Greenfield in the County of Saratoga and State of New York to be placed on the pension list agreeable to an Act of Congress passed March 18th 1818 Entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaging in the Land and naval service of the United Sates in the revolutionary war

State of New York
  Saratoga County ss April 13th AD 1818 came before me Salmon Child first Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Saratoga Isaac Smith Who being by me duly sworn deposeth and saith that he in now an Inhabitant of the said Town of Greenfield and that he resided in the State of Rhode Island at the commencement of the revolutionary war-That sometime in the month of January in the year 1776 he enlisted into Capt Asa Kimble Company of Christopher Lippet's Regiment of the Rhode Island troops for one year to oppose the Common Enemy of our Country-the said regiment was stationed in the said Rhode Island until September when the said Regiment was ordered to the city of New York and joined General Washington's army below Kingsbridge and that he continued with said army until he had faithfully served the said term of one year in said  Company and Regiment in the defense of his country and was discharged at Peekskill by a written discharge and appears said discharge was left in Rhode Island with some other papers he left there.  When he came into this County and this deponent further saith that  residing near the sea-board he was [illegible] continued out in alarms and further tours of duty in the militia in opposing the enemy until the close of the revolutionary war and that he is now seventy one years old in reduced circumstances and very needy of assistance from his country
Isaac Smith
Sworn April 13th 1818
before Salmon Child
I Salmon Child Judge etc. as aforesaid do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Isaac Smith did serve in the revolutionary war as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy and I now transmit the proceeding  and Testimony taken and had before me to the Secretary for the War
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department pursuant to the direction of the aforesaid act of Congress and I further certify that the said Isaac Smith is an honest man infirm and chiefly dependent on his neighbor for support.
Greenfield May 4th 1818 Salmon Child
State of New York
Saratoga County ss
In testimony that the above named Salmon Child is a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Saratoga and State of New York and that the above is his signature I subscribe my name and affix the County Seal this fourth day of May 1818
Wm Stillwell
Clerk of the County of Saratoga
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Enoch Place 291
Affidavit of 
the service of Isaac Smith
Rhode Island line
Col. Lippet Regmt
1776 - 1 yr

Service proved
by credible witness
admitted
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State of New York
Saratoga County ss
  On the 22nd day of November 1819 before me one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Saratoga and state of New York personally appeared Enoch Place of the town of Wilton in the said county of Saratoga Who being by me duly sworn made oath that he was well acquainted with Isaac Smith of Greenfield in the said county of Saretoga in the revolutionary war and that the said Isaac Smith some time in the month of January 1776 in the state of Rhode Island enlisted into Captain Asa Kimble Company of Colonel Christopher Lippets Regiment of the Rhode Island forces for one year and that he frequently saw said Isaac Smith serving in said company and Regiment at different places during the year 1776 and that the said Regiment retreated with General Washington through New Jersey and was at the taking of the [illegible] at Trenton and the Battle of Princeton and that he has no doubt but that the said Isaac Smith served faithfully in said regiment for the term of one year at that period
Enoch Place
Sworn and declared the 22nd day of November
1819 before me Salmon Child

I Salmon Child Judge as aforesaid do Certify that the above named Enoch Place is a person of good Character,  [illegible] and to be believed in his above declaration  Novb 22nd 1819
Salmon Child
And I further Certify that the above named Isaac Smith is very poor and stands in need of the assistance of his Country for support
Salmon Child
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State of New York
Saratoga County ss
I Thomas Palmer Clerk of the county of Saratoga in said State do hereby certify that Salmon Child whose name is subscribed o the within affidavits and certificates was at the respective dates a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the said county of Saratoga acting under the authority of this state duly commissioned and sworn and the within are his signatures
Witness my hand and the county seal the 20 December 1819
Thomas Palmer
Clerk
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17.173 R
New York
not [illegible]
Isaac Smith 3rd
In Saratoga Co. in the state of New York, who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Lippett of the R Island line, for the term of one year
Inscribed on the Roll of New York, at the rate of 6 Dollars per month, to commence on the 18 of April 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 26th of May 1820
and sent to app. Greenfield
Saratoga Co, NY
Arrears to 4th of Mar. 1820  180.83
Semi-anl. all'ce ending [illegible]  48.00
12 mo 18/30 [illegible]  $220.83

{Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818.}
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Notification sent May 7th 1821 to H. W. Palmer
Esq.  Ballston Spa, N. York.