Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 9787, for John Smith, Pennsylvania
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Penn.
Smith, John
             Lettice
R. 9787
Moved from Md. to Pa and lived in Washington Co., Pa 
d. Feb. 17, 1832 in Lylen Co. Va.
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Mayer Anderson's
Deposition
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Virginia Lylen County to wit, Mayer Anderson who after being first duly sworn by Mr. John S. Smith according to law a justice of the County and state aforesaid, testifies and says to wit he was we;; acquainted with John Smith and states his wife before her marriage with John Smith was Lettice Cline.  Her father lived in Washington County Pa.  and was living at Mrs. Clines when Lettice and John were married and saw them married by Mr. Corbly..  I have no dates and can fix now it has been many years ago.  I lived at her father's house after she was married and  found to her self.  I was often at the house with John and Lettice when they lived in Green County  Pa and lived close neighbors to them.  Often they came to Tyler County Va
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must now be very old.  I (illegible) understood that John Smith, Lettice's husband, was a Revolutionary soldier.  The first time I saw him was when Lettice Cline and he were married but knew him from that time up to the time of his death.  It was understood by the neighbors and friends that he was a soldier and how frequently he and his spoke of his mess mates in the army, James Seals, Alexander Cline, Robert McCleland and others.  I was acquainted with Seals and Cline two Seals Samuel and James McClelland and was killed by the Indians after he came from the war.  I did not know him but it is now very strongly impressed upon my mind the circumstances of his death to gather with several (illegible) at the same time Peter Cline and his wife, the wife of Peter Cline (illegible) her husband fully the (illegible).  My name before I was married was Marja Knots.

My husband John Anderson died in the spring in the year of 1812 near Sandusky.  I am now very old and frail and many of the incidents and circumstances of the times have passed from my mind and am now ready to pass off myself having remained much over the allotted time to a man.  My old associates have passed off not (illegible) except alone my old friend Lettice.