Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 31381, for Frederick Smith, North Carolina
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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed of June 1832
State of Kentucky County of Barren
On this 17th day of September 1832
Personally appeared in open Court before the Judge of the Barren Circuit Court now sitting Frederick Smith a resident of Barren County and State aforesaid aged Seventy seven years next Christmas being duly sworn according to law doth on his oath making the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed 7th 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States
under the following named officers and served as
herein stated
In 1775 in North Carolina State Rowan County
he entered the militia service in the revolutionary
war  -under General Rutherford, David Smith
Captain and went a Campaign against the [illegible]
Tories on Cape Fear River and served there about three months, and under the same officers about that time of the next year, he served a three months tour, against the Cherokee Indians, and the spring after he served a three months tour under under Captain David Caldwell and then he joined
General Lincoln in South Carolina, Captain White his company commander - he served three months and was in the battle of Stono in South Carolina near[?] Charleston then came home and joined
General Green under Captain Edwards and served three months and afterwards served in various scouting parties against
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the Tories and another campaign of three months under General Rutherford and was Captain himself  and that tour was against the British at
Wilmington, he marched through North Carolina
South Carolina and Georgia and was in the battle
at Ramsower's mill against the Tories - in
fact was in the war nearly from the beginning
to the end and he recollects that when Genl.
Lincoln was taken prisoner by the British at Charleston
he  petitioned[?] as he was informed to march with
arms in his hands and his men but that it was not
suffered[?] and when Cornwallis was taken in
York Town he asked for the same privileges
of Genl Washington that had been denied
Genl Lincoln, Washington left it to Lincoln who [illegible] as he had been - this was the current report then. I had discharges but lost or throwed them
Frederick Smith
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He herby relinquishes any claim whatever
to a pension or annuity except the present
and declares that his name is not on
the pension roll of the agency of any
State
Sworn to and subscribed the day and
year aforesaid
Frederick Smith
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