Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 7548, for William Smith, Virginia
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Va.         Smith, William           S. 7548
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT
SECOND COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE

May 29, 1854

Sir:
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An Act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," and the third section of the Act of August 23, 1842, extending the time within which pensioners may receive their pensions from the Pension agents,

the Executor of William Smith, dec.

a Pensioner on the Roll of the Richmond Agency, at the rate of Eighty Dollars per annum, under the law of the 7th June 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 4th of Sept. 1850 to the 20th Nov. 1850.

Respectfully yours,

J. M. Brodhead
Comptroller

TO the COMMISIONER OF PENSIONS, 
Present.
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[handwritten on side] Rev War

7548 
INVALID.

File No. 7548
William Smith
Pri Rev war

[Arrangement of 1870]

[handwritten second page] 1929 Apr. 25, Photos to Marguerite Stanley & Fin. Div. ntfd 96y
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Submit in Duplicate.  1-681. PHONE branch 476

All inquiries regarding this job should refer to Requisition No. 34681

Requisition for Duplicating, Addressograph, Photostat and Blue Print Work.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Washington

Chief, Division of Publications
Room G 137.  April 22, 1929

Bureau ordering Pension. Deliver to room no. 5033.

(All copy for duplicating work should be plain and write in elite type, exactly line for line as it is to appear on finished job.)

Title and description of job photo static copies of two pages from Revolutionary War pension claim of William Smith, Virginia Troops, S. 7548.

No. Of cookies 1 of each     Shall form be kept standing?
For further information see Mrs. M. M. H. Finch Room No. 5033. Phone No. 541

Approved: A.D. Wildassius Chief Clerk of Bureau

Margaret M.H. Finch, Chief of Branch
Note: No order made “SPECIAL” unless statement showing necessity is written below and approved by Chief Clerk of Bureau Ordering


Check Work Desired

Duplicate
Multigraph.  Single or double space?  Facsimile signature?
Mimeograph.  One side or both sides?   Facsimile signature?
Folding. Once or twice?
Assembling
Stapling.  Once? Twice?  Side? End?

Electric typewriter.  Fill in Addresses? Dated?
Addressograph from lists
Envelopes, size.   Cards, Size.
Proof List.  Pay Rolls
Labels (submit sample). Corrections
Fill in Letters.  Tabulation Sheets

Photostat X.  Size Actual. Official Use?  Repay? Yes. $.30
Blue print.  Size.  Official Use? Repay?  $

Remarks

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NOTE: Routine changes of addresses may be made on this blank without for[illegible]
reference through or initialing of chiefs of branches or chief clerks bureaus.
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INDICATE BY AN X IN PROPER SQUARE ACTION TO BE TAKEN.
Make new addressograph plate
Change present addressograph plate } on list
Destroy present addressograph plate
as follows:
Now reads
1.________________________________
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4________________________________
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Should read
1______________________________
2______________________________
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5______________________________
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FOR USE OF DUPLICATING AND ADDRESSING SECTION
ADDRESSOGRAPH
The above change was made ___________ 192   .
Operator _____________________________________
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MIMEOGRAPH
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April 22, 1929. 

[torn off]ting Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington, 
D. C. 

[handwritten] cash- 30 cents
(Stamped box)
FINANCE DIVISION
BOOKKEEPER'S DESK
Apr 23 1929
BUREAU OF PENSIONS

Sir: 
Please furnish me photostatic copies of two pages from Revolutionary War pension claim of William Smith, Virginia Troops, S 7548, uncertified. Respectfully, 

Marguerite Stanley
Rm 330-A. B. Building
U. S Gov't Hotels,
Washington, D.C.

Received payment
30c
April 22, 1939

Antonia W. Ford
Rev. &1812 Wars Section.
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637
Virginia
William Smith of Culpeper in the State of Virginia who was a private in the company commanded by Captain Staughter of the reg't commanded by Col Muhlenburg in the Virginia line for two years from 1776

Inscribed on the roll of Virginia at the rate of 80 Dollars - Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 2d day of October 1832 and del'd to Major Broadus, Present.

Arrears to 4th of September 1832    $120.
Semi=anl. allowance ending 4 March 1833 40

                                                  $160.

Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832

Recorded by Wm. S Allison Clerk.
Book (illegible), Vol 7 Page 127
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William Smiths
Declaration
on roll
$80 per ann
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Declaration, made to obtain the benefits of the Act of Congress passed the 7 June 1832

State of Virginia
Culpeper County

On the 13th day of August 1832 personally appeared before the Justices of the Court of Culpeper County now sitting William Smith a resident of the County of Culpeper and State of Virginia aged between seventy six and seventy seven years who being duly sworn according to law, doth under oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7, 1832. That he entered in the Army of the United States in the year 1776, with ensign John Graves and served in the 8th Regiment of the Virginia Line under the following named officers Colonel Peter Muhlenberg, Major Peter (illegible), Captain George Slaughter, Lieutenant Colonel Kelley, and Ensign John Graves, that he enlisted for the Term of two years, and fully served out the enlistment and was discharged at Valley Forge in Pennsylvania in the year 1778, that he first returned to the neighborhood of Norfolk in Virginia, from thence he (illegible) to Charleston, so here he was taken sick, received a furlough and returned home, that as soon as he recovered from some sickness he went into the North and joined the Army a(t) Philadelphia where he took the smallpox, that after his recovery he joined the army, and was at the Battle of Brandywine, that he was prevented by sickness from being in the Battle of Germantown, that he (illegible) with the Army to Valley Forge, where they took up Measles (illegible), and which (illegible) he received his discharge the ensuing spring, (illegible), had resided in the County of Culpeper, State of Virginia, at the time he enlisted, that he has continued to reside in the said County to the present tense, where he was (illegible) from six years old. That he again enlisted in the year 1779 under Captain Benjamin Roberts of the County of Culpeper and State of Virginia for two years and was (illegible) to the falls of the Ohio and joined the State Regiment commanded by Colonel George Rogers Clark and during the term of his service he was engaged in frequent Skirmishes with the Indians, (illegible) of particular notoriety That he (illegible) by a Major George Slaughter as an (illegible) for the Iron Banks, which he performed with success. That he assisted in constructing the fort at the falls of the Ohio
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And after his term of service of two years had expired he received his discharge at the falls of the Ohio.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any agency or other state. 

                                                   his
Same inscribed the day       Wm X Smith
and year aforesaid.                   mark
               F. T Lightfoot

And the said Court do hereby declare their Opinion, that the abovementioned applicant was a Revolutionary, and served as he states, upon the testimony of John Creel, a witness who came and testified to the enlistment of the applicant for the service as set forth by him where said service, who is a credible witness; and upon the testimony of [crossed out] Thomas Norman, a credible witness, who stated that the said applicant enlisted and served as set forth, by him in the service and the State Line Regiment commended by Major George Slaughter, at the falls of the Ohio, who in the said service, to the (illegible) with the said applicant.

Thomas Norman

        his
John X Creel
      mark

I Francis T Lightfoot clerk of the Court of Culpeper County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains a true copy of the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of William Smith for a pension.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this the 12 day of September in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty two and the 57th year of the Commonwealth
F. T. Lightfoot J. C.