Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 9761, for John Smith, New York
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Service - New York

Smith, John


Number - R.9761


Contents

Born July 2, 1757 in Jamaica Queens Co. N.Y.
there at enl. and in 1834
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State of New York Suffolk County SS.
Josiah Reeve of the Town of Riverhead in the County of Suffolk aforesaid, one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said County, being duly sworn doth depose and say that he is a son of Paul Reeve who resided in the Town of Riverhead aforesaid and who died in said Town, in the year 1827, aged ninety three years. That said Paul Reeve to the knowledge of this deponent commanded a Company of Militia in Colonel Josiah Smith’s Regiment which Regiment was known by the name of “the Eastern Long Island Regiment” in the year 1776. That to the knowledge of this deponent the said Company was a company of six months men, and was got up and served as such, in said Regiment. That he, this deponent is aged seventy one years and upwards.

Sworn and subscribed before me this 26th day of December 1834. George Miller Commissioner of Deeds
[Signed] Josiah Reeve

I, George Miller, the Commissioner above named do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Josiah Reeve above named and who has made oath to the above deposition, that he is a person of strict integrity and his statement may be relied on as correct and true.
George Miller 
Commissioner of Deeds
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Jan. 6th


N.Y.








Hon. W. Huntington
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Suffolk County SS. 
I Joseph R. Huntting Clerk of the County of Suffolk Do Certify that George Miller Esq. before whom the within Deposition of Josiah Reeve was taken is a Commissioner of Deeds etc and further that I am well acquainted with his handwriting & the same is Genuine. Witness my hand and Seal of office this 27th of Dec 1834.
[Signed] Joseph R. Huntting
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Dec. 13

Queens Common Plea

In the matter of 
John Smith
application for a 
pension


NY


R. Potter Attorney






A. Huntington
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State of New York

County of Queens


On this tenth day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and thirty four personally appeared before David Lamberson one of the Judges of the court of common pleas in the county of Queens and state of New York aged seventy seven years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of congress passed June 7th 1832
"That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated viz. that he is a native of Jamaica in the county of Queens and State of New York that to the best of his information and belief and as it appears by a record in his family bible he was born on the 2nd day of July 1757 and that he is seventy seven years of age - that he has always lived in his native place except as hereinafter mentioned that soon after the commencement of the revolutionary war but whether the first or second year of said war he cannot now recollect he enlisted voluntarily into the service of the United States under the command of Captain William Ludlum and Lieutenant Ephraim Marston - that it was some time in the latter part of the summer of said year when he so enlisted - that he was immediately stationed on the south side of Long Island within the limits of Queens and Kings Counties - that he remained there and there about upwards of two months when he was ordered to Brooklyn in said county of Kings - that he remained there a number of months until the army was ordered by General Washington from said place - that he cannot recollect how long a period of time he was at Brooklyn.
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that he remembers crossing the ferry at Brooklyn with the army and entering New York - that after remaining in New York a few days he marched to King's bridge - that soon after but how long he cannot now recollect he was verbally discharged by his Captain before named - that to the best of his knowledge and recollection he was in said service one year and a half - that he was certainly in said service one year and upwards - that he remembers an attack made by a party of British troops on a fort in Brooklyn - that he was in the fort at the time - that he remembers being at a place called Gowanus when a number of Americans being pushed by the enemy were drowned in attempting to cross a creek - that he was at this time stationed in the fort near said place - that he cannot recollect the names of any persons who were in the service with him except Capt. William Ludlum (who was his neighbour at the time and who also was such for more than thirty years after the war or until his death) and Lieutenant Ephraim Marston (who was also his neighbour at the time but was subsequently killed by the Indians as deponent was informed - deponent further saith that he is by profession a waggonmaker - that he has always lived by his industry - that he is now very infirm and unable to walk without two crutches - that during the last five years past he has not been able to walk without one crutch - that for the last two years he has required two - that his property has all been expended in his maintenance and support - that he is now wholly dependent on his relations and friends for support - that he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares
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that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state

John Smith (his mark)

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid before me David Lamberson
one of the Judges of Court of Common 
pleas for Queens County


State of New York

County of Queens

We Elias W. Crane a clergyman residing in the town and village of Jamaica in said County and State and James Henrimane (merchant) residing in the same place hereby certify that we are well acquainted with John Smith who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be seventy seven years of age - that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion.

Elias W. Crane
James Henrimane

Sworn to and subscribed
the day and year aforesaid
before me David Lamberson
one of the Judges of Court of 
Common Pleas for Queens County


And the said David Lamberson one of the Judges of the court of common pleas in and for the said county of Queens doth hereby declare his opinion after having visited the said John Smith at the house of his residence and after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the war department that
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the above named John Smith was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states. And he further certifies that that the said John Smith is old and very infirm and in his opinion unable to attend court if said court was now sitting - And he further certifies that Elias W. Crane who had signed the preceding is a clergyman resident in the said village of Jamaica and that James Herriman has also signed the same is a resident of the same place and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit.

David Lamberson


State of New York County of Queens

I Samuel Sherman clerk of the court of common pleas in and for the county of Queens do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said David Lamberson one of the Judges of the Court of common pleas in and for the said county of Queens in the matter of the application of John Smith for a pension.  And I do hereby certify that the said David Lamberson is a Judge of the court of common pleas in and for the said county of Queens duly commissioned and sworn and that the same is a court of record and that the signature annexed is the genuine signature of the said David Lamberson.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this tenth day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and thirty four.
Samuel Sherman Clerk
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9761

John Smith
Service:  N.Y.
res in N.Y.


Rejected
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32362

New  York


John Smith
Suspended

Letter 20th December 1834
to Hon. A. Huntington

to same February 3rd 1835


9761
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Ny   Jan. 6th

John Smith


Hon. A. Huntington
HR




6 Jan. 1835



War Department
Pension Office
Washington
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In the matter of 
John Smith an
applicant for a 
pension



P. Potter
Attorney




Hon. Mr. Huntington
HR
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State of New York County of Queens SS.

Daniel Ludlum aged sixty eight years being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he knows John Smith of Jamaica an applicant for a pension pursuant to the act of Congress of 7th of June 1832 that said Smith lived within one hundred rods of said Ludlum when the British fleet arrived at a place called the Hook on Long Island that it was in the year 1776 that the said Smith with many others on Long Island marched down to the narrows in Kings County to oppose the British and if possible to prevent their landing that said Smith belonged to a company commanded by Captain William Ludlum of said Jamaica that deponent has always lived in said County of Queens that the British had possession of Jamaica a number of years that though deponent was then young he yet he well remembers many of their atrocious deeds that said Smith was in the army a considerable length of time but how long deponent is unable to say but that he should have no hesitation in believing any statement that said Smith might make that he considers said Smith a man of truth and veracity deponent further saith that to the best of his recollection said Smith was one of the minute men so called and that he also was in the army as a militia man.

Sworn this 2nd day of January 1835 before me
[Signed] Daniel Ludlum
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one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the county of Queens further certifies that David Ludlum who has signed the preceding affidavit is a credible person - that he the said Lamberson has been acquained with said Ludlum during the last forty years and that the statement of said Ludlum is entitled to credit.

David Lamberson

State of New York
County of Queens ss.

I Samuel Sherman clerk of the court of common pleas in and for the county of Queens do hereby certify that David Lamberson the officer before whom the preceding affidavit appears to have been made is a Judge of the court of common pleas in and for the said county of Queens and I do further certify that I am acquainted with the hand writing of the said David Lamberson and do believe that his signature to the preceding affidavit is genuine. And I do further certify that I am acquainted with David Ludlum the deponent above mentioned - that he is a reputable person and that his statement is entitled to credit.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this second day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and thirty five.

Samuel Sherman Clerk