Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 20,059, for Oliver Smith, New Hampshire
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(3-1776)
SERVICE
CONTINENTAL
N. H.
Smith, Oliver
Mary
NUMBER
W.20.059
CONTENTS
d. Aug. 14, 1811 at Gilford, N. H.
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2113
Vermont Montpelier
Mary Smith
widow of Oliver Smith
who was a Sergeant in the NH line for 2 years
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 120 Dollars ____Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843. 
Certificate of Pension issued the 27th day of Sept. 1843 and sent to D. C. Churchill
[? Lyme NH]
[Act of March 3, 1843.}
Recorded in Book A
Vol. 1 Page 30
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Rept sent 2y
To Jonathan Smith Apr 5th 1852
Widows death not on A. B.
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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 7 July 1838 entitled an act granting half pay & pension to certain widows.
State of Vermont
Orange County ss
Newbury in [illegible] County July 2, AD 1839.
On this 2nd day of July AD 1839 personally appeared before the Probate Court for the district of [? Bradford] in the County of Orange [illegible] at said Newbury in said district before [illegible] Justice of said Court Mary Smith a resident of Newbury in the County of Orange & state of Vermont aged seventy nine years next {? Apr.] who being first duly sworn , according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 7th 1838 entitled an act granting half pay & pensions to certain widows - That she is the widow of Oliver Smith who was a private & an orderly Sergeant in the Revolutionary War. That he enlisted during the war in the year 1775 in Capt Blodgets company in the 22 Regiment of New Hampshire troops under the command of Genl. Gunn. was taken prisoner by the Indians at a place called [illegible] Mills - carried to [? Canada] was exchanged and at this end of the war was discharged [illegible] said [illegible]this said Oliver Smith made his declaration for pension and died before he [illegible] his pension certificate [illegible] to his declaration on file in the was office  She further declares that she was
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married to the said Oliver Smith on the 2 day of Decr. 1784 at [? Meridith] State of New Hampshire by the name of Mary Edgerly by Elder Nicholas Fulsome of sd. Meridith and that her husband aforesaid Oliver Smith dies at Guilford State of New Hampshire the 14 day of August in the year 1811 - That she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place prior to the first of Jan 1794 (viz, at the time above stated and that she has no documentary evidence whatever in her possession to support her claim.
her
Mary X Smith
mark
present Wm. Spencer
Oliver P. Smith
Nancy Smith
Sworn to & subscribed, on the day & year above written before
Wm. Spenser Judge of Probate - 
State of Vermont
District of Bradford ss
I M. D. Parker clerk or Registrar of the Probate Court for the district of Bradford do hereby certify that William Spencer whose name is above written is Judge of Probate for the district of Bradford aforesaid duly commissioned and qualified as such that his term of office commenced on [illegible] day of Dec 1838 and will expire on the 30 day of November 1839 and that his signature above written id genuine. 
In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and official [illegible] of said Court this 4th day of [illegible] 1839.
M. D. Parker Registrar
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5828
Vermont
Mary Smith
[illegible] Mary Smiths Declaration
Act 7 July, 1808
[illegible]
m 8f4 d 17
aomo
[illegible]
no deduction
Daniel Gale,
[illegible] N. H.
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STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.
OFFICE OF SECRETARY OF STATE.
I JOSIAH STEVENS, JR. Secretary of the State aforesaid, do hereby certify that Samuel Leavitt is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the county of Stratford duly Commissioned and qualified; that his Commission was dated on the 24th day of November 1834 and will expire on the 24th day of November 1839 and that his signature in the annexed instrument is genuine. 
Given under my hand and the Seal of said State this 10th day of July 1839
Josiah Stevens, Secretary of State
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I Nicholas Folsom of Meredith, County of Stratford, State of New Hampshire aged sixty one depose and having ever lived with my Father Nicholas Folsom who was a preacher of the Gospel for about forty years in Meredith whom writing .  I have in my possession among which [illegible] the marriage of Oliver Smith and Mary Edgerly Dated December second year of our Lord one Thousand seven Hundred and Eighty four the record reads thus Record of Marriage by Nicholas Fols Oliver Smith and Mary Edgerly December 2, 1784
Nicholas Folsom
June 8th 1839 I Samuel Leavitt depose and say that the above named Nicholas Folsom personally appeared before me and made oath that the above named affidavit is just and true. [illegible]
Samuel Leavitt
This certifys that I have been personally acquainted with the above named Nicholas Folsom of Meredith NH for thirty years who subscribed to the above affidavit and know him to be a man of truth and veracity
Samuel Leavitt Justice Peace
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Samuel B. Mason
Affidavit
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I Samuel B. Mason in the County of Strafford and State of New Hampshire aged eighty depose and say that I served in the war of the Revolution from the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy [blank] five to one thousand seven hundred eighty three during that time I became acquainted with Oliver Smith a soldier with me in the second [illegible[ regiment [illegible] regiment [illegible]  commanded by Col. [? Nathan Hale] who was taken while  
[rest of document faded and illegible]
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we again [illegible], and when Geog Washinton marched with first of the American army [rest of document faded and illegible]
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This certifies that I am personally acquainted with the subscriber of the above affidavit and have been for thirty years and know him to be a man of truth and veracity and I further say he is now sound in mind and memory 
Samuel Leavitt
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9 [illegible]
Pension Office
April 5th 1852
Sir:
Your letter of the 19th [illegible] 
time is received.  As you father died in 1811, before the passage of any pension Act, and your mother, you say, drew a pension up to the time of her death, their children are entitled to nothing. 
Jonathan Smith Esq
Rosendale 
Wisconsin
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July 26, 1937
XXXXXXXXXXXX
BA-J/MCS 
Oliver Smith, W.20059
BA-J/MCS
Miss Mabel L. Day
1020 W. Main Street 
Smethport
Pennsylvania
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your request for information relative to Oliver Smith who served in the Revolutionary War.
The data which follow were obtained from papers on file in the pension claim, W.20059, based upon the service of the only Oliver Smith who enlisted from New Hampshire that is found in the Revolutionary War records of this office.  
The date and place of birth of Oliver Smith were not given, nor were the names of his parents given. 
While a resident of Gilford, New Hampshire, he enlisted in 1775 served as private and orderly sergeant in the Second New Hampshire Regiment under Captain Samuel Blodget, Colonels Nathan Hale and George Reid and Lieutenant Colonel Winborn Adams; in the summer of 1782 during an attack by the Indians and Tories at French Mills at Little Falls on the Mohawk River in New York he was wounded, captured and taken to Canada but was later exchanged.
He married at Meredith, New Hampshire, December 2, 1784, Mary Edgerly who was born in September, 1760. 
Oliver Smith died August 14, 1811, at Gilford, New Hampshire.
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His widow, Mary, was allowed pension on her application executed July 2, 1839, while a resident of Newbury, Orange County, Vermont.
Their son, Jonathan Smith, was living in Rosendale, Wisconsin, in 1852.
There are no further data relative to the family of Oliver Smith.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator
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July 10, 1901
Miss Susan E. Walker
Moline Ills.
1914, Oct. 23.  Hist. to Mrs. Jason Austin   F.W.
1937, July 26.  Hist to Miss Mabel L. Day. [illegible]
20-059
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 20059
Mary Smith Wid of Oliver Smith
 Act: March 3rd /43
Index:--Vol. M, Page 224
[Arrangement of 1870]
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Vermont - 4091
Mary Smith 
widow of Oliver Smith,
who was a pensioner under the Act of 
and who died on the 14 August 1811 of Orange in the State of Vermont who was a Sergt in the Compy  commanded by Captain Blodget of the Regt commanded by Green - in the NH line for 2 years
Inscribed on the Roll of Montpelier at the rate of 120 Dollars _Cents per annum, to commence of the 4th day of March, 1836. 
Certificate of Pension issued the 3rd day of Sept
[illegible] 39 and sent to Daniel Gale.
Gilmanton, N. H. 
Arrears to the 4th of March $360.00
Semi-annual allowance ending 60.00
$420.00
{Act July 7, 1838.}
Recorded by R Burdine Clerk.
Book A Vol. 2 Page 56
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July 23
Mary Smith
Danl. Gale,
Gilmanton
N. H. 
[upside down]
Smith, Oliver
[illegible] - NH
W20059
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I John Robinson in the County of Strafford and State of New Hampshire aged Eighty depose and   say that I served in the war of the revolution from the year of our Lord one Thousand seven Hundred and seventy seven untill the year one Thousand seven Hundred Eighty three during that time I was acquainted with Oliver Smith a soldier with me in the second New hampshire regiment [illegible] and company commanded by Capt Samuel Blodget 
regiment was commanded by Col Nathan Hale  He was taken while retreating from Ticonderoga in Battle at Hubbards Town Lieutenant Winborn Adams next took the command of said regiment and was killed on the nineteenth of September in battle with Gen Burgoynes army the next in command was Colonel George Reed  The same year we marched from [illegible] to [illegible] and had an engagement with the enemy and defeated them and knew said Oliver Smith to be in the United States service untill he was taken at the Stone Mill on the Mohawk by the enemy in the year one Thousand Seven Hundred Eighty [illegible]
John Robinson
June 18th 1839 Strafford ss
I Samuel Leavitt depose and say that the above named John Robinson personally appeared before me and made oath that the above named affidavit is just & true before me
Samuel Leavitt [illegible]
This certifies that I am personally acquainted with the subscriber of the above affidavit and have been for twenty years and know him to be a man of truth and veracity and further say he is now sound mind & memory
Samuel Leavitt
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2361
widow Mary Smith
$120 per an
D. C. Churchill
Lyme, N. H.
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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the act of congress of third March 1843 granting pension for one year to certain widows who have received pension under the act of July 7 1838
State of Vermont 
Orange County ss
On this 24th day of June 1843 Personally appeared before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in & for the County of Orange and State aforesaid Mary Smith a resident of Newbury in the County and State aforesaid aged 82 years who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on her oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress passed on the 3d day of March 1843 granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War 
That she is the Widow of Oliver Smith who was a Sergeant during the Revolution.
That she was a Pensioner under the act of 7th July 1838 which she received at the rate of One Hundred Dollars per annum 
She further declares that she is still a widow 
her
Mary X Smith
mark
Sworn to and Subscribed on the day and year above written before me
Stephen Thomas Justice of the Peace
I certify that the above Declarant is personally known to me
Stephen Thomas Justice of the Peace
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State of Vermont
District of Bradford {ss
I Stephen Thomas Clerk and Register of the Probate Court of the District of Bradford in the County of Orange and State aforesaid do hereby certify that Stephen Thomas is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly commissioned and qualified that his commission was dated on the first day of December 1842 and will expire on the thirtieth day of November 1843, and that his signature above written is genuine 
Given under my hand and seal of said Probate Court this Twenty fourth day of June 1843
Stephen Thomas Register
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State of New Hampshire
Strafford County
[illegible] July 15th 1839
Sir,
I herewith transmit to you the declaration of Mary Smith the widow of Oliver Smith with the accompanying witness in this case.  Mr. Smith made application I think in 1810, for an Invalid Pension which was then in the care of John A. Harper a Member of Congress from the State above named and probably left on file at the War Department, and there may be found if not destroyed, Smith died in [illegible] 1811, and no further proceedings in the case war made, Smith was a man I was well acquainted with from my youth to his death, often heard him state he was out during the war and that he was taken prisoner at a place he called the French Mills and carried to Canada- There can be no doubt in this case - Write me in this case as soon as may be at Gilford P.O. -  I wrote you in November last there was a mistake in the pension of Susanna Nichols widow of George Nichols but received no answer - also have written to you for Comfort Forman widow of Jonathan Forman for his term of service but no answer
I am Respectfully Yours
Daniel Gale 
J. L. Edwards Esq
Washington City
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[LOGO]
HOTEL WHITLEY
JASON AUSTIN, PROPRIETOR
EUROPEAN PLAN
EMPORIA KANSAS Oct 17 1914
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D. C.
Sir:
(1) Did David Russell who served as Srgt in Capt. Oliver Caprons Company from Richmond New Hamp. in 1775 receive a pension?  If so will you please send me his record and the names of any children he may have given.  
(2) Did Oliver Smith who served in Col. Starks Regt, entering from Meredith New Hamsphire in 1775 and serving at different times till 1781 receive a pension?  If so will you please send me his record and the names
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[LOGO]
HOTEL WHITLEY
JASON AUSTIN, PROPRIETOR
EUROPEAN PLAN
EMPORIA, KANSAS ____________19
of any of his family.
Very truly your,
Mrs Jason Austin
Hotel Whitley
Emporia
Kansas
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[circular ink stamp]
PENSION
       0
U. OCT S.
      20
     1914
  OFFICE
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1020 W. Main Street,
Smethport, Pa.
Veterans Administration,
Washington, D. C.
Gentlemen, 
I wish to identify the Revolutionary War service of Oliver Smith, whose wife was Mary Harris.
I judge that he was living in Canaan, N. H. in 1793, as his daughter, Ursula, was born there in January of that year.
I would appreciate your furnishing me whatever information your records have in this connection.
Very truly yours, 
(Miss) Mabel L. Day
[circular ink stamp]
REC'D 
JUL 13 1937
MAIL SUB-DIV.
VETS ADM
READER #4
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In reply to your request of __________, received _________ for a statement of the military history of Oliver Smith a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his widow's application for pension on file in the Bureau.  W File 20059
DATES OF ENLISTMENT OF APPOINTMENT. 
1775
LENGTH OF SERVICE. 
[Blank]
RANK.
Priv and 
Ordl. Sgt.
CAPTAIN.
Samuel Blodget
COLONES.
Nathan Hale 
Geo Reed 
STATE.
N. H.
[written in here: French Mills]
[arrow from date of enlistment points to the following]
Summer of 1782, in an attack by Indians and Tories at Little Falls, on Mohawk River, in J. Y. was wounded, captured, and taken to Canada and exchanged.  
Battles engaged in, see above
Residence of soldier at enlistment, not stated
Date of application for pension, July 2, 1839.  her cl. was al.
Residence at date of application, Newbury, Orange Co., Vt.
Age at date of application.  She was born in Sept. 1760.
Remarks:  Soldier mar. at Meredith, N. H., Dec. 2, 1784, Mary Edgerly.  He died Aug. 14, 1811 at Guilford, N. H. [arrow from ? to Guilford]
There is no further data relative to family.
Respectfully, 
Verify all this service
Commissioner.