Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 26490, for Thomas Smith, Maryland
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Md.   Smith, Thomas   W 26490
Ann                              B.L.Wt. 6280-160-55

Contents
Enl. at Baltimore, Md.
In 1818 aged 55 yrs and res. of Indiana Co. Pa. & died there Mar 28, 1837
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3766
Pennsylvania Pittsburgh
Ann Smith
widow of Thomas Smith
who served in the Revolutionary
war, as a private
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 96 Dollars 00
Cents per annum, to commence on 
the 3d February, 1853.
Certificate of Pension issued the
28th day of Feby. 1854
and sent to 
S. J. Bowen
Present
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 3, 1853, Page 111  Vol. A

J. H. Hopkins Jany 6/58
A. W. Foster, Nov. 16, 1857[?]
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9833
Pennsylvania
Thomas Smith 3
of [illegible] in the state of
who was a Private in the regiment commanded by
Colonel Smith of the Maryland 
line, for the term of 3 Years
Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on
the 2 of May 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 25[?] of Apl [illegible]
and sent to Andrew Boggs
[illegible]
Arrears to 4th of Mar [illegible]   81.77
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Sept [illegible]   48
9 30/31  4/31   $128.77
Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818.

Continued
[illegible]
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[illegible] sent to Dan Stanard Esq  9th December 1820  Indiana Pa
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52,128} Act Mar 3/55
Rec Apl 9/55

Ann Smith
wid of
Thomas Smith Private

Mr Couttline US Army
-Pensioner
War Revolution

Adi160 Aln 2.pt,,14''1855,
Penn Lily 53 [illegible]
Boynton

Vol St. page 146
Charles Naylor
Pittsburgh
Pa

[written diagonally across the top of the above text, follows]
Mr No6280 iss Sept 17/55
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Thomas Smith of Conemaugh Township Indiana County
and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Cooper, upon oath makes
the following declaration ~

That the said Thomas Smith on the sixteenth day of May
immediately preceding the battle of Monmouth in the year
one thousand seven hundred and seventy eight enlisted as
a private of the term of three years in Captain Samuel
Godmans Company of foot in Col Samuel Smiths Maryland
Regiment, that the deponent faithfully served the whole of said
term and never was absent from the service during the time
except six weeks in the Hospital, and that he was honorably
discharged at the end of the three years, and that Col William
Lamar now of Cumberland in the State of Maryland was at the
time of his discharge his Lieutenant ~

That the declarent received a written certificate of his discharge
and that he has lost the same by time and accident -

That the declarent was only sixteen years of age when he enlisted,
is now fifty five years of age, infirm, has a large family
of small children, and from his reduced circumstances in
life is now in need of assistance from his country for support
and that he hereby relinquishes his claim to every pension heretofore allowed him by the laws of the United States ~
Thomas X ^his mark^ Smith
Sworn & subscribed before me
this 2d day of May 1818
Chas. Campbell
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The Honorable
J.C. Calhoun Secretary at War}

I have taken the liberty of
transmitting to you a certificate of an
old soldier in my neighbourhood who you
may depend [illegible]any that
he is truly impoverished 
& has a large family of small children
any communication you may offer to make
on the subject [illegible] received by
a line [illegible] to me at the front office from 
whence this [illegible]

I [illegible] with highest respect &c.
Andrew Boggs


June 27th 1818 Conemaugh Tott woks
Penna
There are some in this neighborhood applying who are
worth 40 thousand dollars - to wit [illegible] Lauremet them
A Boggs
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State of Pennsylvania{
County of Allegheny{ Ss

On this 26th day of November
AD 1853 Personally appeared before the subs.
a Justice of the Peace in an for the County
of Allegheny an State of Pennsylvania, Ann
Smith a resident of Braddock fields in the Township of Wilkins County of Allegheny
and State aforesaid aged seventy one years, who
first being 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 3rd day of February
1853 granting pensions to widows of persons
who served during the Revolutionary war; that
She is the widow of Thomas Smith, who was a
private in Capt. Samuel Goodman's Company
of Fort in the Fourth Maryland Regiment commanded
by Col. Smith and for which service he
drew a pension from the United Sates under the
Act of 18th of March 1818 She further declares that 
she was married to the said Thomas Smith on the
13th day of August 1802 at a farm house County of
Huntingden an State of Pennsylvania by one
Hugh McKelleys, a Justice of the Peace, that her
name before her said marriage was Ann Boyle
that htere was no record made of our marriage
to my recollection, the farmers House at
which we were marreid was Champion
about three miles from the Etno. Iron
works in Huntingdon County that my said
husband died on the 28th day of March 1821
That she was not married to him prior to the
second day of January eighteen hundred
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but at the time above stated she further
declares that she is now a widow.
Ann X ^her mark^ Smith

Witnesses Thomas Smith
James Smith

Sworn to and subscribed on the day & year
above written Witness my hand & seal
Wm Willson [hand drawn cloud with the word Seal inscribed inside]
JP

The above named Ann Smith on her 
solemn oath duly administered doth
depose and say that there is not nor
ever was either public or private record
kept of her marriage by any person to
the best of her knowledge & belief
Ann X ^her mark^ Smith
Sworn to & subscribed
before me the day & year
first above written
Wm Willson
J.P.
Witnesses Thomas Smith
James Smith

Allegheny County Ss

I do by these presents certify that the
foregoing deposition of Thomas & James Smith with the
acknowledgement of Ann Smith were taken before me and in
my presence signed with their own hands and genuine; and
having been acquainted with Thomas and James Smith, I
am able cheerfully to certify that their character is unexeptionable,
that their word, or oath will be received as the truth
& that the said Depositions were taken before me on the 26th
day of November AD 1853. In Witness whereof I have 
hereunto set my hand and seal the 28th day of November
AD 1853 Wm Willson [hand drawn cloud with the word Seal inscribed inside]
JP
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ALLEGHENY COUNTY, }
State of Pennsylvania,} ss.

I, Edward Campbell Jr
Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County
of Allegheny, in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the same
being a Court of Law and Record, do by these presents certify,
that Wm Willson, Esquire, before
whom the foregoing Depositions affidavits &c were
taken, and who has thereunto, in his won proper handwriting, subscribed
his name, was at the time, an now is, 

and acting Justice of the Peace in and for the said County, duly commissioned and sworn, and authorized
by law to take Acknowledgments, administer Oaths, &c. to all whose acts, as such, due faith and
credit are, and of right ought to be given, throughout the United States and elsewhere.

In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court,
at Pittsburgh, in the said County, this twenty eighth day of November
in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three and of the sovereignty
and independence of the United States of America, the seventy-eighth
Edw Campbell Jr PROTHONOTARY.
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Thomas Smith of lawful age being duly
sworn according to law doth depose and say,
I was acquainted with Thomas Smith in
his lifetime & knew that he drew a Pension
I was also acquainted with his wife
Ann Smith now the above applicant
for pension, I am a resident & have
been for the most of the time for forty years of Pittsburgh
I first got acquainted with Thomas Smith
and Ann his wife in Indiana County at
the Conemaugh Salt Works in the year 1816
and from that till the time of his death was
intimately acquainted with them we lived
within a mile of each other, the name of the
oldest son Daniel is about fifty one or two
years of age the second Mary Ener about
fifty, the third Nancy about forty eight the 
fourth Thomas was about forty five the fifth
Robert thirty seven or eight, I have known
Mrs Ann Smith as a resident at Braddocks
fields for ten or eleven years, and 
know her to be the identical Ann Smith
widow of Thomas Smith the above
named Pensioner, I saw her make her
mark to the above declaration & know it
to be genuine I further state that I have
no interest in the above application, nor
am I any relative of her or his husbands
Thomas Smith
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James Smith of lawful age being duly sworn according to law doth deposed say that I am acquainted with Ann Smith and was well acquainted with her husband during his lifetime. I am a resident of Allegheny City in the County of Allegheny Pennsylvania. I first became acquainted with them about 1818 at the Salt Works above offered to by Thomas Smith. Daniel the oldest of the family aged about fifty years, Mary about forty eight, Nancy about forty six, Thomas about forty four Robt about thirty eight, I do know that she is the identical Ann Smith widow of Thomas Smith the Pensioner above named and that her mark to the above application & statements are genuine, I have known her since her residence at Braddocks fields for about ten or eleven years, I would further state that I have no interest in this Pension, nor am I any relative of either hers or Thomas Smith,
[signed] James Smith

[along the left side, vertically: Wm Willson]
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Thomas Smith 3rd
Connemaugh Township
Indiana Co. Pa.
9833
April '19

[running vertically:  Tho Smith]

Dan Stanard
Indiana 
Pa
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District of Pennsylvania}
Indiana County}

On the twenty fifth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty appeared in open Court of record which proved according to the course of the common law with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount keeping a record of their proceedings. Thomas Smith aged sixty two years resident in Conemaugh Township Indiana County who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his solemn oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows. I was enlisted by Colonel Samuel Smith at Baltimore in the fourth Maryland Regiment in May 1777 for three years which time I served and was discharged at Fort Thompson in South Carolina. I was in the Battle of Monmouth & at Guildford Courthouse and Rocky River and the Cowpens & Broadford
The original certificate which was granted to me by the war department is dated the 2d. day of May 1818 and numbered 9833. And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18 day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift, grant, sale or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to being myself within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval services of the United States in the Revolutionary War passed on the 18 day of March 1818 and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property of securities contracts or debts due to me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed
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Property                       Debts due the following
a small horse ---- $20.00  person
2 cows worth ---- 20.00 to Adam Thompson or $40.00
9 Hogs -----------  4.00    "

My family consists of my wife aged forty four years and seven children the oldest seventeen years and the youngest three years, and through age and infirmities am totally unable to work
Sworn & Subscribed in open Court this twenty fifth day of September 1820 --
[signed] John Taylor, Proth.

[signed] Thos. Smith X his mark

State of Pennsylvania
Indiana County. js

I John Taylor Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of Said County of Indiana do hereby certify that the forgoing oath and schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the record of the Said Court ___ and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the Said Court that the total amount or value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is Forty none dollars ___
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the Said Court on this twenty sixth day of October AD 1820
[signed] John Taylor Prothy
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State of Pennsylvania}
City of Pittsburgh and County of Allegheny.} ss.

On this sixth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty five personally appeared before me Elliot S. Neal an Alderman of the said City of Pittsburgh, in the County of Allegheny, and State of Pennsylvania, the subscriber Ann Smith aged seventy two years and upwards a resident of Pittsburgh, in the County of Allegheny & State of Pennsylvania who being duly sworn according to law, declares that she is the widow of Thomas Smith deceased, who was a private in the Army of the United States in the Revolutionary War, that he enlisted in the State of Maryland, at a or near Baltimore for three years, as far as she has been informed; the time when, she cannot now state, with any certainty nor the name of the captain or other officers, under whom he served, but her said husband informed her that he was in the the Battle of the Cowpens, in South Carolina, in the year 1781, and also in the battle of Eutaw Springs, in the same year and that he continued in the actual service in said army of the Untied States for the full term of his enlistment, and was Honorably discharged, the Spring before the Peace. She further declares, that her said husband was a Revolutionary Pensioner, under the laws of the United States and drew his pension from the year 1818 till the time of his death in the year 1821. that she was married to the said Thomas Smith at the home of James Champion, in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania on or about the 13th day of August AD. 1802 by Hugh McCaleb, Esq. a Justice of the peace, now deceased, that they lived and cohabited together as man & wife & were so received by everybody, until the death of her said husband__ that her said husband died in Indiana County Pennsylvania on or about the 28th day of March 1821. and that she has ever since been and, now is a widow__She further declares, that on the 28th day of February 1854, she was put on the pension Roll of Revolutionary Soldiers as the widow of said Thomas Smith deceased. Under the act of the 3rd of February 1853, at the rate of ninety six dollars a year, and has since then drawn her pension at the Pension Agency at Pittsburgh, as will appear by the Roll of Pensioners under the Act of 3rd February 1853, page 111, Vol. A. in the proper office, at Washington DC, as indicated on the back of her pension certificate. She asks that the proofs on file under her application for said pension may be taken and applied to this application, and she declares that there is no public record proof, nor any private or family record proof of her said marriage. She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the ___________ Bounty Land to which she may be entitled, under the Act approved the 3rd day of March, 1855. She also declares that she has never applied for nor received, under this or any other act of Congress, any bounty-land warrant, _______ and she hereby authorizes CHARLES NAYLOR, Esq. of the City of Pittsburgh, to procure for her, her Warrant for said Bounty Land.
[signed] Ann Smith X her mark

Witnesses present --
Thos. Smith
James M Burns
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I certify that Ann Smith within named, is the identical Ann Smith, who is on the pension roll of the Pittsburgh Pension Agency, as a pensioner as the widow of Thomas Smith decsd, under the 2d section of the act of the 3rd of February 1853 at the rate ninety six dollars per annum, being on the Roll as widow of Thomas Smith who has private in the Revolutionary war. Certified this Sixth day of April A.D. 1855 Jno Grayson Pension Agent On the day and year first within written (the 6th day of April A.D. 1855, before me the subscribed Elliot at an Alderman of the City of Pittsburgh in the County of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, personally appeared the undersigned Thomas Smith, aged fifty five years and resident of the said City of Pittsburgh who being duly sworn, according to law doth depon and say that he is not a relative of the within named Ann Smith, nor of her said husband Thomas Smith decd that he has known the said Ann Smith nearly all his life, and also know from his early children, till his death the said Thomas Smith deceased that the said Ann Smith and the said Thomas Smith apline & cohabited together as man and wife and were so taken, deemed and reputed, by their neglies, friends, families and acquaintances, and as such said a family of children that the said Thomas Smith was in his life time, know or a Revolutionary solder and this witness has heard him, and Col. Later one of his officer in the Revolutionary war often talk about their respective sinners in the said War - that the said Thomas Smith decd was a Revolutionary pension the United States and his pension or proceed, he believes, then the agency of said Col. Lamar that the said Thomas Smith died in Indiana County, in the the of Pennylama, sometime in the year 1821, 1822 and that the said Ann Smith has once since been and now is a widow- Sworn and Subschel of Thos Smith the April 6. 1855 Head On the sixth day of April A.D. 1855 before me the above named Alderman came personally James Smith aged Sixty two years, a resident of the County of Allegheny aforesaid who being duly sworn according to law, on his solemn oath says that he is not in any may, tell thee the within named Ann Smith of 1 Thomas Smith, decd, but that he has known them both nearly all his lifepersonally and internally, that the said Ann and the said Thomas and and Colcalited together as man and wife and were so taken, deemed reputed and received and as such rained a family of children, that this depont by undesterd the said Thomas Smith (husband of said Ann, whose been a Revolution Solder and he was generally known as and that he had heard him any times say that he was describe the battles he was in, and head him
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and Col: La Mar, who had been an officer in the Revolutionary War. [illegible] of their [illegible] in the same campaign -- that the said Thomas Smith decd was a revolutionary pensioner -- that he died many years ago. and that since then the said Ann Smith has been and is now a widow.

James Smith [illegible]

Sworn to and subscribed before me Augt 6. 1855
ES Neal S.S.

We Thomas Smith and James M. Burns residents of Alleghany County in the State of Pennsylvania upon our oaths, declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by Ann Smith in our presence, and that we believe, from the appearance and statements of the applicant, that he is the identical person he represents himself to be: and we know her to be now a widow.

Thos Smith
James M Burns

The foregoing declaration and affidavit were sworn to and subscribed before me, on the day and year first above written; and I certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons; that the claimant is the person she represents herself to be; and that I have no interest in this claim.

ES Neal S.S.
Alderman

State of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny. ss.

I, EDWARD CAMPBELL, Jr. Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of the said County of Allegheny, in the State of Pennsylvania, do certify that Elliot S. Neal Esq. who subscribed officially the within and foregoing declaration, made by Ann Smith and the foregoing affidavits made by Thomas Smith -- James Smith, + Thomas Smith and James Me Burns -- was, at the time of so doing, and now is, an Alderman of the City of Pittsburgh, in the County of Allegheny, and State of Pennsylvania, duly commissioned, authorized and empowered by law, to administer oaths for general purposes and for the purpose embraced in said declaration and affidavit, and that the name of said Alderman, subscribed to said declaration and affidavit, is his own genuine signature.

In Witness Whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of my office as Prothonotary of said Court, this Seventh day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty five.

E Campbell [illegible]
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State of Pennsylvania
County of Allegheny
On this 15 day of February 1854
personally appeared before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in & for said County, Thomas Smith, who being duly sworn  
 according to law doth depose & say
That in addition to what I have already stated on a former occasion respecting Thomas Smith a Revolutionary Soldier, & Ann Smith his widow, I would further say, That the said Thomas Smith died in the month of March 1821 his death was occasioned by a kick of a horse or a hurt or fall from a horse on his return from Indiana where he had been drawing his pension, this was on Court work in Indiana, I was not at the funeral in consequence of absence in that week, I am no relation of Ann Smith
Thos Smith
Agnes Smith aged eighty years being duly
sworn doth depose and say. That the above name Thomas Smith & his family & us lived neighbours in Indiana County, I do know that he
died in March about 1821 his death was occasioned  by a hurt of a horse, I think the horse throwed him and kicked him he was on his return from Indiana where he had been for his Pension
my husband (now dead) was at the funeral and
I myself stayed all night with the afflicted family I think it was on friday night, I am no relation of the said Thos Smith or his widow Ann Smith
      Agnes Smith
Allegheny County

I Wm Willson a Justice of the Peace in & for
said County, do certify that the above depositions were taken before
me & signed in my presence, Witness my hand & seal the 14th
day of February AD 1854
Wm Willson      {seal}
JP
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ALLEGHENY COUNTY,
State of Pennsylvania,
I E Campbell Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Allegheny of the in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the same being a Court of Law and Record, do by these presents certify 
that Wm Wilson Esquire, before whom the foregoing depositions were taken and who has thereunto, in his own proper handwriting, subscribed his name, was at that time and now is in Justice of Peace in and for the said County, duly commission and sworn, and authorize by law to acknowledgments, administer oaths &c.to all whose act as such, due faith and credit are, and of right to be given, throughout the United State and elsewhere.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court , at Pittsburgh in the said County, this in the 15th
day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four
and of the sovereignty and independence of the United States of America, the seventy Eighth
E Campbell
PROTHONOTARY.
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Ruy
WIDOW, &c.
---
File No. 26.490
-
Ann Smith
Wid of
Thomas Smith
Pri Rev War
---
Act Feb 3d 53.
In:  Vol L, Page 236
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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No. 52128
ACT OF MARCH 3, 1855.

Received Apr. 9, 1855
Thomas Smith -
War Rev.
Warrant No. 6280-160-55 ┃
Charles Naylor
Pittsburg
Pa
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Auditors Office Annapolis 31st March 1819
hereby certify that it appears from the Muster Rolls Remaining in the Auditors Office that Thos Smith, Enlisted as a Private in the Fourth Maryland Regt on of the the 16 May 1778 and was discharged on 1st Nov. 1780
Thos Karney Aud
State Md
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6280

(illegible)
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Pri  Act of 53 Pa
B O Yonton
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Pension Office
December 3 1853 

Sir
Please report time of last payment to or
death of within named pensioner
Respectfully be
F. Burt Esqr
Aud
S. Cole
Sand
for Commr
Thomas Smith 3d
act 1818- $8.00 p. month.
Paid to 4th Sept. 1822, no
date of death on our
Books
F. Burt
Auditor
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Ann Smith, widow of Thomas Smith, decd.
Pension
Act Feb 3, 1853

Additional Evidence

Boynton
Feb 18/54

S. J Bower
Atty
Present
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Washington City, DC
Feb 18, 1854

Sir,

Enclosed you will find additional evidence in support of claim of Ann Smith, widow of Thomas Smith decd. for Pension under Act of Feb 3, 1853.

The person who knew of her former Declaration states that the error of 13th of August occurring twice was probably his, as Mrs. S. is an incessant talker and that her constantly repeating circumstances caused the mistake. She is confident that her husband died as stated in March 1821, though she may have mistaken the year of his death.

Yours truly
S. J Bowen
[illegible]

Hon LP Waldo
[illegible] Pension
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Brief in the case of Ann Smith widow of Thomas
Allegheny County and State of Pennsylvania
act of February 3 1853

Claim, ("original," or "for increase.") [blank]

Proof exhibited, (if original.) [blank]

Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance.
Husband a pensioner under act of 1818 at $96 per annum
Allowed $96 per annum to Cour.[?] Feb 3 1853

(If for increase.)
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what?
Marriage proved by credible witnesses
Death of pensioner proved by credible witnesses
Identity & widowhood proved by credible witnesses

Name and residence of Agent
S.J. Bowen Esqr
Present.

Examining Clerk:
J.K. Gray
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21 Feby
Pension Office
Feb. 20/54

Sir.

Please see additional proof, in this case, shewing the pensioner to have died March 28, 1921, whilst he is reported, as having been paid to Sept. 1822; also report the result of a reexamination of your records

Yours [illegible],

F. Burt Esqr
3and[?] Present.

S. Cole
CC
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Our first report in relation to Thomas Smith. 3rd. is correct. but I perceive that you want Thos. Smith 2nd of Huntington Co. -- he was paid to 4 March 1820, and dropped as your records will show.

F Burt
Auditor
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Pittsburgh Nov 9. 1857
Dear Sir
Mrs Ann Smith, widow of Thomas
Smith a revolutionary soldier, who
was then disch'd in Colonel Lamar
(Md) Regiment, wishes to know whether
she is entitled to any Back
day of pension-
She has received a warrant
for 160 acres -- which was issued
about two years ago, or a little more
Resp
A. W. Foster
Col. Whiting
A Com'r  jc
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Pittsburgh Dec 15/57

My Dear Sir.

Ann Smith is the widow of Thomas Smith who was a private in the Revolutionary war. he served 3 years + six months. + was honorably discharged. He died 1821. His widow draws a small pension. but is very poor. + my object in writing is to know if she can't recover back pay for husband's services.

Yours truly
James H. Hopkins
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Thomas Smith

6280
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Navy Department
March 16, 1843.

Sir,

I have received your letter of the 15th inst. with its enclosures, in relation to the pension of Thomas Smith, who was wounded at Dartmoor prison.

I am of the opinion that the act of April 2, 1816, placed those who were wounded at Dartmoor, their widows and children, on the footing of other pensioners in every respect:

That the subsequent law of April 16, 1816, Sec. 7, embraces their case: Consequently,

That the law authorizes the increase of, pension in this case, if the facts justify it.

The enclosures are herewith returned.

I am, very respectfully,
AN Upshaw

JL Edwards Esqr.
Commr. of Pensions
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State of Pennsylvania
County of Allegheny

On this eighth day of February 1854[?] personally appeared before the subscriber a Judge of the District Court of the County & State aforesaid Ann Smith a resident of Braddock Fields in the aforesaid County of Allegheny aged seventy one years, who first being 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 3rd of February 1853 granting Pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War; that she is the widow of Thomas Smith who was a private in Capt Samuel Goodman's Company of Foot in the Fourth Maryland Regiment commanded by Col Smith , and for which service he drew a Pension from the United States under the Act of March 18th 1818. She further declares that she was married to the said Thomas Smith on the 13th day of August 1802, at James[?] Champenes[?] in the County of Huntington & State of Pennsylvania, by one Hugh McKelly, a Justice of the Peace, that her name before her said marriage was Ann Boyles, that there is no record of her said marriage, that her husband died on the 28th of March 1821, that his death was occasioned by the kick of a horse on his return from Indiana, where he had gone to receive his Pension of one John Dennison who drew it for him, he received his injury on monday the 4th monday of March being Court week, & I believe the 25th day & he died the next thursday the 28th & that there was no Pension draw afterwards by his family. if there was money drew it must have been done by John Dennison. That she was not married to him prior to the second of January eighteen hundred, but at the time above stated. She further declares she is now a widow.

Ann Smith her mark

Witnesses -- M. Hampton
Wm Wilson
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Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before me

Moses Hampton
President Judge of the District Court of Ally. County Pa

Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Allegheny County SS.

I Edward Campbell a Prothonotary of the District Court for the County aforesaid do hereby Certify that Moses Hampton, before whom the foregoing declaration was made, and whose name in his own proper handwriting is thereto attached, is and at the time of signing the same acting President Judge of said Court, duly Commissioned and Sworn. & all whose official acts full faith & credit are due

Witness my hand and the seal of said Court at Pittsburgh. this 15th February 1854

E Campbell [illegible]
Pro
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Ann Smith, widow
of Thomas Smith
claim for Pension
Act Feb 3, 1853
1853
Revo
[illegible]1821
SJ Bowen
[illegible]
Present
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Washington City
Dec 1, 1853

Sir,
Enclosed you will find claims of Ms. Ann Smith, widow of Thomas Smith, deceased, a Revolutionary Pensioner, for Pensioners under Act of February 3, 1853. her husband drew a Pension in Pennsylvania under Act of 1818.
Be pleased to have her claim acted on at your earliest convenience
Yours truly
S.J Bowen
[illegible]
Hon LP Waldo
Com of Pensions
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Pittsburgh Pa April 7th 1855.
Sir, 
I enclose you the application for a county land warrant for 160 acres under the Act of 3rd of March 1855 of Ann Smith the widow of Thomas Smith a private in the Revolutionary War. Her husband has a Revolution Pensioner and she, herself is a pensioner under the act of 3 February 1853 as the widow of Thomas Smith decd Mr Grayson the agent for paying pensions, at the Pittsburgh Pension agency certifies to her identity and the duly proves her can. 
She is an intelligent women of good character and there is no doubt of te entire honesty and justice of her claim.
Respectfully
Your [illegible]
Charles Naylor
To, L.W. Waldo Esp
Com of Pensions,
Washington D.C.