Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 44167, Jeremiah Goldsmith, Continental New York
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(3-1776)
SERVICE
Continental
New York
Goldsmith, Jeremiah
NUMBER
S44167
CONTENTS
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10.033
New York
Jeremiah Goldsmith
of --- in the state of ---
who was a Private in the regiment commanded by
Colonel Baldwin of the ---
line, for the term of 3 years 1777-
Inscribed on the Roll of New York
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on
the 20 of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 30 the Apl 19
and Sent to Ben Hain
Shawangunk Ulster Co
Arrears to 4th of Mar 19 - 83"96
Semi-anl all'ce ending Sept 19 48
$131.96 
Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818.}
Continued  

Declaration sent to Charles Tappen Junr Esq 6th
of October 1820. Kingston Ulster County, New York
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[overwritten note] Adm'd

Jeremiah Goldsmith
Application
admissible on the
evidence of the applicants indigent circumstances
- to which
the Judge will certify
as to the credibility
of their certifying the
same

The inclosed discharges
of Col. Baldwin &
Col. Burr to be returned
with this declaration to
the War Department
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State of New York
Ulster County
On this twentieth day of April
1818 before me the Subscriber one of the Judges of
Ulster Common Pleas in & for the County of Ulster
in the State of New York personally appears Jeremiah
Gold Smith aged Seventy Six years resident in the
town of Wawarsink in the said County of Ulster
who being by me first duly sworn according to
Law doth on his oath make the following
declaration in order to obtain the provision
made by the late Act of Congress entitled "an act
to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land
and Naval service of the United States in the
Revolutionary war" that he the said Jeremiah
Goldsmith enlisted at the City of New York in the
company commanded by Capt. Quackenbush
in the first New York Regiment commanded by
Col. Richmore (as the said Jeremiah believed)
in the year 1775. that he continued in the said
Corps until the 8th day of March 1776, when
he was discharged from service at Head Quarters
before Quebec in Canada at which time
he received the original Discharge from General
Arnold to this deposition annexed, that he was
in the Battles of St John and Montreal during the
aforesaid Enlistment that he the said Jeremiah
Goldsmith again enlisted at New Windsor in the
State of New York in company commanded by Capt.
Peter Mills in Col. Baldwins Regiment of Artillary
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in the month of August 1777. that he continued
to serve in said corps until the 1st September 1780 when he was discharged from service at Head quarters in the State of New York at which time he received the original Discharge from Ezekiel Samson Lieut. & Col. Baldwin Commandant of Artificers to this deposition annexed- that taken reduced circumstances as I
stand in need of the assistance of his Country
for support-
Jeremiah Goldsmith
Sworn and declared before me the day & year
aforesaid
James Kain
I James Kain Judge &c - as aforesaid do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Jeremiah GoldSmith did serve in the Revolutionary war as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy and I now transmit the proceeding
I[n] Testimony had before me to the Secretary for
the Department of War pursuant to the directions of the aforesaid act of Congress
James Kain

Ulster County Clerks Office. I certify that the above named James Kain is duly commissioned & qualified as a Judge of the
Court of Common pleas of said County of Ulster & that the above signature of his name is of his own proper hand writing with which I am well acquainted Witness
the Seal of the said Court of which court I am the
Clerk. Dated the 21st April 1818.
Ch. Tappen Jn'r
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I Jonathan Dubois do hereby certify
that the said Jeremiah Gold Smith
is in reduced circumstances & Stands
in need of the assistance of his country
for support
Judge &c
Jonathan Dubois
Judcy [Judge]
State of New York
Ulster County SS.
I certify that the above named Jonathan Dubois
is duly commissioned & qualified as a Judge
of the Court of Common Pleas of said County
of Ulster & that the above signature of his name
is his own proper hand writing as I truly believe
I being acquainted with it Witnesses the seal
of said Court of which I am Clerk Dated 6th
April 1819

Ch. Tappen Jun'r
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Jeramiah Goldsmith

Baldwins regt
10033
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State of New York Ulster County Ss
At a court of common pleas held at the Court House in Kingston in and for the County of Ulster being a Court of Record proceeding according to the course of the common Law with a Jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount keeping a record of its proceedings in the term of July 1820.
Lucas Elmendorf first Judge
Present - Jonathan Dubois, Jacob Trumpborn Junr, John Crispell }
Judges - being a quorum for the transaction of business
On this fifth day of July 1820 personally appeared in open Court Jeremiah Goldsmith of the Town of Wawarsink in the said County aged seventy seven years who being first duly sworn according to Law doth declare as follows that he is very infirm and his memory has become weak and treacherous that according to his present recollection he enlisted in the year 1775 in Capt Peter Mills Company and Coll Balwins Regt of Engineers and Artificers for the term of three years and faithfully served out in the said Corps his period for which he was so enlisted And I the said Jeramiah GoldSmith do further depose that I was a Citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818 And that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any other manner disposed of my
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property or any part thereof with intent thereby to diminish it so as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war passed on the 18th day of March 1818 and have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities contracts or Debts due to me nor have I any in income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed.
A Schedule containing the whole real estate and income of Jeremiah Goldsmith a pensioner under the act entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and Naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war of real estate I have none. Of income I have none except my pension of personal property (except
necessary wearing apparel and Bedding) I have as follows. Two Cows worth each $15- two Calves $2. One small Bull $5 A few articles of common household furniture worth about $4-. 
Jeramiah Goldsmith
I have no occupation other than a common laborer I am lame in my right arm and am become so infirm by old age as to be unable to earn a livelihood My family consists of a wife aged seventy two years
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who for the last five years has been crippled and laid up with a confined rheumatism and is wholly unable to labor I have the mother of my wife to support who is ninety years old and is unable to work I have two daughters living with me one named Sally aged about 30 years and Elizabeth aged about 25 years who are both cripples by whose labor I am assisted in a support living in a small hut on the Shawangunk mountain where I till and cultivate a small patch of Land without
owning it or paying any rent for the same and could not subsist by our joint labors without the aid of my pension
Jeramiah Goldsmith
Sworn and Subscribed in open Court this 5th July 1820 before me Lucas Elmendorf Judge 
I Christopher Tappen Jun'r. Clerk of the Court of Common pleas of Ulster County in the State of New York do certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the originals on file in the office of said Clerk and
that it is the opinion of the Court that Jeremiah Goldsmith is dependent on the aid of his Country for support and that the Total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is forty one dollars Witness my hand and the Seal of said Court July 5th1820--
Ch. Tappen Jun'r.
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Record Division
REVOLUTIONARY WAR RECORDS SECTION
3 -- 525
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Washington, D. C., Aug. 28, 1922
S.44167
In reply to your request of --- , received --- for a statement of the military history of Jeremiah Goldsmith
soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his [(or his widow's) crossed out] application for pension on file in this Bureau.
DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT.| LENGTH OF
SERVICE.| RANK.|OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. CAPTAIN. COLONEL.| STATE.
1775 to | Mar 1776 | Pvt. | Quackenbush | Richmond | NY
Aug 1777 to | Sept. 1 1780 | Artificer |Peter Mills | Baldwin
Battles engaged in, St. John Montreal 
Residence of soldier at enlistment, enl [enlisted] in New York NY and New Windsor NY
Date of application for pension, Apl 20, 1818
Residence at date of application, Wawarsing in Ulster Co. NY
Age at date of application, 76 years
Remarks: In 1820 his wife was aged 72 and her mother aged 90 years names not stated and daughters Sally about 30 and Elizabeth about 25 years of age. No fur[ther] fam data
Respectfully,
Commissioner.
6 -- 2856
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Goldsmith Jeremiah
Cont.-NY S44167
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This may Certify that Jeremiah Goldsmith of Capt Peter Hills Company Col Jeduthan Baldwins Rigmt [Regiment], of Artificers having Served the full term of three years faithfully is discharged from said service and is Intitled
to all the benefits and privileges granted by Congress [faded word] and said Goldsmith has the thanks of his officers for the same
Ezekiel Sampson Lieut
J Baldwin Colo. of Engineers & Lieut
Colo Comdt of Artificers
Headquarters Sept [?]th 1[?]20
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Served the Bearer three Days Provisions
March the 8th 1776 Jno Taylor
Served the Bearer two Days provisions
Montreal 13th Mr 1776  Henry Benson at DC
St Johns 15th March 1776 Delivered to the Bearer
Four days provisions Samuel Webb Lieut
5 prs of Crepesn Deliver'd to 5 Men in Company
which are to be left at Ticonderoga
Recd at Fort Ticonderoga this 21st March 1776
3 pair of Crepens Joseph McCracker Com & other [Reps?]
The Bearer is Victualled at this place
with Several Days Provisions
Albany 27 March 1776
John N. Bleecker
A D C General
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Jeremiah Goldsmith of Capt Quackenboss Company
in the first Regt of Yorkers, having well and
faithfully performed his duty as a Private
in said Compy during the time of his Enlistment
is hereby discharged the service and permitted
to return Home - The Commissaries at
different Stages are ordered to furnish him with
Provisions
Headquarters before Quebec March 8 1776 }
By order of General Arnold
Aaron Burr Aide de Camp
to all concerned
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3-2233    1113
Bureau of Pensions
Finance Division
March 22,1926
Chief Rev Sect Division.
I have this day received
From Mrs Sara D Wyatt
Cash
No
For $1.80 requesting photostat copy
[Post office address - crossed out] as per
Letter herewith
1926 Mar 31
Photos mailed &
Finance DW [nst?]
AW
O.J Randall
Chief Finance Div.
HCL


Request for Photostating.    3-2006. Ex AW
(To be prepared in duplicate.)
3154 Office of the chief clerk
Job No.    Date Mar 26, 26
Subject Jeremiah Goldsmith- Rev S[?] 4167
6 (No.) copies of 1 (No.) pieces consisting of 2 pages to be forwarded when completed to the Rev & 1812 Wars Sect Division.
Remarks:  please make 6 negatives of each page=12 in all
Approved:
W. Wilson 
Chief  [Division - crossed out] Sect
Approved:
Chief  Clerk
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I desire six photostat copies of two pages from Revolutionary War
pension claim of Jeremiah Goldsmith, S. 44167
Mrs Sara D. Watt
Garrett Park
Box 25 Maryland
Received payment
$1.80
March 22, 1926
M. C. Stokes
Rev. & 1812 Wars Section
[stamp] FINANCE DIVISION, MAR 22 1926, BUREAU OF PENSIONS
12 photos in all, 6 of each side of discharge ctf

12
.5
60
12
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1.80
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L7WE
2281 Harrison Ave.
Cincinnati, Ohio,
July 23-1922.
[stamp] U.S. PENSION OFFICE F JUL 25 1922
Commissioner,
Bureau of Pensions
Dear Sir
 Will you please
give me the record of
and all information
you have concerning
Jeremiah Goldsmith
Ulster Co. New York
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(S.F. 44, 167) who
served in Revolutionary
War Continental Artillery
in Colonel Ritzema's
First Regiment, New York
Troops.
Any information
would be most thankfully
received,
Very Respectfully,
(Mrs) Sara D. Wyatt
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44167
Revy INVALID.
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File No. 44.167
Jeremiah Goldsmith
Pri Rev War
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Act: 18 March 18
Index:--Vol. S, Page 202
[Arrangement of 1870.]

1922 Aug. 28 hist to Mrs Sara
D. Wyatt-En
1926 Mar 31. Photos
mailed to S.D. Wyatt
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Jeremiah Goldsmith of Capt Quackenboss Company in the first Regt of Yorkers, having well and faithfully performed his duty as a Private in said Compy during the time of his Enlistment is hereby discharged the service and permitted to return Home The Commissaries at different Stages are ordered to furnish him with Provisions Headquarters before [illegible] March of 1776 } By order of General Arnold Aaron Burr Aide de Camp 
to all concerned