Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 19093, for Samuel Smith, South Carolina
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SERVICE  SC
Smith, Samuel
NUMBER  S.19093
Carded
CONTENTS
b. Dec 31 1765 in Spartanburg District SC. Died at his _ in 1843
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South Carolina    stf m 32,716
Samuel Smith
Spartanburg Dist in the State of So Ca
was a private in the Company
commanded by Captain [James] Elder of the Regt commanded by Col. [John Jr.] Thomas in the SC for 9 months
Inscribed on the Roll of Charleston at
the rate of 30 Dollars 00 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 17th day of April 1850 and sent to Hon. D. Wallace HR.
Arrears to the 4th of _
Semi-ant. allowance ending _
Revolutionary claim, act June 7 1832
Recorded by JP Chase clerk
Book E Vol 6 page 84
Reported
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State of South Carolina
Spartanburgh District
Personally appeared this day in open Court before me the pending
Judge of the Court of Ordinary, Samuel Smith of the district of Union and State aforesaid, aged
78 years the 31st December, who being duly sworn doth make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the pension
act of the United States passed the 7th day June 1832 That he entered the service in the Militia of South Carolina on the 20th November 1780 under Capt James Elder of Col John Thomas [Jr.] Regiment, remained
in service five or six weeks and
untill taken prisoner and carried down
upon Bush river, remained a prisoner about three or four days and was retaken by Col [William] Washington's Cavalry. After which he joined General [Daniel] Morgans army at the Grindal shoals on Pacolet river and was detached by him to aid in collecting
provisions for his troops, after which he rejoined Morgan's army the day before the battle of the Cowpens. was in said battle of the Cowpens
after which he was permitted to remain with his brother Aaron Smith who was severely wounded in said battle, untill he died which was five days after. He then joined Capt Elders company again and was engaged
in skirmishing against the Tories untill they joined Col [Benjamin] Roebeck and crossed Enoree [River] in
pursuit of them, but did not overtake
them. This deponent was soon after again taken prisoner by the Tories and carried to Ninety six Jail in company with Col Roebuck and Capt Elder who were also prisoners. He was confined in Newton Jail about three months, where he suffered very
severely with the smallpox. After which
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he was released and joined General
[Nathanael] Greenes army near Saluda river, but was so disabled from the effects of the smallpox which he had while in Jail that he was considered unfit for service and was consequently sent home. Having
recovered from the effects of the small pox he again turned out and was engaged in scouring the country for Tories untill the British evacuated Charleston. This last service was performed under different officers Viz Col Brannon [Thomas Brandon] Capt Joseph Wofford and Lieutenant [Thomas] Hannah. Having served
in all about two years and one month
including the time he was imprisoned and disabled from the effects of small pox. that he hereby relinquishes all and every claim to a pension or annuity except the present and declares his name is not on the roll
of any agency in any state and that he
has no documentary evidence other than that herewith transmitted. This deponent further states that he has neglected to make the present application from the circumstance that heretofore he has been able to live without it, and is now induced to do so from increased infirmity which compels him to do what he has so long neglected.
Question 1. Where and when were you born. I was born in the State and district first above written and only about three miles from where I now live on the 31st day of December
1765 
2nd Have you any record of your
age: I have. 
3rd Where were you living when called into service, where have you
lived since, and where do you now live. I was born in the district of Spartanbugh and state of South Carolina, and have
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always resided there untill about ten
years ago when I moved into the edge
of Union District and remained one year and returned to Spartanburgh
where I resided three or four years and again removed into the edge of Union district where I now reside and which is only about three miles from the place where I was born and have always lived
4th How were you called into service
I joined the militia as a volunteer
5th State the names of some of the regular officers who were with the troops where you served, such of the continental and militia regiments as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your service. To the fifth interrogatory I must refer to the foregoing declaration for an answer and do not now recollect anything further in regard to it. 
6th Did you ever receive a discharge
from the service, and if so by whom
was it given. I never received a written
discharge, as the militia in South Carolina did not I believe, receive written discharges.
7th State the names of persons in your neighbourhood to whom you are known, and who can testify as to your character for veracity and their belief as to your services as a soldier of the Revolution. Mr Landon Miles, James Hamm Esq., Capt. John Morrow, Revd Benj Wofford or any other respectable man in the neigh bourhood where I now and always resided. 
s/Saml Smith
Sworn to & Subscribed
before me 11th day of Sept 1843.
s/ RC Poole JQ ex off
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And the said Court of ordinary
hereby declare its opinion after the
investigation of the matter, and after
putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War department that aforesaid
applicant Samuel Smith was a
Revolutionary soldier and served
as he states. s/ R. C. Poole
Ordinary of Spartanburg District S.C.

State of South Carolina
Spartanbugh District  I Joshua Tapp
Clerk of the Court of Sessions and
Common Pleas in and for said
District do hereby certify that the
foregoing contains the original proceedings of the Court of Ordinary in the matter of the application of Saml Smith for a Pension
In testimony whereof I have
hereunto set my hand & Seal
of Office the 11th day of Sept 1843
J. Tapp Clk CS

35.615 Samuel Smith SC
Act 7 June 32
[illegible]
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19.093
INVALID
Samuel Smith
Pri Rev War
act June 7 1832
Vol. 1 page 388
arrangement of 1870
April 21, 1908 Tombstone data
QM Gen'l USA avt
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No 35615
Samuel Smith nine months
SC
admd $30 per ann
sent to Hon JA Black 27 May 44
sent to Hon D Wallace 17 May 52
Hon D. Wallace HR
act 7 June 1832
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Saml Smith
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Comptroller Genls Office
Columbia S. C. Feby 18th 1850.
No 627 M  Issued the first October 1784 to Mr Samuel Smith late private in N. Martins Troop [Captain Nathaniel Marshal Martin], Polk's Regt. [Lieutenant Colonel William Polk]  Sumpters Brigd [Brigadier General Thomas Sumter] St Troops for ninety four pounds sterling amount pay and bounty due him for
services in that Troop with interest thereon from the first April 1782 to date hereof agreeable to resolution of General Assembly of Eleventh March last Principal L 94.O.O. Interest 6: L86.10.8.
(No account M 627 to be found)

No 3997 X Issued 17th Octr 1786 to Samuel Smith for one pound 18 S. 6 stg for Militia duty as pr acct passed by the Commr Principal L1:18: 6 Annual interest L0. 2. 8_
(No account X 3997 to be found)

No 231 Lib 2 Issued the 12th of May 1785 to Mr Samuel Smith, for two pounds 2s/10 1/2  Stlg for 30 days Militia duty in 1781 pr account audited Principal L 2:2:10 1/4 No 40: Annual interest L0.2.11_

231 Q  N40 The account Q 231 States 30 days duty in militia as private
May & June 1781 under Lt. Mitchell, Capt [James] Craigs Co., Col [Thomas] Taylor's Regt certified by Nimrod Mitchel Lt.,  W. Hunter Col. (There is also no assignment in favor of Genl [Richard] Winn by Saml Smith before Thos Baker J P)

No. 286 Book V  Issued the 27 July 1785 to Samuel Smith for Twenty eight pounds six shillings & nine pence sterling for Militia duty as Sergeant in 1779, 1780 & 1781 pr therein account audited.
Principal L 28.6.9 annual interest L1:19.8 " No 58

No 58 No 286 Lib V The account 286 V States 41 days duty as Sergeant in militia from 7th Septemr to 17th Oct 1779 - 214 days duty  "
21st April 1781 to the 21st November following - 39 days duty as horseman
from 22d March to 29 April 80- and contains an order in favor of John
Callott Signed by Samuel Smith Ponton, 1 Decr 1785

No 150 Lib W issued 8th August 1785 to Mr Saml Smith for thirty
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Six pounds 2S10d stlg for 506 days services as Private in 3rd Compy of the Charleston Battalion of artillery in 1780 & 1781 per pay bill audited
Principal L36.2.10 No 62 annual interest L2.10.7

No 2094 Lib X Issued 12 Decem 87 to Saml Smith L6.5 Stg arrears of clothing service in Sumters Brigade pr certificate from Commr for adjusting claims of said Brigade not ald.  Interst 8s.9.
(No account 2094 X to be found )


No 1601 Lib X Issued 26th of January 1786 to Mr. Samuel Smith for Twenty one pounds, eight shillings & six pence ster: for Militia duty in 1781
as pr account passed by the Commissioners
Principal L 21.8.6 Int L1.9.11 (Refers to X 3925)
(The account 1601 X contains an assignment in favor of Arthur Jenkins
acknowledged before W Buford J.P. & Signed by Samuel Smith and States
150 days duty in the militia in 1781 @ 205 per day no officers named

No 3716 Book X Issued 18 Sept to Mr. Samuel Smith for L24:5:8½ sterling duty in Roebuck's Regiment pr audited No 114
(The account 3716 X States for Militia duty since the fall of Charleston in Roebuck's Regiment p Anderson's return and contains an order in favor of Wm Smith Captain & signed by
Saml Smith before Saml Lancaster  J.P. 16th Decr 1786)
I do hereby certify that the foregoing are true copies taken from the Records in this office and that the remarks in parentheses are mine and correct as warranted by a
careful examination of the accounts
For Comptroller Genl
James A. Black
As to "Anderson's return" see 4th vol. Statutes at Large of So Carolina
page 718-
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House Reps
Washington March 20 1830
Sir
I inclose the papers upon which Samuel Smith of Spartanburgh
District South Carolina Claims a
Pension. You will see that his
declaration was made out by R.C
Pool Judge of the Court of Ordinary for Spartanburgh. By the statutes
of South Carolina, the Court of Ordinary is made a Court of Record, and has a seal & official copies of Records from that office receive full faith & credit in the Courts of the United States. You informed me when I last saw you, that you would not
take exceptions to the declaration.
I have certified to the credibility of the 
witnesses. they were known to me
personally, in their life time.
I inclose a certificate
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from the Comptroller Genl of South Carolina shewing the service of the applicant
This certificate, satisfies me.
that there were two Samuel Smiths
in the service.
It so happens however that I can, I think pretty clearly settle this
difficulty myself. 
This applicant has lived all his life
in the up Country of South Carolina - the other Samuel Smith named in this certificate lived in the low Country, as I will proceed to show.
I do not claim for my client Acct No 627-- which I have marked thus
X the same may be said of acct No
286, 58 & 151 - All these refer to
service that Samuel Smith of Spartanburgh did not render.
I make these discoveries in this way. My client did not serve under Sumpter. He did not serve in the Charleston Battalion of Artillery.
He did not
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serve previous to 1780.
You will observe that accounts No
58, & 286, were assigned to John Callott at Pon Pon, 1st Decr 1785. Now John Callott, I think was a low Country man and Pon pon, is near the sea shore, two Hundred miles from the residence of my claimant.
I claim for my applicant
Accts Numbered 231 s40- assigned to Genl [Richard] Winn. I claim for my applicant this account for the reason that I know of my own knowledge that Genl Winn, to whom the account was asigned, lived near my Client.
My father was a Revolutionary soldier
& lived in Laurens District opposite Spartanburgh the River Enoree
separating the two Districts.
Genl Winn lived in Spartanburgh a
little below my father. He was a
visitor at my fathers house, long
after the war, & surveyed my fathers
Land & I have the plot he made
in my possession now.
I know therefore that he was a neighbor to Smith
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the applicant, and I think he was a
relative of the Smith family.
Doctr John Winnsmith, who has
written you several letters in this
claim, & who is aiding Saml Smith
to procure his pension, was named
after this same Genl John Winn
whose name he now bears-- Doctr
Smith was first named John Winn
Smith. But by act of the Legislature of South Carolina, passed at his request, his name was changed to John Winnsmith. Genl Winn was a leading man in his day & transacted
much business for his neighbors.
I claim for my client Account No
1601 acknowledged before W. Buford JP. this is an up Country family, & some of them reside near me now.
I claim account No 3716 for my
Client, because it exactly corresponds
with the facts stated in the declaration. It was acknowledged before Samuel Lancaster JP 18 Decr 1786. The Lancaster family reside at the same neighborhood yet and their numerous descendants are in the immediate neighborhood of this applicant. They
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are my constituents now, & I am personally acquainted with a large number of them.
I have thus I think analysed this
Certificate of the Comptroller General
and I have no doubt according to the
truth & which the facts I have stated
Warrant.
He has stated in his declaration,
that he was for about three months a
presence in ninety six Jail, & Mordecai Chandler, a Revolutionary soldier & pensioner that he was there & in Jail with him at the same time. He has proved by other Revolutionary soldiers that they saw him under arms in Col [Benjamin] Roebucks
Regiment, both before & after the
battle of the Cowpens in which battle
he fought, & in this he is also sustained by the Record.
I think therefore that the facts set forth by the applicant in his declaration are fully sustained  by just such proof
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as the Rules of evidence of your
Office require & that he is entitled
to his pension according to the
facts set forth in his declaration.
I hope it will not be withheld.
you will see this case has
been lying over ever since 1843.
May I hope therefore for your early
attention to it.
I have the honor to be
your obt servt
D. Wallace

Hon J L Edwards
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State of South Carolina
Spartanburgh District 
Personally appeared before me the subscribing magistrate Jethero Osheals, who being duly sworn says on oath that he is on the united States pension roll as a revolutionary soldier. That he is well acquainted with Saml Smith who is applying for a pension. That he is reputed to have been a revolutionary soldier. to have been imprisoned at 96 by the Tories a considerable time where he suffered much from small pox and to have been at the battle of the Cowpens
all of which I never heard disputed, and I have no doubt of its being the fact. Jethro OSheal X his mark
Sworn to and Subscribed before me this 23 August 1843
s/ Henry Osheal JQ Spart Dist
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State of South Carolina
Spartanburgh District
Personally appeared before me the
subscribing magistrate John Osheals who being duly sworn says on oath that he is on the pension roll of the United States as a revolutionary soldier. That he is well acquainted with Samuel Smith who is applying for a pension. That he is reputed to have been a soldier of the revolution. That he the deponent saw the said Samuel after he was discharged from 96 Jail where he had be imprisoned for a considerable time by the Tories. that the said Samuel was in a bad condition from the effects of the small pox which he had while in jail. This deponent further says that he
thinks he saw the said Samuel Smith at the battle of the Cowpens and has
no doubt of his having been there
John P OSheals X his mark
Sworn to and Subsribed before me
this 24th Day of August 1843
s/ Henry OSheal JQ Spart Dist
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State of South Carch
partanburgh District I, Joshua Tapp
Clerk of the Court of Sessons &
Common Pleas for Spartanbugh Dist
do hereby certify that Henry OSheal is
and was an acting Magistrate at the time of signing the forgoing probates
Commissioned and qualified and is
worthy of faith and credit in his official acts as such, and the signature to the foregoing probate purporting to be his is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have
hereto set my hand and
Seal of Office this 11th day of
September 1843.
J Tapp Clk CP

I know the witnesses OSheal have
been at their places of residence, their Testimony is entitled to full faith & credit-- I know this paper to be
what it purports to be
D.Wallace
House Reps ns
March 18 1850
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South Carolina Union District
Personally Came Mordecai Chandler before me Wm Skelton one of the Magistrates for said District and duly made oath as law directs that he this
deponent was a prisoner in ninety six jail with the British and that Samuel Smith was a prisoner with him at the same time.
Mordecai Chandler X his mark
Sworn to and subscribed this 7th of August 1843 before me .
s/ Wm Skelton MA

South Carolina Union District
I Wm Skelton do hereby certify that Mordecai Chandler is a man of a fair  correction and is to be believed on his oath Certified this 7th of August 1843
s/ Wm Skelton MA

South Carolina Union District
I William J Keenan clerk of the court of Union District do hereby certify
that Mordecai Chandler is a reputable citizen of the District and State aforesaid and that William Skelton whose name appears to the foregoing affidavit and certificate is a magistrate duly authorized and qualified by the laws of this state to act as such. That the forgoing signatures purporting to be his are genuine and that his official acts are entitled to full faith and credit,
In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my seal of office and subscribed my name this 26th day of August in the year one thousand Eight hundred and forty three
s/ Wm J Keenan Clerk of the Court of 
Union District
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I was well acquainted with
Mordecai Chandler now deceased, where affidavit appears within-- I know all the parties to this paper & know that it is what it purports to be. Mordecai Chandler was himself, a Revolutionary pensioner as the Records will shew & I know him to have been a man of truth & veracity, & his testimony is therefore entitled to full faith & Credit
s/ D. Wallace
House Reps ns
March 18, 1850
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State of South Carolina
Spartanburgh  District
Personally appeared before
me the subscribing magistrate. David White who being duly sworn and on
oath that he was seventy one years of age on the 8 day of July 1843
that he is well acquainted with Saml Smith who is applying for a pension
that he knew the said Samuel during
the revolutionary war that he saw
him frequently under arms in Col.
[Benjamin] Roebucks Regiment. That the father of this deponent was the
Lieutenant Col. That he knows that said Samuel Smith was in the service both before and after the battle of the Cowpens – but can't say how long he served – that the applicant is the brother of Major William Smith who was an officer of the Revolution & was drawing a pension at the time
of his death – that the said Samuel Smith was reputed & believed to be a soldier of the Revolution, and a very active and efficient friend of Liberty.
S/ D. White
Sworn to and subscribed for me 4th of August 1843
s/ HJ Dear JQ
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State of South Carolina
Spartanbugh District
I Joshua Tapp Clerk of the Court of Sessions and Common Pleas for said District do hereby certify that H.J. Dean whose signature appears to the foregoing probate is an acting Justice Quorum ExOff for said District Commissioned and Sworn
and is worthy of faith and credit in
his official acts as such, and the
Signature purporting to be his is genuine
In testimony whereof I have
hereunto set my hand &
Seal of the said Court the
11th day of September 1843
J. Tapp Clk CP

I was well acquainted with the
within deponent Daniel White. He was
in his life time, (he is now dead) a man of high & honorable Character and at one time represented Spartanburgh District S.C. in the State Senate. his affidavit is entitled to full
faith & credit I know all the parties to this paper. It is what it purports to be
D Wallace
House Reps ns
March 18 1850
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House Reps ns 
Washington April 17th 1850
Sir On reflection, I conclude to accept for Samuel Smith a Certificate
of pension for nine months services
according to your suggestion
you will please issue the
Certificate of pension accordingly
I have the honor to be
your be obt srvt
D.Wallace

Hon J L Edwards