Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 31382, for Joseph Smith, Pennsylvania
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SERVICE
Penn.
CONTENTS
Smith, Joseph
Ky
NUMBER
S.311382
B.L.Wt. 13.722-160-55-
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25.314
Kentucky
Joseph Smith of Hardin Co in the State of Kentucky who was a private in the company commanded by Captain Sweeney of the regt commanded by Col Wallace in the Pennsyla Military
line for 6 months Inscribed on the Roll of Kentucky at the rate of 20 Dollars - Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 23d day of Dec 1833- and sent to Samuel
Haycroft Esq Elizabethtown Ken.
Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1833 $50.
Semi-anl. allowance ending 16 of Mar $10.
$60
⎨ Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by Wm Allison
Clerk Book C Vol. 4 Page 31
Death not on AB
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Paid at the Treasury under the
Act of the 6th April 1838 from
4 March to 4 Sept 1838 
Notified 18 Oct 1839
Letter to show J B 
3 And to July 3d 1848.
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Act March 3
77205
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Joseph Smith
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C. H. Barkley
Louisville Ky
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Vol 1 page 150
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77205
Joseph Smith
Bounty Land
Act of March 3rd 1855
Homey
C. H. Barkley
Louisville
Kentucky
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Hardin County Kentucky Sct
I Joseph Smith of said County aged from my best information about ninety three years do make the following Statement

I am the identical Joseph Smith was a soldier of the service of the United States in the Revolutionary War and a Revolutionary pensioner of the United States on the Kentucky they
at the rate of $20 year

According to my best recollection I served in said service, in all about six months as I have heretofore stated from March 1781 to September 9th 1757 in the Pennsylvania under Captain James Archer but as I am getting old and my memory is perhaps not as good as it formerly was I refer of the proof on which my above named Pension was granted, rather than my own memory. I make this declaration for the purpose of receiving the benefit of the Bounty Land Act of Congress of March 1 AD. 1855. 

I have never mention
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I applied for or received the benefit of this or any other Bounty Land Act of
Congress. Witness my name in Hardin County Kentucky this 26 day of March 1855

Joseph Smith

Kentucky

Affidavit of Hercules Roney Hardin County Kentucky aged 29 year 
and George W Patterson aged 27 also of same County

We the undersigned above named and described to certify that Joseph Smith did this 26 day of March
1855 sign and acknowledged the above declaration in our presence. We have known said declarant
many years as a requited Revolutionary soldier of the service of the United States and he is
was known to us as a pensioner of the United States on the Kentucky Agency on account thereof, and we are disinterested

2 Witness
John H Laig

Hercules Roney
George W. Patterson
Hardin County
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Hardin County Kentucky Set
Be it known that on this 26 day of March 1855 before me a Justice of the peace in and for said County duly authorized by law to administer oaths for your purpose personally came Joseph Smith of said County to me well known as he was described himself in his foregoing declaration which he did this day subscribe and swear to before me and I certify that the reputation of the man that he described and Revolutionary soldier of the United States and a pensioner on the Kentucky Agency in account thereof at the same time also came Hercules Roney and George Patterson did strike and swear at the foregoing affidavit and I certify that said affiants are Credible persons and believe them to be of the entire that they call in

In Testimony of Union and hereto subscribe my name
Elisha A Viers
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State of Kentucky
Hardin County
William Daniel

Clerk of the County Court in aforesaid County do certify that Elisha Viers whose genuine signature appears on the foregoing certificate that at the date thereof on acting justice of the peace in and for said county duly Commissioned and qualified.

Witness my name and official seal at my office in Elizabethtown on the 18 day of April 1855. 

William T Samuels Clk
By the Machelland
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State of Kentucky
Hardin County

on this Eighteenth day of November 1833 personally appeared in open Court before the Justices of Hardin County Court now sitting Joseph Smith resident of Hardin County in the State of Kentucky aged Seventy years, who being first duly sworn according to Law, doth on his and make the following Declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed on June 7th 1832. That he entered the service of the and States under the following named line and served as herein stated. That he was born of the Shenandoah kin in the State of Virginia from which place his father moved to the frontiers & settled in Redstone old fort (now Brownsville then supposed to be in Pennsylvania and after then live was then between Virginia & Pennsylvania it was ascertained that his father resided in Pennsylvania. He the Declarant was enrolled in a Militia Company which was commanded by Captain Robert Sweeny Company Henry Hornell was Lieutenant Range not restricted Battalion commanded by Mayor Zephaniah Bell & Regiment commanded by Col William Wallace. The Indians being troublesome to the settlers & having committed some murders & the depredations a Company of Militia under the command of Captain James Archer Lieutenant Simon Archer says he thinks Boston Shoof Ensign were stationed on the Frontiers for the purpose of Spring and guarding against the Indians Captain Archer applied to Captain for two men to act as spying for said Company
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company stating that they should have Twenty five pounds each for a tour of duty of six months. On the 9th day of March 1781 himself and Jacob Harrow Volunteered as spies & joined said company under the command of Capt. Archer by order of Captain Sweeney. There was a creek called Ten Mile Creek which empties into the Monongahela River.


Ten Mile, from the growth of the Creek Red Stone old fort was situated. Thirty miles up the same Creek was a Fort called Jackson's fort - It was called Thirty miles from Jackson's fort to Lindley's fort on Dunkard fork, and there was a fort Lalow's fort situated on the head of Wheeling Creek. He was stationed at Jackson's fort and regularly and constantly spied some time to Lindley's some times to Lalow's forts for and during the term a period of six months and the Term of six months had expired he and the said Jacob Harrow was discharged and received a certificate from Captain Archer Certifying that they had performed their service of spying  for six months and the said Jacob Harrow (being the eldest) took & kept said Certificate & the Declarant has never seen it since said Harrow & himself parted to the best of his recollection. He has no documentary evidence in his possession to prove his service. His Brother Reuben Smith who lives in Indiana knows of his service, but he does not know in what part of the State of Indiana the said Reuben Smith lives and if he did know, he is too poor, old & infirm having
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been stricken with the palsy) to under the fatigues and pay the expenses of the Journey. The testimony of Robert Samuel of Bullitt County, Kentucky unto attached is all that he can
produce without undergoing great fatigue and expense in searching for and procuring the evidence of the said Reuben Smith and he knows of no other persons now alive by whom he can prove his services to his country and there is a Clergyman residing in his neighbourhood whose testimony he can procure to prove his character for veracity & that it is believed in his neighbourhood that he was a soldier of the Revolution.

I hereby relinquish any claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declare that my name is not on the pension roll of any agency of any state. To the Questions propositioned to him by the Court he makes the following answers.

1st Where and in what year were you born?

I was born on the Shenandoah River in the State of Virginia (but I do not recollect in what County because my father moved from there when I very young) on the 2d day of August 1762.

2 Have you any record of your age and if so where is it?

Answer

There is a record of my age in the possession of my Brother Reuben Smith of Indiana - I saw it about four years ago.

Where were you living when called into service; where have you lived since the Revolutionary war and where do you now live?
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Answer 

I was living two miles from Redstone old fort (now Brownsville on the Monongahela River in the State of Pennsylvania - I moved to Fayette County in the State of Kentucky in the year 1780 as well as I recollect and lived in said County about two years then moved to Bourbon County in said State & lived there Five years and then moved to Washington County in said State and lived there about five years. From there I moved to Hardin County in said State where I have lived since.

4th How were you called into service; were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute, and if a substitute for whom?

Answer 

I volunteered as a spy.

5th State the names of some of the Regular Officers who were with the Troops where you served such Continental & Militia Regiment as you can recollect and the General __________________________ of your service.

Answer

There were no regular officers with the troops where I served. There were no Continental or militia Regiments. There was but one company of Militia under the Command of Capt James Archer. Lieutenant Simon Archer as well as I now recollect Ensign Boston Shroak, on the 9th of March 1781. I volunteered as a spy for said Company for a Term of six months and performed that service by spying between Jackson's fort & Lindley Harlow for and on the 10th day of September 1781 having served six months was discharged & sent home.

Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so by whom was it signed and what has become of it?

Answer

When my term of service had expired Captain James Archer Certified that Carob
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Harrow and my self had served out our tour of six months as spies. The said Harrow received & kept it and I do not know, now, what has become of it. That was the only discharge ever received.

7th State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighbourhood and who can testify as to your character for veracity and good behaviour, your survey as a soldier of the Revolution.


Answer 

I have for many years past resided near the line dividing the Counties of Hardin & Bullitt but I am known to Robert Samuel, John Myers and John Westfall who reside in Bullitt County. They can testify only as to my character for veracity and good behavior. Robert Samuel can testify as to my services. They cannot.  I am known also to James Dougherty a Clergyman and Luke Colvin of Hardin County where I reside but it is difficult for me to get them to go to the Hardin Court to give the testimony. Neither can I get the said Samuel and Myers & Westfall to go to the same Court to give their evidence and I am obliged to take the evidence in the County Court of Bullitt County.
	
Subscribed & sworn to this day & year aforesaid
Joseph Smith
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State of Kentucky towit
Bullitt County

I Robert Samuel of Bullitt County, State of Kentucky do certify that I became acquainted with Joseph Smith, who is an applicant for a pension under the
act of Congress passed on the 7th day of June 1832 in the year 1780 and lived a near neighbour to him until the year 1784 during which time I understood said Smith had gone out to Jackson's fort as a spy or guard one summer. It was the neighbourhood report that such was the act and I know that he was absent from the neighbourhood one Summer which was in the year 1781 as well as I now recollect. He was gone some length of time but how long I do not now recollect. For some where about thirty years I have been acquainted with said Joseph Smith in this State of Kentucky and believe him to be a man of veracity & good Character and have been a soldier (or spy) of the Revolution, Sworn & subscribed to this 20th day of May 1833.

Robert Samuels

We John Myers and John Westfall residing of & in Bullitt County State of Kentucky hereby duly that we are well acquainted with Joseph Smith an applicant for a pension according to the foregoing declaration; that we believe him to be seventy years of age; that he is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier of
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of the Revolution and that we concur in that Opinion Sworn & subscribed this 20th day of May 1833

John Westfall
John Myers

State of Kentucky at a County Court held for Bullitt County at the Court house in Shepherdsville on Monday the 20 day of May 1833 personally appeared in open Court before the Justices thereof the foregoing named Robert Samuel John Westfall and John Myers residents of Gallia County in the State of Kentucky and severally subscribed and swore to the foregoing certificates touching the application of Joseph Smith for a pension under the act of assembly Congress
June 7 1832 and the said Court certifies that the said Robert Samuel, John Westfall and John Myers who have signed and Sworn to the said Certificate are resident of Bullitt County in the State of Kentucky and are credible persons and that the statements are entitled to credit-

I Noah C Summers Clerk of the County Court of Bullitt County in the State of Kentucky do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings
as to the proof of the matter of the application of Joseph Smith for a pension. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office this 20 day May 1833.

N. C. Summers Clerk
State of Kentucky Hardin County Set

We James Dougherty, a Clergyman residing in the County of Hardin and State of Kentucky, and Luke Colon residing in the same County and State hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Joseph Smith who has subscribed and sworn to the Declaration immediately preceding the affidavit of Robert Samuel, John Westfall, John Myers in Bullitt County on 6th 7th pages that we believe him now to be seventy one years of age, that he is reputed and
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beloved in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that Opinion. Sworn to and subscribed in open
Court this Eighteenth day of November 1833.

James Dougherty
Luke Colvin

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion open the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the war department
that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states. And the Court further certify that it appears to them that James Dougherty
who has subscribed the proceeding certificate, is a Clergyman resident in the County of Hardin, State of Kentucky and that Luke Calvin who has also signed the same is a resident in Hardin County Kentucky and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit.

I Samuel Haycraft Clerk of the Court of Hardin County in the State of Kentucky do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the Original proceedings in the matter. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of Office this 20th day of November 1833.

Sam Haycraft Clk
Hardin County Court
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File No.
31382
INVALID.
1. 382
Joseph Smith
in Rev War
Act June 32
Index: - Vol. 2 Page 382
Arrangement of 1870.)
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L P Waldo
Commissioner Pension
Washington D.C.
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Official Business
Commissioner Pensions

Boynton

March 3rd 1855
No. 77205
Joseph Smith
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Sir:

TREASURY DEPARTMENT
Second Comptroller's Office,

October 3d 1839

Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States", Joseph Smith a Pensioner on the Roll of the Kentucky Agency, the rate of Twenty Dollars per annum, under the law of the 7th June 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 4th of March to the 4th Sept. 1838.

Respectfully yours,
Albion K. Parris
Comptroller.

To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Present.

To Joseph of Ky roll at $20
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Act March 1855
No 77.205
Record evidence of
Service
Attorney
C H Barkley
Louisville
Kentucky
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No 6788715
9.2.0 Specie

I Do hereby certify, that the State of Pennsylvania is indebted to Joseph Smith of Cumbo Co Militia
in the sum of nine pounds two shillings
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Specie, with lawful interest from the first day of July, one thousand seven hundred and eighty three; the same being due upon an Account settled in this office. Pursuant to an Act of Assembly, passed the first Day of April 1784


Comptroller General's Office
22 Sept 1785

M. Nicholson
Auditor General's office
Harrisburg Dec 22nd 1855

I hereby certify that the above is a true copy of the original certificate remaining on file in this office.

Witness my hand and seal of office the day & year above written.

E. Banks
Auditor General
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Jo. Smith 28.584
Kentucky

April 1784

$20.

Saml Haycraft
Clk Hardin Co
Elizabethtown Kentucky