Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 14518, for Peleg Smith, New York
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(3-1776) SERVICE 
New York 
Smith, Peleg
NUMBER S.14518 
carded 
CONTENTS 
enl. at Huntington, Suffolk Co. N.Y. & res. there in 1839 then aged 84 yrs.
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New York 31.719 
Peleg Smith of Putnam Co in the State of N. York who was a Pr. & Sergt. in the company command by Captain Treusdell of the regt. commanded by Col. Thomas in the N.Y. line for 7 months & 11 days . Pr.   24.54  3 months Sergeant 15.00 
[totals] $39.54 

Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 39 Dollars 54 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831. 

Certificate of Pension issued the 10th day of March 1840 and sent to John Holmes, Jr. Pawlings, N.Y. 

Arrears to the 4th of March ‘40
Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Sepr 
355.86 
19.83 
[totals] $375.69
{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.}
Recorded by D. Brown  Clerk,
Book E. 2.   Vol. 4   Page 68.
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State of New York 
County of Putnam } ss.  On this eleventh day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty nine Personally appeared before the Court of Common pleas in and for the County of Putnam and State of New York held at Carmel present. Bennet Boyd, Ebenezer Foster & Daniel Kent, Judges, Peleg Smith a resident of the town of Huntington in the County of Suffolk and State of New York aged eighty four years who first being duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed June 7 1832, That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated –
That he enlisted the first of April 1776 under Captain John Weeks in Col Josiah Smiths Regiment for the term of six months at the town of Huntington in the County of Suffolk and State of New York on Long island and served at and about Huntington on Long island in the sd Capt Weeks’s company untill the last of August 1776, when the enemy drove us off of Long island across to New York and from thence we marched to White planes [White Plains] in Westchester County where he left the company in the fall of 1776 and went to North Salem after serving out the sd six Months, and there wintered. That he entered the service in the spring of 1777 under Capt Jesse Tinsdale in Col. Thomas Thomas’s regiment at North Salem the first of April 1777 and served seven Months at Bedford and North castle about the lines during the summer untill the fall of the year 1777 as late as November then returned for the winter to North Salem, Also in the spring of the year 1778 the sd Peleg Smith was hired by Joseph Titus. Thomas Brush, William Smith, Benjamin Titus Abijah Wallace and Uriah Wallace who was made a class for a draught, for the term of six Months, and the sd Peleg Smith took the draught and went into the service for the sd Class under Captain Nathaniel Delavan in Col Thomas Thomas’s Regiment the first of April 1778, and joined the sd Delavans Company
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at the sd North Salem, from thence to Bedford about the lines and from thence to North Castle, and to Peakskill [Peekskill] in the said Delavans Company in Col Thomas Regt from the sd first of April 1778 untill the sd six months expired in the fall of the year as late as October or November, 1778.- Also the sd Peleg Smith was a Sergeant in Captn Benjamin Stevens Company for the term of three Months as we are informed by the department, from the rolls of that company, also the said Peleg Smith Volunteered as a private, the second time under Capt Jesse Truesdel in Col Thomas’s Regmt in the spring of the year 1780 as soon as the first of April as near as he can recollect, at North Salem and went with sd Captain Truesdels company from the sd town of North Salem to North Castle New Castle Tarrey town [Tarrytown], Singsing, and White Planes [Plains] all the summer untill the fall of the year 1780, about the first of November 1780 - That he was in the service at that time six or seven Months, - The said Peleg Smith applyed for a Pension under the provision of the Act of the fifteenth of May 1828. he was informed by the department that it appeared by the evidence, that he belonged to the Militia, consequently not embraced by the Act, 
Therefore he now relinquishes all calim to all the former acts makeing provision for certain Revolutionary officers and Soldiers and claiming under the act of June 7th 1832 as above stated 
[signed] Peleg Smith
Sworn and Subscribed this 11 day of Sept 1839 before me 
[signed] W H Sloat  Clerk of Putnam County Courts
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And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion of the investigation of the matter and after putting the interogatories prescribed by the war department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states- 
I William H Sloat Clerk of the Court of Common pleas do hereby Certify that the foregoing Contains the original proceedings of the Said Court in the matter of the application of Peleg Smith for a pension 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 11th day of September 1839 
[signed] W H Sloat   Clerk
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State of New York 
Westchester County } ss. Silvanus Townsend of the town of North Salem in the County of Westchester and State of New York a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States aged eighty five years Personally appeared before Epenetus Wallace a Commissioner of Deeds of sd County, who first being sworn according to law deposeth and saith that he is well acquainted with Peleg Smith of the town of Huntington in the County of Suffolk and State of New York and have been ever since the fall of the year 1776. who is an applicant for a Pension. That he was knowing to the said Peleg Smith Volunteering into the service of the United States in Captain Jesse Trusdels company in Col Thomas Thomas Regiment the first of April 1777 at North Salem and was knowing to the said Peleg Smith going from North Salem with the sd Captain Jesse Trusdels company to Bedford and White Planes [Plains] and about the lines and was with the said Peleg Smith in the said service most of the time during the summer of 1777, at and about the lines as a gard although not all the time in the sd Company but in the same Regiment untill November 1777 and was in the sd service seven Months when we returned home to North Salem for the winter This deponant further saith that he was knowing to the said Peleg Smith being hired by a Class that was Classed for the purpose of a draught at North Salem about the first of April 1778 for the term of six Months and that the said Peleg Smith went into the service for sd Class under Captain Nathaniel Delavan in Col Thomas Thomas’s Regiment and this deponent was in the same Regiment and knowing to the said Peleg Smiths serving in the said Regiment in the said Captain Delavans company the said six months at and about the lines in Bedford and at North castle and New Castle & Peakskill [Peekskill] and at the expiration of the said six months both returned to North Salem the place they went from, in the fall of the year 1778 - and the Persons that made the sd class were Thomas Brush, Joseph Titus William Smith, Benjamin Titus, Uriah Wallace and Abijah
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Wallace, made the sd Class. Also was knowing to the sd Peleg Smith serveing under Capt Benjamin Stevens as before stated in former affidavit - This deponent further saith that he was knowing to the said Peleg Smith being in the service under Capt Jesse Trusdel in Col. Thomas Thomas Regiment this deponent being in the same Regiment and as near as this deponant can recollect that he entered the service early in the spring of 1780 and that this deponant was often on duty with the sd Peleg Smith in the same Regiment from the first of April 1780 to the fall of the same year at and about the lines and below the lines, at Bedford, North Castle Peakskill and New Castle, and was knowing to his being in the service as much as six months this season and further this deponant saith not 
[signed] Silvanus Townsend
Subscribed and sworn this 10th day of September 1839 before me 
[signed] Epenetus Wallace Comr of Deeds 
I certify that I am personally acquainted with Silvanus Townsend the above Deponant and that his statement is entitled to full credit 
[signed] Epenetus Wallace commr of Deeds

State of New York
County of West Chester } SS.  I John H Smith Clerk of the said County and Clerk of the Court of Common pleas Do hereby Certify that Epenetus Wallace whose name is subscribed to the taking of the above affidavit, was on the day of the date on which the same purports to have been taken a Commissioner of deeds as above and that the foregoing signatures to the Jurat & certificate of Character are genuine – 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said County this 11th day of September 1839 
[signed] John H. Smith Clk.
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Rev War
14.518
INVALID. 
File No. 14.518 
Peleg Smith 
Pri & Sergt Rev. War 
Act: June 7th, 1832 
Index:- Vol. 1, Page 349 
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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30719
N. York 
Peleg Smith 
let to J. Holmes Jr. 5 Dec. 1839 
Col Thomas 
Capt Truesdall N. Y. 
Admitted Sergt 3 months 
Private 7 months & 11 days
10.11 
John Holmes Jr Esq
Pawlings N.Y.
Act June 1832
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Pawlings N.Y. Jany 14th    free
Hon J. L. Edwards 
Commissioner of Pensions 
Washington City
D.C

Jan 20 1840
NY.
add proof
Peleg Smith
Susanna Slawson
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Pawlings Dutchess County NY 
January 14th 1840 
Sir
I enclose the Certificates of the Comptroller of the State of New York in the case of Peleg Smith -- also in the case of Susannah Slawson widow of Amos Slawson Desd – I recd. your letter of the 8th ult stateing that the allowance had been made for all the service of the claimants husband had established by evidence in that office 
She is entitled to any further allowance might be found in the Comptrollers office of New York. I herewith forward to you. 
I am respectfully 
Your obt Servt 
[signed] John Holmes Junr
 agent for the above applicant- 

Hon. J. L. Edwards 
Com of Pensions
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Hon J L Edwards 
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City 
D. C.
 
34,894 NY Sept 30 
Peleg Smith 
Act 1832
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Pawlings Dutchess County 
September 26th 1839 
Sir
I was informed by your line of June 29th that Peleg Smith an applicant for a pension under the act of May 15th 1828, that there was not but three months service proved and that by the rolls of Capt Steven's company as a sergeant, therefore not entitled to any pension - under the act I have enclosed an application with further proof under the act of June 7th 1832. 
The reason of this late application on account of the first application is not disposed off – 
[signed] John Holmes Junr
agent for Peleg Smith


Hon. J. L. Edwards
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The Number and Amount of Certificates offered by the Treasurer of the State of New York for Levies and Militia Service &c. continued from Book IV III
To whom given
1780. Oct 19 17272. Peleg Smith Sergt  12 -- --
The number and Amount of Certificate issued by the Treasurer of the State of New York for Levy’s and Militia Service continued from Book V II
To whom given
1781 Nov 15  38.87 Peleg Smith Priv 6  11  8 
State of New York 
Comptroller Office 
Albany Jany 8. 1840 }
I hereby certify the above be the Copies from Book 4 & 8 now remaining in this Office, and also that it appears from the same Books that the said Smith his term first above named under Capt Benjamin Stevenson, and the second under Capt Jesse Truesdell and that on the 28 July 1780 Thomas Thomas was a Colonel and that on the 26th December 1781. Alexr Webster was a Colonel
[signed] Bates Cooke
Comptroller
fees 50¢
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Declaration of Peleg Smith for Revolutionary Pension

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Suffolk C.H. N. York Jany 17. 1829 
Hon Richard Rush 
Secretary of the Treasury 
Sir
I have the honor to enclose to you the declaration of Peleg Smith for the Revolutionary Pension under the act of May last. Please to send an answer to me at Suffolk Court House New York 
I am Sir with respect 
your Obt Servt 
[signed] George Miller
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Suffolk C.H. N.Y. 
Jany 18. 
Free 

Hon. Richard Rush
Secretary of [the Treasury]
Washington

Revolutionary Claims
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1471
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIMS. 
TREASURY DEPARTMENT, 
29 January 1829. 
Peleg Smith of Huntington in the County of Suffolk in the State of New York has applied to the Secretary of the Treasury for the benefits of the act, entitled "An Act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Revolution,” approved the 15th of May, 1828. He states that he enlisted in the Continental line of the army of the Revolution, for and during the war, and continued until its termination, at which period he was a Sergeant in Captain Stephens’s company, in Col. Thomas regiment of the New York line; and that he received a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars, provided by the resolve of the 15th of May, 1778; and further, that he was not on the 13th day of May, 1828, on the pension list of the United States, and that he has received as a pensioner since the 3d of March, 1826, nothing.
The Third Auditor is requested to report how far the several statements are corroborated by the records in his office. 
By order of the Secretary 
[signed] F A Dickins 

TREASURY DEPARTMENT, 
THIRD AUDITOR'S OFFICE, 
2nd February 1829 
[It appears by the records in this office, that a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars has been issued to    in the  crossed out] 
It further appears that Peleg Smith is not now on the pension list of and agency, and has not been so since the 3d March 1826. [at the rate of dollars per month., crossed out]
The name of Peleg Smith cannot be found among those of the New York line, to whom Certificates for the gratuity of Eighty Dollars were issued – 
[signed] Peter Hagner  Aud
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War Department 
Bounty Land Office 
7 May 1829 
The records of this Office do not show that Peleg Smith of the New York line ever received or is entitled to bounty land of the U. States 
[signed] Robert Taylor
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Recd during my absence

State of New York 
West Chester County } ss.  Silvanus Townsend of the Town of North Salem in the County of West Chester aged Seventy eight years being duly sworn doth depose and say that he is well acquainted with Peleg Smith of the Town of Huntington in the State of New York. That he was well acquainted with the said Peleg Smith in the War of the Revolution that the said Peleg Smith was a Private in a Company of Militia under the command of Benjamin Stevens in the Regiment of Colonel Thomas Thomas in the year 1778 that he saw the said Peleg Smith performing duty as a Private as aforesaid in the said Company at Bedford aforesaid and at White Plains in the County of West Chester that the said Peleg Smith was reputed and believed to be a good and faithful Soldier and well disposed to the cause of the County 
[signed] Silvanus Townsend  X his mark
Sworn to this 6th day of March 1834 before me
[signed] Ezra Lockwood one of the Judges in & for Westchester County 

I do hereby Certify that I am personally acquainted with Silvanus Townsend in the above Affidavit named that he is of reputable character and that his statement is entitled to full credit and belief – 
[signed] Ezra Lockwood one of the Judges, in & for sd County
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I Nathaniel Bayles Clerk of the County of Westchester State of Newyork do hereby certify that Ezra Lockwood before whom the foregoing affidavit of Silvanus Townsend was sworn to and who has subscribed the Jurat thereto, and the certificate following was on the day of the date thereof a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County duly appointed and sworn and that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of said Judge and believe the signature subscribed thereto as his are genuine 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said County this 14th day of November 1834 
[signed] N Bayles Clk
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Recd & [illegible] my absence

Revolutionary Claims. 
Under the act, entitled "An act for the relief of certain surviving Officers and Soldiers of the Army of the Revolution," approved 15th May, 1828. 
TREASURY DEPARTMENT. 9 May 1829 
SIR:
Your claim under the abovementioned act was examined in due course; and, if it had been corroborated by the public records at Washington, would have been decided without delay. In your case, however, as in others under similar circumstances, and in regard to which the books usually referred to furnished no information, a decision was postponed until the pressure of business incident to the execution of a new law of this nature, superadded to the other duties of the Department, should so far subside as to afford time for further research. Recourse having, at length, been had to all the sources of information within reach of the Department, I have, now, to acquaint you that nothing is found among the records in the Public Offices here, to corroborate or support your claim. This, however, is not considered a sufficient cause for rejecting it; inasmuch as the records relating to the Army of the Revolution are known to be incomplete; yet, as the testimony furnished by you, in addition to your own declaration, does not assert the fact of your having served in the Continental Army in the manner stated by you, but only that you are generally reputed and believed to have done so, it is deemed a sufficient cause for calling upon you for further evidence. 
I am, nevertheless, aware of the difficulty that exits in obtaining, after so long a time, any positive of direct proof that your services were such as to entitle you to the benefits of the act. And you may be assured that, in weighing such as you may find yourself able to bring, all proper consideration will be given to this difficulty. 
It is believed, however, that the archives of some of the States contain evidence of the rank and service of their regiments or corps on the Continental Line. This evidence may be found either in muster-rolls, settlements, accounts, grants of land, or other rewards for revolutionary services. It may, therefore, be well for you to apply to the proper authorities of the State in whose quota you served, to see whether, in your case, such evidence exists. Where this cannot be obtained, it will be desirable for you to obtain from one or more persons, who know you to have served in the Continental Army an affidavit to that effect, authenticated in the manner heretofore prescribed. Shewing the term of your enlistment and length of service – 
To aid you in this undertaking, I will, if you request it cause to be prepared and transmitted to you, a list taken from the papers which have been received at this Department, under the abovementioned act, of the names and residence of such officers of the line and regiment to which you represent yourself to have belonged, as are known to he now living; and on application to them, they may be able to supply the testimony which you need. 
I am, sir, very respectfully, 
Your obedient servant, 
Arbury Dickins Acting Secretary 

W - Peleg Smith

[note in right margin]
There does not appear to have been any such officers in the New York Continental line as those mentioned in your declaration
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I am of the opinion that Mr Smith is mistaken as to the line in which he served, perhaps he served in the line of the State of [New York, crossed out] Connecticut instead of the line of the State of New York –
[signed] George Miller
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Recd during my absence

Direct Reply John L Delony
Beckman Dutchess County 
New York  Jan 20th 1835
[signed] John Delony [or Delong]
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Beekman N.Y.
January 27

Hon. James L Edwards
Commr of Pensions
Washington

Feb 2d
NY
Peleg Smith
act 15 May 1828
Treasury Dept
[initials] D. D. A.
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Recd 24 Jany 1829     1471 
For the the purpose of obtaining the benefit of “An act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Army of the Revolution” approved on the 15th of May 1828. I Peleg Smith of the Town of Huntington in the County of Suffolk in the State of New York do hereby declare that I enlisted in the continental line of the Army of the Revolution for and during the War and continued in its service till its termination, at which period I was a Sergeant in Captain Benjamin Stephens’ Company in Colonel Thomas Thomas's Regiment of the line of the State of New York. And I also declare that I afterwards received a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars to which I was entitled under a resolve of Congress passed the 15th of May 1778 - That my discharge, the said certificate and all documentary evidence of my said service are now lost or destroyed - And I further declare that I was not on the fifteenth day of May 1828 on the Pension list of the United States- 
[signed] Peleg Smith
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Before me Moses Rolph one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Suffolk, personally appeared this day Timothy Conklin and Elijah Gould of the said County who did severally make oath that Peleg Smith by whom the foregoing declaration was subscribed is generally reputed and believed to have been a soldier in the army of the Revolution 
Witness my hand this Seventh day of January 1829 – 
[signed] Moses Rolph Judge
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Declaration of Peleg Smith for Revolutionary Pension 

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Suffolk County ss. Benajah Bouton of the Town of Huntington in the said County of Suffolk being duly sworn saith that he this deponent at the termination of the Revolutionary War was a Brevet Major in Colonel Thomas Thomas's Regiment in the New York line of the continental army, and that he knows Peleg Smith in the annexed declaration named to have served in Captain Benjamin Stephens Company in the said Regiment and that he believes was regularly discharged from the said service at the termination of the War. [crossed out text]
[signed] Benajah Bouton
Sworn the 8th day of January 1829 before me 
[signed] Moses Rolph Judge 

I Joseph R Huntting Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Suffolk in the State of New York do certify that Moses Rolph before whom the foregoing affidavits were sworn, was at the time a Judge of the said Court of Common Pleas, and duly empowered to administer oaths. 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court this 16th day of January one thousand eight hundred and twenty nine 
[signed] Joseph R Huntting