Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R 9718, for Aaron Smith, South Carolina
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(3-1776)

SERVICE 
SC 

Smith, Aaron 
Elizabeth

NUMBER
R 9718

CONTENTS
S in SC & died Aug 5 1850
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Elizabeth Smith
widow of Aaron
Smith a revolu soldier
application for pension

Please direct all communications to O. B. Thompson
Winnsboro
So Car
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State of South Carolina Fairfield District
On this eighteenth day of March personally appeared before me Mrs Elizabeth Smith a resident of said District and State aged about eighty years who being duly sworn according to law doth, on her oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed 3d July A.D. 1853. That she is the widow of Aaron Smith who was a pensioner at the rate of sixty dollars per annum and that her said husband (Aaron Smith) was a resident of the State of South Carolina and District of Fairfield and that her said husband was paid a pension of sixty dollars a year by Mr. B Yearly of this state who held the office of Treasuer for the aforesaid State as well as can be recollected at this time.
She further declares that she was married to the said Aaron Smith on or about the -- day of May in the year A.D. eighteen hundred and ten. that her husband, the aforesaid Aaron Smith died on the fifth day of August A.D. 1850. That she was married to him at the time above stated and that she has never before made application for a pension to Congress.
Elizabeth Smith X her mark

Sworn to & subscribed on the day & year above written
W P Brown Magistrate 
W R Smith Witness
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State of South Carolina Fairfield District
On this eighteenth day of March in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and fifty three Mr. Aaron Smith and Mrs. Mary Jorden personally appeared before me the undersigned magistrate of the District aforesaid and severaly made oath according to law that Mrs. Elizabeth Smith is the widow of Aaron Smith that she was married to the said Aaron Smith on or about --- day of May AD 1810 and they lived together as man and wife to the time of her husbands death and that Mrs. Elizabeth Smith was a widow at the passage of the act and still is.
A Smith
Mary Jourden X her mark

Subscribed and sworn to before me the day and year first above written and I do hereby certify that Aaron Smith and Mary Jorden are credible witnesses 
W. P. Broom Mag"
W R Smith test
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The State of South Carolina Fairfield District
I O. R. Thompson Clerk of this Court of Common Pleas and general sessions for Fairfield District certify that Wm P Broom before whom the preceeding declaration was made and testimony taken was at the time of signing the same an acting Magistrate duly qualified and that the signature purporting to be his are genuine. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of the said Court at Winnsboro So Car this 26th day of April 1853.
O. R. Thompson 
Clk, C.C.G.S.
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REJECTED 9718
PO
Elizabeth Smith
Service Aaron
Enlisted 18
Discharged 18
The pension to which the widow alludes that her husband received
Application filed 18
must have been paid by the state
Alleges
Re-enlisted
Attorney
PO
Recognized Contra
Cert of Dis Searched for 18
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O.R.Thompson
Sept 5/53
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27
Pension Office
September 5 / 53
Sir
The papers relating to the claim of Elizabeth Smith has been considered and must be suspended
It appears the husband was a state pensioner You will therefore obtain a certificate of his military service from the comptroller of the state of South Carolina The marriage of the claimant should be proved by public or private record if such exist if such does not exist then the fact must be sworn to by the claimant whereupon parol proof is admissible The death of the husband should also be shown and particularly the time of his death you will also see from enclosed circulars the necessity of her making her declaration before a court of record
Respectfully 
OS Thompson
Minesborough SC
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LP Waldo Esq
Comr Pensions
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Winnsboro So Car
April 26 1853
LP Waldo Esqr
Comr of Pensions
Sir Enclosed you will find the declaration of Mrs Elizabeth Smith and also the proof of marriage she applies for a pension from the decease of her husband Aaron Smith who was a revolutionary soldier and he having [illegible] a pension in his life the proof of his service already with the department is referred to for more full evidence
Hoping that this might be sufficient to grans the old lady a pension we have been encouraged to make the application
Please direct all communication to the subscribed
Yours Truly
O R Thompson
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[POST MARKED
WINNSBORO SC
APR 27]
FREE
L P Waldo Esqr
Commissioner Pensions
Washington DC

CCSC
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No 2269
Elizabeth Smith
Widow of Aaron
Let Sept 5/5
In claim
Grang
9718
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May 2d 1853
Appl of Elizabeth Smith widow of Aaron
SC 32
Nvr on sel rvl
apr 1818 or 1832
must have been state pensioner
Act 3d Feby 1853
Rev
O R Thompson
Winnsborough
SC
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Pension Office Official Business
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State of South Carolina
Fairfield District
This is to certify that Mrs Elizabeth Smith is not able from age and feebleness to attend court and scarsely is able to go a short distance to church witness my hand and seal this 18 March 1853 WP Brown Morgan LS