Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 25030, for Samuel Smart, New Hampshire
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Service: NH
Smart, Samuel
Eunice

Number: w. 25030
B.L.H. 13013-160-55
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4780   Con
New Hampshire
Eunice Smart widow of Samuel Smart NH who served in the Revolutionary war, as a Private

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 20 Dollars no Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.

Certificate of Pension issued the 9th day of May, 1849 and sent to Stephen E. Badger Concord N. H.

Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act
February 2, 1848, Page 130  Vol. 1
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88,240  Act March 3/55 & April 21/55

Eunice Smart widow of ┃
Samuel Smart
N.H. State troops, private
Capt S. Runals,
Maj. Whitcomb
Ent. July 6, 1780
Dis. about Jan. 6, 1781
N H Mil.
Revolutionary War
NO Rev: War,
N.H. Feby 48-4780

 Ad:160 acres, Dec. 20 /55
Boynton,

Hugh B Simpson
West Rumney,
Grafton Co., N.H.

H.B. Simpson, Nov 19/55.
Vol S1. page 149.
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6234
New Hampshire
Samuel Smart
of Grafton in the State of N.H.
who was a private in the compy commanded
by Captain Runnels of the Regt commanded
by Col Bettle in the N. H.
line for 6 months

Inscribed on the Roll of New Hampshire
at the rate of 20 Dollars, no Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 26 day of Feby
1833 and Sent to Hon.
Isaac Hill Senate U.S.

Arrears to 4th of Sept 1832 $30.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 March 10.00
Total                            $40.00

 Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832. 

Recorded by Daniel Boyd Clerk
Book D  Vol 1  Page 185
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STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Office of Secretary of State.

I Thomas P. Treadwell Secretary of the State aforesaid, do hereby certify that Walter Blair is an acting Judge of the Court of Probate in and for the County of Grafton duly Commissioned and qualified; that his commission was dated on the second day of July 1841 and will expire on the first day of Oct. 1866 and that his signature to the annexed instrument is genuine
Given under my hand and the Seal of said State this 7th day of March 1849.
Thomas P. Treadwell, Secretary of State
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STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Secretary of State's Office.
I, Thomas P. Treadwell, Secretary of State aforesaid, do hereby certify, that Samuel Herbert is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Grafton duly commissioned and qualified, and duly authorized by the laws of said
State to administer Oaths, take the  acknowledgment of Deeds, etc. His Commission was dated on the 15th day of May 1846 and will expire on the 15th day of Ma 1851.
Given under my hand and the Seal of the State, this 7th day of March 1849

Thomas P. Treadwell
Secretary of State.
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No 670
Eunice Smart
wid of Samuel
N H
act 17 Mar 44 &
2 Feby 48
Married 1784
Husb. died   '47

Adm. $20.00 per ann.
thru 31st March 1847

Stephen E Badger
Concord, NH
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State of New Hampshire
Grafton SS.
On this fifteenth day of January in the year of
our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and forty nine, personally appeared before Walter Blair
Judge of Probate for said County Eunice Smart a resident of the Town of  Wentworth in said County of Grafton aged Eighty years, who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on her oath make the following Statement in order
to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed on the 2d day of February 1848 and Subsequent acts granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War- That she is the
widow of Samuel Smart who was a private in the New Hampshire Militia and was a pensioner and received a pension at the rate of twenty dollars
per annum as per Evidence now filed at the pension Department. She further declares that she was married to said Samuel Smart on the second day of September in the year of our Lord Seventeen hundred and Eighty four. That her
Husband the aforesaid Samuel Smart died on the thirty first day of March Eighteen hundred and forty seven. that she was not married to him prior to him
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leaving the service but the marriage took place previous to the first day of January Eighteen hundred viz at the time above stated.
Eunice Smart

Sworn to and Subscribed on day and year above written
Before me Walter Blair Judge Probate

I Walter Blair hereby certify that said Eunice Smart is unable from age and infirmity to appear at Court.
Walter Blair
Judge of Probate
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I Milo E Hains depose and say that I have been acquainted with Samuel Smart and his wife Eunice Smart of Wentworth, County of Grafton and State of New Hampshire since 1849. And that I knew of Samuel Smart and Eunice Smart living together and cohabiting as man and wife
from the year 1819. to the death of said Samuel Smart which was March 31st 1847
Milo E. Hains

Grafton SS Feby 19. 1849 The above named Milo E Hains and made oath that the above affidavit by him subscribed is true.
Before me Samuel Herbert Just. Peace
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Town Clerks Office. Wentworth N.H. Jun. 25th 1849.
I certify that upon application to me for Evidence of the Marriage of Mrs Eunice Smart to her husband Samuel Smart of Wentworth, I have searched the book of record of Marriages in my custody, and found the following entry,

 (chart) Marriages in the Town of Wentworth
Mens Names: Samuel Smart
Womens Names: Eunice Pillsbury
When married: September Second
Seventeen hundred and Eighty four

I certify that the above is a true Copy of the record with the Exception of the date, which is expressed on the record in fair legible figures as follows
"September 2nd 1784."

William Moore, Town Clerk of Wentworth
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I William Moore before named depose and say, that I hold the office of Town Clerk in the Town of Wentworth in the County of Grafton and State of New Hampshire, and that the above is a true Extract from the records of said Town, with the Exception before named, as certified by me. William Moore, Town Clerk

Sworn and Subscribed to this fifteenth day of February AD 1849
Before me, Samuel Herbert Justice of the Peace
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88.240
Declaration of
Mrs. Eunice
Pillsbury
filed by
H. B. Simpson
West Rumney
N. H.
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State of New Hampshire
County of Grafton SS

On this sixth day of April A.D. one thousand eight hundred & fifty five, personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace within & for the County & State aforesaid, Eunice Smart, aged eighty four years, a resident of Wentworth, in the State of New Hampshire, who, being duly sworn according to law, declares that she is the widow
of Samuel Smart, deceased, who was a private
in the company commanded by Captain Samuel
Runals, under the command of Major Whitcomb
in the Revolutionary war. that her said husband
enlisted at Wentworth July 6, 1780 for the term of six months, as appears by the records in the Secretary's office and continued in actual service in said war for the term of six months, and was honorably discharged at Newbury Coos on or about the 6th day of January A.D. 1781, the precise time not known. She further states that she was married to the said Samuel Smart in Wentworth on the second day of September A.D. 1784 by one Enoch Page, a Justice of the Peace, and that her name before her marriage was
Eunice Pillsbury, that her said husband died at
Wentworth on the 29th day of March A.D 1846.
and that she is now a widow. She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the
bounty land to which she may be entitled under the "act approved March 3d 1855.
Eunice Smart

We, Henry Sanders of Wentworth and Mary Kimball, residents of said Wentworth, upon our oaths declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by Eunice Smart in our
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presence; and that we believe, from the appearance and statements of the applicant, that she is the identical person she represents herself to be.
Henry Sanders
Mary Kimball

We Mahurin Harris and Joshua Foster
residents of Wentworth, in the State of New Hampshire, upon our oaths, declare that we know and were well acquainted with Samuel Smart within named, for a long time before & up to the time of his death; and that we still know Mrs Eunice Smart, his widow, that she is now living in said Wentworth, with her daughter, having remained ever since her said husband's death & now is a widow, and that the now draws a pension.
Mahurin Haines
Joshua Foster

State of New Hampshire
County of Grafton
I Milo E Hains, Town Clerk of Wentworth, hereby certify that the following record appears upon the records of said town of Wentworth, under the head of "Marriages in the Town of Wentworth,"
"Samuel Smart- Eunice Pillsbury September
2d 1784"
A true copy of the record
Attest  Milo E. Haines Town Clerk
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The foregoing declaration and affidavits were sworn before me and subscribed before me on the twelfth day of April A.D. 1855 and I certify that I know the applicants to be credible persons, that the claimant is the person she represents herself to be and that I have no interest in this claim.

Hugh B. Simpson, Justice of the Peace

State of New Hampshire
Grafton County ss

  I J. D. Sleeper, clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in & for said County a Court of Record hereby certify that Hugh B. Simpson Esquire, before whom the foregoing declaration & affidavits purport to have been taken was at the time of taking & certifying the same an acting Justice of the Peace in & for said County of Grafton duly commissioned and qualified; and that the above signature purporting to be the said Hugh B. Simpson is in my belief genuine.
  In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this 16th day of April  Anno Domini 1855.

J. D. Sleeper, Clerk
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12.753
Samuel Smart
Declaration
for Pension

Samuel Smart
Private
6 months
$20
(illegible)


runnels
Bottle

Hon. Jace Hill

HR
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Declaration.
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832.
State of New Hampshire
County of Grafton ss.
On this fourth day of September personally appeared before the Judge of the Court of Probate Samuel Smart a resident of Wentworth in the County of Grafton and State of New Hampshire, aged 70 years, who being first 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 7th, 1832. That he was drafted and joined the army of the United States in the year 1780. The regiment of the New Hampshire line of Militia says that he was drafted at Rumney where he lived, and served six months under Capt. Samuel Runnels Jacob Eliot was his Lieutenant, says he belonged to the Regiment commanded by Col. Timothy Butler. Says he marched to Plymouth New Hampshire then was mustered by Col. David Webster from thence he went to Haverhill N. Hampshire and then joined Capt. Runnels Company; at Haverhill he staid about two months when he with others was stationed under Lieut. Eliot to Corinth on a scouting party where he staid about two months, went from there to Newbury Vt. when, and where he met and again joined Captain Runnels and then staid till his time was out, and then returned home to Rumney says his General's name was Baily. He says he has no other documentary evidence and that he knows of no person living whose evidence he can obtain in relation to his service other than is herewith been [illegible] to wit Thomas Ramsay's He has lived most of the time since the Revolutionary war & now lives in Wentworth aforesaid.
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He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any agency in any State. Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
[signed] X his mark Samuel Smart
Witness Edward Webber

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states.
[signed] Edward Webber Judge of Probate

Moses Dow Clerk of the Court of Probate aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of Samuel Smart for a pension.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this fourth day of September A. D. 1832
[signed] Moses Dow
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I Thomas Ramsay of Rumney in the County of Grafton & State of New Hampshire aged eighty three years depose & say that in the year AD 1781 I lived in Rumney aforesaid and a near neighbor to Samuel Smart then of said Rumney now of Wentworth in said county and I was knowing to his enlisting. (the said Smart) I think in the latter part of May or first of June 1781 into the company commanded by Capt Runnels Jacob Elliot was Lieut in the same company & I knew of his leaving home soon after his enlistment to march to the frontiers to protect them against the invasions of the Indians & tories after leaving home as above stated I did not see him again untill the month of October following when I was called to Haverhill N. H. & Newbury Vt. on an alarm when I saw him in said Newbury on his return form a scouting excursion under the command of Lt. Elliot above named after which I did not see him again untill late in the same fall or the first of winter when he returned home to said Rumney I well recollect there was snow on the ground when he arrived home & I have no doubt but that he served out his full term of enlistment in said company - said Smart is now in my presence & I know him to be the same man who enlisted & served as I have before stated. Sworn to - [signed] Thomas Ramsay
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State of New Hampshire
Grafton ss.
Court of Probate holden at Rumney in said County on the first Tuesday of September AD 1832.
Ordered by the Court that the within deposition of Thomas Ramsay be attached to the declarations of Samuel Smart for a pension, as evidence in the case being sworn to in open Court.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, the day & year above written. [signed] Moses Dow Regr. Probate
And the Court hereby certify that the within named Deponent Thomas Ramsay is a credible witness & his testimony is entitled to full credit.
[signed] Edward Webber Judge of Probate
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West Rumney  Apr 18
N.H.

Official Business
Free

Hon. L. P. Waldo
Com. Pensions
Washington D. C.

88,240
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13,013
Rev Army
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Pen Act 2d Feb 48. N. H. 
Boytn
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Rumney NH
Dec 15

Official Business

Hon Josiah Minot
Washington D. C.

88240
Eunice Smart
wid
Samuel

Boyntons
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Concord March 20th 1849
Dear Sir
I forward you the papers of Mrs Eunice Smart for a pension. - If they are found correct, you will be pleased to return the certificate to me, & if they are not so, please return them for correcton.
I am very respectfully Your Ovt Servt.
[signed] Stephen C. Badger
J. L. Edwards Esq.
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Revy WIDOW, &c.

File No.  25.032

Eunice Smart
wid of
Samuel Smart
Pri. Rev War

Act: Feb 2nd 1848

Index-Vol S, Page 226

(Arrangement of 1870)
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State of New Hampshire.
Secretary of State's Office.
I do hereby certify that from an examination of the Books and Documents relating to Military Services in the war of the Revolution, which remain in this office, it appears that the name of Samuel Smart is borne upon a "muster Roll of Capt. Samuel Runals company of foot from the State of New Hampshire now in the service of the United States of America stationed on the western frontiers under the command of Major Whitcomb" - Enlisted July 6 - Term 6 months. 
At the bottom of said Roll is the following:
"Newbury Nov 20th 1780 then mustered "Capt. Runals company as specified in the "above Roll.
[signed] Jacob Bayley Muster Master."

And upon an "Abstract for Capt. Samuel Runnals Pay Roll for his company of State troops as Coos 6 months 1780," is borne the name of Samuel Smart against which under the head of Balances is L590.5
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In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the State this tenth day of April 1855.

John L. Hadley
Secretary of State
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Samuel Smart, N. H. Act 7 June 32 $20.00 pr an
To what time was he last paid?
Pension Office May 5th 1849
G. C. A.
pd to 4th Mar 1847 BLB
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595 Concord
New Hampshire
Eunice Smart widow of Samuel Smart who was a Private in the Revolution
Husband died 31 March 1847
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 20 Dollars [blank] Cents per annum, to commence on the 31 day of March 1847.
Certificate of Pension issued the 9th day of May, 1849 and sent to Stephen E. Badger, Concord, N. H.
[Act of June 17, 1844.]
Recorded in Book A Vol. 2 Page 21.
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West Rumney N. H. Dec. 12, 1855
Com. of Pensions
Dear Sir
Enclosed I send the certificate of service of Samuel Smart, a revolutionary soldier, upon which the claim of Eunice Smart No. 88,240. for Bounty Land under the act of March 3d 1855. is founded. I would call your attention to the claims of Ezra H. Haines, No. 66,556. Chase Crocket, No. 66,481. - and Nathaniel Libbey, No. 65,198.
The declarations of these persons were forwarded at the same time of those of which I have received warrants on more than six weeks since.
Will you see that their claims are attended to? They feel uneasy because warrants continue to fall daily.
Yours truly
[signed] H. B. Simpson