Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 9850, for Amos Smith, Massachusetts
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Smith, Amos
Sarah
Service Mass.
Number R. 9850

Contents
Born at Holden, Worcester Co. Mass. & died there Dec. 17 1825
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v  13763
Sarah Smith
widow of Amos
Mass.
Act 7 July 1838
married 1785
husband died 1825

Rejected, husband did not serve 6 mos.
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Worcester County SS
On this eighteenth day of September in the year eighteen hundred and forty eight personally appeared before the Court of Probate for said county Srah Smith of Holden in said county aged eight seven years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed July 7th 1838 and the several acts in addition thereto.
That she is the widow of Amos Smith late of said Holden deceased who was a private in the army of the Revolution. That she has no personal knowledge in relation to his services but had heard him frequently state that he was in the service in the eight months that his first service was in the year 1776. that he was about 16 years old, that he enlisted
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from Worcester and served the months in a company commanded by his Lieutenant John Holden. But of this service she is not able to find any documentary proof. what in the year 1780 he served for a period of six months enlisting also from Worcester and rendering his service according to the best of her recollection in New York & New Jersey. For evidence of this service she refers to the certificate from the office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth. That she has heard him speak frequently of being out in the service and that he was well known both at Worcester & Holden as a Revolutionary soldier. That the reason why this application was not made before was that she did not know she could provide documentary evidence of his services.
That she was married to the said Amos Smith at Shrewsbury in said County of Worcester on the twenty fifth day of July seventeen hundred and eighty five by (illegible) Artemas Ward a Justice of the peace for said county of Worcester.
That her husband the said
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Amos Smith died on the seventeenth day of December 1825 at said Holden. That she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service but that the marriage took place previous to the first of January seventeen hundred and ninety four to wit at the time above stated.
Sarah Smith (signature)

Subscribed and sworn to the day and year above written before me
Benj. F. Thomas
Judge of Probate

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Worcester SS.
I Charles G. Prentiss, Register of the Court of Probate for the County of Worcester, do certify that Benjamin F. Thomas is the Judge of said Court duly commissioned and qualified and that his
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signature to the foregoing certificate is genuine.
In testimony whereof, I do hereunto set my hand and the seal of said Court this eighteenth day of September in the year one thousand eight hundred & forty eight.
Chas. G. Prentiss, Register
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I Paul Davis Town Clerk of Holden in the County of Worcester and State of Massachusetts do hereby certify that I have examined the records of the Town of Holden & find as follows--
Mr. Amos Smith Died December seventeenth Eighteen hundred and twenty five
I further 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--Dec. 17, 1825
Paul Davis, Clerk of the Town of Holden

I Paul Davis above named depose and say that I hold the Office of Town Clerk in the Town of Holden in the County and State aforesaid and that the above is a true extract from the records of said Holden with the exception above named as certified by me.
Holden Sept. 11, 1848
Paul Davis Clerk of the Town of Holden

Worcester SS. Sept. 14th 1848
This day personally appeared the above named Paul Davis and made solemn oath that the above extract is a true record from the original record which is in his possession.
Charles Chaffin, Justice of the Peace
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Clerks Office, Shrewsbury, Worcester County
Massachusetts, August 23rd, 1848
Transcript of the Record of Marriages

"Amos Smith of Worcester and Sarah Kingsley of Shrewsbury, July twenty sixth seventeen hundred and Eighty five"
"By Artemas Ward Justice Peace"

I, Job C. Stone, Clerk of the Town of Shrewsbury, in the County of  Worcester and State of Massachusetts, 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: "Amos Smith of Worcester and Sarah Kingsley of Shrewsbury, July 26,1785"
"By Artemas Ward Justice Peace"
Attest, Job. C. Stone, Clerk

I, Job C. Stone above named depose and say that I hold the Office of Clerk in the Town, Count and State aforesaid, and that the above is a true extract from the Records of said Town, with the exception above named as certified by me.
Job. C. Stone, Town Clerk of Shrewsbury

Worcester Ss. Aug. 23, 1848
Then the above named Job. C. Stone personally appeared and made oath that the above affidavit by him subscribed is true, before me,
Thomas W. Ward} Justice of the Peace
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9850
P. O.
Sarah Smith
Service:
Enlisted:
Discharged:
Stamped-REJECTED
Application field:
Alleges:
Re-enlisted:
Attorney:
P. O.

Recognized  ----Contract
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This document is black/unreadable
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Holden Sept. 23d 1848

Dear Sir
I herein inclose the declaration of Sarah Smith widow of Amos Smith of Holden (illegible) who is an applicant for a pension for services in the war of the revolution by her husband with the certificate from the Secretary's office of Mass. showing the time he served with the certificate of the marriage & death & the affidavits of two men who were personally acquainted with him many years.

Hon. J. L. Edwards

Your Obt. Hum. Sevt.
Darius Darling
Attorney for Sarah Smith
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Worcester SS September 25, 1848
I John Holden of Holden in the County of Worcester depose and say that I personally knew Amos Smith late of Holden, deceased husband of Sarah Smith the applicant for a pension. 
I frequently heard him speak of being out in the War of the Revolution and he talked with my father at my house about being with him in the service (my father was John Holden)  Where he served and the time I am unable to state. He was light complexion and height about 5 feet 9 or 10 inches.
John Holden

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Worcester, SS. September 25th 1848
The above named John Holden who is personally known to me a person of truth and veracity this day appeared before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace within and for the County of Worcester, and was duly sworn by me to testify the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth relating to the cover for which this deposition is taken and the above testimony was taken in writing by me ^and carefully read to the deponents who subscribed by him in my presence^ and the above deposition was taken a the request of Davis Darling Att. of Widow Sarah Smith to be used establishing the claim of Sarah Smith to a pension.
Charles Chaffin, Justice of the Peace
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Worcester SS. September 25, 1848

I Levi Smith of Holden in the County of Worcester depose and say that I personally know Amos Smith, the Husband of Sarah Smith the widow, who is the applicant for a pension for the services of her late Husband in the War of the Revolution. I have frequently heard him speak of being out in the service at one time two months, at another time six months. I do not remember to the officers were nor where he performed the service. He was light complexion and his height was the same of mine, five feet ten inches.
Levi Smith

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Worcester SS.  September 25, 1848
The above named Levi Smith is personally known to be to be a man of truth and veracity. this day personally appeared before me a Justice of the peace within and for said County and was duly sworn by me to testify the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth relating to the (stained) for which the above was taken and his testimony was carefully written and read by me to said deponent and subscribed by him in my presence and this deposition was taken at the request of Darius Darling Atty. of  Sarah Smith widow of Amos Smith deceased to be used in establishing her claim to a pension.
Charles Chaffin Justice of the Peace
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Worcester SS
August 21, 1848
The within name Sarah Smith personally appeared and acknowledged the withing power of Attorney to be her free act.
before me, Charles Chaffin Justice of the Peace
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Enlisted 6 Regmt. com. by Col. Nixon 13 July 1780 discharged Octob. 27, 1780
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Secretary's Office, Boston:
September 8th 1848

I 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 Department, it appears that the name of Amos Smith is borne upon a Description List of the 14th Division of 6 months men marched under the care of Thomas Pritchard July 13th 1780 a private of Worcester, age 20 year, 5 feet and `10 inches high and of light complexion.
The Pay Roll of the men who served 6 months from the town of Worcester in 1780 is missing, not in this Office. no roll of Capt. or Lt. John Holden.
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And I further Certify, That, before search made for evidence of said facts, the application hereto annexed was filed in this Office, in the form in which the same now appears; that the search was made by myself and my clerks alone; and that said application, and the certificate above set forth, contain all the facts and circumstances within my knowledge, pertaining to the case.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
Wm. Tufts.. Deputy
Secretary of the Commonwealth
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APPLICATION FOR CERTIFICATE OF REVOLUTIONARY SERVICES, made by the Widow of the party who rendered the services.

Sarah Smith, State of Massachusetts County of Worcester, Town of Holden

The Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is hereby requested to furnish evidence from the Rolls in his office, of the service of Amos Smith in the war of the Revolution.
He was a native of the Town of 
Worcester in the County of Worcester and State of Massachusetts.
He enlisted from the Town of Worcester in the County of Worcester and State of Massachusetts in the year 17 (blank) as a Private in the Company commanded by Captain or Lieut. John Holden at one term of service so far as now can be recollected, Regiment (blank) and he served as follows,* viz:
So far as the applicant can recollect, her late husband Amos Smith was about sixteen years old when he first served about two months, where the service was performed she is unable to say.
That he afterward served about six months the officers he served under she is unable to state but he rendered service in N. York & New jersey so far as she can recollect. Other services might have been rendered, but
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*Here describe as fully as may be, the length of service, the rank &c of the claimant, or the capacity in which he served, and all other particulars known.
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I am now 87 years old, and my memory does not enable me to state the services more fully than above stated.
Witness my hand, this twenty first day of August AD. 1848
Sarah Smith
Signed by said Sarah Smith in my presence.
Charles Chaffin, Justice of the Peace

Know all men by these presents that I Sarah Smith of Holden in the County of Worcester widow of Amos Smith late of Holden deceased, do hereby constitute and appoint Darius Darling of Holden in said County to be my true and lawful attorney for me and in my name to take all necessary measures necessary to the obtaining a pension for services rendered by my late Husband in the War of the Revolution hereby ratifying and confirming whatsoever my said attorney may lawfully do touching the premises--given under my hand and seal this 21st day of Aug. 1848
Sarah Smith
in presence of
Charles Chaffin, Justice of Peace