Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 14504, for Henry Smith, Maryland
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Service: Continental (Md.)
Name: Smith, Henry
Number: S 14504

carded

Iin 1750 in Lancaster Co. Pa there until 25 yrs old
Enl in Baltimore, MD
In 1840 res of Anne Arundel Co, MD
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Maryland 32, 026
Henry Smith
of Anne Arundel Co. in the state of Maryland
who was a private in the company commanded
by Captain Gravel of the regt commanded
by Col. Lodovick in the "*"
line for 2 years
"*" Continental Line
Records corrected Nov. 17, 1906 B

Inscribed on the roll of Maryland
at the rate of 80 dollars 00 cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March 1831.
Certificate of pension issued the 10th day of March 1863 and sent to William U Mills Esq Baltimore

Arrears to the 4th of March 1863  $960.00
Semi Anl allowance ending 6 Sept " $40.00
$1000

{Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832}

Recorded by D. Brown, Clerk
Book E 2 Vol 5 Page 111
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Henry Smith
Md
Act 7 June '32

Admitted

2 years
Private
$80 per annum

Wm U Mills
Baltimore
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State of Maryland Anne Arundel County Sct.
On this twenty third day of November in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and forty two before the subscriber one of the Justices of the Orphan's Court for Anne Arundel County (the same being a Court of Record) personally appeared at the Alms House in said County Henry Smith aged eighty nine years and upwards who was prevented from attending in open court by reason of bodily infirmities and 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 the seventh day of June eighteen hundred and thirty four.
  That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated, that he was born in Lancaster County in the State of Pennsylvania in the year seventeen hundred and fifth or thereabouts and resided in said County and State until he attained his twenty sixth year and at the expiration of that time he came to Baltimore City in said State of Maryland on some business matters and while in said city he met with John Miller who was then acting as recruiting Sergeant for Captain Gravels Company that Sergeant Hook was second Sergeant of the company that he enlisted for three years in seventeen hundred and seventy six or about and was discharged in seventeen hundred and seventy nine that he served in the second German Regiment which was commanded by Colonel Lodovick Walter of the Maryland Continental Line that while in service
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some business matters and while in said city he met with John Miller who was then acting as recruiting Sergeant for Captain Gravels Company that Sergeant Hook was second Sergeant of the company that he enlisted for three years in seventeen hundred and seventy six or about and was discharged in seventeen hundred and seventy nine that he served in the second German Regiment which was commanded by Colonel Lodovick Walter of the Maryland Continental Line that while in service he marched through the following named states, Maryland, Delaware and Pennsylvania and was in the Battles of Brandywine and Germantown which were fought in seventeen hundred and seventy seven and he further declares that he was in several skirmishes which he cannot recollect from the length of time and he further declares that he well knew Colonel John Stone of the Maryland Line likewise Colonet John E. Howard when in service of the United States and he had a personal knowledge of Surgeon John Briscoe who attended the Second Regiment that he was under the command of General Smallwood and that his discharge was from under the hand of Colonel Lodovick Walter and that he by some inadvertency lost or mislaid his discharge and this Deponent further desposeth and saith that after receiving his discharge he received his pay from John Hamilton agent for the Maryland Line & this deponent further
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further declares that in the year seventeen hundred and ninety four he volunteered his services under General Wayne, Captain Brock was Captain and William Henry Harrison First Lieutenant of the company to which he was attached, they were in the Battle on the Banks of the Miami where they lost some of their most valuable officers Captains Robert M. Campbell, Henry B. Towles killed, Captain Jacob Slough wounded.  He hereby relinquishes all claim whatever to any pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension list or roll of the agency of any state having been heretofore enabled to procure his daily bread by his own hands until some few years he was unwilling to become a Pensioner upon the bounties of his country but recent indisposition and growing infirmities have reduced him to dependence thereon and he therefore now prefers his claim.
Henry Smith

Testimony whereof this Deponent hath unto subscribed his name the day and year above written.
James H. Watkins
one of the Justices of the Orphan's Court of Arme Arundel County
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Anne Arundel County Nov 23rd 1842

I the said Justice of the Orphans Court do hereby declare my opinion that the above-named applicant Henry Smith was a soldier of the revolution and served as he has set forth in the within declaration during that war.

James H Watkins - one of the Justices of Anne Arundel County

I Samuel Brown Junior Register of Wills for Anne Arundel County in the state of Maryland hereby certify that James H Watkins Esquire who appears to have taken and signed the above declaration was at the time of so doing an still is one of the Justices of the Orphan's Court of the county and state aforesaid duly commissioned and qualified and to all his acts as such full faith and credit is and ought to be given as well in courts of Justice as thereout. In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and affix the seal of my office this twenty fifth day of November in the year eighteen hundred and forty-two.

Sam Brown Jr - Reg Wills A.A. County
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Land Office, Annapolis 31st Aug 1842

I hereby certify that it appears by the muster rolls of the revolution remaining in this office that Henry smith enlisted as a private in the German Regiment for the term of three years and was discharged on the 25th day of August 1779 and paid.

George G Brewer
Ref. Land Office W.S. Md
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Henry Smith
Papers for a Pension
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24th November 1842

To J.L. Edwards Commissioner of Pensions

We the undersigned Trustees of the Alms House of Anne Arundel County in the state of Maryland have no hesitation in stating our belief that Henry Smith at present under our care in said institution as worthy of [illegible] statements that he may make [illegible] is old and vulnerable; was certainly a member of the old Maryland Line and we have no doubt it justly entitled to a pension from the General Government.

John L Sellman - President of Board of Trustees
Wm Bryan - Trustee
Albert G Welch - Trustee

I fully concur in the opinion of the above-named gentlemen.

Albert G Welch - MD
Phys to the Almshouse of A.A. County

I hereby certify that I have known Henry Smith an aged man for the several years and as far as I am able to judge from my acquaintance with him, I believe him to be a good man well-disposed man and that his testimony can be relied on that I believe he served in the war of the revolution. In testimony whereof I hereto subscribed my name.

Wm Taylor

A local preacher of the Methodist Episcopal Church

Judging from circumstances which have come under my notice I am [illegible] to testify to the [illegible] of the above certificate.

Joseph Merriken - Pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the city of Annapolis

[illegible]
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State of Maryland
Anne Arundel County

Be it remembered that on this 31st day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & forty three before us the subscribers justices of the Orphans Court of said County the same being a court of record personally appeared Ephraim Smith of the City of Baltimore in the state aforesaid in open court & made oath on the Holy Evangely of Almighty God that he came to the City of Annapolis a few days ago on business and whilst there he was requested to visit Henry Smith whom he found an inmate of the alms house of said county and recognized in him the same and identical person who belonged to the Maryland line as set forth in his declaration in Captain Gravels company this deponent declares depose and say that on seeing the said Henry Smith he immediately recognized him to be the same identical person that rendered the services aforementioned and that he knew him well in camp before and after the battle of Germantown in which battle they were engaged and have continued to know him up to this period, he had not seen the said Henry Smith for ten or eleven years before this time but knew him to be the same identical person that rendered the services aforesaid. This deponent further declares that his reasons for recollecting the said
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Henry Smith more perfect is from the fact of his serving with him in the same company aforesaid in the battle of Germantown & afterwards up to seventeen hundred seventy-nine and this deponent further declares that he well knew many others who belonged to the same company and also many who belonged to the German Regiment if necessary, can furnish their names on oath.

E Smith

In testimony whereof this deponent has sworn & subscribed to the facts therein stated.

Sworn before me

J W Hunter - JP
A.A. County

John Wilmot
Gerard R Hopkins

I Samuel Brown Jr register of Wills for Anne Arundel County in the state of Maryland hereby certify that John Wilmot and Gerrard R Hopkins Esquire who appear to have taken and signed the above attestation were at the time of so doing and still are Justices of the Orphans Court of the County and state aforesaid duly commissioned and qualified and to all their acts as such full faith and credit is and ought to be given as well in courts of Justice as thereout.

In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and affix the seal of my office this thirty-first day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-three.

Saml Brown Jr
Reg of Wills
A.A. County
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State of Maryland Anne Arundel County to wit

I hereby certify that James W Hunter Gentleman who appears to have taken and signed the within affidavit was at the time of so doing one of the state of Maryland Justices of the Peace in and for Anne Arundel County duly commissioned and sworn.

In testimony whereof I hereto set my name and affix the seal of Anne Arundel County Court this 31 day of January 1843.

Wm J Green - A A Cty Court

I hereby certify that I have known Mr. Smith for some years and during that time I have always found him to be a man of correct principle and gentlemanly deportment and in whose word, I would have great confidence.

Wm Hunter - JP
A A County

Hours of Delegates Annapolis

I hereby certify that I have known Mr. Ephraim Smith for several years and during that time have always considered him as a correct and good citizen.

Beals Randall
Jany 31, 1843

February 1st 1843

I have known Mr. Ephraim Smith perhaps twenty years and have always considered him a man worthy of esteem.

Saml H Jennings.

Balt, 1 Feby 1843

I hereby declare that I have intimately known Ephraim Smith as
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herein stated since the 10th Nov 1810 & have been his family physician since 1 June 1811 (when I commenced the Practice of Medicine in Baltimore) to this day I have always found him to be a man of strict probity & one whose statements may be relied on & I can only say that he has been unfortunate & is now a poor man.

James Martin - MD

N.B. E. Smith I can say served with us in the Rifle Battalion during the late war of which I was the surgeon.

J P Martin MD

I hereby certify that I have known the within named Ephraim Smith for nearly thirty years past and have always considered him an upright man and good citizen.

Alfred Griffiths
Minister in M.E. Church

Feb 1, 1843

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14504
Rev. War
INVALID.

File No. 14.504
Henry Smith
Pri. Rev. War

Act: June 7 1832

Index: Vol. 1 , Page 348

(Arrangement of 1870)
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No. 35.423

Let to W. W. Mills Dec. 9, 1842
Letter Wm. Canon Feb 7_23_43
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J. L. Edwards Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D.C.
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Annapolis Feb 7th 1843

Sir

A few months since Henry Smith called on me at my house and requested that I should write you a few lines in reference to the papers in his claim which he says was communicated to your department by his attorney some eighteen months or two years ago containing an application for a pension for the services which he rendered as an Indian Spy under Col Wayne and having obtained no information since the papers was submitted his wish is that you may be so kind as to inform him through me if papers as described above was ever sent to the pension office if so whether the claim was ever granted and to whom, if not to furnish him with such information as may be necessary in the prosecution of his claim (that is) if it be compatible with the rules of the department.

I remain with high esteem 
your most obt servant

Wm Caton

J.L. Edwards Esq
Comm of Pensions
Washington D.C.
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ANNAPOLIS MAIL STAMP - Jan 13

FREE

J.L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D.C.

Jan 4, 1843
Mary'd
Henry Smith
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Annapolis, January 16th, 1843

Sir

A few days ago Henry Smith from the Alms House of Anne Arundel County called on me and requested me to write a letter to you in reference to his claim which he says was prepared and transmitted to the pension office about eighteen months or two years ago containing an application for a pension in consideration of the support and services which he rendered to his county in the war of danger as an Indian Spy under Gen. Wayne.

If you have any knowledge of the fact, please communicate it to me as soon as practicable as he wishes to ascertain the fate of his claim and if it appears that no application has been made please instruct me how to proceed that I may satisfy the old gentleman.

With high esteem I remain
your most obt servant

Wm. Caton

J.L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C.
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Certificate of
Mrs. Catharine Croft
in the Care
of 
Henry Smith
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State of Maryland, Baltimore County to wit

On this seventh day of December in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and forty-two before me the subscribed one of the Justices of the Peace of the state of Maryland in and for said county, personally appeared Catherine Croft a resident of said county aged eighty years or thereabouts and made oath on the Holy Evangely of Almighty God; that she was and is still intimately acquainted with Henry Smith who was a soldier in the revolutionary war in Captain Gravel's company under the command of Colonel Lodovick Waltner and this deponent further declares that her deceased husband William Croft belonged to and served in the same company with the said Smith that heir discharge were given to each of them within some short period of each other's; when they returned to the city of Baltimore after which this deponent was married to the said Croft this deponent further deposes and say that after their marriage aforesaid the said Smith used to frequent this deponents house for the purpose of getting her husband the said Croft to make and repair his boots and shoes being they were intimate and her said husband a shoe maker by trade that during the said Herny Smith's visits to deponents house she had often times heard
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heard

her said husband William Croft and the same identical Henry Smith relate over and spoke fondly of the battles and skirmishes to each other, they were engaged during that war, that this deponent is confident that the Herny Smith aforesaid who is now residing in Anne Arundel County and about to apply for a pension for his services aforesaid is the same identical person.

Catharine Croft
Her X Mark

Sworn and subscribed to before me a Justice of the Peace aforesaid.

Richard Herbert

State of Maryland Baltimore County to wit

This is to certify that I Richard Herbert of the state and county aforesaid do declare that Mrs. Catharine Croft whose deposition is on the page is a lady of great respectability of veracity and credibility and that she most implicit confidence can be placed in her statement taking before me.

Richard Herbert

Justice of the Peace in and for Baltimore County State of Maryland.
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I hereby certify that I have been well acquainted with Mr. Ephraim Smith who has written and signed the within certificate or statement & that I know him to be a person of integrity & that the most implicit confidence can be placed in him.

Dec 7/42

Wm B Jones

State of Maryland Baltimore County Set

I hereby certify that Richard Herbert and William B Jones Esquires before whom the aforegoing depositions were made and who have respectively subscribed their names thereto were at the time of so doing the first a Justice of the Peace of the State of Maryland the first in and for Baltimore County and the latter in and for the City of Baltimore duly commissioned and sworn.

In testimony whereof I hereto set my hand and affix the seal of Baltimore County Court the same being a court of Law and of record on this 8th day of December 1842.

Tho Kell - Clk

SEAL
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Baltimore City

Personally appeared before the subscriber one of the Justices of the peace for the state of Maryland in and for the city of Baltimore Ephraim Smith aged seventy-nine years and made oath on the Holy Evangely of Almighty God that I well knew a Henry Smith who belonged in Captain Gavell company during the revolutionary war under the command Colonel Lodovick and that I have read the said Henry Smith's declaration of service aforesaid and I further declare that I have every reason to believe from the description of his person knowing he the said Henry Smith went to Anne Arundel County to reside is the same identical person who belonged to and served as he set forth in his declaration for I believe there was only one Henry Smith that belonged to that company to my knowledge.

In testimony whereof I subscribe my name

6th Aug 1842

E Smith

Subscribed to and sworn before

Wm B Jones