Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 9846, for Thomas Smith, Virginia
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE | NUMBER
Va. | Smith, Thomas | R. 9846
| Sally | 
CONTENTS
res during Rev. Henry Co. Va.
d. in March 1784 at Pittsylvania C. H. Va
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Georgia
Morgan County
On this 31 day of August, 1852, personally appeared before the subscribed an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County and State, Elizabeth Smith, a resident of said County aged about seventy five years (with whom I am well acquainted) and who I certify is a person of veracity and good repute, and made the following Declaration in order to obtain for the children of Sally Smith decd the balance of Pension, due the said Sally Smith decd under Act of July 4, 1836, 3rd Section.

That she is the second child and one of the Executors of the said Sally Smith, who was the Widow of Thomas Smith  who was a Lieutenant of Cavalry and Captain of Infantry in Militia of the State of Virginia during the Revolutionary War, and who served as such for a considerable length of time as she always understood from her mother, the said Sally Smith, Declarants father having died, while she was quite young, that her mother lived in Morgan County, Georgia, and during her life time, applied for a Pension, to which application, and to the papers already filed in his case, Declarant refers for further particulars and details, that her mother, after the death of her husband, the said Thomas Smith, continued his widow to the day of her death which occurred in Morgan County Georgia on the 26th day of September in the year 1846, leaving the following children who still survive, and no other to wit;
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Bird Smith, Lucy Harper and Declarants who are also the only surviving children of the said Thomas Smith decd. She therefore prays that a Pension be granted them under act of July 4, 1836, and that the same be paid to her as Executrix, the Executor associated with her, having removed to another State, and that for the precise period of her mother marriage and the same of the County in Virginia, in which she and the said Thomas Smith were married, she refers to the Declaration, already filed by
her mother during her life time.
Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and year first above written
Elizabeth Smith ℗
Will Burnett

Know all men by these presents, That I, Elizabeth Smith, of Morgan County Georgia, Executrix & one of the children of Sally Smith decd Widow of Thomas Smith, do hereby constitute and appoint Smith & Jones of Nashville Tennessee, my true & lawful Attorneys for me and in my name to prosecute the claim of the children of the said Sally Smith to the amount of Pension due as under act of July 4, 1836, hereby revoking all power of attorney heretefore at any time made & hereby ratifying all the lawful act of the said Smith Jones in the premises. Witness my hand and seal this 31 day of August 1802.

Elizabeth Smith ℗
Attest, Will Burnett J.J.S.
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State of Georgia
County of Morgan
To wit:
I John C. Rees Clerk of the Inferior Court for the State and County aforesaid, do hereby certify that William M. Burnett whose name is affixed to the foregoing declaration attestant affidavit was at the time of the execution thereof, an acting Justice of the peace in and for the County aforesaid, duly authorized and appointed, and that the signatures purporting to be his are genuine.
In Testimony whereof, I have herewith set my hand and affixed the seal of my office, this first day of September, Eighteen hundred and fifty two.
John C. Rees Clk Inferior
Court Morgan County Georgia
[illegible seal]
Georgia
Morgan County | It is hereby certified that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited before me Fielding W Arnold Judge of the Court of Ordinary in & for said County (which is a Court of Record) to prove and did prove to my satisfaction, that Sally Smith was the widow of Thomas Smith.
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who died many years ago, that after his death, the said Sally continued his widow until the 26th day of September in the
year 1846, when she died in Morgan County Georgia and left the following named and only surviving children to wit -
Elizabeth Smith, Bird Smith, and Lucy Harper, and that Elizabeth Smith was left the Executrix of the said Sally Smith did
In testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and affixed the
Seal of said Court this 31st
day of August AD 1852
Fielding W Arnold Ordinary
in and for said County in the State
aforesaid
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State of Georgia
Pike County
Personally appeared before me Hartford Green a Justice of the Inferion for said County John Jenkins a revolutionary soldier and Pensioner and after being duly sworn according to law saith that Sally Smith now a resident of Morgan County is his sister and that she was married to Thomas Smith by a protestant Clergyman by the name of G Willarn in Henry County and State of Virginia afterwards Franklin County and further that he was present when the marriage took place.
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And further that he was Thomas Smith the
husband of Sally Smith his sister in the Cavalry under Captain Jesse Herd in Actual service something like three months but do not recollect the exact time said Thomas Smith was a Lieutenant but I cannot recollect how long he served as Lieutenant but was under Major Waller and Col. Penn. who was Col of Henry County after this he was commissioned Captain how long he served I do not recall the date of Marriage I do not recollect but it was before
the war broke out several years -
After the war was ended Thomas Smith went to be a Phisician, and died at William Jenkins
in Pittsylvania County State of Virginia after
his death my sister Sally Smith came to Georgia and fittled in Green County this State and lived for a number years then moved to Morgan and has lived ever since and is still the widow of Thomas Smith and has never married since the death of Thomas Smith John Jinkins
Sworn to and subscribed
before me this the
30th day of April 1845
Hartford Green J.C. P.
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Pike County
State of Georgia ⎬ I Hartford Green do certify that John Jinkins is a resident of said County and a man of good character and veracity and entitled to credit [?]- this the 30 April 1844 Hartford Green J.C. P.

State of Georgia
Pike County       ⎬ I Wiley E. Mangham Clerk of the Inferior Court in and for said County do certify that Hartford Green is an acting Justice of the Inferior court in and for said County and the bove is his genuine signature and is credit as such-
In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my Seal of office and subscribed my name
this Thirtieth day of December in the year one thousand Eight hundred and forty five
Wiley E. Mangham Clerk Inferior Court
Pike County Ga
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[illegible writing sideways underneath]
Sally Smith [illegible]

Smith & Jones
Attorneys
Nashville
Tenn
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State of Georgia Morgan County, in the name of God Amen. I Sally Smith, being weak in body, but of sound and despairing and memory thanks be to Almighty God, and calling to mind the uncertainty of life, do make and ordain this my last Will and Testament. Item 1 I desire to be buried in a decent Christian like manner Item 2 I desire that all my [illegible] be paid. Item 3 I bequeath unto my Daughter Bitsy Smith all my lands whereon I now live, also all my Household and Kitchen furniture (except two beds, bedsteads and furniture) which are to be sold, I also bequeath to her my horse call
ready money, the cart and Yoke of Eden, and half of my stock of Cattle and hogs, half of my corn and fodder, the ballance of my corn and fodder stock of Horses, Cattle & Hogs
to be sold at my death, and the property in this item bequeathed to her, to be enjoyed by her during her natural life, and at her death, to be sold by my Executors and the proceeds equally divided among my legal heirs.
Item 4th I give and bequeath to my Daughter Bitsy Smith the following negroes to wit, Lucinda and her child, Amoy, Peter Suckey and her two children, Swinda and Oralin forever, to dispose of as she thinks proper.
Item 5th I give and bequeath to my son Bird Smith the following negroes to wit, Emily and her increase, which are now in his possession, also Alfred and Seaborn to be delivered to him by my Executors, to have and enjoy forever, and to dispose of as she the said Bird Smith may think proper.
Item 6th I give and bequeath unto my Daughter Lucy Harper the following negroes to wit, Robert Jinsy & Dorcas to dispose of
as she may think proper.
Item 7th I give and bequeath unto the children of my deceased son William Smith the following negroes to wit, Jack Armstrong, three Hundred Dollars in money
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Item 8th my will and desire is that my negro man Bailey have the privilege of choosing his master, and that he be sold at a fair valuation,  and the net proceeds after paying debts and legacies be equally divided among my legal heirs.
Item 9th my will and desire is that the lot of lan drawn by me (best) rea four in the ninth District and Second section of Charles County
be sold by my Executors either at public or private sale, and the net proceeds equally divided among my children and their heirs.
Item 10th I hereby nominate and appoint my Son Bird Smith and my Daughter Bitsy Smith and my Nephew Granbury Jinkins, my Executor of this my last will and testament, to see the same carried into effect, with full power to sell either at public or private sale any of the property herein devised to be sold,  as in their discretion they may think best hereby revoking all other or former wills made by me.
Signed Sealed and acknowledged this 6th January 1842.
In the presence of Josiah Wellborn
James B Head
Mary Star (X her mark)
Sarah Smith (X her mark) Seal
Georgia, Morgan County, Court of Ordinary Nov Term 1846 personally appeared in open Court, Josiah Wellborn one of the subscribing witnesses to the foregoing will of Sarah Smith and she being duly sworn deposeth and saith
that he saw Sarah Smith Sign said will, and heard her acknowledge the same to be her last will and testament, that she was of sound disposing mind and memory at the time of so doing, and that he signed the same as witness and said James B Head and Mary Star sign the same in her presence and in the presence of each other, sworn to in open Court November 2d 1846
E. L. Wittich C.C.O.
Josiah Wellborn
Recorded Nov 10th 1846
E. L. Wittich CCO
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Georgia, Morgan County. I Fielding W. Arnold, Ordinary in and for said County, do hereby Certify that the within and foregoing writing contains a true Copy of the last will and Testament of Sarah Smith of said County deceased as appears upon Record in the Books in my office Given under my hand and seal of office this 30th day of August 1852
Fielding W. Arnold Ordinary
for the County of Morgan in said state
[signature]
[seal blacked out]
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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the third Section of the act of Congress of July 4 1836.
State of Georgia
Morgan County ⎬ SS
On this the 12th day of April 1845 personally
appeared before the subscriber a Justice of the Inferior Court in and for the County and State aforesaid Mrs Sally Smith a resident of said County and State aged Eighty nine years past who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the third section of act of Congress of the 4th July 1836. That she believes she is 89 or ninety years of age. That she is the widow of Thomas
Smith who was a soldier and served in the War of the Revolution and bore the rank of Lieutenant in Cavalry and Captain of Infantry in the Virginia Malitia. That he resided in Henry Subsequently Franklin County Virginia and Volunteered about the commencement of the War of the Revolution and served a Tour as Leftenant in a Company of Horse from Henry County. That he afterward was commissioned a Militia Captain in said County of Henry in Col Penn's Ridgement and by Signority served Two other Tours as Captain of the militia drafted and one other Tour as Captain of a Company of Volunteers. She is satisfied that her said husband served in all considerably upwards
of two years for which she claims a pension. And deponent further declares that her said husband Thomas Smith died on the [blank] day of March Seventeen hundred and Eighty four from home under the care of a Physician at Pittsylvania C H. And deponent further declares that she was legally married to the said Thomas Smith in the Sixteenth year of her age viz on the Sixth day of May Seventeen hundred and Seventy Two in the County of Pittsylvania or Henry Subsequently Franklin
County State of Virginia by a Protestant Clergyman and resided in Henry, Subsequently Franklin County until the death of her said husband and for the space of 6 or 7 years thereafter and removed from thence to the State of Georgia,
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Green County from there to Morgan County where she has resided for the space of near thirty five years from her best recollection. That the leaf hereto annexed purporting to be a family Registry is their Original Family Record in the handwriting of her said husband and contains a true registry of their children's ages in the order of their Births and has been in her possessionT ever since her said husband's death. That she has always understood and believes that John Jinkins now a resident of Pike County Georgia was acquainted with her said husband during the War of the Revolution and partly in the same Services. That she has remained a widow ever since the period of her said husband's death all of which will more fully appear by refference to Documentary evidence in her possession and proof hereto annexed.
Sally Smith X (her mark)
attecd. Wily Harper
John H Kilgore

Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year first mentioned before me a Justice of the Inferior Court in and for the County of Morgan State of Georgia. I further Certify that Mrs Sally Smith the declarant is personally known to me and that from Bodily infirmity she is unable to attend our Court. Also that the leaf hereto annexed purporting to be a family registing is the same referred to by her in the foregoing Declaration and was taken from a Psalm Book in her Possession and hereunto annexed with three wafers by me in her pressence. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand officially this the 12th day of April 1845.
In presence of
Wily Harper X (his mark)
Joseph P Penick J J G Morgan County Georgia
John H Kilgore
George
Enfilantory affidavit
State of Georgia 
Morgan County ⎬ 
personally appeared Mrs. Sarah Smith the foregoing declarant and deponent and said that she has no record of her age or the date of her marriage or husband's death but was married in her sixteenth year of age on the Sixth day of May three years before their
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son William Smith was born locking from March until May and that her said husband Thomas Smith died in March after their youngest son Bird Smith was born in August 1783 and that from old age and consequent loss of memory she is unable to give the date or definite tours that her said husband served. But states that he was almost continually from home in the services of the United States during the War of the Revolution.
Sally Smith X (her mark)
Sworn to and subscribed on this 12th day of April 1845 before me
Joseph P Perrick JJC
Morgan County Georgia

State of Georgia
Morgan County
Be it Known that on this the 12th day of  April 1845 before me Joseph P Perrick a Justice of the Inferior Court in and for the County and State aforesaid personally appeared Betty Smith aged sixty eight years past and Lucy Harper aged sixty six years past residents of the County and State aforesaid being first duly sworn according to law saith on oath that they have always understood and believe that they are the Daughters of Thomas Smith and Sally Smith the declarant and believe that the leaf hereto annexed purporting to be a family registry contains a true record of their ages and believe on comparison it is in the hand writing of their said Father and that the same has been kept by their said mother and been her possession ever since their first recollection and was always refered to as a true record and is their only record now or that ever did exist  to their Knowledge. They further say that the said Father died in the year 1784 leaving the said Mother as his widow and that she is still his widow.
Betty Smith X (her mark)
Lucy Harper X (her mark)
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and 
year first written before me I further certify that the affiants are persons of undoubted veracity  & creditable
Joseph P Perrick JJC 
Morgan County Georgia
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[crossed out: Amon Smith the son of Thomas Smith and his wife]
Betsy Smith
the daughter of 
[Thomas?] Smith & 
his wife was born 
9th January 1800
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William Smith the son of Thomas Smith and his his wife was born the [illegible] day of March in the year 1775. Betty Smith the daughter of Thos Smith and his wife
was born December the 16
in the year of our Lord 1776.
Lucy Smith the daughter of Thos Smith and wife [illegible] was born January [illegible].
John Smith the son of Thos. Smith & his wife born May the 2 1781.
Bird Smith the son of Thos Smith & his wife was born August the 4 in the year of our Lord 1783
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Green County from there to Morgan County where she has resided for the space of near thirty five years from her best recollection. That the leaf hereto annexed purporting to be a family Registry is their Original Family Record in the hand writing of her said husband and contains a true registry of their childrens ages in the order of their Births and has been in her possession ever since her said husband's death. That she has always understood and believes that John Jinkins now a resident of Pike County Georgia was acquainted with her said husband during the War of the Revolution and partly in the same services. That she has remained a widow ever since the period of her said husband's death. All of which will more fully appear by refference to Documentary evidence in her possession and proof hereto annexed.
Sally Smith X (her mark)
Atted P. Wily Harper
John H. Kilgore
Sworn to and Subscribed on the day and year first mentioned before me a Justice of the Inferior Court in and for the County of Morgan State of Georgia. I further Certify that Mrs Sally Smith the declarant is personally known to me and that from Bodily infirmity she is unable to attend our Court- Also that the leaf hereto annexed purporting to be a family registry is the same refered to by her in the foregoing Declaration and was taken from a Psalm Book in Possession and hereunto annexed with three wafers by me in her presence. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand officially this the 12th day of April 1845.
In presence of
Wily Harper X (his mark)
John H. Kilgore              ⎬ 
Joseph P Perrick J J C Morgan County Georgia

Emplanity affidavit
State of Georgia
Morgan County ⎬ 
personally appeared Mrs Sarah Smith the  foregoing declarant and deposeth and saith That she has no record of her age or the date of her marriage or husbands death. But was married in her sixteenth
year of age on the Sixth day of May Three years before their
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November 15, 1939
BA-J/AWF
Thomas Smith
R. 9846

Edna V. Kinnaman
114 East Linden Street
Independence, Missouri

Dear Madam:


Reference is made to your letter in which request information in regard to Thomas Smith, Lieutenant and Captain in the Revolutionary War from Henry County, Virginia.

The data which follow were obtained from papers on file in claim for pension, R. 9846, based upon service of Thomas Smith in the War of the Revolution.

The date and place of birth of Thomas Smith, and names of his parents are not given.

Thomas Smith married May 6, 1772 in Pittsylvania 
County, Virginia, Sally, the sister of John Jinkins. She stated that she was in her sixteenth year when married to Thomas Smith. The names of her parents were not designated.

Thomas Smith died in the month of March, 1784, at the home of William Jinkins in Pittsylvania County, Virginia. The relationship of William Dinkins to the above named Sally and John Jenkins was not stated.

The widow, Sally Smith, moved six or seven years after the death of her husband, Thomas Smith to Greene County, Georgia, later moved to Morgan
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County, Georgia.

On April 12, 1845, then a resident of Morgan County, Georgia, the widow, Sally Smith, applied for pension on account of the service of her husband, Thomas Smith, in the Revolutionary War.

It was stated in the claim that Thomas Smith while residing in Henry County, which was later Franklin County, Virginia, served three months as lieutenant of cavalry under Captain Jesse Herd, was commissioned March 10, 1778, Captain of Henry County, Virginia Militia, and served under Major
Waller and Colonel Penn.

The claim for pension was not allowed as proof of six months' service, as required by the pension law was not established.

The widow, Sally Smith, died September 26, 1846 in Morgan County, Georgia.

The following data in regard to the children of Thomas Smith, and his wife, Sally, are shown in the claim:
William | born March 31, 1775
Elizabeth or Betsey | born December 16, 1776
Lucy | born January (illegible)
John | born May 2, 1781
Bird (a son) | born August 4, 1783

The widow, Sally Smith, was survived by the following children:
Elizabeth or Betsey Smith, a resident of Morgan County, Georgia, in 1852;
Lucy Harper, a resident of Morgan County, Georgia, in 1845, then aged sixty-six years;
Bird Smith, residence not shown.
Betsey Smith, daughter of the above named William Smith, and his wife (her name not given) was born January 9, 1800; other children of William
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Smith were referred to, but no names were stated.

John Jinkins, brother of the widow, Sally Smith, was living in 1845 in Pike County, Georgia. Her nephew, Granbury Jinkins, was referred to in 1842.

One Wiley Harper was of Morgan County, Georgia in 1845; it was not stated that he was related to the daughter, Lucy Harper, referred to herein.

The papers on file in this claim contain no further discernible family data.

Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator
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[left column]
Sally Smith married
3 years before William
her older son was
born looking from
March until May
sixteen years of age
past when married
husband died in March
after her son Bird
was born

May 6- 
1772
+16
_______
1788
_______
1756

1845
-1756
_______
89
[illegible upside down handwriting]

[right column]
Letters of years and life
for Wm Smith
[written sideways]
Smith, Thomas
Va. R 9846
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Georgia
Greene
County ⎬
By the Honorable the Judges of Greene Inferior Court
Know all men by their presents [illegible] of said Court by virtue of the power invested by the Law & Constitution of this State have duly and legally appointed by these presents doth constitute & affirm William Smith--

Guardian of his persons & property of Thos. Smith and Bird Smith --
Orphans of Thomas Smith deceased
and do invest the property of said Orphans by hand of power of said Guardian of all kinds whatsoever  whether real or personal or whether within the limits of the State or any other state together with the right & Effects to secure such for the use & benefit of said Orphans Witness the Hon the Judges of said Court this fourteenth day November one
Thousand seven hundred ninety eight
By order of the Court
Tho Carleton CLK
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[left side]
Smith, Thomas
Va. R 9846
[right side]
Smith, Thomas
Va. R 9846
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Henry County 1781
Capt Thomas Smith pay Root for a
Malatia town of duty

Capt Thomas Smith on duty | 55 | @ | [blank]
Lieut Nathan Swanson on duty | 55 | @ | [blank]
Insign Richard Edmondson on duty | 55 | @ | [blank]
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[left side]
Smith, Thomas
Va. R9846
[right side]
Capt Smith [sideways]
R9846
R9846
R9846
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The State of Virginia
to Capt Thomas Smith
to pay due him as Capt in the Militia
From the Twenty fifth of April to
the Eighteenth of June
55 Days
[illegible]
This Day Capt Thos Smith Came
Before me a [illegible] For the said County and on
Oath that the above [illegible] and that has not any satisfaction for
[illegible]
Under my hand this 28th day of October 1781
Henry Conway
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R9846
scraps of old papers
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No 6785.
Sally Smith 2nd GAS
Let. to Thos. Green, June 16. 1846
Hon J. F. Dowdell Dec 14/54
the same Feb'y 28/55
9846
Act 4th July 1836.
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Thomas Smith R.9846
Va.
4 orders signed Abraham Penn Col. dated respectively Feby. 4th 1779, Aug. 7, 1780, May 16, 1781 and May 26, 1781 and one order signed
George Waller, dated Feb'y 14, 1782.
The above papers have been removed from this
claim to be forwarded to the War Department.
A.E.P.
Nov. 7, 1911
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House[?] with all your Company and all those Divisions that have to be draughted that Day. You our Bounds, as will regulars as to Day so March. Those that and those that did not March
are no apains to Collect Them.
I am
Your humble serv
Abraham Penn
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Sir
You are hereby absent man out of your Company as have not appeared with Gen Rowland on the 19th instant under command of Capt. Ma...
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March 13, 1936

Thomas Smith-R.9846
BA-J/AWF

Mr. William C. Moore
43 Chesterfield Road
Stamford, Connecticut

Dear Sir:

Reference is made to your letter in which you request information in regard to Thomas Smith, Captain in the War of the Revolution from Henry County, Virginia.

The data which follow were obtained from the papers on file in pension claim, R. 9846, based upon the service of Thomas Smith during the War of the Revolution.

The date and place of birth of Thomas Smith are not shown, nor are the names of his parents stated.

He married May 6, 1772 in Pittsylvania County, Virginia, Sally, the sister of John Jinkins. She stated that she was in her sixteenth year, when married; names of her parents were not designated.

Thomas Smith died in March, 1784, at the home of William Jinkins in Pittsylvania County, Virginia; the relationship of William Jinkins to the above named, Sally and John Jinkins were not stated.

The widow, Sally Smith, moved, six or seven years after the death of her husband, to Greene County, Georgia,
and later moved to Morgan County, Georgia.

She applied for pension April 12, 1845, then living in
Morgan County, Georgia.

It is stated in the claim that Thomas Smith, while residing in Henry County (later Franklin), Virginia, served
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three months a lieutenant of cavalry under Captain Jesse Her, was commissioned March 10, 1778, Captain of Henry County, Militia, and served under Major Waller and Colonel Penn.

The claim was not allowed as proof of six months' service, as required by the pension law, was not established.

The widow, Sally Smith, died September 26, 1846 in
Morgan County, Georgia.

Children of Thomas Smith and his wife, Sally, as referred to in the claim:

William | born March 31, 1775
Elizabeth or Betsey | born December 16, 1776
Lucy | born January (illegible)
John | born May 2, 1781
Bird (a son) | born August 4, 1783

The following children survived their mother--Elizabeth (Betsey) Smith, a resident of Morgan County, Georgia in 1852; Bird Smith; and Lucy Harper, a resident of Morgan
County, Georgia in 1845, and then gave her age,
sixty-six years.

It is also shown that Betsey Smith, daughter of William Smith and his wife (her name not given) was born January 9, 1800; other children of William Smith were referred to, no names shown.

John Jinkins, the widow's brother, was living in 1845 in Pike County, Georgia, and her nephew, Granbury Jinkins, was referred to in 1842.

One Wiley Harper was of Morgan County, Georgia in 1845, no relationship to the family shwon.

Very truly yours
G. H. SWEET
Acting Executive Assistant to the Administrator
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From the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, R.9846, it appears that Thomas Smith married, May 6, 1773 in Henry County, that part which was later Franklin County, Virginia, Sally, the sister of John Jenkins or Jinkins.

The soldier died in March 1784 away from home, at William Jenkins in Pittsylvania County, Virginia.

It is stated in said claim that Thomas Smith, while residing in Henry and Franklin Counties, Virginia, served three months as a lieutenant of cavalry under Captain Jesse Herd, and was commissioned March 10, 1778, captain of Henry County, Virginia Militia and served under Major Waller and Colonel Penn.

The widow, Sally, applied for pension, April 12, 1845, at which time she was aged eighty-nine years, and was living in Morgan County, Georgia, having moved there from Greene County, Georgia.

The claim was not allowed, as satisfactory proof of six months service, as required by the pension law, was
not established.

The widow died September 26, 1846 in Morgan County, Georgia.
Children
William | born March 31, 1775
Betsey or Elizabeth | born December 16, 1776
Lucy | born January [illegible]
she was sixty six years old in 1845
John | born May 2, 1781
Bird | born August 4, 1783.

3-- [page number?]

The following children survived their mother--Elizabeth Smith, Bird Smith and Lucy Harper.

It is also stated that Betsy Smith, daughter of William Smith and his wife (her name not given), was born January 9, 1800.

Very truly yours
EARL D. CHURCH
Commissioner.
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Independence, Mo
Oct 26, 2939.
[seal: RECEIVED Oct 28 1939 MAIL SUB-DIV Reader No. 14 VETS ADM]
Veterans Administration
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir,

I will appreciate your advising me if you have the following records. Have you Pension Records, and family History
concerning one Capt Thomas Smith who was Capt of the Henry County. Militia in 1779, Henry County, Virginia. There was also a 1st Lieut. Thomas Smith, of Henry County. 1780-1781. However I think Capt Thomas Smith is the one I want. It is family tradition that he died in North Carolina, after the Rev. Thanking you in advance for an Early reply.
Sincerely
Edna V. Kinnaman
114 East Linden Street
Independence, Missouri
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42. Chesterfield Road Stamford, Conn., Feb. 25, 1936
Veterans Administration
Washington, D.C.
Gentlemen: In the Calendar of Virginia State papers Volume 2, pages 166 and 195, letters written by THOMAS SMITH (only one of Henry Co, Virginia) indicate that he, a Captain, was in charge of the Laboratory for certain Virginia troops during the year 1781, while the Revolutionary war was going on. At that time he had just transferred his equipment from Prince Edward Court House, to New London.
I would like to know if your files contain any reference to this officer. I am particularly interested in learning where he resided both before and after his service in the Revolutionary Army.
Thanking you for any information you may be able to give me,
Very Truly
William Cabler Moore

I have some evidence of a circumstantial nature that this Capt. Smith might have been from Henry Co. Va. and that from about 1786 until his death in 1818 he lived in Tennessee. If this data in this [illegible] refers to a different Thomas Smith from the one noted above I shall be glad to know it.
Very Truly. 
W.C. M.
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RECEIVED
FEB 27 1936
MAIL SUB-DIV.
VETS ADM
READER #15
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9845 [crossed out]
P. O.
Sally Smith
Service: [blank]
Enlisted: [blank], 18[blank].
Discharged: [blank], 18[blank].
Application filed: [blank], 18[blank].
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9846
P. O.
Sally Smith
Service: [blank]
REJECTED [stamped]
Enlisted: [blank], 18[blank].
Discharged: [blank], 18[blank].
Application filed: [blank], 18[blank].
Alleges: The printed list of 1832 gives cause of suspension as "For further proof of service"
Attorney: [blank]
P.O. [blank]
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1930 - Feb 3 - 
Hist C. Hon. E. S.
Broussard for
Mrs. H. G. Patterson
See letter in
Larkin Smith
B. L. V. T. 2221
1936 - Mch 13 hist to Wm. C. Moore Atty
1939 - Nov 15 - hist to Edna V. Kinnaman atty
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The Commonwealth of VIRGINIA
To Thomas Smith: 
Gentleman, greeting:
KNOW YOU that our GOVERNOUR, on Recommendation from the Court of the County of Henry hath constituted and appointed you Captain in a Company of Militia in the said County. In Testimony whereof, thus our Letters are sealed with the Seal of the Commonwealth, and made Patent.
Witness THOMAS JEFFERSON, Esquire, our said Governour, at Richmond, the Tenth Day of March in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred Eighty: 78.
[signed] Th. Jefferson
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Letters Guard for
Wm Smith
Guard for
Bird Smith
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GEORGIA, GREENE COUNTY.
By their Honors the Judges of the Court of Ordinary for the County aforesaid.
To William Smith
GREETING:
WHEREAS Bird Smith minor & orphan of Thomas Smith deceased, is possessed in his own right, of a considerable estate, by means whereof the power of granting the guardianship of the said Bird Smith to us is manifestly known to belong. And for the better securing the estate and more ample maintenance and education of the said orphan, and from the integrity and confidence reposed in you, WE Do hereby commit the tuition, education and guardianship of said Bird Smith orphan aforesaid, to you the said William Smith --- you assenting thereto, by your acceptance of these letters herein charging you that you maintain him in meet, drink, cloathing and lodging, and that you cause him to be educated in such manner as shall be suitable to his interest and circumstances during his minority, and that you enquire into and take charge of his estate, both real and personal, and all other things to do which by law you ought to do for your said ward. Of all which a true and perfect account you shall render on the first term of the court of Ordinary in every year during your continuance in office, and lastly WE Do hereby constitute and appoint you the said William Smith guardian of the said orphan during his minority.

WITNESS The Honorable William Fitzpatrick Esq.
one of the Judges of said Court of Ordinary this 16th day of August one thousand eight hundred & two.
Attend
Thos. Carleton C.C.O
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6705
Sally Smith
wid of Thos
Ga
Act 4 July 36
in J 2d 84
Act of 4th July 1836
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6705
Sally Smith
wid of Thos
Ga
Act 4 July 36
M J 2d 84
Act of 4th Juy 1836
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Richmond Va the 5th September 1783.
Militia

A Warrant to Thomas Smith for his
services in the Militia as Lieut in 1781 | 3.16.0
From Journal No 2. A page 523.

Richmond Virginia 10th April 1784
Warrant to Thomas Smith for his services
in the Militia of this State in 1781
From Journal No 3. page 531 | 3.6.8

Richmond Virginia 10 April 1784
Warrant to Thomas Smith for his services
in the Militia of this State in 1781
From Journal No 3. Page 534 | 3.17.4

Richmond Virginia 13th May 1784
Warrant to Thomas Smith for his services
the Militia in this State | 1.8.00
Journal No 3 page 650

The foregoing entries are truly copied from the Journals & pages mentioned.
Given under my hand at the Auditors Office
Richmond this 19th day of March 1846.
Jas E Heath
Aud & Pub Atty
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Sir
Gen Off
June 16. 46
The claim of Sally Smith wid of Capt Thomas Smith has been examined and the evidence deemed satisfactory to establish the date of the marriage in 72 and of 55 days service as Capt in the Spring of 1787, but there is neither
specification nor proof of any other term of service except the one oral allegation of Jenkins that her husband served as a Lt of Cavalry under Capt Jesse Herd before he was commissioned a Capt. The Commission bears date in March 78 & signed by Mr. Jefferson, while the blank form was printed in or subsequently to the year 1780. & Mr Jefferson was not Governor in March 78 - The date of his Captaincy will be determined by the records of Henry
County - as also the fact of his Lieutenancy in the Company of Cavalry Commanded by Capt Herd - From Jenkins declaration it would appear that Capt Herd's company of Horse served in the Carolina & was probably
raised under the act of May 1780
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authorizing a Cavalry force to serve three months after they shall have joined Genl Green's army -- the certificate of the audit showing payment for militia service in 87 to "Lt. Thos. Smith" & to two other "Tho Smith's" for militia service in the same year has no reference to her husband.
[written sideways]
Thomas Green Esq.
June 16 1846

Thomas Green Esq
Present
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Dr Sir,
Tho. Jefferson, in his memoir (p 40) States that he was appointed Governor on the 1st of June 1779, and "I resigned
the administration at the end of my second year, and General Nelson was appointed to succeed me."
Yrs resptly
V P Tritt
June 15. 46
Geo. W. Crump Esq.
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House of Reps
Dec 11/54
Mr Waldo
Dear Sir,
I desire to know the condition of the case of Sarah Smith, Widow of Capt. Thomas Smith, Revolutionary soldier, Franklin Co. Virginia. The papers were filed in 1840 and 1843. The widow has deceased & the Heirs desire to obtain the Pension.
Very Respectfully
J F Dowdell
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Smith & Jones
Feby 26/33
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281
Pension Office
Feby 26 1853
Gentlemen
The application of Sally Smith dec of Ga has been examined and filed under the Act of July 4 1836. Reference for proof of service &c is made to a declaration supposed to have been filed by Sally Smith in her life time, but it does not appear that any such application was ever made.
Messrs Smith & Jones
Nashville
Tenn
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[Most of the right hand portion of this handwritten document is missing or illegible
This Indenture made this [illegible] 
One Thousand Seven Hundred and 
One Sante and Lewis Jenkins of the 
County of Pilsebury Witness that 
of the sum of Sixty pounds haven't
By the said Lewis Jenkins Before the
Heirs of the said Thos. Potte. Doth acknow-
[illegible lines]
Granted Bargain sold off and contenance
assigns for Every one certain Tract of a
Side of Big River in the County afore
Thence running north to the order line
To a Beach thence how the Branch to a
South Bors to the order line thence on the
on his line to the River for Comply
for a burying yard to were My Wife is
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[appears that left side of page is missing; this handwritten document may be the right side of the previous image]
11th Day of April in the year of our
dred and Sixty Eight full and
[illegible] of the within land and
livered by the within named Thos
[illlegible] accounting of his
ten Deed
Thomas Potter
Pittsylvania County on the 24th Day of June 1768
gather with the Memorandum of Livery of Seizer hereon 
in accordance of oath of the Witness thereto to be the Accounting of Thomas
and ordered to be recorded
Sgd Will Tunstall CF
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Offc of Reps
Feb 20th [illegible]
Hon Mr. Waldo
Sir
I have not now the letter of Mr. Smith in hoseform which gave the name of his father referred to in the letter which I enclose, but you can easily ascertain by referring to a letter which I addressed to the Pension Office May 23rd 1864 and another Dec 11th 1854. One or both of these letters will furnish all the facts. Your early attention will oblige yours.
Respectfully
Yr Obt Send
J F Dowdell
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No 7899
Sally Smith dec
Widow of Thomas
Ga
Smith & Jones Feby 25/53
98115
4th July 1836
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Richd 18 March 1846
Col J. L. Edwards
Comm. of Pensions
Sir
I enclose the application of Mrs. Sally Smith of Morgan Co. Ga dated 12 April 1845 for a pension under Act 4 July 1836.
With sundry original documents--the family register of birth,  shows the marriage took place in 1772 or about that date. The marriage then identify as the widow of Capt. Thos. Smith of the Henry [illegible] fully proved--
So are his services for several tours of duty. The applaint of John Jenkins shows he was a Lieut. of Cavalry for about three months. The original orders of his Commander, this commissioned in 1778, show he was Captain, and that he was ordered into service 4 Feb 1779 -- 21 May 81 he was ordered to Taylors Ferry or Roanoke - see order 16 May 1781 -- 16 Feb 1782
His pay roll -- sworn to 18 Oct 1787 -- shows a tour of 65 days length.
I am yr servant
Thomas Green
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Pension Office,
February 28, 1835
Sir,
In reply to the letter of Mr Thomas J Smith, communicated by you, and which is herewith returned, I have the honor to state that the claim of Sally Smith, widow of Thomas Smith of Georgia, for pension in virtue of his service in the revolutionary war was suspended on the grounds that the evidence does not show a service of six months in
any grade whatever, which is necessary to bring the case within the act of Congress granting pensions to Revolutionary soldiers and their widows. The proof shows
service of 55 days as Captain. There is no proof of service in any other capacity.
Very respectfully
L C
Hon J. F. Dowdell
House of Reps
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[other writing cut off]
Dec 12/83
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Pension Office
Dec 14 1854
Sir
I have the honor to inform you that the claim of Sally Smith widow of Thomas of Ga was disallowed by this Office because she was unable to show that her husband rendered as much as six months service in the war of the Revolution
which is the shortest period of service for which a pension can be granted. He appears to have served 55 days as Captain. If he served longer the evidence of it does not
exist in this office,
Hon J. F. Dowdell
Hy R