Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 14515, for Michael Smith, New York
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New York

Smith, Michael

S14515
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14880 New York

Michael Smith

of Cornwall in the State of New York, who was a private and served in the Company commanded by Captain Beekman of the Regiment commanded by Colonel Lasher in the New York line for 14 days Private, 20 months Sergeant

Inscribed in the Roll of New York at the rate of 101 Dollars 54 Cents for annum to commence on the 4th day of March 1834.

Certificate of Pension issued the 25 day of July 1833 and sent W. Case, Newburgh N.Y.

Arrears to the 4th of March :  $203.08
Semi=annual allowance ending 4 September '33 [1833]:$ 50.77
Total:  $253.85

Revolutionary Claim Act June 7, 1832

Recorded by John Cromwell. Book E. Volume 4, Page 78

1884 April 2, Thomas W. Smith for more data to identify and for the use to be made of the military prior 1854 April 9, Thomas W. Smith military history
Date of death not on AB
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Pension Office, Bank of Commerce in New York,
New York, 29 September 1846

Received of John A. Stevens, Agent for paying Pensioners, Fourteen Dollars 38 Cents, being for one month 21 days' Pension, due to Michael Smith from the 4th day of March 1844, to the 24th day of April 1844 for which I have signed duplicate receipts.  

Elizabeth Smith, her mark
Witness Cornwell [illegible]

Dollars.  14.38
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Final Payment Voucher

Received from GAO
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State of New York
City and County of New York : ss:

I, James Conner, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for the City and County of New York hereby certify has satisfactory evidence was exhibited to said Court on the twenty-ninth day of September A.D. 1846 that Michael Smith was a pensioner of the United States, U.S. Army, in the City of New York that he died in said city on the 24th day of April A.D. 1846 leaving him surviving a widow whose name is Elizabeth Smith.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this 29th day of Sept. A.D. 1846.

James Conner, Clerk

City and County of New York: ss:

Elizabeth Smith, being sworn, deposeth that she is the widow of Michael Smith, deceased, and the identical person named in the foregoing certificate.

Elizabeth Smith
Witness: Irene M. Sweeny

Sworn to and witnessed before me
this 29th Sept. 1846

Henry Richardson,
Commissioner of Deeds
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Final Payment Voucher
Received from GAO
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20.707

Michael Smith
Orange County
New York
18 March 1828

Walter Case
Newburgh, N.Y.
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State, City and County
of New York :  ss:

To all whom these presents may in anywise concern know ye that I, James W. Lent, of said State, City and County aforesaid being duly sworn whom the Holy Evangelist of Almighty God Doth depose and say; that I have been acquainted with Michael Smith for fifty odd years past and that he was one of a company of Greens commanded by Captain Theophiles Beckman at the commencement of our Revolutionary War with the British King that at the landing of the British Troops on Long Island in said State of New York; that this deponent knew not what station he the said Michael Smith was ordered to or at this from recollection believes was on Long Island and that after which was in consequence of the retreating of our American troops from said Island was at Maclean Heights and after a second retreat to White Plains in the County of West Chester; that he then continued in the Continental Services until discharge and that this deponent did not know what had become of said Michael Smith, whether dead or alive, until the winter 1776 or Spring of the year 1777 when this deponent was attached to a company commanded by Capt. Benjamin  Houghland and as such were commanded in said company and messmates for over
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nearly {if not quite} twelve months and until said company was discharged with the good will and hearty thanks of these superior officers.

James W. Sent

City and County
of New York : ss:

Personally appeared before me the above named James W. Sent of said City and County aforesaid who being by me duly sworn did depose and swear that the facts set forth is witnessed and is continually true and correct to the best of his knowledge and solemn belief and further the deponent saith not.

R. Riker
Recorder of the
City of New York

August 27, 1828
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State of New York
City and County of New York: ss:

I, Nicholas Dean, Clerk of the City and County of New York, and Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the said City and County, do hereby certify that Richard Riker of the said City before whom the annexed deposition was made was on the day when the same was so made Recorder of the City of New York duly appointed and sworn and by law authorized to administer oaths and take affidavits to be read in all Courts of record within this State and that the signature of "R. Ricker" hereunto to the jurat of the said deposition is genuine.

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court and County, this 9th day of September 1828

V. Dean
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State of New York
Orange County :  ss:

John Garret, of the town of Newburgh, County of Orange and State of New York, being duly sworn doth depose and say that he is well and intimately acquainted with Colonel Michael Smith of the town of Cornwall, County of Orange aforesaid and the deponent further saith that sometime in the month of March in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy-six he enlisted as a private soldier in a company commanded by Theophiles Beckman, Captain in the regiment commanded by Colonel John Lasher in the Brigade commander did by General Marinus Scott on the lines of the Continental Establishment for nine months and served in the said regiment as a private soldier until the month of December in the same year at which time this deponent was discharged the term of his enlistment having expired, and deponent further saith that on the same day on which he enlisted in said Company, the said Michael Smith aforesaid enlisted in the same Company as a private for nine months and was soon after promoted to the office of Orderly Sergeant; that said Smith continued to serve in said Company as a private and non commissioned officer for the said term of nine months and was honorably discharged at the expiration of the said term at Harvistram in said State at some time in the month of December in the year aforesaid.  And the deponent further saith that during his aforesaid service said Smith was engaged in the Battles on Tory Island and White Plains and in a skirmish at Harlem Heights at all which this deponent was personally present; and the deponent further saith that the said Smith and this deponent fired at a British tender
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the first ball fired at the British in the State of New York in the Revolutionary War and further saith not

John Garrett

Sworn to and subscribed 
this 9th day of June 1828
before me

B.H. Mace
a commissioner to
take affidavits

I do hereby certify that I am acquainted with John Garrett above named, and that he is a credible witness

B.H. Mace

State of New York
Orange County : ss:

I, Asa Dunning, Clerk of the County of Orange and Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the said County of Orange in the State of New York do certify that Benjamin H. Mace, Esq., before whom the foregoing affidavit was sworn was at the time Commissioner and duly empowered to administer oaths.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said County this eleventh day of June in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight.

Asa Dunning
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20707

Michael Smith
Orange County
New York
dated 18 March 1828

Walter Case, Esquire
Agent.
Newburgh
New York
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District of New York
Orange County : ss:

I, Michael Smith, the deponent in the annexed affidavit, being duly sworn doth depose and say by way of supplement to the preceding affidavit that the reason of his not making an earlier application for a pension is as follows:  that by great industry he has been enabled to support himself untillwithin a few years from off the farm mentioned in the annexed Schedule which together with this personal property set forth in said Schedule is all the property which this deponent owned on the 18th March 1818 an amount the real property still being the same and the personal property of the same as then as now; that owing to the absence of the deponent from home during a considerable part of the last war in which he served as a Lieutenant Colonel his business became deranged so much that he found it necessary to take up money to support his family. for six years past this deponent was enabled by his industry and economy to support his family and keep down the interest due on his debts contracted for the purposes aforesaid but owing tools age debility this deponent now finds himself wholly unable to support himself by his industry
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has no other means of support than public or private charity.

Michael Smith

Sworn before me
this 15th day of September
1828

B.H. Mace
a commissioner appointed
to take affidavits
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District of New York
Orange County :  ss:

On this sixth day of September 1828 personally appeared in open Court in the Court of Common Pleas it being a Court of record for the said County of Orange Michael Smith, aged sixty-eight years, resident in the said County of Orange, who being duly sworn according to law doth on his oath disclose that he served in the revolutionary war as follows; that in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy-six in the month of March, he enlisted in a company commanded by Captain Theophilus Beckman in a regiment commanded by Colonel John Lasher as the Brigade commanded by Marinus Scott on the line of the Continental establishment for nine months and was discharged at Hawthorn in the County of Rockland on the third day of December 1776 and I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift, sales or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby to diminish it, as it being myself within the provisions of the Act of Congress entitle "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War" passed the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not nor have any pension in trust for me, any property or securities, contracts or debts due to me; nor have I any income other than what is contained in the following inventory, which by me subscribed, Viz; [namely]

Real Estate
47 acres of land appraised at eight hundred dollars

Personal Property
1 pair of horses - $50.00
4 cows - $60.00
totaling $910.00

I am indebted and pay interest for $800.00
leaves of property clear of encumbrance $110.00
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Michael Smith

Sworn to and subscribed on this sixteenth
day of September 1828 before one
Asa Dunning, Clerk
of the Court of Common Pleas
in and for the County of Orange

I, Asa Dunning, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Orange do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and inventory, are truly copied from the Clerk of the said Court; and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule is nine hundred and ten dollars and it appears that the said Michael Smith is indebted in the sum of eight hundred dollars.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court on this 6th day of September 1828.

Asa Dunning, Clerk
of the Court of Common Please
in and for the County of Orange
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13658

Michael Smith

Walter Case, Esq.
Newburgh
Orange County, New York
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State of New York
Orange County :  ss:

Personally appeared before me Gilbert Ogden Fowler, one of the Justices of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Orange aforesaid Joseph Morell, Esquire to me personally known to be an honorable witness who having been by me duly sworn according to law doth depose and say that he was a soldier in the army of the United States in the Revolutionary War; that he is intimately acquainted with Colonel Michael Smith in the annexed affidavit mentioned and has been acquainted with him for fifty years last past; that the said Michael is a man of veracity and credible witness in the opinion of this deponent; that deponent believes he served as a soldier in the revolution as stated in his affidavit and deponent who saith that he has repeatedly conversed with the said Michael about his services in the Revolutionary War and has no doubt his statement is correct deponent served throughout the war and thinks that no man would impose upon him a factitious account of service which he had never performed.

Joseph Morrell

Sworn and subscribed
before me this fifteenth day
of September 1832

Gilbert Ogden Fowler, one of the Judges of the
Court of Common Pleas in and for Orange County
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Michael Smith

Judge Morrell
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State of New York
Orange County : ss:

Personally appeared before me Gilbert Ogden Fowler one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Orange aforesaid, John Mandevill of the Village of Newburgh to me personally known to be a credible witness who having been for me duly sworn according to law doth on his oath says; that he is well acquainted with Colonel Michael Smith was sworn to and subscribed the annexed affidavit in the year 1776 deponent saw hew timber for the Cevause de frieze [illegible] building on Nicolls Point in the Town of New Windsor; that he often saw Michael before named at work on the same under one Nozland who deponent understood commanded a party of min

John Mandevill

Sworn and subscribed this
fifteenth day of September
1832 before me

Gilbert Ogden Fowler, one of the Judges
of said Court of Common Pleas in and for
Orange County
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Michael Smith

John Garrett
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State of New York
Orange County : ss:

On the fifteenth day of ? in the year 1832, personally appeared before me Gilbert Ogden Fowler, one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Orange aforesaid at the office of Walter Case, Esq., in the Village of Newburgh, Michael Smith, seventy years a resident of the Town of Cornwall, who having been by me duly sworn doth for the purpose of obtaining the benefit of the Act of Congress of June 7th 1832 make the following declaration; that he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated; deponent entered the service in the month of April in the year 1775 in the City of New York in a Company of Volunteer Militia commanded by Captain Theophilus Beckman as a Lieutenant and served in the same as Sargeant until the month of March following said Company belonged to the regiment of Colonel John Lasher; we were volunteers and were to serve in the City aforesaid exclusively the Tories had been in the habit for some time of spiking our cannon on the battery and elsewhere; this occasioned their removal by us to Ballantines Hill at the eighteen milestone.  The Tories who seemed to be mightily afraid of the touch holes of our cannon came down to Ballantines Hill and began again to spike them to prevent this foul play a detachment of one company was sent in succession to stand guard over the cannon.  I took my regular tour with my company in the month of March 1776 about the time British  fleet at the narrows near Statten Island one whole regiment volunteered to serve in the regular
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Continental for nine months under the same officers.  In the month of April General George Washington ordered a detachment from our regiment under command of Lieutenant Ralph Thurman with a boat and field piece and 24 men to keep guard and prevent the enemy from harming the inhabitants on the Jersey shore.  I was orderly Lieutenant of the said company and one of the detachment John Garret whose affidavit is hereunto annexed and who had joined the said company at its first organization in April 1775 and had continued to serve in it ever since was also along.  We were stationed at the battle at Smiths Ferry near Bergen Point.  we had been arriving about this place three days when an enemies vessel was sent to approach us under a press of sail.  It was an armed square-rigged vessel and full of men and seemed to be particularly desirous of a more intimate acquaintance as we did not feel ourselves honored by their visit.  we ran our boat which was flat on shore in order to give them better reception.  No sooner had the boat landed than Lieutenant Thurman and all the party except John Garret one cannoneer young and myself ran off to three quarters treating our visitors with the utmost neglect. as I was now commander in Chief I ordered my company of three men to assist me in throwing over in six pounds and the one carriage. we had just got
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it placed in a conspicuous situation on the bank when the enemy approached within speaking distance and commenced firing at us without effect.  We had plenty of shot both round and grape and fired several times with round shot but they passed over them.  The enemy seemed to [illegible] us for our round shots and we resolved to give them an assortment, so we loaded our piece with grape She had anchored. just at the instant she had swung round so as to present her whole length to us. We gave her a raking fire which swept her deck from stem to stern. The enemy immediately shift her cable & made off with as much speed as possible. They seemed to be in great Hurry and confusion no sooner had they got under weigh [way] than Lieutenant Thurman and his party made their appearance. We drew our piece about three miles. Next morning returned with the three men before named against the remonstrance of the Lieutenant to endear or to secure our boat. We found two British tenders lying near her. Whilst we were near them we saw three British soldiers approaching us & on halting them they said they were friends to Congress They proved to be deserters from a party who had landed ^in the night for the purpose of cutting off our retreat. They informed us that our last shot had killed the Captain and six men and wounded nine others - We draged [dragged] our cannon to ^[illegible] and crossed but the news of our victory preceded us and occasioned considerable excitement in the city - Lieutenant Thurman immediately resigned - and Congress without Mr solicita
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sent me a Captains Commission but having
a grandmother mother and sister to support who lived in the City [illegible] solicitation declined accepting it in
the month of May next thereafter one Regiment was ordered on Long Island and
continued there on duty untill [until] the 29th
day of August when according to the best
of deponent's recollection the army retreat
at the battle of Flatbush I was one of the
Preket guard. We were drove in and
retreated according to orders to General
Washingtons head quarters at Brooklyn-
General Green Lord Sterling & General
Sullivan are the Regular officers deponent recollects at that Battle Smallwood
Regiment of Regulars Pars of Putneys
Regiment Drakes Regiment of Militia and also
Lashers Regiment were present Sullivan &
Sterling were taken prisoners-- From New York
our Brigade under the command of General  Scott which deponent thinks had all
been at the Battle on Long Island
Retreated on Sunday the fifteenth 
day of September to Harlem
Heights on Monday thereafter had a
skirmish with the same Captain Willcox commanded our party General Washington viewed the encounter from Harlem
heights, our Brigade lay on their arms the
night following from thence. We returned to Kingsbridge & lay there in tents & barracks
untill [unti] after the Brittish [British] landed at Frogs neck. Then we retreated to White Plains
I was in that battle which was fought the
latter part of November in the year 1776 one
brigade under the command of General Scott
& armed the center of the line
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Generals George and James Clinton were present as I have been informed and belief and Bauldins and Drakes regiment of Militia McDougal commanded the attack of the British was on the sight and center of our line.  They made a faint on the center and reinforced on the right.   Both armies encamped that night after the battle on the battle grounds.  It was a dark and rainy night.  We distantly saw the light of their fires and could hear the confused noise of their camp occasionally break thru the silent gloom which reigned throughout the field of Battle.  Washington had determined on renewing the engagement the next morning to prevent surprise we slept by our arms.  By dawn of day the next morning the Army was drawn out in line of Battle at [illegible] of Revillee [Reveille], when on examination, the British army were gone.  They had retreated to Dobbs Ferry and crossed.  We were ordered to march immediately for Kings Ferry and head them.  Next day we crossed the ferry to Stoney Point.  The time of our regiment had expired and we were then discharged.  I received a written discharge sometime in the month of December but it is now lost.  John Garret whose affidavit is annexed served with me in the same company from the beginning of my service in 1775 until I was discharged as aforesaid and received his discharge on the same day.  After the British took possession of New York, my Mother removed to Tappan before I had returned home.  I heard that the British had burnt Tappan Village.  I turned out as volunteer under Captain Blauvelt and we followed them as far as Hackensack.  I was gone one day in the year 1777.  I removed to New Windser then Ulster now Orange County and joined the company of Captain Christain Vanduzer as a militia man.  The Company was divided into detachments.  There were several redoubts erected extending from West Point to the forest of Dean numbered 1.2.3.4.  In the
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beginning of summer as deponent thinks from the circumstances of cutting weeds for a bed, I was ordered with a detachment to redoubt No. 1 in the mountains.  I was in the service one fortnight and was then relieved.  Henry Vanduzer of the Town of Cornwall was there with deponent.  In the Spring of the year 1777, I commenced working on the on the Chivaux Defoize [Chevaux de Frise] at Nicholls Point and continued to work about one year until they were finished but I was still liable to military duty service--ordered out to train as usual and was several times during that period ordered down to Fort Constitution and West Point as a soldier on [illegible] and went accordingly.  And in answer to the interrogatories specially put to the deponent by said Judge.  He on his oath saith that he was born in the City of New York in the year 1760.  That he has a record of his age at home in his family bible in the Town of Cornwall aforesaid that he lived in the City of New York when he first entered the service and he lived there until after the British took New York in the Fall of 1776.  That he then removed to Tappan and from thence to Cornwall where he now resides.  That he volunteered in the company of Captain Beckman as before mentioned in the Company of Captain Beckman as before mentioned, that he has all [illegible] selected such of the regular officers as were the troops when he served such continental and militia regiments as he recollects and the general circumstances of his service that he did receive a discharge which is now lost; that he is known to Joseph Morrel, Esquire and John Mandevill of his neighborhood who you testify to [illegible] action for veracity his services as a soldier of the revolution and deponent also saith that he is so old and infirm that he will not be able to attend the next Court of Record to be held in this County or any other Court of Record without endangering his life.  

Sworn and subscribed this
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He hereby relinquishes every claim to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his names not on the pension roll of the Treasury or any State.

Michael Smith

Sworn to and subscribed
the day and year aforesaid
Gilbert Ogden Fowler one of the
Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and
for Orange County
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I, Gilbert Ogden Fowler, a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, in and for the County of Orange aforesaid where the declarant read as to hereby certify that the above named Michael Smith by reason of old age and bodily infirmities is and will be unable to attend the next Court of Common Pleas or any other Court of Record to be held in and for the County aforesaid,  I have therefore attended at the office of Walter Case, Esquire in the Village of Newburgh where the said Michael personally appeared before me and having heard the proofs and allegations of the said Michael, his answers to the interrogatories specifically just to him in issuance of the request of the Secretary of War and the affidavits hereunto annexed do hereby declare my opinion that the above man is applicant was a revolutionary solder and served as stated and also that he will not be able to attend the next Court of Common Pleas or any other Court of Record to be held in said County.

Gilbert Ogden Fowler

September 19 1832
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to and subscribed and said witness subscribed as aforesaid a Judge of said Court and still is a Judge of the same and that the said Court is a Court of Record and that the signature of Gilbert Ogden Fowler subscribed to said certificate and affidavit respectively is the genuine signatures of said Judge.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand a seal of office this 22nd day of September 1832.

Asa Dunning
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State of New York
Orange County :  ss:

Personally appeared before me Gilbert Ogden Fowler, one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Orange, John Garret of the Town of Newburgh County and State aforesaid to me personally known to be a credible witness who having been by me duly sworn according to law deposeth and saith that he is well acquainted with Michael Smith of the Town of Cornwall named in the annexed affidavit and has been acquainted with him sixty years; that he served in the Company of Captain Theophilus Beckman with the said Michael in the Revolutionary War and in the regiment of Colonel John Lasher as he has particularly states in his affidavit from the month of April 1775 to the month of January 1777 deponent also saith that he has read the said affidavit of the said Michael Read and that all that part of said affidavit which relates to the service of the said Michael whilst in the Company of Captain Theophilus Beckman he knows to be true and the residue thereof he believes to be true deponent has often heard both at the time of the war and since that the said Michael was in the service of the United States after he was discharged at Harveston as stated in said affidavit.

John Garrett

Sworn and subscribed the
fifteenth day of September
1832 before me Gilbert Ogden Fowler
one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for Orange County
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admd

20 mo Sergt
14 mo pri
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In the matter of
Michael Smith, a
Sargent in the Army
of the Revolutionary
War who claims a
regiment under the
Act of Congress
of June 7th 1832

Supplementary Affidavit

Orange County: ss:

Personally appeared before me Gilbert Ogden Fowler, first Judge on the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Orange, Colonel Michael Smith, who swore to and subscribed the aforesaid declaration hereunto annexed to me personally known to be a credible witness who having been by me duly sworn according to law doth on his oath deposeth and says that he served in the company of militia commanded by Captain Theophilus Beckman in the regiment commanded by Colonel John Lasher from the month of April in the year one thousand and seven hundred and seventy-five until the month of March one thousand seven hundred and seventy-six and Company was raised in the City of New York and served as particularly described in the said original declaration eleven months in the month of March last mentioned, our whole regiment volunteered to serve in the regular continental army for nine months under the command of the same officers I served as a Sargent as aforesaid and in the company commanded by Captain Theophilus Beckman before named, until
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the end of said term, as stated in my original declaration aforesaid and was discharged on the twenty-sixth day of December in the year aforesaid according to the best of my recollection and belief John Garret whose affidavit is annexed served with deponent in said company from its first organization until April one thousand seven hundred and sixty-five, until his discharge on the twenty-sixth day of December on said at Harveston.  The duration of the service before Harveston as mentioned is one year and sixteen months in the year 1777 in the month of March I removed to New Windsor and one year afterwards then removed to the Town of Cornwall when I now resided after my removal to Cornwall as aforesaid.  I was within the beat and belonged to the company of Captain Christain Vanduzer in the summer of the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy-eight after my removal from New Windsor to Cornwall as aforesaid a detachment from the company of said Christain Vanduzer was ordered down to redoubt Number One in the mountains as aforesaid, I served with said detachment as a private one fortnight.  The whole term of my service as a Sargent in the Continental  Army was one year and eight months, and as a private in the
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Company of Captain Christian Vanduzer one fortnight, making one year eight months and one half that I served as a soldier in the army and deponent also saith that he served in the corps of officers under the command of Captain Machin and in the detachment under the immediate Command of Captain Benjamin Hoghland, one year from the first of April in the year 1777 to the first day of April in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy-eight at New Windsor aforesaid and was employed in working on the Chevaus de freize [Chevaux de Frise] and making wheel barrows, carriages and handles for various tools necessary for fortifying and making instruments and deponent also saith that he received a letter from the Pension Office at Washington City in answer to a former application of deponent which letter was directed to Joseph Morrell, Esquire and informed this deponent that after due examination it appeared satisfactory that deponent was entitled to a pension for nine
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months service according to deponent's recollection and belief.  

Michael Smith

Sworn and subscribed
this 22 day of April 
1833 before me

Gilbert Ogden Fowler
one of the Judges of Orange County
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We, Nathaniel Sackett, a clergyman residing in the Town of Cornwall in the County of Orange and State of New York and James O. Adams, residing in the same Town hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Michael Smith who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be seventy-two years of age that he is refuted and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion.

Nathaniel Sackett
James O. Adams

Sworn to and subscribed 
the ninth day of April 
1833

Gilbert Ogden Fowler
one of the Judges of
Orange County

I, Gilbert Ogden Fowler, first Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the said County of Orange do hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with Nathaniel Sackett and James O. Adams who signed and sworn to the preceding certificate before me that said Nathaniel Sackett is a clergyman resident in the said Town of Cornwall and that said James O. Adams is a Justice of the Peace residing in the same Town and is an able person and that their statement is entitled to merit.

Gilbert Ogden Fowler
First Judge of Orange County

I, Asa Dunning, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Orange do hereby witness that Gilbert Ogden Fowler before whom the supplementary affidavit of Michael Smith
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hereunto annexed was subscribed and sworn and also the preceding certificate of Nathaniel Sackett and Jame O. Adams and who subscribed the [illegible] preceding certificate was at the times when the said affidavits and certificate positively bear date First Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Orange.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 27 day of April 1833

Asa Dunning, Clerk
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November 11, 1931

BA-J/AWF

Edna Williams
Emlen Arms, Germantown
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter of November 8, requesting information in regard to Michael Smith of New York City, a soldier of the War of the Revolution.

The data furnished herein are obtained from the papers in claim, S. 14515, based upon the military service of Michael Smith in the Revolutionary War.

He was born in 1760 in New York City.

He enlisted, while residing in New York City, in April 1775 and served as sergeant in Captain Theophilus Beckman's company in Colonel John Lasher's New York regiment, length of this tour not shown.  He enlisted in March 1776 and served as orderly sergeant in Captain Theophilus Beckman's company in Colonel John Lasher's regiment, was in a skirmish near Bergen Point, battles of Long Island, Harlem Heights and White Plains, and was discharged in December 1776.

He moved in March 1777 to New Windsor, New York, and served in a corps of Artificers under Captains Machin and Benjamin Hoghland for about one year, when he moved to Cornwall, Orange County, New York and served two weeks under Captain Christian Van Duzer, was also out one day under Captain Blauvelt, when Tappan was burned.

He stated in 1828 that he was Lieutenant Colonel in the "last war".

He was allowed pension on account of his service in the Revolutionary War, on his application executed
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September 15, 1832, then a resident of Cornwall, 
Orange County, New York.

He stated that his grandmother, mother and sisters were living during the War of the Revolution, and that his mother moved from New York City, when the British took possession of the city, and went to Tappan.  He also in 1828 referred to his family.  He did not at any time given the names of his family.

The enclosed record is furnished without charge.

Very truly yours

A.D. Hiller
Assistant to Administrator
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14515

INVALID

File No. 14.515

Michael Smith

Sergt. & Pri. Rev. War

Act: June 7th 1832
Index:-Vol. 1, Page 349


[Arrangement of 1870]
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1906 Jan 17 - History to T.C. Smith
M.B.

Hist.  to Chas. E. Snyder
Mar. 17 1906

1931 Nov. 11 Hist. to Edna
Williams
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Rev.

Emlen Arms
Germantown, Philadelphia
Nov. 8, 1931

Pension Bureau
Washington, D.C.

Gentlemen:

I would very much appreciate it if you would advise me as to whether or not an ancestor of mine by name Michael Smith of New York City who served during the Revolution, was pensioned.  If so, I would be glad to send you the $2.00 which I believe is the cost of the book containing this information.
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I believe if this is the case, I shall be able to find some data necessary to fill out my D.A.R. papers.

My name and address is

Edna Williams
Emlen Arms
Germantown
Philadelphia, P.A.

I thank you for your kindness.

Sincerely,
Edna Williams

Received Nov. 9, 1931
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Lakewood School
Lakewood, N.J.
Nov. 27th, 1905

Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D.C.

My dear Sir:

Can you supply me with information concerning one Michael Smith, who served in a Minute Men's Co. during the Revolutionary War from Orange Co. New York and later received a pension which pension was sent by mail to Glenville, Schenectady Co., New York?

Any information concerning his record would be greatly appreciated.

Very sincerely,
T. Campbell Smith
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RICHARD KELLY, President
A. THOMPSON, Cashier

FIFTH NATIONAL BANK,
COR. THIRD AVENUE AND 23D STREET

New York, April 4, 1884

Wm. H. Dudley, Esq, Commissioner

Dear Sir:

Your favor of 2 inst. in reply and my letter of 29th is rec'd, Michael Smith, the Revolutionary soldier of whom I inquired was born in New York City, subsequently resided in Orchard Co. and returned by N.Y. City and resided there after the War.  I believe he was born May 2d, 1750 and died in N.Y. City April 24th, 1846.  I have no knowledge of the Co. or Regt. he served in.  The N.Y. Historical Society in a letter read before that society in 1859 mentions him as the captor of the first musket and accoutrements overtaken from a British soldier in an affray at the battle of Golden Hill N.Y. City in 1770, and that he joined the American Army at the beginning of the Revolution.  It has been said he raised a regiment or company and commanded it during the Revolution, but I can find no record of such service.  I believe he commanded a regiment in 1812 and would like a record of such service.

I quote the following from the New York Tribune Apl. 1846, "Another of the old Revolutionary Heroes Gone"
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Col. Michael Smith, whose name is intimately associated with our early struggle for independence departed this life on Friday in the 94th year of his age the remains followed by a detachment of the 6th Brigade commanded by General Morris's Co.  I have heard he received a pension for some service.  I have given you all the information I have about him.

I am a direct descendent of the soldier.  He was my great grandfather.  I wish to obtain the information for a record of the family and that the history of a brave man may not be forgotten.

Very Respectfully,
Thos. W. Smith
5 National Bank
New York

Late private and Co.
N.Y.
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RICHARD KELLY, President
A. THOMPSON, Cashier

14.515 Michael N.Y.C. 14880

FIFTH NATIONAL BANK,
COR. THIRD AVENUE AND 23D STREET,

New York, March 29, 1884

Hon. W. H. Dudley Commissioner of
Pensions

Dear Sir:

I wish to obtain the military record of a Revolutionary soldier namely Michael Smith.  He served in the Revolution from New York City, but in what regiment or in what capacity, I do not know.  I believe he received a pension for his services in the Revolution or 1812 or both.  I believe he was a Colonel in 1812 war.  He died in N.Y. City in Apl. 1846.  If he is on the pension roll I supposes you could give me whatever record you have for both the Revolutionary War, and the War of 1812.

Very Respectfully,
Thom. W. Smith
Fifth National Bank
New York

Post M.S.O
D.A.R. Dept. N.Y.
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6 Division St.
Schenectady, N.Y.
Dec. 27th, 1905

Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington, D.C.

My dear Sir:

Sometime ago, I wrote you in reference to obtaining information of one Michael Smith who served in a land bounty Regiment from Orange County during the Revolution and afterwards received a pension at Glenville, New York and to date I never received no reply, and will you kindly attend to it.

Very truly yours,

T. Campbell Smith
Lakewood School
Lakewood
New Jersey

Pension Office
December 28, 1905
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
PENSION OFFICE

Washington, D.C. April 2, 1884

Sir:  

Yours of the 29th ult. is received requesting the military record of Michael Smith, a revolutionary solder from New York City, but you do not give sufficient description to be able to positively identify him.  So far as is known, be pleased to state his residence after the war, the name of any incidents connected with his service.

Before furnishing the information, it is necessary that you state your relationship to the soldier, or if not a descendant, you should furnish proper authority for receiving the same, and the use that will be made of the information.

Very respectfully,
Commissioner

Mr. Thomas W. Smith
at 5th National Bank
New York City
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Information copied
from ship-with
engagement of Harlem Heights
added

Mar. 17, 1906
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THE LAKEWOOD SCHOOL
LAKEWOOD, N.J.

The Associate Head Master

13th March, 1906

Hon. Vespasian Warner,
Commission of Pensions,
Washington, D.C.

My dear Sir,

Michael Smith was a Revolutionary solider in Captain Vanduzen's Company, Colonel Woodhull's regiment, of Orange County, New York.  Will you kindly advise me if there is record of him in your office, and the data therein.   An early reply will be appreciated.

Very truly yours,
Charles E. Snyder

Dict.
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Hon.
Peter B. Foster
Secretary of War
Washington City
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Hon.
Peter B. Porter

Sir:

Herewith are enclosed affidavits to substantiate the claim of Col. Michael Smith to a pension for services in the Revolutionary War.  By reference to the affidavit of James Lent Registrant (I think) of the City of New York it will appear that Col. Smith served one year at another time than that on which his claim is founded.  I have no doubt he joined the Army immediately after the battle of Lexington assisted in removing the cannon from the battery in New York was one of them who fired on the old area Man of War and was in the service at different periods the greater part of the Revolutionary War then
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time elapsed since then has swept off almost all of his commanders; it would now be difficult to establish the whole time of his service if necessary.  We have established it by respectable witnesses for nine months which brings him within the terms of the pension law.  The Col. served during a considerable portion of the last war with the regular army and was afterwards detached and served on a court martial five years to the neglect of his business and the utter] ruin of himself and family.

I am respectfully yours,
Walter Case
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Letter of J.L. Edwards to
Joseph Morrell, Esq.
of 7th August 1832
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War Department
Pension Office
August 7, 1832

Sir:

Your letter of the 30th ult. has been received.  The papers of Col. Michael Smith cannot be returned as you desire, it being contrary to the rules of the Department to send out papers in such cases.  They have however been examined and contain satisfactory proof of nine months service as a private and orderly Sargeant in Col. John Lasher's regiment.

Enclosed herewith a copy of the regulations for his guidance.

I am very respectfully
your ob. servant
J.L. Edwards

Joseph Morrell, Esq.
New Windsor
Orange, Co.
New York
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Payments to be made
at New York
by the Resd. U.S. Br. Bk.
Agent for paying Pension-
ers, in the Agency of

New York

Recorded in the Pension Of-
fice, in Book E. Vol. 4
Page 78 by Jno. Cromwell,
Clerk
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WAR DEPARTMENT

REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM

I certify that, in conformity with the law of the United States of the 7th June, 1882, Michael Smith of the State of New York who was a Sargeant in the Revolutionary Army is entitled to receive One hundred and one dollars and fifty-four cents per annum, during his natural life, commencing on the 4th of March, 1881, and payable semi-annually on the 4th of March, and 4th of September, in every year.

GIVEN at the War Office of the United
States, this 25th day of
July one thousand eight 
hundred and thirty-three

John Robb,
Acting Secretary of War

Examined and Countersigned
J.L. Edwards, 
Commission of Pensions

1840
1778
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FINAL PAYMENT VOUCHER
Received from GAO