Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 22,240, for Jacob Smith, Connecticut
Page 1

Conn.    Smith, Jacob     W.22240
Continental      Hanna    BL.Wt.26335_160_55
Page 2

921                                    Reported
New York City
Hanna Smith
widow of Jacob Smith
who served in the Revolutionary 
war, as a private

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
               80 Dollars
Cents per annum, to commence on 
the 4th day of March, 1848.

Certificate of Pension issued the 
27, day of July 1848
and sent to
         Irving Paris
                 New York

Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act 
February 2, 1848, Page 185 Vol. 4
Page 3

[LEFT PAGE]

S 3095    Act Mar 3/55       
                           [illegible] 9/55
Hannah Smith wid of
Jacob Smith   priv

Revolutionary pensioner

NY Feby 48-921
CW: 160 AD May [illegible]
Boynton

M

[Illegible initials]  Livingston Jr
New York City
                 


[RIGHT PAGE]

[Line at top of page illegible]



Vol S 1, page 155.
Page 4

Marrd July 22 1784
Husband died 1811


Capt Jabez Fitch
                Count

Admitted
      Private 2 years

Capt Geo. Mills
No 1. Avenue C
New York
Page 5

I Henry Meigs, Clerk of the Court of Oyer and [?] and General Sessions of the Peace in and for the city and county of Newyork, Do Certify that Robert H. Morris Esquire, whose name is subscribed to the affidavit annexed is a Recorder of the City of New York and the presiding Judge of the Court of General Sessions of the Peace in and for the City and County of New York, and that the said Court is a Court of Record and that the Signature of Robert H Morris is his genuine Signature

Given under my hand and attested by the Seal of the said Court, this ninth day of November in the year of our Lord One thousand Eight hundred and thirty nine

                             H., Meigs. Clerk.

[A seal is affixed to the left of the above paragraph]
Page 6

State of New York
City & County of New York} SS

       On this 9th Day of November 1839 Personally appeared before the Court of Sessions of the City County & State of New York being a Court of Record Hannah Smith a Resident of sd City & County of NewYork now aged Seventy Three Years & nine months, who being First duly Sworn according to Law doth on her Oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Provision made by the act of Congress Passed July the 7th 1838 entitled an act Granting half Pay & Pensions to Certain Widows; That she is the Widow of Jacob Smith who was employed in the Years of 1777 & 1778 in the Artificers Department in making & Repairing Gun Carraiges, Waggons & Carts for the Army of the United States at & near Peekskill State of New York that in the Winter of 1779 & 1780 he went into the Armed Whale Boats Under the Command of Capt Jabez Fitch Capt Holly Capt Jones & Capt Lockwood as a private or Common oarsman and Remained in sd Boats in constant Service untill the Peace of 1783 and was in several Battles both on the Water & on the Land at one time he was Two Days & Two Nights in the Enemys Country with a Party of Boatmen who took Judge Jones & brought him off who was exchanged for General Silliman at one time he came in from a Cruise with others & brought in a Number of Wounded Men two of his Brothers & a number of others beside were wounded some of who Died of their Wounds I had an opportunity of knowing as my Uncle Ethan Smith with whom I lived was in the same Boats with the sd Jacob Smith and they were in constant service either on the Water or on the Land his Wife my Aunt Hannah Smith had a Pension for his Services but is since Dead    the place where the Boats when in port were hauled up was within Ten Rods of the House in which I lived & I could see distinctly every Person which went on Board of them or came on Shore from them, at another time they came in with a British armed vessel which with others they had captured the Commander of the prize was wounded with some others the Captain Died soon after they came on  shore & Lieutenant or more properly Ensign Andrew Mead of our Boats was badly Wounded  and Several Others beside for which Wounds he received a Pension I sincerely believe the aforesaid Jacob Smith was in Battle at the
Page 7

time the Refugees took the Revd. Moses Mather & his Congregation off as Prisoners from a part of Stamford now Darien & was also in Battle at the time the Refugees came to Greenwich & Stamford & took Prisoners & Cattle in the forepart of the year 1783 & that he was in Many other expeditions both on Land & on Water & was in constant service the Aforesaid Jacob Smith was a native of Stamford Fairfield County State of Connecticut   I myself was a native of New York but went to Stamford aforesaid in the year 2774 to Reside with my Uncle Ethan l Smith where I Stayed untill I Married the aforesaid Jacob Smith   we were married at Stamford aforesaid by the Revd John Avery on the 22 Day of July 1784 which was subsequent to his last term of service & previous to the 1st Day of January 1794 & that we resided in Stamford untill July of the Year 1800 when we came to the City of NewYork with my Family   my Husband Died in New York in Septr of the Year 1811 & I with my Family have Resided here since & have never Married again but still remain his Widow
                                          Hannah
              [Signed]       her        X      mark      
                                           Smith

Mary Smith
Taken & Srn before me
this 9th day of November
1839, and I Certify
that the Deponent
is a person of [illegible]
character and entitled to perfect
credit:        
[Signed] Robert H Morris -
Recorder of the City of
New York  -- the
examination was taken in Open Court
Page 8

personally appeared Hannah Smith aged Seventy Three Years before the Court of Sessions in open Court & being a Court of Record & did Depose and say that she is a native of the City & County of NewYork that in the year One Thousand Seven Hundred & Seventy Four she went to Stamford Fairfield County State of Connecticut to reside with her Uncle Ethan Smith where she became acquainted with Jacob Smith a native of said Stanford that in the year 1777 and 1778 the sd Jacob Smith was employed in the Artificers Department in making & repairing Gun Carraiges [sic], Waggons [sic], & Carts for the use of the Army of the United States and Worked at and near Peekskill State of New York that in the year 1779 he went into the Armed Whale Boats under the Command of Captn Jabez Fitch Captn Holly Captn Jones & Captn Lockwood as a Private or Common Oarsman & remained in sd Boats in constant service untill the Peace of March 1783 and was in several Battles both on the Water & on the Land at one time he was Two Days & Two Nights in the Enemy Country took Judge Jones & Brought him off who was Exchanged for General Silleman     at one time he came in from a cruise with others and brought in a number of Wounded Men Two of his brothers & a number of others beside were Wounded some of whom Died of their Wounds  I had an opportunity of knowing as my Uncle Ethan Smith with whom I lived was in the same Boats with the sd Jacob Smith and they were in constant Service either on the Water or on  the Land  His Wife my Aunt Hannah Smith had a Pension for his services but is since Dead   the place where the Boats when in port were hauled up was within Ten Rods of the House in which I lived and I could see every distinctly person which went on Board of them or came on Shore from then   at another time they came in with a British armed vessel which with others they had captured  The Commander of the Prize was Wounded with some others   the Captain Died soon after the came on Shore & Lieutenant or more Properly Ensign Andrew Mead of
Page 9

our Boats was badly wounded and several others beside for which wounded he received a Pension   I sincerely believe that the aforesaid Jacob Smith was in Battle at the time the Refugees took the Revd Moses Mather & his Congregation off as Prisoners from a part of Stamford now Darien and was also in Battle at the time the Refugees came to Greenwich and Stamford and took Prisoners & Cattle  in the fore part of the year 1783 and that he was in many other expeditions both on Land and on Water and was in constant service   the aforesaid Jacob Smith and myself were Married at Stamford by the Revd John Avery on the 22nd day of July 1784 which was subsequent to his last term of Service and Previous to the First Day of January 1794 and that we resided in Stamford untill July in the year 1899 when we came to the City of NewYork where I with my family have resided ever since my husband Died in NewYork in September of the year 1811 and I have never been Married since & still remain his Widow
                                        Hannah
                                Her       X       mark
                                         Smith
George Mills
Taken in open
Court:    RH Morris
Recorded & Presiding Judge
Page 10

 Act March 3d 1855.
Bounty land claim
            of
Hannah Smith
   presented by
V.B. Livingston, Jr:
    New York City.



[Illegible initials at bottom of page]
Page 11

State of New York
New York City and County} SS.
    On this 18th day of April 1855, before me a Notary Public, in and for the State and county of New York, personally appeared Hannah Smith, a resident of the City of New York, in said county aged ninety years, who on her oath declares, that she is the widow of Jacob Smith, deceased, who was a private in the Revolutionary War; that her said husband, continued in actual service in said war, for fourteen days and over, as will appear from the evidence already produced, and on file at the Pension Office at Washington; that she now received a pension of eighty dollars per annum, under the act of Congress of February 2d 1848, on account of the services of her said husband, in said war.  She makes this declaration, in order to obtain the bounty land, to which she may be entitled, under the act approved March 3d 1855 and further declares that she has never before applied for, nor received, any bounty land, under this, or any act of Congress.  She furthermore declares she is now a widow.
                                           her
      [Signed]       Hannah      X        Smith
                                           mark
Witness  [Signed]    Stephen Smith

We Stephen Smith, and Isaac P. Smith, residents of the city of New York, on our oaths declare, that we are personally acquainted with the above affiant Hannah Smith, that we
Page 12

know her to be the same person, she represents herself to be, in the foregoing affidavit, to which she has subscribed in our presence, and that she is now a widow.
                  Signed]   Stephen Smith
                                 Isaac P. Smith

The foregoing declaration and affidavit were sworn to and subscribed before me, on the day and year before written; and I certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons, that the claimant is the person she represents herself to be; and that I have no interest in this claim.

Seal                     [Signed] L.  Charlton Jr
Appears                            Notary Public
Here

    I hereby certify that Hannah Smith, who has signed the foregoing declaration, is a pensioner on the roll of this Agency, under act February 2d 1848.
             [Signed[  Van Brugh Livingston
                                        P. Agent

New York City Pension Agency   
              April 18th 1855.
Page 13

   v2803

Mo 22   July 1784
[illegible]  Sept 1811



Capt. George Mills
   No.1 Avenue C,
            New York
Page 14

I Henry Vanderwoort Deputy Clerk of the Court of Oyer and [illegible]  and General Sessions of the Peace and for the City and County of New York, Do Certify, that Robert H. Morris Esquire whose name is subscribed to the affidavits annexed is Recorder of the City of New York and the presiding Judge of the Court of General Sessions of the Peace in and for the City and County of New York, and that said Court is a Court of Record, and that the signature of " Robert H. Morris is his genuine signature -

 Given under my hand and attested by the Seal of the Said Court, this Seventh day of February in the year of our Lord, one Thousand   Eight Hundred and Thirty nine -
     [Signed]  Henry Vanderwoort


[A seal is affixed to the left of the prior paragraph]
Page 15

To J. L. Edwards Esqr Commissioner of Pensions at Washington City
    Sir enclosed is my Vouchers showing the service that Jacob Smith did for the United States in the War of the Revolutions and my marriage with him the time of his Death where we always resided and that I still remain his Widow. Please to enter my name on the Books for a Pension under the Law of July Seventeenth of the Year one Thousand Eight Hundred and Thirty Eight and Report your doings to George Mills No 1 Avenue C New York or if you should want any information on the subject by writing to Mr Mills you can obtain it
               [Signed]                 Hannah
                                     her        X       Mark
                                               Smith

[Signed] Chas. L. Dimon
Page 16

Jacob Smith and Hannah Thorpe were married
by Revd John Avery.... on July Twenty second One thousand seven hundred and Eighty four

I certify that the above is a true copy of the record, with the exception of the date, which is expressed on the record in fair legible figures, as follows _ July 22d 1784
   [Signed] Seymour Jarvis, Town Clerk of the
                     Town of Stamford in the
                           County of Fairfield and
                                 State of Connecticut

I Seymour Jarvis, above named, depose & say that I hold the office of the Town Clerk in the County, Town and State aforesaid, & that the above is a true extract from the records of said Town of Stamford, with the exception above named, as certified by me.
                [Signed]  Seymour Jarvis, Town Clerk
                                of the Town of Stamford
Stamford Aug.28.1838

Sworn and subscribed on the day and year last above written.  I further certify that Deponent is town Clerk of the Town of Stamford and a credible person.  In testimony of which I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official seal
    [Signed] Joshua B. Ferris Notary Public
Page 17

     Additional Testimony

Personally appeared George Mills aged Seventy Five Years & Nine Months before the Court of Sessions, in open Court being a Court of Record Deposed and said that he has ascertained that Jabez Fitch in the fore part of the Year 1779 was Commissioned a Captain Joseph Hull a Lieutenant Andrew Mead Ensign by Jonathan Trumbull Governor of the State of Connecticut with orders to raise by Voluntary enlistment Forty able Bodied Men if they could  if not to detach them from any Troops in the Public service and Procure light fast Rowing Boats and Cruise on Long Island Sound & elsewhere to go on the Water or Land to any place when they should Judge to be for the public service to capture and make prizes of any vessels or carraiges of people that were trading or dealing with [last word inserted] or providing the Enemy in any was in fore part of July of 1780   I belonged to a Regiment under the Command of Colonel Beebe Capt Jesse Bells Company that was raised for nine months and stationed at Horse Neck the Advances Post on the Lines that myself & a man by the name of Poor was detached from that Regiment and sent into them Boats where I remained in constant service untill the Peace of March 1783 and Capt Fitch paid me the same Wages I should have received had I stayed in said Regiment   I drew the same rations of Provisions from the Public Stores   Smith Weed was the issuing Commissary that supplied all those in public service on the lines at that time   Sd Smith Weed is now living and in the City of Albany in this state    when I went into those Boats I found the foresaid Jacob Smith was Private in them he told me he had been a long time in the artificers employment in the service of the United States that he wounded himself by striking a broad rod [?] into his knee that when he got able to walk he entered those Boats where he remained untill the Peace of 1783  while I was in those Boats I done more dangerous service and was in more constant employment both in Winter and Summer than when I was in the line of the Army
      [Signed]  George Mills

Taken in open
Court
   [Signed] Robt H. Morris 
                   Resident presiding Judge
Page 18

I George Mills aged Seventy Five Years and Four Months a Native of Stamford Fairfield County & State of Connecticut where I always Resided untill the year one Thousand Eight Hundred & Seven when I came to the City of New York where I have resided ever since, Do depose and say that from the year one Thousand and Seven Hundred and Seventy Two I was acquainted and Intimate with Jacob Smith of Stamford aforesaid that in the summer of one Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy Seven I entered the army of the United States for Three Years  that in July the same year Jabesh Smith a Soldier of the same Company with me while we lay in Camp at Peekskill was taken our of the Company to work with the artificers to make and repair Gun Carraiges Cart Waggons Build Barracks Stores & into which said Company he never returned but got a Pension for said Service, and I solemnly believe that the above Jacob Smith belonged to the same department, and that he was with Captn Holly Captn Jones & Captn Lockwood  that cruised Long Island Sound & were Two Nights & Two Days in an Enemy Country passed a Fort a Regiment of Hessian Troops and an Enemys Guard and went more than Fifty Miles & took Judge Jones and brought him off to exchange for General Silleman who was taken Prisoner in May one Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy Nine and exchanged in May one Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty, in July 1780 I went into the Whale Boats myself and found the said Jacob Smith in them where he and I remained in the Boats under Command of Captn Fitch Captn Brewster Capt Lockwood  Captn Jones & untill the Peace of March one Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty Three in which time we were the whole of our time in Service both on Land and on Water, we assisted in taking  more than Forty vessels & more than Three Hundred Prisoners   we were some time under the Command of Major Talmadge of Colonel Shelden's Regiment of Horse and sometimes under the Command of one of the Captn of our Boats, we at one time crossed Long Island Sound with Eight Boats under the Command of Major Talmadge concealed our Boats and ourselves one Day then went Twenty
Page 19

miles across Long Island took a Fort & Two vessels we burned the vessels and brought off more Prisoners than there were of our Party  we formed another Expedition under the Command of Major Talmadge took some of his Men on Board at Stamford to Cross Long Island and Surprise a Regiment of Hessians by the request of People near where they were encamped but the Weather became so stormy we could not cross  we concluded to wait untill the Weather moderated but Two of the Enemys Boats were secreted on our side   their Friends informed them of us  they started to cross the Sound to give notice of us   Two of our Boats went after them  our Boats had Twenty One Men on Board the Enemys Boats had Twenty Three Men on Board  Their Boats came together about Four Miles from our Shore, our Boats succeeded in taking the Enemys Boats after Killing Three of their men and Wounding Five more  We had Three of our men wounded  they brought the Boats with the Prisoners back with them, Captn Lockwood Captn Jones Captn Fitch with Four of their Boats and Forty men surprised and took a British armed vessel of Ten Cariage [sic] Guns & Forty Five Men with a Gun Boat and Five other vessels under her Convoy and brought them into Stamford   the Captn of the Enemys vessel was killed and more of his Men Badly Wounded.  Lieutenant Andrew Mead got a Pension for his Services the other Man a short time afterwards in battle at Greenwich was killed [last two words inserted] at another time this Captn Jones and Captn Lockwood with Two other Boats attacked Three vessels on the Sound  there was no Wind  their Commanders attempted to deceive us by secreting in one of them near Forty soldiers. on Board of the Boat that I was in were Eight men one of whom was killed and Five were wounded of whom Two were Brothers of sd Jacob Smith.  the aforesaid Jacob Smith was in one of the Boats which went along side of this vessel with the Soldiers in Board who rose and fired upon us  our Boat received the most of their fire  the two Brothers of sd Jacob Smith were badly  Wounded but we succeeded in taking Two of the vessels which we Brought into Stamford
Page 20

we were in more than Ten Battles in the Boats on the Sound and on Shore on Long Island and on Froggs Neck all of which were in the Enemys Country    at different times we had Five men killed and near Twenty Wounded when on Shore I was in Battle with the aforesaid Smith at the time when the Rev Moses Mather and his Congregation were carried away    after this we had 3 men Killed and several wounded by a Party that Landed near Stamford they marched into the Country and took a number of Prisoners and Cattle on their return the Stamford Melitia [sic] and Whale Boat met them Retook the Prisoners and Cattle we had Three men Killed and several Badly Wounded doing it we wounded the Commander of the Enemy and several of his Men and took them - Prisoners but most of them got on Board their vessels and got away   we ere under the Command of Major John Davenport when the Enemy came to Greenwich & Stamford in Jany of the year 1783 where the Man was killed that was wounded in taking the armed vessel. He came to Reside in this City and Died in the fall of the year one Thousand Eight Hundred and Eleven and the present applicant is the widow of the aforesaid Jacob Smith not having been Married again she still remains his Widow and has resided here ever since

PS.  The aforesaid Jacob Smith was with [last word inserted] me in all those places I have described with the exception of the Party under Major Talmadge which crossed to Long Island and took a Fort & Two vessels Prisoners, etc.  
                   [Signed] George Mills
Sworn this 12th day of
September 1838 before
me -  & I also certify
that the above [illegible]
party and persons to
be believed
    [Signed] Rbt H. Morris - Recorder of the City 
                              of New York
Page 21

R.C.R.                                     Taylor, Pa.
                           Dec. 12.1902.

Dept. of the Interior.
Washington, D.C.
Sir:  Hannah 22240
    Will you please send to my address a statement of the military history of Jabez Gorham, Revolutionary War, served from Ballston, Saratoga Co. N.Y. (I think) probably Vermont.

Also of Jacob Smith who served in Rev. War from south eastern N.Y. or Long Island and favor.
      Yours very truly,
                      Mrs. Anna Drake Kennedy
To                             Taylor
Box 83,                 Lacka Co., Penn.
Page 22

[Rectangular stamp]

U.                           S.
OLD WAR &  NAVY 
      DEC 18 1902
             FILES
P.                            B.



[Round stamp]

     PENSION      
           D
         DEC
U.        16        S.
         1902      
       OFFICE
Page 23

                   3573
New York   City   Reported
Hannah Smith
widow of Jacob Smith
who was a Private
in the Revolution

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
80 Dollars --
Cents per annum, to commence on
the 4th day of March, 1843.

Certificate of Pension issued the
   22nd day of Dec 1843
and sent to Geo Mills
           94 Canal Street
                   New York

[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book A
Vol. 1. Page 114
Page 24

New York  4,784

  Hannah Smith
widow of Jacob Smith
and who died on the - Sep 1811
N. York Co. in the State of New York
he was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Fitch of the ........... commanded by .............. in the Con.
line for 2 years

Inscribed on the Roll of New York 
at the rate of 80 Dollars ___Cents per annum commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.

Certificate of Pension issued the 2d day of Dec.
          1839 and sent to Capt George 
       Mills No. 1 Avenue C, New York

Arrears to 4th Sep 39                         280.00
Semiannual allowance ending             40.00
                      4 Mar/Sept.                ________
                                                         $320.00
                             
                                                        {Act July 7,
                                                            1838.}                
               
Recorded by D. Brown   Clerk,
Book A, Vol. 2, Page 101
Page 25



[LEFT PAGE]

Dec 27 -1902
Mrs. Anna D. Kennedy
          Taylor Pa


[RIGHT PAGE]

          WIDOW,  &C.

    File No.    22240
            Hannah Smith
               widow of 
            Jacob Smith
                   Pri Rev War

           Act Feb 2d  48

   Index: Vol M, Page 224
       [Arrangement of 1870.]
Page 26

    26.335

       {


     Rev Army
Page 27

V   N. York
Hannah Smith
let. to Geo. Mills  5 July 1839
   to same 31. Oct 1839.
Page 28

                         New York Novr 9th 1839
To J. L. Edwards Esqr
            Sir I return to you the Declaration
of Hannah Smith Widow of Jacob Smith, both  the old one and the New one, her other papers with the Certificates of the Secretary of State & the Comptroller of the Treasurer at Hartford State of COnnecticut Respecting the Appointment the Services and the Money paid to Jabez Fitch for his Company you have on your files
                       [Signed]  George Mills
                                     No 1 Avenue C.
Page 29

                                   J.L. Edwards Esqr
Page 30

                          New York July 29 1843

To J. L. Edwards Esq Commissioner of Pensions Washington City
          Sir I return to you the application of Mrs. Hannah Smith with the Certificate of the Clerk & the Seal of the County attached to it.  Yours Respectfully
                              George Mills 94 Canal
                             Street City of New York
J. L. Edwards Esq
Page 31

                                       Comptrollers Office
                                       Hartford Sepr 9 1839
I Certify that On Application for evidence of the service of Jacob Smith/late Husband of Hannah Smith in the War of the Revolution under Cap Jabez Fitch/ Waterbury Regiment I have examined the Books & papers remaining in this office and do not find the Pay Roll of Cap Jabez Fitch - that on Pay Table Book in the following Account_
        Cap. Jabez Fitch                     D
1781 Jan 25 To, Order on Tres Lawfull Money    L100.0.0
     Dec 21 to, Cash of Col. Well's Sundy Lines S May                                                                                                                                        
                                      44.19.4
1783  June 5  To  Order in Tr for [?] pay 3 years [?] 311 5/4                                       
                Under the Head of War      DC
                    Cap Jabez  Fitch
1782  Apr 4  To Order on [?] for Jabez Fitch Pay Roll
   Waterbury Regiment [illegible]  Jan 2lb L 1349.4.10
1783 June 3  To Order on [?] for Cap Jabez Fitch Pay Roll
       his Company of Independent Volunteers  L 1105.6.5 
        Corresponding Entries in Haskell's benefits
    under the Head of  [illegible] of the Port at Greenwich
1782 Apr 6  Cap Jabez Fitch  Port of Greenwich                                                                     L1349.4.10
1783 June 3   Cap Jabez Fitch  Port at Greenwich  L1101.14.11
          
            [Signed] Henry Kilbourn Comp

Turn over
Page 32

I further Certify that I find in the Council of Safety under date of June 2nd 1781 Resolved that the Boats taken into Public Service and employed by Capt Jabez Fitch for the purpose of the defense of this State and anoying [sic] the Enemy be kept in repair at the expense of the State and that the owners of said Boats shall be entitled to the same share for the use of their Boats in all prizes taken as is usual to be drawn by Boats in such service - and under date of January 1781 Capt Jabez Fitch of Greenwich is authorized to raise an Independent Company to serve 3 months  or during the War '/o Serve by Land or water,
         [Signed]     Henry Kilbourn Comp
Page 33

        New York March 27th 1843

To J L. Edwards Esq. Commissioner of Pensions at Washington City  Sir there are three Widows of Soldiers of the War of the [last three words inserted] Revolution that was on the act of July 7th 1838 on the New York Agency whom I assisted to obtain and get there [sic] Pensions under that Act who employed me to take charge of their business if the pensions should be renewed or [word inserted] continued in any way. I saw a notice in the  [illegible] from Mr. Irvin of the Pension Agency of this City to Widows, that were entitled [?] to one year Pension under the Act of March 3-1843, he requested them to call on him at his office he would tell them how to proceed.  I called on him and stated there[sic] cases,  and he said they were in such situation he did not now how to answer them, and wished me to wright [sic] to you at Washington stating all the cases and request to you to send me some Instruction how to proceed and a coppy [sic] of the Law, with the Necessary papers, the first of them is Hannah Smith, widow of Jacob Smith, know [sic] of this City, who was on the Act of July 7th 1838 at $80 Dollars per Annum - and still remains his Widow, and is entitled to the Act of March 3 - 18843. I wish to know wether [sic] she Must go before a Magistrate or Judge in open Court and make Oath that she still remains the widow of Jacob Smith.  I would further ask for Information In case she cannot go to Court In Consequence of her age or Infirmity and if A Magistrate cannot be found that knows her to be the same person and she can find a respectable witness that knew her Husband in service, and that he knew her to be the same that were on the Act - 1838 and that she still remains his Widow. 2d is Rebecca Smith Widow of Joseph Smith 3d who was on the agency of this City at $80 per Annum
Page 34

under the Act of July 7th 1838 she having no permanent home but is now with her children in Connecticut, if she should not return to this City, can she make her application in Stamford Connecticut or wether [sic] she cannot draw the Money from the NewYork Agency, it being only 36  Miles Distance, she having friends here [last word inserted] that I would [illegible] her.  If she had to draw it from the Connecticut Agency which is nearly 100 Miles distance and no direct Communication and it would cost her Nearly one half of the Amount to obtain it

The next is Mary Town, Widow of William Town, who resided and Recd her money from the New York Agency $100 Dollars per Annum under the act of July 7th 1838 and know [sic] under the act of March 3d 1843 at $100 Dollars Per Annum  the said Mary Town removed from New York to the City of Nashvill [sic] State of Tenesee [sic] when her last six monthly pay was due under the act of 1838  she sent me a power of Attorney with her old Certificate    which I gave up to the Agnt - I received her Money and sent it to her  I have not heard from her since -
Please answer this and I will Inform these widows what they must due [sic] to obtain their Money
My residence is now at 88 Bayard St on the 1st of May  I shall remove to 94 Canal St   
                     Yours Respectfully I am
  [Signed]  George Mills
J.L. Edwards Esq
Page 35

   J. L. Edwards Esqr
Pension Office  Washington City
Page 36

                         New York Septr 24th 1839

Sir
   In answer to your Letter of War Department Pension Office Dated July 5th 1839 Respecting Hannah Smith Wd of Jacob Smith which year you have filed in your Office I have procured the Certificate of the Secretary of the State of Connecticut which show that Troops were raised and Stationed on the Coast of Connecticut from Greenwich to New London as Coast Guards and the Cruising Boats were procured to Cruise on Long Island Sound & likewise the Men belonging to those Boats to go on the Land to anoy [sic] the Enemy and give notice of their approach and to intercept Traders and that Captn Jabez Fitch had the Command of some of those Boats to Raise Men by Voluntary Enlistment and if not to detach them from the Militia of the State of Connecticut the whole of the Coast Guards & the Boats to be under the Command of Col. Wells or Waterbury or whoever should Command on the lines.  I like wise send you a Certificate of the Comptroller of the State of Connecticut showing large sums of Money has at this time to Captn Jabez Fitch & his Men for their services but the Comptrollers cannot find the Names of his Crews on his books but I myself as you will find my Deposition on your files did serve in those Boats under Captn Jabez Fitch & when I went into them in the Summer of 1780
Page 37

I was detached from a Connecticut Regiment stationed at Greenwich on the Lines I found the sd Jacob Smith in the Boats when I entered them and remained in Company with him untill the Peace of 1783. Mrs. Smith does not know what officers he served under in the Artificers Department but knows that he worked at the Continental Villadge - Peekskill State of New York. I myself was in a Regiment for 3 years encamped the latter part of the year 1777 at that place and that Jabez Smith a Soldier in the same Company with me was detached & joined the same artificers and Worked near where we were encamped but I do not know who commanded then the sd Jabez Smith remained with them for 3 years & he received a Pension for his service but is now Dead.
Mrs. Smith did not take a Copy of her deposition & dont like to make another without that is returned but if their cannot be another please to return the one you have & point out the objections to it.  Mrs Stated in her Deposition that those Boatmen Rendezvoused at Stamford when on shore the Comptroller says that he paid this money to Captn Jabez Fitch a being posted at Greenwich   I would explain that in the Summer of July 1780 I was in a Regiment under the Command of Col. Beebe at Horse Neck or Greenwich which is the same place Col Wells Commanded on the Lines I was detached from Said Regiment and put into the Boats and Rendezvoused at Greenwich untill the latter part of the year 1781 when General
Page 38

Waterbury took the Command on the Lines and we all Retired to Stamford where we rendezvoused untill [sic] the peace but when Captn Fitch was appointed Greenwich was the Post
      [Signed] George Mills
 No. 1 Avenue C N York

J. L. Edwards Esqr
Pension Office
Washington City
Page 39

          Application of Hannah Smith 
             Wid: Jacob. under Act 2d
                 Feb 1848

                                  Ad
                                    357.00


                                  Admitted



                                  Irving Paris
                                        New York
Page 40

State if New York
City and County of New York} Js:
On this twelfth day of May AD 1848 before me. Irving Paris a Commissioner of Deeds duly authorized by law to administer oaths in and for said city and county, personally appeared Hannah Smith, a resident of the City of New York, aged Eighty two years, who being first duly sworn according law, doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed 2d February, 1848:

That she is the widow of Jacob Smith who was a private in the War of the Revolution, and that she received a pension at the New York City agency of Eighty dollars per annum under the Act of 17th June, 1847 -
 She further declares that she is still a widow
                                                her
                            Hannah         X       Smith
                                               mark
Sworn to and subscribed on
the day & year above written
     [Signed] Irving Paris
Commissioner of Deeds
                         Witness Purie  M. Irving

I certify that the above named declarant is personally known to me, and that she is the same individual who drew a pension as 
[illegible] by her in the foregoing declaration
              [Signed]  Irving Paris
                Commissioner of Deeds -
Page 41

STATE OF NEW YORK,
CITY AND COUNTY OF NEW YORK,} SS.

I, James Conner, Clerk of the City and County of New York, and also Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for said City and County, DO HEREBY CERTIFY, That Irving Paris before whom the annexed deposition was taken, was, at the time of taking the same, a Commissioner of Deeds - in and for the said City and County, duly commissioned and sworn, and I believe the signature of said Commissioner thereunto subscribed is genuine.

In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the Seal of the said Court and County, the 13 day of May 2848
          [Signed]   James Conner   Clerk
Page 42

No 2603
H. Smith

$80 per ann

Geo. Mills
No. 92 Canal Street
       New York
Page 43

      New York  Decr. 11 1843
The subscribe applies to J. L.
Edwards Esqr. Commissioner of 
Pensions at Washington City to be put
on the Act of Congress of March 3 1843
granting Pensions to the widows of 
any Person who served in the War
of the Revolution for one year at 
the rate of Eighty Dollars per annum 
and to enable you to do it she makes
the following declaration -
                                       her
                        Hannah    X    Smith
                                      mark
(Witness)
John Newhouse
State of New York 
City and County of New York}

      On this 11th day of Decr. 1843 Personally appeared before the Subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in and for the City and County of New York, Hannah Smith a resident of the said City aged about seventy eight years who being by me duly sworn according to law, (the said Hannah Smith being to me personally known) [all words in the  parentheses are underlined] doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the Benefits of the Provisions made by the Act of Congress passed on the third day of March 1843 granting Pensions to widows  of Persons who served in the War of the Revolution that she is the widow of Jacob Smith who served as an artificer in the line of the
Page 44

Army and likewise on Board of armed Boats which were employed as Coast Guards and cruising on Long Island Sound which rendezvoused at Stamford and Horse Neck under the command of Captain Jabez Fitch and Capt. Ebenezer Jones and that she received a Pension of Eighty Dollars per year under the Act of July 7 1838 and she further declares that she is the widow of Jacob Smith at the time making this declaration -
                                           her
           [Signed]   Hannah     X      Smith
                                          mark

Taken and subscribed
the 11t day of Dec 1843
before me
   [Signed]  John Newhouse
Justice of the Peace
in and for the City and
County of New York
Page 45

STATE OF NEW YORK
CITY AND COUNTY OF NEW YORK}SS.

I, NATHANIEL JARVIS, Clerk of the City and County of New York. DO HEREBY CERTIFY, That John Newhouse before whom the annexed deposition was taken, was, at the time of taking the same, a Justice of the Peace in and for the said City and County, duly  commissioned and sworn, and that I believe the signature of said Justice  thereto subscribed is genuine.

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said County, the Eleventh day of December 1843.
         {Signed] Nathl Jarvis  Clerk

{Seal
affixed 
here]
Page 46

To J L Edwards Esqr  Commissioner of Pensions

 I again send you the Application & Declaration of Hannah Smith Wd of Jacob Smith to be put on the list for a Pension of $80.00/00 per year under the Act of the 3 of March 1843 with witness to the Certificate of the magistrate which I hope will be sufficient to obtain   I would certify that I myself was more than 2 1/2 years in the same Company and same service with the aforesaid
Jacob Smith in the War of the Revolution & that I was intimate with him untill [sic] his Death & was personally acquainted with the present applicant before her marriage with the Sd Jacob Smith & have been a neighbor to her ever since & that she is now his Widow & know that she received a pension of $80.00/00 per year under the act of April 7th 1838 for five years

            [Signed] George Mills 94 Canal St
Page 47

I thereby certify that at the January session of the General Assembly of the State of Connecticut in 1780 - A Resolution passed said Assembly to raise forty men to be stationed at Greenwich as guards for the purpose of defense against invasions of the enemy to prevent unlawful intercourse, with them also twenty six men to be stationed at Stamford - Also sixty seven men, over and above the Matrass Company stationed at Stamford, Also  others to be raised and stationed at Norwalk. Fairfield, Stratford, Milford, New Haven, Branford, Guilford, Killingworth, Saybrook, forty five men also be raised & stationed between the mouth of Conn River & New London - Also two Companies of fifty men each to do the duty of Artillery or Matrass if necessary, or such other duty ordered of soldiers as shall be reasonably required of them by their officers. At New London, Groton or Stonington, as the Govt & Council of safety should direct - said Guards to be continued in service until the first day of January (then) next, unless sooner dismissed -  Also that one suitable convenient boat be provided for each respective town located on the Sea coast in this State, and two Boats between Connect River and
Page 48

New London, and said Boats to be used under the directions of the commander of the guards [illegible] in each respective Town, to cruise in the Sound, every night in the most effective manner to prevent all intercourses with the enemy  - said guards to be raised by voluntary enlistment of affected by the first day of April (then) next if not then affected, then to be detached from the militia of the State - also that these be raised & acquired for the service aforsd two Regiments under the command of one Lieut Col Commandant, one Major, each Regiment to consist of eight companies, Each Company to consist of fifty five privates & their officers, to be continued in services until the first day of January (then) next unless sooner dismissed -  To be raised by voluntary enlistment, if they can be raised by the first day of April (then) next if not, then by detachment    And  I further certify that it appears upon Record in this office also that Jabez Fitch was Captain of the Fourth Regiment under Lieut Col Levi Welles & Elias Buell Major, being one of the Regiments so ordered as aforsd to be raised -
                  In testimony of which I have
Page 49

hereto affixed the seal of this State of Connecticut at the Office of the Secretary of sd State in Hartford September 10th AD 1839
sent signed the same
                      F F Hinman Secretary
                           of sd State