Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 9,796, for William Smith, New Jersey
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(3 - 1776) SERVICE New Jersey 
Smith William 
Martha
NUMBER R 9796
CONTENTS 
S. born Mar. 10, 1754
res. at eul. Gloucester Co. NJ. & died there Sept. 7, 1832
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To the Honorable the Legislative Council and General Assembly of the State of Newjersey -the petition of your Petitioner Respectfully sheweth, that he is a citizen of Newjersey and that he is now in the Seventy Eighth year of his age - and that he took up farms in the defence of his country during the struggle for Independence - That he was commissioned as an Ajutant of the second Battalion of the County of Gloucester where Richard Somers Esq. was Colonel - as will further appear by my Commission your Petitioner served under the commission During the Revolutionary war and was frequently called out on Duty, one tour at a place called Amboy and was there when Eight Hessians war taken prisoners at Stratten Iland and brought to Amboy and always Indeavoured to fulfill his duty [a so to do] officers under said Commission when the [illegible] required so to do - Your petitioner can truly say that he served his country with pleasure during the great struggle for Independence -  your Petitioner did at that time and for a number of years [illegible] possess a sufficiency of of Real and Personal Estate to support him and his family for the span of thirty or forty years, & since then has become unable to labor, and though [illegible] disposition and old age have came in Indigent and [illegible] and at this time not able to walk a short distance nor able to feed himself by Reason of the Shaking Palsey - Gentleman the services referred to in the above statement as I observed before was rendered my Country with Reason and if it was not for my Extreme necessities and my inability to the process the necessary
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comforts of life I would not have made [illegible] to your Honours for Releife but under the present oppressed Circumstances of poverty and want your petitioner addresses himself to your Honours and asks you to grant him a pension sufficient to alleviate his sorrow and smooth his passage to the Grave and he will [illegible] feel the most unbounded gratitude William Smith Gloucester County Weymouth Township 
February 2 1832. Be it Remembered that on the Second day of February 1832 Personally appeared before the Subscriber one of the Justices of the peace in and for the County of Gloucester William Smith the within named petitioner who was by me duly affirmed and on his affirmation saist that the foregoing statement contained in the said Petition is just and true agreeably to the best of his recollection Benjamin Weatherby State of New Jersey Gloucester County Personally appeared before me Benjamin Weatherly one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said County John Ingersoll, who being by me duly sworn, and depose and say that he is well acquainted with William Smith the within Petitioner, and further saith the said William Smith was an officer during the Revolutionary struggle for independence, that the said deponent will recollects being stationed at Woodbury in the said County of Gloucester and that the said William Smith was stationed there at the same time -  as far as this deponent recollects and firmly believes the said Smith discharged his duty as a soldier and is entitled to relief
Sworn and subscribed before me on this [illegible] day of February 1832 Benjamin Weatherby  John Ingersoll his mark 
Smith, Wm. NJ R9796
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County Atlantic }
State of New Jersey }
Personly appeared before me one of the Justices of the peace Wesley Smith and on his oath saith that the signature to the foregoing affidavit is Wm Smith's own hand riting which was taking Before Benj Wetherby Esq. In Feb 2 1832 Sworn to and subscribed this 24 day of Sept AD 1858 - Before me Richard S Ireland JP State of New Jersey}
Atlantic County}  I Joseph B Walker Clerk abov of the County of Atlanta do certify that Benjamin Weatherby and Richard S Ireland before whom the foregoing affidavits were taken were at the time of the time they were taken Justices of the Peace of the said County of Atlantic that the signatures are in their own proper handwriting and that the are duly authorized by law to administer oaths for general purposes Witness my hand and seal of Office this first day of October in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and fifty three Jos B Walker Clk 
[County Seal Affixed to Page]
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We the Subscribers, being intimately acquainted with William Smith, the within named Petitioner, do know him to be a man of honesty and sobriety, and also a man of the most strict integrity -- he is at this time in a situation that calls loudly for relief-- we have no hesitation in recomending him to your honors, as one of those Revolutionary characters who is entitled in justice to receive aid from the Government. February 4, 1832 
Benjamin Weatherby 
John Godfey Jnr 
William Champion 
John Godfrey Senr 
Jn B. Richardson 
Edmond Taylor 
Elias Gifford 
George B Treen

Petition Wm. Smith for relief
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Mays landing Atlantic County 
Personally appeared Jacob Applegate the husband of Martha late Martha Smith, Daughter of William Smith and Martha Smith, the said Jacob Applegate being duly Sworn before me Philip Emmel one of the Judges of the Court of Common pleas in and for the County of Atlantic and State of New Jersey, and on his solemn oath saith, This Bible wherein the Marriages of the said William and Martha Smith are recorded, also the births of their Children, has been in his posession since the death of William Smith, who died September 7th 1832 
Subscribed and Sworn to before me this 8th day of November AD 1853 Philip Emmel  
Jacob Applegate   
Gloucester County New Jersey Family Register William Smith Born the 10th of March 1754. Martha Scull Born the 12th December 1757 Maried the 30th of April 1776. off-Spring
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Off Spring, Born. 
Sarah Smith Daughter of William and Martha, Born December 14th AD 1778. Abel Smith Son of William and Martha Born January the 28th A.D. 1780. Elizabeth Smith Daughter of William and Martha Born January the 4th A.D. 1782 Jesse Smith Son of William and Martha Born May 31st Anno Domini 1784. John Scull Smith Son of William and Martha Born April the 29th Anno Domini 1786. Abigail Smith Daughter of William and Martha Born September 15th Anno Domini 1788. Hannah Smith Daughter of William and Martha Born June the 12th Anno Domini 1791. Died September the 19th anno domino 1833 aged 42 years 3 months and 7 days. John Wesley Smith Son of William and Martha Born August the 5th Anno Domini 1793. Died May the 27th Anno Domini 1827 aged 33 years 9 months and 22 days. William Smith Son of William and Martha Born November 11th Anno Domini 1795. David Smith Son of William and Martha Born April the 15th anno Domini 1798. Martha Smith Daughter of William and Martha Boon July the 21th anno Domini 1801. In memory of John Scull Smith, who departed this life the Fourteenth of June 1812. the
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The twentieth day of August 1798. Also David Smith, who departed this life the Fourteenth of June 1812. In Memory of William Smith who departed this life the Seventh day of September Anno Domini 1832, Aged 78 years 6 months and 7 days. Martha Smith who departed this life May the Seventh A.D. 1844. 

State of New Jersey Atlantic County 
I Philip Emmel one of the Judges of the Court of Common pleas in the of County and State afore said, do certify the foregoing of Marriage and Births and deaths are a true copy which are recorded in a bible Printed (viz). Cambridge printed by Joseph Benthan printer to the university, sold by Benjamin Dodd book seller at the Bible and Key in [illegible] Mary lane near the Paul London 1762. Witness my hand and seal this the Eight day November in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and fifty three 1853 Philip Emmel [Illegible] the words fourteenth of June 1812 erased, and the word Mary (Erased) was an over sight by myself in looking over the record Witnessed my hand November 8 1853 Philip Emmel
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State of New Jersey Atlantic County
I Joseph B Walker Clerk of the County of Atlantic do certify that Philip Emmel before whom the foregoing affidavits were taken and who gave the foregoing certificates was at the time and still is a Judge of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas of the County of Atlantic and that the signature thereto is genuine Witness my hand and seal of office this eighth day of December in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and fifty three Jos B Walker Clk
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Gloucester County, New Jersey Family Register William Smith, Born the 10th of March 1754. Martha Scull, Born the 12th of December 1757. Married the 30th of April 1776 ----
Offspring. Born. 
Sarah Smith, Daughter of William and Martha, Born December 14th A.D. 1778. ---- Abel Smith Son of William and Martha, Born January the 28th A.D. 1780 ---- Elizabeth Smith Daughter of William and Martha, Born January the 4th A.D. 1782 ---- Jesse Smith, Son of William and  Martha, Born May 31st Anno Domini 1786.
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John Scull Smith, Son of William and Martha, Born April the 29th Anno Domini, 1786. ----Abigail Smith, Daughter of William and Martha, Born September 13th Anno Domini 1788. ----Hannah Smith, Daughter of William and Martha Born June the 12th Anno Domini 1791. Died September the 19th Anno Domini 1833. Aged 42 years 3 months and 7 days. ---- John Wesley Smith, Son of William and Martha, Born August the 5th Anno Domini 1793. Died May the 27th Anno Domini 1827 Aged 33 years 9 months and 22 days. ---- William Smith, Son of William and Born November the 11th Anno Domini, 1795 ---- David Smith, Son of William and Martha, Born April the 15th Anno Domini 1798.
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3 Martha Smith Daughter of William & Martha Born July the 21st Anno Domini 1801 ----
 In Memory of John Scull Smith, who departed this life the twentieth day of August 1793. Also. David Smith, who departed this Life the 14th day of June 1812. In Memory of William Smith, who departed this Life the Seventh day of September Anno Domini 1832. Aged 78 years 6 months & 7 days   Martha Smith, who departed this Life May the 7th A.D. 1844.
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4. 
Jacob Applegate, son of Bartholomew and Mary Applegate, was born April the 8th A.D. 1792 John W Applegate, son of Jacob & Martha Applegate, was born May the 18th A.D. 1822 ---- William Smith Applegate, son of the above, was born July the 15th A.D. 1824. ---- Mary Ann Applegate Daughter of the above, was born July the 25th A.D. 1826. ---- Bartholomew Applicate son of the above, was born February the 16th AD 1829. ---- Jacob Applegate son of the above was born July 16th A.D. 1831 ---- Samuel B. Applegate son of the above, was born December the 26th AD. 1833. ---- Edmund L. B. W. Applegate son of the above, was born March 16th 1837. ---- Joseph W. Applegate Son of the above, was born November 29th 1839. ---- Mary Ann Applegate Daughter of Jacob and Martha Applegate departed this Life November the 21st A.D. 1832 Aged 6 years 3 months & 27 days ---- Bartholomew Applegate son of the above departed this Life December the 26th A.D. 1832, aged 3 years 10 months and 10 days ----Samuel B. Applegate son of the above departed this Life January the 31st A.D. 1836 aged 2 years 1 month and 5 days.
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We hereby certify that the within is a true Copy of the Family Record, filed in the case of Martha Smith, decd wid of Wm N.J. under Act July 4th 1836. 
R.J. Cass
Wm Ogden Miles
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State of New Jersey Atlantic County}  On the 13th day of September personally appeared before the Judges of the Court of Atlantic County in April Court Martha Applegate a resident in the County of Atlantic and State of New Jersey the said Martha Applegate aged fifty two years and fifteen days who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7, AD 1832. Saith that her father entered the service of the United States in Seventy hundred and Seventy Six under the commission of Adjutant the said deponent further saith that she has seen her fathers commission signed by George Washington Commander in Chief she saith that her father William Smith was in the Second Battalion of Gloucester Milltown commanded by Col Richard Somers and served under his commission during the war of the Revolution and said deponent further says that her father gave his commission to the Richd R Westcott AD 1832 to apply to the Legislature of New Jersey for a pension and the said Westcott died and the said Commission bet, the deponent further states that she has heard her father say that he was at the battle of Amboy where were eight Hessions were taken and reffugees, the deponent further states that her father resided in Gloucester County which he entered the service, that he always lived in said County and died therein - And by family records said Wm Smith died 7th day of Sept 1832 and said Martha Smith died AD 1844 and by Record aforesaid Wm Smith was born Mar 10, 1754 Martha Scull wife of Wm Smith born May 12, 1757 Married April 30th 1776. The deponent for the said that she has often heard her father say that he served as adjutant during the war and that he was at the battle of Trenton and served his county faithfully during the Revolutionary
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War, and it always was reported and known in this place that the sd William Smith was an officer of the Revolution to believed to have served as above stated, and believed by the most respectable men of this place Tourt Edmund Taylor late Judge of Atlantic, John Hogan Esq & many others which knew Mr Smith in his life time and deponent further states that by reason of her Fathers death, that her Mother Martha Smith became entitled to a pension which neither of them ever lived to get, Therefore I Martha Applegate hereby relinquish every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declare that the name of William Smith is not on the pension Roll of the agency of any State. And therefore sirs I pray you Honorable Gentlemen of the department to Allow what would have been due my Father and mother provided said pension had been duly paid 
Martha Applegate
Sworn & Subscribed in open Court Sep 13, 1853  John C. Abbott
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State of New Jersey Atlantic County ss: On the thirteenth day of September A D 1853 personally appeared before the Judges of this Inferior Court of Common Pleas Jacob Applegate who being duly Sworn Saith that -- I was well acquainted with William Smith I married his daughter - I have heard him say that he served in the Revolutionary War as Adjutant that he was called on at the commencement of the war and served pretty much during said war until its close William Smith told me he was at the Battle of Rea Bank and and at Woodbury South Amboy and stationed at Eggharbour for some time. And further saith not Sworn & Subscribed in open Court - Sep 13. AD 1853 John C. Abbott 
Jacob Applegate
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State of New Jersey Atlantic County ss: On the fourteenth day of September AD 1833 personally appeared before the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in aforesd County Jesse Smith who being conscientiously scrupulous of taking an oath and being duly affirmed saith: That he was well acquainted with William Smith, and that he has seen his commission as Adjutant in the United States army in the War of the Revolution, and that the said Commission was signed by George Washington and also that an honorable release after the termination of the war was endorsed on said Commission by the said George Washington as commander in chief of the forces on the said Revolutionary War And further saith that he does not know what became of the said Commission but that he believes it to be lost Affirmed & Subscribed in Open Court Sept 14. AD 1853. John C. Abbott Jesse Smith 
and the said Court to hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter that William Smith was a revolutionary soldier and served as is stated in the foregoing declaration and that the preceeding affidavits were sworn & subscribed to in open court and that the copy of the family record mentioned in said declaration is a true copy from the original record as produced and shown to this Court Wm Moore
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State of New Jersey 
Atlantic County} I Joseph B Walker Clerk of the County of Atlantic and Clerk of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas of said County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Mary Applegate for the pension of her father, William Smith and that John C Abbott and William More whose names are subscribed to the affidavits and certificate are Judges of the said Court and that the said several matters were done in open Court 
Witness my hand and seal of office the nineteenth day of September in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and fifty three Jos B Walker Clk
[seal affixed to document]
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March 27, 1931 
Mrs. Frank T. Dare 
70 Pitman Avenue 
Pitman, New Jersey 

Rev.& 1812 Wars Section 
ANF:MLB

Dear Madam: You are advised that it appears from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, R. 9796, that William Smith was born March 10, 1754. He married April 30, 1776, Martha Soull, who was born December 12, 1707. He applied to the State of New Jersey for pension, February 2, 1832, and stated that he was commissioned adjutant of the 2nd Battalion of Gloucester County, in Colonel Richard Somers' New Jersey regiment and was frequently called out on duty. William Smith died September 7, 1832 in Gloucester County, New Jersey, where he had always lived, and his widow Martha died May 24, 1843 or May 7, 1844. Their daughter Martha, the wife of Jacob Applegate, applied to the United States for pension September 15, 1833, then a resident of Atlantic County, New Jersey, and alleged that her father, William Smith, entered the service in 1776 as adjutant in the 2nd Battalion of Gloucester County militia, commanded by Colonel Richard Somers and served during the war. It is also stated that he was in the battles of Trenton, Amboy and Red Bank. The claim was not allowed as proof of six months' service was not established
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Children of William and Martha Smith:  
Sarah born December 14, 1778 
Abel " January 28, 1780
Elizabeth " January 4, 1782 
Jesse " May 31, 1784 (it also appears May 31, 1786) 
John Scull " April 29, 1786, died August 20, 1793 
Abigail " September 13, 1788
Hannah " June 12, 1791, died September 19, 1833
John Wesley " August 5, 1793, died May 27, 1827 
William " November 11, 1795
David " April 15, 1798, died June 14, 1812
Martha " July 21, 1801

The following children survived their mother: Sarah Champion, deceased in 1854 and Elizabeth Smith, and the remaining children were residing in 1854, as follows: Abel Smith in the State of Ohio Jesse Smith in Cape May County, New Jersey Abigail Gray in Ohio William Smith in Atlantic County, New Jersey Martha Applegate in Atlantic County, New Jersey. A grandchild, William S. Hooper, was living in 1857. The following also appears in the family record: Jacob Applegate, son of Bartholomew and Mary Applegate, was born April the 8th, A. D. 1792. ---- John W. Applegate, son of Jacob a Martha Applegate, was born May the 18th A. D. 1822. ---- William Smith Applegate, son of the above, was born July the 15th A. D. 1824. ---- Mary Ann Applegate, daughter of the above, was born July the 25th A. D. 1826, and departed this life November the 21st, A. D. 1832. ---- Bartholomew Applegate, son of the above, was born February the 16th A. D. 1829, and departed this life December the 26th A. D. 1832. ----

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Jacob Applegate, son of Jacob and Martha Applegate, was born July 16th A. D. 1831. ----Samuel B. Applegate, son of the above, was born December the 26th A. D. 1833, and departed this life January the 31st, A. D. 1836. ---- Edmund L. B. W. Applegate, son of the above, was born March 16, 1837.  ---- Joseph W. Applegate, son of the above, was born November 29th, 1839.   ---- Very truly yours E. W. MORGAN Acting Commissioner
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Power of attorney to Snethen
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Know All men by these presents that I Martha Applegate of County Atlantic in the State of New Jersey have constituted appointed and do hereby constitute and appoint Worthington G Snethon of Washington DC to be my lawful attorney to prosecute to a conclusion my claim against the government of the United States for a pension hereby ratifying every thing he may  [illegible] legaly to promises and to ask demand receive & recept for me and in my name the  proceeds of said Claim if Allowed whatever they may be [illegible] Witness [illegible] Jane Smith Martha Applegate 
County of Atlantic & State of New Jersey Martha Applegate Personly appeared this twenty fourth day of January 1853 In the year of our lord 1853 before me a Justice of the peace  for said County Martha Applegate who of said County and acknowledged the foregoing Power of attorney to be her own act & did for the purposes herein mentioned Subscribed before me the day & date above written 
Richd S. Ireland Justice 
State of New Jersey Atlantic County} I Joseph B Walker Clerk of said County as hereby certify that Richard S Ireland is a Justice of the peace for said County and that his signature above I believe to be genuine. In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this twenty fifth day of January A.D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty three (1853) 
Jos. B. Walker Clerk
[seal affixed]
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Maylanding Dec the 29 /55 then received the original record of Wm Smith family Bible from the pension office John W Smith
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1931 Mch. 27 - Hist to Mrs. Frank J. Dare  
1931 May 28 - H. Clifford Campion Jr. [illegible] of photos. MMHF 
1931 June 12 H. Clifford Campion Jr. adv money received [phot ] 
1931 June 30. Photos mailed to  H. Clifford campion, Jr & Fin. Div. [ntfd AD.Y.]
1932, October 4 - Ltr to Mrs. Frank J. Dare soldiers commission not on file MMHF.MRB

REJECTED [G??Gle] P. O. Martha Smith William N.J. 
William N. Enlisted: Discharged: Application filed: 
Alleges: Claim filed too late to be entered on the list of rejected claims printed in 1852
Re-enlisted: Attorney: P. O. Recognized. Contr Cert. of Dis. Searched for , 18
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Maylanding Atc NJ May the 27 /54 John H Smith Mr Walldo Sir I would a very much obliged if you will Notify Mr Worthing G Snethen when you receive those Affiavits of the Applegate case I would to Mr Smethen But I did know either he was in New York or Washington Respectfully John W Smith In haste 
L P Waldo
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Let  J. W. Smith
Dec 24 /55
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No 7.935. 
Martha Smith deceased widow of Wm N. J. 
Let W.G. Snethen June 17 1853 
Same Oct 15 1853 
W.G. Swithin 31st Oct. 1853. 
Same Dec 6 1853 
Same Jany 7/54 
W.G. Snethen  12th June 1854. 
Act July 4, 1836
Let. John W. Smith [illegible]
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October 4, 1932 XXXXXXXXXXXXX 
Mrs. Frank T. Dare 
70 Pitman Avenue Pitman, New Jersey 
WILLIAM SMITH R. 9796 BA-J/MMHF: MLB 
Dear Madam: Reference is made to your letter in which you request that the commission of William Smith as adjutant, War of the Revolution, be forwarded to you, and if not the original, then a copy of the commission. 
The commission of William Smith, R. 9796, is not on file in this office. The records show that in the application for pension to the Legislature of New Jersey in 1832, William Smith stated that he was "commissioned as an Adjutant of the Second Battalion of the County of Gloucester where Richard Somers Esqr. was Colonel -- as will further appear by my commission". Margaret Applegate, soldier's daughter, stated that she had seen her father's commission and that he gave it to one S. B. Westcott in 1832, to apply to the Legislature of New Jersey for a pension, that said Westcott died and said commission was lost. Very truly yours A. D. HILLER Assistant to Administrator
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June 12, 1931.  541 
Bureau of Pensions. Rev.&1812 Wars Section. 
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Rev. War claim of William Smith, File No. R.9796. Actual 1 of each page. 
XXX $5.85........ 39 pages

Kindly leave margin of 1 1/2 in. at top of each page and return papers in each case in folder with corresponding name and number. The word "omit" written in pencil on those pages which are not to be copied. 
Chief, Rev.&1812 Wars Section.
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June 12, 1931.
Rev.&1812 Wars Section. 
MMHF 
Mr. H. Clifford Campion, Jr.,
510 South Orange Street, 
Media, Pennsylvania. 

Dear Sir:

Reference is made to your letter of June 2, with which you enclosed money order for $6.10 to cover cost of certified photostatic copies of papers on file in Revolutionary War pension claim,R9796, William Smith.

You are advised that the copies will be mailed to you as soon as they can be completed, which will be possibly within two weeks from this date. 

Very truly yours, 

E. W. MORGAN,
Acting Commissioner
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510 S. Orange St., Media, Pa. 
M.O. #697879-- $6.10
[Rectangular Stamp:  Finance Division [illegible] Keepers Desk
JUNE 11, 1931
Bureau of Pensions]
June 2nd, 1931.
[Circular Stamp: US Pensions Office Jun 3 1931]
Veterans Administration, Bureau of Pensions, Washington, D.C. 
Ref. -- Rev. &1812 Wars Section MMHF 
_____________
Dear Sirs: I am in receipt of your favor of May 28th, advising me that the original papers on file relative to claim for pension "R.9796, William Smith of Gloucester County, New Jersey, widow Martha" consists of thirty-nine pages, of which you will furnish photostatic copies at $.15 a page. -- I am, therefore, sending you herewith a money order for $6.10 to cover thirty-nine pages at the above figure, and $.25 for certification. 
Would appreciate it if you advised me about how long it will take to furnish these copies. 
Very truly yours, 
H. Clifford Campion, Jr,  
H. C. Campion, Jr.
HCC:MIT encl.
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May 28, 1931.
Rev.&1812 Wars Section.
MMHF

Mr. H. Clifford Campion, Jr.,
510 South Orange Street, 
Media, Pennsylvania. 

Dear Sir:

Reference is made to your letter of January 3, 1931, relative to securing photostatic copies of original papers on file in Revolutionary War claim for pension,R9796, William Smith,  of Gloucester County, New Jersey, widow Martha.

You are advised that such copies will be furnished you at the rate of fifteen cents a page. The number of pages to be copied is thirty-nine. 
Should you desire to have them certified allow twenty-five cents additional for the set.

The proper amount should be forwarded to this bureu by money order drawn to the order of the Acting Commissioner of Pensions. 

It is regretted that your letter could not have been answered sooner, but because of the great number of requests for Revolutionary War data and the lack of a clerical force available for the purpose it has not been possible to make prompt reply to each inquiry. 

Very truly yours, 
E. W. MORGAN.
Acting Commissioner.
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510 So. Orange St.,
Media, Pa.

January 3rd, 1930.

Pension Bureau,
Dept. of Interior, 
Washington, D.C.

Gentlemen:-

I am enclosing herewith copy of the record of William Smith of Weymouth Township, Gloucester County, N.J., in the Revolutionary Wat, as furnished by The Adjutant General's Office of the State of New Jersey. 
Will you be good enough to advice me if William Smith applied and received a pension from the Federal Government, and what it could cost to have photostat copies of all papers in connection with the file relative to his pension, namely, copies of an application, record of his death, discharge papers, 

Your prompt reply will be appreciated.

Yours very truly, 
H Clifford Beaupiox, Jr. 

HCC. EGW 
Encl.
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COPY STATE OF NEW JERSEY OFFICE OF THE ADJUTANT GENERAL Trenton, December 8, 1930 
IT IS CERTIFIED, That the records of this office show that WILLIAM SMITH serves as Captain, Second Regiment, Gloucester County Militia, attached to Colonel Richard Somers' Third Regiment, Gloucester County Militia, for three months in 1776; Adjutant, Second Regiment , Gloucester County Militia, attached to Colonel Richard Somers' Third Regiment, Gloucester County Militia, in 1777, and served until end of war; at battle of Red Bank; received 9:7:6 for pay in Colonel Richard Somers' Regiment, March 16, 1784; received certificate No. 393, for 0:17:0, for the depreciation of his continental pay in the Gloucester County Militia; received certificate No. 518, dated May 1, 1784, for 3:3:9, for the depreciation of his continental pay in the Gloucester County Militia; received certicate [sic] No. 893, dated May 1, 1784, for 1:17:-, for the depreciation of his continental pay in the Gloucester County Militia, during the Revolutionary War. 
Residence, Weymouth Township, Gloucester County, New Jersey. Born, 1754. Died, Atlantic County, New Jersey, September 7, 1832.  Frederick Gilkyson, The Adjutant General. 
[Round Stamp:  U.S. Pensions Office Jan 5, 1931]
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List to H. Clifford Campion Jr.: 
Sol. decl. Feb. 2. 1832  4 pages
Daughter power of Atty. Jan. 24. 1853  1 page
Archabald Campbell's affid. Feb. 14. 1853 1 page 
Martha Applegate's decl. Feb. 14, 1853 & Court rec.  3 pages
John Ingersall's affid. April 14, 1838  1 page
Samuel Lord's affid. April 30. 1839  1 page Martha Applegate's decl.  Sept. 13. 1853 2 pages 
Jacob Applegate's affid. Sept.13.1853  1 page
Jesse Smith's affid. Sept. 14, 1853 & Court rec. 2 pages 
Abstract of pay rolls Nov. 21. 1853 1 page Letters of administration upon estate of Martha Smith Nov. 25. 1853  1 page , 
Letter of administration upon estate of Wm. Smith Nov. 25. 1853  1 page 
Jacob Applegate's affid:  Nov 8. 1853 &  family register & Court record -- 4 pages
Hezekiah Steelman's affid. Dec. 12. 1853 & court record  2 pages
Mathias Steelman's affid. May 26, 1853 & court record   2 pages 
John Hogan's affid. June 24. 1854 & Court rec. 2 pages 
Richard B. Sheppard affid. June 24. 1854 & court record  2 pages 
family register & ctf.  5 pages 
Letter to com. from John W. Smith Aug. 3. 1854   1 page
Letter to  L.P. Waldo from John W. Smith Dec. 6.  1855   1 page 
Letter to G.C. Whiting from Wm. L. Hooper Feb 8. 1857 1 page
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Please certify - Rev & 1812 Wars Sect.
Photostatic Copies of thirty-nine pages from Revolutionary War claims for pension made on account of the services of William Smith, R. File No. 9796
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Feb 26, 1931. 
Mrs Frank T. Dare 
70 Pitman Ave Pitman, New Jersey. 
Department of the Interior, Pension Office Washington D.C. 
Would it be possible to send me a copy of  application for Pension made by William Smith, in 1832, William Smith was Born 1754.  in Tuckahoe, Weymouth Tph, Glous Co. N.J. 
Sept 7, 1832. 
he served as Capt. 2nd Reg Glous Co Militia, attached to Col Richard Somers 3rd Reg Glous Co Militia for three months in 1776. Adjutant 2nd Reg. Glous Co Militia attached to Col Richard Somers 3rd Reg Glous Co Militia in 1777. & served until end of Revolutionary war at Battle of Red Bank. 
am hoping I am sending this letter to the right office, if not would you please advise me how to go about getting this copy, if there is any charge, please notify me at once & I will remit either by check or money order, Very Respt Mrs Frank T Dare
[Stamp: US Pensions Office Feb 27, 1931]
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70 Pitman Ave. 
Pitman. New Jersey 
March 12, 1932, 
Veterans Administration 
Bureau of Pension's Washington 
Rev. & 1812 War's Section A.W. F.M.L.B. 

Dear Sir's -- In Dec 3rd 1930 I sent to the Adjutant Generals Office Trenton, N.J. for a certified copy of the records of William Smith, Weymouth Twp. (Tuckahoe) Gloucester Co. State of New Jersey, who held rank as Captain - Adjutant, attached to Colonel Richard Somers. On Dec. 8, 1930 I received the Certified Copy. & the following quote, For your further information, would advise that the papers show that Captain Smith made application to the State of New Jersey for a pension in 1832, and that his Commission was forwarded with the paper's, I have a copy of said application for Pension. Claim R. 9796, William Smith was B. Mar 10, 1754 D. Sept 7. 1832 he married Apr 30, 1776 Martha Scull, B. Dec 12, 1757. Their first child, Sarah Smith was B. Dec 14 1778. who married 1795 Joseph Champion Tuckahoe N.J. I used Capt William Smith my Great Great Grand Father as my Revolutionary Ancestor when we organized Dec 29 1931 the Red Bank Chapter of the D.A.R. Now I am asking if it will be possible to return to me, the "Commission of William Smith, signed by George Washington and I would have the great pleasure & honor of presenting it to our County Historical Society. if you cannot possibly send the original commission, will you send me a photostat copy? & whatever expense I will forward, hoping you can comply with my request. I am Very Truly Yours 
Mrs Frank Dare, 
70 Pitman Ave. 
Pitman, N. J.
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State of New Jersey} 
Cumberland County}
 On the 30th day of April in the year of our Cumberland County in the year of our Lord one Thousand Eight hundred and thirty nine personally appeared before me Israel Stratton one of the Justices of the peace in and for the County aforesaid Samuel Carel aged seventy nine years who being duly sworn according to Law Deposeth and saith that he was personally acquainted with one William Smith Deceased late of the County of Gloucester in said state and that he knew him during the American Revolution war and served with him in the same Company of Militia of which Zephaniah Steelman was captain belonging to the Battalion of which Richard Summers was was Colonel he thinks about the year 1776 --or 1777 and that the said William Smith Deceasd held the office of adjutant and that they were together for one month and the most of that time they were quartered at Perth Amboy in the State of New Jersey.
Sworn and subscribed to before me the date above Israel Stratton
Samuel Lord 
State of New Jersey Cumberland County J. E. E. Sheppard Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas do hereby certify that Israel Stratton whos name is affixt to the above affidavit was at the time of signing the same a Justice of the Peace duly commissioned and sworn according to Law and that full faith and credit is and of right ought to be given to all his official acts both here and else we have 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affix the seal of my office the Seventh day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty three 
E. E. Sheppard Clerk 
[Seal affixed in lower left hand corner]
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State of New Jersey Atlantic County 55 Personally appeared before me John Hogan one of the Justices of the peace in and for said County Mathias Steelman who on his solemn Oath saith that he was well aquainted with William Smith of the State and County aforesaid that he was in the  Revolution war with great Britton and held the office of agidant in said war and further deponant sayeth not 
Mathias [his X mark] Steelman 
Sworn and subscribed to before me the subscriber this twenty sixth day of May 1853 John Hogan
State of New Jersey - Atlantic County}
I Joseph B. Walker Clerk of the Court of said County do hereby certify that John Hogan who has taken the foregoing affidavit is and was at the time a Justice of the Peace and that full faith and credit may be given to all his doings as such -
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office this thirteenth day of December A.D. 1853 
J. B. Walker Clk
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State of New Jersey ,
Atlantic County

I, John Hogan one of the Justices of the Atlantic County Peace in and for said County do hereby certify that Mathias Steelman the within deponent is a man of credit and veracity and that full faith and Credit may be given to what he sayeth and that he and William Smith lived within a few miles of each other for a number of years before the decease of said Smith In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this thirteenth day of May, A.D. 1854, John Hogan Justin
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State of New Jersey Cape May County Personally appeared before me the Subscriber one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said County Hezekiah Steelman of the age of Ninety one years last May, who being by me duly sworn upon his oath saith, that he was well acquainted with William Smith of the County of Glouceter And State aforesaid, who served as Agiden {Adjutant] in the Revolutionary War with Great Britton and held a Commission, said deponent saith that he knows and very believes that William Smith was in the war Six months if not longer and was in the Company to guard the Court being part of the times on Cape May, and further Knows of his being in to the army, and returning name and that he was Honourably discharged 
Sworn and subscribed before me the Subscriber this Twelfth day of December 1853 Hezekiah W. Godfrey Justice
Hezekiah (his X mark) Steelman 

Note Abenea on the opposite side 

State of New Jersey, 
County of Cape May, 
ss.  J. Jonathan Hand, 
Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County (being  a Court oof record therein), do hereby certify that Hezekiah W. Godfrey, whose genuine
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Genuine signature appears to the foregoing affidavit of Hezekiah Steelman) is now, and was at the time of the taking thereof, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County & State, duly commissioned, sworn into office, and legally authorized to act officially, and that full faith & credit is due and given his official acts. [Seal affixed]
In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto set my hand and official seal, at Cape May C.H. this twenty second day of December A.D. One thousand eight hundred and fifty three. (1853.) Jonathan Hand Clerk 
Affidavit of Hezekiah Steelman
Said Deponent Further Saith that he lived in the same Neighborhood where the said William Smith Resided, And knows him before and after the Revolutionary war with Great Brittan as long he lived, and that he was a Good Citizen, And a friend to his country and further saith not 
State of Newjersey 
Cape May County 
I Hezekiah W Godfrey one of the Justices of the Peace, And also one of the Judges of the Court of the County of Cape May to Hereby Certify that I am personally Aquainted with the said Hezekiah Steelman the within Deponent and know him to be a man of veracity, and Reputal Carrecter And that full faith and credit may be given to what he saith In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this Seventeenth Day of May AD 1854 Hezekiah W Godfrey
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Letters of Administration 
upon Estate of 
Martha Smith decd 
widow of Wm Smith decd 
Grant to Jacob Applegate 
25 Nov 1853 
Bond $2000
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State of New Jersey Atlantic County:

I, Joseph Thompson Surrogate of the County of Atlantic do certify that on the twenty fifth day of November in the year of our lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty three administration of the goods chattels rights and credits which were of Martha Smith late of the County of Atlantic who died intestate was granted by me to Jacob Applegate of the County of Atlantic who is duly authorized to administer the same agreeably to law. 
Witness my hand and seal of Office this twenty fifth day of November in the year of our lord eighteen hundred and fifty three
J Thompson Surrogate

State of New Jersey Atlantic County
I, Joseph Thompson Surrogate of the County of Atlantic do certify that Jacob Applegate the Administrator above named did give a good and sufficient bond with penal sum of two thousand dollars before granting the above letters of Administration. 
Witness my hand and seal of Office this twenty fifth day of November in the year of our lord eighteen hundred and fifty three.
Jos Thompson Surrogate
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Abstract of Pay Rolls discharged by Thomas Carpenter Paymaster to the Militia of the Counties of Salem & Gloucester
--------------------------------
[table follows with 7 columns; column headings are as follows:]
(1) No. (2) Dates (3) Officers names (4) Regiment (5) Where served (6) Under Whom (7) S.s.d.

[text under column headings:]
(1) 16, 42, 63
(2) Jan 9. 75, Feb 15 -, Mar 30 "
(3) Cap Wm Smith, D, D
(4)  2d Salem, D, D
(5) Elsinburgh, Alloways Creek, Thomsons Br
(6) Lt. Col W Shute, Col. B. Holmes, D
(7) 180.13.4, 30.14.4, 135.6.8

State of New Jersey
[seal affixed at left]
I Thomas S Allison Secretary of State of the State of New Jersey do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true extract from Book B of Auditors accounts as taken from and compared with the original record in my office.

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of Office at Trenton this twenty-first day of November Eighteen hundred and fifty three.

Thos. A. Allison
Secretary of State
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County Atlantic.  }
and State of New Jersey } SS
Personally appeared before me A Justice of the peace in and for said County Archabald Campbel who first being Duly Sworn saith he is 96 years of age and that he was in the New Jersey Militia in the Revolutionary war with Wm Smith first A Capt on A three months tower [tour] and Afterwards the said Wm Smith was adjutant and that was about the year 1777 and that said Wm Smith served three months at a time until the close of the war and that said Wm Smith was in Conl Richard Sommers regiment of New Jersey Militia and his tower [tour] at Red Bank on the Delaware river and at Woodbridge and at Amboy East Jersey and on the sea shore Betwen Great Egg harbour and Amboy and the said Archabald Campbel Deposeth and saith that they allways [always] lived in Gloster [Goucester] County But now Atlantic and Deponent further saith that said Wm Smith lived In the same County and State which he allways  [always] lived in this witness does not say that he was with Wm Smith in Each and Every tower [tour].   But that he knew that said Smith served in the Different towers [tours]  from 1777 or 1778 in the above named places and deponent on account of his old age, he does not recollect the very day of the month that said Wm Smith tuck [took] charge of his company of Militia neither the year but It was in 1777 or 1778.

                  his
Archabald  X  Campbel
                 mark

Witnesses }
James McCabe his X
William T Ferrel

Sworn and subscribed before me this fourteenth day of February one thousand
Eighteen hundred fifty three - 1853
Richard. S. Ireland Justice
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The affidavit of Martha Applegate of the County Atlantic State of Newjersey who states that her father Wm Smith was a Capt in the revolutionary war and after the term of three  months the said Wm Smith Exchanged his commission with his Brother Jeremiah Smith & said Wm Smith tuck [took] the adjutants commission and this Affiant further states that her father Wm Smith was born in the year of 1754 the 10 day of March & her father died the 7 of September 1832 Leving [leaving] a widow
Martha Smith the mother of this Affiant & said Martha Smith died on the 7 day of May 1844 leaving seven children Sary first 2d Abel 3d Elizabeth 4th Jefrey 5th Abigail-  Wm in sixth Martha 7th which is the Applicant Aged 52 the 21 of July coming that said William Smith & Martha Smith was married the 30 of April 1776 and that By reason of said marriage the said Martha Smith became Entitled to a pension on the Death of her husband at the same rate 
which would have been allowed her husband if living and that said Martha never received any  pension whatever & therefore the same ought to be allowed to this affiant she therefore
respectfully claims the pension which was due to her mother as afforesaid [aforesaid] This affiant states that she was born July the 21st 1801 the above stated children of M Smith and Martha this affiant further states that all of the above named children was alive the last she heard from them

Martha Applegate

Witnesses}
Margaret Hogan 
Mary Gant

Sworn and subscribed before me this fourtheenth day of February Eighteen
hundred and fifty three/1853

Richard S Irlan Justice
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this is a true Coppy [copy] Drawn from the family Record Drawn from the Bible of Wm Smith from his birth until his death which
happened to be the 7 day of Sept 1832 & was married the 30 of April 1776 and Born the 10th of March 1754 aged 78 years 6 mo & 7 days.  Martha Smith died May the 7 day 1844 aged 87 years 4 mo 18 days this family record has bin [been] in the hands of Jacob Applegate & his wife Martha Applegate from the Death of the
father & Mother above mentioned

Martha Applegate 

witnesses }
Mary Gant
Margaret Hogan

State of New Jersey Atlantic County SS
Personally appeared before me the subscriber 
Justices of the Peace in and for the County of Atlantic in the State of New Jersey Martha Applegate who being first duly Sworn on her solemn oath saith that the aforesaid
declaration is in all things just and true to the best of her knowlage [knowledge] and belief and further deponant saith not

Sworn and subscribed to before me the fourteenth day of February one thousand eight hundred and fifty three 1853-
John Hogan
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State of New Jersey
Atlantic County

I, Joseph B Walker Clerk of the County of Atlantic do hereby certify that Richard S Ireland and John Hogan, Esquire before whom the written affidavits were taken at the court and (unknown word) are Justices of the peace in foresaid County, and that full faith and credit should be given to all their acts as such.
Witness my hand and Seal of Office this fifteenth day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty three,
Jos. B. Walker
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Examination
John Ingersull

Jeremiah 
Johnson

John and Jeremiah


The (unknown word)
of
Mrs. Whitehead

Jeremiah and Mrs. Johnson
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State of New Jersey, Atlantic County, SS.
the examination of John Ingersull of Weymouth Township in said county taken before me William Champion one of the Justices of the peace in and for said-County on his oath saith that William Smith Late, of the township of weymouth formerly, a part of Gloucester was in the Revolution war and quartered in the old meeting house in Woodbury in Gloucester county and deponent saith that he thinks that the war was about one third expired and Deponent further saith that the said William Smith was an Adjiant (?) in the army, and Deponent further saith that he quartered with the Said William Smith about one month at Woodbury, the place of aforesaid Deponent Saith that he was a soldier in the army, himself Sworn and subscribed to before me William Champion Justice of the peace in and for the County of Atlantic this 14th day of April 1838
(signature)
William Champion, J.P.

(signature that says "his mark")
John Ingersull

State of New Jersey
Atlantic County, SS

I Joseph B. Walker Clark of the court of Common Pleas in and for said County do hereby certify that at the time of making this affidavit William Champion was a Justice of the Peace in Said county and I believed his signature to be genuine.
In Witness Whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of my office this thirty first day of March A.D. eighteen hundred and fifth-three (1853)
(signature)
Jos. B. Walker. Clerk
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affidavit of John Hogan
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State of New Jersey
Atlantic County Ss.

In the case of the applications of the Heirs if Martha Smith deceased widow of the late William Smith Deceased of New Jersey. Personally applied Before me the subscriber one of the judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleases in and for the said County of Atlantic Richard B. Shepperd who upon his oath saith that he was well acquainted with William Smith and his wife and family. was acquainted with said Smith about eleven (?) years before his death, and was present in his house when he died, and attended his funeral at the time I cannot recollect, except from the family (unknown word), which I have always have access unto Martha Smith his widow deceased on the twenty fourth Day of May in the year eighteen hundred and forty three was not present at her death or burial. I whent (sic) to Philadelphia on (unknown word) on the twenty third day of May of the same year, and returned on the second day of June folling (sic) when I found that she was dead and buried. I was acquainted with all their children (illegible) names of Alec Smith, who lives in the State of Ohio. Abigail Smith, now Gray, Jesse Smith, William Smith, Martha Smith-the now Applegate in of which Jesse lives in Cape May County and the rest all live in Atlantic County, New Jersey-one of their children namely Sarah Smith lately Champion who has Deceased since the aforesaid application. I had been shown, the Old Bible Containing the family records was (unknown word) me which I have seen frequently and am well acquainted with the same, and said record wad in my presence and John Hogan Esq. was present taken and of said Old Bible, and was attached to the within affidavot sworn and subscribed before me this twenty fourth day of June A.D. 1854
(signatures)
John C Abbott

Richard B Sheppard

I do hereby certify that I am acquainted with Richard B. Sheppard who is a freeholder and resident in the County of Atlantic, and who heard a good character for truth and varsity (sic) once that he is entitled to credit in
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what states in the above affidavit, the said old family Bible was produced before me which (unknown word) date London 1762, and from it the family record was taken by me and attached to this affidavit and that of John Hogan-
June 23th A.D. 1854

(signature)
John C. Abbott

State of New Jersey
Atlantic County, Ss

I Joseph B Walker Clerk of the Court of Atlantic do certify that John C. Abbott before whom the foregoing affidavit was taken and who gave the foregoing certificate was at the time of the taking thereof and still is a Judge of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas of the County of Atlantic duly commissioned and sworn and as such Judge is duly qualified to take affidavit for general purposes and that the signature thereof is genuine 
In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and seal of office this thirteenth day of July in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and fifty four
(signature)
Jos. B. Walker Clk
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State of New Jersey
Atlantic County ss.

In the case of the Application of the Heirs of Martha Smith Deceased widow of the late William Smith Deceased, of New Jersey, Personally appeared before me the subscriber one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Please in and for said County of Atlantic and state aforesaid John Hogan, who upon his oath saith that I was acquainted with the late William Smith Deceased and his family I became acquainted with him and family in the year A.D. 1829. When I moved into the neighborhood where he lived, and was acquainted with Martha Smith his widow, untill (sic) her death. I am therefore (unknown word), while (unknown word), do not recollect the Day or the month or year that either of them Deceased, except by refference (sic) to the old family Bible record, which I have seen frequently, and have been called upon to make up a part of said record for a part of the family, which is done in my hand writing, I was, and still am, acquainted with their children , of whom the following are still living. and the names and places of their residences is as follows; Able Smith, the oldest lives in the State of Ohio (as is (unknown word), Abigail Smith, now Gray-William Smith and Martha Smith, now Applegate, lives in the County of Atlantic, and Jesse Smith lives in the County of Cape May, all of the state of New Jersey. Sarah Smith, late Sarah Champion recently Deceased since the above application has been made,
The old family Bible was shown me this day which I at once recognized and the said family record taken out in my presence , was attached to this office as 
Richard B. Sheppard was also present.
Sworn and Subscribed before me this twenty fourth day of June, A.D. 1854

(signature)
John C. Abbott

I do hereby certify that I am acquainted with John Hogan who is a freeholding and resident of the County of Atlantic and State of New Jersey, who beares (sic) a good character for truth and
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(continued from last page
-racity (veracity), and that he is entitled to credit in what he states in the within affidavit, and that he holds the commissioner of a Justice of the peace in and for the county of Atlantic
June 24th A.D. 1854

(signature)
John C. Abbott

State of New Jersey
Atlantic County Ss

I Joseph B Walker Clerk of the County of Atlantic do certify that John C. Abbott before whom the foregoing affidavit was taken and who gave the foregoing certificate, was and is a Judge of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas of the County of Atlantic duly commissioned and sworn and as such Judge is duly authorized to take affidavits for general purposes and that his signatures thereto are genuine
In Testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and seal on this thirteenth day of July in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and fifty four
(signature)
Jos B. Walker, clrk
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97

Pension Office,
January 7. 1854

Sir,

Your communication of the 4th (unknown word), in respect to the agency in the care of the heirs of Martha Smith, Deceased, who apply for pension in vesture of the services of Wm Smith in the revolutionary war has been received and filed with the other papers--
It does not appear that Mr. "Hopper, or Hooper" has filed any papers--the administrator, however, is the proper person from whom to get a power of Attorney-and such power would be respected by this office. 

Very respectfully,
(signature)
S c

W.G Snethen Esqr
New York
N.Y.
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Pension Office
August 14. 1854

Sir,

I have received your letter of the 3rd (unknown word) together with the record cut from the Family Bible of William Smith and the affidavit of John Hogan and Richard B. Sheppard, designed as additional proof in the case of Martha Smith, deceased--a claim for pension under the act 4th July 1836-

The family record will be returned when the case is finally disposed of. 

The main difficulty in this case is that the father of claimants is not shown and have been the same person who served as certified by the authorities of New Jersey.

Wm. Snether has been written to fully upon these points several times--He is now in New York city. You can by (unknown word) and him there, inform him of the proof you have (over)
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non filed

very respectfully,
SC

John W. Smith Esq
Mays Landing 
Atlantic Co
New York
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485

Pension Office
Decr 29. 1853

Sir

The additional proof in support of the claim of Mar['garet' crossed out]tha Smith, deceased,
widow of William, of N.J. under the act of July 4, 1836, has been examined.

To prove who are the only surviving children of Mar['garet' crossed out]tha, it is not sufficient
that the Family record shows certain children
to have been born and certain of them to have died. One or more disinterested witnesses should testify, and a court of record should certify that the testimony is satisfactory as prescribed in number 2 of the enclosed printed rules. Your attention is called to the fact that Wm Smith, in his memorial to the N.J. Legislature, in February 1832, made no
mention of having been a captain; and that the
payments certified by the Secretary of State
were made to Capt. Wm Smith of the second
Salem Regt while the claimants husband lived in
and served from Gloucester County.
W.G. Snethen, Esq. New York
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W.G. Snethen
Dec 29/53
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Pension Office
1st June 1854

Sir,
The additional evidence in the case of Martha Smith dec. widow of William of New Jersey has been received.

The evidence does not alleviate the difficulties existing to this claim. The witnesses assert that William served as a captain but he is in his petition to the Legislature of New Jersey, asserts no such service. But supporting that they might be correct, still the record does not shew more than three month's duty in that capacity. His services as an adjutant are not proved. He is not very particular in the description of his services, and his witnesses were not in a particular knowledge of its details.
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If applicants desire to prosecute this claim further, they must send the Original family record to this Office. They must also prove distinctly the date of the marriage of William and Martha, the dates of their deaths, and the names and number of the surviving children.

W.G. Sneithen Esqr.
New York



June 1754
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Pension Office
Decr 6 1853

Sir

The certificate of the Secretary of State of
N.J. has been filed in the case of Martha
Smith decd widow of William of N.J. Act
July 4 1836. It shows that a man of her husband's name was a captain in the war of
the Revolution, but it does not show how
long his service lasted. So [or No?] attempt has
been made to comply with the requisitions
of my letters of the 15th & 31st of October.

W.G. Snethen Esq
New York
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[top line cut off]
Oct 31/33
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Pension Office
31st October 1853.

Sir,

Yours of 24th ultimo, in relation to the claim of Martha Smith decd widow of William of New Jersey has been received.

Upon a reexamination of the claim, I can find no reason for departing from the requirements of
letter from this office of date 15th Oct. 1853. In addition to them I would state that it is now required that Letters of Administration must be taken out upon the estate of William and Martha, and the amount of the Bonds must be certified to this office.

W.G. Snethen Esqr
New York
N. Y.
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317

Pension Office
Oct 13 1853

Sir

Before the case of Martha Smith decd widow of William of N.J. - Act July 4 1836 - can be admitted, the service of her husband must be proved by the production of the Record of his service from the Rolls to be found in the
Office of the Secretary of N.J. or it must be
shown that no such record exists, in which
event the testimony of witnesses who served
with him or who can show that they were in a position to know of his service must be 
submitted, showing when, where, and how long
he served.-- The date of her marriage must
be established by Record public or private
or its absence accounted for. If evidence of
this grade cannot be obtained, the witnesses
adduced to prove the date, must shew how they
are enabled to fix it.-- A certificate of
Court must be furnished showing the date of his and her deaths and the
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number and names of the children now living - The court must show upon what testimony it bases its certificate, giving the names and residences of witnesses and certifying to their credibility ['upon its' crossed out] of its own  knowledge.

W.G. Snethen Oct 15/53

W.G. Snethean Eq
New York
NY
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W.G. Snethen
June 17/53
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229

Pension Office
June 17, 1853

Sir

The declaration and proofs in the case of Martha Smith deceased, of N. Jersey, have been examined and filed.

The declaration should have been made before a court of record. It was made before a Justice of the Peace.

The proofs of service are altogether vague as
to the duration of service. If Wm Smith served
as alleged, evidence of his service may probably exist in the office of the Secretary of State of New Jersey. I find no evidence of the service in this office. To prove a ['marriage' crossed out] family record by copy, the entire record must be copied and the court or magistrate should certify to its genuineness.

W. G. Snethen Esq
Present
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he can of Marth widow of Willm Smith Revolutionary

New York
24th Oct '53

Declaration

Yours of 15th inst. at hand, requiring additional evidence in case of Martha Smith widow of William of New Jersey, under the act of July 4th 1836 - Martha Applegation one of her children, claiming.

You require that William's service shall be proved by the production of Record Evidence from the office of Secretary of State of New Jersey, or proof of the absence of such evidence. Thomas S. Allison, the Secy. of State of New Jersey, under date of April 23 1853, informs us, that "the regular rolls of revolutionary service" of New Jersey, "were sent to Washington many years ago, to be filed there, and were consumed in 1814, when the British set fire to the Capital".  That letter is herewith submitted. Proof of this fact, I presume, you will not require, for no doubt, it is a matter of Record in the department, that the New Jersney Rolls were sent to Washington & so destroyed. Hence no proof of William's service can be produced from the Record, and its absence is accounted for.
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You next require, in such an event, that witnesses be produced, "who served with him, or who can show, that they were in a position to know of his service, showing when, where and how long he served".  I beg to refer you to the affidavits of 1st. Archibald Campbell, a Pensioner of the Revolution 2nd Jno Ingersoll 3rd Samuel Lord.  These three men served with
William Smith in the Revolutionary war and testify positively to his service, and their affidavits on file in the case are legally taken and then and an treated.  Surely more evidence can not be required on this point. It is clear & conclusive in his favor.

The next requirement you make, is that the date of the marriage must be established by record public or private. I beg to refer you to the declaration of Mary Applegate, on file also in the case. It was made in open Court, and the Court certifies to the date of the marriage of William & Martha, that ample proof was produced to establish that fact in the mind of the Court. Now to require further proof of that fact, would be to impugn the certificate of a Judge of a Court of Record. The date of the Marriage of William & Martha was proved to the
on from the inspection by the Court of
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the old fashioned family Bible that laid on the
stand in the presence of the Court. Surely this
ought to be deemed sufficient, without requiring this old book- highly prized, as I learn
by the family- to be mutilated or surrendered
to the archives of the Pension Office.

In regard to the requirement of a certificate of Court as to the dates of the deaths of William & Martha, and the number & names of the children now living, that that shall be produced if necessary, but I was & still am under the impression, that all this was certified to in
Martha Applegate's declaration in open Court.

I beg, therefore, you will cause the. case to be
examined, upon the point snow presented..
1. That there is or ought to be evidence in the department, that the New Jersey Rolls were
sent to Washington in 1814 & were there burned, therefore no record proof of William's service can be produced.
2. That the affidavit on file in the case of the three soldiers, Campbell,Ingersoll, and Lord
who served with William clearly & conclusively
establish his service in the Revolutionary war.
3.  That the Declaration of Martha Applegate on file in the case, before a Court of Record, clearly establishes the date of the marriage of William & Martha, as well as the
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dates of their several deaths, & the number & 
names of their surviving children, satisfactory
proof having been produced before said Court
of said facts, as appears from the Declaration

Respfully Yours
W.G. Snethen

Hon. L. P. Waldo
Washington D.C.
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FREE

[postal stamp, mostly illegible:] DEC 22

[beginning cut off]Waldo
28
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
DC
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Case of Heirs of Martha Smith decd
widow of Wm Smith decd.}
Revolutionary-

New York
20 Dec '53

Dear Sir

Herewith find enclosed letters of administration upon the Estate of Wm Smith
decd & Martha his widow, deceased, with
Certificate of Amts of Bonds in each, as
required in yr letter of 11th of Oct last, which
please cause to be filed in the ['case of' crossed out] claim of Martha Smith decd  decd of N. Jersey.

The other testimony required by your office in the case will be filed, as soon as obtained, till then we ask that the case be as it is.

Respfully yours
W.G. Snethen
for Heirs of Martha Smith

Hon L P Waldo
Washington
DC
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In case of Martha
widow of William Smith

Teller of Thos S. Allison, Secy, of State of N. Jersey, April 23'53
To Wm Smith-Referred to
in W Snethen's letter to Comm of Pensions Oct 24 1853
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State of New Jersey
Department of State,
Trenton, April 23 1853

John W. Smith

Sir
The record shewn you by Mr. Potts, was an extract from the book in his office, that so much money was paid to William Smith, as I suppose--I have not examined the matter now, and do not recollect exactly.--The record does not shew how long any officer or soldier performed duty--nor could I tell what the wages of a captain was--It is likely that this 300 pounds was paid to him on behalf of his company.
The regular rolls of revolutionary service were sent to Washington many years ago, to be filed there, and where consumed in 1814 when the British set fire to the capitol.

We are very busy now, and I cannot write more at length--The regular fee for Examination is $2-but if you cannot make out a declaration shewing when these persons served, and how long, to be supported by proof, the extract you can get from our record, will do you no good, and
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will not be a useful Expense
very respectfully
Thos. S. Allison
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Sarah
Abel
Elizabeth
Jesse
John S-d
Abigail
Hannah- d
John W -d
Wm- d soldier
David-d
Martha-d widow
Martha
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State of New Jersey
Department of State,
Trenton, Nov 21 1853

Sir,

Your letter of 15th next was received--I enclose a certificate showing record evidence in this office that Captain William Smith of the 2a Salem regiment received three payments, in 1778, for large amounts--These payments were for his company and himself. They shew him in service from Jan 9 to to March 30 of that year.
We have not the regular rolls of the militia in Service during the revolution--These are all the facts in relation to this matter which the books in my office furnish--They are sufficient, however, to prove that Wm. Smith was a captain, and that he performed service, although without doubt they do not show all the time of service, which he performed.
Respectfully,
(signatures)
Thos. S. Allison
John W. Smith, Esq
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New York
4 Oct '53

Sir
Enclosed please find affidavit of William Smith deceased, duly proved. I (unknown word) it as additional evidence in the application of Martha Applegate, his daughter, filed some months (unknown word) by me. for pension due for deceased widow of William Smith. It is a Revolutionary case. 
(illegible_ to the name, as it has been (unknown word), and (unknown word) back, for correction in the papers, which has been attended to, as required. 
I am (illegible)
(signature)
W. G. Snethen
Hon L P Waldo
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Washington 12th April '53

Sir-
I (unknown word) hat the enclosed affidavit of Samuel Lord be filed in the case of Martha Applegate (Revolutionary Pension), the papers in which were depon (illegible) in your office by me the 25th of Feby. last. Requesting your early examination and decision in this case.
I am, Sir, Respectfully,
W.G. Snethen
Atty for Applegate

(more signatures)
Hon L.P. Waldo
Comm. of Pensions
(illegible)
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New York
22 Sep '53

Sir
Please find enclosed additional evidence in case of William Smith, deceased, an officer in Revolution in New Jersey, Claimant Martha Applegate, for pension due in right by her father William who died in 1832 and his widow Martha, who died in 1844. This case was suspended in June last, in order that the declaration of claimant and her testimony of witnesses should be taken in open court.
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applicant's declaration and affidavits (illegible), so taken, and duly are then (illegible), are now submitted, and it is hoped, they will be sufficient with the proof of service and the Rolls to allow the applicant the pension she may be entitled to. 

Yours,

(signatures)
W.G. Snethen
Atty for the Applegates

Hon L.P. Waldo
(illegible)
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G C Whiting, Esq
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Cape Island Feb 8/51

Dear Sir

My Grand Father, Wm Smith, N Jer, was in the Revolutionary war, and some of our family has been trying to get a pention (sic), they entrusted their business with a Gentleman by the name of Smith, which is now dead, the proofs are now in Washington, that is the affidavits of some witnesses, also the family record, you will please write me how I shall proceed in the meantime I will try a find out as much as I can in the present?),-

We have had a very hard (unknown word) and have has a house (unknown word) and the (unknown word) lose in 2 feet of the bank and knocked the majority to the  farmhouses into a cocked hat- I hope Ms. W is well and child, my respect to them.
Yours very truly,
Wm. S. Cooper

To G C Whiting, Esq
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Jno. W. Smith
Dec 24'55
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Pension Office
Dec. 24, 1855

Sir,
We cannot, under the rules, return the papers filed in the case of Martha Smith, dec. who was the widow of William, I (unknown word), seen, (unknown word) the (unknown word) Family record of William Smith- a certified copy which I returned to their office. Please acknowledge the receipt

John W. Smith, Esq
Mays Landing
State of New Jersey
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No 14 935
Martha Smith, deceased
widow of Wm. 
N.J.

Act 4. July 1836

W. G. Snethen
Present
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Washington 25th Feby '53

Sir,
By request of Martha Applegate, I submit for your consideration, her application for the pension due to her mother, the widow Smith-dec'd in right of her deceased husband William Smith, a soldier of the Revolution.

Resp'fully, yours;
W G Snethen

J.S. Heath
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C.

P.S. Papers enclosed.-
Martha Applegate's Power of attorney to W G Snethen of Washington DC.
2. Archibald Campbell and Martha Applegate's affidavits
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Washington 2 April/53

Sir
Herewith please find affidavit. John Ingersoll, duly authenticated, proving service of Wm. Smith-decd. whose daughter Martha Applegate is claiming pension due Smith's widow. I will be obliged to you to cause it (illegible) filed with Applegate's papers filed by me 22nd of February 1853.
Resp'fully yours,
W.G. Snethen
for Applegate-

Hon Commissioner of Pensions
Present
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New York
23 Dec '53

Dear Sir'

Enclosed please find proof of marriage of Wm Smith-dc and Martha Smith (born Small?) decd. and also proof of their offspring deceased and surviving, taken from the Family Bible by Judge Emenel (?), and duly authenticated. I beg, that their evidence be filed in the case of Martha Smith widow (decd) of Wm Smith-decd. her heirs claiming in right of the widow.
A day or two ago, I sent you for filing in same case letter of (unknown word) on the (unknown word) of (unknown word) Wm and Martha, with amts of (unknown word) certified. 

It remains now but to prove service of W. Smith-(unknown word) the Rolls, as required (illegible) letter of 15th and 31st day of October last, which we hope soon to be prepared with and then we shall ask you to take up the case again.
The certif. of Service of State of N. Jersey filed some time since, and which you inform me, is (illegible) does not prove anything
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Williams' service, we submitted merely as proof collateral, be that which we shall bring on their point--and going to show that such a man as Wm Smith was a captain in the Revol--we hope to establish his identity with our Wm

(signatures)
Respectfully yours,
W G Snether

Hon. L P Waldo
Washington D.C
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New York
24th Nov '53

Sir:
I enclose you in Martha Smith's case, widow of Wm Smith-both deceased, of N. Jersey, certificate of serv. of State of N. Jersey, that Wm Smith was a Captain in 1778 from Jany 9 to Mar 30th of that year. This established time of service. N is accompanied by W Allison's Zeller explanatory. Please cause both papers when filed, in order that when the other February 22-- (unknown word_) ze. last Zeller, shall come in, the case maybe adjudicated.

Respectfully yours,
(signatures)
W. S Snethen

Hon. L P Waldo
(illegible) for children of Martha Smith
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Wm. S Hooper
Feby 27/51
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Pension Office
Feby 27. 1857.

Sir:

In compliance with the request contained in your letter of 8th instant, the claim of Martha Smith widow of William Smith,['deceased' crossed out] of N. Jersey, for pension under the
act of July 4 1836, has been examined.

In Smith's petition to the Legislature of N.J., in
February 1832, he stated that early in the war he was made Adjutant, and served under the commission for most of the war. He was a resident of that part of Gloucester County now included in Atlantic County, and of course belonged to the militia of Gloucester.

A certificate of the Secretary of State of N. Jersey has been filed in the case, showing that William Smith was a captain in the 2d Salem regiment, and served as such three months in 1778. Some parol testimony has been filed in the case to show that the claimant served as Captain. As William Smith was a very common name at that time in N. Jersey,
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and as it seems improbable that Wm Smith of Gloucester served in a Salem County regiment, I do not regard the certificate of the Secretary as proof that the claimant so served. Some light might be thrown on the subject by procuring and sending to this office a copy of the declaration of Archibald Campbell of Atlantic County, made for a pension in the summer or fall of 1833;-- also by a certificate from the Secretary of State of N. Jersey, showing who was the Col of the 2d Salem Regiment.

William S. Hooper, Esq.
Cape Island,
N. Jersey
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In the matter of
Margaret Smith wid. dec.e
of Wm Smith decd. N. Jersey
Revolutionary War

New York NY
4th Jany '54

Dear Sir

I am requested by Mrs Martha Applegate, daughter of Wm Smith & his widow, deceased, applying for herself & benefit of her brothers & sisters, for pension that may be found due their mother, Margaret Smith decd in virtue of her deceased husband's revolutionary services,
that her brother Jesse Smith is trying to
prosecute this same claim, or intends to do
so, thro' one William S. Hopper (or Hoopper), 
that Jesse has two affidavits to prove the service of Wm Smith deceased from persons, who were both boys in the Revolutionary war, 
that Jesse refuses to allow her to use said affidavits for what they are worth & that she has gone to the expense of prosecuting the claim thus far for benefit of all interested, having procured ['their' crossed out] all the proof already filed at her own charges & those of her friends.

I deem it proper to communicate this information to your office that
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There may be no mistake made in the action thereof. We have the Letters of administration on the estates of both Wm & Margaret, duly filed amongst our papers, and if any proof be offered by Jesse, that will avail to prove service of William, (which we doubt) we shall claim
the benefit of it, and if any pension be allowed at all, we shall ask & insist that it be paid to the administrator for distribution. I am the attorney duly constituted as such for Martha Applegate, 
the applicant, and if that power be not sufficient, I will get that of the administrator. Having had all the trouble this far in the case, I do not intend, if anything is to come of it, to let another slip in & reap the fits of my labors & those of my client, if I can help it, & therefore I 
invoke the aid of your office to see me & my client protected.

I very much doubt, whether we shall be able to prove the service of Wm decd as required by your office, but we shall try to do so.

Respfully yours
W.G. Snethen

Hon L.P. Waldo Commr Pensions

[following written vertically in left margin:]
P.S.  please cause this caveat against Jesse Smith to Hoppers doings to be filed amongst the papers. W.G.S.
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Mayslanding Atlantic Co NJ Dec the 6 / 55
Mr L P Waldo Der Sir Mrs Martha Applegate Desires
that you will please to send the Coppey of Wm Smiths famley
Bible with his memorial to the Newjers  Legislator and all
the Ritings that is in the office Belonging In the case of
her fathar Wm Smith and you will oblige your Afect
NB send the Ritings to Jono W. Smith
Jacob and Martha Applegate
NB pleas informe me if Emanuel Coobs and Elizabeth
Patterson Warants will Be lined they was filed the 6 or 7 of
may Last By Jno P Dickinson
yours truly John W Smith
In haste
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Mayslanding Atlantic Co N J August 3 /54
Der Sir I now send you according to your
Requst the Record of Win Smith & Martha
his wife the ages & of the surviving children
with the Affidavits of John Logan Esqr
& Richard B Shephard's taking before
John C Abbit Judge of the Cort of the
County Atte in the State of NY I
have bin detained from sending those
Ritngs on account of the distance the
partes Lives from me, please Sir inform
W G Snethen for I do not know when
to rite to him N B pleas Sir when
you Examin the fameley record of
Wm Smith send it to me for Mrs
Applegate thinks the world of it for it
has the age & Deaths of all her Brothers
and sisters
yours with grate Respect
John W Smith
L P Waldo Commisonr
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Letters of Administration
upon Estate of
Wm Smith decd
granted to
Jacob Applegate
25th Nov. 1853
Bond $300
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State New Jersey }
Atlantic County ss } I Joseph Thompson Surrogate
of the County of Atlantic do certify
that on the twenty fifth day of
November in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred
and fifty three administration
of the goods and chattles rights and 
credits which were of William Smith
late of the County of Gloucester (now
Atlantic) who died intestate was granted by me
to Jacob Applegate of the County of Atlantic who
is duly authorized to administer the same
agreeably to Law
Witness my hand and seal of Office
this twenty fifth day of November in the year of
our Lord eighteen hundred and fifty three
Jos Thompson
Surrogate

State of New Jersey }
Atlanta County ss }  I Joseph Thompson Surrogate of
the County of Atlantic do certify that
Jacob Applegate the administrator
above named did give a good and
sufficient bond in the penal sum of
three hundred dollars before the 
granting of the above letters of administration.
Witness my hand and seal of Office this twenty fifth day
of November in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred
and fifty three
Jos Thompson
Surrogate
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
Form VAM-51
12-5-41
Division of Veterans' Administration Archives
BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*

NAME Smith, William GRADE Private LINE New York
WARRANT
NUMBER 7813 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED March 19, 1791 
to James Rosevelt, assignee

*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are
registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent
dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800.
Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.