Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W 8736, for Edward Miles Smith, Maryland
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE
Md.
CONTENTS
(illegible) Md.
died in 1802

Smith, Edward Miles
Theresa

Number
W8736
B.L. Wt. 1170-200
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Kentucky - 5,121

Theresa Smith, (illegible)
widow of Edward M. Smith, decd
who was pensioned under the Act of
---
and who died in the year 1802
of Washington in the State of Kentucky
who was a Lt. & Sgt. in the _____ commanded
by Captain _____ of the Regt
commanded
Col . Adams in the Maryland
1 year 10 months, 10 days  to Lieut.
line for 1 month 20 day 2 (illegible) Sgt.

Inscribed on the Roll of Kentucky
at the rate of 306 Dollars -10- Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836, and
payable to Levi J. Smith, Committees

Certificate of Pension issued the 3d day of March
1840 and sent to Hon
John Pope, House of Reps

Arrears to the 4th of March 1840 $1224.40
Semi=annual allowance ending 4 Sept. 153.05
$1377.45

Act July 7,
1838.

Recorded by S. A. Elliot
Clerk.
Book A Vol. 2 Page 213

See letter 5 March 1840 to
W. L. Brent, Ex. present
2
Date of death
not av  AB
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Edw. M Smity. Decd
Lieut. Md Line
No 1180
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DEPARTMENT OF WAR.

Regulations for the heirs of Officers and Soldiers of the Revolutionary Army, who were
slain by the enemy, or who have died since the war, and have not received land from
the United States.

By an Act of Congress, of the 16th September, 1776, it is provided, that the Officers and Soldiers who engaged
for, and continued to serve during the war, or until discharged by Congress, and the heirs of such Officers and Soldiers
as shall be slain by the enemy, shall receive land in proportion to their rank.

N. B. Those who engaged for three years, or for any other period than during the war, or who died of sickness,
fatigue, or casualty, are not entitled to land from the United States.

The following declaration (and enclosed blank form of heirship) must be filled up and signed by the proper authoities.
,
State of Kentucky
County of Washington

 I John B Smith heir at law Edward M Smith
do, upon oath, testify and declare, to the best of my knowledge and belief, that Edward M Smith
did enlist in 1779, for the term of during the war, and served in the regiment No. 1 under 
the command of Colonel Roseburg or Col . Williams of the Maryland line; and
that he continued in the service aforesaid until discharged in 1782.

I further declare, that I have never received a warrant for the bounty land promised to Edward M Smith
on the part of the United States; nor do I believe that he ever received it, or transferred his claim
to it in any manner whatsoever: therefore,

Know all men by these presents, that I, John B. Smith aforesaid, do hereby
constitute and appoint Thomas Moore to be my true and lawful
attorney, for me and in my name to demand and receive from the Secretary of War of the United States, a warrant
for the quantity of Land due to me as aforesaid; and my said attorney is hereby fully authorized and empowered to
constitute and appoint one or more substitutes or attorneys under him, for the special purposes above expressed.

Attest,
George Roberts
John R. Smith

Personally appeared the above named John B. Smith subscriber to the
foregoing declaration, and in my presence acknowledged the power of attorney thereto subjoined to be his free act
deed, for the purposes therein mentioned.
Attest.
J. W. Bambridge
George Roberts
Justice of the Peace.

In testimony that the above written George Roberts, Esqr was a magistrate
(missing) administer oaths, and take acknowledgments, &c., in the State of Kentucky
(missing) that his name there subscribed appears to me to be his usual signature, I have hereunto affixed the
(missing) scribed my name and quality at Springfield this 24th 
(missing) 1826.
John Hughes Jr Clerk Washington
County Court
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State of Kentucky
at a Court held for Washington County, April 6th 1826

Satisfactory evidence was adduced in Court, to prove that John B. Smith
is the son and heir at law in 
fee, to Edward M Smith decd inte a Lieutenant first 
Regiment of the Marland line in the Revolutionary War

(seal)

I John Hughes Jr Clerk of the County Court,
do certify, that the above evidence is taken from the Records in my
Office. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed my official
Seal, this 24th day of Sept 1826.
John Hughes

The above certificate will answer for the following States: viz. Virginia, North-Carolina, Ohio, Kentucky,
Tennessee and other Western States,
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Warrant No. 1180-(illegible)
to John B. Smith DC  & heirs
of Lieut Edward M. Smith
Maryland line for 200
Acres of Land
May 19th 1826
and delivered to T. P. Moore
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State of Kentucky
Washington County
On the 22d day of November in the year Eighteen hundred and thirty nine personally appeared before this Honorable Judge of the Washington Circuit Court in open Court Theresa Smith a resident of the town of Springfield and County of Washington aged Eighty one or two years by Levi Smith 
Smith her son and committee, she the said
Theresa being a lunatic, and so found by a jury
empaneled and sworn under an order of the Washington Circuit Court (a copy of which judgment  and the orders of court made under 
are made part thereof) to the said Levi
being also a resident of the town and County
and the said Levi Smith being first by sworn according to law doth on his oath to the following declaration from information which he believes and from his  own knowledge in 
order to obtain the benefit of the provisions of
an act of Congress passed July 7th 1838
and an act granting half pay and pensions 
certain widows for the said Theresa Smith lunatic as aforesaid that the said Theresa Smith is the widow of Edward M Smith, who was a Lieutenant in the Revolutionary army as the said Levi has been credibly informed and believes.  He cannot state the particulars
nature of the service performed by his father
E. M. Smith aforesaid the time for which he served the battles in which he fought the county he traveled on his marches, or the officers whom he served, nor does he know any person living by whom he can prove the same man particularly than he has done in the accompanying depositions of Mary Edelin and Henry Clarkson nor does he know of any documentary evidence thereof other than that filed by the heirs of the said Edward M  in 1826 in the War Department on an application for the arrearages till their father as Lieutenant as foresaid and on which application they succeeding in getting a land warrant, which was exchanged in, any
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about the year 1830 or 1832 in the general
Land office for land script to lock of
which proof he refers to establish his fees
services
I further declares that said Theresa and
Edward M Smith were married lawfully
in the year succeeding the peace with great Britain after the Revolutionary war that
said marriage occurred prior to the 1st day
of January 1794 and after said and Edward M's
time of service had on (illegible) find and he had been discharged the precise day or month he does not know nor has he any knowledge of any documentary evidence either public or private by which he can prove said marriage
That said Edward Smith died in the year 1802 both the precise time he cannot ascertain, and that said Theresa  has not married since his death He states further that there is no family
record of the marriage aforesaid or the
with and deaths of their children within
his knowledge and that they had ten
children as follows to wit
Patrick, Edward M. Horatio a child whose 
name he does not know and who and in its infancy Daniel another child whose name he does not know and who died in infancy George Francis L. John B. and affiant Levi 
Smiths for whose births he refers to the deposition of Mary Edelin aforesaid for states further that they were married in Prince Georges County and State of Maryland according to the
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rites and sacrements of the Catholic Church, she states further that the said Theresa Smith is the widow of Edward M. Smith whose heirs made the application to the Department of War and the land office in 1826 and 1830 or 1802 and none other

L.J. Smith []
Theresa Smith

Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before.

C.C. Kelly Clk

And George C. Thurman a member of the Bar of this Court aforesaid being sworn deposeth that he has known Levi J Smith the forgoing affiant for many years; that he is a man of good character and entitled to full credit when on oath.

G.C. Thurman

Sworn to and subscribed this 22d day of Nov. 1839 before the undersigned.
C.C. Kelly Clk
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and Samuel Smith in open court being first sworn as the law requires states on oath that the Theresa Smith named in this application is the widow of the Same Edward M Smith, who had applied for land scribed in the year 1828-as herein before stated and none other. Samuel Smith 
Sworn and subscribed on the day above mentioned before. 
C.C. Kelly, clerk 
Washington Cir. Court 
State of Kentucky, Washington Circuit}ss 
November [illegible] 22d A.D. 1829
This day, Levi J Smith committed to Theresa Smith widow and relict of Edward M Smith, deceased (she the said Theresa being a lunatic) made oath to the declaration by him subscribed and the court having propounded to him the interrogatories required by the War Department doth certify its opinion that the said Theresa is the widow and Relict of Edward M Smith deceased, a Lieutenant in the Revolutionary Army who served as stated in said Declaration and that his heirs received the land [illegible] therein named and George C Thurman Esqr and Samuel Smth made oath to the affiants by them subscribed and the court doth certify its opinion that the said Levi J. Smith, George C Thurman, and Samuel Smith are persons of good character and standing and entitled to full credit when on oath and the said Levi J. Smith, George Thurman and Samuel Smith are persons of good character and standing and entitled to full credit when on oath and the said Levi J Smith committed and aforesaid produced in Court the deposition of Mary Edelin and Lucy Clarkson taken before Jesse Fox Esqr deposing facts connected with the said declaration and this Court doth certify that Jesse Fox and aforesaid Samuel Smith are
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Justices of the Washington County Court and that the said Alexander is the presiding Judge of said County Court.
Kentucky Washington circuit. SS
I Charles C. Kelly Clerk of the Circuit Court for the circuit aforesaid certify that the foregoing or true and complete and correct manuscript of an order made in the Washington Circuit Court on the 22d Nov. 1839 in the matter of the application of Theresa Smith for a pension as widow of E.M. Smith and the accompanying copies of the commission summary against Theresa Smith [illegible].
In testimony Thereof I have hereto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court  this 17th day of November A.D. 1839 in the 48th year of the common [illegible].
C.C. Kelly
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The Deposition of Mary Edelin of the County of Washington and Hall of Kentucky taken on the 25th day of October 1839 at her house in said County before Jesse Fox Esquire a Justice of the Peace for said County to be read as evidence before the commissioner of pensions for the United States in the matter of the application of Theresa Smith widow and relict of Edward M. Smith dec’d late a pensioner of the United States by land [illegible] and a Lieutenant in the Revolutionary Army. Deponent being of lawful age and first duly sworn deposeth and saith that Lieutenant Edward M. Smith the husband of Theresa Smith departed this life sometime in the year 1802, the day and month she cannot recollect. She further deposes that Theresa Smith the present applicant and Lieutenant Edward M. Smith were married in the May after the peace was declared between the United States and Great Britain following the Revolutionary War. They were married by Mr. Digs, a Roman Catholic priest of Prince Georges County in the State of Maryland, and at the house of Thomas Digs in said county, according to the rites and ceremonies of the said Church. She further deposed that the said Theresa Smith had never married since the death of her said husband. She further deposed that they the said Theresa Smith and Edward M. Smith had ten children all sons; that Patrick Smith their eldest son was born within nine
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months [illegible] after their marriage Edward Miles Smith(their second son was born between eighteen months and two years after the birth of [illegible] Horatio Smith their third son was born [illegible] eighteen months or two years after the birth of Edward
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1840- She further deposes that she was born in Charles County Maryland and left that State for Kentucky in 1795. She further deposed that Lieutenant Edward M. Smith was also born in Charles County Maryland and the Said Theresa in Princes Georges County of the same State, and that her maiden name was Theresa Dyer. She further deposes that she knows of the said Lieutenant Edward M. Smith having Served in the Revolutionary Army and she verily believes in the capacity of a Lieutenant. Witness further deposed that the time of the marriage of Theresa and Edward M. Smith is impressed more fully on her mind by the fact that he the said Edward wore his regimentals on the occasion. Witness states distinctly that the said Lieutenance Edward M. Smith had received his discharge from the service before his marriage, and that he drew his pay for his services in the war and bought a negro woman and two children with the money arising therefrom, or a part thereof. She further deposed that the Edward M Smith named in this Deposition is the only Edward M Smith she ever knew in said county of Washington, Kentucky except his son Edward Miles Smith before named a and that she understood that in 1826 the
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heirs of Edward M. Smith Lieutenant as aforesaid—the person named in this deposition applied for land scrips on account of the said Edward’s services in the Revolutionary War and succeeded in getting it and further this deponeth saith not.
Mary Edelin
State of Kentucky
Washington County} Sct
I Jesse Fox one of the Commonwealth Justices of the peace in and for the county aforesaid duly commissioned and sworn do certify that on the day of the date hereof the foregoing deposition of Mary Adelin and taken subscribed and sworn before me by the said Mary Edelin in due form of law. I do further certify that the said Mary is a lady of high Respectibility and worthy of credit when on oath, and that she is to all appearances a person of sound and vigorous mind and memory and that said deposition was taken at the time and place named in its caption and for the purposes therein named Given under my hand this 25th day of October 1839 and in the 48th year of this Commonwealth.
Jessie Fox J.P. [illegible]
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Also the Deposition of Lucy Clarkson taken at the same time and place as the deposition of Mary Edelin and for the same purposes. Deponent being of lawful age and duly sworn says: That she will be Seventy six years old in January 1840; that she was born in Prince Georges County, Maryland and knows Edward M. Smith and Theresa Smith, the persons named in the deposition of Mary Edelin, in their youth in the State of Maryland; that she knows that they were legally married after the rules of the Catholic church shortly after the conclusion of the Revolutionary War; that the said Edward M. Smith served in the Revolutionary Army as a Lieutenant; that she does not recollect the time at which he died. She deposed that his widow and Relict Theresa Smith late Theresa Dyer is still living and has not married since said Edward’s death and further this deponent saith not.
Lucy (her x mark) Clarkson
State of Kentucky
Washington County}sct
I Jesse Fox one of the Commonwealth Justices of the Peace in and for said County certify that on the day of the date
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Hereof the foregoing deposition of Lucy Clarkson was taken, subscribed and sworn to before me in the usual form. I do further certify that the said Lucky Clarkson is a Lady of high respectability of said county and entitled to credit when on oath and that her memory of the facts herein stated seemed to be good and that said deposition was taken at the same time and place and for the same purposes as that of Mary Edelin.
Given under my hand this 25th day of October 1839 and in the 48th year of the Commonwealth.
Jesse Fox, J.P. [illegible]
State of Kentucky, Washington County}sct
I William B. Booker Clerk of the County and for the County aforesaid do certify that Jess Fox whose name is signed to the foregoing certificates to the depositions of Mary Edelin and Lucy Clarkson is now and was at the time of signing the same a Justice of the Peace for said County duly commissioned and sworn and that full faith and credit is due and ought to be given to all his official acts as
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Such and that said certificates are in due form of law.
In Testimony whereof I have hereto signed my name and affixed my seal at Springfield this 28 Oct 1839 and 48th year of the Commonwealth. William B. Booker Clk
Kentucky Smith
I Alexander Hamilton Senior and presiding Justice of the Peace for Washington County certify that William Booker whose name is signed to the foregoing certificate is now and was when he signed the same Clerk of the Washington County Court and that his certificate is in due form of law, given under my hand this 28 Oct 1839.
William B. Booker Clk
c. Alexander Hamilton
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Theresa Smith
Declaration & Proof
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February 14, 1935

xxxxxxxxxxxx

BA-J/EEL
Edward Miles Smith-W.8736

Mr. Pope McAdams
First National Bank
Louisville, Kentucky

Dear Sir:

Reference is made to your letter in which you request the record of Edward M. Smith, of Maryland, whose widow, Theresa, received a pension on account of his services in the Revolutionary War.

A very careful examination has been made of the papers on file in Revolutionary War pension claim, W. 8736, based upon the military service of Edward Miles Smith in that war and his history is furnished herein, as found in said papers.

Edward Miles Smith was born in Charles County, Maryland. The date of his birth and the names of his parents are not shown.

Edward Miles Smith enlisted, place not stated, in 1777, as quartermaster sergeant in the 3d Maryland Regiment, his service ending March 16, 1780. On Feruary 19, 1781, he was appointed lieutenant in the 3d Maryland Regiment, Colonel Peter Adams, and served until January 1, 1783.

He died sometime in 1802. the exact date of his death and his place of residence at that time not shown.

The soldier married in "May after peace was declared," Theresa Dyer. They were married at the home of Thomas Digs in Prince Georges County, Maryland, by the Reverand Mr. Digs, a priest of the Roman Catholic Church. Theresa was born in Prince Georges County, Maryland.

Pension was allowed Theresa Smith, on account of the services of her husband, Edward Miles Smith, in the Revolutionary War, on the application made by her son Levi J. Smith. The application was made November 22, 1839, in Springfield, Washington County, Kentucky. The widow was then aged eighty-one or eighty-two years and resided in Washington County, Kentucky.

[Note written on letter: I used state report because I felt sure it was same soldier.]
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The names of the following children of Edward Miles and Theresa Smith are shown:
Patrick Smith
Edward Miles Smith
Horatio Smith
A son, who died in infancy and whose name is not given.
All of the above named children were born in the state of Maryland.
Daniel Smith, born in Kentucky.
A son, born in 1795, whose name was not given.
George Smith
Francis L. Smith
John B. Smith, born in 1799, living in Washington County, Kentucky, in 1826.
Levi J Smith, born in 1801, living in Springfield, Washington County, Kentucky, in 1839.
The name Samuel Smith appears in 1839:  no relationship to the family was shown.
Very truly yours
A. D. Miller
Executive Assistant to the Administrator
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Hon. Secretary of War
April 3rd 1832
Jno B. Smith

Hon. Jno Tipton
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Department of War
Bounty Land Office Apr. 3, 1832
Sir
In relation to the inquiry submitted in the accompanying letter from the Hon. Jno Tipton, I have the honor to impart that, Land Warrant No. 1160 for 200 acres opened 10th May 1826 in the name of Jno B. Smith, son & the [illegible] at law of Edwd M. Smith, who was a Lieut. in the Maryland line, and the same was delivered to the Hon. T. P. Moors.
I have the honor to
Wm Gordon
Hon. Secretary of War
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Mr. Edwards
Pension Bureau
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Dear Sir

This Lady is the individual who claims to be the legal heir of Capt. Edward Smith of whom I spoke to you. She rejects the heirs in [illegible] as spurious and false and that she is the only heir. You stated to me that before you allowed the pension to the alleged widow of the dec'd Capt you [illegible] who to be this Lady. You also stated that the Land & commutation [illegible] had been read by persons representing themselves his heirs in []. She claims to be the heir.

March 5, 1840

Yours respectfully W.L. Burt
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6417
Theresa Smith [illegible]
of Edward M.
Kentucky

Levi J. Smith, Committee

Admitted
Lt. 1 yr 10 mos 11 ds  $297.77
2 m Segt.  1 mo 21           8.33
$306.10

Col Adams [illegible]
died = 1802
Act of July 1838Hon. John Pope  H. R.
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Theresa Smith of Edwards
Kentucky

Suspended
Sec. Let. 27 Dec. '39
Hon. John Pope
[illegible] Jan. 21 1840

Act of July 1838
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Widow of Edward
Mrs. _________ Smith Washington Co. Ky. report Hon. J. Pope
No. 6117
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FIRST NATIONAL BANK  No. 109
Oldest National Bank in the South
Affiliated with
Kentucky Title Trust Company
and Kentucky Title Company

Popo McAdams
President and Cashier
Louisville, KY.
Jany 26th, 1935
Pension Bureau
Washington, D. C.
Gentlemen:  Please send me copy of application for pension made by Levi J. Smith Committee for Theresa Smith, widow of Edward M. Smith, Lieut. 1st. Maryland Regiment, Revolutionary War, about 1840.  Application was sent in from Washington Co. Kentucky, where Edm. M. Smith resided at the time of his death, and the residence of his widow at the time the application was made.
The Washington County Kentucky Court certified to the War Dept. at the Febry. 1840 term, that Edw. M. Smith was a Lieut. in the Revolutionary Army, and I suppose that the pension was granted.
Respectfully,
Pope McAdams
[Stamp:  Received Jan 30 1935] [illegible]
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1935 Feb 14-Hist to Pope McAdams [illegible]

Resolution

WIDOW, &c.

File No. 8736

Theresa Smith lunatic 

Wid. of Edward M. Smith Lieut Md line

Act:  July 7/38

Index:--Vol. M, Page 220

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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H. Rep. Feb 24th 1840

Mr. Edwards

Dr Sir

I returned hyou the papers of Mrs. Smith with an amended declaration certificate &c. I hope they will be deemed sufficient. I am well acquainted with the heirs & feel confident that no imposition is designed. Mr. Levi Smith one of the heirs is my near neighbor and highly respectable. He states to me that he can't furnish a record of his fathers marriage as it occurred under the Colonial government. Old Mrs Smith was a Catholic & married probably by publication. I admire your reluctance in regard to claims on the government but I exhort you not to be so nice & particular as to defeat a meritorious and just claim. I beg you to decide promptly in favor of right & advise me at the earliest moment. 

With Much Respect

John Pope
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C.C. Kelly Esqr.
Springfield, Kentucky

Mail
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Land Office, Annapolis, 22nd Jany 1840

Dear Sir,

Your letter of the 11th Inst just came to hand to day. Enclosed you will receive a Certificate of the service of Lieutenant Edward Miles Smith, which is all the evidence the records of the revolution in this office afford of his service. Col. Peter Adams was at the time Lieut. E.M. Smith was appointed the Colonel of that Regiment.

Very respectfully yrs
G.G. Brewer

C.C. Kelly, Esqr
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free FREE

6417 Ken July 7, 1838

John L. Edwards, Esqr
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City, D.C.
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Please enclose reply to C.C. Kelly, Springfield, Ky

Red? C.C.K.
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Land Office, Annapolis
January 22nd 1840,

I hereby certify that it appears by the Muster rolls of the Revolution remaining in this office that Edward Miles Smith enlisted as a Quarter Master Sergt in the 3rd Maryland Regiment in 1777 and on the 16th March 1780 time expired, and I further Certify that it also appears by papers on file in this office and the Pay rolls of the Revolution, that he was appointed a Lieutenant in the 3rd Regiment, on the 19th of February 1781 and received pay and commutation up to the 1st of January, 1783.

George G. Brewer
Reg. Land Off. w.s.mt
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C.C. Kelly Esquire
Springfield, Kentucky
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State of Maryland, Prince Georges County Sct.

I Aquila Beall Clerk of Prince Georges County Court do hereby certify that I have carefully examined the book of Marriage licenses from the year 1777 to the year 1790 and can find no entry of a marriage license issued in the name of Edward M. Smith and Theresa Dyer in said County.

In Testimony whereof I have hereto subscribed my name, and affixed the seal of Prince Georges County Court this Twenty seventh day of January Anno Domini 1840.

Aquila Beall Clk of Prince Geo. Coty Col.
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Upper Marlboro
Jany 27th 1840

Dear Sir--

Your letter of the 12th Inst. did not arrive at hand until the 28th Instant, and was answered as soon as practicable. I send you the certificate as was requested. I hope it may arrive in time to answer the purpose for which it is intended.

Very Respectfully, Your Obt Serv.

Aquila Beall of P.G.CCt.

To: C.C. Kelly Esq}
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6417
Theresa Smith
of Edward M.
Kentucky
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State of Kentucky
Washington Circuit Sct
November Term 1839
12th Nov 1839
On the motion and petition in writing of George C Thurman Esq the attorney for the Commonwealth in this Circuit suggesting that Theresa Smith is a person of unsound mind and must do lunatice inquerindo is awarded him. Requiring the sherriff of this County or his deputy to empanel swear and charge twelve good and Lawfull men house holders of this county to meet at the house of
Levi J Smith in the Town of Springfield on the 11th day of this term and enquire whether the said Theresa Smith be a lunatic or not and what estate if any she has, what is her age, and how long her mind has been insane at which time R.H. Coke Esquire is appointed to defend her after giving the said Theresa ten days notice of the sitting of the Jury and that the Sheriff request the inquest taken under this order under his hands and seals of the Juror together with the commission of Lunacy herein granted to this term of this Court. And under a further day of said Term to wit on
the 22nd  Nov 1839

This day came the sheriff and returned the commission of Lunacy directed against Theresa Smith together
with this request taken thereunder which are Ordered to
Record and are as follows to wit 
The Commonwealth of Kentucky 
to the sheriff of Washington County Granting 
we command you to summon twelve good  and lawfull(sic) men householders of your county to meet 
at the house of Levi J Smith in Springfield
on Friday 22d Nov 1839 to enquire whether Theresa Smith be a
Lunatic or not and what estate she has and report the same under the Seals of the Juror
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at this Term also give her ten days notice and have these [illegible] Witnesses Charles C Tully Clerk of our said Court this 12th day of Novemberer 1839 and in the 48th year of the Commonwealth.

C.C. Tully

On which the [illegible] the(sic) sheriff made this return to Executed 12th Nov 1839 in T Smith.

J. Hardin DS for M. Hardin [illegible]

And Summoned [illegible] an inquest

J. Hardin D.S.

The Inquest is in these [illegible] to wit  Theresa Smith to be a person of unsound  mind to wit a Lunatic; that she has been unsound of mind 6 or 7 years; that her age is 81 or 82 years and that she has estate to the value of $900.00 and an annuity of $28.00 from L.J. Smith, James H. Cunningham, L.B. Casey, S.D. Sandusky, Samuel Lowe, John Harte, P Sansburg, J.F. Smith, Levi Smith, E. Ligon, F.Y. Fenwick, O. Rodman. And on motion of the attorney for the Commonwealth ordered that said Inquest be confirmed and that Levi J Smith be appointed Committee to the said Theresa Smith on his executing [illegible].
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John B. Smith his security payable to the commonwealth in the [illegible] of $2000 conditioned according to law which bond was executed in court.
A true and complete copy, from the original records in my office Nov. 27th 1839.
C. C. Kelly, Clerk
Washington Court
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Hon. Lewis Cass
Secy. of War
Washington, D. C.

[illegible handwriting]
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Washington 2nd Apr. 1832
Dear Sir
I would thank you to furnish me with the information required by the enclosed not if this can be done from the book of your [illegible].
Your most obedient servant.
John Tipton
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State of Kentucky  }
Washington County  Set
On this thirteenth day of February in the year eighteen hundred and forty [illegible] personally appeared before  Jesse Fox a Justice of the Peace for the County OF Washington duly commissioned and sworn Levi Smith committed to Theresa Smith a lunatic of this county the evidence of whose insanity is now on file in the War Department and the age of the said Theresa being set [illegible[ in the original declaration to which this is an amendment, and she and the said Levi Smith being both residents of the town of Springfield Washington County Kentucky. and the said Levi Smith committee aforesaid being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following amendment to his original declaration now filed in the War Department of the United States in order to obtain for the said Theresa the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July the seventh 1808 entitled "an act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows."  That the said Edward M. Smith late husband to the said Theresa enlisted in the Revolutionary Army as a greater master sergeant in the third regiment of the Maryland line in the year 1777 and served at such until the 16th March
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1780 and that he was appointed a Lieutenant in said regiment and line on the 19th February 1781 and served till the end of the war.  That he has no other documentary evidence of the services of the said Edward M. Smith than the certificate of the Register of the Land Office of Maryland made part hereof.  He states that the colonel who commanded said regiment when said Edward Miles Smith entered was named Peter Adams.  He states further that he has caused a search to be made in the proper office for a record evidencing the marriage of said Edward and Theresa and can find none, and he verily believes there is none, and that they were married under the Colonial Laws permitting marriages to be celebrated between Catholics on publication of banns.  He makes the certificate of the Clerk of Prince Georges County Maryland part hereof.  He states he knows of no documentary evidence of said marriage or of the discharge of said Edward [illegible] from the [illegible].  He states that said Theresa is still living under his control as committee and still a confirmed lunatic, and unmarried.  He states that he knows of no [illegible] of said Edward services than that
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Accompanying this and his original declaration—and as a reason for not [torn] this amended declaration in open Court [torn] He States on oath that the county [torn] of this County does not sit until [torn] 24th Instant, and the circuit court [torn] the 1st Monday in May [illegible] and he [torn] understands that the office of Commissioner of Pensions expires on the 4th March [torn] – wherefore he feared that if he waited until either of said Courts his amendment would come too late
(signed) Levi J. Smith
And Charles C. Kelly being sworn on the same day & year aforesaid to wit the 15th July 1840 and at the same place to wit the office of the said Jesse Fox doth on his oath say that said Levi J. Smith is a man of good character and standing worthy of credit on oath.
C.C. Kelly
State of Kentucky, Washington County}ss
I Jesse Fox a Justice of the Peace for the county & state aforesaid duly commissioned & sworn do certify that
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on the day of the date hereof Levi J. Smith and Charles C. Kelly subscribed and sworn to the declaration & affidavits by them subscribed, and I do certify that they are persons of good character & standing and worthy of credit when on oath.  
Given under my hand this 13th day of February 1840.
Jesse Fox J. P. [illegible]

State of Kentucky
Washington County } Set
I William B. Booker Clerk of the County Court for the County aforesaid certify that Jesse Fox whose name is signed to the foregoing certificate is now and was when he signed the same a Justice of the Peace for the county aforesaid duly commissioned and sworn and that he is a member of the County Court of said county. 
In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court [illegible] spring first this 14th day of February 1840 and of the Commonwealth the 48th.
William B. Booker Clk.
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
FORM VAM--51
12-5-41

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*

Division of Veteran's Administration Archives

NAME  Smith, Eleazer
GRADE  Private
LINE  Connecticut
WARRANT NUMBER   6426
ACREAGE   100
ISSUED  June 17, 1793
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*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.