Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 38438, for Smith Thompson, Virginia
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[typed form, with handwritten responses]

[3-1776]

SERVICE
Va.

Thompson, Smith

NUMBER
S.38438

CONTENTS
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[typed form, with handwritten responses]

[left side written sideways] Notification sent to D. Sheffey Esq. Staunton, Va. 8th Sept. 1820
Decision confirmed by Hon. Secy [Secretary] of War 15th March 1821. Affidavit sent same day to Mr. Sheffey as above.
Letter to Nancy Thompson 16th Dec. 18[?]

[right side] 15313
Virginia

Smith Thompson 15313
of Augusta Co. in the State of Virginia
who was a Private in the regiment commanded by [Captain] Grayson’s Group of the Virginia
[line for] the term of three years

Inscribed on the Roll of Virginia at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence [on] the 26th day of July 1819

Certificate of Pension issued the 9th day of October 1819 and sent to John Brown Esqr or Judge Staunton, Virginia

Arrears to the 4th of Sept. 1819 - $10.60
Semi-anl, all'ce [annual allowance] ending 4 Mar 1820 48.
Inc. 6/31 4/30             $58.60
86
{Revolutionary Claim}
{Act 18th March, 1818}

[written very faint] Discontinued
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Free

James L. Edwards Esqr. [Esquire]
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City D. C.

Mail}

[circular stamp] STANTON DEC 11 VA.

[written sideways] Dec 12 1841 New Evidence
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Staunton Va. Decr [December] 11th 1840

Dear Sir, 

As the widow of Smith Thompson he was a revolutionary pensioner I am entitled to much of his pension as was due at the of his death, but I can find no person here who can advise me as to the form in which my application to the commissioner for paying monies must be made, I am advised that by applying to you, you will furnish me with the [Illegible] form in which the application must be made. By forwarding me the form will much oblige me

Yours respect 
Nancy Thompson
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Smith Thompson
15,313
Decl [Declaration] & Cert
Augusta Coy [County] 
Not entitled 
$700
Act 1819
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State of Virginia 
Augusta County, to wit, 
On this 26th day of July 1820 personally appeared in open court (being a court of record) for the County of Augusta (in which proceedings are had according to the course of the common Law, which has unlimited jurisdiction within said county in civil suits, has the power of fine & imprisonment and has all its proceedings duly registered) Smith Thompson aged about seventy three years resident in the said County, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare, that he served in the Revolutionary war, as follows, that he enlisted in Staunton Virginia on the 10th day of July 1777 with Lieut. Robert Kirk of the Company of Captain Granville Smith, that he was then marched to White Marsh and attached to the 16th Regiment commanded by Colo William Grayson; that he was in the Battles of Monmouth Courthouse [June 28, 1778 in New Jersey]], Stoney point [July 16, 1779 in New York] Powlas Hook [Paulus Hook Aug. 19, 1779 in New Jersey] and at the siege of Charleston, where he was captured, and that he was afterwards at the Battle of Guilford Courthouse [15 Mar 1781] and the Capture of Cornwallis [19 Oct 1781], and that he was discharged in the month of June 1780. He is now unable to follow his occupation which is that of a weaver. He has already made a declaration under the act of Congress, passed on the 18th of March 1818 which is dated the 16th July 1819, his pension certificate is dated the [blank] day of October 1819. He further swears that he was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818; and that he has not since that time, by gift sale or in any manner disposed of his property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it, as to bring himself within the provisions of an Act of Congress entitled “an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War” passed on the 18th day of March 1818 and that he has not nor has any person in Trust for him any property or securities, contracts or debts due to him, nor has he any income, other than is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, and by him subscribed. He further swears that the only members of his family are his wife, aged about Forty five years, who is sickly and infirm and unable to contribute materially toward the support even of herself
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and a small servant girl about Eight years old belonging to John C Sowers of said County. Schedule, One House and Lot; 2 Walnut Tables & Leather Bottom chairs (old) 2 Split bottom do [ditto]. 1 Loom and harness. 1 Quill wheel and swifts 1 Clock 1 cow and two calves 1 old desk 1 Bible and some religious Books, Debts due me about Ten Dollars against which is to be set off debts due by me, besides the purchase money of the said house and Lot upwards of $100. 
Signed 
Smith Thompson 

Sworn to and declared on the 24th day of July 1820 before the said Court of Augusta County 
Teste Erasmus Stribling 

I Erasmus Stribling Clerk of the County Court of Augusta, do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath and declaration schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of said Court; and I further certify, that it is the opinion of said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is Seven Hundred and sixty Dollars, and that the said Thompson is not able with all his property to support himself and family without the assistance of his country, 

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court on this first day of August in the year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and twenty 
Erasmus Stribling 
Clerk of the County Court of Augusta
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Thompson papers

On Roll 

ER

Adm'd [admitted] #; #

Staunton, Va.
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Virginia Augusta County Sct 
On this 26th day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & nineteen came Smith Thompson of the said County of Augusta before me John Brown Judge of the Superior Court of Chancery appointed to be holden at Staunton and being sworn in solemn form on the holy Evangelist of Almighty god declares as follows that in the month of July in the year 1777 being a resident of Augusta County he came to Staunton in the same County and enlisted as a private with Robert Kirk [S35511] a commissioned officer in the Company of Capt. Granville Smith in the 16th Regiment of the Virginia line a Continental establishment [Col. William Grayson’s (BLWt1366-500) Additional Continental Regiment of Infantry] for three years. In the month of October following he left Staunton with his Company for head quarters in the neighbourhood of Philadelphia. He joined the army at White Marsh [Whitemarsh PA] and was commanded by
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Charles Scott, then commander of the Brigade of which the Regiment in which he served composed a part. The following winter he remained at Valley Forge. In the ensuing season he crossed with the Army in pursuit of the British & was in the engagement at Monmouth Courthouse [28 Jun 1778]. From that place he went to the White plains and from thence to West Point on the Hudson. In the winter of 1778-79 he was quartered at Bonbrook [Boundbrook] in New Jersey on the waters of the Raritan. In the campaign of 1779 he was with the northern Army, being then commanded by Brigadier General Peter Muhlenberg, from whose Brigade he was detached to assist in the assault on Stoney point [Stony Point NY, 16 Jul 1779]. He was also present at the taking of Powles Hook [sic: Paulus Hook at present Jersey City NJ, 19 Aug 1779] the same year. In the winter of 1779 80 he was detached for the Southern Service and marched from Morris Town [Morristown] in New Jersey to Charles Town [Charleston] in South Carolina, where he arrived with his detachment about the 7th of April 1780 to assist in the defense of that place untill its surrender [12 May 1780]. The detachment that marched from
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Morris Town to Charles Town was commanded by General [William] Woodford. During the time he was in service the Regiment in which he served was commanded by Colo Grayson & Colo Guess [sic: Nathaniel Gist BLWt1874-500]. He occasionally served under other commanders when detailed for some particular service. At the surrender of Charleston he was sent to Haderalls point [sic: Haddrell Point] from which place he made his escape and returned to Staunton, having been in actual service about three years. On his way from the South at Petersburg having but twelve days to serve Colo Samuel Hawes [BLWt1066-450] gave him a discharge which he sent to some office in Richmond with a view to get the bounty in Land that the government of Virginia had promised. The said Thompson further states that he has never received any pension either from the State or General Government; that he is now upwards of seventy one years of age; and in humble circumstances; his means of support
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being inadequate, and that therefor he requires the aid of his country for support. Sworn to & subscribed before me the day & year above written. 

At the same time & place came before me Frederic Grass [S39607] a witness on behalf of the said Thompson and being duly sworn on the holy Evangelist of Almighty God deposeth & saith that he came to Valley Forge in the Spring of 1778 before the army broke up being a soldier in the 12th Virginia Regiment. That he then became acquainted with Smith Thompson the person who made the above declaration and who then was a private in the 16th Virginia Regiment; that he saw the said Smith Thompson frequently in the Army during the campaign of 1778 & 1779. In the latter part of 1779 the deponent was detached for the Southern service and he then saw the said Thompson in
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the same detachment in passing to Charleston. During the Siege of Charleston this deponent saw the said Thompson frequently and believes him to have been captured with the other American troops there in that place. Sworn to & subscribed before me the day & year above written.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & caused the seal of office of the said Court to be affixed the said 26th day of July 1819
at the same time

Jno. Brown

The above named Smith Thompson known personally, and consider him a proper subject of the law

Jno. Brown
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[typed form, with handwritten responses]

38438

INVALID
Revy Own

File No. 38,438

Smith Thompson
Pri. Rev War

Act: 18” March 18”
Index: - Vol. 2, Page 507

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Let [Letter] to Hon. Hiram P. Hunt July 
16, 1842 enclosing copy of     
our to Rev H. Hibbard 15'
to Hon. H. P. Hunt Aug 17:42
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Susanna Thompson 
New York 
Suspended 
see let [letter] to Nathan 
Howard Augst: [August] 7th 1841 
Hon P. Smith Augst: 9 1841. 
Honble [Honorable] H. P. Hunt April 23rd 1842
To Revd [Reverend] B. Hubbard July 15, 1842
Act July 7 1838
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No 2 Schedule 
Reconsider 
cannot be reinstated 

Report to D. Sheffey 
Staunton Va.
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Supplement

Mr. Edwards, in his letter of the 9th Decr [December] 1823, addressed to the applicant, required of him to State particularly in what manner to whom the property exhibited in 1st Schedule has be disposed of - He states, in the first place, that the real estate exhibited in his 1st sched. [schedule] & which was valued by the court at $760 was conveyed in trust of Nicholas C. Kinney, in October 1823, to serve in debt of "a considerable sum of money” due to Erasmus Stribling, and has been sold at publick [public] sale for $395 - which sum was not sufficient to discharge sd [said] Striblings demand The reason assigned for the low price of the land is, that the wife of applicant would not relinquish her right of Dower in the premises Sundry articles of personal property has been disposed of to divers of persons-- amount of sale, $155.75 Part of this sum was appropriated toward the discharge of debts due “bona fide” for sundry articles furnished “several years ago”. The rest ($77) was ½ Wesley Stevenson, for money due him as an officer of the Corporation
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of Stanford, & which has been used by applicant as Collector of said Corporation, & had for some time be retained by him. –
Part of the land was afterwards set off to the wife of applicant to be subject to her right of Dower - but was still made subject to a deed of trust. By a private management between the creditors, it would seem that the part of the land which had been sold, subject to right of Dower, (and to which she subsequently relinquished her sd [said] right) was again sold for the nominal sum of $500-- but subject still to a lien of $50. = = The whole of this transaction is exhibited in due order, on 4 pages of paper -- From pages 5 to 11, several affiants are exhibited, stating particular debts due to them from applicant - part of which had been for as stated by applicant in his above apposition of the disposition of some part of his property. - These documents are dated 22d Decr. [December] 1823. 
A copy of a deed from application & wife to Lory Fitzpatrick is exhibited under the certificate of the Clerk of the County, but his seal of office is not affixed to this particular document, but it is affixed to another of these papers, on page 11 - Deed dated 15th Nov. 1823. - These papers are so voluminous as to render them hardly susceptible of being briefed.
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Virginia - --- 
Smith Thompson 
Private 
Grayson's Virg: line 

Inscribed on Va. Roll 

Restored of Feb. 182[cut off] 
notification sent to Hon. Wm McCoy, H. R.
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[left side of page] Virginia 
Smith Thompson, priv. [private] served 3 yrs. from 1777 
1st. Sched. [Schedule] dated 24 July 1820 Real Estate House & Lot & some Personal property valued by Court $760- 
Sche [Schedule] 2: under Act Mar: 1823, (dated 29 Apl 1823) Real Estate same House & lot as exhibited in 1st Sched. & some personal property Valued at $500 – 
accounts for the decrease of property &c. 
That the cattle & has been consumed in family. That there are two deeds of trust for the real Estate to secure a payment of $420, there is also a lien on sd [said] property for 75 Dolls [dollars], (Clk [Clerk] of C. Court Certifies that there deeds are

[right side of page] recorded - Independent of the debts, which constitute a lien on the real Estate he owes $170 - all of which debt he states he is unable to pay – 
Claimant aged 75 yrs. a Weaver but unable to work in consequence of infirmities wife - 48 yrs. sickly a servant girl belonging to J. C. Sowers, aged 11 yr comprise the whole of his family – 
--- 
Hon. D. Shaffey Staunton Va. 
March Term 1820
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J. L. Edwards
Pension Office

[written sideways] March 1823, Va.
Smith Thompson, 
Recd’ [received] 12 Jan. 1824

Hon. Wm. McCoy H. R.
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Washington Jany [January] 12. 1824 

D. Sir, enclosed you will receive the additional Declaration of Smith Thompson of Staunton Va. asking to be reinstated on the pension Rolls accompanied with other Testimony. 

Very respectfully 

Wm M Coy

J. L. Edwards
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Priscoe G. Baldwin 
John C. Sowers 
James Crawford 
John H. Payton 
M Garlene 
Joseph Cowan 
Jno. Wayt 
Isaac Collett 
Wm. Bays

[written sideways] Daniel Sheffey Staunton Va.
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To the honourable John C Calhoun Secretary at War of the United States 

The representation & remembrance of the undersigned citizens of Augusta County Virginia respectfully states. That they have understood with some degree of surprise that Smith Thompson one of the living soldiers of the Revolution has been stricken from the Pension Roll on which he had been placed by virtue of the act of Congress passed on the 18th day of March in the year 1818. This act they presume was done in the excercise of the direction which the late act passed on the 1 May 1820 gives to the Secretary at War; and under a belief on his part, that the circumstances of the said Thompson & his pecuniary means rendered any aid for his support on the part of his country unnecessary 

The undersigned have been informed that the respectable court of Augusta County entered it as their opinion on record that the said Thompson notwithstanding he possessed
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some property enumerated in his Schedule was unable to support himself without the aid of his country. They are willing to add their own Testimony, so far as the facts have come within their knowledge, to that afforded by the official act of the court, and to state it as their belief that the means in the power of the said Thompson are insufficient for his maintenance.

Of the correctness of this opinion there can be indeed but little question. A man of seventy three years of age, exposed in his better days to the hardships of a service more than ordinarily severe; now frequently afflicted with disease, the consequences of his exposure to the inclemency of every climate, can not be expected to acquire a subsistence for himself & his wife by labour alone. His property which indeed is intirely [entirely] at the mercy of his creditors affords no revenue. His house & Lott [lot] so long as it is left in his occupancy may afford him shelter, but where is he to get food & raiment? Is he to sell his property & subsist on it? That might be a transient relief were his property not incumbered. As to his personal property, it will be readily seen that to sell that part which is composed of his mechanical implements & which he can sometimes
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use, would add to his necessities; the rest is inconsiderable & almost indispensible [indispensable] to his living at all 

The undersigned have understood that the said Thompson was stricken from the Pension roll in consequence of some general rules which it was thought expedient to adopt to carry into effect the act of the first of May 1820. They will not pretend to say that it was not necessary to adopt such rules, though to them it appears that each case presents a distinct question for separate consideration. They regret however that by the operation of any such rules, or from any other cause whatever, the bounty of the country should be withdrawn from those, who have fought its battles, and that when afflicted by age & disease they should be deserted, to struggle with want. 

The undersigned respectfully submit these considerations to the Secretary at War & beg leave to suggest a reconsideration of the case of Mr. Thompson 
[signed] Arch. Stuart 
Jno. Brown
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Alex. StClair affidavit
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Augusta To witt. [To wit:]

This day Alex’r [Alexander] StClair came before me a Justice of the peace for said County and made Oath that he was acquainted with Smith Thompson, that he inlisted as a soldier in the Continental Armey in Capt. Granvel Smiths Comp’y [Company] and was sworn in as a soldier in my counting. Term by Jno. Tate Esq’r. [Esquire] I think in July 1777 & that he returned to Staunton in this County in or about the year 1780 with Capt. Bowen, and was informed at the time that he was discharged at Petersburgh on his way home certified under my hand this 26th day of July 1819
Jno Wayt JP
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Smith Thompson

[stamped] FREE

Honbl [Honorable] John C. Calhoun
Secretary at War
Washington

[written sideways] 
Va. 24 Rec’d [Received] 14 Aug. 1820
Notification sent to D. Sheffey Staunton Va. 8 Sept. 1820
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Staunton August 10 - 1820 

Dsi [Dear Sir]
A few days ago I enclosed to you the declarations of Eleven [founding father’s?] of the Revolution made in performance of the late act of Congress. I now by leave to as that of Smith Thompson with request that I may be informed of the [Illegible] Reason as [Illegible 3 words] 

Ys. 
D. Steffey
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[circular stamp] STAUNTON MAR 9

[stamped] FREE

Honbl [Honorable] John C. Calhoun
Secretary at War
Washington

[written sideways] Mr. Edwards I.C.C.
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Staunton March 8 1821. 

Sir,
When I sent to Washington a few weeks ago I had changed a personal signed by several very respectable persons of this place praying a reconsideration of the case of Smith Thompson who has had been stricken from the pension roll under the act of May 1820. I did intend to have had a personal interview with you on the August, but knowing how much you must necessarily be employed at the close of Session of Congress, I declined asking anything to the mass of concerns, with which no doubt you have incumbered.
Permit me now to call your particular attention to the subject; and to add my testimony to that of the memorialist as to the facts stated by him. At the same can time I cannot omit to express the story intent I feel in the success of the application in what of one whose Services (I am anxious) merit, and whose [Illegible] I hereby demand the aid of his country 

I am very respectfully
Yrs
D. Sheffey
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I Certify that the Transactions set forth in Sundry documents accompanying the schedule & Declaration Smith Thompson in relation to the sale & distribution of his said Thompsons real & personal property is real & bona fide & without fraud, & that he said Thompson is old & very poor & unable to suport [support] himself 

Wm McCoy 
7th Feby 1824

J. L. Edwards Esqr
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[stamped] FREE

Honble [Honorable] William McCoy
H. Representatives
Washington
Mail}

[written sideways] S. Thompson
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Staunton 7 Jany 1824
Dsr [Dear Sir]
You will find under cover another declaration of Smith Thompson for the purpose of obtaining his Pension drawn in pursuance of the directions of the Secretary at War accompanied by a affidavits proving the facts reg Co & a copy of his Deed & Mr Clarke being out of town the appa [application] drawn for him is not sworn but it is not considered material as the same facts will appear on my affidavit. 

The old man is very poor & his friends have been put to much trouble in the devouring to get for him the pension to which he has long been entitled - Pray I ask you kindly and in preparing his claim on the Government

I am yours 
very respectfully 
Erasmus Stribing
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State of Virginia 
Augusta County, to wit: 
On this 26th day of November 1823 personally appeared in Open Court, being a Court of record for said County, denominated the County Court Smith Thompson resident in said County, aged about seventy five years, who being duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the pension made by the acts of the 18th of March 1818 and the 1st of May 1820, and the first of March 1823. That he the said Smith Thompson enlisted for the term of Three years, on the 10th day of July 1777 in Staunton in the State of Virginia in the Company commanded by Captain Granville Smith in the Regiment Commanded by Colo William Grayson in the line of the State of Virginia on the Continental establishment, that he continued in service in the same Regiment until the 4th of June 1780 when he was discharged by Colo Samuel Hall, Colo. Nathaniel Guest (then the Commandant of the Regiment) having been captured by the enemy.
And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the eighteenth of March eighteen hundred and eighteen, and that have not since that time, by gift sale or in and manner disposed of my property or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress, entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary war passed on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me, any property, or securities contracts or debts due to me, nor have any income or property other than what is contained in the schedule hereunto annexed and by me subscribed. That since the rendering of my second schedule the house and lot contained therein & the personal property other than what is contained in the annexed schedule has been sold to satisfy Debts and did not sell for a sum sufficient to discharge them. The following is a schedule of my property 
6 chairs
1 Oven
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1 Loom and tackling 
1 Family Bible 
3 Hymn Books 
1 bed bedstead and furniture 
1 bureau 
1 old walnut book case 
1 Brass Kettle 
The said Smith Thompson further declares on oath, that he is a weaver, but, his age & sickness prevents him from labouring a great portion of his time, that he has a wife about forty five years of age who is sickly & infirm and unable materially to contribute toward her support 
[signed] Smith Thompson

At a Court held for Augusta County on Monday the 29th day of November 1823. On the application of Smith Thompson late a pensioner of the United States It is ordered that the statement drawn up in conformity with the directions of the Secretary at War of the 8th of March last, and to which the said Thompson has made oath in open Court, together with the schedule thereto annexed be admitted to record, and it is the opinion of the Court that the property enumerated in the said Schedule is worth forty Dollars & no more, which is ordered to be certified to the sole secretary at War. 

I Erasmus Shibling Clerk of the County Court aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing contains a true Copy of the Declaration and schedule of Smith Thopson [Thompson], taken from the original which is admitted to record in the office aforesaid, and I do hereby certify that the above is a true copy from the order of Court made on behalf of the said Smith Thompson. 

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of my office to be affixed this 29th day of November 1823 and in the 48th year of American Independence.
Erasmus Shibling Clerk
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(1)

Virginia 
In the County Court of August 22d December 1823 

Smith Thompson late a Pensioner of the United States came into Court and on oath made his additional declaration for the purpose of proving his Pension from the Government of the United States in the words and figures following Viz Virginia Augusta County 

On this 22d day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and Twenty three same Smith Thompson of the said County late a Pensioner of the United States aged upwards of seventy five years before the County Court of Augusta being a Court of Record and being duly sworn in open Court upon his oath declared that since his first schedule exhibited in the said County Court as a Pensioner of the United States under the authority of an act of Congress and the regulations of the Secretary at War the house and Lot mentioned in the said schedule is being his property has been sold in the manner following Viz Being indebted to Erasmus Stibling in a considerable sum of money for which a Deed of Trust had been executed to Nicholas Kinney to secure the payment thereof in the months of October last at the instance of the said Stibling the said Kinsey having duly advertised the time and place of sale
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exposed the whole of the said real property of him the said Smith Thompson for sale when it was cried for three days & the highest bid appeared to be three hundred and ninety five Dollars - That sum being insufficient to pay the incumbrances and the value of the property being effected by the claim of Dower of the wife of this Declarant an arrangement was made between the Creditors with the assent of him the said Smith Thompson & his wife by which a part of the property was seperated [separated] from the other to be conveyed to a Trustee for her sole and separate benefit subject to the payment of one hundred Dollars with Interest which was due to Briscoe G Baldwin & others & for which a Deed of Trust had previously been given to the residence of the said real property the wife of the said Smith Thompson relinquished her right of dower and then a private contract was effected between the Creditors that is to say the said Stibling & Samuel Clarke the agent of the mutual assurance Society who had a prior lien on the property, by which the residence of the said property was sold to Lovey Fitzpatrick for $500 the nominal given, but of which about $80 depended on some contingency. The money when obtained to be applied to the payment of the claim of the said Assurance Society in the first place and the ballance [balance] to the extinguishment of the said Stiblings debt - of the product of
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This sale the said Smith Thompson further declares that not one cent has come or is intended to come to his use except so far as his wife may permit him to enjoy the small remnant of the real estate which is still subject to the Deed of Trust in favour of Briscoe G Baldwin & others. This Declarant also in the month of October last sold one Walnut Table to Daniel Trayon for two Dollars - another to N. Forbes for four Dollars, a clock to James B. Hill for eighty Dollars to whom he was indebted the full amount, six old leather bottom chairs to L. L. Henson J Warden H.J. Tapp & W. Chambers for two Dollars sixty five & one half cents for all - One Loom & Harness, grill wheel and swifts to Thomas Maupim for a debt due to him being money borrowed about two years ago amounting to fifteen Dollars. A candlestand to Edward Valentine for two dollars- two [? Overy] & one pot sold to H. J. Tapp. A Waddell & David Point for one dollar - one shovel & tongs to M Cabe for 58 cents. one cow to Mary McCullock for Ten Dollars-- one cotton wheel to Henry Speck for 32 cents --All my Books, one Bible excepted by public auction sold to David Points & others in the whole for thirty eight Dollars & twenty cents - out of the money for which the said property was sold this Declarant paid the following debts bona fide due and owing from him to John G Lowry fourteen Dollars for necessaries furnished several
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years ago - The rest of the money has been applied to the payment of about seventy seven Dollars due to Wesley Stevenson Sergeant of the corporation of Staunton on account of public dues a considerable part being for money due from this declarant as Collector of Poor rates - all the property aforesaid was included in the schedule of this declarant herein before mentioned. Given under my hand & seal this 22d December 1823. 
Smith Thompson {Seal}

Whereupon It is ordered that the said Declaration be Recorded and that a copy thereof be certified to the Secretary at War agreeably to the act of Congress in such …. case made and provided 
In Testimony whereof I Erasmus Stibling Clerk of the said Court have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of Office This 22d day of December in the year of our Lord 1823 and in the 48th year of the Commonwealth
Erasmus Stibling
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(5)

Virginia Augusta County Ss
Erasmus Stribling this day came before me a Justice of said County & made oath that Smith Thompson was indebted to him on the 18 Jany last for a ballance [balance] due on settlement the sum of $328.76 being for money advanced him at various times for many years which ballance [balance] the said Thompson under took to secure by executing a Deed of Trust on his real property in Staunton to Nicholas C. Kinney - the said property was also subject to a prior lien in favour of the mutual allowance Society with Int. & costs amounting to about $157 - That the said Trustee having first duly advertised the time & place of sale in the month of October last undertook to all the said property for the satisfaction of the debts aforesaid when after crying the same three days no more than $395 was bid - This sum being insufficient to pay the debts aforesd [aforesaid] & seeing no prospect of being able to get more while the property remained covered by Mrs. Thompson claim to dower this affiant with the assist of Samuel Clarke the agent of the mutual assurance Society & of the said Thompson & wife made the following arrangement That in consideration of Mrs. Thompsons relinquishing her right to dower on the lower part of said Lot, she should
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have conveyed to a Trustee for her benefit sole & separate the upper part of said Lot above a line agreed on subject however to a lien for $100 with Interest due B. G. Baldwin &c - This being done this affiant afterwards effected a private sale of the residue of the property as will appear by reference to a copy of the contract hereto annexed & marked A for the sum of five hundred Dollars, out of which when collected is first to be paid the said $157 to Saml [Samuel] Clarke Agent &c & the residue applied to the extinguishment of your affiants debt & Interest & costs now amounting to about the sum of $350. & further saith not
Erasmus Stibling 

Sworn to before me this 23d December 1823.
W Bays

Paper A. Referred to in the above affidavit 
Memorandum of an Agreement made between Smith Thompson by Erasmus Stibling his Agent of the one part and Lovey Fitzpatrick of the other part, both of Staunton Witnesseth that said Thompson has sold to said Lovey Fitzpatrick the following described property Viz one house and Lott [lot] in Stanton on Beverley
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Street, Beginning at the South west corner of James Gregorys lot on Beverley Street thence with said street to a stake opposite the corner of the Brick Home on said Thompson Lot and thence with a line running straight with the line east end of the Wall of said Brick House to Archibald Stuarts line, thence with the line dividing said Thompson and Archibald Stuart to the N. West corner of the aforesaid Lot of James Gregory and with his line to the beginning, saving and excepting a Street as heretofore laid out through said Lott. 
In consideration of which said Lovey Fitzpatrick agrees to pay said Thompson as follows Viz - On receiving the Tittle one hundred Dollars - To assign him a bond or Thurston J. Dickerson for $55.00 ½ due the 6th Instant -- a claim on Henderson Martins of Nelson County for which on settlement may be due her from said Martins estimated at about $120 -- James Pughs note for about $17.00 due about December 1820 and a claim on Joseph Roberts for $26 -- she agrees also to pay this winter in cash the arm of fifty Dollars - whatever these terms when ascertained shall fall short of the sum of the sum of $500, for that amount the said Lovey Fitzpatrick agrees to assign said Thompson so much of her claim
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now the suit in the County Court of Nelson herself & others of Thomas Fitzpatrick dec.d [deceased] who was her Father but this assignment is to be without recourse. 

The agent of the said Thompson is to have said towit attended to at the costs & charges of the said Lovey Fitzpatrick and pay over to her the surplus in case of recovery but if the said suit should not he secured in then the said Lovey is not to be bound for that portion of it hereby assigned -- Immediate possession will be given of the property sold. Witness our hands & seal this November 1823 
Smith Thompson} 
Erasmus Stribling} {seal}
Witness Rice Morriss
Lovey Fitzpatrick {seal}

a true copy 
Erasmus Stribling

Augusta County Ss. Colson Driskell
This day made oath before me a Justice for said County that Smith Thompson was indebted to John Clowers for family supplies furnished from his store from the day of [blank] until the last fall the sum of $14.00 which sum the said Thompson has lately paid him
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since the sale of his Effects at October Court. & further saith not 
Colson Driskell 
Sworn & subscribed to before me this 23d day of December 1823. 
W Bays- 

Samuel Clarke being also duly sworn states that as agent of the Mutual assurance Society against fire on Buildings of the State of Virginia - he had in his hands claims agt [against?] Smith Thompson of Hamton which with Interest & costs of suck up to November last amounted is $157.
This Debt operated as a lien on the real estate of said Thompson and is agreed to be paid to this affiant out of the sale of the property sold by said Thompson to Lovey Fitzpatrick - so soon as so much money can be collected from that source & further saith not. 
Sworn & subscribed to before me this 23d day of December 1823. 

James B. Hill being also duly sworn saith that about Eighteen years ago he commenced business in Staunton as a retail vendor of articles of first necessity such as flour, corn meal &c - That he then or shortly afterwards commenced an account
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with Smith Thompson for articles in his line which was continued from time to time until the last fall when it amounted to the sum of Eighty Dollars. This affiant considering the age good character & former services as a soldier of said Thompson extended to him the long credit aforesaid with little prospect of payment & lately in the month of November last agreed to take & did receive from him one clock at the price of Eighty Dollars in discharge of the said debt & further saith not 
James B. Hill 

Sworn to & subscribed before me the 23d December 1823. 
W Bays 

Westley Stevenson being also duly sworn states that he as Seargent of the corporation of Staunton had in his hands taxes or liens dues &c including a ballance of poor rates which said Thompson had never accounted for amounting to upwards of seventy Dollars - That being unwilling to sacrafise [sacrifice] the property of s’d [said] Thompson he asserted to the project that said Thompson himself should sell his own effects at public auction on a short credit & apply so much of the proceeds as worth satisfy said claims - said Thompson
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did accordingly make said sale in [Illegible] last & from the proceeds has since settled said claims with this affiant 
Wesley Stevenson SCS

Sworn to & subscribed before me this 23d December 1823. 
W Bays 

Virginia 
Augusta County Ss. 
I Erasmus Stibling Clerk of the County Court of August do hereby certify that William Bays before whom the forgoing affidavits (from page 5 to page 11) were taken is an acting Justice of the peace in & for the said County duly commissioned & qualified & was in at the time of taking the same and I do further certify that the Deeds commencing at page 13 hereto annexed is truly copied from the Records of my office 
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed my seal of Office this 5th day of January 1824 & in 48th year of the Commonwealth
Erasmus Stibling Clk [Clerk]
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1 March 1823, Va.

Smith Thompson

Recd [Received] 9 May 1823
Mar. 20

[written sideways] Honbl [Honorable] John C. Calhoun Secretary at War Washington
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Staunton Va. May 6, 1823. 

Sir, 
I enclose you hereby papers with a view to have Smith Thompson reinstated on the pension List.

Soon after Mr. Thompson was stricken from the list under the act of the first of May 1820. A representation has been written to the Department of War signed by a number of [Illegible] persons. the object of which has to have his pension [Illegible] to him. It was determined that the power to do to him not listed in that Department [Illegible] upon that passed only (as I understood) the application has rejected. And that literally is a now removed I hope then will be [paper torn] which will prevent the application now made from being successful. 

Should you deem the papers sufficient you please to enclose the certificate to Mr. Thompson in this State.

I am his with [Illegible] 
D. Sheffey
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Smith Thompson 
Private 
Documents relative to 
his restoration to the 
Pension list on the 
Virginia Roll
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Copy of a Deed from Smith Thompson & wife to Lovey Fitzpatrick 
This Indenture made the 15th day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and Twenty three Between Smith Thompson and Nancy his wife of the Town of Staunton and State of Virginia of the one part and Lovey Fitzpatrick of the Town & State aforesaid of the other part, Witnesseth that the said Smith Thompson and Nancy his wife for and in consideration of the sum of five hundred Dollars lawful money of Virginia to them in hand paid by said Lovey Fitzpatrick the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledge have granted bargained and sold and by these presents do grant bargain and sell unto the said Lovey Fitzpatrick her heirs and assigns forever the following described property to wit one House and Lot being part of Lot No 2 in New Town in the Town of Staunton on Beverly Street Beginning at South West corner of James Gregorys Lot Beverly Street thence with said Street to a stake opposite the corner of the Brick House on said Thompsons Lot & thence with a line running straight with the East end of the wall of said Brick House to Archibald Stuarts line, thence with the line dividing said Thompson and Archibald Stuarts to the North West corner of the aforesaid Lot of James Gregory and with lines to the Beginning saving & excepting Street as heretofore laid out partly thro said lot together with all and singular the
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the appurtenances thereunto belonging or in any wise appertaining. To have and to hold the said lot with its appurtenances unto the said Lovey Fitzpatrick her heirs & assigns forever to the only proper use and behoof of her the said Lovey Fitzpatrick her Heirs and assigns forever. And the said Smith Thompson and Nancy his wife for themselves their Heirs Exors & adms [Executors & administrators] do covenant with the said Lovey Fitzpatrick her heirs and assigns, that they the said Smith Thompson and Nancy his wife their Heirs Exors & adms [Executors & administrators] the said part of Lot No 2 with its appurtenances unto the said Lovey Fitzpatrick her heirs & assigns against the claim or claims of them the said Smith Thompson & wife their Heirs and of all and every person or persons whatever shall and will warrant & forever defend by these presents. In Witness whereof the said Smith Thompson & wife have herein to set their hands & seals on the day & year first above written 
Smith Thompson {seal}
Nancy Thompson {seal}

Augusta County Ss
We John Wagh & William Bays - Justices of the peace in the County aforesaid in the State of Virginia do hereby certify that Nancy Thompson wife of Smith Thompson party to a certain Deed of Con [veyance]
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[Con]veyance for real estate to Lovey Fitzpatrick bearing date the 15th day of November 1823 and hereto annexed personally appeared before us in the County aforesaid and being examined by us privily & apart from her said husband and having the Deed aforesaid fully explained to her she the said Nancy Thompson acknowledged the same to be her act & Deed and declared that she had willingly signed sealed & delivered the same and that she wished not to retract it. 

Given under our hands & seal this 22d day of December 1823. 
John Wayt {seal} 
William Bays {seal}

In the Clerks office of Augusta County 4th January 1824. 

This Deed from Smith Thompson and Nancy his wife to Lovey Fitzpatrick being presented in the office aforesaid and acknowledged by the said Thompson is together with the certificate endorsed admitted to Record. 

Teste 
E. Stribling Clk [clerk]
a copy Teste 
Erasmus Stribling Clk [clerk]
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Virginia. Augusta County to wit 
On this 29th day of April 1823 personally appeared in open Court being a Court of Record for the said County denominated “The County Court,” Smith Thompson resident in the said County aged about seventy five years who being duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the acts of the 18th March 1818 and the act of May 1820 and the first of March 1823 That be the said Smith Thompson enlisted for the term of three years on the 10th day of July 1777 in Staunton in the State of Virginia in the Company commanded by Captain Granville Smith in the Regiment commanded by Col William Grayson in the line of the State of Virginia on the Continental Establishment that he continued to serve in the same Regiment until the month of June 1783 when he was discharged by Colo. Daniel Hall, Col Nathaniel Gist the commander of the Regiment having been captured by the enemy. And do by Swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March Eighteen hundred and eighteen and that I have not since that time by gift sale on the matter disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in land and naval service of the United States
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States in the Revolutionary War passed on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not nor has any other person in Trust on me any property or securities contracts or debts due to me nor have I any other income than what is contained in the schedule hereunto annexed and by me subscribed. That since the exhibition of my first schedule the following changes have been made in my property.
In the former schedule one cow and two calves were contain, the cow and the of the calves I killed to [Illegible] one, the other Calf I raised which is the one contained in the annexed schedule. 
Schedule of real & personal property one house and a Lott containing about three eighths of one acre of and situated in Staunton on which there are two deeds of Trust securing the payment of four hundred and Twenty Dollars which I am indebted - There is also and he believes on this property for about seventy five dollars due to the mutual life assurance society from me. These debts I am unable to pay without selling the property which I have endeared in vain to effect. 
The articles of personal property and two walnut Tables - one clock - six old Windsor Chairs – seven very old leather bottom Ditto - two old & [Illegible] one loom and harness, one candle stand
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Stand, two iron pot and one pair of tongs and shovel - one dish, four large and six small plates, six knives and forty-five table spoons and six tea spoons - one Tea Kettle, coffee pot - & has a small copper kettle - two pewter basins, One Cow, one small wheel & weight, one Cotton wheel, a bible & a few other books and a few old razors. 

Independent of the debts which constitute a lien on the real property I owe about one hundred & seventy Dollars which I am unable to pay. 

The said Smith Thompson further declares on oath that he [Illegible] but that his age and sickness prevent him from labouring a great part of his time - That he has a wife about fourty eight years of age, who is sickly and infirmed and is unable manually to contribute toward her support. He has a servant girl about eleven years of belonging to John Crowers [Esquire?] whose services are of little value and who may be taken away at the pleasure of said Crowers. 
Signed
Smith Thompson
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I Erasmus Stibling Clerk of the County Court of Ferguson & in the State of Virginia & do certify that the original of the foregoing declaration on oath & schedule have been admitted to the record of the said Court and the same and truly copied therefrom and I do further certify that it is the opinion of said Court - that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the said Schedule both real and personal is five hundred and ninety five Dollar. In Testimony whereof

I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court on this 5th day of May 1823
Erasmus Stibling Clerk County Court of Augusta State of Virginia
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Smith Thomson Certificate Wm Evans affs [affidavits]
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I William Evans [S25069] of Buckingham County Virginia do hereby certify that in the years 1777, 1778, & 1779 I served as lieutenant in General Weedon’s [George Weedon BLWt2418-850] Brigade in the 16th Virg’a [Virginia] Regiment, that during the whole time Smith Thompson now of Staunton Augusta County served as a private soldier in Colo Grayson Regiment. While in that service I became acquainted with him & have seen him frequently since 10 May 1819

Buckingham Scts 

This day came William Evans & made oath before me that the facts stated in the foregoing certificate are true.
Jno Gannaway Jr J. P.
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Doct [Doctor] Baldwin's app
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Virginia, Corporation of Winchester to wit: 
Doctor Cornelius Baldwin [BLWt255-400] this day [13 May 1819] appeared before me [Obed Waite] Mayor of the Corporation aforesaid, and made oath on the Holy Evangelists of Almighty God, that Smith Thompson was a private in the Revolutionary Army and served for some time in the 8th Virginia Regiment commanded by Colo Wood [James Wood BLWt2419-500], being the same Regiment to which this affiant was attached – that the said Smith Thompson belonged to the Company of Capt. Alexander Breckenridge [Alexander Breckinridge] as well as this affiant recollects, and that he acted as a Barber. And that the said Smith Thompson was taken prisoner at the capture of Charleston South Carolina, to the best of this affiants recollection. But he is not able to say how long the said Thompson served in the Revolutionary army, although he is persuaded that it was for a considerable length of time, at least twelve months.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and caused the Seal of the said Corporation to be affixed the 13th day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and Nineteen.

Teste [? Lem Bent]
Obeo Waite Mayor
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Staunton Hustings Court} 
Clerk's Office} To wit: 

I Vincent Tapp Clerk of the Hustings Court for the Corporation of Staunton do hereby certify that the following Deeds to wit: a deed from Smith Thompson to John C. Sowers in trust for Briscoe G. Baldwin, Henry Crane, Peter Heiskell & William S. Eskridge, bearing date the 24th day of August 1822, for one half of a Lot of ground in the town of Staunton, known by No. 2 - to secure the payment of one hundred Dollars, with legal interest thereon from the date aforesaid until payment. A Deed from the said Thompson to Nicholas C. Kinney in trust for Erasmus Stribling, bearing date the 18th day of January 1823 for one Lot in the town aforesaid Number one, and also for half the Lot No. 2 adjoining the Lot aforesaid, to secure the payment of Three hundred and twenty eight Dollars and seventy six cents with legal intent thereon from the date thereof, until paid: have been duly executed, acknowledged and admitted to record in my office. Given under my hand this sixth day of May One thousand eight hundred & twenty three 
Vincent Tapp C.C.