Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 6084, for Jesse Smith, New York
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Service 
New York 

Smith, Jesse
Mary 

Number
W 608H

BLKt 776 100 Sgt
Issued July 16, 1790 to
WM I. Vreedenburgh assigned
No papers
and
B.L. Wt 189-6055

Contents
In 1818 aged 39 and res of NY City 
In 1822 iss. of Militia Saratoga Co. NY
died in Sept 1822
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142. 649 May 21`
Act Mar 

Mary Smith wid?
Jesse Smith 

Col. Van Cortland 
NY Contl. line
Rev. Pension 

189

Rev. War

(unknown) Mrch 1956
(unknown) 

G.C. Ames
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New York Rolls
961

Jesse Smith 
Private 
New York line-1777-6 years
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War

Inscribed on the Roll of New York
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 18th of April 1818

Certificate of Pension issued the 10th of June 1818, and sent to the Hon. R.Riker, New York

Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1818
4 months 17/30
$36.53

Revolutionary claim
Act 18th March 1818

Van Cortlandt
Continental

New York New York Co
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680

New York
Mary Smith 

Mary Smith
widow of Jesse Smith
NY
who served in the Revolutionary 
war, as a Priv. and Sergeant
Increased from $96

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 113 dollars 33 cents per annum, to commence on the 3d of February, 1853. 

Certificate of Pension 
14th day of June 
and sent to Hon. A.P. 

M Thompson
April 2, 185

May 19th 1857 
Duplicate issued was sent to John T. Carr Saratoga Springs, N. York 

Joshua Finch 
Feby 19/58
Joshua Finch Apl 16/58
same June 16/58
same Oct 29/58
same Nov 6/1838
Pen at Parr Parr misc
Nov 6 1838

Let. S.H. Blackman
Aug 29, 1862
Jno Happen Apl 26 1865
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State of New York
County of Saratoga} ss
On this twenty second day of August 1820 personally appeared in open court in the court of pleas of said county the same being a court of record for the said county proceeding according to the course of common law with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of account keeping record of its proceedings and having the power of fine and imprisonment Jesse Smith aged sixty one years resident in the said county in the state aforesaid who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he enlisted in the fore part of apl seventy six in the company of Capt. Benjamin Pelton in Colonel Richmore's regiment General Mc Dodles Brigade New York line for the term of nine months and after serving his time was honorably discharged at Morristown New Jersey and in that campaign was at the capture of the Hessions at Trentown and the British at Princetown likewise the Battle at White Plains previous. That he enlisted (the eleventh of March 1777) in Capt. Philip Bevies company Col. Lewis Dubois regiment No 5 New York line for during the war and was taken prisoner sixth of October following (1777) at the siege of Fort Montgomery and confined aboard the prison ship Jersey from which he made his escape by swimming ashore then returned home and obtained permission from General Washington to continue at home until the succeeding spring then joined the Regiment at New Windsor was with General Sullivan western expedition (1779) was at the capture of Lord Cornwallis 19th Oct 1781 and continued with the army until the ninth of June 1783 when he was honorably discharged by General Washington at a place called Snake Hill Orange County State of New York with the Badge of Merit for six years of good and faithful service. When the five New York regiments were consolidated he then fell into Capt. Osuary Dubois company Philip Van Cortland's regiment and when discharged was in Capt. Oscury Paulding company which ought to have been mentioned before pension open cert. 
Jesse Smith

Thomas Palmer 
Clerk of Saratoga
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Inventory or schedule of the property of Jesse Smith

One cow of the value    16.00
two pigs $1.25 each       2.50
one bed and bedding      20.00
one table    2.00
one stand   1.50 
one piece    2.00
one table old trunk   2.00
one small   1.50
one small tin    0.75
six common chairs 75 cents each   4.50
Two pails 50 cents pr pail  1.00
one green pot   1.00
one kettle   .50 
one tin tea kettle  .50 
one tea pot earthen   .25
one set tea cups saucers   .25
two small bowls (earthen) .15
6 knives and forks  1.00
6 table spoons   .37
6 tea    "    .25
6 earthen plates     .75
3 small delta      9
2 earthen milk pans     .25
2 glass decanters    .75
1 vine of cruse    .09
1 cutting knife   25
2 smoothing irons     50
1 small spider      50
1 earthen pitcher       25
1 small looking glass   75
1 half barrel meat cask   75
1 small pickle tut     50
2 tin candle stand     25
1 pr snuffer    12 1/2
1 number mug    25
A razor saving box and brush   50
The cake of soap part used 06
shoe brushes     25
one bible     50
$65.43
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scarcity wearing apparel for myself and my wife. The con and the greater part of the above articles I have purchased with my pension money real property I have now either in Law or equity. My family consists of myself and wife am by trade a Taylor, I have lost my thumb off my left hand and my hand is much withered and the joints in the same stiff which added to my advanced age renders me unable to work at my trade. My health is otherwise much impaired and my constitution broken. My wife like myself is old and sickly and unable  by labour to contribute to our sustenance. I have a room in the town of Milton is the said county for which I pay $25 per year and 25 cents per week for the pasture of my cow. My pension is my only dependence without it I and my wife must resort to private or public charity for a living. My soul is whole and warm with the love of country not withstanding its broken shattered and decayed tabernacle. 
Jesse Smith
Sworn in open court
Thomas Palmer Clerk

I Thomas Palmer Clerk of the court of common pleas of the County of Saratoga do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the Record of the said Court and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is sixty five dollars and forty three cents. 
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court this twenty second day of August 1820.
Thomas Palmer Clerk 
of the Court of Common Pleas of the 
County of Saratoga
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Saratoga Common Pleas November Term 1820
Jesse Smith the Pensioner within named being duly sworn says that his original declaration was made on or about the eighteenth day of April one thousand eight hundred and eighteen and that his pension certificate is number 961 and dated 10th June 1818. 
Jesse Smith

On the 11th day of November 1820 Jesse Smith above named appeared in open court in the Court of Common Pleas in and for the county of Saratoga within mentioned and being duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath declare that the preceding affidavit by him subscribed contains the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth. 

I Thomas Palmer Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County aforesaid do certify that the foregoing oath are truly copied from the Records of the said court.
Witness my hand and the seal of the said court the 11th November 1820. 
Thomas Palmer 
Clerk 

Jesse Smith
copy
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Jesse Smith
Soldier
5 New York Rgt
Correct
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State of New York, ss. 
Printed by E. Conrad, Frankfort-street

To the Hon. Richard Riker
Recorder of the City of New York, and one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas, called the Mayor's Court of the City of New York, which is a Court of Record of the State of New York. 

The Declaration under Oath of Jesse Smith
formerly a soldier engaged in the Service of the United States during the Revolutionary War, now a Citizen of the United States and resident of the City and County of New York, respectfully showeth, 
That the said Jesse Smith enlisted a Soldier sometime in the early part of the spring of the year 1777 in Captain Duboys Company in the 5th New York Regiment Commanded by Col. Duboys under the Continental Establishment for and during the war and actually served against the Common Enemy until the end of the war in the year 1783 and while in the service of my Country I was at the Fort of Montgomery in 1777 and was then taken prisoner and escaped from the enemy in Nov following and in the Spring of 1778 joined my Reg. at New Windsor. I was at the taking of Lord Cornwallis and when I received my discharge it was from the Regiment commanded by Col. Phillip Van Courtland having served in the Continental Army six years and three months. I was Discharged by General Washington which I have lost. I am not about 59 years of age. 

And the declaration further showeth, that the said Jesse Smith is now a citizen of the United States, resides in the city of New York, and is, by reason of his reduced circumstances in life, in need of assistance from his country for support. 

Therefore, the said Jesse Smith conceives himself entitled to the benefit of the Act of the Congress of the United States, entitled, "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and Naval Service of the United States in the Revolutionary War," approved 18th March 1818, and requests your Honor will examine the truth of the matter aforesaid, certify and transmit
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the testimony in the case, and the proceedings had thereon, to the Honorable the Secretary of the Department of War, to the end that such relief may be had in the premises, as is by law in such case made and provided. And in support of the facts above set forth, the said Jesse Smith refers to James Scats who was in the same Regiment that I was after (illegible) of the Regiment of the New York Line. 

City and County of New York, ss. Jesse Smith 
of the City and County of New York, being duly sworn, saith, that the matters by him set forth in the foregoing Declaration, are in all respects just and true. 
Jesse Smith 

Sworn before me this Eighteenth 
day of April 1818 

R Riker 

Recorder of the City of New York 

City and County of New York, ss.
James Scats 
of the City of New York aforesaid being sworn, sath, that he was well acquainted with Jesse Smith the applicant as before stated and I was in the same Regiment with him more that three years in the Revolutionary War and was discharged at the same place above at the same day to the best of my belief and have known him ever since and believe the foregoing statement to be just and true and further say that he was an orderly sergeant when he was discharged.
James Scats

Sworn before me this Eighteenth day of April 1818
R Riker
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City and State of New York, ss.
Be it remembered, that on this eighteenth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and Eighteen before me Richard Riker Recorder of the City of New York and one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas, called the Mayor's Court of the City of New York, which is a Court of Record, personally appeared the aforesaid Jesse Smith

who being by me duly sworn to the truth of the facts stated in the foregoing Declaration and from the testimony of James Scats who was a non-commissioned officer for upward of three years in the same Regiment have reason to give the fullest credit to. 

Whereupon I being satisfied that the said Jesse Smith did serve in the service of the United States under the Continental Establishment in the Revolutionary War, against the common enemy, for the term of nine months and longer, to wit: for the term and manner stated in the Declaration of the said applicant; and that the said applicant is fairly and justly entitled to the benefit of the Act aforesaid. Therefore I do hereby certify and transmit the testimony in the case, and the proceedings had thereon, as set forth, to the Honorable the Secretary of the Department of War. 
Given under my Hand and Seal of the said Court, in the City of New York, this Eighteenth day of April in the Year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and Eighteen. 
R Riker
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Know all Men by these presents, That, I Mary Smith of Lysander, Onondaga County, N.Y. do hereby constitute and appoint    of    my true and lawful attorney for me and in my name to prosecute the claim of myself for Land Bounty under Act of March 3 1835 as the Widow of Jesse Smith deceased of N.Y. who was a Revolutionary pensioner of the U.S. and that she is pensioned under 2 Sec. Act Feb 3 1853. 
and I hereby authorize my said agent and attorney to examine all the papers and documents in relation to said claim on file in the Departments at Washington City, or else where additional evidence or arguments, and to receive the certificate that may be issued for said claim, to appoint one or more substitute for the purpose herein expressed, to do all the things that I might or could do were I personally present; hereby ratifying and confirming all that my said agent and attorney shall lawfully do in the premises. 
And I do hereby revoke all other agents and attorneys heretofore appointed by me.
Witness my hand and seal this 30th day of March 1853
Signed and delivered
in presence of 
J.H. Wethey
A Murphey 

her
Mary x Smith
mark 

State of New York 
Cayuga County } ss. 
Be it known that on the 30th day of March 1855 before the subscriber a Notary Public in and for said county, duly authorized by law to administer oaths, personally appeared Mary Smith above named, and acknowledged the foregoing Power of Attorney to be  act and deed. 
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand the day and year last above mentioned. 
J.H. Wethey
Notary Public

County Clerk's Office
I hereby certify that J.H. Wethey before whom the annexed acknowledgement was taken, was at the time of taking the same, a notary public in and for the county and State aforesaid, duly elected, and authorized to take the same, and that the signature thereto purporting to be his is genuine. 
In testimony whereof, I hereto set my hand and affix the seal of said county, and of the Court of Record thereof, this 4 day of April 1855. And I further certify that I am not interested or concerned in the prosecution or result of this case. 
EB Marvin
County Clerk of Cayuga County
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Know all Men by these presents, That, I   of    do hereby constitute and appoint   of    my true and lawful attorney for me and in my name to prosecute the claim of     
and I hereby authorize my said agent and attorney to examine all the papers and documents in relation to said claim on file in the Departments at Washington City, or elsewhere additional evidence or arguments, and to receive the certificate that may be issued for said claim, to appoint one or more substitute for the purpose herein expressed, to do all things that I might or could do were I personally present; hereby ratifying and confirming all that my said agent and attorney shall lawfully do in the premises
And I do hereby revoke all other agents and attorneys heretofore appointed by me.
Witness my hand and seal this  day of  185
Signed and delivered in presence of 

State of New York
County } ss. 
Be it known that on the   day of    18  before the subscriber a     in and for said county, duly authorized by law to administer oaths, personally appeared      above named, and acknowledged the foregoing Power of Attorney to be   act and deed. 
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand the day and year last above mentioned. 

Mary Smith widow of
Jesse Smith an
pensioner of Act to
Joseph Howard 
142.49

Jos. Howard

Like by
Joseph Howard 
Washington City, D.C.
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Know all Men by these presents, That, I Mary Smith of Lysander, Onondaga County N.Y. do hereby constitute and appoint George Clance of Washington D.C. my true and lawful attorney for me and in my name to prosecute the claim of myself for Land Bounty under the act of March 2 1855 as the widow of Jesse Smith deceased who was a Private in the war of the Revolution and was pensioned under act of March 18 1818.

and I hereby authorize my said agent and attorney to examine all the papers and documents in relation to said claim on file in the Departments at Washington City, or elsewhere additional evidence or arguments, and to receive the certificate that may be issue for said claim, to appoint one or more substitute for the purpose herein expressed, to do all things that I might or could do were I personally present; hereby ratifying and confirming all that my said agent and attorney shall lawfully do in the premises. 
And I do hereby revoke all other agents and attorneys heretofore appointed by me. 
Witness my hand and seal this 1st day of March 1856. 
Signed and delivered in the presence of
J.H. Wethey
Aaron Murphey 

her
Mary x Smith
mark 

State of New York
Cortland County} ss. 
Be it known that on the 1st day of March 1856 before the subscriber a Notary Public in and for said county duly authorized by law to administer oaths, personally appeared Mary Smith above named, and acknowledged the foregoing Power of Attorney to be  act and deed. 
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand the day and year above mentioned. 
J.H. Wethey 
Notary Public
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State of New York
Cortland County Clerk's Office,} ss. 

I, Rufus A. Reed, Clerk of said County, do hereby certify, that the annexed instrument, is executed and proved or acknowledged in due form, according to the Laws of the State of New York, to entitle it to be recorded therein: 
Also that J.H. Wethey Esquire, before whom the same was proved or acknowledged, was at the time of taking such proof or acknowledgment, a Notary Public in and for the said County, duly elected, sworn and authorized, to take the same. And I further certify, that I am well acquainted with his hand writing, and verily believe that the signature to the said certificate of proof or acknowledgement is genuine. 
In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said County, this 24th day of March A.D. 1856. 
Rufus A. Reed Clerk
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State of New York
County} ss.
Be it known that on this  day of   185 before the subscriber a Justice of Peace in and for the county and state aforesaid, personally appeared   of     county of    and state of   and made oath in due form of law that


That  has lately been informed, that said pension ought to be allowed, that  is directly interested in said claim as   That   makes this affidavit, to be filed with such additional evidence or arguments as my said agent or attorney may use in prosecuting said claim. 
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid before me.

I    Justice of the Peace, in and for said county, do hereby certify, that    who executed the foregoing papers, is a reputable resident of the county of      and is I believe directly interested in said claim as therein set forth.   

Mary Smith 
wid of Jesse
NY

Bounty Land 3 March 1855

Revolutionary 

Be please to file this with bounty land papers and send the warrant to me 
Geo C. Ames 

sent amt 24 Mar 1855

Geo C Ames
Present
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Mary Smith widow of 
Jesse Smith dec'd Bounty
Land 160 acres Act Mar 3/55

142.149

Filed May 21, 1855 by 
Joseph Howard
Washington City 
DC
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State of New York
County of Cayuga} ss.
On this 30th day of March, A.D. 1855, personally appeared before me J.H. Wethey a Notary Public in and for the county and State aforesaid Mary Smith aged ninety years, a Resident of Lysander in the County of Onondaga and State of New York. Who being duly sworn, according to law, declares that she is the widow of Jesse Smith deceased, who was a Private in the War of the Revolution, and was pensioned under the act of March 18 1818 at the rate of $96 per annum, and that she has been pensioned under the Act of Feb 3 1853 at the rate of $96 per annum, as the widow of the said Jesse Smith, deceased. 
That she has no public or private record of her marriage to said Jesse Smith or of his death. But that for proof of the same and of her widowhood reference may be had to the evidence on file in the pension office upon which her said pension was granted. 

She further declares that she was married to the said Jesse Smith in Providence in the County of Saratoga and State of New York on the 18th day of August 1805. 
She further declares that her husband, the aforesaid Jesse Smith died in September of 1822 and that she is still a widow. She also declares that she has never received any bounty land warrant under this or any other Act of Congress nor made any other application therefor

She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the Bounty Land to which she may be entitled under the act of March 3rd 1855. 
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year above written, before me
J.H. Wethey 
Notary Public

her
Mary x Smith
mark 

"attest" Jonathan Smith 

We Jonathan Smith and Huldah Smith, residents of Lysander in the State of New York upon our oaths, declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by Mary Smith, in our presence, and that we believe, from the appearance and statements of the applicant, that she is the identical person she represents herself to be and that she still remains the widow of Jesse Smith "deceased" and is now drawing a pension as his widow
Jonathan Smith
Huldah Smith 

The foregoing declaration and affidavit were sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and year above written; and I certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons; that the claimant is the person she represents herself to be, and that I have no interest in this claim. 
J.J. Wethey 
Notary Public
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State of New York
Cayuga County Clerk's Office ss: I do hereby certify that I J.H. Wethey Esq. was at the time of taking the written affidavit a Notary Public duly elected and sworn and authorized to act as such and that the foregoing are his genuine signatures 
In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and official seal this 16th day of May 1855.
Edwin B. Marvin Clerk
Cayuga County
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Act Feb 3d 1853
$96 per annum
Com'y 3 Feb 1833


Albany 

Hon. D.T. Jones
Baldwinsville
Onondaga Co
NY
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State of New York
County of Onondaga} ss. 
On this 5th day of February 1853 personally appeared before the undersigned, one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid, Mary Smith a resident of the Town of Lysander in said County, aged eighty seven years in October last who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration, that she is the widow of Jesse Smith who was a private in the Revolutionary War and who was placed on the pension roll of the United States on or about the tenth day of June in the year 1818. That the said Jesse Smith served seven years as a soldier in the War of the Revolution. That the said Jesse Smith died in Dutchess county in the State of New York in the month of September in the year 1822 but on what day of the month deponent is unable to state. She further declares that she was married to the said Jesse Smith on the 18th day of August in the year eighteen hundred and five at Providence in the county of Saratoga and State aforesaid and that she has remained a widow ever since that period, as will sure fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed. 
She further declares that said Jesse Smith's certificate of pension is lost or destroyed and that she has never seen nor
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seen any thing of said certificate since the death of said Jesse Smith. She further declares that there is no family record of her said marriage nor was any such record ever made to her knowledge or belief and that Esquire Howard the Justice of the Peace by whom the marriage ceremony was performed is dead.
her
Mary x Smith 
mark

Sworn and subscribed this
3 day of February 1853
before me 
Geo A. Stansbury
Justice of the Peace

Signed in presence of 
Geo A. Stansbury
Maria Emerick 

State of New York
Onondaga County ss} Jonathan Smith of Syracuse in said county, aged fifty four years in the sixth day of May in the year 1853, personally appeared before me the undersigned Justice of the Peace in and for the county and state aforesaid this 5th day of February in the year 1853, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath depose and say that he is the son of Mary Smith, named in the preceding deposition and step son of the said Jesse Smith also named in said deposition. That he was present and witnessed the marriage of the said Jesse Smith to the said Mary Smith which was solemnized by Mr Howard a Justice of the Peace at Providence in the county of Saratoga 

G.A.S
G.A.S.
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and state aforesaid when this deponent was of the age of about five years. That the said Jesse Smith and Mary Smith always from the time of said marriage until the death of said Jesse Smith lived together as man and wife. That said Jesse Smith at the time of his death was a resident of the Town of Milton in the county of Saratoga aforesaid but died in Dutchess County in said state while temporarily absent from home on a visit in the month of September in the year 1822. Deponent further saith that said Jesse Smith for several years immediately preceding his death was a revolutionary pensioner of the United States and that deponent has often seen his the served paper certificate of pension, which was lost or destroyed since after his death as a paper which was no longer of any value. And deponent further saith that said Mary Smith has remained a widow ever since the death of the said Jesse Smith. 
Jonathan Smith

Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before me
Geo. A. Stansbury 
Justice of the Peace 

State of New York
Onondaga County} ss. On this 5th day of February in the year 1853 personally appeared before the undersigned a Justice of the Peace in and for the county and State aforesaid Russel Adsit a resident of the Town of Lysander in the
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County and state aforesaid aged Sixty years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath depose and say that in the life time of the said Jesse Smith named in the preceding depositories deponent were well acquainted with him and lived a near neighbor to said Smith in the town of Milton in the County of Saratoga. That said Jesse Smith was reputed to be a revolutionary soldier and as such received a pension from the United States for several years immediately preceding his death which happened in the year eighteen hundred and twenty two. That he is also well acquainted with the applicant Mary Smith named in the preceding depositions and now residing in Lysander aforesaid. That said Mary Smith was and is reputed to have been the wife of the said Jesse Smith and the said Mary and Jesse always resided together as husband and wife during the time that deponent was acquainted with them up to the time of the death of said Jesse Smith. 
Subscribed and Sworn before me the day and year above written
Geo A Stansbury
Justice of the Peace

Russel Adsil

To the County Pensioner, 
I am intimately acquainted with Jonathan Smith and Russel Adsit
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To the County Pensioner, 
I am intimately acquainted with Jonathan Smith and Russel Adsit who sign the foregoing affidavit and know them to be men of character to whose statements full faith and credence would be given. 
Washington February 24 1853

Daniel T. Jones
Hon. Rep New York
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State of Michigan
County of Van Buren } ss. On this 28th day of July, A.D. 1862, personally appeared before me, a justice of the Peace in and for said County, Jonathan Smith a resident of Waverly township, Van Buren county and State of Michigan, aged sixty two years, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he is the son and only surviving child and heir of Mary Smith who was a pensioner of the United States from A.D. 1856 to A.D. 1861 and who died at the township of Waverly aforesaid on the 3d day of April A.D. 1861; that said Mary Smith was the widow of Jesse Smith (the father of this deponent) who was a private and sergeant in the Revolutionary War with Great Britain; that according to the best information and belief of this deponent the said Jesse Smith enlisted in the service of the United States about the commencement of said war, in Westchester County in the State of New York and served nearly quite all through the war, first as a private and afterward as a sergeant; that said Jesse Smith died about the year A.D. 1820 in Westchester County New York where he was near on a visit at the time of his death, his residence being at that time in Milton township, Saratoga County and state of New York; that he drew a pension
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from the United States for several years before his death, that previous to his residence in Saratoga county he resided for a time in Herkimer County in the State of New York and this deponent believes that he resided in Herkimer County when he first became a pensioner. This deponent cannot now recollect the name of the Captain or Colonel under whom said Jesse Smith served. He further says that several years before the death of said Mary Smith she caused application to be made to the Pension Department for the back pension to which she supposed she was entitled and that she afterwards received information that her claim was allowed in the Court of Claims and would be paid when Congress should make an application for such purposes. This deponent makes declaration for the purpose of procuring said allowance of back pension, as the heir of said Mary Smith. 
Jonathan Smith

We Thomas B. Irwin and John. M. Ridlon residents of Pan Pan in the state of Michigan upon our oaths declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by Jonathan Smith in our presence, and that we believe from the appearance and statements of the said indis
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vidual that he is the identical person that he represents himself to be. 
Jno B. Irwin
John M. Ridlon

The foregoing declaration and affidavit were sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and year first above written; and I certify that I know the affients to be credible persons; that the claimant is the person he represents himself to be and that I have no interest in this claim.
Theodore E. Hendrick Justice of the Peace

Know all men by these present, that I Jonathan Smith, the person who made the foregoing declaration and the only surviving child and heir Mary Smith late of Waverly, Van Buren County, Michigan who was a pensioner of the United States as a widow of Jesse Smith. Do hereby constitute and appoint Samuel H. Blackman of Pan Pan, Michigan, my true and lawful attorney for me and in my name to receive from the proper officer of the United States, all moneys due from the United States to said Mary Smith for back pension or otherwise and to which I am entitled as her sole heir, hereby revoking all other appointments for such purpose. 
Witness my hand and sent this 28th day of July A.D. 1862.
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Jonathan Smith       SS
Signed Sealed and Delivered
in presence of
Thos. B. Irwin

State of Michigan
County of Van Buren }ss. Be it known that on the 28th day of July A.D. 1862 before me the subscribed a justice of the Peace in and for said county, duly authorized by law to administer oaths, personally appeared Jonathan Smith above named, to me well known, and acknowledged the foregoing power of attorney to be his for act and deed.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand the day and year just above written. 
Theodore E. Hendrick Justice of the Peace
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State of Michigan
County of Van Buren} ss. I Martin Ruggles, Clerk of the Circuit Court for said county, do hereby certify that Theodore E. Hendrick before whom the foregoing and annexed declaration, affidavit and acknowledgement were taken is and was at the date thereof, a justice of the Peace in and for said county duly elected and qualified and authorized to administer oath and take acknowledgement, that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of said justice and verily believe his signatures to the foregoing just and acknowledgement to be genuine and that full faith and credit are due to all his official acts. 
In witness whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said Circuit Court at Pan Pan in said County this 28th day of July A.D. 1862
Martin Ruggles
Clerk
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Name Smith, Jesse

Grade Sergeant

Line New York 

Warrant Number 7776 and 189  

Acreage 100

issued July 16, 1790
1855

60-

to Wm. Vreedenburgh

or g   assignee

*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 or "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.
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Oct 13 '98
JC Shear
cir
War Dept. 

1728 Apr. 19 Photo
mailed to Mrs. Jesse M. Casanova 
MC

Revy Widow, and c
File No. 6084
Mary Smith
wid. 
Jesse Smith
Seagt. Rev. War

Act Feby. 3 53

Index:- Vol. M Page 219

[Arrangement of 1870]
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680 
New York Albany
Mary Smith 
widow of Jesse, 
who served in the Revolutionary 
war, as a private

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 
96 Dollars 00
cents per annum, to commence on 
3 February 1853
Certificate of Pension issued the
11th day of June 1853

and sent to 
Hon. D.T. Jones
Baldwinsville
Onondaga Co, 
NY

Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act
July 29, 1848 Page 83 Vol. a

1818
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189

60 acre
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521
Mary Smith
Widow of Jesse
NY

Let to Hon. D.T. Jones May 17/53
"     "    "       "      "         "     30/53

Act Feb 3d 1853
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Lansingburgh Feby 11 ‘57 
Sir on the Receipt of the enclosed please write me an answer as soon as your [illegible, convenience will allow?]
yours Respectfully 
[signed] Joshua Finch 

The
Secretary of War [illegible]
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[illegible] 15 }  N.Y.

[illegible]
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NY

Mary Smith
widow of Jesse

2d section of 
Act 3d Feby 1853

Duntiete to 
Jno T. Carr
Saratoga Springs
NY
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Saratoga Springs May 13, 1857
Enclosed I forward you an affidavit of Mary Smith stating the loss of her pension certificate. I am acquainted with her and have no doubt that the certificate is lost. If this affidavit is sufficient for her to obtain a new certificate will you make out the same and forward the same to me at Saratoga Springs in the state of New York. If anything further will be necessary in order to obtain a new certificate will you inform me what. 
Very Respectfully yours
John T. Carr
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Pan Pan July 29th/62
Jos. H. Barrett Comm of Pensions

Dear Sir, 
Your's of the 18th inst. relation to the claim of Mary Smith for back pensions received. 
Enclosed I send you such statement Jonathan Smith is able to make, together with power of atty. to me.
Should further proof be required I trust you will inform me what is necessary
Very Respectfully
S.H. Blackman
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Schenectady
March 31st 1859

Hon E C. Whitney

Dear Sir, 
Sometime in the Fall of 1855 a pension was granted to Elizabeth Van Derheyden, widow of David Van Derheyden payable to the agency in Albany. Shortly afterwards, General Hamilton drew the (illegible) and a proper power of attorney. Hamilton was afterwards increased per the forgery trial and convicted and is served in the state prison at Auburn. 
After his conviction an application was made to the Department from another certificate in lieu of the original  (which was illegible off by Hamilton) and in duplicate pensions to Mrs. Van Derheyden Continental illegible
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presenting the certificate at the Agency at Albany they were informed that they could not pay without answer from Washington. Her (illegible) at the Clerk at Albany addressed a note  either to herself or to the Hon. C.B. Cochran to prove this suit on the subject. I know the note was sent to Mr. Cochran but whether address to herself on him I was not able to say. Her administration have having nothing prove if ever decision her to write him for information. 
Hereby I search if even in their behalf to write her what the corner is to get the money as they are curious if closing up the estate. I have (illegible) that proponent in the paper power of Attorney would not preclaim them power legitimately receiving the money but whether it belonged to the Agent of Albany the subject an whether the (illegible) was the Department at
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Washington I am ignorant 
Will you have the [illegible] to inform me at your Earliest Convenience what [illegible, ever became?] the pension to get the money and Oblige
Yours &c 
[signed] S H Johnson
Schenectady NY
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Pension Office
Apr 1859
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Joshua Finch
Lansingburg
Feb 5, 1858

In behalf of Mary Smith 
widow of Jesse for 
arrearage of pensions

Respectfully referred to the Commissioner of Pensions 

Dept. Int. 
Feb 8/58

Moses Kelly
Chief Clk.
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Lansingburgh February 5 1856

Department of the Interior
Mr. J More Esq
Sir I drop this line in behalf of Mary Smith the widow of Jesse Smith a pensioner of the Revolution. Mrs. Smith applied to the government for back near ages not much different from a year ago through the agency of R W and I wrote to him but have rec'd no answer since the claim was allowed by the court of claims if it is consistent she wants you to send her the necessary papers also that she can draw the money allowed her by the court of claims her  health is bad and she is very needy. She is an Aunt of mine and she depends on me to see to her business so that you can address the papers to her and to the care of Joshua Finch Lansingburgh and I will send them to Mrs. Smith
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Mrs. Smith is not far from 93 years old and I have to provide for her wants to keep her from suffering and it would be doing her a great kindness to receive her back rearages (illegible) to the truth of what I have stated I will refer you to James L. Cramer he is acquainted with me and knows me character for truth and veracity please write me as soon as convenient. Yours very respectfully
Joshua Finch
Lansinburgh Feb 5
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Washington 21 June 1856

Hon. Mr Minot

Dear Sir
Will you be so kind as to furnish the information requested by the written letter. Respectfully yours 
A P Granger
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Dear Sir
I do not know as the artifact. I have made out will answers.
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Baldwinsville. NY
June 6 1853

Hon L.P. Waldo
Commissioner of Pensions

Sir, 
I know George A Stansbury Esquire to be and  to have been an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Onondaga and State of New York for the last ten years and that i was present at the time the papers in the case of Mrs. Mary Smith were taken and executed before him and know that they were duly executed by the persons signing the name at the time and in the manner service set forth. That said papers were directly handed to me and by me deposited in the Pension office at Washington. 
Daniel T. Jones 
Mc 24 Duck NY
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Hon M Minot
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Washington 5 July 1856

Hon Mr Minot
Dear Sir
Illegible I serve the papers notated to Mary Smith applicant for her claim and as per your former instructions. 
Respectfully yours
A P Granger
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Lansingburgh March the 14th 5th

Sir, 
Yours of the 17 February came to hand by due course of mail by which I learned that Congress had not passed the law for paying up the back claims which had been allowed by the Court of Claims of Pensioners since that time there has been a Notice in the papers stating that the law was passed if that be so and you use the officer appointed to execute that provision you would do me a great favor if you would send me the papers in the case of Mary Smith whose claim was allowed under the act of February the 3, 1853. That is if the power of attorney that I sent you is sufficient if it is not then I should like to get some more information on the subject what will be necessary for me to do. the old lady is very destitute and needy which makes me more anxious to assist her in her old age anything that you can consistently
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do to forward the case will be duly appointed by yours. 
Respectfully
Secretary of the Interior
Joshua Finch
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Baldwinsville NY
May 27 1853

Hon L.P. Waldo 

Sir, 
I herewith send you the statement of Mrs. Mary Smith, widow of Jesse Smith to be added to her application now on file in your office. 
She is 88 years old and is the widow of said persons-no doubt. 
She has had a little time to live and is very poor, supported by charity. I hope her case will be ordered to a re-examination for the worth and if any thing more is necessary I will try and get it, but I hope this will be sufficient. 
I am Sir
D. T. Jones
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Know all men by these presents that I Mary Smith of Lysander in the County of Onondaga and State of New York have constituted & appointed and do hereby constitute and appoint Jonathan Smith of the same place my true & lawful attorney for me and in my name to receive all arrears of pension due to me as widow of Jesse Smith deceased a soldier of the revolution and all sums which shall be hereafter awarded or granted to me for such arrears – 
Witness my hand & seal this 8th day of February 1853 
[signed] Mary Smith + her mark
Sealed & delivered in presence of 
[signed] Geo. A Stansbury 
Caroline A. Emerick
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State of New York

City and County of New York, ss.

I, Benjamin Ferris, Clerk of the City and County of New York and Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the said City and County
Do hereby certify, That Richard Riker Esq. 
before whom the annexed Affidavits were made, and who hath subscribed his name to the certificate also hereto annexed, was on the day when the said Affidavits were made and the said certificate signed, Recorder of the City of New York and a Judge of the court of Common Pleas, called the Mayor's Court of the City of New York, and duly commissioned and sworn. And further, that the said Court is a Court of Record of the State of New York, and that the signature of R. Riker subscribed to the said Certificate is the proper hand writing of the said Richard Riker. 
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, this twenty fourth  day of April 1818. 
Benjamin Ferris
Clerk
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Payment to be made at 
Albany by 
T.W. Olcott Esq. 
Agent for paying Pensioners, in the 
Agency of
New York 
Payable on the 4th September and 4th
March

Recorded in the Pension Office on the Roll of Pensioners under act February 3d, 1853, Page 83 Vol A 

H.P. Weightman Clerk
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Department of the Interior
Widow's Pension

I certify that in conformity with the 2d section of the act of February 3, 1853,
Mary Smith 
widow of Jesse Smith
who was a private in the revolutionary war is inscribed on the pension list at the rate of Ninety six dollars per annum, commencing on the 3d of February 1853, and continuing for life, unless she should again marry; in which case the Pension is not payable after the time of such marriage. 

Given at the Department of the Interior, this eleventh day of June one thousand eight hundred and fifty three

R McClelland
Secretary of the Interior

Examined and Countersigned

S. P. Waldo
Commissioner of Pensions

Cancelled
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Brief in the case of Mary Smith widow of Jesse
Albany Agency County and State of N York
act 37l 1853

Claim ("for increase")

Proof exhibited (if original)

Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance.
Her husband was pensioned under the Acts of 1818 and 1820 at $96 a year and died in 1822. He could receive no more under these acts for any service rendered in any grade lower than Companion officer.
He claims to have enlisted in 1777 for the new there on the 6th Oct 1777. He was taken prisoner and then escaped and rejoined his company. 
The rolls of this officer show that Mar 11 1777 he enlisted for 3 years, has maping 6 Oct 1777 rejoined, Sergeant 16 June 1780 mustered Jany 1782. His widow is entitled to pension for 4 months private and the months sergt or $113.33
hs $96
See Rept NY Line letter

Name ad resident of Agent
Hon AP Granger
H of Rep

Thornton Triplett
Examining Clerk
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Pension Office, 
May 17th, 1853

Sir, 
Under the regulations adopted to carry into effect the second section of the act of February 3, 1853, it is necessary that the claimant should make her declaration "before a court of record." The rules of this office also require, that if record evidence of the marriage of claimant exists, a copy thereof, duly authenticated, should be filed. If there be no such evidence, that fact should be averred in the declaration, when secondary evidence of the marriage will be admitted. 
The official character of the magistrate before whom any papers are verified, should be duly authenticated. 
the declaration and proof in the case of Mrs. Mary Smith who claims a pension as the widow of Jesse Smith not being in accordance with these rules, her claim is necessarily suspended. 

Very respectfully,
Your obedient servant, 
Loren P. Waldo
Commissioner of Pensions. 

Hon. D.T. Jones
Baldwinsville, Onondaga Co.
N.Y.
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Joshua Finch
Lansingburgh
Feb 11 1858

Power of attorney of 
Mary Smith 
"additional" 

Respectfully referred to the 
Com. of Pensions
Dep. Int. 
Feb 15/58
Moses Kelly 

Rec'd 15 Feb '58
Mr. Rhett
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Mary Smith
widow of Jesse
Albany NY

Ind 3 Feby 1853
4 mos pri $13.33 1/3
20 " searg  100
$113.33 1/3
a year from the passage of the act reducting 
$96 a year 

Certi to
Hon AP Granger
H of R
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Paw Paw Van Buren Co. Michigan 
To the Hon Comm of Pensions

Dear Sir,
About six weeks since I sent papers to the Commissioner of Pensions, at Washington to get a new Pension certificate for Mary smith on its ground that her certificate was illegally withheld by one Finch in New York but she has received no answer from the Commissioner's Office. Will you, Sir, please inform me for Mary Smith or inform her, whether such papers have been received at the Pension office. Her address and my address is Paw Paw Van Buren Co. Michigan. 
Very respectfully yours 
Chandler Richards
Atty for Mary Smith
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Hon. J. E. Heath
Com Pensions

Sir
I herewith transmit to you the application of Ms. Polly Smith of Baldwinsville New York for a pension under the act of 1853.
Will you canter the same to be taken of with as little delay as possible and inform me of the result.
I am Sir
Respectfully Your
obt serv 
D. T. Jones
H of Reps NY
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Joshua Finch
Lansingburg NY
Oct 18, 1858

Respecting pension 
money for Mary
Smith 

Respectfully respond to Comm. of Pensions Dept. Int. Moses Kelly 
Act 23/58} Chief Clk
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Lansingburgh Oct the 18th 1858

To the Hon. J Thompson

Dear Sir 
As a friend I want a little of your advice the case is this Mary Smith an old pensioner was in a starving condition and she applied to me for help and she in order to make me secure placed her pension certificate in my hands and told me to keep it until I got my pay for what I advanced. I have advanced to her about $83.00 her son and grandchildren have lately removed her to Michigan. They are now now pressing hard for me to send them their mothers paper so that she can draw her pension. I am none satisfied that her son is a notorious villin and wants to cheat me out of the money I have advanced. I wrote them that if they would send me some security then I would provide the certificate. I know they can do it if they chose but that dishonest son wont let them. the old lady is willing to pay me but her son wont let her. I expect they will apply for new papers but I hope you wont grant them for they can have these anytime when they make up their mind to be honest you would gratify one month by giving me your advice on the subject
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I hope  you'll excuse me for troubling you with such a singular case. I want to do right but I don't feel able to base what I have advanced if it wont be to much of a tax on your time please drop me a line. 
Your very Respectfully
Joshua Finch
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J Finch
Lansingburg
June 10. 1858

Respecting back pay
for Mary Smith
an old pensioner


Respectfully referred
to the Commissioner
of Pensions
Dept Int. 
June 12/58
Moses Kelly
Chief Clk.
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Lansingburgh June 10th 1858

To the Hon. Secretary of the Interior

Dr Sir
I understand that Congress has passed a law which allows the widows of the Revolution to draw pay back to 1848.I am rightly informed that Mary Smith the old pensioner that I wrote to you about has a right amongst others to back arrearages back to 1848 if that be so you will pleas to examine the laws I sent you some time ago which Mary Smith gave me authorizing me to service her papers which might be closed under that law my last that Congress might pass this Mary Smith is an Aunt of mine and she has always looked to me for help when she lived near me. She now has moved to Saratoga Springs Village and has lost her faculties in a measure and I fear some unprincipled man will get hold of her papers who will wrong her out of her money. She is very needy now and Mr Crane has done some things for her in this case and ought to have something so that if her business goes into those robbers' hands I fear they will wrong him pleas write me and give me any information that I may need
Yours very Respectfully
Joshua Smith
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Dear Sir,
Enclosed please find the revocation of power of attorney from Mary Smith widow of Jesse Smith now a pensioner under the act giving pensions to those married subsequent to 1800. She is a very old and feeble woman living with a son in law who is poor and of late has shown symptoms of lunacy which if continued will soon make them all charges upon the town. 
A few days since transacting land and pension Agent obtained from her by the aid of this crazy potent son in law a power of attorney to get the answers of pension which may fall to her, under interpretation of Mr. Waldo  and the Secretary of the Interior all of that do did not get back pension, but I did not know but that the Dept. would or had reviewed the decision or that congress might explain the law by resolution and give back pension and if so it would be very wrong to allow her to be cheated out of the money so I advised her to revoke the power of attorney and retain for her support any thing that may be from her due
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Will you be so kind as to place the papers on file nd address me if any thing more should be done to prevent her from being robbed by any papers that is or may be filed in your department. 
I am sir
Your obt. Servt
D.T. Jones
May 19 of 1858

S. Cole
Chf Clerk
Pension Office 

For Mr Cole
Chief Clerk
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Smith
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Brief in the case of Mary Smith widow of Jesse
Onondaga County and State of New York
act

Claim, ("original,") 

Proof exhibited, (if original)

Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance. 
Husband was a pensioner at $96 per annum.
Proof of marriage -living witness credible 

(If for increase.)
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what?

Name and residence of Agent
Hon. D.T. Jones
Baldwinsville, 
NY

S Cole
Examining Clerk.
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Brief in the case of Mary Smith wid of Jesse
County and State of New York
V Last act 3d February 1853

Claim, ("original," or "for increase.")

Proof exhibited, (if original.)

Is is documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls? If either, state the evidence.
Duplicate
The pensioner declares that the original certificate is lost

(If for increase) 
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what?

Name and residence of Agent
Jno. T Carr
Saratoga Springs, 
NY

R.McRae 
Examining Clerk.
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Washington City
Feb 26, 1857

Geo. C. Whiting Esq. 
Comm of Pensions 

Sir 
Be pleased to execute and return me the accompanying certificates at your earliest convenience. A case the death of the husband did not occur prior to March 4th 1848. You will please state precisely when it did occur; and in case the widow married twice, please state the period of the death of the
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last husband, also, or that in occurred prior to March 4th 1848 if such be the fact. Being anxious to have bills made out and reported or ready to be reported, your earliest attention will be very much oblige yours
very respectfully. 
M Thompson 
Atty
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Washington May 16 1856
Hon J Minot

Sir
I enclose hereunto the application of Mary Smith widow of Jesse of New York for an increase of her pension under the act of 3 July 1853 from $96 p annum to $126 per ann. Her husband served as a sergeant in the New York Continental Line
Very Respectfully
Your obt Serv
Geo. C. Ames
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State of New York
Onondaga County 
I Barnard Slocum Clerk of the said county of Onondaga do certify that on the 25th day of May in the year 1853 Mary Smith personally appeared before the county court of said county held at Syracuse in said county and being first duly sworn according to law did on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit and the severance actions of the pension act of February 3rd 1853 wi. That she is a resident of the Town of Lysander in said county of Onondaga and was eighty eight yeas old in October last. That she is the widow of Jesse Smith the identical person who was in Plannsville and is now dead and to whom a certificate of pension was issued on or about the 10th day of June in the year 1818. That the dec and pensioner resided in the Town of Milton in the County of Saratoga and State of New York for about the share of two years before his death which happened in the year 1822 and that pensioner thereto be resided in the town of Saratoga in said county of Saratoga. That she this deponent was married to said Jesse Smith in the month of August 1804, but in what day of the month she cannot now remember, at Providence in said county of Saratoga by one Howard a Justice of the Peace whose service name she does not recollect. That there is no record remaining of her marriage to her knowledge or belief and that no such record ever was made to her knowledge, and that soon after the
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death of Jesse Smith his certificate of pension was lost or destroyed as leaving a paper of no value. 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said County Court at my office in Syracuse in said county this 25th day of May in the year of our lord 1853.
Barnard Slocum
Clerk BH
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State of New York 
Onondaga County ss. Know all men by these presents that I Mary Smith of Lysander in said county (widow of Jesse Smith deceased a Sergeant in the Revolutionary War) do hereby revoke and would all powers of attorney in authority heretofore given by me to any person or persons to collect have or receive any amount of pension drawn from the United States or that my be hereafter awarded in a judged to me would very existing or future law of the United States and also all powers of attorney to receive for me any bounty land the amount from the United States Pensioners office. 
Witness my hand and seal this 13th day of May 1856. 
Subscribed and heard
in presence of 
Geo. A. Stansbury 
Am Smith 

her
Mary x Smith
mark

State of New York
Onondaga County ss} On this 13th day of May 1856 before me the undersigned a Justice of the Peace of said County came Mary Smith to me personally known to be the individual described
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State of New York
Onondaga County Clerk's Office, }ss.
I Edwin P. Hopkins, Clerk of said County, and of the County and Supreme Courts therein, which are Courts or Record, do hereby certify that Geo. A Stansbury whose name is subscribed to the Certificate of the Proof or Acknowledgement a Justice of the Peace in and for  said county, and duly authorized to take the same; and that I am well acquainted with his hand writing, and verily believe that the signature to said Certificate to be genuine. 
And I further certify, that the said instrument, and the acknowledgment thereof, are executed according to the existing Laws of the State of New York. 
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said County, at Syracuse, this 14th day of May 1856. 
EP Hopkins Clerk
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State of New York 
County of Saratoga} ss. On this eleventh day of Mary A.D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty seven personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace within and for the County and State aforesaid Mary Smith aged ninety one years and upwards now a resident of Saratoga Springs in the county and state aforesaid who being duly sworn according to Law declares that she is the identical person who drew a pension under the laws of the United States as the widow of Jesse Smith deceased that she is the widow of said Jesse Smith and as such widow has drawn a pension of one hundred and thirteen dollars and fifty cents per year since September 1856. And previous thereto she drew ninety six dollars per year. That she received and had a certificate from the pension office at Washington certifying she was entitled to said sum of one hundred and thirteen Dollars and fifty cents. That deponent has not been said original certificate since about the fourth day of March 1857. That she has made diligent search for the said certificate and has not been able to find the same. That the same is lost. She therefore desires that the pension department or commissioner of pensions at Washington would
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make out and forward to her at Saratoga Springs, aforesaid another certificate similar in all respects to the one which she received from Washington about September last and which is now lost. She further states that at the time she received said certificate and for many years previous thereto she resided in the town of Lysander in the Onondaga and State of New York but since which time and bout the middle of April last she removed to Saratoga Springs aforesaid where she now resides. She think that her residence was stated as in the Village of Baldwinsville which village is in the town of Lysander aforesaid in the aforesaid certificate.

Subscribed and sworn to 
Before me this 11th day
of Mary 1857 and the word 
aged erased before section
John T. Carr
Justice of the Peace

her 
Mary x Smith
mark

State of New York
Saratoga County Clerk's Office} ss. 
I, James W. Horton, Clerk of the said County, do hereby certify that John T. Carr was, on the day of the above Affidavit, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly elected and sworn, and that the signature to the above Affidavit purporting to be his, is genuine. 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my name, and affixed the Seal of said County, this 13 day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty seven. 
James Horton  Clerk
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Mary Smith
Power of Attorney
For 
Joshua Finch
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State of New York 
County of Saratoga} ss
Be it known that on this tenth day of February 1858, personally appeared before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace within and for said county duly authorized by Law to administer oath for general purposes Mary Smith a resident of said county and made oath in due form of law that she is the identical person who is a pensioner of the United of $113.33 per annum under the Act of Congress approved 3 February 1853. She further says that she has obtained a judgment in the Court of Claims for arrearages of  Pension from the 4th day of March 1848 to the 3rd day of February 1853. And makes this affidavit with said additional evidence as my agent may think proper countering and revoking all former powers of attorney or authority given. I hereby irrevocably constitute applicant Joshua Finch of Rensselaer County State aforesaid my true and lawful attorney to receive from the proper office of the United States at the City of Washington the amount that may be due me on the judgment aforesaid. 
In presence of David Maxwell 
Jonathan Smith 

her 
Mary x Smith 
mark 

Sworn to and acknowledged and subscribed before me on the day and year first written and I certify that the said Mary Smith is the identical person she represents herself to be. The word Smith wrote on an erasure. 
David Maxwell
Justice of the Peace
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State of New York
Saratoga County Clerk's Office} ss. 
I, James Horton, Clerk of the said County, do hereby certify that David Maxwell, was on the day of the above Declaration and Certificate, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly elected and sworn, and that the signature to the Jurat of the above Declaration and to the above Certificate purporting to be his, is genuine. 
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my name, and affixed the Seal of said County, this 10th day of Feby in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty eight. 
James W. Horton Clerk
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Ballston Spa
NY

Hon J C Calhoun 
illegible
Page 90

Ballston Spa November 15 1820

The enclosed declaration of Jesse Smith has been annexed by adding an affidavit setting forth the No. and date of his certificate. 
Thomas Palmer
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Jackson Michigan 
April 11th 1865 
Hon Jos H. Burnett 
Commissioner Pensions 
Sir
I have the honor to acknowledging the receipt of your communication of the 16th of Mar concerning the pension of my grandfather. I most respectfully state that my Grand father was known under the name of Jessee Smith, he served throughout the revolutionary war as Private & Sergeant  he enlisted from Westchester Co. N.Y. and was a pensioner several years previous to his death which occurred about the year 1820. his widow Mary Smith was pensioned in 1836, and drew her pension regularly untill her death. She died April 3 1851. 
The said Mary Smith, widow of Jesse Smith never drew any pension money from the time of her husbands death until 1850. Mr Crane of Richfield Herkimer Co N.Y. was her ally to procure her back pension, in the Court of Claims, (me are informed that he is dead) Jonathan Smith is the only child living of said Jesse & Mary Smith were informed that Crane procured a judgement in the Court of Claims, about Eight years ago.
I wish to inform you that I employed Sylvester Lauren ally at Law of Detroit Mich about a year ago, and also gave him power of attorney to transact this business for me and I have found out that he has done nothing towards it, and I respectfully ask that all communication sent to you from him, concerning this matter, be [illegible] without satisfactory information, enclosed you will find the affidavit of Mary Smith which will give you
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the necessary information, which you please return 
I am requested to inform you, by Mr Jonathan Smith that if you can procure the full amount of the money you may keep Five Hundred Dollars for your troubles

I am Sir 
Very Respectfully 
Your Obdt Servant 
[signed] Ira Hayes

Please address 
Ira Hayes 
Camp Blair
Jackson Mich
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State of New York
County of Cortland} ss. 
On this 9th day of Jany A.D. 1856 personally appeared before he undersigned, a Notary Public within and for the county and state aforesaid, Mary Smith a resident of Lysander in the county of Onondaga and State of New York who being duly sworn according to law doth depose and say that she is the widow of Jesse Smith deceased of N.Y.
That her said Husband was a wars man that he enlisted in the New York Line for the War in 1777. That he served more than 2 years in the War of the Revolution as a Sergeant and was discharged at the Conclusion of Peace. 
That her said husband received one hundred acres of land from the General Government for said service. That he was pensioned under the Act of 18th of March 1818 at the rate of $96 per annum and died in A.D. 1822.
This she is now a pensioner of the U.S. under the Act of 3 of Feb 1853 at $96 per annum the same as her said husband received.
She asks that her said pension may be increased to $120 per annum to which she is entitled for her husbands service as a sergeant. 
That she was married to Jesse Smith on the 18th day of August A.D. 1805 and that she is still a widow. 

her
Mary x Smith
mark

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid before me,
J.H. Wethey 
Notary Public
I certify that the above named deponent is a reputable witness; and I further certify that I have no interest in the result of the case where this is to be used, and am not concerned in prosecution. 
J.H. Wethey
Notary Public
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State of New York
Cortland County Clerk's Office} ss. 
I, Rufus A. Reed, Clerk of said County, do hereby certify, That the annexed instrument, is executed and proved or acknowledged in due form, according to Laws of the State of New York, to entitle it to be recorded therein:
Also that J.H. Wethey Esquire, before whom the same was proved or acknowledged, was, at the time of taking such proof or acknowledgment, a 
Notary Public
in and for the said County, duly elected, sworn and authorized, to take the same. And I further certify, that I am well acquainted with his hand writing, and verily believe that the signature to the said certificate of proof or acknowledgment is genuine. 
In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said County, this 14th day of May A.D. 1858.
Rufus A. Reed Clerk
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We [illegible] and Isaac J Sherwood residents of Lysander in the State of New York upon our oaths, declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by Mary Smith in our presence, and that we believe, from the appearance and statements of the applicant, that she is the identical person she represents herself to be & that she still remains the widow of Jesse Smith deceased & is now drawing pension as his widow 
[first signature illegible] [signed] Isaac Sherwood
The foregoing declaration and affidavit were sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and year above written; and I certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons; that the claimant is the person she represents herself to be, and that I have no interest in this claim. 
[signed]  I. H. Meshey [?]
Notary Public
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State of Michigan
County of Van Buren} 
Be it known that before me Theodore E. Hendrick a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Van Buren aforesaid personally appeared Mary Smith and made oath in due form of law that she is the identical Mary Smith widow of Jesse Smith named in an original pension certificate, issued from the Department of the Interior the eighteenth day of May eighteen hundred and fifty seven in lieu of one dated July fourteenth eighteen hundred and forty six and now illegally withheld by Joshua Finch of Lansingburgh in the State of New York; that the said Joshua Finch refuses to deliver on said certificate to the said Mary Smith; that the said Joshua Finch has so detained the said certificate since the first day of April eighteen hundred and fifty eight. That the said Mary Smith is entitled to a pension of one hundred and thirteen dollars and thirty three cents per annum on account of being the widow of Jesse Smith who was a private and sergeant in the Revolutionary War. That the said Mary Smith has not intermarried but con[tinues]
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[con]tinues to be the widow of the above named Jesse Smith; that she now resides in the County of Van Buren aforesaid in the State of Michigan and has resided therein for the space of six weeks last past and that previous thereto she resided in Saratoga New York 
Subscribed and sworn to before
me this 4th day of September
1858 
Theodore E Hendrick Justice of the Peace

her
Mary x Smith 
mark 

State of Michigan 
County of Van Buren} ss. 
Personally appeared before me Eliza Sanborn of Kalamazoo and Huldah Smith resident of the County of Van Buren aforesaid persons above I certify to be respectable and entitled to credit and who, being by me duly sworn say that they were present and saw Mary Smith make her mark to the foregoing declaration and they further swear that they have every reason to believe and do believe from the appearance
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of the applicant and their acquaintance with her that she is the identical person she represents herself to be, and that the first named deponent does reside in the county of Kalamazoo and the second named deponent does reside in the County of Van Buren.

Subscribed and Sworn 
to before me this
4th day of Sept. 1858

Eliza Sanburn
Huldah Smith

Theodore E. Hendrick Justice of the Peace

State of Michigan
County of Van Buren} ss. 
Conformably to the regulations of the War Department of the 27th of October 1832, I Theodore E. Hendrick a Justice of the Peace of said County of Van Buren do hereby certify that I have the most satisfactory evidence, to wit, the affidavits hereunto annexed of Eliza Sanburn and Huldah Smith whom I certify to be respectable and entitled to credit that Mary Smith who this day appeared before me to take this oath of identity, is the identical pensioner she declares herself to be in the annexed in the foregoing affidavit subscribed by her, and I am satisfied also that the statement made by her in relation to the pension certificate is had. Given under my hand this day and year first above written. Theodore E. Hendrick Justice of the Peace
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Clerk's Certificate
Printed and Sold by S. Dow Elwood, Detroit

State of Michigan
County of Van Buren} ss. 
I, S. Tallmadge Conway Clerk of said County, and Clerk of the Circuit Court for the county of Van Buren 
Do Hereby Certify, That Theodore E Hendrick whose name is subscribed to the certificate or affidavit of the annexed Instrument, and therein written, was at the time of taking such affidavit a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly Elected and qualified, and duly authorized to take the same: And further, I am well acquainted with the hand writing of such Justice of the Peace and verily believe that the signature to the said Certificate or proof of acknowledgment is genuine: I further certify, that said Instrument is executed and acknowledged according to Laws of this State.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said County, at Paw Paw this 4th day of August, A.D. 1858
S.T Conway Clerk
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S

Room 356 War Department

Washington, D.C., August 5, 1898.

Bureau of Pensions, 
Washington, D.C.

Gentlemen:
Kindly furnish me with the military record of Jesse Smith, my great grandfather, now deceased, who entered the services from Mendon, New York, War of 1812, and afterwards received a pension. Am of the opinion that he was either teamster or wagoner in that service. 
Thanking you in advance for the information requested, I am,
Respectfully yours, 
Jerome C. Shear
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AUG 10 1898
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15822

3-2233

Bureau of Pensions
Finance Division

April 10 1928
Chief Rev and 1812 Wars Division
I have this day received from 
Jessie M. Casanova
cash in the amount 
of 40 cts requesting
photostat copy as per letter herewith. 

O.J. Randall
Chief, Finance Division
HR

Apr 19, 1928
Photos mailed
and financed so
notified
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April 9, 1928

Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D.C. 

Sir:
Please send me photostatic copy, certified, of one page from the Revolutionary War pension claim of Jesse Smith, widow Mary, W. 6084.

Jessie M. Casanova 
727 Kennedy St N.W. 
Washington D.C.

Received payment
Forty Cents
April 9, 1928
M.C. Stokes
Rev. & 1812 War Section
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SUBMIT IN DUPLICATE   1-681   PHONE Branch 476
All inquiries regarding this job should refer to Requisition No. 22574
Requisition for Duplicating, Addressograph, Photostat, and Blue Print Work. 
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR WASHINGTON
CHIEF, Division of Publications, Room G 137. Please furnish work specified below.   April 9, 1928.
Bureau ordering Pensions Deliver to Room No. 5033 
(ALL COPY FOR DUPLICATING WORK SHOULD BE PLAIN AND WRITTEN IN ELITE TYPE, EXACTLY LINE FOR LINE AS IT IS TO APPEAR ON FINISHED JOB.) 
Title and description of job photostatic copy of one page from Revolutionary War pension claim, W. 6084, Jesse Smith, widow, Mary. 
No. of copies one   Shall form be kept standing? ---days
For further information see M.M.H. Finch Room 5033  No. Phone 541
Approved: [stamped name illegible] Actg Chief Clerk of Bureau.9  Margaret M. H. Frich Chief of Branch or Division 
NOTE: No order made "SPECIAL" unless statement showing necessity is written below and approved by Chief Clerk of Bureau ordering 
CHECK WORD DESIRED
Duplicate 
Multigraph single or double space? ? Facsimile signature?
Mimeograph one side or both sides? Facsimile signature?
Folding once or twice?
Assembling 
Stapling  Once? Twice? Side? End?
Electric typewriter  Fill in addresses?  Dated?
Addressograph from lists 
Envelopes, size   Cards, size
Proof list   Pay rolls
Labels (submit sample)   Corrections
Fill in letters  Tabulation sheets
Photostat x Size actual  Official use?  Repay? yes  $0.15

Blue Print Size  Official use?  Repay?
Remarks 
(OVER)
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NOTE: Routine changes of addresses may be made on this blank without formal reference through or initialing of chiefs of branches or chief clerks of bureaus. 
( Date ) 
INDICATE BY AN X IN PROPER SQUARE ACTION TO BE TAKEN. 
Make new addressograph plate 
Change present addressograph plate 
Destroy present addressograph plate  } On list
as follows: 
Now reads  1 2 3 4 5
Should read 1 2 3 4 5
FOR USE OF DUPLICATING AND ADDRESSING SECTION 
ADDRESSOGRAPH
The above change was made 192 .
MULTIGRAPH 
Operator Date  Type set by  Date
Remarks: 
MIMEOGRAPH 
Operator  Date  Cut by 
Remarks: