Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 17,096, for Hezekiah Smith, New Jersey
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(8-1776)
[A table with three columns and two rows. The first is labelled "SERVICE," and the third "NUMBER". The first row is filled in: "Continental (New Jersey)" - "Smith, Hezekiah" - "8.17.096". At the bottom right hand corner is noted "carded"]
[Below a divider, there are two columns with many rows labelled "CONTENTS". The table is blank.
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14,640
Indiana ?
Hezekiah Smith ?
La p? Co. in the State of Indiana
who was an Artif? in the Company commanded
by Captain ? of the Regt commanded
by Ca? in the Revolution
for five years

Inscribed on the Roll of Madison
at the rate of 240 Dollars 00 Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March 1831. ?
26 of September 1838.
Certificate of Pension issued the 6th day of ?
1831 and sent to ?
Luella? Grey 
Arrears to the 4th of
Semi-annual allowance ending 
Canandaigua
New York
One? from ?44
Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832
Corded by k E. 2 Vol 7 Page 136
Clerk
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14092
6 Sept. 1819

[illegible]
Lt[?] Archer Green
18 Sept 1820
Ithaca, New York

[illegible] July 14? 1820
The Hon'ble
John C. Calhoun
Secretary of War
Washington

Free
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An inventory of Goods and Chattles[?], Land, and [illegible],
belonging to Hezekiah Smith, a Pensioner under the
act of the 18th of March 1818. and all debts due
to and from the said Hezekiah Smith.

13. Chains...$3..25
1. old table...1.25
2. Kittles[?]...5.00
1. pot[?]...1.00
1. skillet...-75
1. spider...-75
1. Griddle[?]...1.25
1. Pair and [illegible] Shock [illegible]...2.50
1. pair flat [illegible]...1.00
1. List[?] of Coffee Cups...-30
7. Plates -old...-40
1. Coffee Pot..as...-25
8. Earthen pots...2.00
3. Earthen Plates=0.56
2. Pails...0.50
2. Chest...0.50
1. Looking Glass[?]...2.50
2. very old sets of Black
Smith tools, or parts of
setts [sic.] only...40.00
2. Pitchers...-37
2. Sugar Bowles [sic.]...-25
1. Old Loom...5..00
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$69.58 (actual sum is $69.38 so transcription may be off by 20 cents somewhere...)

1. old waggon [sic.]...$15
1. one hor[?] broke...30
2. Old horses...30
1. old [illegible]...1
2. Cows one of which is
is more than 20 year old...25
1. ax. 1 sickle...1
1. [illegible] 1. shovel...1
1. Lot on [illegible] Street a 
very poor house, standing
in the street, put there
by mistake, and a small
piece of ground near the
mill race...300
a life Estate in 4 1/2 acres
of Land on Lot no. 94
lilyfses[?]...100.00
about 100 Dollars due
me in notes and ac[?]...100.00
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$603.50 (again, actual sum is $620...)
69.58
---
$673.08 (actual sum $689.38, presumably)

I am serving[?] Peter Tecter of Lausrig[?], in Tompkins Court,
between 400 & 500 hundred Dollars, and am [illegible] in
small Executions, more than $40.00--and about one
hunded ^ Dollars ^ besides the above mentioned.

Please Return the result, & oblige me
Archer Green
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That the said Hezekiah Smith is a BlackSmith by trade, that he has been troubled for about thirty years with a severe cough, which has very much injured his constitution and is likewise troubled with Rheumatic pains in his knees, that he had nine in familey to provide for, seven children, himself and wife. Two of the children now sick, that the said Hezekiah is not able to support himself and familey without the assistance of his Country for Support.
Subscribed and Sworn to
this 26th day of May 1820
in open Court before me 
Richard Smith
[UNKNOWN]-Judge
Tompkins County
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State of New York
Tompkins County

On this twenty-eighth of May 1833 personally appeared before the Judges of the Court of Common Please of the county of Tompkins, Hezekiah Smith a resident of the town of Ithaca in the county & state aforesaid aged seventy one years, who being duly sworn according Law, doth on his oath make the following declarations, in order to obtain the benefit of this provisions made by the Act of Congress passed June 7th 1832.
That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year 1780 with Lieutenant John Patton and served in the Regiment of Artillery Artificers under the following named officers, Genl Knox, Captain Sears who was succeeded by Captain Thomas Patters, Lieutenant John Tharp; that the enlistment about mentioned [as near as he can recollect] was made on January 1730 to serve during the continuance of the War, that he resides at the time at which he enlisted in the town of Canoe Brook in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, that he enlisted at West-Point and remained on that station until June 1783 he was honorably discharged from the service during all which time he continues in the service as an Artillery Artificer drawing twenty dollars per month pay - He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present and he herewith returns to the War department the Certificate of his claim to a pension heretofore granted under the Act of Congress of 18th, March 1878.
Sworn to and subscribed the 
day and year aforesaid.      [signed, Mr. Smith]

And the said Court do here declare their opinion, that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he stated.
[?] Samuel Love Clerk of the Court of Commonweath Please of the County of Tompkins do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original noted proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Hezekiah Smith for a pension. In testimony whereof I have herewith set my hand and seal of office this 28 day of May 1833.
Samuel Love
Clerk
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Hall House Repr.
Jany 1 1851

Sir.

The heirs of Hezekiah Smith, a revolutionary Pensioner, are very desirous of Knowing if any money is due them from government. and also, the steps proper for them to take to draw the money. 
you will please, direct any communication on the subject to "Gilbert Hathaway 12, Courtland St. New York" He is the agent of Mr Smiths heirs.
Your obt servt,
Danl Mace


How (illegible) Pensions
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Hezekiah Smith, dec
Increase to $240, ded'ing 
$144 per annum, coming
4 March 1831 and ending
28 Sept 1838, payable
to Harry Marsh, (illegible)
forth benefit of
Betsey Perry
Rachel Carl
Charlotte Earle
Mary Home
Catharine W. Marsh and
Obadiah Smith
only surviving children
(illegible)
L.U Drury
Canandaigua NY
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In reply to your request of________, received __________ for a statement of the military history of __Hezekiah Smith ___ a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his ['(or his widow's)' crossed out] application for pension
on file in this Bureau.
S. File 17.096
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[table follows with 5 columns; column headings as follows:]
(1) DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT
(2) LENGTH OF SERVICE.
(3) RANK.
(4) OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.  {subheadings:  a. CAPTAIN.  b. COLONEL.
(5) COLONEL.

[text under column headings:]
(1) West Point Jany. 80
(2) June [or Jany] 83
(3) Artif.
(4)  a. Sears, Thomas Patter b. [blank]
(5) Continental Artillery artificers

Battles engaged in,____[check mark]___
Residence of soldier at enlistment, __Carol-brook, Essex Co., N.J.___
Date of application for pension,__Apl 14, 1818
Residence at date of application, __Wipols NY 1833.  Ithaca N.Y.
Age at date of application,___55 native of N.J.14, Obadiah 13,
18 he had children.
Remarks:__ 1818 stated he had 8 children __
__1823 wife ------ 59 __children Rachel 25, John 21, Samuel 18, Mary 14, Obadiah 13,___
___wife {illegible] 12 days before soldiers--She died Sept 28, 1858 leaving ch. Betsey Perry, Rachel Carl, Charlotte Earl, Obadiah Smith, Mary Home, Catharine W. Marsh ____
Very respectfully,
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Service                                                      Number
Continental (New Jersey)   Smith, Hezekiah S.17,096
carded
contents
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14092
New York
Hezekiah Smith of Tompkins in the state of New York was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Crane of the Continental line, for a term of 2 years. Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 14 of April 1818. Certificate of Pension issued the 6th of Sep 1819 and just to David Woodcock Esq Ithaca, Seneca Co. NY
Arrears to 4th of Sep 1719. 16 mos 2/30 Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 March 1820
 133.60
48-
$181.60
{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March 1818.}
[Circular stamp: The National Archives of the United States]
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Smith, Hezekiah
Cont. (NJ) 517096
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Smith, Hezekiah
Cont. (NJ) 517096
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by a Certificate fr[cut off] the Sheriff proper[cut off]  authenticated. [illegible] lacking, & for an ob[cut off] Horse which died- See letter to Hon. .H. Barston HR 29 Dec 1831

The $100 due on [cut off]  Collected & depended [cut off] support of family aged 51 yrs. Blacksmith for 18 mos. been totally disabled from labor by [illegible] of Rheumatism
& Asthma - Wife 59 yrs 3 Sons 21- 18 & 13 His
3rd son an Invalid from an [illegible] 3 daughters 25 - 14 & 11 yrs-

D. Wood cock Esq
Ithaca NY
From Hon [illegible] Lawrence HR
May 25

New York
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Hezekiah Smith pri--
served 2 yrs from 1781.
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Sched .dated May 1820
Real Estate-- $400-
Notes to the amt. 100
Personal property 173.08
                                ______
                      Total $673

owes between $5 & 600 d.
------------
Sch J under act Mar 1823
30 May 1823
personal property $92.87
Owes to P. Lecter $280.--
accounts for the decrease
of property &c
3 yr Sale of Real Estate
Blacksmith Tools & farm-
my utensils, under Execution, to satisfy a [illegible] due to the Peter Lecter. as [cut off]
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17096
Invalid
File No. 17096
Hezekiah Smith
Rev. War
June 7 39
Index: Vol. 1, Page 349
[Arrangement of 1870.]
1908 Dec. 4. Hist. to Rich'd Ross Smith
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Branch of the State Bank of Indiana

Madison, February 4. 1852.

L.M. Drury, Esq
Canandaigua, New York.

Sir,
I return the pension papers enclosed to me in your letter of 28th attn to the Pension Agent here having declined payment upon these papers unless definitely instructed concerning them from the Pension Office, Washington.
Very respectfully,
T.M. Ollvor
Cashier
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Prior service not specified
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Washington Commissioner of Pensions Washington D.C. 
Apr 25=1908
Dear Sir
A letter from this Adjutant Generals office just received showing the s-e card of Hezekiah Smith served as a private in Capt John Spinelli Company and Regiment New York forces under command of Colonel James Clinton in Revolutionary War. He enlisted July 23 1775. This Hezekiah Smiths home was in Middlesex Co New Jersey and was transfered to New York forces. Can you from the above find any record of Pension [underlined] or further information regarding him if so give book page and dates or any further information regarding his life after the war his return to New Jersey married and raise a family or children. 
Respectfully yours
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Albany N.Y. agency trans. to Indiana
14640
Inv. File 17.096
d. Sept. 28, 1838


L.S.W.    

[stamp:] PENSION OFFICE US NOV 27 1908
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Canandaigua Feb 11th 1832

Sir:
I have to request that the enclosed papers be sent to the agent for paying pensions in Madison In. with instructions to pay the amount due on the enclosed voucher-

Precisely similar vouchers, in another case, were, during the last summer presented to the same agent and payment of them was declined by him until he was instructed to pay by the Department.
Be pleased therefore to send him similar instructions again-
very respectfully
Your obt servt,
L M Drury

J.E. Heath  Ss
Court of Pensions
Washington D.C
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To obtain a new certificate
Hezekiah Smith
Hon. N. Halsey
HR
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Application for a New Certificate

State of New York
County of Tompkins- ss.
On this twenty first day of March 1834; before me, the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace for the said county of Tompkins personally appeared Hezekiah Smith who, on his oath, declares that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the company commanded by Captain Thomas Patton in the regiment commanded by General Knox Artillery Artificer (?) in the service of the United States; that his name was placed on the pension roll of the state of New York that he received a certificate of that fact, under the signature and seal of the Secretary of War; which certificate, on or about the first day of June 1833- at or near the road to Washington City for which place the said certificate was recorded he lost the same as he cannot learn that it (unknown word) reached the Pension office to here a search has been made for it-
Sworn and subscribed to, Before
me, the day and year aforesaid.
(signature)
H. Smith
The (illegible) "Colonel" erased the (illegible) "182" then erased before signing-
(signature)
Chauncey G. Heath

Notes. The last four blanks are left for the applicant set forth the time, place, and manner of the loss or destruction or the original certificate. 
The oath to be taken before a duly qualified magistrate, whose official character and signature must be properly authenticated.
If the pensioner has never received a formal certificate, but has drawn his pension on a more notification, as was the case in a few instances many years ago, he should leave the above words in italics, and insert, in lieu thereof" but has never received a formal certificate, and now wishes to obtain one."
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State of New York
Tompkins County Clerk's Office of Samuel Love
Clerk of the county courts in and for said county do hereby certify that Chauncey G. Heath Esquire before whom the within affidavit personally to have been sworn was at the date of the (unknown word) a Justice of the Peace in and for said county duly elected and qualified, and that I am well acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe his name subscribed to said affidavit to be his own proper hand writing and signature 
Witness my hand and official seal on this 21st day of March A.D. 1834
Samuel Love Clerk
by Geo. G Feeve Deputy Clerk
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State of Indiana
Laporte County
I Mulford K. Farrand Judge of the Probate Court within and for said county, do hereby certify that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited to the Proabate Court of said County that Hezekiah Smith late of Laporte in said County was a pensioner of teh United States at the rate of $144 per annum. That he died on the 28th day of September in the year 1838 that he left no widow and that he left six children now living ashore names are as follows Betsy Perry, Rachal Carl, Charlotte Carle, and Obadiah Smith, Mary Howe, and Catherine W. Marsh. I further certify that Harry Marsh has been appointed an administrator in the Estate of the said Hezekiah Smith deceased for testimony whereof I have herein set my hand and caused the seal of service court to be affixed at Laperte this 24th day of November A.D. 1851
M.K. Farrand
Probate Judge
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State of Indiana ⎬
La Porte County SS.
I Volney W Bailey Clerk of the Probate Court of the County of La Porte, in the State of Indiana, do hereby certify that Harry Marsh a resident of said county having this day, made application to me for Letters of Administration the Estate of Hezekiah Smith late a resident of said County, deceased, and the said Harry Marsh having filed his Bond with good and sufficient security in the penal sum of Fourteen Hundred Dollars conditioned for the faithful performance of the duties and trusts committed to him as Administrator as aforesaid and also having taken and filed his oath as such administrator 
as presented by the statute, Letters of administration of which the annexed is a true copy, were duly issued to him ['to wit' crossed out] and I do hereby further certify that all of said proceedings are strictly in conformity with the laws of the State of Indiana.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my name and affixed the seal
of said Court at La Porte, this 24th
day of November AD 1851
Volney W Bailey Clerk
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I, Volney W Bailey, Clerk of the Probate Court in and for the County of Laporte, in the State of Indiana, do hereby certify that Administration of the goods, chattels, rights, credits, moneys, ane effects, which were of Hezekiah Smith late of Laporte County, deceased, who died intestate, is granted unto Harry Marsh, and the said Mary Marsh having qualified and given bond as such administrator, is daily authorized to take upon here the administration of such estate, according to law. 
Witness my hand and the Seal of the Court this 24th day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty one. 
Volney W. Bailey Clerk
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Ithaca Dec 8th 1823


Sir

(unknown word) of Oct 23 was (unknown word) in which you State the Claim of Hezekiah Smith has been examined and (unknown word) not be allowed untill it has been clearly shown, have when and for what the debt originated upon which the Judgement allowed to in his Statement was obtained, the oath of creditor and certificate of of the clerk- I enclose the affidavit of Peter Tector the creditor on whose Judgement the property of Smith was sold, which I trust will be Satisfactory, and certificate of Clerk the delay of Smiths Pension has caused him much distress and much trouble he is one of the poor among the poorest, you will very much oblige, be giving me an early answer if any thing further is necessary to reinstate him to his pension,
your obt svt
D Woodcock

J.L. Edwards, Esq
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Continental (New Jersey) Smith, Hezekiah
8,17,096
carded
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Hezekiah Smith

{stamp:]. ITHACA NEW YORK MAR 24
FREE

Hon. N Halsey
[illegible] Congress
Washington

Hon N. Halsey
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Ithaca Mar 21. 1834

Dear Sir,

I herewith forward an application for a new certificate for Hezekiah Smith which I present the Commissioner of Pension will attest to at one-Mr. Smith will draw his back years pay and make a new application next may term-
Mr. Smith wishes to know what Pension Solomon Utter deceased under the Late law Joseph Hill the same-the role of these new declarations further (unknown word) they were in the same Camp of (illegible) Smith-Utter was his witness and proved his service formally.
Yours,
E.G. Patton


Hm N. Halsey
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State of New York
Tompkins County Ss:


Peter Tector of this Town of Lansing in the County of Tompkins State of New York. 
being duly sworn and deposeth and Saith, that the Judgement mentioned in the Schedule of Hezekiah Smith a Revolutionary soldier, and on which his property was sold as mentioned in that Schedule was obtained by this deponent against the said Smith on the 20th July 1819 in the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Tompkins that the Judgement was obtained for no more than the amount of Cash and be at interest (unknown word) and advanced by this deponent to the Said Smith to pay off some smaller Judgements which were against the Said Smith on or about the first day of July 1819, at Lansing aforesaid and this deponent further saith that the loaning said Smith the money taking of him the Judgement was in good faith, that the sale of his property under said Judgement, was for no other purpose than to obtain the amount of a Just demand and not for the purpose of aiding the Said Smith in obtaining his pension within to defraud any person- (illegible, possibly a signature)

Subscribed and Sworn to 22nd day of November 1823. before me John Sutton a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas
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State of New York 
Tompkins County  SS:
I certify that the within named John Sutton, before whom the within affidavit was made
and who has duly certified the same, was on the day of the date of the said affidavit a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County duly commissioned and sworn and that I am acquainted with his hand writing and verily
believe the within signature of John Sutton to be his.  In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said County the Eighth day of December 1823. Miles Finch Dep.
Clerk of said County
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Hon John C Calhoun
Secretary at War
Washington City
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Ithaca Augt 6th 1819

Hon J C Calhoun

Sir

I return the Declaration of Hezekiah Smith, from the proof which (unknown word) has obtained as to his service I (unknown word) he will obtain his pension, and prove his (illegible) circumstances
early attention to his claim will (unknown word) a (unknown word) family-
(illegible)
your obt and humble svt,
D Woodcock
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State of New York, I Miles Finch Deputy Tomkins County (illegible), Clerk of Said County do hereby certify that Nicoll Halsey subscribed to the annexed certificate, was from the 13th of March 1819 to the 10th of March 1821 Sheriff of the County of Tompkins, and by law authorize and required to furnish and (unknown word) appertaining to the said office, after the  said 10th of March 1821 which was (unknown word) and which to he was Sheriff as aforesaid, being duly commissioned and (unknown word) and by law authorized to cut (illegible), Further I  am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Nicoll Halsey and (illegible) the said signature. "Nicoll Halsey, late Sheriff of Tompkins County to be his proper hand writing. In (unknown word) any (illegible). Subscribed and sworn and affixed the Seal of of said County and of the Court of Common Pleas in Said County New York day of September 1822 at Ithaca in said County

(Signature)
Miles Finch, Dep.
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Hezekiah Smith
application
Peter Teter's affidavit

(illegible)

9. Apr. 1822.
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State of New York
Tompkins County SS:  }
Hezekiah Smith of the Town of Ithaca in said County on this twenty sixth day of September A.D. 1821 personally appeared in open Court being a Court of Common Pleas holden in and for said County in said Ithaca constituted a Court of Record by the laws of said Ithaca, with power to hear, try and determine all actions, real, personal and mixed arising in the said County and also all transitory actions although the same may not have arisen within the said County, who being first duly Sworn according to law doth on his oath declare  that on the Sixth Day of September 1819, a certificate was granted to this Deponent, as a pensioner of the
Revolutionary War, to commence on the fourteenth day of April 1818. that he afterwards received notice from the War Department, dated September 18th 1820. that on account of the amount of his property, his name was ordered to be stricken from the pension list, that at the time he made out his Schedule of property in presence of the act of May 1st 1820 he was  indebted to creditors on bona fide debts without [illegible].  Previous to the 18th of 
March 1818 to [illegible] large amounts.  That since the date of his application under the act  of May 1st 1820 in the months of May into parts, all the real estate of this Deponent and all his personal estate except the articles of household & furniture contained in the annexed Schedule was sold on execution for a debt.    and from this deponent before the 18th of March
1818 and that the proving of the Judgements and sales of his property on the execution aforesaid was not sufficient or permitted by this Deponent by collision with the creditors, nor with any view or intent thereby to procure a continuance of his pension under the acts of March 1818 and May 1820 and that he has not at any time since the 18th day of March 1818 by gift, sale or in any other manner disposed of his property of any part thereof, with intent thereby to diminish it as to bring himself within the
provisions of the said acts, that he does not now have any person in trust for him any property or securities contracts or debts due to him, nor has he any other income than is contained in the schedule hereunto annexed [illegible]
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by him subscribed. it is of this Deponent (illegible) that he has a family of eight children dependent on him there of whom are not able to cause their support and (unknown word) one of them a boy of 15 years old has been his (unknown word) from his infancy. and that this deponent has been troubled for thirty years with an affliction of the Lungs which his (illegible) in the winter season. The articles an (illegible) to him by the Court an this Deponent's application under the (unknown word) of May 1820
(signature)
Hezekiah Smith
Sworn and Subscribed before
me Miles Finch Dep
September 27th 1821

A schedule of the property of Hezekiah Smith am application to be (unknown word) on the Pension (illegible) of the (illegible) March 18th 1818 and May 1 1820.
Real estate nine other in possession (illegible)
Personal estate

10 chairs- $2.50
1 old table 1.25
2 Kettles 5.00
1 Pot  1.00
1 Skillet 0.75
1 (illegible) 0.75
1 (illegible) 1.25
2 Heat Irons 1.00
1 Set Coffee Cups 0.50
7 plates 0.40
8 Earthen Pots 2.00
3 Earthen Platers 0.56
2 Pails 0.50
1 Chest 0.50
1 Looking Glass 2.50
5 Tin (illegible) 0.50
2 Pitchers 0.37
2 (illegible) 0.25
1 old Loom 5.00
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1 Cane (?) $12.00
1 (illegible) 1.50
1 hoe and shovel 1.00
(illegible) 
(illegible_ 2.50
$43.83

Debts due which are (illegible) collected -$50.00
Debts due from him to Peter Tecter-300.00
(illegible) persons (illegible) debts-100
Due from (illegible) -$400.00

I, Miles Finch Deputy Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in Court for said County of Tompkins do hereby certify that the foregoing oath (illegible) the Subscribed (illegible)
an truly which from the (illegible) Present: and I do further certify that it is the opinion of this Said Court that the total amount in value of the property of while it is (illegible) is forty-three Dollars.
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto my hand, and affixed the seal of (illegible) on this 10th Day of November 1821. 
(signature)
Miles Finch, Dep
Clerk of the Court
of Common Pleas for Tomkins
County
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State of New York
Tomkins County Ss.
Peter Tecter of Lansing in the County aforesaid being duly sworn saith that or on the fifth day of May near last (unknown word) this Deponent purchased at a Sheriff's sale, all the right and title of Hezekiah Smith who has been a pensioner of the United States, to all the land in his possession and to all his personal property except such articles of wearing apparel and household furniture as are by law exempt from such execution which property was sold by virtue of executions issued of two judgements on in favor of John C. Hayt recovered in November 1810 for two hundred and thirteen dollars fifty cents the other in favor of this deponent for one hundred and seventy seven dollars and eighty cents recovered in July 1819. that the net amount collected by the sale as aforesaid of all the (unknown word) an personal property of the said Hezekiah Smith is one hundred and forty four dollars and fifty cents and that there is a balance now due to this deponent on the above judgement both of which belong to his including interest to this day of three hundred and thirty three dollars and fifty five cents. and that the said Smith is further indebted to this deponent in the (unknown word) of one hundred and five dollars on a note, that the above property both real and personal was, fairly purchased by this deponent and that he now holds the name without any secret trust or confidence for the benefit of the said Smith

Subscribed and sworn before me
November 19 1821
Edmund G Petton, Court (illegible)
I certify that the above deponent is a person of credibility, truth and veracity. 
(signature)
Edmund G Petton
(there is a signature that is hard to decipher but based on context is perhaps the signature or Peter Tecter)
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Hezekiah Smith
Exd
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It is required that the Clk. of the County Court certify under his seal of office, to this signature & official character of the within "Late [illegible]

D. Woodcock Esq
Ithaca
N. York
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N. Halsey late Shpp
to
Peter Lecter
Certificate
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Declaration
for order to be (illegible) to the Pension list under the 1st of March 1823-
State of New York
Tompkins County
On the thirtieth day of May 1823 personally heard in the open County of Commons Pleas holden(?) at the Court House in the Village of Ithaca in and for the County of Tompkins being a Court of Record for the Said County, Hezekiah Smith, resident in said County, aged sixty one years who being first duly sworn according to law doth as his oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the provisions made by the Acts of Congress on the 18th March 1818, and the 1st (unknown word) 1820. that he the said Hezekiah Smith enlisted for during the War in the latter part of the winter 1781 at West point in the state of New York in a Company of Artillery artificers commanded by Captain Thomas Pattin-in the Regiment commanded by Knox in the line of the state of Massachusetts on the Continental establishment and that he continued to serve in the said 6 wks until the close of the war discharged from the said service at West Point in the State of New York. that his (illegible) amount of his property-And in (unknown word) of the act of the 1st of May 1820 (unknown word) was that I was an resident citizen of the United States on the 18th Day of March, 1818, and that I (illegible) that time by gifts, sale or in (unknown word) disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent (illegible) so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of the act of Congress entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and and (illegible) service of the United States in the Revolutionary War passed on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I (illegible) nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities contract or debts. due to me nor have I any income after the what is containable in the schedule hereunto annexed and by me subscribed
That I (illegible) the exhibitions of my first schedule the following changes (illegible) in my property
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[1st column:]
Property sold &c.
--------------------
2 my poor sets of Blacksmith
tools, old and broken
1 old Waggon
a one horse waggon broke ┃
2 old horses
a set of old Harnesses
a house standing in
the Street, set and limit to then by mistake
a small piece of ground
32 feet by 66 in Ithaca near the Mile race
a life estate in 4 1/2 acres
of Land on Lot No 94
Ulysses
One Village Lot in Ithaca
on which the house afore
mentioned was [illegible] to have been built
------------------
One old [illegble] 20 years old
and tiny
---------------
About $100 due in notes
and accounts 
------------------
[2nd column:]
Persons to
whom sold 
---------------
Peter Lecter
-------------
-------------

[3rd column:]
Time of Sale
----------------
May 5th 1821 ┃

[4th column:]
Amount of money or dismiss
tion of property ands in returns
----------------------------
Sold by Nicoll Halsey
Esq. Sheriff of the County of
Tompkins aforesaid
by virtue of two
Executions against
me the said Hezekiah
Smith are in favor
of John C. Heis, the
other in favor of Peter
Lecter for one hundred
and twenty eight
Dollars, at public
auction or undue
--------------
Exchanged for an
old horse which is
since dead
---------------------
collected and expunded
in the necessary support of himself and family
------------------------
[end of table]
And the said Hezekiah Smith doth on his oath aforesaid further declare that his trade and occupation is a blacksmith but that for eighteen, months last past he has been totally disabled from following his said trade or occupation or done any other Labour by rheumatism and arthritis. that his family residing with him consists of his wife aged fifty nine years, and six children to wit: Rachel aged twenty five years, John aged twenty one years, Samuel aged Eighteen years, Mary aged fourteen years, Obadiah aged thirteen years, and Catharine aged eleven years, that my oldest son John is a blaacksmith by trade and is in poor
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[cut off]cumstances as to property.  that my Second son Samuel is an invalid and has been so from a child.  and has never been able to work except occasionally to do some small chores - that none of my children are worth one twenty five Dollars.

Hezekiah Smith

Sworn and Subscribed
May 30th 1823 in open Court
before me Miles Finch
Deputy Clerk

Schedule of the property of Hezekiah Smith
his applicant to be placed on the pension list
in pursuance of the acts of March 18th 1818 and
May 1st 1820.

Real estate none either in possesion,r eunion, remainder  or expectancy -

Personal estate
10 chairs-             $2.50
1 old table                1.00
2 Kettles                  3.00
1 Pot                         1.50
1 Skillet.                   0.25
1 Spindle.                 0.50
1 Griddle                   1.25
1 set clat irons         1.00
1 Set Coffee Cups   0.50
7 plates                    0.37
1 Coffee pot             0.50
3 Earthen pots        0.25
3 Earthen platters  0.75
2 pails                      0.50
1 Chute                     1.00
1 Looking Glass.      0.75
5 Tin Barons            0.50
2 Pitchers                0.53
2 Sirgen Bones.      0.25
1 old Loom.              4.00
1 Cow                      15.00
1 ax 1 sickle              2.00
1 hoe and shovel.     1.00
Shovel & Tongs.       1.00
Andirons                   1.00
Cooper Stuff 600 heading. 2.00
 $42.87
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Inventory continued

Debts due me consisting of small accounts for Blacksmithing which are considered collectible.
$50.00

Debts due from me to Peter Lecter $280.00
Hezekiah Smith

I Miles Finch Deputy Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the said County of
Tompkins do hereby certify, that it appears to the Satisfaction of the Court, that the said Hezekiah Smith did serve in the Revolutionary War, as stated in the preceding Declaration against the Common enemy for the time of nine months, under one engagement, on the continental establishment. I also certify that the foregoing oath and the Schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the Records 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 ninety two Dollars and Eighty seven Cents - In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the
seal of the said Court on this sixth Day of June 1820.
Miles Finch Deputy
Clerk-
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Tompkins Com. Pleas
Peter Tecter
vs.
Hezekiah Smith. } 

Fi. Fa in Debt for $335"
                                  10"
                               ____
 Damages                            $345"

tested Jany. 27th 1821
Returnable 4th Tuesday
in May 1821

Sheriff directed to levy $177" 80/100, with interest from the tenth day of July 1819 besides per-------

I hereby certify that by virtue of the Execution in the above entitled cause and for want of 
sufficient goods, Chattles whereon to levy, I have on this fifth Day of May 1821 sold all the right of title of Hezekiah Smith to lot number ninety one in the Village of Ithaca and to a small lot lying on the North side of Jericho Turnpike Road Boundedr East by a lot owned by John Johnson and West by a lot belonging to Miles Seymour also to a lot of four acres on lot number eighty five in the Town of Ulyses bounded West by the Owego and Ithaca
Turnpike Road to Peter Tecter for one
Hundred & twenty eight dollars fifty cents that
being the highest sum bid for the same at the
said sale. And I do further certify that the said
Peter Tecter will be entitled to a Deed for the premises aforesaid at the expiration of fifteen Months from the date of the said sale unless the same is redeemed in presence of an act in addition to an act concerning Judgments and Executions passed the 12th day of April 1820
---
Nicoll Halsey late Sheriff
of Tompkins County
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Rev. Ithaca September 25th 1822 of Nicoll Halsey a Decd according to the written certificate
Vn Van Tinton (?)


Witness 
E.G. Petton
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Free

The Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
D.C.
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Hezekiah Smith

Alby N.Y.
to
Indianapolis
Indiana
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Laporte Dec 3rd 1846

Dear Sir Enclosed I Send the papers relating Hezekiah Smith's Pension; you will note by reference to the Records of Revolutionary Pensions that Mr Smith has had the benefit of a Pension, in the State of New York, from when he removed residence in the Summer past to this place, where he now resides, and intends to reside for the rest of his life. You will Confer a (unknown word) an Mr. Smith by promptly to this Communication accordingly to the request in the Enclosed paper, as he is in much need of his Pension for his Support; Please address me at Laporte in the St of Indiana as Soon as you Can attend to this (unknown word)
(signature) N W Santon

To The Commissioner of Pensions
at Washington City D.D.
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Hezekiah Smith
-----------------

Letter from his heirs-

Jany- 22d 1851

Answered Feb 10, 1851-
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Mr L M Drury
Canandiga
NY
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(illegible) Scippio, Laport County Ia

Mr. Drury Sir your Letter came to hand two days since I now sit down to answer your Request We wish you to take our Claim and get what you can Mr. Smith died In Sept the 29.1838 there are six of the children of Hezekiah Smith now liveing (sic) three of them in this town one in Michigan two in the State of N. York I think they will all concent (sic) to your proposal But one as soon as we can hear from them if you write direct to (unknown word) village, yours with Respect
The daughters of Hezekiah Smith
(signatures)
Catharine W Marsh
Charlotte Earl
Harry Marsh
Aaron Earl

PS Mr Smiths wife died before he did some ten or twelve days
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Hezekiah Smith

Payments to be made on the 4th of March and 4th of September in each year, by the Agent for paying pensions, at the city of New York-

Prest. U. States
Branch Bank

Recorded by Recording Clerk, in Book D-Vol.5.-
page 137.
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War Department
Revolutionary Claim
Duplicate

I Certify, That, in conformity with the Laws of the United States, of the 18th March 1818, and May 1st 1820, Hezekiah Smith-late a private in the army of the Revolutionary War is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the New York Agency, at the rate of Eight dollars per month, to commence on the fourteenth day of April  one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
This certificate is (unknown word) in lieu of one dated on the 6th September 1819-which has been lost or destroyed, but which, if presented at the agency, the agent is requested to send it to this Department
Given at the War Office of the United States, this fifth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and thirty four.
(signature)
Lew Cass

Examined and countersigned,
J L Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Secretary of War
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[stamp:]. LA PORTE Ind. OCT 21

Commissioner of Pensions
['Washin' cut off]gton City
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Laporte, Indi. Oct 21 1851

To the Com. of Pensions
Washington City
Sear Sir

The Heirs of Hezekiah Smith Dec, a revolutionary pensioner have been informed that there is a considerable amount of pension money due them as the heirs of said Smith, from the Pension department at Washington, and request to procure from your office the necessary forms and instructions to draw the same
You will confer a great favor of forwarding to us the requisite instructions in the matter, as your earliest possible convenience.
Yours truly
Hathaway Seymour
Atty
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Indiana Pension Agency
Madison Dec 13th 1838

L.L Edwards and Com of Pensions 

Sir
I enclose your voucher in case of the heirs of Hezekiah Smith Dec when (illegible) of $140. per annum, (illegible) 4 March 1838 to 28 Sept. 1838 being the date of the death of Smith. Shall I pay on the papers enclosed-and is the receipt properly signed, as the names of the heirs are not designated-
Very resp,
J L Edwards
agent
The date of last part in my roll is 4. march 1838-
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James L. Edward, Esquire
Comm
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Meeks & Farmer's Bank
Albany Pension Agency
December 26. 1836

James L. Edwards Esquire,
Commissioner of Pensions

Sir,

In reply to your letter of the 21st inst. I have to state that Hezekiah Smith, a Pension under the act of June 7, 1832, was last paid to the 4th of March 1836.

I am, Sir
Very respectfully
Your obt Sevt,
Thos M Olcott
Prev & Pen agt
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J.L. Edward Esq
Commr of Pension
Washington
Hon H Halsey
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J of N. May 15, 1832
Dear Sir,
In your letter to me some five days ago you said that if I would return the Certe of Mr. Smith and would issue to him for $12 [?] per year - I now return the Id Certificate
Your Obedt
Servant
Nicoll Halsey
J L Edwards Esq
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[Envelope with seal of Senaca New York Aug 31]
The Honorable Lewis Cass
Secty of War
Washington

Letter to JM Pelton
Apr 20 1853
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War Department 
Revolutionary Claim
I certify that in conformity with the law of the United States, of the 18th of March 1818 Hezekiah Smith late a private in the army of the Revolution is inscribed on the Pension List Roll of the New York Agency at the rate of Eight dollars per month to commence on the fourteenth day of April one thousand eight hundred and eighteen
Given at the war office of the United States this sixth day of September one thousand eight hundred and nineteen
J.C. Calhoun
Secretary of War
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Ithaca Aug 31 1832
Sir,
Enclosed is a copy of a certificate from the war office as it purports - the pensioner therein named served during & through the War of the Revolution in Captain Thomas Patten's company of Artillery Artificers conud the command of Genl Knox.  He enlisted on West-point - He states that the pay of an Artillery artificer was $20.00 per month, and he now wishes to make application for the increase of his pension - Will you please inform me, Sir, if anything more than the evidence already in the War office, will be required, and if so of what it consitly -
I am Sir, your respectful & humble servant
J.M. Pelton
The Hon. Lewis Cass
Secy of War
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Brief in the case of Hezekiah Smith, decd late of
Laporte County and State of Indiana
act 7 June 1832
-----------------------------
Claim, ([' "original," or' crossed out] "for increase.")

Proof exhibited, (if original.)

Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance.


(If for increase.)
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what?
Artillery Artificer Patten's Co. Flowers
Regt.   Inc from $144 to $240


Name and residence of Agent
L.M. Drury
Canandaigua
N.Y.

S. Cole
Examining Clerk
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&od him from roll of Pens act March 18, 1818
I gave him a full pension as an artificer

FREE

J. L. Edwards Esqr
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
Page 69

Ithaca May 29th 1832

J.L. Edwards Esqr

Sir, Enclosed I send you the Declaration of Hezekiah Smith in the matter of his application for a pension to the amount of his full pay, under act of 7th June 1833-  Affidavits (supposed to be on file in the War office) were
 made by witnesses personally knowing the applicant which stated the term of his service (after his last enlistment to serve during the war) to be 3 yrs. and some months - Being one of the surviving soldiers of the Regular Troops He has, I believe, complied with the regulations of the Department in his application-  He states that the pay of the Artillery Artificers in the service was twenty dollars per month.
He also served, previous to the time of his enlistment into the last mentioned corps, nine months at one time and about a year under another enlistment. As I considered his last service (for 3 yrs. &c) alone sufficient to entitle
him to the benefit of the provisions of the act of June 7th '32 we have not procured any testimony to the fact of the previous two terms of service-

Should you deem any thing more requisite this case please inform me-

I am Sir, Yrs respectfully
John M. Pelton
-
B. G. Enclosed I also send the original certificate [rest is cut off]
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State of Indiana
LaPorte County ss:   On
Page 71

Know all men by these presents that I, Hezekiah Smith, of the county of LaPorte in the State of Indiana, a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States.
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State of Indiana
LaPorte County ss:   On this second day of December 1836 before me the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace for the said County of Laporte, personally appeared Hezekiah Smith, who on his oath declares that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the corps of Artificers stationed at and near West Point in the State of New York commanded by General Knox in the Company of Capt. Thomas Pattin in the service of the United States during the Revolutionary War.  That his name was placed on the Pension Roll of the State of New York from which he has lately removed; that he now resides in the State of Indiana in LaPorte County where he intends to remain and wishes his pension to be there payable in future.  The following are his reasons for removing from Tompkins County in the State of New York aforesaid to LaPorte County in the State of Indiana, to wit:  that he has by reason of old age become quite inform and in a measure unable to support and take care of himself and his only son being about to remove to LaPorte County aforesaid and having so removed this deponent at the solicitation of his said son has consented to removal with him that in case of his total disability to support himself he may be with his son who will contribute at least to his support in his dotage.

H. Smith

Sworn and subscribed before me this 2nd day of December in the year aforesaid.

William C. Hannah
Justice of the Peace

State of Indiana
LaPorte County ss:

I, William Hawkins, Clerk of the Circuit Court within and for LaPorte County in the State of Indiana, do certify that the above named William C. Hannah is an acting Justice of the Peace within and for the County of LaPorte aforesaid duly commissioned and qualified and that full faith and credit are all his official act as such.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Circuit Court at LaPorte this 2nd day of December 1836.

Wm. Hawkins, Clerk
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to comm[illegible] 22 Nov 1823

Recd Feby 27. 1824 &
sent toS

In compliance with a letter from this office dated 28 Oct. 1823, the claimant produces the certificate of Peter Tecter who therein states that the Judgment was obtained on account
of money loaned to claimant on the 1st July 1819 & not for the view of getting him restored
to the Pension List
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Tompkins County
State of New York ⎬SS Hezekiah Smith a native of the State of New Jersey and now resident in the town of Ulysses County of Tompkins and State of New York being duly sworn declares that he served as a private soldier in the war of the revolution against the common enemy 
between two and three years upon the continental establishment In a company of Artillery Artificers commanded Thomas Puttin attached to Genl Noxes Brigade of Artillery artificers-- that he enlisted at West Point  to the best of his recollection in the winter of 1780 to serve during the war- and that he did serve as a private soldier as aforesaid until the end of the war the revolution- that he was discharged at
west point after the proclamation of peace he thinks it was on the sixth day of June in the first year of the peace- that he was regularly discharged - but has lost his discharge, and this deponent further saith that he has a wife and eight Children- Six of whom are dependent upon him for support. And that by reason of his reduced circumstances in life is in need of assistance from his country for support-  That he is not apprised of any pension having heretofore been allowed him
by the laws of the United States. And that
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he hereby [text crossed out, illegible] releases and relinquishes his claim to every pension heretofore allowed him by the laws of the United States-

Hezekiah Smith

Subscribed on the 14th
day of Apr 1818 before me
John Ellis, one of the
Judges of Tompkins
Comm. Pleas

Tompkins County
State of New York. }
being duly sworn says-
John Ralyea, that about twenty years ago he became acquainted the above named Hezekiah Smith and lived a neighbour to him in the town of Marlborough Ulster county- and was well acquainted with him twelve or thirteen years- and that he uniformly understood from him- that he was a soldier & served in the war of the Revolution upon the Continental establishment against the common enemy as stated in his above affidavit-

         his
John  X  Ralyea
        mark

Subscribed sworn this 14th day
of April 1818 before me

John Ellis, One of the
Judges of Tompkins
Comm. Pleas

Tompkins County
State of New York ⎬
Be it remembered that on the 14th day of April 1818 Hezekiah Smith of the town of Ulysses
and John Ralyea of the town of Dryden County of Tompkins

Proof of Service Required
Page 76

personally appeared before me John Ellis one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Tompkins and did severally declare under oath that the facts contained in their respective affidavits by them subscribed and hereunto annexed are true   And I the said John Ellis Judge as aforesaid being satisfied from the testimony contained in the foregoing affidavits-- that Hezekiah Smith served as a private soldier in the war of the revolution upon the continental establishment against the common enemy ['for the term of' crossed out] between two and three years and until the end of the war-
And do hereby certify the above affidavits as the evidence and proceedings in the premise put before me in pursuance of the act entitled an act to provide certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States- in the revolutionary wars-
John Ellis one of the
Judges of Tompkins
Com Pleas

Tompkins County.  I certify that on the 22
day of December one thousand Eight hundred
Eighteen appeared before me David Woodcock 
with whom I am personally acquainted and
being by me duly sworn said that he was
acquainted with Hezekiah Smith the soldier
named in the above declaration and that
he is poor and reduced Circumstances
and stands in need of the assistance of
his country for support while proof
is satisfactory to me of the reduced circumstances of the applicant
Richard Smith first Judge of Tompkins
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Hezekiah Smith

State of New York.
Tompkins County }

I do hereby certify that the within Named John Ellis Esqr and Richard Smith Esqr before whom the within affidavits appear to have been taken, were at the times they were taken legal acting
Judges of the Court of Common pleas in and for said County, duly commissioned and sworn, and that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said John Ellis & Richard Smith and verily do believe the signatures to the within to be their own proper hand writing.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my
name and affixed the Seal of said County this 23d day December 1818.
Archer Green Clerk

State of New York
Tompkins County }
Linus Conger of the town of Lansing in
said County being duly sworn deposeth and saith that previous to and in the commencement of the Revolutionary war
he was well acquainted with the above named Hezekiah Smith and lived a near neighbour to him-- that at the time and since he uniformly understood that the said Hezekiah enlisted and served in the Revolutionary war as stated in his preceding declaration hereunto annexed
and this deponent has no doubt and does believe that
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that the said Herekiah did enlist and serve as
stated in his preceeding declaration, although
this deponent never saw the said Hezekiah
in actual service.
Zenas Conger
Subscribed & Sworn to before me
this 1st day of July 1819
Edmund G Petton Comr
I do certify that the above named Zenas Conger who appears
& was sworn by me is to me known & that he is
a credible witness
Edmund G Petton
Comr [illegible]
.
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Ulster County Solaman Utter
being duly sworn
says that he is well acquainted with Hezekiah
Smith named in the preceding Declaration was
well acquainted with him in the Army of the
Revolution that [crossed out] that he knows the said Hezakiah
Smith did serve as stated in his said Declaration
in Captain Thomas Pattins Company In Samuel
Knox, Brigade of Artillery artificers & that
this deponent served in the same Company with
said Hezekiah Smith during the time
one part of one year or longer & that this Deponant
has no Interest in the Event of this application
Subscribed & sworn before me
this 19 day of July 1819
Samuel Drake Justice of the
peace
I certify that I am acquainted with the above
witness & that he is a credible witness
Samuel Drake Justice
of the piese
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Ulster County ss ⎬ I certify that Samuel
Drake is duly qualified as a Justice
of the peace in & for Ulster County &
that his signature to the within deposition
duly [illegible] certificate are his proper hand  writing
and I truly believe, Witness the seal of said
County of which I am clerk, July 30th 1819
Ch. Tappen Junr

State of New York
County P } being duly 
sworn says that he was in the Company of
Captain Patten in the Revolutionary war with the
within named Hezekiah Smith & that he knows
the said Hezikiah served as stated in the said
declaration & that he is not interested in the
Court of this application
Subscribed & sworn before me
this day of July 1819

I certify that I am acquainted with the above witness
& that he is a credible witness-
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State of Jersey }
Essex County ss } On this 24th day of July 1819 before me the 
subscriber one of the Judges of the Court of Common pleas
for the said County personally appeared Obadiah Smith of
said County the father of the within applicant, who being duly sworn according to law deposeth and saith that
the within named Obadiah Smith was a regular 
enlisted
soldier and belonged to the Corps of Artificers in the revolutionary
war and the continental establishment 
do hereby recollect the time of his entering the service
and knows he served so much as Two years upwards of service and deponent from Service in the Summer of 1783
and in the fall following Deponent claimed and  received
a pension he was on the certificate I think entitles him - I [illegible] 
aforesaid applicant being at that time under the age 
of twenty one years has a faint recollection of serving 
and [illegible] his some discharge But not positive
and further this deponent saith not. 
Obadiah Smith

Sworn & Subscribed before me
the day & year aforesaid
Abrm [?] Reynolds
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I Abraham Reynold Judge &c as aforesaid do hereby certify 
that Hezekiah Smith the within deponent is a man with
whom I have had an acquaintance from my infancy and
I have at all times esteemed [illegible] credible
and lawfull witness
Abrm Reynolds

State of New Jersey }
Essex County } ss I Silas Whitehead Clerk of the
Inferior Court of Common Pleas in & for
said County do hereby certify unto all whom it may
concern - that Abraham Reynolds the person before 
whom the foregoing affidavit appears to have been  
taken was at the time of the taking thereof and still is 
a Judge of said Court as appears by the rolls of County
offices for said County in my office, and that full
faith and credit is due to this and all his other legal
acts as such as well in Courts of law and elsewhere
In testimony whereof I have hereunto
subscribed my name and affixed
the seal of said Court at Newark in
said County this twenty fourth day of
July A.D. Eighteen and nineteen
Silas Whitehead Clk
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Ulster County ss State of New York Joseph Roads Being 
Duly Sworn Saith that Cornelius hasbrook upwards
of twenty years ago In New York Received a
discharge of Hezekiah Smith to Draw one hundred
acres of Land for his services in the Revolution
war Received of Joseph Roads from Hezekiah Smith
and further saith not
Taken before me Levi Ostrander Jus Pease
Josph Rhoads
In presence of 
John Rhoads

Ulster County ss. I certify that Levi Ostrander
is duly qualified as a Justice of the
Peace in & for Ulster County & that the
above signature of his share is his
proper hand writing as I truly believe
Witness the seal of said County of which
I am Clerk July 30th 1819
Ch Tappen Junr
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Hez Smith

Payable semi-annually. The first payment on this certificate will be made on the 4th of March next, in the city of N York at the M S' Brand Bank

Thomas Patton Capn.
Gial Knox.
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War Department

REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.

I CERTIFY that, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 18th of March 1818, Hezekiah Smith late a private in the Army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the New York Agency, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the fourteenth day of April one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.

Given at the War Office of the United States, this sixth day of September one thousand eight hundred and nineteen

J C Calhoun
Secretary of War.