Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 11425, for Doctor Smith, New York
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SERVICE | NAME | NUMBER
New York | Smith, Doctor | S.1142
carded
CONTENTS
Born May 1764 in Greenwich Twp. Conn.
res at Salem, Westchester Co. N.Y.
res in 1832 Westerlo, Albany Co. N.Y.
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2278 New York
Doctor Smith
of Westerloo in the State of New York
who was a Private in the company commanded
by Captain Lawrence of the Regt commanded
by Col Crain in the Rhode Island
line for 15 Months

Inscribed on the Roll of New York
at the rate of 50 Dollars -Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.


Certificate of Pension issued the 22 day of November
1832 and sent to J B Moore
Rensselaerville N.Y.

Arrears to 4th of Sept 1832 $75.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Mar 33 25.00
$100.00

{Revolutionary Claim,}
{Act June 7, 1832.}


Recorded by John Cromwell Clerk,
Book D Vol 5 Page 140

N.Y. Line
Apr 24/65
Records corrected K
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Admitted
15 mo. private
50$
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State of New York
Albany County ss.

On this 23rd day of August 1832 personally appeared in open court before the Justices of the Justices Court of the City of Albany in the county and state aforesaid now sitting Doctor Smith a resident of the town of Westerlo in the County of Albany and State of New York aged 68 years and upwards who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7, 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated.
He resided at the commencement of the Revolutionary War in the town of Salem in the County of Westchester in the State of New York and continued to reside there except when he was in the said service, until the close of the said war. 
He served as a private soldier in the militia, and was in actual service in an embodied corps in the course of the Revolutionary war at least one year.
He first entered the said service as a volunteer and joined Capt. Lawrence company and Colonel Crain's regiment at Salem aforesaid in the spring of the year 1780. and was marched to White Plains under the command of Major Nathaniel Delavan who belonged to the said regiment and after staying there a short time he was marched to Rye in Westchester County and from there to Fort ? where they stayed a short time when they were marched to Bedford and from there back to Salem when he was dismissed.
He does not recollect how long he was out in the service at the time. Shortly after he was called out on a scouting party and sent to Bedford and to North Castle and other places along the lines and was in the
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said service on alarms and on Scouts along the lines from time to time or great portions of this years but he cannot identify the particular periods when he entered and left the services he was called out to go so frequently.
In the spring of the year 1780 he again volunteered and joined Capt. Sackets' company at Bedford  aforesaid and served as a Substitute for one Petit Loder and was stationed at different places along the lines, he was in the said company at White Plains, North Castle, Middle?, and other places along the lines in Westchester County. This company was under the command of Colonel Sheldon (as he understood) who was a continental officer (as he was called). After his time was out (the length of which) he does not now recollect he was frequently called out and stood sentry, Patrolled the streets nights, and was marched from place to place by his officers, doing the duty of a private soldier in actual service while in the month of August of the same year.
He again entered the said service about the first of September 1781 and enlisted in Capt. Hunt's Company and Colonel Wisinfelt's regiment as a volunteer for the term of three months - and joined the said regiment at a place joining the said town of Salem, thinks it was Stephentown and was near Croton River. The said company and regiment immediately marched to Peekskill  - where he was put on board of vessel with the said company and regiment and sailed to Albany where they landed.  He and the said company and regiment were immediately marched from Albany to Saratoga and there staid in barracks or huts until his time was out. while he was at Saratoga he frequently went out on scouting parties, and went to Fort Edward. He and the said company and regiment built
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a Block house while they remained at Saratoga. He thinks the forces at this place were  at this time were under the command of General Stark. He was discharged at Saratoga but he marched in Col. Wisenfelt's regiment down to Albany before the said regiment departed, he received a written discharge from Capt. Hunt after having served his term of three months out which was in the forepart of December 1781, He then returned home to Salem. While he was at Saratoga Cornwallis was taken, and the soldiers at Saratoga had a day of rejoicing.
In the spring of the year 1782 he again joined Capt. Hunt's Company and served as a substitute for one Justus Blanchard, and was marched down to Bedford Louisburg Hill and different places along the lines; the length of time he served at this time he does not now recollect.  He was frequently called out after this, and untill the close of the war on alarms, scouts, and to keep guard along the lines, but cannot possibly enumerate the different times, and the places he went to.   He served at two or three different times as a substitute for his brother Solomon Smith but cannot tell how long, has no doubt it was for more than two months - Sometime after the close of the war he received a certificate that he was entitled to nine months pay for services in Capt. Laurence's Company of Militia, which he sold to one Timothy Benedict for a dollar and or Crowns, He well knows that he was in actual service in the militia at least the said term of nine months making in the whole of his service to at least one year - He received a written discharge from Capt. Hunt which has long since been lost - He has at this time no documentary evidence
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nor does he know of any person he can now procure to testify to his services - 
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a  pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state - 
Doctor Smith

Sworn to and subscribed in open court the day and year aforesaid

John D. Wasson Clerk


We Deliverance Slawson a member of the Baptist Church residing in the town of Westerlo in the County of Albany and State of New York and Job Rider a merchant residing in the town of Rensselaerville in the County of Albany and State aforesaid hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Doctor Smith who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be 68 years of age and upwards; that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution  and that we concur in that opinion.

Deliverance Slawson
Job Rider

Sworn and subscribed this 23rd day of August 1832
Before me J.B. Moore Judge
of Albany County Courts


I the subscriber a Judge of the County Courts of the County of Albany do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Deliverance Slawson and Job Rider who have signed the preceding certificate that the said Deliverance Slawson is a member of the Baptist Church and resides in the said town of Westerlo and that the said Job Rider is a merchant and resides in the said town of Rensselaerville that they are both very credible persons, and that their statement is entitled to full credit and belief 
And I further certify that the said applicants
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is very poor and that he could not procure witnesses to go as far as Albany to testify to the foregoing facts that the said Deliverance Slawson and the said Job Rider each reside more than 23 miles from the court.  
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand the day and year aforesaid.

J.B. Moore


State of New York
Albany County
Clerk's Office ss.


I Conrad A. Ten Eyck Clerk of the City and County of Albany and State aforesaid do hereby certify that Joseph B. Moore before whom the foregoing certificate was sworn and who has made the above certificate is a Judge of the County Courts of the County of Albany and State of New York and that the signatures of "J.B. Moore"  to the said certificates is his genuine signatures.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said County this 23rd day of August 1832.

C.A. Ten Eyck
Clerk

And the said courts do hereby certify their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states.
And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that Deliverance Slawson who has signed the preceding certificate

[written on side]
I accidentally cut off this half sheet in cutting off a blank half sheet attached to it, and have fastened it to its place with [rasers?] this 11th day of November 1832.
J.B Moore
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is a member of the Baptist Church and resides in the town of Westerlo in the County of Albany and that Job Rider who has also signed the same is a merchant and resides in the town of Rensselaerville in said County that they are both credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit.
And the court also certifies that in consequence of the distance the said witnesses reside from the court and the poverty of the applicant, that the said witnesses cannot be produced in court without too much inconvenience and expense to the said applicant.

I John G. Wasson Clerk of the Justices in Court, of the city of Albany in the County of Albany and State  of New York do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the applications of Doctor Smith for a pension.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 23rd day of August 1832.

John G. Wasson Clerk
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State of New York
Albany County ss.

On this 11th day of November 1832 personally appeared before me Joseph B. Moore a Judge of the County Courts of the County of Albany and State aforesaid Doctor Smith a resident of the town of Westerlo in the County of Albany and State of New York aged 68 years and upwards who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following amendment to his declaration made in open court on the 23rd day of August 1832 in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7, 1832.

That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated and as he has stated in his said declaration hereto annexed.

He first entered the said service at Salem Westchester County as a volunteer and joined Capt. Laurence's Company and Col. Crain's regiment of Militia in the month of April 1780, and served at the places mentioned in his said declaration with the forces under the command of Major Delavan one month and was dismissed in the month of May. He cannot recollect the day of the month he entered and left the service at this time.
He was again called out and entered the said service at Salem aforesaid as a volunteer and joined Capt. Keeler's company and Col. Crain's regiment and was out with a scouting party at Bedford and other places mentioned in his
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(1) said declaration from June 1780 to July 1780 one month.

(2) He also again entered the said service  as a substitute for his brother Job Smith who had been drafted in the month of September 1780, and served two months in Capt. Samuel Delavan's Company and Col. Luddingtons' regiment. He joined the said Company at Salem aforesaid and joined the said regiment at Peekskill and was marched to Dobbs Ferry Tarrytown and Spuyten Duyvil Creek, where he staid and kept guard untill his time was out which was in the month of November 1780. He was then dismissed and he returned home.

In the spring of the year he thinks in the months of March or April 1781 he again entered the said service as a volunteer and joined Capt. Sacket's Company at Bedford adn served as a substitute for one Petit Loder who had been drafted one month at the places
 (3) *mentioned in his said declaration.*

He again entered the said service as a volunteer and joined Capt. Lawrences's Company in Col. Crain's regiment at Salem aforesaid in the first of August 1781 and served one months, and was marched to Horse Neck and there did duty untill his time of one month of? and was dismissed in the month of August 1781.
He again entered the said service as a volunteer and enlisted in Capt. Hunt's company and Col. Wesenfelt's regiment for the  term of Three months on the first part of September 1781 and served his time out as he has stated in his said declaration hereto annexed. 

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He again entered the said service on the first of been drafted, and was immediately marched to White Plains where he staid and did the August 1781 - and then returned home. He this declaration , and in making out his papers 
Three months as a substitute for the said
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In the month of April 1782 as near as he can
recollect he served one month as a substitute
for one Justus Blanchard in Captain Hunts Company at the place and in the manner particularly mentioned and set forth in his declaration hereto annexed, and was dismissed in the month of May 1782-
He again entered the said service and
served two months as a substitute for his brother
Solomon Smith (who had been drafted) from
June 1782 to August 1782, in Captain Laurance’s company and Colonel Crains regiment, and was
marched to Sawpits, and Mamaroneck and kept
guard during the said term-
He was in the actual service of the United States during the Revolutionary war in an embodied corps, besides being occasionally called out on Scouts, alarms and to patrol Streets, and served one year as a private soldier and for such service
he claims a pension. (1 year and 3 months)
Job Smith, Petit Loder, Justus Blanchard, Oliver Good, and Solomon Smith for whom he
he served as a substitute are all dead-
 He was born in the month of May A.D. 1764 at the township of Greenwich in the State of Connecticut, with his father removed
from there when he was child to Salem in the
County of Westchester in the State of New York
where he resided at the time of entering
the said service at the several periods above
mentioned, and continued to reside there, untill
he removed to the said town of Westerlo where
he has lived for the last 24 years
He has a record of his age

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May 1781 and joined Captain Sackets company for the term of three months as a substitute for one Oliver Todd who was under the command of Lieutenant Benedict who belonged to the said company to a place near Tarry Town and then went duty of a private soldier in guarding the lines until his three months expired he was dismissed the first of  Declarant further states that he had entirely forgotten this part of his service in making out his formal declaration this day until he was reminded of it by his wife and that he well knows at this time that he actually served the said.
Doctor Smith
Oliver Todd-sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid before me  JB Moore [illegible[ etc., etc.
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on a piece of paper now in his house, copied
from his fathers family Bible
He once served with continental
officers by the name of Captain Cherry Lieutenants
King and Young and saw and knew Colonel Sheldon
Generals Wayne, St Clair and McDougal andPutman
He served with Colonel Sheldons regiment of
Dragoons, and Colonel Putnams regiment of Infantry
He never received any other written
discharge except the one mentioned in his said
declaration
He is known to Deliverance Hasson,
John Rider, Uriah Stedman, Lewis Lockwood, Joseph
Knowles, Richard Hunter, Nathaniel Knight, who
reside in his present neighbourhood and who
can testify to his character for veracity and their
belief of his services as a soldier of the revolution
He has no documentary evidence nor does he know of his having
he can procure to testify to his services although he has taken great 
pains to procure witnesses. 
He hereby relinquishes every claim
whatever to a pension other than the one under the act of June 7, 1832
Doctor Smith
Sworn and subscribed the day and year 
aforesaid before me 
JB Moore Judge of Allbany County Courts-
We, Ephram Crocker a Clergyman, residing in the
town of Rensselaerville in the County of Albany
and Joshua L Amereaux residing in the town of
Westerlo
in the County aforesaid
hereby certify that we are well acquainted with
Doctor Smith who has subscribed and
to the foregoing declaration that we believe him
to be 78 years of age; and that he is reputed and
believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have
been a soldier of the revolution, and that we concur
in that opinion
Ephraim Crocker
Sworn and subscribed the day and year
aforesaid
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Joshua L'Amoreux
Before me J.B. Moore Judge
of Albany County courts -

State of New York
Albany County SS   I the subscriber a Judge of the County courts of the County of Albany in the State aforesaid do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Ephraim Crocker who signed the preceeding Certificate that he is a clergy =man resident in the said town of Rensselarville in the County of Albany and that I am well acquainted with Joshua L'Amoreux who has also signed the same that he is a resident of said town of Westerlo in said County and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit - In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 11th day of November 1832
 J.B. Moore

State of New York

Albany County SS I Conrad A Ten Eyck Clerk of the city and County of Albany do hereby certify that Joseph B. Moore before whom the foregoing declaration and certificate was sworn and who has made the above certificate is a Judge of the County courts of the County of Albany and State aforesaid, and that the signature "J.B. Moore" to the said declaration and certificate is his genuine Signature - In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said County the 11th day of November A.D. 1832
 C. A Ten Eyck  Clerk
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11425
Rev War
INVALID
File No. 11425
Doctor Smith
Priv Rev War

Act: June 7th 1832
Index: - Vol. A, Page 348
[Arrangement of 1870]
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Payments to be made at
New York by the Presd US Br Bank
Agent for paying Pensioners, in the
Agency of New York

Recorded by John Cromwell
Clerk, in Book D  Vol. 5
page 140
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WAR DEPARTMENT
 Revolutionary Claim

I certify that in conformity with the Law of the United States of the 7th June, 1832, Doctor Smith of the State of New York _ who was a Private in the Revolutionary Army _ _
is entitled to receive - Eighty - dollars per annum, during his natural life, commencing on the 4th of March 1831, and payable semi-annually on the 4th of [Ma]rch, and 4th of September, in every year.
 Given at the War Office of the United States,
this 22nd day of November one thousand eight hundred and thirty- two.
  Lew Cass
 Secretary of War

Examined and countersigned}  J.L. Edwards