Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 19,469, for Jesse Smith, Massachusetts
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
Continental   
Mass.

Smith, Jesse   

NUMBER
S.19.469
carded

CONTENTS
In 1820 aged 64 yrs & res. of Salem Essex Co. Mass.
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Massachusetts  32021
Jesse Smith
Essex Co  in the State of Mass
who was a Dragoon in the --- com by Captain --- of the ---comm by --- in the Massachusetts & Continental line for 2 years
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 100 Dollars --- Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 2nd day of March 1843 and sent to Hon. L. Saltonstall H.R.
Arrears to the 4th of Sept: 42 - $1,150.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Mar '43 - 100 --
_________
$1200.00

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

Repd 2nd in
Let to Hon L. Saltonstall
" Hon. Julius Rockwell 10 May
[illegible]
Geo Crane July 28/51.
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Jesse Smith's Declaration Mass act 7 June '32
admd 2 yrs Dragoon
100$

Deduct what has been paid under the act of 18 March 1818 since 4 March '31

Hon. L. Saltonstall H.R.
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Salem Essex County Massachusetts. 1843
I Jesse Smith of Salem in the County of Essex and commonwealth of Massachusetts aged eighty seven years, Being sworn do on Oath testify & say that I served as a Soldier in the army of the Revolutionary War and performed therein several tours of Military duty, the last of which was under an engagement for Three years in the 3rd Regiment of Light Dragoons - Virginia line commanded by Lieut Col W. Washington and Captain Lewis's company of his Excellency's General Washington's life guards; and that I received an honorable Discharge at the termination of said Service; which Discharge was forwarded with other papers to the Commissioner of Pensions as proof in support of my claim to a Pension under the act of Congress of the 18th of March 1818.
I further testify and say that I am in the receipt of a Pension of Ninety six Dollars a year under the above mentioned act and that I am desirous to exchange the same for the benefit of the act of 7th June 1832.
Jesse Smith  Abigail Smith
Attest John Pienchard

Mr Smith's sight has so far failed him that he could not write more legible -
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Essex, Salem S.S. - January 30th 1843
Then Jesse Smith, subscribed & made oath that the foregoing declaration by him subscribed is true in all its parts - and I further testify that I am well acquainted with the above mentioned Jesse Smith who is a pensioner of the United States agreeably to the foregoing declaration and consider him a man of the strictest integrity and his declaration entitled to full faith & credit,
John Peinchard Justice of the Peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Secretary's Office Boston January 30. 1843
I hereby certify that John Peinchard is a Justice of the Peace for the County of Essex duly constituted and commissioned and to his acts as such full faith & credit are to by given.
Witness the Seal of the Commonwealth the date above mentioned - 
John A Bolles
Sec'y of the Commonwealth
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Ho. Reps Febry 4 1843.
It gives me pleasure to add that I have known the said Jesse Smith many years and that he is & has at all times been a man of unimpeachable character. He is now very infirm & any addition which could be made to his pension would add to the means of a comfortable support in his extreme old age. He is poor.
L. Saltonstall
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636
Jesse Smith
age 64
mariner
infirm
worth $100.--
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 
ESSEX, ss. 
At the Circuit Court of Common Pleas of the Middle Circuit, begun and holden at Salem, within and for the County of Essex, on the third Monday of June, A. D. 1820. Present, Hon. SAMUEL DANA, Chief Justice. Hon. WILLIAM WETMORE, and Hon. STEPHEN MINOT, Associate Justices. in open Court here, being a Court of Record for said Circuit, proceeding according to the course of the common law, with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, keeping a record of its proceedings, and having the power of fine and imprisonment, Jesse Smith resident in Salem in said Circuit, who is named in Pension Certificate No. 686 now in his possession, of which the following is a true copy, to wit, 
"WAR DEPARTMENT REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM. "I certify that, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 18th March, 1818, Jesse Smith late a private in the Army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the Massachusetts Agency, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the fourth day of April one thousand eight hundred and eighteen "Given at the War of Office of the United States, this twenty first day of May one thousand eight hundred and eighteen J. C. CALHOUN, Secretary of War," [L.S. in box at margin]
appears, and exhibits to the Court here a Schedule, subscribed by him, as follows, to wit,
SCHEDULE,
containing his whole estate and income, his necessary clothing and bedding excepted, to wit, (No real estate)
Old desk - bureau - dozen old chairs ...$13.00
Shovel & tongs - 2 pair andirons - pot ...3.00
2 kettles - 4 tables - light stand - 16 spoons ...9.00
6 knives & forks - crockery & glass ware ... 5.00
2 looking glasses - old carpet ...11.00
4 candlesticks - 3 old trunks - quadrant ... 5.50
Bible & lot of books in use of family ... 10.00
Two other chairs - sugar bowl ... 4.00
Two shares of stock in the Salem Laboratory ... 40.00
Pew in South - meeting house, on which is now due $50. more that it is worth} 00.00
________
$100.50
He is sixty four years old and infirm - was a Mariner, but has been too old to go to sea for
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several years, and has no regular employment but sometimes serves as one of the Collectors of the town taxes, and now is one, by which he earns a little compensation.
His family are his wife ages 60, and his daughter Abigail aged 23.
He served the first eight months of the War, - and during all 1776 - at first in Capt. Wheeler's Company in Col. Nixon's Regiment in Massachusetts line: and part of that year was drafted into Capt Gibbs' Company of Guards: - at beginning of 1777 he enlisted and served three years in Capt. G.W. Lewis' Company of Horse in the Regiment commanded at first by Col. Baylor, and then by Col. Wm Washington in the Virginia Line.
Jesse Smith
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and at the same time he produces to the Court here the following oath, taken and subscribed by him, before the Hon. Samuel Dana a Judge of said Court as aforesaid, to wit, 
I, Jesse Smith do solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States the eighteenth day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and I have not since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner whatever, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress, entitled "an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war,” passed on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property, or securities, contracts, or debts, due to me: nor have I any income, other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed. So help me GOD. 
Jesse Smith
Essex, ss. C. C. C. P. June, Term, A. D. 1820. Then the abovenamed Jesse Smith took and subscribed the aforewritten Oath before me Saml Dana Judge of said Court. I, ICHABOD TUCKER, Clerk of the Court aforesaid, do hereby certify that the foregoing Oath, and 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 one hundred and one dollars In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, at Salem, in said County of Essex, on this 17th day of July A.D. 1820 Attr. Ichabod Tucker Clk
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Rev War 19.469
INVALID.
File 19,469
Jesse Smith
Dragoon Rev War
Act: June 7th '32
Index: - Vol. 2, Page 379
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636
Massachusetts Roll
Jesse Smith, Private In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 4th of April 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 21st of May 1818 and sent to Hon. Samuel Putnam, Salem, Mass.
Arrears to 4th Septr 1818
5 months 1/30  $40.26
{Revolutionary claims, Act 18th March, 1818,}

Baylor's reg '77 - 2 years
Continental
Salem Essex Co.
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Discharge copied Sent to Hon. R.Choate HR June 20 1834
Notification sent July 26th 1820 to Ichabod Tucker Salem, Massachusetts
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Jesse Smith S. 19469.
Mass Continental
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This is Certify that Jesse Smith has served those Years as a faithful Soldier in the third Reg.'t of Light Dragoons in the Service of the United States being the full time for which he engaged and is hereby discharged from the s'd Reg.'t
Philad'a Dec'r 13. 1779 W. Washington Lt. Col. & of Lincoln
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J. L. Edwards Esq
Commissr Pen
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Jesse Smith's discharge copied, agreeably to the within request.
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Washington, Decr. 21 1824

J. L. Edwards Esqe
Sir, Will you be pleased to give me a certified copy of the discharge of Jesse Smith a Revolutionary Pensioner, the original of which is on file in your department, for the purpose of substantiating a Claim for land on the state of Virginia in which line said Pensioner served during a portion of the Revolutionary War.
Respectfully, sir, 
Your obedt servtt
Jesse Smith
U. S. Navy
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Hon L. Saltonstall HR
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Boston Massachusetts
Jany 31st 1843
Dear Sir
I herein enclose the original pension certificate issued in favour of Mr Jesse Smith of Salem, accompanied by his affidavit for the purpose of exchanging his present pension for the benefit it is believed said Jesse is entitled to in consequence of his being a Dragoon in the army of the Revolutionary War.
Be pleased to present the enclosed documents to the commissioner of Pensions - obtain his decision, and transmit the result to me at this place.
Very respectfully Sir
I am your obedient servant
Reuben Baldwin

Hon Leverell Saltonstall
M U S Senate
Washinton
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Jesse Smith
3 Apl
Correct DN
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I Jesse Smith of Salem in the County of Essex & Commonwealth of Massachusetts on Solemn oath declare:
That I was called out of my bed about one o'clock on the morning of the nineteenth of April 1775 and was in the engagement with the British all that day - that the 21st of the same month I enlisted for eight months in Capt William Smith's company Col. John Nixon's Regiment, & served in the Massachusetts line during that Term. - that in the month of December in the same year or the month of January 1776 I enlisted for one year in Capt Adam Wheeler's company in said Nixon's Regiment, in Gen. Sullivan's Brigade and soon after was drafted into General Washinton's foot guards commanded by Captain Caleb Gibbs and served the full time of my enlistment. In January 1777 I enlisted in the Light Horse Company commanded by George W Lewis for three years & served said term in the third Regiment of Light Dragoons in Col. Baylor's Regiment, afterwards commanded by Col William Washington by whom I was discharged on the 13th December A D 1779. I further declare that by reason of my reduced circumstances in life I stand in need of the assistance of my Country for support - And I hereby relinquish every claim to a pension heretofore allowed by the Laws of the United States.
Jesse Smith
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Jesse Smith within mentioned on oath further declares that he is sixty two years of age - Jesse Smith
Essex ss. Sworn to by J. Smith on 24 April. 1818 before S. Putnam J.S.J.C.
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts Essex SS.
I Ichabod Tucker, Clerk of all the Judicial Courts of the Commonwealth aforesaid in and for the County aforesaid, hereby certify to all whom these presents may concern, that the aforenamed, Hon: Samuel Putnam is a Judge of the Supreme Judicial Court as aforesaid, that the seal hereto affixed is the seal of said Court, and the signature aforesaid is his proper hand
Attest Ichabod Tucker Clk
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Payable on the 4th March and 4th Sept. of each year at the U.S. Branch Bank in Boston -

Recorded

(bottom right side written upside down)
Jesse Smith