Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B.L.Wt. 2264-200, for Aaron Smith, South Carolina
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S. C     Smith, Aaron    BLWT2264-200
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Military Land Claim
War Department
Section of Bounty Land
Washington City
R July 2 1839
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Charlestown South Carolina 29th of June 1839
Mr. Gordon
Dear Sir
Enclosed are the papers of Aaron E. Smith
one of the heirs of Lt. Aaron Smith of the South Carolina line of the Army of the Revolution for Bounty land in right of his father as a Lieutenant and of his Uncle John Caraway Smith as a Captain of the same line of the Army of the Revolution.  The power of attorney is to my son Henry L [illegible] And the power of attorney of the other heirs are simply to draw and bind the land [illegible] suffering that upon the authority of any one of the heirs and having the evidence of all them that the warrant would issue [illegible] the whole of their will you send me the particular [illegible] to take up those claims at as early a day as you can.  My son writes me that you have been [illegible] the amount of the postage on two or three letters.  death was not more foreign to my [illegible] than that you should have incurred one cent of postage
on my account.  I know that such documents were granted and supposed I had given them the proper direction any postage which you have paid shall be returned.
My son writes that you complain of the extra trouble attending the certifying copies.  This I regret.  I cannot take a separate one and send execution for postage for less than [illegible] two to three Dollars whereas this copy
can at all times be already penned wanting your signature only and which will not obtain longer than the reading the document which power are [illegible] [illegible] short.  the seals
alone in the southern states are from one to one and a half dollar.
I Remain sir Yours Respectfully
Henry [illegible]
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Aaron Smith - Lieut
No 2264
John C Smith - Capt
No 2265
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Thomas all men by these presents that I can such of the City of Charlestown South Carolina do hereby Court State and appoint Henry [illegible] of Washington City my true and lawfull attorney with powers of [illegible] for me and in my name to ask demand and [illegible] from the secretary of war of the United States a war sent for the [illegible] of County and due me in right of the son of my late uncle John Creasey Smith Captain of the South Carolina line of the army of the Revolution and so in right of the service of my late father Aaron Smith as a Lieutenant of the said South Carolina line of the army of the Revolution, and to [illegible] the said [illegible] so received with the commissioner of the General Land office at Washington City and to ask demand and receipt for the [illegible] land [illegible] thee thereon and to assign Transfer and make sale of the same and my said attorney is hereby authorised and impowered to do and perform all manner of things touching the same which I myself might do were I personally present this twenty ninth day of June 1833 
Witness my hand and seal 
A E Smith
Witness
Henry [illegible]
Tho Martin

State of South Carolina 
Charlestown District
personally appeared before me the Subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said District Aaron Smith Signed and sealed to the foregoing power of attorney and acknowledged the same to be his voluntary act and deed for the [illegible] therein named being duly sworn according to Law saith that to the best of his knowledge and belief his late uncle John Caraway Smith was a captain and his late father Aaron Smith was a Lieutenant of the South Carolina line of the Army of the Revolution and served as such to the and of the war or as long to their services were wanted and he says that he has never at any time received a warrant  from the United States for the bounty land due either of them in virtue of their services as aforesaid neither does he believe
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that either of them we receved the same during this time or were assigned as [illegible] their right to the same in any manner whatever. Sworn subscribed and acknowledged before me this Twenty ninth day of June 1839
Tho Martin 
LS
State of South Carolina
office [illegible]
Chilton District

I hereby [illegible] Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for the district and State aforesaid at Charlston do hereby certify that Thomas Martin Esq whose [illegible] is [illegible] to the pregoing certificate or affidavit is a Justice of the [illegible] of the Parish of [illegible] in the district and State aforesaid and that all due faith and [illegible] are and ought to given to his seal or [illegible] and that the signature attached thereto purporting to be his is genuine - 
Given under my hand and the seal of the Court of Common Pleas he district and State aforesaid at Charleston Twenty ninth day of June A.D 1839
[illegible]
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the Certificates or handshakes thereon and my said attorney is hereby authorized to do and perform all manner of things touching the same which I myself might do were I personally present Witness my hand and seal this 7th day of May 1839 
Witness 
State of South Carolina 
Barnwell District
Personally appeared before me the  Subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said District William H Smith signed and sealed to the foregoing power of attorney and acknowledged the same to be his voluntary act and deed for the purposes therein named who being duly sworn according to Law says that to the best of his knowledge and belief his late Uncle John Caraway Smith was a captain of the South Carolina line of the Revolution and that his father Aaron Smith was a Lieutenant of the said South Carolina line of the Army of the Revolution and served as such to the close of the war or as long as their services were required he further says that he has never received a warrant from the United States for the Bounty land due either of them neither does he believe that either of them were received the same during their lives or were assigned or transferred these right to the same in my manner whatever Sworn subscribed and acknowledged before me this day of May 1839
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South Carolina 
Barnwell District 
At a Court of Ordinary held before me in and for the district and State aforesaid on the 22 day of May 1839, Satisfactory evidence was delivered to me to prove that Mrs Elizabeth Ann Gillson wife of Samuel Gillison Esq of [illegible] in [illegible] District formerly Elizabeth Ann Smith William H. Smith of Barnwell District and Aaron C. Smith of Charleston District in the said State are the children and the only surviving heirs at Law of Aaron Smith Esq. late of said District deceased. And that he was reputed to have been a Lieutenant of the South Carolina line of the Army of the Revolution
And I further certify that I have no clerk to my Court nor no seal of Office. 
Given under my hand and Common Seal at Banwell Court House the day and year above written. 
[illegible] D Allen
Judge of the Court of [illegible]
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April 18, 1932
BA-J/AWF
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Aaron Smith
Wt. No. 2264-200

Mrs. Anna R. Lacy
244 McNeil, North
Memphis, Tennessee

Dear Madam:

From the records of this office it appears that Aaron Smith was a Lieutenant in the South Carolina Line, and service until the close of the War. There are no dates of service given nor are the name of any officers given.
The dates of his birth and death are not shown.
Bounty land was allowed in full satisfaction for the service rendered.
In 1839 the following were his surviving children - Aaron C. Smith, living in Charleston, South Carolina; William H. Smith, living in Barnwell District, South Carolina; and Elizabeth Ann Gillian, the wife Samuel Gillian, living in Coosawhatchie, South Carolina.
The name of Aaron Smith's wife is not given, nor are there any further data as to children.
The said Aaron Smith was the brother of John Carraway Smith. Captain of [illegible] S. C. Reg
Very truly yours
A. D. Hiller
Assistant to Administrator
See her letter in John Carraway Smith
W 4890
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
Form VAN-51
12-5-41

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD

Division of Veterans' Administration Archives

Name
Smith, Aaron
Grade
Private
Line
Virginia
Warrant Number
12556
Acreage
100
Issued
December 13, 1791 to Francis Graves, Assignee
The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.