Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 32525, for Henry Smith, North Carolina
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N.C. Smith, Henry. S 32525
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23681. Increase
North Carolina
Henry Smith, decd
of Cabarrus Co in the State of No Carolina
who was a Captain & Major in the [blank] commanded
by Captain [blank] of the Regt commanded
by Col. Armstrong in the No Car
line for 15 mos. Captain
9 " [months] Major
Inscribed on the Roll of Fayetteville
at the rate of 525 Dollars 00 Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March 1831. and end 28th August 1835, when he died.
Certificate of Pension issued the 8th day of Nov 1850 and sent to
T. Lumpkin, Present
Increased from $194.64
Semi-annual allowance ending
Payable to his only surviving
children, to wit Jacob Smith
Geo. Smith & Feeba Barnhart
Revolutionary Claim Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by J P Chase Clerk
Book Vol. Page
Entered Book E. No 6, Page 101
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Reputed 
only surviving children, vis.
Jacob Smith,
George Smith
Feeba Barnhart
Transferred to Savannah
Ga. 4 March 1831.
Nov 9. 1850 be letter
to Pension Agent
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Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832
State of North Carolina
Cabarrus County
Court of pleas and quarter Sessions for Cabarrus  County
October Term 1833
On this 21st day of October one thousand eight hundred & thirty three personally 
appeared in open Court before the Worshipful Justices of the Court or pleas and quarter Sessions for Cabarrus County State of
North Carolina now sitting Henry Smith a
resident of Cabarrus County, North Carolina, aged ninety-one, 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 7th
1832 - That he entered the service of the United States, under the following named officers and served as herein stated To Wit - That on the 1st of March 1776 I raised a company in the County of Stokes North Carolina, (then Surry County) and was appointed Captain of the same. I received my commission from the "Council of Safety, then
in Hillsboro N.C. I marched my men from Surry County under Col. Armstrong & Col. Williams & Major Winston to "Cross Creek" now Fayetteville N.C. I was directed by Col. Armstrong & Col. Williams to raise this company, with other captains, under the authority of the "Council of Safety" - The Tories
having been defeated by Col. Caswell, we were, at
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Cross Creek dismissed by our officers & returned home about the first of April 1776. I served as a captain in this expedition four weeks.
On or about the first of August or last of July of the same year 1776 in the same County Surry, (now stokes) I received orders from
Col. Armstrong to gather my Company again, which I did immediately, and we marched under Col. Armstrong to Cubbs Creek in Surry-where orders were received for 300 men to be marched against the Cherokee Indians, where I was unanimously selected by the men, it having been left to them by the Cols, as one of the Captains in this expedition. There were 3 Captain - Mosley & Dobson & myself - with 100 men each. We were marched under Col. Williams through the mountains to the long Island of Holson River, when we were all placed under Genl Christie - then we went to
the "Indian Town", then to the "Beloved Town, where the officers & the Indians concluded a treaty. We were then dismissed & we were marched back home under Col. Williams. I served in this expedition 154 days (3 months & 14 days) as a Captain under the same commission from the council of Safety.
On or about the first of November 1776. I again entered the service under Col.  Armstrong orders from whom I received a commission as a Captain under which
drafted a full company in the County of Surrey
I was marched, at the head of my company, from Richmond Town, in Surry, to Charlotte N.C. where we were joined
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Why was his pension stopped
(H. Smith)
Honorable Chales Fisher
AR


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