Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R 9679, for Adam Smith, New Hampshire

SERVICE
N. B.
Smith, Adam
NUMBER _____
VP 9679
CONTENTS

34666 Adam Smith
N H
Ad June 7 1882
Application for Pension Smith Adam
Col. P. Buckley
Salem South

Sole of Leicestershire
County of Hillsborough
On this Second day of October Personally appeared in of our Court Before the Court of Probate was sitting at Amherst with in and for the County of Hillsborough in the State of said Adame Smith of Bedford aged Eighty years who being duly sworn according to law, call on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the act of Congress passed June 4 th 1832 That he entered in the service of the State under the following names of service first that he in the fall of the year 1845 engaged in the service for six weeks and enlisted in the Lowrey Light Battery of Artillery under the command of James Smith in Col John Stocker's Regt who was in the Right Column Service and there stationed at Winter Hill with his Regt this Company was formed in Dec Stocker's Regt and did duty until the 18 th of March 1846 when he was earnestly requested by his officers to detain two weeks longer which he did having served two months was discharged the 18 th of January 1846 and in the month of July 1846 he engaged to go to the St. Lawrence frontiers and enlisted in the Company commanded by Capt. [unclear] in Col [unclear] Regt and participated in the battle of [unclear] near [unclear] and was in the [unclear] battle under General John [unclear] and remained in service until the 18 th of the month of February 1848 when being discharged returned home to Bedford where I have resided since. Making a term of service in all of [unclear] months. He relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity whatever except the present and in claims that his name is not on any pension roll of the agency of any state.
Adams Smith
Here over

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year afore said
Luke Woodbury Judge of Probate
Thomas Savage a clergyman residing in the town of Providence in the county of Hillsborough and State of New Hampshire do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Milton Smith who has subscribed and sworn to the above and that we believe him to be eighty years of age that he is a pious and religious in the neighborhood where he resides has been a soldier in the Revolution and that we concur in the affirmation.
Thomas Savage Milton Smith
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year afore said
Thomas Savage
Luke Woodbury Judge of Probate
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion that after the investigation of the matter and after taking the int- regulations prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states. And the court further believes that it appears to them that Thomas Savage who has signed the proceedings certify that he is a clergyman in the town of Providence and is a credible person and that Milton Smith of said Providence is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit.
Luke Woodbury Judge of Probate
Stephen P. Hardy Register and Clerk of the Court of Probate do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the official proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Milton Smith to the War Department for a pension.

Have herewith set my hand and seal of office the second day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight
Stephen Peabody Register
1. Where were you born
Williamstown (to wit) At the County of Linn, State of Iowa and when at the house within and for the County of Williamstown on the second day of Oct A.D. 1838. On the application of William Smith claiming to be a soldier of the revolution the following certificates were pronounced a true and correct
1st Where and in what year were you born Answer On Bedford Feb August 3rd 1758
2nd Then your age and of your age and when it is Answer I have no Record but My home is recorded in the Town Book of Bedford
3rd Where were you living when called into service Where have you lived since the Revolutionary war and where do you now live
Answer In Bedford where I have been some time now live
4th How were you called into the service were you enlisted did you volunteer or were you a drafted and if so with whom
Answer I always volunteered and went out some of the more motions
5th State the names of some of the regular officers who were with the troops when you served such Continental and State Reg'ts you too recall as well as the General and Colonels of your service
Answer I saw Genl. Delmore at Winchester held New York Washington Genl. Green & Genl. Patterson
6th State the names of persons whom you are familiar in your present neighborhood and who can testify as to your service as you lived by your own behalf of your services as a soldier of the Revolution
Answer Williamstown Mass Stephen Peabody and the names of the following persons Stephen Peabody

Adam Smith
Revolutionary
New Hampshire
act 1832
Suspended

POWER OF ATTORNEY
For ascertaining whether any increase or arrears of Pension are due the Widow or heirs of Revolutionary Pensioners, &c.*
STATE OF Massachusetts COUNTY OF Essex
Be it known that before the undersigned, Charles Stark Newell a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid, personally appeared Catherine S. Foster aged 37 years, who being duly cautioned and then sworn in due form of law, states that she is the daughter of Adams Smith who was a revolutionary soldier in the State of New Hampshire and that he died on the day of August 1843 and that her mother, named Anne Smith died on the day of 1803 and they were married on the day of 1784 and that they were residents of Bedford in the State of New Hampshire and that they resided there years , and that she resides in Salem, Mass and that furthermore I BY THESE PRESENTS, constitutes, appoints, and fully empowers and authorizes, irrevocably and with powers of substitution, F. E. HASSLER, of Washington city, D. C., as my true and lawful Attorney for me and in my name and stead, to examine into, to prosecute, to demand, and to receive from the U. S. Government and State officers all rights in all and in any manner of claim for arrears of pay, half pay, or commutation pay, for pension, increase of arrears of Pension or Land that are or may be due me as heir of Adams Smith as in right of law may be entitled; and I furthermore revoke all and any powers of attorney heretofore executed in favor of any person or persons.
In witness whereof, she has on this Twenty Seventh day of June 18 54 hereunto signed her name, and affixed her seal.
Catherine S. Foster 
Witness: H. S. Foster ,
Witness: H. A. Foster ,
Signed, sealed, acknowledged, and sworn to before me; and I further certify, that Catherine S. Foster has always by the community been known as the daughter of Adams Smith and I am not interested in the result of this claim.
Dated on this Twenty Seventh day of June 18 54 . Charles Stark Newell J. P.
STATE OF
COUNTY OF
I hereby certify, That _____ Esq., before whom the foregoing affidavits and acknowledgment were made, and who has hereunto subscribed his name, was at the time of so doing, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, duly commissioned and sworn, and that his signature above written is genuine.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of _____ County Court, this _____ day of _____ one thousand eight hundred and _____
Clerk.
* If a Widow applies, state "the date of marriage, and death of her husband." † Widow, son, or daughter. ‡ Give the name of the State in which he lived when he went into the Revolution. If a pensioner, so state—and the amount of pension, and under what act, and whether an officer or private soldier.

REJECTED
9679
P. O. Adams Smith
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____ _____
Re-enlisted: _____ _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____ _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

N. Ho — 34,666 Adam Smith Suspi o Hon C. G. Atherton 15 Dec 1858 J. E. Hassler July 13/59
1832

Revolutionary Adam Smith
N. H.
suspended Oct 1832
filed 11 July 1854 P. E. Hassler

Washington City D.C. July. 10 th 1854
Wm. I. P. Waldo Sir, Commissioner of Pensions
I respectfully request a reexamination of the suspended Revolutionary Pension claim of Adams Smith, on the N.H. rolls, and ask that these papers may be compared with those of the two witnesses Wm. Moore, James Moore who were pensioners on the N.H. rolls act 1832.
Ym obed Servt J. E. Hasker

free
Oct 16
N.H.
W. Adams Smith Oct 1832
J. A. Edwards
Secretary of War Washington City D.C.

Bedford N H Oct 10 th 1838
Hon J. S. Edwards Secretary of War
Dear Sir In enclosed are The Evidence in relation to the Service of Adam Smith a revolutionary Soldier for a pension under the act 1832 which you will consider and any form in relation in regard to those you will please to drop to me and send all papers to me in return to them as soon as may be convenient from your Obedient Servant
Isaac Piddington

I Adam Smith of Bedford of the age of eighty years and upwards do testify and say I remained in the service of the country after the return of Colt McLaughlin company under the command Lieut John Ross an officer of said company in the Hospital taking care of the sick and wounded and I was paid by the State for the full time I served. The reason why I have not made an earlier application for a pension is this same time in the fall of 1823 I made an application to be put upon the pension roll of my locality and forwarded my papers to the Pension office and the papers were returned to me for further evidence or explanation and by some means they got mislaid or lost and therefore nothing further was done about it until I made the present application feeling in hopes I might get some thing from my country for my services in the struggle for her liberties as long as it was true free will give it -
Adam Smith
State of New Hampshire
Hillsborough ss. December 20 th 1838
Then the above named Adam Smith subscribed the above affidavit and made oath that the same was true and he is considered a man of truth and veracity and is a competent witness
Before me Isaac Riddle justice of the peace

I William Moor of Bradford of the age of Seventy eight years & upward do testify and say That I saw Adam Smith at Binnington and in belonged to left in Connell Co. the same Company which I belonged about or at the time we returned home I saw Adam Smith in Hospital taking care of the Sick and wounded under the Command of Lieut John Orr one of the officers of said Company he being a good nurse was retained for the purpose of taking care of the sick & wounded until February 1778 as I have before stated in my deposition by the Order of his officers as under stood at that time
William Moor
State of New Hampshire Hillsborough ss
Dec 20 th 1838
Personally appeared William Moor & Subscribed the above affidavit & made oath that the same was true
before me Isaac Riddell Justice of the Peace
I hereby certify that I am well acquainted with the above named William Moor and he is considered a man of truth and is a competent witness
Isaac Riddell Justice of the Peace

I James Moor of lawful age testify and say That Adam Smith of Bedford in the County of Hillsborough and State of New Hampshire in listed the first of December 1775 in the Company commanded by Capt Joshua Martin in Col Sturges Regt for six weeks and remained in the service two weeks after his enlistment the expired and was dismissed the first day of February 1776 I was in the service the same time in the same Regt in Capt Runnells Company and returned home with him since Regt. was stationed at Winter Hill and this Adam Smith is now living in Bedford Center and is eighty years of age James Moor
State of New Hampshire
Hillsborough ss August 31 1838 Then personally appeared the above named James Moor with whom I am personally acquainted and made oath that the above affidavit by him subscribed was True.
Before me Isaac Riddle Justice of the Peace The above named James Moor is reputed to be a man of truth and I concur in that opinion
Isaac Riddle Justice of the Peace

I William Moore of lawfull age do testify and say that I have lived in the same town with Adam Smith of Bedford in the County of Hillsborough and State of New Hampshire since my childhood and he is now eighty years of age and is now living and I know that he enlisted July 1777 in the State Service with myself in the Company Commanded by Capt. Samuel McCornac Coln Stickney's Regt and proceeded to Charlestown N.H. thence to Manchester Vt. and to Bennington Vt. and was in the Battle of Bennington under General Stark and he remained in the Service of the State until the February following which was 1778. and he then discharged returned to Bedford. He was retained by his officers after the Company was disbanded —
William Moore
State of New Hampshire
Hillsborough ss August 31 st 1838 Then personally appeared the above named William Moore with whom I am well acquainted and made oath that the above oath by him subscribed was true
Before me M c Riddle Justice of Peace
The above named William Moore is reported to be a man of truth and I concur in that belief
M c Riddle Justice of Peace

I Andrew Wallace, Clerk of the Superior Court of Judicature for the County of Hillsborough in the State of New Hampshire, do hereby certify that Isaac Riddle within and before named is a justice of the Peace for said County of Hillsborough as within and before mentioned, and that the within signatures, (four in number) purporting to be his, are genuine.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed the seal of said Court, and subscribed my name at Anhurst in said County this second day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight.
A. Wallace Clerk

War Department
Pension Office
December 13. 1838
Sir,
Adam Smith's declaration has been examined and placed upon our files. He alleges that he served 8 months in 1775 and 1776, in Mass. and that he then enlisted into Captain M c Connell's Co. N.H. militia & continued from July to Feb y 1778.
The rolls of Capt M c Connell's Company show that he served 2 months & 8 days only.
If he remained, as the witness and himself state, after the company returned, he must show under what officers he served. He will also assign some satisfactory reason for not making an earlier application.
The certificate of Mrs Housher's son will be sent to you in a day or two. Mr Riddell's letter is herewith returned.
I have the honor to be, very respectfully,
Your obt. servt. J L Edwards
Hon. C. G. Atherton, House of Representatives.