Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 4247, for Alexender Lawson Smith, Maryland

SERVICE
NUMBER
Continental
Smith, Alexander Lawson
W. 4247
Ind.
Jay, Martha
(Former Widow)
CONTENTS
Adm. Jan. 1802.

Rep o .
Date of widow's death not on A.B.
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.

Pension claim com Clear the way -
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State of Maryland } See this application of August 1862 for City of Baltimore } and hereby appeared before me the undersigned Maryanne of said city of Baltimore otherwise known as a resident of the county of Harford in said State aged seventy one years of age She being first duly sworn according to Law doth on her oath make and the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the Provisions of the acts made by act of Congress passed July 17th 1862 entitled an act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows and for the provisions of any subsequent act of amendment thereto as an which may be passed in amendment of said act of 17th of July 1862 She says that although she resides in the county of Harford yet from the extreme delicate state of her health her remote distance from the Court House of her county and the extreme difficulty of standing the same with the great facility of attending in Balti- more to make her declaration to wit living on the rail road is the cause of her thus making her application in another county She says that she is the widow of Lt Col Alexander L Smith by her first marriage. That she knows not the particular time, books or documents in which her husband was in the company through which he killed he was at Battle of Antietam, Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville where he was killed in the battle in which he fought all this having been before her marriage with him but that he was of the Maryland line is evident as she is now and has been for several years in the receipt of a pension from Maryland in right of the services of David Alexander L Smith. neither has she any record as to a military service of his said service She further declares that her husband's name was Griffith that intermarried with the said the Alexander L Smith in the house of her father Samuel Griffith some time in the month of August 1842 the marriage ceremony being performed by the Rev Mr Ireland an episcopal clergyman. That her husband the aforesaid Col Alexander L Smith departed this life in the fore part

of the year 1803. etc. That she was not married to him previous to his leaving the source that but the marriage took place previous to the first of January 1796 at the time he first stated. She further says the intercourse with her second husband did not begin about the year 1812. She departed this life 12th of Septm 1848 and that she has remained a widow ever since — Sworn to and subscribed before me this ceremony the of August 10th 42 Johnathan Gay J. H. Allen Jr
Lot of Glen f  May or 17 B all in one
State of Maryland } Personally appeared before me the undersigned City of Baltimore } Clerk of the said City of Baltimore I, _____ a person well known to me and who I hereby certify to be a witness of credibility who being sworn according to Law says that he is personally acquainted with Martha Lay who swore to and subscribed the foregoing declaration in his presence and that she is now at this time a widow and has been for many years that he has always known her as the wife and widow of Col Alexander Smith of Harford County in said State who who was reported to have been an officer in the army of the Revolution and who died forty or more years ago. But that the said Martha his widow subsequently intermarried with her second husband Samuel Lay. That the above facts as to the Revolutionary service of the said Smith and his marriage with the said Martha he saw and knows from an information report as common fame and further he supposes swore to and subscribed before me This certificate of August 15th 1842 { J. P. [Signature]
St. Helen's
Mayor of Baltimore

Carriage Laines Close L Smith to Martha Griffith -

State of Maryland
Harford County, to wit:
I Henry Doosey Clerk of Harford County Court, the same being a Court of Record, hereby certify that on the 28 th day of August in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and ninety two a certain Alexander Lawson Smith and Martha Griffiths applied for, and obtained from the Clerk of said Court License to be joined in Holy Matrimony
In testimony whereof I have subscribed my name and affixed the Seal of Harford County Court this 20 th day of August A.D. 1842
Henry Doosey (UK)

History of Samuffins Will

Certified Copy of Deed of Gift to the

I Samuel Griffith of Rutherford County and the State of Maryland do make and ordain this to be my last will and testament in manner and form as follows viz. (First it is my desire that my executors hereafter named should convey to the heirs of my Brother Luke Griffith one hundred acres of land that I purchased of Col d Tho s White which I sold to my aforesaid Brother but I never conveyed it to him the aforesaid land lying between the head of a swamp called Millons Swamp and the Bridge known by the name of the long bridge. The aforesaid hundred acres of land to be laid off according to the courses I bought it by. Secondly. I give and bequeath to my son Samuel Gouldsmith Griffith all my land lying in Rumney neck. provided when he shall arrive at the years of twenty one he will convey to his three sisters, Martha Smith wife of Col d Alexander Lawson Smith. Frances Griffith and Sarah Griffith a tract of land lying in Gumpowder neck known by the name of Tappley neck. but in case he should refuse to convey the same. Then I give to my three sisters Daughters as before mentioned all my land in Rumney neck to them or the survivors of them to be equally divided. I likewise give to my son Sam l Gouldsmith the negroes hereafter named. one negro man named Runaway. one negro man called little bill. one negro woman named Mariah and her increase likewise one negro boy nam d Jack. the son of Abigail. I likewise give my son Samuel all the household and kitchen furniture that shall be on the place at my death. I likewise give him two team of plough horses, one

sour bolt Call. Hark two plows and Sackling one Iron tooth harrow, one Cart and yoke of oxen four broad hoes, and four narrow axes, ten head of Cattle of different sizes, ten head of sheep, ten head of Killable Hogs and two breeding sows and fifteen pigs. Likewise give him as much wheat and Corn as shall be sufficient for seed and bread for his family and stock for one year. Likewise give him all my wearing apparel, my silver watch, my sword and my largest Gun. And Case he should die before he comes of age all the above bequeathed property to be equally divided betw. een my three Daughters as above mentioned or the survivors of them.
Thirdly. I give to my son John Hall Griffith and to my son Edward Griffith and to my son Luke Griffith and to my son Alexander Griffith one hundred pounds Sterling each or to be equally divided among the survivors of them. And in Case they all die before they come to the age of twen- ty one then the above Legacies to be equally divided between my three Daughters Martha, Frances, and Sarah.
Fourthly after my two Daughters Frances and Sarah Griffith should have rec d as much of my estate as I have given to my Daughter Martha Smith of which I leave a just ac- count. Then the residue of my estate that I shall not hereafter devise to be equally di- vided between my three Daughters Martha, Frances, and Sarah.
Fifthly. I desire my wife Martha Griffith should have the use and benefit of my farm on Swan Creek during her widowhood.

provided she claim no thirds of my lands in Rumney neck, and that she commit no waste of timber which will be left to the discretion of my executors and trustees hereafter named, and after which period the aforesaid Farm to be sold and the money equally divided between my eight Children, that is to say my Daughter Martha Smith, Frances Griffith Sarah Griffith, Samuel Gouldsmith Grif- fith, John Hall Griffith, Edward Griffith Luke Griffith and Alexander Griffith but in case that any of the four last men- tioned Children should die before they come to the years of twenty one then their parts of the money arising from the sale of the above mentioned Farm should be equally divided between my four first Children. Martha, Frances, Sarah and Samuel Gouldsmith Griffith.
I Give to my sister in law Frances Gannett for a pair of Horses or Coach ee if I should have one at the time of my death, if not I give her three hundred Dollars to purchase one and at her death she may give it to which she pleases of my children. Likewise give her a Gentel suit of Mourning and a Mourning ring.
Lastly I appoint my trusty and worthy friends Colr Alexander L Smith Doct Elyah Davis Doct Samuel Griffith Executors of this my last will and my beloved Sister in law Frances Gannett Executrix of this my last

will and testament in whom I have put the most sacred trusts, in hopes they will take Care of my Children till they should be able to take Care of themselves. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and fixt my seal this twelfth day of January one Thousand seven Hundred and ninety four. Signed sealed published (Sam d Griffith Seal) and declared by the testator to be his last will and testament in presence of us and at whose request we have signed our names as evidence thereto
Frisky Darcy Lewis Griffith (Thomas Shay) (Robert Jones)
Harford County Set June 4 th 1794. Then Came Alexander Smith, Elijah Davis Samuel Griffith and Francis Garretson and made Oath on the Holy evangel of Almighty God. That the foregoing is the true and whole last will and testament of Samuel Griffith late of Harford County deceased. That hath come to their hands and possession that they know of no other. At the same time came Frisky Darcy Lewis Griffith Thomas Shay and Robert

Jones. The four subscribing witnesses to the aforegoing will and made Oath on the evange- l of almighty God. That they did see Samuel Guffith the testator herein named sign and seal the foregoing Instrument of Writing. and That they heard him publish pronounced and declare the same to be his last will and testament. and that he was at the time of his so doing to the best of their appre- hensions of sound disposing mind mem- ory and understanding. and that they subscribed their names as witnesses to this will in the presence and at the request of the testator and in the presence of each other.
May 10 th 1803. The defect for want of the signature of Register of to the probate of the will of Samuel Guffith was this day Cured in Court agreeably to an act of Assembly passed November Session 1800.
Thos M c Janett (R M H L) 3
In Testimony that the within foregoing is a true transcript from the records in the Office of the Reg of Wills for Warren County
I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of my Office this twentieth day of August eighteen hundred and forty two. Thos M c Bond (R M H L) 3

April 23, 1935
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Mrs. R. C. Ellis 1521 Grand Avenue Dayton, Ohio
ALEXANDER LAWSON SMITH W. 4247 BA-J/MLB Our
Dear Madam:
You are furnished below the record of Alexander Lawson Smith, requested by you, as found in the papers on file in pension claim, W. 4247, based upon his service in the Revolutionary War.
The date and place of soldier's birth and names of his parents are not given.
He was commissioned captain July 13, 1776, and served as such in Stephenson's and Rawlings' Rifle Regiments; he subsequently served as major and lieutenant colonel and left the service in September, 1780. During his service he was in the battles of Trenton, Brandywine and Monmouth.
Alexander Lawson Smith married sometime in August, 1792, Martha Griffith, daughter of Samuel Griffith and his wife, Martha, at whose home they were married in Harford County, Maryland.
The soldier died in January, 1802, in Harford County, Maryland.
Soldier's widow, Martha Smith, married in February, 1812, Samuel Jay, who died September 12, 1818.
Martha Jay, former widow of Alexander Lawson Smith, was allowed pension on her application executed August 19, 1842, at which time she was aged seventy-one years and a resident of Harford County, Maryland; her application was executed in the City of Baltimore. In 1843, her address was given as Hall's Cross Roads, Harford County, Maryland.
No reference was made in the claim to any children of Alexander Lawson Smith and his wife, Martha.

The following family data appear in the claim:
Samuel Griffith was a resident of Harford County, Maryland, in January, 1796, where he died about June of that year, survived by his widow, Martha, and the following eight children: Samuel Goulandsmith Griffith, Martha who married Alexander Lawson Smith, Frances, Sarah, John Hall Griffith, Edward, Luke and Alexander. Reference was made also to the elder Samuel's brother Luke, deceased.
Reference was made in the claim to Frances Garvetson, sister-in-law of the above-named Samuel Griffith, also to a Rev. Samuel Griffith whose relationship to the family of Griffiths was not shown.
The name of one Lewis Griffith appeared in the claim but his relationship also was not stated.
Very truly yours
A. D. MILLER Executive Assistant to the Administrator

Martha Jay formerly the widow of Alexander L. Smith, decd.
who was a pensioner under the act of and who died on the - January, 1802 of Hartford Co. in the State of Maryland who was a Major & Col. in the _____ commanded by Captain _____ of the _____ commanded by _____ in the Maryland line for two years -
Inscribed on the Roll of Maryland at the rate of $ 600 - Dollars - Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 14 - day of September 1832 and sent to H. Nor- -throp, Washington, D.C. -
Arrears to the 4th of March 1836 $ 3.000 Semi-annual allowance ending
3.000
[Act July 7, 1838.]
Recorded by W. N. Stuart Clerk, Book A - Vol. 2 - Page 174 -

At 7 July 188.

16. Sep. 1842.
Mr. Allison.
Martha
James L. Edwards Esq. Commissioner of Pensions Washington City

Washington City Sept. 6 th 1842
Dear Sir
Enclosed you will receive the Declaration of Mrs. Day, which paper I wished filed with the other papers relative to her claim for Pension now in your office and oblige yours
Respectfully
H. J. Worthump

James L Edwards of 27th of August 1862 Annotation to John Jays base

Pension Office
August 27. 1842
Sir,
The papers in the case of Mrs. Martha Jay, of Maryland, formerly widow of Alexander Smith, have been examined. She should make a new declaration in which the laws under which she claims should be specified. It is not clearly shown how long her husband served, in a higher grade than that of a Captain. The records in this Office shew that a settlement was at one time made with him for service as a Major. Let it be shown what evidence of the service the records in the 3 d . Auditor's Office afford.
I am respectfully,
Your Obt. Servt.
J. L. Edwards
It appears by the Records in this office that Major Alexander L. Smith of the Maryland Line of the Revolution was in Service from the 1 st June 1778 to the 1 st September 1780 at which latter date he must have left the Service as he receipts on the 10 th Nov 1785 for the full balance of his Subsistence & pay.
Treasury Dept
3 d Aud Office
Aug 30 1842
Peter H. Agnew Audt
H. Northrup Esq r .
Present

H. Northrup
27 Aug. 1842

421. Pen Office Aug-27, 1842
Sir,
The papers in the case of Mrs. Martha Jay, deceased formerly widow of Alexander L. Smith have been rec d . She should make a new declaration in which the laws under which she claims should be specified. It is not clearly shown how long her husband served, in a higher grade than that of a Captain. The records in this office show that the period in fact was about a settlement was at one time made with him for service as a Major, let it be shown what evidence of the service the records in the 3 d Auditor's office afford.
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Mr. Northrop Esq. Pres.

Daphne of Essex Charlotte Lay for Portia
H Northamp Post Aug 24 th 42

H.R. Aug 23 1842
Sir,
Certain papers in the case of Mrs Martha Jay relating to a Pension will be handed to you herewith. Will you be kind enough to pay attention to them at your earliest convenience.
Respectfully J. H. Rens
J. D. Edwards Esq Comm. Pen.
M r Edwards will please advise me if at any communication to make this Application through a member was only to facilitate as it is understood this Application's Commence and Precedence. Yours Respectfully Henry Washburn

Certificate of any and by Col. Alex. Smith

Land Office, Annapolis, 18 th August, 1842
Dear Sir,
Your letter of the 16 th Inst n , was received. — In reply, I have to inform you, that the records of pay rolls of the Revolution are very imperfect, and do not show what amount, or how long Alexander Lawson Smith, he received the pay of a captain in the Maryland line. — He appears the Muster roll of his Company, to have been Commissioned a Captain, on the 13 th of July, 1776, but I do not find upon any pay roll, where he received his pay as Captain. — In his accounts upon the Army Ledgers, which stand stated and settled, he is charged with monies paid him on account of his Company, but you cannot make out from the accounts upon the Ledgers, what amount he received as his pay of captain and the time to which he was paid. — In a record containing "an account of Monies paid by the State of Maryland to Officers of the Extra Regiment in service of the United States", I find the name of Col o Alexander Lawson Smith, upon said record, to have received as a Colonel, on the 2 nd day of April, 1781, £611-5-0. — I can find no Commission issued to Alexander L. Smith, as Colonel, but presume his rank took date from the passage of the act of Assembly of 1780, referred to in your letter. — Enclosed, I send you a Certificate from a pay roll, of the amount received by Lieut n John Hartshorn. —
Very Respectfully,
Yrs Ob dt Serv t ,
G. G. Brewer,
Henry Northup, Esq r ,

4358 18 Sep 1863 Martha's Vineyard Oct 1863
$600 per m
To the Pensioner at Halls Creek Roads Hartford County Mary?
Washington D.C.
The Commission of Service
Paid Edward Stewart Bates

State of Maryland Baltimore City ss. Personally appeared before me the subscriber, a Commission of the Peace and Notary Public for the State and City aforesaid, Mrs Martha Gay who being duly sworn according to law, says that she is the widow of Lieutenant Col o Alexander L. Smith, by her first marriage, that he was a Revolutionary Officer and that she as his widow received a Pension of Six- thousand dollars ($6000) per year for five years from the United States under the act of Congress of the 23 rd August 1842, that she still continues to be a widow and makes the foregoing Declaration for the purpose of obtaining the one year Pension granted by act of Congress of the 3 rd of March last. Sworn and subscribed before me } Martha Gay. this sixteenth day of September 1843 } William Eichelberger Notary Public
I, William Eichelberger of S. do hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with Mrs Martha Gay who swore to and subscribed the foregoing Declaration before me and that she is now at this time a widow and also that she is the same Martha Gay who drew a Pension from the United States as the widow of Alexander L. Smith.
Certified by me this sixteenth day of September 1843.
William Eichelberger Notary Public

Baltimore September 16 th 1843
To The Commissioner of Pensions Washington D. C.
Sir
Enclosed I send you a Declaration and Certificate of Mrs Martha Gay, who requests as a particular favour that you will give it your earliest attention and at your earliest possible convenience forward her Pension Certificate, to to her at Halls Cross Roads  Harford County  Mary. Where you will please direct any communication you may have to make to her. By attending to the above request you will greatly oblige
Yours Respectfully
Martha Gay
per Edward Duvall

Lockville J. G. Anderson has Col. Ch. A. Smith —
re @ Aug. 29 th m 2

State of Maryland, ss.
I George G. Brewer, Register of the Land Office = for the Western Shore of the State of Maryland, do hereby certify, That there is deposited in and belonging to the office aforesaid, = a certain Record Book, "containing receipts of the State of Maryland, of sundry accounts agreeably to a list of monies paid = kept by John White, commissioner of accounts for the States of Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Maryland," and that the said record book in a certain part thereof, under the caption of = "An Account of monies paid by the State of Maryland to officers of the Extra Regiment in service of the United States," contains among others, the following entry to wit. vizt., =
   No. Date. Name. Rank. L S. D.     9. 1781. April 2 Alexander L. Smith. Col. 611. 5. =  
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand = and affixed my Official Seal, = this 26 th day of August, 1842. George G. Brewer, Regt. Land Off. W. S. Md.,
Where I am advised that the above is all the evidence to be found at Annapolis relative to Col. or Lt Col Col L Smith but as it is stated to be "in the service of the United States" It is presumed the rolls of the Regiment will be found in the Third Auditor's office showing his rank and compensation of service and time paid to
It's not true —

Elle m'ordonne par la main de l'éditeur C'est à dire par la main de l'éditeur Je ne suis pas

Memorandum
Colonel L Smith was appointed a Capt of Stephensens Rifles Augt on 13th of July 1861 - see Journal of Congress of 7th March 1861 Vol 1st page 566 for salary advanced him for the use of his company - Again see Journal of Congress of the 6th of Sept 1861 Vol 3rd page 577, for his resignation. In this last it reads "for most of the following Regiment : Stephensens & Smiths Rifles being one and the same Regiment see order of 27th June 1861. Vol 1st page 389. Then Colonel L Smith served as Capt from 13th July 1861 to 6th Sept 1861 more than three years . He was appointed Lt Col and of an extra Regt. and resigned for that purpose. It is not known as the record does not show the date of this as to his actual rank his resignation be the termination of service in that capacity but the record shows that on the 2nd of April 1861 he was paid the $611.50 equal more two years pay as Lt Col. So much for the rank and service of Col L Smith for this see Chap 33 of Rev. Stat. 1873 for the sum of his extra pay. Again see resolution of the Legislature of Maryland in Jan'y 1861-62 giving to the widow of Col L Smith $260 per year as pension in right of her first husband -
Again see the will of Samuel Griffiths of 12th of January 1864 in which he specially alludes to his daughter Martha wife of Col. Colonel L Smith -
Again see for death of Col. Colonel L Smith by the certificate of Administration on his estate. This will show when he was dead if it does not show the precise period of his death.
For his residency and present widowhood see the affidavit of Joseph Hunt formerly Mayor of the City of Baltimore.
The Mrs. Gage executed her papers in another county than the one in which she lived for various reasons to wit being in very bad health living immediately on the Rail Road to Baltimore and an hour or an hour and half running. She was 15 or 20 miles from her own county seat and very inconvenient to attend court.
Further the regulations promulgated as the guide for executing such papers require that the county in which the application cont. shall be stated but they do not require the declaration to be made in the county in which the applicant resides neither is the rule adhered to of requiring the papers to be executed within the county in which the party resides or even within the state . Many persons have been placed on the pension list at Washington on their application executed here although living without the state District particularly Chas. Durian . But I will state a case in point presented by me to wit Mrs. Brother's widow of Lt James C. Morehead of Va. Army. She lived in Annapolis and executed her papers in Charles Co. Maryland.

8884 Martha Jay formerly widow of Alex d . L. Smith Maryland
Admitted
Major & Col: 2 yrs $600.- Mary l line.
died Jan y 1802
Act y July 1838
H. Northrup Washington, DC

State of Maryland,
City of Baltimore } vct
On this fifth day of September 1842 personally appeared before me Solomon Hillen Hunt Mayor of the said City of Baltimore, Martha Day, a resident of Harford County in said State of Maryland, aged seventy one years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by acts of Congress passed July 7 th 1838 and the 23 d of August 1842 granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary war. That she is the widow of Alexander Larson Smith who was a Captain and Colonel or Lieutenant-Colonel of the Maryland line of the army of the Revolution: she knows not the precise time in which he entered the service, or the particular Regiment or Corps in which he served, or the time of leaving the service, or the countries through which he marched; she understood from him that he was at the taking of the Hessians at Trenton and at the battles of Brandywine and Monmouth. She says that she has at this time no record or documentary evidence of his said services, neither does she know of any living witnesses by whom his said services can be proved. She says that her maiden name was Griffiths, that she was married to the said Col. Alexander L. Smith in the month of August 1792 at the home of her father Samuel Griffiths in the said County of Harford, by the Rev. Mr. Ireland of the Episcopal Church that her said husband Col. Alexander L. Smith departed this life in the said County about the month of January 1802 intestate; that she again intermarried with Samuel Day in February 1802 and that he departed this life on the 22 d of September 1818 and that she has remained a widow from that time to the present day: That she makes the foregoing declaration in Baltimore by reason of her very infirm state of health, her immediate vicinity to the Rail Road with its facility of reaching Baltimore, and the great distance from Bel Air the seat of Justice of Harford County and the great inconvenience of getting them.
Martha Day
Sworn and subscribed before me this fifth day of September 1842
Sol. Hillen Hunt Mayor
Also at the same time personally appeared before me the said Mayor of Baltimore City, Jesse Hunt, formerly Mayor of said city, and a person personally known to me as a witness of credibility, who also being duly sworn according to law, says that he has long been intimately acquainted with Mrs. Martha Day, who signed the foregoing declaration in his presence, and that he has ever and at all times known her as having been the widow of Col. Alexander Larson Smith, reputed to have been an officer in the army of the Revolution; and at this time the widow of Samuel Day, and that she is the identical person she represents herself to be, and is now at this time a widow, and further saith not.
Sworn and subscribed before me this fifth day of September 1842.
Jesse Hunt
Sol. Hillen Hunt Mayor
In testimony whereof I Solomon Hillen Hunt Mayor of the city of Baltimore have hereunto subscribed my name and have caused the Corporate Seal of the city of Baltimore to be affixed this fifth day of September eighteen hundred and forty two.
Sol. Hillen Hunt Mayor

April 23, 1935
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Mrs. R.C. Ellis 1221 Grand Avenue Dayton, Ohio
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request information in regard to Captain Alex. Lawson Smith, Aquilla Smith, Elijah Smith and Martin Smith, soldiers of the Revolutionary War and Jonathan Stutzman, a soldier of the War of 1812.
Because of the great demand for Revolutionary War and War of 1812 data and the limited clerical force available for furnishing such information, it has not been possible to make for one person or organization a series of investigations and reports pertaining to soldiers of these wars.
You are furnished herewith the histories of Alexander Lawson Smith and Aquilla Smith.
Very truly yours
A. D. MILLER Executive Assistant to the Administrator.

October 18, 1934
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Mrs. A. E. McClanahan Route # 1 Nashville, Tennessee
Alexander Lawson Smith W. 4247
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Joseph S. Smith B. L. Wt. 2122-150
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BA-J/MLB
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request information relative to Dr. Clement Smith, Alexander Lawson Smith, Dr. Joseph Sim Smith, Patrick Sim Smith, all of Maryland; William Tyler who served from Maryland but later moved to Tennessee, and to Robert Anderson, of Virginia, all soldiers of the Revolutionary War.
Revolutionary War data furnished by this office are obtained from claims for pension and bounty land made to the United States based upon military service of soldiers in that war.
A careful search of the records fails to show such claims on file on account of the Revolutionary War service of a Patrick Smith or William Tyler as described; or of any Clement Smith.
The data given by you in regard to Robert Anderson are not sufficient to enable this office to identify the record of the particular soldier of that name in whom you are interested, should it be on file. Please furnish as much as possible of the following data in regard to Robert Anderson, when another search of the records will be made and a report furnished: approximate dates of birth and death, places of residence at enlistment and after service and given name of widow.
The records of Alexander Lawson Smith and Joseph S. Smith were found and are furnished herein.
Alexander Lawson Smith W. 4247
The data which follow were obtained from the papers on file in pension claim, W. 4247, based upon the Revolutionary War service of Alexander Lawson Smith.

The date and place of Alexander Lawson Smith's birth and names of his parents are not shown in the claim.
He was commissioned captain July 13, 1776, and served as such in Stephenson's and Rawlings' Rifle Regiments; he subsequently served as major and lieutenant colonel and left the service in September, 1780. During his service he was in the battles of Trenton, Brandywine and Monmouth.
Alexander Lawson Smith married sometime in August, 1792, Martha Griffith, daughter of Samuel Griffith and his wife, Martha, at whose home they were married in Harford County, Maryland.
Soldier died in January, 1802, in Harford County, Maryland.
Soldier's widow, Martha Smith, married in February, 1812, Samuel Jay, who died September 12, 1818.
Martha Jay, former widow of Alexander Lawson Smith, was allowed pension on her application executed August 19, 1842, at which time she was aged seventy-one years and a resident of Harford County, Maryland; her application was executed in the City of Baltimore.
In 1843, Martha Jay's address was given as Hall's Cross Roads, Harford County, Maryland.
No reference was made in the claim to any children of Alexander Lawson Smith and his wife, Martha.
The following family data are given in the claim:
Samuel Griffith was a resident of Harford County, Maryland, in January, 1794, where he died about June of that year, survived by his widow, Martha, and the following eight children: - Samuel Gouldsmith Griffith, Martha who married Alexander Lawson Smith, Frances, Sarah, John Hall Griffith, Edward, Luke and Alexander. Reference was made also to the elder Samuel's brother Luke, deceased.
Reference was made in the claim to Frances Garrettson, sister-in-law of the above-named Samuel Griffith, also to a Dr. Samuel Griffith whose relationship to the family of Griffiths was not shown.
The name of one Lewis Griffith appeared in the claim but his relationship also was not stated.
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Joseph S. Smith B. L. Wt. 2122-150
The record of Joseph S. Smith is given below.
The Revolutionary War records of this office show that Warrant No. 2122, for one hundred fifty acres of bounty land was issued May 22, 1789, on account of the service of Joseph S. Smith as a cornet of dragoons in Armand's Partisan Legion, Revolutionary War.
In 1806, Joseph S. Smith was residing in Taneytown, Frederick County, Maryland. The date and place of his birth and names of parents are not given. It is not stated whether he ever married.
The following names appear in the soldier's claim but no relationship to him was shown:
Clement Smith, in 1806, a resident of Georgetown, District of Columbia.
Richard Smith, " " held a clerkship in the District of Columbia.
Walter Smith, " " a notary public residing in Georgetown, D. C.
There are no further data relative to Joseph S. Smith.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER Assistant to Administrator

R. C. ELLIS 221 GRAND AVE. DAYTON, OHIO RANDOLPH 3004
Dayton, Ohio. Jan. 26th. 1935.
Department Of the Interior;
Washington,
D. C.
Bureau of Pensions;
Gentlemen;
Please send me a copy of THE pension Papers granted Jonathan Stutsman, Dayton, Ohio. who served in the war of 1812.
Thanking you in advance for this courtesy,.
R. C. Ellis R. C. Ellis.
#1221 Grand Avenue,.
Dayton, Ohio.

Dayton Ohio January 24. 1935.
Dept. of the Interior Bureau of Pensions. Washington, D.C.
Please send me copies of the pension papers, granted the following men, for Revolutionary service, in Maryland.
Capt Alex. Lawson Smith ✓ ✓ Agnilla Smith ✓ Elijah Smith.
Do you find the name of Marlin Smith , on your pension rolls?
Thanking you for your kindness, -
I am,
(Mrs. R.C.) Lucy Thornton Ellis, 1221 Grand Ave., Dayton, Ohio .

1934 Oct. 18-21st to Mrs. A. E. McLaughlin (See list in old B. W. 2/26 of J. S. Smith) - Mrs. 1935 Apr. 23 - 24th to Mrs. R. C. Ellis
Rev WIDOW, &c.
File No. 4247
Martha Jay for  Wid of  Alexander L. Smith  Col Rev. War
Act: Mch. 31/43
Index: - Vol. 6 , Page 370
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Stearns Bldg, 4th fl.
[Faint, mirrored handwritten text, likely bleed-through from the reverse side of the page. The text is mostly illegible but appears to be a formal letter or note.]

Maryland ss. I hereby Certify that on the fifth day of February eighteen hund- red and two. Letters of Administration. was Granted unto Martha Smith on the estate of Alexander L Smith deceased That she gave Bond with approved secu- rity for her due performance of the same. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of my office this twentieth day of August eighteen hundred and forty two. Geo. S Bond  W. M. H.

30. Aug 1860 Resp'd Hon. Jay Cooke
James J. Edwards Esq. Bureau of Pensions
District

Washington City 30th of August 1842
Sir In reply to yours of 27th relative to the claim of Mrs. Jay I will not recapitulate but state that all my remarks in relation to the claim of Mrs. Smith widow of Capt. George Smith apply equally to this case . The only difference is the situation of the Parties to wit Mrs. Smith a hale hearty woman living free and having in the City with the collyer - Mrs. say Jay on the contrary is an infirm woman in very bad health much of her time confined to her bed is at  Wheatley 15 or 20 miles from her County seat. Thirty three from Baltimore and on the railroad get from her health it is attended with great difficulty in attending and necessarily are night from home let her go to either place. I wish this morning see what advice can be found in the 3rd and 4th office as to the claim Mrs. at  bed or bed Smith. May I also ask of you to take up these two cases and to day and advise me the result this evening. and as stated in Mrs. Smith's case where Bill is full and complete save and except this application not reading "and of 23rd of August 1842" but sufficiently expressive in the language which expresses it do not fully ask that such a manuscript shall be no provision made to favorable reporting of these two cases Yours truly Henry Clay