Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 30111, for Alexander Smith, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Continental (Mass.)
Smith, Alexander
S. 30 111
CONTENTS
born at Newton Middlesex Co. Mass. died in 1837 Grafton Worcester Co. Mass. aged 74 years.

23
Alexander Smith
10.616
May 1819
Jan. 1820
1820

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
MIDDLESEX, ss.
At the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Middle Circuit, begun and holden at Concord, within and for the County of Middlesex, on the second Monday of June A. D. 1820.
Before the Hon. SAMUEL DANA, Esquire, Chief Justice, and
WILLIAM WETMORE, and } Associate Justices STEPHEN MINOT, Esquires, } of said Court.
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, Alexander Smith resident in said Circuit, who is named in Pension Certificate No. 10,666, 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, Alexander 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 twenty seventh day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighteen ”
“ Given at the War Office of the United States, this fifteenth day of May one thousand eight hundred and nineteen J. C. CALHOUN Secretary of War,”
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,
  “ One tea Table valued at . . . . . 3 00   Two old Table 2 00 10 old chairs 2 50 . . . . . 4 50   Porridge Pot 0 50 7 old kettles . . . . . 1 25   Pair handiron 50 tea kettle 50 . . . . . 1 00   Twelve tea cups & saucers . . . . . 1 00   Knife & forks . . . . . 1 00   One Pig . . . . . 8   One set of hand drift & hammer . . . . . 5   One hoe 0 25 2 rakes 0 50 2 shovel 1 . . . . . 1 75   $24 50 
Alex r Smith.
And I the said Alexander Smith do declare that I served three years in the Revolutionary war the last service in Capt Seward's company in Col Crane's

Regiment of Artillery and I received my discharge from General Rusk which has been forwarded to the Secretary of War, that I am now fifty seven years of age by occu- pation a labourer and able to work my wife is fifty one years of age and able to work I have three children at home one of eleven one of nine and one of five years of age.
Alex r Smith
Sworn & declared before me Sam Dunn judge

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, Alexander Smith do solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and that 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.
Alex. Smith
Middlesex ss. C. C. C. P. June Term, A. D. 1820
Then the abovenamed Alexander Smith took and subscribed the aforeswritten Oath before me,
Sam d Dana Judge of said Court."
I, ABRAHAM BIGLOW, 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 Twenty four dollars & fifty cents
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, at Cambridge, in said County of Middlesex, on this 20 th day of July 1820
Attr.
Abraham Biglow

3 Alexander Smith.
Worcester County.
Massachusetts.
Adm rs for Artillery.
2 of $100 per Ann.
deducting the amt paid here under the Act of March 18. 1818.
Wm Jennings Esq Worcester Mass

Declaration,
In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 7th June, 1832.
State of Massachusetts, ss.
Worcester County
In this twentieth  nineteenth day of April  June , 1837, personally appeared before the Hon. Ira Barton, Judge of the Court of Probate in and for the County of Worcester, Alexander Smith , a resident of Grafton, in the County of Worcester, and State of Massachusetts, aged seventy  sixty four years, who being first duly sworn, doth, on his oath, make the following declaration; in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed June 7th 1832: —
That he enlisted in the service of the revolutionary war, and served in the company commanded by Captain Deward, in Colonel Cram's Regiment, as a private soldier, and continued in said service for the period of time specified in his declaration, now on file in the office of the Department of War at Washington, for which service he received a pension commencing on the 27th of March, 1818, as appears by his pension certificate dated May 15, 1819, herewith exhibited, and numbered 10,616. to which declaration and the evidence accompanying the same, the said Smith respectfully refers for such proof as may be required to corroborate this present statement.
And he hereby relinquishes all claims he has to any pension under the laws of the United States, for services during the Revolutionary War, excepting the present, and prays that his name may be inscribed on the pension roll anew, and a certificate granted to him, according to the terms of the said act of Congress, of the 7th June, 1832.
Alex r Smith
Subscribed and sworn to, by the aforesaid applicant, the day and year secondly above written.
Before me,
Ira Barton
Judge of Probate, for Worcester County.

and herefrom the Court do declare it as their opinion that the said Alexander Smith was a soldier of the revolution, and that he served there as he hath above on oath declared; he being reputed to be a person of truth
Mr. Barton judge of said Court of Probate Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Worcester, fs.
I, Theophilus Wheeler, Register of the Court of Probate, in and for said County of Worcester, do hereby certify, that Ira Barton, Esquire, above named, is the Judge of Probate, in and for said County, and that his signature to the foregoing certificates is in his own proper hand writing.
In testimony whereof, I hereto set my name, and affix the Seal of said Court, at Worcester, this nineteenth day of June, in the year of our Lord 1837.
Theoph l . Wheeler Reg d of the said Probate Court

Massachusetts 51. 147
Let to T. Milley May 1. 1840. Same June 10 1840.
Alexander Smith of Wrafton in the State of Mass. who was a Pr. of Artil. in the Company commanded by Captain Seward of the Regt commanded by Col Crane in the Mass. line for 2 years
2
Bought from act 1818
Inscribed on the Roll of Mass. at the rate of 100 Dollars 50 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 31 st day of June 1837 and sent Mr. Jemison Worcester Mass.
Arrears to the 4th of March 1837 $600.00 Semianual allowance ending 4 Sept. " 50.00 $650.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, } Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by N.H. Addison Clerk, Book 8 Vol. 2 Page 81

April 25, 1938.
Kathryn F. Smith 3211 North Fremont Minneapolis, Minnesota.
BA-J/ILL Alexander Smith S. 30111
Dear Madam:
The Revolutionary War record of Alexander Smith of Weston, Massachusetts, is furnished herein as requested by you. The data which follow are found in pension claim, S. 30111.
Alexander Smith enlisted in Weston, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, March 30, 1781 and served as a private in Captain Thomas Seward's company, Colonel Crane's Regiment of Artillery (Massachusetts) until December 22, 1783, when he was discharged.
He was allowed pension on his application executed March 27, 1818, at which time he resided in East Sudbury, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. His pension was increased under the Act of June 7, 1832.
In 1820, Alexander Smith gave his own age as fifty-seven years and that of his wife as fifty-one years; however, he did not state the date and place of birth of either, nor give the name of his wife, nor the date and place of their marriage. Three children were living at home in 1820, aged eleven years, nine years, and five years; their names or the names of any other children are not shown.
In 1837, the soldier resided in Grafton, Worcester County, Massachusetts. In 1840, he lived in Charlestown, Massachusetts.
In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, name of person paid, and, possibly, the date of death of this pensioner, you should apply to the Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, this city, and furnish the following: Alexander Smith, certificate #31147, issued June 30, 1837, rate $100 per annum, commenced March 4, 1831, Act of June 7, 1832, Massachusetts Agency.
Very truly yours,
A. D. HILLER, Executive Assistant to the Administrator.

BY THE HONOURABLE MAJOR-GENERAL KNOX,
Commanding the AMERICAN FORCES on Hudson's River
Hereby the Massachusetts Artillery Regiment being enlisted for Three Years, is hereby honourably DISCHARGED from the Service of the United States.
Given in the State of New-York
the twentieth Day of December
1783 -
By the General's Command, Henry Knox
2
REGISTERED in the Books of the Regiment,
Wm. E. Sizer adjut.

Alex. Smith No 4 No 5
Judge's certificate as to indigent circumstances wanted. (Return the Discharge.)
The Judge at Boston, Mass.

United States
Massachusetts district.
Alexander Smith of East Sudbury, in the County of Middlesex in the District of Massachusetts. applicant for a pension from the United States, under 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," maketh oath, that he served in the war of the revolution on the continental establishment for the term of two years and upwards and in manner following viz. On the thirtieth day of March A.D. 1781. he enlisted in the service of the United States for the space of three years and entered in the company of Thomas Seward. belonging to the Regiment of Massachusetts Artillery, commanded by Colonel Crane. and continued connected with said company and regiment until by an arrangement of the army, that regiment was reduced. and then was annexed to another company (the Captain's name he does not recollect) belonging to said Regiment and continued doing duty in

said Regiment until the 22 d day of December A D 1783 when he received an honourable discharge which he here- with exhibits. Alex r Smith
Massachusetts District ss.
27. March A.D. 1818
Sworn to before me
M c Daeri Dist d Judge Mass Dist t
Mass Dist t Boston July 29 1818 I also further testify and say that I am in such reduced circumstances in life as to need the assistance of my country for support Alex r Smith
Sworn to before me
Davis
27. March

MASSACHUSETTS DISTRICT, ss.
17. April 1819.
I AM satisfied that the above named, Alexander Smith by reason of his reduced circumstances in life, is in need of assistance from his Country for support.
M c Davids
{ District Judge U. S. Massachusetts Dist.
TO THE SECRETARY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF WAR.

MASSACHUSETTS DISTRICT, ss.
Boston July 30 A. D. 1818
IT appearing to my satisfaction, that Alexander Smith subscriber to the annexed declaration, sworn to before me, did serve in the revolutionary war against the common enemy, as stated in said declaration, I now transmit the testimony in the case, with the proceedings had thereon, to the Secretary of the department of war, pursuant to the directions of the Act entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war;" the testimony and proceedings in the premises being the declaration aforesaid, with the accompanying documents marked a together with this certificate.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the District Court of the United States for this District to be hereunto affixed.
J. D. D. D.
} Judge of the District Court U. S. Massachusetts District.

J. L. Edwards, Esq.
Sir,
In conformity to instructions from your department, Alexander Smith has made a new declaration, in order to receive an additional allowance, annually, under the law of June 7, 1832. I enclose his new declaration, with the Judge's decree thereon, and also his original pension certificate, as required by you. And he desires that such new order or certificate may be granted to him, that as will enable him to receive the additional allowance to which he has hitherto been entitled, under the act above referred to, as well as for the time to come.
Very respectfully,
Yours &c.
William Garrison
Worcester, Mass. June 23, 1837.

Commonwealth Bank, Pension Dept. Boston 6 th Sept. 1837.
Sir,
Will you have the goodness to inform me if a pension has been granted to Mr. Alexander Smith under the Act of 7 th June 1832. & the amount of the same - a power of Attorney was this day presented but as the name had not been reported payment was declined. —
I am very resp t . Your ab t Serv t .
John R. Simpson Francis Union Agent.
J. L. Edwards Esq r Comm r of Pensions Washington D.C.

alt Smith map p. 15 B.F. 1862
FREE
J. G. Edwards Commissioner of Pensions War Department Washington D.C.

Charlestown Mass. April 3 d 1840.
Dr Sir
I have just received your letter of the 26 th ult. in reply to an inquiry in mine of the 16 th ult. respecting the services of Alexander Smith.
By a law of Commonwealth each soldier of the war of the Revolution, who served a term of not less than two years and six months at one time, who at the time of enlistment was, and still is, an inhabitant of this Commonwealth, is entitled to the sum of fifty dollars.
Alexander Smith was a Private of Artillery in the war of the Revolution, of the Second company of the Massachusetts Regiment of Artillery.
Please send me a copy of the records of his enlistment, the time when he enlisted, the period for which he served, and of his discharge, for the purpose of enabling him to obtain the above pension of the Commonwealth, and not with a view of making any claim to the executive offices at the seat of Government.
The records in the Pension—

This, as appears by his certificate, now lying before me under the hand and seal of the Commissioner of Pensions is "Book E. Vol. 2. Page 81."
I am, Very Respectfully Your At. Servt.
Hon. J. G. Edwards } Miller, Atty. to Commissioner of Pensions } David Smith.
4 march p.m. h.

Payable semi-annually. The first payment on this Certificate will be made on the 4th of September next, in Boston at the Branch Bank U.S.
Recorded S.

War Department.
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.
I CERTIFY that, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 18th of March, 1818, ————— " —————
Alexander 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 com- mence on the 27 th day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighteen .
GIVEN at the War Office of the United States, this fifteenth day of May one thousand eight hundred and nineteen.
J. G. Edwards, in the absence and on behalf of the Secretary of War.

Mr Toler 3 pages May 11
May 8. 1846
A Smith
FREE
Wm. J. Edwards Commissioner of Pensions War Department Washington D.C.

Charlestown Mass. May 4th. 1840.
Dear Sir Please send me a copy of the records of my enlistment, the period for which I served and of my discharge as a private in the second company of Artillery in the Massachusetts Regiment of Artillery in the War of the Rebellions. I enlisted on Westons, in the county of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, as above stated.
I wish for the above records to enable me to obtain a pension to which I am entitled from the Commonwealth, and not for the purpose of substantiating a claim to be presented on the executive office at the seat of Government.
I am, very Respectfully, Your ob't servant,
Wm. Smith Hon. J. S. Edwards. Commissioner of Pensions. Washington D.C. P.S. Please direct to the care of Millay Esq. Charles Town Mass. Alv. Smith

J. Willey June 10. 1840 G.B.
Record 1/30 page 81

Pension Office
June 10. 1820.
Sir, I herewith enclose Certified Copies of the papers of Alexander Smith. The records I am unable to discover from the Massachusetts Records in this Office at what time he entered the service. The Army Book, in the Office of the Secretary of State at Boston, will probably furnish that information.
J. Milley Esq. Charlestown, Massachusetts.

10,616
Massachusetts.
Alexander Smith
of East Sudbury in the state of Mass ts who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Crane of the Mass ts line, for the term of two years. War
inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of - 8 - Dollars per month, to commence on the 27 of March 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 15 of March 1819 and Lieut Genl John Davis, Boston. Mass:
Arrears to 4th of Mar 1819 90.32 Semi-ann. all'ce ending 1, Sep r 1819 48 -
11. 9/31 $ 138.32
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued

No. 36 Notification sent to Abraham. Biglow 22 d September 1820, Cambridge. No 6 p.
Mr. Sumner

Please furnish Rev. War record of Alexander Smith of Mass., Weston - d. in Grafton, Mass.
Kathryn F. Smith 3211 N. Fremont Minneapolis, Minn.
Apr. 23, 1938
Visitor -

1938- April 25- Hist. to Kathryn F. Smith - 122
30111 INVALID. Ray
File No. 30111
Alexander Smith
His Rev. Mrs.
Act: June 7 th 89 th
Index:—Vol. 9 , Page 331
[Arrangement of 1870.]