Georgia:  Oglethorpe County:  Robert Smith, Application for Pension
For Revolutionary War Service, 5 November 1832

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			                        ROBERT SMITH
		             	APPLICATION FOR PENSION

A DECLARATION TO OBTAIN THE BENEFIT OF THE ACT OF CONGRESS 
PAPER JUNE 7, 1832

GEORGIA
OGLETHORPE COUNTY(
                                            )

	On this day 5th day of November Personally appeared in open Court 
in the Court of Ordinary now sitting, Robert Smith a resident of the 
County of Oglethorpe in the State of Georgia aged eighty-four years in 
the month of February next who being first duly sworn according to the 
law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain 
the benefits of the "Re" act of Congress paper June 7, 1832.

	That he entered the service of the United States under the 
following named officers and served herein stated. In 1780 the 
applicant was called out to guard a number of boats at Carter's Ferry 
on James River. It has been so long that he cannot recollect the time 
of his service. He was commanded by John Watson of the county of 
Cumberland & State of Virginia, which was also the residence of the 
applicant at the time he entered the service.
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In the same year 1780 applicant was drafted to serve a three month tour 
but he employed a substitute (not named) and paid him seventy-five or 
eighty dollars. Some time after this the substitute was also drafted to 
serve three months tour & applicant had to go in his place. In this 
tour he was commanded by Generals Green and Lawson & Captain Bellow. 
The regiment marched to Guilford Court House in the State (Virginia had 
been entered but a line had been drawn through it) North Carolina there 
we met Lord Cornwallis's army and in February of March 1781 the battle 
of  Guilford took place in which applicant fought. After applicant was 
discharged from this tour which took place shortly after the battle of 
Guilford, he was engaged in arduous service in collecting & driving 
cattle for the troops until shortly after the capture of Cornwallis's 
army at York in the State of Virginia. Applicant thinks this took place 
in October 1781. If applicant ever got a discharge he does not know 
where it is & he has no documentary evidence by which he could 
establish his claim. 
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He hereby relinquishes every claim wherever to a pension except the 
present & declare that his name is not on the pension roll of any 
agency or any state. Sworn & subscribed this day & year, aforesaid 
Robert Smith. (signature here too feint to read).


Thomas Quinn a clergyman residing in Oglethorpe and John Moore residing 
in the same do hereby certify that they are well acquainted with Robert 
Smith who had subscribed & sworn to the above declaration that we 
believe him to be eighty-four years of age, that he is deponent and 
believe he lived in the neighborhood where he resided to have been a 
soldier of the revolution & that we concur with that opinion.
			/S/ Thomas Quinn
(the next three lines were too feint to read.)
				
That the said court do hereby declare that their opinion after 
investigation of the matter & after finding the interogations 
prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant was a 
Revolutionary soldier & served as he stated & the Court finds 
(mmmmmmmm) and this clergyman appears that Thomas Quinn.
	THIS WAS THE END OF THE PAGE	The National Archives did not send 
further pages.
The last page was so feint that I relied upon Larkin Smith's 
application to help fill in the blanks.

Robert Smith's application for pension was assigned document number R-
9842. On 14 June 1933 a letter from the National Archives to a Mr. R.H. 
White, P.O. Station A, Atlanta Georgia states that Robert's application 
for a pension was not allowed as he did not render six months service 
in a regularly organized military corps as required by the pension 
laws. The letter was signed A.D. Hiller (Miller?) Assistant 
Administrator. Another form called a "Brief" was provided by the 
archives. The Brief contains the same information in a condensed form 
as the application but is used by the pension board to approve or 
disapprove a pension.

Researchers note: Robert Smith was eighty-four when he applied for a 
pension. I believe that because of the length of time since the service 
occurred and because his memory had degraded  to where some of his 
dates may be incorrect.

Thomas W. Smith
Grandheart1@hotmail.com
TomS11429@worldnet.att.net