REVOLUTIONARY PENSION - JOHN GOLDSMITH

John Goldsmith received a pension for service on July 33, 1825. (No. 35974)
State of Kentucky - Bullitt County
On this fourth day of July one thousand eight hundred and twenty-five
personally appeared in open court, being a court of Record for Bullitt
County, John Goldsmith resident of said County, aged sixty-eight years who
being first duly sworn according to the law on his oath make the following
Declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the act of Congress of
the 18th March 1818 and the 1st May 1820: That he the said John Goldsmith
enlisted for the term of two years on the ___ day of February 1776 in the
state of Virginia in the Company commanded by Captain James Woodson in the
9th Virginia Regiment commanded by Colonel Matthews in the line of the State
of Virginia on continental establishment that he consented to serve in said
company until the expiration of the time for which he enlisted to when he
was discharged rorm service at Valley Forge in the state of Pennsylvania.
That he hereby relinquishes every claim towit to a Pension except the
present: That his name is not on the Roll of any State except Virginia and
that the following are the reasons for not making earlier application for a
pension towit. He obtained a discharge form an officer whose name he does
not recollect and having lost said discharge by accident and having been
informed that his Captain had long since departed this life he knows of no
person nor does he yet know of any person by whom he could prove his service
and he was advised that it would be necessary to prove his service by
writing before he could be placed on the Pension list perscience of an Act
of the 1st of May 1820 I do solemnly swear that I am a present citizen of
the United States the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not since that
time by gifts taken or in any manner disposed of my property or any part
thereof with interest thereby so to diminish it or to bring myself within
the provisions of an act of Congress enlisted an act to provide for enlisted
persons engaged in the ___ of ___ service of the United States in the
Revolutionary War papers on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not
nor has any person in trust to me any property or securities, contracts or
debts due to me nor have I any income othe than what is contained in the
schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed. That since the 18th of March
1818 the following changes have been made in my property. About that tiem I
had a Equitable claim to one hundred acres of land (of third rate), a mare
and colt, about twenty dollars worth of cattle and about thirty dollars
worth of hogs. The Declared further states that he is a Brick layer by trade
but is now too old and infirm to pursue it for a support. He has a wife
nearly of his own age who has been sick upwards of four years and he has
been forced to dispose of is land, mare and colt and a part of his cattle
and hogs to pay doctor bills for the support of himself and wife. He has
five children to wit, three boys, two daughters who are grown and who have
left him and he derives no support form the. The Schedule of his property
now claimed by him is as follows:
One cow and calf at $7, 13 head of small hogs at $8, 2 chairs at 50c,
Household and kitchen furniture at $3.00, 1 small garden hoe, shovel, plough
and bold axe $20.50. by John X Goldsmith
His son John Goldsmith, Jr. notified the court of his fathers death in 1825.
Date of death October 30, 1825 leaving Jane Goldsmith his widow and Samuel
Goldsmith, Molly Goldsmith, Polly Nichols, John Goldsmith, Matilda Hopewell
his heirs and representatives. Book E, p. 38, Feb. 6, 1826 Court Orders,
Bullitt County, Kentucky.
Source: Ruth E. Schultz, Hines, OR


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