Pulaski County KyArchives Military Records.....Smith, Stephen July 27, 1934
Revwar - Pension 
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Pension File

The Revolutionary War Pension for Stephen Smith can be found on the 
HeritageQuest Online website and is very faded and impossible to read. One 
record in the file is the following letter which provides some genealogical 
information of this family as follows:

July 27, 1934
Mrs. J.H. Letton
Valrice
Florida

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letters relative to William Nobles, John Jessee and 
Stephen Smith, soldiers of the Revolutionary War.

Revolutionary War data furnished by this office are obtained from claims made 
to the United States for pension and bounty land based upon military service 
of soldiers in that war.

A careful search of the records fails to show such a claim on file on account 
of the services of William Nobles as described by you or of John Jessee, all 
spellings of the surnames searched.

The data contained herein are obtained from the papers on file in the 
Revolutionary War claim for pension W.3049, based upon the military service of 
Stephen Smith in that war.

The date and place of birth of Stephen Smith are not stated and no reference 
is made to his parents.

He enlisted, place not stated, about November or December 1777, and served 
three years as private in Captain Henry Quarles' Company, Colonels Thomas 
Marshall's and Elias Edmunds' Virginia Regiments.

In 1809 he moved from Louisa County, Virginia, to Pulaski County, Kentucky, 
and settled on his grant of land of one hundred acres in Pulaski County, 
Kentucky, which he had received from the State of Virginia, for his military 
service in the Revolutionary War.

There is no claim for pension or bounty land on file made by the soldier to 
the United States for his military service in the Revolutionary War.

He died November 28, 1811 in Pulaski County, Kentucky.

Soldier married Miss Nancy Burdley or Burnley, her name is shown also as 
Nance, Nanny, Ann and Anny. She was born in August, about 1769, place not 
stated. She stated that she was married September 6, 1788 in King William 
County, Virginia, however, it is shown in a copy from the court records of 
King William County, Virginia, that the marriage bond was issued September 4, 
1787.

Soldier's widow, Nancy, was allowed pension on her application executed 
February 15, 1841 while a resident of Pulaski County, Kentucky.

Soldier and Nancy had seven children, the only names stated were: Elizabeth 
Smith, John Smith, Stephen Smith, the three youngest children, and Thomas 
Smith. The oldest child, a son, was born August 18, 1790, his name not 
designated. There are no further family data.

This is the history of the only Stephen Smith who served from Virginia that is 
found on the Revolutionary War records of this office.

                                Very truly yours,
                                A.D. Hiller
                                Assistant to Administator


Source: HeritageQuest Online
Stephen Smith Revolutionary War Pension
M 805; Roll 754; Image 340; File W3049


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