MILITARY: Other; Peter H. Smith; Ulysses, Tompkins co., NY

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Bounty Land Application
Copy of the Application for Bounty Land of Peter H. Smith
Soldier's Declaration for Bounty Land,
Press of Barnes & Williams, Ithica, NY
War of 1812 - New York Militia


State of New York
County of Tompkins
On this 23rd day of May, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty seven, 
personally appeared before me, a Justice of the Peace, within and for the 
County and State aforesaid, Peter H. Smith, aged seventy-two years, a resident
of Ulysses, Tompkins County, in the State of New York, who being duly sworn
according to law, declares that he is the identical Peter H. Smith who was a
private in the company commanded by Captain Levi Trowbridge & Joseph Cone in
the New York State Regiment of Militia, commanded by Cols. Henry Bloom & M.
McHass, in the War with Great Britain declared by the United States on the
18th of June 1812 for the term of six months and continued in actual service
in said war for five and one-half months and upwards; that he has heretofore
made application for bounty land under the act of September 28, 1850 & March
3, 1855, and received a land warrant No. ( ) for eighty acres under act of
September 28, 1850 and a land warrant for eighty acres under act of March 3,
1855. This claimant served under Capt. Trowbridge from about the 4th of
September, 1813 to the 7th day of December, 1813 at Fort George and under
Capt. Cone from about the 25th day of August, 1814 to the 8th November, 1814 
at Fort Erie. Claimant incurred contingent expenses for travel from residence
to place of mustering, to wit:from Ulysses to Canandaigua in 1813 and from
place of discharge, to wit: from Fort George to Ulysses- fifteen dollars,
$15.00 and also contingent expenses for clothing & equipment deteriorated,
worn out, lost and destroyed as follows: in year 1813 one overcoat worth &
cost $10, one dress coat $4, one good pants $2.50, one pair boots $4, $20.50.
2 shirts, $3; 1 vest $1; 2 pair stockings $1; knapsack $1; 1 blanket $2,
$8.00. Claimant expended for contingent expenses in 1814 in travelling from
Ulysses to Buffalo where he was mustered and from Batavia where he was
discharged in return home, $12.00, for clothing worn out, for one overcoat
$10, one dress coat $4, one vest $1, one pair shoes $2, one knapsack $1,
$18.00, two shirts $3, one hat $4, two pair stockings $1, the above being the
value and cost of the articles respective, $8.00/ $81.50. Deponent claims
under act of October 21st, 1814 for 2 1/2 months, $13, he received $8, $32.50
less $24.00, $12.50/ $94.00.

He makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the pay to which he may
be entitled under the act approved the 15 day of April, 1855. He also declares
that he hereby constitutes Jerome Rowe of Ithica his lawful attorney with full
power to receive from the Commissioner under said act the certificates to
which he may be entitled and any money thereon ---------
Peter Smith
I, John C. Stowell, resident of Ithica, Tompkins County, in the State of New 
York, upon my oath, declare that the foregoing Peter H. Smith received a land
warrant of 80 acres under act of 1850 and that I purchased the same of him and
disposed of the same without making a memorandum of the number.
John C. Stowell