Windham County VT Archives Military Records.....Smith, Simeon August 1780
Revwar - Rosters see below
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On pages 539-540, Volume 2
[323] "A Pay Roll of Capt. Samuel S. Savage's Company of Militia in the Third
Regiment, commander by Col. Ebenr. Woods, and marched in scouts and alarms by Col.
Woods' orders, in the months of August, September, October, etc. 1780 
Name and Rank: Simeon Smith, Private
Days 9
Pay per mo. 40/
Amt. for service 0.12.0 [12 shillings]
Miles 80
Pr mile 4d
Amt. mileage 1.6.8
Total 1.18.8
Windsor, June 9, 1781. Then personally appeared Capt. Samuel S. Savage and made oath
that the within and above roll, which has has signed, is a just and true roll,
without fraud to the State of Vermont or any individual. Before me, Ebenr Curtis,
Justice of the Peace. June 19, 1781. Examined and approved and the Treasurer is
directed to pay the above sum of sixty-two pounds three shillings lawful money.
Thos. Chittenden, Timo. Brownson, Committee. June 25, 1781. Received of I. Allen,
Treasurer, the contents of this order.
Ebenezer Curtis."

On page 791, Volume 2
"John Davis' order, without date, to the Paymaster of Col. Warner's Regiment to pay
to one P. Bliss 'all the wages that is due to me which is 11 months as a soldier in
Capt. Simeon Smith's Company in Col. Warner's Regiment;" also 9 pounds depreciation
money. Nothing more appears on the paper."

On page 836, Volume 2
"St. Johns, 20th July, 1779.
List of party of Col. Warner's regiment, who left Fort George to gather
huckleberries on Fourteen Mile Island, and were killed, wounded, or taken prisoners
the 15th instant by a scout of twenty-four Indians and three white men sent out by
Colonel Claus.
Killed
Major Wait Hopkins
Sergt. Benj. Laraby
Corp. Robt. Quackenbush
Private Soldier Robt. Smith
Private Soldier Saml Godsel
Private Soldier unknown Lee
Private Soldier unknown Bump
Women Mrs. Quackenbush
                          Mrs. Thomas
Prisoners
Capt. Gideon Brownson, also wounded
Capt. Simeon Smith [First Lieut., of John Patterson's Mass. Reg. May to Dec. 1775;
Capt. of Warner's additional Continental regiment, 5th July 1776; retired 1 Jan.
1781; d. 1786. 'Historical Register, &c., by B.F. Heitman.]
Lieut. Michael Dunning
Sergt. unknown Curtis, also wounded
Private Soldier Daniel Bean
Private Soldier John Whitely
Private Soldier unknown Freeman
A boy 9 years old, S. Thomas.
          A Mrs. Scott and one child were wounded and left with another child on the
island. The Indians stripped and scalped the men that were killed, but did not offer
any violence to the women after the first fire.
          The officers say that Colonel Warner's regiment is not quite two hundred
strong - the company of Rangers, 34 men, is at Saratoga; a subaltern and 15 men at
Bennington, and the rest at Fort George under the command of Lieut. Col. Stafford.'
[From the Haldimand MSS in the British Museum, vol. 21, 842; came through B.F. Da
Costa of New York City to H.D. Hopkins of St. Albans, VT.]"

On page 837 GREEN MOUNTAIN BOYS
The Continental Congree passed, 5 July 1775, the following Resolution: Resolved,
that a regiment be raised out of the officers who served in Canada, on the same
terms on which the regiment, to be commanded by Colonel Dubois, is to be raised; and
that the following persons be appointed officers of the said regiment:
    Seth Warner, Colonel;
  Samuel Safford, Lieutenant Colonel'
  Elisha Painter, Major;
    Wait Hopkins, John Grant, Gideon Brownson, Abiather Angel, Simeon Smith, Joshua
Stanton, (Abner) Seely, Jacob Vorsborough, Captains;
      John Allen, unknown Fussel (John Fasset, Jr.); (Ebenezer) Walbridge, (William)
Deane, James Gold, unknown Sill, Ebenezer Hyde, Gamaliel Painter, First Lieutenants;
    Ebenezer Beumont, adjutant.
Journals of Congress, 1776, v. II, p. 234."

Source is "Rolls of Vermont Soldiers in the REVOLUTIONARY WAR 1775-1778," prepared
and published under the direction of Major General Martha T. Rainville, The Adjutant
General, Vermont, Camp Johnson, Colchester, Vermont, 1998, Volume 1 and 2.


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