PENSION of Isaiah SMITH
Revolutionary War
transcribed by Dianne Thomas
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STATE
OF NEW YORK
ONTARIO
COUNTY, ss:
To the
Hon. The Court of Common Please of the County of Ontario, holden at the court
house in Canandaigua, in and for said county on the terms of May, in the years
of our Lord, one thousand eighth hundred and twenty.
I,
ISAIAH SMITH, being an actual
resident of the town of Richmond in said county, having been placed on the
Pension List of the United States, by virtue of the act, entitled
“An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and Naval
Service of the United States in the Revolutionary War”, passed on the
eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, do hereby
pursuant to the act in addition to the act above mentioned, passed May 1, 1820,
exhibit to said Court the following as a Schedule containing my whole estate and
income ( my personal wearing apparel and bedding excepted) that is to say:
1
Cow
15.00
1
chair and one table
4.00
some
few articles of kitchen furniture
2.50
1
pair fine Dogs
1.25
1
pot & 1 kettle
1.50
$
24.25
In
testimony whereof, I have hereunto subscribed name this 20th day of
May, 1820
ISAIAH
SMITH
The
foregoing inventory was sworn to in open court, May 20, 1820.
I,
ISAIAH SMITH, do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United
States on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen,
and that I have not since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner disposed of
my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to
bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress, entitled, “An Act to
provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United
States in the Revolutionary War,” passed on the 18th day of March,
1818, and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property or
securities, contracts or depts. Due to me, nor have I any income other that what
is contained in the Schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed.
ISAIAH
SMITH
Sworn
this 20th day of May 1820 before an open Court, before me
STEPHEN
BATES, a Judge of Ont. Com. Pleas
At
a Court of Common Pleas, held at the Court House in Canandaigua in and for the
County of Ontario, before the Judges of said Court, on the 20th day
of May of the term of May in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty:
Present:
NATHANIEL
W. HOWELL
STEPHEN
BATES
MOSES
ATWATER
all Judges.
Ex
Parte
In the
matter of Isaiah SMITH, a Pensioner residing in the town of Richmond in said
County:
The
said Isaiah SMITH as a person placed on the Pension List of the United States,
having exhibited a Schedule subscribed by him, containing his whole estate and
income, (his necessary clothing and bedding excepted), in pursuance of an act of
Congress of the United States, entitled, “ An act in addition to an act”,
entitled “An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and Naval
Service of the United States in the Revolutionary War”, passed on the
eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, paged May 1,
1820; and having taken, subscribed and produced to this Court, the oath or
affirmation by the said act required, and the said Court having heard evidence
of the nature and value of property mentioned in the said schedule, and duly
considered the premises are of the opinion that the property contained in the
said schedule is of the value of twenty four dollars and twenty five cents, and
they hereby order their Clerk to certify the same in due form.
(NOTE:
Isaiah and a son, Isaiah Jr. are both listed on the 1820 Census for
Richmond.)
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