Pension Application of Peter Smith: S38378
Transcribed and annotated by C. Leon Harris
State of Virginia
At a Court Continued and held for Montgomery County the 7th day of June 1820, Personally appeared in open Court, being a Court of record for the County of Montgomery, Peter Smith aged seventy three years, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the acts of Congress the 18th of March 1818, and of the first of May 1820, that he the said Peter Smith, enlisted for the Term of eighteen months in the year (as well he remembers) of 1779 or 1780 in what month he does not recollect, but he thinks it was I the fall season of one of those years in the state of Virginia in the Company commanded by Capt Wallace in the Regiment commanded by Col. [Samuel] Hawes in the line of the state of Virginia on Continental establishment, that he continued to serve in the said Corps until the year 1782, when he was Discharged from the said service in Salisbury in the state of North Carolina, that he was in the battle of Campden [Battle of Hobkirk’s Hill at Camden SC on 25 April 1781], Eutaw springs [8 Sep] and Guilford [Battle of Guilford Courthouse NC, 15 March 1781] and that he has no other evidence now in his power, but he might procure the affidavit of one Samuel Cadall who is yet living, and was in the service with the declarant
NOTE: The file includes a schedule of Smith’s property recorded 3 Oct 1820, as required by the 1820 pension act, but it is mostly illegible. It appears to state that he had no family living with him and was too old to pursue his former occupation, which is illegible.