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State of Service: VA
Qualifying Service: Private
Birth: abt 1749 Death: 01 Aug 1823 / Henry / KY
Qualifying Service Description:
Private: CAPTBenjamin Harrison, 13th Virginia Regiment
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Author: CAPT Robert Edmund Till USAR
David Smith was born at New Jersey in 1749, where his father was completing his time as an indentured servant to pay for his family’s travel from Northern Ireland to the Philadelphia area. In 1772, Smith received a land warrant for 25 acres at York County, Pennsylvania, where several of his siblings and his parents settled. By 1773, Smith had gone west and received a warrant for 200 acres of land at Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania.
David Smith enlisted at Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, in December 1776. He was a private in Captain Benjamin Harrison’s Company of Colonel John Gibson’s Thirteenth Virginia Regiment on the western frontier, at Fort Pitt. He was in two engagements with Indians allied with the British. Smith was discharged in the summer of 1781. He appeared in the tax records for Robinson Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania, for several years throughout the 1780s. He was listed in the 1790 U.S. Census of Allegheny County, the portion taken from Washington. In 1794, he moved his family over the Ohio River to Shelby County, Kentucky, and appeared yearly in the tax records for the county until his land became a part of the newly-formed Henry County in 1800. He appeared in the Henry County tax records and in the 1810 and 1820 U.S. Census of Henry County.
Smith’s pension application of 1818 listed himself and his wife as being 69 years of age, and provided information regarding four children: Samuel, Robert C., Elizabeth and David, Jr.
David Smith died 1 August 1823, at Henry County, Kentucky.
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