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Descendants of William Smith, Jr.

Generation No. 2

2. Joel B.³ Smith, Sr. (William², William¹) was born September 4, 1760 in Lunenburg County, Virginia, and died April 4, 1840 in Van Buren County, Tennessee. He married (1) Nancy Hill. She died September 30, 1819. He married (2) Nancy Moore November 20, 1823 in Home of her dad, Samuel Moore, in White County, TN, daughter of Samuel Moore and Nancy Cary. She was born 1803 in North Carolina, and died 1865.

Notes for Joel B. Smith, Sr.:
JOEL SMITH
WHITE COUNTY
PRIVATE
VIRGINIA LINE
$30.00 ANNUAL ALLOWANCE
$75.00 AMOUNT RECEIVED
May 29 1833 - Pension Started
Age 73

Revolutionary War Pension Application of Joel Smith
State of Tennessee

White County

On this 9th day of April 1833 Personally appeared in open Court before the
Justices of the County of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for said county Joel
Smith, a resident citizen of the State and county aforesaid, age about Seventy
three years, who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath make
the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provission of
the Act Of Congress proposed June of 1832. That he intered the service of the
United States under the following named Officers and served herein as stated.
He intered the service to the best of his recollection in the autumn of the
year 1750, but is not positively certain as to the date. He went out and
served three months as a substitue in the Comapany commanded by Captain
Richard Sweptson of Mecklenburg County in the State of Virginia where this
Declarant then lived. He cannot recollect the name of the individual for whom
he substituted. He states he was a stranger to him and the only fact he
recollects distinctly about it is that he got one hundred dollars in
Continental money for going the campaign. Captain Swepston's Comapany
constituted part of the Regiment commanded by Co. Mumford. From Mecklenburg
the Regiment to which he belonged marched to Portsmouth near Norfolk where the
troops remained the whole three months for which he engaged. The object he
states of the troops remaining at Portsmouth was this, there were in sight of
them two British Ships of war lying in Hampton Roads and it was deemed a
matter of importance to keep them from landing. He received a written
discharge at the end of the three months from his Captain Richard Swepston

From Portsmouth he returned home to Meclenburg where he remained only a few
days where he went to the residence of two of his brothers who lived near each
other in North Carolina, though one lived in Granville County and the other
lived in Warren County. When he went there there was a company of drafted men
in the County of Warren commanded by Captain Sterling Black and the British
and Tories being there very troblesome, this declarant and several others
turned out as Volunteers and attached themselves to the Company Comnaded by
the said Captain Black. This tour was for three months and he served it out
from Warren County N.C. The troops marched to the town of Charlotte, not in
Virginia, but in N.C. The officer highest in Command was Major Dickson. He was
the highest in Command from Warren. The object of raising the Company was to
protect the County as far as possible from the ravages of the Tories in the
County round about and adjacent to the town of Charlotte. At that place or
rating near to it, the company encountered about eighty of the "British Light
Horse" and were compelled to retreat. We lost one man by the name of George
Locke the son of Gen. Locke. He was killed near to the place where this
declarant then was. Nothing furthermore remarkable occurred during this tour
of duty. He received a written discharge from his Captain Sterling Black.
Very Shortly after receiving this discharge from his second tour of duty he
went home with his Uncle Robert Wood who lived at the Cherokee Ford on Broad
River in the State of South Carolina, York District. His Uncle was drafted for
three months and he thinks but is not certain that the Captains name was
Lytle. This declarant went out as a substitute for the said Robert Wood and
served out the three months. The object of this service was likewise to
protect the Country form the Tories. From York District they marched to
Orangeburg S.C. to a place then called "the Orangburg swamps" where the
Company remained during the three months. Part of the three months they were
stationed in the town of Orangeburg. He remembers just about the close of the
tour, Lord Cornwallis surrendered at Little York. He is therefore unable to
speak with certainty as to the period of the war when his services closed.

Being the close of the war. How great the intervals were between his different
tours he cannot precisley say. He can only speak in general terms and say they
were but short. He is however, tolerably well satisfied that his first
Campaign was in the latter part of the year 1780. He has no documentary
evidence by which his service can be established, nor does he know of any
living witnesses within his reach, by whom the same can be established. He
hereby relinquishes every claim to a pension whatever, except the present and
declares his name is not on the Pension role of any agency of any State.

      Answers
To the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department and propounded by the
Court.
1rst He was born Sept. 04, 1760 in Mecklenburg County Virginia.
2nd He has now no record of his age, that the book which contained it is lost,
or worn out.
3rd When called into service first, he lived in Mecklenburg County Virginia.
He subsequently went into service from Warren County N.C. and York District
S.C., since the Revolution he has lived in York District S.C. about 17 years.
From thence he removed to Rutherford County N.C. From there he removed to
White County where he now resides in the in the State of Tennessee and has
resided ever since he first came to it.
4th He substituted but does not recollect for whom the first tour. The second
he volunteered and the third he substituted for his Uncle Robert Wood.
5th He cannot say that he ever had any acquaintances with any of the Officers
of the Regular Army, as to the general circumstances of his services he cannot
state therin more fully than he has already done, infact nothing very
important occurred in his service.
6th He received a regular discharge from his Captain's each time he served as
already stated. These discharges have all been lost by time or accident he
cannot certainly say what has become of them.
7th He states the names of the following persons to whom he is known in his
present neighborhood and who can testify to his character for veracity and
their belief of his service as a soldier of the Revolution.
Viz Reverand Pleasant Early, Robert Anderson, John Fryar, Joseph Herd Esq.
Waman Leftwich Esq., Jesse Lincoln, and John White.
      Joel Smith
Sworn to in open court 9th April A.D. 1833
James A. Lam Clerk of the County Court

Has 2 brothers.
Served under his Uncle Robert Wood in SC during 1780
In 1797 moved to Rutherford County, NC
and in 1806 moved to White County, TN


Children of Joel Smith and Nancy Hill are:

	i.	MARY⁴ SMITH, b. 1782; m. ISAAC VINZANT, 1802, Rutherford Co., NC.
	ii.	JANE REBECCA SMITH, b. Abt. 1783; m. ALLEN MITCHELL; b. Aft. 1775.
3.	iii.	JOHN WILSON SMITH, b. 1790, Spartanburg Co., SC; d. September 21, 1846, Lamar County, TX.
4.	iv.	UNICY SMITH, b. 1792; d. October 1845, White Co., TN.
	v.	NARCISSA SMITH, b. 1795; d. October 1845; m. THOMAS SNELLING.

Children of Joel Smith and Nancy Moore are:

5.	vi.	JOEL B.⁴ SMITH, JR., b. September 13, 1824, Sparta, White Co., TN; d. February 10, 1910, Houston, Texas Co., MO.
	vii.	MARTHA ANN SMITH, b. 1826, White County, TN; m. FIELDING L. JONES, April 21, 1842, Van Buren Co., TN.
	viii.	WILLIAM B. SMITH, b. 1827, White Co., TN; m. MARGARET SIMMONS, October 22, 1849, Van Buren Co., TN.
6.	ix.	ROBERT BENNETT SMITH, b. September 11, 1833, White Co., TN; d. January 20, 1901, Licking, Texas Co., MO.
	x.	JAMES A. SMITH, b. 1836, White County, TN; d. WFT Est. 1860-1925; m. (1) NANCY SIMMONS, 1854, Van Buren County, Tennessee; m. (2) NANCY SIMMENS, 1854, Van Buren County, TN; b. Abt. 1834.
	xi.	NANCY CAROLINE SMITH, b. 1839, White County, TN; m. ALEXANDER SHOCKLEY, March 16, 1869, Van Buren Co., TN.
	xii.	CANTRELL SMITH, b. 1840, White Co., TN.

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