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Colonel Matthew Smith

Matthew Smith resided on his farm a short distance above the mouth of Limestone run at the time of his death, was the eldest son of Robert Smith, of Paxtang, Dauphin Co., Pennsylvania. He served in Bouquet's expedition, the final campaign of the French and Indian war; at the outbreak of the Revolution he organized a company of riflemen, which was assigned to Colonel Thompson's battalion and joined the Continental forces at Boston. On the 5th of Sept, 1775, his company was detached to Arnold's command for the expedition to Canada. Captain Smith survived the hardships of the march through the Maine woods, the disastrous assault at Quebec on the 31st of Dec, and the brief confinement as a prisoner of war which followed, and rejoined his regiment with the survivors of his company, but resigned his commission on the 5th of Dec, 1776, on account of the appointment of a junior captain to a majority. He was thereupon promoted to major in the Ninth Pennsylvania, to rank from Sept 27, 1776. In the spring of 1778 he was elected member of the Supreme Executive Council for Lancaster county and took his seat in that body on the 28th of May; he was elected vice- president of the State, Oct 11, 1779, but resigned shortly afterward. When intelligence of the fall of Fort Freeland reached Paxtang he marched to Sunbury with a volunteer company at the earliest possible moment, and commanded the five hundred militia who endeavored to overtake the retreating invaders. On the 4th of Feb, 1780, he was appointed prothonotary of Northumberland county, serving in that position until Sept 25, 1783, and resided in the county the remainder of his life. The following obituary appeared in Kennedy's Gazette, July 1794:

Died, the 22d instant, about sunset, at Milton, Colonel Matthew Smith, aged fifty four years, being one of the first patriots for liberty; went to Canada in the year 1775, and suffered extremities. He was once prothonotary of Northumberland county, was interred 23d instant, attended by a number of his friends and acquaintances, together with the volunteer company of light infantry from Milton; conducted by Major Piatt and commanded by Captain James Boyd, who, after marching about six miles to Warrior Run burying ground and shedding a tear over the old patriot's grave, deposited his remains with three well directed volleys and returned home in good order.
(Source: Bell's History Northumberland Co. 1891 - Pioneer History of Milton)

He died age 60

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Jonathan Robert De Mallie, Garden State Historian

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Matthew Smith's Account of the Conestoga Massacre "Historical Sketch of Dauphin County" George H. Morgan, Pages 40-42, Published 1877
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Pension Application of Matthew Smith BLWt200-300
Transcribed and annotated by C. Leon Harris

Virginia, Frederick County Ss
On this day Edward Smith Esq personally appeared before me William Davison one of the Justices of the peace in & for the County aforesaid and made oath as followeth that Matthew Smith formerly an officer in the continental line during the revolutionary war received a wound at the battle of german town in the year [blank; Battle of Germantown PA, 4 Oct 1777] & of which wound he died soon after in the Town of Reading in the State of Pennsylvania. That the said Matthew Smith never was married & that by the then existing Laws of Virginia Augustine I. Smith the son of Augustine Smith, the elder Brother of the said Matthew, became his Heir, & as such has always been acknowledged by his relations – To the truth of the above statement the said Edward Smith Esq. made oath & added his signature this 18 day of March 1805 [signed] E Smith th
Whereas Matthew Smith deceased late a Captain in the first Regiment of the Continental Line of the State of Virginia on the passing of a certain Bill now before Congress, into a Law of the United States will be entitled to a Land Warrant for Three hundred Acres of Land in the Tract allotted for satisfying United States army bounty Lands; and whereas Augustine I. Smith of the County of Fairfax in the State of Virginia Heir at Law of said Matthew Smith for divers just and good causes thereunto him moving and for five shillings in hand to him paid the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged [several illegible words] Indenture bearing date the twenty first day of February one thousand eight hundred and five doth assign sell, give and set over unto John Smith of Frederick County in the State of Virginia to him his heirs and assigns forever all and singular, the warrant for Three hundred Acres of Land, and the said Augustine I. Smith doth hereby request and authorise the issuing of a Land Warrant for the said three hundred Acres in the Name of John Smith Assignee of Augustine I Smith Heir at Law of Matthew Smith aforesaid.
[signed[ Aug I Smith

NOTE: A typed summary from the Pension Office includes the following: “The records of this office show that Matthew Smith was a Captain in the 1st Virginia Regiment, and was wounded at the battle of Germantown, when carrying a flag by order of General Washington, to ‘Chew’s House’, which wound caused his death about three weeks later in Reading, Pennsylvania.”

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