Godfrey Smith - History of Scioto Country, p.212

@Godfrey Smith was born near the village of Redstone, Pennsylvania, in the year 1752. This village was built about the year 1752, on the Monongahela river, at the mouth of Redstone Creek. It consisted of a few block-houses and a stockade, and was built to protect the settlers against the Indians.
“0ld Red­stone" was quite an Important place in those days, when settlements were few and far between. It was then In Westmoreland County: the county was after­wards divided, and the village, now called Brownsville, is now in Fayette County. In the Autumn of 1775, Godfrey Smith enlisted in Shenandoah Coun­ty. Virginia, for a term of eighteen months in the Patriot army, in a regiment commanded by Colonel Buford. During the following Winter, the regiment lay at Petersburg. Virginia, and In the spring of 1780. before his term had expired, he re-enlisted for "during the war." He served In Colonel Buford’s Regi­ment until Its defeat at the battle of Hanging Rock, South Carolina, August 6, 1780. He was also in the battle of Camden, S.C., August 16, 1780. He then returned to Petersburg, and was placed In Captain Triplett’s Company, of Col­onel Hawes’ Regiment. From this regiment he was transferred to Major Lee’s Corps of Light Infantry, commonly called Lee's Legion, and was In Captain Ru­dolph’s Company. He was with the Legion at the battle of Eutaw Springs, S.C. in 1781, and continued in this branch of the service until the end of the war. He served, in all, about five years in the Continental army, and was not disabled.
When the Legion was disbanded, at Georgetown, South Carolina, he was sick with measles. As soon as he was able to travel, however. (about four weeks later), he returned to his home In Pennsylvania. Soon after the war. he married Margaret Hoover. Six sons and three daughters were born to them, of whom Jacob, the oldest, was born in the year 1785. They lived In Pennsylvania until, probably, about the year 1810. when they moved to Greenup County. Ken­tucky. going down the Ohio river In flatboats. In October. 1819. Godfrey Smith Smith, "being a resident of Greenup County, Kentucky." applied for a Revolu­tionary soldier's pension, and the following year he was granted a pension of eight dollars per month, beginning October 27. 1819. and continuing to his death. Mrs. Smith died in 1844, but the aged soldier lived until the year 1847. when he died In Greenup County, aged eighty-five years. He is an ancestor of Smith S. Littlejohn who has a sketch herein.