Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 5288, Jacob Howe, Penn.
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
Penn 

Howe, Jacob

NUMBER
R. 5.288

CONTENTS
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Dear Sir,

Mrs. Howe the widow of Jacob Howe has got me to write to the pension office for her.  Her husband was in the War of the Revolution & went from Pennsylvania what County or under what officers she does not recolect [sic] but we understand his name is on the pension roll.  We wish you to examine & write us if it is so & what proof is necessary for her to get at it you will please answer this at your earliest convenience & direct John T. Hill Hogersville, Hawkins C E Tenn, & by so doing you will much oblige us, yours respectfully &C  J. T. Hill 

He Jacob Howe was some noncommissioned officer.  She has seen his Discharge but has got on was lost at the time of his death which has been some time.  She is 83 or 84 years old & cannot remember but verry [sic] much about it.

J.T.H.
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Jacob Howes's 
declaration
32,306 
Tennessee

rejected, did not serve six months
see letter 18 Feb, 
1835 to Hon. S. Bunch

E.
Hon. S. Bunch
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State of Tennessee}
Hawkins County    

November Sessions  1834

On this 27th day of November 1834
Personally appeared in open Court before the Justices thereof now sitting Jacob Howe aged Seventy Six years, who being first duly Sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declarations in order to obtain the benefit of the act of congress passed June 7th 1832

That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as therein stated truth.  That whilst he was residing in Cumberland County in the State of Pennsylvania, he volunteered under a battalion camp in Col. Craigs Regiment of Pennsylvania militia and was marched from Carlisle where they reorganized about the 1st day of June 1778--they did not arrive at Philadelphia until about the 20th or 25th of said month, and after remaining there some time how long this declarant cannot now state, his regiment was marched into the [illegible] state when this declarants regiment came under the command of Genl Greene, and later marching and countermarching along the Delaware this affiants regiment was marched back to the city of Philadelphia, where he this declarant was discharged by his captain about the first of November 1778 having served six months that tour--Again in the spring following March sometime in April 1779 this declarant again volunteered under Captain ^ Campbell and marched from Carlisle in Pennsylvania to Baltimore Maryland and
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was attached to Col. Craigs regiment and after remaining there sometime his company was marched back to Carlisle which thence they reached about the latter end of July ^ 1779 having served three months that tour for which also he received a discharge from his captain, but both of which have been long since lost or mislaid--He was acquainted or at least served on the first campaign Genl. Washington, Genl Wayne & Genl Cadwalader-besides Genl Green & many other regular officers--but his memory is so far gone away by reason of bodily & mental infirmity that he cannot give out the particulars of his services but he served in both campaigns as above stated amounting to nine months for which he claims a pension & he has no documentary evidence that he knows of, and knows of no person whose testimony he can procure, who can testify to his services & he was born in Germany, but came to America when he was only three years old as his battalion informed him, but he lost his father on the [illegible]
& he has no record of his age and when called into service was living in Cumberland County Pennsylvania--& he is acquainted with the Reverend Arden Saunders and Jacob B. Groves of his neighborhood and who will testify to his character for veracity and their belief of his services as a soldier of the Revolution & he hereby relinquishes his every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and he knows that his name is not on the
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Pension Roll of the agency of any state 
Sworn to & subscribed in open court the day and year aforesaid
Jacob his X mark Howe
W. B. Mitchell Clk

We Arden Sanders, a clergyman residing in the neighborhood of Jacob Howe the above applicant for a pension and Jacob B. Groves residing in the same neighborhood do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Jacob Howe who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be seventy six (76) years of age, and that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion

Sworn to & subscribed the day and
year aforesaid
/s/ Arden Sanders
/s/Jacob G. Groves

/s/ W B Mithchell, Clk

State of Tennessee }
Hawkins County     }
I Stockley D. Mitchell Clerk of the Court of pleas and quarter [illegible] of Hawkins County [prior sentence and jurat appears to be crossed out]
And the said court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as he states, and the court further certifies that it appears to them that Arden Sanders who has signed the preceding certificate is a Clergyman resident in the said County of Hawkins and in the same neighborhood of the said applicant and that Jacob B.
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Groves who has also signed the same is a resident in said County and neighborhood and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit.

I Stockley D Mitchell Clerk of the County Court of Hawkins County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Jacob Howe for a pension.

In testimony where I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 27th day of November 1834
S D Mitchell Clk
By W B Mitchell Clk
[SEAL]

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Jacob Howe
declaration
32.306
Tennessee

Rejected
did not serve six months
see the letter 18 Feb
1835 to Hon S Bunch

E.
Hon. S. Bunch
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[crossed out:  Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1876.]

REJECTED

5288.
P. O. __________________
Jacob Howe
Service: _______________

Enlisted: ______________, 18__
Discharged: ___________, 18__

Application filed: _______, 18__

Alleges: _________________
__________________________

Re-enlisted: ______________
___________________________

Attorney: ________________
P. O. ______________________
_________Recognized.  __________Contract.
_________ Cert. of Dis.  Searched for ____, 18.
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No. 32,306

Rejected
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Tenn - Jacob Howe
See letter to---
Hon. S. Bunch Tenn
In War Special ack.  R 10023
18. Feb. 1835
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J. T. Hill May 6, 1857.
5288
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Act 7th June 1832
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Jacob Howe
Ten - ous -1882
Not as of  not on roll
[postmark] - ROGERSVILLE APR 8

Cole

FREE
The Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City,
D.C.
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Top part of envelope is information about a school and is somewhat obscured by the flap of the envelope.  It does not appear to be related to Jacob Howe's pension request.

Bottom of page is sideways:
Jacob Howe
tenn - ous - 882
[postmark] ROGERSVILLE APR 8

Not as of - not on roll
Cole
FREE

The Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
D.C.
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Jacob Howe
Applicant
Additional
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Hon S. Bunch
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State of Tennessee }
Hawkins County    

Personally appeared before me Nicholas Fain a Justice of the Peace in & for the county aforesaid Jacob Howe, who being first duly sworn deposeth & saith that by reason of old age and the consistent loss of memory, He cannot state positively as to the precise length of his service--He has been informed that the commissioner of pensions has returned his declaration accompanied with the remarks "that the Pennsylvania militia was ordered out to some in tours of not more than two months--- at the time he alleges that he marched to Philadelphia the enemy had evacuated that city, and was deported in New Jersey by the enemy under Genl Washington--it is therefore probable that he only performed a time of two months--If he served for so much longer a period, than what was [illegible] during his second tour, now satisfactory proof of said tour should be exhibited"

This declarant saith that he thought that although the enemy was deported, the ^ american troops were not disbanded, but won High State [not sure about this] in Service as the enemy won State[word is hard to read] ^ formidable & in considerable force.  His memory however is so far gone that he cannot recollect the circumstances of his services and it is possible that he may not have served at one tour six months.  He states that impression
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remains on his mind--He is very certain that he served--two tours of each three months--making six in all for which he claims a pension--He has it not in his power to prove his services by any living witness that he knows of--though if it was necessary he believes all who know him in his neighborhood will testify as to his veracity and integrity and that they are of the opinion that he did serve as he states-He furthermore states that he never would have applied, but that his neighbors believed him entitled to a pension--and therefore persuaded him to apply, is the reason that he ever applied for it-

He could have procured many more respectable persons to have testified as to their belief of his services---but he was told that one clergyman  and one citizen was enough.

He hopes that as he has made application and complied with the regulations as for [illegible] as it was in his power his claim will not be rejected for the pittance he now solicits

Jacob his X mark Howe

Sworn to & subscribed before     }
me this 4th day of February 1835 }
N. Fain [SEAL]
for Hawkins County
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I Samuel Bunch a member of Congress from Tennessee do certify that [smudge makes the name illegible] is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Hawkins in said State, to the best of  ^ my knowledge and belief--
Saml. Bunch
Feb. 14th 1835

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Jacob Howe
Applicant
Declaration
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Hon S Bunch