Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 43,511, Jacob Dovenberger, Penn.
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(8-1776)
Penn.
Dovenberger, Jacob
NUMBER
S. 43,511
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43 511
INVALID
[illegible]
file No. 43,511
Jacob Dovenberger
Pri Rev War
Act: 18th March 18
Index:-Vol. [illegible], Page 132
Arrangement of 18670
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Notification was sent Nov 9 1820
[illigible] St. Clairsville, Ohio

9347
R
Ohio
Jacob Dovenberger

of Belmont Co. in the state of Ohio who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Hampton of the Pennsylvania [illegible], for the term of 4 years.
Inscribed on the roll of , Ohio at the rate of 8 dollars per month to commence on the 22nd of June 1808.
Certificate of Pension issued the 16 of  April 1808 and sent to Joseph Anderson, Esq
St. Clairsville, Ohio.
Arrears to 4th of Mar. 1809 -,-, 67. 43
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Sept. 1809 -.-. 48. "
8 mos.9/30 4/30  $115.43
{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818}
Belmont County
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Statement & Application
of 
Jacob Dovenberger
Private
[illegible] Hampton and Lieut.
[illegible] Hubley Req
Pennsylvania Line
1777 to 1781

Admittance
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State of Ohio
Belmont County
On the 22 day of June in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and eight teen personally came before me the subscriber an associate Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in  [illegible] for the County of Belmont, State of Ohio, Jacob Dovenberger of Belmont County Ohio who being by me duly sworn according to Law, as the mate the following Declaration upon his oath, to wit, that he is aged fifty nine years on the first day of April 1818 being born on the 1st day of April 1759.  that he enlisted into the American Revolutionary Army in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, in the spring of the year 1777 and in as enrolled in Captain Samples company then commanded by Lieutenant Reeves, (the Captain then being a prisoner at War) and [illegible] to the 10th Pennsylvania Regiment, 1st Brigade commanded by General Anthony Wayne, that the Regiment to which he belonged, was commanded by Col Patrick Hampton & Lieut. Col. Aubley - that joined the said Regiment, the same year near [illegible], in New Jersey.  That during his continuance in the service of the united states he was in the Battle at Stony Point, and the Battle at the [illegible], Virginia - that in the year 1779 he [illegible] whilst in the said services, an accidental injury at West Point, Fort [illegible] [illegible] of which he was placed in [illegible] hospital where he remained about three months.  That in 1779 he again joined the army at Morristown, New Jersey, and after war from a continuance  of his said injury was again placed in a hospital - That he had continued in the Army upon the Continental Establishment until the year 1781 when he was honorably discharged, near the cow pens in Virginia and that about five or six years [illegible] he accidently lost his discharge at or near Morristown, Belmont County, Ohio
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That he never was (to his knowledge) placed on the pension list & that he has never received any pension or land from the United States since his discharge. Also that he freely releases & relinquishes all claim and demands of pensions and other documents to the United States.  and as he is more considerably advanced in years and is at present in reduced circumstances in life, he therefore prays the assistance of his country under the late act of Congress entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and navel services, of the United States in the Revolutionary war & that he has known not other [illegible] in his power to establish the above statement of facts Jacob Dovenberger.
sworn to declared [illegible] subscribed before me the same day and year of our said - 
(signed) Joseph Anderson

I, Joseph Anderson associate judge of the court of Common Pleas in [illegible] for the County of Belmont, State of Ohio. do hereby certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Jacob Dovenberger did serve as a soldier in the Revolutionary War against the Common Enemy for the term of time in his said statement & declaration set forth, and sworn to on the Continental Establishment - and that I am who satisfied that he is now in reduced circumstance in life and is in need of the assistance of his country - and I now [illegible] the processing had before me to the Secretary for the War Department, [illegible] to the [illegible] aid Act of Congress - 

In testimony where of I have herewith set my hand & affixed my seal this 22nd day of June anno domains 1818.

(signed) Joseph Anderson, Esq.
Associate judge
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The State of Ohio
Belmont County
I ezer Ellis Clerk protem for the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County do hereby certify that Joseph Anderson Esquire before whom the (illegible) affidavit appears o have been taken and whose name is thereto subscribed was at the time of taking the same and still is an acting associate of the County of Belmont, Ohio, duly commissioned and qualified as the law directs, to all whose official acts as such full faith and credit is due and ought to be given as well as courts of record as thereout. In Testimony, whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court at St. Clarksville the twenty fifth day of June one thousand eight and eighteen.
Ezer Ellis
Clk pro tem
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101.
Jacob Dovenberger,
9.347
issued 16. Apl. 1819
Sep'19

Ezer Ellis, Clk
StClairsville, Ohio
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The State of Ohio Belmont County

At a Court of Common Pleas begun and held at St Clairvlle in and for the county of Belmont on the twenty fourth day of July AD 1820 before the Honorable Benjamin Tappan Esquire President, of the fifth circuit of the courts of common Pleas and John Wiley, Joseph Anderson & Edward Byron associate judges of the said Court on the twenty eighth day of July AD 1820 personally appears in open Court being a Court of Record for said County in the said Circuit Jacob Dovenberger aged sixty one years resident in the County of Belmont, the the said Circuit who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows, that he enlisted for the term of three years, or during the war some time in the close of the year 1777 or the beginning of the year 1778 but the month he doth not remember, in the State of Pennsylvania in Lancaster and put in Capt Jample company of the 10th regiment, commanded by Col. Halton in the Pennsylvania line on the continental establishment and some time after he was transferred in Capt. Weavers company, that he continued to serve in the said Corp. until he was discharged from said service in the spring of the year 1781 where he does not now remember as he was young and sick part of the time being lame when discharged and in the hospital that he was in the battles of the block house, the battle of stony point, the battle of Springfield and that he hath no other evidence
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now of his said Services in his power, that his declaration at the war department is dated he believes the 22nd June 1818 upon which his certificate issued number 9347
  And I do solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift sale or any other manner disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby  so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an Act of Congress entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and Naval Service of the United States in the Revolutionary War." passed on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me any (illegible) by or securities, contracts or debts due me, nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed 

Real Property
Two Lots in the town of Morristown $100
Two Cows $20
Two Calves $8
Eight Sheep $8
Six hogs $6
Two old tubs $1
one old barrel .25
One pot .75
One oven $1
Two candle sticks $1.
One dish .25
Pewter dish $1
Three tins .25
one axe $1
one adze .75
Total $149.25
one spinning wheel $1
$150.25
  That his family consists of his wife, who is able to work and two children, Mary Dovenberger aged six years, John Dovenberger aged two years. that his occupation is a laborer that he is lame in his arm and foot, so as
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frequently to prevent him from laboring -that he owes a judgment debt on the records of the Court of Common Pleas of Belmont County to Simon Montague of the sum of about sixty dollars.
Jacob Dovenberger

Sworn to and declared on the twenty eighth day of July 1820 before the Court of Common Pleas of Belmont County, State of Ohio.
Attest
Ezer Ellis Clerk

  I ezer Ellis Clerk of the Count of Common Pleas of the County of Belmont do hereby certify that the foregoing affidavit, and the schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the Records of the said Court - and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said Court, that the total amount in value of the property as listed in the aforesaid totaled one hundred & fifty dollars twenty five cents.

In testimony whereof I have her unto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court of Clairesville, this first day of August Anna Dominic 1820
Ezer Ellis Clk
of the Court of Common Please for Belmont County, Ohio