Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 3228, Jacob Edens, N.C.
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE  |  NUMBER
NC Edens, Jacob  | R. 3228
Born in N. C.
CONTENTS
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3228
P.O. Jacob Eden
Service:           , 18
Enlisted: REJECTED         , 18
Discharged:            , 18
Application Filed:,        18
Alleges: 
Re-enlisted:
Attorney:
P.O.
Recognized.              Contract.
[illegible]
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Jacob Eden.
North Carolina
Rejected
Deb 26 Mar 35  P. Murphey

3228
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Jacob Eden 32.698,
dec NC
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Wilmington, March 11, 1835
Enclosed is the declassification of Jacob Eden for a pension under the act of Congress of June 7, 32

Please directs in return to Taylor Bordga
P.O. Sampson Co. N.C.
Respectfully
Patrick Murphy
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Jacob Eden
[illegible]
32.678
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[this document is very faint.  Most transcribed using AI]

State of North Carolina  Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions 1835
In [illegible] County
On this the 11th day [illegible] before
William P. Laskins, Louis H. Marsteller & Washington Collins Esquires
[illegible] appeared Jacob Edens 
[illegible - AI information] 
say four ton or as
the
it
attend the son of the United States under the
said as her late
in a company of Militia cavalry under Captain
Mason Nathaniel Emmit Fisher, William
Hannerson, John Spin Colonel in the County
C. in February 1781 as a private and 
enter and served eight months in continual actual service, marched from Richland chapel on [illegible] River in Onslow County to within about ten miles of Wilmington having joined the militia of Onslow, and Colonials company of regular consisting of 500 men at the Chapel aforesaid before his March; the [illegible] at that time having [illegible] of he Cont was constantly out and about Wilmington guarding against their depredation. his marches were [illegible] to the Counties of Onslow and New Hanover, he was in no battle. The time being troublesome & dangerous there was great demand for the services of soldier, he consequently continued in service the whole eight months without intermission and left the service in the month of October 1781 - knows of no person by whom he can prove it Answer of Applicant to the questions propounded by the court
I was born in Onslow County N.C. in 1760 or 1761 I have no record of my age
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3rd When called into service I was living in Onslow County N.C. Since the Revolutionary war I've lived for forty four years in New Hanover County & previous thereto I lived in Onslow Co N. C.
4. I volunteered.
5. The only regular officer I recollect with the troops when I served was Capt Coleman - The only continental troops I saw were a corps of 500 men under Capt Coleman at Richland Chapel in Onslow & the militia regiments [illegible] were Col Spicer's for the general circumstances of my service I refer to my declaration
6. I never received a written discharge
7. Nicholas Nixon, James Nixon, Nicholas N. Nixon, James Howard, Esqr. Col. M. W. Campbell, Charles Nixon, William Sidbury & others I could mention
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to
annuity except the present & declares that his name is not on the Pension roll of the Agency of any State- Jacob Edens
Sworn & Subscribed the day & year aforesaid
Thos Davis Clk.
We James Nixon and Charles Nixon residents in the County of New Hanover hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Jacob Edens who has Sworn to & subscribed the preceding declaration; that we believe him to be seventy four years of age; that he is reputed & believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier in the war of the Revolution & that we concur in that opinion
Jas Nixon
Chs Nixon
Sworn & subscribed the day & year aforesaid
Thos F. Davis Clk
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And the said Court whereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after pulling 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 James
Nixon & Charles Nixon who have signed the preceding certificate are resident in the County of New Hanover and credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit and that there is no clergyman residing in the immediate vicinity of said applicant
W. S. Larkins J.P.
L.H. Marsteller, J. P.
W. Collins J.P. 
I Thomas F. Davis Clerk of the Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions for New Hanover County hereby certify that the foregoing contains
the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Jacob Eden for
a pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office the 11th of March A.D. 1835
Thos. F. Davis Clk