Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 18,268, Jacob Webster, N.H.
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NH
Webster, Jacob
S.18.268.
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823
New Hampshire

Jacob Webster
of Rockingham in the State of N.H. who was a Capt Lieut. in the company commanded by Captain __ of the [??] commanded by C. L. [??] in the O.A. line for 4 May Capt 8 [?] - 2 D Lieut 2 1 May Sergeant [??] June 1775

Inscribed on the Roll of N. Hampshire at the rate of 192 Dollars 54 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.

Certificate of Pension issued the 19th day of October 1832 and Sent to Peter Chastwick Esectir [??] 
Arrears to 4th of Sept 1832 $288.81
Semizant, allowing ending 4 Sept 96.27
                                                    $395.08

Revolutionary Claim, 
Act June 7, 1832

Recorded by J H McBlair Clerk 
Book D Vol 147 Page 193

He died Apr. 21, 1836 
([??] Agency Bank)
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4426
Jacob Webster
as
on Roll I Lieut Capt 
Duenby's Company Col
Wingate Regt [?] 16.00 

[?] Roll Capt [?] Dunn
[???]
for 98 days from 5 Augt 1778

[??]
4 month Captain
8 [?] 2 d Lieut
1 D Sergeant
13 2 d

Peter Chadwrick Exelin
N.H.
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Brief in the case of Jacob Webster of the County
of Rockingham in the State of New Hampshire
(Act 7 June, 1832)
1.  Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge?  Open Court
2.  If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily
      infirmity?
3.  How old is he? 87 years
4.  State his service, as directed in the form annexed.
   Period.                                  Duration of Service.                        Rank.               Names of General and Field Officers 
                                           Years,  Months,  Days                        As a  1st                         under whom he served.

In  1775 June 18th                -         3              2                         Lieutint.                 Gen. Putnam on the 3rd enlistment
                                                                                                                                          Col. Enoch Povis' Regt.
      1775 Oct.                         -          1              -                           ditto     }                    Capt. Tiltons Company
      1775 Nov.                         -          3             -                          Captain}                     attached to no Regt.
      1776 July                         -           4            -                           Lieut.                          Col. Wingate's Regt. and Capt. Davis
                                                                                                                                           Quimby' Compy
      1778 Augt.                       -           1            -                [illegible unknown rank]      Col. Ira Califs Regt. Capt. Quimby
      1781 Sept. 22nd              -           1            -                          Capt.                           Lt. Col. Reynolds or Runnells Regt.
                                                                                                                                          Maj. Simon Marston, Lieut.
                                                                                                                                          Wm. Kelly-
5.  In what battles was he engaged? None
6.  Where did he reside when he entered the service? Kingston in the County and
      State aforesaid and still resides there
7.  Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence,
     by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Nothing but his affidavit and his
     Commission as Capt. in an Order annexed-no other commission
8.  Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and is so, in what respect?
     No Certificate of a Clergyman.

Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case
above mentioned.
Sevin Belt
Examining Clerk
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Jacob Wilson Son No 4. 426
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State of New Hampshire County of Rockingham P. On this ninth day of August AD 1832 personally appeared in open Court before the Justice of the Superior Court of Inderature now seting  in Exeter in said County Jacob Webster of Kingston in the County of Rockingham and State of New Hampshire, aged eighty seven years, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress, passed June 1832 That he entered the service of the United States on the 18th day of June 1775 as a first Lieutenant in Captain Philip Selton's Company Poors Regiment New Hampshire line and marched to Winter Hill near Boston - that he continued in said Company & Regiment until about the 20th day of September 1775 when on account of sickness he was discharged Joseph Cilley was Major of said Regiment. That in October of the same year he again entered the service as Lieutenant under Captain David Quimby marched to Portsmouth New Hampshire and remained one month in the said building a fort at the close of his time he was discharge That he entered the said Served as a captain the last of November 1775 that he marched his company to Portsmouth when he received orders to reinlist his company for three months and march to a bridge which he did and continued the full term of three months that he was stationed at Cambridge post under the command of General Putnam and was engaged building a fort and at the end of his term was honorably discharged that in the two and times of Service he was
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attached to no Regiment. That in July 1776 he again entered the service as a Lieutenant under Captain David Quimby in Colonel Wingates Regiment New Hampshire Militia and marched through Vermont to Seconderoga, and continued in said Company and Regiment four months and in the month of 1 November of the same year he discharged on account of sickness Barker was Major 1 of said Regiment that in the August of the year 1778 he again entered the service for one month as order by Sargent of Capt David Quimby Company Colonel John Califf Regiment, and march to Rhodes land through Massachusetts that at the expiration of his term he was her honorably discharged at Rhodesia Island and Richard Hubbard was Lieutenant of said Company That on the 22d day of September 1781 he again entered the said service as Captain of a Company in the Regiment of New Hampshire Militia command ed by Lieutenant Colonel order to march to West point and started for that post-- but be for they reached it were ordered back to Charlestown (then No 4) New Hampshire after reaching that place were ordered to Saratoga State of New York, but before and there were ordered to Castleton after a short that they received orders to again march to Charlestown aforesaid that on the 22d day of November of the same year he
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he was honorably discharged at said Courtenay that Simon Martin was Major of said Regiment and William Kelly first Lieut of his Company That all the above mentioned service, were in the New Hampshire line that hundred in Kingston aforesaid previous to entering the service and has always resided there since he left the service that he has now no documentary evidence except the order hereto annexed - that the other orders and commissions which he received are lost that from this great age and death he has been unable to give dates and names with pension but the my his service are as he has sealed them He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to to a pension or an annuity except the present and he declares that his declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any State Jacob Webster Sworn to and subscribed the day and year 1 aforesaid the del Cill 1 And the said Court do hereby declare then opinion that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states 1 I Peter Chadwick Clerk of the Superior Court of Judicate for the County of Rockingham in the State aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Jacob Webster for a pension Ⓧ In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said that this ninth day of August Anno Domini 1832, on County
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Rev. & 1812 Wars Section Edith W. Mank 12 Reservoir St., Lawrence, Mass. Madam: Wife January 7, 1828 my come I have to advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim S. 18268 it appears that Jacob Webster while a resident of Kingston, Rockingham County, New Hampshire entered the service June 18, 1775 as First Lieutenant in Captain Philip Tilton's Company, Colonel Enoch Poor's New Hampshire Regiment, was discharged September 20, 1775, and in October 1775 again enlisted as Lieutenant in Captain David Quimby's New Hampshire Company and served one month. He was commissioned in November 1775 Captain of a New Hampshire Company and served three months. He entered the service in July 1776 as Lieutenant in Captain David Quinby's Company, Colonel Wingate's New Hampshire Regiment and served four months. He enlisted in August 1778 and served one month as Orderly Sergeant in Captain David Quimby's Company under Major prov W
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M. H. Book John Calf in the New Hampshire Militia. He entered the service September 22, 1781 as Captain in Colonel Runnolds' New Hampshire Regiment and served until December 22, 1781. He was allowed pension on his application executed August 9, 1832 while a resident of Kingston, New Hampshire aged eighty-seven years. He died April 21, 1836. There is no data on file as to his family, Respectfully, SINFIELD SCOTT Commissioner.
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File No. 18268 INVALID. --- Capt Rear --- - Act: 13 Index: -- Vol. 1, Page 9 (Arrangement of 1870.) 1926 - - - Hist to Edith W Mack
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Rev. and 1812 War Section
12 Reservoir St
Lawrence, Mass.
Nov. 18, 1725
Department of the Interior
Bureau of Pensions
Washington D.C.
Dear Sirs:
Could you give me any information
concerning Jacob Webster of
Kingston, N.H. who served in the
war of the revolution? He was born
in 1774 and died sometime after 1835
probably. His wife was Elizabeth George.
Do your records give any dates
concerning these people or the names
of their children
Very truly yours
Edith W. Mark
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In Congress Exeter Nov 1775

To Jacob Webster GentGreeting
You are hereby empowered immediately to
Enlist a Company to consist of Ninety Six
able bodied & effective men well accouted with Arms
& Blanketts (Including Sarjiants & Corporals) as
as Soldier in the New Hampshire Service for the
Defence of Piscataqua Harbor for the Term of two
months unless discharged sooner. And you are hereby
Informed you shall be entitled to the command as
Captain of said Company when raised & to nominate
three person to serve as Subalterns under you & that
both officers & Soldiers shall be paid the same wages
as the Continental Troops are exclusive of Cott &
Blankets
.
By order of Congress
Nath Folsom President S. T.