Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 4436, Jacob Foulkrod, Penn.
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Penn.
Foulkrod, Jacob, Mary
W. 4436
B.L.W. 26923-160-55
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Pennsylvania 22635
Jacob Foulkrod
of Phila Co. in the State of Penna who was a Private in the Co commanded by Captain Neff of the Regt. commanded by Col. Moore in the Penna [illegible] for 10 mos.
Inscribed on the ROll of Penna at the rate of 33 dollars 33 cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 3r day of Nov. 1833 and sent to Hon. [illegible] Natmough [illegible] present
Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1833-83.33 Semi-anl. allowance ending [illegible] '34 16.67
$100.00
Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832
Recorded by [illegible] Palmer Clerk, Book Vol. 3 Page 19
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6224
Pennsylvania, PHila
Mary Foulkrod
widow of Jacob Foulkrod Penn who served in the Revolutionary war, as a private
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 33 dollars 33 cents per annum, to commence of the 29th Sept 1832
Certificate of Pension issued the 15th day of March 1834 and sent to Hon. John Robbins House of Reps
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 2, 1848, Page 222 Vol. 2
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[the following is in very dark obscured script, it might read]
Care of the Pension Assessors ? January 7 1858 111890, Act 3 March/55
May 1/55
Mary Foulkrod widow
Jacob Foulkrod Private
1776-8
Revolutionary War
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Penn Ref 48-6224
W Cohlner [possibly] esq 22156
B. O Dyer[?}
Vol. F.100 John Foulkrod
Frankford P.O.
Phil Co. Penn
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State of Pennsylvania
County of Philadelphia
On this sixth day of November A.D. 1833 personally appeared in open Court before the judges of that Court of Common Pleas, now sitting, Jacob Foulkrod a resident of Oxford Township, PA the County of Phil. and State fo Pennsylvania, aged seventy-three years on the 20th day of April and who being first duly sworn acording to law, do on his oath, make the following declarations, in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7th 1833. That he enter the service of the United States and served as herein stated under the following named officers towit that he entered Captain Neff's company of Uniformed Infantry in the year 1776 and marched to Amboy where he remained until discharged - that in the Spring of 1777 he entered Captain Leach's company of Penna Militia in Colonel Hiester's Regiment, attached to Sullivan's Brigade, with which he continued to serve during the greater half of that active campaign in June of 1777 - That after this ^ about the time the British army was supposed to have [illegible] at N. York he was ordered to Fort Mifflin where after a delay of about two weeks, he was marched to Wilmington, thence to Newport, State of Delaware where he was attached to Col. Moore's Regiment of Militia, with which Regiment he continued during the subsequent marches and retreat of the Army at the Battle of Germantown his corps was stationed at or near the SPring House Farm. He continued with the Army while it remained encamped at White Marsh and when at the close of the year, it removed from Whitemarsh to the Valley Forge
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the Company to which he belonged received its discharge & he returned home- This being in the latter end of December and constituting a period of [illegible] of eight months. That in the course of 1778. He was again called out and marched to a point on the Delaware above New Hope where his Regiment under Col. Moore net the Army of Burgoyne, captured at Saratoga on its March to Virginia and continued with it as a guard until relieved by the Virginia Militia. That he was again subsequently drafted and marched under the command of General Reed to [illegible]-town in Penna where he remained for the period of two months where the news reached them that Cornwallis had surrendered. He then returned home.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency or any State
Sworn to and subscribed
Nov. 16. 1833  Jacob Foulkrod
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that the said Courts do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after [illegible] the interrogatories prescribed by the War department, that the said applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states. And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that Frederick D. Schaffer who has signed the annexed certificate is a clergyman, resident of the City of Philadelphia and of the highest respectability, and that Jacob [illegible] ^ Rboert [illegible] and Andrew Keen who have also signed the annexed certificate are residents of the said County of Phila and are [illegible] and that their statements are entitled to [illegible]
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State of Pennsylvania } SS

On this twenty sixth day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty three personally appeared before me one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the County of Philadelphia, Mary Foulkrod a resident of Oxford Township and County of aforesaid, aged Eighty four years, being [illegible] who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the pension made by and of Congress pass February 2nd 1848 "Entitled [illegible] and making further provision for surviving widows of soldiers of the Revolution that she is the widow of Jacob Foulkrod who was a private int he army of the Revolution and who annually received a pension of thirty three 33/100 dollars whose Revolutionary claim is recorded in Book  E Vol 5th page 19 No 22635
She further declares that she was married to the said Jacob Foulkrod on the twenty fourth of March seventeen hundred and ninety one and that her husband the aforesaid Jacob Foulkrod died on the twenty ninth of September eighteen hundred and fifty two; that she not ^married to him previous to his leaving the service but the marriage took place previous to the first of January seventeen hundred and ninety four
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at the time above stated

Sworn and subscribed on the day and year above written 
Mary   her mark Foulkrod

before me Nicholas B[illegible] J.P.
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State of Pennsylvania }SS
Philadelphia County
I Edward Davison Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas held at Philadelphia in and for the City and County aforesaid do hereby certify that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited in said Court that Jacob Foulkrod was a pensioner of the United States at the rate of thirty three 33/100 dollars per annum was a resident of the County of Philadelphia in the State of Pennsylvania and died in the said County State of Pennsylvania in the year eighteen hundred and fifty two on the twenty ninth of September that he left a widow whose name is Mary Foulkrod and who was married to him on the 24th of March seventeen hundred and ninety one as the certificate copy of her marriage certificate annexed will show. She is now eighty four years of age and that Nicholas B[illegible] is a magistrate as above and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine
On testimony whereof I have here unto set my hand and affixed my seal of said office at Philadelphia this [illegible] day of January in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and fifty three
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I do certify that Jacob Volkroth and Maria Bauderman both single people of the County of Montgomery were lawfully joined together in holy matrimony on the twenty fourth day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety one. Witness my hand and seal given at Philadelphia this 24 day of March 1791  
Frederick Schmidt
Minister of the Gospel at Philadelphia

On this twenty sixth day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty three Personally apeared before me one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the County of Philadelphia the aforesaid Mary Foulkrod who on being first duly sworn according to law doth declare and say that the Original from which the above is a True Copy is her original marriage certificate with the said Jacob Foulkrod
Certified and Subscribed by me the day and year above written
Nicholas Brous, JP
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111890
Bounty Land Claim
of Mary Foulkrod
of Philad: County Penna
War of the Revolution
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State of Pennsylvania]SS
County of Philadelphia

On the seventeenth day of April A.D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty five, personally appeared before me Nicholas Brous a Justice of the Peace within and for the County and State aforesaid, Mary Foulkrod aged eighty seven years a resident of Philadelphia County in the State of Pennsylvania who being duly sworn according to law declares that she is the widow of Jacob Foulkrod deceased who was a private in the army of the Revolutionary war. That her said husband was under divers commanders during said war, that he was engaged in the Battle of Trenton in the latter part of the year 1776, in the battle of Brandywine in September 1777, in the battle of Germantown in Oct. 1777 and in the battle of Monmouth in June 1778, and in sundry other skirmishes during said war. 
She further states that she was married to the said Jacob Foulkrod in Philadelphia on the 24th day of March A.D. 1791, by one Frederick Schmidt, minister of the Gospel, and that her name before her said marriage was Mary Boudeman that her said husband died in Oxford Township, Philada County, and that she is now a widow. 
She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the Bounty Lands to which she may be entitled under the act approved March 3rd, 1855. She also declares that she had not received a Warranty for Bounty land under this or any other act of Congress nor made any other application therefor. 
Mary Foulkrod
her mark
Witness at signing
Sarah Cuckle
John Foulkrod

We, John Cuckel, a resident of Philadelphia County and John Foulkrod a resident of Philadelphia County in the State of Pennsylvania, upon our oath, delcare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by Mary Foulkrod in our presence and that we believe from the appearance and statements of the applicant, that she is the identical person she represents herself to be. And we further declare that we
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were personally acquainted with Jacob Foulkrod and his wife, the above named applicant, during the lifetime of the former, and know that they lived together as man and wife, and to be so reputed; that the above named husband is now dead, and the said Mary Foulkrod is now a widow and that we are disinterested witnesses
Sworn and subscribed this 17th day of April 1855 before me Nicholas Brous J.P.

John Cuckle
John Foulkrod

John Foulkrod, of the County of Philadelphia, surveyor, being duly sworn, I am the son of Jacob and Mary Foulkrod. My father died on the 29th day of September 1852, aged ninety two years and upwards. My mother survives and is now present. She is aged 87 years or thereabout. The written and printed paper which I exhibit to Nicholas Brous Equire, a Justice of the Peace for the County of Philadelphia and of which a copy is hereunot annexed is the property of my mother and is reputed by her family and myself to be her original certificate of marriage with my father. As such we desire to preserve it and I therefore do not annex the original. The man "Volkroth" as written in the marriage certificate is in the German Orthography for my family name. 
John Foulkrod
Sworn and subscribed this 17th day of April 1855 before me Nicholas Brous J.P.
I do certify that Jacob Volkroth and Maria Bouderman both single people of the County of Montgomery were lawfully joined together in holy Matrimony on the twenty fourth day of March in the year of Our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and ninety one.
Given at Philadelphia this 24 day of March 1791

Witness my hand and seal Frederick Schmidt
Minister of the Gospel at Philadelphia
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The above is a true copy of an ancient printed and written paper bearing the apparent character of a genuine certificate and as such I verily believe to be 
Witness my hand this 17th day of April 1855
Nicholas Brous, J.P.

The Commission of Pensions will please deliver or forward to John Foulkrod of Frankford, Philadelphia County, Penna as my attorney the warrant to which I may be entitled 
her mark
Mary Foulkrod
Witnesses present
Nicholas Brous
William R. Un[illegible]

State of Pennsylvania}SS
County of Philadelphia

I hereby certify that Nicholas Brous, Esq. before whom the foregoing declaration and affidavit were made and who had thereunto subscribed his name, was at the time of so doing a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, duly commissioned and qualified 
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of my office as Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of Said County, this Twenty first day of April A.D. 1853

Jas G Gibson Prothonotary
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John Foulkrod, of the county of Philadelphia, surveyor, being duly sworn, saith:
I am the son of Jacob and Mary Foulkrod. My father died on the twenty ninth day of September 1852, aged ninety two years and upwards. My mother survives, and is now present. She is aged eighty five years and upwards. The written and printed paper which I exhibit to Judge Kane, and of which a copy is hereunto annexed, is the property of my mother, and is printed by her family, and by myself to be her original certificate of marriage with my father. As such, we desire to preserve it, and I therefore do not annex the original. My father in his lifetime received a pension of thirty dollars and thirty three cents from the United States. I frequently collected it for him. The name "Volkroth" as written in the marriage certificate is in the German Orthography for my family name. 
John Foulkrod
Here sworn and subscribed by John Foulkrod this 4th day of March, A.D. 1854, before me,
J.K. Kane
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Certificate, referred to in the annexed deposition of John Foulkrod, copy

I do certify that Jacob Volkroth and Mary Bouderman both single people of the County of Montgomery were lawfully joined together in holy Matrimony on the twenty fourth day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety one.
Witness my hand and seal given at Philadelphia this 24 day of March 1791
Frederick Schmidt
Minister of the Gospel at Philadelphia

The above is a true copy of an ancient printed and written paper, bearing the apparent character of a genuine certificate 4 March 1854
J.K. Kane
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22635
Jacoby Foulkrod
Penn

Adm 10 months
$33.33

Hon J. G. Watmough, Present
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[standard form letter, with table at the bottom of the page]
War Department, Pension Office
20 Nov. 1833
Sir:
The evidence in support of your claim, under the act of June 7, 1832, has been examine, and the papers are herewith returned. The following is a statement of your case in a tabular form. On comparing these papers with the following rules, and the subjoined notes, you will readily perceive that objections exist, which must be removed, before a pension can be allowed. The notes and regulations will shew what is necessary to be done Those points to which your attention is more particularly directed, you will find marked in the margine with a brace, ( thus: }) You will, when you return your papers to this Department, send this printed letter with them; and you will, by compling with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your claim.
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[Table]
[Header] A Statement, shewing the Service of Jacob Foulkrod
[column headers] Period when service was rendered | Duration of the claimant's service | Rank of the Claimant | Names and rank of the Field officers under whom he served | Age at present and place of abode when he entered the service | Proof by which the declaration is supported
[data first row] 1777 | 8 mo | prvt | Capt Neff Col Moore | 73 years | Traditionary of Saving Witnesses
[data second row] '78 | [blank] | " | Same Col |
[data third row] [first col blank] | 2 mo | " | Gen Reed
[remainder of table is empty]
I am respectfully, Your obedient servant,
James L Edwards, Commissioner Pensions
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REGULATIONS UNDER THE ACT OF JUNE 7, 1832.
The following regulations have been adopted:
This law has been construed to extend, as well to the line, as to every branch of the Staff of the Army and to include under the terms "Continental Line," "State troops," "militia," and "volunteers," all persons enlisted, drafted, or who volunteered and who were bound to military service, but not those who were occasionally employed with the army upon civil contracts, such as Clerks to Commissaries and to Store Keepers, &c., Persons who served on board of private armed vessels are also excluded from the benefits of the law, as well as persons who turned out as patrols, or were engaged in guarding particular places at night, and were not recognized as being in actual military service.
Four general classes of cases are embraced in this law:
1. The Regular Troops.
2. The State Troops, Militia, and Volunteers.
3. Persons employed in the Naval Service.
4. Indian Spies.
As rolls of the regular troops in the Revolutionary War exist in this Department, all persons claiming the benefit of this law as officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians or privates, will, in the first instance, make application by transmitting the following declaration, which will be made before a Court of Record of the County where such applicant resides. And every Court having by law a seal and Clerk is considered a Court of Record.
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alleged service, as they are know at the Department. A very full account of the services of each person will be indispensable to a favorable action upon his case. The facts stated will afford one of the principal means of corroborating the declaration of the applicant, if true, of or detecting the imposition, if one be at-tempted; and unless, therefore, these are amply and clearly set forth, no favorable decision can be expected. All applicants will appear before some Court of Record in the County in which they reside, and there subscribe and be sworn to, on of the declarations above provided, according to the nature of his case.
The Court will propound the following (m)interrogatories to all applicants for a pension, on account of service in the Militia, State troops, or Volunteers, except the Militia of New Hampshire and the State troops of Virginia.
1. Where and what year were you born?
2. Have you any record of your age, and if so, where is it?
3 Where were you living when called into service; where have you lived since the Revolutionary war , and where do you now live?
4.How were you called into service; were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute? And if a substitute, for whom?
5. State the names of some of the Regular Officers, who were with the troops, where you served; such Continental Militia Regimens as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your services.
6{ To a Soldier.{ Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so, by whom was it giv-en, and what has become of it?
{ To an Officer. { Did you ever receive a commission, and if so, by whom was it signed, and what has become of it?
7. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can testify as to your character for veracity, and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution. 
The Court will see that the answers to these questions are embodied in the declaration, and they are requested to annex their opinions of the truth of the statement of the applicant.  The applicant will further produce in Court, if the same can be done, in the opinion of the Court, without too much expense and inconvenience to him, two respectable persons-one of whom should be the nearest clergyman, if one lives in the immediate vicinity of such applicant, who can testify, from their acquaintance with him, that they believe he is of the age he represents, and that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood to have been a Revolutionary soldier, and that they concur in that opinion. If one on these persons is a Clergyman, the Court will so certify, and they will also certify to the character standing of other persons giving such certificates. The traditionary evidence of service is deemed very important, in the absence of any direct proof, except the declaration of the party. And the Courts are requested to be very particular in the inquiry whether the belief is general, and whether any doubts have ever existed upon the subject. Applicants unable to appear in Court, by reason of bodily infirmity, may make the declaration before (paper creased) required, and submit to the examination, before a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record of the proper county, and the Judge or Justice will execute the duties, which the Court is herein requested to perform, and will also certify that the applicant cannot, from bodily infirmity, attend the Court. Whenever any official act is required to be done by a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or by a Justice of the Peace, the certificate of the Secretary of State or Territory, or of the proper Clerk of the Court or County, under his seal of office, will be annexed, stating that such person is a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or a Justice of thee Peace, and that the signature annexed is his genuine signature. No payments can be made on account of the services of any person, who may have died before the taking effect of the acto of June 7, 1832; and in case of death subsequent thereto, and before the declaration herein required is made, the parties interested will transmit such evidence as they can procure, taken and authenticated before a Court of Record, showing the services of the dec(page creased) period of his death, the option of the neighborhood respecting such services, the title of the claimant, and opinion of he Court upon the whole matter.
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Standard Form Letter

REVOLUTIONARY WAR RECORDS SECTION
3-525
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
BUREAU OF PENSIONS
W.F. 4436 Washington, D.C._______19___

In reply to your request of_____, received____
for a statement of the history of Jacob Foulkrod a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.
(6 Columns)
1. Dates of enlistment or appointment- 1776; Spring 1777; Dec. 1777; 1778; 1781
2. Length of service checked; checked; 8 mos.; checked; 2 mos.
3. Rank- Pvt.
4. Officers under whom service was rendered: Captain or Colonel-
Neff: Leach, Heister; checked, Moore; checked, Moore, checked, General Reed
5. State-Penna.

Battles engaged in- Trenton, Brandywine, Germantown & Monmanth
Residence of soldier at enlistment-not stated
Date of application for pension-Nov. 6.1833, His ct. was allowed
Residence at date of application-Oxford Twp., Phila. co., Penna.
Age at date of application-born April 20, 1760
died Sept. 29, 1852 in Oxford Twp., Phila. Co., Pa.
Remarks: He married Mch 24, 1791, in Philadelphia Miss Mary Bauderman She was al. pension on an app. ex. Mch 4, 1854 while a resident of Philadelphia. co., Pa. aged 85 years. Son John survived his father. No other family data.

Respectfully, 
Commissioner.
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June 10, 1952
BA-J/MLB
XXXXXXXXXXXX
JACOB FOULKROD
W. 4456

Mrs. D. F. Polison
119 Main Street
Troy, Pennsylvania

Dear Madam,

Reference is made to your letter relative to Jacob Foulkrod, a soldier of the Revolutionary War.

The data which follow were obtained from the papers on file in pension claim, W. 4456, based upon the military service of Jacob Foulkrod in the Revolutionary War.

He was born April 20, 1760, place not stated.

He enlisted in 1776 and served until discharged, date not stated, as a private in Captain Neff's Pennsylvania company and was in the battle of Trenton. He enlisted in the spring of 1777, served as private in Captain Leach's company, Colonels Hiester's and Moore's Pennsylvania regiments, was in the battles of Brandywine and Germantown and was discharged the latter part of December, 1777, having served eight months. He enlisted in 1778, served until relieved by the Virginia militia, dates not stated, as a private in Colonel Moore's Pennsylvania regiment, was in the battle of Mommouth and other skirmishes not designated. He also served two months in 1781 under the command of General Reed.

He was allowed pension on his application executed November 16, 1835, at which time he was a resident of Oxford Township, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania.

He died September 29, 1852, in Oxford Township, Pennsylvania.

Jacob Foulkrod married March 24, 1791, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Miss Maria or Mary Bauderman. They were
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both of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. In their marriage certificate the soldier's name was given as Jacob Volkroth. 

Soldier's widow, Mary, was allowed pension on her application executed January 26, 1865,  at which time she was aged eighty-four years and a resident of Oxford Township, Pennsylvania.

In 1856, John Foulkord, son of Jacob and Mary Foulkrod, was living in Frankford, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,  and in 1855 was a surveyor in that place.  

There are no further family data in the claim. 

Very truly yours 

A.D. HILLER
Assistant to Administrator 

- 2 -
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(In a Box at top left hand side)
This Bureau can furnish the military record of only such Revolutionary soldiers as were pensioned or whose widows were pensioned for their services.
Such of the original muster and pay rolls of the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812 are in the possession (unreadable) Pension Office, War Department. Original rolls and other records pertaining to service in the Revolutionary War may also be found on file in the archives of many of the original States. 

O. W. & N. DIV. 
REVOLUTIONARY.

(Top right corner)
L. W. B.
W. 4436.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
BUREAU OF PENSIONS,
WASHINGTON, D. C. 

August 9th, 1899.

Madam,
In response to your recent communication you are advised that owing to the fact that there is no appropriation for carrying on the so called Revolutionary work, and to a pressure of the regular and more important work of the Bureau, your request for a copy of the application on file in the Revolutionary war pension claim of Mary, widow of Jacob Foulkrod, must be denied.

Very respectfully, 
Commissioner

Miss E. Clifford Neff,
361 Russell Avenue,
Cleveland, Ohio.
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Troy. Bradford Co.
Pa

Pension Dept.-
Kindly inform me if only one Jacob Foulkrod of Philadelphia a fifer under George Washington in the Rev. War received a pension-also if the following Silas Lyman b. 1762 Ardour, Ct. m. Lydia Hutchinson--and Jacob Lyman b. Lebanon Ct. 1721 & m. 1745 Mehitake Bushnell of Lebanon and moved to Andoure Ct. received pensions
Thanking you for same
Very Truly
Mrs. D. F. Rolison
119 Main St

May 3/32
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Rev War
mx

(rubber postal stamp)
PENSION OFFICE 
US
FEB 19 1919

Youngstown, O, Feb. 17.

U. S. Com. of Pensions
Washington, D.C.

Sir:
I am applying for membership in the N. S. D. A. R. and would like any records of Jacob
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source of information for proof of his service, it would be greatly appreciated.

Very truly yours, 

Mabel M. Hassler

(Mrs. Eugene B.)

19 Chicago Cir.
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(Folded document two sides)

Left side

Aug. 9'94
Miss E. C. Neff
Cleveland, Ohio
1919 Mch. 1 Hist. to Mts. Eugene B. Hassler (Mabel M.)
1932-June 10-Hist. to Mrs. D. F. Rolison-HLB.

Right side

Revy WIDOW, &c.
_________________
File No. 4436
Mary Foulkrod
Widow
Jacob Foulkrod
Pvt. Rev. War
________________
Act: Feby 2d 1848

Index:-Vol. A, Page 245

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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(unreadable)
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rubber postal stamp
FRANKFORT Pa
APR 30

Free

Hon. L. P. Waldo
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City,
D. C. 

sideways on envelope top to botton
111890
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Feb 1. 1853
Appl. of Mary Foulkrod widow of Jacob 
Pa.

Act 2d Feb. 1848

Hon J Robbins, Jr.
P Reps

written underneath in pencil
Feb 1 53
J (unreadable)

written up and down top to bottom
J. Robbins
Jas. E. Heath
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
DC
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written sidewards botton to top
Feb 1. 1853 
Appl. of Mary Foulkrod 
widow of Jacob  
Pa.  Act 2d Feb. 1848  
Hon J Robbins, Jr. 
H Reps  

written underneath in pencil 
Feb 1 53 J (unreadable)  

written across
 J. Robbins 
Jas. E. Heath 
Commissioner of Pensions 
Washington 
DC
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Miss Katharine Edith MacGeorge
438 Broadway
Camden, New Jersey

9 pp at .50- $4.50
6 pp at .30-    1.80
     Total        $6.30
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Col. James L. Edwards-

Commissioner of Pensions
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Dear Sir

I enclose you the declaration & accompanying documents of Jacob Foulkrod, a Soldier of the Revolution. I have endeavored to obviate trouble by causing the papers to be drawn with all care & precision-
I hope it will be in your power to forward them,
with Whitings Shearers', & Keens before Thursday next as on that day I propose to set out for Washington-
I am Sir,
With much respect
Your obt. ser.
Jno. G. Watmore
Philad' Nov. 16. 1833

Col. James L. Edwards
Com. of Pensions-

33.33 1/2
_________
66.66
16.67
______________
83.33
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House of Reps.
Washington
Feby 2. 1853

Hon: Jas. E. Heath

Sir:
I herein enclose the application of Jacob Foulkrod of the County of Phila. State of Penna. a Revolutionary Soldier, who has received a Pension for his service for several years past-he died as stated in the papers last autumn-for a Pension as his Widow.
Your attention to this case will greatly oblig'l

Yours respectfully
John Robbins, Jr.
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Brief in the Case of Mary Foulkrod wid. of John 
Philadelphia County and State of Pennsylvania
act Feby 2. 1848
_________________________________________
Claim ("original,"  crossed off or "for increase")

Proof exhibited, (if original)

Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance.

Husband was a pensioner at the rate of-$33.33 per annum. He died Sept. 29. 1852 as proven by affidavit of Son & certificate of Hon. John Dobbins who knew them well. Marriage March 4 1791- as proven by (word crossed through) marriage certificate-Pension allowed the claimant at the rate of $33.33 per annum from Sept 29. 1852 during life-payable to widow.
(If for increase.) Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so what?

Hon. John Robbins
Name and residence of Agent
House of Reps.

A. H. Evans
Examining Clerk
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N.

Mary Foulkrod
widow of 
Jacob of Penn.
_____________________

Pvt. $33.33 per
Annum from Sept
29. 1852--time of Jacobs
death, during life--
______________________
Payable to widow
_______________________



Hon. John Robbins
H of Reps.
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Frankford March 6th 1854

Dear Sir

I enclose you the application of my Mother for a pension; every thing I believe is done in the Way of proof of that this law requires and I should presume without any further affidavits- You Will perceive that it was done before one of the District Judges of the United States, and one who is Certainly known by the department Who is to act and decide on the validity of the application-You will please send the application to the proper Office for action, a former application have been made but during to Some informality in the proof of the marriage which was not set forth or proven satisfactorily was not acted on by the pension agent. The present application is intended to Supersede the former, on the Subject- If you can further or hasten the action of the department in the matter (having a general knowledge of the family) you will much oblige-
I have got tolerable well again but have not acquired the Strength I had before I got sick-I have done comparatively little in Epislolatory correspondence this winter, and that is one reason I neglected to that you for the valuable public documents you were so kind as to send me, you will therefore excuse the neglect at the time of Reception and accept my thanks for the favor now-you perceive by the papers that the friends of Consolidation are to have a great feed this week-
The
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The Governor and Legislature are invited and I understand will attend- This consolidation business in my opinion is going to work badly for the Democratic Party in the New City--I think the Whigs and natives will unite, and if so, will elect their candidate for mayor. Who by the bill is invested with great power which will be exercised against the Democratic Party, they will combine in order to Share the Offices between them, that they think half a loaf is better than no bread---
Any Communication that may be addressed to you by the Pension Offices you will please forward to me. I mean only that Relates to mothers pension--
Excuse the trouble I am putting you to-and accept  my best wishes for your Welfare-
Yours Respectfully
John Foulkrod

Hon. John Robbins, Jun.

P. S. Let me hear from you soon.
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I, Frederick D. Schaffer, a clergyman, residing in the City of Philadelphia, hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Jacob Foulkrod, who has signed and sworn to the annexed declaration, that I believe him to be Seventy three years of age; the he is respected and believed in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the revolution and that I concur in that opinion--
Frederick D. Schaffer
Pastor of the German Lutheran 
Congregation in and near 
the City of Philadelphia

Affirmed & subscribed before the 15th of Nov 1833 A D 
Andrew Geyere 

I Robert Worrell residing in the County of Philadelphia. hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Jacob Foulkrod, who has subscribed & sworn to the annexed declaration-That I knew him well served with him during the revolution, that he was then a brave & active Soldier & did his duty faithfully as detailed in his declaration that I believe him to be seventy three years of age that I have since lived in the same County with him, where he is reputed & believed to have been a Soldier of the revolution & further that from my personal knowledge of the fact, concur the said opinion-
Robt. Worrell
Sworn and Subscribed this 15th Nov 1833
Robt Worrell sworn before me Isaac Shallcross JP
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Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
County of Philadelphia SS

I Richard Palmer Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas for the City & County of Philadelphia Do hereby Certify that Samuel Weyant Esq. & Isaac Shallcross Esquire are two of the Justices of the Peace for the County of Philadelphia and that Andrew Geyer Esquire is an Alderman of the City of Philadelphia and Ex officer a Justice of the Peace, all of whom have
been duly Commissioned and Qualified and that 
full faith and credit is justly due to all and such of their acts as Such.
In Witness whereof I have hereto Set my name and affixed the Seal of Said Court this Sixteenth Day of November AD 1833
Richard Palmer
Prothy.
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We, Andrew Keen & Jacob Snyder, residing in the County of Philadelphia & the first mentioned Andrew Keen, being unable from bodily infirmity from appearing in open Court, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Jacob Foulkrod, who has subscribed & sworn to the annexed declaration-that we knew him well & served with him during the revolution that he was then a brave & active Soldier and did his duty faithfully as detailed in said declaration that we believe him to be seventy three years of age that we have since lived in the same County with him where he is reputed & believed to have been a Soldier of the revolution & further that we from our own personal knowledge of the fact, concur in said opinion--
Jacob Snyder
X his mark

Andrew Keen
X his mark

Sworn & subscribed this 15th day of November 1833 before me the subscriber one of the Justices of the Peace in & for the County of Philadelphia. & State of Pennsylvania
Saml Weyant
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These papers sent to Hon. L. P. Waldo by John Robbins Jr  H R Mach 18/54
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It is hereby certified that on this fourth day of March, A. D. 1854, came before me in open Court Mary Foulkrod and John Foulkrod, to me known as residents of the county of Philadelphia, of good character and standing, who being duly sworn did depose in manner as in the annexed papers is set forth, and did exhibit to me the original of a certain printed and written certificate of marriage, bearing marks of authenticity, of which certificate a copy by me compared is annexed to the deposition of John Foulkrod. 
As witness my hand: 4 Mar. 1854
J. R. Kane
U. S. Judge of the E. D. of Penna.
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State of Pennsylvania
County of Philadelphia SS

On the fourth day of March A. D. 1854 personally appeared before me John K. Kane, Judge of the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania Mary Foulkrod a resident of Pennsylvania in the County of Philadelphia aged Eighty five years and upwards who being duly Sworn according to Law, doth on her Oath make the following declaration in Order to Obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the Act of Congress passed the 2nd day of February 1848 granting pensions to Widows of persons who Served during the Revolutionary War, That she is the widow of Jacob Foulkrod, who was a private in the army of the Revolution, and that he Received a pension of Thirty three dollars and thirty three Cents per annum from the United States payable half yearly on the 4th day of March and the 4th day of September in every Year as will appear by the annexed Copy of a Certificate hereto annexed. The original of which is on file in the War department at Washington. She further declares that she was married to the said Jacob Faulkrod On the 24th day of March 1791, that her husband the aforesaid Jacob Foulkrod died on the 29th day of September 1852, that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first day January 1794 to wit at the time above Stated.
She further declares that she is still a widow.

Mary Foulkrod
X her mark

Thus sworn and subscribed this 4th day of March, A. D. 1854, by Mary Foulkrod in my presence.
J. K. Kane
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"War Department"
Revolutionary Claim"

I Certify that in Conformity with the law of the United States of the 7th June 1832, Jacob Foulkrod of the State of Pennsylvania, who was a private in the army of the Revolution is entitled to Receive Thirty three dollars and thirty three Cents per annum during his natural life Commencing on the 4th of March 1831 and payable semi-annually in the 4th of March and 4th of September in every Year. 

Given at the War Office of the United States this twenty third day November One thousand eight hundred and thirty three

Lewis Cass
Secretary of War

Examined and Countersigned 
J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
(Endorsed No. 22.635)