Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 6217, for Jacob Sikes, Vermont
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STATE OF VERMONT,
RUTLAND COUNTY, ss. }
On this 14th day of August A.D. 1832 personally appeared in open Court before the Judge of the Probate Court of the District of Fairhaven now sitting, Jacob Sikes a resident of the County of Rutland and State of Vermont, aged 74 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 act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832. 
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated. That in the month of January 1776 he enlisted for two months in a Regiment Commanded by Col. Woolcott, - Lieut Colo. Guy - Assistant Chester - Capt. John Harmon - Lieutenant Samuel Granger Ensign Morrison - That at the time he entered the service he resided in Suffield in the County of Hartford in the State of Connecticut & Marched from there to Roxbury Massachusetts   and was discharged into that place on the first day of April having served two months, but received no written discharge - That in the month of August 1776 he was called into service with the militia in a Regiment commanded by Maj'r Newbury & marched from Suffield afs'd to New Haven Connecticut & went from there by water to New York at which he lay with his Regiment at the time the battle was fought on Long Island & helped bring off the American Troops from the Island - That soon after he marched to Kings Bridge where he remained some time, when he was discharged having served three months - His Company was commanded by Lieutenant Samuel Harmon (The Capt. being in the Continental army). The Ensign was Isaac Pomeroy - That in January 1777 he entered the  service in a Regiment of militia raised in Massachusetts by draft as a substitute for a man whose name was Dickinson of Hadley. Capt. Nathaniel Rowley - Lieutenant Burt. - Ensign Isaac W Justice - The company marched from Springfield through Great Barrington Mass to Albany N.Y. from thence up to the North River to [illegible] at the head of Lake Champlain. from which place he went on the Ice to Ticonderoga where he remained until his time of service expired having served three months. That the Tories at that place were commanded by Col. Wayne 
That in the summer of 1777 he was again called into service in the militia & Joined his company at Windsor Connecticut