Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 3346, for Nicholas Jacoby, Pennsylvania
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Service     Penn                

Jacoby, Nicholas           
Barbara

Number  W. 3346
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18,828

Pennsylvania

Nicholas Jacoby

of Adams Cy in the State of Pen who was a Private in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Butler of the Pen line, for the term of 1780 War

Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 12 of August 1822

Certificate of Pension issued 5 of Dec 1822 and  Sent to Honorable James McSherry, Ho. Rep

Arrears to 4th of Sept 1822                       
Semi anl. all'cr ending 4 March 1823  
 6.22
48                                                                 
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$54.22

20/31    6/30
5.16                                    {Revolutionary claim,
                                          Act 18th March,1818}
1.  6
____
6.22

[Handwritten calculations with an illegible signature]
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Rep. Sec letter
   to JE Buchanan  July 28 1845.

7164.
Philadelphia,Penn.

Barbara Jacoby, decd widow of Nicholas Jacoby who was a Private Pnd Catherine ennsylvania line in the Revolution
Payable to Henry Jacoby, Andrew Jacoby, Elizabeth Riffle, Margaret Little, and Catherine Slonaker, children of said decd

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 80 Dollars ------- Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843. and end 5 September, 1843, when she died

Certificate of Pension issued the 23 day of July 1845 and sent to J. E. Buchanan
York,
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Copy Record
Nicholas Jacoby


[handwritten illegible word struck through]

Mr. McSherry     81¢
H.R.
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State of Pennsylvania Adams County Seat
On this twelfth day of August 1822 personally appeared in open Court, being a Court of Record, for said County, Nicholas Jacoby of Mountjoy township in the County of Adams and State of Pennsylvania aged sixty one years, now and for many years a resident of said County of Adams, who being duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows  he enlisted as he believes tho he cannot exactly remember the time in the year 1798 in the company commanded by Captain Craig and was afterwards transferred to Captain Findley in the regiment commanded by Col. William Butler being the 3rd Regiment of the Pennsylvania line, in the service of the United States, and continued in the army till the end of the war (more than one year) when he was regularly discharged 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 in any manner disposed of my property, or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of the 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 hath any person, for trust for me, any property or sureties contract or debts due to me, nor have I any income, other than what is contained in the Schedule hereto annexed by me subscribed --

I have no property of any kind or description except Bed + bedding for my family, which is of very little value, I have a wife and four children two boys and two girls, who as yet generally reside with me. One girl is 22 years of age, one 18 one of the Boys is 16 the other 14 years of age, the boys I intend lending to trades, neither of them able to contribute much towards my support --

Sworn to and declared on the 12th day of August 1822 in Open Court before Wm. McClellan Jr Prothy of the Court of Common Pleas

Nicholas Jacoby
 x evidently an [illegible word] of the Clerk - Applicants name on Rolls as he states -- the claim admitted
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Adams County Seat, William McClellan Jr. Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Adams in the State of Pennsylvania Do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of said court. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court at Gettysburg on this thirteenth day of September A D 1822

Wm McClellan Jr. Prothy
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State of Pennsylvania
Adams County SS

On this Twenty-seventh day of May Anno Domini One thousand Eight Hundred and Forty five (1845) personally appeared before me the Inscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said county George Mill Esquire who being duly sworn according to Law doth say that in the Church Register of the German reformed Church, called "Christ's Church", situate in the Township of {illegible name}   (formerly Germany) in the County of Adams aforesaid:  wherein is contained the record of births & baptisms of children, who have been baptised in said congregation in the following entries appear

Born and Baptised

Born - December Twenty Eighth in the year Seventeen Hundred and Eighty Eight, Elizabeth, child of Nicholas and Barbara Jacoby - Baptised February the eighth in the year Seventeen Hundred and Eighty Nine - Sponsors - William Maus and Elizabeth -

Born  - November Thirtieth in the year Seventeen Hundred and Ninety, Solomon, child of Nicholas and Barbara Jacoby - Baptised February Sixteenth in the year Seventeen Hundred and Ninety one - Sponsors - Ludwick Eichelberger and Elizabeth -

Born - January First in the year Seventeen Hundred and Ninety three - Hannah - child of Nicholas and Barbara Jacoby - Baptised April Fourteenth in the year Seventeen Hundred Ninety three - Sponsors - Jacob Farr and Hannah -

Born December Sixth in the year Seventeen Hundred and Ninety four - Mariah Catherine, child of Nicholas and Barbara Jacoby - Baptised March Twenty Second in the year Seventeen Hundred and Ninety five - Sponsors - Jacob Gilbert and Mariah Elizabeth -

Born - December Twenty Sixth in the year Seventeen Hundred Ninety six Margaret child of Nicholas and Barbara Jacoby - Baptised December Twenty Sixth in the year Seventeen Hundred and Ninety six  Sponsor Christiana Gilbert Single Woman -

Which I the said George Mill certify to be a true copy of the record, with the exceptions of the dates which are
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Expressed in the record in fair, legible figures as follows

Born & Baptized             Parents                     Children           Sponsors

Born Dec. 28th 1788      Nicholas Jacoby     Elizabeth          William Maus
Bapt 8th Feby. 1789        &Barbara                                           &Elizabeth

Born Nov. 20th 1790     Nicholas Jacoby       Solomon          Ludk Eichelberger
Bapt Feby 16 1791         &Barbara                                             &Elizabeth

Born Jany 1st 1793        Nicholas Jacoby       Hannah            Jacob Farr
Bapt April 14th 1793     &Barbara                                             &Hannah

       Dec 6th 1794            Nicholas Jacoby       Mariah           Jacob  Gilbert
       March 22 1795         &Barbara                  Catherine          &Maria Elizabeth

    Dec 26th 1796            Nicholas Jacoby       Margaretta     Christiana Gilbert
Bapt Dec 26th 1796       &Barbara                                            Single Woman

I George Mills above named do further depose and say that I hold of the office of Secretary of the Board of Consistory of the German Reformed Church called "Christ's Church" in the township of Union in the County of Adams aforesaid and State of Pennsylvania - that the record of said church containing births and baptisms of children is now in my possession by virtue of my said offices - and that the above extracts from the record of said church are true with the Exceptions above named as certified by me -  Deponent further Insists that the forenamed Nicholas Jacoby and Barbara his wife have been personally known to him/deponent for many years as man and wife - during all which times they were attendants as worshippers at the above named church called "Christ's Church"
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and that the said Nicholas Jacoby was a United States pensioner living in Adams County aforesaid -
                                                                 Geo Mills
Sworn and Subscribed
Before me
Samuel Durboraw


State of Pennsylvania
Adams County SS

I Samuel Durboraw, the Justice of the Peace before whom the foregoing and annexed depositions were taken, do certify that I am well acquainted with the deponents George Mills and David Shuster - that they are men of the most respectable character and are entitled to credibility and belief - I further certify that Nicholas Jacoby named in said depositions was a United States pensioner living in Adams County aforesaid.

May 29th 1845              Samuel Durboraw
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State of Pennsylvania
Adams County SS


J Joel B Danner
Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas in and of for said County do certify that Samuel Durboraw Esquire before whom the accompanying affidavits were taken, is, and was at the time of the taking thereof, a Justice of the Peace in and of for said county, duly commissioned and qualified to act as such - and that the signatures foregoing purporting to  he  his are genuine -

Intestimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand {seal located in left corner covers several words but continues } the seal of said Court at Gettysburg this Fifth (5th) day of June 1845.

JBDanner , Prothy
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11485

Barbara Jacoby decd
Pa
Act of July '38

M 86 @32
woman died 5 Sept 1843
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State of Pennsylvania 
Adams County S.S.
            On this Twenty fifth day of November in the year of our Lord One thousand Eight Hundred and Forty four, personally appeared in open Court Samuel Little, who being first duly sworn according to Law doth make the following declaration in the name of Barbara Jacoby deceased, in order to obtain benefits of the Act of Congress posted July 7th 1808 entitled "an act granting half pay and pensioned to certain widows"
   That this declarant is the son-in-law of the said Barbara Jacoby deceased, being intermarried with Margaret, one of the daughters of the said Barbara, that he and his said wife live together as man and wife, that he is a resident of the County of Adams aforesaid -- that the said Barbara at the time of her death was also a resident of said county -- aged about Seventy Six years, and was the widow of Nicholas Jacoby, who during his life time was while living in Adams County aforesaid, on the list of United States Pensions at the rate of ninety six dollars per year having been pensioned for services as a soldier of the Revolutionary War - He further says that the said Barbara was married to the said Nicholas some time in the year 1786 --  That her husband the aforesaid Nicholas Jacoby died on the First day of November Anno Domini Eighteen Hundred and thirty two - that the said Barbara died on the Fifth day of September Eighteen Hundred and Forty three and left the following children towith Henry Jacoby, Andrew Jacoby, Elizabeth who was intermarried with Leonard Riffle deceased, Margaret who is intermarried with Samuel Little (this declarant) and Catherine who is intermarried with John Slonaker all of whom, at the time of the death of the said Barbara, resided, and still do reside in the County of
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Adams aforesaid - That the said Barbara was not married to the said Nicholas prior to the time he left the services, but before the first day of January AD 1794 at the time above stated.

Samuel Little


Sworn to and Subscribed in open Court Nov 25 1844 Before me
JBDanner Proty

State of Pennsylvania
Adams County S.S.

J Joel B Danner Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas in and aforesaid County do hereby certify that the foregoing declaration, was made in open Court, and that it has been satisfactorily proven to said Court by Competent Evidence - that Barbara Jacoby was the wife of Nicholas Jacoby - That she was married to him sometime about the year Seventeen Hundred and Eighty Six (1786)  That the said Nicholas was, while living in Said County a United States Pensioner at the rate of Ninety Six dollars per year - that he died on the First day of November, in the year Eighteen Hundred and Thirty two - that his widow the said Barbara died on the Fifth (5th) day of September in the year Eighteen Hundred and Forty three (1843) and left the following children that is to say Henry, Andrew, Elizabeth, who was inter married with Leonard Riffle deceased, Margaret who is intermarried with Samuel Little, and Catharine who is intermarried with John Slonaker - all of whom reside
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in the County of Adams, and State of Pennsylvania afore said and that eldest of the forenamed children to with Elizabeth (who was the third child) is now over Fifty four years of age -

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of Said Court at Gettysburg this Twenty fifth day of November  Anno Domini One thousand Eight Hundred and Forty Four (1844 -


JBDanner Prothonotary
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WAR DEPARTMENT
Revolutionary Claim

I certify that, in conformity with the law of the United States, of the 3d March 1843, Barbara Jacoby deceased, late of Pennsylvania, widow of Nicholas Jacoby, who was a Private in the Revolution, was entitled to a pension at the rate of Eighty Dollars per annum, and having died on the 5 September 1863, the amount due from the 4th March 1843 to the time of her death, is payable to Henry Jacoby, Andrew Jacoby, Elizabeth Riffle, Margaret Little and Catherine Slonaker, children of said Barbara Jacoby, deceased.


Given at the War Office of the United States,
this 23  day of July one thousand eight hundred and forty-five.

Secretary of War
Examined and Countersigned}
Commissioner of Pensions
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REV.  {added by hand upper left corner}

WIDOW, &c.

File No.   3346
Barbara Jacoby
Widow
Nicholas Jacoby
Pri Rev. War

Act:  March 3, 1843

Index: --Vol.   A , Page 370

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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11 4 85

Barbara Jacoby

Penn.
{illegible name}
Jany 8th 1805


{illegible word} to same Apl 11 '85

Act July 7th 1838
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State of Pennsylvania
Adams County S.S.

{sealed stamped here}

J Joel B Danner Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County do hereby certify that in the matter of the application of the heirs of Barbara Jacoby deceased late of Said County for a Pension, that satisfactory evidence has been produced to Said Court, to show that there is no record, or documentary evidence in existence to prove the marriage of said Barbara to Nicholas Jacoby - that diligent search has been made to discover such testimony without success - that it is satisfactorily proven to Said Court by the affidavits of Credible Witnesses, that Said Nicholas and Barbara were known as man and wife upwards of Fifty-Five years ago - That their oldest child now living to wit Elizabeth - who was their third child is now upwards of Fifty four (54) years of age - and that they the Said  Barbara and Nicholas who married about the year (1786) Seventeen Hundred and Eighty Six - And I do further certify that Samuel Durboraw before whom the foregoing affidavits were taken is, and was at the times of the taking of the same a Justice to the Peace in and forsaid County - duly elected, commissioned and qualified - and his signature to said affidavits and his certificate are genuine -

JBDanner Prothonotary
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State of Pennsylvania
Adams County SS

Personally appeared before me the subscriber one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said County Samuel Little who being duly sworn according to Law saith that he has made diligent and careful search to discover any record of Evidence of the Marriage of Nicholas Jacoby and Barbara Jacoby and that no such Evidence can be found either by Church or Family Records. That there is reason to believe that no such evidence exists and that their marriage only be shown by the length of time they have lived as man and wife and from the ages of their children, that the said Barbara Jacoby & Nicholas Jacoby have been known as man and wife for more than fifty five years, and Elizabeth their third child now living who is known to deponent is now over the age of fifty four years

Samuel Little

Sworn and Subscribed   }
this 23rd day of Jany 1845}
Samuel Durboraw Esq

Adams County SS

I Samuel Durboraw the Justice of the Peace before whom the deponents in the foregoing several affidavits were sworn to Do Certify that the said deponents are worthy of credibility and belief and that their signatures are genuine - and further that I have made diligent search myself to discover any record of the Marriage of Nicholas & Barbara Jacoby & that no such Record can be found, & I believe that no such Evidence exists, in this County where the said Nicholas & Barbara Jacoby have resided for more than Fifty years

Samuel Durboraw Esq
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{illegible letters} Jacoby Pension



{written on back of another letter}
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State of Penn
Adams County SS
Personally appeared before me the subscriber one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said County Elizabeth  Sheely and Mary Riffle who being duly sworn according to Law doth depose and say that they were acquainted with Nicholas Jacoby and Barbara Jacoby his wife that to the best of their knowledge they were married sometime about the year 1786 and that they have known them as man and wife above fifty five years ago and further saith that the said Nicholas was a United States Pensioner while living in said County that he died about twelve years ago that the said Barbara Jacoby his widow died on the fifth day of September 1843 and left the following children
Margaret Intermarried with Samuel Little Elizabeth who was intermarried with Leonard Riffle and Catherine Intermarried with John Slonaker Henry Jacoby and Andrew Jacoby all of whom now reside in Adams County & State of Pennsylvania aforesaid and that the eldest of the aforesaid children, Elizabeth, (being their third child) is now over 54 years of age

              her mark
Elizabeth X Sheely

         her mark
Mary X Riffle

Sworn & subscribed before}
me the 23rd day of Nov 1844}
Samuel Durboraw Esq
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York Penna
February 3rd 1845

Sir

In the case of the heir of Mrs. Barbara Jacoby late of Adams Co Penna, claiming a pension under the act of July 7 1838 I enclose additional  evidence showing the marriage to the soldier before 1794 as requested by your letter of Jany 8th last

Would not the heir of Mrs Jacoby entitled to a portion of the pension granted by the act of March 3rd 1843 she having died on the 5th Sept of that year?

Very respectfully yours,
JE Buchanan

JL Edward Esq
Court of Pensions
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York Penna.
Nov 29th 1844

Sir

I enclose you the declaration of the heirs of Mrs Barbara Jacoby claiming a pension under the act of July 7 1838

Very respectfully yours,
JE Buchanan

JL Edwards Esq
Court of pensions
Washington DC
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State of Pennsylvania

Adams County SS

On the twenty-seventh day of May in the year 1845 Personally appeared before the subscriber a Justice of the peace in and for said County David Shriver who being duly sworn according to Law doth say that he is one of the Elders and by virtue of his Eldership a Member of the Board of Consistory in the German Reformed Church called Christ Church in the Fellowship of Union in the county of Adams and state of Pennsylvania and that George Will Esq is the secretary of said Board of Consistory and further saith not

D. Shriver

Sworn & Subscribed
before me

Samuel Durboraw Esq
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July 5 1845

{1 round stamp & 2 separate stamps}

York                       PAID       5
JUL 3
Pa


J. L. Edwards, Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C.

Bar. Jacoby

{illegible light text with illegible written text next to date}

   - July 5 1845
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York Penn July 3rd 1845

Sirs,

I have been requested by one of the heirs of a Mrs. Barbara Jacoby deceased late of Adams County Penna to write you respecting a small military claim - the papers of which were sent to your office some time last fall - the claim is made on account of the service of her husband, who drew a pension of $96.00 yearly for services in the Revolutionary War, he was an enlisted soldier. There was, he informs me, some difficulty in proving the marriage of his mother which however has been remedied by proof taken from a church record  some 5 yrs 6 weeks ago and sent on.

There are five heirs, the heir for whom I write and another of them intend leaving this country in a few days for the west. Will you oblige them by having the case deposed of now to enable them to receive their portion before
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they leave as there will be some difficulty in getting it after.

Very Respectfully Yours
Vincent K Keesey

To Mr. Edwards Pension
Office   Washington
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York Pennsylvania
June 7, 1845

Sirs

The included evidence taken from a church record and sworn to by the Secretary has been discovered by the children of Barbara Jacoby and forwarded to me to be sent to the pension office; it is all the evidence which can be had. It purports to be a record of births and baptisms of the children of Barbara Jacoby and Nicholas Jacoby for whose service the children claim the Pension due their mother in her life times and show that they had children born and baptised before 1794

 The parties entrusted reside in Adams Co Pennsylvania.

Very respectfully yours
JE Buchanan

JL Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
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WAR DEPARTMENT.
Revolutionary Claim.

I certify that, in conformity with the law of the United States, of the 7 July 1838, Barbara Jacoby, dec late of Penna widow of Nicholas Jacoby, who was a Private in the Revolution was entitled to a pension at the rate of Eighty Dollars per annum, and having died on the 5th of September 1843, the amount due from the 6th March 1836 to 4th March 1845 is payable to Henry Jacoby, Andrew Jacoby, Elizabeth riffle, Margaret Little & Catherine Slonaker, children of said Barbara Jacoby , deceased.

Given at the War Office of the United States this 23rd day of July -- one thousand eight hundred and forty-five

Secretary of War

Examined and}
Countersigned}

Commissioner of Pensions.
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July 28 '45 {written vertically on edge} 
{1 round stamp & 2 separate stamps}
YORK
JUL
26
Pa

PAID
5

Bar. Jacoby {written vertically}

JL Edwards Esq
Comm of Pensions
Washington
DC
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York, Penna July 26, 18(43)

Sir,

    I yesterday received from your office two pension certificates issued under the Act of July 7th, 1838 and March 3rd, 1843 in favour of the children of Barbara Jacoby dec. late of Adams Co. Penna.  
    The children named in the certificate five in number, and they have resided in Adams County all their lives and still live there.
    Must each one of the children make a separate affidavit and execute a separate power of attorney under each law, in order to draw their respective shares?  If this is the case, it would be necessary to draw ten different Powers of Att. 
    I have supposed that you might have a rule allowing them in such a case as this, where they all live together to join in one power under each law, which would render two powers only necessary.
    Will you have the goodness to inform me if there is such a rule.

                                Very respectfully yours,
                                               //s//
                                     I/. E. Buchanon

J. L. Edwards Esqr.
Commis. of Pension
Washington
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11,485
Nov 30 45

{Round Stamp}
Baltimore
NOV 29

Pa July 7 1838
Barbara Jacoby


James L Edwards Esq
Comm of pensions
Washington
DC
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No. 11485 - 8012
                       756

Barbara Jacoby died
Widow of Nicholas
Pa.
Act 7 July 1838
Adm. 2 mo. pn.
$80.00 per annum

Payable to Henry Jacoby, Andrew Jacoby, Elizabeth Riffle, Margaret Little and Catharine Slinaker only living children of Rebecca Jacob, decd. 
  
Under Act 3 March 1843 $80 p.a.
from 4 March to 5 Sept 1843 the day of her death, payable to the above children.

                          I. E. Buchanon
                                Clerk Pa.
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Payable to Henry Jacoby, Andrew Jacoby, Elizabeth Riffle, Margaret Little, and Catharine Leonaker, children of the Decd.

9503
Pennsylvania
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Barbara Jacoby dec'd.
widow of Nicholas Jacoby who was a pensioner under the Act of 1832 and who died in the 1st November 1832 of Adams Co. in the State of Penna. who was a private in the company commanded by Captain _____ of the Regt. Commanded by Col. Butler in the Penna line for 2 years.
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Inscribed in the Rll of Philadelphia at the rate of 80 dollars 00 cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
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 Certificate of pension issued the 23rd day of July 1845 and sent to I. E. Buchanon, York, Pa.
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Total amount,                     $400.00
[Act July 7, 1838.]
Recorded by D. Brown Clerk.
Book D, Vol. 1, Page 223