Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 7486, for Jacob Shook, North Carolina
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State of North Carolina ⎬ SS
Haywood County
On this 3rd day of October 1833
personally appeared in open Court before
the honourable the Judge of the Superior Court
of Law and Equity for said County of
Haywood being a court of record now sitting
Jacob Brook a resident of said County &
State aged eighty four years who being first
duly sworn according to law doath on his oath
make the following declaration in order to
obtain the benefit of the act of congress passed
the 7th June 1832
That he resided in what is now Lincoln County North Carolina when he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as
herein stated (towit) 
That in the month of March in the year 1775 as he
now thinks he entered the service of the United States
as volunteer in the company commanded
by Captain William Bateman in the regiment
Commanded by Col Christopher Bateman in
the Brigade commanded by Genl Rutherford and
Marched to what was then called Cross[?]
Creek now Fayetteville North Carolina against
the Scotch Tories which tour lasted one
month or more the precise time not now
recollected as a part of the Tories being taken
and the balance dispersed before he reached
that place - he remained at that place but a
that time 
That on the 9th of August 1770 he served a tour as a drafted militia man against the Cherokee Indians in Captain
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Rodolp[?] Conrad Company in regiment
commanded by Col Christopher Bateman in
the expedition commanded by Genl Rutherford
and served two month
On the 10th of May 1781 he was drafted
for a three months tour against said Indians
and marched to Davidson's Station at the
head of the Catawba river in what is now
Burke County North Carolina under Captain
Daniel Smith which time he served and
was discharged by said Captain on the 10th
day of August in that year which discharge
is herewith transmitted - he received no
discharge for the two first tours
He was born in the county of Northampton
in the State of Pennsylvania on the
19th of April in the year 1749 and is now
eighty four years of age - he has lived in
the County of Burke North Carolina since
the revolutionary war & now lives in the
County of Haywood in said state -
He has no record of his age, was not
attached to any continental regiment
nor was he acquainted with any regular
officer and has not any proof of his service
either documentary or the testimony of any
person whose testimony he can procure that
he knows of except that herewith transmitted
Question 1st Where were you born
Answer In North Northampton County in the State of Pennsylvania
and Just have you any record of your age
Ans I have none
Just 3rd Where were you living when called
into the service where have you lived since the
revolutionary war & where do you now live