Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B.L.Wt. 2124-100, for Henry Jacobs, Maryland
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(3-1776)
Service 
Md.

Jacobs, Henry

Number 
B.L. Wt. 2124-100

Contents
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Henry Jacobs
N. 2124

cost 55/cts paid
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State of Maryland Anne Arundel County 
Be it remembered that on this Twelvth day of September 1835 personally appeared Jason Jones, a good and sufficient witness and being
duly sworn according to law deposeth and sayeth that he is seventy seven years
of age and was a soldier of the Revolution, that he was not personally acquainted with
Henry Jacobs, and have always understood and verily believes that the said
Henry Jacobs was a soldier of the Revolution, and it appears from records that the
said Henry Jacobs enlisted as a private during the war, and the present John
Jacobs now an applicant is the only surviving heir of the said Henry Jacobs.
On the same day appeared Lewis Weston aged fifty four and made oath according to law, that he has always been informed that the said Henry Jacobs was a soldier of the Revolution which he verily believes to be true and the present applicant John Jacobs is the only surviving heir to the said Henry Jacobs.
Sworn to and subscribed before the subscriber a Justice of the peace for the State and County aforesaid.-
Attest
Jason Jones
Gideon White
Lewis Weston
his x mark
State of Maryland Anne Arundel County
At an Orphans Court held for Anne Arundel County September the 15th
1835. Satisfactory Evidence was adduced in Court to prove that John Jacobs in the
County of Anne Arundel and State of Maryland is the only heir at law in fee to
Henry Jacobs, deceased, late a soldier in the fourth Regiment of the Maryland Line
Continental army of the Revolution during the war.-
Gideon White
Thos H. Dorsey
J. Howard
In Testimony that the aforegoing is a true copy taken from the Record of proceedings of
the Orphans Court of Anne Arundel County
I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of my office
this seventeenth day of September in the year of our Lord one
thousand Eight hundred and thirty five.
Saml Brown Junr Reg. Wills, A. A. County -
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STATE OF Maryland Anne Arundel County COUNTY Sct
I, John Sawly, heir at law of Henry Jacoby
do, upon oath, testify and declare, to the best of my knowledge and belief, that Henry Jacoby did enlist in 17 , for the term of during the war, and served in the regiment No. Four, 
under the command of Colonel Carvill Hall of the Maryland line; and that he continued
in the service aforesaid until the end of the war
I further declare, that I have never received a warrant for the Bounty Land promised to the said Henry Sawly on the part of the United States; nor do I believe that he ever received it, or transferred his claim to it in any manner whatsoever; therefore,
Know all men by these presents, that I, Jacoby Sawly, aforesaid, do hereby constitute
and appoint John Holker, to be my true and lawful attorney, for me, and in my name to demand and receive from the Secretary of War, of the United States, a warrant for the quantity of land due to me as aforesaid; and my said Attorney is hereby fully authorised and empowered to constitute and appoint one or more substitutes or attornies, under him, for the special purposes above expressed.
Attest, this Twelfth day of September, 1835. John Jacobs
Gideon White
Personally appeared, the above named John Jacob, subscriber to the aforegoing
declaration, and in my presence acknowledged the power of Attorney thereby subjoined, to be his free act and deed, for the purposes therein mentioned.
Attest, his tenth day of September, 1835.
Gideon White, was a magistrate authorised to administer oaths, and take acknowledgements, &c, in the State of Maryland, at the above date, and that his name there subscribed appears to me to to be his signature, I have hereunto affixed the county seal, and subscribed my name and quality at Annapolis this 17 day of September 1835.
W.S. Green Clerk Clk A A Co'ty, Md
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Sir
Annapolis Oct 8th 1835
I received your favour of the 5th ulto enclosing
the Land warrants No 2124 for one hundred
acres of Land in favour of John Jacobs as the
only heir of Henry Jacobs who was attached
to the fourth Regiment of the Maryland line
as a private
Resp't yrs John Stalker
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The National Archives 
Form VAM-51
12-5-41

Division of Veterans' Administration Archives

Bounty Land Warrant Record Card*

Name Jacobs, Issac
Grade Corporal
Line Massachusetts

Warrant Number 4486
Acreage 100
Issued Mar 2, 1790
to _ not shown_

*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.