Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 5267, Jacob Barral, Penn.
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SERVICE
Penn

Barral, Jacob

NUMBER
S5267
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Pennsylvania 29.541
Jacob Barral
of Lehigh Co. in the State of Penna
who was a Private in the company commanded
by Captain Runkel
of the Regt commanded
by Col. Geiger in the Penna Militia
line for 6 months from 1777

Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania
at the rate of 20 Dollars - Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 6th day of Decr 1834 and sent to D. Kramer
Allentown Pa

Arrears to the 4th of Sept. 1834
70.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending March 35 10.00
$80.00


{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.}

Recorded by D. Brown  Clerk
Book E.  Vol. 5   Page 5

[Handwritten text on right side of document]
see atter Jay 35
to Hon M. Key do.
Jany 1815 to J. Fogel
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32. 114

Jacob Barral
Pennsylvania

F - 1777 [illegible]
$20

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D. Kramer
Allentown
Lehigh Co. 
Pa.
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State of Pennsylvania
Lehigh County to wit

Before John Fogel one of the
associate Judges of Lehigh
Pennsylvania

On the 23 day of September 1834 personally appeared before John Fogel the judge above named all
.Jacpb Barral at the dwelling house of the said Jacob Barralin Weisenburg Township in the County aforesaid aged Seventy
Six years, on the 6 day of May last, who first being 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
1832. That resided in Louisburg Township then northampton (now high County, that he belonged to the class
of Militia of Pennsylvania as said Militia was Classed, that Leonard  Reihel who resided in the same place belonged to the 3 class was
drafted for actual service, he this applicant went as a substitute
for said Leonard Reihel unter the Command of Captain [Kunkal?] attached to the Regiment Commanded by Col. Geiger and was marched to Germantown the British 
being at that time in the City of Philadelphia & where marched
from place to place in that nearbourhood that he was in no battels put General Washinton was there & General Bull commanded the army, that he served a sum of two months
duty as a private militiaman as substitute aforesaid &
then being dismissed & went home, that in the year 1778 in april or May he was drafted in the Company of Capt
Grenemoyer attached to the regiment commanded by Col Kern and Marched on the north west side of the Bleu
mountain in Northampton County, where they where
stationed along Mahoney Creek for the production of the Inhabitant of that Country  against the savage Indians
who were plundering & masacaring & mordering [murdering] the people of
that Country, that he served a term of two month duty as a
private militiaman & went home, that in the year 1779, he was again drafted & mustered in the Company Commanded by Capt Shrader this was in the month of October
and where marched along the river Lehigh, where they
remained for some time in Northampton County & from there
they were marched to Niscobeek Creek also for the production
of the inhabitant, against the Indians who were mording [murdering] the
people in that Country, there were no Col, with them
as it had been a ful Col. Command-
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that he served a term of two month duty & when home
as a militia man at that the carried a Riffle

In reply to the questions put by the judge according to the
Instruction of the war department,
the said Jacob Barral makes the
following reply-

1 - I was born in Dusenbury Township Northampton County &
now Lehigh County on the day of May 1758 -

2. that he lived in said [illegible]] Townships when he was called
in service each time & still lives there, and lived there since
the time of his return

3. A Certificate [illegible] borth & baptism that was taken from the Church recorded

4. I first served as a substitute for Leonard Riehel & was afterwards drafted as stated in the foregoing declaration

5. I cannot recolect the names of any other offices then those mentioned in my declaration,

6. where the Term  of Service of the militia exposed they dismissed with out discharge, so far as I know, I do not recolect
of having received a written discharge

7. This is all the Evidence that I am able to offer as all my brother soldiers who were in service with me are Either dead or having moved to the Western Country

I hereby relinquish every claim whatsoever to a pension or annuity Except the present, and declare that my
name is not on the pension roll of the ageney of any State
Signature of Jacob (his X mark) Barral

Sworn to & subscribed this 23 day of September 1834
Before me
Solomon Fogel   judge aforesaid
Lehigh County ss.  Jacob Mayer & Solomon Fogel Citizens
of the said County being duly sworn according to law, do depose & say that they are now well acquainted with & have long known
Jacob Barral the above applicant in the forgoing declaration
& believe that he is of the age he declares himself to be, in said
declaration be also believe that he is a man of truth and veracity, we also know that that is Generally belived in his neabourhood where he resides, that he served in the
militia in the revolutionary War, & we concur in that belief
Jacob Moyer

Sworn & subscribed
this 23 day of September 1834
before me
John Fogels judge aforesaid

Sol Fogel
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I John Fogel the Judge before whom the forgoing application
is made. Do hereby declare my opinion, after the Investigation
of the matter, and after putting the Interrogatories prescribed
by the war department, that the aforesaid applicant served
in the war of the revolution as he has stated in his declaration- I further testify that it appears to me and of my knowledge I have of their that Jacob Mayer & Solomon Fogel who
have signed the proceeding certificate are residents in the
County of Lehigh, and are creditable persons to my
knowledge, and that these statement is entitled to credit and the said judge do further certify that there is Clergyman
residing on the seven or & miles to the residents of the said applicant. Except parson Helfrich who is young and cannot have any knowledge of the revolutionary
services of your applicant, and I do further certify
that the forgoing applicant. cannot from bodily infirmity attest in Court to make his application,
John Fogel
Judge aforesaid

Pennsylvania 
Lehigh County ss.
I J D Cramer Prothonotary of the Court of Common
Pleas of Lehigh County Do hereby certify
that John Fogel one of the associate Judges
before whom the within & foregoing Instrument of of writing was duly acknowledged and whose 
thereto subscribed was at the date thereof and still is one of the [illegilbe] Judge of the Court in and for
said County and that full faith and credit are
of light best to be given to this and all other this official acts as well in Courts of [illegible] as Elsewhere

In testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and the seal of the said Court at the Borough
of Northampton in said County this Seventh day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and Thirty Four
Dil Erkmer [illegible]
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September 28, 1931

Honorable A. Piatt Andrew
Old Post Office Bldg., 118 Washington St.
Salem, Massachusetts

My dear Mr. Andrew:

Reference is made to your letter of September 21, 1931,
addressed to The Adjutant General, War Department, this city,
and transmitted to this office.  You request the full names and 
last known addresses of all men named Barrell who served in the
Army during the Revolutionary and Civil Wars.

You are advised that this office has record only of those
soldiers of the Revolutionary War on account of whose service
claims for pension and bounty land were made to the United
States.

You are herein furnished a list covering the full names
and last known addresses of all Revolutionary War solders
surnamed Barrell (searched under all spellings) as shown by the
pension and bounty land records of this office.

Jacob Barral, resident of Weisenburg Township, Lehigh County,
Pennsylvania, September 23, 1834
James Barrell, resident of Scituate. Plymouth County,
Massachusetts, July 17, 1820
Noah Barrell, resident of Scituate. Plymouth County,
Massachusetts, July 17, 1820

As the Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records
Division, Washington, D.C., is the custodian of the records showing
the dates of last payments of pensions of these soldiers and the
addresses of the persons to whom the payments were made, it is
suggested that you address him citing the following data:
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Jacob Barral, Certificate 29541, issued December 6, 1834,
rate $20 per annum, commenced March 4, 1831, Act of June 7,1832,
Pennsylvania Agency.

James Barrell, Certificate 9289, issued July 15, 1819,
rate $8 per month, commenced April 27, 1818, ct of March 18,
1818, Massachusetts Agency.

Noah Barrell, Certificate 12413, issued July 15, 1819,
rate $8 per month, commenced June 4, 1819, Act of March 18,1818
Massachusetts Agency.

Your letter has been forwarded to the proper division of
this office for consideration in regard to a list covering the 
names and last known addresses of solders as shown by the Civil
War records.  You will receive a reply from that division in the 
near future.

Very truly yours,

A.D.  Hiller
Assistant to Administrator
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(right Side)
1931 Sept. 28. Hon. A. Pratt
Andrew furis. full name
& last address of Sol. U.C.S

(Left Side)
5267
Revhas.  Invalid

File No. 5267
Jacob Barral
Pr. Rev War
Act: June 7, 1832
Index:-Vol. M, Page 19"
(Arrangement of 1870)
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No. 556
Jacob Barral
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Blank page
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18.682
Jacob Barral,
Rev. Solder Pa.
Rejected, see letter to
Hon. Tho. J. Rogers,
House of Reps.
December 24, 1822
556
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State of Pennsylvania
Lehigh County for

On this Seventeenth day of December AD 1822
Before me the Subscribed one of the Judges of the Court of
Common pleas in and for said County of Lehigh and
personally appears Jacob Barrel aged fifty nine years, resident in
the said County of Lehigh, who being by me duly sworn according to
Law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in
order to obtain the provision made by the act of Congress, entitled
an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land & naval 
service of the United States in the revolutionary War, that he
the said Jacob Barral enlisted in or about the month of
August AD 1779 or 1780 in the County of Northampton
in the State of Pennsylvania, in the Company commanded
by Captain Philip Shenander, which was called the
Wood Rangers (Together with Captain Bodley Compeyand
were not attached to any Regiment that he Conte
need to serve in the said Corps or in the service of the
United States untill AD 1782 or 1783, when he was discharged from service in Wilksberry Luzerne County in
the State of Pennsylvania that he was in a number of
Serimages [skirmishes] with the Indians, and especially one of the
place called Vilusee and that he in reduced
circumstances, and stands in need of the assistance of his
of his Country for Support, and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said service, at her dischage is either lost or misplaced
Signature of Jacob (his X mark) Barral

Sworn to and declared before me
the day & year aforesaid

John Fogel
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I John Foyer, Judge or within Stated. Do Certify
that it appears to my satisfaction that the within
named Jacob Barrall did serve in the revolutionary War, as as stated in the with declare
ration, agit the common enemy, and I
also certify that the said Jacob Barral is indegent circumstance, and
Stands in actual need of the assistance of his County & I now
transmit the proceedings & Testimony taken
& had before me to the Secretary for the department
of War, pursuant to the directions of the afore
mentioned act of Congress witness my hand
Dec 17. 1822-
Signature of John Vogel