Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 36,299, for Jacob Shuck, Pennsylvania
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SERVICE
Penn.
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Shuck, Jacob
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NUMBER
S.36.299
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276
Dist: of Columbia.
Jacob Shuck
Private Capt. Spangler

Pennsylvania line 1778 2 years
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary war.

Inscribed on the roll of Dist. of Columbia at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 30th of April 1818.

Certificate of Pension issued 1st of May 1818 and declined to the pensioner.

Arrearages to 4th Sept. 1818. 4.6/31 m.  $33.54

                                                                 433.54

{Revolutionary claims.}
{Act 18th March 1818,}

Alexandria, Pvt, (illegible)

Dead. See letter to Wm. Myers May 1, 1830.

Date of death not listed.     D.B.

Notification handed
Pennsylvania  June 28,  1899.

(Pension calculations)

9.4
4.29
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4.6/31
8
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$32.
    1.54
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$32.54
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Jacob Shuck
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District of Columbia
County of Alexandria to Wit:
On this 3rd day of June 1820 personally appeared in Open Court, being a Court of Record for the said County in the District aforesaid Jacob Shuck, aged 74 years, resident in the said County and being first duly sworn according to Law, doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as a Second Lieutenant in Capt. Spangler’s Company Infantry, ? Regiment that the date of his original declaration is in the War Office, the number of his pension Certificate _______________.  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 my self within the  provisions of the Act of Congress entitled an “Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and Moral Service of the U States in the Revolutionary War” passed on the 18th of March 1818 and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property or Securities, contracts or debts due to me; nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hererto annexed, and by me subscribed –
Schedule –
Two Tables, and one Tea Table Value           
                                                       $3.00
1 Dutch Oven					   .75
2 pots						 1.25
½ Doz. Chairs					 3.00
1 Bureau					         8.00		
1 Desk						 8.00
Cups & Saucers				    .50
Tubs and Buckets				  1.00
1 Looking Glass			          1.00
					               $26.50
And I further swear that I am by Occupation a Carpenter, that I am not able to work on Account of my age and infirmity; that I have a Wife, Barbara aged 74 years that I have live Children none of whom contributes any thing to my support, they being married and poor.
Jacob Shuck
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Sworn to and declared in Court this 3rd day of June 1820
Edm. J. Lee. C. C.
Harry P. Whitney personally appeared in open Court and made oath in due form of Law, the above Schedule is just and true; and that the value of each article therein specified is correct (he having carefully examined the same) according to the best of his knowledge and belief – Given under my hand this 3rd day of June.
Edm. J. Lee, C. C.

 Now United States Circuit Court of the District of Columbia Continued and ? for the County of Alexandria the 3rd day of June 1820 Jacob Shuck exhibited to the Court a Schedule subscribed by him of his whole estate and took and subscribed the oath required by the Act of Congress of the 1st May, 1820 which is ordered to be to be filed and certified to the Secretary of War together with the Opinion of the Court that the property contained in the said schedule is of the value of twenty six Dollars and fifty cents – 
District of Columbia
County of Alexandria ?
I Edmond J. Lee Clerk of the Circuit Court of the District of Columbia for the County of Alexandria, do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and schedule thereto annexed, are truly Copied from the record of the said Court, and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is Twenty Six Dollars and fifty cents – 
In testimony, whereof I have hereunto put my hand and affixed the seal of the said court this third day of June Eighteen Hundred and twenty – 
Edm. J. Lee, C.C.
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The Hon
The Secretary at War

Washington

Pension office
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DISTRICT OF Columbia, ss.
On this 30th day of April 1818, before me the subscriber, one of the Judges of the Circuit Court for the said district, personally appeared Jacob Shuck aged 70 years, resident in Alexandria in the said district, who being by me first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the provision made by the late 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:" That he, the said Jacob Shuck enlisted in Paulies Hook in the state of
New Jersey in the company commanded by Captain Smigther of  Col Swopes regiments of the flying camp in which service he was captured by the British at Fort Washington on York Island that in the year 1778 he enlisted in Capt Smith's company in Col. Hartley's regiment the Pennsylvania line at York Town in  Pennsylvania for eighteen months serve in the said corps, or in the service of the United States until the month of October 1780, 
when he was discharged from service in Morristown in the state of New Jersey, but had no written discharge, that he was in the battle of Fort Washington and Peoli and that he is in reduced circumstances, and stands in need of the assistance of his country for
support; and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services.
Sworn to and declared before me, the day and year aforesaid.
I, William Cranch Judge, &c. as aforesaid, do certify, that it appears
to my satisfaction, that the said Jacob Shuck
did serve in the revolutionary war, as stated in the preceding declaration, against the common enemy, for the term of nine months, on the continental establishment; and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me, to the Secretary for the Department of War, pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress.
April 30th 1818
W. Cranch
SEAL OF
COURT. ┃
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INvALID

File No.  36,299
Jacob Shuck

Priv.  Rev War

Act: 18 March 1800

Index:-Vol. 2 Page 372

{Arrangement of 1870}
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Mar of '98
Mrs. F K Dunbar
Pittsbg Pa
Mrs Couden City

Mrch 14, 98. Miss Fannie K.
Dunbar, Pittsburgh, Pa
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[name card printed]
Mrs. Henry N. Couden

[handwriting]
128 C st S.E. City
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Department the Interior.
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Fannie K Drubar
830 South Negley Ave
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Pittsburgh E E
Pa
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830 South Negley Avenue
Pittsburg, Pa.

Lt C Evans
Commissioner of Pensions

Dear Sir
The certificate relating to Jacob Shuck, which you sent, has arrived and I thank you for your trouble.

If it is not asking too much will you kindly
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add that he served as 2nd Lieutenant under Capt. Spangler.  It says so in his pension ? of which I have a copy, and also in the books kept in the battlefield of Morristown, where he was wounded and discharged.

Very Sincerely,
(Miss) Fannie Kuhu Dunbar
March tenth
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[notepaper]
[stamped]
U.S. Pension Office
Mar 11 1898
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[Letterhead]
[in box upper left] This Bureau can furnish the military record of only such Revolutionary soldiers as were pensioned or whose widows were pensioned for their services.
Such of the original muster and pay rolls of the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812 as are now in the possession of the Government are on file in the Record and Pension Office, War Department. Original rolls and other records
pertaining to service in the Revolutionary War may also be found on file in the archives of many of the original States.
O. W. & N. DIV.
REVOLUTIONARY.

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS,
WASHINGTON, D.C., 

[Typed in upper right corner]
L.W.B.
I. 36299

March 4, 1898.

Madam:

Replying to your recent communication you are advised that Jacob Shuck, a soldier of the Revolutionary war, made an application for pension on April 30, 1818, at which time he was 70 years of age and residing at Alexandria, D.C., and his pension was allowed for two years' actual service as a private in the Penna, troops, Revolutionary war; a part of the time he served under Captains Smith and Spangler and
Col. Hartley. He enlisted in N. J., place not stated.
Very respectfully,
Commissioner.

Mrs. Fannie K. Dunbar,
Pittsburgh, E. E., Penna.
830 So. Negley Ave.
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[Letterhead]
[upper left corner in a box] This Bureau can furnish the military record of only such Revolutionary soldiers as were pensioned or whose widows were pensioned for their services.
Such of the original muster and pay rolls of the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812 as are now in the possession of the Government are on file in the Record and Pension Office, War Department. Original rolls and other records
pertaining to service in the Revolutionary
War may also be found on file in the
archives of many of the original States.
O. W. & N. DIV.
REVOLUTIONARY.

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
WASHINGTON, D. C.,

[typewritten in upper right corner]
L. W. B.
I, 36299.
 [typewritten letter]
March 4, 1898.

Madam:-
Replying to your recent communication you are advised that Jacob Shuck, a soldier of the Revolutionary war, made an application for pension on April 30, 1818, at which time he was 70 years of age and residing at Alexandria, D.C., and his pension was allowed for two years' actual service as a private in the Penna. troops, Revolutionary war; a part of the time he served under Captains Smith and Spangler and
Col. Hartley. He enlisted in N. J., place not stated.
Very respectfully,
[signed]
H Clay Evans
Commissioner. 

Miss Fannie K. Dunbar,
Pittsburgh, E. E., Penna.
830 So. Negley Ave.
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[upper left corner]
[rectangular stamp] Old War & Navy Files Mar 12 1898
[circular stamp] U.S. Pension Office Mar 11 1898
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[letterhead]
[upper left corner - in box] This Bureau can furnish the military record of only such Revolutionary soldiers as were pensioned or whose widows were pensioned for their services.
Such of the original muster and pay rolls of the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812 as are now in the possession of the Government are on file in the Record and Pension Office, War Department. Original rolls and other records
pertaining to service in the Revolutionary War may also be found on file in the archives of many of the original States.
O. W. & N. DIV.
REVOLUTIONARY.
 
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
WASHINGTON, D. C.,

[typewritten letter]
[in top right corner]
L. W. B.
1, 30299.

March 4, 1898.

Madam:
Replying to your recent communication you are advised that Jacob Shuck made an application for pension on April 30, 1818, at which time he was 70 years of age and residing at Alexandria, D.C., and his pension was allowed for two years' actual service as a private in the Penna. troops, Revolutionary war; a part of the time he served under Captains Smith and Spangler and Col. Hartley. He enlisted in N. J. place not stated.
Very respectfully,
Commissioner.

Mrs. Henry N. Couden,
128 C Street, S. E.
City.
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[letterhead]

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
WASHINGTON, D. C.,

[typewritten letter]
[in top right corner]
L. W. B.
1, 30299.

March 14, 1898.

Madam:
Replying to your recent communication you are advised that Jacob Shuck, a soldier of the Revolutionary War,  made an application for pension on April 30, 1818, at which time he was 70 years of age and residing at Alexandria, D.C., and his pension was allowed for two years' actual service as a private and 2nd lieutenant in the Penna. troops, Revolutionary war; a part of the time he served under Captains Smith and Spangler and Col. Hartley. He enlisted in New Jersey place not stated.
Very respectfully,
Commissioner.

Miss Fannie K. Dunbar
Pittsburgh, E. E., Penna.
830 So. Negley Ave.