Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W 2869, for Jacob Shifley, Pennsylvania
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Montgomery County

On the nineteenth day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, appeared before the subscriber, one of the associate judges of the Court of Common Pleas for the county of Montgomery in the state of Pennsylvania, Jacob Shifley, who being duly sworn on the holy evangelist of almighty God, doth depose and say that in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy-six, he enlisted in the army of the Revolution in a company of rifleman commanded by Captain Farmer{?} in a regiment of Pennsylvania rifleman commanded by Colonel Samuel Miles; that he served during the term of four years and nine months against the common enemy and received his discharge (which discharge is filed in the {illegible} in Harrisburg) in January one thousand seven hundred and eighty-one at Trenton; that he is now a citizen of Pennsylvania and is in his sixty-first year of age; is poor and unable to support himself and further he doth hereby relinquish his claim to every pension heretofore allowed him by the laws of the United States and further saith not.
Signed:  Jacob Shifley

Sworn and subscribed before me May 19th 1818.
Signed:  Hiram McNeill
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Montgomery County

To all whom it may concern.  I do certify that Hiram McNeill is duly commissioned and appointed an associate judge of the several courts of said county.  In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of said court this 19th day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen. 
Signed:  Wm. Powel, Pot.

I, the within named Hiram McNeill, one of the judges {illegible} in the foregoing declaration, do hereby certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Jacob Shifley did serve in the Revolutionary War as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy; that he is now in indigent circumstances and stands in need of support from his country.  Therefore, I now commit the proceedings of the testimony taken and have before me to the secretary of the War Department {several illegible words) in March 1818 for belief of Revolutionary officers and soldiers.
Signed:  Hiram McNeill

If anything further should {remaining sentence is illegible}
Signed: Hiram McNeill
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On the 16th day of August A.D. 1820, personally appeared in open Court of Common Pleas for the county of Montgomery in the state of Pennsylvania, being a court of record, Jacob Shively, aged       years, resident in Marlborough Township in said county of Montgomery, who being duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War in Farmer's company in the first Pennsylvania regiment; that he has obtained a pension certificate dated 25 Jany. 1819 numbered 5793.

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 other manner, disposed of my property or any part thereof, with intent thereby to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an 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 of March 1818.  And that I have not, nor has any person in trust for any property or securities, contracts or debts due to me, nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed. I am between the age of 62 and 63 years and follow
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no business on account of rheumatism by which I am afflicted.  I have three children with one of whom I now reside and none of them are in circumstances to afford much assistance to me.  Two of them have families of their own to attend to and the third cannot do more than support himself.

Schedule of all the property owned and possessed by the deponent

One cow                                Value:  $10.00
Tubs                                                        .50
Kettles and pots                                     2.00
Cups and saucers                                   3.00
1 wheelbarrow                                        1.00
A debt due him from Andrew Artman    1.50
Signed: Jacob Shifley

Sworn and subscribed in open court 
August the 16, 1820
Signed:  Wm. Powel, Prot.