Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 35,852, Jacob Corbet, Md.
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Service
Md

Name
Corbet, Jacob

Number
S.35852
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35852
Revy INVALID

File No 35,852
Jacob Corbet
Pri Rev War

Act 18 March '18

Index Vol 2 Page 91

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Auditor Generals Office
Annapolis 4th Dec.1826
I hereby certify that it appears by the Muster Rolls remaining in the office that Jacob Corbett
enlisted as a private in the 1st Maryland Regiment on the 2nd day of March 1777 and was
discharged on the 2nd day of March 1780.
Jho. Karney Audn
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Rec? Nov.18.1826
Jacob Corbett
Was( illegible)
Hon: T.P. Moore
House of Reps.
Rec from and: Gen
M 2, 6 Dec:1826.
Admitted- [illegible] Stone's
[Illegible] Col: Stone's
Maryland [Illegible]
Regt-commg-23-
Oct.1826
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Harrisburg, Nov 4, 1826

Dear Sir

Be so good as to examine and report when Mr. Corbet case by the time I reach the city.

yours with respect

T P Moore
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Treasury Department,
Second comptroller's Office
March 22,1844

Sir:
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled
"An Act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States", and the third
section of the Act of August 23,1842, extending
the time within which pensioners may receive their pensions from the pension agents, the child of Jacob Corbet, dec, a pensioner on the Roll of the Kentucky Agency, at the rate of eight dollars
per month, has been paid at this Department, from the 4th of March to the 5th of June 1842.
Respectfully, yours,
[ illegible signature], Comptroller.
To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Present.
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Left Side Page

Dead
Paid at the Treasury under the act of the 6 April 1838 from 4 March to 5 June 1842 Agt notified 17 Oct 1844

Right Side Page

19687
Kentucky

Jacob Corbet
of Washington Co in the state of Kentucky who was a private in the company commanded by Captain John Stone of the regiment commanded by Colonel Stone in the Maryland line for the term of three years from 2nd March 1777 to 2nd March 1780.

Inscribed on the roll of Kentucky at the rate of 8 dollars per month, to commence on the 23rd day of October 1826.

Certificate of Pension issued the 6th of December 1826 sent to the Hon T P Moore House of Representatives.

Arrears to 4th of March 1827 - $35.35

Revolutionary Claim Acts March 18, 1818, and May 1, 1820
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T P Moore
of Ky
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Be it remembered that heretofore to wit at a county court began and held for Washington County on Monday the 25th day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty fie Jacob Corbet an applicant for a pension came into court and made oath to a declaration which is ordered to be received and the courts value the property thereon contained to Eighty dollars - which declaration is in the words and figures following to wit:

Original Claim

Declaration in order to be placed on the pension list under the act of the 18th March 1818

Kentucky Washington County

On this 25th day of September 1826 personally in the Washington County Court being a court of record for the said county Jacob Corbet resident in said county aged about sixty-eight years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provisions made by the acts of Congress of the 18th of March 1818 and the 1st May 1820 that he the said Jacob Corbet enlisted for the term of three years on the 2nd of March 1777 in the state of Maryland at Port Tobacco in Charles County in the company commanded by Capt. John Stone in the Regiment commanded when this affiant arrived at Annapolis by the said Capt. John Stone as Colonel after the promotion of said stone this affiant was under the command of Capt. Stenett being promoted to be a major this affiant remained under the command of Levash Waters for some time and then was commanded by Capt. Henry Gaither on the Maryland Continental Establishment that he continued to serve in said
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corps until the 2nd day of March 1780 when he was discharged from said service in the Jerseys at Runnells farm that he hereby relinquishes every claim to a pension whatever except the present that his name is not on the roll of any state except Maryland and that the following are the causes for not making earlier application for a pension. He did not know that the revolutionary officers and soldiers were entitled to pension as provided for by the above acts of congress until sometime in the year 1822 when he made out a declaration which was certified in the circuit court of Nelson County which declaration he understood from this agent James Caldwell was rejected on account of his not making the application in the courts of the county in which he resided that he then made an application before the said court of Washington County and had it sent on in November 1824 but has not heard anything from the same since it was forwarded and in pursuance of the act of the first May 1820 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 myself within the acts 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" 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 other income than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed to wit: one mare 13 years old, one horse about 14 years old, two cows, two calves, eleven head of hogs, (his necessary clothing and bedding excepted_. The said declarant is a farmer by occupation his wife is fifty-nine years old, very infirm so much so
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so that she is not able to attend to the drudgery of housekeeping and has been partially deranged for about seven years last part he has living with him his daughter Mary twenty-two years old in March, next another daughter Julia Ann aged twenty years in June next, his son James aged eighteen in April next and his daughter Eliza aged thirteen in February next - that his son is about getting married as he has been informed that Julia Ann is also about to be married as he has been informed. The said Declarant states that he is quite infirm and unable to work that he is laboring under a disease in his abdomen from hard lifting, that one of his ankles has been broke and the other streamed his left arm has been twice broke and two of his ribs have been broke.

Jacob Corbet 
His X Mark

Sworn to and declared on the twenty-fifth day of September eighteen hundred and twenty-six in open court before me.

Washington County
John Hughes CNCC

I John Hughes Clerk of the County Court for the County aforesaid do hereby certify that it appears to the satisfaction of the court that the said Jacob Corbet did serve in the Revolutionary war as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy for the term of three years under one engagement on the continental establishment. I also certify that the foregoing affirmation and the schedule hereto annexed are truly copied from the records of the said court and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the court that the total amount in value of the property aforesaid schedule is eighty dollars.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court at Springfield this twenty-third day of October 1826.

John Hughes - Clerk CMCC

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