Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 28730, Jacob Fisher, Mass.
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SERVICE
Mass. 
Fisher, Jacob
NUMBER
S.28730

CONTENTS
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143.
Maine
Jacob Fisher
of York Co in the State of Maine
who was a private in the commanded
by Captain
of the Regiment commanded 
by Colonel Jackson in the Massachusetts
line, for the term of 3 years.
from June 1777 to June 1780

Inscribed on the Roll of Maine
at the rate of Eighty Dollars per annum, to
commence on the 4 day of March 1831

Certificate of Pension issued the 2nd of Aug
1832 and seal Edward C
Pourne, Kennebunk, Maine

Arrears to 4th of March 1832 
Semi-anl. all'ce ending Sept 4, 1832 
   80
   40
  ----
$120.00

{Revolutionary Claim,}
{Acts [lined out]}
{[lined out]}
June 7, 1832 ┃
Recorded Book D Vol
Page [illegible] 58
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I Jacob Fisher of Kennebunk in the County
of York and State of Maine, Physician, do on
oath testify and say that I enlisted on the
sixth day of June 1777 in the Regular army
of the United States in the Regiment of
Col. Henry Jackson of the Massachusetts
line, in a vacant company commanded
by Lieutenant Thomas Edwards we continued
at Cambridge sometime untill [sp] the
fall, when we joined General Washington's
army at Whitemarsh then went to 
Lancaster in Pennsylvania where we
were innoculated [sp] for the Small Pox. Early next
spring, our company joined General 
Washington again at Valley Forge, then we
marched to Philadelphia, after evacuated by
the British - then followed to Monmouth
in which place I was engaged in the battle
known by that name then we went
to Rhode Island where we joined General Sullivan at that place I was in
two battles in one of which I was wounded.
The next winter 1779, our company were
at Providence and its vicinity in the
fall of 1779 we again joined General Washington at Morristown, where we spent
the winter and when I was discharged on
the sixth day of June 1780 my discharge
was annexed to my papers now in the
office of the Department of War. I do further
testify that I received a pension under the
law of 1818 and was struck from the Pension
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Rolls on account of Property. I do further 
testify and declare that I am the same
person to whom the pension certificate
accompanying this deposition was given. That
I enlisted for the term of three years and
faithfully did my duty as a soldier 
during that time. When I enlisted I lived
in Wrentham, Massachusetts.  When I made
application for my pension under the
law of 1818 I lived in Kennebunk and
have lived there ever since. I am now in
the seventy third year of my age.
I do further testify that I served in addition 
to the foregoing six months in the Militia of [sp]
of Massachusetts at the different times making
in the whole forty two months service in the
Revolutionary war in the course of what militia
service I was promoted to the rank of a 
sergeant and received sergeant's pay untill [sp] the
expiration of my service, which I hope, agreeably
to the present law will entitle me to the
pay of a sergeant. The witnesses to the last
service if any are alive, live at a great 
distance, and I trust it will not be thought
necessary to procure further proof than
this deposition to entitle me to a sergeant's
pay.
Jacob Fisher

State of Maine
York ss. July 10th 1832.
Personally appeared Jacob
Fisher and made oath that the foregoing 
declaration by him subscribed is true
Before me.
Edward E Bourne
Justice of the Peace
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State of Maine
County of York SS
I Jeremiah Bradbury, Clerk of the
Judicial Courts for said County of York do hereby certify
that Edward E. Bourne, who has certified the annexed
Deposition of Jacob Fisher, is a magistrate of said County
as there stated, and the signature purporting to be his
is genuine.
In testimony whereof I hereunto subscribe
my name and affix my official seal
this eleventh day of July Anno-
Domini 1832.
Jere Bradbury Clerk of the
Jud. Courts, York County

I Jacob Fisher the aforesaid Deponent, do
on oath testify and say that when I made
the foregoing affidavit yesterday, I supposed
that I could at once lay my hand on my
Pension certificate by which I received a pension
two years under the law of 1818 supposing it
to be in my regular file of deeds commissions
But I have made diligent search since
that time and have been unable to find it.
I cannot tell what has become of it not
having any recollection of having seen it or
done any thing with it since I received my
last pension. The entire evidence of my service 
and my discharge and the record of my certificate
are in the War Department, which will
substantiate my application without
the certificate.
Jacob Fisher

State of Maine
York ss July 11th 1832.
Personally appeared Jacob Fisher and made
oath to the truth of the foregoing declaration by him subscribed
Before me Edward E Bourne
Justice of the Peace
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28730
Revy INVALID.
File No. 28730
Jacob Fisher
Prv Rev War

Act: June 7 32.
Index: Vol. 2, Page 138
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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8566
Maine
Jacob Fisher
of Wells in the Dist of Maine
who was a Private in the regiment commanded by
Colonel H. Jackson of the Massachusetts
line, for the term of 3 years. 

Inscribed on the Roll of the Dist of Maine
at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on
the 10th of April 1818

Certificate of Pension issued the 30th of March 1849
and sent to B. Greene, Esqr
South Berwick, Maine

Arrears to 4th of March 1819 10 21 4
30 31 
Semi-anl. all'ce ending Sept. 1819.
   86.63
   48.00
--------
$134.63
{Revolutionary claim,}
{Act 18th March, 1818.}

York County
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Discharge prom
The Continental Service
June 6th 1780

FISHER, JACOB
(MASS.) S-28730
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[same as p. 8]

Discharge prom
The Continental Service
June 6th 1780

FISHER, JACOB
(MASS.) S-28730
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This may certify that Jacob Fisher Soldier
in my Regiment has this day faithfully
completed the term of three years which he
engaged to [illegible] the United States & is hereby
honorably discharged the American
Army-
Given under my hand
[illegible] near Morristown June
tenth 1780
Henry Jackson Col.

whom it may
Concern
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Jacob Fisher

Jacob Fisher
(priv)
Col. H. Jacksons Regt
Mass line
1777 -3 years
Declar April 10. 1818

Admitted
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COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.

YORK, ss.} On this tenth day of April
A.D. 1818,
before me the subscriber, Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the first Eastern Circuit
in said Commonwealth, personally appears Jacob Fisher aged fifty eight years resident in
Wells. In said county of York, 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 Fisher on the
Sixth day of June A.D. 1777 enlisted as a private soldier in the 
Continental army in a company under the Lt Thomas Edwards of the
[illegible] Commanded by Col Henry Jackson that he continued to do his duty
in said Company and Regiment in the various places in which they
were stationed and to which they were ordered to march until the
three years for which he had inlisted [sp] expired when he [illegible] an 
honorable discharge which is 
hereunto annexed.

That he is reduced in his circumstances and needs 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 above said.
Benja. Greene

I, BENJAMIN GREENE, Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the first Eastern
Circuit, in the Commonwealth aforesaid, do certify, that it appears to my satisfaction that the said
Jacob Fisher did serve in the revolutionary war against the common
enemy, as he has stated in his declaration aforesaid--and that he is reduced in his circumstances, and needs
the assistance of his country for his support. And I do 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 before
mentioned act of Congress.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this
tenth day of April Anno Domini, 1818.
Benja
to
Greene