Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 10950, Jacob Vinyard, Penn.
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Service                                         Number

Penn.       Vineyard, Jacob            R.10950
                                Barbara
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No. 422

Barbara Vineyard

Ind

Letter to Hon. S. Breese 23d Aug. 1849

10950

Act 24 July 1848
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10,950
P.O. Barbara Vineyard
Service: Widow Jacob Vineyard
REJECTED
Enlisted:
Discharged:
Act Aug. 29, 1906
Application Filed:
Alleges:
Re-enlisted:
Attorney:
P.O.
____Recognized. _____Contract
____Cert. of Dis. Searched for ____

Let. to Hon. S. Breese Aug. 23, 1849
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No. 422

Barbara Vineyard

wid. of Jacob

Ind

Act 29 July 1848



Hon. L. Breese,
Carlyle
JLU
Aug. 20, 49
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State of Indiana}
Hendricks County} ss.
Before the subscriber Abraham Bland Judge of the Probate Court in and
for the County and State aforesaid personally appeared Barbary Vinyard, a resident of said County aged Eighty eight years, who being first duly sworn
according to law, doth on her oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the act of Congress passed on 2nd February 1848, granting Pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War - That she is the widow of Jacob Vinyard, who was a
Private in the war of the Revolution - That she is unable to state the length of time he served, or the Regiment or officers under whom he served, but she hopes that the Records of the Department will show his services - That her husband has been dead twenty two years. That she heard him say he enlisted at Riddletown or Riddington, in the State of Pennsylvania, and she believes he served more than two years -- She is aware that the rules of the Department require that she should specify the services of her husband,
but at this late period, and from the frailties of age and ill health she is unable to comply with such requisition - That she was married by  publication of the Banns of Matrimony on the 7th day of February in the
year one thousand seven hundred and Ninety seven,
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1. That her husband the aforesaid Jacob Vinyard died in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty seven (1827). That she had a family Record but it was destroyed forty two years ago, together with all her husbands papers in the burning of their house and she is satisfied her husband at that time had papers showing his service, and which were then and there burnt and destroyed-
her
Barbary X Vinyard
mark
Subscribed and sworn to this third day of August 1849 before me
Abraham Bland
Probate Judge
And I also certify that Mrs Vinyard the above applicant is from age and very feeble body, unable to attend said Court at its usual place of sitting
Abraham Bland Judge
And also at the same time and place, and before the same Judge, personally appeared Catharine Cooper who being duly sworn according to law says, that Jacob Vinyard the husband of the foregoing applicant, is dead and has been dead more than twenty years, but she is unable to state the exact day of his death - That she Knew the said applicant before she was married to
said Vinyard, and knew her as the wife and widow
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of the said Jacob Vinyard - That she knows that the marriage took place in the year one thousand seven hundred and Ninety seven, and that she was at the wedding - This affiant is eighty eight years old-
her 
Catharine X Cooper
mark
Subscribed and sworn to this third day of August 1849.}
Abraham Bland
Probate Judge

I certify that Catharine Cooper who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing Declaration, is a person of truth and veracity, and a Credible witness.
Abraham Bland
Probate Judge -

State of Indiana}
Hendricks County } ss - 
I Joshua D. Parker Clerk of the Probate Court in and for the County aforesaid do certify that Abraham Bland, is a Judge of the Probate Court in
and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified, and that the several foregoing signatures purporting to be his are genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the official seal of said County, this 4th day of August 1849
J. D. Parker, clk [clerk]
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