Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 36612, for William Jaco, Virginia
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Kentucky
County Court of Bracken in the
1st Judicial District of Kentucky
On this first day of January 1820 personally
appeared in open court, being a court of record for the County of Bracken, in the district aforesaid, William Jaco, aged eighty four years, who, being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the provision made by the acts of Congress of the 18th March 1818, and the 1st May, 1820,
That he said William Jaco, enlisted for the term of three years on, he does not recollect the precise day, but is confident that it was in the month of March, in the year 1777 in the State of Virginia, in the company commanded by Captain Thomas Triplett, in the regiment commanded by Colonel Wm Grisen or Grayson, in the line of the state of Virginia, on the continental establishment; that he continued to serve in said corps until April 1780, when he was discharged from the said service in Charleston in the State of South Carolina - That he was in the battles of Germantown, Brandywine, & Monmouth
and that he has no other evidence, now in his power,
of his said services; and further, the said William Jaco
solemnly swears that, when a resident citizen of the
State of Ohio, on the 18th July 1818, and in conformity
to the aforesaid act of Congress of the 18th March, 1818, he, the said Wm Jaco, did make a statement of his said services to the Department of War, through the medium of Judge John Thompson, of Chillicothe,
Ohio and in pursuance of the act of the 7th May,
1820, I solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the 18th 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 there  by so 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 day of March, 1818; and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me, any property, or securities