Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 46,516, Jacob Warner, Continental Penn.
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Form (3-1776)
SERVICE
Continental Pennsylvania
Warner, Jacob
NUMBER
S. 46,516
B.L.Wt. 1642-100
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CONTEENTS - [blank]
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Erie, Pennsylvania June 28, 1830

Sir;

I have received your letter of the 17th June enclosing a Land Warrant for one hundred acres of Land No. 1642, granted to Jacob Warner who was a private, in the Pennsylvania Line in the war of the Revolution.

I am,
very respectfully
your obedient servant
Thomas H. Sice

William Gordon, Esquire
Bounty Land Office
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Jacob Warner
No. 1642
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Regulations for the officers and soldiers of the Revolutionary War who acquired a right to Land from the United States, but have not received it.
State of Pennsylvania}
County of Mercer}

I Jacob Warner aged about eighty six years, do, upon oath, testify and declare, that, in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty three I reenlisted for the term of "during the War" and served until  the close of the war when Peace was [illegible], in the 3 Regiment under the command of Colonel Richard Butler of the Pennsylvania Line, and continued in the service aforesaid until the close of the war, when I was regularly discharged from the said Third Regiment; Commanded by Colonel Richard Butler.  I further, declare, that I have never received a warrant for the bounty land promised to me on the part of the United States, nor have I ever assigned or transferred my claim in any manner whatever; therefore know all men by these presents, that I, Jacob Warner, aforesaid, do hereby constitute and appoint Alexander Brown, Esquire, to be my true and lawful attorney, for me and in my name to demand and receive from the Secretary of War of the United States, a warrant for the quantity of Land due to me as aforesaid; and my said attorney is hereby fully authorized and empowered to constitute and appoint one or more substitutes or attorneys under him, for the Special purposes above expressed.

Jacob [his "x" mark] Warner

Attest
A. Brown

I David Warner aged forty nine years, do, upon oath, declare that I have been long acquainted with Jacob Warner who has subscribed the above declaration in my presence, and will know that he is the identical person he therein represents himself to be; and further, I know, or do believe, that he did perform the military service therein stated.

David Warner

Attest
A. Brown

Before me Alexander Brown, a judge of the Court in Mercer County Pennsylvania, Personally appeared the above named, Jacob Warner, subscriber to the foregoing declaration, and in my presence acknowledged the power of attorney thereto subjoined, to be his free act and [illegible] and [illegible], and, likewise, personally appeared David Warner who hath subscribed the above Certificate of Identity, both to me well known to be men of respectability for truth, and made solemn oath to the truth of the depositions by them respectively subscribed, this tenth day of February 1830.

A. Brown.
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I Bevan Pearson aged fifty six years do upon my solemn affirmation declare that I have been long acquainted with Jacob Warner who has subscribed the within declaration and well know that he is the identical person he therein  [illegible] himself to be, and further, I know or do believe, that he did perform the military service therein stated.

[Signature] Bevan Pearson

Affirmed and Subscribed}
before me the 17th day of March 1830.}
[Signature] A. Brown.

In Testimony that the within written A. Brown was a Magistrate authorized to administer on this and take acknowledgements &c [etcetera] in the State of Pennsylvania at the date of the within and that his name thereto subscribed appears to me to be his usual signature, I have hereunto affixed the county seal and subscribed my name and quality at this eleventh day of March 1830.

[Signature] William S. Rankin, Chief Clerk &c [etcetera]
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Know all men by these presents, that I Alexander Brown, Esquire, do hereby constitute and appoint the Honorable Thomas H. Sill, member of Congress, my true and lawful attorney for me to apply for an obtain the Land Warrant from the Secretary of War, which is applied for in the foregoing application of Jacob Warner, who has been placed on the pension role of Pennsylvania under the Act of Congress of ________ [left blank] 1828.  And now applies for the land promised, by the Act of Congress of 16th September 1776.  Given under my hand and seal the 13th day of March 1830.

[signed] Alexander Brown, Esquire [hand-drawn seal]

State of Pennsylvania, Mercer County SS
Personally appeared before me, one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas, Alexander Brown, Esquire, and acknowledge the above power of attorney to be his act and deed.  Given under my hand and seal the 13th day of March A. D. 1830.

[signed] A Brown.
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1629
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania}
Mercer County} SS

For the purpose of obtaining for the benefit of an "act of the relief of certain serving officers and soldiers for the Army of the Revolution" approved on the 15th day of May 1828 - I Jacob Warner of the Township of Delaware in the County of Mercer and State of Pennsylvania do hereby declare that I enlisted in the army of the United States, in the City of Philadelphia, by Thomas Wiley who was then, or shortly after, a Captain and was thus engaged as an artificer and  sent to Carlisle when I was engaged one year at the publicks building, at which time my first enlistment being out I again enlisted for three years and continued at Carlisle as an artificer until my enlistment expired - about two months after the application of my last mentioned tour, I again enlisted for eighteen months and was marched to the south war and was again discharged after having served about two years - very shortly after my return I again enlisted for and during the War and served to the run of it, at which time I was discharged at Lancaster in Pennsylvania by Edward Butler - who signed the discharge I cannot remember -  my second enlistment was with Captain Thomas Campbell, who the Captain was in the last enlistment I cannot remember but Colonel Richard Butler was commander of the Regiment in the Pennsylvania line and all the enlistments were in said Pennsylvania line - my discharge was either lost or given up, at the time a Patent was granted to me for a trust of time for my services in the Revolutionary War by the State of Pennsylvania - which way it was I cannot now recollect  -- I have no recollection that I ever received a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars to which I was entitled under the [illegible] of Congress [illegible] the 15th of May 1778 nor do I recollect to have known that I was entitled to a certificate - and I further declare that I was not on the pension list of the United States on the 15th day of March 1828 nor at any other time - [illegible] cash entitlement was as a private soldier.
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I do further state that I am now in the eighty fifth year of my age, and very feeble.  I have been confined to the house for several months past with no prospect of ever again being able to use much exertion and therefore am unable to seek after said testimony relative to my service as I might have done some years ago.  My wife is also in her seventy eight year of her age and is nearly blind scarcely being able to distinguish the light of day.

Jacob [his "x" mark] Warren

Sworn and subscribed before me
the 25th day of April 1829.
A. Brown
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Commonwealth of Pennsylvania}
Mercer County} SS

Before the Subscribed an associate Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Mercer County one Bevan Pearson and William W. Pearson of the Borough of Mercer who being duly qualified arguably to law doth depose and say that Jacob Warner the applicant (herein named) to the general government of the United States for a Pension is the identical person to whom a patent for a tract of land of 200 acres was granted by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for his service in the Revolutionary War which trust of land was transferred by the said Jacob Warner to the first named despondent, the patent for which is now in the possession of the other despondent.

[Signatures of - Bevan Pearson and William W. Pearson]

quantified and Subscribed before me 
April 29th 1829
A. Brown
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June 6, 1933
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BA-J/EEL
Gideon Roberts-W. 3006
Jacob Warner-S.46516

Mrs. H. L. R. Anderson
712 West Main Street
Grove City, Pensylvania

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter in which you request information in regard to Gideon Roberts and Jacob Warner, pensioners of the Revolutionary War.  their histories are given below as found in the papers on file in the respective claims for pension based upon the military service of those soldiers in the War of the Revolution.

Gideon Roberts
W.2006

Gideon Robarts (as he signed but was pensioned Roberts) was born August 4, 1757, in Middletown, Connecticut.  The names of his parents are not shown in the papers in the pension claim.

While residing in Watertown, Connecticut, he enlisted very early in the Revolution, and served at various times until sometime in 1779, amounting to at least two years in all, as a private under Captains Benedict Arnold, Benjamin Richards, Amos Hecock, Stephen Mathews, Peter Robertson, James Peck and Enos Bradley, Colonels Wooster, Heman Swift, Walbridge and Enos in the Connecticut Troops, and was a Norwalk when it was burned.

After the Revolution, he lived in New York state until 1819, then moved to Crawford County, Pennsylvania, where he resided until May, 1831, then moved to Mercer County, Pennsylvania.

He was allowed pension on his application executed October 15, 1832, while residing in Springfield Township, Mercer County, Pennsylvania.
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Gideon Robarts died May 2, 1843, at the home of Alexander T. Holdcomb in Amity Township, Erie County, Pennsylvania.

The soldier married March 8, 1780, at Washington, Litchfield County, Connecticut, Jerusha Pitcher, who was born May 27, 1757, place not stated.  He was then of Waterbury and she of Washington, Connecticut.

Soldier's widow, Jerusha, was allowed pension on her application executed December 26, 1844, while residing in Amity Township, Erie County, Pennsylvania.

She died August 28, 1848.

Two children survived their mother, namely Irah H. Roberts, who resided in Crawford County, Pennsylvania, after the death of his mother and Elizabeth, wife of Elisah Barns:  three grandchildren are also referred to:  Halsey, Juliet and Jerusha Doty:  there are no further data in regard to them.

One Susanah Pitcher, of Washington, Connecticut, married Thomas Cole, of Watertown, Connecticut, on November 14, 1780:  no relationship of Susanah Pitcher to Jerusha Pitcher was shown.

There are no further family data.

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Jacob Warner
S.46516
The date and place of birth and the names of parents of Jacob Warner are not shown in the papers in the pension claim.

He enlisted in Philadelphia, served one year as an artificer in Captain Thomas Wylie's Company of Artificers and three years as an artificer in Captain Nathaniel Irish's Company of Artificers and during the period of both enlistments was stationed at Carlisle, Pennsylvania:  he again enlisted, served in Captain Thomas Campbell's Pennsylvania Company, marched to the south and served two years:  no dates are given for any of the above services:  he enlisted in 1783, and served until the close of the war in Colonel Richard Butler's 3rd Pennsylvania Regiment.
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[Hand-written note in the righthand margin next the the previous paragraph that reads...Found this soldier in Captain Nathaniel Irish's Company in Flower's Artificers in Pennsylvania archives.]
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Jacob Warner was allowed pension on his application executed April 25, 1829, at which time he was in the eighty-fifth year of his age and resided in Delaware Township, Mercer County, Pennsylvania.

He died December 30, 1831, place not stated.

The soldier married before the commencement of the Revolution, Sarah _________.  The date and place of their marriage and her maiden name are not shown.  In 1829, she was aged seventy-five years.  There is no reference to children.

In 1830, on David Warner was aged forty-nine years and made affidavit in Mercer County, Pennsylvania: no relationship to soldier was shown.

Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER
Assistant to Administrator.
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1629
Number of Original Payments 955
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIMS.
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
9 May 1829

Jacob Warner of [blank] in the County of Mercer in the State of Pennsylvania has applied to the Secretary of Treasury for the benefits of the act, entitled "An Act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Revolution," approved  the 15th of May, 1828.  He states that he enlisted in the continental line of the army of Revolution, for an during the war, and continued until its termination, at which period he was a Private in captain [left blank] 's company, in Colonel Butler regiment of the Pennsylvania line; and that he received a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars, provided by the resolve of the 15th of May, 1778;and further, that he was not on the 15th day of May, 1828, on the pension list of the United States, and that he has received as a pensioner since the 3rd of March, 1826, nothing.

The Third Auditor is requested to report how far the several statements are corroborated by the records in his office.


By order of the Secretary,
F. A. Dickins

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
THIRD AUDITOR'S OFFICE,
11 May 1829

It appears by the records in this office, that a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars has been issued to Jacob Warner in the Pennsylvania line.

It further appears that Jacob Warner is not now on the pension list of any - - - - -  agency, and has not been so since the 3rd March 1826.
["at  the rate of" and "dollars per month." are crossed out]

Peter Hagner, Auditor
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Mercer April 28, 1829.
Dear Sir
I here enclose to you the declaration of Jacob Warner an old Revolutionary Soldier, in order to obtain the benefits of the late Act of Congress, Entitled "An act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Army of the Revolution" approved the 15th of May 1828.  He is a very aged and infirm man, wholly confined to his house, or hut rather,  and consequently unable to look after or procure such proof as is required by the Secretary of War, to have him placed on the pension list.  Having lately heard by a neighbour [neighbor], his situation, I thought it my duty to ride out near five miles, to his residence, to take his deposition and such testimony as he could procure.  If old age indigence and want had any weight in this application his wants stand high, but I know such has no weight, are not necessary under the present law, I merely mention it thinking that such circumstance should have some weight, if the evidence of service should fall short of what is required by law, or the regulations of the War Office.   I believe the intention of Congress was to reward meritorious service during the Revolution.   The circumstance of his having drawn military Land in Pennsylvania I think conclusive evidence of his being in the army at the end of the war.  For none other were entitled to military land; it is an has been generally understood that he drew land for his service.  I have seen the record of his Patent and believe he is the identicle [identical] person who drew it, which is in evidence accompanying his declaration, and should it be that necessary or more satisfactory, I will forward his Patent to the War Office
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immediately of receiving notice that it is required.  Any information on the subject, he requires to be directed to Alexander Brown, Esquire, Mercer, Loan and County, Pennsylvania, as he lives a distant [distance] from the Post Office.

I would also desire to call to the attention of your honour [honor] the declaration and application of Archibald McNair, a Sergeant of the Revolutionary Army, who applied some months ago, and is waiting rather impatiently, I advised him to let it lie over a while, on account of the change in the Cabinet, which he has done and would now be glad to hear something on the subject, his application was sent from this place as he is a Citizen of this County.  Your attention will oblige these old veterans.

Honorable John H. Easton, Esquire}
Secretary of War.}
and your Noble Servant
A. Brown.
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Jacob Warner
Pennsylvania line
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Make new case
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[Crossed out "Inval. Revy Don't fit 411,143"]
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[3-230.]
No. 903
--46516

Name:  Jacob Warner
Rank:  Private   Company:  [left blank]
Regiment:  Pennsylvania line
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Pennsylvania}
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Agency

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RATE PER MONTH, AND DATE OF COMMENCEMENT.
1st Issue. - Comm'g left Blank
2nd Issue. - Comm'g left Blank
3rd Issue. - Comm'g left Blank

DATE OF CERTIFICATE, AND TO WHOM SENT.
1st Issue. - Sent to left Blank
2nd Issue. - Sent to left Blank
3rd Issue. - Sent to left Blank

Act 14th July 1862.  Book G.  Volume left Blank, Page left Blank.  Registering Clerk:  left Blank.

Disability - left Blank.
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Died December 30, 1831
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1933 - June 6 - History to Mrs. H. L. Anderson
Letter in case of Gideon Roberts. W2006 EEL