Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 16411, Jacobas Hines, Md.
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Service
MD

Name
Hines, Jacobas
or Jacob

Number
S.16411
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Indiana
13547

Jacob Hines
of Park Co in the state of Indiana
who was a private in the company commanded
by Caption Watkins of the Regt. commanded
by Col Morgan in the Maryland line for 6 months

Inscribed on the roll of Indiana at the rate of 20 dollars 00 cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March 1831

Certificate of Pension issued the 17 day of Mar 1833 and sent to Robert A Wright Rockville, Ind

Arrears to the 4th of March $40.00
Semi-anl allowance 4 Sept $10.00
$50.00

Revolutionary Claim Act June 7, 1832

Recorded by Daniel Boyd - Clerk
Book E Vol 7 Page 114
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See letter 21 July 1837
to Hon R.M. Johnson

Letter to 3 Auditor Pension Agt. 16 Nov 1838

Paid at the Treasury under the act of the 6 April 1838 from 4 Sept 1837 to 4 March 1838. Agent notified 21 Nov 1838

Date of Death no on AB
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20,

Jacobas Hines of
Park County, Indiana

from 1775 Private
6 months 
$20

Robt. A Wright - Agent
Park County Indiana
Rockville
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Brief in the case of Jacobas Hines
of Park County in the state of Indiana
(Act 7th June 1832)

1. Was the declaration made before a court of a judge? - A Court

2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity? - BLANK

3. How old is he? 80 Years

4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed/

Period- Enlisted in 1775 and 1779
Duration of Service - 4 months and 2 or 3 months
Rank - Private both times
Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served - Capt. John Watkins; he joined Col Gess, Morgan and Leatherbury and Gen Wayne. Then Capt. Marmaduke Tillran and Col. Alexander Anderson

5. In what battles was he engaged? - Germantown

6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? - Chester County Maryland

7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence by incidental evidence or by the rolls? Traditionary

8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so in what respect? Correct

X Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.

W R Turner - Examining Clerk
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Left Side Page

and the seal of the office of said court on this 13th day of November AD 1832

Wallice Rea, Clerk

Right Side Page

20543
Jacobus Hines
Application for 
a pension
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State of Indiana
Parke County

On this 12th day of November in the year 1832 personally appeared in open court before Joseph Potts Probate Judge in and for the county of Parke the said probate court being a court of record now sitting Jacobus Hines a resident of Union Township County of Park aforesaid aged Eighty years and sixteen days who being duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of congress passed June 7th 1832 - that he entered the service of the United states under the following named offices and served as herein stated to wit. That sometime in the month of April in the year 1775 at the Town of Chester in the county of Kent State of Maryland he enlisted as a minute man under John Matthias (Captain) Robert Battin (Lieut) Richard Grace (Ensign) about a month after said enlistment he with said company was called into actual service as and set out on an expedition to the Chesapeake Bay where the British were committing some deputation upon the inhabitants at the distance of 12 miles from the said town of Chester and returned home in about four days: he remained home in readiness for service but was not called out until sometime in August 1777 when he was called into service under said officers to the Head of Elk river in said state a distance from said Town of Chester of about 40 miles, from Elk he marched in said company to Coash; bridge to the head of Christianna Creek thence down Christianna  Creek to a bridge thereon thence to Ogles town thence to Newark thence to New London at cross roads and about two days thereafter he and the company joined the main army in which was Col Guss, Morgan, Peregrin Leatherbury and General Wayne; he was in
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the army at the massacre at Seal (at the place called the White Horse Tower) and in a few days thereafter was in the battle of Germantown and remained in the army until a few days before Christmas 1777 where he was permitted to return home; the length of time employed in said expedition was fourth months. And in March 1779 at said Town of Chester set out upon another expedition under Captain Marmaduke Tilden for the forest of Queen Anne - after the Tories who had forted there (under Gen Chainey Clause of Claud) upwards of 50 miles from Chester; and he was engaged in storming the fort and Sunday morning in the month of March and after some firing the Tories retreated to the swamp thence he went in different directions through the woods in his said company and took a number of Tories prisoners and remained engaged in said service two or three months from the time he set out as aforesaid when he was permitted to return home. Alexander Anderson from Chester Town was Colonel. This is the last service he rendered as a soldier - he further states that he served the remainder of the year as an assistant to John Battin who was a purchasing and issuing commissary for the United States that said Battin employed him in said service and that the length of time that he was under said Battin was six or eight months. He has no documentary evidence of his services as he received no written discharges and that he knows of no person whose testimony he can procure to testify to his service and he made the following statement to the questions propounded to him by the Court and that he was born on the 28th day of October 1752 at New Castle County in the state of Delaware; he has no record of his age; he was living in said county of Chester when called into service; he has lived since the revolutionary war in the state of Maryland, thence he moved to the state of Virginia
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thence to the state of Ohio thence to the state of Indiana where he now resides. He cannot state the names of any other of the officers or any other circumstances of his service than he has above stated. A great many facts having long been obliterated from his memory. He never received any written discharges; he states that the names of the persons to whom he is known in his neighborhood are Henry Hines and John Romaine and who can testify as to his character for veracity and their belief of his services as a soldier of the revolution; he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state that he knows of.

Jacobus Hines

Sworn and subscribed to the day and year aforesaid.

William McGinnis
For Wallice Rea - Clerk

We Henry Hines and John Romaine residing in the neighborhood of Parke aforesaid hereby certify that we are well acquainted with the said Jacobus Hines who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration ; that we believe him to be of the age of eighty years; that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion.

John Romaine
Henry Hines

Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid

Wm McGinnis
for Wallice Rea Clerk

And the court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the war department that the above-named applicant was a revolutionary
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soldier and served as he states. And the court further certifies that it appears to them that the said Henry Hines and John Romaine who has signed the preceding certificates resides in the neighborhood of the said Jacobus Hines and in the township of Union aforesaid and that they are credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit.

November 13th, 1832

Joseph Potts
Probat Judge

I Wallice Rea Clerk of the said Parke Probate Court do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of said Jacobus Hines for a pension. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of the office of said court on this 13th day of November AD 1832.

Wallice Rea - Clerk

SEAL
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October 22, 1936

BA-J/EEL
Jacobas Hines - S.16401

Mrs. D.R. Dooley
Rockville
Indiana

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter in which you request the revolutionary war records of Jacob Hines and Sameul Hazlett, pensioned in Parke County, Indiana, in 1831.

Because of the great demand for Revolutionary War data and the limited, trained clerical force available for furnishing such information, it is impossible to comply in full with each request pertaining to soldiers of that war. The records of Jacobas (or Jacob) Hines is furnished herein, the date for which were obtained from the papers on file in his claim for pension S.16401, based upon his military service in the revolutionary war.

Jacobas Hines was born October 28, 1752, in Newcastle County, Delaware. The names of his parents are not shown.

While a resident of Chester, Kent County, Maryland, in April 1775, Jacobas Hines joined a company of minute men commanded by Captain John Watkins and about one month after entering said company, he went on an expedition to a point on Chesapeake Bay about twelve miles from Chester and served four days. He was called into active service in August, 1777 in said Captain Watkins' Maryland Company, was in the battles or Paoli and Germantown and was discharged just before Christmas of 1777; he enlisted again in March, 1779 and served between two and three months in Captain Marmaduke Tilldan's company, colonel Alexander Anderson's Maryland Regiment and was in the storming of a fort located about fifty miles from Chester, Maryland, which fort was held by Tories after this date not given he served six or eight months as assistant to John Batten Purchasing and Issuing Commissary.

Handwritten Note Next to this paragraph: Capt. Watkins only officer that I could identify.

After the revolution, he lived in the states of Maryland, Virginia, and Ohio, then moved to Indiana.
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Jacobus Hines was allowed pension on his application executed November 13, 1832 while a resident of Parke County Indiana. He singed Jacobas Hines was pensioned Jacob Hines.

There are no data as to soldier's family.

Very truly yours

A.D. Hiller
Executive Assistant 
to the Administrator

Date of Death not on AB
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Rockville, Parke County Indiana

November 14th 1832

Sear Sir

Enclosed you will find ten more applications for pensions under the act passed June 7th, 1832. Many of the applicants are men laboring under the effects of old age and that all of their statements stand the same. As their statements are not full and complete and they may have omitted material facts of which they no doubt once had a knowledge of - but has long since been forgotten. Both of these applicants are men who are not able to get about since they had to be brought here in a wagon to be examined in court. The department in a great number of cases will have to relax the rigid rule of the law or if not a number of applicants who are worthy will have to say to the government you have dealt with most harshly

In haste I am
respectfully your

Joseph A Wright

J L Edwards Esq
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16411
Invalid

File No: 16411
Jacob Hines
Pri Rev War

Act :June 7, '32

Index Vol A Page 174
{Arrangement of 1870.]


1936 Oct 22 - Hist to Mrs D R Dooley
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Comm of Pensions
Washington D.C.

Dear Sir

I have been referred to you to find the military war record o Jacob Hines or Hinder who served during the Revolution and enlisted from Chestertown, MD

My grandmother says he received a pension while living with her near Rockville, Ind.

Respectfully

Mrs. Andrew Barr
702 N Illinois St
Urbana Ill
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In reply to your request of blank received 27 inst for a statement of the military history of Jacobas Hines a soldier of the revolutionary war, you will find below the desired information as contained in his or his widow's application for pension on file in this bureau. {Pensioned as Jacob Hine}

Date of Enlistment
1. April 1775
2. Aug 1777
3. Mar 1779

Length of Service
1. 4 days
2. 4 Months
3. 2 or 3 Months and d6 to 8 months asst to Commissary John Batten

Rank:
Private each enlistment

Officers under whom service was rendered

Captain
1. John Watkins
2. John Watkins
3. Marmaduke Tilldan

Colone
1. blank
2. Gess Morgan
3. Alexander Anderson

State
MD each enlistment

Battles engaged in: Paoli, Germantown and the storming of a Fort in Maryland
Residence of soldier at enlistment - Chester, MD
Date of application for pension - Nov 13, 1832 his claim was allowed
Residence at date of application - Union Township, Park Co. Ind
Age at date of application - born Oct 28, 1752 New Castle Co Delaware
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Rockville, Indiana
Aug 3, 1936

Veterans Administration
Washington, D.C.

Sirs:

Please send me the revolutionary service record of the following pensioners of Parke County Indiana.
Jacob Hines - pensioned 1831
Sauel Hazlett - pensioned 1831

Thanking you, I am, 
Yours truly

Lois G Dooley
(Mrs. D.R. Dooley)

Received Stamp - Aug 5, 1936
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Brief objections to the admission of pension claim of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of Jacobus Hines which require further proof or explanation.

I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides? - BLANK

II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides? - BLANK

III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so? - BLANK

IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served? - BLANK

V. Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled? - NO

VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations? - BLANK

VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832? - BLANK

VIII. Has the Court given their opinion? - BLANK

IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate? - BLANK

X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal? – BLANK
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XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service? - No, two citizens

XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reasons assigned for not obtaining it? - NO

XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had? - BLANK

XIV. If the applicant's name is not found on the rolls of military service, has he produced a witness or witnesses as to his service?
If he has produced direct proof as to service, has the magistrate who administered the oath certified to the credibility of the witness or witnesses?
Has the proper officer certified to the official character and signature of the magistrate as the regulations direct?

BLANK

XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation or of such an age as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service? - BLANK

XVI. Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct? - BLANK

XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And if not, which of them s not so answered? - BLANK

Explanatory Notes

Quere V. In a case where the applicant cannot by reason of the loss of memory state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words: "Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, etc. A.B. who being duly sworn, deposeth and saith that by reason of old age and the consequent loss of memory he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades: For blank year, blank months and blank days, I served as a blank for blank months and blank days I served as a blank; and for such service I claim a pension."
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It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months is too indefinite and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state they served two years in the militia, etc. without specifying the tours, the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is highly objectionable. It must in every case be clearly shown under what officers the applicant served, the duration of each term of engagement, the particular place or places where the service was performed, that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority, that he was either in the field or in garrison, and for the time during which the service was performed he was not employed in any civil pursuit.

QUERE XIV. Proof of Service
In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department he must prove his service by two credible witnesses who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service and the time and matter of his leaving the same as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer under his seal of office.

QUERE XVI. Mode of authenticating papers
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon the ends of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer so as to prevent any paper form being improperly attached to the certificate.

In every case where the clerk of the court or other certifying officer has no public seal of office the certificate of a member of congress proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer should accompany the papers.
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Treasury Department
Second Comptroller's Office
Nov 19, 1838

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" Jacob Hines a pensioner on the roll of Indianapolis Agency at the rate of Twenty dollars per annum under the law of the 7th June 1832 has been paid at this department from the 4th of Sept 1837 to the 4th of March 1838.

Respectfully yours

Albion K Parris
Comptroller

To the Commissioner of Pensions
Present
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The National Archives

Bounty Land Warrant Record Card

Division of Veterans' Administration Services

Name: Hines, James
Grade: Private
Line: Virginia
Warrant Number: 12243
Acreage: 100
Issued: January 7 1793
to Robt Means - assignee