Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 4521, for Jacob Lawrence, Pennsylvania
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 SERVICE Penn.  Lawrence, Jacob  or Laurance NUMBER S4521. carded - CONTENTS
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6596         
Ohio     
Jacob Lawrence of in the State of Pennsylvania who was a private in the company commanded by Captain Cato of the regiment commanded by Col. Laughery in the Penn’a_ Militia line for 19 months               
Inscribed on the Roll of Pittsburgh at the rate of 63 Dollars 33 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.            
Certificate of Pension issued the 2nd day of March 1833 and del’d to Hon. A Stewart, H. R. [House of Representatives]      
Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1832      94.99   
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Mch 1833 31.66             
$126.65           
{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.}               
Recorded by J M Duffield Clerk             
Book D Vol. Page 199 .                     
Ltr to Agent 28 July    
To Ohio from 4 March 4 1846        
4 Aug 1846. Notification to R. Elder Jr.  Eckmansville Adams County Ohio        
J. Truitt, Dec. 16 1857              
Hon Thomas B Florence June 30 / 58
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Fayette County ⎬ State of Pennsylvania 
On the 20th day of August 1832 personally appeared in open court before the Judges of the court of common pleas for the County of Fayette State of Pennsylvania, Jacob Lawrence a resident of the county &sState afforesaid aged seventy one years who being first 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 on June the 7th 1832

That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers & served as herein stated That he entered the service as a volunteer about the first of July in the year 1781 in Captain Micheal Catt company of Pennsylvania Militia Lieutenant Melchor Baker - that he volunteered for the compaine to fight the Indians on the Western frontier, that he was marched from Fayette County to Wheeling, that the troops there took boats descended the Ohio river below the mouth of the big Miami river, that they there landed on the Ohio side, that a few days after in August 1781 they had an engagement with the Indians near where Lawrenceburg now is, that he was taken prisoner by the Indians who at the same time captured &  killed & took prisoner the whole detachment consisting of about 105 men that he was kept a prisoner about a year at the mouth of Detroit river at Brownstown - That after being about one year a prisoner with the
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Indians at the above mentioned place he escaped from them, and was making his road homeward but was taken a second time by the British who took him to Montreal, and was there imprisoned seven weeks. There he was about six months a prisoner with the British in Canada and was about Christmas 1783 taken to New York to be exchanged, but before an exchange took place peace was concluded, that he was in all about Eighteen months a prisoner with the Indians and British, that the troops to which he belonged were commanded by Col Laughery who was killed in the engagement with the Indian at the time he was taken prisoner, that he returned home early in the year 1784. That he has no documentary evidence of his service, that he knows of no person at present by whom he can establish them, but that the Rev. Thornton Fleming & the Hon Andrew Stewart will certify as to his reputation, that he was born in Frederick County Virginia that he resided at the time he entered the service in Fayette County, Pennsylvania & still resides there    
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or anuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of the agency of any state.      
Sworn to subscribed the day & year aforesaid in open court his 
H W Beeson Prothy
 Jacob  Lawrence  his mark
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S.S. State of Ohio County of Adams ⎬ on this 14th day of July 1846 before me the Subscriber a Justice of the Peace for the said County of Adams Personally appeared Jacob Lawrence who on his oath declares that he is the same person who formely belonged to the Company commanded by Captain Catt in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Laughrey in the service of the United States that his name was placed on the pension Roll of the State of Pennsylvania from whence he has lately removed that he now resides in the State of Ohio where he intends to remain and wishes his pension to be there payable in future the following are his reasons for removing from Pennsylvania to Ohio was to situate himself Better in land and to be near his children Sworn and subscribed before me the day and year aforesaidJacob Laurance and year aforesaid John L Francis Justice of the Peace State of Ohio ⎬ Adams County S.S. Be it known that before me John L. Francis a Justice of the peace in and for the County aforesaid Personally appeared Robert Elder and made oath in due form of law that he believes Jacob Lawrence to be the Identical person he represents himself to be Sworn  and Subscribed before me the day and year aforesaid R. Elders John L Francis JP
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I do hereby certify that I have the most satisfactory evidence viz Personal knowledge of the within named Robert Elder and Believe him to be a man of truth given under my hand this 14th day of July 1846 John L Francis JP

The State of Ohio Adams County SS I. Joseph Darlinton Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for ithe County aforesaid do hereby certify that John Francis Esquire before whom the foregoing affidavit, were made and who signed the same was at the time of of signing the same and still is a justice of the peace in and for the County afore said duly commissioned & qualified and that full faith & credit are due to his said Certificate and all other official acts by him done as well in Courts of Justice as thereon In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court at West Union this 15th day of July A.D. 1846 Joseph Darlinton Clk A.
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Rev. and 1812 Wars Section
April 28, 1925

Mrs. Roby E. O ' Brien West Union, Ohio. 
Madam:   
I have to advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim S. 4521 it appears that  Jacob Lawrence, or Laurance, was born in Frederick and County, Virginia, the date not stated. While a resident of Fayette County, Pennsylvania he enlisted July 1, 1781, served as a private in Captain Michael Cat's or Catt's Company, Colonel Loughrey's Pennsylvania Regiment, was in an engagement with the Indians near the mouth of the Big Miami River (the place which was later Lawrenceburg) where he was taken prisoner by the Indians and held about a year at Browntown at the mouth of the Detroit River. He made his escape and on his way homeward was recaptured by the British and held a prisoner in Canada until shortly after Christmans 1783. He was allowed pension on his application executed

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83 August 20, 1832 while a resident of Fayette County, Pennsylvania aged seventy-one years. In July 1846 he had recently moved to Adams County, Ohio to be near his children. He died in said Adams County a few years prior to 1857. Respectfully,  WILDER S. METCALF. Commissioner. 

[handwritten: date of death not on ILLEGIBLE]
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Bradyville Nove 24
Jacob Lawrence
Ohio - transfer from PA
ao, 1832 

Commisioner of Pensions, Washington City, DC
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West Union, O. Mar. 2,25 
Comissioner of Pensions           
Dear Sir.        Herein find self addressed envelope, for which you will please return to me, with information concerning the names --- John Hanna and Jacob Lawrence. These two men were Revolutionary soldiers and both saw hard service.  Jacob Lawrence being captured by the indians    
I wrote the War Dept. and they wrote me that both names were on Record, but there were several others by the same
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names and they could not ascertain which of them were the ones desired, and advised me to make application to the Comissioner of Pensions, Washington, D.C.   These two named men together with their widows, died in Adams Co. Ohio.          
I am in great need of information concerning them and will the Pension Dept. please try to help me identify them and as soon as possible    
Respectivly             
Mrs. Roby E. O’Brien          
West Union, Adams Co . O
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Rev War   4521
INVALID
File No. 4521
Jacob Lawrence
Pri. Pa. Mil.
Act: June 7, ‘32
Index: - Vol. A,   Page 215
[Arrangement of 1870.]
1925 – Apr. 28 – Hist. to Mrs Roby E. O’Brien – M M H
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War Department         
Revolutionary Claim          
I certify that in conformity with the Law of the United States of the 7th June 1832. Jacob Lawrence of the State of Pennsylvania who was a Private in the Army of the Revolution is entitled to receive sixty three dollars and thirty three cents per anum during his Natural life commencing on the 4th of March 1831 and payable Semi- annully on the 4th of March & 4th of September in every year              
Given at the War Office of the United States this 2d day of March are thousand Eight hundred and thirty three           
Lewis Cass                
Examined and Countersigned   
J. L. Edwards
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Thomas M Howe Pen Agt.
Pittsburgh Penn Aug 2nd 1846
Jacob Lawrence
Pensioner under act 7 June 1832
paid up to 4 March 1846
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Pension Agency          
Pittsburgh August 1st 1846          
J. L. Edwards Esqr         
Commissioner of Pensions             
Dear Sir              
Jacob Lawrence a Pensioner under act of 7th June 1832 at $ 63 33/100 dollars 1 per annum was last paid up to the 4th of March 1846, as directed in yours of 28th as I have marked his name transfered to the Ohio Agency        
I am most respectfully           
Your Obt. Svt.
Thos M. Howe Pension Agent
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Bradysville   Adams County Ohio         
Nov 23d 1857
Commisioner of Pensions      
Dear Sir       I am requested to make some enquiry in regard to a Revolutionary Claim of one Jacob Lawrence who died in this County a few years since, who it is said was a private in in Captain Cats Company of Pennsylvania Militia in the Revolution, and on his return home was pressed into Col Laughrige Rigment of the same State and in (his Laughige) defeat was taken prisoner by the Indians and remained in captivity 18 months. He served altogether 2 ½ years. he never drew any pay for said service untill March 4th 1831 when he commenced to draw a pension as you will see from the enclosed which is a true Copy of the original Certificate now in my possession.            
It is alledged that he never drew any pay for said service & that in accordance with the late pension laws there is or ought to be a Considerable sum of money now in the pension Office which is due his heirs.   
If you are not the proper person to attend this department of Claims please refer it the proper person.    
If you will please send me suitable directions how to proceed, & if you can conveniently the amount the said Lawrence if his name is on the Rolls and in so doing you will much oblige yours truly     
James Truitt
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Eckmansville
July 23
July 28 ‘46
Mr. Evans
Paid 20
Mr. J. L. Edwards
Pension Agent
Washington City D. C. 
Paid 40
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Eckmansville Adams County Ohio July 22d 1846           
Mr. J L Edwards     
Dear Sir            
at the request of Mr. Lawrence I Enclose you his affidavit to remove his pension from Pittsburg Penn’a to Cincinnati Ohio wich hope you will find all right and make the transfer if not giving you two much trouble I would be glad you send me a line to this place Eckmansville Adams County Ohio          
Respectfully             
R. Elder Jr.
J. L. Edwards         
Pension Agent              
Washington City
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Fayette County Pennsylvania                 
The undersigned Citizens of Fayette County do hereby certify that we are personally acquainted with Jacob Lawrence the applicant mention is in the accompaning declaration, & that we believe him to have been engaged as a volunteer or a Militia man in the revolutionary war & that he was taken prisoner by the Indians and kept a long time by them, & that he has always had the reputation in his nebourhood as such     
Jeremiah Kindall          
Ephraim Walters
Josep Yage Senior    
Georg Riffel    
Nathan Balfus
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19201                
Declaration of Jacob Lawrence            
Admitted          
19 mos              
$63.33                   
Hon A. Stewart
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We, Thomton Fleming, a Clergyman residing in Union Town Fayette County Pennsylvania and Andrew Stewart, residing in the same place hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Jacob Lawrence who has subscribed & sworn to the foregoing declaration; that we believe him to be seventy one years of age; that he is reputed & believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution & that we concur in that opinion    
Thornton Fleming
And’w Stewart
Sworn to Subscribed the day & year aforesaid by And’w Stewart & affirmed to by Thornton Fleming & subscribed in Open Court 20 Augt 1832     
H. W. Beeson   Prothy             
And the said 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 soldier and served as he states. And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that Thornton Fleming who has signed the preceding certificate is a Clergyman resident in Union Town Fayette County Pennsylvania and that Andrew Stewart who has also signed the same is a resident of the same place & is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit               
I Henry W. Beeson, Prothonotary of the Court of Commer Pleas in & for Fayette County aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Jacob Lawrence for a pension 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of Office this 20th day of August A.D. 1832 H. W. Beeson Prothy