Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 265, Jacob Arnold, Penn.
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3-1776
SERVICE
Penn.
Arnold, Jacob
NUMBER
R. 265
CONTENTS
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1938 May 9 - History to Wm. M. Pettit, Esq.
Ex'r. INVALID.
REJECTED
Jacob Arnold
P.O. [blank]
Service: [blank]
Printed list of 1852 shows cause of rejection. He did not serve six months.
Enlisted: [blank], 18
Discharged: [blank], 18
Application filed: [blank], 18
Alleges: [blank]
Re-enlisted: [blank]
Attorney: [blank]
P.O. [blank]
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32.900
Jacob Arnold
Ohio
265
Rejected
did not serve six months
Edward W. Davis, Clerk
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was marched to Philadelphia, where it was ascertained that the Regiment was not likely to be formed, the company was marched on to the West. Whether it was intended to take the company to Virginia or not, he cannot say, but when they arrived in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, they received intelligence of Cornwallis' surrender, when they were ordered to guard some wagons containing clothes for the men at Pittsburgh, they proceeded to Shippensburg, Chambersburg, thence to General Irwin's residence in Maryland. When there, General Irwin proceeded to Pittsburgh to take charge of that point; General Broadhead having been summoned to appear in Philadelphia to answer charges relative to his [illegible] on the public [illegible]. Thence the company went to the Potomac and thence to what was called Broadheads road to Pittsburgh, where they were engaged in guarding the Fort for the residue of his term of service. Then the company proceeded to Philadelphia, where Arnold got his discharge, which is lost. At Philadelphia, the Company remained about two weeks waiting for their pay and were daily marched up to the State House in which Congress were then in session and were from day to day informed that no provision was made for their payment. Finally, they were paid, the whole amount of which was expended in defraying the expenses then incurred. During their stay in Philadelphia, efforts were made to enlist the members of the company for during the War, many of whom were enlisted. He was not in an engagement during either period. 
During his first term of service, he acted as a substitute for Matthew Reffer, who then lived in Greenwich Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania, where Arnold then lived.
Arnold was born in Northampton County, Pennsylvania, A.D. 1763. After his discharge
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he resided in Berks County, Pennsylvania, when after St. Clair's defeat, he removed to the State of Kentucky, Mason County, where he lived eleven years, whence he removed to Green County and thence to Montgomery County, Ohio, where he now resides. He does not know by whom his discharge was signed.
From the exposures and privations of his Revolutionary services, his constitution is much injured and impaired.
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.
Jacob Arnold
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
Edward W. Davies, Clerk
We, David Winters, a Clergyman, residing in the town of Dayton, and James Brown, Sheriff of, and residing in, Montgomery County, Ohio, hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Jacob Arnold who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be about seventy two years of age; 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.
David Winters
Jas. Brown
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
Edward W. Davies, Clerk
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 Rev-
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volutionary Soldier and served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that David Winters who has signed the preceding certificate, is a Clergyman, resident in Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio and that James Brown, Sheriff, who has also signed the same, is a resident in the same place and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit.
I, Edward Davies, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Montgomery County, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of application of Jacob Arnold for a pension. In testimony whereof, have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this 13th day of March A.D. 1835.
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May 9, 1933
BA-J/EEL
Jacob Arnold - R.265
Mr. William M. Pettit
846 N. Broadway
Dayton, Ohio
Dear Sir:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War record of Jacob Arnold, of Wayne Township, Montgomery County, Ohio, whose claim for pension was rejected.
The data which follow were obtained from the papers on file in Revolutionary War pension claim, R. 265, based upon the military service in that war of Jacob Arnold.
Jacob Arnold was born in October 1763, in Northampton County, Pennsylvania. The names of his parents are not show.
After the Revolution, Jacob Arnold moved to Mason County, Kentucky, thence to Green County, that state; thence to Montgomery County, Ohio.
March 13, 1833, while living in Wayne Township, Montgomery County, Ohio, Jacob Arnold applied for pension and stated that 
while living in Berks County, Pennsylvania, he enlisted in May, 1781, served as a private in Captain Peter Smith's Company, Colonel Lindenmuth's Pennsylvania Regiment, and served two months; that he reenlisted in June, 1781, served in Captain Jacob Livengood's Pennsylvania Company, that they marched to Philadelphia expecting to join a regiment being formed to be under the command of Major Barr, but that the regiment was not organized and that the company was then marched about to various places and guarded wagons and stores and the fort at Pittsburgh for a time. He stated that he enlisted for six months on this tour, but he did not state the actual time that he served.
His claim was not allowed as he failed to furnish proof of service of six months in a regularly organized military corps required by the pension laws.
[handwritten: Found Col. Michael Lindenmuth of Pa. A soldier of this name found in Pa. Archives from Northampton Co., none of Berks.]
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The date of death of Jacob Arnold is not stated nor are there any data concerning his family.
Very truly yours
A. D. MILLER
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator
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Rejected
See letter to W. L. Helfanstein
Dayton, Ohio
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W. L. Helfenstein
25 March 1835
O.C.
Recorded Vol. 26 p.464
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War Dept. Pension Office
March 25, 1835
Sir,
The declaration of Jacob Arnold has been examined. He alleges that he entered the service in May 1781 as a militia man of Pa. and that in time, he enlisted for six months. It would appear that the company to which the applicant belonged was never attached to a regularly organized regiment and that he performed little to no actual service, excepting during his first tour, which can be recognized as being of that character provided for by the act of 7 June 1832. The claim has therefore been rejected and the papers filed in this office.
W. L. Helfanstein, Esq.
Dayton, Ohio
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J. L. Edwards Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D.C.
Mar 21 Ohio
[Stamp: Dayton Ohio, Mar 14]
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Dayton Ohio March 13, 1835
J. L. Edwards, Esquire
Sir-- Enclosed you will receive the declaration of Jacob Arnold, an applicant for pension. The two gentlemen sworn in favor of his [illegible] was a highly respected clergyman, Mr. Winters and the Sheriff of this County, Mr. Brown.
As soon as a decision is had, would be happy to hear from you.
Very Respectfully Yours,
Wm. L. Helfenstein
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The Ohio Society of the Sons of the American Revolution
BOARD OF MANAGERS 1937-36
WILLIAM H. ALEXANDER, PRESIDENT
E. NELSON HIGH, 1ST V. PRESIDENT
H. WILLIAM HOLSINGER, 2ND V. PRESIDENT
WILLIAM M. PETTIT, SECRETARY REGISTRAR
ARTHUR L. MOLER, TREASURER
CLARK M. GARBER, HISTORIAN
REV. H. B. DIEFENBACH, CHAPLAIN
DR. ALVIN K. WAGNER
DR. ROBERT B. GAGE
DR. W. C. GRAHAM
WAYNE DANCER
DR. L. W. S. STRYKER
HON. CHARLES B. ZIMMERMAN
DR. FRANKLIN C. WAGENHALS
REV. E. P. WHALLON, CHAPLAIN EMERITUS
COL. ANSEL E. BECKWITH, M. S. TRUSTEE
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
THE PRESIDENT, CHAIRMAN
THE SECRETARY, THE TREASURER
HON. CHARLES D. ZIMMERMAN
DR. FRANKLIN C. WAGENHALS
NEW ORGANIZATION AND MEMBERSHIP
THE SECRETARY, CHAIRMAN
THE PRESIDENT, DR. FRANK W. GARDNER
CAPT. H. WILLIAM HOLSINGER
LEGISLATIVE-RESEARCH
JACK EDWARD NIDA, CHAIRMAN
HON, MILES S. KUNNS
GOOD CITIZENSHIP
WALTER D. McKINNEY, CHAIRMAN
WILLIAM M. PETTIT, SECRRETAY-REGISTRAR
846 NORTH BROADWAY, DAYTON. O.
4-15-1938.
Veterans Administration,
Pension Bureau,
Washington, D. C.
Commissioner of Pensions,
Dear Sir:
In Document 37, U. S. Senate, 1852, appears the name of Jacob Arnold, Wayne Twp. Montgomery Co. Ohio, as a rejected pension claimant; reason " did not serve six months." We would be pleased if you will furnish the data of claim, as to services, etc.
Yours truly,
William Pettit
[Stamp: RECEIVED APR 20 1938 PENSION SECTION]
[handwritten: Can't identify 4/18/38]