Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 3345, for Jonathan Jacobs, Pennsylvania
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
Penn.

Jacobs, Jonathan
Dorothy

NUMBER
W. 3345
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State of Pennsylvania
York County SS.
On this fourth day of September A.D. 1843 personally appeared before me Daniel Durkee President Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County Dorothy Jacobs a resident of the Borough of York in the said County aged about seventy seven years who being first by me duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions of the acts of Congress passed
July 7th 1838, and August 23d 1842, granting pensions to the widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary war - That she is the widow of Jonathan Jacobs late of the County aforesaid who was a soldier in said war and for many years past to the date of his death [was] in the receipt of a pension for his services, from the United States - That her maiden name was Dorothy Heishman. That she was
lawfully married to said Jacobs about fifty seven years ago, in the month of November that her husband the said Jacobs died on the eleventh of April A.D. 1843.-- That her son John the oldest of her children and the lawful issue of her marriage with said Jacobs was fifty six years of age sometime in the last August - That she has no record evidence of her marriage, the family record kept by her husband having been destroyed long since; and that from bodily infirmity he is unable to attend Court to make her declaration.
Dorothy Jacobs
X
her mark

Sworn and subscribed 
the day and year above written
before me
D Durkee
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State of Pennsylvanie
York County
On this thirtieth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and forty three personally appeared before me Jacob Glessner one of the Justices of the
Peace in and for the said County John Jacobs who being by me first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath depose and say that he is now eighty four years of age and was married in his thirty first year. that he knows well that Jonathan Jacobs late of the Borough of York in said County and a Revolutionary soldier had been married several years to Dorothy Jacobs his present widow and had children by her at the time of the marriage of this deponent, one of whom he remembers was named John who is yet living and must now be fifty four or five
years of age. That he recollects the time the said Jonathan and his present widow were married as they returned and resided on the farm of his father that they raised a family of children and lived together until the death of said Jonathan which took place last Spring
John Jacobs
X
his mark

Sworn to & Subscribed before me
August 30th 1843
Jacob Glessner 

I Jacob Glessner a Justice of aforesaid do hereby certify that John Jacobs the above named deponent is personally known to me, and is person entitled to full credibility and belief
Jacob Glessner
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1057
Pennsylvania Philadelphia
Dorothy Jacobs
widow of Jonathan Jacobs who
 served in the Revolutionary
war, Pennsylvania Line, as a private
Incd [Increased] from $50
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
96 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of July, 1848.
Certificate of Pension issued the
30th day of Decr 1850
and sent to J. E. Buchanan
York Pa
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act
February 2, 1848, Page 239 Vol. 2
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19.401
Pennsylvania
Jonathan Jacobs of York Co. in the State of Pennsylvania who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Albright of the regiment commanded by Colonel Miles
in the Pennsylvania line, for the term of fifteen months from January 1776 to May 1777
Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 4 of April 1825
Certificate of Pension issued the 6 of April 1825 and sent to [illegible] [illegible] [W B Morris?] Esq
York, Pennsylvania

Semi-anl, all'ce ending [illegible]
{Revolutionary claim,
Acts March 18, 1818,
and May 1, 1820.}

Letter to C Wetherell 28 Oct. 1837. [This line crossed out]
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York County
State of Pennsylvania ss:
On this fourth day of April in the year
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty five, Personally appeared in open court, in the Court of Common Pleas, of court of
record held in and for the County of York and State of Pennsylvania Jonathan Jacobs, resident in said County, aged sixty one years, who being duly sworn according to law, doth on his solemn affirmation make the following declaration in order to obtain the provisions
made by the act of Congress of the eighteenth of March one thousand eight hundred and eighteen and the first of May, one thousand
eight hundred and twenty, that he the said Jonathan Jacobson entered for the term of twenty one months, on the[blank]  day of January one thousand seven hundred and seventy six, in the State of Pennsylvania, in the company command by Capt. Philip Albright, in the regiment commanded by Colonel Miles (It being the first regiment of Riflemen) in the
line of Pennsylvania, on the continental establishment, that he continued to serve in that corps, untill, and during the term of fifteen
month from the time of his enlistment, when he was discharged at the City of Philadelphia in consequence of sickness, that he was
at and in the battle of White Plains, and Trenton, that he has been a resident citizen of the United States, and of the State of Pennsylvania during his life, to the present time, and that he now resides in the County of York and State of Pennsylvania. That he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension
except the present, that his name is not on the roll of any State and the following are the reasons for not making earlier application for a pension. To wit; He has been able untill lately, to support himself and his wife (she being the only family residing with him) by his daily labor, as a common labourer but that now, owing to bodily infirmity, occasioned by the Rheumatism, unable to support himself, and aged and infirm wife, without assistance from his country, or by public or private charity
That he has never owned any real estate, and that consequent by no change has been made in his property, since the eighteenth of March one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, except the gradual diminution of his little furniture And in pursuance of the act of the first of May one thousand eight hundred and twenty, I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen and that I have not by gift sale or otherwise, disposed of any property, with intent thereby to diminish it, so 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 eighteenth day of March eighteen hundred and eighteen,
and that I have not, nor has any other person in trust
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for me, any property or securities, contracts, or debts due to me, nor have I any income other than what is contained in schedule hereunto annexed and by me subscribed to wit
One Table of the value of                   $0.37  
Crockery                                                 .60
Two Iron pots                                       1.00
One Tea Kettle                                        .12
Six old chairs                                        1.00
One Shovel and tongs                           .25
One wood saw and two axes do            .75
One Copper tea Kettle & two hors do  5.15
One spade and five old bags do           1.04
One old stove                                        7.00
[Total]                                                $17.79

Jonathan Jacobs
The above declaration was made and subscribed in open Court. In the Court of Common Pleas, a Court of Record in and
for the County of York, and State of Pennsylvania, this fourth day of April one thousand eight hundred and twenty five
George Barrick

State of Pennsylvania
York County Pa
 I Michael E. Ash   Clerk of the Court of
Common Pleas of the County aforesaid,
do hereby certify that it appears to the
satisfaction of the Court, that the said John Jacobs did Serve in the Revolutionary war as stated in the preceding declaration against the Common enemy for the term of Fifteen months under one engagement, or the Continental establishment. I also certify that the foregoing affirmation and the Schedule thereto included or Annexed are truly copies of the records of the said Court and I further Certify that it is the opinion of the said Court, that the state amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule is Seventeen Dollars and seventeen Cents.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto Set my Hand and office the seal of the said Court on this Fourth day of April A.D. 1825.
Michael E. Ash
Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of York County, State of Pennsylvania
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September 14, 1935
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
John Jacobs, S. 22329
Jonathan Jacobs, W. 3345
BA-J/MLB

Mr. H. J. Young
Historical Society of York County
York, Pennsylvania

Dear Sir:

Reference is made to your letter in which you request the records of John and Jonathan Jacobs, Revolutionary War pensioners, both of
York County, Pennsylvania.
Their records follow.
JOHN JACOBS
S. 22328
The data contained herein were obtained from the papers on file in pension claim, S. 22328, based upon service in the Revolutionary War of
John Jacobs.
John Jacobs was born in 1754 in York County, Pennsylvania; the names of his parents are not given.
While residing in York County, Pennsylvania, this soldier enlisted about July 1, 1776, served as private in Captain Harbaugh's company,
Colonel Swope's Pennsylvania regiment, and was discharged about January 1, 1777.
John Jacobs was allowed pension on his application executed June 12, 1833, while a resident of York County, Pennsylvania.
No family data are shown in the claim.
In order to obtain date of last payment of pension, the name of the person paid and possibly the date of death of this pensioner, you should apply to the Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, this city, and cite the following: John Jacobs, Certificate No. 22668, issued November 29, 1833, rate $20 per annum, commenced
March 4, 1831, Act June 7, 1832, Pennsylvania Agency.
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JONATHAN JACOBS
W. 3345
You are furnished below the record of Jonathan Jacobs as found in the papers on file in pension claim, W. 3345, based upon his
service in the Revolutionary War.
The date and place of this soldier's birth and names of his parents are not shown.
Jonathan Jacobs enlisted in York County, Pennsylvania, about January, 1776, for a term of twenty - one months, served as a private
in Captain Philip Albright's company, Colonel Miles' Pennsylvania Rifle Regiment, was in the battles of White Plains and Trenton and was discharged in consequence of illness after having served fifteen months.
Jonathan Jacobs was allowed pension on his application executed April 4, 1825, at which time he was aged sixty-one years and a resident of York County, Pennsylvania.
The soldier died April 11, 1843, in the Borough of York, York County, Pennsylvania.
Jonathan Jacobs married about November, 1786, place not shown, Dorothy Fleishman; the date and place of her birth and names of
parents not stated.
Soldier's widow, Dorothy Jacobs, was allowed pension on her application executed  September 4, 1843, at which time she was aged about seventy-seven years and residing in the Borough of York, York County,
Pennsylvania. In 1848, her place of residence was given as the Town of York, same county.
It was stated that Jonathan Jacobs and his wife, Dorothy, reared a large family of children, but the only name designated was that of the oldest child, John, born sometime in August, 1787, place not given.
In 1843, one John Jacobs, aged eighty-four years, made affidavit in York County, Pennsylvania, his place of residence not given, in which he stated that he (John) was married in his thirty-first year and that Jonathan Jacobs was married several years before that time,
but he did not state his relationship to him.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant to the Administrator
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4619
Pennsylvania
Dorothy Jacobs
widow of Jonathan Jacobs
who was a
private
in the Penna Line
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
50 Dollars 0 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.

Certificate of Pension issued the
twenty third day of Jany 1844
and sent to W B Morris
York Pa

[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book A
Vol. 1
Page 133
Let to S M Baily Feby 1844
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Revy [Revolutionary]
WIDOW & c.

File No. 8846
Dorothy Jacobs
Widow 
Jonathan Jacobs
Pri. Rev. War
Act: Feb. 2, 1848
Index:-Vol. A, Page 370
[Arrangement of 1870.]

935. Sept. 14 Hist. H J Young M. L. B.
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7885
Pennsylvania

Dorothy Jacobs widow of Jonathan Jacobs
who was a pensioner under the Act of 1818
who died on the 11 April 1843 of York Co in the State of Penna was a private in the company Commanded by Captain Albright
in the Regt. commanded by Col. Miles in the Pennsylvania line for 15 months

Inscribed on the Roll of Philadelphia
the rate of 50 Dollars 0 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836

Certificate of Pension issued the
30th day of November 1843 and sent to W. Ilgenfritz  York Penna.

Whole amount due  $250.00
{Act July 7, 1838.}
Recorded by Lieutenant Clerk
Book D Vol. 1  Page 223
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1057.
Pennsylva [Pennsylvania] Philad'a [Philadelphia]
Dorothy Jacobs widow of Jonathan Jacobs
who served in the Revolutionary war, as a private

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 50 Dollars 0 
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.

Certificate of Pension issued the 1st day of August 1848 and sent to Hon. Henry Ves [illegible] 

Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act
February 2, 1848, Page 239 Vol. 2

Reported
Date of Widows
death not on AB.
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State of Pennsylvania
York County
On this thirty first day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty three personally appeared before me Jacob Glessner a Justice of the Peace in and for said County Nicholas James who being by me first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath depose and say that he is now about seventy eight years of age That he has well known Jonathan Jacobs a revolutionary soldier and pensioner residing in this County and who has died recently for seventy years in fact from his earliest recollection. That the said Jonathan
was married to his present widow Dorothy Jacobs when this deponent was about twenty one years of age. That he recollects the marriage and is able to fix the time of it the more distinctly from the fact that it was greatly opposed by the family of the said Dorothy and caused much talk and excitement in the neighborhood. That he has known the said Jonathan and Dorothy to have lived
together as man and wife ever since. That they
have raised a large family of children all of
whom he knows, and that the eldest of them
John is now considerably upwards of fifty perhaps fifty four or five years of age
Nicholas James
Sworn to & subscribed before me August 31. 1863. 
Jacob Glessner

I Jacob Glessner a Justice of the Peace as of
foresaid hereby certify that Nicholas James the above named deponent is personally known to me and is person entitled to full credibility and belief.
Jacob Glessner
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State of Pennsylvania
York County SS.

On this thirty first day of August A.D. 1843, personally appeared before me John A. Wilson a Justice of the Peace in and for said County Michael Widener who being by me first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath depose and say that he is about seventy five years of age. That he has always resided in said County, That he has known Jonathan Jacobs deceased late a revolutionary pensioner from this County for more than sixty years, and for nearly that time as the husband of his present widow Dorothy Jacob, that at the earliest time referred to the said Jonathan and Dorothy resided on a farm very near him in the County. That he is well acquainted with the whole family. That the oldest son of the said Jonathan and Dorothy, named John is considerably upwards of fifty years of age, and that he has never heard a doubt of their having been lawfully married
Michael Widener
X
his mark

Sworn to & subscribed
August 31st 1843 before
John A Wilson

I John A Wilson a Justice of the Peace in and for the said County do hereby certify that Michael Widener the above named deponent 
is personally known to me and is a person entitled to full credibility and belief.
John A Wilson
I do hereby Certify that the words Jacob Glessner were erased from the third of the above deposition & the first line.
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of the above Certificate before the signing
of the said deposition & Certificate.
Witness my hand and Seal this 5th day 
of September AD 1843.
John A Wilson [seal]

Pennsylvania

York County Sct. William Ilgenfritz, Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of said County, certify that the son certify that the Hon. Daniel Durkee before whom the foregoing Declaration was made, is and at the time of signing the same, was, the presiding
Judge of said Court of Common Pleas duly commissioned & qualified; and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his, is genuine. And I do further certify that Jacob Glessner and John A. Wilson, Esquires, before
whom the foregoing Affidavits were made, are. and at the time of doing the same, were, acting Justices of the Peace in and for said County, and were severally commissioned and qualified as such according to law, and that the foregoing signatures, purporting to be theirs are genuine.
In Testimony whereof I have
hereto set my hand & affixed
the Seal of said Court
18 Sept. 1843
William Ilgenfritz
Prothy [Prothonotary]
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J. L. Edwards Esq.
Comm [Commissioner] of Pensions
Washington D. C.

4971 Dec. 6 1842
[illegible] Jacob
March [illegible] 43
Pa

[postmark] 
YORK PA
DEC 5

$50 per ann. W. B. Morris
York Pa
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York Pa. Dec 5th 1843

Dear Sir

I herewith enclose you the declaration of Dorothy Jacobs necessary to entitle her to the
benefit of the provisions of the act of Congress of 3d March 1843
Very respectfully
Your obt [obedient] [svt] servant
W. B. Morris

J L Edwards Esq
Comm [Commissioner] of Pensions
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J. 9671
Sep 19. 1843
Cl. Dorothy Jacobs
Act 1838
Pa

J. L. Edwards Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D. C.
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York Penna
Septr. 18, 1843.
Dr Sir
have been requested by Wm. R. Morris
Esq. to forward enclosed papers to the Pension
office
Respectfully
W. Ildenfritz

J. L. Edwards, Esq
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218 Oct 1837
C. Witherell
G C

Record 46 Page 46
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War Department
Pension Office
28 Oct 1837.
Sir,
The vouchers in the case of Jacob Rindy and Jonathan Jacobs are herewith returned. Too long a time has elapsed between the execution of the vouchers and the present period, for me to authorize payment thereon.
I am H

C. Wetherill Esq
Philadelphia
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application of Dorothy Jacobs
York Co Penna
for an increase of Pension
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State of Pennsylvania
York 
On this the 18th day of October personally appeared before the subscriber a justice of the peace in and for said Dorothy Jacobs who being duly sworn according to law doth depose and say that she is the widow of Jonathan Jacobs formerly of York County aforesaid in his life time a pensioner
of the United States at the rate of ninety six
dollars per annum. That she has obtained
the benefits of the act of July 7 1838. and June
17th 1844, and is now in the receipt of a pension of fifty dollars per annum under the act of 2nd February 1848, the same amount of pension she received under the act aforesaid - She further declares that she is still a widow and makes this application to obtain any increase of pay to which she may be entitled under the act of February 2 1848 or any other act, and that her husband the said Jonathan Jacobs died on the 11th day of April 1843.
Dorothy Jacobs
X
her mark

Sworn and subscribed
before me this 18th day of
October 1850
Jos. Garretson
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I Justice as aforesaid do certify Dorothy
Jacobs is still a widow and that the she is a pensioner at fifty dollars per annum and further that the interlineation of her name was made before the execution hereof and I further certify that the following indicating the death of Jonathan Jacob aforesaid, was taken from the
family record in possession of said Dorothy
Jacobs
of
Jonathan Jacobs died April 11, 1843
Jos. Garretson
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Pennsylvania
York County, SS:
I John R. Donnell Prothonotary the Court of Common Pleas of said County certify, that Joseph Garretson, Esq. before whom the foregoing Affidavit was made is an acting Justice of the Peace in & for said County duly commissioned & qualified as such and that the
foregoing signatures, purporting to be his, are genuine.
In Testimony whereof I hereto
set my hand & affix the Seal of said
Court, at York, this 18th day of
October, A D 1850 for J R Donnelly
Wm Ilgenfritz clk
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admitted

Hon Henry Nes
H of K
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State of Pennsylvania
York County
On this the twentieth day of June this
personally appeared before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said County Dorothy Jacobs a resident of the town of York in the County aforesaid aged eighty two years, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of
the provisions of the act of Congress passed on the 2nd day of February 1848 granting pensions to the widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary war. That she is the widow of Jonathan Jacobs who was a private in the Pennsylvania Line and that the annual amount of pension she received under the act of 17th June 1844 was fifty dollars 
She further states that she does not recollect
the Regiment in which her husband served, but
that a reference to her application under the former laws when she was pensioned will she believes gave the Regiment or Corps. She further declares that she is still a widow
Dorothy Jacobs
X
her mark
Sworn and subscribed before me.
James Adams

I Justice as aforesaid do hereby certify that Dorothy Jacobs above named is personally known to me and that she did draw United States pension as she states, and that she is still a widow.
James Adams
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Pennsylvania
York County, SS:
I, John R Donnell, Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of said County, certify, that James Adams, Esquire, before whom the foregoing
Affidavit was made is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly commissioned
and qualified, and that the foregoing signatures,
purporting to be his are genuine
In testimony whereof I
hereto set my hand and affix
the Seal of said Court at York
this 20th day of June, A.D.
1848 -
J. P. Donnell, Proy. [Prothonotary]
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House of Reps [Representatives] July 20th 1848

J. L. Edwards Esq

Sir,

Enclosed you will receive the application of Dorothea [Dorothy] Jacobs for a pension under the act of Congress passed February 2nd 1848.
Very Respectfully yours
Henry Nes
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The Hon. Secretary at War or to -
J. L. Edwards Esquire
Pension Office
Washington City
D. C.
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 York 5th April 1825

To
J. L. Edwards Esquire
Sir
I enclose the necessary affidavits to enable me to obtain a pention [sic] certificate, which I entreat you to have made out and enclose to Calvin Mason Esquire Attorney at Law York Penna. as soon as you possibly can. By so doing you will oblige an infirm and distressed, old soldier.
Jonathan Jacobs
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Incd [Increased] to $96 per annum 
dedg [deducting] former payts [payments] at
$50 per annum
Comg [Commencing]  1 July 1848
Phila [Philadelphia] Roll

J. E. Buchanan,
York Pa
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York Penna
Oct 18th 1856
Sir
I have been informed that the act of 2nd of February 1848 has been so construed as to admit the widow of a solder living now to the same amount of pension which he in his life time obtained. The applicant Dorothy Jacobs is the widow Jonathan Jacobs of York Co. formerly, who his in life time was in receipt of a pension of ninety six dollars a year under the act of 1818, The affidavit enclosed would bring the case up for an increase, if she is entitled
to it. I enclose also her certificate which can be returned if her pension is not increased
Very Respectfully
Yours
James E Buchanan

J L Edwards Esq
Comm of Pension
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Payment to be made at Philadelphia by
James R. Snowden Esq
Agent for paying Pensioners, in the
Agency of Pennsylva [Pennsylvania]
Payable on the 4th September and 4th
March
Recorded in the Pension Office on the
Roll of Pensioners under act February
2nd, 1848, Page 239 Vol. 2
Leo. [illegible]
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WAR DEPARTMENT.
WIDOW'S PENSION.
I certify that in conformity with the act of February 2, 1848 Dorothy Jacobs
widow of Jonathan Jacobs
who was a private in the revolutionary war,
is inscribed on the pension list at the rate of fifty dollars per annum, commencing on the
4th of March, 1848, and continuing for life, unless she should again marry; in which case the Pension is not payable after the time of such marriage.

Given at the War Office of the United States this 1st day of August,
one thousand eight hundred and forty eight

M. [illegible]
Secretary of War.
W. L. Marcy
J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
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York County Pennsylvania
[seal]
Personally appeared before me the Subscriber
one of the Justices of the peace in and for said county- John Jacobs who being by me duly sworn according to law saith that Jonathan Jacobs did enlist at York for one year and nine months on or about the month of January A.D. 1776 in the Revolutionary war on the  Continental establishment in Captain Albright's Com [Company] of the First Regiment of Riflemen Commanded by Colonel Miles and he knew him to remain in the service for fifteen months at that time against the Common Enemy after which time he the said Jonathan
Jacobs was taken Sick after serving one year
and three months and discharged or disability at Philadelphia
John Jacobs

Sworn & Subscribed before
me this 17th day February
Anno Domino 1825

and I certify that the above
John Jacobs is entitled to full Credit on his Oath.
Charles N. Nisher
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State of Pennsylvania
York County Sct

I certify that Charles F. Fisher Esquire before whom the within affidavit was made is and was at the time of subscribing the same is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid and who duly commissioned and sworn as such
and that full faith and credit is due and should be given to all his official acts
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my Hand and affixed the
Seal of the Court of Common Pleas of the County aforesaid this Twenty third day of February AD 1885
Michael Ash
Prothonotary
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York County Pennsylvania
Personally appeared before me the Subscriber
one of the Justices of the peace in & for said County Yost Harbach who being by me duly sworn according to law saith that he  commanded a Militia company from York Pa in the year 1776 and that he marched with them to New Jersey and there joined the Main Army commanded by General Washington and there remained untill his time was out for which he engaged and that while he was there in service in the State of New Jersey he Saw Jonathan Jacobs who had enlisted at York in Pennsylvania in Captain Philip Albrights
Company of the Regiment of Riflemen commanded by Colonel Miles from York County Pennsylvania and that he had known him from his infancy and well knew that he was an enlisted soldier from York Pa
on the continental Establishment against the Common Enemy in the Pennsylvania line and that he remained in service untill the 26th of December 1776 and was at the Battle Trenton and that he was in service for nine months and 
and more at that time.
Yost Harbach

Sworn & Subscribed before me this nineteenth
day of February AD 1825
W Robinson

Last Herback
And I certify that the above
Named Yost Harbach Esq is a man
of Veracity and entitled to full credit
on his Oath
W. Robinson
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State of Pennsylvania
York County St

I certify that Perrow Robinson Esquire before whom the within affidavit was made is and was at the time of subscribing the same an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid and was duly commissioned and sworn  as such and that full faith should be given to all his official it is due and should be given all his
official acts

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the Court of Common Pleas of the County aforesaid this twenty third day of February 1825
Michael W. Ash
Prothonotary
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49.71
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State of Pennsylvania
York County
On this the fifth day of December 1843, Personally appeared before the Subscriber
a Justice of the Peace in and for said County
Dorothy Jacobs a resident of York in the County aforesaid aged Seventy Six years who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on her oath make the following declaration in
order to obtain the benefit of the provisions of the Act of Congress passed on the third day of March 1843 granting Pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary war that she is the widow of Jonathan Jacobs who was a private in said war and that the annual amount of Pension to which she was entitled and which she received under the act of July Seventh 1838 was fifty Dollars
She further declares that she is still
a widow
Dorothy
X
her mark
Sworn and subscribed the day and year above
written
[illegible]
Witnesses to the above signature
W. R. Moss
[illegible]
I [illegible] Justice as aforesaid do hereby certify that Dorothy Jacobs above named is the widow of Jonathan Jacobs and that she is personally known to me
[illegible]
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Pennsylvania
York County SS.
William Ilgenfritz, Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of said County, do certify that John W Hetrick, Esquire, before whom the within Affidavit was made is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly
commissioned and qualified, and that the within signatures, purporting to be his are genuine
In Testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said Court, this Fifth day of December, A.D. 1843
W. Ilgenfritz
Prothy [Prothonotary]
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671

Dorothy Jacobs
Pa.
Act 7 July 38

[illegible]
15 mo pri
50$

W. Ilgenfritz
York Pa.
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OFFICERS
HON. H. C. NILES
President
S. FAHS SMITH
Vice President
RALPH S. CANNON
Treasurer
REINHARDT DEMPWOLF
Curator and Secretary
JAMES W. SHETTEL
Corresponding Secretary
HISTORICAL SOCIETY
OF YORK COUNTY
Founded 1895
York, Pennsylvania
TRUSTEES
FRANCIS FARQUHAR
Chairman
GEORGE H. WHITELEY, JR.
S. FAHS SMITH
S. FORRY LAUCKS
J. WM. STAIR
HON. FRANKLIN MENGES
JOSEPH K. KINDIG, JR.

September 9, 1935

Veterans Administration
Washington, D. C.

Gentlemen:-

Will you kindly send me a report on the
records of John Jacobs, also on Jonathan Jacobs, pensioners for Revolutionary services, both of York County, Pennsylvania, and oblige
Very truly yours,
HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF YORK COUNTY
H.J. Young
H. J. Young, Researcher.
HJY:S
"WE SPECIALIZE IN GENEALOGICAL RESEARCHES IN YORK AND ADJACENT COUNTIES"

[stamp] Sept 1935
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J. L. Edwards Esq.
Commission of Pensions at Washington City

Bailey

copy Jno. Jacobs
Rank
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Bailey

J. L. Edwards Commissioner of Pensions Washington City

Copy of John Jacobs 
Rank
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House of Rep. [Representatives] Harrisburg January 29th 1844
J. L. Edwards Esq
Dear Sir
Will you have the goodness to forward me a copy of the Record in the case of Jonathan Jacobs, decd [deceased] formerly of York County Penna a soldier of the Revolution and who drew a pension from the U. S.
I have the honor to be
Very Respectfully
Your obedient Servant
S. V. Bailey
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J L. Edwards Esq
Commr [Commissioner] of Pensions
Washington D. C.
Dorothy Jacobs
Paid Feb 38
No 4619 Ad 1843.
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Penna [Pennsylvania] York Febry 1 1844
Dear Sir
By a letter from S.M. Baily Esq. a member of our Legislature. I find that he has written to your office for a copy of papers in the case of Dorothy Jacobs, who is applying to the Legislature of the State for a pension. Not
wishing to trouble you unnecessarily, I will
State that if you will merely send Mr Baily or myself a Certificate showing  that she has been placed upon the Pension Roll of the Gen. Government under the act of July 7, 1838, and that before she could have been this pension it must have satisfactorily appeared to you that
she was married before 1794, it will be sufficient
Very respectfully
Your obt [obedient] servt [servant]
W. R. Morris