Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 4302, Jacob Grider, Va
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SERVICE | [STAR] | NUMBER
Va | Grider, Jacob | R. 4302

CONTENTS
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[illegible]
Jacob Grider
Indiana [underlined]
[struck through: "Let R. S. Ragan Hw"] 12/55
Rejected [underlined]
4302
June 7, 1832
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June 8, 1940
BA-J/AWF
Jacob Grider
R. 4302

Mr. Bert F. Wood
Attorney at Law
Terre Haute, Indiana

Dear Sir:

Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War record of Jacob Grider, who lived after that war, in Indiana.

The data furnished herein were obtained form pension claim, R. 4302, based upon military service of Jacob Grider, in the Revolutionary War.

The date and place of birth of Jacob Grider, and names of his parents were not given.

Jacob Grider enlisted in Rockingham County, Virginia, about the middle of September, 1781, served in Captain Michael Coger's company, Colonel Andrew Lewis' Virginia regiment, was in the siege of Yorktown, marched to Winchester, Virginia, and was discharged there, about November 1, 1781.

He applied for pension October 25, 1855, at which time he was ninety-three years old, and a resident of Putnam County, Indiana.

The claim for pension was not allowed as he did not render six months' service. The pension law under which he applied did not provide for service
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less than six months.

The papers on file in this claim contain no discernible data in regard to the family of Jacob Grider, nor is the date of his death shown.

Very truly yours

A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant to the Administrator
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BERT F. WOOD
ATTORNEY AT LAW
TERRE HAUTE, INDIANA

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RECEIVED
APR 25 1940
MAIL [illegible]
RENDER [illegible]
VETS [illegible]

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April 23, 1940

Veterans Administration,
Washington, D. C.

Gentlemen:
I am seeking information concerning on Jacob Grider, who, it is said, served with the American Army in the Revolutionary War against England. He was one of my ancestors, and I wish to establish his service for the purpose of D.A.R. and S.A.R. Bradsby's History of Vigo County, Indiana, states that Tilgham High and his wife, Rebecca (Grider) High, natives of Kentucky, settled in Vigo County, Indiana, in 1830; and that said Rebecca (Grider) High was a daughter of said Jacob Grider, who, it was said, served in the Revolutionary War, was at the battle of Valley Forge, and was present when Lord Cornwallis surrendered to General Greene. Said Jacob Grider lived to be ninety-nine years of age. If he made application for a pension, I imagine your records would show him as residing in Kentucky or Indiana.
I would appreciate any information you can give me concerning him. Would your records show the names of his children?
Thanking you in advance, I am,
Respectfully Yours,
Bert F. Wood [signature]
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1940 - June 8, Hist to Bert F. Wood

4302
P.O. Jacob Grider ["John" struck through]
Service: ___
Enlisted: Rejected , 18
Discharged: ___, 18
Application filed: ___, 18
Too late for printed list of 1852
Alleges: ___
Re-enlisted: ___
Attorney: ___
P.O. ___
___ Recognized. ___ Contract.
___ Cert. of Dis.  Searched for ___, 18
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Pension Office
Nov. 12, 1855.

Sir,
The application of Jacob Grider for the benefits of the Act of June 7, 1832, has been examined and rejected, for the [illegible] of the pension laws do not provide for any service of less than Six months,- [illegible] Grider served, according to his own statement, only "two months a dee". See the Regulations under the Act of June 7, 1832, of the kind of testimony required to establish service claimed to have been [illegible] for an applicant for pension.

R. S. Ragan, Esq
Greencastle, Indiana
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No.
Pension Claim 
Jacob Grider
Indiana
June 7, 1832.
Act of 1832
Presented by 
R.S. Ragan
Greencastle Indiana
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State of Indiana
County of Putnam } SS:

On this 25th day of October A.D. 1855, personally appeared before Hon. John Cowgill judge of the Common Pleas Court in and for the County and State aforesaid, Jacob Grider a resident of Putnam County & State aforesaid, aged ninety three years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath, made the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provisions made by the act of Congress passed June 7th A.D. 1832, or any other act subsequent thereto, granting pensions to Officers and Soldiers of the Revolutionary war. That he served as a militia rifle man in the Company commanded by Captain Michael Coger, in a regiment Commanded by Col. Andrew Lewis. He further states that he was mustered unto service at the County of Rockingham in the State of Virginia on or about the middle of September A.D. 1781, and marched thence to Williamsburg, thence to York, at which place he remained about three weeks, [struck through: "after which they were"] during the siege of York, after which he was marched back to Winchester in the County of Frederick in the State of Virginia, and was honorably discharged verbally by Col. Vance of the State of Virginia. [struck through: "He then states that he entered the serv"] on or about the first of November 1781, making in all a service of over two months. 
He further states that he has never
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received a pension under this or any other act, nor made any formal application therefore. He relies on the records of said war for any other facts on the subject, as he knows of no living witness by which to prove them.
Jacob Grider
his X mark

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The foregoing declaration was sworn to and subscribed before me John Cowgill judge of the Common Pleas Court, by Jacob Grider in person, on the day and year above written, and I certify that he is a credible person & that I have no interest in the claim.
John Cowgill [signature]
Judge C.C.P. P.Co

State of Indiana
Putnam County}
I Jacob McGinnis Clerk of the Common Pleas of said county, do hereby certify that John Cowgill Judge of the Common Pleas court of the county and State aforesaid, before whom the foregoing declaration was sworn to, and whose certificate of the same is signed by him in his own proper hand writing, is and was at the time of taking & certifying the same judge as aforesaid duly commissioned and qualified and that full faith and credit are due all his official acts as such.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Greencastle this 26th day of October 1855
Jacob McGinnis Clerk
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