Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 4,705, for Thomas Jack, Pennsylvania
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SERVICE
Penn

Jack, Thomas
         Jane

NUMBER
W. 4705
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(Left side)
Notification sent to J. W. Cambell Esqr 
6 Nov 1820  West Union Ohio

(Right side)

5155
Ohio
Thomas Jack
Sargeant
Pennsylvania Line 
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War

Inscribed on the Roll of Ohio at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 13 of April 1818

Certificate of Pension issued the 31st of Dec 1818 and sent to Job Demming Esquire West Union Ohio

Arrears to 4th of Sept 1818 4 mon 22/30 $37.86
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 March 1819         48.
                                                                 $85.86
{ Revolutionary claim, }
{ Act 18th March, 1818 }
three years

(illegible)
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7520 Ohio C   Jany 26, 1846  Resp to Agt

Jane Jack deceased, widow of Thomas Jack who was a Sergeant, in the Pennsylvania line.

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 120 Dollars (blank) Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.  & Ending on the 15th Jany 1844.

Certificate of Pension issued the 22 day of Jany 1846 and sent to Hon. A. G. Thurman, H. R.

[ Act of March 3, 1843: ]

Recorded in Book: A
Vol. 2 Page 205.
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Thomas Jack

Revolutionary Claim
Pennsylvania Line.

Suspended until Pennsylvania rolls,
(illegible) are received.

See Rolls
Admitted
Correct by Roll

on roll as Sargeant (sic) 3d Regt.
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State of Ohio Adams County ss

I do hereby certify that this day Thomas Jack a citizen of the United States and of this State (in which he has resided many years) personally appeared before me the undersigned a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in & for the County aforesaid and being duly sworn according to law made the following Declaration under Oath.  First that he had served  nearly five years in the Army of the United States in the Revolutionary war against the Common Enemy in the Pennsylvania line in continental establishment.  2d.  That he enlisted under Captain William Butler but after Captain William Butler was promoted, he served under Captain Thomas Butler; that he served in Colonel Arthur St. Clairs Regiment till the Colonel was taken prisoner, and then served under Colonel Thomas Craig in the 3d. Pennsylvania Regiment the balance of his time
3d.  That he was a Sargent in the Company aforesaid the whole of the time aforesaid and part of the time an Orderly Sargent.
4th.  That he first enlisted for one year on the first day of March 1776 and after his time had expired he again enlisted for three years and continued in the Army in the service of the United States nearly one year after the expiration of the three years.  
5th.  That in the month of January or February 1781 as well as he now recollects he procured from Gen'l. Anthony Wayne a regular discharge in due form
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and left the Army; that he kept his discharge till within a few months, but which is now either lost or mislaid
6th  That there is not at this time any person in this State within his knowledge by whom he can prove any of the foregoing facts except that of his having had a discharge, that fact (if necessary) he can prove by a number of living Witnesses.
7th  That he never had or received any pension from the United States and therefore thinks it not necessary to make any form at relinquishment of a pension.
(signed) Thos. Jack

State of Ohio Adams County ss

I Certify that the foregoing deposition of Thomas Jack was this day taken subscribed and sworn to before me the undersigned a Judge of the Court of Common Please in and for the County aforesaid and I further certify that the said Thomas Jack has fully satisfied me by examination under Oath that the facts stated (crossed out) in the foregoing deposition are strictly true, that he served in the Army of the United States in the Revolutionary (word crossed out) War against the Common Enemy and that by reason of his reduced circumstances in life he is in need of assistance from his Country this last fact I also certify from my own knowledge.
Given under my hand and seal this 13th day of April in the year of our Lord 1818
(signed)  Job Demming   (seal)
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State of Ohio Adams County ss

I Joseph Dalinton Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County aforesaid do hereby Certify that Job Dimming Esqr before whom the foregoing and annexed Deposition of Thomas Jack was taken and who has signed the foregoing certificate was at the time of signing the same and still is one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County aforesaid duly Commissioned and quallified (sic) and that full faith & credit is due to him, said Certificate as well in Court of Justice as thereout.  In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court at  West Union this 15th day of April in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and Eighteen.

(signed) Joseph Darlinton
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State of Ohio Adams County ss

On this Eleventh day of August 1820 personally appeared in open Court being a Court of record having the power of force and imprisonment for the County and in the State aforesaid Thomas Jack aged seventy one years resident in Adams County in the said State who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows:  In Capt. Wm. Butler's Company 2d Pennsylvania regt. commanded by Col.  St. Clair from the first day of March 1776 the time when he enlisted untill (sic) as he believes the month of January 1777 where he again enlisted in Capt. Thos. Butler's Company of 3d of 3d Pennsylvania Regt, Commanded by Col. Thos. Craig and served until the month of January 1781 when he was discharged by Gen'l Wayne that he was in the battles - fought at Short hills Brandywine, Germantown and Monmouth the date of his original Declaration was the 13th April 1818 and the No. of this Pension Certificate is 5.155
And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift, sale or any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an Act Of Congress entitled "An act to provide for certain person engaged in the land or naval service s of the Untied States in the Revolutionary War" passed on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any (person crossed out) property or securities contracts or debts due to me nor have I any income other that what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed
(signed) Thos. Jack

1 Mare                                                   $30.00
1 Heifer                                                      5.00
8 Pigs @ 5.25 - 6 Hogs $9.00                  14.25
Pots Kettles and oven                                5.00
Dishes, plates Cups Saucers                      4.25
Buckets                                                       1.50
Stockyards
Heckle axe & Wedge                                 3.50
Table chairs & Loom                                 12.25
                                                             _____________
                                                              $75.75

Bro't up                                                  $75.75
2 Cows                                                      27.00
Plough & geers (sic)                                   5.00
87 doz wheat (say)                                     7.25
10 acres corn 1/3 off for rent                   12.50
1 Spinning Wheel                                       1.00
Debt due him                                                .56
                                                                _____________
                                                               $129.06
Deduct amt of his debts                             24.25
                                                                 _____________
                                                                 $104.81
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that he is of a sickly Habit and not able to perform more than half the labor of one hand on a farm that my family consists of my wife Jane who is as I believe 53 years old my daughter Nancy who is 19 years of age Betsy who is is 17 years and Margaret who is 15 and also my Grand Daughter Jane McCoy who is an orphan of the age of nine years.
(signed) Thos. Jack

Sworn to and declared in open Court on the 11th day of August 1820. 

I Joseph Darlinton Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Adam and State of Ohio do hereby Certify that the foregoing Oath and Schedule hereto annexed are truly copied from the Records of the said Court; and I further Certify that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in Value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule One hundred and twenty nine dollars and six cents 
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court on this 15th day of August in the year of our Lord 1820
(signed) Joseph Darlinton
Clerk of the Court for the 
County of Adams
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State of Ohio
Adams County } ss

On this 8th day of September 1840 personally appeared before the subscriber on of the Justices of the Peace for the County aforesaid Jane Jack, a resident of Tiffin Township in the County of Adams and State of Ohio aged 73 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 provision made by the act of Congress passed July 4, 1836;  that she is the Widow of Thomas Jack, who was Revolutionary pensioner of the United States that he was a private soldier in the Army of the United States in the revolutionary War.  She further declares that she was married to the said Thomas Jack 7th day of June one thousand and seven hundred & eighty seven that her husband the aforesaid Thomas Jack died on the ninth day of August in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and thirty one, and that she has remained a widow ever since that period, or will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed. 
(signed) Jane (her X mark) Jack

Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written, before me.  And I further certify that the word eight was erased and the word "seven" underlined above before signed by the said Jane Jack

(signed) Ralph Mc(illegible)
Justice of the Peace

State of Ohio
Adams County} ss

Be it known that on this 8th day of September in the year of our Lord 1840 Andrew Jack and Daniel Mayles tow respectable witnesses of the County aforesaid, who are creditable witnesses personally appeared before me the subscriber a Justice of the
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Peace in and for the County aforesaid who being first duly sworn according to law on their oath make the following statement to wit that the said Thomas Jack named in the foregoing affidavit of Jane Jane Jack died on the ninth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty one, in the County of Adams aforesaid that the deponants (sic) were present when the said Thomas Jack departed this life and were present & saw him buried  That the said Jane Jack his widow still remains a widow and has not been married since his death that the Thomas Jack died of the flux & this deponent say not
(signed) Andrew Jack
(signed) Daniel Bayles
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March 22, 1939

BA-J/AWF
Thomas Jack
W. 4705

Mrs. Ralph J. Knouf
229 North Kensington Avenue
La Grange, Illinois

Dear Madam:

The data which follow were obtained from papers on file in claim for pension, W. 4705 basked upon the service of Thomas Jack in the Revolutionary War.

The date and place of birth of Thomas Jack, and names of his parents are not given.

While residing in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Thomas Jack enlisted March 1, 1776, served as sergeant in Captain William Butler's company, Colonel Arthur St. Clair's 2nd Pennsylvania Battalion, and in Captain Thomas Butler's company, in Colonel Thomas Craig's 3rd Pennsylvania regiment; he was in the battles of Short Hills, Brandywine, Germantown, and Monmouth, and continued in the service, until sometime in January or February, 1781.

Thomas Jack was allowed pension on his application executed April 13, 1818, at which time he was living in Adams County, Ohio.  He was aged seventy-one years in 1820.  He died in Adams County, Ohio, August 9, 1831.

Thomas Jack married in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, June 7, 1787, Jane Kincaid or Kinkade. The date and place of her birth and names of parents are not given.  After their marriage, the
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soldier, Thomas Jack, and wife, Jane, moved to Kentucky, where they lived about eleven months, then moved to Adams  County, Ohio.

The soldier's widow, Jane Jack, was allowed pension on her application executed September 8, 1840, at which time she was aged seventy-three years, and living in Tiffin Township, Adams County, Ohio.  She died in Adams County, January 15, 1844.

The following data in regard to the children of Thomas Jack, and wife, Jane, are shown in the claim-

Mary, born in 1790, died in December 1816;
Andrew, born April 4, 1792, living in Adams County , Ohio in 1841;
James, date of birth not shown;
Nancy, aged nineteen years in 1820;
Betsy, aged seventeen years in 1820;
Margaret, aged fifteen years in 1820;

The following children were alive at the time of the death of their mother - Andrew Jack, James Jack, Margaret Jack and Jane Bayles or Bayley.

Reference was made in 1820 to Jane McCoy, an orphan granddaughter of the soldier, Thomas Jack, and his wife Jane.

The papers on file in this claim contain no further discernible family data.

Very truly yours

A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator
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Jane Jack
of Thomas
Ohio
suspended
See let 17 Oct '40
Wesley Lee
let to same 1 Feb. 41


Act 4 July 1836
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Jane Jack
of Thomas
Ohio

Suspended

See Let. 15 Sep. '41
W. Lee


Act 7 July 1838
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Left side

May - 16 - 1900
Mis. Mary Stevenson
Beasley's Fork Ohio

1926 Jan 20 Hist to J. V. Thompson 
Letter of inquiry (illegible) to Rec. Dir for Civil War reply awf
1939 Mach 22, hist to Mrs. Ralph J. Knouf  (illegible)

Right side

Revy WIDOW, &C.
File No.  4705
Jane Jack
Wid.
Thomas Jack
Sergt. Pen. line

Act: Mch 3d 43

Index:--Vol.  A, Page  370
[ Arrangement of 1870. ]
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4705
Thos Jack

Apl 13 - 1818  -  69
Adams Co Ohio

Mch 1, 1776
Capt Wm Butler
Col Arthur St. Clair Pa
10 m

Jy 1777
Capt Thos Butler
Col Thos Craig
4 years
Sgt

Bat.  Short Hills, Brandywine, Germantown, Monmouth.

Married June 7, 1787
Jane Kincaid

He died Aug 9, 1831
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Postmarked: Pension Office May 10 1900

Beasley Forks, Ohio
April 8 1900

Dear Sir

As Benjamin Piatt and Thomas Jack were Revolutionary soldiers and relatives of mine, would be glad to have a copy of their declaration of pensions, want then for patriotic purposes.

Respect
Mary Stevenson

Beasley Fork
Adams Co. Ohio

stamped: 
O.W. & N DIVISION
MAY 12 1900
RECEIVED
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Enter
Jane Jack dec'd
Ohio
Act 3 March 1843

admd
2 yrs Sergt
120$
to 23 Jany 44 the day of her death

To Andrew - James & Margaret Jack and Jane Bayles surviving children
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At a Court of  Common Pleas of the County of Adams State of Ohio (illegible) at the Courthouse within and for the County aforesaid on the 13th day of July in the year of our Lord 1844
The Court order it to be certified under the seal of Court the Court are satisfied on the testimony of Andrew Jack James Maharg and Wesley Lee taken sworn to and subscribed in open Court that Jane Jack late of said County departed this life at said County on the 15th day of January A..D. 1844 that she was the  Widow of  Thomas Jack late of said County who was a revolutionary soldier and pensioner and that said Jane Jack as widow of said Thomas Jack drew five years pension from the government of the United States under an act of Congress of 1836 and that said Jane Jack left children who are also children of said Thomas Jack as follows Andrew Jack James Jack Margaret Jack and Jane Bayles if said Margaret Jack is still alive which seems uncertain to the Court and that the said Jane Jack left no other children nor did the said Jane Jack marry after the said Thomas Jack decease

The State of Ohio Adams County ss
I Joseph Darlinton Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County aforesaid do hereby certify that the above is truly copied from the Records of the said Court no remaining in my Office.  In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court at West Union this 15th day of February in the year of our Lord 1845 in the 69th year of the Independence of the United States and in the 43d year of this State.
(signed) Joseph Darlington, Clerk A.C.
(seal)
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The State of Ohio, Adams County ss

Court of  Common Pleas, August Term, 1841. Andrew Jack makes oath in open Court that ashe has always understood and believes, and as he has con(illegible) recognized, he is the son of Thomas Jack who was a Revolutionary Pensioner and of Jane Jack, now widow of said Thomas Jack and an applicant for the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 7 1838, entitled "an act of granting half pay and pensions to certain widows," and he says that in the year 1804 or 1805, when he was a lad going to school, he took to school in Tiffin  Township, Adams County Ohio, his father & Mother's family Bible.  In said Bible was a record of the fact and time of the said Thomas and Jane Jack's marriage.  Jane Kincaid was name before marriage.  Said Bible contained the records also of this affiant elder sisters age, - her name was Mary.  It contained also the name of this affiant and of his Brother James Jack being said Thomas and Jane Jack's eldest three children.  He does not recollect from said family record the time of said Thomas and Jane Jack's marriage the time of the birth of his said sister above and himself.  (illegible) he has always, so long as least as he can recollect, understood this he was born on the 4th day of April 1792.  Said Schoolhouse was burnt down in 1804 or 1805 and said Bible was consumed in it.  Said Jane Jack is still a widow, not having again married since the death of said Thomas Jack & Jane Jack lived in said County of Adams for a very early period of this affiants recollection, and said Thomas Jack died in said County of Adams
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on the 9th day of August 1831.
(signed) Andrew Jack

Sworn to in open Court
(signed) Joseph Darlinton Clk AC

David Bayles being also sworn in open Court this 13th day of August, 1841, depose and says that he has been acquainted with Thomas Jack named in the foregoing affidavit of Andrew Jack, for thirty years or there abouts.  That during all that time said Thomas Jack and Jane Jack wife lived together in said County of Adams and said Thomas Jack died in said County of Adams on the 9th day of August 1831, the said Jane Jack is still living in said County of Adams and has not again married since the death of said Thomas Jack.
(signed) Daniel Bayles

Sworn to in open Court
(signed) Joseph Darlinton  Clk  AC

Wesley Lee being also sworn in open Court deposes and say that he has been acquainted with Jane Jack widow of Thom Jack for many years.  The said Thomas and Jane Jack lived in said County of Adams from the time of this affiant's first acquaintance with them, - which commenced about 1810 or 1812.  the said Thomas Jack was a Revolutionary Pensioner - and this affiant a agent (illegible) said Thomas Jack's pension for him from about the year 1819 till the time of his death.  Said Thomas Jack died on the 7th or 8th or 9th Aug't 1831 as well as this affiant recollects.  After said Thomas Jack's death this affiant, as agent for his widow, the said Jane Jack drew the arrears of Pension due the said Thomas Jack at the time of his death,  At the time of drawing the said arrears of Pension for said Jane Jack this affiant surrendered up to the Pension agency at Cincinnati said Thomas Jack's original certificate.  This affiant knows nothing about said Thomas Jack's Revolutionary services, except as he learnt from the proofs made by him
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in order to obtain a pension, but said Thomas was always reputed a man of honesty and integrity and the said Jane Jack is a woman of character and fair standing in society.  The said Jane Jack has always so far as this affiant's knowledge and acquaintance extend, has been reputed said Thomas Jack 's lawful wife and widow, and said Jane Jack has not again married since said Thomas Jack's death.
(signed) Wesley Lee

Sworn to in open Court
(signed) Joseph Darlinton Clk A.C.

The State of Ohio Adams County ss
Joseph Darlinton Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas within & for the County aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing depositions of Andrew Jack, Daniel Mayles and Wesley Lee was this day taken subscribed and sworn to in open Court  In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court at West Union this 13th day of August in the year of our Lord 1841 in the 66th year of the independence of the United States and in the 39th year of this State
(signed) Joseph Darlinton Clk A.C.
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Left side

Ohio 6458
Jane Jack
widow of Thomas Jack
who was a pensioner under the Act of mar 1818 and who died on the 9th August 1831 
of Adams Co, in the State of Ohio
who was a Sergeant in the company commanded by Captain Butler of the regt. commanded by Craig in the Penn. line for 2 years

Inscribed on the Roll of Cincinnati at the rate of 120 Dollars -----Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.

Certificate of Pension issued the 26, day of Nov. 1841 and sent to Wesley Lee 
West Union, Ohio

Arrears to the 4th of March 1841 $600.00
(Semi-annual allowance ending crossed out)

{ Act July 7, 1838}
Recorded by D. Brown Clerk,
Book A.  Vol. 2.  Page 217

Right side
agent notified
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Thomas Jack
5.155.
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8.008
Jane Jack
of Thomas
Ohio
Admitted
Sergeant 2 yrs $120.-
Cap. Butler Col Craig, 
Pa

died 9th Aug't - 1831

Act 7 July 1838.

Wesley Lee
West Union
Ohio
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13 Sep 1841  Mr Allison
Jane Jack widow Thomas 7 July 1838.  Adams County Ohio for by Wesley Lee  West Union Ohio
8.008

papers

West Union O                           Free
Sept 7
J. L. Edwards Esqr
Com. of Pension
Washington City
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West Union Sept 6th 1841

J L Edwards Esq
under further proof of 
Dear Sir Please find under further proof of (illegible) I am (illegible) for obtaining her pension

Very respectfully yours
Wesley Lee

Adams County Ohio
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West Union O
Sept 12                                       Free

The Hon. William Tilden
Treasurer of the United States
Washington City

Pension Papers}
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West Union Sept 11th 1840

William Telden Esq

Dear Sir I here with inclose (sic) Mrs. Jane Jack application for a Pension.  your attention to the above

With much oblig.
Respectfully yours
Wesley Lee
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The State of Ohio  }
Brown County       } ss

Personally came Lemon Ratchford and August B Strait of lawful age who being by me sworn on their oaths state that they are acquainted with James Erwin and have been for the last seventeen years and that his general character for truth and veracity in the neighborhood where he lives is good.
Sworn to and Subscribed
before me  James H King  (seal)  
(signed) Lemon Rashford
(signed) Augustus B Strait
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At a Court of Common Pleas holden at the Court house within and for the County of Adams and State of Ohio at August Term in the year of our Lord 1841 In the matter of Jane Jacks declaration for a pension as the Widow of Thomas Jack deceased the Court order it to be certified they are satisfied that the said Jane Jack is the Widow of the identical Thomas Jack who was a revolutionary Pensioner and that said Thomas Jack died on the 9th of Augt-1831 and the Court order it further certified said Jane Jack and Andrew Jack, Daniel Bayles and Wesley Lee who have testified in the matter of said Jane Jacks application are person of good reputation for truth and veracity of the State of Ohio Adams County ss 
Joseph Darlinton Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas within & for the County aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing is truly copied from the Records of the said Court now remain ing in my office In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court at Weston this 13th
day of August in the year of our Lord 1841, in the 66th year of the Inder
pendence of the United States & in the 39th year of this State
Joseph Darlinton Clerk A.
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West Union O                      Free
Nov 17

J. L. Edwards Esqr
Com of Pensions
Washington City

Nov 23  1841
Ohio
Jane Jack
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West Union  Nov 16th 1841

The Hon. J. L. Edwards

(Illegible) of 15th Sept. as (illegible) received and the content notice you will please find enclosed further testimony, for the papers of obtaining a pension for Jane Jack

Respectfully 
yours
Wesley Lee
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Treasury of the U States
Sept 17 1840
W. Telden

Rec'd 18th 
And No 5176

(illegible) Jane Jack (illegible) (illegible) to the Commissioner of Pensions & Mr. Lee 
so in Command
3rd A(illegible) office 
Sept 18 1840

Ohio
July 4 1836
Jane Jack
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Treasury of the UStates
September 17. 1840

Peter Hagner Esqr
Third Auditor

Sir

I enclose a letter of Mr. Wesley Lee of West Union with the application of Mrs. Jane Jack for a pension

Very respectfully
Your obt Servt
Wm Telden
Treas. U States
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Payment to be made at (blank) by (blank)

Agent for paying Pensioners, in the Agency of (blank)

Payable on the 4th September and 4th March.

Recorded in the Pension Office, in 
Book (blank)   Vol.  (blank)  Page  (blank)


(blank)     Clerk.
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8.008.

Jane Jacks
of Thomas
Ohio
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The State of Ohio Adams County ss

I Joseph Darlinton Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas within and for the County aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing deposition of Jane Jack was this day taken subscribed and sworn to in open Court   In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court at West Union this 13th day of August in the year of our Lord 1841, in the 66th year of the Independence of the United States of America in the 39th year of this State.
(signed) Joseph Darlinton   Clerk 


I do hereby certify that I have acquainted with Thomas Jack & Jane his wife named in the foregoing deposition since the year 1806 that they lived together as husband and wife in this County from the time I first became acquainted with them to the day of the death of the said Thomas Jack, they were always reputed as husband and wife in the neighbourhood (sic) where they lived since 1805 and supported the character of honor industrous (sic) respectable persons
August 13. 1841  (signed Joseph Darlinton
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5176 
Jane Jack
of Thomas
Ohio
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Know all men by these presents that I Jane Jack the within signed late wife of Thomas Jack a pensioner of the United States and now his widow do hereby constitute and appoint Wesley Lee my lawful Attorney for me and in my name to receive my pension the amount of what shall be allowed untill (sic) the present date witness my hand and seal this ninth day of September 1840.

Jane Her X mark  Jack     (seal)
In the presence of us             
(signed) Daniel Matheny
(signed) John Bayley


The State of Ohio
Adams County    } ss

Be it known that on the 10th day of September 1840 before the Subscriber a justice of the peace in and for the County aforesaid personally appeared Wesley Lee the attorney named in the foregoing Power of Attorney and made oath that the same was not given him by reason of any ale transfer or Mortgage of the pension or arrears of pension therein and monies to be received by him.   In testimony whereof I have set hand the day and year above written
Sworn and Subscribed the
day and year last above 
written before me 
Ralph M Clure, J.P. } (signed) Wesley Lee
                                (signed) Ralph M Clure J. P

The State of Ohio
Adams County }ss  Be it know that the 10th day of September 1840 before the subscriber a justice of the peace in and for the County aforesaid personally appeared Jane Jack above named and acknowledged the fore foregoing power of attorney to be her act and deed    I testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand the day and year above written
(signed) Ralph M Clure J.P.

I certify that I subscribed my
name at the right hand of the affidavit of the attorney by mistake
(signed) Ralph W. Clure
Justice of the Peace } J. P. }
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State of Ohio }
Adams County} ss

I Joseph Darlinton Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that Ralph M. Clure is a Justice of the Peace, in and for said County, duly commissioned and quallified (sic); that his commission was dated on the 2d day of January 1838, and will expire on the 2d day of January 1841, and that his signature above written is genuine

Given under my hand and the seal 
of the said Court this 10th day of 
September 1840
(signed) Joseph Darlinton Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas Of Adams County Ohio
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The State of Ohio, Adams County, ss

Court of Common Pleas, August Term, 1841.

On the thirteenth day of August in the year one thousand Eight hundred and forty one, personally appeared before said Court of Common Pleas, of Adams County Jane Jack, a resident of Tiffin Township, in said County of  Adams, aged seventy four years, who being first duly sworn in open Court, according to Law doth on her oath, make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed July 7. 1838 entitle, "an act granting half pay and pension to certain widows."  That she is the widow of Thomas Jack, who was a private soldier in the Army of the American Revolutionary War.  The said Thomas Jack and this declarant were intermarried fifty four years ago, (illegible) on the 7th day of June 1787, in Westmoreland County, State of Pennsylvania.  She and the said Thomas Jack lived together as man & wife from the time of their intermarriage until the time of his death, which happened on the 9th day of August, 1831.  They, the said Thomas Jack & this Declarant, lived in Westmoreland County, State of Pennsylvania from the time of their marriage till they removed to the State of Kentucky, where they lived about eleven month; from Kentucky they removed to that part of the Northeaster Territory which is the present County of Adams, State of Ohio; and in said County of Adams they lived till the death of the said Thomas Jack, and she has continued to live and still lives in said County of Adams, to wit from about the year 1795 till the present time.  The said Thomas Jack and this declarant were joined in marriage by George Baird, Esqr, but she does not know that there any public record made of their marriage.  A family record was made of the marriage of said Thomas Jack and the Declarant in their family Bible and the Bible in which said record was made was taken to school by Andrew Jack son of said Thomas Jack and this Declarant and was burnt in the school house as she is informed and believe to wit in 1804 or 1805 in Sprigg Township
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in said County of Adams, and the School house was burnt at the same time.  She knows scarcely any thing about said Thomas Jack's Revolutionary Services but she knows that said Thomas Jack drew a pension as a Revolutionary Soldier for several years before his death, and that Thomas Jack's pension was generally if not always drawn by Wesley Lee of West Union, Ohio, as agent.  She is well acquainted, and has been for many years with said  Wesley Lee, who, as she is informed, surrendered the original pension certificate granted to said Thomas Jack, at the time he said Wesley Lee, as agent, drew the arrears of Pension due to said Thomas Jack at the time of his (illegible)  This Declarants first child, Mary, by said Thomas Jack , said in December 1816; she was born in the year of 1790, her second child by said Thomas Jack, Andrew, was born in 1792.  The said Jane Jack know not of any original documentary evidence of said Thomas Jacks revolutionary services nor does she know of any documentary evidence of such service except that which may be found connected with said Thomas Jack's application for a pension. The said Thomas Jack had left the army service before his marriage with the Declarant but he and she were married together previously to the first of January 1794, to wit on the 7th day of June, 1787 as before stated.  And she has not again married since the death of said Thomas Jack.
Sworn to in open Court}  Jane her X mark Jack

(signed) Joseph Darlinton Clk A. C.
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State of Ohio  Adam County ss
Be it knowen (sic), that this day personaly (sic) appeared me John Morrison an acting Justice of the peace in and for the County aforesaid Joseph McGrew aged seventy six years and of sane mind and also Faney McGrew aged same where in seventy years and of sane mind after being duly sworn according to law, deposeth and sayeth that they was aquainted (sic) with Jane Kinkade in West Morlen (Westmoreland) County in the State of Pencilvana (sic), that siad Jane Kinkade was married to Thomas Jack by one Gorge (sic) Beard a Justice of the peace of said West Morlen (Westmoreland) County the said Thomas Jack and Jane Kinkade was as we verily believe married in the year A.D. 1788, and that they have ben (sic) aquainted (sic) with said Jane Jack former Jane Kinkade ever cince (sic) her marriage to the present time
Sworn to and subscribed
before me this 18th day of} (signed) Joseph McGrew
October in the year A.D. 1841}         Fanny McGrew

Signed  John Morrison (seal) }
            Justice of the Peace  }

State of Ohio  Adams County ss
before the subscriber and acting Justice of the peace in and for the County aforesaid personally appeared William Hannah & Sam'l Huey, who after being duly sworn according to law, sayeth that they have ben aquainted (sic) with above mentioned Joseph McGrew & Fanny McGrew for the last fifteen years, and know them to be persons of varasity (sic), Sworn to and subscribed
(signed) Wm Hannah
(signed) Sam'l Huey

Before me this 18th day of 
Octr A.D. 1841
(signed) John Morrison (seal)
Justice of the Peace
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The State of Ohio, Adams Common Pleas Court of the Term of October 1841

Thomas McGoveny & Richard Noleman make oath in open Court that they are well acquainted with Joseph McGrew & Fanny McGrew, who have sworn to and signed the foregoing affadavit (sic) concerning the marriage of Thomas Jack & Jane Kincaid now Jane Jack  & they (illegible) say that said Joseph McGrew and Fanny McGrew are persons of good reputation for truth & veracity and are persons of truth and veracity as the affiants believe.  The said Joseph McGrew and Fanny McGrew are very old and infirm and unable to attend Court to testify. 
Sworn to & subscribed} (signed)  Thomas McGoveny
in open Court              } (signed) Richard Noleman
Joseph Darlinton Clk, A. C.

John Morrison being sworn also in open Court deposes and says, that he is the Justice of the Peace before whom the foregoing affidavit of Joseph McGrew & Fanny McGrew was taken sworn to & subscribed and he says that said Joseph McGrew & Fanny McGrew his wife appear so old and infirm that they are unable to attend Court to testify, the said Joseph McGrew & Fanny McGrew, as this affiant understands (illegible) are persons of truth & veracity and their statements are entitled to credence. 
(signed)  John Morrison

Sworn & subscribed in 
open Court at October
Term 1841
(signed) Joseph Darlinton Clk  A.C.

The State of Ohio Adams County ss
I Joseph Darlinton Clerk open Court of Common Pleas of the County aforesaid do hereby certify that John Morrison before whom the foregoing depositions of Joseph McGrew Fanny McGrew
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William Hannah (illegible) & Samuel Huey were taken is a Justice of the Peace in and fore said County, duly commissioned and guallified (sic); that his commission was dated on 21st day of April 1841, and will expire on the 21st day of April 1844, and that his signature above written is genuine.  And I further certify that the foregoing depositions of Thomas M Govney, Richard Noleman and John Morrison were this day taken subscribed & sworn to inn open Court   In Testimony where of I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the said Court at West Union this 18th day of October in the year of our Lord 1841 and in the 39th year of this State
(signed) Joseph Darlinton Clerk A.C.

NM  The work "were taken" was intilined in the first line of this page by me the subscriber
(signed) Joseph Darlinton Clerk A.C.
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At a Court of Common Pleas holden at the Court within & for the County of Adams & State of Ohio on 20th day of October in the year of our Lord 1841
In the matter of the application of Jane Jack as the widow of Thomas Jack for a pension the Court order it to be certified under the Seal of Court that the Court are satisfied that Joseph McGrew and Fanny McGrew and William Hannah & Samuel Huey & Thomas McGoveny, Richard Noleman & John Morrison who have testified concerning said application are persons of truth and varacity (sic) and that thier (sic) statements are entitled to full credence.  And the Court order it to be further certified that the Court are satisfied that Joseph McGrew & Fanny McGrew are so old and infirm that they are unable to attend Court to testify and that said John Morrison is a Justice of the Peace of said County duly commissioned & quallified (sic) and authorised (sic) to administer oaths.

The State of Ohio Adams County ss
I Joseph Darlinton Clerk of the CouCommon Pleas of the County aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing is truly copied from the record of the said Court now remaining in my Office.   In Testimony where of I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court at West Union this 20th day of October in the year of our Lord 1841 and in the 39th year of this State.
(signed) Joseph Darlinton Clerk, A.C.
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Postmarked RECEIVED Feb 9 1939 
Mail Sub-Div
Vets Adm Reader 47


La Grange, Illinois
Feb. 7, 1939.

Bureau of Pensions,
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir:
Could you furnish me with any personal data from the pension records of the following men?

1.  John Wright.  born in North Carolina in 1759, was living in Guilford Co., N. C. during part of the Revolution, and who was living in Cumberland Co., Kentucky, age 84, in 1854.

2.  Evan  (or Evins) Wright born 1762 (brother of the above John) who also lived in Cumberland Co. Kentucky. (The census of Kentucky for 1810 list these men in same twp.)

3.  Thomas Jack born 1749 Westmoreland Co., Pa. and enlisted there.  Married a Jane Kincaid and moved to Adams Co., Ohio after the Rev.  Died there about 1831.  Did he have a daughter Jane?

4.  John Russell served in Rev. from Virginia (Western or State line moved to Adams Col, Ohio about 1796 or 97.  Where born, married, etc.?  We think he received land grants for services.  He also served from Adams Co. in War of 1812.  Ohio's roll of 1812 says: John Russell (Private), Sr. in Capt. Thomas Lewis' Co., 2nd Reg.  July 28 -  Sept 1, 1813.  (Many of the names in this company we recognize as neighbors in Green Twp. Adams Co. Ohio.)

I wish the Wright material to complete a Wright history I am compiling.  Have been unable to get in touch with descendants of the above (my great, great, great Uncles.)

I am a descendant of the above John Russell and I believe of Thomas Jack but wish proof that he had a daughter Jane who married John Russell's son Alexander.
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Rev and 1812
War Section 

January 20, 1926


J. V. Thompson
Uniontown, Oak Hill Estate
Penna.

Sir:

I have to advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary pension claim, W. 4705, it appears that Thomas Jack, while residing in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, enlisted March 1, 1776 and served as a sergeant in Captains William Butler's and Thomas Butler's Companies, Colonels Arthur St. Clair's and Thomas Craig's Pennsylvania Regiments, he was in the battles of Short Hills, Brandywine, Germantown, and Monmouth and was discharged in January 1781.

He was allowed pension on his application executed April 13, 1818, while a resident of Adams County, Ohio, aged sixty-nine years. He died in said county, August 9, 1831.

Soldier married June 7, 1787 in Westmoreland
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County, Pennsylvania, Jane Kincaid or Kinkade.  She was allowed pension on her application executed September 8, 1840, while a resident of Tiffin Township, Adams County, Ohio, aged seventy-three years.  She died in Adams County, Ohio, January 15, 1844.

Their three oldest children - Mary, born in 1790, died December 1816; Andrew, born in April 4, 1792; and James whose date of birth is not on file.  

Other children referred to in 1820 - Nancy, aged nineteen years; Betsy, aged seventeen years; Margaret, aged fifteen years; and an orphan grand-daughter Jan McCoy, aged nine years.

The following children were alive at their mother's death - Andrew, James, Margaret, and Jane Baylea or Bayley.

Respectfully,

WINFIELD SCOTT
Commissioner.
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March 21, 1939


XXXXXXXXXXXXXX

BA-J/ady

Mrs. Ralph J. Knouf
229 North Kensington Avenue
La Grange, Illinois

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War records of John Wright, born 1759, served from Guilford County, North Carolina, and was living in Cumberland County, Kentucky, in 1854, aged eighty-four years, of Evan or Evins Wright, his brother, of Thomas Jack of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, and that of John Russell who you state served also in the War of 1812 and that he was of Virginia, moved about 1796 to Adams County, Ohio, from which county you state he served in the War of 1812.

There is no claim for pension on file based upon service in the Revolutionary War of John Wright and John Russell as described above, nor for the service of an Evan or Evins Wright.  With the information furnished no War of 1812 record could be identified as that of the John Russell in whom you are interested.  The record of Thomas Jack is furnished you herewith.

Very truly yours

A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator
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The State of Ohio Adams County ss

The depositions of Witnesses taken before the Subscribers Justices of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid on this 17th day of December A.D. 1840.

Joseph McGrew of the age of about 75 years being produced as a witness & being first duly sworn deposeth & saith that he was well acquainted with Thomas Jack a Pensioner of the United States as the time of his death that when this deponent first became acquainted with the said Thomas Jack he resided in Westmoreland County in the State of Pennsylvania that this deponent was well acquainted with Jane Kincaid then also a resident of the said County of Westmoreland that the said Thomas Jack & Jane Kincaid were married together as husband & wife by on George Baird then a Justice of the Peace in the said County of Westmoreland, that this deponent was well acquainted with the said Thomas Jack and Jane Kincaid now the widow of the said Thomas Jack both before and after their marriage that before the said Thomas Jack and Jane his wife left Westmorland they had three children and were always while they lived in that County aknowledged (sic) by each other as man & wife & so reputed and understood by the citizens generally in the neighborhood when they lived, they were then considered by the citizens aforesaid as reputed & respectable citizens.  That is deponent has been acquainted with the said Thomas Jack & Jane his wife since they came to this County & is well satisfied that the said Jane Jack now the widow of the said Thomas Jack is the same person with whom the said Thomas Jack was married in  Westmoreland County aforesaid.
(signed) Joseph McGrew
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The State of Ohio Adams County ss

We the subscribers two Justices of the Peace within and for the County aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing deposition of Joseph McGrew was this day taken, sworn to and subscribed by the said Joseph McGrew and do hereby certify that the said Joseph McGrew is a credible and a respectable citizen.  And we further certify that John Sparks & Leonard Cole whose depositions were heretofore taken in this same case are credible & respectable citizens of this County.
In Witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands & seals this 17th day of December A.D, 1840.  We certify that the words "with West underlined in the foregoing and the word "had three children" were erased all before signed
(signed) Ralph M Clure  (seal)
(signed) John Morrison (seal)  Justices of the Peace

The State of Ohio Adams County, ss

We the undersigned two justices of the peace in and for the County aforesaid certify that we have been acquainted with Thomas Jack late of this County and his wife then, now his widow still residing this county and that we have been particularly acquainted with their character as citizens and that they always were of good repute like we firmly believe that the statements of the said widow are entitled to full credit that may be set forth by the said Jane Jack widow of the said Thomas Jack
Given under our hands and seals this 17th day of December in the year 1840.
(signed) Ralph M Clure (seal)
(signed) John Morrison (seal)  Justices of the Peace

The State of Ohio Adams County ss
I Joseph Darlinton Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County aforesaid do hereby certify that Ralph M Clure and John Morrison Esrs who have signed the above Certificates were at the time of
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signing the same and still are Justices of the Peace in and for said County duly commissioned and qualified; that the said Ralph M Clure's commission was dated on the 2d day of January 1838 and will expire on the 2d day of January 1841, and that the said John Morrison's commission was dated on the 21st day of April 1838 and will expire on the 21st day of April 1841, and that their signatures above written are genuine. 
Given under my hand and the seal of the said Court this 17th day of December 1840.
(signed) Joseph Darlinton Clerk A.C. O.
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The State of Ohio }
Brown County      } ss
Personally appeared in open Court before the Judge of the Court of Common Pleas within and for the County of Brown & State of Ohio on this the twentieth day of August in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and forty one, James Erwin aged 79 years who under oath and says that he was acquainted with Thomas Jack husband of Jane Jack the applicant in this case ever since the deponent was a small boy.  That when this deponent first became acquainted with said Thomas Jack he said Thomas Jack resided in the County of Westmoreland in the State of Pennsylvania.  The said Thomas Jack entered the service of the United States as a Sergeant in the year 1776, under Captain Thomas Butler, the said Jack served the period of five years as this deponent believes, this deponent is unable to state the day & month when said Thomas Jack entered the service, that he was discharged in (illegible) 1781.  That the said Thomas Jack when he entered the service resided in the (illegible) of (illegible) (illegible) (which was afterwards (illegible) by the Indians) in the County of Westmoreland & State of Pennsylvania.  That said Thomas Jack entered the service as a volunteer this affiant is (illegible) to (illegible) what battle the said Jack was in or through what country he marched.  That the deponent has been acquainted with said Thomas Jack & his wife Jane Jack since they have been married.
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or lived together as man & wife, for a period of twenty or thirty years.  That this deponent is informed & believes that said Thomas Jack died about 60 years ago & that said Jane Jack his wife has lived a widow ever since & now state remains his the said Thomas Jack's widow.  That this deponent resides in the County of Brown & State of Ohio & is so aged and infirm as to unable to attend before the Court of Common Pleas of Adams County, Ohio in order to (illegible) (illegible) his deposition
signed James   his X mark  Erwin
Sworn & subscribed in 
open Court Aug 20. 1841
A. C. Stewart Clk
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WAR DEPARTMENT.

WIDOW'S PENSION

I certify that in conformity with the act of March 3, 1843, Jane Jack, decd, who was the widow of Thos Jack, who was a Sergeant, was entitled to a pension at the rate of #120 per ann:  coms: on the 4 March, 1843, and Endg: on the 15 Jany: 1844, the day of her death; which will be paid upon the production of the proper voucher to Andrew, James and Margaret Jack and Jane Bayley only surviving children of Jane Jack, deceased.

Payment to be made at Cincinnati, Ohio}

Given at the War Office of the United States this 22d day of January, one thousand eight hundred and forty-six

Secretary of War.

Examined and countersigned.

Commissioner of Pensions.