Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 9888, Jacob Fox, Penn.

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Service Penn
Fox, Jacob or Fuchs [black star above name]
Number S. 9888
carded [handwritten]
Contents [blank lines]

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Invalid [typed title]
Rev War (black checkmark]
9888
No Certif [illegible]
File No. 9888
Jacob Fox
Prov. U.S. Army
Act: [blank]
Index:- Vol. 1, Page 129
Arrangement of 1870. in brackets []

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this man is in much [illegible]
it is requested that his [illegible] may be forwarded as soon as possible

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Pennsylvania
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Jacob Fox
Private [black star]
in the army of the U.S.
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Inscribed on the roll of Pa $1 66/100 per month {may be 1 00/100]
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Old pensioner
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[illegible] to $2 66/100 per mo by the Law of the 24th of April, 1806
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Cert ifued [issued] 21 Oct 1819 and sent to the care of Rich Peters Esq. Philadelphia

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Jacob Fox being duly sworn on his solemn oath doth depose and say that he is the same person to whom a pension was given by the United States on account of wounds and disabilities [illegible] or wounds in the service of the United ^States during the Revolutionary War at the rate of two dollars and 66 cents [illegible] or there abouts. That he served more than five years in the Pennsylvania Line, but from loss of memory couldn't give a particular account of his services. He was wounded severely in the wrist and has regularly received his pension until the last six months; when he was refused for want of this certificate. That he never has received his certificate of pension but prays that [illegible] may now be issued and forwarded to Richard Peters Esq. Philad-
Sworn and [illegible] before me this 19th day of October 1819 [two separate Signatures, both illegible]
Pension as appears [illegible] the [illegible] office 2.66 pr. mo. or 32 [illegible]

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June 19, 1906 [illegible]

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Fox, Jacob
His name appears on a list of applicants
for invalid pension returned by the District Court for the District of Pennsylvania, submitted to the
House of Representatives by the Secretary of War on
April 25, 1794 and printed in the American state
Papers, class q, pages 101 and 165

Rank: Private, flying camp
Disability . Was wounded at or near buckold's
town, New Jersey, in the right hand, the ball still remaining therein, which disables him from following his trade of a weaver
Where disabled buckold's town.
To what pension entitled: One- third
Remarks: There are no militia rolls in this office.
Evidence transmitted by the District Court incomplete
as to the time of leaving the service, but the usual tour
of duty was six months; also as to his place of residence
since he left the service, as requred by law.
On page 165 it is stated that evidence had been completed

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Division of Veterans' Administration Archives
THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
Form VAM-51
12-5-41
BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME tompare
GRADE
Private
LINE Von Heer's Corps
WARRANT NUMBER 13067
ACRE AGE
100
ISSUED Juneary 12, 1792
to Michael Bright
assignee
*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are
registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November a. 1800.
Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.