Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 2,838, Jacob Deem, Penn.

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(8-1776)

SERVICE
Penn.

Deem Jacob

NUMBER
R.2.838

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CONTENTS

[handwritten in black ink on printed card]

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33024
Jacob Deems
Report to:
Hon J. J. Allen

Rejected.  See

Singletons Report





Hon. J. J. Allen
H.R.
Wm. L. Mitchell
& M. Camp        } agents

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State of Virginia
Wood County

On this 5th Day of May 1834

Personally appeared before me Henry Stall, a Justice of the Peace in & for Wood County & State of Virginia.  Jacob Deem a resident citizen of the County and State aforesaid Agred Seventy years.  9th day of April last, past who being first dukly Sworn.  According to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in under to - Obtain the benefits of the act of Congress of 7th  June 1882 States he entered the service of the United States under the following insurance officers and since.  As herein after states that in the County of West Moreland now Lafayette & State of Pennsylvania in the year 1781.  Declarant thinks about the first day of May.  Declarant was called in to service as Ensign, the Indians having made their appearance in the neighbor hood of Jackson Fort  on Ten Mile creek a waters of the Monongahela River in the County of Westmoreland now of Washington and State of Pennsylvania.  Declarrant has 25 men plans under his command by this Captain Isaac Pigman and rendezvous at Jacksons fort and as the Indians were Suspected to be roving in the neighborhood of Jacksons fort.  Garards fort, &  _____fort We were compelled to make the Tour of the said forts for their protection and their of the frontier.

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Settlements, in this kind of service Declarrant was principally engaged often Ranging the County both up and down Monongahala River and round the head of Ten Mile Muddy Creek and Whitely, and at all times whilst the Indians were in Our neighbourhood as support to be_____ _____ us we have to keep up a Constant guard as well as to keep two men constantly engaged in spying as a _____ said this service was born by the men by rotation under the order of Declarrant who reported to his said Captain Pagman, about the last day of October of 1781 - We _____ suffered to return home and to remain until about the first of May 1782 this being the time the Indians usually made thier [spelling] inroads [illegible - scratched out] White settlements, - _____ by _____ having been brought to Col. Cook [^that] this Indian had Committed murder when the settlers on the West side of Monongahala Declarrant was again ordered to muster his men ad go in pursuit of the Enemy. Declarrant having his men _____ for duty immediately called on such of them whos [spelling] tour it was and marched for Jackson’s Fort, and Commenced our search after the Indians.  the Trals [spelling] of which we followed to What___ Creek at which place we lost it. not being able to pursue them further. We then _____ the county to a considerable distance and came in to _____ Fort to see if they had not came to that fort. not being able to overtake them or discover thier [spelling] route. we commence a regular guarding the forts and spying the Country around the before mentioned forts

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In which Service Declarant was engaged until the last of October seventeen hundred & eighty two, at which time Declarant was permitted again to Return home That about the first of May 1783 It was again Rumored that the Indians Were Approaching the Settlements and it was reported that they had Murdered Some persons above the Pennsylvania line in the County of Monongahela Captain Isaac Felty commanded this tour. Declamant was again Ordered to the fort as above to wit. to Jackson Fort and spent the summer in the same manner that the two previous Summers had been spent until the last of October Seventeen hundred & eighty three when he again returned home. Declarants Revolutionary Services here ends having served his country in the capacity of Ensign full Eighteen months. Declarant States that he was Elected Ensign in his 17 year of age That his commission was signed by Governor Mifflin then governor of Pennsylvania Declarant States that his military duty & service continued more or less every summer until the year 1795. Declarant was not Discharged in any Regular Manner as his service was not of the Regular manner but acted from the necessity of the (??) not Receiving any thing from his country for his subscription or service having found his own gun ammunition & Clothing and often depending upon the fortune of sometimes killing a sufficiently of game And often suffering from hunger & fatigue Declarant Known of no person now living by whom to prove positive all his service but can refer to Adam Deam who Resided a part of the time in the same Neighborhood and knows that Declarant did serve as an Ensign.

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Declamaint can refer to Thomas Pribble and Hiram Pribble two residents of the county of Wood who can testify to his character and their belief of his having been an officer in the Revolution.  Declamant states the reason he does not prove his services before the County Court is that Adam Deen is from Bodily infirmity unable to attend at the court house of said county of Wood from which he resides twenty seven miles. Declarrant hereby relinquisshes all claims whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of the Agency of any state or territory. 
Subscribed and sworn to this 5th day of May 1834 Jacob Deen
1. I was born in the County of Frederick and state of Maryland in 1764
2.I have a register. It is in the Family Record in my Fathers  Bible
3. I was living in the County of Westmoreland (as I believe) in Pennsylvania. Now Lafayette Within about 3 miles of Redstone old fort now called Bownsville,
4. I was ordered out by Col. Cook who had charge of the militia in the county where I reside. 
5. As I resided in the West [?] acted entirely against the Indians I did not contraft knowledge of the officers nor the movements of the Army

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6. Declarant was a Commissioned officer and his Commission was Signed as well as he Recollects by Governor Mifflin. he did not receive any Regular Discharge. and his Commission is Destroyed.

7. He Believes he can prove his service in part by Adam Deem. he can Refer to Thomas Pribble & Hiram Pribble who can testify to his character and these and the neighbor hood belief of his Services as an officer of the Revolution. There being no clergyman Residing in the neighborhood where Declarant resides
Sworn & subscribed to the Day & year above written
Jacob Deem

We Thomas Pribble & Hiram Pribble Resident citizens of the county of Wood hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Jacob Deem who has Subscribed and sworn to the above Declaration that we believe him to be 70 years of age that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been An officer in the Revolutionary War that we concur in that opinion 
Sworn & subscribed this day and date above written
Thos. Pribble
Hiram Pribble

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And I the said Justice of the Peace hereby Declares my opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogations prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Officer and Served as he States and I the said Justice of the Peace further Certify that it appears to me that Thomas Pribble & Hiram Pribble who have signed the preceding certificate are Resident Citizens of the County of Wood & the State of Virginia and that they are Credible Persons and that their Statement is entitled to Credit. and I the Said Justice further Certify that there is no Clergyman Residing in the neighborhood of the Applicant & I the said Justice do further Certify that Adam Deem upon whose testimony Declarant Relies is (???) feverish being Much affected with Rheumatic fever & unable to Travel with out much (?)  to this Court house of Wood County from which he resides 27 miles and I the said Justice further Certify that the foregoing Contains the original proceedings of my self in the matter of the Application of Jacob Deem for a pension In testimony where of I have here unto Set my hand & Seal this 5th Day of May 1834
Henry Steed J. Peace (seal)

State of Virginia
Wood County}SS
Be it known that on the 5th day of May 1834 personally appeared before me Henry Steed a Justice of the Peace in & for Wood County And Adam Deem a resident Citizen of the said County of Wood (word crosses out) who being first duly Sworn according to Law doth in his oath State that he is well

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Acquainted with Jacob Deem who has & subscribed to the foregoing declaration that he believes him to be Seventy years of age & he further States that the Said Jacob Deem was an Ensign in the Pa. militia in time of the Revolution & that he believes to the best of his Personal knowledge & recollection that the Said Jacob Deem rendered the service that he States he did in the foregoing declaration which was read to the Said Adam Deem in the Presence of the said Jacob Deem & before me and I the Justice of the Peace do further Certify that I believe the said Adam Deem is 73 years of age & I further Certify that I believe him to be a man of veracity & that his Statement is Entitled to the fullest Credit.
Sworn to and Subscribed the day & year aforesaid
Adam Deem
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal the day & year first above written
Henry Steed J Peace (seal)

Virginia SS
I John Stephenson Jr. Clerk of the county Court of Wood County do hereby certify that Henry Steed Esq. before whom the foregoing declaration of Jacob Deem for a pension was made is and was at that time an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly commissioned and qualified to said Office according to the Constitution and Laws of said State and that the signatures purporting to be his are genuine 
In Testimony whereof I hereto subscribe my name and affix my seal of Office this 4th day of May A. D. 1834 and in the 58th year of the Commonwealth
Jn. Stephenson J. C.W.C
(Seal affixed to document)

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Virginia. Act 32

Jacob Deem.

Applicant. Wood
County--
not Enlisted-(underlined)

His case of John Sheets. Pen. (underlined)
of Wood County. remains to be
examined--when there (??)
Smale  Pon. was as his
family.-I therefore passed
him by.--Mr. J. M. Steed
of Parhus way. promised us
to take an early application
of examining his case
and I have no doubt but he will do so. 
NJS

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j. jacob deem in pursuance of a requisition of the secretary at war give the following narrative of my age and revolutionary service biz. 

I shall be 71 years of age the 9th of April in the year 1781. In my seventeenth year I (illegible) An Ensignia (illegible) was drafted in Westmoreland County PA and assigned to Capt. Pegman's company of  (illegible).  We rediscovered at Jackson Fort on the water of ten mile creek in Washington County.  We were stationed at this place and scouted in the county round about for about two years. A half of our company would exceptionally (illegible) home when there was no evidence of incidence in the county and stay two or three weeks then return another portion would return (blacked out) Best when there was an alarm or any outages within our knowledge all of our complaining furied/pursued the enemy or guarded the fort on the spring of the year (blacked out) 1783 our company was divided. I again terms to the command of Capt Issac Felty. 
 we were then ordered to Lareth fort  (blacked out). Whitely (illegible) where we reminisce a short time and were afterwards to (illegible) line to fort and (smeared word) time to Jackson's fort and back to Larret's Fort. As circumstance was required, we continued in the service about three years, a portion of the time (blacked out) a part of our company was allowed to go home. A few walk to our station, (blacked out), they would return and others would return home. during the winter are (illegible) our service in the spring. Including all the time I was in the actual service (blacked out) before the close of the Revolutionary war amounted to  (blacked out) at least eighteen months we focused our own (illegible) ammunition, provisions, (illegible), and (blacked out). 

I know of no person living by whom I can fervor my Revolutionary Services. My brother Adam Deem (blacked out( knows that I was an Ensignia but I presume does not know (blacked out) except from (illegible) what my services were.

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William L. Mitchel undertook to obtain my pension he drew my declaration with the aid of Col. Kemp of Lewis County. I was sworn to my declaration before Henry [illegible] Esq. at Pribbles Mills about eight miles from my residence which is about seven miles from the courthouse. I also had the deposition of Adam Deim my brother taken before  H. ]illegible] Mitchel took charge of the papers and agreed to obtain my pension for one half of the amt. then due me for Revolutionary services. The foregoing contains in substance the same statements made in my former declaration sworn to before H. [illegible]
[next paragraph]
I never gave Mitchel or any other person authority to draw my pension nor have I seen Mitchel but understand he had left the country.
[next paragraph]
After my declaration was sworn to Mitchel [illegible] in his saddle bags and got a piece of yellow tape with which he fastened the papers together saying that without that kind of tape was [illegible] through a particular part of the papers they would be taken for a [illegible]
[next paragraph]
In witness of all which I have here [illegible] at my hand this 21st day of March 1835
{signature of] Jacob Deim
[below the signature is another paragraph]
this narration has been made by [illegible] since I [a number of illegible words follow, then it is signed by someone I cannot read, with an illegible month], on the 10th day 1835

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[This appears to be the first page of the document]
[at the top of the page the following words are typed, but then crossed out]
Acts of July 14, 1862 and March 3, 1873
[below the crossed out text was stamped the word REJECTED]
[Below the REJECTED stamp is the following]
2838
P.O._____________________
Jacob Diem
Service:________________________

Enlisted: 1852 Printed Rejected and Suspended Pensions gives "reasons for rejection" Indian wars on the frontiers.
[Below the reasons for rejection there is text allowing someone to enter information but each line is blank]
Alleges:
Re-enlisted:

Attorney:
P.O.

_____________Recognized ____________Contract
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