Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 42691, Jacob Earenfight, Continental Ohio Residence And Agency

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Continental
Earenfight, Jacob
S.42691

Ohio residence and agency

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4,558
Roll of Ohio
Jacob Earenfight
[illegible]
Private
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War

Inscribed on the Roll of Ohio
at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence
the 27th of May 1818

Certificate of Pension issued the 24th of Novem 1818
and [illegible]

Arrears to 4th of Sept 1818 [illegible]
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4th March 1819 | 48

$74.35

[brackets] Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March 1818 [end brackets]

[handwriting] Continent [end handingwriting]

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Jacob Earenfight, [Artsficir?]
Flowers Penn Reg
1777 to 1781
admitted

One Case
Judge Corwin
City, Warren, Ohio
Recv'd 12 June 1878

(Lebanon)

John C. Calhoun
Secretary of War
Washington City

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State of Ohio
Warren County }ss
  Personally came before the undersigned and of the associate Judge of the court of common pleas
within and for the County of  Warren  and the State of Ohio Jacob Earenfight of the County & State aforesaid
who being duly sworn deposeth and saith that some time in the Month of April in the year seventeen hundred and seventy seven he enlisted in the service of the United States of America in a company at that time commanded by Captain Irish a captain of Artillery artificers soon after his enlistment he joined a Regiment commanded by Col [Anl?] Flowers in the Pennsylvania line that he first enlisted for one year  that previous to the expiration of that term he enlisted for a second time for three years in the company regiment and line aforesaid this [enponent?] thinks that at the time of his second enlistment Captain Irish was promoted and that the company was then commanded by Lieut. Gibson that he served four years in the company line and regiment aforesaid at the expiration of which time he was honorably discharged this [deponent?] states that he is now seventy three years of age that he is extremely infirm and almost [unclear..pass] as well a consequence of his advanced age as his having received a severe wound in the [left knee?] at the Battle of Princetown that his circumstances are indigent and [astiessery?]   having been reduced to poverty by the destroying of ^his house in the city of Philadelphia by the [butrth? british?]

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troops that he really stands in need of assistance of his country to support an existence which from his years and [Superwties?]  is rapidly [merging?] to a close    Jacob Earenfight  his X mark
  Sworn and subscribed before me this 27th day of May 1818
Matthias Corwin   Associate Judge   Warren County
  The State of Ohio   Warren County} ss      I Matthias Corwin [?]  Clerk of the court of Common pleas for the County of Warren afd do certify that Matthias Corwin Esq who appears to have taken & signed the above [..?tion]     of Jacob Earenfight & also the above certificate is one of the Associate Judges  of the court afsd duly commissioned       & sworn into office & to whose official act as such ful faith & [?] are & of right ought to begin  as well in courts of record as ther[onst?]
 In testimony whereof I have here unto set my hand & the seal of the court aforesaid at Lebanon this 27th day May A.D. 1818      Matthias Corwin

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Common Pleas  August Term 1821
Jacob Erinfights petition for the renewal of a pension
   Earenfight  4558

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Pleas begun and held at Lebanon in the County
of Warren and State of Ohio on the Seventh day of August
in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred + twenty one
before the Honorable Joshua Collett Erguin President Judge
of the Courts of Common Pleas for Seventh circuit and
Ignatius Brown Jacob D Lowe + Matthias Corwin Esquires associate
Judes.
    Warren County Gs
             Be it remembered that on
the twenty second day of August in the year of our
Lord Eighteen hundred and twenty one Jacob Earenfight
files in Court here his petition for the purpose of renewing
his pension for services rendered during the Revolutionary
War, in the words and of the uner following to wit.
 The State of Ohio Warren County Seventh Circuit of the
Court of Common pleas for the State of Ohio. On the 22.d
day of August in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred
and twenty one personally appeared in open court in the
Court of Common please for Warren County in the 7th Circuit
of said court inthe State of Ohio being a court of Record
for the said County of Warren Jacob Eranfight a resident
of Lebanon in Warren County aforesaid aged twenty six
years on the 12th of May 1821 who being duly sworn deposits
and saith that some time in the spring or summer of the
year 1778 he enlisted as an Artillery artificer in the Service of
the United States in the company of Captain Nathaniel
Irish in the Regiment of Artificers of the Pensylvania line
commanded by Colonel Benjamin Flowers that he served
for one year under said enlistment and at the expiration
of that time he enlisted for the further term of three years
all ^of which time he served he served in the Capacity aforesaid 
in the company and Regiment ^aforesaid and at the end of
the term of service aforesaid he was regularly and Honorably
discharged from the service of the United States at Carlisle
in the State of  Pensylvania at which time he got a written

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certificate of his service which is now lost, being mislaid that
during the term of service aforesaid he was in no engagement
nor did he

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Court and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited on the aforesaid Schedule is eight dollars and fifty cents.
  In testimony whereof I have here unto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court of Common Pleas on this the 27th day of August A.D. 1821     Matthias Corwin  Junr Clerk

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Rev. & 1812 Wars Section
AWF eal
October 17, 1928
R. R. Earenfight
702 [illegible] 36 h Street
Omaha, Nebraska

Sir:
I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War
pension claim; S. 42691, it appears that Jacob Earenfight
enlisted in April, 1777, and served four years in Captain
Nathaniel Irish's Company, Colonel Benjamin Flower's Regiment
of Artillery Artificers, and was discharged at Carliale,
Pennsylvania. He also stated that he was at the
battle of Princeton, where was wounded in the left knee,
no details of this service given.
He was allowed pension on his application executed
May 27, 1818, at which time he was living in Warren County,
Ohio, seventy-three years of age.
In 1821, he was living in Lebanon, Warren County, Ohio,
with his son Christopher. There are no further data as to
family.
The above noted Jacob Earenfight is the only soldier
with that surname found on the Revolutionary War records of
this bureau.
Respectfully,

E. W. MORGAN
Acting Commissioner.

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[Date stamp receipt in the left upper corner.]
ASSISTANT AND CHIEF CLERK
OCT -1 1928
WAR DEPT.
Commissioner of Pensions  [Stamped date] SEP [illegible] 1928
U. S. War Department
Washington, D. C.
If possible would
like to get some information
[Sentence illegible]
[illegible] Earenfight who according
to my belief spent
the winter with Gen. Washington
at Valley Forge. My information
would lead me to believe
he enlisted from Pennsylvania
in a manner [illegible]
uncertain regarding his
given name but [illegible] it
either Christopher or
[illegible]. However if there is
an Earnfight showing by
the records as having spent
the winter during the Revolution
with Gen. Washington Army, it
would probably be my ancestor
as the name is very uncommon.
If you should find

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an Earnfight in the
master Rolls and his given name should be
different from the name
mustered then kindly give
me any particulars of whereof
any Date of enlistment and Discharge
and citation if any.
He was German [illegible]
[illegible] Dutch.
Thanking you in advance.
R. R. Earenfight

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In Reply Refer to  FJM/RDE  ORD      Washington      October 3, 1928.
Respectfully returned to
 Mr. R.H. Earenfight
702 South 36th Street
Omaha, Nebraska
[stamp] OCT 10 1928

  The surname Earenfight has not been found on the records, on file in this office, of soldiers in the Revolutionary War.
  The collection of Revolutionary War records in this office is far from complete and it is suggested as a possibility that the desired information may be obtained from the Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D.C., or from the authorities of the state from which he may have entered the service.
  [signature] Lutz Wahl  The Adjutant General.  By [Eiwn?]

[h/w]  Any information you can give me will be appreciated
yours   R.H. Earenfight

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[low contrast, unable to transcribe]

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Omaha, Neb Oct 19/28
Pension Office
Department of the Interior
Washington, D.C.
Gentlemen: One Jacob Earenfight was
pensioned in Warren Co. Pennsylvania
for service as a private in the
Pennsylvania Continental Service.  [illegible]
on roll November 24, 1818 aged 90 years.
What I wish to learn if you
have records of same in the given
names of his kin. It is important
to complete records which are
of importance to me.
I have also written to

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acertain [sic] if such records still
exist in Warren Co. Pennsylvania.
I first wrote Adj. General War
Dept. for records from master
Rolls, but they informed me
their Revolutionary records
are very incomplete and advised
me to [illegible] the Pension Office
to [illegible] the wither [sic] information
from [illegible] Revolutionary Mission at
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania which should
amplify other information [illegible]
[illegible]. Respectfully,
R.R. Earenfight

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42691
INVALID
Revy
File No. 42,691
Jacob Earenfight
Pa  Rev War
Act 18th March 18[?]
Index  Vol.  3  Page 1066
[Arrangement of 1870]
[on side] 
1928 - Oct 17 Hist. to R.H. Earenfight

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[Mocan? Rep - 3rd Dec 1821
Sir   Inclosed is an affidavit for the purpose of getting a pension certificate - will you please inform me of the result of the application
  respectfully &c       Thomas R. Ros

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Christopher Earenfight
[Calperation?] of a lost pension certificate
...another from the War Department

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[[duplicate of image 1]]

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The State of Ohio Warren County Ss
  Be it remembered that on the 12th day of November AD 1821 before me the undersigned [?]  of the Justices assigned to keep the peace within for the County of Warren aforesaid personally came Jacob Earenfight of the town of Lebanon in the County of Warren aforesaid who being duly sworn  deposeth & saith that on or about the last of October or first of November A.D. 1821 he received a pension certificate the number of which he does not now recollect, which pension certificate came to him through the hands of Matthias Corwin Jr Clerk of the Court of common Pleas within & for the County of Warren aforesaid which pension certificate this deponent has entirely     lost, said certificate has been lost more than a week and this deponent has made use of all the means in his power to endeavor to find it but has not yet been able to obtain any information of it & does not expect ever to get possession of it again & this deponent further states that he never received any money on said lost certificate & that he is very old & infirm is in great need of his pension & further saith not            Jacob Earenfight  his X mark
 Sworn & subscribed to before me the date above written
    Benjamin Sayer