Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B. L. Wt- 19631-160-50, Jacob Colvin, Not Rev. War Indian War 1792-1794

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(3 - 1776)


SERVICE                                                                                                                                                  NUMBER

Not. Rev War.                                                              Colvin, Jacob                                               B. L. Wt.  19631 - 160 - 50

Indian War                                                                                                                                             No claim for pension

1792 - 1794


CONTENTS

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3979                                           Nov 13/50

Jacob Colvin  pr

Cap ? Bady

Co Indian Spies


Ea. March 1793 04 1794

Indian War 1792
                                          Land
2 Service 


Paid Apl  25/57

              Indn War 1794
3d    "  May 16/67


the rolls of Captains Brady

Ramsey, Ohio Roll from

1792 to 1794, were destroyed

by fire


Treasury Department

Third Auditor's Office

May 21 1857

B. F. Gallaher

? ? Audr


Hewett & Brown

M C  ?

Vinton Co. Ohio

Oct 11/81  at


May 27/51    at

                     T. I. T.


Adm for 160 acres

July 16/52

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at M Arthurstown                                                                                                       Bounty Land Claim

A. D 1850                                                                                                                        3979                  Nov 13/50

                                                                                                                                          of Jacob Colvin

this 29th day  of October                                                                                        Ind. Spies

Lafayette White   clk                                                                                                  ? 28/50

                                                                                                                                           Ind. War 1792


                                                                                                                                            12 Mo. Service in

                                                                                                                                            the War of 1812



                                                                                                                                             Presented by Hewitt & Brown

                                                                                                                                             of McArthurson Vinton

                                                                                                                                             Co. Ohio

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The State of Ohio                                     On this twenty eighth day of October
                                        SS
Vinton County                                           A. D. one thousand eight hundred

                                                                        and fifty personally appeared

before me Joel A Waldren one of the Acting Justices of the

Peace  within and for said County and State Jacob

Colvin aged Eighty seven years a resident of the County

of Vinton and State of Ohio who being duly sworn ac - 

cording to law declares that he is the indentical Jacob

Colvin who was a private soldier in the Company

commanded by Captain Samuel Brady of Indian 

Spies, that said Company was not his knowledge

attached to any Regiment or Battallion at least if it was

he is unable to give the Number or to say by whom the

same was commanded, he only recollects that Col.

Williamson was exersising a command over the

spies.  That he enlisted in said Company near Stub

=ansville in the State of Ohio some time in march

and he thinks in the year 1793 or 1794 and heis unable

to recollect positively which for the term of one

year and was employed principally alon the Ohio

River from the Mouth of the Muskingum River to Geo =

rge Town in the State of Pennsylvania   That he con =

tinued in said Company and in the actual service

of the United States in the Indian War the full term

of three months when on Kings Creek som nineteen

miles from Washington in  the State of Pennsylva 

= nia he was shot by two Indians and badly

wounded in the body so as to disable him from

service and to render him a criple and an invalid

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through life, that he remained unable to perform

muletary duty and was under the treatement of 

the Surgeon of said Company (one Doctr White)

for at least six months.  That as soon as he was able

to work his full time having expired he went into

the State of Kentucky, but before he left said Com -

pany his Capt the said Samuel Brady died and

he never received a written discharge, but declares pos -

itively that he was honorably dismissed by reason of

being wounded as aforesaid.


The said Jacob Colvin further declares that he is the

identical Jacob Colvin who was a private in the Com -

pany commanded by Capt Ramsey  That he was

this time drafted into said caompany at or near

Washington in the State of Pennsylvania some time in

the year A. D. 1892 or 1893 (as nearly as he can now rec =

ollect) for the term of three months, and that he did

was and in said last named company the furhter term

of thre months being a part of the time employed

at the Stateat Minkes Bottom in the State of Virginia

and the balance at Well Mills or Cross Creek from

which service he was honorably discharged but he does

not recollect of ever having received a certificate of such

discharge but that he was and is entitled to an hon =

orable discharge in both cases of service as aforesaid

and declares positively that he has performed at least

six months actual service in the Indian Wars as

aforesaid and that he has never received from the

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Government bounty land or Pension and he 

makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining

the bounty land to which he may be entitled under

the act granting bounty land to certain officers and

soldiers who have been engaged in the military service

of the United States passed September28th 1850 ---

He further states that hebeing so old and ?

that his memory is bad and he is unable to give

any ore or definite information in relation to his

service that the foregoing and that he is not aware

of any living witness by whom he could prove

his aforesaid
                                         Jacob Colvin
                                         (His X Mark)



Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and year above

written and I hereby certify that I believe the said Jacob Colvin

to be the identical man who performed the service aforesaid

and that he is of the age aforesaid and above written

                                        Joel A. Walden         Justice of the Peace



The State of Ohio                               I Lafayette White Clerk of the Court
                                        SS
Vinto County                                        of Common Pleas within and for

the County and State aforesaid (Being a court of record)

do hereby certify that Joel A Walden Esqr whose true

and genuine signature appears to the above certificate

was on the 28th day of October A. D. 1850 and Still is an Act =

ing Justice of the Peace within and for said County and State

duly commissioned and qualified as such.


Witness my hand and seal of office

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.                                                                                                                                         February 8, 1924

                                                                                                                                           xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


Mrs. W. H. Odell                                                                                                           John McClellan
Madison                                                                                                                          B. L. Wt. 1420 - 300
West Virginia                       

                                                                                                                                            Jacob Colvin
                                                                                                                                             B. L. Wt. 19531 - 160 - 50



Dear Madam:                                                                                                                 BA - J/MMHF: MLB

Reference is made to your letter in which youu furnish further
information in regard to John McClelland and Jacob Colvin whose
records you desire.

The Revolutionary War records have been searched and the record
of only one Captain John McClellan (under any spelling ot the
surname), of Pennsylvania, has been found.  His record, and that of
Jacob Colvin, of Vinton County, Ohio, who served in the Indian War,
are given herein

John McClellan
Wt. 1420 - 300

The records of this office show that Warrant No. 1420, for
three hundred acres of bounty land, was issued March 25, 1796, on
accounty of service of John McClellan, Captain in th Pennsylvani
line, War of the Rebellion.

There are no further data relative to him, and onone, whatever,
in regard to his family, because of the destruction of papers in
such early applications when the War Office was burned in 1800.

Jacob Colvin
Wt. 19631 - 160 - 50

Jacob Colvin, while residing in htat part of the country which
late became Washington County, Pennsylvania, and Brooks county
Virginia, enlisted near Washington, Pennsylvania, in 1792 or 1793,

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and served three months as private in Captain Ramsey's company,
in the Indian War, engaged at the state in Minkes Bottom,
Virginia, and at Wells Mills or Cross Creek.  He reenlisted in
March, 1793 or 1794, near Steubenville, Ohio, for one year,
served as Indian spy in Captain Samuel Brady's company, engaged
principally along the Ohio River from the mouth fo the Muskingum
River to Georgetown, Pennsylvania, for three months, when on
Kings Creek, about ninenteen miles from Washington, Pennsylvania
he was shot by two Indians and badly wounded in his body, which
rendered him a cripple for life; he was treated six months
by a surgeon of his company, and at the expiration of his term
of enlistment, he was honorably dismissed from his company and
went to Kentucky, the county not named.  He Dd not state that
he served in the Revolutionar War or the War of 1812.

Jacob Colvin was allowed bounty land in full satifaction
for his services in the Indian War, noted above, on his applica -
tion executed October 28, 1850, at which time he was aged
eighty - seven years and a resident of Vinton County, Ohio,

The date of his birth, date of death and names of parents
are not stated, nor are there any family data shown.

For information is regard to location of the land, you should
apply to the Commissioner of the General Land Office, this city,
and cite the following:  Joh McClellan, Bounty Land Warrant
1420 - 300 acres -- issued March 25, 1796, and Jacob Colvin, Bounty
Land Warrant 19631 - 160 acres - Act of September 28, 1850.

                                               Very truly yours


                                                A. D. Hiller
                                                Assistant to Administrator

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1934 Deb 8.   Hist to Mrs. W. H.
Odell (Ree ltr in claim of
John McClellan, B LWT 1420 -300.) MLH









(over)

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1232
Jacob Colvin
Susp
Sept28/10


(Black Ink Stamp)                                                                                                       (Black Ink Stamp)
McArthur O                                                                                                                     J. E. Heath
AUG 18                                                                                                                              Comr of Pensions
                                                                                                                                             Washington City
                                                                                                                                                                            D. C.



Add Eoi
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McArthur Vinton Co. O             May 22, 1842

J. E. Heath Esq.

Dear Sir

We herewith enclose the

affidavit of John Cummins in support of the claim

of Jacob Colvin for Bounty Land


The affidavit of Cummins is ? more

pointed & positive than any former an which

we have been able to obtain and feeling &

knowing that the applicant Colvin is one

of the most deserving of applicants we hope

the evidence in support of his claim amy

when reviewed be considered sufficent to entitled

him to Bounty Land.


Mr Colvin is now very old needy & disabled

in the defence of his country.

                             Yours truly


                             Hewitt & Brown

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Affidavit of 

John Cummins 

In suppor of the

Claim of Jacob Colvin

for Bounty Land



Hewitt & Brown

McArthur

Vinto Co. O

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John Cummings of the County of Vinton and

State of Ohio aged seventy one years being first

duly sworn deposes and says that he is and for

about sixty years has been personally and well

acquainted with Jacob Colvin of the said County

of Vinton and State of Ohio.  That he the said John

Cummings at the time of the Indian War in 1793

& 94 was about 13 & 14 years of age at that time

lived in Washington County in the State of Pennsyl -

vania and the State of Virginia that he at

that time was personally well acquainted with

the said Jacob Colvin and with Captain Samuel

Brady who at the time had commanded a Com -

pany of Indian Spies  That he recollects and of

his own knowledge knows that Jacob Colvin did 

inlist in said Company and was a private

soldier in the Company commanded by the

said Samuel Brady the exact time and year

in which the said Colvin Volunteered he does

not recollect but is of that it was

in the year 1793 or 1794.  He is unable to state

the exact length of time for which the said Jacob

Colvin enlisted but he has always understood and

heknows that the said Jacob Colvin did actually

serve in said Company until he was wounded
believed he enlisted or volunteered for one year and

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ley the Indians which he thinks was some two

or three months after his enlistment  He further

states that he well recollects of seeing the said

Jacob Colvin and of Examining his wounds 

before the same war healed and before the

said Colvin had so far recovered  as to be able

to perform military service.  That said wounds

so received by the said Jacob Colvin were of such

a character as to disable the said Colvin from

labor for sime time or for years and such as

has produced a permament injury to his health

and bodily strength  The said Cummings further

states that he was acquaitned with nealry if not all

the persons who acted as spies in said Company

with the said Jacob Colvin and that he is knowing

to the Death of Captain Brady and of the most

of the soldiers of said Company and that he is 

of opinion & Believes that Jacob Colving aforesaid

is the only and now living who belonged to the

said Company.


He further states that he is entirely disintersted 

in the application of the said Jacob COlvin for 

County Land
                                            John Cummins


The State of Ohio
                                    SS
VInton County

I B P Hewitt Judge of the

Court of Probate &

for said County (being a Court of Record) do

hereby certify that the foregoing deposition of John

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Cummins was this day sworn to and subscribed

before me and that I am personally and well 

acquainted with the said John Cummings who

is a person entitled to full credit


In testimony whereof I have hereunto set

my hand and affixed my seal of

office at McArthur this May 22 1852

                                B. P. Hewitt Judg of

                                the COurnt of Probate  V. Co.

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McArthur        Aug 16/51


J. E. Heath Exqr


Dear Sir:

Herewith or send you

some testimony in support of Jacob Colvin claim

for Bounty Land, in support of Jacob Colvin claim

for Bounty Land, we do not regard the testimony

as of much ? yet it is the best he can produce

and all we can say is that we think him

deserving & needy & if the citizen of VintonCo

could by Petition in his favor avail any thing

they would unanumously sign his Petition

                             Respectfully Yours,


                              Hewitt & Brown

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Testimony in the 

Case of Jacob Colvins

Application of for County 

Land

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The State of Ohio                        On this sixteenth day of August

Vinton County SS                        A. D. 1851 personally appeared before

me B. P. Hewitt a Notary Public within and for said

County Daniel Swangen and Elijah Snodan

of the County of Vinton two credible witness who 

being duly sworn according to lw say that they

have formerly lived in Brook County in the State

of Virginia near to where Jacob Colvin claims to have

served as a spy in the Indian War that they are

personally and well acquainted with the said Jacob

Colvin of VInton County Ohio who has mae applica -

tion  for bounty land an account ofhis service

as a spy in Capt Bradys Company Indian War

and that they have no doubt that the said

Jacob Colvin performed the service by his claimed

in his declaration that they were not with the said

Jacob Colvin in the service aforesaid and do not

of their own personal knowledge know of his having

performed said service.  Yet they reccollect of hearing it 

frequently spoken of and talked about among the

citizens of Virginia where the said Colvin then lived

and they recollect perfect will of hearing of his

being wounded and the said Swanigan reclects

of hearing his Grandfather tell about ? the

wounds of the said Colvin that he received in said

service.  And from Gerhal report and talk amoung

the old citizens of Virginia whom they suppose to be (now)

deceased they hav eno doubt but that the said Jacon

Colvin is justly entitled to Bounty Land, nut from

what they know of the matter they are of opinion that it

is impossible for him to prove positively his service.

                                                Elizah Snodan

                                               Daniel Swangen


Sworn to and subscribed before me ? P

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Hewitt a Notary Public as aforesaid


In testimony whereof I hereunto set my

hand & seal of Office at McArthur

the day and year.

                 B. P. Hewitt     Notary Public
                                              V. Co.

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The State of Ohio                          On thsi 2d day of Novem
                                     SS
Vinton County                                 ber A. D. 1850

appeared before me Benj. P. Hewitt a Notary Publci

within and for the County and State who being duly

sworn according to law says that he has been person -

ably and well acquaited with Jacob Colvin a

resident of said County & State hfor more than twenty

years and that he has carefully examined the

declaration of the said Jacob Colvin for the benefit

of the Act of Congress passed Sept 28th 1850 dated

Oct 28th A. D. 1850 and he feels free to say that from

his long acquaintance with the said Jacob Colvin

and from having examined the scars of his wounds

and all the circumstances connected iwth the

case, he has not doubt but that the several mat -

ters set forth in his said Jacob Colvin declaration 

are strictly true, and he has no doubt but that

the said Jacob Colvin is justly entitled to the

benefits of the act granting bouny land & C passed

at the time aforesaid, and that he did perform the

military service which he claims to have performed 

& received his wounds & was disabled in said 

service.                             J. K. Will


The State of Ohio Vinton County SS

I Benjamin P Hewit Notary Public within and

for the County and state aforesaid do hereby

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certify that the foregoing affidavit of the Honl

J. K. WIll late member of the Ohio Legislature

was sworn to and subscribed before me and

I do further certify that the said J. K. Will is

entitled to full credit as a witness and a 

man of undoubtled integrity


Given und my hand & seal of 

office this 2d day of November

A. D. 1850

                                   Benj P Hewitt

                                   Notary Public




3979

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The State of Ohio            On this 4th day of November

Vinto County SS               A. D. 1850 personally appeared

before me the undersigned.  David Richmond of said

County and state who being duly sworn according

to law says that he has been acquainted with Jacob

Colvin who is applying to the Government for bounty

land for near thirty years.  That he has carefully

Examined the Declaration of the said Jacob COlvin

for the benefity of the Act of Congress passed Sep 28

1850   And from his personal acquaintance with the

mand and form having examined the seals of

his wounds he has not the least doubt of the

truth of his statements in his said declaration

or of his being justly entitled to the benefits

of said act              David Richmond



The State of Ohio

Vinton County SS:      I Benj P Hewitt Notary Public

within and for said County do hereby certify

that the foregoing affidavit was sworn to and

subscribed before me an the day and year first

above written and that the said David Richm -

nd is a man entitled to free credit as a 

witness


Given under my hand and seal of 

office at McArthur town Novr 4th 1850

                                   Benj P Hewitt

                                   Notary Public