Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W 2092, Jacob Frederick, Penn.

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(3-1776)

Service
Penn.

Frederick, Jacob
                Mary

Number
W2092

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409
Pennsylvania, Pittsburg
Mary Frederick
widow of Jacob Frederick
who served in the Revolutionary
war, as a private
Pennsylvania Mil
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
50 dollars 00
cents per annum, to commence on the 
4th day of March, 1848 [Crossed out]
3 February 1853
Certificate of Pension issued the 
17th day of May 1853
and sent to 
J. Henderson
Washington PA

Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act
July 29, 1848, Page 104 Vol A
1832

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[column one]
Letter to G. T. Lesis with
Voucher returned Nov 7 '49
Let to I. [?] Henderson 7 May 1851

[column two]
No. 11,822 [difficult to read]
Pittsburgh
Jacob Frederick
of Washington Co. in the State of Penn.
who was a private in the company commanded
by Captain Hill of the Regt. commanded
by Col. Creok in the Pen. Mil.
time for 15 months

Inscribed on the Roll of Pittsburgh
at the rate of 50 Dollars -- cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.

Certificate of Pension issued the 28 day of June
1833 and sent to Hon. T. M. T. 
W Kennan Washington PA

Arrears to the 4th of March 1833                   100.00
Semi-ant [?] allowance ending 4 Sep 1833       25.00
                                                                     ========
                                                                       $125.00

{Revolutionary Claim,}
Act Jun 7, 1832.

Recorded by W. L. Williams Clerk
Book E Vol 5 Page 82 [crossed out] 76

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March 2nd 1809  Jacob Frederick and Mary Bessise
were joined in marriage in the presence of twelve lawful
witnesses.                       Zeph. Beall     

Washington County PA
 [written seal] I hereby certify that the above is a true transcript of
the a ^bove marriage on the marriage docket of Zephaniah Beall [?]
Esqr given under my hand and seal this 2nd day of February 1853.
N. G. Beall J. P.

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No. 492
Application of Mary
Frederick widow of Jacob
Frederick for a pension
PA
Act 3 Feb 1833
$50 per annum,
Co..g [can't decipher] 3 Feb 1833

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State of Pennsylvania on this Eighth day of 
County of Washington March 1853 personnally appeared one John Freeman apr cinto judges of the Court  of Common pleas in and for Said County, bring a  court of records. Meary Fredericks a resident of Somerset township in the County aforesaid Aged Twenty one years, who being duly sworn, according to law, on her oath makes the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions of the Act of Congress passed 3rd day of February 1853; that she is the widow of Jacob Frederick, who was a Soldier in the Army of the Revolutionary War, and to whom a pension of fifty Dollars per annum was granted by the Government of the United States, his place of residence was Washington County aforesaid and his pension was paid at the pension agency it the City of Pettsburgh in Said State. All of which will appear by the records of the pension office at the City of Washington.
She further declares that She was married to the said Jacob Frederick on the 2nd day of March 1809 by Zepheniah Beall, Esq, a justice of the peace in the said County, as appears by the certificate and copy here to annexed, taken from the records of the said Justice by Neal G. Beall, Son and Successor in the said office of the Said Zepheniah Beall who is now deceased that her Said husband, the aforesaid Jacob Frederick died on the Seventeenth day of September 1834 that she was married to him at the time above stated. She further States that she was a widow at the passage of this act, and is still a widow, and that she has never before made application for a pension, except a State pension which is drawn from Pennsylvania
Sworn and subscribed on this day and

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year above written before me, and I do certify that this applicant cannot from bodily infirmity attend the Court
John  Freeman, Associate Judge Mary Frederick
mark
State of Pennsylvania, County of Washington
I hereby certify that John Freeman, Esq before whom the forgoing declaration was made and who has hereunto subscribed his name, was at this time of so doing an Associate Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for Said County duly commissioned and serves, and that the said Court of Common pleas is a court of record having general annexed certificate for a justice of the Peace and Successor to Zeffeniah Beall died jurisdiction. I further certify that N. G. Beall whose name is attached to the [arrow up] 
In Testimony whereof I have herewith set my had and affixed the Seal of my Office as Prothonotary of the Said Court of Said County this Eighth Day of March 1850
James Brown Prothonotary
State of Pennsylvania Washington County Before me John Freeman associate Judge in and for Said County comes Israel Jennings who is well known to me and having sworn as the law directs, says he was well acquainted with Jacob Frederick the late husband of the aforesaid  Mary Frederick, that he died on the seventeenth day of September 1834
Israel Jennings
Sworn to before me the eighth day of March 1853. John Freeman
Associate Judge

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Declaration of Jacob Frederick
[the following words were scribbled out ]
admitteds?
14 Mon December $45.20

Admin per W.E. 
15 mos
$50.00

Hon T. M. T McKernnan
Washington Penns

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I do certify that George Hipple Esq before whom the written affidavit is made is a Justice of the peace in & for the [illegible] city of Washington Penn.

Th. M. T. McKennan
June 17th 1833

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Pennsylvania
Washington County SS

On this 26th day of March 1833, personally appeared in Open Court, before the Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, Jacob Frederick--a resident of Somerset township in the County of Washington, Pennsylvania, aged about 67 years, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress penned June 7, 1837.
That he entered the service of the United States, under the following named officers, & served as herein stated----
In the fall of the year 1776, I was drafted under Capt Atkinson Hill, & Lieutenant Thomas Hill, & marched under Colonel Crooks from this County to a place on Big Whitely Creek, now in Greene Co. Pa. We were stationed here as spies and rangers, to check & prevent the incursion & depredation of the savages. We remained here three months, & returned home about Christmas time, in the same year. In the month of March in the year 1777, I was again drafted under Major Creenraft, & marched with a number of others, from Wheeling Va on to Chillicothe, now in Ohio, & we employed in watching & guarding adjacent the Indians. We were so employed the whole of our tour, & returned home after serving the full time of three months for which I was drafted. In the fall of the year 1778, I think, I was drafted under Capt Crom & marched from the County with a number of others to Pittsburg where we joined the Army under Gen'l Mackintosh. From this place we proceeded down to the mouth of the Big Beaver, & were employed in building the fort, known by the name of Fort Mackintosh. After being here some time, we then proceeded to the Tennessee river & were engaged in building Fort Lawrence. After a most laborious fatiguing & distressing tour of service, in which a vast number of the men were almost starved & almost naked in the winter cold, we returned home about the first of March in the year 1779. In this second tour we were so reduced for want of regular food, that I was compelled to eat some tallow which I had procured to grease my moccasins. I was out this tour for the full term of six months. In the month of August in the year 1779 I was again drafted for the term of three months under Capt Zekiel Rose, & marched to Mings bottom where we met

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the Army in Col. Crawford. We remained here some time + then proceeded on to the Sandusky plains. After being here some time we were engaged in the memorable battle at that place + were defeated. In this action I was wounded by a ball in the right leg, which to this day is sometimes sore and painful. I returned home about the tenth of October in this year, some few days before my term of three months expire. In the forgoing statement, I have been emphatic where as my failed memory & extreme old age will permit. The only thing of which I am doubtful is with regard to the dates + particular time of my service, - these I have stated with as much accuracy as I possibly can. [illegible] the actual service I have not the least doubt or hesitation, and I feel quite safe in swearing that I served the full term of fifteen months. I was born about the year 1751 in Germantown, Pennsylvania. I have no record of my age, but I state it according + the best of my recollection. When I entered the service I live in what is now Washington County, Pa. & have lived here ever since the revolution. I was drafted. I am not able to state the name of any more Officers than what I have already stated. I recieved a written discharge from Gen[era]l Mackintosh, which has been lost, many years since. I am well known by John Mitchell, George Hipple, Esq., Seshbr Bentley, Esq., + Benjamin Kinny who can testify to my character for veracity + who believe that I was a soldier of the revolution. I know of no witness whom I can produce to prove my service, nor have I any documentary testimony to that point. I do hereby relinquish any claim whatsoever to a pension or annuity, except the present & declare that my name is not on the Pension roll of the Agency of any state. I am not acquainted with any Clergymen in my recents, + cannot procure any to vouch for me.

Jacob Frederick 
X
his mark.

Sworn + Subscribed the
Day & Year (illegible)
Thomas Officer Prot

We John Mitchell of Somerset + Benjamin Kinny of east Bethlehem Township do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Jacob Frederick of Somerset Township. W.C. who here subscribed + sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be about eighty two years of age; that he is repute + believe in the

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neighborhood where he resides & have been a soldier of the Revolution & that we concur in that opinion
Sworn & subscribed this day & year aforesaid & affirmed
Thomas Officer Pro
John Mitchell
Benjamin Kinney

In the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after this investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogations prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appeared to them, that John Mitchell & Benjamin Kinney, who have signed the proceeding certificate are residents of Somerset & East Bethlehem townships Washington County Pa., that they are credible persons, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
I Thimas Officer Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of said County, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings, of the said Court, in the matter of the application of Jacob Frederick for a pension
In testimony which I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office this 26th day of March 1833..
Thomas Office Pro.

Washington County SS
Before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said County personally came Jacob Frederick a Resident of Somerset Township Washington County Pa who being first duly sworn according to law Deposeth and saith that he is the Identical Jacob Frederick Mentioned in the above declaration and that after a Mature Consideration in the foregoing statement he found he was Mistaken as to the Drafts Referred to in the letter from Mr. J L Edwards to the Hon. T M T McKennan, and that he now Well Recollects that Each of those drafts were only for the Term of two months. But says that he is Positive that he served in Each of those tours above Mentioned the terms of three months before he Returned home, this deponent further saith that at the time of making the foregoing Statement he was in Very Delicate state of health and that it was done at a late hour in the night and that his reflection of the Matter at this time is much better
sworn & subscribed the 14th day of June A. D. 1833 
Jacob Frederich
X
his mark
Geo. Hipple

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WIDOW, &c.
FILE NO. 2002
Mary Frederick
Widow
Jacob Frederick
Pen-Rev-War
ACT: July 29, 1848.
INDEX: -- VOL. A., PAGE 252
[ARRANGEMENT OF 1870.]

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Pittsburgh Roll, Oct. 7, June 1832,
Jacob Frederick, [illegible], $50 per aunum,
To what twice last paid? pd. to 4th Sept. 1834. [initials]

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T. M. T. McKennan
Washington, Penn.

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War Department
Pension Office
May 10, 1803

Sir, 

The papers in the case of Jacob Frederick have been examined and are herewith enclosed to you.

He alleges that at two periods he was drafted to serve three months in the militia. There is no evidence that the Pennsylvania Militia were ever drafted to serve so long a time under one engagement. Some satisfactory explanation must be given upon this point. 

I have the honor to be very respectfully your Obedt. Servt. 
J L Edwards

Hon- T. M. T. McKennan
Washington
 Penn. a

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Frederick

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Brief in the case of Mary Frederick, widow of Jacob,
Washington
County and State of Penn.
act 3 Feb 1853

Claim, ("original,")
Proof exhibited, (if original.)
Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance.

Husband was a [illegible] at $50 per annum
Proof of marriage -- Record

(If for increase.)
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what?
[Left blank.]

Name and residence of Agent
Joseph Henderson
Washington, PA.

T. Cole
Examining Clerk.

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Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City

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Washington, Pa.
March 11, 1853.

Dr. Sir,

I send you the appreciation of Mary Frederick, the widow of Jacob Frederick, late soldier in the Revolutionary War to be placed on the pension roll for half pay under the late Act of Congress. The Proof of the Service of the dec[ease]d is filed in the war department.

If the pension is granted, please send the certificate to me.

Yours R,
Joseph Henderson
Attorney for Applicants

To the Commissioner of Pensions

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Please answer or return:

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Papers wanted for Hon R. R. Reed of the House of Reps ___ [illegible] Cole will please send the paper with this letter to 
                                          A.S. Evans








[bottom right]           For Wm Cole

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Washington Penna
Dec. 9, 1850

Dr Sir,

A revolutionary pensioner by the name of Jacob Frederick lately died leaving a widow named Mary Frederick who was married to him in 1808.

I can't find any pension law that would [illegible] her [illegible] and my object in writing to you is to ask you to get for her a copy of the application of the dec[ease]d. If he belonged to the Penn line I can get her a pension from the State by obtaining a copy of the application and [illegible].

The deceased's certificate now before me is dated the 28th June 1833 and is numbered 11,823.

Your attention to this will [illegible]
Yours etc.
Joseph Henderson
Attorney for Mary Frederick

Hon[orable] R. R. Reed

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Detroit Oct 15th 1849

Sir
I had the honour to [illegible] the certificate of
pension of Jacob Frederick + his widow declaration + proof for the --- of obtaining the amount due her husband up to the day of his death and of obtaining for her a pension during the remainder of the her life.

Is she not entitled to Lands if so pleas send me complete [underlined] form of proof to obtain the same.

Very respectfully,
G. T. Lewis

To Hon. J. L. Edwards
Commr of Pensions
Washington, DC

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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
Division of Veterans' Administration Archives
Form VAM-51
12-5-41
BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Frederick, John
GRADE Private
LINE New York
WARRANT NUMBER 7126
ACREAGE 100
|SSUED Sept 3, 1790
to -- not shown
*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 9, 1800.
Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.