Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 23,087, Jacob Zumbro, Penn.

SERVICE
Penn.
Zumbro, Jacob
NUMBER
S.23087
CONTENTS

25,845
Pennsylvania
Jacob Yumbr
of Ohio - (e in the State of - ) who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Frank - of the Infantry commanded by Col Ball in the Pennsylvania for Wiltshire -
900 1 1/2 3 1/2 100
Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania at the rate of 20 Dollars & 50 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.
Certificate of Pension issued the 15th day of July 1834 to Jacob Yumbr and Sarah 1834 to Jacob Yumbr and Sarah
Arrears to the 4th of March 1833 75.00 Semi-annual allowance ending March 34 15.00 $ 90.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, } Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by John H. ... Clerk, Book 8 Vol. 5 Page 69

Declaration of Jacob Gumbro in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7, 1832.
State of Pennsylvania } ss. Chester County } s.
On this tenth day of December Anno domini one thousand eight hundred and thirty three personally appeared in open court before the court of Common Pleas of the said county of Chester now sitting Jacob Gumbro a resident of the township of East Nantmeal in the county and state aforesaid aged about nearly seventy four 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 passed June 7, 1832.
He entered the service of the United States as a militiaman in the year seventeen hundred and seventy six when he was between the ages of sixteen & seventeen. He was enrolled in the beginning of March of that year, and marched from Quincey township Montgomery County & state aforesaid where the said applicant then lived, with his company under the command of Captain Martin of Philadelphia Wenk. His first lieutenant's name was Peacock Major, and his second lieutenant's John Frenxent. At Philadelphia he joined the regiment commanded by Col: Bull whose adjutant's name was All or Aul. The names of the other field officers the applicant, owing to lapse of time and failure of memory cannot now recollect. From Philadelphia the applicant marched with his company & Regiment first to Trenton and then through New Jersey to Amboy in the neighborhood of which place they remained till he was discharged. While at Amboy the applicant was several times exposed to danger under heavy cannonading but was not during this time of duty engaged in any regular battle. After having been in the service three months and a few days he was regularly discharged, and returned home in the month of November the same year.

In the year 1777, in the month of September the applicant again entered the service of the United States at Iredale's Ford in Montgomery County aforesaid. His company was commanded by Captain Lowrie, his lieutenant's name was Henry Shipe - and his field officers were Col. Beattie and Major Edwards. Gen. Morgan according to the best of his recollection commanded the brigade. From thence he marched with his company & regiment to the Gap where he joined Gen. Washington's army, with which he continued in its various movements thru Pennsylvania, Ohio and Kentucky counties till he was dismissed at White Marsh in the latter part of November of the year last aforesaid. During this tour the applicant was engaged at Germantown with the army and shared all the dangers of the field with the regular troops. This tour continued two months.
In the year 1778, in the month of October the applicant again entered the service of the United States at Norristown in Montgomery County aforesaid as a drafted militia man. Captain Johnson and Lieutenants St. Hrouse were his company officers. The company marched to Trenton where it joined Col. Smith's regiment. The other field officer's name the applicant cannot now recollect. He remained at Trenton during the residue of his tour of service and was there dismissed having been in the service two months.
In the year 1780 according to the best of the applicant's recollection, in the month of September he again entered the service of the United States as a drafted militia man at Wertz's tavern in Norriton Township Montgomery County under Captain Lowrie and Lieutenant Davis. Thence he marched to Newtown in Bucks county where the company joined the regiment under Col. McQuay or McQua. The Major's name was Hart. He encamped at Newtown and there remained during the remainder of his tour of service which continued for two months. He was then dismissed & returned home.
The applicant after his return from his second tour of duty entered the service of the United States as a teamster in the capacity of a volunteer and remained in the service one month diligently employed on severe duty all that time. The army lay all this month at the Valley Forge & the applicant was employed in drawing flour and provisions of various kinds from Easton & other places during this

time. The whole time that the applicant was employed in the service of the United States as a drafted militia man was nine months. And he was a volunteer teamster one month as above stated. He served during his several tours as a private only, and entered the army as drafted militia man (except when he served as a teamster) and not as a volunteer or substitute. Owing to failure of memory he cannot now designate the continental regiments or companies with which he served. Of the continental officers he knew Major Jones, Col: Peldon, Major Carbow or Carbrough, and Col: Porter. The applicant has no documentary evidence of his services & never received a military discharge.
The applicant was born in Worcester Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania on the 5 th of February 1760. - He has a record of his age at his house in East Stantmeal aforesaid.
The applicant was living when first called into service in Guinnett Township aforesaid. When called into service the second & third time, above specified he lived in Worcester Township in Montgomery County aforesaid, and when called the fourth time in Lower Providence in the same county. The name of the county was then Philadelphia, but Montgomery has since been established & taken from old Philadelphia County. The applicant continued to live in Montgomery County till the year 1819, when he removed to East Stantmeal in Chester County where he lived twenty years. He then removed to Robeson in Berks County where he lived till last spring. He then removed to East Stantmeal in Chester County where he now resides. The answer to the fourth & fifth interrogatories are found above. The Rev: Alexander McGowan, Col: Isaac Egle, James Cookhart, Hon: David Potts, members of congress John Temple and others can testify as to applicant's character for veracity and their beliefs of his services as a soldier of the revolution.
He hereby relinquishes every claim 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.
Sworn & subscribed the day & year aforesaid in open court Jacob Zimble John Temple

29. 097.
Declaration of Sacco Vanzetti in order to obtain the benefits of the act of Congress of June 7. S.D. 1932
Adm. G. Marotta
Joseph J. Lewis Westchester Pa

Chester County ss
We Alexander M c Gowan a clergyman residing in the township of West Nantmeal in said county and Evan Evans residing in East Nantmeal in said county hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Jacob Gumbro who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing declaration that we believe him to be seventy four years of age: that he is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion.
Alex d M c Gowan
Evan Evans
Affirmed & subscribed
In open court Dec 10. 1833
John H. Cunningham Pro t
And the said court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states. And the said court further certifies that it appears to them that Alexander M c Gowan who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman resident in West Nantmeal in said county, and that Evan Evans Esquire who has also signed the same is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit.
By the Court
John H. Cunningham Pro t
I, John H. Cunningham Prothonotary of the court of Common Pleas of Chester County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Jacob Gumbro for a pension. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this Tenth day of December Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and thirty three.
John H. Cunningham, Pro t

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
SECOND COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE,
Sept. 16, 1853.
Sir:
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An Act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," and the third section of the Act of August 23, 1842, extending the time within which pensioners may receive their pensions from the pension agents,
the only child of Jacob Zumbo, dec. a Pensioner on the Roll of the Philadelphia Agency, at the rate of Thirty Dollars and 50 per annum, under the law of the 7 th June 1832 has been paid at this Department, from the 1 st of March 1843 to the 9 th August 1843,
Respectfully, yours,
J. M. Broome Comptroller.
25845 32
To the COMMISSIONER OF PENSIONS,
Present.

July 31, 1936
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BA-J/REL
Nicholas Harmony-W.19728
Jacob Zumbro-S.23087
Mr. Albert E. Felt 323 South Blaine Street Wellington, Kansas
Dear Sir:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request information in regard to soldiers with the surnames Harmony and Zumbro, of Pennsylvania, who served in the Revolutionary War.
Revolutionary War data furnished by the Veterans Administration are obtained from claims for pension and bounty land which have been made to the United States based upon service in that war.
A search of the Revolutionary War records has been made and the record found of only one soldier with surname Harmony and one with surname Zumbro. Their records are given herein as found in the claims for pension based upon service in that war. It is suggested that The Adjutant General, War Department, this city, might have military records of others not found on the pension records of this office.
Nicholas Harmony W.19728
Nicholas Harmony was born September 13, 1758. The place of his birth and the names of his parents are not shown.
Nicholas Harmony enlisted at Germantown, Pennsylvania, in May, 1777, served as a private in Captain John Marshall's Company, Colonel W. Stewart's Pennsylvania Regiment, was in the battles of Brandywine and Germantown, after which he was taken sick and sent to a hospital and did not rejoin his regiment until spring at Valley Forge; in 1778 or 1779, he was taken prisoner about six miles from Philadelphia, name of place not stated, and carried to Long Island, remained there for some time, was paroled and returned home.
He was allowed pension on his application executed April 1, 1818, while residing in New York City. He was pensioned for service of two years.

Nicholas Harmony died November 4, 1830, in New York City.
The soldier married September 26, 1785, at Greenwich, Connecticut, Miss Anna or Ann Sutton. She was born January 27, 1764. The names of her parents are not shown.
Soldier's widow, Ann, was allowed pension on her application executed November 5, 1838, while a resident of New York City.
The names of the following children are shown:
John Harmony. . . . . born August 30, 1786. Benjamin Harmony. . . . . " January 19, 1788. Daniel Harmony. . . . . " February 7, 1791. Naamah Harmony . . . . . " October 10, 1793. Nancy Harmony . . . . . " March 19, 1795. Ann Harmony. . . . . " August 17, 1797, married January 22, 1818, James McCullough. Daniel Harmony . . . . . " June 19, 1800. Martha Harmony . . . . . " August 25, 1805.
In 1838, Daniel Rhoads, a resident of New York City, stated that he was a son-in-law of the soldier, Nicholas Harmony, but did not give the name of his wife. In 1848, Catharine Rhoads was a witness to the signature of Ann Harmony in New York City. Her relationship to Daniel Rhoads and to Ann Harmony was not stated.
In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, the name and address of person paid and possibly the date of death of the Revolutionary War pensioner, Ann Harmony, widow of Nicholas Harmony(W.19728), you should address The Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, this city, and cite the following data:
Ann Harmony, widow of Nicholas Harmony, Certificate No.3061, issued January 18, 1849, rate $80 per annum, commenced March 4, 1848, Act of February 2, 1848, New York City Agency.
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Jacob Zumbro 823087
Jacob Zumbro was born February 15, 1760, in Worcester Township,

Philadelphia(that part which was later Montgomery)County, Pennsylvania. The names of his parents are not shown.
While residing in Gwynedd Township, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, Jacob Zumbro enlisted and served with the Pennsylvania Troops, as follows: from early in March, 1776, three months as a private in Captain Martin Swenk's Company, Colonel Bull's Regiment; from September, 1777, two months in Captain Lowrie's Company, Colonel Currie's Regiment and was in the battle of Granntown; he then volunteered as teamster and was engaged for one month hauling provisions for the army from Easton to Valley Forge; dates of this service and names of officers not given; from October, 1778, two months as a private in Captain Johnson's Company, Colonel Smith's Regiment; and from September, 1780, two months in Captain Lowrie's Company, Colonel McIntire's Regiment.
Could not identify any of this service
During the war he lived at different times in Worcester Township, at Norristown and at Lower Providence, all in Philadelphia (later Montgomery) County, Pennsylvania. After the war, he resided in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, until 1809, then moved to East Nantmeal Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, and lived for twenty years; thence to Robeson, Berks County, Pennsylvania, where he lived until the spring of 1833, when he returned to East Nantmeal Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania.
He was allowed pension on his application executed December 10, 1833, while residing at East Nantmeal Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania.
The soldier died August 9, 1843, place not shown. He was survived by one child, the name not given, nor was the name of soldier's wife shown.
*****
Very truly yours
A. D. HILL R Executive Assistant to the Administrator.

Revolution
23087 INVALID.
File No. 23,087
Jacob Zumbro His Rev. and
Act: June 7 th 1897
Index:—Vol. 9 , Page 500
[Arrangement of 1870.]
1936-July 31-Visit to Albert G Felt. Letter in case of Nicholas Hambley N. 19728-8h

Pennsylvania. 13. Dec. 1883
Miss Maria Call Seashore at War Washington.
TIME
Dec 13 1883

West Chester Pa: Dec 10. 1833. —
Hon: Lewis Cass
Sir
I inclose the declaration of Jacob Gumbro a revolutionary soldier & applicant for the benefits of the act of 1832. —
Such the application be successful please send the pension certificate under cover to me, and in case any deficiency should be discovered in the declaration I would thank you to communicate with me on the subject. —
very respectfully
yours &c
Joseph Lewis
Gen: Lewis Cass Sec: of War.