Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 14973, for Lemuel Jacobs, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass
Jacobs, Lemuel Sarah
11.14973
CONTENTS

Rept
1883 Mary Washington widow of George Washington who served in the Revolutionary war, as a Private
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of Dollars 33. Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.
Certificate of Pension issued the 8. day of Sept. 1845. and sent to
Elizabeth Turner Fortune Valley
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 2, 1848, Page 75 Vol. 2.

10.238.
Massachusetts
Samuel Jacobs
of Plymouth in the State of Mass who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain _____ of the reg t commanded by Col. R. B. D. the _____ time for _____ 3 days
73 Plymouth
Inscribed on the Roll of _____ at the rate of 20 Dollars 33 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 25 th day of March 1833 and sent to _____
Arrears to the 4th of _____ 1833 $40.66 Semi-annual allowance ending Sept " 10.16
$50.82
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by _____ Clerk, Book _____ Vol. _____ Page 38,

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston November 1 st 1844
I hereby Certify, That at the date of the annexed Attestation Samuel A. Turner was a Justice of the Peace for the County of Plymouth,
in the said Commonwealth, duly constituted and commissioned; and that to his acts and attestations, as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given, in and out of Court.
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
John G. Palfrey; Secretary of the Commonwealth.

Sarah Baileys deposition

I Sarah Bailey of Hanover in the County of Plymouth and State of Mass'ts, aged about seventy nine years, testify, that Sarah Jacobs who is about making application for a pension, was the first, and only wife of my Brother Samuel Jacobs, late a pensioner, and is now his widow, and that they were married at the time stated in her declaration, I was at their wedding.
Sarah Bailey
Com'te. of Mass'ts Plymouth County } September 7 th 1844
Then the above named Sarah Bailey made oath to the truth of the above statement by her subscribed, and I further certify that I have known her forty five years, and that she is a credible witness. Sam d A. Turner Lieut t & Pean

I William James of Scituate in the County of Plym- outh & Commonwealth of Massachusetts, being fifty-five years of age do depose and say. That Lemuel Jacobs, late of Scituate, aforesaid, a Revolutionary Pensioner, is dead and that he deceased as your deponent believes on or about the eighth day of March last - and that he married Sarah Randall, aunt to your deponent who was the only wife he ever had and is now living his widow William James
Scituate of Massachusetts
Plymouth County
September 9 th 1844
Then personally appeared William James and made oath to the truth of the above statement by him subscribed. & I further certify that he is a credible witness. Saml. H. Furness Dist. Clk. P. Rock

This may certify, that it doth appear on the publick Records of the Town of Scituate, (Book 4. folio 183.) that "Lemuel Jacob, Son of John Jacob and Hannah his wife, was born June 10 th A. 1761."
Ebenezer Bailey Town Clerk Scituate (Mass.) Augt. 11 th 1882. of Scituate

Lemuel Jacobs Map
March 6 Mo 93 days Ath
$20.33.
B033.
J. H. Lord Plymouth Mass

BRIEF in the case of  Samuel Jacobs  Co. of Plymouth  in the State of  Mass  (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Open Court  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  3. How old is he? 71  4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed. 
   Period. Duration of Service. Rank. Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.   Years, Months, Days.     Same In 17 th regt infnty 6 3 private Gen. Howe - Col Robertson  
 5. In what battles was he engaged? none mentioned  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Simsbury Mass  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? traditional one living witness  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? 
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
George Taylor
Examining Clerk.

Lemuel Jacobs 13032 Statement.

State of Massachusetts County of Plymouth ss.
On this twenty second day of August A. D. 1832 personally appeared in open Court before the Hon ble Wilkes Wood, Judge of the Court of Probate for the said County of Plymouth and State of Massachusetts now sitting at Hanover in said County Samuel Jacobs a Resident of Scituate in the said County of Plymouth, aged seventy one 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 th A. D. 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated, to wit:
That in the summer of the year 1777, he thinks in June he entered said service as a private in the Company commanded by Peter Stowes, one of the other Officers, he believes was Calvin Curtis, the other not not recollected. He passed muster before Captain Hatch of Pembroke Muster Master. He marched from Scituate, through Hanover, Pembroke Bridgewater, Norton, Rehoboth, Providence, Greenwich to South Kingston, from there he was ordered to North Kingston, and there stationed nearly four months, then marched to Plade's Ferry, where he continued to the end of his term, which was six months and three days as will appear by the certificate of the Secretary of the State of Massachusetts hereto annexed, he was then discharged and returned home. His Company was attached to Col. Robertson's Regiment, Lieut. Col l Jacobs, Quartermaster Johnson as he thinks and Commissary Manchester. His duty to keep guard, no enemy appeared in his term. He does not remember receiving a written discharge, nor has he any documentary evidence of his service other than the said Certificate hereto annexed. James Lincoln who served with him can prove this service; his affidavit is annexed. He considers this service as having been in the Continental line.
He was born in Scituate aforesaid the 10 th day of June A. D. 1761. His birth is recorded in the town Records of Scituate. He lived in said Scituate when he entered said service and has always lived there. He volunteered or enlisted into said service, was not drafted nor a substitute. He has named all the officers under whom he served that he now remembers, also all the important circumstances of his service.
He is known in his present neighbourhood to Samuel Deane, Samuel A. Turner and others who can testify as to his character for veracity and their belief 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.
Samuel Jacobs
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
Attest Nicol H. Dorr Register

We Samuel Deane a clergyman, residing in the town of Scituate in the County of Plymouth and State of Massachusetts, and Samuel A. Turner residing in the same town hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Lemuel Jacobs who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be seventy one 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.
Samuel Deane Samuel A. Turner
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
Attest Jacob H. Lord Register
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 Court further certifies, that it appears to them that Samuel Deane who has signed the preceding certificate, is a clergyman, resident in the said town of Scituate and that Samuel A. Turner who has also signed the same is a resident in the same town and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit.
By the Court Attest Jacob H. Lord Register
I Jacob H. Lord Register of the Court of Probate for said County of Plymouth do hereby certify, that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Lemuel Jacobs for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of said Court this twenty second day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & thirty two.
Jacob H. Lord

I James Lincoln of Scituate in the County of Plymouth and state of Massachusetts, eighty years of age, and for many years a United States Pensioner on oath do testify and say that in the year 1777 Lemuel Jacobs of said Scituate served with me in the same Company one Campaign of six months at Rhode Island in the war of the American Revolution and further saith not.
James Lincoln
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Plymouth ss. August 16. 1832 Then the above named James Lincoln made oath that the above affidavit by him subscribed is true.
before me Ebenezer J. Fogg - Justiciary
I further certify that I have been personally acquainted with the above named James Lincoln a number of years and that he is a credible person.
Attest Ebenezer J. Fogg - Justiciary

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Plymouth ss. I Jacob H. Lord Register of the Court of Probate for the County of Plymouth being a Court of record do hereby certify that Ebenezer S. Dagg is a Justice of the Peace in & for said County and that I believe the within to be his true and genuine signature.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & the seal of said Court this second day of October in the Year of our Lord one thousand eight hun- dred & thirty two.
Jacob H. Lord

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Aug t 8 th 1832.
I hereby Certify, That, from an examination of the Books and Documents, relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution, which remain in this Department, it appears that the name of Lemuel Jacobs is borne on a Roll of "Capt Seth Stowers Company Col. J. Bolinson's Regiment from the Massachusetts Bay 1777." and he is therein stated to have served six months and three days from in 1777.
Edward D Bangs Secy

Town clerks certificate

I Thomas Vinal Town Clerk of Scituate in the County of Plymouth and State of Massachusetts depose and say that the following is a true extract from the records of the said Town of Scituate.
20 Lemuel Jacobs and Sarah Randall both of Scituate were Married in Scituate March the thirty first Seventeen hundred and eighty five by the Rev. David Barnes."
And I do certify that the above is a true copy of the record with the exception of the date which is expressed on the record in fair legible figures as follows, "March 31 st 1785."
Attest Thomas Vinal Town Clerk
I Thomas Vinal above named depose and say that I hold the office of Town Clerk in the Town of Scituate in the County of Plymouth and State of Massachusetts and that the above is a true extract from the records of said Town with the exception above named as certified by me
Thomas Vinal
{ Clerk of the Town Scituate Mass. }
Com. of Mass. to Plymouth County
September 7 th 1844
Then personally appeared Thomas Vinal and made oath to the truth of the above statement by him subscribed
Before me Saml. H. Turner Just. Peace

Sarah Cook Declaration
N o 113248
Act. July. 7 th 38
Map d
Rej d
L. d. Mar. 8 th 44

(Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the seventh of July, eighteen hundred and thirty eight, entitled an act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows. On this thirtieth day of August, eighteen hundred and forty four personally appeared before me Simon Hobart Esquire Judge of Probate for the County of Barnstable a resident of Scituate and aforesaid, aged eighty eight years who being first duly sworn according to law, still on her oath makes the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the act of Congress passed July 7. 1838 entitled an act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows, that she is the widow of Samuel Jacobs who was a soldier in the revolutionary army and served as a private about six and a half months and for evidence of the service aforesaid before him to the papers now on file at the pension office at Washington, by which said Samuel Jacobs was placed upon the pension roll.)
She further declares that she was married to the said Samuel Jacobs, on the thirtieth day of March, A.D. Eight Seventeen Hundred and Eighty five, that her husband the aforesaid Samuel Jacobs died on the eighth day of March eighteen hundred and forty four, that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but that the marriage took place previous to the first of January 1824 viz at the time above stated. The said Sarah makes the aforesaid declaration before the said judge at her residence in Scituate aforesaid, because she is unable by reason of her great age and feeble health, to attend the Probate Court for that purpose.
Attest. Aaron Hobart.
Her Sarah Jacobs
Sworn to & subscribed by the above named Sarah Jacobs Mark on the day & year first above written & I hereby certify that she is unable by reason of bodily infirmity to travel to attend Court
Aaron Hobart J. Probate.

Plymouth Y. I Jacob H. Lord Register of Probate for said County do hereby certify that Hon. Aaron Hobart is Judge of Probate for said County & that the within is his true & genuine signature.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & the Seal of the Court of Probate for said County this eighth day of November 1844
Jacob H. Lord

Rev
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 14.973
Sarah Jacobs
Widow of
Samuel Jacobs
Rev. War
Act: Feb. 2 nd 1848
Index:—Vol. a , Page 342
[Arrangement of 1870.]

2 Mr. [unclear] [unclear] [unclear]
FREE
L. Edward Lyman
Commissioner of Pensions Washington City

19 Massachusetts
Sarah Jacobs widow of Samuel Jacobs who was a Private in the Mass a Line,
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 20 Dollars 33 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th 8 th day of March, 1844.
Certificate of Pension issued the 2 o day of January 1845 and sent to
J. H. Lord, Esq. Plymouth Mass a .
[Act of JUNE 17, 1844.]
Recorded in Book
Vol.
Page
32

Sam'l. A. Jones Fitchburg Mass
New Bedford
J. L. Edwards Esq. Commissioner of Pensions Washington D.C.

Declaration, in order to obtain the benefits of the act of Congress of 2 d February 1848, entitled "an act making further provisions for surviving widows & Soldiers of the Revolution." in behalf of all persons.
(Plymouth County ss) On this 14 th day of August 1848, personally appeared before the subscriber, a justice of the peace, in and for the County aforesaid Sarah Jacobs a resident of Titticut in the County of Plymouth aged ninety two years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed on the 2 d February 1848, granting pensions to widows of persons who served in the revolutionary war. That she is the widow of Samuel Jacobs who was a resident of Titticut aforesaid, and who was a private in the war of the Revolution, and is the identical person who drew a pension under the act of 17 th June 1844, on account of the Revolutionary Service of her late Husband aforesaid at the rate of twenty Dollars and thirty two cents per annum. She further declares she is still a widow. — her.
Sarah Jacobs mark
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written. Before me In presence of Samuel C. Turner Justice of the Peace.
Samuel Jacobs

I certify that the declarant is personally known to me, a widow and a pensioner as she declares. Sam E. D. Turner first of the pen
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
I do hereby certify that the Supreme Judicial Court of the Commonwealth of the State of Massachusetts do hereby certify that Samuel D. Turner known to me is a person of the Peace in the said County of Middlesex and qualified - And that his signature to the foregoing is true and genuine given under my hand seal of said Court the 15th day of August 1848
Samuel D. Turner
Samuel D. Turner

BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims , of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of Sumner Jacobs which require further proof or explanation.
I. Does the declaration show, where the applicant resides? yes II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides? yes III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so? IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served? yes V. * Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled? yes VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations? yes VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832? yes VIII. Has the Court given their opinion? yes IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate? yes X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal? yes

XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age, and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service? yes XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it? XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had? XIV. † If the applicant's name is not found on the rolls of military service, has he produced a witness or witnesses as to his service? If he has produced direct proof as to service, has the magistrate who administered the oath, certified to the credibility of the witness or witnesses? yes Has the proper officer certified to the official character and signature of the magistrate as the regulations direct? yes XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service? yes XVI. ‡ Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct? yes XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered? yes
 EXPLANATORY NOTES.
QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words: "Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades; For _____ year _____ months, and _____ days, I served as a _____ For _____ months and _____ days, I served as a _____; and for such service I claim a pension."

It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state they served two years in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours; the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is highly objectionable. It must in every case be clearly shewn under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority; that he was either in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit.
QUERE XIV. Proof of Service.
In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
QUERE XVI. Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.
In every case where the clerk of the court, or other certifying officer, has no public seal of office, the certificate of a member of congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers.

Probate Office Plymouth Mass. Nov 8. 1844
Sir
I enclose the application of Mrs. Sarah Jacobs for a Pension, with Affidavits & am Yours with respect J. H. Lord Reg. Prob.
J. L. Edwards Esq. Com. of Pensions Washington D.C.

N o . 36 Sarah Jacobs Mass
Act from 17 th 44
Ad d
7 m. 3 d
priv
$20. 33 per an.
to commence March 8 th 44
J. H. Lord Esq y Plymouth Mass.