Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 7875, for Joseph Jacobs, North Carolina

L SERVICE
NUMBER _____
Jacobs, Joseph Lucy
A 7875
CONTENTS

Letter to W. A. Since d. 21. Sept 1831. Same " 31. Oct 1831. Order to pay 31. Oct 1831. Letter to H. Yoakum 23 April 1831.
26532
West Tennessee
Joseph Jacobs
of the  the State of Tennessee  Tennessee who was a private  private in the company  company commanded by Captain Grimes  Grimes of the regiment  regiment commanded by Colonel  Colonel in the NC line for 6 months  months  Infantry  Infantry 3 months  months  Cavalry  Cavalry
Inscribed on the Roll of the  the  State  State  at the rate of  at the rate of 32 Dollars 50 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 6 day of March 1834 and to  to Price the  the
Arrears to the 4th of March 97 50 Semi-ant. allowances ending Sept  Sept 16 25 $113.75
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Sam  Sam  Boyd  Boyd Clerk, Book 6  6 Vol. 7  7 Page 85

3549
Tennessee
Lucy Jacobs, widow of Joseph Jacobs,
NC who died on the 9 th December 1838, of Rutherford Co: in the State of Tennessee who was a Pr and Inf in the Company commanded by Captain Grimes of the Regt. commanded by Col. _____ in the North Carolina line for 9 Months.
Date of her death not in A.R.
Inscribed on the Roll of Nashville at the rate of 32 Dollars 50 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834. 10 th of December 1838.
Certificate of Pension issued the 29 day of April 1841 and sent to H. G. Gorton Murfreesboro, Tenn:
Arrears to the 4th of March 1841 $ 72.39 Semi-annual allowance ending 4 th Sept: 1841 16.25
$ 98.64
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act July 4, 1836, Section the 3 rd . }
Recorded by W.W. Taylor Clerk. Book C Vol. 3 Page 198.

Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed 7 th of June 1832
State of Tennessee } On this 5 th day Beaver county } of February 1834
Personally appeared in open court in the Pleas and Quarter Sessions of Beaver county in the Tennessee before the state Judge J. Williams the word William - Barker
acknowledged and and appointment to hold hold said members of the Joseph Jacobs of Beaver county in the state is eight months and eighty-three days who being first duly sworn according to law first declared  sworn ac- knowledged to the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832. That sometime in the year 1777 1778 1778: as well as he now recollected the year 1777 1778 vice of the United States under the following names of

giers and served as herein sta- ted. That he first went in into Captain Grimes company as a volunteer being drafted in the North Carolina line. with the  was as not recollect the  the  the  the  the name his General was Colonel J. D. that he joined the  the Grimes in the  the  the  the  the North Carolina and from then he marched to the state of  the state of  the state of through the state of  the state of  the state of the state of several counties in pursuit of North Carolina in the the  the  the  the  the the at the end of three man- me Captain Grimes which he him of written discharge gave he has lost it that last was the  the  the  the  the the the  the  the  the  the the the  the  the  the  the and with Captain Colwell that after so General the  the Captain Grimes

-gave him 3 a written dis- charge he went home to Dobson county in Northcarli- nia and continued there sever- al months, but owing to the great lapse of time and the consequent loss of memory the comr't now recollect he certainly knows how long with it. He went into service ag- ain into Captain Read's reg- t as a captain. He was com- manded that the militia being draft- ed that the North Carolina line recollect that he does not know that he has not gone or major that he was captain Read in Dobson county North Carolina and from th- ence marched through Disser- till parts of North Carolina. He was at the expiration of which time the expiration of him a written disch 3 he gave he has lost it that charge his second tour during he

was only acquainted with General Rutherford and Campbell in Read. as he was only out in a scouting party during his second tour. That after he arrived to Rowan County and continued there he volunteered and afterwards and went into Captain Hight's many in the militia line. In the Carolina line. In the north Colonel Rutherford was his That he joined Captain Hight's in Rowan County and continued from thence a northward arrived near Wilmington till he in a battle which place he was in which he killed the British victors. but there were of the Americans killed but were little execution done on the side. The battle aforesaid called the battle of Moore's Creek and soon after at Wilmington remain he returned home and after his arrival at home and Rowan County Captain Hight gave him a written discharge but he has lost it. That his

Third tour was 5 three months that during the three months last aforesaid he was with Captain right Smith and Captain right and right Captain right and General right Bleecker that he has right all right and that he right no right testimony he right  right of right  right  right has right  right  right testimony to right  right is right  right  right right right  right the name of right  right from the right  right circum right  right to right  right not right  right color right  right own right  right He right  right claim right  right on right  right and right  right

is not an of the Pension Rolling the agency of any state or ter- ritory in the United States known to and sub- scribed the day of year aforesaid
Joseph X Jacobs mark
Sworn to in open court 5 th February 1834
J. W. Kiseich clerk

7 Question, 1st Joseph Jacobs 1. Where and in what year were you born.
Answer I was born in the state of Maryland but do not read well in what country in April 1750
2. Have you any record of your age and if so where is it found? I have not, it was put down in some book, but I know not where it is at this time.
3. Where were you living when called into service where have you lived since the revolutionary war and where do you now live service I believe in an county in the state of North Carolina and after the revolutionary war I removed to Madison and there they removed to a county in the state of North Carolina where he now lives

4 How were you called into service where you drafted did you volunteer or were you a substitute and if a substitute for whom.
Answer The first time I was drafted and the second time I was drafted & the third time I volunteered.
5 State the name of some of the Regular officers who were with the troops when you were in service; such could be in the Regular Regiment and the circumstances of your service. Answer I was acquainted with Gen. Patten, Col. [?], and [?]. Read [?] Kenosha [?] Milwaukee [?] all of the [?]

- circumstances of my service are above stated
6. Did you ever receive a dis- charge from the service and if so by whom was it given and what has become of it. know that the expiration of my first tour of ser- vice Captain Grimes gave me a written discharge but I have lost it. at the expiration of second tour Captain Read gave me a written discha- rge but I have lost it. and at the end of my third tour Capt. Riggs gave me a written discharge but I have lost that

7. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood who can testify as to your character for veracity and their belief of your Revolutin a solider. of the - know I am acquainted with - Samuel Jones. Joseph Barnes George Marleton esq. William Martin esq. Doct. William Martin  Rev. Bell Thomas Blair of Greenfield Jacobs. all of whom to his veracity & probity as they believe he was that die of the Revolutin his sol- dier to and subscribed Joseph Hughes mark. the day of year aforesaid Samuel Jones

We Samuel Jones 13: residing in the county of ... in the State of ... Greenberry ... county of ... the State of ... by certifying that we are well acquainted with Joseph ... and that he ... eight to nine ... days ... pales and believes he ... humble ... that opinion ... the day ... said ... high ... mark
and the ... clear ... obligation of the matter ... putting the interrogatories prescribed

14 bears by the War Department that the above-named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier & received a he states that the court further certifies that it appears to them that Sam- uel Jones who has signed the
proceeding certificate is resident in Deaford County Tennessee and that Greenberry Jacobs
who has also signed the same is Samuel Phillips, resident in Rutherford County in the state of Ten- nessee are credible per- sons & that their statement is entitled to credit
J. Gurnee M c Kissick Clerk of the court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions of Deaford County in the state of Tennessee do hereby certify that the foregoing trans the original proceedings on the said court in the matter of the application of Joseph Jacobs for a pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of said court this 8 th day of February 1834
J. M c Kissick Clerk

This is a copy of the 17 16th of February 1834 per- sonally appeared in the open court of pleas and quarter the state of Tennessee county in a present of the John Jacob the state of Tennessee aged fifty-five years who being first duly sworn according to law deposed and said to the year 1780: or 1781: he probably Jacob returned home to saw Joseph in North Carolina to Rowan cou. while but this was not a then was that of Joseph he had then returned home from the service of in the Revolutionary War Deponent has frequently heard of Joseph Jacob since and he did serve in the voluntary was which he considerably strengthen his belief that he first had the at the time he was saw him return home to Rowan county that he did serve as a Revolutionary soldier and from the information he has received from a respectable source he has no doubt but what he said Joseph Jacob was a soldier revolutionary war to the Greenberry's of the Jacob's mark.

No 5339
Luz Jacobs
Pension Claims

State of Tennessee Rutherford County ss.
On this twenty fifth day of March 1841 personally appeared before the Judge of the Circuit Court for said County of Rutherford, in open court, Lucy Jacobs, a resident of Rutherford County and state of Tennessee, aged ninety years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on her oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 4. 1836; That she is the widow of Joseph Jacobs, who was a private of infantry & cavalry in the army of the revolution; As an evidence of which she now offers his pension certificate dated 6th March 1834, and numbered 26532. She further declares that she was married to the said Joseph Jacobs, the identical person named in said pension certificate, on the first day of March in the year seven hundred and seventy one (1771.) That her husband, the aforesaid Joseph Jacobs died on the ninth day of December in the year eighteen hundred and thirty eight (9 Decr. 1838) and that she has remained a widow, ever since that period as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed. She has no record proof of her said marriage, but offers such as is herewith sent. Subscribed & sworn in open court.
This 25th day of March 1841
Lucy Jacobs her mark
Samuel H. George Clerk of Rutherford Circuit Court

State of Tennessee & County, Rutherford County
I Samuel H. Hodge clerk of the Circuit Court of Tennessee, in and for the county of Rutherford aforesaid do certify that the foregoing proceedings were had before our said court at the time and place used in the manner therein stated; and the same is ordered to be certified
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed my seal of office at office in Murfreesboro' this Twenty fifth day of March A.D. 1841
Samuel H. Hodge Clerk of Rutherford Circuit Court
State of Tennessee County,
I Samuel Anderson one of the Judges of the Circuit Courts for Tennessee aforesaid, presiding for the county of Rutherford certify that Samuel H. Hodge who has made the foregoing certificate is and was at the time of making the same clerk of our said court for said county, duly elected and qualified, that said certificate is in due form, & sealed with the seal of our said court. Given under my hand and seal. March 25. 1841
S. Anderson

State of Tennessee,—Rutherford County. ss.
I, ROBERT S. MORRIS, Clerk of the County Court of said County, do hereby certify that
Francis S. Manning who has attested the annexed Deposition of Greenberry Lucas is
and was at the time of attesting the same a Justice of the Peace for our said County, duly elected and qualified, and that the signature purporting to be his is genuine.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed my Seal of Office, at office, in Murfreesborough, this 25 th day of March A. D. 1847
Robt S Morris Clerk of Rutherford County Court
STATE OF TENNESSEE—RUTHERFORD COUNTY:—To wit:
I William Wilson Chairman of the County Court of said County of
Rutherford, do certify that ROBERT S. MORRIS, who has made the foregoing Certificate, is, and was at the time of making the same, Clerk of our said Court, duly elected and qualified; that said Certificate is in due form of law, and sealed with our County Seal.
Given under my hand and Seal, this 25 th day of March A. D. 1847
Wm Wilson 
Chairman of Rutherford County Court

State of Tennessee ) Before me Francis L. Manning a justice Rutherford County ) of the peace in and for said county of Rutherford standing personally appeared Grace Boney Jacobs who after being first duly sworn, says that he is the fifth child of Joseph Jacobs and Lucy Jacobs. He was born as he has been uniformly told in July 1778. He further states that his father the said Joseph Jacobs died the 9th day of December 1838. Lucy Jacobs his mother is still his widow, and was not married since his death. Witness his record of his own age.
Subscribed & sworn to before me this 23 March 1841
Greenberry Jacobs
I do further certify that said witness is worthy of full credit, & is a person of good character
Francis L. Manning Justice of the peace

Pay
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 7875
Lucy Arnold Will of John Arnold Esq., N.Y. City
Act: 1848, ch. 17
Index: Vol. 28, Page 371
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Payments to be made at Nashville by the Agent for paying Pension- ers, in the Agency of West Tennessee
Recorded in the Pension Of- fice, in Book E Vol. 7
Page 85 by Dan W. Boyd Clerk.

WAR DEPARTMENT.
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.
I certify that, in conformity with the law of the United States of the 7th June, 1832, Joseph Jacobs of the State of Virginia who was a private of Infantry & Cavalry in the Army of the Revolution is entitled to receive Thirty two dollars and Fifty cents per annum, during his natural life, commencing on the 4th of March, 1831, and payable semi-annually on the 4th of March, and 4th of September in every year.
Given at the War Office of the United States, this Sixth day of March one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four.
L. Wood Secretary of War.
Examined and Countersigned. }
J. L. Edward Commissioner of Pensions.

Shelleyville February 5. 1911. Sir I have sent you on the papers in case of the applica- tion of Joseph Jacobs for a prison- er. Mr Jacobs is the case in which I made out the papers and sent them on to you several months ago but they must have been lost on their way to Washing- ton city and I wrote on to you concern- ing the matter and you wrote me that said papers must have been lost on their way to the War department and advised me to make out new ones as they will appear by your letter which has been transmitted to you. I have the very particular in making out the new papers. You will put Mr Jacobs in the prison roll and transmit his certificate to me. Please when you write to let me know whereabout the Jury of Smith county in this

date has been placed on the presi- -Roll or not I am your friend & The Honorable humble servant Lewis Cass Secre- John Bruce tary of War. Washington City.
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29.796
Joseph Jacobs.
Tenafly
f 77. P.
Cant Inf 9 -
R Int 6 = 20. 00
R Can 3 12.50
32.50
22.
John Bruce
Shelbyville
Tenafly

War Department November 23 d 1833
Sir,
Your letter of the 3 d instant has been received, and in answer I enclose a report of the Commissioner of Pensions by which you will perceive that the papers of Joseph Jacobs have not been received at the Pension Office. As it appears that the papers must have been lost on their way to this place, new ones had better be made out, and transmitted for the action of this Department.
Very Respectfully,
I am, Sir
Your Ob t Serv t
Lewis Cass
John Bruce Esq r Shelbyville Tennessee.

7 17 War Department Pension Office Nov. 21. 1833.
Sir,
In reply to the enclosed letter from J. Bruce Esq. I have to inform you that a careful examination has been made, and I cannot discover that the papers in the case of Joseph Jacobs have ever been received here.
I have the honor to be Very respectfully Your ob t Serv t J. L. Edwards
Wm. Lewis Cass Secretary of War. 3

Departure of Edward G. Lumb — " —

State of Tennessee Wilson County
Before me Joseph Collier a justice of the peace in and for said County, this day personally appeared Edward G. Jacobs aged about 81 years, who after being first duly sworn, states that he knew well Joseph Jacobs his brother & Lucy Jacobs his wife that he saw them lawfully married by a preacher in Montgomery County & State of Maryland - that he does not know the date at which they were married, but is certain that they were married before the Revolution- ary War. This informant was in the Revolutionary service with said Joseph - and knows him to have been married to the said Lucy his present widow, before that service was performed - Subscribed & sworn to before me this the 16 day of March A.D. 1841. And I do further certify that said Edward G. Jacobs is a person of respectability and worthy of credit.
Edward G. Jacobs his mark
Joseph Collier Justice of the peace

State of Tennessee 3 d Set Wilson County 3 d
I Joseph H. McClain Clerk of the County Court of said Wilson County hereby certify that Joseph Collier Esquire whose signature appears to the within affidavit made by Edward G. Jacobs is a magistrate in said County at the time stated and that his signature thereto is genuine. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office, at office in Lebanon this 17 th day of March 1841
J. H. McClain Clerk of the County Court of said County
State of Tennessee 3 d Set Wilson County 3 d
Silas Farris chairman of the County Court of Wilson County of said, do certify that Joseph H. McClain, who has made the above certificate is and was at the date of attesting the same clerk of our said Court duly elected and qualified, that said certificate is in due form of law, and sealed with our county seal. Given under my hand and seal this 20 th day of March A.D. 1841
Silas Farris Chairman of Wilson County Court

Oct 28 FREE MAIL Mr. Edwards
4
~ You J. L. Edwards Commemorary Pensions Washington City D.C.
Yours sincerely W. H. ...

Murphyboro October 12 th 1837
Sir I send again an application in behalf of Joseph Jacobs, - The papers as now prepared (and which are enclosed) it is thought are made out in accordance with the instructions sent me
I shall I fear be unable to procure the Certificate of the Marriage of John Clay and Melvina Clay - which I wrote you I had sent for, when I enclosed to an application for Mrs Clay's pension under the Act of 4 th July 1836, Let me know the result of this application with the testimony - sent on, I feel convinced she cannot prove by any living witnesses who saw the Marriage Celebrated, that she was married before the expiration of the service of her husband, for the reason of the great lapse of time and the distance she resides from the place of its celebration, I have however written on again to obtain the Certificate but have little or no hope of being able to get it, I would respectfully ask you to be as liberal as the nature of the case will admit of - as it is indeed a case deserving it) Yours &c —
Most Respectfully W. A. Knapp

5339
Lucy Jacobs of Joseph Denner
admitted
Paid Sept. 9 mo. $ 32.50 Leap Grimes Col - M.C. 100
died 9 Dec 1838.
Act 4 July 1836
H. Yoakum. Mumfords. J

State of Tennessee, — Rutherford County. ss.
I, ROBERT S. MORRIS, Clerk of the County Court of said County, do hereby certify that Francis S. Manning who has attested the annexed
Deposition of Wesley Saco, is
and was at the time of attesting the same a Justice of the Peace for our said County, duly elected and qualified, and that the signature purporting to be his , is genuine.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed my Seal of Office, at office, in Murfreesborough, this 25 th day of March A. D. 1841.
Robt S. Morris Clerk of Rutherford County Court
STATE OF TENNESSEE—RUTHERFORD COUNTY:—To wit:
I William P. Wilson Chairman of the County Court of said County of
Rutherford, do certify that ROBERT S. MORRIS, who has made the foregoing Certificate, is, and was at the time of making the same, Clerk of our said Court, duly elected and qualified; that said Certificate is in due form of law, and sealed with our County Seal.
Given under my hand and Seal, this 25 th day of March A. D. 1841.
Wm Wilson  Chairman of Rutherford County Court

State of Tennessee
At the November term of the Superior Court of the State of Tennessee, at the city of Nashville, in the cause of the State vs. the said Wesley Jacobs, for a conspiracy against the life of the said Joseph Jacobs, late husband of the said Wesley Jacobs, and made oath in due form of law that Joseph Jacobs, late husband of the said Wesley Jacobs, departed this life on the ninth day of December in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight (1838) - Deponent was present when the said Joseph Jacobs died.
Subscribed & sworn before
Wesley Jacobs
on this 23 March 1841 and I do certify that said deponent is a person of credit and respectability.
James L. Manning
Justice of the peace

Washington
April 9. 1841
Dear S. L. Edwards.
Herewith I send you the papers of Lucy Jacobs for a pension.
I recd. a letter from Hon. M. P. Gentry informing me that your department had decided to grant a pension (of a non-commissioned officer's pay) to Mrs. Nancy Wilson.
She has not yet recd. the certificate; but would gladly do so.
Very Resp ly
Yr. obed. Servt.
A. Youkum
P.S. You will perceive that there is a balance of pension due to the widow of Joseph Jacobs. If the accompanying vouchers will justify the issuance of a check for that balance - she would be glad to receive it -

Solters Mt Evans Mail
Hon J L Edwards Chairman of Pensions Washington City D.C.

Murfreesboro Rutherford County Tennessee September 12 th 1837
Hon J L Edwards
Sir
Enclosed is an application to the War Department for an additional Certificate, to Joseph Jacobs, a pensioner under the act of 1832, or an order to the Agent for paying pensions in that Tennessee to pay to Joseph Jacobs the payments now due to him, Mr Jacobs is a very old man and, in consequence of his age and the bodily infirmity attendant upon it together with the distance he resides from Nashvill (it being about fifty miles) and the small amount payable to him semi-annually, it would be preferable to him to lose the amount altogether than go in person half yearly to obtain it, his residence is upwards of twenty miles from this place (which is the nearest point where any lawyer resides) and to give a power of attorney to another person to draw for him is nearly as inconvenient as to go and draw himself, For these reasons as well as in consequence of his ignorance of the late regulation of the Department where the pensioner does not apply semi-annually making it necessary to obtain an order from the Department before other payments are made by the Agent, he has failed to draw his pension regularly, and now sends the enclosed proof to the Department of his presence and identity, in order

to get the amount due him, -
The rules laid down by the Department of making proof in such cases as the present I have not seen and consequently I do not know whether this application is in accordance with them, but William Seddeter and Charles Ready of this place both inform me that they have made applications, in cases of this kind and that they prepared their papers precisely as they had been in the habit of preparing them in order to draw from the Agent when more than one payment had been supposed to become due without drawing. The enclosed document is prepared in that manner with the exception that the Certificate of identity made by the Justice of the peace is founded upon the oath of one witness instead of two. If this is fatal to the application another can be made with however some trouble to the pensioner which he would gladly avoid. Another witness would have been brought before the justice if the pensioner had known anything about the necessary proceedings before he left home, with an respect &c —
W H Lendle