Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 16614, for Whitman Jacobs, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Continental (Miss.)
Jacobs, Whitman Hannah
W 16614
CONTENTS

1960
Concord N. Hampshire
Hannah Jacobs widow of Whitman Jacobs &c.
who was a pensioner under the Act of and who died on the 27 th October 1825 of Sullivan Co. in the State of N.H. who was a Private of the Comp y commanded by Captain Richardson of the Reg t commanded by Col. Walcutt in the line for 1 year Continental
Inscribed on the Roll of Concord N.H. at the rate of 40 Dollars — Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 2 nd day of March 1839 and sent Hon. H.C. Hubbard Senate U.S.
Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1838 $100.00 Semi-annual allowance ending Feb. 1839, 20.00 $120.00
{ Act July 7, } 1838. }
Recorded by H.H. Addison Clerk, Book A Vol. 1st Page 43

Grand Children Births And Deaths Rachel Born June the 1875. Paul Jacob 2 - Born July 1916

Keep sacred the Memory
of your Ancestors
FAITH
HOPE
Register
Whitman Jacobs Family He was Born the 2 day of May 1759 MARRIED and Was Married November 21-1780 Hannah Jacobs his wife She was born July 17-1757 By her hath the following Children viz.
   NAMES BORN DIED     Luther Jacobs July the 15-1781   Paul Jacobs December the 28 1783   Silas Jacobs May the 4-1786   Rebekah Jacobs September 17 1788 Died August the 28   Whitman Jacobs Jr. November the 17-1791 Died March the 17-1792   Hannah Jacobs 10-1794 August  
   Grand Clary Jacobs Christina   Miriam Jacobs July the 9-1806 Died March 6 1813   Maria Jacobs December 10-1807   Silas Jacobs Jr. July the 24-1808 Died July 30 1809   Silas Jacobs Jr. January 18-1807 April 30-1807   Isaac Jacobs August 18-1810 May 29-1811   Paul Jacobs July 20-1808   Abigail Jacobs February 19-1810   Abigail Jacobs April 1812   Hannah Jacobs March 1812  
October the 2 1825
DIED
DIED
PEACE

Jacobs, Whitman
His name appears on a list of applicants for invalid pension returned by the District Court for the District of New Hampshire, submitted to the House of Representatives by the Secretary of War on Feb'y 28 1795 and printed in the American State Papers Class 9, page 160.
Rank; Private
Regt; Col. Hutchinson's; Capt. Richardson's company.
Disability; A great debility and contraction of his limbs, occasioned by a disorder called the ground itch.
When and where disabled; September, 1776.
Residence; Coseydon.
To what pension entitled; Full
His case is not within reach of the laws, as his disability does not proceed from known wounds.

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Attn J.M. Gahmire Clerk
Hannah Jacobs wid of William et al.
act 7 July 1838.
Married 1780 died 1825
Allen 12 mo. prn $40 per ann
H. H. Hubbard Sen. D.S.
H. H. Hubbard U.S.S.

13 Declaration
in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 9th July 1836 entitled an act granting half pay and allowances to certain Widows
State of New Hampshire
Sullivan ss
On the thirty first day of December 1836 personally appeared before me the Rev. Jackson Judson of the County of Common Pleas in and for the County and State aforesaid Hannah Jacobs a resident of Croydon in the County of Sullivan and State aforesaid aged Eighty four 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 the 9th July 1836 entitled an act granting half pay and allowances to certain Widows that she is the Widow of Whitman Jacobs who was a private in the Army of the Revolution in the Massachusetts line that according to her best knowledge and belief he served more than two years in the service of the United States for proof of service will more fully appear by affidavit herewith annexed
She further declares that she was married to the aforesaid Whitman Jacobs at Athol Massachusetts by the Rev. Whitman Jacobs of said Athol on the twenty first day of November seventeen hundred and eighty as will more fully appear by proof herewith annexed that her husband the aforesaid Whitman Jacobs died at Croydon aforesaid on the second day of October eighteen hundred and twenty five as will more fully appear by proof herewith annexed that she was not married to him her aforesaid husband prior to his leaving the service but the marriage took place previous to the first day of January seventeen hundred and thirty four
at the time above stated
She further declares that she was never after

was married and her remainder a Widow Hannah Jacobs
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year above written before me
Eleazar Jackson { Special Justice of the Court of Common Pleas.
I hereby certify that the above declaration was made before me in Brooklyn in said County of Sullivan on the day above stated in consequence of the age and infirmity of the said Hannah Jacobs and her inability to attend Court
Eleazar Jackson { Special Justice of the Court of Common Pleas
State of New Hampshire
Sullivan ss. — I J. M. Gilmore Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas do hereby certify that The Hon. Eleazar Jackson is an associate Justice of said Court and that his signature above written is genuine Given under my hand and Seal of said Court this 8th day of Jan'y A. D. 1839.
Attest J. M. Gilmore Clerk.

I Prudence Jacobs of Croydon in the County of Sullivan and State of New Hampshire aged fifty four years of age and say that I was present at the house of Whitman Jacobs in Croydon on the on the 20 day of October A D 1825 and see said Whitman Jacobs who said the husband of Hannah Jacobs and that the said Hannah Jacobs is a Widow and has been ever since said Jacobs died
Prudence Jacobs
Sullivan 23 December 31st 1839
said Prudence Jacobs personally appeared and made solemn oath that the above affidavit by her attested is true before me Elijah Davenport Justice of the Peace
I Paul Jacobs of Croydon in the County of Sullivan and State of New Hampshire aged fifty five years testify and say that my Father Whit- man Jacobs died October 20th 1825 and that Hannah Jacobs my Mother is and ever has been his Widow since he died that said Jacobs died at Croydon and that his Widow is now a resident there
Paul Jacobs
Sworn to and subscribed the 31st day of December A D 1839
before me Elijah Davenport Justice of the Peace
Rebecca Haven of Newport County of Sullivan and State of New Hampshire aged seventy eight years of age and say that I was present at my Father's house in Athol Massachusetts where name was Whitman Jacobs that he was a concordant Minister of the Gospel that I saw and heard him Marry his son Whitman Jacobs to Hannah Walker in the morning In the month of November in the year seventeen hundred and eighty that Hannah Jacobs now of Croydon is his Wife last named Whitman Jacobs Widow
Sullivan 28 December 31st 1839
Rebecca Haven made solemn oath that the above affidavit is true before me Elijah Davenport Justice of the Peace

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State of New Hampshire
Sullivan P.
I J. M. Gilman Clerk of the County of Common Pleas for said County do hereby certify that Abijah Powny is a Justice of the Peace within and for said County and that his signature therewith any genuineness Given under my hand and Seal of the County the 8th day of Jan y A.D. 1839.
Attest J. M. Gilman Clerk

Sullivan & I hereby certify that Rebecca Haden the within named deponent is a credible witness February 16th 1839 William Lloyd of the Bar
Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress
whereby interest with the person is lawful for the

was married and she remained a Luanah Smith
Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress.
Subscribed & sworn to before me this 16th day of July 1898 Notary Public

Feby. 19. 1897. History to Mr. A. W. Ferrin. Montpelier, Vt.
Rev WIDOW, &c.
File No. 16614
Hannah Jacobs Widow of Whitman Jacobs Brn Rev War
Act: July 4 th 1839
Index:—Vol. a , Page 378
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Heann Jacobs ADM of Whitman N.Y. Act of July 1838 susp see let to Hon H. Hub- bard 28 Feb 1839

ORGANIZED 1871.
Montpelier Savings Bank AND Trust Company
Montpelier, Vt. Feb'y 5 1897
To the Commissioner of Pensions Search
Do the pension rolls of the Revolutionary war show the name of Whitman Jacobs of New Hampshire. He was my great grandfather, and family tradition states that he was a pensioner of that war. He died and lived in Croydon or Claremont. but we are unable to state from where he was enrolled, and would be pleased to have you inform me what the records of your office show. and if I have applied to the wrong party, please inform me when I can obtain the information. Will remit amount of fee if any on receipt of statement
Very truly Yours H. H. Heaton

Mar. 1.
J. L. Edwards
Hon. J. H. Hubbard Senate D.N.S.
Pension law w d

Senate Chamber
March 1. 1879
Mr Edwards
Sir
In the case of Mrs Jacobus I must consent to receive a certificate for one year's service reserving to her the right of procuring hereafter for the additional year of that shall be in her hands Yours B. H. Hubbard

I Elias Metcalf of Montpelier in Washington County and State of Vermont depose and say that I volunteered as a private soldier toward the end of the year 1775 into the Continental service, with Whitman Jacobs, then of Royalston in the County of Worcester and State of Massachusetts for the term of one year from the first day of January 1776 - that we entered the service on the first of January 1776 in Capt. Richardsons Company belonging to the Regiment commanded by Colonel Israel Hutchinson and were first stationed on Winter Hill in the vicinity of Boston and in the course of the winter were removed to Cambridge and there remained until the British left Boston after which we with our Regiment was stationed in Boston for a short time, after which we with our Regiment was stationed at Dorchester Hills, and there remained until some time in the Month of July following when we with our Regiment were Marched and were stationed at Fort Washington in the State of New York previous to the surrender of Fort Washington to the British our Regiment was marched to New Jersey and were pursued by the British almost to Delaware River. when the term for which the said Jacobs and myself enlisted having nearly expired we were sent to the Pitts Hills and were there discharged from the service about the 1 st of January 1777.
Elias Metcalf
State of Vermont, Be it remembered that before me Joel Basset Justice of the Peace for Washington County one of the Justices of the Peace of the County aforesaid personally appeared Elias Metcalf and made solemn Oath that the above Affidavit by him subscribed contains the Truth and nothing but the Truth. Sworn and subscribed this 12 th day of November A. D. 1838 at Montpelier. Before me - Joel Basset Justice of the Peace I further certify that the above named Elias Metcalf is a credible witness - Joel Basset Justice of Peace

State of Vermont Washington County ss. 3
I Joshua Vail Clerk of the County Court within and for the County of Washington aforesaid do hereby certify that Joel Bassett Esqr is a Justice of the Peace duly appointed & acting under the Authority of this State and that his name to the within as such is, in my belief, his own proper hand writing. —
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said Court this 12 th day of November A.D. 1838 —
Joshua Vail Clerk.

I Paul Jacobs of Croydon in the County of Sullivan and State of New York do hereby affidavit five years before and say that the Family Register herunto annexed has been in the possession of my Father for as long a time as fifteen or twenty years before his death since his death Silas Jacobs my brother kept it till his death which was over one year ago and has been in my possession since last November that my Father was in still in my Jacobs Paul Jacobs
Subscribers - subscribing 19 th Feb y 1839 that Theodore Tilton & Paul Jacobs who is a credible witness appeared before me and made solemn oath that the above affidavit by him subscribed is true
Sullivan Is. State of New Hampshire
I, M c Gilman, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, do hereby certify that Abigail Powers is a Justice of the Peace within and for said County and that her Commission above recited is genuine Given under my hand and Seal of the County this 18 th day of Feb y A.D. 1839
Attest J. M. Gibson Clerk