Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 23721, for Jacob Hunt, Pennsylvania

SERVICE
Hunt, Jacob
NUMBER _____
NUMBER 8 23721
CONTENTS

of ... in the State of ... who was a ... in the ... commanded by Captain ... of the ... commanded by ... in the ... large
Subscribed on the Roll of _____ at the rate of _____ Dollars _____ Cents per annum, to commence on the 1 th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the _____ day of _____ and _____
Arrears to the 14th of Semi-annual allowance ending
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Book 162
Vol.
Page
Clerk,

Boston
23,721.
INVALID.
File No. 23,721
Jacob H. Hart
Phila. Penn. Mar.
Act: June 7 th 1891 st
Index:—Vol. 9 , Page 196
[Arrangement of 1870.]

29. 732
Jacob Hunt
Pa
Adm 11. months
Sam e A Smith
Dagheston
Pa

Declaration in Order to Obtain the Benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832
State of Pennsylvania Bucks County ss }
On this fourth day of February A.D. 1834 personally Appeared before William Long Egreine one of the Associate Judges of the Courts of Common Pleas for the County of Bucks Jacob Hunt a resident of Nockamixon Township Bucks County and State of Pennsylvania Aged Seventy three Years who being first sworn according to law doth on his Oath make the following De- -claration in Order to Obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the Act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832 That He Turned Out a Volunteer in the Service of the United States in the Revolution- -ary War In the year 1777, and Marched from Amwell Town- -ship Hunterdon County and State of New Jersey as a private in Captain Snakes Company to Elizabeth Town N. J. There remained Two Months and was Discharged Verbally and went home some time afterwards I was called Out again in Capt n Philip Snakes Company we Marched from Amwell Township to Trenton from there to English town there was Discharged after being Out One Month. I again was called and Marched from Amwell Township in Capt n Snakes Company to Norristown where there Discharged after being in the Service One Month I re- turned home and was again called in Service and Marched from Amwell Township under Capt n Snake to Barton Ridge and lay there One Month was discharged Ver- -bally went home, I was again called Out and Marched from Amwell Township to Monmouth where in a Se- -ven engagement with the British Our Capt n Snake was severely Wounded I was again Discharged after One Month Service I was called again and Marched In Said Compa- -ny to Springfield there was in One other engagement with the British and at Same time Our Enemies Set fire to a Presbiterian Meeting house which was Burnt Down and after One Month Service at that time was discharged I was again called Out In Said Company and Marched to Princeton lay there One Month and was there discharged I was again called Out Marched In Said Capt n Snakes Company to Millstone N. J Lay there at the Baptist

Mecklenburg at the time the Prisoners were taken at Trenton. was there one month was there discharged and went home I was called again and Marched To Potterstown near Norristown N.J. lay there one month and was discharged and I was again called and Marched in said Company Across the River to Pennsylvania and lay there near Morrisville in Bucks County, one month was there verbally discharged which was the last time I served to the best of my recollection the field Officers I was under I recollect were Major William Chamberlain and Colonel Chambers. I am certain I was out in the service eleven months in the whole and served as a private Militia Man and Volunteer. I was born in Amwell Township Hunterdon County and State of New Jersey, in the year 1761 from the best information I can get but have no record of my age I lived in Amwell Township New Jersey when I was called into the service I have lived in Bucks County Pennsylvania ever since I left Amwell Township and I now live in Northampton Township Bucks County I never received a written discharge I live in a German neigh- -bourhood and do not belong to any Religious Society at this time as I do not understand the German language is the reason I give for not having a clergyman to recommend my application I am well acquainted with Lieutenant Jacob Johnson who was out with me nine months in the service who will testify to the fact I am likewise acquainted with John Adams Esquire and Thomas Elton two of my neigh- -bours who can testify as to my character for veracity and their belief of my service as a soldier of the revolution I do not at this time know any other person that is living that was in the service with me that I can conveniently get at present.
I hereby relinquish every claim whatsoever to a pension or any annuity except the present and he declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any agency in any state Sworn to and subscribed The day and year aforesaid Jacob his X Hunt Mark William Long Agent here

I Jacob Johnson do swear that I reside in Bethlehem Township Hunter- don County and State of New Jersey and will be Eighty years of age the third day of March next and that I was well acquainted with Jacob Hunt in the year 1777 and I am well acquainted with him at this time. I was Out in the Service of the United States in the Revolutionary war was Commissioned a Lieutenant and the said Jacob Hunt was Out in Service as a private in the said Company where I Served at Different times not less than Nine Months in the whole but I do Not recollect the years in which the Service was performed and I believe him to be Seventy three years of Age and has Served as he States and that his Statement is entitled to Credit and that the Applicant who has Signed his Name to the above Declaration is the identical Same Jacob Hunt who was Out with me in the Service as aforesaid
Sworn and Subscribed the fourth day of February 1834
William Long
Jacob Johnson
I John Adams Esq. do swear and Thomas Elton to Solemnly sincerely and Truly declare and Affirm that we reside in Rockamixon Township Bucks County and are well acquainted with Jacob Hunt whose Name is Subscribed to the above Declaration that we believe him to be Seventy three years of age that he is reputed and believed in the Neighbourhood where he resides as a man of Veracity and that he has been a Soldier in the revolutionary war and that we concur in that opinion
Sworn and Subscribed the fourth day of February 1834
William Long A. Judge
John Adams Esq. Thos. Elton
And the said Judge doth hereby declare his Opinion after the investigation of the Matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the war Department that the above named Applicant was a Soldier and served in the revolutionary war and is unable to Travel to Court on Account of lameness and that John Adams Esquire and Thomas Elton who signed the above Certificate are Residents of Rockamixon Township and are Creditable persons and their Statement is entitled to Credit
William Long A. Judge

James A. Smith Doylestown Pa
Col. W. Meath
Feb. 11th 1832
State of Pennsylvania Bucks County
I William Purdy Esquire Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the said County in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania do hereby certify that William Long Esquire before me whose name is subscribed to the within declaration was at the time of signing the same and now is a regular Commissioned Associate Judge of the Courts of Common Pleas in and for the said County of Bucks and has been duly qualified as such according to law and I truly believe the signature to be his
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the said Court at Doylestown the Eleventh day of February A.D. One Thousand Eight Hundred and Thirtyfour
Wm Purdy Proth

J. L. Edwards - Esq.
Comm. mfrs. of Pinon's Washington D.C.

Albany Pa February 14 th 1834
W. L. Edwards Esq Sir
Accompanying this you will receive the declarations of Jacob Schenck and Jacob Hunt (Soldiers of the Revolution) in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed 7 th June 1832.
Your early attention to these cases is very respectfully requested —
I am very Respectfully,
Your obed Servt Robert H. Smith