Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 41,193, for Jacob Stump, Virginia

SERVICE
NUMBER
Va
Stump Jacob
S41,193
CONTENTS

Date of death not on list Mar 18 35
Note sent to Bunker Van Buren Esq. 11 Sept 1832 Dayton Ohio
14. 644 CNO R
Jacob Stump Licking County in the state of Ohio who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Morgan of the Virginia line, for the term of Six Years
Inscribed on the roll of Ohio at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 1 of May 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 23 of Sep 1819 and sent to Amos H Coffee Esq New York Ohio
  Arrears to 4th of Sep 1819  129.06    Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 Mar 1820  48.00    18 mo 4/30  $177.06  
{ Revolutionary claim, { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued

Jacob Stumpf, Priv. Licking County, Ohio. Discharged
Private Col. Morgan's Regiment Virginia Line 1777 to 1781.
1 st May, 1818.
Not found on rolls. Service to be proved.
Admitted
William Wilson, judge.
Amos H. Coffee, Agent Newark, Licking County, Ohio.

State of ohio Licking County ss Jacob Stump a soldier of the Revolution being Duly cautioned and sworn saith he and saith that he was born in the State of New Jersey from whence at an early age he was taken to Virginia - that about the month of of March 1777 he enlisted as a common soldier in the army of the United States to fight against the common enemy the English Under the command of Capt. Charles Burkford of the Virginia Line of Regulars In Col Daniel Morgans Regiment and remained in United States service during the war and recd an honorable discharge at Little York by General Niterburgh in Virginia the Deponent was personally engaged in the battles of Brunswick Woodbridge and at the taking of Virginia and then at the taking of Cross Wallis and several other skirmishes the Deponent is not now able to produce his discharge he says he it got lost to him the Deponent Emigrated from Virginia to Licking City in the State of Ohio where he now resides and is about 68 years of age has been unfortunate to get a cut in his thigh with a sythe which renders his leg useless and he goes with the help of a wooden crutch and staff and has no family neither wife nor child and under these circumstances having assisted to establish the independence of this Country and being really in need of assistance from his Country the Deponent applies to be placed on the pension list of his Country agreeable to a late act of Congress Sworn and subscribed before me His The undersigned President of the Jacob Stump court of common pleas for the mark of ohio this 1 st day of May 1840
William Wilson

State of Ohio Licking County
Joseph & Lewis Stump being Duly Cautioned and sworn Depose the and saith that they are brothers to Jacob Stump whose Depositions reads that they have personal knowledge of the fact of Jacob Stump Entering as a Regular Soldier in the armies of the United States under Col Morgan for During the war - and further this Deponant saith not down and subscribed his This 1 st of May 1810 Joseph Stump mark
William Wilson Lewis Stump mark
State of Ohio } ss Licking County
I William Wilson president of the Court of common pleas for the fourth circuit of said state do hereby certify that Jacob Stump Joseph Stump and Lewis Stump and after being duly sworn to the truth of the foregoing depositions subscribed the same in my presence and from which I feel satisfied that Jacob Stump is entitled to the pension of his country under the late act of congress for the relief of soldiers coming within the provisions of said act in being in relief circumstances and needs the assistance of his country for given under my hand this first day of May 1810 William Wilson
The State of Ohio Licking County ss.
I Amos Henry Caffe Clerk of the Court of Common pleas of the County aforesaid do hereby Certify that the above named Wilson Elgane before

whom the foregoing depositions appears to have been made, and who signed and made the foregoing certificate now is and was at that time the Presiding Judge of said Court. (and that the signature "William Wilson" is the proper hand writing of the said William Wilson Esquire) to whose official acts as such full faith & credit is due and ought to be given in all Courts of record & elsewhere: -
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand Seal official at New- Ark this first day of May A.D. 1879. J. H. Laffey. C. R.
The State of Ohio Licking County ss.
Be it remembered that on the fifth day of July One thousand eight hundred & nineteen personally appeared before me the subscriber Presiding Judge of the 10th circuit of the Courts of Common Pleas of said State, Mr. Maximilian Robeson aged about sixty eight years, who being sworn by me fully acknowledged known according to law to be the person whose deposition is hereto annexed of Jacob Stump having served in the war of the revolution for the period of about three years That he was acquainted with said Stump when was a soldier in Captain Porterfield's Company in the 11th Virginia regiment, Commanded by Col. Daniel Morgan, V a line. that the said Stump served a few months under Captain Porterfield; and at the time the rifle Regiment

was formed, which was commanded by Col. Daniel Morgan. afterwards General Morgan, the Said Stump volunteered volunteered, and was taken into the Com- pany commanded by Captain Long in the Said Rifle Regiment, in which he served served as a good and faithful Soldier for the period of about two years and six months as near as he can recollect. - This deponent states that he served in the Said Company with Said Stump during the whole period - and knows that all the Material Facts stated in the preceding deposition are true. - Further he saith not
Sworn & subscribed before me the day aforesaid the day aforesaid, and I Maxemilian  Roberson Certify that from representations made to me of the character of the Said Maxemilian Roberson as a man of truth & veracity, I believe his depo-

Rec d Aug. 11. 1821. 463
Ohio -
Comp J.L.E. m
Dayton, Ohio.

Plead at Dayton in the county of Montgomery & State of Ohio on the third day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty one before the Hon. Wm. Calvin Pease Esquire Chief Judge & the Hon. John McLean Esquire Judges of the Supreme Court of the State of Ohio.
The application of Jacob Stump for a pension. Montgomery ss Be it remembered that at a Supreme Court holden at Dayton in the county of Montgomery & State of Ohio on the third day of July aforesaid before the Judges aforesaid came Jacob Stump and produced his application for a pension in the words following to wit, The State of Ohio Montgomery County Supreme Court ss On the fourth day of July one thousand eight hundred and twenty one personally appeared in Open Court being a court of record for the said county Jacob Stump aged seventy three years resident in said county who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows. That he enlisted in the company of Captain John Long that he served four years and nine months that he was in the battles of Brunswick Moorsbridge Summerseat at the taking of Burgoyne's Camp Hill and at the taking of Lord Cornwallis under Colonel Batten & Mays and that he was discharged at Little York that he has made a former declaration, the date of which he does not recollect that he was placed on the pension list Roll of the Ohio agency at the rate of eight dollars per month as will appear from certificate dated twenty third September one thousand eight hundred

and nineteen and numbered fourteen thousand six hundred & forty four - And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the eighteenth day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighteen and that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any manner disposed of any property or any part thereof with intent thereby to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval services of the United States in the revolutionary war" passed on the eighteenth day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighteen and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities contracts or debts due to me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed, to wit, - One horse & cart worth about twenty five dollars - $25.00 I have no family and am unable to pursue any occupation
Sworn to & subscribed in open court
July 4 th 1821 B. Van Cleave Clerk
his mark Jacob Stump
The State of Ohio
Montgomery county ss Personally appeared in open court John Folkerth who being duly sworn according to law deponeth and saith that he has been acquainted with the above named Jacob Stump for about fifteen years that said Stump was during the whole of that time very poor - That eight or ten years ago he received a cut from a scythe which crippled him so that he has been unable to labour ever since that previous thereto his occupation was that of a farmer that after he was crippled he became a township charge in this county and remained so for several years that the township or the people furnished him with a horse and cart to enable him to go on a visit to his friends in Virginia but principally as deponent understood to get rid of the expense of supporting him. That deponent understood that said Stump obtained a pension from the United States before his return - And deponent verily believes that he has no means of supporting himself and that he will again become a township charge unless his pension is continued to him.
John Folkerth
Sworn to & subscribed in open
court July 4 th 1820
Attest - B. Van Cleave Clerk
On the application of Jacob Stump for a petition for a pension under the several acts of Congress relative to granting pensions. The court are of opinion that the applicant's property amounts to twenty five dollars in value & no more and it is ordered by the court that the petition declaration & schedule of the applicant & affidavit thereto annexed be entered of record
The State of Ohio
Montgomery county ss I Benjamin Van Cleave Clerk of the Superior Court of the United States for the District of Montgomery aforesaid do certify that the foregoing oath & the schedule hereto annexed are truly copied from the records of the said court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is twenty five dollars - In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the said court at Dayton on this twenty eighth day of July one thousand eight hundred and twenty one
B. Van Cleave

41.193 INVALID. Rey.
File No. 41.198
Jacob Stamp Rev New York
Act: 18 March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 8, Page 388
[Arrangement of 1870.]

1892 Mar 28 List to Geo Dickinson Office
1928. Sept. 13. H. A. Neifert adv. rel. to date of last payment etc. Cobres. in cl. of John Byrne S. 24 8. 1928
1929. Feb. 27, N. E. Nett adv. names of witnesses sure. in cl. of Chas. Brooks, R. 1256, M.E.E.

petition to be entitled to full faith & credit, and due and right to be paid in all courts of record & elsewhere. — I weep under my hand & seal officially at New York this 5 th day of July 1879. — Duncan Wilson
The State of Ohio Picking County ss Be it remembered that on the 13 th day of July A.D. 1879 personally appeared before me the Subscriber an associate judge of said county of Picking State of Ohio, duly qualified as such Judge Stump aged sixty six years, who being duly sworn according to law deposes and saith that is the brother of the said Jacob Stump whose deposition is hereto annexed. and further states of his own personal knowledge, that the said Jacob Stump enlisted at Frederick County Va under Captain Charles Porterfield in the eleventh Virginia regiment, under the command of Colonel Morgan in the month of March (thinks) 1777. — for du- ring the war — That he continued in the said regiment until some time in June or July of the same year, when Colonel Mor- gan formed a rifle regiment, and he, in pursuance of a previous arrangement joined the said rifle regiment (Deponent understands it was for the purpose of taking Burgoyne). — That the said Jacob Stump went with the said Regiment to the taking of Burgoyne

Deponent did not see the said Jacob until the troops returned from the taking of Burgoyne, when he saw him with the troops at the Gulp Mills in Penn a where he shook hands with him. Shortly after this the Main Army took winter quarters at the Valley Forge — but the riflemen, to whom his brother belonged were stationed near the Black Horse on the Lancaster Road; and deponent did not see the said Jacob again until about the taking of Cornwallis, when deponent who had been discharged from a tour of militia duty was returning home, he met the troops near the Drinking Springs where he again saw his brother and in the army and shook hands with him and this is the last time time he saw him until the war was over. — Deponent believes that his brother was Honorably discharged after the war was over, but did not see his discharge. Deponent always and entirely that the said Jacob was a good & faithful soldier. — Further saith not Lewis his Stump mark
Sworn & subscribed before me the day & year aforesaid. — And I hereby for the certify that from representations made to me of the character of the said Lewis Stump as a man of truth & veracity I believe him to be a man of truth and that the deposition by him subscribed

is entitled to full faith and credit, as well in Courts of Law as elsewhere. —
Witness my hand & seal officially at Newark the 13 th July 1819. —
Zachariah Davis Associate Judge
The State of Ohio } Licking County } J. J. Arner, A. Coffey Clerks of the Court of Common Pleas within and for the County aforesaid do hereby certify William Wilson Esquire before whom the annexed Deposition of Maxamille and Robert was made, was at that time the President of the 4 th Circuit of the Court of Common Pleas of the State of Ohio, within which is the County of Licking, to whom official acts full faith and credit are due. And I also certify that Zachariah Davis Esq before whom the affidavit of Lewis Stump here to annexed, was made was at that time an Associate Judge of said Court of Common Pleas Duly commissioned & qualified according to Law — to whose official acts as such full faith and credit are due; & I also certify that the signatures are in the proper hand writing of the said William Wilson and Zachariah Davis.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of said Court. August the
4 th AD 1819.
J. J. Coffey Clerk.

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Stump, John GRADE Private LINE New York
WARRANT NUMBER 7762 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED July 16, 1790 to William F. Vreedenburgh, J. assignee
*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.