Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 10,336, for Jacob Swaney, Virginia

SERVICE
NUMBER _____
va
Swaney, Jacob
P 10,336
CONTENTS

Jacob Swartz. Rd Act of July.      mo June 7th 1832

State of Missouri County of St. Louis
Be it known that on this thirtieth day of December A.D. 1852, before me the undersigned a justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid personally appeared John Boly of Jefferson County in the State of Missouri Resident of St. Louis in St. Louis County and made oath according to law that he is a legal heir of the identical man who was a soldier in the war of the Revolution and who has heretofore made application for the benefit of the pension act.
That he is directly interested as claimant in said pension and makes this affidavit to be filed with such additional evidence as required or any agent may use in prosecuting said claim.
Countersigning and revoking all former attorneys and authority heretofore given. I hereby appoint and sign as my lawful attorney in fact to prosecute the claim of said Boly for any amount of revolutionary pension or increase of pension that may be due; and I hereby authorize my said attorney to examine all papers or documents in relation to said claim right in the Department at Washington City, and to file additional evidence as required, and to receive for my exclusive benefit the certificate which may be issued for said claim which certificate shall be made payable at the Washington City D.C. agency to appoint an or more substitutes under him for the purpose herein expressed, and to do all things that I might or could do were I personally present hereby ratifying and confirming all that my said attorney and agent shall lawfully do in the premises.
John Boly by J.W. Skinner mark
Sworn, subscribed and acknowledged before me this day a year and a half since, and I hereby certify that I believe the said John Boly to be directly interested in said claim and to be the identical party theretofore alleged.
He a not Public Justice of the Peace for St. Louis County Missouri

State of Missouri County of St. Louis
It is hereby certified that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited before me Clerk of the County Court of St. Louis County, that John Boly the party who was sworn and acknowledged the foregoing declaration and power of attorney is the identical heir of the estate of said deceased. I further certify that Mann Butler Esq. before whom the preceding affidavit and power of attorney were made and acknowledged was at the time of so doing a justice of the peace in and for said County, and that the signature purporting to be his is believed to be genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 30 th day of December 1850.
Louis F. Lacy Clk.

33. 537
Jacob Shvanz's Missouri Declaration etc.
for a Pension.
10336

State of Missouri } ss. County of St. Louis. }
On this Sixth day of November, in the year of our Lord, one thousand, eight hundred and thirty-five, personally appeared in the County Court, for the County and State aforesaid, at the City of St. Louis, before the Judges of the said Court, Jacob Swaney , a resident of the County of Jefferson, in the State of Missouri, aforesaid, aged seventy years , who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath, make the following declaration: in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed June 7 th , 1832. That he entered the service of the United States, as a Volunteer, some time in or about the year, seventeen hundred and eighty, or eighty-one or two, but by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot fixate positively as to the precise time. That he entered as such private and volunteer, into the Company commanded by Captain John Hubbard, and which said Company of volunteers formed a part of the Regiment which was under the command of Colonel George Rogers Clarke, in the Virginia line. That he served in the said service from time to time, and under various officers, for between two and three years, sometimes in the capacity of such volunteer, at other times acting as an Indian spy, and again in the militia service. That

according to the best of his recollection, he served three months under the said Captain Hubbard, for fourteen months under Captain James Poffett, for three months under Captain John Edgar, and eighteen months under Captain George Atchison, in the said Regiment. That he entered into the said service at the Falls of the Ohio, and was in two skirmishes against the Indians on the Ohio River, while descending the same near its mouth, in which he received two wounds: - one of which was in the back of his neck, and which fractured the jawbone in passing through his neck along the same, and the other of which was in his right hand, by which he has ever since lost the use of three of his fingers.
As soon as the hostilities of the Indians had ceased, this affiant went to Kaskaskia, in Illinois, where he resided for several years, and after which he moved to his present place of residence, where he has remained ever since: and where he would have appeared in Court, but that his residence is nearer to the City of St. Louis, he is known to the Court here, and has friends of whose aid he could avail himself to get his pension for the services he has rendered his country, having none where he resides who are sufficiently versed in such mat-

ter, and by whose assistance he could hope to prevail in securing his claim.
This affiant, knows of no other person now living, and within his reach, by whom he could establish the above facts, and is therefore without any other evidence than such as he has already furnished. At the time he entered into the said service, he resided at the said Falls of the Ohio River,
and during the whole of the said time, he was so engaged in service as aforesaid, he was not employed in any civil pursuit.
And this affiant further states, that he is informed and believes, that the said Company of volunteers under the command of Captain Hubbard, was not mentioned in the regular returns of the Virginia line, and he therefore believes that he is incapable of referring to any documentary evidence to confirm what he has stated in relation thereto.
He hereby relinquishes every claim, whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any Agency in any State, and subscribed in open Court, the day and year aforesaid.
Henry Choate Clerk
His Jacob + Swaney marks

James McMeans of Jefferson County.  we  James McMeans , one of the  and  and  Margaret Catter  of the  same  county  has  been  residing , residing in the County of St. Louis, and within twenty miles of the place of residence of the witness named Jacob Swaney. We hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with the facts Jacob Swaney, who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, and that we believe him to be seventy years of age, that he is respected and believed in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we con- cur in that opinion. Sworn and subscribed this day and year afore- said.  James McMeans Henry Chouteau clerk Margaret Catter
And the said Court do hereby de- clare their opinion, after the inves- tigation of the matter, and after putting this Interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states. And the said Court do further certify, James McMeans  that the said  has  been  residing , and Margaret Catter - the said Henry Chouteau , who have signed the preceding Certificate,

are residents of the said county of and Jefferson St. Louis, that they are credible persons, and that their statements are entitled to credit.
G. Barks } Justice G. Watterson } County M. P. Drown } Court
I, Henry Chouteau, clerk of the said St. Louis County Court, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Jacob Swaney for a pension, and the signatures of the said Judges of the said Court above annexed, are their genuine sig- natures.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and the seal of the said Court, the day and year aforesaid.
Henry Chouteau Clerk

Rejected
In letter 16 Feb 1836 to J. Hamilton Let to H. H. Ashley H.R. Mar. 22 1836
did not receive six months during the yearly term.
let to H. H. Nelfe May 23 1844

Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
10,336
P. O. Jacob Sweeney
Service: _____
REJECTED
Enlisted: _____, 18 .
Discharged: _____, 18 .
Application filed: _____, 18 .
Alleges: _____ _____ _____
Re-enlisted: _____ _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____ _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contra
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18