Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B.L.Wt. 1928 -100, for Jacob Keeter, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Keeter, Jacob (Indian)
B.L. No. 1928-100
CONTENTS

Probate Certificate in the claim by the heir of Jacob Reuter

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Barnstable County, ss. At a Court of Probate held at Barnstable within said County, on the second Tuesday of January, being the tenth day of said month Anno Domini 1832.
The subscriber Register of the Court of Probate for the County aforesaid, hereby certifies that satisfactory evidence has this day been adduced to this Court, to prove that Joseph Tobias, otherwise called Joseph Tobey is second cousin and sole heir at law of Jacob Peeter, late of the Marshpee Plantation in the County of Barnstable, deceased, who was a soldier in the Massachusetts line in the army of the revolution.
Given under my hand & seal of said Court, this tenth day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two.
Almon Davis, } Register of Probate for the County of Barnstable.

N. B.
The Scrips issued in satisfaction of this claim, you will please to forward to me at Freehold Greene County, New York
R. B.
N o 2.

I Ezra Crocker of Barnstable in the County of Barnstable in Massachusetts aged fifty-seven years, being engaged with the Overseers of the Indian Plantation of in S. County  Wampanoag in the management of the concerns of S d Plantation, on oath testify and say that I was well acquainted with the following named Indians who belonged to S d Plantation and who are now deceased, to wit; Jacob Keeler, Simon Penpeancy, James Keeler, (who was a pensioner of the United States at the time of his death) and an Indian, whose real name I understand was Job Tobias but who was commonly called Job Tobes, and that I have always understood and believed and do now believe that said Jacob, Simon, James and Job were soldiers in the Army of the Revolution, and that was always the reputation in the neighborhood where they resided, and where I reside which is near the borders of S d Plantation - And I further testify that I saw said Jacob, soon after the close of the war, parade with some other soldiers in the village where I reside and he then had on his soldier's uniform dress.
Ezra Crocker
Barnstable Oct 7 th 1832
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Barnstable County
Be it known that before me Nymphas Manson, one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said (see over)

County of Banffshire, on this eighteenth day of December A.D. 1832, personally ap- peared the aforesaid Ezra Crocker, who is well known to me and is a man of truth and a credible witness and made oath in due form of law to the truth of the foregoing Deposition which was written by me from his verbal statement and subscribed by him in my presence
The testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand the day and year aforesaid A.D. Banffshire in Scotland
Nimphas Marston - Jus. Peace

Application for Bounty Land of the U.S. by Joseph Tobias only Heir of Jacob Keeter Colored Man N o 2,
Name returned

Jacob Heeter 8 th 1928.
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DEPARTMENT OF WAR.
STATE OF Massachusetts } ss. COUNTY OF Barnstable }
at Law, to Jacob Keeter I Joseph Tobias , second cousin and heir deceased, do, upon oath, testify and declare, that, to the best of my knowledge and belief, Jacob Keeter aforesaid, about, or in the Year, 1777 entered, or enlisted into the service of the United States, for the term of "During the War:" and, that, he served in Regiment No. of the Massachusetts Line, commanded by Colonel ; and that, he continued in the service aforesaid, until the close of the War, when he was regularly discharged from the second Regiment of the Massachusetts Line, commanded by Colonel Sproat and I further testify and declare that the aforesaid Jacob Keeter was a man of colour and first cousin to my mother now deceased, and that he died previous to the year 1818, and that he was a sergeant in the Army of the Revolution as I am credibly informed I further declare, that I have never received a Warrant for the Bounty Land promised to Jacob Keeter aforesaid, on the part of the United States, nor do I believe he has ever received it, or transferred his claim, in any manner, whatsoever:—
All Men, By These Presents, that I Joseph Tobias aforesaid, do hereby constitute and appoint Reuben Baldwin of Greeneville, in the State of New-York, to be my true and lawful Attorney, for me and in my name, to demand and receive, from the Secretary of War, of the United States, a Warrant for the quantity of Land due to me and to the other heirs of  heir of Jacob Keeter as aforesaid. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal, this seventh day of January 1832.
Sign: seal and att. in presence of Joseph Tobias Nymphas Marston
COUNTY of Barnstable ss.
Personally appeared before me Nymphas Marston a Justice of the Peace, in and for the County aforesaid Joseph Tobias subscriber to the above declaration, who acknowledged the power of Attorney thereto subjoined, to be his free act and deed; and likewise made solemn oath to the truth of the foregoing declaration. Dated this seventh day of January 1832.
Nymphas Marston Jus. of the Peace
STATE OF } ss. COUNTY OF }
In testimony that the above written was a Magistrate, duly authorized to administer oaths, and take acknowledgments, &c. in the State of at the above date, and that his name there subscribed, appears to be his usual signature; I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the and subscribed my name, at this day of 183