Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B. L. Wt. 11893-100, Jacob Buher, Va.

SERVICE
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NUMBER
U Va.
Beher, Jacob
U B.L. Ht. 11893-100-pot.
Issued Nov. 5, 1789
No papers
CONTENTS

November 27, 1931
BA-J/MLB
Dr. Philip F. Williams 2206 Locust Street Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Dear Sir:
Reference is made to your letter requesting information relative to Jacob Bucher, a soldier of the Revolutionary War.
Revolutionary War data furnished by this office are obtained from claims made to the United States for pension and bounty land based upon military service of soldiers in that war.
A careful search of the records fails to show such claims on file on account of the services of any Jacob Bucher or Booker.
The records of this office show that Warrant No. 11893, for 100 acres of bounty land, was issued November 5, 1789, on account of the services of one Jacob Buher, a private in the Virginia line, War of the Revolutions.
No details of his service are on file and no data whatever in regard to his family, because of the destruction of papers in such early applications for land when the War Office was burned in 1800.
There is no way for this office to determine whether or not this is the person in whom you are interested.
In order to obtain information in regard to location of the land, you should apply to the Commissioner of the General Land Office, this city, and at the same time furnish the number of the warrant, acreage and date of issuance as stated above.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER Assistant to Administrator

DR. PHILIP F. WILLIAMS 2206 LOCUST STREET PHILADELPHIA
Nov. 18, 1931.
Mr. A.D.Hiller, Veterans Administration, Washington, D.C.
Dear Mr. Hiller:
In reference to my inquiry, your office # BA-J/MLB, may I try to identify Jacob Bucher, whose pension record I wish as follows, the man was born in Germany, that he resided at Winchester, Va. at the time of his enlistment, and after his service. That this was in Loudon County. The name of his widow was Ann Mary Whetzel Bucher (or Booker) that he served as a private in Maj.Taylor's Company in the 13th Virginia Regiment commanded by Col. John Gibson and afterwards in Capt. Briggs Company in the 7th Virginia Regiment, commanded by Col. William Russell from April 1779 to June 1783.
I would like to have as full an account of his records in your office as you can give me.
Yours very truly,
Philip F Williams
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