Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 4204, Jacob Graul, Penn

SERVICE
NUMBER
Penn
Graul, Jacob
R. 4204
Susanna
B.L.M. 44909-160-55
CONTENTS

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Vol G-140
214.738 Act 3 March Sept. 14 38
Susan Grady Grant Mil. of Jacob. Grady
Pur
Private
Pa. Milia
Revolutionary war.
Penn. June 32
Ad. 160 as Oct 27/86
Wodge
J.B. Wanner Reading Pa.

Jacob Graul
64204
32.190-
AMuhlenberg

State of Pennsylvania
Berks County ss
On this 7 th day of November A d 1832 Thousand eight hundred and thirty four personally appeared in open Court before the Hon ble Garreck Mallery Esq r President and his associate Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Berks in the State of Pennsylvania Now sitting Jacob Graul a Resident of the Borough of Reading County and State aforesaid Aged 66 years who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832 that he entered the service of the United States in the War of the Revolution under the following Named Officers and served as herein stated entered at Reading Berks County Pa a A d 1778. On the 2 nd day of October duly Enlisted for what was called the Wyoming Service against the then Enemy the Brittons & Indians. into the Company of Musquetry Commanded by Christian Maderer Reg t formed under the Command of Colonel Valentine Ebert. Marched from Reading. the following is the line of our march to Wyoming we Marched from Reading to Rootstown Berks County From there to Lehigh Gap then crossed the Mountains to Wyoming Prior to our coming to Wyoming General Sullivan's Men had cut a Road through the Pine Woods to pass on with the Troops under his Command and before we arrived Genl Sullivan's Troops had left their our company & Reg t did not take the Road that Genl Sullivan's Men had cut for the following Reasons a Messenger was sent who brought a Letter to Colonel Valentine Ebert in which was stated that we should not take the Road which Genl Sullivan's Men had cut

stating the reasons that along the said Road  the enemy was present and lay in ambush in different places on both sides of said Road in the thickets, bushes we then halted on this side the Mountains for the purpose of avoiding Sullivan's Road and taking a different route, through the Mountains accordingly there was sent to us a excellent Guide who conducted us through the Mountains. he said Guide made use of a Compass so that we passed through the pine Mountains and arrived safe to Worming Penn in this service I was duly Enlisted for the full term of five Months Company a foremen 1 Regmt and Hartman Leighteiser was the Ensign of our Company I continued to serve in said Company & Regmt aforesaid at Worming Penn from the 2 nd day October 1778 to the 2 nd day of April 1779 when I was Honourably discharged for five Months service rendered by the hands of Captain Christian Maderer was Discharged as such at Worming aforesaid Penn That Discharge has since been Lost or Mislaid I have in my power a credible Person who can Testify to my said services Namely Michael Spatz a Resident of Reading Penn he said Spatz did enter duly Enlisted for five Months in Reading Penn same Company & Regmt aforesaid entered on the same day 2 nd October 1778 and continued to serve from the 2 nd day of October 1778 until the 2 nd day of April 1779 when he was Honourably Discharged for his services for five Months service rendered at Worming Penn by the hands of Captain Maderer aforesaid & discharged as aforesaid at Worming Penn I have not any other Witness in my power

power except the present. Captain Maderna Dies in Virginia and our Ensign Hartman Leighthouse Dies in the Village of Hamburg Berks County Pa. I was Born in the Township of Exeter in the County of Berks Pennsylvania I have a Family Record of My age I was born A.D. 1768 Jan 12 th day of April There is no church Record of My age. when I was Enlisted I lived in Reading Pa. where I entered and since the Revolutionary War I lived Here and I now live in Reading Pa. the Troops which were at Twomking left the place on our arrival the King Chiefly Militia whose terms were expired under these circumstances we could not become acquainted with their Officers or Men I am poor and therefore come before My Country to ask that assistance for My said service: I claim a Pension for six Months service He hereby relinquishes every Claim to a Pension or an annuity except the present and that his name is not on the Pension Roll of the Agency of any State whatever.
Jacob Schaeffer
Sworn to and subscribed in Open Court Before the Judges of the said Court The Day & Year aforesaid Gaukel Madyng Pres. Judge Nov r 7. 1834
Reading, v. Richards a Judge of Berks County State of Pennsylvania
Berks County Pa
On this 7 th day of November A.D. 1834 personally appeared in Michael Schaeffer
Court of Common Pleas

...any of our sovereigns in law personally appeared in ...the County of Berks in the State of Pennsylvania The above Garrison W. ... and his associate Just, in and for the County of Berks in the State of Pennsylvania who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath depose and say that he knows to his certain knowledge that above named Jacob Grul entered in Reading Penna duly Enlisted for the term of five months AD 1778. on the 2 nd day of October for the Wyoming service into Captain Christian Maderer's company of Musketry and in Regt Commanded by Colonel Valentine Eckert and that the said Jacob Grul continued to serve in said Company & Regt aforesaid from the 2 nd day of October 1778 to the 2 nd day of April AD 1779 when he received an Honourable discharge for his five months service by the hands of Captain Maderer at Wyoming Pennsylvania Sworn to and subscribed in Open Court before the Judges of the said Court the Day & Year aforesaid
Court of Common Pleas ... before Court of Common Pleas Now sitting Michael Spatz Michael Spatz mark 3
Garrison W. Mallory Out here Nov 7. 1837
Matthias V. Richards a Judge of Berks County

and the said Court do hereby Declare their opinion after the Investigation of the Matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the foregoing Named Jacob Graul the applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as he states and that credit is due to him and of Right ought to be given and that Michael Spatz who has sworn & subscribed his Name to the foregoing is credible and that to his statement credit is due and of Right ought to be given
Garrison Mallery First Judge
As to V. Richard, a Judge of Berks County
State of Pennsylvania
Berks County ss Jacob Wallade Notonotary of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the said County of Berks, in the State of Pennsylvania do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the Original proceedings of the said Court in the Matter of the application of Jacob Graul for a Pension In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the said Court and subscribed my Name & Quality at Reading Pa
Novr 20th 1834
Jacob Wallade Notary

244.738
Bounty land claim
Susanna Groul widow of Jacob Groul , dec
Revolutionary war
act of March 3. 1855.
Presented by L. B. Mannery atty for applicant Reading Penn a

State of Pennsylvania ) County of Berks. 3p.
On this eighth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and fifty five, personally appeared before me, an alderman of the city of Reading, within and for the county and state aforesaid Susanna Graul aged eighty one years, a resident of the city of Reading Berks county and state of Pennsylvania, who being duly sworn according to law, declares that she is the widow of Jacob Graul deceased, who was a private in the revolutionary war and also in the service of the United States during a period after the revolutionary war and continued in actual service in war for a period exceeding fourteen days, - That for proof of service she refers to the evidence on file in the pension office contained in the application of her said husband for a pension under the act of June 7, 1832 and which claim was rejected on account of the service being after the revolutionary war.
She further states that she was married to the said Jacob Graul on the 18th day of June AD 1794 by one Rev William Boas, dec, a clergyman of the German Reformed church at Reading, Berks county, state of Pennsylvania, and that her name before her said marriage was Susanna Goodman; that her said husband died at Reading, county and state aforesaid on the 17th day of March AD 1848 and that she is now a widow.
She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the bounty land to which she may be entitled under the act of March 3. 1855.
Witness my hand and seal John Helle
Susanna Graul Mch

We Samuel Grant and Louisa Warner residents of the city of Reading, in the state of Pennsylvania upon our oaths declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by Susanna Grant in our presence, and that we believe, from the appearance and statements of the applicant, that she is the identical person she represents herself to be, and that she is still the widow of the said Jacob Grant dec d . that the said Jacob Grant died on or about the 17 th day of March 1848 at Reading, Pennsylvania that we were on his funeral.
Witness my M c Mullen John Heller
Samuel his Grant mark Louisa her Warner mark
Marriage record.
"1794. June 18, married Jacob Grant to Susanna Goodman." Rev. W Boas.
I, John Heller a resident of the city of Reading state of Pennsylvania, on my oath say, that the above is a true and correct copy of the marriage record of Jacob Grant & Susanna Goodman as contained among the church records of the German Reformed church at Reading and that he believes the same to be in the hand writing of Rev William Boas dec d the then pastor of the said German Reformed church.
John Heller
The foregoing declaration and affidavits were sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and year above written; and I certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons, that the claimant is the person she represents herself to be, and that I have no interest in this claim.
Matthias M c Mullen Notary

State of Pennsylvania, } COUNTY OF BERKS, ss. }
COUNTY OF BERKS, ss.
I, JOSIAH HEARING, Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of said county, Do CERTIFY, that Matthias Mengel
before whom the annexed declaration & affidavits  ere  was made, time thereof an acting  at the Alderman and ex-officio Justice of the Peace of the city of Reading, county of Berks, duly commis- sioned and qualified to administer oaths and affirmations, and to take acknowledgments, &c., and to all whose acts, as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given, as well in Courts of Judicature as elsewhere, and that his signature thereto is genuine.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said Court, this 17 th day of September A. D. 1855
Josiah Hearing Prothonotary.

Additional evidence in the case of Jacob Graul
H. Amahlenberg

State of Pennsylvania
Berks County ss
Be it known that on this 20 th day of Decr. A.D. 1834 before me Matthias S. Richards a judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Berks. in the State of Pennsylvania, personally appeared John Graul a Resident of said County & State aforesaid (who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his Oath Declare and says that he is a Disinterested Witness for and in behalf of Jacob Graul (who is now an applicant for a Pension) and that the said Jacob Graul has made an error in stating that he was Born A.D. 1768. that a certain record was in the Family which has since been lost on which record was mentioned in writing, that Jacob Graul was Born in the Month of August of the Year 1750 which same Record has since been lost That Jacob Graul was Born in Birdsborough Township Berks County Penn a and that at that time there was no Stationed Ministers of the Gospel; So that there was not any Church Record entered to shew the Birth of Jacob Graul. and this Deponent on his Oath further says that he knows to his certain knowledge that Jacob Graul was duly Enlisted for five Months into the Company of Musquetry, commanded by Captain Christian Mader A.D. 1778. and that said Jacob Graul Marched to Worming in the War of the Revolution in the Company aforesaid. and this Deponent further says that Jacob Graul at the time in which he enlisted was hired in the service of Daniel Levan who was then Prothonotary for the County of Berks; and this Deponent says that Jacob Graul was then Enlisted a Young Man between the years of 17 & Eighteen years of Age; and that he was then an able bodied Young Man and could do his duties equal to any other Older Person
Isaac Graul
Sworn to and subscribed the Day & Year aforesaid
Before me Matthias S. Richards a Judge of Berks County Penn a .
State of Pennsylvania
Berks County ss I Matthias S. Richards a judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Berks Penn a do hereby Certify that John Graul above named

who has Sworn and subscribed his Name before me in the foregoing affidavit in the Case of Jacob Graul is a Disinterested Witness and that Credit is due said John Graul on his statements and of Right ought to be given and I further certify that his Testi- mony will be fully received as such in any court of Justice and I also certify that from the appearance of Jacob Graul that he is now advanced to a good Old Age and in Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and subscribed the same at Reading in the County of Berks Pennsylvania the Day & Year aforesaid
Matthias S. Richards a Judge of Berks County Penn a
State of Pennsylvania.
Berks County ss. I Jacob Allade Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the said County of Berks, in the State of Pennsylvania do hereby certify that Matthias S. Richards Esq r before whom the foregoing affidavit and Certificate of John Graul was made in the case of Jacob Graul is a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Berks, in the State of Pennsylvania he being duly Commissioned and authorized as such to administer Oaths and I do further certify that the Signatures purporting to be his are truly Genuine Signatures and In Testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of the said Court and subscribed my Name & quality at Reading Berks County Penn a On this 20 th day of Dec r , A D 1834
Jac. Allade Protho y

Jacob Gravel
Penn a
Resided
Sittin 2 d Decr 1834
Hon. H. A. Muhlenburg do. 3 Jany 1835
Christian Medeara was a pensioner under act March 18. 1818, ba. aggr. see papers, (OVOR)
Hon. Hyland Jones Apr 1, 1854
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S. H. 909
J Voo Am

Gallipolis Ohio March 4th 1854 Mr Jacob Grant
Sir I have in my possession a copy of the proceedings in the Pension Department at Washing- -ton City on your claim to a Revolution- -ary Pension showing why said claim -ing was not allowed in full when -it was applied for - if you will write to me and send me one dollar to pay my trouble I will explain the matter to you fully
Yours Respectfully Daniel D. Benedict agent for pensioners

Copy
RECORD AND PENSION OFFICE,
War Department,
Washington, December 3, 1896.
Respectfully returned to
Mr. Alfred Percival Smith,
Attorney-at-Law,
No. 602 Provident Building,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
It appears from the official records that one Jacob Groul was a captain in the Pennsylvania troops, Revolutionary war. His name appears on the rolls of the F (Flying) Camp, Pennsylvania, Revolutionary war. No further information concerning him has been found of record.
The name Jacob Groul , or Grouhl , has not been found on the rolls, on file in this office, of any Pennsylvania military organization in service during the war of the Revolution.
If a pension was granted on account of the service of the soldier concerning whom inquiry is made, it is probable that a statement of that service can be obtained from the Commissioner of Pensions, who is the custodian of the pension records of all wars.
By Authority of the Secretary of War :
(Signed) F.C. Winsworth Colonel, U.S. Army, Chief of
Per
Received at 602 Provident Bld'g.
4 DEC 1896 8.30 A.M.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.-----

Law Offices of Alfred Percival Smith. 602 Provident Building.
Philadelphia, 4 Dec. 1896.
Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir :-
I enclose you herewith copy of letter received this day from Colonel F. C. Ainsworth Chief of Record and Pension Office, and would ask whether Jacob Graul (the name is variously spelled) was granted a pension, and if so, I would like a statement of his service, and to be informed when it ceased and where he resided at that time. Please send me as full a reply as is possible, and if there is any fee for the service rendered it will be cheerfully paid.
Very respectfully,
Dictated to E.A.S.
1 Enclosure.
Alfred Percival Smith

Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
April 1-1897- History to Mr. A. P. Smith 602. Provident Building Philadelphia, Penna.
4204
P. O. _____
Jacob Grant
Service: _____
REJECTED
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

Dec. 29. Pa.
Hammelsberg
James L. Edwards Esq. Commissioner of Pensions War Department
H. R. Muhlberg