The following information was assembled from numerous sources and cannot be used directly as proof of Qualifying Service or Lineage.
It is considered a research aid and is intended to assist in locating sources that can be used as proof.
State of Service: PA
Qualifying Service: Patriotic Service / Private
Thomas L. Montgomery, Ed, Archives of Pennsylvania, Fifth Series
Volume III, (Harrisburg, Pa.: 1906), pg 172
Volume IV, pg 150
Bounty Land Record Card, General Land Records, National Archives, Washington, DC
Spouse: XX XX Children: Jacob;
Members Who Share This Ancestor
None*
*This means that the NSSAR has no applications for this Patriot on file.
Instead the information provided is best effort, and from volunteers who have either researched grave sites, service records, or something similar. There is no documentation available at NSSAR HQ to order.
He married Elizabeth __ (_-1828) and their children were:
Mary
Christina was born in 1792
Jacob Jr.
Madalina
John
William
Abraham was born in 1797
Malinda was born in 1798
Maltilday was born in 1802
Samuel was born in 1803
Barbara
A man of this name served as a Private on the Pennsylvania Line, in the 6th Regiment under Captain Jacob Bower’s Company commanded by Colonel Robert Magaw of the Pennsylvania Continental Line, where part of the duty was guarding the Commander in Chief George Washington from 1 January 1777, to 16 November 1783.
On 14 June 1791, he was awarded Bounty Land Warrant # 8887 and received 200 acres in the Ohio Military lands, range 6, township 2, which was located then in Washington County, Northwest Territory. That property became part of Coshocton County, Ohio. This lot was about 40 miles away from where the subject of this biography was living. Because of this, and because several men of the same name lived in Pennsylvania, the Northwest Territory, and other places in the United States, it is difficult to assign this Bounty Land Warrant to the subject of the biography with great certainty. However, the current evidence doesn't preclude him from being the same man. The SAR and DAR both credit him with the above mentioned military service. In addition, he is believed to be the same man who paid a Pennsylvania supply tax in 1779.
He lived in Pennsylvania during the War, then moved to Tuscarawas County, Ohio, where he died in 1816 at New Philadelphia and was buried at Fair Avenue Cemetery, New Philadelphia. He didn't leave a Will, but an inventory of his estate does appear in probate records from 1816.
Sources:
Thomas L. Montgomery, Ed., Archives of Pennsylvania, Fifth Series, Volume III, (Harrisburg, Pa.: 1906), p. 172 and Volume IV, p. 150.
Bounty Land Record Card, General Land Records, National Archives, Washington, D.C.
Send a biographical sketch of your patriot!
Patriot biographies must be the original work of the author, and work submitted must not belong to another person or group, in observance with copyright law. Patriot biographies are to be written in complete sentences, follow the established rules of grammar, syntax and punctuation, be free of typographical errors, and follow a narrative format. The narrative should unfold in a logical manner (e.g. the narrative does not jump from time period to time period) or have repeated digressions, or tell the history of the patriot's line from the patriot ancestor to the author. The thinking here is that this is a patriot biography, not a lineage report or a kinship determination project or other report published in a genealogy journal. The biography should discuss the qualifying service (military, patriotic, civil) of the patriot ancestor, where the service was rendered, whether this was a specific state or Continental service, as well as significant events (as determined by the author) of the patriot's life. This is the entire purpose of a patriot's biography.
Additional guidelines around the Biography writeup can be found here:
Send your submission1, in a Microsoft Word compatible format, to patriotbios@sar.org for inclusion in this space 1Upon submission of a patriot biography, the patriot biography becomes the property of the National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, and may be edited to conform to the patriot biography submission standards.