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Birth: Feb 1750 / / Germany Death: 17 Aug 1833 / Perry / OH
Qualifying Service Description:
PRIVATE - Captains JOHN RIDDLE, CONRAD HUMBLE, JOHN CRAVEN, Colonel NEVILLE
Additional References:
Rev War Pension *S16093
Spouse: Margaret Lair/Lear Children: Paul; Joshua; Stephen; Deborah;
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Excerpted from the Revolutionary War Pension of Jacob Custard, *S16093:
The State of Ohio Perry County SS: Court of Common Pleas November Term A.D. 1832
On the ninth day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two, Personally appeared in open court before the Judges of said court now sitting at the court house in Somerset in said County Jacob Custerd a resident of Jackson Township in the same County and State, aged eighty two years in February A.D. 1832, 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 entitled “an act supplementary to the act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Revolution” approved 7th June A.D. 1832, viz. That he was draughted [sic] into the service of the United States into the Company of Captain John Riddle some time about the spring of the year 1775 at Rockingham County in the State of Virginia, where he then resided for the term of six months that he was marched with Captain Riddles company during the months of April and May to Boston that he was present in the battle of Bunker hill and that on the expiration of the said six months he returned to said Rockingham County in Virginia, and he further states that some time about the month of June 1776 or 1777 he cannot with certainty state which of those years he enlisted as a regular soldier in the army of the United States under Captain John Craven, at Rockingham in Virginia, and marched in said Captain Cravens company soon thereafter on an expedition against the Indians, Crossed the Ohio at the mouth of Big Beaver and advanced somewhat near an hundred miles into what is now the state of Ohio, and was stationed for a considerable time on the waters of Tuscarawas and White Woman Creeks, the sources of the Muskingum river, Colonel Nevil commanded our troops in this expedition, this expedition lasted seven months which time this applicant served and then returned with his company to his residence in Rockingham county in Virginia and by reason of the extreme sickness of his wife he was forced to hire a substitute to serve the balance of his term of enlistment by the name of John Smith, and gave said Smith sixty dollars to substitute for him. This applicant further states that during and between the times of his services in the Boston campaign before mentioned and his expedition against the Indians in Ohio as before stated he was draughted [sic] in the militia of Virginia at Rockingham aforesaid, under Captain Conrod Humble for the term of three months and that he marched in said company into the Greenbriar [sic] county in Virginia against the hostile Indians which was a tedious and dangerous service that he served out the last mentioned three months tour and was discharged, making in the whole a period of sixteen months service. This applicant well recollect of seeing General Putnam in the Boston campaign, General or Colonel McIntosh in the Indian expedition to Ohio, and Colonel or General Brown in the expedition into the Greenbriar [sic] country. This declarant never held a commission or received a written discharge and he has no documentary evidence by which he can prove his said services and he knows of no survivor by whom his said services may be proven and whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his service – He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state.
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