Revolutionary War Pension Application Jacobus Hines, Newcatsle County, DE Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Project and DEGenWeb Project Phyllis Hill March 1999 USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be freely used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages cannot be reproduced in any format for profit or for other commercial presentation. ----------------------------------------------------------------- MILITARY RECORDS: Application for Revolutionary War Pension by Jacobus HINES born Newcastle County, Delaware State of Indiana Parke County On this 13th day of November in the year 1832 personally appeared in open court before Joseph Potts Probate Judge in and for the county of Parke the said Probate Court being a Court of Record now sitting, Jacobus HINES a resident of Union Township, County of Parke aforesaid aged eighty years and sixteen days, who being 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 7th 1832 - That he entered the service of the United States under the Following named officers, and served as herein stated "to wit". That some time in the month of April in the year 1775, at the town of Chester in the County of Kent State of Maryland, he enlisted as a minute man under John Watkins (Captain) Robert Battin (Lieut) Richard Grant (Ensign): about a month after said enlistment he with said company was called into actual Service and set out on an expedition to the Chesapeake Bay when the British were committing some operations upon the inhabitants at the distance of 12 miles from the said town of Chester and returned home in about four days; he remained home in readiness for service but was not called out untill some time in August 1777 when he was called into service under said officers to the head of Elk river in said state a distance from said town of Chester of about 40 miles from Elk he marched in said company to Coock bridge to the head of Christian Creek to a bridge thereon, thence to Oglestown thence to Newark thence to New London at Cross roads and about two days thereafter he and the company joined the main army in which was Col. Gess, Major Ferguson Leatherbury and Samuel Wayne he was in the army at the Massacre at Paoli (at the place called the White horse Tavern) and in a few days thereafter was in battle at Germantown and remained with the army until a few days before Christmas 1777 when he was permitted to return home, the length of time employed in said expedition was four months. And in March 1779 at said Town of Chester set out upon another expedition under Captain Marmaduke Tilldan for the forest of Queen Anne - after the Tories who had forted there (under Genl Chainey Claus or Claud) upwards of 50 miles from Chester; and he was engaged in storming the Fort one Sunday morning in the month of March and after some firing the Tories retreated to the swamp thence he went in different directions through the woods in his said company and took a number of Tories prisoners and remained engaged in said service two or three months from the time he set out as aforesaid when he was permitted to return home. Alexander Anderson from Chester Town was Colonel. This is the last service he rendered as a soldier - he further states that he served the residue of the war as an assistant to John Battin who had a purchasing and issuing Commisary for the United States that said Battin employed him in said service and that the length of time that he was under said Battin wa six or eight months. He has no documentary evidence of this service and he received no written discharges and that he knows of no person whose testimony he can procure to testify to his service. And he made the following statement to the question propounded to him by the Court to wit That he was born on the 28th day of October 1752 at Newcastle County in the state of Delaware; he has no record of his Age; he was living in said county of Chester when called into service; he has lived since the revolutionary war in the State of Maryland thence he moved to the State of Virginia thence to the State of Ohio thence to the State of Indiana where he now resides. He cannot state the names of any other of the officers or any other circumstances of his service than he has above stated. A great many facts having long been obliterated from his memory. He never received any written discharges: he states that the names of the persons to whom he is known in his neighborhood are Henry Hines and John Romaine and who can testify as to his character for veracity and their belief of his services as a soldier of the Revolution; he hereby relinquishes any claim whatsoever 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 that he knows of Jacobas Hines Sworn and subscribed to the day and year aforesaid William McGinnis For Wallice Rea, Clerk We Henry Hines and John Romaine residing in the neighborhood of the said Jacobus Hines and in the township of Union County of Parke aforesaid hereby certify that we are well acquainted with the said Jacobus Hines who has subscribed and sworn to the above Declaration that we believe him to be of the Age of Eighty years; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighbor- hood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in this opinion. John Romaine Henry Hines sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid Wm McGinnis For Wallice Rea, Clerk Our opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogations prescribed by the War department that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as he states. And the Court further Certifies that it appears to him that the said Henry Hines and John Romaine who has signed the preceding certificate reside in the neighborhood of the said Jacobus Hines and in the Township of Union aforesaid and that they are credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit. November 13th 1832 Joseph Potts Probate Judge I Wallice Rea Clerk of the said Parke Probate Court do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original manuscript of the said court in the matter of the Application of said Jacobus Hines for a pension. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the Seal of the Office of said court on the 13th day of November A D 1832 Wallice Rea, Clerk Rockville Parke county Indiana November 14th 1832 Dear Sir Enclosed you will find two more applications for Pensions under the Act passed June 7th 1832, both of the applicants are men laboring under the effects of old age and that each of their statements sound the same, as their statements are not full and complete and they may have omitted material facts of which they no doubt once had a knowledge of but has long since been forgotten, both of these Applicants are men who are not able to get about Since they had to be brought here in a waggon to be examined in court. The Department in a great number of cases will have to relax the rigid rule of the Law or if not a number of applicants who are worthy will have to say to the Government You have dealt with me harshly In haste yours Respectfully J. L. Edwards Esqr Joseph A. Wright