HAYWOOD COUNTY, NC - MILITARY - Jacob Fulbright, Revolutionary War Pension Application ----¤¤¤---- REVOLUTIONARY WAR PENSION APPLICATION - JACOB FULBRIGHT Contributed by Beatrice Hendrickson from her father who received this transcription from a cousin in 1954. (Some modifications are made with this presentation) REVOLUTIONARY WAR PENSION APPLICATION OF JACOB FULBRIGHT [The following is an abstract as the original was difficult to read as it appears in the record from my father's family bible] STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF HAYWOOD On this 2 day of January 18__ [1833? Illegible] personally appeared in open court before the Justices thereof Jacob Fulbright a resident of the County of Haywood and State of North Carolina aged 85 on the second day of December 18__ [1832? Ink blot]. [He] doth make the following declaration: I entered the service of the United States in the year of 1776, but it might have been 1775 or 1777 as I have lost my recollection [1776 is correct] in the month of August and came home in the month of October, making __ a three month tour. I was drafted. I was living in Lincoln Co., N.C. and marched against the Cherokee Indians through what was called the [French and Pigeon ___ Tennessee River Countries ? which is the French Broad, Pigeon and Little Tennessee River Countries] and on what is now called Buncom [Buncombe], Haywood and Madison Counties, N.C. and or what is yet the Cherokee Nation [in 1833 the Cherokee had not been removed] and the water of the Highwassy [Hiwassee] _______ in no engagements of moment. We burnt and destroyed the ___ [towns?] and the crops. I was discharged by Capt. Conrad but it [the document] is lost or destroyed. [Capt. Conrad was also the commander of Jacob Shook in the Rutherford Expedition of 1776] I entered into the service again in the year of 1780 or 1781 [1780 is correct], living in Lincoln Co., N.C. Col. McDaniell was made general after I had enlisted and entered into the service. The officers thought proper. As I was a blacksmith by trade, to take me out of the army and put me to work in the blacksmith shop to shewing and repairing the shoes the horses that was in the service and I remained there __ years working basely [?] for all the __ that was passing about. The work was all of publick __ [service?] and after it I had to board the men and horses for several days at a time while they were getting their work done and I never got anything for the work or boarding. I remained there working at the close of the war and I never got a discharge. I have no documentary evidence and I know of no body by whom I can prove my service by without I can ___ [?] by Jacob Shook who lives in Haywood Co., N.C., and I don't know whether he is acquainted with the pekculiars of my service. I was born in the year of 1747 in the month of December the 22 day in the State of Pennsylvania in the County of Northampton and moved from there to Lincoln County., N.C. [Rowan then] in 1769 and lived there until after the war was over, and moved from there to Haywood Co. N.C. and have lived there ever since. Have you any record of your age, and if so, where is it? My age was recorded in my father's family bible and I have preserved it in other books, Where were you living when called into service. Where have you lived since the revolutionary war and where do you now live? In Lincoln Co., N.C I have lived there until I moved to Haywood Co., N.C. where I have lived ever since. How were you called into the service. Were you drafted, did you Volunteer or were you a substitute and if a substitute for whom? I was a drafter the first tour. The second tour I was enlisted. *** We, Jacob Shook, residing in the County of Haywood, and Andrew Shook residing in the same, do hereby __ that we are well acquainted with Jacob Fulbriqht who has subscribed and sworn to the above dictation that we believe him to be 85 years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolutionary War and that we concur in that opinion. STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF HAYWOOD Know all men by these presents that I Abraham Fulbright of the County of Haywood and the State of North Carolina have understood and believe that my Father Jacob Fulbright who applied for a Pension under the act of Congress 7th June 1832 ought to have Received a Pension and that he was entitled to the Same; and for the purpose of prosecuting his claim. to the same I do hereby constitute and appoint F.C.C. Triplett of Washington City my True and Lawful attorney for me & in my name to Examine all the papers on file and the Department of Washington files by my father Jacob Fulbright and to all whoever I might Lawfully _______ I present. Witness my hand and seal this 25th March 1853 [This date is as written. However, it looks like the last number was added, rather than written at. the. same time as the first three. Perhaps he meant to write 1835, left out the numeral 3, and added it in the wrong place?] Abm. 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