Lincoln-Burke-Haywood County NcArchives Military Records.....Fulbright, Jacob January 2, 1833
Revwar - Pension 
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Pension Application Of Jacob Fulbright, Natl Archives Microseries M804, Roll 1772, Application #R3826
Haywood County, North Carolina, 2nd day of January, 1833, Jacob Fulbright, aged 
85 on the 22nd of December, 1832 as it appears from the record of my father’s 
family Bible: “I entered the service of the United States in the year 1776, but 
it might have been 1778 or 1779, as I have lost my recollection, in the month 
of August, and came home in the month of October making ___ a three month 
service. I was drafted. I was under the command of Colonel Bateman, Captain 
Conrad, Lieutenant Abraham Anthony, Ensign Henry Holman, Lt. Colonel Charles 
McDowell, and General Rutherford. I was living in Lincoln County, NC and 
marched against the Cherokee Indians through what was called the French Broad, 
Pigeon, Tuscarawas?, Tennessee River countries, and what is now called 
Buncombe, Haywood and Macomb, NC, and in what is yet the Cherokee nations on 
the waters of the Hiwassee and Valleys River, and we took the Valley towns. In 
no engagements of moment. We burned and destroyed the towns and crops. I was 
discharged by Captain Conrad, but it is lost or destroyed.”

“I entered into the services again in the year 1780 or 1781, living in Lincoln 
County, NC. under the command of the following officers: Colonel McDowell, Lt. 
Colonel Brevard, Captain Smith, but Col. Brevard got the small pox and died, 
and Daniel McKesick was put in his place, and afterwards Colonel McDowell was a 
general after I had enlisted and entered into the service. That officers 
thought it 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 shoeing and repairing the shoes of 
the horses that was in the service, and I remained there for ?three years 
working ?tirely for all the horse, men that was passing about. The work was all 
of public service, and after I had to board the men and horses for several days 
at a time while they were getting the work done, and I never got anything for 
either work or boarding. I remained there working until the close of the war, 
and I never got any discharge.”

“I was born in the year 1747 in the month of December, the 22nd day, in the 
state of Pennsylvania, in the county of Northampton. I moved from there to 
Lincoln County, NC in the year 1769 and lived there until after the war was 
over, and moved from there to Haywood County, NC and have lived there ever 
since.”

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