Lincoln-Burke-Haywood County NcArchives Military Records.....Shook, Jacob October 3, 1833
Revwar - Pension 
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Pension Application Of Jacob Shook, Natl Archives Microseries M804, Roll 1772, Application #S7486
Haywood County, North Carolina, October 3rd, 1833, Jacob Shook, aged 84 
years: “That he resided in what is now Lincoln County, NC when he entered the 
service of the United States under the following named officers..: That in the 
month of March in the year 1775, as he now thinks, he entered the service as a 
volunteer in the company commanded by Captain William Bateman [spelled Beekman] 
in the regiment commanded by Colonel Christopher Bateman [spelled Beekman] in 
the brigade commanded by General Rutherford, and marched to what was then 
called Cross Creek [now Fayetteville, NC] against the Scotch Tories, which tour 
lasted one month or more, the precise time now not recollected. As a part of 
the Tories being taken and the balance dispersed before he reached that place, 
he remained at that place but a short time.”

“That on the 9th of August, 1776, he served a tour as a drafted militia man 
against the Cherokee Indians in Captain Rodolf Conrad’s company in regiment 
commanded by Colonel Christopher Bateman in the expedition commanded by General 
Rutherford, and served 2 months.”

“On the 10th of May, 1781, he was drafted for a 3 months tour against said 
Indians and marched to Davidson’s Station at the head of the Catawba River in 
what is now Burke County, NC under Captain Daniel Smith, which time he served 
and was discharged by said captain on the 10th day of August in that year, 
which discharge is herewith transmitted. He received no discharge for the first 
2 tours.”

“He was born in the county of Northampton, Pennsylvania on the 19th of April, 
in the year 1749 and is now 84 years of age. He has lived in the county of 
Burke since the Revolutionary War, and now lives in the County of Haywood in 
said state. He has no record of his age, was not attached to any continental 
regiment, nor was he acquainted with any regular officers…I am acquainted with 
Jacob Fulbright and Andrew Shook”, etc.

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