York County PA Archives Military Records.....McClean, Jacob May 28, 1818
Revwar - Pension 
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Pension Application Of Jacob McClean, Natl Archives Microseries M804, Roll #__, Application #S40997
York County, Pennsylvania, May 28, 1818, Jacob McClean; “that he enlisted in 
Easton in Pennsylvania on 20th October 1777, as near as his memory will serve, 
in William Reis’s or Rice’s company in the German regiment of the Pennsylvania 
line, commanded by Colonel ?Housecher, of which regiment one Striker was 
Lieutenant Colonel and one Welch was major. That he served several years in 
this regiment, and enlisted a second time for ‘during the war’ in Captain 
Fishburn’s company on Colonel Horner’s regiment of the Pennsylvania line, and 
that he continued in service during the war, and was discharged in Philadelphia 
in 1783. That he has lost his discharge. That he is a citizen of the United 
States, now resident in Pennsylvania and that he is in reduced circumstances in 
life in need of assistance from his country for support. That he is about 60 
years of age.” 

York County, PA, 31st of July, 1820, Jacob McClean, aged 62 years: “That he 
served in the Revolutionary War as follows: In Colonel Housecher’s regiment 
called the German regiment in the company commanded by Captain Benjamin Weiser 
from July 1776 until the year 1779, when he was discharged. That the date of 
his original application for a pension is May 28th, 1818…”

“Real property-none, personal, none, mixed, none. My occupation is that of a 
laborer. I can work but little. I have no children or family.”

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