LEXINGTON COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA - REV WAR - GEIGER, Jacob

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Pension Application Of Jacob Geiger, Natl Archives Microseries M804, Roll 1061, Application # W2728
Richland District, SC, July 1, 1851:
Testifying on behalf of Jacob Geiger’s widow, Dorothy, Elizabeth Bell, aged 86 
years:
	“That she was born and raised near Granby in Lexington District in this 
state and near her present place of residence. That she distinctly remembers 
the War of the Revolution, being at its commencement, some twelve years of age. 
That Fort Granby was within three miles of her father’s house and at the 
beginning of said war, her brother, Jacob Geiger enlisted in the regular 
service as a fifer, and of his leaving home going into service.”

	“This deponent is positive and certain of her own knowledge and is also 
positive and certain that her said brother continued out in the American 
service until after the Battle at Eutaw Springs, when he returned home. That 
during the whole was her said brother was out in the service in the American 
cause, and had received a wound in his arm which he said he got at Gates Defeat 
at Camden. That among his comrades from the same neighborhood were Captain 
Gabriel Fridig, Captain Godfrey Dreher, Lewellyn Threewits and others.”

“That after the war her said brother settled in what is now Lexington District 
near said Granby’s where he lived until his death. That his first wife having 
died, he married the present Mrs. Dorothy Geiger, who is now his widow in the 
month of January 1799…The deponent remembers the circumstances of the Reverend 
Mr. Dunlap’s calling at this deponent’s house on his return from the marriage 
at which he said he officiated as minister. When deponent first saw her 
brother, said Jacob Geiger after the war, he was called Lieutenant Geiger.”

Richland District, August 7, 1851:
	Widow, Dorothy Geiger, aged 80 years: “That she is the widow of Major 
Jacob Geiger, deceased, who entered the army of the United States under the 
following circumstances and served under the following officers…:

	“That her said husband Jacob Geiger, deceased, at the beginning of the 
war, as the deponent has been informed and believes, lived in what is now 
Lexington District in this state, and near Fort Granby in said district. That 
early in said war of the Revolution her said husband enlisted as a fifer in the 
regular service of wither of the regular or militia services, until after the 
Battle at Eutaw Springs in this state, when he returned home. That in this 
declarant has been informed from a reliable source and believes her said 
husband Jacob Geiger, deceased was out in the service during the whole war, and 
received a wound at Gates’ Defeat near Camden in this state, in his arm. That 
she has heard her husband speak of his having served in said war, but as to the 
various battles in which he was engaged or the country through which he passed, 
this deponent does not now recollect. That among his comrades were Captain 
Godfrey Dreher, Captain Gabriel Fridig, with whom he served and Lewellyn 
Threewits. In this the deponent has been informed and believes that she is not 
in possession of any of her husband’s war papers such as discharge, etc. That 
she has reason to believe that during the year near the close of the war her 
said husband was a Lieutenant under said Captain Gabriel Fridig who lived in 
said District of Lexington…”

October 13, 1851:
	Elizabeth Bell, sister of Jacob Geiger: “She now further testifies that 
when her said brother first entered the service under Colonel William Thompson, 
he went in the capacity of a fifer and enlisted as such. That Jonas Beard who 
was styled Colonel Beard was afterwards, by marriage, her brother’s father-in-
law, and that said Colonel Jonas Beard and William Arthur both lived in the 
same neighborhood with this deponent’s brother near Granby, below where 
Columbia now stands.”