REVOLUTIONARY WAR PENSION APPLICATION ABSTRACT - JACOB HIGH Contributed by: Martha Rasmussen (beth@bwoodtx.com) ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net *********************************************************************** JACOB HIGH received a Rev.War Pension as per following: Pension record:Rev War #37322.Enlisted from Hampshire Co, WV in 1777,applied for pension Nov 12,1832 in Warren Co, In. Pvt in Col. Wm. Foremans Co, later with Capt AlboahHohnson and Col. Crisp building garrison on Big Beaver,Va. At the siege of Yorktown. Buried in orchard across the road from the Redwood school(Warren Co, In. Stone, Collected by Mrs Elmer V. Smith, Williamsport, In. Pension records from"Roster of Soldiers and Patriots in the American Revolution Buried in Indiana" compiled by Mrs Roscoe C. O'Byrne 1966 ,p 187. from the"Pension Roll of 1835" JACOB HIGH,do,annual allowance $3.33,sums received $ 169.99,description of service,Virginia State Troops. Placed on pension roll Nov. 12,1833. Commencement of pension,do. age 75.