REVOLUTIONARY WAR PENSION APPLICATION ABSTRACT - JACOB FISHER Contributed by: Brenda Collins Dillon [bj04@attbi.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 *********************************************************************** FISHER, Jacob service...Virginia Va# 16652 and 21973 # R. 3565 Elisted, Rockingham and Hardy counties, Virginia, at age 16 or 17. In the fall of 1778 and served til 1781, as a substitute for his father. Served 3 months under Captain Rice in regiment commanded by Colonel Noll and Major Hamilton. Renlisted under Lieutenant Cornelius King and served on the south branch and in the vicinity of Clarksburg. Renlisted under Captain James Stevison or Stinson and marched to Winchester to guard the British prisioners bought from Yorktown. He recieved a pension, September 11, 1833 while living in Nicholas County, WV In 1840 , he was living with William Cutlip on Holly River, Braxton Co.He died 1850. Information concerning soldier filed by James McMillon, Addison Mc Laughlin, William Radcliff and George Fisher, a brother.