Pension Application of Jacob Price: S3730

                        Transcribed and annotated by C. Leon Harris

State of Virginia} SS

Greenbrier County}

            On this 25th day September 1832 personally appeared before me Henry Erskine a Justice of the Peace in and for the said County of Greenbrier & State of Virginia Jacob Price a resident of said County of County & State of Virginia aged 82 years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his Oath make the following declaration  in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832. that he enlisted in the army of the United States in the year 1776 with Capt. Thomas Posey in the Town of Fincastle and County of Botetourt State of Virginia for the term of two years and served in the 7th Va. Regiment on the line and served under the following named officers. That after his enlistment he was marched to Williams Berg [sic: Williamsburg] Va. and served under Capt. Posey and was then marched to Guinn Island [sic: Gwynn Island where the Royal Governor Lord Dunmore made a last stand on 9 July 1776] and placed under the command of Col. [Samuel] Lewis and remained there but a short time until he was marched to the City of Philadelphia & after remaining there for some time was attached to Col. [Daniel] Morgan’s regiment and was then marched to Summersett in New Jersey and was kept moving about to different places skirmishing with the British almost every day for some time until he got wounded and was after that not able to do any active service during the time of his enlistment. That he has never received any regular discharge which was owing to his not being in active service on account of his wounds. That he received a Certificate of Pensions as an Invalid pensioner and has drawn a pension as an Invalid since the year 1776 and that he submits his pension certificate as proof that he was a regular soldier in the United States Army. And he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to any pension or annuity except the present and is willing to relinquish this to obtain the benefit of the act of 7 June 1832 and declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any State only on that of the state of Virginia as stated above.

            Jacob hisXmark Price

NOTE: A typed summary in the file adds that in 1836 Price moved to Piketon, Pike County OH where two sons were living.