This quotes Revolutionary Army Vol 4 page 28 from four volumes of misc. The Virginia State Library Report 1911-1912, page 167, gives Jacob Jones as enlisted from Virginia. Considered a prt of the miitary quota from VA and received depreciation pay also in Richmond for the War. PA archives show that he received payment for at least 4 expeditions and also "depreciation pay" as a Continental Army soldier in PA. For a time was a member of Captain Nicholas Shinn's company. Johnston p 153.Ensign Jacob Jones served as an ensign in the rangers of West Moreland County, PA and Monongalia County, VA. He and his wife Dinah spent their final days in Knottsville.įrom West Virginians in the American revolution by Ross b. In 1774 during the Revolutionary War he was a frontier fighter and for his war service received land in Tayler Co WVA near Knottsville. In 1770 he came to Monongalia County and settled near the present town of Pentree, West Virginia. Jacob Jones performed scout duties for General Washington(?). Survived the Revolutionary War & Indian Skirmishes.
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