Jacob Pettibone (1760 - 1840)

Born 8 Jan 1760 in Norfolk, Ct.

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Died 22 Aug 1840 at age 80 in Manheim, NY.

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Jacob Pettibone served with New York Militia during the American Revolution.

Jacob was born in 1760. He is the son of Eli Pettibone and Phebe Cook.

Jacob Pettibone was a veteran of the Revolutionary War. He first applied for a pension in 1818, at which time he was a resident of Manheim, Herkimer County, New York, aged 58 years. He was credited for two years active service as a private, Massachusetts Line, and was awarded a pension of $8.00 per month, starting 24 April 1818. Jacob further attested on 4 July 1920, aged 60, that he owned no real estate, and that his personal property consisted of 16 items of basic. kitchen tools and furnishings, including only two animals (swine). His total property was appraised by the court at $29.00.

He also said that he had been a farmer, but that for the last five years he had been a cripple and unable to work. At that time, he named the members of his family as his wife, Sarah, 57, his daughter Polly, 17, and his son Jacob, 13, both of them healthy. Jacob testified in person when applying for his pension. He stated that he enlisted at Lanesborough, Massachusetts; on or about 8 January 1776 (when he would have been barely sixteen years old) and served until June 1776 in Captain Hall’s company, Colonel Seth Warner’s regiment of Vermont troops.

He enlisted again about the first of July 1776 for a nine month term on the Massachusetts Line In Captain Newell’s company, Colonel Smith's regiment, and was discharged nine months later at Croton River in New York. His last term of duty was for a nine month term in 1779 when he enlisted at Lanesborough and was discharged at West Point, New York. He sewed in the militia in the battles at Fort Ann, Stillwater, Bemis Heights, and Bennington and at the taking of Burgoyne; and fought in the Continental line in the battle of Three Rivers in Canada and at Harlem Heights and White Plains in New York. His statement was certified by the presiding judge and he was granted a monthly pension of eight dollars for the rest of his life. [Revolutionary War Pension File S43820, U.S. Archives].

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• https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F7Q9-X21

• https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=35939302

• Tom Bredehoft, Pettibone Registry, page 173, see K. Pontius.
• Tom Bredehoft, information from Pettibone Registry, 82, 173, (see Sharp-661) Click the Changes tab for the details of edits by Tom and others.