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Note: NOTE: JACOB ZECH III SEVERED IN THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR IN THE ARMIES OF PA AND VA. HIS RW PENSION IS NUMBER S3101 AND THE DAR NUMBER IS 580088/A717 CERTIFIES HIS SERVICE.
ON THE 7TH OF JUNE IN 1832 THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES PASSED A BILL WHERE AS ALL LIVING REVOLUTIONARY WAR SOLDIERS WOULD RECEIVED A PENSION. IN ORDER TO RECEIVE THE PENSION IT WAS NECCESSARY FOR EACH SOLDIER TO PROVE HE HAD SERVED AT LEAST THREE MONTHS ( A TOUR OF DUTY ) IN THE WAR. VARIOUS METHODS AND MEANS OF PROOF WERE ACCEPTABLE. JACOB ZECH III CHOOSE TO GO BEFORE AN OPEN COURT OF 12 MEN TO ESTABLISH HIS PROOF. THIS RECORD IS FILE NUMBER S3101 IN THE NATIONAL ARCHRIVES OF REVOLUTIONARY WAR PENSION RECORDS. IT IS JACOBS OWN HISTORY OF HIS LIFE. PLEASE REMEMBER THAT JACOB HAD A VERY THICK GERMAN ACCENT AND THAT THE COURT CLERK SPELLED PHONETICALLY.
ROBERTSON COUNTY,STATE OF TENNESSEE. NOVEMBER TERM 1832
PERSONALLY APPEARED JACOB ZECH AGED SEVENTY FOUR YEARS OCTOBER PAST RESIDENT IN THE COUNTY OF COUNTY AND STATE AFFORE SAID. IN OPEN COURT WHO BEING FIRST DULY SWORED ACCORDING TO LAW DO ON HIS OATH MAKE THE FOLLOWING DECLARATION. IN ORDER TO OBTAIN THE BENEFIT OF THE PROVISIONS MADE BY ACT OF CONGRESS PASSED JUNE THE 7TH, 1832. THAT HE WAS BORN IN THE STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA IN BERKS COUNTY IN 10 OR 12 MILES OF REDINGTOWN BORN THE YEAR OF 1758 OCTOBER THE DAY OF THE MONTH NOT RECOLECTED AS I HAVE NOT THE REGISTER OF MY AGE BEING LEFT IN PENNSYLVANIA IN THE CHURCH BOOK SO INFORMED OF BY MY PARENTS. I WAS RAISED IN BERKS COUNTY AND MAIDEN CREEK TOWNSHIP WHEN MY FATHER REMOVED TO YORK COUNTY SAID THERE I WAS DRAFTED AND WENT IN THE SERVICE FOR A TOUR OF THREE MONTHS UNDER THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICERS. CAPTAIN JOHN MILLER OF THE SAME TOWNSHIP AND MARCHED FROM YORKTOWN TO WHERE I WAS DISCHARGED TO RETURN HOME AFTER SERVING MY TOUR OF DUTY. THIS WAS ABOUT TWO YEARS BEFORE THE END OF THE WAR . MY FIELD OFFICERS, I DO NOT RECOLLECT , NOR I WAS NOT IN ANY BATTLE THIS TOUR,BUT IN SERVING THIS TOUR OF DUTY I STAINED MYSELF BY LIFTING A LOG TO MAKE A CAMP FIRE AND CAUSED A RUPTURE WHICH WILL FOLLOW ME TO MY GRAVE AND CAUSED MY BODILY ABILITY TO FAIL ME MUCH IN LABORING FOR A LIVING. THEN AFTER I RETURNED HOME MY FATHER REMOVED TO THE STATE OF VIRGINIA IN ROCKINGHAM COUNTY NEAR HARRISBERG WHERE I VOLUNTEERED FOR SERVICE FOR A TOUR OF THREE MONTHS MORE. MUSTERED IN SERVICE AND WENT UNDER THE COMMAND OF THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICERS. CAPTAIN RICE RENDEVOUZED AT HARRISBERG IN SAID COUNTY OF ROCKINGHAM AND MARCHED AND STATIONED NEAR A BRITISH FORT BETTER THAN THREE WEEKS AND WAS COMMANDED BY COLONEL NALE AND MAJOR JAMITT NALE WAS DISPATCHED AND WENT TO THE ASSEMBLY THEN COLONEL BOYER TOOK COMMAND AND UNDER GENERAL MILBURGER FROM THEN WE MARCHED AND WAS STATIONED NEAR A LARGE SWAMP WHERE WE JOINED THE NORTH CAROLINA MILITIA AND WHILE LAYING THERE I RECOLECT SOME INCIDENTS WHICH I WILL GIVE IN DETAIL THERE WAS A DETACHMENT OF FIFTY VOLUNTEERS SENT ACROSS THE SWAMP TO SURPRISE THE TORYS . IN THAT QUARTER THE VOLUNTEERS PASSED THROUGH ON FALLEN PINE LOGS THEY CALLED AT A HOUSE AND THEY WERE RECEIVED AS FRIENDS AND WAS FEASTED ON HONEY IN THE HOUSE. THE ENEMY CAME ON THEM WHILE IN THE HOUSE AND THE ENEMY MADE A MISTAKE BEING 2 HOURS IN THE NIGHT AND FIRED THREE PLATTONS ON THEIR OWN MEN. IT WAS SAID I WAS NOT IN THE ACTION. BUT WAS GUARDING THE LOGS WHEN I HEARD THE FIRING THIS I WAS INFORMED OF BY TWO WOMEN WHO CAME THE NEXT DAY TO THE LOGS WHILE I STOOD GUARD WITH RED CLOAKS ON AND I TOOK THEM UNDER GUARD AND RETURNED THEM TO THE COMMANDANTS AS I THOUGHT THEY MIGHT HAVE BEEN SPIES AND ALL THE MEN CAME IN THE FIRST AND SECOND DAY WITH THE EXCEPTION OF TWO UNKNOWN WHAT BECAME OF THEM AFTER THAT I WAS MARCHED HOME AND DISCHARGED AFTER SERVICED SAID TOUR OF THREE MONTHS AND UPWARDS. THIS WAS IN THE SPRING BEFORE GENERAL CORNWALLIS WAS TAKEN AT YORKTOWN IN 1781. THIS BEING MY LAST TOUR IN THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR THEN I REMAINED IN ROCKINGHAM COUNTY NEAR HARRISBERG AND MARRIED AND LIVED IN SAID COUNTY TILL I REMOVED TO THE STATE OF TENNESSEE HAVE MY RESIDENCE. I FURTHER DECLARE AND DOCUMENTARY EVIDENCE I HAVE NONE OF NO KIND OF WHICH I CAN ESTABLISH MY SERVING AS A REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIER INDEPENDENT OF MY OWN DECLARATION. NOR NEVER HAD ANY IN CONCEQUENCE I NEVER APPLIED FOR ANY AND AS MONEY WAS WORTH NOTHING I DID NOT APPLY FOR PAY OR WRITTEN DISCHARGES NOR BEEN PLACED AS ANY PENSION ROLE IN THIS OR ANY OTHER STATE WHAT SO EVER AND I HEREBY RELINQUISH ALL CLAIM WHAT EVER TO A PENSION OR ANNUITY EXCEPT THE PRESENT SWORN TO AND SUBSCRIBED THIS THE 14TH OF NOVEMBER IN THE YEAR OF 1832 IN OPEN COURT
HIS DISTRICT CLERK W. SEAL JACOB X ZECH MARK THE FOLLOWING IS A COURT RECORD OF A STATEMENT BY NEIGHBORS TESTYING ON BEHALF OF JACOB ZECH. SOME OF THE SPELLING IS UNDERSTANDABLE. JACOB DID NOT SPEAK ENGLISH VERY CLEAR AND THE COURT REPORTER USED A LOT OF PHONICS.
WE MARTIN WALTON RESIDING IN THE SAME COUNTY OF ROBERTSON AND VICIENTY AND JAMES DOSS OF THE SAME, WE CERTIFY THAT WE ARE AQUAINTED WITH JACOB ZECH WHO HAS SUBSCRIBED AND SWORNED IN THE FORGOING DECLARATION THAT WE BELIEVE HIME TO BE SEVENTY FOUR YEARS OLD AS HE STATED THAT IS BELEAVED IN THE NEIBORHOOD WHERE HE RESIDES TO HAVE BEEN A REVOLUTIONARY AND SERVED AS HE STATES AND WE HEREBY CONCUR IN THAT OPINION SWORN TO AND SUBSCRIBED THE DAY AND YEAR AFFORE SAID IN OPEN COURT.
DISTRICT CLERK W. SEAL MARTIN WALTON JAMES DOSS AND NOW WE SAID COURT DO HERE BY DECLARE OUR OPINION AFTER THE INVESTIGATION OF THE WHOLE MATTER PUTTING THE INTERROGATORY PRESCRIBED BY THE WARS DEPARTMENT THAT THE ABOVE NAMED APPLICANT WAS A REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIER AND SERVED AS HE STATES AND THE COURT FURTHER CERTIFY THAT IT APPEARS TO THEM THAT MARTIN WALTON WHO HAS SIGNED THE PROCEEDING CERTIFICATE IS A RESIDENTER AND A CLERGEMAN IN THE SAME COUNTY AND VICENTY AND JAMES DOSS WHO HAS ALSO SIGNED THE SAME IS A RESIDENTER OF THE SAME COUNTY AND VICENTY AND IS A CREDITABLE PERSON AND EACH OF THEM THAR STATEMENT IS IN ____________ TO CREDIT. I WILLIAM SEAL , CLERK OF THE COUNTY OF ROBERTSON OF PLEAS AND QUARTERS SESSIONS DO HEREBY CERTIFY THE FOREGOING CONTAINS THE ORIGINALS PROCEEDING OF THE SAID COURT IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION OF JACOB ZECH FOR A PENTION WHERE OF I HAVE ___________ TO SET MY HAND AND AFFIXED THE SEAL OF SAID COURT AT THE OFFICE IN SPRINGFIELD THIS 17TH DAY OF NOVEMBER 1832.
W.SEAL JACOB ZECH DID RECEIVE HIS PENSION WHICH AMOUNTED TO $20.00 PER ANNUM.
THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION ON THE JACOB ZECH HEADSTONE AND ZECH FAMILY CEMETERY WAS SENT TO ME BY ROGER FUTRELL AND IS VERY INTERESTING INFORMATION.
WHEN JACOB ZECH'S MILITARY HEADSTONE WAS ORDERED BY THE DAR IN THE 1920'S FOR SOME REASON, IT WAS DELIVERED TO THE WIDICK CEMETERY WHICH IS A COUPLE OF MILES FROM THE ZECH GRAVEYARD. THE MARKER WAS SIMPLY LAYED ON THE GROUND AND NEVER SET ON A FOUNDATION. WHEN THE ROBERTSON COUNTY CEMETERY BOOK WAS DONE THE STONE WAS CATALOGED AS BEING IN THE WIDICK CEMETERY. IN 1998, ROBERTSON COUNTY HISTORIAN DEWEY EDWARDS MOVED THE OLD STONE TO THE ZECH GRAVEYARD WHICH IS ON THE OLD JACOB ZECH'S FARM. IT IS NOT A TRUE CEMETERY, BUT SIMPLY A FAMILY BURYING GROUND ON THE HOMEPLACE.THE STONE WAS BADLY DAMAGE AND THE SR HAVE ORDERED A REPLACEMENT MARKER WHICH WILL BE ERECTED WITHIN THE WALLS OF THE ZECH GRAVEYARD. OBVIOUSLY, WE DID NOT KNOW THE EXACT SITE OF HIS GRAVE WITHIN THE BURIAL PLOT.
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