Person:Jacob Wade (1)

Military Service

American Revolutionary War Veteran

Revolutionary War Pension Information

Information from “Virginia/West Virginia Genealogical Data from Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Records”, Vol. 6, compiled by Patrick G. Wardell, Lt. Col. U.S. Army Ret. :

Wade, Jacob - entered service 1777 in 14th Virginia Regiment; granted Pension 1818 age not given, Bedford County, Virginia, per County Court Clerk James C. Steptoe & Judge William Daniel. F-S41290, R2466.

1.   Graves, William T. Southern Campaign Revolutionary War Pension Statements & Rosters.

   Pension Application of Jacob Wade S41290 VA
   Transcribed and annotated by C. Leon Harris. Revised 22 Nov 2014.
   
   At a Superior Court of Law continued and held for Bedford County at the Courthouse the 15th day of April 1818 before William Daniel Esqr. Judge Jacob Wade came into Court and made oath that he served Twelve months in the continental service of the United States of America during the revolutionary war that he was enlisted in this county under Cap George Lambeth [George Lambert] and belonged to the fourteenth Virginia regiment in said continental service that to the best of his recollection he enlisted in the year 1777 and that he was honorably discharged, and that from his reduced circumstances in life he needs the assistance of his Country for support, that to the best of his knowledge and belief the discharge he obtained on quitting the army is lost or is not now in existence that he knows of; which was supported by the affidavit of Jesse Wall of this County who appeared in Court and made oath that the said Jacob Wade was in the Continental service of the United states of America during the revolutionary war that he belonged to Capt. George Lambeth’s company of the fourteenth Virginia regiment, that he thinks the said Wade served twelve months in the said service and believes he was regularly and honourably discharged and that from his reduced circumstances he thinks he needs the assistance of his Country for support which is ordered to be certified.
   
   http://revwarapps.org/s41290.pdf