Pvt. Jacob Troxell
State of Tennessee Marion County
County Court August Session 1832
REVOLUTIONARY WAR CLAIM R 10777
On the 22nd day of August 1832 personally appeared in open Court before the worshipful Justices of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions of the County of Marion and the State of Tennessee now sitting, being a court of record, Jacob Troxel, a resident of Marion County and State of Tennessee, aged about 73 years who being first duly sworn according to law doth make on his oath the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed Jun 7th 1832. That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and have as herein after served as herein after stated, to wit: First: He was drafted in Loudoun County in the state of Virginia in the winter he believes of the year 1777, his captain's name he can not recollect He with the company to which he belonged was ordered to guard and conduct some prisoners taken from the British to the lower parts of Virginia which services he performed then returned to Loudoun County and was dismissed by his officers but got no discharge was in service something more than one month. In the winter (as well as he can recollect), of the year 1778 he volunteered in a horse company at a place called Red Stone, the name of the county not recollected, he believes in the state of Virginia. His officers were Captain Ford and Colonel Crawford the same that was afterwards burned by the Indians Marched to Fort McIntosh and there joined the regulars commanded by Colonel Campbell and General McIntosh had the command of the troops and marched against the Shawnees and Delaware Indians after remaining at a Fort [Laurens] the name of which he does not recollect he returned and was dismissed by his officers about harvest in the same year after having served six months got no discharge. In the summer of the year 1781 he was drafted in Loudoun County and state of Virginia, His officers were Captain Lewis and Colonel West. He joined the troops under General Washington who was marching to York Town in Virginia and remained under Washington until after Lord Cornwallis was taken and for some time afterwards and was then dismissed by Captain Lewis some time in the fall of the same year after having been in service six months but got no discharge. He knows of no person living by which he can prove his services. He was acquainted with General Washington and Colonel Campbell and officers of the regular Army besides other officers whose names he does not recollect. He was born (from the best information he can collect) in the year 1759 in the county of Frederick in the state of Maryland and lived there 13 years and removed to Loudoun County state of Virginia where he lived 19 years removed back to the state of Maryland and remained there 4 years, removed to Sullivan County in the state of Tennessee and remained there 4 years, removed to Sevier County in the state of Tennessee and remained there 3 years removed to Pulaski County, Kentucky and remained there 2 years removed to Wayne County Kentucky and remained there about 20 years and removed to Jackson County Alabama and remained there 4 years and from there he removed to Marion County in the State of Tennessee where he has lived about 4 years. He states that he is known in his neighborhood to John Hail, Luke Hendrox, esquire, Richard Blevins, Josiah Conn a clergyman, James Cooper and Tarton Blevins who can testify as to his character for veracity and their belief of his services as a soldier of the revolution. He states that he has no record of his age nor never has seen one. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity except the present and declare that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state. Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid. Jacob Troxell We, Josiah Conn a clergyman, a resident of the county of Marion and John Hail and Richard Blevins, residents of the same county hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Jacob Troxell who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be 73 years of age; that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and we concur in that opinion . Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid Josiah Conn John Hail Richard Blevens And the said court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and as he states. And the court further certifies that it appears to them that Josiah Conn, who has signed this proceeding ________ is a clergyman resident in the county of Marion and that John Hail and Richard Blevins ____ has signed the same, are residents of the same county and are creditable persons and that their statements are ____ to credit. John Mitchell Jon_______ Amos Griffith I, John P. Kellly, Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for Marion County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Jacob Troxel for a pension. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and private seal of office for the time being no seal of office ____ at office in Jasper this 23tr day of August 1832 . Jno Kelly, Clk ------------
In the Military Record is a letter from the Treasury Department dated 25 April 1916 to the Commissioner of Pensions reading: “Sir: In reply to your letter of the 21st instant, you are informed that according to the latest account rendered by the U.S. Pension Agent at Knoxville, Tennessee, the records of this office show last payment to have been made to Jacob Troxel, Pri. Army Rev, certificate No. 19080, at $43.33 per annum to July 1, 1843, the date of his death, to William O. Winston, Attorney for Elizabeth Troxel, widow. Said pensioner died in DeKalb County, Alabama, where he had resided. Respectfully, Oscar A. Price, Auditor” There is a letter from the Treasury Department dated Sept. 9, 1845 to the Commissioner of Pensions, giving the same information as above. There is a brief listing of Jacob's three terms of service, and several questions. One was: In what battles was he engaged? the answer -- none. There are several letters written over the years from private citizens (descendants) inquiring about Jacob's service in the Revolution. Records of one only Jacob Troxell exist in the Military Archives of Virginia. Pension claim R 10777 Elizabeth, his widow survived him, and was denied a continuance of pension, probably because she could not document their marriage. Jacob was granted a pension of $43.33 per year … the petition was dated August 23, 1832, Jacob was 75 yrs old.
From the 1835 TENNESSEE PENSIONERS ROLL (Revolutionary War) MARION COUNTY TENNESSEE JACOB TROXELL PRIVATE VIRGINIA LINE ANNUAL ALLOWANCE: $43.33 ANNUAL ALLOTMENT: $ 129.99 DATE STARTED: August 2, 1833 AGE: 75
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