Concerning Revolutionary War Service
On this 14th day of January 1833 before us Enoch Mathew, Joel Frazier, William Marshall, and William Brown, constituting the County Court of Harrison County, in the state of Kentucky which is a court of record, now setting, appeared Jacob Lanter a resident of Harrison County, in the state of Kentucky aged upward of seventy years, having been born on the 11th day of August 1762.
Who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the law of congress passed June 7th 1832. He states that he entered the service of the United States, under the following named officers and served as is here in after stated:
That he was drafted in the Virginia Service for the United States in the summer of 1778 under Captain May Burton, Lieutenant Smith and Ensign Rucker, in the Regiment Commanded by Colonel Thomas Matthews, (called the Bloody 3rd ) and Major Nicholas Long in General Lawsons Brigade. This tour was for three months. That he was residing in Orange County Virginia where he marched to Williamsburg to and from place to place until the expiration of the tour, when he was discharged. General Lafayette and General Wayne were regular officers in the Service with him at the same time. That he also voluntarily took the place and station of his brother in law Henry Clayton (who was drafted) in the summer of 1781 under Captain George Waugh, Ensign Tarver Nelson in the regiment commanded by Colonel Ennis and Major Carey, under General Lawson. This tour was for three months that he marched from Orange County Virginia to Gloucester opposite Little York here and during the siege against Cornwallis. He spent the most of this tour and after the capture of Cornwallis, he marched guarding the prisoners to Fredericksburg, when at the termination of his tour he was dismissed and he went home. Generals Washington, Lafayette, and Wayne are recollected that he received his Captains Discharge for both of the foregoing tours, which were lost and destroyed on his journey to Kentucky on his removal that State that he verily believes and aspects his way in the actual Service of the United States full six months consisting of said two tours of three months each.
He states that he was born in Orange County, Virginia on the 11th day of August 1762, that he has no record of his age that he was living in Orange County, Virginia, when he entered the service in both of his tours and resided there after the Revolution until the fall of 1810, when he started for Kentucky where he arrived in Montgomery County in the next spring and resided there until about 1820, when he removed to Harrison County, Kentucky, where he has resided ever since and now resides there.
He states that there is no person living within his knowledge by whom he can prove his services, except Claibourne Chandler and Edward Pollard who were in Colonel Mathews Regiment with him.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity, except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension role of the agency of any state or territory whatever.
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