Enoch Job Jr's Application for Pension
Feb Term 1828 - Cole Co., MO Circuit Court"Enoch Jobe resident in said Co., aged about seventy years who being duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the pension made by the acts of congress 1818 and the first May 1820 that he the said Enoch Jobe in listed for the term of two years on the 15th day of February 1775 in the state of Virginia in the company commanded by captain William Croghan in the regiment commanded then by colonel Muhlenburg in the line of the state of Virginia, in the continental establishment that he continues to serve the said Corps until the 15th day of February 1777 when he was discharged from the service in the state of Pennsylvania at Valley Forge that he hereby here by relinquished every claim whatever to a pensions accept the present that his name is not on the roll of any state except that of Virginia and that the following and the reason for not making earlier application for a pension that he did not wish to become burdensome to the country till compelled by old age and bodily infirmity which is increased his age and a rupture and the growth of a ____ upon his shoulder.
And is pursuance of the act of the first May 1820, I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United State on the 18 day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift, sale or in any manner disposed of my property, or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it so as to bring myself within the provision of an Act of Congress entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary “War” passed on the 18th day of March 1818; and that I have not nor has any person intrust for me, any property or securities, contracts of debts due to me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule here unto annexed and by me subscribed to wit, two mares, and aged about 20 years, the other aged about 12 years, two colts of said mares of the year 1827, ad gelding about seven years old, and old waggon worth about forty dollars, three cows, two heifers and two calves, five sheep, 18 stock hogs and pigs, five pieces of cast-iron for kitchen use and cast iron spice mortar and one shovel plow, on Negro woman aged seventy three years.
Enoch Jobe of said Co., of Cole came into Court to amend his declaration and testimony made at last February term of this court in order to obtain a pension form the United States and a revolutionary soldier doth make oath as follows to wit, I Enoch Jobe do solemnly swear that the enlistment into the revolutionary army by me in Capt. Croghans company as stated in my preceding declaration was in the spring of the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy six, the same year of the declaration of independence, that owing to the great lapse of time my own infirmity and the want of any writing to evidence the time, I was led into the error to state it had occurred in the years 1775, but from reflection and the events which he remembers before and immediately succeeding the declaration of independence, he verily believes his enlistment took place in the same year 1775 that this deponent the same year he was enlisted was in the actions of the white marsh the while plains and the battle at Trenton, and subsequently at Germantown and Brandywine, in all the other respects he refers to the fact and statements in his foregoing declaration and makes the same a part of his present deposition - and further saith not Enoch Job
I David Todd, Judge of the said circuit court doth certify that the foregoing declaration and affidavit of Enoch Job was made in open court and duly sworn to and that it doth appear from credence to the said circuit court that William Campbell of Cooper Co., a witness sworn at the last February term of this court to establish his claim to a pension is a credible man and entitled to confidence and belief on oath
- David Todd"Later Statement
"In a later statement, Job said that he then beleived that his enlistment took place in the year of the Declaration of Independence, 1776. His recommendation was signed by William (X) Campbell of Cole Co.,, Missouri. Reuben Reader made a deposition stating that --'he was ignorant and not blessed with an education, but he believed Enoch Job to be making a true statement.' Thomas Hardin made a deposition that - 'he had known Enoch Job from early childhood in Shenandoah Co, Virginia.'
Enoch Jobe started that he did not apply for a pension sooner, until he was compelled to ask for aid, by old age, a rupture and a wen on his shoulder. That his earthly possession were only -2 mares, 2 colts, 1 yearling, 1 wagon, 3 cows, 2 heifers, 2 calvers, 5 sheep, 18 head of stock hogs and pigs, 5 pieces of cast iron for the kitchen, 1 cast iron spike motor, a woman slave, age 73, a second wife, age 52, who had two grown daughters and a son age 16, and that none of his own children lived with him. His claim was granted and he is named in the List of Pensioners from Cole Co.,, Missouri in 1840."
March 1853 - Widow Sarah's Application
"Mrs. Sarah Jobe of Moniteau Co, MO, age 72, applied for pension as widow of a soldier, stated that 'Enoch Job, her husband drew $98 a year in that country, all the time he drew a pension, and that he died in the Co.,, that he was paid through a St. Louis agent\cy; that she and Enoch Job were married April 11, 1829 or about that time, by Louis Shelton, a minister. A clipping from the Family Bible was attached, giving account of his death on April 19, 1843 in Cole Co, MO' Sworn to by John McKelvey, Judge of the Probate Court, Moniteau Co.,, Missouri and by James Martin and Elizabeth Martin. The letter telling of his death ws not sent to the Pension office until November 11, 1845"
