1. WILLIAM1 JOBES1 was born 17461, and died June 07, 1789 in probably Trenton, Hunterdon county, New Jersey1.
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1. New Jersey State Archival records. "JOBS, WILLIAM. Corporal, Captain Yard's Company, 2nd Regiment, New Jersey Continental Line; Enlisted May 1, 1777; taken prisoner April 5, 1778; exchanged August 3, 1778; transferred to Colonel Lewis Nicola's regiment of Invalids, January 1779; promoted Sergeant, September 1, 1779; reduced October 20, 1780; discharged with a pension, September 1, 1782, on account of the loss of an arm. August1, 1789, was a resident of Trenton, Hunterdon County, New Jersey, age given as 43 years, (MSS. NOS. 3773, page 25, 3721, and 10302; Miss. Accounts, No. 1, page 360.)
2. The Pension Roll of 1835 (New Jersey) pp. 10-11. "List of the Invalid Pensioners who have inscribed on the Roll of the New Jersey agency, whose residence, and other information called for by the resolution of the Senate, cannot be ascertained in consequence of the destruction of the papers of the War Office in 1801 and 1814." "[Names] William Jobbs; [Sergeant] do; [annual allowance] 60.00; [sums received] 1500.00; [description of service] [Revolutionary War] do; [when placed on the pension roll] ---; [commencement of pension] [Mar. 4, 1789] do; [laws under which they were formerly inscribed, increased and reduced, and remarks] [June 7,1785] do, Dead."
3. New Jersey In 1793, James S. Norton, (Salt Lake City, Utah, 1973). This is a military census of all eligible men in New Jersey in 1793. No William Jobes or surname variant can be found in this record. New Jersey Archives at Trenton indicate William was at Trenton as of August 1789, and that he was a pensioner.
4. The Official Register of the Officers and Men of New Jersey in the Revolutionary War, William S. Stryker, (Trenton: 1872) pp. 117, 129,and 645. List records of William Jobes, surname variants included. pp 117 lists a Serjeant in 1st Regiment; pp 129, lists a William Job, (the individual listed in NSDAR 294764); and finally, pp 645, lists a William Jobs, private, Capt Jacob Cooper's Company, State Troops (NSDAR 548548 used this record).
5. New Jersey Archival Records. "JOBBS, WILLIAM. Private, Captain Jacob Cooper's Company, from the county of Burlington, enlisted April 12, 1782. (MS. NO. 3877.)" "COOPER, JACOB _ Burlington County. Captain, Burlington County Militia. ((Ref. Inv. 1040, George Lake). Captain, State Troops; company was taised under Act of December 29, 1781; consisted of one officer, one sergeant, one corporal, and 25 privates, and was to take station at Little Egg Harbor Meeting House on or before the 1st of March and to serve until December 15, 1782. (Ref. Laws of N.J., 1776-1782; Mss. 3877). In engagement in which he and two of his men were wounded. (Ref. Mss. 7401; Journal Council, page 62, and Votes of Assembly, Page 140). Received Certificate No. 101, for L($)85:7:0, for depreciation of his Continental pay in the Burlington County Militia. (Ref. Mss. 9158)." Mss or manuscript number 3877 includes the following: "Return of Capt Cooper's Company in the State Regiment 12 April 1782. A Return of Capt. Jacob Coopers Company of State Troops of the County of Burlington State of New Jersey April 12 - 1782. Jacob Cooper Capt, John Douglas Quarter Master Sergt., Josiah Jenkins Corporal, William Hardy, James Bell, William Brown, Robert Craft, Benjm. Smith, Peter Corey, William Jobbs, Thos. Grant, Caleb Sawyer, Saml. Foster, John Burnes, John Cowgill, Aron Casey(Spelling unclear), James Sawye and John Bush"
6. Errata regarding the connection with Egg Harbor Township and Coopers Ferry. Egg Harbor township established 1695 is found in the northern section of Old Gloucester county. the four townships in that corner included Newton (now called Haddon township), Waterford, Gloucester and Egg Harbor. Newton (now Haddon), Waterford and Egg Harbor are now found in Camden county. Coopers ferry connected with Egg Harbor via Haddonfield, White Horse, Berlin (Long-A-Coming) and Blue Anchor.
7. New Jersey Archives, 2nd Series, Volume II, Newspapers Extracts, Volume II, 1778. Edited by Francis Bee (Trenton: Murphy, 1903) pp. 147-9. Discusses the battle at Cooper's Ferry 5 April, 1778.
8. Calendar of military affairs of William Jobes. 25 January, 1777. Joined as a private in Capt. Yard's Company. Was the fourth Jobes male to join this particular Company in the past month and half. He was preceeded by Ezekial, John and Samuel Jobes. May 1777, he is listed as Corporal in pay and muster rolls. No specific sources can be located discussing the promotion. 5 April, 1778. Wounded, lost right arm and was captured in a battle which is not specified in his records. The only battle in which any unit of Colonel Israel Shreve were involved on that date was that of the Battle of Cooper's ferry. He was captured with about thirty other men including a Major William Ellis of the Gloucester Militia, and Lieutenants Abraham Stout and John Hutchins of 2nd New Jersey, Colonel Israel Shreve's unit. 3 August, 1778. William is exchanged by the British. I feel that a series of correspondence between George washington and fellow American, Major John Beatty, who was in charge of prisoner exchanges between 27 and 30 July, 1778 culminated with an exchange at West Point involved William Jobes. William returned to Yard's Company and performed Command duty until transferring to the Invalid Regiment, a Pennsylvania Line. 22 December, 1778, William Jobes, Corporal transferred from Yard's Company to the Invalid Regiment, under as of yet unknown command. 1 September, 1779, William is promoted to Sergeant, in the Invalid Regiment, while under, as of yet unknown command. 20 October, 1780, William while under the command of Captain John Reiley, is demoted from Sergeant to Private. This John Reiley assumed command of his company on 22 August, 1780, and from that date until the end of October, seven of his eight sergeants were involved in adverse activity. Two were outright discharged, two deserted duty, three, including William Jobes were demoted from sergeant to private. It is obvious that a general house cleaning had taken place, but for yet, unknown reasons. 1 June, 1781. Remained under the command of Captain John Reiley's Company, until this date, at which time, he transferred to Captain Ebenezeer Hill's Company. Capt John Reiley remained with the Invalid Regiment until 24 June, 1783, therefore William transferred for some other intrinsic reason other than a simple change of officers. 31 December, 1781. As a private, William left the Invalid regiment, the reasons not given. Resignation would seem most likely as a cause. Was still a member of Hill's Company. 12 April, 1782. Probably joined Captain Jacob Cooper's Company, State Militia of Little Egg Harbor, Burlington county. While little info would support this theory, some records combined give an indication that this theory is valid. No records exist for our William from the time that he left the Invalid regiment until the beginning of his State pension on 1 September, 1782. However, NJ records on William (see Printed Roster, page 128) states that William was discharged the same day his pension began. If he left the Invalids in December, how could he have been discharged the following September. Since Cooper's Company was disbanded on 31 December of that same year, and without a final manifest, until shown otherwise, I feel that I can assume that William must have served in Cooper's Company, leaving early when his pension finally came through. 1 September, 1782. Left Cooper's Company and began his Invalid Pension of five dollars per month. 7 June, 1789. The date of the probable death of this William Jobes. This date is arrived by the combination of several sources from both the sate and national level. Mss. 10302 gives the information that his pension had been paid up to August 1789 and that he had died. I am at this point assuming that the death, while not specific in nature in the rolls would have been recent to the date August 1789. The Pension Roll of 1835 (NJ section, pp. 11), states that a Sergeant William Jobbs, Invalid pensioner, died 7 June, 1785. This record is flawed in several instances. First the data tell of a pension which lasted for at least twenty-five years (at $60 per annum, totalling $1500.00) which can easily be refuted by examining several sources. He is excluded from the Old Invalid Series of 1792, Norton's New Jersey in 1793 and from both 1813 and 1818 Pension Rolls. Secondly, the dates of the pension start date and the termination date are not in chronological order. Since it quite is understandable that since this record already shows several flaws, it would be possible to assume that the number 1785 was actually 1789 and that the last numeral '5' had been misread from the actual numeral '9'. This would make the actual death date as 7 June 1789, a date quite close to that of the records mentioned in New Jersey Mss 10302. No source records can give the service of a Sergeant William Jobbs. Stryker's Official Register lists on page 117, a Sergeant William Jobbs of the First Regiment; however, the State Archives of New Jersey state only two records exist with a William Jobes (including surname variants). And both are already discussed. The National Archives, the State Archives of Pennsylvania and Pierce's Register all substantiate that fact. Since the William who is listed as a sergeant in Stryler's Index is disallowed, who then is the Sergeant William Jobes discussed in the 1835 Pension Roll? It is my claim that he is the same William who served out of Yard's and the Invalid Regiment. William is not listed in the Old Invalid Series of 1792, as an invalid, he would have been in this census, unless he was missed or had already died. On that basis, I believe that the William Jobes who served in Yard's Company, 2nd New Jersey Regiment, later the Invalid Regiment of Pennsylvania, and possibly finally Capt Cooper's Company, New Jersey State Militia probably died in or very near Trenton about 7 June 1789.
9. The Pension Roll of 1835 In Four Volumes: Volume II The Mid Atlantic States (reprint) (Baltimore: GPC, 1968) New Jersey section, pp. 11.
10. Pierce's Register, (Baltimore: GPC, 1984) (reprint) pp. 8,274.
11. Calendar of the Correspondence of George Washington in Four Volumes. Volume I June 17 1775- October 19 1778 (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1915) pp. 592-3, 693, 696, 698-9.
12. Old Invalid Series, Reports submitted to Congress 1792, Class #9, U.S. Congress, American State Papers (washington, D.C.: Gales and Seaton, 1834) pp. 58-67, 85-122, 125-128, 135-145, 150-172.
13. Revolutionary Pensioners: A Transcript of the United States for 1813 (Baltimore: Southern Book, 1955).
14. New Jersey in 1793, An Abstract and Index to the 1793 Militia Census. James S. Norton (Salt Lake City, 1973).
15. Pennsylvania Archives Fifth Series, Volume IV, Edited Thomas Lynch Montgomery (Harrisburg: Harrisburg, 1906) pp. 31,35,48,52,71 and 84.
16. Library of Congress, Journals of the Continental Congress 1774-1789, Volume XXII 1782 January 1- August 9. (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1914). pp. 208-10.
17. Votes and Proceedings of the Seveneth General Assembly of the State of New Jersey (Trenton: Collins, Printer to the State, 1783) pp. dated 26 October, 1782.
18. Old Gloucester County and the American revolution 1763-1778, Robert W. Harper (Woodbury, NJ: Gloucester County Cultural and Heritage Commision) pp. 131-141, 160-163.
19. Notes on Old Gloucester County New Jersey Volume III, Compiled Frank H. Stewart (Woodbury Public Library) pp. 67-8.
20. Camden County Historical Society, Camden History Volume I, No. 9, Revolutionary Activities In and Around Camden, Charles S. Boyer (Reprinted from West Jersey Press of June 20,27 and July 4 and 11, 1935) (Stewart Collections, Glassboro State College, now Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ).
21. At General Howe's Side 1776-1778: The Diary of General William Howe's aide de camp, Captain Friedrich von Muenchhausen, Translated by Ernst Kipping and Samuel Stelle Smith (Monmouth Beach, NJ: Philip Freneau Press, 1974) pp. 50.
22. The Writings of George Washington from Original Manuscript Sources 1745-1799, John C. Fiztpatrick, Ed., Volume Eleven March 1, 1778 - May 31, 1778. (Washington: US Print Office). pp. 209-210. (David Library of the American revolution, Washington Crossing, Pennsylvania).
23. Collections of the New York Historical Society 1881. (NY 1882). "Journals of Captain John Montressor" pp. 484. (David Library of the American Revolution, Washington Crossing, Pennsylvania).
24. Papers of George Washington 1697-1799. Serial 4, 1778, March 17 - 1778 April. (Film 36, Reel 48). Letter dated 6 April, 1778 from Colonel Israel Shreve to George Washington, discussion of the miliary affairs of 4-5 April, 1778 and the Battle at Cooper's ferry. David Library of the American Revolution, Washinton Crossing, Pennsylvania).
25. NSDAR Application #712474 by Diane Hall Thomas on the service of Major William Ellis, who was captured at Cooper's Ferry 5 April, 1778.
26. NSDAR Application #234171 by Mrs. Ella Moore Klopp on the service of Captain John Reily of the Invalid Regiment.
27. The New Jersey Volunteers (Loyalists) In The Revolutionary War, by William S. Stryker. (Trenton: Naar, Day and Naar Book and Job Printers, 1887), pp. 12-3. (Wilson Library, University of Minnesota 973.314 N46s). "On April 2d, 1778, a detachment of New Jersey Volunteers lefts Philadelphia for the purpose of garrisoning the fort at Billingsport, New Jersey."
28. Graves of Revolutionary Soldiers (trenton, New Jersey). by Elizabeth B. Satterthwaite. (Stewart Collection NJ McTr 929.5 S253). No listing of a William Jobes.
29. The Volunteer Soldiers of Burlington, by Edward Burd Grubb. (Oration delivered 30 May 1899). (Camden: Post Print House, 1889). (J974.961 B95 G885; New jersey State Archives, Trenton, NJ). "Burlington's Patriots of the Revolution A list of Burlington Soldiers in the Continental Army" Includes a "William Jobs"
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