Bounty Land
Aulabaugh, Jacob - He stated in his 1850 bounty land claim that he had enrolled as a substitute at Boonsboro, Maryland around July 1814 for 3 months; he was discharged Baltimore October 1814 and entered Col. Stemples Regiment around October 1814 as a substitute to serve the unexpired part of the term of a John Smith, and continued in service for about one month. When he again filed for a warrant for additional bounty land in 1855 he stated he had been served as a substitute for John Wolf in Capt. Mills' Company and was drafted into service in Boonsborough July or August 1814. When he applied for a pension in 1871 he stated he had served at Annapolis and Baltimore; he was guarding baggage during the battle of Bladensburg. Born ca. 1797, he married Elizabeth Robertson at Hagerstown 26 August 1819. In 1850 he was living in Frederick County, Virginia, later in Hampshire County, Virginia [now West Virginia]; and in 1855 and 1871 he was a resident of Green County, Illinois. Acquaintances in 1855: W.C. Rainey, Justice of the Peace, who had known Jacob Aulabaugh ever since he removed from Virginia to Illinois. Also acquainted were Giels H. Turner and Thos. L. Hudson. [Bounty land: 1850, 40 acres, #19761; 1855, 120 acres, #11843; Pension applications: SO 10948, SC 6699]
Maryland Genealogical Society Bulletin, Vol 35, No. 3,
Some Washington County Veterans of the War of 1812.