Military Records Index:

US Revolutionary War:

Christian (Leibenguth) Livengood - Northampton Co. Pa.

Feight Levingood - Northumberland Co. Pa 
George Leibenguth - Northampton Co. Pa.

George Levinguth - Northumberland Co. Pa

Jac'b Livingood - Northumberland Co. Pa 
Jacob Leibenguth - Pension Application - Northampton Co. PA
Jacob Levengood -  Northampton Co. Pa.
Jacob Livengood - Schuylkill Co. Pa

US Civil War:
Abraham Livengood  PA
Charles Leibenguth   PA
Henry Livengood  PA
Jacob Libengood  PA
John Livengood  PA
John K. Livengood  PA
Joseph T. Leibenguth  PA 
William J. Livengood  PA

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Jacob Leibenguth:

National Archives File of  the Revolutionary War record for Jacob Leibenguth
Microfilm Series M804, Roll 1561
"Revolutionary War Pension & Bounty Land Warrant Application Files, 1800-1900"

Description by Page #:

2     For 10 months of service as a private in a Company commanded by Capt. Kuhn, a Regiment commanded by Col. Guyer in the Pa. Line. Jacob is to receive $33.33/annum beginning 4 Mar. 1831. Jacob resided in Indiana Co., Pa. on 1 Jun.1843.

4     Margaret Libengood, widow, qualified for pension on 4 Dec. 1854, commencing 3 Feb.1853 of $33.33/annum.

5     Jacob Libengood died 6 Apr.1849. Margaret made a petition to obtain Bounty Land based upon Jacob's service in the R.W.

6     Affidavit by Mary McQown states Jacob and Margaret were married in 1803.

8     On 17 Nov.1854, Margaret Libengood resided in Conemaugh Township, Indiana Co., Pa. She was 73 years old. She said her husband served the summer of 1776 at Brunswick and Elizabethtown, NJ; also at Coryells Ferry and Neshaming River. He also served in 1777 and received a wound in the back part of his right shoulder from a musket ball in the Battle of Brandywine.

9     Margaret stated she married Jacob in Westmoreland Co., Pa. on 15 Mar. 1801. Her name was Margaret Chambers before her marriage to Jacob. She could not now appear in court because of her infirmities since she lived about 16 miles from the court. Mary McQuowm stated she was 67 years old and had known Margaret and Jacob Libengood. She said they were married 15 Mar. 1801 by Brady, a Justice of the Peace in Westmoreland Co., Pa.

12     On 27 Dec.1842 a declaration was made by Jacob Libengood, resident of Conemaugh Township, Indiana Co., Pa., aged 86 years 10 months, to obtain pension benefits. (His Northampton Co. Militia officers are named as well as his Regular/Continental officers.)

13     Jacob was drafted/called-out to serve on 12 Jul. 1776, on Friday morning, for two months by the Northampton Co. militia in Lehigh Township. He was marched to Easton and then to New Brunswick and Amboy, NJ.  He received a written discharge on 13 Sep. 1776 and returned home.

14     In Oct.1776 he volunteered to join a company of Northampton Co. militia near Bethlehem and marched to Corell's Ferry on the Delaware River. They were to defend the passage of the river and protect the boats from being seized by the British. During these two months he was also stationed above the entrance of the Neshamony River.

15     This second tour of duty began on Monday or Tuesday the 1st day of Oct. 1776. He was verbally discharged on 1st Dec. 1776.  He was then drafted for a third tour of service in the Northampton Co. militia. He was marched to Bristol on the Delaware River. this third tour commenced on the 3rd or 4th day of June 1777, when he began his march from Bethlehem. He spent time at Bristol and Corell's Ferry. He marched to Amboy, NJ on the retreat of the British army in July 1777. This tour ended 4 Aug. 1777.

17     He served another tour with the Northampton Co. militia when he marched from Bethlehem on the 17th or 18th of Aug. 1777; it was a Sunday. They marched to Chester below Philadelphia; then towards the Brandywine River in the State of Delaware and stationed near to White Clay Creek, then to Chadds Ford. He was wounded by enemy fire in the left shoulder.  It was dressed with oil by a Hessian doctor and he retreated with his troops toward Chester. He was then marched to the Schoolkill River and onto the Skippack Creek and then Perkiomen Creek.

18     He received a verbal discharge after his two month tour ended on the 18th Oct. 1777. He then served a fifth tour of duty for his father George Libengood in the end of Oct. 1778 against the Indians on the northern borders of Pa.

19     He was marched from Lehigh Township, Northampton Co. to Gnawdenhead on the Lehigh River. The troops were on constant alarm from Tories, bandits and hostile Indians.

20     Details of personal accounts with Indian battles are told. This tour ended 1 Jan. 1779.

21     In 1794, Jacob was again called on to march against hostile Indians in western Pa. He joined a company of Westmoreland Co. militia on 24 Sep. 1794.

22     He marched to Nicholson's Fort beyond the Alleghenny River. Jacob served as a sergeant and was discharged 24 Nov. 1794.

24     Jacob was born in Lehigh Township, Northampton Co., Pa. in 1756.  Jacob claims his age was copied from his father's Bible. (Jacob was now 86 years old.) When called into the service during the Revolutionary War, he was living with his parents in Lehigh Township, Northampton Co. Since the Revolutionary War he has lived in Northampton Co. and then Westmoreland Co. for the past 30 years.

29     Contains the signature of Jacob Leibengood.

30     Contains the signature of Jacob Leibengood.

47     Letter claiming Jacob Libengood to be in indigent circumstances on 28 Dec.1842.

50     Pa. Secretary of the Commonwealth states he can provide no evidence of Jacob's service in the Revolutionary War.

66     Deposition of Christian Libengood, son of Jacob, taken on 13 Mar. 1843. His father is in his 87th year as indicated in the family Bible, born on 9 May 1756. Jacob and his grandfather, George Leibengood also had an old German Prayer Book which verified Jacob's age.

67     Name on deposition was signed Christopher Libengood.

Interrogatories:

Q. Where were you living when called into the service? Where have you lived since the Revolutionary War and where do you now live?

A. When called into the service of the United States I was living with my parents in Lehigh Township in the County of Northampton in the State of Pennsylvania and since the Revolutionary War I have lived in the Township of Lehigh in the County of Northampton in the State of Pennsylvania and in Westmoreland County and in Indiana County in said State of Pennsylvania, where I at present live and have lived for thirty years past.

Q. How were you called into the service? Were you drafted, did you volunteer or were you a substitute and if a substitute for whom?

A. I was drafted, volunteered and served as a substitute for my father, George Lebengood, for the different periods as I have above stated.

Q. State the names of some of the regular officers who were with the troops where you served. Such Continental and militia Regiments as you can recollect and the general circumstances of your service.

A. I will state General George Washington, the Commander in Chief, Lord Sterling whose brigade was posted on the Delaware river above the City of Philadelphia, General Mercer, General Reed, General Green, General Stevens, General Irvine, Capt. Davison, Col. Moore, these were some of the Continental or regular officers who were with the troops where I served served. I will mention also Col. Irwin's Battalion, Capt. Doyle’s Rifle Corps., Major Frazer's Regiment of Penn. Troops. I will mention some of my officers, Capt. Kuhn, Capt. Hill, Capt. Edleman, Major Woolf, Lieut. Weiser, Ensign Lora, Col. Karns.

Jacob Libengood:

Civil War
40th Pa. Volunteers, 11th Reserves - Company E
Mustered in on 21 June 1861
Wounded in action
Discharged 17 December 1862

Joseph T. Leibenguth, Pvt.:

176th Pa Volunteers, Company G 
Drafted from Lehigh County for 9 months service
mustered in November 7, 1862
mustered out August 18, 1863

For more information of the 176th Pa. Volunteers, consult American Experience and Beyond

Charles Leibenguth, Pvt.:

Civil War
34th Pa Militia, Company A

For more information of the 34th Pa. Militia, consult American Experience and Beyond

To get a sense of what camp life was like in the 34th Pa. Vol., read the letter from T. F. Walters: A Co, 34th Rgt PA Vol: Carbon County, PA provided by Rootsweb at: http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/ifetch2?/u1/data/pa+index+135636229981+F

John K. Livengood:

Civil War
Elk Creek, PA 
54th Pennsylvania Infantry, Companies C & H

From the Roster of Members of Fayette County Veterans Association.

William J. Livengood, Pvt.:

Civil War
68th Pennsylvania Regiment
Company H. - Recruited in Montgomery County PA.
mustered in Aug. 29, 1864; mustered out with company June 9, 1865.

From Bean's History of Montgomery Co., Pa. page 236

Captain Jacob Livengood:

Revolutionary War
"Captain Jacob Livengood's Riflemen, of Middletown, now Womelsdorf, were formed September, 1781. The company served until January, 1782. The roster of this company was among the five never recovered."

From Blue Book Of Schuylkill County By Mrs. Ella Zerbey Elliott: War of the Revolution pages 81-92

Abraham Livengood, Pvt.:

52nd Pennsylvania Regiment
Company D

From Annals of the Buffalo Valley, Union County PA, by John Blair Lynn: Page 586

John Livengood, Pvt.:

Muster Roll 
Captain Benjamin Weiser's Company, at Philadelphia 
January 30, 1777

From Annals of the Buffalo Valley, Union County PA, by John Blair Lynn: Page

Ranger on the Frontier - 1778-1783
Northampton Co. - Michael Weaver's Company.

From:  PA Archives Series 3 Vo 29 page 341

Henry Livengood:

Civil War
78th. Pennsylvania  Volunteers
Company G

From "Indiana County, Pennsylvania - Her People, Past and Present"

George LEYBENGOOT, pvt., 6th Class
Frederick Kerns Company
Northampton County
2 May 1781
“Pennsylvania Archives", Series 5, Vol.#8, p.251

George LEVEGOOD, pvt., 6th Class, 3rd Battalion Militia
Capt. Frederick Coons
Northampton County
1782
"Pennsylvania Archives", Series 5, Vol.#8, p.251

George LIVENGOOD, one of several Courts Martial Men
5th Co.
Capt. Fred. Coons
2 May 1781
"Pennsylvania Archives", Series 5, Vol.#8, p.251

George LEIBENGOOD, 6th Class
Listed in Class Roll
Capt. Frederick Kunss Company
18 April 1785
"Pennsylvania Archives", Series 6, Vol.#3

George LEVELEGOOD Inactive Duty Militia
Northampton County, 3rd Battalion
6th Company, Capt. Frederick Coons, 6th Class
Remarks: 1780 M
Authority: Class Roll
Date: 25 Feb.1783
Published: A (5) VIII, 519-20
Pennsylvania Archives, Harrisburg, Pa.
Roll #27-4470

George LEBENGOOD
Northampton County Militia
Certificate #8363   Total £7.10.0
Certificate Issued 30 Dec.1785 (Original Certificate)
Register Vol.: A, p.263
Pennsylvania Archives, Harrisburg, Pa.
Roll #27-4470

George LEBENGOOD, Private
Northampton County Militia - Depreciation Pay
Soldiers who received Depreciation Pay as per cancelled certificates on file in the Division of Public Records, Pa. State Library.
"Pennsylvania Archives", Series #5, Vol.4, p.333

List of "Soldiers of the Revolution who received pay for their services", taken from manuscript record, having neither date nor title, but under "Rangers on the Frontiers, 1778-1783" was published in Vol. XXIII, Pennsylvania Archives, Third Series, by the former Editor.
"Pennsylvania Archives", Series #5, Vol.4, p.658

George LEBENGOOD
Listed in Rangers of the Frontier 1778-1783, Northampton County
"Pennsylvania Archives", Series #3, Vol. 23 p. 291

Christian (Leibenguth) Livengood 

"Pennsylvania Archives", Series #5, Vol.8, p.109
General Muster Roll of the 2nd Battalion of Northampton County Militia
14 May 1778
Col. George Breinig
Lt. Col. Stephen Bolliet
4th Company
Capt. John Morritz
Corporals: John Miller, Christian Leibenguth, Stephen Myer, Andrew Dormyer


Christian Leibenguth - Corpl     Inactive Duty Militia
Northampton County - 2nd Battalion
4th Company
Authority: M/R
Date: 14 May 1778
Pennsylvania Archives, Harrisburg, Pa.
Roll #27-4470
Published: A (5) VIII 102-117

George LEVINGUTH
Rangers on the Frontiers - 1778-1783
Northumberland Co. PA
From:  PA Archives Series 3 Vol XXIII page 246

George LIVINGUTH
Rangers on the Frontiers - 1778-1783
Northumberland Co. PA
John Moll's Company
PA Archives Series 3 Vol XXIII page 343

Feight LEVINGOOD
Rangers on the Frontiers - 1778-1783
Northumberland Co. PA
PA Archives Series 3 Vol XXIII page 257

Jac'b LIVINGOOD
Rangers on the Frontiers - 1778-1783
Northumberland Co. PA
PA Archives Series 3 Vol XXIII page 257