This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/HU2.2ACIB/79.80.137.1.2 Message Board Post: I received 1752 Peter's pension application last week. There is a death date of 3 Oct. 1836 in Lincoln Co. TN. He would have been 85 in a month. Also there is an interesting point about a brother, Jacob. You mentioned the Chicago Biographical Publishing Co. article. In the article about William C., "Peter MOYERS, the grandfather of William C., came from Germany with his bride, and settled in Pennsylvania. He joined WASHINGTON's army, and it is believed served through the war. He was well educated in Germany, and after the close of the Revolutionary War settled in Virginia, near Woodstock, Shenandoah County, subsequently removing to Tennessee to the home of their son, Peter, where they died at the ages of one hundred and five, and one hundred and one respectively, within a few years of each other. They had five sons, viz: John, Peter, Henry, Samuel and Jacob, who all removed to Tennessee, but John afterward returned to Virginia. Jacob died in California, and the rest all reared large families. Peter married in Nashville, Tenn., Elizabeth CONEL, who it is believed came from Wales. " The Jacob mentioned above is my ancestor. He returned to Lincoln Co. TN in 1881 from Cane Hill AR for a visit(newspaper account) and traveled to CA (I'm not sure about his dying there). He was born in VA ca. 1805. In 1752 Peter's pension application, he states, "As soon as I got home (1778) which I think was some time in July, I again became a substitute for my brother, Jacob Moyer, who had been drafted for two months in the regiment commanded by Col. Aeart/Acart..." This brother, Jacob, of 1752 Peter, who was of draft age in 1778 in PA, could not have been my Jacob b. 1805 in VA. Therefore, my Jacob could not have been the son of the immigrant. Since 1752 Peter was in Winchester VA (as he stated in his application) for 22-23 years (ca. 1794 - 1816/17), he, not the immigrant, was the father of Jacob b. 1805 who "died in California."