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/204.1 Message Board Post: ABOUT JACOB: 1752 Peter did have a brother, Jacob, son of the immigrant. He substituted for him in the Rev. War in 1778. According to 1752 Peter's pension application on the last page, "As soon as I got home, which I think was some time in July, I again became a substitute for my brother, Jacob Moyer, who had just been drafted for two months in the regiment commanded by Col. Aeart...". This Jacob who was of draft age in 1778, son of the immigrant and brother of 1752 Peter, was NOT the Jacob who purchased Peter's coppersmith business in 1824 in LCT, went to Cane Hill AR ca. 1830, married Lettice Coulter, went to California, visited Lincoln Co. TN in 1881. The Jacob who did those things (brother of Samuel and Henry - documented in a letter from P.W. Moyers in 1886) was born in VA in 1805 - 27 years after the immigrant's son, Jacob, was drafted.