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Note by Verla Pinkerton; On Sep 8, 1778 a Tobias Decker was witness to a deed in Yohogania Co., Virgina.

http://searches2.rootsweb.com/th/read/DECKER/2000-06/0962056102
After Jan sold Lot #9 on the South Branch of the Potomac and relocated to Yohogania Co., Virginia (later Washington Co., Pa.), he and his sons all applied for land on Pigeon Creek, a tributary of the Monongahela River at the same time, August 26, 1769, under the New Purchase Agreement:
Application # 3779 Joseph Decker
#3780 Moses Decker
#3781 Tobias Decker
#3782 John Decker
#3783 Abraham Decker
Other records for Yohogania Co. / Washington Co. list a Tobias Decker as having taken the Oath of Fidelity, registering an ear mark for his animals, and proving the will of John Devoir in 1779. In 1780 he served on a jury.

associated names for these land grants -
http://www.cityofmonongahela-pa.gov/Historical_Sketch.html
"Abraham Decker was granted a warrant dated August 26, 1769, having originally claimed all land now occupied by the upper part of Monongahela. This tract was seventy acres.
The remaining riverfront from Monongahela to Dry Run Road was claimed and deeded to Paul Frohman. The heirs of William Penn were paid approximately twenty-five cents an acre by Decker and Frohman. In 1770, Joseph Parkinson purchased the Decker lands while other early settlers were Tobias Decker, John Decker, and Adam Wickerham."

He took Oath of Allegiance at an important council of war held at Catfish Camp on January 28, 1777

from "HIstory of Knox and Daviess Counties, Indiana...", pg 136
"Tobias Decker claims four hundred acres, settled upon by permission of the court, which he proves to have been givern 1785, and then, and before 1781, a number of fruit trees had been planted there, and several houses built; some two or more acres of corn planted, and other improvements. One hundred acres of land to be surveyed for him; he now lives upon the land."

from Ellen Decker, "Tobias signed a petition Aug 7, 1797 to congress to get deeds for land that they have been granted in 1786 but never received the deeds."

Included in Knox County history of Revolutionary War Soldiers:
"Tobias Decker was born 1749 Ulster County, New York. He died after 1802 in Knox County, Indiana and probably buried in the Old Decker Cemetery which has been washed away by the White River. He married 1764 Sarah born Hampshire County, Virginia. Children: Barbara born 1765 married Allen Ramsey; Jacob; Luke married Elizabeth Cait; Isaac; Tobias married Hannah Dunham; Abraham. Source Page 18, Roster of Soldiers and Patriots of the American Revolution Buried in Indiana, 1980."
http://www.beckes.org/records/military/knox.htm