State of Tennessee
Claiborne County On this fourteenth day (illegible)
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subscribe a justice of the peace for
said county Hannah Dobbs of said
county and resident now of the same
widow and releck of Chesley Dobbs so
aged eighty four years or there abouts as near as
she can recollect and onher oath doth
make the following declaration in order
to obtain the benefits of the act of Conergress
passed and approved the 7th of July 1838
an act entitled an act granting half pay
and pension to certain widows being
widows of those soldiers of the revolution
who was entitled to the benefits of the
Act of Congres the 7th of June 1832
and whose marriages took place before
the first of January 1794. She also states
that her said husband Chesley Dobbs was
a pensioner under the law of the United
States the 7th of June 1832 at the rate
of thirty one dollars and tweleve cents per annum
who served as a private in the war of
the revolution; whose pention commenced
the 4th of March 1831 and whose cer-
tificate bore date one thousand eight
hundred and thirty three and siend
by law. Cap then secretary of war
(illegible) and countersigned by (illegible)
acting commisioner of pensions; and she
further states that her said husband
Chesley Dobbs is identically the same that
lived in Claiborne County for the last
twenty two years previous to his death
and previous thereto in the county of
Burk state of North Carolina for a number
of years and born and raised in Culpeper
County and State of Virginia and died
on the 25th day of January 1834
in this said County of Claiborne and was
a pensioner on the pension roll at the
agency in Knoxville for East Tennessee
at the rates before named and by reference
to the records in the office of the pension
Commisioner and War department will be
found the evidence upon which the pension
was granted to her said husband for
his services in the war of the revolution
in consequence of which she claims such
allowance as would have been due her said husband from the first
of January 1836
for five years thereafter according to the
provision of the said act refered to as
the lawful widow of the said Chesley
Dobbs having been married to the said
Chesley Dobbs some years previous to
the year 1794 and was a widow at
the time of the pasage of the law and
from the time of his death to wit on
the 25th of January 1834 and still
remains his widow having never married
again up to this good day; she states
that she does not know what office to apply
to to find the registration of her marriage
having been maried at church in Fauqure
County in the state of Virginia and
has no way of ascertainin where the parish
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Of marriage
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And the county
will and Testament of her deceased husband
a copy of which is herunto annexed and
the Pension agents books at Knoxville
showing that she drew the money due from
September the 4th 1833 up to this 25th of
January 1834 the proof of which she
suposes is filed with the department.
She is in hopes it will be sufficient to
place her identity beyond suspicion
as well as to establish the legality of
her claim and hereby relinquishes every
claim to a pension on account of
her husbands services except the pres-
ent application and declares that
her name is not on the pension roll
of any agency of the United States
or of any state and declares she has
no agent or attorney to attend to this
busines except Alphie Noell who
is fully authorized to attend to it by
me and to receive my Warrant for
the same if allowd. She prays that she
be placed on the pension Roll of (?)
Tennesee for five years with such
allowance as the nature of her case
will admit and the law justify
sworn to and subscribed to this
day of November 1838
her
Hannah x Dobbs
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