State of
Kentucky
Mercer County |
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On this the 23d day of March 1843 Personally appeared before me Stephen
Stone an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Mercer
State of Kentucky Mrs. Elizabeth Bradshaw a resident of the County of
Mercer and State of Kentucky aged nearly Eighty One years, and who is by
Reason of Body Infirmity prevented from appearing in Open Court, and who
being first duly Sworn according to Law, doth on her oath make the
following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the pension made
by the act of Congrefs pafsed July 7th 1838 entitle "An act
granting half pay and Pension to certain Widows." that she is the widow
of Claiborne Bradshaw who was a soldier of Infantry in the Virginia
Continental Line in the war of Revolution and was many years in Service
in said war. She Declares that she cannot state the names of the
officers under whom the service of her said husband in said line and war
was performed but for a full account of the same and such other
particulars as are necefsary to the instigation of her claim she refers
to the evidence contained in the papers upon which the Pension of her said
husband was granted and which he Continues regularly to draw from the
time of the granting of the same until his death which even took place
upon the third of May 1842. She further Declares that she was
married to the said Claborne Bradshaw Sometime in the year Seventeen
Hundred and Eighty One that her husband the aforsaid Claiborne Bradshaw
died on the day of may 1842 that she was not married to him prior to his
leaving the service but the marriage took place prior to the first day
of January 1794 at the time above stated. |
Sworn to and
subscribed on the day and year above written before me
Stephen Stone J.
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