State of Kentucky         Mercer County                                                                        On this the 23 d day of March 1843 Personally appeared before me Stephen Stone an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said county Mrs. Barshaba Bradshaw who after being duly Sworn according to Law on her oath makes the following statements to be ??? as evidence on the application of Mrs. Elizabeth Bradshaw for the benefit of the act of 7 th July 1838, towit That she is a daughter in law of the afs d Mrs. Elizabeth Bradshaw and that the afs d Mrs. Elizabeth Bradshaw is the widow of Claiborne Bradshaw who was a Revolutinary Pensioner of the United States and departed this life on the 3 rd day of May 1842 and that afs d widow has never married since the death of said Claiborne but is still his widow.  Deponent further saith that she is now living in the house of said widow and the one in which said Claiborne lived previous to his death ant that said widow has no documentary evidence in support of her claim to a Pension except a leaf from a Book now in her pofsefsion which lef is herewith filed and annexed to this by wafers and the written entrys on which show, that Sally Bradshaw daughter afs d Claiborne and said widow was born the 24 th day of October 1782 and the said written entrys according to deponents own Knowledge is in the own proper handwriting of the afs d Claiborne deceased and the entry ?????? and not completed is also the proper had write of s d Claiborne as afs d.  She further Saith that said Elizabeth is so infeebled by old age that she cannot leave her room & cannot necefsarily attend in open court and the residence of Mrs. Claiborne Bradshaw afs d is about four miles from Harrodsburg in said County of Mercer Sworn and subscribed before me the day and year afs d       Stephen Stone     J Peace § Barshaba Bradshaw