REVOLUTIONARY WAR WIDOW'S PENSION APPLICATION - ABIGAIL WHELCHEL

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IN ORDER TO OBTAIN THE BENEFITS OF THE ACT OF CONGRESS OF
THE JULY 1838, IN WHICH AN ACT GRANTING HALF-PAY AND
PENSION TO KNOWN WIDOWS:

STATE OF GEORGIA
GILMER COUNTY

ON THIS THE 6TH DAY OF APRIL, 1844, PERSONALLY APPEARED
BEFORE ME THE SUBSENDER A JUSTICE OF THE INFERIOR COURT IN
AND FOR THE COUNT AND SATE AFORESAID, THE SAME BEING A
COURT OF RECORD, MRS. ABIGAIL WHELCHEL A RESIDENT OF SAID
STATE AND COUNTY AGED EIGHTY YEARS THE 10TH DAY OF JUNE
WHO BEING FIRST DULY SWORN TO LAW DOTH ON HER OATH MAKE
THE FOLLOWING DECLARATION IN ORDER TO OBTAIN THE BENEFIT
OF THE PROVISION MADE BY THE ACT OF CONGRESS PASSED JULY
7, 1838, INSTILLED AN ACT GRANTING HALFPAY AND PENSION TO
CERTAIN WIDOWS. THAT SHE IS THE WIDOW OF JOHN WHELCHEL OF
THE COUNTY OF HALL AND STATE OF GEORGIA, THE IDENTICAL
PERSON NAMED IN AN ORIGINAL CERTIFICATE IN HER POSSESSION
OF WHICH THE FOLLOWIN IS A TRUE COPY.

LARKIN STEPHENS, J.I.C.


WAR DEPARTMENT
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM

I CERTIFY THAT IN UNIFORMITY WITH THE LAW OF THE UNITED
STATES OF THE 7 JUNE 1832 JOHN WHELCHEL OF THE STATE OF
GEORGIA WHO WAS A PRIVATE IN THE WAR OF THE REVOLUTION IS
ENTITLED TO RECEIVE SEVENTY THREE DOLLARS AND THIRTY THREE
CENTS PER ANNUM DURING HIS LIFE COMMENCING ON THE 4TH DAY
OF MARCH 1834 AND PAYABLE SEMI-ANNUALLY ON THE SEVENTH DAY
OF MARCH AND OF IN EVERY YEAR.

GIVEN AT THE WAR OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES THIS DAY
OF OCTOBER, ONE THOUSAND, EIGHT HUNDRED AND THIRTY THREE.

JOHN ROBB
PRESIDING SECRETARY OF WAR

JR. EDWARDS
COMMISIONER OF PENSION

THAT SAID JOHN WHELCHEL WAS A PRIVATE AND SERVED IN THE
WAR OF THE REVOLUTION AND FOR BENEFIT OF HIS SERVICES SHE
REFERS TO THE EVIDENCE ON WHICH HE DREW HIS PENSION. AND
THIS DECLARANT FURTHER STATES THAT THE AFORESAID JOHN
WHELCHEL DIED ON THE 41TH DAY OF MARCH, 1837 IN HALL
COUNTY, STATE OF GEORGIA AND THIS DECLARANT FURTHER STATES
THAT SHE WAS MARRIED TO THE SAID JOHN WHELCHEL ON THE 18TH
DAY OF JULY, 1784 BY CHARLES MILES, A JUSTICE OF THE PEACE
IN UNION DISTRICT, SOUTH CAROLINA WHERE THEY RESIDED UNTIL
THE YEAR 1836 WHEN THE REMOVED FROM HERE TO GEORGIA, HALL
COUNTY WHERE HER HUSBAND DIED ON THE DAY AFORESAID THAT
SHE HAS NO DOCUMENTARY EVIDENCE OF HEIR HAVING BEEN
MARRIED AS AFORESAID THAT SHE KNOWS OF NO PERSON LIVING
WHO COULD TESTIFY TO THE FACT OTHER THAN NANCY WHILCHER
(SP?) A RESIDENT OF LUMPKIN COUNTY, STATE OF GEORGIA. THAT
SHE HAS REMAINED A WIDOW EVER SINCE THE PERIOD OF HER
HUSBANDS DEATH. THAT SHE WAS NOT MARRIED PRIOR TO HER
HUSBAND LAST SERVICE BUT WAS MARRIED PRIOR TO THE 1ST DAY
OF JANUARY 1794 AT THE TIME ABOVE STATE ALL OF WHICH WILL
MORE FULLY APPEAR IN REFERENCE TO PROOF HEREUNTO ARRIVED.

ABIGAIL WHELCHEL
(HER MARK)

SWORN TO AND SUBSCRIBED ON THE DAY AND YEAR BEFORE WRITTEN
BEFORE ME A JUSTICE OF THE INFERIOR COURT OF GILMER COUNTY
STATE OF GEORGIA AND I FURTHER CERTIFY THAT MRS. ABIGAIL
WHELCHEL THE DECLARANT IS FROM BODILY INFIRMITY UNABLE TO
ATTEND COURT IN TESTIMONY WHENCE I HAVE HEREUNTO SET MY
HAND THIS SIXTH DAY OF APRIL, 1844.

LARKIN STEPHENS J. I. C.



STATE OF GEORGIA, GILMER COUNTY

BE IT KNOWN THAT ON THE THIS DAY OF APRIL 1844 BEFORE ME
LARKIN STEPHENS A JUSTICE OF THE INFERIOR COURT ON AND FOR
THE COUNTY AND STATE AFORESAID PERSONALLY APPEARED SHARUD
JAMES AGED SIXTY SEVEN YEARS AND DICY JAMES AGED SIXTY
FOUR YEARS RESIDENTS OF THE COUNTY AND STATE AFORESAID
BEING FIRST DULY SWORN ACCORDING TO LAW DOTH ON THESE
OATHS MAKE THE FOLLOWING STATEMENT THAT THEY HAVE BEEN
ACQUAINTED WITH THE AFORESAID JOHN AND ABIGAIL WHELCHEL
FOR THE SPACE OF FIFTY YEARS OR MORE, PAST THAT THEY HAVE
BEEN LIVING PEACEABLY AS MAN AND WIFE FROM AND BEFORE
THEIR FIRST...... (END OF COPY OF DOCUMENT)