REV WAR: Bounty Land Declaration of Mary Davis, 1856, Pike Co., KY ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net Submitted by Russell L. Lawrence Oct. 18, 2000 ********************************************************************* REVOLUTIONARY WAR BOUNTY LAND DECLARATION OF MARY (TAYLOR) DAVIS - 1856 (Rev.War Pension & Bounty Land Applications, Reel 769, Library of VA.) State of Kentucky, Pike County} Sct. On this the 2nd day of October A.D.1856 personally appeared before me the undersigned an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County Mary Davis aged sixty three years the 18th of February last a resident of the County of Logan State of Virginia who being duly sworn according to Law declares that she is the widow of William Davis Dece'd. who was a pensioner of the United States under the act of Congress granting pensions to soldiers for Revolutionary Services and that he drew his pension up to the time of his death, and as his widow she has Rec'd. a pension Certificate under the 2nd Section of this act of February 3rd 1853 for Eighty dollars per annum dated the 19th day of September 1853. for proof of her marriage with said William Davis his services - death, etc, She Refers to the proof now on file upon which her husband & herself was pensioned she states that she don't Recollect the precise time & date of her marriage with the said William Davis but that they was mared in the County of Floyd, State of Kentucky by one Reuben Giddings or Gideons, that her name before her said marriage was Mary Taylor and that her said husband died in the County of Logan State of Virginia on the 23rd day of May 1842 as well as she now Recollects and that she is still a widow. She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the Bounty Land which she may be entitled under the act of Congress approved the 3rd March 1855. Mary(her+mark)Davis We L.H.McGinis and R._.Ferrell Residents of the County of Pike State of Kentucky upon our ......... (Note: The remainder of the endorsements are missing from this document)