REVOLUTIONARY WAR PENSION DECLARATION: Anna Marie, widow of Jacob WEISEL, 1858, Bedford County, PA

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Widows Declaration For Pension

State of Pennsylvania
Bedford County                                 
                                                     Be it remembered that on 
the 4th day of March A.D. 1858 personally appreared before the subcribed a 
Justice of the Peace in and for said county duly authorized to administer 
oathes, Mrs. Ann Maria Weisel-Widow of Jacob Weisel deceased, aged seventy five 
years and being duly sworn according to law, deposeth and saidth as follows to 
Wit, in making this declaration, in order to obtain the benefits of the 
provisions made by the act of Congress, passed on the 3rd day of July, A.D. 
1853. Granting provisions to widows of persons who served during the 
Revolutionary War: That she is the widow of Jacob Weisel who was a soldier in 
the Revolutionary army, and for the rank he had, I will refer you to his 
declaration made in his life time in the year A.D. 1837 applying for a pension 
under the act of Congress 1837, which passed and on file in the Pension Office. 
       He further declares she was married to the said Jacob Weisel, (who served 
in the Revolutionary Army) on the twenty second day of Apr. 1805 and that her 
said husband died on 12th day of April A.D. 1839 and was born according to his 
own statement on the22nd day of July A.D. 1754, aged at the day of his death 84 
years 1mo. & 12 days, she also states that she was not married to him prior to 
the second of January A.D. 1800. But at this time, as above stated, as well as 
now, Maria, remained the widow of Jacob Weisel. Sworn to subcribed the date 
above witness before.

Abm H Hull J.P.                               her                                                                         
                                     Ann Maria X Weisel                                                                                      
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(Source: Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Pensions, Washington, D.C.)