REVOLUTIONARY WAR BOUNTY LAND CLAIM: Ann Mariah, widow of Jacob WEISEL, 1857, Bedford County, PA

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                               BOUNTY LAND CLAIM

                              FORM OF DECLARATION

To be made by the widow of a deceased person who has not had a land warrant.
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State of Pennsylvania
County of Bedford

    On this 25th day of December A.D., one thousand eight hundred and fifty 
seven personally appeared before me, a Justice of the Peace within and for the 
County and State aforesaid Ann Mariah Weisel aged seventy five years, a resident 
of Bedford County in the State of Pennsylvania, who being duly sworn according 
to law, declares, that she is the widow of Jacob Weisel, deceased, who was a 
soldier & officer in the company commanded by Captain xx----------------in the--
-------------Regiment of ----------------commanded by -------------------in the 
war of the Revolution.xx See her husband the said Jacob Weisel paper, Act of 
June 1832 on file in the Pension Office. That her said husband -------------at--
--------------on or about the ---------day of ----------A.D., ------for the term 
of-----------and continued in actual service in said war for the term of 18 
months and was --------------at ---------------on the -------------day of ------
------A.D. -------------as will appear by as above mentioned.
    She further states that she was married to the said Jacob Weisel in Bedford 
County, Pa. on the twentieth day of April______A.D., 1806 by one Christophor 
Riley a Justice of the Peace and that her name before her said marriage was Ann 
Mariah Kaufman that her said husband died at St. Clair TP Bedford Co. on the 
twelfth day of April _____A.D. 1839 and that she is now a widow at the date of 
executing this declaration.
     She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the Bounty Land to 
which she is entitled under the act approved March 3, 1855.
Attest                                           her
F.D. Beagle                              Ann Mariah X Weisel
Abrm H. Hull                                     mark                                    


      We, F.D. Beagle and Abrm H Hull residents of Bedford County in the State 
of Pennsylvania upon our oaths declare that the foregoing declaration was signed 
and acknowledged by Ann Mariah Weisel in our presence, and that we believe from 
the appearance and statements of the applicant, that she is the identical person 
she represents herself to be.

                                         F.D. Beagle
                                         Abrm H. Hull

      The foregoing declaration and affidavit were sworn to and subscribed 
before me on the day and year above written; and I certify that I know the 
affiants to be credible persons; that the claimant is the person she represents 
herself to be; and that I have no interest in this claim.

                                         Abrm H. Hull

(Source: Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Pensions, Washington, D.C.)