Othcourt: Pension Records Stephan Mapel, 1844: Monongahela Twp, Greene County

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Affidavit of Mary Mapel, widow of Stephen Mapel
Rev. War Pension Records, National Archives

State of Pennsylvania
Greene County
     On this fifteenth day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred & forty-five personally appeared before me, one of the Judges of the Court
of Common Pleas in aforesaid County, Mary Mapel a resident of Monongahela Township
in the County aforesaid, aged eighty-seven years, who being first duly sworn
according to law doth on her oath makes the following declaration in order to obtain
the benefit of the provision made by the act of congress passed July 4, 1836: That
she is the widow of Stephen Mapel who was a private in the revolutionary army and
late a Pensioner of the United States.  She further declares that she was married to
the said Stephen Mapel on the second day of November, one thousand seven hundred &
eighty in Monmouth County, state of New Jersey.  The person who married them was a
Presbyterian Minister by the name of _______ Fortoot who was a teacher in the
Princeton college.  She recollects of getting a license to be married but has no
certificate from the person who married them or any other record except the family
record which is appended hereto.  She further states that Stephen Mapel was a
volunteer, entered the service in the state of New Jersey under Captain Nixon & the
name of the Colonel was ________ Scudder.  That her husband the aforesaid Stephen
Mapel died on the twenty-third day of October, one thousand eight hundred &
forty-four, and that she has remained a widow ever since that period as will more
fully appear by reference to the proof hereto [annexed].

Sworn & Subscribed on the day & year above written before.
Thomas [Broon?]                                   Mary Mapel (her mark)