REVOLUTIONARY WAR WIDOW'S AFFIDAVIT - CHARLES BLOXOM

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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


Bloxom, Charles           Pen. 35        1790-1803
Soldier. 9th Virginia Regt.        *Widow Comfort
Accomack County  See Also: Boush, Goodrich and Hogshire, Robert

At a Court held in Accomack County  January 26 1790

  Comfort Bloxom (widow of Charles) provided a certificate from his excellancy, 
Beverly Randolph Esquire, governor of the Commonwealth, allowing her eight 
pounds per year as a pension, which certificate followed in these words to wit:
I do with the advice of council hereby testify that Comfort Bloxom, a widow of 
Charles alias Stewart is put on a list of pensioners with an allowance of eight 
pounds per annum commencing on the first day of January one thousand seven 
hundred and ninety.  Given under my hand as Governor of the Commonwealth of 
Virginia, at Richmond, this 13th day of November 1790.  Beverly Randolph  Teste: 
Samuel Coleman
    Ordered that the Sheriff collect the above pension and pay the same unto the 
said Comfort Bloxom order ____ ____ ____ ____.     A True Copy  Teste:Littleton 
Savage 

*At a court held in Accomack County November the first 1796: Ordered that it be 
certified to the Executive that Comfort Bloxom, widow of Charles, alias Stewart 
Bloxom, a poor soldier who died in the Continental service is still a widow and 
in indigent circumstances and that the Sheriff pay her the allowance made her by 
the Executive.  Teste Littleton Savage  1796 

**Transcriber's notes--Further documents attesting to Comfort Bloxom's remaining 
on the pensioners list were signed by James Wood, Henry Lee, James Monroe and 
John Page.  They were listed as governors in each document.  Last document 
recorded was January 7 1804.