REVOLUTIONARY WAR PENSION AFFIDAVIT - JOHN GROTEN

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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


Groten, John  (Grotin)           Pen. 172                     1792-1804
Soldier-9th Virginia Regiment
Accomack County       

See also: Bloxom, Charles--Boush, Goodrich

Widow: Margery

 I do, with the advice of this Council, hereby certify Margaret Grotin, widow of 
John Grotin. a soldier in the 9th Virginia Regiment and who died in the service 
of the Commonwealth during the late war is placed on the pension list and is 
allowed the sum of twelve pounds yearly, commencing on the first day of January 
next, agreably to an act of the present General Assembly.  Given under my hand 
as Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia, at Richmond, this 28th day of 
December 1791. 
Samuel Coleman
Signed: Henry Lee

At a Court held in Accomack County January 27 1794:
  Ordered that it be certified to the Executive that Margery Groten and Agnes 
Hogshire are proper objects to be placed on the pension list.  A true copy 
teste: Littleton Savage  Clk.

At a Court held in Accomack County October 27, 1796:
  It is ordered to be certified that Margery Groten a poor soldier who died in 
the service of the United States is still the widow of the said John and in 
indigant (indigent) circumstances. 
Teste: Littleton Savage

Margery Groten was further certified to be continued on the list of pensioners 
by the following Governors: R. Brooke, James Wood, John Page, and James Monroe.

last recorded pension payment--1804, January 1.