REVOLUTIONARY WAR PENSION AFFIDAVIT - REUBEN ROSE

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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


Reuben Rose
Wife: Patty

Found in the file of:
Melone, John                 Pen. 283                     1787  
Soldier-Service of the United States  
Caroline County

Ordered that it be certified to his Excellency the Governor and the Council : 
That Jospeh Melone is unable to support himself by hard labour and that his 
inability arises from a rummatic (rheumatic) complaint which he contracted while 
in the service of the United States and his disability is such as to render a 
personal attendance on the ____ ____  ____from the loss of use of his legs.
     
That Elizabeth Carr, widow of Joseph Carr who died a soldier in the service of 
the United States is sixty years of age, has one child a girl about fourteen 
years of age and in very indigant circumstance;

That Patty Rose, widow of Reuben Rose who dies a soldier in the service of the 
United States, is 40 years old, has five children and in very indigant 
circumstances.  
Teste: Joseph Pendleton  clk. 

Next document shows that Carr and Rose were given 8 pounds each yearly; Melone 
rejected.