REVOLUTIONARY WAR PENSION APPLICATION - ANN P. SAUNDERS

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Revolutionary War Pension Application widow Ann Saunders State of Virginia,
City of Richmond: Filed by John K. Martin,
Richmond Va. On the 23rd day of
March 1855 personally appeared before me Hawes R. Sutton a Notary Public 
commissioned duly authorized by law to dminister oaths, personally appeared Ann 
P. Saunders and made oath in due form of law that she is the identical
person named in her possession of which (I certify) the following is a 
copy."Department of the Interior Widows Pension, I certify that in conformity 
with the 2nd Section of the Act of February 3, 1853 Ann P. Saunders widow of
Richard Saunders who was a private in the Revolutionary Was is inscribed on the 
Pension List at the rate of Eighty dollars per annum commencing the 3rd of 
February 1853 and continuing for life. Wherefore she should marry again:
in which case the Pension is ___pay after the time of such marriage.
Examined Countersigned L. P. Waldo Commissioner Of Pensions Of Pensions
R. M. McClelland Secretary of the Interior this twenty-seventh day of
January On thousand eight hundred and fifty-five. She further declares that
she was married to said Richard Saunders in the county of Caroline by the 
Reverend Phillip Long on the 12th day June 1834, and that her name before 
marriage was Wharton and that her said husband died in Caroline 19 June 1838 and 
that she is still a widow.She makes this declaration for the purpose of 
obtaining the bounty Land to which she is entitled under the Act approved March 
3rd 1855. She further declares that she has not made application under this or 
any other Act of Congress for Bounty Land before one now made

Attest Ann P Wharton John W. Saunders witnessedd The foregoing declaration was 
sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and year above written, And I 
certify that Ann P. Saunders the declarant has a Pension Certificate in
her possession No. 4.891 which issued under Act of Congress 3 February 1853 in 
the name of "Ann P. Saunders widow of Richard Saunders who was a private in the 
Revolutionary War" and that I have every reason to believe the said Pension 
Certificate belongs to the said applicant and that I have no interestin the 
claim. Given under Hand & Seal Hawes R. Sutton, N.P.