REVOLUTIONARY WAR PENSION AFFIDAVIT - JOSIAH JENKINS Copyright (c) 2003 by Janet Putt Neville. [jandneville@yahoo.com] ******************************************************************************* USGENWEB ARCHIVES(tm) NOTICE All documents placed in the USGenWeb Archives remain the property of the contributors, who retain publication rights in accordance with US Copyright Laws and Regulations. In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, these documents may be used by anyone for their personal research. They may be used by non-commercial entities so long as all notices and submitter information is included. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit. Any other use, including copying files to other sites, requires permission from the contributors PRIOR to uploading to the other sites. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net ******************************************************************************* Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection JENKINS, JOSIAH----PEN. 217---1787-1823 SOLDIER-3RD VA REGT. ÒSERVED A TOUR IN 1775, ENLISTED UNDER CAPT. JOHN ASHBY FAUQUIER AND CULPEPER COUNTY WIDOW: ANNE 1 CHILD I do with advice of this Council hereby certify that Anne Jenkins, widow of Josiah Jenkins, late a private in the service of the United States, is put on the pension list and is allowed the sum of eight pounds yearly, commencing from the first day of Jan. 1787. Given under my hand as Governor of the Commonwealth of VA, at Richmond, this 17th day of Oct. 1787. Signed: Henry Lee Teste: Samuel Coleman This day Jeremiah Kansher personally appeared before me, a magistrate of the Court of the said County, and made oath that he has been acquainted with Anne Jenkins for 20 years and has lived a near neighbor to her for 10 years; that she is very old; illiterate and poor, and according to her own account has never received her pension from the time of her removal from the County of Fauquier to Culpeper, upwards of twenty years ago. Her age,infirmity, and poverty is such that she could not, without extreme inconvenience go to the court house of Culpeper County in which she now resides, living as she does about 27 or 28 miles from the Court House. Given under my hand and seal this 28th of March, 1810. J. Amblin 1810--received $560 in pension owed from 1789 and on. Certifed by Governors Page and Barbour to continue on list in 1810 and 1813; received pension of $26.66 until Jan. 1823