REVOLUTIONARY WAR WIDOW'S AFFIDAVIT - THOMAS BROOKS

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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


Brooks, Thomas     Pen. 49 & 49a    1784-1806
Soldier, Col. Buford's Detachment   1806-1830
Prince Edward County      Widow: Mary
See also: Boush, Goodrich

  It appearing to the Court that Thomas Brooks, late a soldier in the 
Continental Service in Colonel Buford's Detachment,departed this life in 1779, 
while a soldier in that service, leaving Mary Brooks his widow & five children, 
the oldest seventeen and the youngest seven years, & that the said Mary--having 
little property is in indigent circumstances.  Order that the same be certified
the Auditor of public accounts.  Copy Teste Watkins CEH 

 At a Court held for Prince Edward County Feb. 15 1790
  On the motion of Mary Brooks, widow of Thomas Brooks, deceased.  It appears to 
the Court that said Mary is the widow of Thomas Brooks who departed this life 
while a soldier in Col. Buford's Detachment-that the said Mary is now a widow 
living in this county--that the decedant left her in indigant circumstances with 
several children _____ _____ that she is not of bodily ability to support 
herself by her own industry

.  Ordered that the same be certified and that the sheriff pay her the sum of 
ten pounds according to law  ____ _____ _____ and that the sheriff pay her the 
further sum of ten pounds for the year 1788.

**Mary moved to Buckingham County and died October 16 1830.  Last payment of 
$26.38, normally $33.33, May 12, 1830.