REVOLUTIONARY WAR PENSION AFFIDAVIT - EDWARD GOODWIN

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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


Goodwin, Edward

Pen. 160
1787-1792
Soldier, Colonel Washington's Command-French and Indian War
Richmond County


At a Court of Quarterly Session cont'd and held for Richmond County at the Court 
House of the said County on Tuesday the 8th day of May 1787:
  On the Representation of Edward Goodwin, a pensioner, of the Certificate of 
his identity 
and Infirmities lately obtained from this Court has been lost or mislaid so that 
it has not been found to the Board of Auditors whereby he understands that he 
had been struck off the pension list.  It is therefore ordered that the Clerk of 
the Court furnish him with another copy and further certifie that the said 
Goodwin is still living on the description of those by law entitled to a 
Continuance of a Pension.  Copy Teste:  LeRoy Pensho(y)

  I do, with the advice of Council, hereby certify that Edward Goodwin, about  
70 years of age, was disabled by a wound he received in the Shoulder in an 
action under General (then Col. Washington the war before the last and he is 
entitled to the sum of ten pounds yearly;  to commence on the first day of 
January 1786.  Given under my hand as  Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia, 
at Richmond,this 10th day of December 1787.
T. Meriwether                                                                   
(Signed)   Edm: Randolph

Last payment of pension recorded: February 29, 1792--seven pounds, eight 
shillings.