Rebecca Forehand, Application for Widow's Pension, 1839 - Rockbridge Co. VA

At Rockbridge County Court May 6, 1839

State of Virginia to wit;
     On this sixth day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred & thirty nine (1839) personally appeared before the County court 
of the County of Rockbridge Rebecca Forehand a resident of the said 
county of Rockbridge and state aforesaid ages Eighty five years; who 
being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the 
following declaration in order to attain the benefit of the provision 
made by the Act of Congress [_____]July 7 1838 entitled an [act] 
granting half pay and pension to certain widows, that she is the wife of 
John Forehand deceased [who] was a [private] soldier of the Virginia 
Continental line during the Revolutionary War and who was at the time of 
his death a pensioner of the United States.  She further declares that 
she was married to the said John Forehand on the 29 day of September 
(1785) in the year seventeen hundred & eighty-five [_____________] 
aforesaid John Forehand died on the twenty seventh day of February in 
the year eighteen hundred and thirty [______] year of our Lord one 
thousand Eight hundred and thirty nine.
                 her
Rebecca  X  Forehand
                mark

     On the application of Rebecca Forehand it is [_____] the 
[certified] that on this sixth day of May 1839 personally appeared 
before the county court of Rockbridge a certain Francis Hatton who made 
[______] that John Forehand the husband of the said Rebecca Forehand 
[______] this [______]  in the [county] [Rockbridge] [this day of]  <End 
of document>

(Submitter Note: This document was tattered and torn along bottom edges.)


Submitted by Valerie Forren Crook <vfcrook@trellis.net>

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