REVOLUTIONARY WAR PENSION AFFIDAVIT - DANIEL EDMONDS

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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


Edmonds, Daniel           Pen. 130                1787-1814
Soldier, Corps of State Marines--Virginia State Navy
Shenandoah County

Widow: Sarah

See also Boush, Goodrich ----Edmonds, Sarah

At a Court continued and held for the county of Shenandoah on Friday the 24th of 
April 1787:
  It appearing to the Court that Sarah Edmonds was lawfully married to Daniel 
Edmonds, who enlisted in the service of this state as a soldier in Capt.  
Gaberil Ianes's ____ of _____ and that he died in the same service on ___
____ 1777 and that she is ____ __ __ and that the Court ____ she is entitled a 
pension and that the same be _____ according to law.  Teste: L.C.Williams

At a Court continued and held for the County of Shenandoah on Friday the 24th 
day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety 
two (the sixteenth year of the Commonwealth):  Ordered that it be certified to 
his Excellency, the Governor, that Sarah Edmonds/ widow of  Daniel Edmonds who 
was a private in the Corps of  State Marines and died in the service of the 
Commonwealth of Virginia/ is still a widow and resides within the same County.  
Teste: L.C.Williams

I do, with the advice of this Council, hereby certify that Sarah Edmonds, widow 
of Daniel Edmonds,  late a private in the Navy of the Commonwealth. and  died in 
the service thereof, is continued on the list of pensioners with an allowance of 
eight pounds yearly, commencing on the first day of January 1790.  Given under 
my hand as Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia, at Richmond, this  19th day 
of March 1792.  Signed: Henry Lee
Copy teste: Samuel Coleman

Last recorded payment 1814