REVOLUTIONARY WAR PENSION AFFIDAVIT - JAMES GILES

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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection


Giles, James

Pen. 157
1807-1849
Spotsylvania County
Harrison County, Indiana
Owen County, Indiana

Widow: Margaret (Married William Mannan)

Fredericksburg, December 23, 1807

F----Mason Esq.
  Sir: Mrs. Giles requested that I forward this power of attorney to you and 
hope you will take this additional trouble to receive her pension, and if you 
are not comeing on imediately to be so kind as ____ to me, as soon as you can as 
we have bargine __ a Black Girl which will ___this the first day of January   
Sir with esteem I am your humble humble servant Signed: James -rinson

Margaret Giles received twenty-five dollars yearly.

December 25, 1809--First document where Margaret Giles signed her name as 
Margaret Mannan.

June 18, 1849--Margaret received $675 dollars--due her as a result of her and 
her husband resuming housekeeping as she had previously lived with her children. 
Documents were hard to read and small writing made it impossible to make out all 
facts, but she had been off the pension for years, but was paid for those years 
she due.