REVOLUTIONARY WAR PENSION AFFIDAVIT - HENRY DEVELIN

Copyright (c) 2002 by Janet Putt Neville. 
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Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection



Develin, Henry (Devillon)        Pen. 118             1786-1812
Soldier, 12th Virginia Regiment
Berkeley County, Monongalia County   
Widow: Eleanor 

Also See Hyland, Ferguson


***Henry died in 1778 in a hospital in Jersey; this document was 
difficult to read and it stated that Eleanor petitioned the Court 
for a pension, authorizing Philip Pendleton to act as her agent 
and attorney. 

  I do with the advice of Council hereby certify that Eleanor 
Devillan, widow of Henry Devillan late a private in the 12th 
Virginia Regiment and died in the service of the United States is 
allowed the sum of ten pounds yearly to commence from the first 
day of January 1786.  Given under my hand as Governor of the 
Commonwealth of Virginia, at Richmond, this 14th day of December 
1786.  
T. Meriwether                                        
Signed: Edm: Randolph