REVOLUTIONARY WAR WIDOW'S PENSION APPLICATION - PHEBE CASTO McKOWN Contributed by: James Anderson [janderson@hockinghill.net] ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net *********************************************************************** WVA Pension application of Phoebe Casto McKown. State of Virginia County of Jackson On the 12th day of November 1850 personally appeared before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Jackson and State of Virginia Phebe McKown a resident in the County aforesaid aged 95 years who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the pension made by the Act of Congress passed on the 2nd February 1848 granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary war. That she is the widow of James McKown late of the State of Ohio who was a private in the Army of the Revolution and who resided for 30 years in the County of Jackson State of Virginia previous to his death which took place in said County of Jackson State of Virginia on the 9th day of January A.D. 1845 and who drew a pension from the U.S. under the Act of 7th June 1832 at the rate of forty three dollars and thirty three cents per annum during his natural life commencing on the 4th March 1831, as will more particularly appear by reference to the record of his certificate of pension given at the War office of the U.S. the 28th day of May 1833 and recorded in the Pension Office in Book E, Vol. 8, page 16. She further declares that she never received any pension under the Act of 17th June 1844 and that she is still a widow. Phebe X McKown mark Sworn to, and subscribed on the day and year above written before the undersigned a Justice of the Peace in & for the State & County aforesaid. E. S. Evans Justice of the Peace