Nancy PARSONS Declaration for Widows Pension 1839

Nancy PARSONS Declaration for Widows Pension 1839

Declaration

In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress on the 7th of  July 1838 entitled on Act. Granting half pay and Pensions to certain widows.

State of North Carolina

Montgomery County

On this the 4th day of July 1839 Personally appeared before Nancy PARSONS a resident of the county aforesaid in the said county of Montgomery aged about sixty five 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 provision made by the act of Congress passed July 7th 1838 entitled an act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows That she is the widow of Joseph PARSONS late a Pensioner who was a private and a captain of Militia in the Revolutionary war as will appear by his Declaration and papers on file in the office of the Commissioners of Pensions in the City of Washington the further declares that she was married to the said Joseph PARSONS sometime in the summer of the year 1790 or 1791 or before but which of those years she cannot speak with certainty that she has no record of her marriage nor can she specify the month nor the day of the month on which she was married precisely that he husband the aforesaid Joseph PARSONS died on the 28 day of November 1837 that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service but the marriage took place previous to the first of January seventeen hundred and ninety four viz. About the time above specified.

Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before me and acting Justice of the Peace of said County.

Nancy (her X mark) PARSONS                        Daniel MCAULAY, J.P.

State of North Carolina

Montgomery County

Came personally before me this day Daniel McAulay and acting Justice of the Peace William BRUTON of said County aged Seventy years who after being duly sworn deposeth and sayeth that he was well acquainted with Joseph PARSONS late a Pensioner of the United States and with Nancy PARSONS his wife who has sworn to the within declaration from the time of the time of their marriage and that he has lived within a few miles of them until Joseph PARSONS died and he further deposes and sayeth that they were married as he believes though he did not see them married some time about the year Seventeen hundred and ninety that he has no doubt nor has he ever heard any expressed but that they were lawfully married about at or about that time.

Sworn to and subscribed before me this 4 day of July 1839.

Daniel MCAULAY J.P.                                         Wm. BRUTON

State of North Carolina

Montgomery County

This day came personally before me Daniel MCAULAY an acting Justice of the Peace for said county Thomas BUTLER of said county aged eighty ninety years who after being duly sworn deposeth and sayeth that he was well acquainted with Joseph PARSONS late a Pensioner and with his wife Nancy PARSONS and that he lived within a few miles of them during the life time of said PARSONS That they were married to the best of his knowledge about the year 1790 and that they lived together as man and wife until his death and that though he did not see them married he never heard doubt expressed of their lawful marriage and the deponent further sayeth that the said Nancy PARSONS is still a widow.

Sworn to and subscribed before me this 4th July 1839.

Daniel MCAULAY J.P.                                           Thos. BUTLER

Many thanks goes to my cousin, Eric Bruton for sending me these papers a few years back. I am sorry to say that I had not realized that I had not added them to this site sooner.  Thank you Linda Smith for bringing it to my attention that I had not added it to the site.  Contact me by sending mail to [email protected]

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