Question 1 st: Where, and in what year were you born?
Answer : I was born in Amelia County Virginia in the year 1761, as well as I can recollect.

Question 2nd: Have you any record of your age? If so, where is it?
Answer: I once had a record of my age, but that record is now in the possession of a relation of mine, who resides in the state of Missouri.

Question 3rd: Where were you living when called into service; Where have you lived since the Revolutionary War, and where do you now live?
Answer: My places of residence when called into service have been stated. Since the Revolutionary War I have lived in Washington (now Russell County Virginia), Wayne County Kentucky, Missouri territory (now Missouri State) near St. Louis. McMinn County Tennessee, Bledsoe County Tennessee, I now live in White County Tennessee.

Question 4th: How were you called into service? Were you drafted; did you volunteer; or were you a substitute; and if a substitute, for whom?
Answer: I volunteered, as before stated.

Question 5th: State the names of some of the regular officers, with the troops where you served; such Continental Regiments, as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your service.
Answer: I have stated the names of the officers with the troops where I served as well as I can now recollect, together with the most remarkable circumstances of my service.

Question 6th: Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so, by whom was it given, and what has become of it?
Answer: I received written discharge from my Captain at the termination of last term of service, as before stated. Those discharges, together with the record of my age were left with a relation, of mine in the Now State of Missouri, on my removal from thence.

Question 7th: State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can testify as to your ____________ behalf of your services as a soldier of the______________
Answer: DAVID SNODGRASS ESQ. , WILLIAM McKINNEY, JAMES SNODGRASS, THOMAS COOPER ESQ. , JOHN POTTER, JAMES SCOTT > Here is a minister of the gospel in his neighborhood. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatsoever, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state

Sworn to and subscribed The day and year aforesaid

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Henry x Marsh

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JACOB AZAM, Clerk

State of Tennessee
White County

We, THOMAS COOPER and SAMUEL WEAVER, both residing in said county, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with HENRY MARSH who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be 71 years of age, that he is respected and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion.

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.

Thomas Cooper

Samuel Weaver

JACOB AZAM Clerk

And the court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states, and the court further certifies that it appears to them ____________ who have signed the preceding certificate are residents in the county of White, and are credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit.

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