Widow's Pension Application for Rebecca Campbell Forehand

Transcribed by Valerie Forren Crook  
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[NOTE: This document was tattered and torn along bottom edges.]

At Rockbridge County Court May 6, 1839

State of Virginia to wit;
     On this sixth day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred & thirty nine (1839) personally appeared before the County
court of the County of Rockbridge Rebecca Forehand a resident of
the said county of Rockbridge and state aforesaid ages Eighty five
years; who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her
oath make the following declaration in order to attain the benefit
of the provision made by the Act of Congress [_____]July 7 1838
entitled an [act] granting half pay and pension to certain widows,
that she is the wife of John Forehand deceased [who] was a [private]
soldier of the Virginia Continental line during the Revolutionary
War and who was at the time of his death a pensioner of the United
States.  She further declares that she was married to the said John
Forehand on the 29 day of September (1785) in the year seventeen
hundred & eighty-five [_____________] aforesaid John Forehand
died on the twenty seventh day of February in the year eighteen
hundred and thirty [______] year of our Lord one thousand Eight
hundred and thirty nine.

                her
        Rebecca  X  Forehand
                mark

     On the application of Rebecca Forehand it is [_____] the [certified]
that on this sixth day of May 1839 personally appeared before the
county court of Rockbridge a certain Francis Hatton who made [______]
that John Forehand the husband of the said Rebecca Forehand [______]
this [______]  in the [county] [Rockbridge] [this day of]

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