State of Virginia
Wythe County to wit}
On this 5th. day of June 1845 personally appeared Margaret Kinder before the subscriber one a Magistrate of the county and State a fore said a resident of the County and State a fore said Aged Eighty Eight years 8 months ^& 13 days^ 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 Congress passed July 7, 1838 entitled an act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows
That she is the widow of Peter Kinder who was a Soldier in the war of the Revolution and was drafted or enlisted as a private in the County of Wythe and State of Virginia some time in the year seventeen hundred and Eighty and served untill the battle of Gilford court house North Carolina was desided and there he was shot and wonded so that he had to give up She says he served upard of one year under the following officer Genral Gates and then Genral Green Conl. Retherford
She Futher declares that she married to the said Peter Kinder the [intentionally blank] day of [intentionally blank] Seventeen hundred and Seventy four that her husband the afore said Peter Kinder died 22th September 1807 [intentionally blank] that she was [intentionally blank] married to him prior to his leaving the service but the marriage took place prior to the first day of January 1794 Viz. at the time above stated
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written
I hereby certify that the said Margaret Kinder is from bodily Infirmity unable to attend Court
Jonas Huddle
I do hereby certify that I am fully of the opinion that the foregoing statement made in the declaration contains the truth given under my hand this 5th. day of June 1845
Jonas Huddle
State of Virginia
Wythe County} to wit.
I John P. Mathews, Clerk of the County Court of the County of Wythe, in the State of Virginia, do certify that Jonas Huddle before whom the foregoing affidavit was sworn and Subscribed was at the time said affidavit was made, and still is an acting Magistrate of said County of Wythe, duly Commissioned, and that the foregoing Signature, purporting to be he, is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto Subscribed my name and affixed the Seal of the said Court, this 5th. day of June in the year 1845.
J.P. Mathews, Clerk of the County Court of Wythe County
By Andrew Thompson DC
11990
Margaret Kinder's case.
T.S. & A.T. Smith
To
Daniel Mayor
Creagerstown
Frederick Co
M. D.
Received June 16. 1845.
