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On this 8th. day of July 1839, personally appeared before the County Court, of said County, Mary Yarborough a resident of said County, aged Eighty One 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 4th. 1836. That she was married to Randolph Yarborough who was a regular soldier in the War of the Revolution, That he served in Capt. Powells Company until wounded at Halifax in North Carolina in May 1781, and after his recovery from the wound then received he enlisted for Twelve Months under Capt. Kidd, and served his term of one year as a Regular Soldier under the Said Capt. Kidd, that he Served the whole time in Halifax North Carolina; After the War was over, She with her husband removed to Kentucky.

She further declares that She was married to Said Randolph Yarborough on the 28th. day of March 1781, and That her husband the Said Randolph Yarborough Died on the 27th. day of July 1804, and that She hath remained a Widow ever Since, as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed. Sworn to and Subscribed on the day and year above written, before the Said Court.

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State of Kentucky, Bath County Sct.
The foregoing declaration of Mary Yarbrough for the purpose of obtaining a pension as the widow of Randolph Yarbrough as a Revolutionary soldier together with the affidavits of William Boyd Nancy Boyd and Lucy Boyd were produced & severally sworn to in open Court & Ordered to be certified and it is further ordered to be certified that it appears to the satisfaction of the Court that said Mary Yarbrough, William Boyd, Nancy Boyd & Lucy Boyd are persons of Credit—

In testimony whereof I William. M. Sudduth, clerk of the Bath County Court have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of Office at Owingsville in the year of our Lord One thousand Eight hundred and thirty ^n^ July nine on the 8th day of July of said year—

William M. Sudduth Clk
BY Benajah A Webb DC