Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 4003, for William Jarman, Virginia
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SERVICE NUMBER
Continental (Va) Jarman, William W. 4003
Mary
CONTENTS
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2934
North Carolina
Mary Jarman
widow of William
Va Jarman
who served in the Revolutionary war, as a Dragoon
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 100 Dollars ~ Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.
Certificate of Pension issued the 11. day of Jany 1849.
and sent to
W. B. McCorkle
Wadesboro'
N.C.
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 2, 1848 Page 217 Vol. 1
Reported
Jany 11/49
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Declaration,
In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 17th of June 1844 granting pensions to Widows of certain revolutionary soldiers," approved the 3rd day of March One thousand Eight Hundred and forty three." be and the same is hereby revived and extended from and during the term of Four Years from and from and after the 4th day of March One Thousand Eight Hundred and forty four." to have the Same effect as if said act had been a grant of pensions for five years instead of One Year from and after the 4th day of March One thousand eight Hundred and forty three,

State of North Carolina
On this the 13th day January 1846
personally appeared before the justices of the County Court of Anson held at Wadesboro' on the 2nd monday in Jany 1846. Mary Jarman a resident in the county aforesaid, 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 the 17th June 1844 - granting pensions to Certain Widows," states that her first name was Mary Hamer and that she was born in the Month of May 1764 and that she was joined in wed lock to William Jarman by John Aulds Esq a justice of the peace for the County of Anson, that their family record has been torn out of their Bible and lost, but to the best of her recollection their marriage took place in October in the Year 1785 that she is the widow of the said William Jarman who was a draggoon in the Virginia line of the army of the revolution, that her husband the aforesaid William Jarman died on the 16th day May 1845 she further would ask leaf to refer the war department to records or documents uppon which the aforesaid
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William Jarman drew his pension, for the legality of her claim, that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service of the army, but their marriage took place previous to the 1st of January 1794, Anno Domini to wit, at the time above Stated, She further declareth that they have lived together as man and wife in the County of Anson from their marriage untill the day of her Husbands death.
Sworn and Subscribed to on the day and year above written in open Court."
Mary x her mark Jarman

State of North Carolina
Anson County
I Norfleet D Baggan Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for said County Certify that Mary Jarman came into open Court at January Term 1846 and was duly qualified to the foregoing statements and subscribed the same by making her mark-
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my seal of Office and Subscribed my name this 12th day of March in the year 1846.
Norfleet D Baggan Clk
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State of North Carolina Personally appeared
Anson County before me Wm Allen one of the acting Justices of the Peace for said County Charles Henson Esqr a resident of said County and after being duly sworn according to Law states as follows That he was born as he was informed in Marlbrough District So. Ca. and that his parents removed to Anson County when he was Three or four years old that he is now near Eighty Three Years old that he always lived within a few miles of the place he now lives, That he was well acquainted with Wm Jarman, when he was a young man and continued to be to the death of said Jarman that he was also well acquainted with one Mary Hamer whose mother lived within Two or Three miles of Where he lived and a ta certain time about Eighteen months or Two years after Peace was made a report said that the said Wm Jarman & Mary Hamer intermarried that he was not at their wedding but is confident they were married several years before he was himself and that he has a family record of his own marriage that he was married Oct. 9th 1788 and