Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 6469, for William Love, Virginia
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Service
Va
Love, William
Winford
Number
R6469
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State of Ohio
Muskingum County
S.S.

On this 26th day of March in the year of our Lord One thousand Eight Hundred and Fifty One, Personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace with and for the County and State od one said William Bonified Sr. aged about 82 years a resident of Hopewell Township in the County of Muskingum in the state of Ohio who was formerly a Resident of the County of Shanandoah in the State of Virginia who after being duly sworn according to law declares upon his Oath alone said that he was personally acquainted with William Love and Winford his wife who resided in Said County of Shanandoah as man and wife between the years 1791 and 1803 that they were married about the year 1791 and lived together as man and wife for 10 or 12 years when he William Love became deranged and were taking to the Eastern Lunatic Asylum at Williamsburg in the said state of Virginia he declares that he was at the wedding that he was present and heard the ceremony of solemnization pronounced by the Rev James Ireland, the ceremony was Said on the bank of the Shenandoah River the River being high or Swelen the said Ireland came Over in a Canoe from the Opposite Side of the river, by previous agreement, he further states that he was about 20 years od age when the said marriage took place and that Winford Love name before marriage was
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Winford Corney, he further states that they had several Children the Oldest was named Samuel and the Second one Charles the rest of the Childrens names he does not recollect
 
William Bonifield Sr 

Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and year above written and I hereby Certify that I believe the said William Bonifield is to be of the age above Stated and that he is a man in whose testimony full confidence aught to be given.

David Sherrard Jr JP. (seal)

The State of Ohio
Muskingum County

I Anthony Wilkins, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County, hereby Certify that David Sherrard, Jr, Esq, before whom the foregoing was taken and by whom [rest of the line is illegible] of the same to wit, on the 26th day of March, A.D. 1851 an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified, and that his signature afore said is genuine. In witness whereof, I [illegible] Clerk, hereto set my hand and also affix the Seal of said Court, at Zanesville this 29th day of March A.D. 1851

Anthony Wilkins, Clerk
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Winford Love
Wm Va [illegible] 38
Answer to 
WH Woodley
Pension office 

[verticle text]
Peel Tree Va Paid
Jan 30.
CH Woodley Esq
Washington City
DSC
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January the 29 - 1855
Mr. Woodbey Esq

Dear Sir

I vale myself this opportunity of writing you few lines - Winford Love the wife of William Love applied Some few years ago for pension as one of widowes of the Revolution and from Some [illegible] has not succeeded. I wish you to examin the papers in the office and see what defect [illegible] is in them and inform me and I will try to rectify them I am Satisfide that it was his [illegible] for the experiance of Some forty five years past to my own knowledge and in conversation with old men who knew him before the services and afterwardes is conclusive on my parte if note could take place you will find that William Love went to the Lunitic assilem in about the year of 1803 [illegible] to Williamsburge and for those reasons his papers waus not taken cear of and allmost every trace of the matter distroyed [illegible] what [illegible] proof could be obtained Henry F Westfall has bin atending to the buisness but I suppose that he will not have anymore buisness withe that department in concequence of [illegible] a upon the public you no vany well what that is pleas inform me soon on this matter oblige your friend

John Love
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Aug 20 1851
Winford Love's
Children
act 7 July '38
pension
V. Ellis Atty
present
6469
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Declaration
      of
Robert Love
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Virginia
Upshur County
S.S.

On this Twenty Second day of May in the year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Fifty One, Personally appeared Robert Love in Open Court in the said Countyof Upshur (now in session) and in the State of Virginia, resident of Meigs County in the State of Ohio Aged 50 years. Who being first duly Sworn According to Law doth on his Oath makes the following Declaration in Order to Obtain the Benefit of the act of Congress [illegible] 7th July 1838, and the several supplementary acts [illegible] act of the 5th March 1843, 17 June 1844, 2 February 1848 and passed for the benefit of the Soldiers who served in the war of the Revolution the widows and children of the same and he the said Robert Love declares himself to be one of the children and heirs at law of William Love Deceded, together with five other Brothers and Sisters all children and heirs of this said William Love decesed. He further declares that the names of the said other 5 children is as follows, to wit. Samuel, Charles, Rebecca, Eleanor, and William who are now all living, and he further declares that his said Father William Love (from the best information that he is in the possession of) served as a Soldier in and during the Revolutionary War, that he was understood to have been attached to a Regiment of Light Horse or Dragoons, in the Virginia Continental Line, but the No. of the Regiment which he belong, and the officers who commanded is not recollected at so late a period, but was understood by the children to have Enlisted in the County of Shanandoah Va for during the War, and served to the close of the same, he further declares that their father and mother are Both died that about the year 1802 or 3 their Father became insane and was removed to the Lunatic Asylum at Williamsburg in the State of Virginia on the 28th day of April 1803 as will appear by the cirtificate of the Superintendant of the said asylum here with presented and that he was understood to have lived some 8 or 10 years in said asylum and their died, and he said Robert further declares that his mother Winford Love The Widow of the said William, Sometimes after the Death of her said Husband removed from the County of Shenandoah to the County of Harrison and afterwards the County of Lewis was formed out of the same section of county and again to the County of Upshur was formed, at which place the said Winford Love resided and remained widow until her death which took place on the 27 day of December 1847 at the Residence of her daughter Rebecca, which will appear By the Testimony of Mr. John Maxwell here with annexed, he further declares that the said William and Winford Love were Married in the County of Shenandoah in the said State of Virginia sometime in the year 1791 as will appear By The Testimony of Mr. William Bonifield of Ohio he with [illegible] and further that Samuel Love is the Oldest Child and Charles the Next and so on in the Manner in which they are Mentioned above and that Samuel is about 60 years of age and that the Children always have understood that their Father had served as afore said and that they were entitled to a pension for the service of their Father as afore said, but having been brought up almost without Education and in Indigent Circumstances, and their father dying at so early a date has always [illegible] them from making an Application at an Earlier period, and that they never have made an application heretofore or received anything whatever, but it may be that there Father has received his bounty Land and disposed of it
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as It appears upon they Books of the general Land office, that there was a Warrant Issued to Frances Graves Asser of William Love, on the 29th day of May 1792. he further declares that his Mother Winford Love's name before her said Marriage to Said Love, was Winford Carney, and further he declares that the reason that he did not make his declaration in the county in which he resided as Required by Law is that his Mother died as before stated at the residence of her Daughter (now in said County of Upshur) and that he come in from the State of Ohio to the County of Upshur in Order to Administer on the Estate of his Mother, and also, to make out the declaration for the purpose afore said.

Robert Love

John Maxwell a resident of said County of Upsher this day appeared in open Court now sitting, and made the following declaration after being duly sworn, according to [illegible] that he was called on to make a Coffin for Mrs. Winford Love who died at the Residence of her daughter Rebecca in said County, and that he did make the Coffin as afore said and that he saw the said Winford Love Buried in the same. This was sometime in the Month of December 1847 - 
John Mascwell

As a court held for the County of Upshur May 22nd 1857 This day the foregoing declaration of Robert Love of Meigs County in the State of Ohio was presented in open court and that said Robt Love subscribing his name thereto and making oath to the Truth of Said declaration, also John Maxwell of the County of Upsher in the State of Virginia came into court and made Oath to the Truth of the certificate annexed to said declaration and subscribed his name thereto for the purpose of obtaining a pension under the several of the Congress of the United States agreeably to the specifications set forth in Said declaration Which is ordered to be certified to the Commissioner of pensions in the city of Washington for investigation.
A [illegible] Teste
Mifflin Lorentz Clk
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Winford Love widow of William Love for Rev Pension Virginia responded file
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from the clerk of Shanandoah Co VA
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Clerks office Shenandoah County
Virginia Jany 25 1850

Dr Sir
I have made careful examination of the record in my office and can find no trace of the alledged marriage of William Love to Winford Carney I have further examined to find something respecting the commitment of said Love as a lunatic but have discovered nothing It may be that the marriage took place in some one of the adjoining counties say Frederick or Rockingham
Yours with respect
Sam C Williams
Mr. Henry F Westfall
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No 15259
Winford Love
wid of William
Va
[illegible] Nov 10/51
W A Woodley Feb 5/55
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Rejected
6469
Winford Love
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Wm Love No. 12.312, issued May 29th 1792 - Francis Graves - Assigned
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Henry F. Westfall
Buckhannon Post Office
Lewis
Virginia
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Virginia Lunatic Asylum at Williamsburg, VA July 28th 1847

Dear Sir

Your letter came duly to hand, and should have been answered before this time, but that I was in hopes of obtaining a paper which might have contained perhaps the date of Love's death; this after some search I have been made to find. The other particulars respecting him I give in the certificate.

With regards to the application which you made, I [illegible] to inform you that there is no vacancy in the male department of the Eastern Asylum. When a suitable one [illegible], I will write & inform you. If in the mean while the friends of the patient should decline having him [illegible] on, or some other contingency should
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preclude this procedure entirely please inform me at the time, in order that some other applicant may be received in the place reserved for him.
your's respectfully
John M. Galt
Superintendent & Physician of the Eastern Asylum
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I hereby certifu that William Love was admitted as a patient into the Lunatic Hospital at Williamsburg (now established the Eastern Asylum), from the county of Shenandoah, on the 20th of April 1803.
John M. Galt
Superintendent of the Eastern Asylum
Williamsburg July 28th 1847
Jno A Denecifeille J.R.