Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 20293, for Patrick Kennedy, New Hampshire
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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 7th July 1838 entitled" an act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows-"

State of Vermont
Orange County

Bradford Probate District ss.   
On this 17 day of August 1838 personally appeared before the Probate Courts for the District of Bradford in the County of Orange and State
of Vermont being a court of records of unlimited Jurisdiction in Probate matters before the Hon. William Spencer Judge off said Court_ Mary Kenedy [sic] a resident of Bradford in the county of Orange aged seventy four 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 7th 1838 entitled "An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows_"  That she is the widow of Patrick Kenedy
who was a Soldier in the Revolutionary War and pensioner under the act of Congress of 1832 for his service in the revolutionary war  She begs to nfer to his declaration & other evidence in the pension office__ inscribed on the Vermont agency.  She further declares that she was married to the said Patrick Kenedy on the 15th or 16th day of December in the year Seventeen hundred and eighty two - that her husband the aforesaid Patrick Kenedy died on the 29 day of August 1836 the She was not married to him prior to his leaving the service but the marriage took place previous to the first day of January Seventeen hundred ninety four, viz: at the
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the time above stated: and that she has no documentary evidence in support of the claim.  Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before the Court aforesaid.
Mary Kennedy  [signature]

State of Vermont
Orange County ss_

I J W. D. Parker Register or Clerk of the Probate Court for the District aforesaid do hereby certify that on the day and year first aforesaid named the above named Mary Kenedy [sic] personally appeared and made oath in due form of law to the truth of the above declaration by her subscribed in open Court.

In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and affix the seal of the seal of the Probate Court at Bradford in said Probate District of Bradford the 17 day of August AD 1838.
J.W.D. Parker Register

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