Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 25,668, for Hezekiah Marshall, Maryland
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
Md.

Marshall, Hezekiah
Athe

NUMBER
W. 25,668
B.L.Wt. 26498-160-55

CONTENTS
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(left side)
Let. to Hon. A. Buchanan Aug 29 1840.
Paid at the Treasury under the Act of the 6 April 1838 from 4 March 1839 to 4 March 1840 Agt notified 31 Decr 1840

(right side)
31578
Pennsylvania 
Hezekiah Marshall of Greene Co. in the State of Pa. who was a Private in the Compy commanded by Captain Deterns of the -- commanded by --- in the NC. line for 9 months

Inscribed on the Roll of Penna. at the rate of 30 Dollars -- Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 11th day of Jany. 1838 and sent to Hon. A. Buchanon Ho of Reps.

Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1838  $225.00
Semi=anl. allowance ending 4 Mar 31  15.00
$240.00

Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1838.

Recorded by D. D. Addison Clerk,
Book E2d Vol. 5 Page 41
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5,326 Increase
West Virginia
Athe Marshall widow of Hezekiah Marshall MD who served in the Revolutionary war, as a Private

Inscribed on the Wheeling Roll at the rate of 96 dollars 00 cents per annum, to commence on the 27th July 1868. And subsqt. payts.

Certificate of Pension issued 16th day of Oct. 1868, and sent to J. H. Hoffmann Co. Morgantown W. Va. Act July 24/68.

Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 3, 1853, Page 155 Vol. H

(signature torn off)
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115584 June 1 act Mar / 55

Athe Marshall
wid
Hezekiah Marshall

Pri

Rev Pensioner

Ad: 160 acr May 24 / 56
B V [illegible]
Va Feby 53 - 5326

J V Boashall
Mount Morris
Green Co Va
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32412
Hezekiah Marshall

Pen@

Maryland

admitted
Pr 9 mos $30

Susp@ see letter 12 Jany 35 to Hon A Stewart
Dec 27 38

Hon A Buchanan
HR
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Greene County Pennsylvania SS
On the 16th day of September one thousand eight hundred & thirty four personally appeared in open court before the Judges of the court of Common Pleas of Greene County Hezekiah Marshall aged seventy one years who being duly sworn did on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of the 7th of June 1832

That he entered the service of the United States at Fredericktown State of Maryland the first of June in the year 1780 as a volunteer under Captain Deterns Luetenant Jacob Stoner Major Miller for six months that they remained at Frederick a considerable part of this time guarding the magazine & military stores at that place after this tour of six months had expired he re engaged for another similar tour under the same officers, which he served out all but one month when he was discharged at Frederick during this tour he marched to guard Cornwallis prisoners as far as little york in Princen. That in November following he engaged for four months as a substitute militia man under his old officers to guard the prisoners at Frederick again and continued in that service until the close of his tour of four months & was dismissd. in March following Major Miller continued in command. The lenth of his several tours as above stated makes together fifteen months. That he has no discharge nor any documentary evidence to prove the above services - That in addition to the above in the year 1776 in October he was pressed into the service of the United States with his father; term to haul baggage for the army and was detained in the service until the Christmas a year following making fourteen months - he went from new Frederick Maryland & was employd. in Prince at york Phila/ &c he was attachd. to Captain (illegible) company & part of the time under General Greene's command
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This service with the foregoing 15 months makes in all two years and five months service during the revolutionary war - that he has no documentary evidence nor does he know of any witness by whom he can prove his service. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state.

In answer to the interrogatorries put by the court he answers
1. That he was born near Frederick town in the State of Maryland.
2. That he has no record of his age it being burnt in 1792 in his father's house.
3. That he lived when called into service in Frederick County Maryland - he lived there till the close of the war & has since lived in Penna. & Virginia where he now lives.
4. That he went into the service as a volunteer.
5. The officers & circumstances of his service are as stated in his foregoing declaration.
6. He recd. a discharge but it was destroyd. with his fathers house by the burning.
7. That his neighbours Levi Anderson Esqr & Jeremiah Snyder will testify to his character for veracity & their belief of his service as a revolutionary soldier.
Hezekiah Marshall X his mark 

Sworn & subscribed in open court Sept 16th 1834
E Hook Prothy

We Levi Anderson Esq & Jeremiah Snyder both of Greene County Pennsylvania and both well acquainted with Hezekiah Marshall that they believe him to be seventy one years of age that he is reputed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution & we concur in that opinion & further that he is a man of stout veracity
Levi Anderson
Jeremiah Snider

Sworn & subscribed in open court Sept 16 1834
E. Hook Prothy
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And the court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the war department that Hezekiah Marshall was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states. And the court do further certify that it appears to them that Levi Anderson Esqr and Jeremiah Anderson are both residents of Greene County and are reputable persons and that their statement is entitled to credit.

I Evan Hook Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Greene County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Hezekiah Marshall for a pension. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office this 20th day of November A.D. 1834
Evan Hook Clerk
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In the matter of the application of Athe Marshall for a pension under the act of Feby 3d 1853.
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State of Virginia County of Monongalia SS
On this 28th day of May A.D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty five personally appeared before the County Court of said county and state, Athe Marshall being a resident of the same, aged fifty years, who first being duly sworn according to law, doth, on her oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed on the 3d February, 1853, granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary war; that she is the widow of Hezekiah Marshall who was an Indian spy, during the Revolutionary War, that her said husband was pensioned under the act of Congress of June 7th, 1832, at the rate of thirty dollars pr. annum, payable at Philadelphia in the state of Pennsylvania. That after the decease of her husband, she made application through the Court of Common Pleas of Greene County in the state of Pennsylvania for arrears of pension due at the time of his decease, at which time she made proof of his decease of her said husband, by David A. Worley, Esquire, his executor, to which she would refer the Pension Bureau. 
She further declares that she was married to the said Hezekiah Marshall on the 18th day of January 1824, in Greene County, in the state of Pennsylvania, by one Jeremiah
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Glasgo, a justice of the peace; that her said husband died on the 19th day of January 1842, that she was not married to him prior to the 2d January, eighteen hundred, but at the time above stated. She further declares that she is now a widow
Athe Marshall X her mark

Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written, before me in open court
J T Davis J.P.
Presiding Justice Mona. County

State of Virginia County of Monongalia
Personally appeared in open court, Richard K. (illegible), whom I certify to be respectable and entitled to credit and who being duly sworn according to law, deposed and says that he was well acquainted with Hezekiah Marshall during his lifetime, and knew him and the applicant for a pension, Athe Marshall, to live together for many years, as man and wife, that they were always reputed such - that the following is a correct copy of the record kept of the marriage of the parties. That appeared to have been made about the time the event took place, and now in the possession of the applicant, viz:
"January 18 1824 Hezekiah Marshall and Athe Neel was married in Greene County, Pennsylvania, Morristown,"

That though he was not present when Marshall died, he heard of the fact
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and believed it occurred at the time stated in the foregoing declaration - and that the applicant is now and had been a widow since the decease of of her husband as aforesaid - and further saith not. 
R. B. Tenart

Sworn to and subscribed before me this 28 day of May 1855. And I certify that the above witness is respectable and entitled to credit and that I have no interest in this claim.
J L Davis

County of Monongalia State of Virginia SS
I, Marshall M. Dent, Clerk of the County Court (it being a Court of Record) do hereby certify that Athe Marshall made the foregoing declaration under oath before the said Court on the 28th day of May 1855. I also certify that Richard B. Tenant also made the foregoing deposition in open court on the same day. I also certify that James L. Davis, Esq. is the presiding justice of said court and his signature before written is genuine.
Given under my hand and the seal of said Court this 28th day of May A.D. 1855.
Marshall M. Dent Clerk
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In the matter of the application of Athe Marshall, widow of Hezekiah Marshall decd. for bounty land under act of March 3d 1855

155-584.
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State of Virginia County of Monongalia SS
On this 28th day of May one thousand right hundred and fifty-five personally appeared Athe Marshall, aged fifty years, a resident of Monongalia County in the state of Virginia and who being duly sworn according to law declares that she is the identical Athe Marshall, who had made application under the 2d section of the act of February3d 1853, for a pension, as the widow of Hezekiah Marshall, decd. who was an Indian spy during the Revolutionary war, and a pensioner during his lifetime at the rate of thirty dollars per annum payable at Philadelphia in the state of Pennsylvania, that she was not married to said Marshall on the 18th day of January A.D. 1824, and that her said husband died on the 19th day of January 1842, and she would refer to the evidence on file that accompanied her application for arrears of pension in 1842, and to her application for a pension as aforesaid.
She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the bounty land to which she may be entitled under the act passed March 3d 1855. She also declares she had never applied for bounty land previous to the above application
Athe Marshall X her mark
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We Richard B. Tenant and A W Tennant
residents of Monongalia County, in the State of
Virginia upon our oaths declare, that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged in our presence, and that we believe from the appearance and statements of the applicant  she is the identical person & represents herself to be,
M.B. Conant
AW Tennant
The foregoing declaration and affidavit
was sworn to and Subscribed before
me on the day and year above written
And I certify that I know the affiants
to be credible persons; that the Claimant
is the person she represents herself to be
and that I have no interest in this claim
LeRoy Kramer S.
County of Monongalia
State of Virginia SS.
I Marshall M. Dent, Clerk of the County
Court in & for the County & State aforesaid do
hereby certify that Leroy Kramer Esq before
whom the foregoing affidavit & declaration were made was at the time of so doing a Justice of the Peace in & for said County duly commissioned & qualified. I also certify that his signature above written is genuine.
Given under my hand & the Seal of said Court this 28th day of May A.D. 1855.
Marshall M. Dent
Clk.
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FREE

Hon L. P. Waldo
Commiss Papers
Washington City
DC

Papers 
Boynte
Pa
Athe Marshall
Wid 
Hezekiah

[date stamp]
-unreadable-
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Hezekiah Marshall
Suspended
act 7 June 1832
See letter to
Hon A. Stewart
12 Jany 1835
let of the 38 Hon 
A. Buchanan
Act of June 1832
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26,498

New cases
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Pen Office June 29 1855
Sir
Please inform Hezekiah Marshall of Pa Act 32 $30 year was last paid 
Very Respectfully 
J Cole (illegible)
R H Atkinson Esq
3d auditor


Hezekiah Marshall died 13 January
1842 paid in full
of Robinson
Auditor
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5734
Athe Marshall
Wid of
Hezekiah

St J, V, Borghay June 4th/8
Act of 53
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FREE
Hon. L.P. Waldo
Comm Pensions
Washington City
DC

[date stamp}
-unreadable-
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1855 Aug 7 to Carto P. Agt
Augt 10  From Phila
to A Hueling via  being be
from 3 Feb '53
nonto J. Bougher

5. 326 -
 Virginia
Athe Marshall
widow of
Hezekiah
who served in the Revolutionary
of war, as a private 
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate
of 30-dollars____cents per annum, to commence on the 3d February, 1853.
Certificate of Pension issued
3rd day of July 1855 and sent to
J.V. Bougher
Mount Morris
Green Co. Pa

Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act
-3, 1852 Pag
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FREE
Hon. Loren F. Waldo,
Commissioner Pensions
Washington City
D. Col

Athe Marshall
  wid 
Hezekiah
Triplett

[date stamp]
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Revy WIDOW, &c.
File No. 25.668
Athe Marshall
Wid of 
Hezekiah Marshall
Pri Rev War
---
Act Feb 3rd 1863.
Index: Vol. M, Page 12
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Mount Morris Greene Co. Penn
July 24 1855
Sir:
The certificate of Mrs Athe Marshall
widow of Hezekiah Marshall, a Revolution
soldier, and pensioner, during his
lifetime has been received Her
pension is made payable at Philadelphia-
It would be much more
convenient for Mrs. Marshall to receive
her pension at Wheeling, she resides in
Monongalia County, Virginia, but a
short distance from Wheeling, but over
400 Miles from Philadelphia-
Facilities for reaching wheeling are
almost of daily occurrence.
You would much oblige her,
therefore, by transferring her to the
Wheeling Agency
Very Respectfully
Your obt servt
JV Bougher
Hon. L.P. Waldo
Commr Pensions
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Free
Aberdeen, Md

Hon A Bruham, H.R.

In at Dec 26
Hez Marshall

J. L. Edwards Esq.
Commissioner of Penn
War Department
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Washington Dec. 24. 1838
Sir:
On the subject of Hezekiah Marshalls application for a pension, I am instructed to say that of in accordance with your note, the proof will not justify an allowance of more than a nine months Pension, he will, with due grate, accept of that, but would be much pleased (as he thinks it well may) if a reexamination of the testimony should induce the Department to extend his claim to a twelve month Pension, being conscious himself that he is the only getting one (illegible) of his due
He hopes the Pension will commence from the
date of his first application
yours with intent
Andrew Buchanan
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EW Oct 9
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5326
Increase
Brief in the case of Athe Marshall Widow & Hezekiah Marshall
Blacksville Monongalia County and State of
West Virgina
2d Act Feb 3, 1853

CLAIM FOR NEW PENSION CERTIFICATE,
PROOF EXHIBITED,
5326
Pensioner roll of West Va as $30.00 per annum
-
Certificate returned
-
Claims acres under
Act of July 27, 1868.
Personal Identity shown

Admitted Oct. 1868 to a pension at $96 per
annum to commence July 27, 1868 deduct
all pay said
Name and residence of Agent.
John H. Hoffman & Co
Morgantown
W. Va.
W G Trask
Examining Clerk.
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Athe Marshall
widow of Hezekiah
Pa
Admd Feby 3 1853
9 mos/on $30
per annum from
3 Feby 1853
Cert to
J.V. Boughner Esq
Mount Morris
Green Co
Pa
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Brief in the case of Athe Marshall Widow of Hezekiah
County and State of Pennsylvania
act 3 Feby 1853
Claim, ("original," or "for increase")
Proof exhibited, (if original.)

Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance.

Her husband was pensioned under the act of June 7
1832 at $50 year (pension proved in his
papers)

Marriage, identity, Death & under her prove by
If for more
Has additional evidence been for
the claim? If so, what?
David A Worley & WB Tenant, Certified to be
Credible


Name and residence of Agent
J. V. Boughner Esq
Mount Morris Pa
Thomas Ripley
Examining Clerk.
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David A Worley,
M Tenent
19 May 1842
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Mount Morris, Greene Co. Pennsylvania
June 18 1855
Sir:
Herewith you will find the affidavit
of David A. Worley, Esqr. in support of the claim of Mrs. Athe Marshall widow of Hezekiah
Marshall, dead to a pension under the act of
3 Feby 1853, in accordance with your letter
of June 4 requiring the affidavit of an
additional witness in support of certain
of acts therein named
Very respectfully
Your Obt Servt
J. W. Boughner

Hon. L.P. Waldo
Commr Pensions 
Washington City
D.C.
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Assistant Treasurers Office:
Philadelphia, August 8, 1855.
Sir:
Your letter of yesterday inquiring as to the last
payment made at this Office to Athe Marshall, widow of Hezekiah Marshall has been received
Mrs. Marshall was transferred to this office
by the Commissioner of Pensions on the 3d ultimo, and no payment has as yet been made to her here
With respect, I am,
Obt Sert
Dana Sturgeon
Pension age:
S. Cole, Esq.
Act Commis of Pensions,
Washington City D.C.
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT
Second Comptroller's Office
December 22d 1840
Sir:
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States, Hezekiah Marshall a Pensioner on the Roll of the Philadelphia Agency, at the rate of Thirty
Dollars and ____Cents per annum, under the law of the 7th June 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the to the 4th March 1839
to the 4th of March 1840.
Respectfully yours,
Albion K. Parris
Comptroller.
To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Present.
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D. Sir
Washington Dec 5th 1838
Dear Sir:
Herewith you have certain additional papers
in aid of the application of H. Marshall for a 
pension - agreeably to Mr Stewarts request I would cheerfully attend at your office in person, if any explanation I could make would have any tendence to promote the Justice of the case, but
knowing nothing about it, & not well in health
I , here request your attention to the case, and
if it needs any explanation which I could give
I will attend to any intimation of that kind which
you may give - I remain respectfully yours &c
Andrew Buchanan
J.L. Edwards Esq.
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Hezekiah Marshall
Pa
G. G. Brewer (illegible)

Hon A. Stewart
H. R
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Land Office Annapolis, Jan 7th 1835
Sir:
Yours of the 27th Ultimo, with the declaration
of Hezekiah Marshall enclosed, was received, - I have very carefully examined the rolls and papers relating to the Revolution in this Office, and do not find the name of Hezekiah Marshall upon any of said rolls, - There are no records showing that the Maryland Militia, were at
any time called out for so long a time term as six months excepting in 1781, and the Flying Camps," which I believe was Volunteer corps, and raised to serve six months in 1776,
the declaration is herewith retuned.,
I am very respectfully yr obt sv
G. Brewer

J. L. Edwards Esqr
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Waynesburg Pa
Aug 4
FREE
Hez Marshall
Penn 32

James L. Edwards Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions
War Department
Washington City
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Waynesburgh Penna
August 25th 1840.
James L. Edward Esq
Dear Sir
Some time since a small pension of
Thirty Dollars per Annum was awarded to Hezekiah Marshall, one year of which was due the 4th day of March last. The agent in Philadelphia refuses to pay it without special instructions from the Department. Will you please to give such instructions as may be necessary to enable the old soldier to receive his money; at the same time you will confer a favour on me by sending me a blank power of Attorney to let the money The agent is so particular about form that it is hand to please him 
I remain with much respect yours &c
Andrew Buchanan
-
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(5_326)
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No. 5.326
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
WIDOW' S PENSION.
I certify that in conformity with the 2d section of the act of February 8, 1858.
Athe Marshall widow of Hezekiah Marshall
who was a private in the revolutionary war
is inscribed on the Pension List, at the rate of thirty dollars per annum, commencing on the
3d of February, 1853, and continuing for life, unless she should again marry; in which case the Pension is not payable for the time
of such marriage
Given at the Department of the Interior,
this 3rd day day of July one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five-
McClelland
Secretary of the Interior.
Examined and countersigned.
L.P. Waldo
Commissioner of Pensions
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155.584
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Mount Morris Greene Co Pa
May 28 1855
Sir:
Herewith please find application of
Athe Marshall for Bounty Land under the act 
act of March 3d 1855
Any question that may arise in
the investigation  of the case will be attended to by addressing me as above
Very respectfully
obt. servt
J.W. Boughney
Hon L P Waldo 
Commn Pensions
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Mount Morris Greene Co. Pa
May 28 1855.
Sir:
Herewith you will find the application of Athe Marshall for pension under the act of Feby
3d 1853,
Any question that may arise in the investigation of the case will be attended to by
addressing me as above
Very respy. your obt sev
J.W. Baughney

Hon L P. Waldo
Comm Pensions
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In the matter of the application
of Athe Marshall for a pension affidavit
of David A. Worley, Esq
-

D
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State of Pennsylvania
County of Greene SS
Personally appeared before me, a Justice of the peace, within and for the County and State aforesaid David A. Worley, Esquire, at present high Sheriff of Greene County, and who, being duly sworn, according to law, on his oath
says that he was well acquainted with
Hezekiah Marshall, decd during his lifetime
and Athe Marshall his widow, that they
lived together for many years, as man and wife, and were always reputed to be such; that he was present at the time said Marshall, died and after that event was the legal Administrator
on his estate; that Athe Marshall the applicant for a pension is his widow. and that said Marshall during his lifetime was a pensioners, and further saith not:
David A. Worley
Sworn to and Subscribed, on the 23 day
of June, A.D. 1855, and I certify that I know
the witness to be credible and entitled to
Wm J. C. Webb  JP 
.
State of Pennsylvania,
County of Greene, So
I, John Lindsey Clerk, Court of Common Pleas, within and the County and State aforesaid do hereby
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Certify that W. J. C. Webb Esquire, before whom
the foregoing affidavit was made was at the time, and is now an acting Justice of the peace, in said County duly Commissioned and sworn, and that foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine.
Given under my hand
and the seal of said County
this 23d day of June 1855
John Lindsey Prothonotary
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Green County
Pennnsylvania
County of
my said by
On the 20th day of November
1838 in open court before the Honorable Judges of the Court of common pleas of said County personally came Hezekiah Marshall who upon his solemn oath saith that about four years ago he applied to Andrew Stewart to prepare his declaration to obtain a pension under the act of Congress of the 7th of June 1832 that living in
a remote part of said County of Greene he had
no opportunity (being old & infirm), of knowing the fate of his said application until lately & that he now makes this supplemental declaration in hopes of obtaining that aid from his country to which he feels conscious that he is justly entitled he therefore states in addition to the statement before made which was drawn in great haste
that the tour of service under Captain Deterro was rendered under two engagements making six months that his next tour in guarding the
Magazine was served partly under an engagement for himself & partly for Joseph Cumberledge as his substitute for which he received  from said Cumberlege twenty dollars and that the last tour of four months & upwards which he served in guarding princes at Frederick & he is not certain whether it was under one or two engagement 
in addition to the above he states that he was
also in the service for thirteen months in the
Eastern  part of the war as a Waggoner & was wounded in the thigh by a musket ball at
the battle of Trenton & served six months
under General St Clair in 1791 against the
Indians but these last services he thereby
were not mentioned in his former declaration
as he was advised they would not entitle him
to any additional pension but the fifteen
months first mentioned he served under different engagements as a militiaman Volunteer
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and substitute as aforesaid all which service of 15 months were served between June 1780 & 1782 & for which he is justly entitled to a pension - the foregoing statement he makes as supplemental & explementary of his former declaration which he presumes will be found on file in the pension office
Hezekiah Marshall   his mark
Sworn  & subscribed in open
Court Common
Nov 20th 1838

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he has stated above
 I John Hook Prothonotary of the Court
of Common pleas of the said County of Greene do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of said court in the matter of the application of Hezekiah Marshall for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office this twentieth day of November one thousand Eight hundred and thirty Eight
John Hook Prothy
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N.
DECLARATION FOR INCREASE
OF PENSION.
Under section 13, act of July 27, 1868,
Athe Marshall
Widow of
Hezekiah Marshall
FILED BY
John H Hoffman & Co.
Morgantowa W. Va
Printed and sold by W.H. Moore, 484 11th st., Washington, D.C.
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N.
DECLARATION FOR INCREASE OF PENSION.
(Under section 13, Act July 27, 1868.)

State of West Virginia
County of Monongalia SS.
On this 2nd day of October A.D. 1868 personally appeared before me, Clerk of the Circuit Court within and for the county and State aforesaid, of Athe Marshall
aged 65 years, a resident of Monongalia Co.
in the State of West Virginia who, being duly sworn according to law, declares that she is the identical. Athe Marshall to whom was granted Pension certificate No. 5326, payable at Wheeling W. Va. at the rate of thirty
dollars per annum issued under the act of February 3d 1853; that she makes this declaration in order to secure the increase of pension to which she is entitled under the thirteenth section of the act of July 27, 1868.
My Post Office address is as follows: Blacksville, Monongalia Co West Va
And the hereby constitute and appoints John H. Hoffman & Co of Morgantown West Va Attorneys, to present and prosecute this claim, and authorize them to receive and receipt for any certificate that may be issued for the same, and to do any other act or thing necessary
or that she might do if personally present, with full power of substitution and revocation, hereby countermanding all former authority that may have been given for the above specified purpose.
 Signature of Claimant: 
Athe Marshall her mark
Attest
T. Ray Holley
H. G Henry
Also personally appeared. S G. Snider
and A. B. Marshall residents of Monongalia Co. WVa  persons whom I certify to be respectable and entitled to credit, and who, being by me duly sworn, say that they were present and saw Athe Marshall (make her mark
to the foregoing declaration; and they further swear that they have every reason to believe, from the appearance of the applicant and their acquaintance with her that she is the identical person she represents herself to be; and they further state that they have no interest in the prosecution of this claim.
Signatures of Witnesses.
G. Rider
A B Marshall
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 2 day of October, A. D. 1868; and I hereby certify that I have no interest, direct or indirect, in the prosecution of this claim, and that the
Declaration was read to the applicant before signing and she assented to the same
A. Haymond clk