Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 4946, John Edge, Va.
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Service
Number
Edge, John
Edge, Nancy
W. 4946     
B.L.Wt.11408-160-55
Contents
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9,059
Ohio Roll.
John Edge,
of Belmont Co. in the state of Ohio
who was a Private in the regiment commanded by
Colonel Green of the Virginia
line, for the term of 3 years.

Inscribed on the Roll of Ohio
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on
the 6 of May 1818.

Certificate of Pension issued the 8 of April 1819,
and sent to Edwd Bryson, Esq.
St. Clairsville, Ohio.
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Arrears to 4th of March 1819....           91.35
Semi-anl. all'ce ending Sept. 4. 1819....48 "
Arrs. 9 mo. 30/31.                             $139.35
{Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818.}
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Ohio Roll
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9,059
Ohio Roll
John Edge
of Belmont Co. in the state of Ohio
who was a Private in the regiment commanded by
Colonel Green of the Virginia
line, for the term of 3 years

Inscribed on the Roll of Ohio
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on
the 6 of May 1818

Certificate of Pension issued the 8 of April 1819,
and sent to Edwd Bryson, Esq
S. Clairsville, Ohio.
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Arrears to 4th of March 1819....91.35
Semi-anl. all'ce ending Sept. 4. 1819....48 "
Arrs. 9 mo. 30/31.
$139.35
Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818.}
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582
Ohio, Wheeling
Nancy Edge
widow of John Edge
Va
who served in the Revolutionary 
war, as a private pensioner
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
80 Dollars 0
Cents per annum, to commence on
the 4th day of March, 1848.
Certificate of Pension issued the
29. day of June 1848.
and sent to
Geo. S. Thompson
Wheeling
Va
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act
February 2, 1848, Page 340 Vol 4

Reported
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224.512   Act March 3 & Nov 24 / 55

Nancy Edge
John Edge pri.
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Capt.
Col.
Private

24.
March 3

Rev War
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Pen Act Feb. 2. 1848, page 340 mi
No 582

Special by Cnf. Clerk
 Dec. 3 /55
Nathl Nalch
Present
Revy
Vol. E. 32.
No. 11408 iss Dec 7 / 55
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State of Ohio  Belmont County     
Before me [unreadable] of Belmont county personally came John Edge who was duly sworn according to Law deposeth and saith that he first [unreadable] in the Revolutionary war sometime after the commencement of that conflict he cannot recollect the particular date that the terms of his enlistment was for one year [unreadable] his Capt name was George [unreadable] Lieutenant Coln Green commanded the regiment. and shortly after his first year inlistment expired he then inlisted for three years under Thomas Blackwell Capt and Joseph Blackwell and George Keith Lieutenants which company belonged to the tenth Virginia Regiment and that some short time after his second inlistment he was selected as one of General Washington's light guard. he was then under the command of Capt Gibbs who was promoted to a Major he was then regimented by Capt Henry F Levingston for which services he [unreadable] discharged which he has misplaced and he further say that it is on account of his reduced circumstances in life that he needs the assistance of his country for his support. In testimony thereof he has hereunto subscribed his name this 6th day of May 1818                  
John Edge               
State of Ohio Belmont County ss. It is hereby certified that that the above named John Edge, personally appeared before me Edw Bryson one of the Judges of the court in and for said county and was duly sworn according to Law to the foregoing deposition respecting of his services in the Revolutionary war In testimony thereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my seal this 6th day of May 1818 Edw Bryson one of the associate Judges in and for said County
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John Edge's
App- 150.

9059
8. April 1819.

Wm B. Hubbard
S. Clairsville, Ohio
W. B. Hubbard
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The State of Ohio, Belmont County SS -                 
At a Court of Common Pleas began and held at St. Clairsville in and for the County of Belmont on the Twenty fourth day of July AD 1820 before the Honourable Benjamin Tappan Esquire President of the Fifth circuit of the courts of Common Pleas and Joseph Anderson John Wiley and Edward Bryson Esquires associate judges of the said Court. --            
On the Twenty seventh day of July AD 1820 personally appeared in open Court being a Court of Record for the said County in the said Circuit John Edge aged sixty seven years resident in the County of Belmont in the said Circuit and being first duly sworn according to law doth on his solemn oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows that he enlisted into the Revolutionary army of the United States as a private regular soldier into Morgan Alexanders company as he believes in the year 1776 but does not recollect the time distinctly That the place where he enlisted was at Frederick County in Virginia and at said enlistment enlisted to serve for the period of one year which period he faithfully served in the same Company under the same captain as aforementioned. That at the end of the year he was verbally discharged and in about four months after his first term of service he again enlisted under one Captain Thomas Blackwell as a private to serve the period of three years which said period he faithfully served and received an honourable discharge from under the hand of his last captain Captain Capt Levingston which said discharge has since been lost by time & accident That he has heretofore made application for a pension under the act of Congress of March 18th 1818 and which application was dated as he thinks the sixth day of May 1818 That his application was allowed and he received a certificate for a Pension dated the Eighth day of April Eighteen hundred and nineteen and numbered on its back 9059
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And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen in the
United States on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have
not since that time by gift sale or in any manner disposed
of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to
diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an
act of Congress entitled "An act to provide for certain persons
engaged in the Land and Naval service of the United States
in the Revolutionary War"" passed on the 18th day of March
1818, and that I have not nor has any person in trust for
me any property or securities contracts or debts due to me nor
have I any income other them what is contained in the
schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed.-
No Real Estate
The following is a list as owned and possessed by me
1 Horse  $20
2 Heifers 12
1 Cow      10
3 Sheep.  3
2 Sows 8 Pigs   10
8 Earthen Plates .25
1 dozen pewter spoons .75
3 Knives + 4 forks .73
$38.73

Brought up. $38.73
2 Kettles 6.00
1 Small oven broke .30
1 Hoe. .30
1 Shovel plow 1-
1 Vise(?).  1-

$67.73

Thirty dollars in cash being the same money received on
his pension from the United States.-
And I do further swear that my family consists of four
persons including myself to wit my wife named Nancy
Edge aged 64 years sickly and unable to support herself alone
and two Grand Children one named John Edge age 13
years in August next the other named Thomas Wey age
between 4 & 5 years neither of which able as yet to earn their
own support that none of my own children live with me.-
That my occupation is that of a Farmer or labourer and am at
Present living on a part of my son in laws land which in
Charity he has allowed me to stay on without paying rent
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and from which by my own labour I obtain a scanty support
I have no other means of support of than the foregoing-
John Edge

Sworn to and declared on the Twenty seventh day of July
1820 before the Court of Common Pleas of Belmont County
State of Ohio
Attest Ezer Ellis Clk

I Ezer Ellis Clerk of the Court of Common of the County
Belmont do hereby certify that the foregoing
and the schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from
the records of the said Court. And I do further certify
that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total
amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid
Schedule is Sixty seven Dollars and Seventy five cents
In Testimony whereof I have have hereunto
set my hand and affixed the seal of the
said Court at St Clairsville the first
day of August Anno Domini One
thousand Eight Hundred and Twenty.-
Ezer Ellis Clerk of
the Court of Common
Pleas Belmont County
Ohio
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Declaration of Nancy Edge widow of John Edge In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 7th July 1838 entitled “An act granting half pay and pension to certain widows”

State of Ohio 
Belmont County }  SS.  On this 13th day of January 1844 personally approved before me Robert B. Green the undersigned one of the Commissioners of the said County of Belmont and State of Ohio and a Member of the Court of Commissioners of said County and State,   Nancy Edge a resident of the said County aged Eighty four years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to attain the benefit of the pension made by the act of Congress passed July 7 1838 entitled “ An Act granting half pay and pension to certain widows”     That she is the widow of John Edge, who was a is a private in the Army of the Revolution (Applicant [unreadable] to the Commissioner of Pension that there is [unreadable] of testimony on file in the office establishing the Revolutionary service of the  deceased husband the said John Edge in which a pension was granted to him a number of years since and his name was inscribed on the rolls of the pension office of the Ohio Agency .  [Unreadable] her great age and the frailty of her memory she cannot [unreadable] to anything with a correct of statement of his said service only that he was in the War four or five years as she has always been informed and she hopes that upon [unreadable] being made to the papers on file that they will appear satisfactory).  She further declares that she was she was married to the said John Edge in the County of Faquier and State of Virginia by one Jason Reimer a clergyman on Christmas day (old style) on the 6th day of January (N.P) in the year of our Lord One Thousand Seven hundred and Eighty one. That her said husband the aforesaid John Edge died on the fourth day of July One Thousand Eight Hundred and Thirty that 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 and Ninety Four, at the time above stated.
(over)
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Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before me.              
R B Green [Seal]   
Commissioner of Belmont Co.   
State of Ohio           
Belmont County } SS      And be it known, that I the above named Commissioner do hereby further certify that the above named Nancy Edge who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing Declaration is by reason of her age and bodily infirmity wholly unable to appear in open Court to make this her declaration that her disability is permanent, and no hopes of her being any more able to attend in future, than at this time -- I have heretofore set my hand and seal the day and year above written R. B. Green Commissioner of Belmont Co. Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before me               
R B Green [Seal]                 
Commissioner of Belmont Co.                       
State of Ohio                
Belmont County } SS Be it known, that on this 13th day of January 1844, personally appeared before the aforesaid Commissioner the above named Nancy Edge who being duly sworn on her oath States that she has been the Mother of 4 living children to wit Moly born Nov 7th 1781, Rosannah, born Sept 1st 1783, Sevicy in 1787 (her age is [unreadable]) and Letice, her fourth living and last child born November 11 1791.  –
That the old family Record herewith Marked At, and enscribed herewith is the family Record of the said Children of John Edge and Nancy Edge written down by the said husband the said John Edge [unreadable] that the same has been in existence for more than Sixty years that the same has been unchanged or [unreadable] for all that onset of time only the setting down of the names of the since born. And that her name before her marriage to the said John Edge was Nancy Cummings.  And further she saith not.
Nancy Edge her mark
Sworn and subscribed before me the day and year aforesaid. And I the said Commissioner do hereby further certify that the said Nancy Edge is a person of truth and veracity entitled to the 
[unreadable] credit.  Witness my hand and seal              
R. B. Green  [seal]
Commr. B. Co.
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State of Ohio              
Belmont County } SS      Be it known that on this 15th day of January 1844 personally appeared before me the undersign Commissioner  as appear Rosanah Dunfee who being hereby me first duly sworn according to Law deports and saith that she is the second daughter of John Edge and Nancy Edge that she was born on the 1st day of September in the year of the Lord One thousand seven hundred and Eighty three (1783) That she has an older sister then herself named Molly or Holy as it appears to have been written in the old paper within shown her her [unreadable] it. That she has always been her [unreadable] recollection her familiar with he old Record herewith enclosed marked At   and for a great part of her life time the same in possession and that the same has in no wise been altered or changed to her knowledge but that the same is greatly worn and mutilated by time That the said Record once contained in fair and legible hand writing the name of all of the children of the said John and Nancy Edge her said father and Mother and that the first child of the said John and Nancy Edge, to wit, the aforesaid Mooly was born on the day of Seven (1781) Seventeen hundred and eight one. That she was the second child of the said John & Nancy Edge and a support, and has always supposed and has always been informed that she and borne on this 1st day of September 1785 that her said father and Mother had four living daughters to wit Moly born according to the said Record Marked At the 7th day of November 1781 and this deponent the said Rosanah born on the 1st September 1783 and Levice born in 1787. She thinks on the 5th September and Letice, born November 11th 1791. That from her earliest recollection (to wit) forty years, she has known the said Record, marked At. and that her aforesaid father the said John Edge who died 4th day of July 1830, wrote down in his own hand writing the said ages of her self and Sisters and the deponent Sisters [unreadable]
Rosanah Dunfee   her mark
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid before me R B. Green Commr.  [seal]
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State of Ohio 
Belmont County } SS.   And the above named Commissioner further certifies that the above named Rosanah Dunfee is to me well known that she is a person of truth and veracity and her word is entitled to full credit – 
R. B. Green Commr.  [seal]
State of Ohio       
Belmont County } SS       
I  Wm Dunn County Auditor of Belmont County and State of Ohio and Ex. officio Clerk of the Court of Commissioners in and for Said County do hereby Certify that Robert B. Green before whom the foregoing proceedings were held in the matter of the application of Nancy Edge for a pension was at the time of having the same and now is one of the Commissioners of the Said County, and a member of the Commissioners Court in and for Said County duly Elected and qualified, that the Said Court is a Court of Record, that full faith is due and credit should be given to all his official Acts, and that the Signatures above purporting to be his are genuine.           
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal officially at St. Clairsville this 15th day of January AD 1844       William Dunn [Seal]  
Audtr of Belmont Co.
State of Ohio              
Belmont County } SS    I John C. Tallman Clerk of the Court of Common pleas in and for the County of Belmont do hereby certify that William Dunn, who has made the foregoing Certificate, is Auditor of the said County and Ex officio Clerk of the County Commissioners in and for said County duly elected and qualified, that full faith is due and Credit should be given to all of his official acts, and that the above Signature purporting to be his is Genuine and the above seal his official Seal.                         
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at St. Clairsville this 15th day of January 1844.             
John C. Tallman Clerk
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Sworn to and subscribed before me this Twenty six day of October AD. 1855           
Thomas Murphy J.P.                    
Know all men by this that I Nancy Edge of Monroe County and State of Ohio, widow of John Edge deceased, who served in the war with Great Britain commonly known as the war of the Revolution some constituted and appointed me presents do constitute and appoint Nathaniel Hatch of Washington D C. irrevocably, my true and lawful attorney with full power of substitution, for me and in my name place and stead, to examine all the declarations, Rolls and Evidences in the several public department and courts of the several state and general goverment; to withdraw or file any papers nessary in the premises; to ask for and receive of and from the United States of America, any Bounty Land Warrants, Pension money, or monies, that were in or may become [unreadable] account Whatsoever and in my name to give receipts and other sufficient discharges for such Bounty Land Warrant Pensions or money due as aforesaid, and to attend to and prosecute any and all business of whatever nature I may have with or before any of the Department, courts, Commissioners of Government or purpose and generally to do any and all other act, that I might or could do were I personally present at the doing thereof hereby ratifying and confirming whatsover his my said attorney or his substitute should do in and about the premises by virtue hereof, and revoking all other powers of attorney heretofore granted by me. In Witness Whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this fifteenth day of November 1855    Nancy Edge her mark [seal]
Signed sealed and delivered the presence of 
E Cirne    
J C Way
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State of Ohio Monroe County SS
on this Fifteenth day of November AD 1855
before me, Thomas Murphy a Justice of the peace duly commissioned and sworn in and for the said County personally appeared Nancy Edge who subscribed the forgoing power of Attorney, and acknowledged that the executed the same voluntarily for the use and purposes therein set forth, I hereby certify that said Nancy Edge is the widow of said John Edge 
Thomas Murphy
Justice of the peace
The State of Ohio Monroe County
James Peter Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas within and for said County, it is that Thomas Murphy Esq before whom the foregoing declaration, affidavit and acknowledgment were made is and was, at the time of making the same an acting Justice of the Peace within and for said County, duly commissioned and sworn and that his signatures foregoing are genuine
Witness my hand and the Seal
of said County this 24" day
November A.D. 1855
James Mitchell Clerk
Washington
224.512
Nathl Hatch
Washington
Atty
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State of Ohio
Monroe County
On this twenty sixth day of October
A.D. of one thousand eight hundred and fifty
five, personally appeared before me, a justice
of the Peace within and for the County and State
aforesaid, Nancy Edge, aged ninety nine years
a widow of Monroe County, in the State of Ohio
who being duly sworn, declares that she is
the widow of John Edge, deceased, who was
a private in the company commanded by
Captain in the regiment
commanded by
in the war with Great
Britain, commonly known as the war of the
Revolution; that her said husband
on or about the
first day of April A.D. Seventeen
hundred and Seventy seven for the term of
five years and continued in actual service
in said war for the term of five years
and was honorably discharged at
on the day of   A.D. Seventeen
hundred and Eighty two: all of which will
fully and at large appear by reference
to the original record of a certain certificate
bearing date June twenty ninth eighteen
hundred and forty-eight, signed by W.D.
Marcy, Secretary of War, and countersigned
and recorded in the Pension Office on the
Roll of Pensioners under the act of February
2nd 1848, page 340, Vol 4
She further states that she was married
to the said John Edge in Virginia
on the sixth day of January AD 17?4
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by one rev. Kinner a Minister of the Gospel, and her name before her said marriage was Nancy Cummings, that her said husband died at Belmont Co Ohio on the 11th day of June AD 1831 and that she is now a widow She makes this declaration for this purpose of obtaining the bounty land to which she may be entitled under the act approved March 3. 1855.                  
Nancy Edge her mark     
We Thomas Way and Elisabeth Edge residents of Monroe County, in the State of Ohio upon our oaths declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by Nancy Edge in our presence; and that we believe from the apperance and statements of the applicant, that she is the identical person she represents herself to be.                 Thomas Way                 
Attest Thomas Murphy      
Elisabeth Edge her mark       
The foregoing declaration and affidavit were Sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and year above written; and I certify that I know the affiant to be credible persons; that the claimant is the person she represents herself to be and that I have no interest in this claim                
Thomas Murphy JP                      
The State of Ohio, Monroe County Before me Thomas Murphy a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, personally appeared Thomas Way & Elizabeth Edge being duly sworn deposeth and saith, that Nancey Edge who Signed and acknowledged the foregoing declaration is the widow of John Edge refered to in the foregoing declaration.
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Moly Edge Daughter of John and Nancy 
November the 7  
was bornd  in the year of our Lord 1781       
J Edge was bornd Augsist the 20 8 Day in the year of our Lord 1-86
Son of moly Ede 
Edge, John 
(VA.) W.4946
THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES
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Rosanah Edge daughter of John and Nancy
was born September [unreadable]
No 4. At
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Letice Edge daughter of John and 
Nancy Edge (ill)
Molly Edge and the November
No 3.   1781
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A Thomas way Sun of John way
was born the 7 1814 of December
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Edge, John
(VA) W-4946
The National Archives of the United States
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[unreadable]  Kriel was bornd [unreadable] the last in the year 1 85  14
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8. 559.
Ohio Wheeling, Agency
Nancy Edge
widow of John Edge
who was a pensioner under act of 1818
and who died on the 4th July 1830
of Belmont Co in the State of Ohio
who was a private in the Company
commanded by Captain Blackwell of the
Regt commanded by Col Green
the Virginia line for 3 years
Inscribed on the Roll of Wheeling Va
at the rate of 80 Dollars 0
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day
of March, 1836
____
Certificate of Pension issued the 25 day of
July 1844 and sent to Stephen
H. Harding Milan Ind.
Arrears to the 4th of
Semiannual allowance ending
.
$400.00
Act July 7, 1838
Recorded by F. S. Evans Clerk
Book D Vol. S  Page 389
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Ray
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 4946

Nancy Edge
Widi
John Edge
Pvt Rev. War
Act: Feby, Jus
Index: -- Vol. A Page 209
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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11408
Meo army
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State of Ohio-
Belmont County ⎬ I Edward Bryson Judge
as aforesaid do hereby certi-
fy that it is my opinion that
the aforesaid John Edge is intitled to the bene
fits of the act of Congress passed at the last Session
of Congress entitled an act provide for cer
tain persons engaged in the Land and Naval services of the United States in the Revolutionary
War In testamony thereof I transmit the
testamony taken before me in the case
May 6th 1884
Edw Bryson (LS)

The State of Ohio
Belmount County
I Ezra Ellis clerk protempore
of the Court of Common Pleas
and for said County do hereby
certify that Edward Bryson Esquire
before whom the within affidavit
appears to have been taken and
whose name is thereto subscribed
was at the time of taking the same
and still is an acting associate Judge of the Court
Common Pleas in and for the County of Belmont
duly commissioned and qualified to all whose
official acts as such full faith & credit is due &
ought to be given as well in Courts of Record
as thereout, In Testimony whereof I have
hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal
of said Court at St Clairsville the first day of
June one thousand eight hundred & eighteen
Ezer Ellis Clk pro tem
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State of Ohio Belmont County I Edw Bryson Judge as aforesaid do certify that from my personal acquaintance with the within named John Edge that I know him to be in very reduced circumstances and believe him to be in need of the assistance of his country for support given under my hand and seal this 1st day of March 1819.              
Edw Bryson, AJ [SS}              
N.B.  The reason that the above was not enrolled before was on account that witnesses has not   come forward [unreadable] of Revision Deposition
John Edge 6 May 18    

The certificate of the judge of the reduced circumstances of the applicant is wanting --- 
Admd.
E. Bryson
St. Clairsville
Ohio
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State of Ohio 
Belmont County } SS.   I Edw Bryson Judge aforesaid do certify that from my personal aquaintance with the within named John Edge that I know him to be in very reduced circumstances and believe him to be in need of the assistance of his country for support given under my hand and seal this 1st day of March 1819. Edw Bryson, AJ                     
NB The reason that the above was not enrolled before was on account that ??? the [unreadable] witness has not come forward [unreadable] deposition          
 John Edge 6 May .13 Three years Virginia Line
 the certificate of the judge of the reduced circumstances of the applicant is wanting--- Admd. 
E. Bryson Esq 
St. Clairsville Ohio
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Department of the Interior,
Pension Office, Official Busi.
according to the
declaration of the
husband in 1821,
this widower now
about 100 years
of age,
Cole
Special
1871
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5.891
Ohio, Wheeling Agency
Nancy Edge
widow of John Edge
who was a private & pensioner
Act 18th March 1818
in the Virginia line, for
3 years, who died and 4th
July 1830.
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
80 Dollars
Cents per annum, to commence on
the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the
25th day of July 1844
and sent to
Stephen H. Harding
Milan
Indiana
Act of March 3, 1843.
Recorded in Book A
Vol. 1.  Page 158
F. S. Evans
Clerk
Reported
two Certificate Act 1838
& 1843
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Wheeling Jun 
FREE

J L Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
D.C.
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Wheeling June 21 1840

J L Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pension

Dear Sir
Enclosed please find application
of Nancy Edge widow of John Edge for a pension
under act of Congress passed February 7. 1848
you will please make her pension payable
at the Wheeling agency. Your early attention
will much oblige
Yours very respectfully
G S Thompson
Please forward certificate
to me, should the application
be correctly drawn up
G. S.T.
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3d 10528
Declaration of
Nancy Edge widow
(of John Edge) for a
Pension and also
the Family Record
-
Died 4th July 1830

Stephen H. Harding
Milan
Indiana

Ste H Harding
Agent Milan In
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Admitted
Geo. S. Thompson
Wheeling
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State of Ohio
County of Belmont
On this 22 day of April 1848 personally
appeared before the Subscriber a Justice of Peace in and for the County aforesaid Nancy Edge a widow of Washington Town ship in the County of Belmont aged Eighty seven years who being first 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 2d February, 1848, granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War. That she is
the widow of John Edge who was a private in
Regiment of Virginia State and that she received a pension under the act of are passed June 17 1844 of Eighty dollars per annum. She further declares that she is still a widow 
Sworn and subscribed the
day and year above
mentioned before me

Nancy Edge her mark

attest Saml Ring
Justice of Peace

I certify that the above named applicant
is personally known to me and that she is the same
individual who drew a pension as stated in the
foregoing affidavit
Sam Ring Justice of Peace
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The State of Ohio Belmont County of
I, Robert H. Miller Clerk
of the Court of Common Pleas of said county do
hereby certify that Saml Ring Esqr. before whom the within affidavit was taken and who has signed the within certificate was at the time of the taking of such affidavit and signing said certificates one of the acting
Justices of the Peace within aforsaid County did
commissioned & qualified & to all whose acts as and full faith & credit are due, and that the within signatures purporting to be his I believe to be genuine 
Witness my signature and the seal
said Court this 16th day of June
A D 1848 Robert Miller Clerk
by James V. Dean Clerk