Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 3905, William Whitaker, Continental (Va.)
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Continental (Va.)   Whitaker, William       W. 3905    
                                           Elizabeth      {B.L.Wt.2442_200_Lieut.
                                                                {Issued Dc.14.1796 to
                                                                {Peter B. Leram, assignee
                                                                {No papers.
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   1059
Virginia Richmond
Elizabeth Whitaker
widow of William Whitaker 
who served in the Revolutionary
war, as a Lieut. of Artilly. 

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 
400 Dollars --- 
Cents per annum, to commence on 
the 4th day of March, 1848. 

Certificate of Pension issued the 
1st day of August 1848
and sent to 
pensioner Richmond Va.

Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act
February 2, 1848, Page 197 Vol. 3.

Letter to claimant Sep 19/48

-Reported
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No. 12385
Elizabeth Whittaker.
R Dec. 11. 1845
Va.
act 7. July 38
aomd
2 cpy Lt. Artilly
400

also acts 43 & 44

Hon. J. H Bayley
H.R.
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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 Virginia}
City of Richmond} Ss

On this 16th day of November 1845, personally appeared in open Court before Judge R.N. Nicholas, Judge of the Superior Court of law for the County of Henrico and State of Virginia Mrs. Elizabeth Whitaker a resident of said City aged Sixty eight or nine the 2nd day of August 1845, 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 7, 1838, entitled "an act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows:" That she is the widow of William Whitaker (who was an officer in the revolutionary war), and was too young to have any personal knowledge of the revolutionary services of her husband William Whitaker, but understood from him and others that he was a Lieutenant in Col Charles Harrisons regiment of artillery and served to the end of the war - she cannot say how long he was in service, but is sure he must have been at least two years. He received his military land bounty warrant from the State of Virginia and sold it, as I understood, after our marriage. I know I made no relinquishment of my Dower right and have often tried to ascertain who held the land that I might assert my right. My husband was a member of the Cincinnati Society  and at the time of his death in October 1807 was a pensioner of that society at $150. per year. The pension was continued to me as his widow at the same rate, until my son the late Anthony S. Whitaker came of age, when it was reduced to one hundred dollars and has remained at that rate ever since. I was married to Wm Whitaker in Williamsburg, Virginia at the house of Mr. John Travis, by the Reverend John Bracken, who was a professor of Wm and Mary College.

 She was married before she was fifteen years old - the marriage took place on the last day of June and was fifteen on the second day of August following. She cannot say positively whether it was in the year 1791 or 1792. She knows, she was not fifteen years old as that was the reason had guardian and brother- in- law- Robert H Waller objected to the match, and said it
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she was married  it must not be in his house, and this caused the ceremony to take place at Mr. John Travis - she went into Court on Monday and chose Mr. Whitaker as her guardian and was married the following saturday. Mr. Walter was the clerk of the Court and would receive no fee for issuing the marriage license. Mr. Samuel Shields was clerk of York County was a deputy in the Clerks Office and would no doubt recalled the year. she has no doubt the marriage bond was filed and would show the year. She knows she is now 68 or 69 years old - She is not certain which - if the latter, the marriage must have taken place in 1791 yet it may have been in 1792. She has no family record of the marriage and the births of her children, who are now all dead, she had one but it has been lost a long time since, it was a small bible - but got lost in moving about from place to place - she is well known by a great many persons in Richmond who know her identity as the widow of William Whitaker. he died in 1807 and she has remained his widow ever since - She has never applied for a pension from the United States, because she never knew that she was entitled to one- no one ever mentioned the subject to me. She has made repeated efforts to recover her interest in the military land of her husband but now heard it suggested that she was entitled to a pension from the Government. She was well acquainted with Judge Marshall Mr Call and Dr McClurg who were intimate with her husband - Col. Carrington was one of her best friends. Her maiden name was Elizabeth Camm - her father the Reverend John Camm was President of Wm. and Mary College at the commencement of the revolution. She was not married prior to her husbands last service but was married previous to the first day of January 1794. viz at the time above stated.    Elizabeth Whitaker
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I John Robinson Clerk of the Circuit Superior Court of law and chancery for the County of Henrico and City of Richmond, on the common law side, do hereby certify that the preceding declaration of Miss Elizabeth Whitaker, was by her made and subscribed and sworn to in open Court the 26th Day of Nov 1845. In testimony whereof, I hereto set my hand and affix the seal of the said Court, at Richmond, the said 26th day of November 1845 - The word "made of," and "sworn to" in the above 5th line being first interlined. 
                                                     J. Robinson
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N. 7
William Whitaker
To copy M. L. Bond.
The Governor. -
Fee 54 cents._Paid.
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Know all men by these presents, that we William Whitaker and Wilson Allen are held and firmly bound unto Henry Lee esquire Governor and chief magistrate of the Commonwealth of Virginia, in the just and full sum of fifty pounds, to be paid to the said Governor and his successors to which payment well and truly to be made we find ourselves jointly and severally, our joint and several heirs executors and administrators firmly by these presents: Sealed with our seal and dated this 26th day of June 1792.
The condition of the above obligation is such that whereas there is a marriage intended shortly to be had and solemnized between the above bound William Whitaker and Elizabeth Camm (Spinster) both of the County of James City- now if there be no lawful cause to obstruct the said marriage, then the above obligation to be void or else to remain in full force a virtue.-
Sealed and delivered
in the presence of,


Wm: Whitaker    seal
Wilson Allen    seal

James City County Court Clerk's office, to wit:
I hereby certify that the foregoing is a correct copy of a marriage license bond executed by William Whitaker and Wilson Allen, and filed in the said office.-
Tesse,
Th: O. Cogbill
December 2nd 1845
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7460
Virginia.
Elizabeth Whitaker
widow of William Whitaker,
who was a Lieutenant of Artillery
in the Virginia line.
2 certificates[?]

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
400 Dollars---
Cents per annum, to commence on
the 4th day of March, 1843.

Certificate of Pension issued the
15 day of Dec. 1845
and sent to Hon T.H. Bayley
H. R.


(Act of March 3, 1843.}
& 17 June,1844
Recorded in Book A.
Vol. 2 Page 150
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9769.
Virginia

Elizabeth Whitaker

widow of William Whitaker
who was a pensioner under the Act of
and who died on the - October, 1807,
of City of Richard in the State of Virginia
who was a Lieutenant in the
commanded by Captain of the
Regt. commanded by Col. Harrison in
the Virginia line for 2 years Lt. arty.

Inscribed on the Roll of Richmond
at the rate of 400 -- Dollars
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day
of March, 1836.


Certificate of Pension issued the 15th day of
Dec. 1848 and sent to Hon T. H. 
Bayley H. R.

Total amount,
$2000.00
-
(Act July 7, 1838.}
Recorded by W M Stewart  Clerk,
Book D vol. 1 -- Page 283
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Council Chamber 13th December, 1783
I do certify that Mr William Whitaker is entitled to the
proportion of land allowed a Lieutenant of the Continental
line who has served to the end of the war

Benjamin Harrison

Thomas Meriwether
A Warrant for 2666 2/3 acres issued to Mr William Whitaker
13th Decr 1783. No 2121
A Copy from the Records of the Virginia Land Office
Teste,
S. H. Parker Reg. L. Office
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Treasury Department
Richmond Virginia Nov 26th '45

I do hereby certify, that Mrs Elizabeth Whitaker
is a pensioner on the fund of the Cincinnati
Society placed in the hands of the treasurer of the
Commonwealth of Virginia, by an act of the Legislature
passed 5th February, 1814. That to my knowledge
she has received said pension at this office, from
the State Treasurer, regularly in January and
July in each year, since 1828. I am also personally
well acquainted with Mrs Whitaker, and know her
to be a lady of great respectability , and a member of
high standing in the Episcopal Church, of which
she has long been a communicant.

F. M. Lawson, Treas Comsh
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Richmond Virginia Nov 27 1845
I was in the regiment with Lieut Whitaker he served in the same company of artillery belonging to the regiment commanded by  Col Charles Newson with me, the two last companies under General N Green in the South he joined his corps about the last of July 1781 and remained in service to the end of the war he went to the South with the Pennsylvania line commanded by Gen Wayne and fought a (illegible) March he left a (illegible) in this place many years ago

(signature)
Francis Brooke

I can add that Lieut Whitaker was a member of this States Society of the Cincinnati of which I was the (illegible) president. 
(signature)
Francis Brooke

City of Richmond to with Sworn
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State of Virginia
Corporation of Richmond to wit.

This is to certify, that Judge
Francis T. Brook this day personally appeared before
me an Alderman of said Corporation and acknowledged 
the signatures on the foregoing page to be his
genuine hand writing and that the statements made
by him are true as contained on the preceding page.

Given under my hand this fifth day
of November 1845
Geo. Fisher

State of Virginia, City of Richmond to wit
 I Charles Howard, Clerk of the Court of Hastings
for the said City, hereby certify that George Fisher, whose name
is subscribed to the above certificate, is an alderman and an
officer a justice of the peace in and for the corporation of the
said city, and a member of the said court of Hastings, and
I certifies his said signature to be genuine.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and affixed the seal of
the said Court of Hastings this fifth 
day of December, One thousand eight
hundred and forty five
Chs Howard, clk
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I have been acquainted with Mrs. Elizabeth Whittaker for
many years, she is the mother of the late Anthony S. Whitaker
and is a most respectable and deserving lady, and I have no doubt she is the (illegible) person she appears onto herself to be in her declaration, the widow of Lieut. William
Whitaker,  tho' I did not know him.

Richmond, December 5th 1845.
Wm Lambert
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I know Mrs Elizabeth Whitaker now
resident in this City she is the widow
of William Whitaker, who resided at
one time in the County of York, and
was refuted to have served as an
officer in the Revolutionary war.
Mrs. Whitaker had an only son whose
name was Anthony S. Whitaker &
who died some years since.

Richmond)
November 26th)
1845-)

Robert G. Scott
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H. of Rep. Dec. 11th 1845

Commissioner of Pensions

Sir
I enclose
you the papers in the case of Mrs.
E N Whitaker & ask your early
attention to them. 

Very respectfully
your obt servant 
Th . H. Bayly
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Revy WIDOW, &c.
8905
Elizth Whitaker
Wid.
Wm Whitaker
Lieut Rev War
File No.
Act: Feby. 2d/48

Index:--Vol. M. Page 329
(Arrangement of 1870.}
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Richmond 13th September 1848

Mr T S  Edwards
Dear Sir

I see my name has been ordered
to be listed on the Pension list at the office here for
payment. I have not received my certificate to receive
my Pension you will please forward it to me as
soon as convenient.

Yours respectfully

E Whitaker
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Ad
7463
Admitted
E. Whitaker -
Richmond, Va
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State of Virginia
On this 22nd day of July 1848, before me Richard Hill Jr
a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Henrico in the said State,
personally appeared Elizabeth Whitaker, a resident of the City of Richmond
in the said County of Henrico, aged seventy 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 William Whitaker, who was a Lieutenant of artillery
and that under the Act of Congress of the 17 June 1844, she received a
pension at the rate of four hundred dollars per annum.
she further declares that she is still a widow.

E Whitaker

Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written
Before me
Rich. Hill, Jr. J.P.

I certify that Elizabeth Whitaker the Declarant above named, is personally 
known to me.
Rich. Hill Jr.

State of Virginia, Henrico County, to wit,
I Lofin N. Ellett, Clerk of the County Court of the County and State afore
said, do hereby certify that Richard Hill Jr. is a Justice of the Peace
in and for the said County, duly commissioned and qualified, that he is legally
authorized to act as such, and that the foregoing signatures, purporting to be
his I believe to be genuine.

(seal)
Given under my hand, and the seal of the said Court,
this 22d day of July one thousand eight hundred
and forty eight.

Loftin N. Ellett. C.H.C.
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Virginia)
City of Richmond)

Be it known that on this 26th day
of November 1845 personally appeared before me an
Alderman for said City Mrs Lucy H. Taylor widow of the
late Thomas Taylor of said City and made oath that
she is well acquainted with Mrs Elizabeth Whitaker
of this City now an applicant for a pension from the
United States, and knows that she is the widow of
William Whitaker who died many years ago, about
the year 1807 as she believes. Said Wm Whitaker
was the nephew of Anthony Singleton who was the father
of this affiant. She knows the said Mrs Elizabeth
Whitaker is a pensioner upon the Cincinnati fund of
Virginia and that she was married to the said
William Whitaker a great many years before his death
but the precise time of the marriage she cannot state.
as to the said Elizabeth Whitaker being the widow of
said William Whitaker there can be no doubt. This
affiant did not know him to have been an officer of
her own knowledge but she has heard his mother & others
state the fact. His mother was Rachael Whitaker the
Sister of affiants father, & from her, she had the fact also
that Wm Whitaker ran away from his home to join the
army. Of his being an officer she has not the slightest
doubt. Mrs Elizabeth Whitaker is a very respectable lady
but in indigent circumstances.
Given under  my
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my hand and seal the day and year aforesaid.

W. Lambert Mayor  (seal)
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[postmark]  YORKTOWN  VA  3

Thomas Green esq.
Richmond Va.  

5

No. 8
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York County 2d Dec 45

Thomas Green Esq. Richmond

Dear Sir;
Your favor of the 26 Oct has just been
received and its receipt has been delayed in consequence of
my having removed on the first of the year from York Town
on acct of ill health, to my farm about 8 or 9 miles
distant. I regret exceedingly my inability to give you the
information you request for my valued relation Mr Elizth
Whitaker. Only in part, and that, I fear will not benefit 
her much-- for I assure you and I know she is
well satisfied. That few things would afford
me more real pleasure than to be instrumental
in securing to her the means by which she may be
rendered comfortable in her old days.
She is entirely mistaken in supposing I resided with Mr. Ro.
H. Waller the Clerk of York in 1791 or 1792 as an office
Boy. The truth is that I was this only seven years
and did not go into Mr Wallers office till the
3rd. of February 1800 But I know that Mrs. Whitaker
the widow of Wm. Whitaker of whom you speak
having often assisted them in Williamsburg after I
became an intimate of Mr. Waller's family who married
the sister of Mr Whitaker, I knew too, that by that marriage 
she had two children Anthony & Sarah both
who died unmarried without [illegible], & I believe
intestate. She is also mistaken when she supposes, at the
time of her marriage she lived in that part of Williamsburg 
in York County. It was a Jas. City of which County
Mr. O'Fallon was also clerk at that time. It is proba
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probable that the license was obtained in neither
County as he was very much opposed to the watch
and I cannot find any bond in the York office, and
therefore I suspect Mr Russell the then Clerk
of the [...illegible] Court of Wmsburg issued the license,
in the office of which Court the bond may be filed.
Mr Turner Christian is the Clerk of that Court, and
Mr. Thos O. Cogbill Clerk of Jas. City. From bad faith
under which I have been laboring for two years I
a now confined to my room or I would go to Williamsburg 
& procure the necessary papers for her
and this must be my apoligy for not taking  this trouble.
I know nothing of Mr. Whitaker being a soldier
in Col. Charles Harrison's Regt during the War
of the Revolution, or of any person, old Enough,
to speak of this matter-- most of the persons
& perhaps nearly all in or about Wmsburg older
than myself are dead-- Old Mrs Travis at whose
House Mr. Whitaker was married died about
18 months ago, & she is the last of my acquaintances 
who could have spoken with any thing
like certainty of Mr. Whitaker's services as
Lieut. &c. If from the statement I have made any
certificate in accordance therewith will be of
service in procuring any thing for my relation
please let me hear without delay.

I am very resptfy
Your obt. Servt
Saml. Shield
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The United States in a/c with William Whitaker  

Dr. 
1782 To pay as Lieutenant of Artillery from April 10 to Dec 31 as p return  290
290

1783 To pay from Jany 1st to November 15th  350
350

To five years full pay   2000


Cr.
By J Hamilton Clothing   85.10
By three months pay  100
Balance due  104.89
290

By four months pay  133.30
Balance due   216.60
350

By Certificates   2000.

January 19th 1785
Anthony Singleton Guardian to William Whitaker
Settled by Anthy Singleton

The above is truly copied from Comsr Andrew Dunscombs Book of Settlements with
the Officers [illegible] of the Revolutionary Army.

Given under my hand at the Auditor's Office
Richmond this 27th day of November 1845.
Jas. E. Heath  Audr. Pub. acctg
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Richd 6 Decr. 1845

Col. J.L. Edwards
Washington

Sir

Enclosed are the declarations
of Mrs. Elizabeth Whitaker( of this city) Widow of Lieut
Wm. Whitaker of the Va. line who served to the end of
the war Recd his commutation.
She was married 30 June 1782. The case is completely
& continuously made out, on every point.

No 1&2, are the declaration under act 1838. & 3 years ("43 & 17 days "44)[?].
No 3. A. Dunscomb statement of Lt. Whitakers a/c, from 10 April"82 to 15 Nov. 1783.
No. 4. The certificate of the Land Office, that in 1783 he recd his land Bounty.
No. 5 Judge Brooke; affidavit that he knew him intimately that he joined
the corps in 1781 (about the last of July) & served to end of war. He first
to the South with the Penn Line, & had a duel with Capt
Blowers of that line - he was afterwards in Capt Anthony in
Gletues Company (his uncle) Col Hamine Regt. with Judge
Brook who also known he died leaving one
son (Anthony Singleton Whitaker a young lawyer who
died in this City so 18 or 20 yrs. ago).
No 6. Our Treasurer's certificate, that he knows Mr Whitaker well and has
said he ($100) as pensioner upon the Cincinnati fund, was
done in 1828.
No 7, a copy of the Marriage Bond dated 26 June 1792.
No 8. The reply of Saml. Shield (Clerk of York) saying there is no record in his office
but he knows the applicant intimately & the circumstances of the marriage. 
No. 9 a certificate of R.G. Scott (not sworn to become the other circular
is no complete) as to identity
No. 10. The applicant of Mrs. Thomas Taylor of this City, which
conclusive as to the identity, i.e. 
I am yr. obt sevt.   Thos Green
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Richmond 25th July 1848

Mr J S Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions

Dear Sir

I send you enclosed
a Declaration made by me. who was a pensioner of
the U States under the Act of 1844 in order to obtain
the benefits of the provision made by the act of the 2nd
February 1848. Be pleased to enclose me a certificate
of Pension under the last mentioned Act

Yours respectfully
E Whitaker
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Declaration

In order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the acts
of Congress passed on the 3d March 1843 and 17 June 1844 granting
and continuing pensions to certain widows.

State of Virginia
City of Richmond ⎬SS

On this 26th day of November 1845
personally appeared in open Court before Judge P.N. Nicholas
Judge of the Circuit Superior of law for Henrico County and
State aforesaid Mrs Elizabeth Whitaker resident of said City
aged sixty eight or nine years the 2d August 1845, who being first
duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following
declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made
by the act of Congress passed on the 3d March 1843 and 17 June
1844 granting and continuing pensions to certain widows. That
she is the widow of William Whitaker who was an officer in the
revolutionary war. She was too young to have any personal
knowledge of the revolutionary service of her husband William
Whitaker, but understood from him and others that he was a
Lieutenant in Col Charles Harrison Regt of Artillery and served
to the end of the war. She cannot say how long he was in service
but is sure he must have been at least two years. He received
his military land bounty Warrant from the State of Virginia
and sold it, as she understood after her marriage. She knows
she made no relinquishment of her dower right and have often
tried to ascertain who held the land that she might affect her 
right. Her husband was a member of the cincinati society and
at the time of his death in October 1807 was a pensioner of that
society at $150 pr year. The pension was continued to her as
his widow at the same rate until her son the late Anthony S.
Whitaker came of age, when it was reduced to one hundred
dollars and has remained at that rate ever since. She was
married to William Whitaker in Williamsburg Virginia
at the home of Mr. John Travis, by the Reverend John Bracher
who was a professor of Wm and Mary College - She was married
before she was fifteen years old, the marriage took place on the
last day of June and she was fifteen on the 2d day of August following.
She cannot say positively it was in the 1791 or 1792, she  knows
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she was not fifteen years old as that was the reason her guardian
and brother-in-law-- Robert H. Waller objected to the match, and
said if she was married it must not be in his house and this caused
the ceremony to take place at Mr John Travis. She went into
Court on Monday and Chose Mr Whitaker as her guardian and
was married the following Saturday.-- Mr Waller was the Clerk
of the Court and would receive no fee for issuing the marriage
license. Mr. Samuel Shields, now Clerk of York County, was a
deputy in the Clerks office and would no doubt recollect the
year. She has no doubt the marriage bond was filed and would
show the year. She knows she is now 68 or 69 years old. She
is not certain which if the latter, the marriage must have taken
place in 1791 yet it may have been in 1792. She has no family
record of the marriage and the birth of her children, who are
now all dead. She had one, but it has been lost a long time
since, it was a small Bible-- but got lost in moving about
from place to place-- she is well known by a great many
persons in Richmond who know her identity as the widow of
Wm Whitaker. He died in 1807 and she has remained his
widow ever since. She has never applied for a pension from
the United States, because she never knew that she was entitled
to one. No one ever mentioned the subject to her. She has made
repeated efforts to recover her interest in the military land of
her husband, but never heard it suggested that she was entitled
to a pension from the Government. She was well acquainted with
Judge Marshall, Mr Call, and Dr McClurg who were
intimate with her husband - Col Carrington was one of her
best friends. Her maiden name was Elizabeth Camm- Her
father the Revd John Camm was president of Wm and Mary
College at the commencement of the revolution. She was not
married prior to her husbands last service, but the marriage
took place previous to the 1st day of January 1794, viz at the
time above stated.
E Whitaker
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I John Robinson, Clerk of the Circuit Superior Court of law
and Chancery for the County of Henrico and City of Richmond, on
the common law side, do hereby certify that the preceding
declaration of Mrs Elizabeth Whitaker was by her made &
subscribed and sworn to in open Court the 26th day of November
1845.

In testimony whereof I hereto set my hand and
affix the seal of the said Court, at Richmond
the said 26th Nov 1845

J Robinson