Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 3076, Dennis Dempsey, Del

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Del        Dempsey, Dennis           W. 3076
             or Dimpsy              B.L. [illegible] 918-100
Mary

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918
        (16)

Dennis Dempsey
Private


Delaware line  S

[illegible] arrant ifs Bellay 12th. 1820

Hon: J. Roberts

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At. of request of Dennis Dempsey I do hereby certify that the said Dennis was enlisted in the first Delaware Regt (Regiment) raised in the year 1776 and served during that campaign & afterwards enlisted at the expiration of his first time in [illegible] said Regt. again under the command at that time of Col. David Hall Esq. Witness my hand this 3rd day of October 1789
 [illegible}
in first Del. Regt.
To whom it may concern

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I do hereby certify that Dennis Dempsy the bearer. served in the Delaware Regiment during the War having enlisted for that term, and is entitled thereby to his military bounty of land. Given under my hand at Newcastle in the Delaware state this1st day of Oct. 1789

[illegible]

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Pennsylvania = Phila
May Dempsey {15}
widow of Dennis Dempsey
who was a private
in the Delaware line for 2 years
Inscribed in 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 3rd day of July 1943 and sent to Joseph [illegible] West Chester
Act of March 3, 1843
Recorded in Book A Vol 1 Page 120

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6969  
Pennsylvania
Dennis Dempsey of Chester County in the state of Pennsylvania who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Huglett if the Delaware line for the tem of seven years

Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania at the rate of 8 Dollars er month, to commence on the 7th of May 1818

Certificate of Pension issued 13 of Feb 1819 and sent Hon. Jonathan Roberts 

Arrears to the 4th of Sep 1818 -        31.53
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Mar 1819    48.-
                                                           79.53

{Revolutionary claim, }
{ Act 18th March, 1818.}


Continued

Notification sent October 28, 1820 to John G. Werster, West Chester, PA

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John Ross, Esquire Judge, Westchester, Penns. at [illegible] AD. [illegible] (this is written on the side of the document)
Dennis Dempsey, Delaware line; Revolutionary Claim.
 No rolls of the Delaware line have yet been received at the pension office. The testimony, on oath, of two or more disinterested and credible persons, proving the service stated by the applicant, is required. The judge is desired to certify, under the seal of the court, that he is satisfied the claimant is in indigent circumstances and needs the support of his country.
[there is either a watermark or circular stamp or seal on the right bottom corner]

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State of Pennsylvania SS            (3)

On the seventh day of May one thousand eight hundred and eighteen Before me the subscribed President of the seventh
Judicial District of Pennsylvania composed of the Counties of  Delsom (?) Chester   Montgomery & Bucks

 Personally appears Dennis Dempsey aged sixty four years residing In Charles Township Chester County afforded, who being duly sworn
according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the late act of Congress
entitles an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and Naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War


That the said Dennis Dempsey enlisted on the Seventh of July 1776 in the State of Delaware in the Company commanded by Capt Joseph Stedham in the Regt of the Delaware Line Commanded by Col Haslet that he continued to serve in the said corps  until he was discharged from the service in June 1783 in the State of Delaware


That he  was in the Battles of Long Island, White plains, Trenton, Germantown (where he was wounded) Brandywine, Monmouth Camden
Eaton Spring Guildford & was taken prisoner by the British made his escape from Charleston S. Carolina in after three months Captivity again joined his Regt & said during the war his discharge being lost. (insert illegible)  
and that a Certificate given by one of his captains that he is entitled to Bounty land now in the Office of Mr Cutting.

And that he's reduced in Circumstances & stands in need of the assistance of his Country for support & that he has no other evidence
Now in his power of his service said that he never received a Pension from this State or the United States

Dennis  (his X mark) Dempsey

Sworn to and subscribed by
(insert illegible)
and declared before me this
day and year aforesaid to
the seventh day of  may 18

John Ross President of the Seventh Judicial
 district aforesaid.



I John Ross Judge  & as affirmed do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Dennis Dempsey did serve in the revolutionary war as stated in the proceeding declaration against the common enemy & I now transmit  the proceedings & testimony taken I have before me to the Secretary for the department of war & Pension to the directions of the
aforementioned act of Congress

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Chester County ss

I John G. Wersler Clerk of the Court
of Quarter Sessions of the peace of said
County do certify that the Honorable John
Ross, before whom the within proceedings
were had and who has subscribed the same, was at the time of so doing & is President and Judge of the Seventh Judicial District of Pennsylvania, composed of the Counties of Delaware Chester Bucks Montgomery, duly commissioned and qualified, and that full faith and credit are due and should begiven to all his official acts

 Witness my hand & Seal of Office at West Chester in said County the 7th day of May AD. 1818
Hon JG Wersler CLK 


I the within named John Ross President of the seventh Judicial District of Pennsylvania do further certify that I am fully satisfied that the within claimant is in indigent circumstances
and needs the support of his country, Given under my hand
and seal this 3rd day of February 1819
John Ross  (written seal)

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To the Honorable Secretary of War

Washington

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Dennis Dempsey
6919
Charlestown

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COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, 
Chester County, SS: 
ON this Second day of August in the year of our Lord, one thousand, eight hundred and twenty.
Personally appeared in OPEN COURT of Common Pleas, held at Westchester, in and for the county of Chester, in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania; being a court of Record, proceeding according to the course of the Common law, with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, and keeping a record of its proceedings, Dennis Dempsey -- aged sixty-seven years and upwards, resident in the township of Charlestown in the said county of Chester, and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania; who being first duly sworn according to law, doth make the following declaration, in order to obtain the provision made by the acts of Congress of the 18th of March, 1818, and the 1st of May, 1820; That he served in the Revolutionary war, in the Company of which Joseph Siddons was the Captain in the Delaware Regt commanded by Col. [Haslet] on the Continental Establishment, and has obtained a pension under the act of the 18th of March 1818, his certificate being number 919.

AND I the said Dennis Dempsey - do solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the eighteenth day of March, eighteen hundred and eighteen, and that I have not since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner whatever, disposed 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 o the United States in the Revolutionary War," passed on the eighteenth day of March, eighteen hundred and eighteen, 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 than what is contained in the Schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed.
[signed:] Dennis + Dempsey ["his mark" above and below the cross]
Sworn to, declared and subscribed, on the second day of August 1820, in OPEN COURT of Common pleas, in and for the county of Chester in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania; the said Court, being a Court of Record by the Laws of the said Commonwealth.
[signed:] John G. [Nessler?] Prothonotary.

SCHEDULE OF PROPERTY.
Tenant by the Curtesy of 4 acres of Land in Charlestown Township, Chester County
2 [Talles?]        1 sett of Malls
3 Chains.         1 Grubbing hoe
1 Axe.               1/2 doz knives & forks
1 Bed & Bedding.  1/2 doz Cups & Saucers

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1 Looking Glass.       1 pr Smoothing Irons
1/2 doz spoons.        1 sweeping brush
1 pr shovel & tongs.  1 Tin plate [stone?]
[illegible - scribbled out]  1 candle stick
               [written small] Total value $14.90
1 hoe
1 reaping hook 
1 Iron pot
1 Brass Kettle
1/2 doz Plates
1 sickle
1 spade 
1 pair andirons

[written in a box on the right side:] I have not a single debt owe to me from any person whatever and have no pension from [Pennsylvania]
I am indebted $12 and $.50 cents

[written below] I am a laborer by trade & am prevented from following is by reason of age & infirmity. I have a wife named Mary - she is [illegible] of seventy years old & as infirm as myself. [signed Dennis Dempsey - marked through with a small "his mark" around it]

COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA,
CHESTER COUNTY, SS: 

I [signed] John G. [Nessler?] Esquire Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas, of the said county of Chester; the same being a Court of Record by the Laws of Pennsylvania; Do hereby Certify, that the foregoing [written] Declaration & oath
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 [written] fourteen dollars [printed dollars crossed out] and [written] ninety cents. In testimony whereof, have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court of Westchester, this fifteenth day of August one thousand eight hundred and twenty. 

[signed] Jno. G. [Nessler?] Prothonotary.

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State of Pennsylvania}
Chester County          }ss

On this sixteenth day of November in the year
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight personally appeared before Isaac Durlington Resident Judge of the fifteenth Judicial District of Pennsylvania composed of the Counties of Chester and Delaware. 
Mary Dempsey a resident of the Township of East Nantenaul(?) in the County of Chester and
State of Pennsylvania  aged upwards of Eighty
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 to her act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows"" That she is the widow of Dennis Dempsey late of the Township of Charlestown in the said County
of Chester deceased who was a private in the
Revolutionary war and served, according to his
statement to the declarant, eight years six months and three days in the Continental line, that he enlisted whilst a resident of Delaware ----- State and belonged to a company called
the Delaware Blues that he did not leave the
service until the end of the war, that she has
heard him state that he was in the Battles of
Bunker Hill, Brandywine, Germantown, Fort Lee,
Compens (?) Long Island and others that have escaped her memory. That he received a wound from musket ball in his shoulder at the battle of Germantown and a wound from a bayonet in
some other engagement which declarant cannot name that the said Dennis Dempsey received pension of ninety six dollars per year during his life  and that  declarants maiden name was Martin and when married to Dennis Dempsey she was the widow of Robert Moore of Charlestown Township Chester County who died in the year 1780 that when married to the said Dennis Dempsey John Simonton a Presbyterian minister she received
from him the annexed certificate of the war
wages in his own hand writing which has been in my possession ever since  the marriage with
these names, that this satisfies whose names are

(continued to page 2)

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(page 2 of letter previous)

thereto are all dead, but that a woman
named Mary Williams is now living in Charlestown Township who was present at the wedding (sussax inserted) but who is unable to be present at the taking of this declaration but whose testimony she believes to able to obtain hereafter, that she lived and cohabited with her said husband Dennis Dempsey as his wife from the time of the marriage  until the time of his death;

She further declares that the certificate
hereto annexed signed by John Simonton N.D.M. and with the names of Joseph Conrade, James Cloyd, John Pergrin, Mordecai Williams & James Williams as witnesses of the ceremony of marriage is the only written evidence of the marriage in existence so far as she knows & believes

She further declares that she was married
to the said Dennis Dempsey on the tenth day
of February in the year seventeen hundred and eighty five that her husband the aforesaid Dennis Dempsey died on the (illegible) day of
December eighteen hundred and twenty four
that  she was not married to him prior to
his leaving the service, but the marriage took
place previous to the first of January Seventeen
hundred and ninety four at the time above stated,

 Mary (her X mark) Dempsey

Sworn to and subscribed
on day and year above
written before

Hon AC Darlington


State of Pennsylvania}
Chester County          }ss

On the Sixteenth day of November
the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred  and thirty eight personally appeared before  the Subscriber, Thomas Jones Esq of Court Whiteland Township Chester County aforesaid

(partial piece of certificate to the side)

This is to certify all whom it may concern that Dennis Dempsey of Kennet Township and Mary Moore alias Morton of Charlestown

(full certificate on next page)

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(certificate refered to previous page)

This is to certify all whom it may concern that Dennis Dempsey of Kennet Township and Mary Moore alais Martin of Charlestown Township both of Chester County in the State of Pennsylvania were joined in holy Matrimony on the tenth Day of February Anno Domini one thousand seven hundred & eight five.

By me John Simontown  VDM........

In presence of
Joseph Conrade
James Cloyd
John Pergin
Mordecai Williams
James Williams

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who being duly affirmed according to law declares and says that he was well acquainted with Dennis Dempsey and has long been and still is well acquainted with Mary Dempsey his widow that he knew them to be living together as man and wife for about ten years before the death of Dennis and that they were reputed to be man and wife throughout the neighborhood in which they resided to wit in Carleton Township Chester County, that on Sunday the 1st of January Sano Dominii the thousand eight hundred and twenty five the affirmant was called upon to hold an inquisition on the body of the said Dennis Dempsey who was found dead in an orchard near his dwelling house on the day previous, that the affirmant went and called to said inquisition and [illegible] the dead body as that of Dennis Dempsey, husband of the afore named Mary Dempsey and further saith not.

Affirmed to and Subscribed on the day and year above written before [illegible]
Thomas Jones

State of Pennsylvania
Chester County
I Isaac Darlington resident judge of the fifteenth judicial district of Pennsylvania do hereby certify that the foregoing is the original declaration of Mary Dempsey before me this day 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 the foregoing is the affidavit made at the same time before him by Thomas Jones Esq

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who is a witness worthy of belief and further
I do certify that the said Mary Dempsey
cannot from bodily infirmity attend court.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand this sixteenth day of November in the year of our Lord one
thousand
eight hundred and thirty eight -
Isaac Darlington
Pennsylvania
Chester County.
, Benjamin J. Miller
Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas in and
for the County of Chester, in the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania, do certify that the Honorable Isaac
Darlington Esquire who has certified the foregoing attestation is duly commissioned and qualified President
Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in the fifteen Judicial District of the Commonwealth aforesaid of
which the County of Chester James a part
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and seal of said Court at
West Chester this 29th day of November
A.D. 1838.

Benjn J. Miller [illegible]

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WIDOW, &c.
File No. 3076

Mary Dempsey
Widow
Dennis Dempsey
Pri Rev War
Act: March 3 1843
Index-Vol. A, Page 174
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Spreace Cagle
Free
May 9th
Honor'ble
Jonathan Robert
S. U. S.
[illegible]

Washington

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Charles Township & County
May 8th 1820
(7)
Rep. Sir


Charles Township Chester County
May 8th 1820
(6 )

The Honorable --Calhoun Secretary of War

Sir:

Reposing trust and full confidence in the Honorable Jonathan Roberts United States Senator for Pennsylvania please to deliver unto him when offered my warrant for Military land and his Receipt shall be a full acquittance from.

Dennis Dempsey (his X mark)

Witness Present
Hezekiah Davies
Peter Young

From J. Roberts (to)
Mr Nathaniel Cutting
Secretary of Bounty Land

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Charles Township County May 8th 1820
(7)
[illegible] Sir
Not untill a few days since your address respecting Dennis's
Bounty lands came to hand so that I had not an opportunity of
forwarding her order untill now, indeed I struck me Congress had
adjourn untill Judge Hemphill inform me you were in Session and it was not personly known when an adjournment would take place which
endured me with all haste that Dennis should forward his order having
account prospect it may be laid before Congress is dissolo,
Believe me for to be with due respect
[illegible] Hezekiah Davies

Honor.ble Jonathan Roberts

[illegible] Roberts [illegible]
Mr Cutting to open Dempsey
[illegible] if happened before [illegible] 
May 11th 1820
[illegible]

Mr Nathaniel Cutting
Section of County
Land

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The Honorable
J.C. Calhoun

Sect, of War

Washington

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Chester County [fc] 54900
Before me the subjected one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said county [illegible] Dennis Dempsey and an Oath saith his name is Dennis Dempsey & that he served from the commencement of the Revolution of the United States to the end thereof as a private soldier in the Delaware State Regiment and Isaac Davis & Ephraim Williams also on Oath saith that they know Dennis Dempsey upwards twenty years and that he is the same identifiable Dennis Dempsey that served his country in the capacity of a private soldier in the Delaware line in the Revolutionary war whose discharge was left in the pension office the year 1818 and has [illegible] received the said pension to the best of their belief & knowledge - 
[signed:] Dennis x Dempsey ["his mark" written over signature]
Witnesses
Isaac Davis
Ephraim Williams
Sworn & subscribed February the second 1820
Before me [the] credibility of the Witnesses in my belief is unexceptionable - 
[signed:] Tho Bodley

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John G. Wersler Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Chester in the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Do Certify that
Thomas Bodley Esquire before whom the within affidavit appears to have been made is and that time was an acting Justice of the peace in and for said County duly commissioned & qualified to all whose Official acts as such full faith and credit are and ought
to be given.

In Testimony whereof I have
hereunto set my hand and affixed the
seal of the said Court the 17th day of
February in the year of Our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and twenty -
Jno G Wersler Prot

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West Chester April 28th 1843

Dear Sir
Enclosed you will find the
Declaration of Mary Dempsey, in order to
obtain the Benefit of the act of Congress
of the 3d of March 1843


When the certificate is made out you
will please forward the same to the
Subscriber [illegible] West Chester - Chester Co Pa.
Yours respectfully
Jos Hemphill

Edward Esq
Comm of Pensions

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843 May 1 1843
[stamp] - Apr 29 PA
FREE
PA Mar 3 '43
Mary Dempsey

J L Edwards Esq
[illegible] of Pensions
Washington City
D. C.

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Mr. Edwards

Pension Office

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(4)
New Ivory Avenue          Feb 19th 1819

Sir

I send you enclosed the proof of the (illegible)
in named Claimants right to a pension. Proof of
his right, to bounty land is in Mr Cuttings office. 
Judge Roberts certifies the claimant is indigent.

Respectfully yours

Jonathan Roberts


Mr Edwards
Pension office

Warrant No 918 for 100 acres issued the 12th May 1820. to Dennis Dempsey
a Private of the Delaware

Bounty Land Office
December 4th 1838

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Pennsylvania
Chester County
Benjamin Miller Prothonotary of the Court of
Common Pleas of Chester County, State of Pennsylvania, do hereby certify, that Thomas 
Jones Esquire before whom the foregoing
proceedings are heard is a Justice of the Peace, in and for said County,duly commissioned and
qualified, and that the foregoing signatures
purporting to be his are genuine.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal of Office at West Chester this 
29th day of November A. D. 1838,

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Pennsylvania 1317

Mary Dempsey
widow of Dennis Dempsey
who was a pensioner under the Act of 18 March 1818
and who died on the 31 Dec 1824
of Chester Co. in the State of Penn
who was a Private in the company commanded
by Captain Liddom of the Regt commanded
by Haslett in the Delaware line for 2 years

Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania
at the rate of 80 Dollars - Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.

Certificate of
Pension issued the 5 day of Dec.
1838 and sent to Hon. D. Potts Jr. H.R.

Arrears to the 4th of Sep '38. 200.00
Semiannual allowance ending 4 Mar. '39. 40.00
$240.00

{Act July 7, 1838.}

Recorded by D. Brown [handwritten] Clerk,

Book A. Vol. 2
Page 149

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Declaration

In order to obtain the benefits of the act of
Congress of the 3d March 1843 granting pensions for
one year to certain widows who have received
pensions under the act of July 7, 1838

State of Pennsylvania
County of Chester
SS

On this Twenty fourth
day of April one thousand eight hundred and
forty
three personally appeared before the Subscribed
a Justice of the peace of the County aforesaid Mary
Dempsey a resident of the Township of South Coventry
in the County of Chester aforesaid aged near Ninety four
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 3d of March 1843 granting pensions
to widows of persons who served during the
Revolutionary War. That she is the widow of
Dennis Dempsey who was a private in the
Revolutionary Army, the said Mary Dempsey does not
Remember the Regiment in which the said Dennis Dempsey served
and the annual amount of the pension which
She received under the act of July 7. 1838 was
eighty dollars. She further declares that she
is still a widow.


Sworn to and subscribed the
day and year above written
before John Davis }

Mary Dempsey
her X Mark

State of Pennsylvania
County of Chester
ss
I John Davis
a Magistrate in the County above named do hereby certify
that I have the most satisfactory Evidence viz my own
personal knowledge, that Mary Dempsey who this day offered
before me and made oath to the truth of the foregoing declaration
is the identical person she represents herself to be. Given under my
hand at South Coventry [illegible] Chester County on the day & year above written.
John Davis

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State of Pennsylvania
Chester County ss

I Abner M. Chamberlain Protho-Notary of the Court of Common Pleas of the County
of Chester Pennsylvania Certify that John Davis
is a magistrate as within stated and that the
foregoing signatures purporting to be his are genuine
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto
affixed my seal of office and
subscribed my name this twenty
eighth day of April in the year
of an Lord one thousand eight
hundred and forty three-

A M Chamberlain
Proto

843
Admit [illegible] $80
Penn Agency
Send to
Joseph Hemphill
West Chester
Pa

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State of Pennsylvania
Chester County ss

On the seventeenth day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight, personally
appeared before the Subscriber one of the Justices of the Peace
in and for the County
of Chester, Mary Williams of Charlestown Township in said County, who being sworn according to
law, saith that she assisted in preparing the wedding supper
on the evening of the day of the marriage of Dennis Dempsey
to Mary Moore afterwards Dempey, which took place on the
tenth day of February AD. One thousand seven hundred and
eighty five, and that she saw them put to bed, as man and
wife, and knew them to live together as such until the time
of his death; and the deponent also saith that she was
well acquainted with Joseph Conard, James Cloud, John
Pergrin, Mordaica Williams and James Williams, the
subscribing witnesses, to the marriage certificate hereunto annex [illegible]
And further saith not.

Sworn and subscribed
on the day and year
above written before
Thomas Jones }
Mary Williams her X mark

I do certify that Mary Williams the deponent, cannot from old age and bodily infirmity, attend court or
appear before the Honorable Isaac Darlington [illegible]
Judge of the fifteenth Judicial district of Pennsylvania.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this
seventeenth day of November, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and thirty eight.
Thomas Jones

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Pennsylvania
Chester County
Ss 
I, Benjamin J. Miller
Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of Chester County,
State of Pennsylvania, do hereby Certify that Thomas Jones
Esquire before whom the foregoing proceedings [illegible] had, is a
Justice of the Peace, in and for said County, duly commissioned
and qualified; and that the foregoing signatures purporting to be his are genuine.

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and seal of office at West Chester
this 29th day of November A.D. 1838,
Benj J Miller [Prothonotary?]