Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W 25,629, Alexander Gillon, S.C. Sea Service

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she cannot state, and supports such statement unnecessary in as much as the evidence of his service is probably to be found on the public's cards at Washington City, & because it is a matter of history. In proof however of his service she refers to the accompanying certificate from the Office of the Comptroller General of the State of South Carolina; to "Ramsay" history of the Revolution page 72 and to "Moultine's Memoirs" Vol 1st page 209.

That she has not the Commission of said Gillon and believes it was lost or destroyed many years since
She further declares that the said Alexander Gillon was married to the said Ann [inserted]then Ann Purcell on the 10th day of February 1789; that the said Gillon died on the 6th day of October 1794; that the said Ann was not married to the said Alexander prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the 1st day of January 1794 viz at the time above stated; and that the said Ann [scratched-out]Pur Gillon died at Litchfield Conn, May 13th 1844 aged seventy five years; and this applicant prays for the arrears of pension to which the said Ann was entitled at her decease, said Ann then being the widow of said Alexander
S/ Mary S. Brisbane 

Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written Before me
S/ Charles Adams,
Judge of Probate