Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 2730, Zachariah Goff, Va.

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At a Superior Court of Law continued and held for Bedford County at the Courthouse the 14th day of April 1818 before William Daniel [illegible] Judge Zachariah Goff came into Court and made oath that he enlisted in the regular or continental service of the United States of America during the Revolutionary War under Capt. [Captain] Mays [or Mayo] Carrington of Cumberland County Virginia in April in the year of Christ 1777 that he belonged to the old tenth regiment commanded by Genl. [General] Charles Scott of the Continental line, that he was honorably discharged in the month of October (as [illegible] as he can now recollect, his discharge being in the old paymasters office in the city of Richmond Virginia 1779 also that from his reduced circumstances he needs the support of his country for support which statement was supported by the affidavit of Colo. [Colonel] John Watts, of this County, who appeared in Court and made oath that the said Zachariah Goff was a regular soldier in the Continental line of the armies of the United States of America during the revolutionary war, that he well knows the said Goff served three years or upwards in the said service and that he was as he believes regularly discharged and that he believes the said Goff to be in [illegible] circumstances, which is ordered to be certified. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal there being no seal of office this sixteenth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hun-dred [hundred] and eighteen.

J.C. Steptoe
[drawn seal]

I William Daniel one of the Judges of the General Court of the Commonwealth of Virginia, and Judge of the Superior Court of Law of Bedford County in the Commonwealth aforesaid do certify that James

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Certificate of the Clerk of Court, Cell _ of no return of marriage of 

Zachariah Goff
to
Betsey Moss 1796

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#1050 Virginia declar- of Betsy Goff Act July 29/48.

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[illegible]

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Brief in the case of Betsy Goff
Campbell County and State of Virginia
act July 28, 1848
Claim, ( "original," or "for increase.")
Proof exhibited, (if original)
Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance.

Husband pensioner under Act March 18
Received evidence of marriage]

(If for increase.)
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so what?

Name and residence of Agent
RH Gray
Present

Examining Clerk.
Ogden Niles

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State of Virginia County of Bedford
On this the 31st day of March A.D. One thousand  eight hundred + fifty six, Personally appeared before me, a Justice of the Peace within + for the County + State aforesaid. Betsey Goff Aged 51 years, a resident of Bedford County in this state of Virginia, who being duly sworn according to law, declares that she is the widow of Zachariah Goff who was a Private in the Revolutionary War + that her name is now inscribed on the pension list at the rate of Eighty dollars per annum under the act of July 29th 1848. That she has not intermarried but [illegible] the widow of the above named Zachariah Goff. She further declares that she has not heretofore made application for bounty land under any act of Congress. She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the bounty land to which she may be entitled under the act approved March the 3 1855. Betsey Goff her X mark
We John R Wilson and Goodrich Moor residents of Bedford County in the state of Virginia upon our oaths declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by Betsey