State of South Carolina
York District
On the twenty fifth day of October A.D. 1820
personally appeared in open Court being a Court of record
exercising unlimited Jurisdiction in both civil and criminal
cases at law. Robert Mursh aged Sixty Two years resident in
said district who being first duly sworn according to law doth
in his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as
follows that he enlisted in 1776 in the 15th Regiment of
The Virginia Continental Line: Colonel Mayson, for three
years and afterward, for the war in the company commanded
By Capt. Gray and was afterward transferred to the 11th
Regiment and then to the 1st Regiment of the same line. And
that he has received a pension under a certificate from the War
Department no. 7297 and he doth further solemly
swear that he was a resident citizen of the United States on
the 18th day of March 1818 and that he has not since that
time by gift sale or otherwise in any manner disposed of any property
or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to
being himself written the provision of Act of Congrys 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 he has not
nor has any person in trust for him any property
or Securities Contracts or debts due to me nor
have I any income after than what is contained
in the answered Schedule