South Carolina }
York District } Personally appeared before me Joseph F. White
one of the Magistrates for said District,
William E. White, and on oath says that he knew Robert Marsh a
Pensioner of the United States at the rate of $96.00 per annum.
Her further says that the said Robert Marsh was an Indian
and Minister of the Gospel of the Baptist order and of
respectable standing in society. That he had known them
some years previous but was intimately acquainted with
him from the year 1826 up to the time of his death,
which took in three miles of deponent where said Robert
Marsh lived and where he had resided during the
acquaintance. And that his widow Elizabeth is still living
at the same place.-
Deponent further says that he had drawn the Pension of
the said Robert Marsh for some ten years and often
seen him write and that the family register afforded to
the deposition of Edward Smith, has been examined by
deponent, and that the deponent has no doubt that it is the
handwriting of the aforesaid Robert Marsh. Deponent
further says that he knew John Marsh, Sarah and Rhoda
respected children of Robert Marsh and Elizabeth his wife,
but does not know anything of the rest of the family.-
Deponent further says that he had heard the said Robert
Marsh say that he was a citizen of the State of Virginia,
and that the deponent has understood that Robert Marsh and
his wife Elizabeth were married according to the formalities
of their Tribe, and that afterward on making a Profession of
Religion. They were married according to the custom of the
white inhabitants- Sworn to and subscribed Wm. E. White
before me this 25th day of November 1847
Joseph F. White Mag.-