South Carolina }
York District } On the 8th day of Nov 1848,
personally appeared before me
Joseph F. White, an acting Magistrate in and for
said District, Elizabeth Marsh a resident
of said District, aged 85 years, 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 Congrys passed
on the 2nd of February 1848, and granting pensions
to widows of Soldiers who served during
the Revolutionary War, also the Joint Resolu-
tion of the First of July 1845, and 29th July
1848, that she is the widow of Robert Marsh
late Pensioner dec’d of the District of York
and State aforesaid, at the rate of $96 per annum.
That she was married to the said Robert Marsh
in the month of August 1783—and that her
husband, the aforesaid Robert Marsh died
on the Seventh day of December 1837, and
that she has remained a widow ever since his
death as evidence of her said marriage to
the aforesaid Robert Marsh. She refers the
Department to her Family Register, now on
file in Pension Office showing the births of
her children to the said Robert Marsh,
and issue of their said marriage.
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and
year first above written. Elizabeth X Marsh
her mark
Before me, Joseph F. White Mag.-
I hereby certify from our knowledge, of the character of the above
Elizabeth Marsh, that she is a woman of strict veracity, and any
statement