who certifies in unequivocal terms as
to her credibility. Wm. E. White Esq.
Edward Smith, Mary Pettis, and John
Swain, all explain the reasons of the
second marriage. She is now drawing
a Pension under the Act of 2d Feb,
1848. Her husband Robert Mursh
died in December 1837, and there
is from that time to the Fourth of March
1848, due Mrs. Mursh at the rate of
$80.00 per annum. I enclose a
copy of the Family Register, and beg to
refer to the original on file, and which
of itself—I think conclusive evidence in
form of this claim. The antiquity of
the Register, I learn, cannot be
doubted. I am not aware that
the Pension Laws require proof of
a particular form of marriage, even
among the white inhabitants—much less
among the Indian Tribes. And Mursh, I
learn, was a Pamunky Indian---
The said Mursh has been
proved (as I learn) to have served
six years in the Revolutionary War