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In order to obtain the benefit
of the Act of Congrefs (Congress) of the 7th
July 1838 entitled an Act granting half pay and pension to
certain widows
State of Tennefsee
Green County
On this 26th day of
March 1844 personally appeared before the subscriber a Justice
of the Peace Mrs. Jane Cooper a resident of the County and State
aforesaid aged Seventy five 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 Congrefs pasfed (passed) July 27th 1838
entitled an act granting half pay and pension to certain widows
That she is the widow of Christopher Cooper who was a soldier in
the Regular service in the State of Virginia in the war of the
Revolution for particulars she refers to a declaration made by
her husband the aforesaid Christopher Cooper in the year 1830
She further declares that she was married to the said
Christopher Cooper on the 20th day of October
Seventeen hundred and Eighty six That her husband the aforesaid
Christopher Cooper died on the 29th May 1830 that she
was not married to him prior to his leaving the service but the
marriage took place previous to the first of January Seventeen
hundred and Ninety four viz at the time above stated and she is
__??__ a widow
Jane Cooper X her mark
Sworn to and subscribed on the
day and year above written before me a Justice of the Peace for
the County
foresaid and I further certify
that the said Mrs. Jane Cooper is from bodily infirmity unable
to attend Court and I further certify that ____??____ record
attached to Mrs Jane Coopers declaration was in her pofsefsion
(possession) and I believe it to be the true record of
her marriage and the births of her Children by her husband
Christopher Cooper and I further certify that the aforesaid Mrs
Jane Cooper has remained a widow ever since the death of her
husband the aforesaid Christopher Cooper In witnefs (witness) whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 26th
March Eighteen hundred and forty four
State of
Tennessee
Christopher Cooper
Green
County Justice
of the Peace
April term 1844 County Court The
declaration of Mrs. Jane Cooper certified on the 26th
March 1844 by Christopher Cooper a Justice of the Peace for said
County being submitted to the Court the said Court doth approve
of his procedings and acts in said case and hereby direct the
Clerk to endorse the approval of the papers
State of Tennefsee
Green County
I George W. Forte Clerk of the
County Court of Green County do hereby certify that the
foregoing procedings are the original procedings ___??__ and
approved of by the County Court at its April term 1844
relative to the declaration of Jane Cooper to obtain the benefit
of the acts of Congrefs relative to the Revolutionary pensions
and I further certify that the aforesaid Christopher Cooper is
and was a Justice of the Peace for said County duly commissioned
and qualified according to Law and that the signature purported
to be his is genuine. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set
my hand andaffixed my seal of office at Office at Greenville
this 1st April, 1844.
Geo. W. Forte, Clk.
