Virginia ~ Kanawha County.

On this twenty first day of march 1838 Frances Jones of the County of Kanawha and widow of the late John Jones a Revolutionary Soldier personally appeared before me in my said County of Kana. anged seventy-eight years, and unable to attend a Court of Record, who being first duly sworn according to Law, Doth on her oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June the 7th 1832. That she was married to John Jones in the year 1775 on the seventeenth day of November,a nd in the County of Culpepper [sic] Virginia, and the next spring 1776 she emigrated to the County of Greenbrier, that her husband John Jones while on a visit to the Point Pleasant he inlisted under Capt. Arbuckle, and that she accompanied him to that place where she remained untill the fall of 1777 - and she does not know whether her husband John Jones was discharged at that time or not, that she then moved to this place where she now lives in Kanawha Co., fifty two years ago.

Sworn to before me this 21st March 1833

Signed: John Hansford, J.P. On this 3d day of April 1838

Jane Hansford after being duly sworn, makes the following statement. That she has know John Jones & Frances Jones his wife for about sixty years, and that when I first saw them, Frances Jones had one child at that time.

Question, Who was she before she married John Jones Answer, Her name was Frances Morris & was my father's sister.

Question, Were you acquainted her father and mother and brother Answer, I was, and have heard her mother say she was married young and I have live a neigbor to them for fifty years and I have never heard the marriage of John Jones to Frances Jones questioned.

Signed: John Hansford {seal}