Mrs. Jane FEE - Widow's Pension request

FEE, GIVIN, PIPER

Posted By: Joey Stark
Date: 6/8/2006 at 12:33:55

From the Prill transcriptions ~~

State of Pennsylvania, Huntingdon County, ss.

On this 31st day of December, 1850, personally appeared before James GIVIN, Associate Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, Jane FEE, a resident of Huntingdon County, Penna., aged eighty-one 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 Congress, passed July 7, 1838, entitled "An Act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows", that she is the widow of John FEE, who was a private in a volunteer Regiment commanded by Col. John PIPER in the Revolutionary War, and served in New Jersey in the year 1777, the particulars of which service together with other services are more fully set forth in his own declaration dated March 10th, 1836.... She further declares that she was married to the said John FEE on the 16th day of June seventeen hundred and ninety one, that her husband the aforesaid John FEE, died on the 26 day of August eighteen hundred and forty five, that she was not married to him previous 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.

*Transcribed for genealogy purposes; I have no relation to the person(s) mentioned.