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Military Record Extracts
Primary Source, U.S. Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files, 1800-1900, [1] : Data Extract:
) Sarah Tefft Rev War Pension Deposition Image 364-366 of 607: 12 Dec 1836, deposition at North Kingstown, Washington, Rhode Island, by Sally Tefft (aged 81), widow of Daniel Tefft of South Kingston made in order to obtain the benefit of the Pension enacted for those with compliant Revolutionary War Service.
) Daniel Tefft, the husband of Sally Tefft received an annual pension of $80 per annum from 4 Sept 1835 until 18 Dec 1835, the day of his death.
) Sarah Tefft declares (under oath) that she was married to Daniel Tefft, a Revolutionary War Soldier and her own Cousin, on Jan 30 or 1 Feb 1775 at the house of her father Stephen Tefft at South Kingston, Rhode Island, by Sameuel Tefft, Esq., Justice of the Peace (South Kingston); but she has no certificate of the marriage and nor any knowledge of any {public} record of the marriage. Her niece Elizabeth Tefft, and her sister Abigail Tefft were present at the wedding and their depositions are annexed to the pension application. Also at the wedding were Aind (?) Tefft (living in Conn.) and Solomon Tefft (living in NY) neither available to take a deposition. Sally knows she was married to Daniel before his "revolutionary service" and is certain of the marriage date because; 1) she was twenty years of age in the August after her marriage (and will be 80 next August), 2) She remembers the year of her marriage by the birth and age of her Son Augustus Tefft, born in September in the first year of their marriage and he will be 62 next September. Deposition dated 16 December 1835. Mark made by Sally Tefft
↑U.S. Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files, 1800-1900Ancestry.com database on-line. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. (NARA microfilm publication M804, 2,670 rolls). Records of the Department of Veterans Affairs, Record Group 15. National Archives, Washington, D.C.
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