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- http://revwarapps.org/w4608.pdf
State of Virginia } S.S County of Culpeper } on this sixteenth day of September in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three, personally appeared before the subscriber, a Justice of the peace, and a Judge of a court of record, Jane Vermonette a resident of the county and state aforesaid aged seventy eight 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 4, 1836, and the act explanatory to said act, passed March 3d 1837. That she was married to Samuel K. Bradford – who was a captain of Artillery in the Virginia Continental line, and Aid-de-Camp to General Weedon [George Weedon BLWt2418-850] for two or more years, and served as a captain, or Aid-de-Camp to the end of the war. She has no recollection of the battles in which said Samuel K. Bradford was engaged – nor has he any documentary evidence in support of the claim, But refers to the record evidence herewith presented. She further declares, that she was married to the said Samuel K. Bradford, in the month of May or June one thousand seven hundred and eighty one. That she left her Fathers house and was married without her parents consent, it being a runaway marriage. She has no knowledge of any record or register of her marriage or of the births of her children., That her Husband the aforesaid Major Samuel K. Bradford performed service after she was married, and died in seventeen hundred and ninety three That she afterwards married John Vermonette who died on the [blank] in the year 1815 and that she was a widow on the 4th of July 1836, and still remains a widow Jane Vermonnet formerly a widow of Samuel K Bradford
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