Pension Application of Elizabeth Beheler Pharis, widow of Amaziah (Amariah) Pharis: W5541
Transcribed and annotated by C. Leon Harris
Virginia. Floyd County Ss.
On this 26th day of December one thousand eight hundred & forty, personally appeared before me James H Gray a Justice of the peace for said county, duly commissioned and qualified, and authorized by the law of this state to administer oaths) Mrs Elizabeth Faris a resident of said county, and aged about seventy 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 7th 1838, entitled “An act granting half pay & pensions to certain widows” That she is the widow of Amariah Pharis who enlisted in the war of the Revolution on the 23d day of May 1778, for nine months, and was discharged on the 23d day of February 1779. that he resided in the county of [blank] in the State of New Jersey at the time he enlisted, that he belonged to Langstreets company, of the 1st New Jersey Regiment; that she always understood him to say that he was a Sergeant Major She further declares that she was married to the said Amariah Pharis in the county of Franklin Virginia on the thirteenth day of January, one thousand seven hundred and ninety one. That her husband the aforesaid Amariah Pharis died on the first day of January one thousand eight hundred and twenty four. That she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the 1st day of January 1794 viz at the time above stated. Elizabeth her X mark Pharis
NOTE: The file includes a copy of an entry from a list of marriages
returned to the Clerk of Franklin County by Randolph Hall, stating that he
married Amariah Pharis and Elizabeth Beheler on 13 Jan 1791.