Pension Application of Peggy Wright, widow of James Wright: R11901
Transcribed and annotated by C. Leon Harris
State of Virginia}
Franklin County} SS
On this the thirtyfirst day of January Eighteen hundred and Fortyfour personally appeared before the subscriber a Justice of the peace in and for the county aforesaid Peggy Wright a resident of the State of Virginia in the County of Franklin aged seventyfive 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 the 7th 1838 entitled An act granting half pay and pension to certain widows That she is the widow of James Wright who was a revolutionary soldier and to the best of my belief served seven different tours of three months each three of which tours he served in the Virginia Malitia for himself one tour in the Malitia of va as a substitute for James Ray to the best of knowledge and belief it was a three months tour and one three months tour in the virginia malitia as a substitute for George Wright and one other three months tour as a substitute for a man whose name I have forgotten and one other tour of three months as a volunteer. I am unable to state the time my husband entered the service or the period when he left the same [illegible word] all were performed previous to our marriage in 1786 the eviden[page torn] hereto[?] annexed of Moses Green Jacob Kinsy & Ludwick Kessler as to the services & mariage so far as I now know is the best evidence I can obtain She further declares that she was married to the said James Wright on the 17 day of october one thousand Seven hundred and Eighty six that her husband the aforesaid James Wright died on the Eleventh day of March one thousand Eight hundred and twenty three
that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service but the marriage took the marriage took place previous to the first day of January Seventeen hundred and ninetyfour viz. at the time above stated
Sworn to and subscribed to on the day and year above written Peggy herXmark Wright
John Arthur JP
personally appeared Ludwick Kessler and made oath that he has been acquainted with the above named James Wright and that he believes him to have been a soldier in the revolutionary war and has heard him say that he served at cabbinpoint [sic: Cabin Point in Surry County VA] and at the dismal swamp and that for upwards of fifty year he has resided in Franklin County and that so far as he knows was raised in the limits of the County aforesaid
John Arthur JP