Pension Application of Daniel and Mary Hurt Conner: W1235
Transcribed and annotated by C. Leon Harris
District of Virginia, Nelson County to wit:
On the fourth day of October 1820. Daniel Conner aged about Seventy two years resident in said County personally appeared in open Court, it being the Superior Court of Law for said County and a Court of record, and being first duly sworn according to law, doth upon his oath make the following Declaration, in order to obtain the provision made by the acts of Congress of the 18th. March 1818 and of the 1st. May 1820. That he the said Daniel Conner, enlisted under Captain Samuel J. Cabell, in Amherst County Virginia, who then commanded a Rifle Company on continental establishment, which Company composed a part of Colo. Daniel Morgan’s Regiment, which said enlistment was then and there made for the term of three years, that he served in said Company and Regiment about two years, and was then transferred to the Infantry on Continental Establishment, commanded by Colo. Thomas Parker under John Stokes as Captain of the Company, in which Company he served out the residue of his term of enlistment. That he was at the following Battles to wit. At Saratoga [19 Sep and 7 Oct 1777] under said Cabell, at Monmouth [28 June 1778] as an Infantry Soldier under said Stokes, also at the battle of Stony Point [16 July 1779] under said Stokes this regiment being then commanded by General [Anthony] Wayne, and was afterwards honorably discharged in the year 1779 at the City of Philadelphia, at which time the term of his enlistment expired, that he enlisted in the Month of February 1776 – and in pursuance of the act of May 1820, I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th. day of March 1818. That I have not since that time by gift, sale or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled an “Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and Naval services of the United States in the Revolutionary War, passed on the 18th. Day of March 1818.” And that I have not nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities, contracts or debts due to me, nor have I any income other than what is contained in the Schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed.
I have no property other than my wearing clothes.– [signed] Daniel Conner
And the said Daniel Conner further declareth that he has no particular occupation, that he works no plantation except where he is employed by his neighbors to assist them. That he has an aged wife from whom he has separated many years, by the influence of her Children by a former Husband who supports her. That he has [rest missing]
State of Virginia}
County of Patrick} SS On this 30th day of April 1853, personally appeared before the undersigned Judge of the Circuit Court of the County & State afores’d, Mary Conner aged 80. years and a resident of the said State & County, who being sworn according to law, doth on her oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the Act of Congress passed Febry 3 1853,
That she is the widow of Daniel Conner, who was a Revolutionary Pensioner (under the Act of 1818, as she believes) and that he lived in Nelson County, State of Virginia and died there somewhere about the year 1820, but she cannot tell the exact date to a year or two. It was about the year 1820. That on the 30th day of August 1815 she was married to the said Daniel Conner by Maj’r Brett Stoval a Justice of the Peace whose certificate accompanies this declaration. [See note below.] That the marriage took place in Patrick County, State of Virginia. Her name before marriage was Mary Hurt. That after the marriage he the said Daniel Conner returned to Nelson County, where he died about the year 1820. She further declares that she is now a widow, and that she has never before made any application for a pension.
She also declares that she has appointed William Hunt of Washington City D.C. her true & lawful attorney to apply to the Commissioner of Pensions for her pension, and if granted, to take charge of the certificate therefrom. And the said Court do hereby certify, from satisfactory evidence adduced, that Mary Conner is the widow of Daniel Conner deceased, a Revolutionary Soldier, and that he died about the time set forth by her in the above declaration,
N M Taliaferro judge of the} Mary her X mark Conner
Circuit Court of Patrick County Va}
NOTES: Patrick County records show that Daniel Conner was married to Mary Hurt, by Brett Stovall on 10 Feb 1815. In Wythe County VA on 7 May 1855 Mary Conner applied for bounty land as the widow of Daniel Conner, stating that she married him on 30 Aug 1815, and that he died “about the year 1822.”