Revolutionary War Pension Application of John Hunter State of Kentucky Jessamine County

On this 1st day of July 1839 personally appeared before the worshipful county court of said county, Mrs. Ann Hunter, a resident thereof, aged about eighty-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 act of Congress passed July 7, 1838 --- an act granting half pay and pension to certain widows. That she is the widow of John Hunter, late a pensioner of the United States, who served in the militia in the service of the United States during the war of the Revolution, a full statement of whose services was forwarded to the Pension office at the city of Washington at the time his said pension was granted, and is referred to to show his services. She further declares that she was married to said John Hunter in Fayette County near the town of Lexington at that time almost unsettled in the month of Sept. or Oct. in the year 1786 or 1787, that she has no record testimony of her marriage, as the clerk’s office of Fayette County was destroyed by fire many years after her marriage, and in it was burnt every legal proof thereof. That her husband was an unlettered man, and kept no written register of their marriage, nor of the births of their children. She further declares that her said husband died on the 23rd day of March 1838. That she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but that the marriage took place at the time above named. There is no living witness of her marriage. Sworn and subscribed on the day and year above written. Ann Hunter I, Daniel B. Price, Clerk of the County Court aforesaid, do hereby certify that the foregoing declaration of Mrs. Anna Hunter was duly made, subscribed and sworn to in open court on the said 1st day of July 1830. I do further certify that Andrew Hemphill, Esq. whose name is subscribed as a Justice of the Peace to the annexed deposition of Hugh Chrisman, is a Justice of the Peace, duly commissioned in and for said county, and that the said Hugh Chrisman is a man of unexceptionable character for veracity and integrity. In testimony whereof I have this day, July 8th 1839, subscribed my hand and affixed my seal of office. Daniel B. Price