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Frances may have forgotten the exact date/year of her marriage, as she indicated in her pension application.[2] However, if she had reported the actual date of her marriage, on or after 16 Sep 1797,[1] she would not have qualified for a pension.[3] Her memory lapse may have been more or less intentional. Unfortunately, her statement has been taken at face value by many researchers and copied by others.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Francis Meadows I & Mary; Francis Meadows II & Kesiah, Curt L. Sytsma, 7 Mar 2001, in RootsWeb Archiver, MEADOWS > 2001-03 > 0984003483
accessed 6 Sep 2014.
The marriage bond for this couple states, in part,
'Know all men by these presents that we, Francis Meadows & John Bush are held firmly bound unto his excellency, James Wood, Governor of Virginia . . . .'
The bond is dated the 16th of September, 1797 and goes on to say that
Frances is the daughter of John Bush. . . .
Both Meadows and Bush signed by mark.
[Source: George Gleghorn "Marriage Bond - Francis Meadows to Frances Bush; 1797; Vital Records, Rockingham County, VA. ; Photocopy in possession of the author . . . .]
- ↑ McFarland, Andrew - Meanly, John > Meadearis - Meanly, John, in United States. Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application Files. (Washington D.C.)
images 288 & ff.
Certificate 5367 for Francis Meadows (or Medows), Service in VA, [widow] Frances
20 Sep 1841, Monroe County, Virginia
Frances Meadows, widow of Francis Meadows, age 69 or 70, applied for a pension under an Act of Congress passed 7 July 1838, an act granting half-pay and pensions to certain widows
She declared that sh was married to Francis Meadows "in the fall of the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety or one thousand seven hundred and ninety one, which she can not certainly recollect, as no record of same was kept, she was married in the County of Rockingham state of Virginia", . . . but that "the marriage took place previous to the first day of January one housand seven hundred and ninety-four"
- ↑ Peters, Richard, ed., By authority of Congress. The public statutes at large of the United States …, Vol. 5, Charles C. Little and James Brown, Boston, 1846
p. 303.
Google Books, accessed 6 Sep 2014
Twnety-fifth Congress, Session Two, 1838
Chapter CLXXXIX - An Act granting half-pay and pensions to certain widows
. . . An act supplementary to the act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers who have died, "leaving a widow, whose marriage took place after the expiration of the last period of his service, and before the first day of January seventeen hundred and ninety-four" [emphasis added]
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