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- SARAH PEARSALL CAMPBELL http://home.teleport.com/~grafe/Pearsalls/Pearsalls/Thomas.Letters.html
Immediately upon the death of her husband, Sarah, his widow, felt the necessity of securing the pension coming to her as the relict of a deceased British officer, so she made the following application for the same:
-I, Aeneas Mackentosh, Captain of his Majesty's Seventy-first Regt of Foot, do hereby certify and declare unto all whom it shall or may concern that on the first day of September now past, Patrick Campbell Esq. the Major in the same Regiment departed this life and that Sarah the Widow and Relict of the said Patrick Campbell, now resides in the City of New York, the 24th of September, 1782.
Aeneas Mckintosh, Capt. Command the 2nd 71st Regt.
Endorsed:
I John L. Chevelier Roome Esq. Publick Notary by Royal authority admitted, sworn, and residing in the city of New York in the Province of New York in America do hereby certify and declare that in the date hereof personally came and appeared befor me the said notary, Sara Campbell, Widow and Relict of Patick Campbell, Esq., late Major in the (second) Seventy first Regiment of Foot Commanded by the Right Honorable Earl Ballowar, who being duly sworn on the Holy Evangelists of Almighty God did depose and say that she was lawfully married to the said Patrick Campbell, and has ever since his decease continued a widow and is so at the present time and further that she has no pension, allowance or provision made her by Government either in Great Britain or Oreland except the provision she hopes to receive by his Majesty's Bounty. In faith and testimony whereorf I, the said Notary, have hereunto set my hand and seal in the City aforesaid, the ninth day of April, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-three. John L. Roome, Pub. Not.-Sarah Campbell.
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