Abigail Branch

GEDCOM Note

Post-Em from Susan Esposito Abigail says her husband died in 1806 "I, ABIGAIL HOOPER of Deer Island in the county of Charlotte, age 74 years,do swear that in the year 1782 at Majorville I was lawfully married to WILLIAM HOOPER who served as a Private soldier in the Revolutionary War in America, that he was attached to the Regiment of Infantry raised (or partly) raised in Newfoundland commanded by Col. Gorham, that he died in Deer Island in the year 1806. That I now reside on Deer Island in the county of Charolotte, that I did actually reside in the province at the time of the passing of an Act made in the second year of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria 'entitled" an Actfor the Relief of Old Soldiers of the Revolutionary War and their Widows, and that I was married to the said WILLIAM HOOPER before the passing of the said Act, And that I am now and have been for the last twelve months a widow, and in indigent circumstances , having no sufficent property by, or from which can support or maintain myself , and that I have not put out of my hands , power of disposal any property , in order to secure or provide for my support or mainetnance." "ABIGAIL HOOPER" )her mark) (Repeat of above statement of solicitor, except his name can be read. Thomas Moses, Esquire, and the date is November 12, 1839