"A person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another."
The subject today is a document from the Revolutionary War Pension File of Martin Carringer (1758-1835) of Mercer County, Pennsylvania (accessed on and digital image obtained from www.Fold3.com):
The transcription of this paper (image 16 on the Fold3 filmstrip) is:
State of Pennsylvania
Mercer County SS ................... Eighth Febry A D 1839
Personally appeared before me the subscriber one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said County Molly Carringer the Widow of Martin Carringer late of Sandy Creek township in the County afforesaid Deceased, and sworn as the law directs Deposeth and saith, that the leaves of the Book to which this Deposition is attatched is the family Record of her Husband the late Martin Carringer, and although she cannot read the writing thereon, she knows it to be her Husbands handwriting and preserved it Always in her own possession (untill attatched to this Deposition) as the date of the birth of her Children, And that the last name on thel ist was not their Child but their Grandchild, and that She had a Certificate of her Marriage but lost it.
.............................................................................. her
..................................................................... Molly X Carringer
............................................................................. mark
Sworn to and subscribed
before me on the above date
...................................... Adam Thompson J.P.
State of Pennsylvania
Mercer County SS
{ Seal} I Adam Thompson the Justice of the Peace before whom the above Deposition of Molly Carringer the Widow of Martin Carringer was taken; Do Respectfully Certify that I am well aquented with Molly Carringer the signer to the above Deposition, that she is a person of veracity and good Moral Character ~ given under my hand and seal at Salem township in the County afforesaid this Eighth day Febry 1839
.............................................................. Adam Thompson Justice
..................................................................................... of the peace
State of Pennsylvania }
Mercer County SS ....}
I Hugh Bingham Prothanotary of the Court of Common Pleas of Mercer County do certify that Adam Thompson Esquire before whom the foregoing depositions were taken is a Justice of the peace in and for Said County duly Commissioned and acting as such, that full faith and credit is due to all his official acts as such. In testimony whereof I have hereunto Set my hand and affixed the Seal of the Said Court at Mercer the 13th day of February AD 1839.
................................................................. Hugh Bingham Prothy
There are two images of the "Family Record" in the Revolutionary War Pension Packet:
The translation from German to English of the items in the "Family Record" was also included in the Pension Packet:
This "Family Record" provides the birth dates of the eight children, and one grandchild, of Martin and Molly (Hoax) Carringer, my fourth great-grandparents. I descend through the son Henrich, born 6 June 1800.
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