Mapping the Widows of New Jersey’s Revolutionary Soldiers

left his discharge in that was given him by General Greene in a chest of Belly Jones in Wake County to ---- with a recommendation given him by General Greene in allusion to the captivity and imprisonment of applicant the papers were missing and on search part of them were found made into a paste board for a womans bonnet applicant knows of no person now alive that can testify as to his service, Simon Turner who died some three of four years ago has seen applicants discharged said Turner resided in Maury County of this State.” - Ezekiel Billington, W.8365

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“I have very often prepared his clothes and his provisions for such [monthly militia tours of duty], and furnished his knapsack with such necessaries as I could provide when he marched off with his company, leaving me to take the care of our children and the farm in his absence."

-Martha Lindsly, Widow of Ephraim Lindsly, Morris County Militiaman. Pension W.860, August 30, 1838.