Be it known that on this 18th day of March 1833 personally appeared before the undersigned justice of the peace in and for said county Mathias Ambrose now in the 69th year of his age, who being first duly sworn, doth on his oath depose and say that in the fall of 1780 Michael Widmeyer of this county and an applicant for a pension, was a private in a company of Militia of Berkeley County Va commanded by Captain Henry Ambrose the father of this deponent, that he saw the said Widmeyer then drafted into the United States Service to be sent to the South, and that the said Widmeyer marched to Carolina and returned some time next summer. This affiant has often heretofore heard that the said Widmeyer behaved well in the service and served out his time like a man. This affiant had a brother drafted into the service at the same time said Michael Widmeyer was, and his said brother was killed at Guilford Courthouse. This deponent is, and for a very long time, has been well acquainted with said Widmeyer and believes that his statements of his services are true.

Mathias Ambrose

Sworn to & subscribed before me the undersigned this day; I further certify that the said deponent, Mathias Ambrose is a person not only of credibility but of great respectability Given under my hand this 18th of March 1833

Robert Gustin

I Jacob Reichard, Clerk of the Court of Morgan County, Certify that Robert Gustin, whose signature appears to the above certificate, is, and was at the time of making the same, an acting Justice of the peace in, and for the said County of Morgan; and that said signature is genuine.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my name, and affixed the Seal of my office, this nineteenth day of March in the year eighteen hundred and thirty three.

J. Reichard