Mark Finks, Jr.

A Patriot of the American Revolution for Virginia with the rank of CAPTAIN. DAR Ancestor # A040747

GEDCOM Note

Germanna note #1115, by John Blankenbaker, March 14, 2001: "My story would go back to Mark Finks, Jr. (mentioned here previously as an officer in the Revolutionary militia). In his senior years, when the pensions were being granted, he could not remember any of the events surrounding his service. Probably he could not even remember that he had served. His family filed on his behalf saying that he had lost "his mind" and could not remember any of the events. His application consisted of affidavits from others who testified that he had served. I do remember reading the application but it is filed somewhere that I can't remember. So I will have to be content with just noting that there was an application. Probably Mark was suffering from one of the forms of senile dementia."

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Post-em note to my Rootsweb GEDCOM from Hilma Ardito, dated 11 May 2005:
"Revol War Pension Claim # R3551 Mark Finks, Jr, b,1 July 1744 His son , John Finks filed for pension on 27 Feb. 1834. States that his father is 90 yers old and served in Culpepper Co. Va. "

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