Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B. L. Reg. 286,310-55, Samuel Dunbar, Vt.
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(3-1776)
SERVICE
VT

DUNBAR, SAMUEL

NUMBER 
B L REG 286,310-55

CONTENTS
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286.310
Act March 3/55
" Jan 23/58

Samuel Dunbar son of
Samuel Dunbar Priv
Capt [blank} Vermont
Col {blank] Mil
Revol. Pensioner

[let] 82-18744

Pharoah Ferguson 
Birchville, St Clair Co
Mich

P Ferguson Feb 1, 1858
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LANSING MICH
[illegible date]

[postage stamp-Washington]

To the Honorable Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D C
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286.310
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State of Michigan  County of St Clair
 On this 21st day of December one thousand eight hundred and fifty seven personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace within and for the county and State aforesaid, Samuel Dunbar aged seventy two years, a resident of Birchville St Clair county in the state of Michigan, who being duly sworn according to law, declares that he is the son of Samuel Dunbar of Vermont in the United States of America who is now dead and that his mother is dead and that he is the only child of the deceased Samuel Dunbar now living and that he is the one claimant to the property and effects of the deceased Samuel Dunbar, as he supposes and truly believes. And that the said Samuel Dunbar deceased served in the United States Army of America in the last Revolutionary War for nineteen months, to the best of his belief and knowledge. And that he cannot tell in what company or regiment he did serve, but that the said deceased Samuel Dunbar drew a pension of sixty three dollars per year from the United States. And that the said Samuel Dunbar died on the 6th day of December one thousand eight eight [2x]hundred and forty three. The said deponent further swears that the deceased did not draw land for his services and that he the deponent never made applications to the government for Land before this. The said deponent hopes that looking to the Pension Rolls of 1843 will sufficiently satisfactory to the Government that his claim is just, and that the said deceased was honorably discharged, as he truly believes. And he makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the bounty land to which he may be entitled to under the act approved of March the third 1855. He also declares that he has not received a warrant for bounty land under this act or any other act of Congress nor made any other application therefor.
 Samuel Dunbar

We Levi Lamb and Nathan Young both residents of Birchville in the state of Michigan and St Clair County upon our oaths declare that the foregoing Declaration was signed and acknowledged by Samuel Dunbar in our presence. And that we are intimately acquainted with him and that from the appearance and statements of the applicant that he is the identical person he represents himself to be and that we are intimately acquainted with him for thirty years past or upwards
 Nathan Young
 Levi Lamb
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The foregoing declaration and affidavit upon this sheet of paper were sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and year above written written [2x] on the other side, and I certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons and am intimately acquainted with them all, and that the claimant is the person he represents himself to be as I verily believe and That I have no interest in this claim.
 Edward Potter
 Justice of the Peace 


N.B. Please direct to Pharaoh Ferguson Birchville St Clair County [?] Michigan my lawful attorney -
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State of Michigan  County of St Clair ss
I Tubal C Owens Clerk of said County of St Clair
 Do hereby certify, that Edward Potter whose name is subscribed to the certificate or proof or acknowledgment of the annexed instrument, and therein written, was, at the time of taking such proof or acknowledgment, a Justice of the Peace for said county, duly elected and qualified, and duly authorized to take the same; and further, that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of such Justice and verily believe that the signature to the said certificate or proof of acknowledgment is genuine; I further certify, that said instrument is executed and acknowledged according to the laws of this State.
 In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said county, at St Clair this 13th day of January AD 1858
 Tubal C Owens, Clerk