Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B. L. Wt. 2287-200, Ebenezer Finley, Md.
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(3-1776)

SERVICE [black stamped star] NUMBER
Md. Finley, Ebenezer B.L.Wt. 2287-200.

CONTENTS

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STATE OF NEW YORK
[page torn here]ITY AND COUNTY OF NEW YORK,}ss.

I,, NATHANIEL JARVIS, CLERK of the City and County of New-York, and also Clerk of the
Court of Common Pleas for the said City and County, DO HEREBY CERTIFY, Tha
Michael Ulshoeffer, Esq whose name is subscribed to the Certificate
of the proof or acknowledgement of the annexed instrument, and thereon written, was, at the time of
taking such proof or acknowledgement, First Judge of the Said Court of
Common Pleas dwelling in the said City, commissioned and sworn, and duly
authorized to take the same. And further, that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of such
Judge and verily believe that the signature to the
said certificate of proof or acknowledgement is genuine.

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said
Court and County, the First day of April 1842
Nathl Jarvis Clerk
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Morses papers
for Land Warnt
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Know all men by these presents that Samuel F B Morse
Sidney E Morse & Richard C Morse of the City of New York do
hereby substitute and appoint Henry [illegible] of Washington
City our true and lawful attorney with power of
substitution for us and in our names to ask demand and
receive from the Secretary ofWar of the United States a Land warrant
for the County land due in right of the services of Ebenezer
Finley as a Lieutenant and Captain by [illegible] of the Maryland
Line of the army of the Revolution and to deposite said warrant
when so received with the commissioner of the General
land office as such affix as it shall be the duty of to satisfy
the same and to ask demand receive and [illegible] for the certificates
are land [illegible] due thereon as such other made of satisfaction
as shall be provided for the same and to indorse assign transfer
and make sale of the same and to do and [illegible] all
things necessary to be done in and about the business.
Witness our hands and seals this first day of April 1842
Saml F.B. Morse [hand drawn cloud]
Sidney E Morse [hand drawn cloud]
Richard C Morse [hand drawn cloud]
Witness
M Ulshoeffer

C.
City of New York Ss} Personally appeared before me the
subscriber first Judge of the Court of Common
Pleas in and for the City of New York Samuel F B Morse, Sidney E Morse
and Richard C Morse Signurs and Sealers to the foregoing power of attorney
and acknowledged the same to be their voluntary act
and did for the purposes therein named - also being duly
Sworn and according to law saith that to the best of their knowledge
and belief their relative Ebenezer Finley was an officer a Capt
or Lieutenant of the Army of the Revolution and in both the
Maryland and Virginia line and they say that they have never
received a warrant from the United States a warrant for the
two hundred acres of Bounty land due in right of such service -
neither do they believe that he ever received the same as transfered [transferred]
his right to the same in any manner whatever - I can subscribed and
acknowledged before me this first day of April 1842
M: Ulshoeffer 1st Judge Common Pleas New York
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Ebenezer Finley
No. 2287.
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Certificate of Hiership
Findleys heirs
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In Henrico County Court October 3d 1842.

It appearing to the satisfaction of the Court it is ordered to be certified
that Ebenezer Finley said to have been an officer in the Revolution
died Testate in 1784 and without issue. That Samuel Finley his
oldest Brother was his heir at law that said Samuel died single
intestate and with out issue about the year 1800 leaving his
Brothers John and James Edwards Burr Finley and his niece
Elizabeth Ann Morse his heirs at law, that said John died soon
after intestate leaving three children Via: Samuel R George
and Eve (now the wife of John Vanhorne) his heirs at law. That
said Samuel R. died intestate since that time leaving eight
children his heirs at law Viz: John H. Sarah (wife of Samuel
Shick) James Samuel, Daniel, Andrew, George and Catharine
that James Edwards Burr the brother of Ebenezer Finley died
intestate since 1800 leaving two children his sole heirs at law Viz:
William P. and James Edwards Burr, and that Elizabeth
Ann Morse died intestate leaving Samuel J.B. Morse, Sidnwy
E. Morse and Richard C. Morse her only heirs at law.

Virginia
Henrico County to wit:
I Loftin N Ellett Clerk of the County
Court fo the said County of Henrico in the State of Virginia do
hereby certify that the foregoing is a true transcript taken form
the records of the Court of the County aforesaid.
In Testimony whereof I hereto subscribe my
name and annex the seal of the said Court
this 8" day of October 1842 and in the 67"
year of the Commonwealth.
Loftin N Ellett C.H.C.