Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B.L.Wt. 2125-100, James Hewitt, Md.
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(8—1776)

SERVICE
Md.

Hewitt, James
or Hewit.

NUMBER
B.L.Wt, 2125-100
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James Hewitt
N.2125.



cost 69 1/2 cts paid
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State of Maryland, Ann Arundell County Sct.

Be it remembered that on this 15th day of October 1834 personally appeared Anne Holyoke of the City of Annapolis a good Witness before the subscriber a Justice of the peace and chief Justice of the Orphans Court of said County and did solemnly declare and affirm, that she was 91 years of age on the 12th day of April last, that she was well acquainted with James Hewit  who enlisted as a soldier in the Revolutionary War, the year she does not recollect, he went from Annapolis, with her husband Daniel Holyoke, who was a soldier of the Maryland Line, and she believes said Hewit went with the same Captain, Jacob Brice, to the head of chester, where they stay'd 2 or three weeks, from thence they went to the main regular Army, and has never returned, and that Eleanor Hewit now living in the City of Annapolis is niece to, and the only heir of the said James Hewit. Declared and affirmed to Before
Gideon White

State of Maryland, Anne Arundell County Sct.

Be it remembered that on this Eaith day of September 1835 personally appeared Benjamin Lusby of said County a good and competent witness before me the subscriber one of the Justices of the peace for said County and made Oath. That he is Sixty four years of age and that he was well acquainted with Thomas Hewitt the brother to James Hewitt, and James Hewitt was a Soldier of the Revolution in the Maryland Line, and the said James Hewitt is since dead and leaving but one brother and his brother Thomas Hewitt is since dead leaving when he died two children Thomas and Eleanor Hewitt and Thomas Hewitt Jun. is since dead leaving no issue except the present applicant who was his sister Eleanor Hewitt and who is the only living heir.
Sworn to and subscribed to before
Benjamin Lusby           Lewis D. Jones [hand-drawn seal] Seal

State of Maryland Anne Arundell County Sct.
      At an Orphans Court held for Anne Arundell County September the 15th, 1835. Satisfactory evidence was adduced in Court to prove that Eleanor Hewitt in the County of Anne Arundel and
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State Of Maryland is the neice and only heir at law in fee to James Hewitt, deceased, late a soldier in the fourth Regiment of the Maryland Line Continental army of the Revolution during the war.          Gideon White
Thos. H. Dorsey
J. Howard

In Testimony that the aforegoing is a true copy taken from the record of proceedings of the Orphans Court of Anne Arundel County.
      I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of my office this Seventeenth day of September in the year of our Lord One Thousand Eight hundred and thirty five.
Sam. Brown. Jun. Reg. Wills. A.A. County


[embossed seal]
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[illegible] Oct 8th 1835
Sir I received your [illegible] of the [illegible] enclosing the land warrant No.2125 for one hundred acres of land in favour of Eleanor Hewitt neice and only heir at law of James Hewitt who was a private in the Maryland line attached to the fourth regiment
[illegible] John Prather
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State of Maryland County of Anne Arundell [Arundel]
I, Eleanor Hewitt, heir at law of James Hewitt do, upon oath, testify and declare, to the best of my knowledge and belief, that James Hewitt did enlist in 17 [blank], for the term of during the war, and served in the regiment No. 4, under the command of Colonel Ramsay, of the Maryland line; and that he continued in the service aforesaid until the end of the war, I further declare, that I have never received a Warrant for the BOUNTY LAND, promised to said James Hewitt, on the part of the United States; nor do I believe that he ever received it, or transferred his claim to it in any manner whatsoever; therefore, 
Know all men by these presents, that I, Eleanor Hewitt, aforesaid, do hereby constitute and appoint John Stolker, to be my true and lawful Attorney, for me, and in my name to demand and receive from the Secretary of War of the United States, a Warrant for the quantity of Land due to me as aforesaid; and my said Attorney is hereby fully authorised [authorized] and empowered to constitute and appoint one or more Substitutes or Attornies [Attorneys], under him, for the special purposes above expressed. 
attest, this fifteenth day of October, 1834. Eleanor Hewitt.
Gideon White, Personally appeared, the above named Eleanor Hewitt, subscriber to the aforegoing [aforesaid] declaration, and in my presence acknowledged the power of Attorney thereby subjoined, to be her free act and deed, for the purposes therein mentioned.
Attest, this fifteenth day of October, 1834 for the State and County aforesaid Gideon White Justice of the Peace. 
In testimony that the above written Gideon White, was a Magistrate authorised [authorized] to administer oaths, and take acknowledgments, &c. [etc.] in the State of Maryland, at the above date, and that his name there subscribed appears to me to be his usual signature, I have hereunto affixed the county seal, and subscribed my name and quality at [illegible], this 17th day of September 1835. Wm S Green Clk AA Cst17[illegible]