Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B. L. Wt. 258-100, John Andrew, Penn.
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Service                                       Number

Penn.         Andrew, John       B.L.Wt. 258-100

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Contents
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Letter of Attorney
John Andrew
to
Abraham Mosser

Issued Warrant
No. 250
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Know all men by the presents that I John Andrew of the county Washington in the state f Pennsylvania former late a soldier in the Fifth Pennsylvania regiment Infantry then commanded by General Wayne in Captain Thomas Boude's company in the late Army of the Unites States have made ordained constituted and appointed and by this present do make, ordain, constitute and appoint Abraham Mosser of the town of Washington & state aforesaid my true and lawful Attorney for me and in my name to settle with and record of the United States one hundred acres of land that was granted to me by Congress for my services (illegible) direct as a soldier and on the receipt of the same of any part thereof to grant (illegible) from time to time as occasion Shall require granting unto my said attorney my full power in the premises with power of substitution and revocation qualifying and confirming whatsoever my said attorney. Shall lawfully do or cause to be done in the premises by virtue here of in witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 23rd day of January eighteen hundred and five.
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                                  John  X  Andrew
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Signed, seal and delivered
in the presence of us
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Wm.  Meetkerke
A. Swearingen 

    Washington County ss'

      Before me Wm. Meetkerke one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said county came and appeared he with named John Andrew and acknowledged the within letter of attorney to be his act and deed and also upon his solemn oath doth say and depose that he never got his one hundred acres of land that was granted to him by Congress and now (illegible) for him he further says he never (illegible) any (illegible) any letter of attorney be for this day.  Sworn and subscribed this 23rd day of January eighteen hundred and five.

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                                         John   X   Andrew
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Wm. Meetkerke
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Washington County ss

    Before Wm. Meetkerke one of the Justices of the peace in and for the said county came and appeared Andrew Swearingen Esqr and being duly sworn according to the law did depose and say that he knows and is personally well acquainted with the within named John Andrew and that he (illegible) resident in this county upwards of one year and that he is well knowing in this county.  Sworn and subscribed this 23rd day of January eighteen hundred and five.  
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Wm. Meetkerke                     A. Swearingen

Pennsylvania
Washington County ss.

    I William Herman Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas, in and for said county, do certify that William Meetkerke Esquire, before whom the within letter of Attorney was acknowledged was at the time thereof, and still is one of the Commonwealth Justices of the Peace in and for said County and that full faith and credit is and ought to be given to all his Individual Acts as such, as well as in Courts of Justice as thereout.
    In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of my office at Washington the twenty fourth day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and five.
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                                                  Wm. Herman
Washington County ss

    Personally appeared before me William Meetkerke one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said county came Samuel Carson who being duly sworn do deposeth and saith that he served as a soldier during the Revolutionary War for six years and nine months in the company commanded by Thomas Boude Captain in the 5th Pennsylvania regiment & during the above time the above-named John Andrew served as a soldier in the same company and was in the said company together when Cornwallis was captured at York Town and after marched together and joined General Greene in South Carolina and were both discharged together at Philadelphia at the close of the war.  This deponent further saith that he is the same
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John Andrew who executed the within power of attorney and was wounded at Stoney Point in the year 1779.
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                                   Samuel Carson
Sworn & subscribed
before me Aug. 27th 1805.
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          Wm. Meetkerke
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Know all men by these presents that I John Andrew of the county of Washington and state of Pennsylvania late a soldier in the first Pennsylvania regiment in Captain Thomas Boude Company have appointed Abraham Mosser of the town of Washington county and state aforesaid my true and lawful attorney to receive from the United States one hundred acres of military lands owing to me by the United States of my services as a soldier in the said Regiment granting to my said attorney my full power in the premises with Power of Substitution and revocation whatsoever my said attorney shall lawfully do or cause to be done in and about the premises by virtue hereof in wiriness where of I have hereunto set my hand and seal this twenty ninth day October 1805.

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                                                John    X   Andrew
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Sealed and Delivered
in the presence of us
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Abraham Little
Jno. Colerick

Pennsylvania ss.

    Personally appeared before me the subscriber one of the judges of the Supreme Court of the Commonwealth Courts Thomas Boude late of the First Regiment of the Pennsylvania Line in the service of the United States who  being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he was a captain in said regiment and he was well and personally acquainted with the above-named John Andrew a soldier in said regiment & that he was enlisted during the War & that he was regularly discharged at the end thereof in the city of Philadelphia & state aforesaid.
Sworn & subscribed before me this twenty ninth day of October Anno Domini 1805.
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                                                   Thos. Boude
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Thomas Smith
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Mr. John Laub Esqr.
In
City of Washington

or Georgetown
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Sir,

    Here enclosed a Power of Attorney as full as the law required.  Place and obtain the warrant and locate the warrant adjoinge to our 4000 (illegible) section that was granted to me and Thomas Boude. 
  Locate the warrant adjoinge the Northwest (illegible).  And if you cannot locate his claim (illegible) adjoined John Carr late in first range section No. 1 of Township 10 and sent the (illegible) the (Unintelligible sentence) servant.
Direct your letter to Abraham Mosser in Washington, Pennsylvania this 18 day November 1805.

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Mr. John Laube Esqr.             Abraham Mosser