Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B.L.Wt. 302-100, Tibbits F Hopkins, R.I.
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
R.I.

Hopkins, Tibbits F.
or
Tippits

NUMBER
B.L.Wt. 302-100.

CONTENTS
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L.S

By virtue of the power granted to the town Council of Portsmouth in the County of Newport and State of Rhode Island sc: for the probate of Wills and granting of letters of administration within said township: to  all people to whom these presents shall come greeting, know ye that upon the fifth day of the month call'd August one thousand seven hundred & ninety five appeared in & before the Town Council aforesaid, Thomas Shaw of said Portsmouth and desired that administration might be granted to him on the estate of Tibbits F. Hopkins late deceased which was duly considered by the Council. He appearing to be the nearest of kin to the said deceased it was granted to him. he giving bond agreeable to law in such cases provided, whereupon bond was was given accordingly.

Therefore the Town Council aforesaid do hereby grant administration unto the aforesaid Thomas Shaw upon the estate of the aforesaid Tibbits F. Hopkins deceased, fully authorizing & empowering
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of him to out & transent and do all and every thing & things whatsoever that shall & may be needful & necessary in the law for the true & faithful performance of his said administration with effect he rendering a true & just account thereof when lawfully thereto required.

By order & in behalf of the aforesaid Town Council I have given forth this letter of administration under my hand & said Council seal the fifth day of the mo. called Aug't. A.D. 1795 and the twentieth of Independence.

Abram Anthony Junr Councl Clerk

The above instrument is recorded on the 10th page of the 2nd part of the 8th book of Council records Mr. A. Anthony
junr Councl Clk.

State of Rhode Island sc:
I hereby certify that the foregoing is a true copy from the original letter of attorney under the hand of Abraham Anthony junr Council Clerk of the Town Council of the Town of Portsmouth, [return?] and [compared?] by me the twenty ninth day of November A.D. 1852
B. Hazard Dep Setry [Secretary]
[illegible] not [illegible]
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Providence 8th Aug. 1795

This certifies that the Legal Heirs of Tibbits F. Hopkins late a private in the Rhode Island Regmt., Deceased, inlisted for the War are entitled to receive One Hundred Acres of Military Bounty land from the United States, agreeable to Resolve of Congress.

Jere'h Olney late Lieut Col. Com'r Rhode Island Regmt

Timothy Pickering Esq.
Secretary at War
Philadelphia
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State of Rhode Island ss.

I Benjamin Hazard Deputy Secretary of [illegible] of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, and ex officio a public notary for the county of Newport, residing in Newport in said county and state, do hereby testify that the Town Council of the Town of Portsmouth in the county and state aforesaid were in the year 1795 and before that time, and since have continued to be legally authorized & empowered to to take probate of of wills and to grant administration upon the estates of persons deceased. And I further certify that Abraham Anthony junr was at & during said time has been Council Clerk to said Town Council, to whose attestation full faith & confidence to be given.

Whereof an attestation being required I have granted this under my hand & seal of office at Newport the twenty ninth day of November A_D. 18[illegible]
Ben Hazard
Dep. Secry
[pwb.] not exoff.
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Claim brot by the heirs of Tibbits F. Hopkins  by Andrew M Tori[illegible] Bristol RI 13th Decr. 
Wt issued & Dep'd to Mr Horsland 27 Dec. 1806. 

Free. 
Henry Dearborn Esq. 
Secretary Dept. War
 City of Washington. 

Rhode Island 
[Masstts - crossed out] 
Recd 23d Decr. 1802
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Newport December 10 1802
Sir, 
You will find enclosed one of my
neighbor's demands for military land that one
of his relation died seased [seized] of he is Very poor and is in want of all the neccessaries of Life he wished me to write you what you thought it might be worth as he was under the Nessesity [necessity] of selling it 
and wants to have information in the value so as 
to endeavor to get the full value of it or the
[N?] Recent of this You would please to inform
me of the value
 From you Humbl Servt 
  Andw McCozzie J

Henry Dearborn Esqr
Secretary Dept war
City Washington
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Letter of Attorney, Thos Shaw or wife to Benja Howland Esqr.
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Newport SS. Be it known that on the 10th day of November A.D. 1806 at Tiveron in said County, before me Thomas Durfee Notary Publick within and for said County, residing at Tiverton aforesd. came Thomas Shaw and Martha his wife within named, and acknowledged the within letter of Attorney to be their act and deed. In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal the day and year above said. D. Durfey
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Know all men by these presents; that we Thomas Shaw of Portsmouth in the District of Newport, and State of Rhode Island Yeoman, and Martha wife of the said Thomas, and heir at law of Tibbits Hopkins deceased, late a private in the Rhode Island regiment; (enlisted during the war and commanded by Lieut. Col. Commandant Jeremiah Olney; do hereby constitute and appoint the honourable Benjamin Howland of Tiverton in the District and State aforesaid Esquire; our lawful attorney, for us, and in the name of the said Martha as heir of the said Tibbits Hopkins, to apply to the proper office or offices, for that purpose Established; and to receive the certificate, or certificates, land Warrant, or Deed, of the Military bounty lands as the said Martha heir of the said Tibbits Hopkins [may-crossed out] by law and of common right may be entitled to; with power also on Attorney or Attorneys under him for that purpose to Substitute; and to do all lawful acts requisite for effecting the premises; Hereby satisfying and confirming all that our said Attorney or his Substitute, should do therein by virtue hereof. In Witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands and seals this Eighteenth day of November AD 1806. Signed Sealed & deld [delivered] in presence of Thomas Shaw Martha Shaw