Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B.L.Wt. 95-100, John Chester, New Jersey
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(3-1776)
Service
New Jersey
Chester, John
Number B.L. Wt 95-100

Contents
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Know all men by these presents that we Patty Chester & Elizabeth Teeple daughters of John Chester late a soldier in the Jersey line in the Army of the United States  do make and appoint  John [illegible] of Newlisk New Jersey our attorney for and in our name and for our use to demand pursue & receive from the Secretary of War on person authorized to deliver the land warrant due to John Chester Decd a soldier in the Army of the United States & who was our father and to do all lawful acts and means for the recovery thereof as fully in every respect as we  ourselves could do if personally present, In witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands & seal this twenty fifth day of October in the year of our Lord One thousand Eight hundred & Two. 
Sealed & delivered in presence of
James Hedden

X her mark 
Patty Chester
X her mark
Elizabeth Teeple
The wife of John Teeple & formerly Elizabeth Chester

Elizabeth Teeple formerly Eliz. Chester & Patty Chester the above grantors appeared before me James Hedden one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Essex and acknowledges the above Power to be her act & deed for the use & purpose therein expressed. 
Taken before me this 19th day of November 1802
James Hedden
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John Chesters Soldier
N Jersey line
Issued Warrant No 95
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I do certify that John Chesters who was the reputed father of the within grantors was a soldier in the Jersey line & served until the end of the war.  
Given under my hand at Newlisk this 27th day of December 1802
John Cummings late
Lieut Col. Comd Jersey Battln
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John Chester, New Jersey.  On December 19, 1803, Warrant numbered 95, for 100 acres of land on account of the Revolutionary War services of John Chester who was a soldier in the New Jersey line and served to the end of the War, was issued to his two daughters, Patty Chester and Elizabeth Teeple wife of John Teeple, on the application executed November 19, 1802 in Essex County, New Jersey.
No further information on file.

1912 Aug. 16 to Rear Adml C. M. Chester 
letter in W. File 17611 Giles Chester