Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B.L.Wt. 2407-100, Richard Butler, Md.
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE
Md:
Butler, Richard
NUMBER
B. L. Wt. 2407-100
CONTENTS
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New York, March
28th. 1847. 
Recd. at the Pension office,
a [illegible ?certain] warrant
for one hundred 
acres of land, in 
faram of James 
Jefferson TL[??] and
farming[??] heir at 
law of Richd Butler 
who was a private
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in the Md Continentl line. 
Reverdy Johnson
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Richard Butler
No. 2.407

Hono. Reverdy Johnson
U. S. Senate
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STATE OF Maryland
Baltimore City   Sct
I, James Jefferson, heir at law of Richard Butler  do, upon oath, testify and declare, to the best of my knowledge and belief, that said Richard Butler did enlist in 1775, for the term of during the war, and served in the regiment No. 4, under the command of Colonel Smallwood, of  the Maryland line; and that he continued in the service aforesaid, until the end thereof

I further declare, that I have never received a Warrant for the BOUNTY LAND, promised to the said Richard Butler, 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, James Jefferson aforesaid, will act as my own attorney
and in my name 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 and ompowed to eonstitute and appoint one or more Substitutes or Attornies, under him, for the special purposes above expressed.

Attest, this 18th day of December, 1846
Eli Duvall  Justice of the Peace.

Personally appeared, the above named James Jefferson  James Jeffersen, subscriber
to the aforegoing declaration, and in my presence acknowledged the power of Attorney thereby subjoined, to be his free act and deed, for the purposes therein mentioned.

Attest, this 18th day of December, 1846
Eli Duvall Justice of the Peace.

In testimony that the above named Eli Duvall, was a Magistrate authorised to administer oaths, and take acknowledgments, &c., in this 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 Baltimore, this second day of January 1847.
A W Bradford   Clk of Balto. Co. Court
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State of Maryland 
Anne Arundel  County  Sct

On this 18th day of August in the year of our Lord. One Thousand eight hundred and forty six personally appeared before me the Subscriber a Justice of the peace of the State of Maryland in and for Anne Arundel County aforesaid - George Giles who is well known to me to be and old gentleman of Good Standing in society and upon whose statements the utmost confidence can be placed  aged about eighty years: and made Oath on the Holy Evangely of Almighty God that he was personally acquainted with Richard Butler who was a Soldier during the War of the Revolution and who was attached to the Maryland Continental line in the Regiment No. 4 under the command of Col. Smallwood that he knew well when the said Richard Butler entered the service and also when he returned from the War that after the war ended he attended several entertainments where the said Richard Butler was present; That he is also acquainted with James Jefferson to his the only legal representative and heir at Law, of the said Richard Butler now alive -
George his X mark Giles
Sworn before
John Edw Stalker
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State of Maryland
Anne Arundel County
At an Orphans Court held for said County on the 25th. day of August 1846 satisfactory evidence was adduced in said Court to prove that Richard Butler deceased entered the service of the United States as a private in the 4th Regt, of the Maryland line Continental Army of the Revolution for and during the war and served to the end thereof, and also that the aforesaid Richard Butler is the Identical individual who performed the service as stated and that James Jefferson the present applicant for bounty land, is the Legal Representative And Only surviving heir of the aforesaid Richard Butler - In Testimony whereof we have   hereunto subscribed our names as Judges of the aforesaid Court
William Brewer
Stevens Gambrill

In Testimony that the aforegoing is Truly taken from the minutes of proceedings of the Orphans Court of Anne Arundel County
I have hereunto set my hand And affix my seal of Office this Twenty fifth day of August in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred and forty six
Benjo Elfan  [illegible] Aucl