Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B.L.Wt. 2294-300, Samuel Colston, Va.
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Va  Colston, Samuel   B.L.Wt. 2294-300
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Threw (sic) all means by there parents that we Alexandre Alex McGrew of Cincinnatti Ohio and Carolianne his wife do hereby Constitute and appoint Henry [unknown] of Washington City our true and lawful attorney with powers of substitution for in and in our names to ask demand and receive from the Secretary of war of the United States a warrant for the bounty] land due as is right of the service of our late great Uncle Samuel Colston as a Captain of the Virginia Line of the army of the United States and to deposit the said warrant when so received with the Commissioner of the general land office and also demand and receive the Certificate or land parcel due thereon as such other made as shall be provided the satisfying the same and to endure [unknown] transfer and make sale of the same and to do and perform all things touching the [unknown] which we ourselves might do were we personally present Witness [unknown] hand and seal this twelfth day of January 1842

Alex McGrew (seal)
Carolianne McGrew (seal)

Witness
Elizabeth Hall
E. V. Brooks

State of Ohio
Hamilton County

Personally appeared before me the subscriber a Justice of the peace in and for said county Alexander McGrew and Carolianne - his wife signing and seal on the foregoing power of attorney and acknowledged the same to be true
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Voluntary act and did for the purpose therein named signed sealed and acknowledged before me this twelfth day of January 1842
E. V. Brooks {Seal}
Justice of the of the Peace

State of Ohio,
Hamilton County,} ss.
I, Jacob W. Piatt, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, within & for the County of Hamilton do hereby certify, that E.V. Brooks, Esq., before whom the within or foregoing Power of Attorney, appears to have been acknowledged, was, at the time of subscribing the same, an acting Justice of the Peace, duly commissioned & qualified, and that full faith & credit are due to all his official acts as such.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of our said Court, at Cincinnati, this 12th day of January A.D. 1842.
J. W. Piatt Clk H.C.P.
by R.B. Warden, Dp'y.

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Power of attorney
Mitchell agent
Confidence
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Samuel Colston
N. 2294
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Capt Saml Colston - 5th Regt. Suspension J - Decord 1778
Austin Sandridge - 2d do Sup V do do} See. return from the State Department
Philip Buffman - Killed 17th July 1793 see Return - Sept 2d 1882 - allowed based by Virginia
Stephen Graham. Hist. S. Mate, allowed Land by the State of Va See Document No. 34

Saml Colston and Stephen Graham - not found on the Virginia Pay Rolls
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Extract from a paper headed, "Arrangement of the several Regts int he first Virginia Brigade Commanded by Brigd'r Genl. Woodford, 14th Sept 1778, and contained in a volume of the Washington Papers marked, "Arrangements of Officers, dc. Vol. 7 Virg'a."
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"2d Virg'a Regt.
Christian Febiger Col.
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Supernumerarys
v Alexander Rose
v Nath'l Fox
v Peter Garland
v Rochard Apperson
v Benj'a Hoomes
} Capts retiring this choice upon the provision of Congress all good new, & have fill'd their parts with C'n to themselves.

v Samuel Cobbs
v Rich'd Taylor
v James Barrett
v Wm Hudsons
Austin Sandridge
John Bell
} Lieuts. retiring upon the same principle, & recommended as above, except John Bell of the 6th Reg't whose character is too exceptionable to deserve a recommendation.

2d Virginia Regt
Wm Heth Col
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Supernumerarys
x x x x x
Capt. Colston. 5th Regt.
x x x x x
Wm Woodford Bridg. Genl.
White Plains
15th Dec'r. 1778.
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In Henrico County Court.    October 3rd 1842

This court does certify upon satisfactory evidence adduced before it that Samuel Colston late a captain in the revolutionary army died about the year 1778 or 1779 intestate and without lawful force leaving eldest Brothers William Colston his only heir at law. That the said William Colston died in the year 1780 having made a will duly executed and recorded, and leaving. three children namely William Traverse Colston, Elizatbeth L. Colston and Susan Colston his only heirs at law and residuary legalees and devisees under the Will aforesaid that the said William Traverse Colston died many years ago in the county of Frederick in Virginia. leaving four children, namely William, Armistead, Lucy S who intermarried with Dr. Joshua H Thomas and Susan P. N. Colston now the wife of Jefferson Jennings his only heirs at law all of whom are now living; William & Armistead Colston in Virginia; and the said Lucy S and Susan P. N. in the State of Kentucky. That the said Elizabeth L. Colston intermarried with Dr. Benjamin H. Hall and died many years ago in Kentucky leaving three children namely William E. Hall, Caroline C. Hall now the wife of Alexander McGrew and Lucy Hall her only heirs at Law. That the said William E. Hall and Lucy Hall, have since died intestate and without issue leaving the said Caroline C. their sole heir at law. And that the said Susan Colston daught of said William Colston intermarried with a Gentleman named Turner who is since dead. Is that the said William Colston, Armistead Colston, Lucy S. Thomas and Susan P. N. Colston children of William Traverse Colston and William E. Hall. Caroline C. Hall and Lucy Hall children of Elizabeth L. Colston and Susan Turner daughter of William Colston are the only heirs at law of the aforesaid Captain Samuel Colston now living. 
Virginia
Henrico County to urt:
I Loftin N. Ellett Clerk of the county court for the said county of Henrico in the State of Virginia as  hereby certify that the foregoing is a true transcript taken from the record of the court of the county aforesaid. In testimony whereof I hereto subscribe my name and annex the seal of the said court this 8 day of October 1842 and in the 67th year of the Commonwealth.
Loftin N. Ellett
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Certificate of [illegible]
Capt Samuel Colestons
Lieut -
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State of Virginia
Henrico County{ At a County Court held in and for said County on the 7th day of November 1842 appearing to the satisfaction of the Court it is ordered to be certified that William E. Hall and Lucy Hall children of Elizabeth Land Dr Benjamin H. Hall named in the Certificate of heirship in the case of Samuel Colston given by those cases on the 3rd day of October last hearing does into state and without issue, their sister Caroline E the wife of Alexander McGrew was the sole heir at law and thereby became entitled to one third part of the state of said Samuel Colston, Susan Furner to another child part and the four children of Wm. S. Colston the son of William Colston to the remaining third part. The certificate of the 3rd of October is hereby amended accordingly.

I Lifton N. Ellett Clerk of the County Court do hereby certify the foregoing to be a true Copy from the records of said Court ~
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court at Richmond this 8th day of November 1842.
Loftin N. Ellett C.H.C.
The County seal is not affixed because since writing the above the same is ascertained to have been lost and is believed to have been stolen. Nov: 8" 1842.
Loftin N. Ellett. C.H.C.