Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B.L.Wt. 2201-100, for Evan Thomas, Pennsylvania
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Penn | Thomas, Evan | B.L. Wt 2201-100

CONTENTS
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I do certify that Evan Thomas served as a soldier in my company, Second Pennsylvania and Regiment untills he was discharged by Col. Humpton in 1783.
Sam Folbert Paten
Capt 2nd Penn Regt
Philadelphia August 19th 1784
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Baltimore February 21st, 1838
William Gordon Esq
Sir,
Herewith you will find the proof of the kinship and power of attorney from one of the heirs to the Bounty to which Evan Thomas deceased was entitled and also the gratuity which its presumed, not to have been received, being step-aunt to the claim sent or will appears by my deposition accompanying the proof, they have made me the attorney.
Respectfully I am 
your obedient servant, Eliza W. Yertus
Direct as before care of John M. Fador, Baltimore.
The State of Pennsylvania granted a donation of 200 acres of land to the heirs of Evan Thomas
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Form for proof of heirship.
The Names of each and all the heirs to be inserted, and to be certified that they are the only heirs at law.
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State of Maryland

    At a court held for Baltimore County, February 1838 satisfactory evidence was adduced in court, to prove that Eliza Hucorn, Mary Merrick, and Evalina Thomas are reputed to be the grand daughter and only heirs at law in fee to Evan Thomas late a private in the second regiment of the Pennsylvania Line.

I, Thomas Rill Clerk of the county, do certify, that the above evidence was taken in open court.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed my official seal, this seventeenth day of February 1828.

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                                      Thos Kell Clerk
                                      Balto. County Court

The above form will answer for the State of Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, Ohio, Kentucky, Alabama and other western states.
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State of Maryland
City of Baltimore   ss

   On this ___ day of February in the year of our Lord Eighteen Hundred thirty-eight the subscriber one personally appeared Eliza W. Yerkiss a disinterested and voluntary witness a person well known to me and worthy of full faith and credit, aged about forty years, who affirmed that she is half-sister to John Thomas dec'd, who was the son of her mother by her first husband Evan Thomas who she has been informed and believes was a soldier in the Second Regiment of the Pennsylvania Line under Col. Hampton, the Eliza Hucorn, Mary Merrick and Evalina Thomas are the children of the said John Thomas and only heirs at law of the aforesaid Evan Thomas. 

Sworn to before me
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Henry Brice
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Received Baltimore 6th March 1838 from the Secretary of War a warrant for one hundred acres of Land No. 2901. Granted to Elvira Hucorn, Marry Merrick and Evalina Thomas granddaughters and heirs at law of Evan Thomas, deceased late of the Second Pennsylvania regiment in the Revolutionary War. 

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                              Eliza W. Yerkiss
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DEPARTMENT OF WAR.

Regulations for the heirs of Officers and Soldiers of the Revolutionary Army, who 
were slain by the enemy,  and have not received land from the United States.
By an act of Congress of the 16th September, 1776, it is provided that the Officers and Soldiers who
engaged for, and continued to serve during the war, or until discharged by Congress, and the heirs of
such Officers and Soldiers as shall be slain by the enemy, shall receive land in proportion to their rank.
N. B. Those who engaged for three years, or for any other period than during the war, or who died
of sickness, fatigue, or casualty, are not entitled to land from the United States.
The following declaration and enclosed blank form of heirship) must be filled up and signed by the
proper authorities:
State of Maryland
City [crossed out County] of Baltimore
Eliza Hucom, one of the heir at law of Evan Thomas deceased
do, upon oath, testify and declare, to the best of my knowledge and belief, that said Evan
Thomas did enter the service in 17 , for the term of
and served as a private in the Regiment No. two
under the command of Colonel
Hampton of the Pennsylvania
line; and that he continued
in the service aforesaid until discharged in 1783
I further declare that I have never received a warrant for the bounty land promised to the
said Evan Thomas 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, Sworn to before me
Henry Brice
Know all men by these presents, That I Eliza Hucon
aforesaid,
do hereby constitute and appoint Eliza W. Yerkes
to be my true
and lawful attorney, for me and in my name to 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 the gratuity due to said Evan Thomas: and my said attorney is
hereby fully authorized and empowered to constitute and appoint one or more substitutes or attorneys
under him, for the special purposes above expressed.
Eliza Hucorn     [seal]
Attest
Henry Brice
John McFadon

Personally appeared the above named Eliza Hucorn
subscriber
to the foregoing declaration, and made oath to the same, and in my presence acknowledged the power of
attorney thereto subjoined to be her free act and deed, for the purposes therein mentioned.
Henry Brice
Justice of the Peace.

State of Maryland
Baltimore County Set
In testimony that the above written Henry Price was a magistrate
authorized to administer oaths, and take acknowledgments, &c. in the 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 twenty first
day of February
1838

Tho Kell
Clerk,
of Balto. Ct. Ct,