Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B. L. Wt. 617-100, for Jacob Parrish, New York
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Service:  Continental

Parrish, Jacob

or Parish

Residence New York in 1809

B.L.Wt 617_100
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No 617

Jacob Parrish
Private
Hazen's Regiment

Warrant issued under date March 27th, 1813 in the name of the original Claimant, and in virtue of his Assignment and Power of Att'y to Stephen Thorn and a written authorization of the latter delivered to Gel John P Van Ness, by authorization from Stephen Thorn

Noted on BL 9th April 1812
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State of New York
Secretary's Office

I certify that Aaron Hall of the town of Greenville in the county of Greene was appointed a Justice of the Peace in and for the said County on the 27th day of March 1811 and that he was a Justice of the Peace in and for said county on the day of the date of the within certificate and that full faith and credit are due to his acts in that capacity.

Albany, April 1st, 1812

Anthony Lamb
Dep Secretary
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Greenville, March 25, 1812

I do hereby certify on oath that Jacob Parrish was a recruit of mine in the late Revolutionary War with Great Britain and enlisted and served during the war in Col Moses Hazen's Regiment.

Noah Lee

Personally appeared before me Aaron Hall one of Justices of the Peace in and for the county of Greene Noah Lee and made oath to the above certificate.

Aaron Hall, JP
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Lodged by Sam'l Shaw in Congress to obtain land for Jacob Parrish, soldier in Hazen's Reg't. Arl 8, 1812

W Cutting in the War Office

Noted on BL 9th April 1812
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Dear Sir
with some dificulty have obtained Capt Noah Lee's  Deposition that Jacob Parrish was an enlisted Soldier in his Compy for & during the war & served to the end thereof. I have enclosed the deposition to the Dep Sec'y of State with a request to certify that Aaron Hall is a Justice for the County of Green

I am yours with respect

S Thorn
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Genl Van Ness - Is requested to call at the war office. he will there find Jacob Parrish (Hazens Regt) power of attorney to me to draw his Bounty Land as a soldier last war.  the warrant sometime last winter was ordered to issue at that office, but was not taken out. He will be so good as to draw the warrant from whatever office it may be issued (as I understand the Law is altered) and this shall be a voucher for so doing and enclose it to me by Mail.

In this you will confer an obligation on a Soldier of the Revolution who is now blind & pennyless and 76 years old - although he has assigned to me the Land yet I have not paid a cent therefore, but have agreed if I obtain it to give him the warrant or Fifty Dollars cash as he pleases -

Greenville NY March 14, 1813
Stephen Thorn, assignee of Jacob Parrish
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Jacob Parrish to Stephen Thorn -- powers to draw land

Hazen's Regiment

I certify that it appears by the Register of Final Settlement Certificates issued that Jacob Parish inlisted for and served to the end of the War in Col Moses Hazen's Regiment

Dept of War Acct Office
April 8, 1812
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Know all men by these presents, That I Jacob Parrish late a soldier in Col Hazen's Regiment for and in consideration of the sum of Twenty five dollars lawful money of New York, to me in hand well and truly paid by Stephen Thorn of Granville County of Washington & State of New York the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, have granted, bargained, sold, aliened, remised, released, conveyed and confirmed, fully, freely, and absolutely by these presents unto the said Stephen Thom, his heirs and assigns for ever, all the bounty or gratuity of lands, which I am entitled to from the United States of America, in virtue of, and for my services as a soldier in Colonel Hazen's, of the Congress Regiment - -
for and during the late war with Great Britain.

AND I DO HEREBY authorise, constitute, and appoint the said Stephen Thorn my true and lawful attorney, to appear at the War Office of the United States, and therefrom to receive of the Secretary thereof the land warrant due to me in virtue of my services, as aforesaid, in his own name, and to his own proper use, benefit, and behoof; hereby delegating to my said attorney, full power, and lawful authority, to appoint, if necessary, one or more attornies under him, for the purposes aforesaid; holding for firm, and effectual, all and whatsoever my said assignee shall legally do or cause to be done in the premises. In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal, this Sixteenth day of October in the year of our Lord, one thousand Eight hundred and nine

Jacob Parish (his mark)

Signed, sealed and delivered in the present of Jos M Grover, Silas Chatfield
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State of New York
Cayuga County

On the day and year within written, viz October 16, 1809, personally came Jacob Parish named within, and to me personally known, who acknowledged that he executed and delivered the within instrument whose act and deed for the purposes therein mentioned before me.

Joseph Grover, Judge Com Pleas