Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R, Thomas Benson, N.H. Residence
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SERVICE|*|NUMBER
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[blank]|Susanna|[blank]
N.H. residence
CONTENTS
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Susanna Drowl See letter of Dec. 6.
State of New Hampshire
COUNTY OF Mer(r)imack}ss. Susan Edmunds being duly sworn according to law, deposes and says that she is a child of Thomas & Susanna Benson, Pensioners deceased, to whom more pension was probably due, & who was an applicant for a pension from the State of New Hampshire that this deponent is directly interested as one of the claimants in said claim. 
/s/X her mark Susan Edmunds
Sworn and subscribed  before  me this 27 day August 1852 and I do hereby certify that the said Susan Edmunds is a respectable person, and that I  have full faith in the truth of the above statement sworn to by her as being directly interested in said claim.
/s/David M. Carpenter Jus. of Peace
Know all Men by these Presents, That I Susan Edmunds a child of Thomas & Susan Benson pensioners deceased, to whom a pension was probably due & who made applicant for a pension from the State of New Hampshire do hereby constitute and appoint ARAD JOY, of Ovid, N.Y., my true and lawful attorney for me and in my name as one directly and personally interested, as also for and in behalf of all others interested in the claim or application for a pension as above mentioned.
/s/X her mark Susan Edmunds
[seal affixed] Witness my hand and seal, this 27 day of August 1852
SEALED AND DELIVERED IN THE PRESENCE OF} David M. Carpenter
STATE OF New Hampshire
County of Mer(r)imack} Be it known that on the 27 day of August 1852 before the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County and State duly authorized by law to administer oaths and take acknowledgements, personally appeared Susan Edmunds above named, and duly acknowledged the above Power of Attorney and affidavits to be her act and deed. 
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand the day and date above mentioned.
/s/David M. Carpenter, Justice of peace