Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B. L. Wt. 2348-100, for Thomas Rhodes, Delaware
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SERVICE
Del.
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Rhodes, Thomas
NUMBER
B. L. Wt. 2348-100
CONTENTS
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Thos Rhodes
Power Atty
Proof is required showing 
who are now the surviving
heirs at law and their
relationship to the deceased
Soldier Stated
No. Dec 20, 1834
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State of Delaware}
County of New Castle}
I William Rhoders heir at
Law of Thomas Rhodes do upon
my oath declare and testify that to the best of my
knowledge and belief the said Thomas Rhodes did
enlist in Capt Hollands company for the Term of for
and during the war and served in the Delaware
Regiment under the command of Col. Hall
of the Delaware Regiment of the said line and continued
in the service until the war ended
I further declare that I have never received a warrant for Bounty
land promised to said Thomas Rhodes 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 William Rhodes aforesaid do
hereby constitute and appoint Vespasian Ellis of
Virginia 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 land due to me as aforesaid, 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
witness my hand & seal this 8 day of Nover 1834
attest
William Rhodes
Wm Walker
Max [?]
personally appeared the above
William Rhodes Subscriber to the foregoing declaration
and in my presence acknowledged
the power of attorney thereto subscribed to be his
act & Deed. Witness my hand & notarial
Seal of Office November 8 1834
Tho McDowell
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Office of the Register of Wills
State of Delaware
New Castle County ss

Satisfactory evidence may
this day adduced to prove that Thomas Rhodes
formerly a soldier or officer in the Delaware
Regiment in the Revolutionary War departed
this life on or about the year 1802, and that he
left Joseph Rhodes, Mary Rhodes (now Dunham
widow)XX Aron Rhodes since deceased, John
Rhodes and William Rhodes his only heirs at Law.
Given under my Hand and seal of Office at New Castle
this twenty first day of November A.D. 1834
Evan H. Thomas
Register Wills.

XX said to be dead also [underlined]
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State of Delaware
New Castle County ss
the Depositions of His Excellency
Caleb P Barnett Govenor of the State of Delaware
who being duly testifies that he was an officer
in the Revolutionary war that he was well acquainted with
Thomas Rhodes, and take that he was a soldier
in the Delaware Regiment in the line of the army of
the Revolutionary war, and served till the war ended
in the company to which this deponent belong'd,
and was honorably discharged and that he was
the same Thomas Rhodes who was reputed and
relieved to be the father of Joseph Rhodes, John Rhodes
& William Rhodes, of this county
Bennett
State
Con
of Delavan
ty of New Castle
Caleb
this day his Excellency
Bennett Governor of the State of Del
man came Before me and made solemn
affirmation to the truth of the above deposition
and I certify that he is a man of truth and
entitled to full confidence
Given under my hand & seal
this Tenth day of December
the year of our Lord Eighteen
hundred and thirty four
the late
of
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Thos Rhodes
Power Atty
Proof is required showing
who are now the surviving
heirs at law and their
relationship to the deceased
Soldier Stated
No. Dec 20, 1834

Tho. McDowell Esq of Wilmington will send the proof of heirship corrected
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State of Delaware
New Castle county ss
William Rhodes makes oath
that his sister Mary, who married
a Dunham, and one of the heirs of Thomas Rhodes
a Revolutionary soldier died in AD 1835, that if she
left any children they are he believes decd or unheard
of for at least nine years he has made frequent
enquiries if there were any children of his said sister
Mary, can find or [?] of none, or does he believe
there any living
William Rhodes
sworn & subscribed to
Jany. 11. 1845 Before}
Tho. McDowell
Justice of the Peace
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Tho: Rhodes
Certif. of Register as to Heirship
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all of Delaware
New Castle County ss
Register's Office New Castle
November 16. 1835
I certify that satisfactory evidence was this
day produced before me to prove that Thomas Rhodes
formerly a soldier in the Delaware line in the War
of the Revolution died about the year 1802 leaving
to survive him as his only heirs at Law the following
named children Joseph, John, William, Mary &
Ann Rhodes, the three first named are living, Mary
supposed to be living, and Ann is deceased. The
said Mary married a certain William Wilkinson
whom she survived, and afterward intermarried
with a certain William Dunham the said William
Dunham, also the said Mary Dunham, as before
stated supposed to be alive, Ann Rhodes married
a certain Edward Hewes both of whom are deceased
the only heirs at law by this marriage were William
& Mary Jane, both of whom are supposed to be alive
and if living are in their minority.
In Testimony whereof, I have
hereunto set my hand and affixed
the seal of the Registers Office at
New Castle the day and year first
above written
Evan H. Thomas
Register
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Thomas Rhodes
No. 2348

Hon. R. H. Bayard
U. S. Senate
want delivered to Capt. A. R. Hetzel
assist. 2r Master-- Washington, D.C.
April 3d 15
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The Hon Richard H Bayard
D sir.
permit me to ask your
attention with the commisioner [sic] of Pensions to a claim
for land for the Heirs of Thomas Rhodes a Revolutionary
Pensioner. about ten years past a letter of attorney
and proof were exhibited, and the claim was allowed
but the land could not be drawn pursuant of powers
from two Heirs or perhaps three. I have succeeded
in getting all to be had & which I enclose you except
Mary Dunham if she left any child they cannot be
found or believed to be any, as [?] appear by the
affidavit inclosed [sic], Vespasian Ellis was acting
as the attorney & agent of the Heirs as you will observe
he having in all probability left the United States
may create a difficulty, if he is in Washington he will
place the matter so there can be no hindrance to the
Heirs receiving the scrip for the land, he made the
recovery or prosecuted the claim and will be entitled
to one forth the proceeds of the land. the Heirs are
so wide spread that their power could not readily be
had, it would be agreeable if the scrip could
issue to the heirs, and let them draw the land
I regret to trouble you on this subject, and have
to crave your indulgence in your kind & early attention
to the claims of those people so long withheld from
them a small pittance, for the service of a more [?]
old soldier, their father Thomas Rhodes, represented
to me by Major Ergust
I have the honor to be
with much Esteem
your friend
& obt servt
Thos McDowell
Wilmington Del. May 1845