Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B.L.Wt. 1168-300, Joseph Davis, Penn.
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Service  Number
Penn.     Davis, Joseph     B. L. Wt. 1168-300

Contents
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Warrant No. 1168 fwd. to Jane Patton & heirs of Capt: Joseph Davis of the Pennsylvania line for 300 acrea of land - March 31st, 1826 - adn delivered to Colo. J. Watson.
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Col. Watson
No. 1168







30 Mar. 1826
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State of Pennsylvania
Mifflin County

I, Jane Patton, do upon oath testify and declare that I am a sister and an heir at Law of Joseph Davis, deceased, who was a Captain of the Pennsylvania Line in the Army of the Revolution, and was killed by the enemy in General Sullivans Campaign without having issue.  
I do further testify and declare that I have never received a warrant from the United States for the bounty land due me in right of said deceased, neither do I believe that he ever obtained it, or transferred his right to it, in any manner whatever.
   Therefore know all men by these presents that I, Jane Patton, as aforesaid, do hereby constitute and appoint Col. Joseph Mation of Washington City, my true and lawful attorney for me and in name to ask, demand, and receive from the Secretary of War of the United States a Warrant for the bounty land due me in right of my said brother, Joseph Davis, 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 named, and to do and perform all things necessary in and about the benefits. 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this twenty fifth day of March in the year of our Lord One Thousand eight hundred and twenty six.         Jane Patton
Witnesses-
Jane Anderson
Jonath H Dorsey

    Personally appeared before me, the subscriber, a justice of the peace in and for said county, Jane Patton, signs and seals to the above deposition, and power of attorney, and acknowledges the same to be her voluntary act and deed for the purposes therein mentioned.                  Jane Patton 

Sworn, subscribed, and acknowledged before me this 25th day of March 1826.
William McCay, Justice of the Peace
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State of Pennsylvania 
Mifflin County
                                   Personally appeared before me the subscriber, & Justice of the Peace in and for said County, Jane Anderson and Jonathan Dorsey, persons of -illegible- beliefs, and disinterested witnesses who being duly sworn, saith that they are personally acquainted with Jane Patton, who signed the foregoing deposition, and power of attorney in these presents and that to the best of their knowledge and belief, she is a sister and an heir at Law to Joseph Davis, deceased, who they have ever understood, and evenly believe, was a Captain of the Pennsylvania Line in the Army of the revolution, and was killed by the enemy in Sullivans Campaign, without leaving issue, and further they say not.                          
                                         Jane Anderson
                                         Jonathan H. Dorsey
Sworn and subscribed before me this 25th day of March, 1826.
             William McCay, Justice of the Peace 

State of Pennsylvania 
Mifflin County 
          I, William McCay Esquire, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, do hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with Jane Patton, who signed the foregoing deposition, and power of attorney before me, and have no doubt that she is the identical person she therein represents herself to be.
         Certified by me this twenty fifth day of March in the year of our Lord, One Thousand eight hundred and twenty six.
                                               William McCay

State of Pennsylvania 
Mifflin County       
                            I, William Mitchell Prothonotary of the Court of Common PLeas of Mifflin County, do Certify that William McCay Esquire
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before whom the foregoing power of attorney and depositions appear to have been taken and acknowledged, and who has given the accompanying certificate, was at the time of taking and subscribing, the same one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified as such, and that to all his official acts, as such, due faith and credit is to be given. 
           In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office at Lewistown,  this twenty fifth day of March, AD 1826.          W.Mitchell,  Prothonotary
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335 Belleveue Avenue, Trenton, N. J.
Commissioner of Pensions, Department of the Interior,
Bureau of Pensions, Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir: -
Will you kindly send me if any, Revolutionary Records also family date of

Joseph Davis from Pennsylvania, from Hartley's--killed bythe savages near Wyoming April 23, 1779. Reference--Pa. Archieves Fifth Series, Vol. III , page 642.

Also of

Nicholas Milburn, born in Snow Hill, Cecil County, Maryland about 1750: died there about 1830,-"solder in the Revolutionary War."

Also of

Patsey Truitt of Maryland. [handwritten above] Neg

Also of

James Dale of Maryland. [handwritten above] Neg

An early reply would be much appreciated.

Very respectfully yours,
J D LaBarre Schoonover
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[handwritten]V.L.M [typewritten]Rev. War Section. [handwritten]Joseph Davis
BLM 1168.300

[illegible handwriting]
October 12, 1914.

Mr. J.D. LaBarre Schoonover,
335 Bellevue Avenue,
Trenton, N.J.

Sir:-
     In response to your [blurred out] received the 9th instant, you are advised that from the records of this Bureau it appears that Joseph Davis was a Captain of the Pennsylvania Line in the Revolutionary War, and was killed by the enemy in General Sullivan's campaign,without leaving issue. His sister and heir-at-law, Jane Patton, was allowed 300 acres of bounty land on March 31, 1826, under Warrant No.1,168 on account of the above service, she then resided in Mifflen County, Pennsylvania.
     The Revolutionary War records of this Bureau fail to afford any information in regard to James Dale and Patsey Truitt
                                Very respectfully,
                                   G M Saltzgaber
                                Commissioner.