Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B.L.Wt. 260-100, Timothy Donevan, Penn.
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SERVICE    Penn.
Donevan, Timothy
or Donevon
Sarah
B.L. Wt. 260-100
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Tho M. Kean 
Pennsylvania ss 
In the Name, and by the Authority of the Commonwealth of
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania 
Secretary's Office Lancaster March 25th 1806 
I do hereby certify to all whom it may Concern, that it appears from the book of Original entries of Pennsylvania grants of Donation Land now remaining in the said Office, that two Patents for Donation Land were issued to two Soldiers of the name of Timothy Donovan formerly of the Pennsylvania Line. One to Timothy Donovan of the first Regiment on the 25th of October 1786 for a tract of two hundred acres in the fourth district numbered 1811 and the other to Timothy Donovan of the third Regiment on the 13th of November in the same year, for a tract containing two hundred acres in the eighth district numbered 1627, 
Witness my hand & seal the day & year first above written 
T. M. Thompson sec
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Tho M. Kean 
Pennsylvania ss 
In the Name, and by the Authority of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
THOMAS M KEAN
of the said Commonwealth
To all to whom these Presents shall come, Sends Greeting:
Know ye, That Thomas M. Thompson Esquire whose name is subscribed to the Instrument of Writing hereunto annexed was at the time of subscribing the same, and now is Secretary
of the said Commonwealth, duly appointed and commissioned: And full faith and credit is and ought to be given to him accordingly 
Given under my Hand and the Great Seal of the State, at Lancaster this twenty fifth day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and six and of the Commonwealth the thirtieth 
By the Governor, James Trimble Deputy Secy
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1806
Admcon Letters
Timothy Donovon
Deceased
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Lancaster County, ss. 
I, GEORGE ROSS, Esquire, Register for the Probate of Wills and granting Letters of Administration , in and for the County of Lancaster , in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,
 To Sarah Donevon of Rapho Township in the County of Lancaster Widow 
GREETING: 
WHEREAS Timothy Donevon late of Rapho Township aforesaid lately died intestate (as is affirmed) having while he lived, and at the time of his decease, divers goods and chattels, rights and credits within the said county, by means whereof, the full disposition and power of granting letters of administration thereof, is manifestly known to belong to me: I, therefore, desiring that the goods and chattels, rights and credits, which were of the said deceased, may be well and truly administered, converted and disposed of, according to law: Do hereby grant unto you the said Sarah Donevon - (in whose fidelity in this behalf I very much confide) full power, by the tenor of these presents, to administer the goods and chattels, rights and credits, which were of the said deceased, within the said county; as also to ask, collect, levy, recover and receive the credits whatsoever of the said deceased, which at the time of his death were owing, or did any way belong to him and to pay the debts in which the said deceased stood obliged, so far forth as the said goods and chattels, rights and credits will extend, according to the rate and order of law, especially of well and truly administering the goods and chattels, rights and credits, which were of the said deceased, and making a true and perfect inventory and conscionable appraisement thereof, and exhibiting the fame in the Register's Office, at Lancaster, on or before the twelfth day of March next ensuing: And also a true and just account, calculation and reckoning of your administration upon your solemn oath or affirmation, to render at or before the twelfth day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and Seven AND I DO by these presents, ordain, constitute and depute the said Sarah Donevon administratrix of all and singular the goods and chattels, rights and credits, which were of the said deceased, within the limits aforesaid, saving, harmless, and for ever indemnifying me, and all other officers, against all persons, by reason of your administration aforesaid, and saving all others, their rights, &c. 
IN TESTIMONY Whereof, I have caused the seal of the said office to be hereunto affixed. Dated at Lancaster aforesaid, the Twelfth day of February in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and Six
George Ross Reporter
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No 56 Timothy Donevon  
private 
Penna 
Issued Warrant No 260 - & Del. to Mr. Pleasanton
29 May 1806 Columbia, Pa. Feby 15th 1806
Good
Warrant prepared but not recd.- 
Free
[unreadable]
Honble John Whitehill
20 Feby 1806
Claim for Land
Minn Donevan
Honble John Mitchell
Member of the House of Representatives of the United States 
City of Washington
m: Donovan 20 Feby 1806 Claim for lands 6 mbia P. Feby 15th 1806 Honge John Whitehill
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Columbia Feby 15th 1806 
Dear Sir
I have taken the liberty of troubeling you with a piece of business for a poor Widow whose husband served in the Continental Army all the war from 1775 to 1803, he was discharged at the expiration in Phil, from the 1st Regt in which I served and landed in the city of Phila from Charleston in June 1783   He served his time previous to his enlistment at this ferry with Jno Wright of York County, I enclose her letters of Administration, & Power of Atty to me, I will thank to endeavour to procure the land to which she is entitled, he drew his donation Land from the State I believe I got it for him, but he sold to Jos Jefferies in whose employ he was at the ferry for a little Whiskie in he has been dead these many years say 19 or 20 to my knowledge, Mr Stephen Pleasanton to present my best respect will assist you in the business as he knows all about if you procure a Warrant please to have it located in some good situation and forward the Patent to me, and I shall send it to her she lives in Manheim at present – I seen Mr Jn Hopkins at the Court on wednesday your Daughter Mary was still about when he left home her Mother is with her, Amalia presented us with a New Years Gift in the Morning early of Son who is likely to do well she & myself Join in our best respects to Mr & Mrs Pleasonton, please drop on a line in answer 
I am your Obt Svt 
Thos Bonde
Jno Whitehill Esqr
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W.
Know all Men by these presents, That I Sarah Donovan of Manheim, in the Township of Raphoe in the County of Lancaster and State of Pennsylvania, Widow and Administratrix, of Timothy Donevan deceased, who was a private Soldier during the late revolutionary War, in the first Pennsylvania Regiment commanded by Lt. Colonel Josiah Harman, do make, constitute and appoint Thomas Bonde, Esqr of the Town of Columbia, in the Township of Hempfield in the County of Lancaster aforesaid, my true and lawful Attorney, for me and in my name and for my use to ask demand, and by all lawful ways and means to obtain from the persons duly authorized a patent or patents for the one hundred acres of Land, which my said deceased husband Timothy Donovan is entitled to for the Services rendered by him to the United States by virtue of any act of the said United States or under the authority of the said State of Pennsylvania, with powers also an attorney or Attornies under him for that purpose to make and substitute and to do all lawful acts requisite for effecting the premises, hereby ratifying & Confirming all that my said Attorney or his shall lawfully do, by virtue hereof: 
Witness my hand seal the 12th day of February 1806 
The mark of
Sara Donevan [seal]
Sealed & Delivered in the presence of 
Cas. Shaffner as Shaffner Junr 
Lancaster County SS}  Before me the Subscriber one of the associate Judges of the Court of Common pleas in & for said County of Lancaster personally appeared the above named Sarah Donevan and acknowledged the above letter of Attorney to be her act and deed, and should that the same may be recorded as such according to Law to and for the uses and purposes therein mentioned, Witness my hand & seal the 12th day of February 1806 
Frederick Kuhn [seal]