Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 20343, Hezekiah Collins, Va.
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SERVICE
Va.

Collins, Hezekiah

NUMBER
R. 20343.
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Rejected
_____________Ex'r. OLD WAR.
File No. 20343

(Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873 were crossed out)

Hezekiah Collins
Pri [Private]
Col. Campbell
Va Line
Revy War
Died at __________BLANK

REJECTED
___________other claim.
_____, 187 ._________Clerk.
Application filed:_________,18  .
Attorney:________________
P.O.______________

SIDEWAYS SCRIPT:
Not allowed Act 1828
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Hezekiah Collins







See letter of the 30th Jul
1839? to M. Selden, Esq.
Richmond -
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Rev'd 18 June 1832
Know all men by these presents that I Hezekiah Collins of Union township in the Co. of Madison & State of Ohio do hereby constitute & appoint Ezekiel F. Eastman of Main Point Creek Fayette Co. Ohio my true & careful Attorney with power of substitution for me & in my name to receive from the United States the amount of pay now due to me under the Act entitled "An Act for the relief of certain surviving officers & soldiers of the Revolution" approved May 15, 1828 as a private in the record reg [regiment] of the Va. [Virginia] line of the army of the Revolution - Witness my hand & seal this 16th day of January 1832-
[signed] Hezekiah Collins "his X mark"

Before me, a Justice of the Peace in the County of Clark & state of Ohio personally appeared this day Hezekiah Collins whose name is subscribed to the foregoing power of attorney & acknowledged the same to be his act & deed & also declared that the same was not given by reason of any transfer or of any attachment levy or seizure by any legal (illegible) whatever of the pay therein authorized to be received but that the said pay is intended to (illegible) wholly to his personal benefit 
Witness my hand this 16th day of January 1832 -
[signed] Robert Turner, Esq. J. Peace
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Before me Robert Turner, a Justice of the Peace in & for the County of Clark & state of Ohio personally appeared this day Ezekiel F. Eastman the attorney named in the foregoing power of attorney & made oath that the same was not given to him by reason of any transfer or of any attachment levy or (illegible) by any legal proposal whatever of the pay therein authorized to be received but that the said pay is intended to (illegible) wholly to the personal benefit of the person by whom the said power was executed -
Witness my hand this 16th day of January, 1832-
[signed] Robert Turner Esq.
J. Peace

The State of Ohio}
Clark County} Ss.
I Saul Henkle Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Clark aforesaid do certify that Robert Turner Esq whose signature is attached to the foregoing acknowledgment of power of attorney and affidavit, was at the date of the same an acting Justice of the Peace duly commissioned and sworn and to whose official as such full faith and credit are due - as well in Courts of Justice as thereout.
I testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said Court at Springfield this 17th day of January A.D. 1832.
[signed] Saul Henkle Clerk
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2047
For the purpose of obtaining the benefits of "An act for the relief of certain surviving Officers & Soldiers of the army of the Revolution" approved on the 15th of May 1828.  I Hezekiah Collins of Union Township in the County of Madison State of Ohio do hereby declare that I was a private soldier in the Continental line of the Army of the revolution & served as such to the and of the war at which period I was a private of the second reg. of the Virginia line. That I enlisted  from Albemarle Co. Virginia in the year 1777 as near as I can recotect [recollect] under a recruiting office by the name of Dewit for the term of during the war & joined the fourth reg. commanded I think by Col. Cambell.  That at the close of the war I was discharged by Gen. Green in South Carolina I think at or near Camden
Witness my hand & seal this 18th day of January 1832
Hezekiah Collins X his mark

State of Ohio Clark County} ss
Before me a Justice of the Peace in & for the County afforesaid Hezekiah Collins who has signed the above declaration in my presence and made oath of the truth of the same & also Asoph Dunn known to me to be a man of truth & on oath testified that he has long known Hezekiah Collins above named & has always believed that he did perform the service above stated
[signed] Robert Turner Esq    J. Peace
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Revolutionary Claims.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
18 Sept. 1832
Hezekiah Collins of [blank] in the county of Madison in the State of Ohio has applied to the Secretary of the Treasury for the benefits of the act, entitled "An act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Revolution," approved the 15th of May, 1828. He states that he enlisted under an officer by the name of Dewitt in the Continental line of the army of the Revolution, for and during the war, and continued until its termination, at which period he was a Private in captain [blank]'s company, in the fourth Col. Campbell's regiment of the Virginia line; and that he received a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars, provided by the resolve of the 15th of May, 1778; and further, that he was not on the 15th day of May, 1828, on the pension list of the United States, and that he has received as a pensioner since the 3d of March, 1826, nothing

The Third Auditor is requested to report how far the several statements are corroborated by the
records in his office.
By Order of the Secretary.
[signed] Francis A Dickins

Exd. Rej.
No Record
D[?]S
Nov 4/80

TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
THIRD AUDITOR'S OFFICE,
19th Sept 1832
It further appears that Hezekiah Collins is not now on the pension list of any agency, and has not been so since the 3 March 1826
The name of Hezekiah Collins cannot be found among those of the Virginia line, to whom certificates for the gratuity of Eighty Dollars were issued
[signed] Peter Hagner  Aud
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Dept of War, Bounty Land Office
Septemr 21st 1831
The name of Hezekiah Collins is not returned on the Records of the Virginia line on file in this office among those entitled to bounty lands from the U. States nor has a Land Warrant ever issued in his name
[signed] Wm Gordon

General Land off.
21st Sept 1832
The name of Hezekiah Collins does not appear on the list of Warrants issued by the Register of the Land Office at Richmond Va. so far as they have been read
[signed] Frederick Keller Clerk

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