Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 18,077, for John Spencer, Virginia
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SERVICE          [hand drawn black star]  NUMBER
Va               Spencer, John                     R18,077
                                                             Va Half Pay
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18077

[The following printed words are crossed out:
ACT OF FEBRUARY 14, 1871
WAR OF 1812]

[3306 crossed out]

John Spencer
Lt
Va Line
Revolution

Discharged______________________, 18___
600b
["Rejected" stamp in crossed out]

Half Pay_____________Act 32

Received ___________________________, 187_
                                    ____________________                                             
                                               Attorney
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Act July 5th 1832
Claim for Commutation
___________________________
Robert W. Spencer
Son & heir at law 
of
John Spencer decd
An Ensign or Lieutenant
in Va State Line
in Rev. War
______________________________
Power of Att to as-
certain if Commutation
be done &
_______________________
Geddes

P.M. Henry
Present
[flourish]
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Know all men by these presents; that I, Robert W. Spencer, of Halifax County in the State of Virginia, Son of John Spencer, deceased, who was an officer in the revolutionary War, and who continued in service to the end of the war) do hereby constitute and appoint James Garden of Charlotte City, VA my true and lawful attorney for me and in my name and behalf, and I also authorize said Garden to employ an assistant at his own discretion to prosecute in the United States Court of Claims, and before Congress and the department of the interior, my claim for a pension, for services rendered by my deceased father , the above mentioned John Spencer in the Revolutionary War.  This power of attorney to be irrevocable for the term of five years from date.
Witness my hand and seal, this 17th day of February 1857.
Robert W. Spencer ^X his mark
Witness
E B Spencer

State of Virginia: County of Halifax to wit:
On this 17th day of February 1857, before me as Justice of the Peace in and for said County, personally came the above named Robert W. Spencer and acknowledged the foregoing power of attorney to be his act and deed.
B. R. Fleming J:P


seal
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STATE OF VIRGINIA
COUNTY OF HALIFAX

I, William S. Holt, Clerk of the County Court for the County and State aforesaid, hereby certify that Beverly R. Fleming
before whom the foregoing and annexed declaration was
made, and who has thereto subscribed his name was
at the time thereof, a Justice of the Peace
for said County and State, duly commissioned and qualified, and that his signature is genuine.

IN TERTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto subscribed
my name and affixed the seal of the said Court, this 23rd
day of March, 1857.
Wm S Holt clk