Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B.L. Wt. 1622-100, William Coomer, Mass.
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Service                                           Number
Mass.       Coomer, William      B.L. Wt. 1622-100
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State of Massachusetts
Plymouth County
Probate Office                     1830

I certify that satisfactory evidence was adduced to me, prove that Polly Coomer is the daughter and only heir at law in fee to William Coomer late a soldier in the 14th Regiment of the Massachusetts [illegible] commanded by Col. Gamaliel Bradford.

Given under my hand and Seal of Office, this fifteenth day of February, 1830.
Wilkes Woods [illegible]

The above form will answer for the following States: viz
Judge of Probate -
Maine
Massachusetts
New Hampshire       
Rhode Island
Connecticut
Vermont

Surrogate -
New York 
New Jersey

Ordinary -
South Carolina
Georgia
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Polly Coomer
from the Home
Joseph Richardson

Exam.



William Coomer
No. 1622
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DEPARTMENT OF WAR

Regulations for the heirs of Officers and Soldiers of the Revolutionary Army, who were slain by the enemy, or who have died since the war, and have not received land from the United States.

By an Act of Congress, of the 16th September, 1776, it is provided, that the Officers and Soldiers who engaged for, and continued to serve during the war, or until discharged by Congress, and the heirs of such Officers and Soldiers as shall be slain by the enemy, shall receive land in proportion to their rank.  
N.B. Those who engaged for three years, or for any other period than during the war, or who died of sickness, fatigue, or casualty, are not entitled to land from the United States.
The following declaration (and enclosed blank form of heirship) must be filled up and signed by the proper authorities:

State of Massachusetts
County of Plymouth
I, Polly Coomer hier at law of William Coomer do, upon oath, testify and declare, to the best of my knowledge and belief, that William Coomer did enlist in 1776, for the term of during the war, and served in the regiment No. 14 under the command of Colonel Gamaliel Bradford of the Massachusetts line; and that he continued in the service aforesaid until the close of the war.
I further declare that I have never received a warrant for the bounty land promised to William Coomer 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 me by these presents, that I, Polly Coomer aforesaid, do hereby constitute and appoint Hon. Joseph Richardson 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 quantity of 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.
Attest            Polly Coomer
Seth Spragne
Ruth Soule

Personally appered the above named Polly Coomer subscriber to theforegoing declaration, and in my presence acknowledged the power of attorney thereto subjoined to be her free act and deed, for the purposes therein mentioned.
Attest,
Seth Spragne        Justice of the Peace

In testimony that the abovewritten Seth Spragne was a magistrate authorized to administer oaths, and take acknowledgments, &c., in the State of Massachusetts at the  above date, and that his name there subscribed appears to me to be his usual signature, I have hereunto affixed the county seal, and subscribed my name and quality, at [illegible] this fifteenth day of February, 1830.

[illegible]    C. Clerk, &c. of the County of Plymouth