Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B. L. Wt. 1682-200, Daniel Dennis, Penn.
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(3-1776)

Service:  Penn.
Dennis, Daniel [stamped star above name]
Number:  B.L. Wt. 1682-200.
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CONTENTS
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Daniel Dennis
No 1682

Danl Dennis
Lt.   Penna   line
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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, 1778 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 Maryland}
City of Baltimore  } Ss

I, Maria Griffith, daughter and heir at law of the late Lieut. Daniel Dennis do, upon oath, testify and declare, to the best of my knowledge and belief, that Daniel Dennis did enlist in 1777, for the term of during the war, and served in the regiment No Ten - under the command of Colonel ____ of the Pennsylvania line; and that he continued in the service aforesaid until the end of the Revolutionary War.

I further declare, that I have never received a warrant for the bounty land promised to Daniel Dennis on the party of the United States; nor do I believe that he received it, or transferred his claim to it in any manner whatsoever: therefore,
Know all men by these presents, that I Maria Griffith aforesaid, do hereby constitute and appoint John McFadden 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,
John Moore [signature]
Maria Griffith [signature]

Personally appeared the above named Maria Griffith subscriber to the foregoing declaration, and in my presence acknowledged the power of attorney thereto subjoined to be her free act and deed, for the purpose therein mentioned.

Attest
October 11th, 1830
John Moore, Justice of the Peace

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State of Maryland Baltimore County Ss

I hereby certify that John Moore Gentleman before whom the within acknowledgement was made and who hath thereto subscribed his name was, at the time of so doing a Justice of the Peace in and for the City of Baltimore duly commissioned and sworn.

In testimony whereof I hereto set my hand and affix the Seal of Baltimore County Court this fifteenth day of October Eighteen hundred and thirty.

Wm. Gibson clk
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William Jordan Esq.  
Baltimore Oct 23. 1830

Sir

Your favor of 23 Jm - covering the Land Warrant No 1682 issued to Elizabeth Griffith only heir of Daniel Dennis, who was a Lieutenant in the Tenth Regiment Pennsylvania Line in the War of the Revolution, as also a copy of the Act of Congress of 30 May 1830 authorizing the issuing Scrip. to which you refer for instructions how to proceed to effect the exchange - I presume the following " is the instruction you refer to viz.  "The party  "surrendering the Warrant should make an "affidavit before a Justice of the Peace that he is "the heir, devisee, or last assignee as the case may be" you will have the goodness to correct me if I am wrong in this respect the scrip is to be issued to the Warranter - If this deposition and Warrant to [crossed out words] to [sic] the Genl Land Office or to the Secy of the Treasury in order to obtain the Scrip - The proofs of heirship in the case of the Virginia Land Warrant issued for the
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Services of my late brother James, I hope to obtain in a few days are they to be forwarded  to the Genl Land Office in order to obtain Scrip? Your answer to these queries will oblige.

Your obt servt
John  McFadon [signature]
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Henry (illegible)
13 March 1835

Dear Sir,
    In the year 1830 or (18)31 was received from a person in Bedford County in signing said name Frederick Waugh indicating a military land warrant for 200 acres in the name of "Maria Griffith daughter & only heir at law of David Dennis who was a lieutenant in the Pennsylvania line". (Attached) to the warrant is an affidavit taken before the late John F. Harris 17 Nov. 1830 by Mrs. Griffith in which she is mentioned as your wife-
   We have reason to suspect that Waugh is a fictitious name and that this warrant may have been improperly obtained
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you will much oblige me by letting me know if such a warrant was ever assigned by you or any person & to whom-

Very respectfully
yours
Bisell Young

Henry B. Griffith
Balt.

Direct your answer to me addressed to the Secretary of the Treasury.
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State of Maryland }
City of Baltimore   } Ss

Personally appeared before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace for said city, Maria Griffith wife of Henry B Griffith of Baltimore city aforesaid, and made oath under form of law, that she is the daughter and only heir at law of Daniel Dennis late a lieutenant in the Tenth Regiment of Pennsylvania Line, and that the said Daniel Dennis died in Baltimore in the year 1796, leaving a widow now deceased, but no children except this deponent.

Sworn to and subscribed before me this eleventh day of October 1830 ~
John Moore [signature]
Maria Griffith [signature]


Personally appeared before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace for the city of Baltimore aforesaid Rezin D. Hewitt and Mary Hopkinson, credible & disinterested witnesses and made oath under form of law, that they are acquainted with the above mentioned Maria Griffith, wife of Henry B. Griffith and that she is the reported daughter of the late Daniel Dennis who died leaving a widow, but no children, except the said Maria -  Sworn & subscribed before me this eleventh day of October 1830 ~

Rezin D Hewitt [signature]
Mary Hopkinson [signature]
John Moore [signature]
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State of Maryland Baltimore County Ss

I hereby certify that John Moore Gentleman before whom the within depositions were made and who hath thereto subscribed his name was, at the time of so doing a Justice of the Peace of the State of Maryland in and for the City of Baltimore duly commissioned and sworn and to all whose acts as such full faith and credit are and ought to be given as well in Courts of Justice as elsewhere.

In testimony whereof I hereunto subscribe my name and affix the Seal of My Office this fifteenth day of October A.D. Eighteen hundred and thirty.

Wm. Gibson clk
B.C.C.