Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B. L. Wt. 196-300, John Bush, Penn.
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Service                                       Number

Penn.          Bush John          B.L.Wt. 196-300
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Contents
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Certificate of Heirship & identity of Lewis Bush & William Sharp Bush, Sons & Heirs of the Late Captain John Bush of the Pennsylvania Line : - with this receipt for this Military Bounty Land Warr't. No. 190.
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State Maryland Talbot County, to wit:

    On this twenty first day of October personally appeared before the subscriber and one of the Justices of the Peace in & for said county, Solomon Dickenson, Samuel Drew and Isaac Baudle and made oath in the Holy Evangels of Almighty God, that Captain John Bush of the third Pennsylvania Regiment in the Army of the United States, intermarried with Mary Sharp os said county and state, both now deceased, and that Lewis and William Sharp Bush are the only children of the deceased now living.

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                                         Wm. Jenkins

District of Columbia
 (Illegible) County}

    Thomas L. McKenna came before me the undersigned & made oath that he knew Lewis Bush mentioned in the foregoing who is the person now present and then present. Bearer of the foregoing given under my hand this 25th  Oct. 1871.
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                              Robert Brent
                              Mayor of (illegible)
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Maryland, Talbot County to wit:

    I hereby certify that William Jonkey Gentleman before whom the within affidavit appears to have been made and whose signature is thereto signed, was at the time of so doing and still is one of the (illegible) of Mary Candy, Justice of the Peace in and for Talbot County Esqr. duly commissioned and sworn, and that to all acts done by him as such due faith and credit are and ought to be given as well in county of Justice as thereout.


   In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of my office this 27th day of October Anno Dom. Eighteen Hundred and eleven.
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                                 J. Loockerman
                                 Talbot County Court
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District of Columbia
City of Washington

    Lieutenant John Crab came before me the undersigned & made oath that he is well acquainted with William Sharp Bush named in the certificate on the other side & he is the same person who is now present in Company with his brother Lewis Bush.  The bearer of this paper given under my hand this 25th Oct. 1871

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                      Robert Brent
                      Mayor of (Masch)
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War Office, October 25th, 1811.  We the subscribers, the legitimate and inly heirs of Captain John Bush dec'd. late Captain in the Pennsylvania Line, do acknowledge to have received a Land Warrant No. 106 dated 9th July 1789, which was originally issued in the name of said John Bush and afterward, deposited in the War Office by William Alexander.

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                                      Lewis Bush
                                      W. Bush

 The same entry as above
is made on the old Bounty Land
Book of Officers.  No further data
therein.