Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B.L.Wt. 438-100, Jacob Herrington, Penn.
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
Penn.

[stamped star]
Herrington, Jacob

NUMBER
B.L.Wt. 438-100
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CONTENTS
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No.438

Jacob Harrington
private.

Wt. issued 27th Dec. 1808
& Del. to J Smith Esq.
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Jacob Harrington private
Nov 27.
District No. 10.
Donation lands
200 ac allowed
No. 2128
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2127.

[diagram of plot]
East 261
North 130
[sugar at top let-hand corner of sketch]
[maple at bottom left-hand corner of sketch]
West 261
South 130
[Ash at top right-hand corner of sketch]
[Sugar at bottom right-hand corner of sketch]
Lot No. 2137 [at right-hand side of sketch]
Lot No. 2109 [at left-hand side of sketch]
Lot No. 2129 [at bottom of sketch]

[inside of plot sketch]
No. 2128
S. B.F. creek [squiggle representing a creek]
200 ac allowance

In pursuance of an act of the General Assembly of  the State of Pennsylvania passed the 24th day of February 1785 entitled an act for directing the mode of distributing the Donation lands promised the troops of this commonwealth and by order of the Surveyor's General with the appropriations of the Honble [honorable] Executive council I have surveyed the 23d day of August 1785 the above described tract of two hundred acres and allowance of Sisc [illegible] for roads &c. No. MMCXXVIII situate in District No 10 on the West side of Alleghany River in the County of Westmoreland
D. Watts [signature]
to John Lukens, Esquire, S.G.

I certify the above to be a true copy of an original Draught remaining in the Surveyor General's Office, for which a patent issued to Jacob Harrington as his Donation promised by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for his services as a soldier during the late revolutionary war.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set
my hand & the seal of said office at
Lancaster this 14th day of January 1808. ~
Saml Cochran [SEAL]
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Know all men by these presents that I Jacob Herrington of of [sic] Crawford county and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for diverse considerations and good causes me hereunto moving do make ordain constitute and appoint my trusty friend Samuel Smith Esquire of Erie county and commonwealth aforesaid my true & lawful attorney for me and in my name to receive from the secretary of the war office of the United States a military Bounty Land warrant for one hundred acres of land be the same more or less in consideration of my services being inlisted [sic] and served as a private soldier for and --during and to the end of the Revolutionary War with Great Britain in the army of the United States and in the Pennsylvania line agreeable to the acts of congress in such case made & provided ~ hereby ratifying and confirming whatsoever my said attorney or or [sic] any other attorney from or under him, shall or may lawfuly [sic] do in and about the above primices [sic] by virtue of these presents ~

In testimony where of I have hereunto set my hand & seal this 4th day of April 1808 ~
Jacob Herrington [seal]

Test.
Jacob Herrington Junior
James Herrington
Crawford County } SS
Before me David Mead one of the associate judges in and for the county aforesaid in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the above signed Jacob Herrington who acknowledges the above power of attorney to Samuel Smith Esquire to be his act and deed and desired the same might be recorded as such as witness my hand & seal this Sixth day of April 1808 -----
David Mead [seal]
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Crawford County } SS
Before me David Mead-----one of the associate judges in and for the County aforesaid and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, apeared [sic] the within named Jacob Herrington who on his solemn oath doth depose and say that he was inlisted [sic] for and during the Revolutionary War with Great Britan [sic] in the army of the United States in the Pennsylvania Line, and faithfully served in the same to the end of the war in the station of a private soldier, under col. Harmour.  And that he has not received any United States military bounty land agreeable to the the [sic] acts of congress in such case made & provided sworn & subscribed this sixth day of April 1808 before me ~ Jacob Herrington 
David Mead [seal]
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Bedford County}SS -
The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

Before me John Moore Esquire one of the associate judges in & for the said County of Bedford appeared James Herrington of Crawford County who being duly sworn as the law directs doth depose and say that the above Jacob Herrington mentioned in the above certificate is the same person that was inlisted [sic] & served as a private soldier for and during the revolutionary ^ war with Great Britain and that he the said Jacob Herrington is the deponants [sic] brother & that he is now living in the county of Crawford and aplied [sic] to this deponant [sic] to make application for him that he might receive the United States Military Bounty Land agreeable to the acts of Congress in such case made & provided & that this deponant [sic] has reason to believe that the said Jacob Herrington has never received his bounty land that was granted by Congress for the use of the aforesaid & soldiers that served during & to the end of the Revolutionary war, which land appears to have been laid of for their use on the waters of the Muskingum & Scioto in the State of Ohio
Sworn & subscribed before me this Eighth - day of February 1808.
James Herrington [signature]
John Moore [signature]