Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B.L.Wt. 1907-300, John Cowell, Penn.
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(3-1776)
SERVICE
Penn

Cowell, John

NUMBER
B.L. Wt. 1907 -300

CONTENTS
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Know all men by these presents that John V. Cowell of the City of Philadelphia Merchant and Thomas Mitchell of the said City Conveyancer and Maria M. his wife (the said John and Maria M. being the only issue of Doctor John Cowell formerly Surgeons mate in the Pennsylvania line, and of Mary his wife both deceased) do hereby appoint James R. M. Bryant of the City of Washington Esquire, their true and lawful attorney for them and in their respective names and for their use to demand and receive from the Secretary at War of the United States a warrant for the quantity of Land due to them as the legal representatives of the said John Cowell deceased and surrender the same at the General Land Office and to receive the Scrip therefor and also for them the said Constituents and in their names to sell and dispose of the said Scrip for the best price that he can reasonably obtain therefor and to sign and execute all such assignments, transfers, Receipts and other papers that may be necessary to carry this power into effect as fully as they the said Constituents could do if personally present and acting therein hereby confirming all and whatsoever their said Attorney shall do in
the premises by virtue hereof. 

In Witness whereof the said John V. Cowell
and Thomas Mitchell and Maria M. his wife have hereunto set their respective hands and seals this twenty sixth day of Dec.-
one thousand eight hundred and thirty two 1832. 

Sealed and Delivered
in the presence of us
G Bartram [signature]
Jno: C. Mitchell [signature]

Jno V Cowell [signature]
T. Mitchell [signature]
Maria M Mitchell [signature]
seal
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The 26th day of December AD 183[2] Before me the subscriber, an Alderman of City of Philad. Came the within named John V. Cowell and Thomas Mitchell and Maria M his wife and
severally acknowledged the within written Power of Attorney to be their and each of their act and Deed and desired the same may be recorded as such - 

The said Maria M. being of full age and by me examined seperate and apart from her husband declared that she executed the said Power of Attorney voluntarily and of her own free will and accord without any coercion
or compulsion of her said husband or any undue influence whatever and the full contents thereof by me first made known to her. 

Witness my hand
and seal the day and year aforesaid -
G Bartram [signature]  seal
[illegible]

[written sideways on right margin]
Recd. Dec 29. 1832
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Pennsylvania
City of Philad Ss

Before me the subscriber and Alderman of and for the City of Philadelphia personally appeared John V. Cowell and Thomas Mitchell
of said City who being severally affirmed according to Law depose and say that Doctor John Cowell formerly Surgeons mate in the
Pennsylvania Line died having first made and published his last will and Testament in writing
dated the twenty eighth day of January Anno Domini One thousand seven hundred and
eighty nine duly proved and remaining in the Surrogates Office at Trenton in the County of Hunterdon and State of New Jersey wherein and whereby he gave and devised all his Estate to his wife Mary Cowell to his son the said John V. Cowell (by the name of John Cowell) and to his daughter Mary, afterwards called Maria M.
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Cowell their Heirs and assigns forever
That the said Maria M. Cowell
intermarried with and is now the
wife of the said Thomas Mitchell
and that the said Mary Cowell
the widow lately died Intestate
leaving issue only the said John
V. Cowell and Maria M. Mitchell

Affirmed & Subscribed
before me the fourth day of December A.D. 
Eighteen hundred and thirty two. -
G Bartram [signature]
ardn.

check mark 

Jno V. Cowell [signature]
T. Mitchell [signature]

City of Philad Ss
Before me the subscriber an Alderman of and for the City of Philadelphia personally came Mis Jane Hall, a disinterested witness
who being affirmed according to Law deposes and says that she is well acquainted with the
above named John V. Cowell and Maria M. Mitchell and that they are the reputed children and only
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only Issue of Doctor John Cowell and of Mary Cowell his widow both deceased.

Affirmed and Subscribed before me this Thirtieth day of November A.D. 1832.
G Bartram [signature] ald
Jane Hall [signature]

City of Philad Ss
Before me the Subscriber an Alderman of and for the City of Philadelphia personally came
Thomas Cash a disinterested witness who being duly affirmed according to Law deposes and says that he is well acquainted with the above named John V. Cowell and Maria
M. Mitchell and that they are the reputed children and only issue of Doct. John Cowell and of Mary Cowell his widow both deceased.

Aff. & Subscribed
before me this 1st day of Dec
A.D. 1832
G Bartram [signature] 
ald
Thomas Cash [signature]
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I John R Vogdes   Esquire
Clerk of the Mayor, Court of the
Philadelphia do hereby Certify that George Bartram Esquire before whom the aforegoing
depositions were taken was at the time an Alderman of and for the said City. 

Given under my hand
and Seal of Office this
Fourth day of December
A.D. Eighteen hundred
and thirty two - 1832.-
John R Vogdes [signature]
Clerk

State of Pennsylvania
City of Philadelphia Lct

To all whom it may concern
I John R. Vogdes, Clerk of the "Mayor's Court
for the City of Philadelphia" do hereby certify that G. Bartram before whom the foregoing Depositions were taken, and whose proper and genuine signature is subscribed to the same, now is, and at the time of subscribing his name thereto, was an Alderman of the said City, duly commissioned and authorized to do and perform all and singular the acts and things incident to the office of an Alderman, and to all whose acts as such, due faith and credit ought to be given-

In Witness whereof I have hereunto
set my hand, and affixed the seal of
the said Court at the said City of Philadelphia this fourth day of December
Anno Domini One Thousand Eight
Hundred and Thirty Two 1832 -
John R. Vodges [signature]
seal
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BY HIS EXCELLENCY
William Livingston Esquire
Governor, Captain-General and Commander in Chief in and over the State of New-Jersey,
and Territories thereunto belonging, Chancellor and Ordinary in the same.

To all to whom these Presents shall come, GREETING:
KNOW Ye that at Trenton on the day of the date hereof the Last Will and Testament of John Cowell late of the County of Hunterdon
Deceased was proved before Richd Throckmorton Esqr [illegible], who was thereunto duly authorized
and appointed for that purpose, and is now approved and allowed of by me; he the said Deceased, having while he lived, and at the Time of his Death, Goods, Chattels, Rights and Credits, in divers Places within this State,
by Means whereof the full Disposition of all and singular the Goods, Chattels, Rights and Credits, of the said Deceased, and the granting Administration of them, unto me are manifestly known to belong: And the Administration
of all and singular the Goods, Rights and Credits, of the said Deceased, and his Last Will and Testament in any Manner of Way concerning was granted unto Mary Cowell______sole Executrix
in the said Testament named chiefly of well and truly performing the said Will, and of making a true and perfect Inventory of all and singular the Goods, Rights and Credits, of the said Deceased, and exhibiting the same into the Registry of the Prerogative Court in the Secretary's Office of New Jersey
and of rendering a just and true Account, when thereunto lawfully required. She being duly sworn for that purpose.

IN TESTIMONY whereof I have caused the Prerogative Seal of the said State to be hereunto affixed, at Burlington the 9th day of
February in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty nine 1789.

Wil. Livingston [signature]
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In the name of God amen
I John Cowell being sick and weak in body
but of sound and Disposing mind and
Memory thanks be to God, But
Calling to mind the mortality of the Body and that is appointed for all men once to Die do make ordain and Constitute this my last will and Testament in manner and form following that is to say I Commend my Soul into the hands of Almighty God who Gave it to me and my Body. I Commit to the Dust in Certain hope
I shall receive it again in the General
Resurrection and as for such worldly Goods
as it hath pleased Almighty God to
bestow upon me I will and Dispose of in
the following manner. [illegible]

It is my will that my Funeral Charges and Just Debts be first paid. Item I Give and Bequeath to my well beloved wife Mary Cowell, and my
beloved son John Cowell and my beloved
Daughter Mary Cowell and to their Heirs
and assigns forever all my Estate both
Real and Personal to be Equally divided
Between them share and share alike after
my funeral Charges and Just Debts are paid.
Then it is my will that my beloved wife Mary
Cowell shall have the Education & bring
up
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up of my Children John and Mary and it is
further my will that she have for her Trouble
and Expences of the same, the Interest of each
of their parts and shares of my Estate until
until they come of age at which time they
are to have their & each of their shares paid
them by my Executrix herein after named
whom I hereby authorise and Impower to
Sell and Convey my Real Estate at her
Discretion and to Execute a Good & Sufficient
Conveyance in Law for the same.

Item I do hereby Constitute and appoint
my well beloved wife Mary Cowell to be my sole Executrix of this my last will and Testament, and I do also Constitute my friend
Alexander Chambers Junr to be an assistant Executor to my said wife Mary Cowell Ratifying
this to be my last will and Testament and
no other.

John Cowell [signature] seal

Signed Sealed published and Declared to be
my last will and Testament this 28 day of
January in the year of our Lord one Thousand
Seven Hundred and Eighty Nine in the presence of Elizth. Smith, Eunice Cowell, Hannah Howell. her X mark

A true Copy from the original
Herbert McElroy Reg [signature]

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Recd. Dec 29, 1832
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John Cowell
No 1907