Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B. L. Wt. 2362-100, for John Nicholson, Maryland
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE
Md.
Nicholson, John
or Nickelson,
or Nichoalson
NUMBER
B.L. Wt. 2362-100
CONTENTS
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Baltim August 1st
August 1st 1845

Hon Sir
Yours of the 31st July has been received with Land Warrant No. 2362 for 100 acres of Land in favior of John Rigle grandsn and only heir at law of John Nichelson who was a soldier in the Maryland Continental line
Respectfully
you obt servt
Henry Bell
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John Nicholson
No. 2362
Mr. Henry Bell
Baltimore
Md.
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Baltim June 28th 1845

Hon Sir
I here transmit to you the Papers of in the case of John Riggle making application for the bounty Land due his Grandfather John Nickelsy he being the only heir at law in fee of the said John Nichelson who Departed this life in the year 1823
Respectfully
Your obt Svt
Henry Bell
147 Light Stret

Hon J L Edwards
Commission of Pensions
Washington City
DC
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STATE OF Maryland City of Baltimore to wit
I, John Reigle heir at law of John Nicholson do, upon oath, testify and declare, to the best of my knowledge and belief, that John Nicholson did enlist in 1776 for the term of during the war, and served in the regiment No. 4 under the command of Colonel Smallwood of the Maryland line; and that he continued in the service aforesaid until the end thereof,
I further declare, that I have never received a Warrant for the BOUNTY LAND, promised to John Nicholson 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 MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that I John Reigle aforesaid, do hereby constitute and appoint Henry Bell 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 authorised and empowered to constitute and appoint one or more substitutes or Attorneys, under him, for the special purposes above expressed.  John Reigle
Attest, this nineteenth day of June 1845 J L Maguire
Personally appeared the above named John Reigle subscriber to the foregoing declaration, and in my presence acknowledged the Power of Attorney thereby subjoined, to be his free act and deed, for the purposes therein mentioned.
Attest, this nineteenth day of June 1845. J L Maguire Justice of the Peace.
In testimony that the above written James L. Maguire was a Magistrate authorised to administer oaths, and take acknowledgments, &c., in the State of Maryland, 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 Baltimore this twentieth day of June 1845
A. W. Bradford Clerk
Balt. Coty. Cot.
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State of Maryland Anne Arundel County Sct
Be it remembered that on this first day of November Eighteen Hundred and forty four personally appeared before me One of the Justices of the Peace in and for the State and County aforesaid Ralph Basil aged about seventy seven years and made oath on the Holy Evangely of Almighty God, that he was personally acquainted with John Nicholson who was a Soldier in the Revolutionary War, and was attached to the Maryland Continental line and who was in said service with my Uncle Daniel Basil who was a fiffer [fifer] and this Deponent further States that he is personally acquainted with John Riggle who is the grand Son of the said John Nicholson and the only Surviving heir at law of the said John Nicholson that is now living.  Sworn to and subscribed to before me one of the Justices of the peace in and for the state and County aforesaid.
           his
Ralph   X  Basil
          mark

Sworn to before Wm Glover J. P.

Anne Arundel County to wit
I hereby Certify that William Glover Gentleman who appears to have taken and signed the foregoing affidavit was at the time of so doing one of the state of Marylands Justices of the peace in and for Anne Arundel County duly commissioned and Sworn.  In Testimony 

whereof I hereto set my name and affix the Seal of Anne Arundel County Court this 5" day of November 1844
Wm. S. Green Clk [illegible]

[word "seal with circle around it]
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State of Maryland Sct
Anne Arundel County Orphans Court
At an Orphans Court held for Anne Arundel County on the Twenty fourth day of June Eighteen hundred and forty five Satisfactory Evidence was adduced in said Court to prove that John Riggle is the grand son and only heir at law of John Nicholson who was attached to the fourth Maryland Regiment commanded by Col. William Smallwood in the Revolutionary War, and who departed this life in the year eighteen hundred and twenty three.
Wm Brewer
Jos N. Stockett
G Gambrell

In Testimony that the foregoing is truly taken from the minutes and proceedings of the Orphans Court of Anne Arundel County I have hereunto Set my hand and affix my seal of Office this Twenty fourth day of June in the Year Eighteen hundred and forty five.
Benja E Grant, Reg[?] Mlls Aacty