Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B.L.Wt. 1367-100, John Brown, Continental.
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Continental
Brown, John
B. L. Wt. 1367-100

Va residence of heirs in 1828
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Leroy Jordan 
18 April 1828

James Brown 1367
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War Department
Bounty Land Office
18 April 1828

Sir,

Enclosed is a Land Warrant No 1367 issued for the heirs of Jn. Brown, the receipt of which you will please acknowledge by return of mail.

E.V.

Leroy Jordan
Chamblis Stone
Bedford 
Va
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Received from the ____ of  ___ Warrants No. 1367 issued for the heirs of Jn. Brown for one Hundred 
Leroy Jordan 
Dated at Chamblis Stone 
this 29 day of September 1828
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By L. office

13 Sept.

John Brown
No. 1367
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State of Virginia
County of Bedford

I Jennings Brown heir at law of John Brown dec'd do upon oath testify and declare to the best of my knowledge and belief that John Brown did enlist in 1777 for the term of during the war and served in Armound's Corps and that he continued in the service aforesaid until the end of the war. I further declare that I have never received a warrant for the bounty land promised to John Brown are the part of the United States, nor do I believe that he ever received it, or transferred his claims to it in any manner whatsoever. Therefore know all men by these presents what I Jennings Brown aforesaid do hereby constitute and appoint Leroy Jordan of Bedford County, to be my ___ 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 quality of ____ due to ___ 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 purpose above example.

Jennings Brown

John Chapman

Personally appeared the above names Jennings Brown, subscriber to the foregoing declaration and in my presence acknowledged the power of attorney hereto ______ to be his act and deed for the purposes herein mentioned

Chas. Whitley J.P.
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In testimony that the above named Charles Whitely was a magistrate authorised to administer oath and take acknowledgements in the state of Virginia at the above date and that his name hereto subscribed appears to be his usual signature. I have hereunto affixed the county seal and subscribed my name at liberty this 29th day of July 1828.

____ Mitchell
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Virginia ______

At a Court ________ and ___ for the County of Bedford, the 28th day of August 1828.

Satisfactory evidence was ______ in Court to prove that Jennings Brown is the brother and one of the heirs at law _____ to John Brown a soldier of Armounds Corps - a continental establishment.

I Gustavus A Winfield ________ the County Court aforesaid do certify that the above evidence is __________ in my office. In testimony  _______ I have hereunto affixed my _______ seal this 30th day of August 1828.

G.A. Winfield