Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B.L.Wt. 454-100, Jacob Creviston, Penn.
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE
Penn.
Creviston, Jacob
or
Craveston
NUMBER
B.L. Wt. 454-100
Contents
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No 454.
Jacob Brewster
private
Penn Line
Wife & delieverable to
Sam Smith Wight of March
1809.
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Know all men by these presents that I Jacob Creviston of Bedford County and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for [illegible] considerations and good causes me hereunto moving do make ordain constitute and appoint my trusty friend Samuel Smith Esqr
of the County of Erie and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania my true and Lawfull attorney for me and in my name to act touching and concerning or in any ways apertaining to apply to the Secretary of Ware office of the United States for my [illegible] of
United States Military Bounty lands and Receive a warrant for
the same in my name for my services having been Inlisted for and served to the End of the Revolutionary War with Great Britan
agreeble to the acts of Congress in such case made & provided and I Do hereby Revoke all prior Power of Attorney prior to this Date &
Hereby Ratifying and allowing and confirming what Ever my said attorney shall lawfully do in and about the primies by
Virtue of this presents In testimony where of I have hereunto set my hand
and seal this forth day of Febuary 1809
Signed Seal and Delivered
In the Presence of us
John Kauff
James Martin
Jacob Creviston X his mark Seal[ circled]
Bedford County ss. Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania Personally came before me one of the Judges in and for said County the within subscribing Jacob Creviston and
acknowledged the within Power of attorney to be his act and Deed for the purpose therein mentioned and desired the same might be
Recorded as such as witness my hand and seal this fourth
Day of Febuary 1809
James Martin Seal [circled]
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Bedford County SS Personally
appeared Jacob Creviston before me
the subscribing Witness, one of the judges in and for said  County and on his solom oath or affirmation saith he is the same
Person Mentioned in the aforegoing power of Attorney and that he
Was Inlisted for and served during the Revolutionary war and to
the and thereof with Great Britian in the army of the United States In the Pennsylvania line and that he has not never received his
coto [best guess] of the United States Military Lands Sworn and Subscribed before me this fourth day of Febuary 1809
Attest
John Kuff
James Martin
Jacob Creviston X his mark
James Martin Seal [circled]
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District No 10
Damation Lands

[illegible]

Ma 1879

Jacob Brewster

Recd Jan 7th Act 1832
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District No 10
Donation Lands
200 as
No 1979
Jacob Brewstor
Recd, ofc,  7th Act 1802.


Sam [illegible]

[illegible]
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Lot No 1976
Iron
North 130
last
Lot No 1980
East 261
No 1979
200 as full
Sugar
South 130
1817
Syn
19 for
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In pursuance of an act of General Assembly
of the State of Pennsylvania passed the 24th day 
of February 1785 entitled ""An act for directing the
made of distributing the Donation Lands promised
the Troops of this Commonwealth, and by
Order of the Surveyor General with the appro
lation of the Honourable Executive Council I have
Surveyed on the 19th Day of February the above

described tract of two hundred acres and allowance
of six percent for Roads &c. No MDCCCCLXXIX Situate
in District No 10 on the West side of Alleghany
River in the County of Westmoreland
To John Lukens, Esquire S
D Watts

I certify the above to be a true Copy of the Original
Draft remaining in the Surveyor General
Office, upon, or for which a Patent issued
to Jacob Reveston about the seventh day
of October 1802. as his Donation, promised
by this Commonwealth, for his services as a
soldier in the Pennsylvania Line, during the
late Revolutionary War-
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set
my hand and the seal of said Office at
Lancaster this 13th Day of January 1808
Saml Cochran
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Bedford County ss. The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Before me John Moore Esquire one of the Asosiate Judges
in and for said County of Bedford, appeared Jacob Crevesten mentioned
in the above certificate, who being sworn according to law doth depose
and say that he was enlisted and and served as a private soldier for
and during the Revolutionary war in the army of the United States
and that he has not received any united States Military Bounty
and agreeable to the act of Congress in such case made & provid
ed for his service for & during the war with Great Britan sworn
and subscribed before me this ninth day of February 1808
John Moore
his
Jacob X Craviston
Mark
Bedford County of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Before me John Moore Esquire one of the asociate Judges
in and for the County aforesaid Moses Beeman who being
worn according to law doth depose and say that he is well
aquainted
with the aforesaid Jacob Cravestone and that he was

and served as a privit Solder in the army of the United States, for and to the end of the 
Revelutionary war with Great Britan and that he this Deponant
ed as a private solder During the same and that the above signed
Crivesten is the same person sworn & subscribed before me
ninth day of February 1808
Moses Beemer
John Moore