Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B. L. Wt. 1038-100, for Patrick Tool, New Jersey
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(8-1776)

SERVICE | NUMBER
New Jersey | Tool, Patrick | B.L.Wt.1038-100

CONTENTS
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-1038-

John Condit, Assignee of Pat(rick) Tool, private, New Jersey line

Warrant iss(ued) April 22nd 1822

Hon. Lewis Condict
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p.o. 25.240

To all Persons to whom these Presents shall come.

KNOW YE, That I, Patrick Tool, late soldier in the first New Jersey [illegible] now in the County of Essex & State of New Jersey laborer in the servce of the United States of America, for and in consideration of the sum of Ten Dollars to me in hand paid, at and before the ensealing and delivery of these presents by John Condit of Newark, Esq., have sold, remised, release, quit-claimed, transfered, and assigned, and by these Presents, do fell, remise, release, quit-claim, transfer, and assign, to the said John Condit, Esq., his heirs and assigns for ever, all the right, title, interest, claim and demand, which I now have, and all right and title, interest, claim and demand, which I, my heirs, executors, or administrators, at any time hereafter may have, to all the land which I am intitled to, and to all the land which I or either of them may at any time hereafter be intitle to, from Congress of the United States for my services as a soldier in the Army of the United States of America, for during the War with Great Britain, and to every part and parcel thereof; And I the said Patrick Tool, my heirs, executors, administrators, or assigns, shall and will at any time or times hereafter, at the request, cost and charges of the said John Condit, his heirs, or assigns, do make, seal, and execute, or cause or procure to be made, done, sealed and executed, all and every such reasonable act and acts, thing and things, conveyance and conveyances assurance and assurances in the law whatsoever, for the perfect granting, conveying, remising, releasing, transferring, and assigning, all and singular the right, title, interest, claim and demand, which I, the said Patrick [crossed out: Patrick] Tool, my heirs, executors, or administrators have or may at any time hereafter have, of, in and to the land aforesaid; and of, in and to every part and parcel thereof, unto the said John Condit, Esq., his heirs and assigns, to the only proper use and behoof of the said John Condit, his heirs and assigns for ever, as by his or their counsel, learned in the law, shall be reasonably advised or devised or required: And I the said Patrick Tool do hereby appoint the said John Condit, Esq., my true and lawful Attorney, or otherwise one or more Attornies under him, irrevocably, to ask, demand, solicit, and obtain in my name, or otherwise; but for the sole use and behoof of the said John Condit, Esq., his heirs and assigns, for ever, from the War Office of the United States, a grant or grants, patent or patents, for the land aforesaid; hereby ratifying and confirming, all and whatsoever my said Attorney or his substitute or substitutes may do respecting the same. And I, the said Patrick Tool for myself, my heirs, executors and administrators, do covenant, promise and agree with the said John Condit, Esq., his heirs, executors, administrators and assigns, that I will not revoke or annul the Power of Attorney herein contained; or do any act, which shall impede the said John Condit, Esq., in soliciting or obtaining a grant of grants, patent or patents, for the land aforesaid.

IN WITNESS whereof, I have hereunto set my Hand and Seal, this Eighth [crossed out: day] day of February One Thousand [crossed out: Seven Hundred and Ninety] Eight Hundred (1800)
s/ Patrick Tool (X - his mark)

Sealed and delivered in the the presence of us.
s/ [illegible]
s/ Johnathan Miller

State of New Jersey
Essex County//

Patrick Tool, the above named soldier, residing in the Township of Newark, County of Essex and State of New Jersey, a laborer by occupation, personally appeared and acknowledged the above instrument by him subscribed, to be his true act and deed, before me, the Eighth day of February in the year of our Lord, One Thousand Eight Hundred.
s/ [illegible] Justice of the Peace
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I do moreover certify that Ebenezer Hodden  appeared before me on the Eighth day of February 1800 and made oath that he has been personally acquainted with the within named Patrick Tool for the space of Eighteen months past and with reason to believe that he is the identical soldier that he represents himself to be in the within Power of Attorney.

Given under my Hand and Seal this Eighth day of February Anno Domini 1800.
s/ Peter Parskuyl Justice of the Peace
I do moreover certify that I have been personally acquainted with the above named Ebenezer Hodden for the space of Sixteen years and that the above testimony by him given is entitled to faith and credit.

Given under my Hand and Seal this Eighth day of February Anno Domini 1800.
s/ Peter Parskuyl Justice of the Peace

I do certify that s/ Peter Parskuyl, Justice of the Peace, above named, is one of the Justices of the Peace for the County of Essex in testimony whereof I have affixed hereunto the seal of the said County.
s/ Aaron Rexy, Clerk of Essex County

I certify that the within named Patrick Tool was a soldier in the New Jersey Line given under my Hand the Seventeenth day of April 1800 in Camp at Scotch Plains.
s/ Sam Reading, late Major in the New Jersey Line
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The Hon. John C. Calhoun
Secretary of War
Washington

Essex County

Admitted
J.C.C.
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Jersey City, March 13th 1822

Sir,

The Hon(ora)ble Lewis Condict, Member Congress, will deliver to you a Power of Attorney to me from Patrick Tool, a soldier in the Revolutionary War, for his bounty Lands.

It the claim of the said Patrick Tool for bounty lands is good against the government, you are hereby petitioned and requested to deliver a land warrant for the same & to the above named Lewis Condict, Member of Congress, who I presume will receipt for the same.

I am, Sir, with great respect and esteem your obed(ient) ser(vant),
s/ Lewis Condict

The Hon(ora)ble John C. Calhoun, Secretary of War
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Pat(rick) Tool
New Jersey line
W(arran)t ipd No. 1038

It does not appear from the records of this office that a w(arran)t has ever been issued in the name of Patrick Tool of the N. Jersey line. His name is
returned as having engaged for the war, for having served to the close of it. But the assignee's name appears to be written on an erasure. Is that passable?

{the sec.] nonentity

March 19th 1822.