Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B. L. Reg. 270805-1855, John Crawford, S. C.
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[black star above name]


S. C.

CRAWFORD, JOHN. 

B.L.Reg 270805 - 1855
Revolutionary War

[stamp/form]
Rev. War
THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
BOUNTY LAND [illegible]

ACT OF   1855 Rejected-270805,
VETERAN  John Crawford
1775

GRADE  Pr"

SERVICE Col Habersham

S. C. Mil

CAN NO. 1797     BUNDLE NO. 251

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Mar 3/55
270805} Mar 11/57

Thomas Crawford

pension

John Crawford

Capt
Col. Habersham

[illegible]

Ent

[illegible]


War 1775
[illegible]  32. 27844

J. J. Miller  [illegible]}
L G Brandebury}
Washington D.C.

let J.J. Miller  & L. G. Brandebury Apl. 3d/57,
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Thos Crawford
application


J J Miller
Present
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Georgia Wilkes County
I Thomas Crawford son & one of the legal heirs of John Crawford
late of the County of Lincoln & State aforesaid deceased, do upon oath testify & declare to the best of my knowledge & belief that John Crawford did enter the service in 1776 for the term of the war and served as a private in the Regiment
No (not known) under the command of Col Habersham of the South Carolina Militia and continued in the service aforesaid until the close
of the war.
I further declare that I have never
received a warrant for the bounty land promised to John Crawford on the part of the United States nor do I believe that he ever received it nor has any other one of his heirs received it. Nor do I believe he ever received it or transferred his claim to it in any manner whatsoever.
Therefore Know all men by these presents that I Thomas Crawford aforesaid do hereby constitute
and appoint J J Miller & L G Brandebury to be my true & lawful attornies for me and in my name to demand and receive from the
Commissioner of Pensions a warrant for the quantity of land due to me & the other heirs of John Crawford and the pension money that may be due us for his services and my said Attornies are hereby fully authorized and empowered to constitute and appoint one or more substitutes or
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of land due to me & the other heirs of said John Crawford and the Pension money that may be due us for his services and my said Attornies are
hereby fully authorized and empowered to constitute and appoint one or more substitutes or Attornies under them for the special purposes
above expressed. s/ Thomas Crawford Attest. D.G. Cotting J. C.

Personally appeared the above
named Thomas Crawford subscriber to the foregoing declaration and made oath to the same
and in my presence acknowledged the powerof Attorney thereto subjoined to be his free act and
for the purposes therein mentioned
s/ Thomas Crawford
Attest D.G. Cotting J. C.

In testimony that the above written
was a Justice of the Inferior Court within & for the County & State aforesaid authorized to
administer oaths and take acknowledgements in
the State of Georgia 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 Washington this the 12th day of June 1855
Royland Brasley Clk