Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B. L. Wt. 1237-200, John Van Pelt, Penn.
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SERVICE                                            NUMBER

Penn.           VanPelt, John      B.L.Wt. 1237-200
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Warrant No. 1237 issued to John & Joseph VanPelt & said heirs - of (illegible) John VanPelt of the Pennsylvania Line for 200 acres of land March 31st,1827 and delivered to Jos. Watson.
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The presented form of heirship must be compiled with .
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No. 1237


Feb. 28th, 1827.
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State of Pennsylvania
County of Montgomery} ss.

    We William Vaughen & Ann his wife formerly Ann Van Pelt the said Ann being one of the heirs at law of John VanPelt late of the county of Montgomery deceased do testify and declare that to the best of our knowledge and belief the said John VanPelt was a lieutenant in the 13th Regiment of the Pennsylvania line in the Continental Army of the Revolutionary War and served as such to the close of the war - Also we do further testify and declare that we have never received a warrant from the U. States for the quantity of land due the said deceased from the U. States nor do we believe that he ever received it or transferred his right to it in any manner during his lifetime.  
    Therefore know all men by these presents that we William Vaughen & Ann his wife - as aforesaid do hereby constitute and appoint Col. Joseph Watson of Washington to be our true and lawful attorney (illegible) to demand and receive from the Secretary of War of the U. States a warrant for the quantity of land due us in right of said deceased.
    And our said attorney is hereby fully authorized and empowered to constitute and appoint one of more substitutes as attorneys under him for the special purposes therein empowered & the same to work at will.
    In witness whereof we are hereunto not our (illegible) was this twenty first day of February 1827.
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                                   William Vaughan
                                   Anne Vaughan
Witness
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Wm. Powel
Jno. Boyer

    Personally appeared before we the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said county the above named Wm. Vaughan & Ann his wife, signed said sealed to the foregoing declaration and power of attorney and acknowledged & the same to be their voluntary act and deed for the purposes therein named.   Sworn and subscribed and acknowledged before me this twenty first day of February 1827. In testimony whose of I have hereunto set my hand and seal of the said twenty first day of February AD 1827.
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                                                 Jno, Boyer
State of Penna,
County of Montgomery} ss.

    I Thomas Lowery Prothonotary of the court of common pleas in and for the county of Montgomery in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania do hereby certify that John Boyer Esquire before whom the foregoing declaration as power of attorney appear to have been taken and acknowledged was at the time of (next Page)
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taking the same one of the Justices of the Peace and foresaid county duly commissioned and qualified as such, and that to all of his official acts as such, due faith and credit should be given.

    In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office at Norristown this twenty second day of February 1827.

                                        //s//
                                 Lowry  Prot.

State of Pennsylvania
County of Montgomery} ss.

    Be it remembered that on this day, the twenty second day of February Anno Domini 1827, there has been adduced to me satisfactory evidence to prove that Ann Vaughn who has made the forgoing declaration on oath and has subscribed the power of attorney herewith connected, is a daughter and one of the heirs of John VanPelt late a Lieutenant as the Continental Army of the Revolutionary War and that the other heirs of the said John VanPelt are six in number, to wit:  Ann inter married with William Vaughen, Elizabeth intermarried with Charles McGlathery, the before mentioned residing in the county of Montgomery aforesaid John VanPelt & Joseph VanPelt both of Heighland County in the State of Ohio, Mary intermarried with Jonathan Pownel & Catharine both of the State of Virginia.
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2313 Madison Ave.
Toledo, O.

Comm. Of Pensions.
Wash, D.C.

Dear Sir, 

   Should you kindly send me a record of Mr. Van Pelt family.
    My great grand father was Isaac Van Pelt. We (next page)
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land at the time of his death in Wrightstown, Bucks Co. Penna. (April) 1811 (illegible) back then that I do not know about his family - but "they say" that his father was Lient. John Van Pelt of Revolutionary times. I wish to join the D.R.s. and must have records - and have (next page)

(Date stamp)
PENSION
     JUL
 U.  22  S.
     1912
    OFFICE
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have informed that they would be sent me from your office.

                                  Resp.
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                        Hames (Van Pelt) Barnes
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Rev. War Section.
No. 1237

July 23, 1912.

Mrs, Jane Van Pelt Barnes,
2313 Madison Avenue,
Toledo, Ohio.

Madam:

   In reply to your undated letter received the 22nd instant, you are advised that from the papers on file in this Bureau, it appears that John Van Pelt of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, was a Lieutenant in the 13th Regiment of the Pennsylvania Line, and served as such to the close of the Revolutionary War.  The date of his death is not shown,
    On February 21, 1827, his daughter Anna of Ann Vaughen, wife of William Vaughen, applied for the bounty land due on account of her father's services, and the same was allowed on Warrant # 1237, for two hundred acres of land issued March 31, 1827, to his heirs; viz. Anna of Ann Vaughen and Elizabeth who married Charles McGlathery, both residing in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania; Mary who married Jonathan Pownel, and Catharine Van Pelt, both of Virginia; and John and Joseph of Highland County, Ohio.
    There is no other family data on file.
    You are further advised that the revolutionary War records of this Bureau fail to afford any information in regard to Issac Van Pelt described by you.

                                    Very Respectfully,
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                                     J.L. Davenport
                                      Commissioner.