Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B.L.Wt. 2260-300, John Ducoin, Ga.
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(3-1776)

SERVICE | | NUMBER
Ga. | Ducoin, John | B.L. Wt. 2260-300.

CONTENTS
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John Ducoin
No. 2260.
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Know all men by these pursuits that I Amelia Fichelin (widdow 
of Beaufort District and State of South Carolina do hereby constitute
and appoint Thomas J Northup of Washington City my true and
Lawfull attorney with powers of substitution for me and in my name
to ask demand and receive from the Secretary of war of the United States
a warrant for the Bounty land Due me in right of the services of
my late father John Ducoin as a Captain of the Georgia line of the
army of the Revolution and to deposite the said warrant when
so received with the Commissioner of the General Land office
at Washington City and to ask [illegible] reissue and receipt for
the Certificates or land [illegible] due therein and to assign
transfer and make sale thereof - and my said attorney is hereby authorised and empowered to do and perform
all manner of things necessary to be done touching the same
which I myself might do were I personally present-
Witness my hand and seal this Thirteenth day of April 1839

Witnesses

A. E. Davant
Wm. Youmans Jr.   
                  
A M Ficklin [hand  drawn                                        seal initials JP]


State of South Carolina ⎬ 
Beaufort District 

Personally appeared before me the Subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said District
                                         
Amelia Ficklin (widdow ) Signed and sealer to the foregoing
power of attorney and a person well known to me and 
acknowledged the same to be her voluntary act and deed for the
purposes above named, Also being duly sworn according to
Law saith that to the best of her knowledge and belief her late
father John Ducoin was a captain of the Georgia line of
the Army of the Revolution and served as such to the close
of the war or as long as his services were wanted. That she 
has never received a warrant from the United States for
the County land due in right of his said services neither
does she believe that her late father ever received it as
assigned his right to the same in any manner whatever
Sworn subscribed and acknowledged before me this
thirteenth day of April 1839

Wm. Youmans Jr     [hand drawn seal with initials J.P.]
State of South Carolina
J.B. Joyner Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for the
District of Beaufort do hereby certify that William Youman, Jr
is a Justice of the peace in & for the District & State aforesaid
& that the signature above, purporting to be his is correct ┃

Given under my
hand & Seal of the             JB Joyner
Court

[Large illegible seal left corner]
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State of South Carolina
I, Baylies J. Earle one of the Presiding
Judges of the Court of Common pleas for
Beaufort District State aforesaid Do hereby certify that James B trainer is a clerk of the Court 
of Common Pleas for Beaufort District, and that due faith & credit ought to be be given to his
Attestations as such
April 20th 1839
Coosawhatchie
Bft District So C’a

B. J. Earle

Mrs. Fickling;s papers
for Bounty Land
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Substitute Power
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Know all men by these presents I Thomas D. Northrup of
Washington City D.C. by virtue of the power of substitution
vested in me by Amelia M. Fickling (Widdow) of Beaufort
District and State of South Carolina in a certain power
of Attorney executed by her on the thirteenth of April 1839
to obtain from the Secretary of War of the United States
a Warrant for the County land due her from the said United States
in right of the services of her late Father John
Ducoin as a Captain of the Georgia Line of the Army
of the Revolution. Do hereby constitute and appoint
my Brother H. L. Northup my true and Lawfull Substitute
with authority to do and perform all things which I
myself might do touching the same
Witness my Hand and seal this first day of June 1839
H. J. Northrup
Signed Sealed and Acknowledged
before me one of the Justices of the
Peace in and for Washington County
District of Columbia June 1st 1839-
Gilbert L. Giberson Justice of the Peace
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William Gordon Esquire
Chief clerk in the section of Bounty lands
War office
Washington City
 R'd June 17 1839
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Columbia South Carolina 12th of June 1839
Dear Sir
On the 1st of April last I wrote in the presence of Mrs Amelia
Fickling and in her room her power of attorney Declaration etc. 
as the Daughter and only heir at law of Captain John Ducoin a Captain of the Georgia line of the army of the Revolution. She gave me her name herself . Like the heirship proven in Savannah was by
an old lady her courier about 70 years of age. And I now enclose
you a formal certificate of heirship from the Court of Ordinary
of Beaufort District the district in which the heirs. I also enclose
T.L. Davant is a distinguished Lawyer of that District. his mother the
witness in this case is the half sister of Mrs Fickling by the same
mother being about ten years older than Mrs. Fickling. all
the evidence given shows Amelia Fickling widdow of Coosawhatchie to be the daughter and only heir of John Ducoin a Captain of the
Georgia line and as before said the power was written in her house
and in her presence and upon her giving her name to me- yet
my son writes me that there is to her signature a double name
to wit the latter, [illegible], or H and that you made this an objection.
If such is the case as to the signature I know not as the papers are
left with her for execution and she has corroborated the evidence by
her own affidavit. Surely this should reconcile all difficulties as 
an examination of all the papers will clearly and unequivocally
point to the same individual and the part of her being the only
Heir. and further her own affidavit. It is surely hard that if she
has or has adopted a double name adopted otherwise which her friends may not know of- have not heard of for you surely will admit
that a party may have double name adopted or otherwise which his
friends may know not of. I therefore pray you to again examine
this case and issue the warrant which I surely think taking all
the circumstances into consideration you will do even should you
issue it with her “alias”, and truly oblige sir yours Respectfully
Henry Northrup
P.S. I leave here at the same time
with this and the same mail will take me to
Charlestown- I have written my son H.L.
the other Thomas L. Living now in Ohio and
I have advised him that this is forwarded
Direct to you.
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Coosawhatchie
Single
7th June 

18 3/4
Henry Northrup Esquire
Columbia
South Carolina
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South Carolina
Beaufort District ⎬ At a Court of Ordinary held in and for said
District, on the 7th day of June 1839, it was proven in said Court,
to the satisfaction of the said Court, (on Motion of R.J. Davant
Esquire) that Mrs. Amelia Fickling, widow of said District,
is the daughter and only heir at Law of John Ducoin late
of Savannah in the State of Georgia, deceased, who was known
and reputed to have been a Captain of the Georgia line of
the Army of the Revolution and ordered to be certified accordingly-
I Robert G. Norton, Judge of the Court of
Ordinary, in and for said District, do hereby certify
the foregoing to be a true copy from
the records in this office (there being no Clerk.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set
my Hand and affixed the seal of the said
Court at Coosawhatchie on this 7th day of
June AD. One Thousand Eight Hundred
and Thirty-nine.
Robert G. Norton
Judge of the Court of Ordinary
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Henry Northrup Esquire
Dr Sir: your several letters to R.J. Davant Esquire
were put into my hands, with the request that I would this day
specially attend to the matter, through the medium of his mothers
testimony (at a few miles distance from the Court House), and the
required certificate I now forward you, (as directed, at Columbia,)
as the result of said proceedings of the Court
The amount promised by you to be remitted to Mr. Davant ($10)
he request you will inclose to me, on receipt of this.
Very respectfully yours &c
Robert G. Norton
Coosawhatchie
7th June 1839
Clerk