Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B.L. Wt. 1409-100, James Cuningham, Va.
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SERVICE
Va.
Cuningham, James
or 
Cunningham.

NUMBER
B.L. Wt. 1409-10

CONTENTS
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No 1409
Recd
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November the 25 1828 Received of
The Secretary of war of the United
States military land warrant No
1409 Infavour of James Cunningham.
Leroy Jordan
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No. 1409
In Cunning-
ham
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Va
mail to
Leroy Jordan
Va
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State of Virginia
County of Nelson
I James Cunningham aged Eighty one years
do upon oath testify and declare
that in the
year 1778 I enlisted for the term of during the
war & served in
Regiment No five under the
Command of Colonel Scott of the Virginia line
and that I continued in the servis aforesaid until
the close of the war when I was regularly discharged
from the said Regiment commanded by colonel Scott
I further declare that I have never received a warrant
for the Bounty Land promised to me on the part
of the United States; nor have I ever assigned or
Transfered my claim in any manner whatsoever:
therefore
know all men by these presents that I James
Cunningham aforesaid do hereby constitute and
appoint Leroy Jordan of Bedford County Va
of
to be my true and lawful attorney for me and in
my name to demand and have from the Secretary
of war of the United States a warrant for the
quantity of land due to me as aforesaid; and my
said attorney is hereby fully authorize and empowered
to constitute & appoint one or more attorneys under him
for the special purposes above Expressed
list
James Cunningham

[seal] Jas. Cunningham J.
Nelson County, [___]
Before me William Horsley
personally appeared the above named James
Cunningham subscriber to the foregoing declaration
and in my presence acknowledged the power of attorny
thereto subjoined to be his free act and deed in
testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand: I further
Certify that I have been acquainted with the said
James Cunningham for many years & do believe him
to be a man of strict veracity and credibility given
under my hand this 13th day of Oct 1828
Wm Horsley J P.
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State of Virginia, Nelson County, to wit:
I Spotswood Garland, Clerk of the Court of Nelson County,
in the State aforesaid, do hereby certify, that William Horsley,
who hath signed the foregoing certificate, is, and was at the
time of signing the same, an acting Justice of the Peace in
and for the said county of Nelson, duly commissioned and
qualified to the said office, according to the  Constitution and
laws of the said State; and that full faith and credit ought
to be given to all his official acts as such.

In testimony whereof I have hereto subscribed my
name and affixed the seal of my Office this
25th day of October, in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and twenty eight,
and in the fifty third year of the Common
wealth
Sp. Garland