Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 31491, Jeremiah Wilson, Va.
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1890
J Wilson
14 months
from 1778
$46.66
admitted
JLE
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Know all men by these presents, That I, Benjamine Wilson of Woodford County Kentucky one of the children of Jeremiah Wilson deceased late of said county, a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States on Kentucky Agency at the time of his death and who was a Soldier in the Army of the Revolution, do hereby constitute and appoint F. F. C. Triplett my true and lawful Attorney for me and in my name to prosecute against the Government of the United States, before any Department thereof, any and all claim or claims I have to arrears of pay or Pension money, under any Act or Acts, Resolution or Resolutions of the Congress of the United States, and especially the Acts 4th July, 1836, 7th July, 1838, 3d March, 1843, 17th June, 1844, 2d February, 1848 and 29th July, 1848, as well as the more ancient Acts of 18th March, 1818, 15th May, 1828, and 7th June, 1832. 

Said Attorney is moreover authorised in my name to demand at any Department of the said Government, a reconsideration of any decision hitherto or hereafter to be given, touching my interests, and to obtain from any Department or the archives thereof, any and all information or evidence of whatever character relating to or in anywise bearing upon the claim or claims we hereby seek the investigation of. 

Said Attorney is moreover authorised to do any and all things necessary to carry out the foregoing purposes, and to receive the Certificates of Pension or other character of drafts or evidences of the amounts due me and to appoint one or more Sub-Attorneys, and to confer upon him or them all the powers herein conferred upon himself hereby ratifying and confirming all that my said Attorney may do by virtue of these presents. 

Witness my hand and seal this 19th day of February 1853
Benjamine Wilson

Witnesses 
C H Barkley 

State of Kentucky Woodford County, sct. 

BE IT KNOWN, that on the 19th day of February 1853 before the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid, personally appeared Benjamine Wilson the subscriber to the foregoing Power of Attorney, and acknowledged the signing, sealing and delivering the same to be his own voluntary act and deed for the uses and purposes therein set forth. 

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF: I do hereunto subscribe my name. James Carter J.P.
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Commonwealth of Kentucky Woodford County
On this 9th day of August 1832 personally
appeared before the county court of Woodford now setting Jeremiah Wilson a resident of said county and state aforesaid aged seventy four years who being duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832. That he entered the service of the United States in the year 1778 that he was drafted in Loudoun County State of Virginia that he served under Capt. Peyton in the 3d regt commanded by Col. William Heath in Woodford's Brigade of Virginia troops that William Davis was a Lieut in the company to which he belonged. That he was marched from Prince William County Virginia to the Valley forge that he was with the army at the battle of Monmouth he [illegilble] at that time one year and was honorably discharged at the [illegible] plains by Col. Gaskin which discharge he placed in the hands of Col H Lee for the purpose of
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obtaining pay due him also pay for back rations amounting to about $50 as certified by Col Gaskin. The discharge was never returned to
him nor did he ever receive any thing for
back rations or pay. He furthermore says that
previous to and independent of the service
before mentioned he served a tour of Two
months as a substitue for Spilly Stone of
Stafford County and State of Virginia he took
said stones place at the red house in Prince William County where a part of the troops
rendezvoused his said service was rendered
in the company commanded by Capt Hedges the regiment was commanded by Col Jesse
Ewell and James Ewell Major the No. of the regiment not recollected he was marched
from the red house through Fredericktown in Maryland and from thence to Lancaster
in Pennsylvania from thence to the army
in the neighborhood of Philidelphia which
he joined about a week after the Battle of
Germantown that he served the said two months at the end of which time he
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was honorably discharged near Philadelphia
he thinks his company did not receive a written
discharge if they did he does not know what
become of his. He hereby relinquishes every
claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and he declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any agency in any state
Sworn to and subscribed the day & year aforesaid
Jeremiah Wilson
"and the said Court do hereby declare their opinion that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier, and served as he states"
Commonwealth of Kentucky Woodford County [illegible].
August County Court 1832