Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B. L. R., for George Marshall, Pennsylvania
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Service                                           Number

Penn.            Marshall, George         B.L.R.
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State of Ohio
Brown, County ss

    I George Marshall aged about ninety years do upon oath testify & declare that about or in the year one thousand seven hundred & seventy eight enlisted or entered the service as a private for the term of "during the war" in the Second Pennsylvania Regiment under the command Col. Walter Stewart & that I continued in the service aforesaid until the end of war when I was regularly discharged from the same regiment commanded by the said Col. Stewart of the Pennsylvania line & when I was a private living at the time an invalid having for some time being confined to the hospital. My discharge I lost near fifty years ago - I further declare that I have never received a warrant for the bounty land promised from on the part of the state & the United States; nor have I ever assigned or tendered my claim in any manner whatever.  Therefore know all men by them present that I George Marshall aforesaid do hereby constitute affidavit& appoint Col. Joseph Watson of Washington City to be my true and lawful attorney for me to in my name to demand & review from the Secretary of War of the United States a warrant for the quantity of land due me as aforesaid; and said attorney is fully authorized & empowered & constituted one or substitutes or attorneys and him for the specific purpose above (??).  In witness whereof I have hereunto affixed my hands & seal this 12th day of October 1831.
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                                       Geo. Marshall

I Richard Rilen aged 70 years do upon oath declare that I have long been acquainted with George Marshall who has subscribed the above declaration presents & will know that he is the identical person he therein represents himself to be and from that I have always understood & believe he did perform the military service therein stated.

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                                 Richard  D   Rilen
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Attest  B.L. Bartman
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State of Ohio
Brown, Co.  ss

    Before me William K. Ethridge a Justice of the Peace in and for the county aforesaid personally appeared the citizen named George Marshall subscribed to the foregoing declaration & in my presents acknowledged the power of attorney then to subjoined to be his free act * d who that subscribed the above did likewise appear Richard Rilen who hath subscribed the above certificate of identity both to me well known to be men of respectability & truth & made solemn oath to the truth of the deposition by them respectively subscribed.

    Given under my hand & upon this 12th day of October 1831.                     
                                  William K. Ethridge
                                            Justice of Peace

The State of Ohio Brown county ss
   I James Firley Clerk of the court of common pleas within and for the county aforesaid do hereby that William K. Ethridge before whom the foregoing declarations were made and power of attorney was acknowledged was at that time an acting justice of the peace within and for said county and that the signature purporting to be his is genuine.

      In testimony whereof I have thereunto set my hand and affixed the seam of said court this twentieth day of October A.D. 1831,

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   James Firley Clerk B.C.O.


Res? from W. Gordon of the War Department.

George Marshall

Pa. Line