Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 1500, John Burroughs, [BLANK]
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(3-1776)
SERVICE
?

Burroughs, John

NUMBER 
R1500

Kentucky residence in 1839 or 1840

CONTENTS
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REJECTED
1500
P. O. 
John Burroughs
Service:
Enlisted:-
Discharged: 
Aug.
Application filed:
Alleges:
Re-enlisted:-
Attorney:-
P. O.
Recognized. 
Contract
Cert. of Dis. 
Searched for
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3 - 871.
RECORD DIVISION.
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Department of the Interior,
Briefed by FW July 6,1911
Claim No.
Certificate No.
Claimant 
Soldier John Burroughs
Service  [check mark]
Res. Kentucky
Rev. War
No [check mark] claim, State records [check mark]190__.
No claim, combination records [check mark], 190__

REMARKS:
No claim as above 
other than Rej.1500
No John Burrows, Burris
 or Burrus, as above

Chief Division
O - 8
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1832
John Burroughs
Ky
1832
No papers filed
In Ky sus - or [rgd]
Act 1832
1500
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Washington July 20, 1852
Hon J E Heath E[sq]
Com’r of Pensions
Sir
I have the honor to enclose herewith a power of attorney executed by Morgan Hudson adm. &c of John Burroughs deceased, who was an officer for a revolutionary pension, his claim filed in 1839-40, he being at that time a resident of the state of Kentucky. I would respectfully request permission to examine the papers filed by him.
 Very Respectfully
 Your ob’t serv’t
C W Bennett
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Morgan Hudson adm’r &c of &c  
John Burroughs dec’d 
to Clement W Bennett 
power of attorney 
406
Pens. office
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Know all men by these presents that I Morgan Hudson of the County of Garrad and state of Kentucky and administrator of John Burroughs dec’d of said county have constituted and appointed and do by these presents constitute and appoint Clement W Bennett of the city of 
Washington my true and lawful Attorney irrevocably and with power of substitution for me and in my place and stead as such administrator to ask and receive of and from the United States any bounty land, pensions, past or arranges of pensions, back pay, pay for property lost, money or monies that now [or] are due or to become due me as such administrator on account of services disbursements made or expenses incurred by the said John Burrows while in the service of the United States or on any other account whatsoever and in my name as such administrator to give receipts and other sufficient discharges for such bounty land, pensions past or arrearages of pensions, money or monies, expenditures or disbursements due or to become due as aforesaid and to attend and prosecute any and all business of whatsoever notice I as such administrator may have with or before any of the Departments of government or Congress and generally to do any and all acts that I might or could do where I personally present at the doing thereof here by certifying and confirming whatsoever I said attorney should do in and about the premises by virtue here of in testimony whereof I hereunto
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#8

Set my hand and seal this 14th day of February 1852.

Morgan Hudson [handwritten seal - w inside an O?]
Admin’r of the estate of Jno Burroughs dec’d

Signed sealed and delivered in the presence of 
Alan A Burton
 L B Hudson

State of Kentucky  Garrard County SS
On this 14th the day of February 1852 personally Morgan Hudson administrator of John Burroughs dec’d, appeared before me and acknowledged the foregoing power of attorney to be his act in deed for the purposes therein contained.
N Sandifer J P G C {seal}

State of Kentucky  Garrard County SS
I William B Mason Clerk of the county court in and for the county aforesaid do certify that N Sandifer Esq before whom the foregoing acknowledgment was made and who has thereto signed his name is and was at the time of signing the same an acting Justice of the Peace within and for said County duly commissioned and sworn. That his said signature is known by me to be genuine and all his official acts as such are entitled to full faith and credit and that said County court is a court of record. I further certify that said County Court
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has probate Jurisdiction and that at the March term 1850 to wit on the 11th day of March 1850 the said Morgan Hudson was duly truly appointed and qualified administrator of the said John Burroughs dec’d, a copy of which order of appointment and qualification and letters of administration follows in these words to wit.
 At a County Court begun and held from Garrard County in the state of Kentucky at the Court House in the town of Lancaster on the 11th day of March 1850 present Jarvis McKee, James H Litcher, E S Harris and Benj’n Schooler, Justices of Said Court
“Letters of administration in the estate of John Burroughs dec’d Is granted to Morgan Hudson who thereupon took the oath required by law and together with Thompson Arnold and Lynn B Hardin his Surety executed and acknowledged a bond in the penalty of $500 conditioned according to law.”
 I further certify that the foregoing copy is truly perfectly and completely copied from the record of said Court and that the same contains a full true and perfect transcript of said appointment qualification and letters of administration and as full and perfect a manner as the same of record in my office. That said Hudson has continued to act and still continues to act as such administrator and has not been removed or suspended and has resided in Garrard County ever since his said appointment.
 In testimony whereof I hereto set my hand and affix the Seal of the Garrard County Court of which I am clerk at the office in Lancaster this 14th day of February 1852.
William B Mason Clerk
Garrard County Court