Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B. L. Wt. 1817-400, Benjamin Huger, S.C.
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(8-1776)
SERVICE     (Stamp of a Star)     NUMBER
S.C. Huger, Benjamin B. LWt. 1817-400
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Benjamin Huger
No. 1817
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Major Benjamin Huger









Benjamin Huger
No.1817
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Office of the House of Representatives
March 12th 1832

I certify that the following is an extract from a report of Henry Knox Secretary of War, bearing date November 23d, 1791, made to the House of Representatives - (per record, Volume 2, page 128-)
Extract - "That it appears that Benjamin Huger deceased was Major of the 5th South Carolina regiment on Continental establishment, and that he was killed in the service of the United States, while on duty before the Lines of Charleston on the 11th day of May 1779."
S. Burch
Ch: Clk of HR U States
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BOUNTY LAND
FOR REVOLUTIONARY SERVICES - CLAIM OF HEIRS
No. 1
State of South Carolina
[illegible] District

I, Francis K Huger, son and one of the heirs at law of Benjamin Huger, late of the State of South Carolina but now deceased, do upon oath, testify and declare that to the best of my knowledge and belief, the said Benjamin Huger was a major in the fifth regiment of infantry belonging to the South Carolina line, on Continental establishment during the Revolutionary War. I do further testify and declare, that I have never received a warrant from the United States for the quantity of land due the said deceased, from the United States; nor do I believe that he ever received it, or transferred his right to it in any manner during his life time.
Therefore know all men by those presents, that I, Francis K Huger, as aforesaid do hereby constitute and appoint Col. Joseph Watson my true and lawful attorney, for me, in my name, to demand and receive from the Secretary of War of the United States, for the time being a warrant for the quantity of land due in right of said deceased.  And my said attorney I do hereby fully authorize and empower to constitute and appoint, one or more substitutes or attorneys under him, for the special purpose herein expressed, and the same to revoke at will.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 25th day of January AD 1832.
Frs. K. Huger
In presence of 
Jesse P Levi

No. 2
Personally appeared before me, the subscriber, a Justice of the quorum in and for the above named County, the above named Francis K Huger, signer and sealer to the foregoing declaration and power of attorney, and made oath in due form of law to the one, and acknowledged the other, as his voluntary act and deed for the purposes therein named.
Sworn, subscribed and acknowledged before me,
this 25th day of January AD 1832
Jesse P Lewis, Q [illegible]

No. 3
State of South Carolina
Personally appeared before the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace, in and for the county aforesaid Keating Simons and  Dockr William Read. both credible and disinterested persons. who, being duly sworn, did depose and say, that they verily believe that Benjamin Huger named in the within declaration signed by Francis K Huger, served in the South Carolina line during the Revolutionary War: that they have understood that he was killed about fifty two years since, viz. on or about the eleventh day of May 1779 at Charleston within the state of South Carolina leaving a widow and that the widow and me, one of his children, named Benjamin, have since deceased, the latter without [illegible] leaving two other children, viz. Francis K. and Mary (now the widow of the late Chancellor Rutledge of South Carolina) [illegible] are reputed and only heirs at law of him, the said Benjamin Huger.
Keating Simons
William Read
Sworn and subscribed before me, this 23 day of February AD 1832
[illegible] Mitchell [illegible]
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STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA
County of 
BE IT REMEMBERED, That on this day, to wit: the Twenty eighth day of February Anno Domini, 1832, there has been adduced satisfactory proof to me, the undersigned Ordinary for Charleston District
by the deposition of Keating Simons and Dr William Read two credible witnesses,
and other explanations and information submitted, that Francis K. Huger who has made the declaration on oath, and has subscribed the power of attorney herewith connected, is a son and one of the heirs of Benjamin Huger late a Maj in the Continental army of
the Revolutionary War, and that the other heirs of the said Benjamin Huger are one in number, viz. Mary Rutledge who is a daughter of the said Benjamin and resides, or supposed to reside at Stateburgh within the State of
South Carolina and is the widow of the late Chancellor Rutledge -
James D. Mitchell
and that the above named persons are the only heirs of said Benjamin Huger known to be living. 
IN WITNESS OF ALL WHICH, I have hereunto affixed my hand and seal official, in my capacity of an ordinary this day of
Anno Domini, 18
and that the above named persons are the only heirs of the said Benjamin Huger

(NO 5. )
STATE OF South Carolina
of Distrct)
I DO HEREBY CERTIFY, That J. P. Levi Esquire, before whom the declaration, power of attorney, and deposition hereto annexed appear to have been signed and
made, was, at the time of signing and making the same, one of the Justices of the Peace, in and for the county of [illegible] aforesaid, duly commissioned and qualified as such, and to all his official acts as such, due faith and credit should and ought to be given.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office, on 26 day of January, 1832
 John P. Lewis

(No.6.)
INSTRUCTIONS.
It is only requisite that one of the heirs should sign the declaration and power of attorney.
Although in the States of Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Connecticut, and Vermont;  the Judge of Probate, in New York and New Jersey the Surrogates; in South Carolina and Georgia the
Ordinaries; in Virginia, North Carolina, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennesse and the other Western States, the Court of Record are considered as authorized to certify heirship; yet it is deemed expedient to accompany their certificates (which must be under seal, or the absence accounted for with the evidence on which
they may grant them, and hence the deposition No. 3, herewith, which is indispensable as to the States of
Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, and North Carolina, where it has been considered that no particular officer is authorized to certify heirship, yet even in these, it is advisable, to cause the certificate of heirship No. 4, to be signed by the officer charged by law, with the granting letters of administration, and receiving the proof of wills.

DIRECTIONS AS TO FILLING OUT THE BLANKS.
In the declaration, after the name in the first line, place the degree of relationship -- After regiment in the 5th line, place nations as
the case may be, the other blanks sufficiently indicate the words to be supplied.
In deposition No. 3, previous to the word widow, place the word or no, as the case may be; and in the blank which follows, place the names of all the heirs, having care after the name of each, to state, his or her degree of relationship to the deceased; the other blanks sufficiently indicate the words to be supplied. In the certificate of heirship, No. 4, after the word proof, insert the words to me, or the
holden at as the case may require; and previous to the words and one, insert the
degree of relationship of the person who signs the power of attorney. In the large blank, insert the names of all the other heirs, designating their relationship and residence; the other blanks sufficiently indicate the words to be supplied.