Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B. L. Wt. 2,144-100, for John Kincaid, Maryland
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(3 - 1776) 

SERVICE 
Continental 

CONTENTS 
Kincaid, John 
Md. res of heirs in 1836 

NUMBER 
B. L Wt 2.144-100
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John Kincaid
N. 2144
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DEPARTMENT OF WAR. 

Regulations for the heirs of Officers and Soldiers of the Revolutionary Army, who were slain by the enemy, or who have died since the war, and have not received land from the United States. 

By an act of Congress of the 16th September, 1776, it is provided that the Officers and Soldiers who engaged for, and continued to serve during the war, or until discharged by Congress, and the heirs of such Officers and Soldiers as shall be slain by the enemy, shall receive land in proportion to their rank. 

N. B. Those who engaged for three years, or for any other period than during the war, or who died of sickness, fatigue, or casualty, are not entitled to land from the United States. 

The following declaration (and enclosed blank form of heirship) must be filled up and signed by the proper authorities: 

State of Maryland
Balt County of
We George Wm Kincaid and  Myers Cohen Kincaid, heir, at law of John Kincaid do, upon oath, testify and declare, to the best of my knowledge and belief, that John Kincaid did enter the service in 1774, for the term of____ and served as a private in the Regiment No. __ under the command of Colonel Henry Lee, of the Continental __ line; and that he continued in the service aforesaid until the Close of the war 
We further declare that we have never received a warrant for the bounty land promised to him John Kincaid on the part of the United States; nor do We believe that he ever received it, or transferred his claim to it in any manner whatsoever: therefore, 
Geo Wm Kincaid
Myers Cohen Kincaid 

Know all men by these presents, That We Geo Wm Kincaid and Myers Cohen Kincaid aforesaid, do hereby constitute and appoint the Hon Francis Thomas to be our true and lawful attorney, for us and in our name, to demand and receive from the Secretary of War of the United States, a warrant for the quantity of land due to us as aforesaid; and our said attorney is hereby fully authorized and empowered to constitute and appoint one or more substitutes or attorneys under him, for the special purposes above expressed. 

Geo Wm Kincaid
Myers C Kincaid

Attest:
Henry Brice

Personally appeared the abovenamed George Wm Kincard & Myers Cohen Kincaid subscriber to the foregoing declaration, and made oath to the same, and in my presence acknowledged the power of attorney thereto subjoined to be their free act and deed, for the purposes therein mentioned. 

Henry Brice 
Justice of the Peace

In testimony that the above written Henry Brice was a magistrate authorized to administer oaths, and take acknowledgments, &c. in the State of ____ at the above date, and that his name there subscribed appears to me to be his usual signature, I have hereunto affixed the county seal, and subscribed my name and quality, at Baltimore this twenty third day of April 1836

Thos Kell Clerk, 
C. Clerk, &c.
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The United States of America 
District of Maryland, to wit Fourth Circuit in and for the District of Maryland 

Be it remembered that on this twenty fifth day of April Eighteen Hundred and thirty six personally appears in open Court Anna Forrester aged about seventy five years, and being duly sworn, deposeth and saith that she was intimately acquainted with John Kincaid, and knows that he was a soldier of the Revolutionary War, that he was severely wound in several places in the head, and she has repeatedly felt the wounds and is convinced they were from sword cuts, that he died early in the year 1800. That he left only two children, Sons, George William Kincaid and Myers Cohen Kincaid who are his sole Heirs at law 
Also on the same day Catherine H. Alcock aged Fifty four years or thereabouts  and made oath that she was intimately acquainted with John Kincaid, and knows that he was a soldier of the Revolutionary war, attached to Lees' Legion, that he was severely wounded in the head, and that she has repeatedly felt the Cuts in his head, and
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that there was either five or seven, that she has repeatedly heard him speak of the war and that he received the wounds in Engagements with the enemy, that she likewise knew the Family, and knows that he left only two children (Sons) George William Kincaid and Myers Cohen Kincaid who are his Sole Heirs at Law. In Testimony whereof the said Deponents have hereto Subscribed their names 

Anna Forester 
C H Alcock
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The United States of America 
District of Maryland to wit 

Fourth Circuit in and for the District of Maryland 

At a Circuit Court of the United States for the fourth Circuit in and for the Maryland District Satisfactory Evidence was adduced in Court to prove that George William Kincaid, and Myers Cohen Kincaid are the only children of John Kincaid, and sole Heirs at Law in fee to the said John Kincaid, who is stated in the annexed affidavits of Anna Forrester and Catharine H Alcock, two respectable and Credible witnesses to have been late a Private in the Regiment commanded by Henry Lee of the Continental Line during the Revolutionary War.

The United States of America 

District of Maryland, to wit 

I Thomas Spicer Clerk of the Circuit Court of the United States for the fourth Circuit in and for the Maryland District, do hereby certify that the aforegoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the aforegoing affidavits- 

In Testimony whereof I hereunto subscribe my name, and affix the seal of the said Circuit Court this twenty fifth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight Hundred and thirty six 

Tho Spicer ---