Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B.L.Wt. 1756-100, William Edwards, R.I.
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Service
R.I.

Edwards, William

Number
B.L.M. 1756-100
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To the Hon.l
John H. Eaton Esquire Secretary of War
of the United States
City of Washington

By L.d office
26th Jan 1830
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Herkimer January 20th 1830

Dear Sir, 
Enclosed I send you W.m Epharim

Edwards Main for a land wars due him and other the surviving heirs at law and in fee to William Edwards deceased late a soldier in the American Revolution army in the Rhode Island line - If he is found worthy please have the goodness to forward his warrant directed to the subscribed Herkimer [illegible] on & oblige your humble servant. 
Yours respectfully, 
Wm. B. Goff
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Wm B. Goff
Jany 26th 1830

#1756

Revolutionary
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War Dept. Bounty Land Officer
Jany 26th 1830

Sir, 
Your letter addressed to the secretary of war enclosing the application for bounty land by the hears of William Edward alleged to have been a soldier of the Rhode Island line in the Revolutionary War, is recovered and referred to this office. 
In reply I have to remark that the evidence addressed to support this claim is considered to vague and unsatisfactory to authorise it admission no proof being offered showing, acting the time William Edward entered the service, the period for which he engaged or the time of his discharge the papers are therefore herewith returned and I have to inform you that unless satisfactory evidence is furnished from disinterested sources, supplying the before  stated deficiencies the claim will be inadmissible 
Respectfully yours, 
Wm. Gordon

W.Wm. B. Goff
Herkimer 
New York
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Hermkimer July 30th 1831

Received this day your mail from P.G. Randolph acting secretary of War of the U.S. land warrant No. 1756 for Ephraim Edwards, brother and the other heirs at law of William Edwards, who was a private in the Rhode Island line for one hundred acres - which was granted at the war office the 20th July 1831
Wm. B. Goff Atty
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William Edwards
No. 1756
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STATE of New York
Otsego County
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Surrogate Office, February 15th 1830

I certify, that satisfactory evidence was adduced to me, to prove that Ephraim Edwards is a brother heirs at law in fee to William Edward late a soldier in Regiment of the Rhode Island Line commanded by Lieut Colonel Jeremiah Olney

Given under my hand and Seal of Office, this 15th day of February 1890
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The above form will answer for the following States: viz.
Maine,
Massachusetts.
New Hampshire,
Rhode Island,
Connecticut,
Vermont,
New York,
New Jersey,
South Carolina,
Georgia,
Judge of Probate.
Surrogate.
Ordinary.

Elisha Froott
Surrogate
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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 New York
County of Herkimer
and one of the legal & lawful
I, Ephraim Edwards a brother heir at law of William Edwards,
do, upon oath, testify and declare, to the best of my knowledge and belief, that William
Edwards did enlist in 1776, for the term of during the war, and served in the regiment
under the command of Colonel Jeremiah Olney
of the Rhode Island line; and that he continued in the service aforesaid until the
close of the war I further declare, that I have never received a warrant for the bounty
land promised to my brother William Edwards on the part of the United States; nor
do I believe that he ever received it, or transferred his claim to it in any manner whatsoever:
to
Therefore, KNOW all men by these presents, that I, Ephraim Edwards aforesaid, do hereby constitute and appoint William of Esquire to be my true and lawful attorney, for me and in my name to demand and receive from the Secretary of War of the United States, a warrant for the quantity of land due to me as aforesaid; and my said attorney is hereby fully authorised and empowered to constitute and appoint one or more substitutes or attorneys under him, for the special purposes above expressed, and further that my said Brother William Edwards died at the West Indies, about
years ago without any heirs of his own body begotten, Given under my hand
& seal the 12th July 1831
Sworn before me this 12th July
his Frederick Gitman Justice of the peace
Ephraim Edwards
Mark
Personally appeared the above named Ephraim Edwards subscriber to the
foregoing declaration, and in my presence acknowledged the power of attorney thereto subjoined
to be his free act and deed, for the purposes therein mentioned.
&
the peace
Frederick Getman Justice of the Peace
Frederick Gitman
In testimony that the above written Frederick Gilman was a magistrate
authorised to administer oaths, and take acknowledgments, &c. in the state of New York
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 Herkimer
this 12th day of July
1820 Abijah Beckwith
County Clerk, &c.
her Edward C. Pinney
, Clerk