Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B.L.Reg. 271470-55, for Thomas Powers, [Blank]
Page 1

Rev. War    Powers Thomas     B.L.Reg. 271470-55  



(Died in Penn.)         wife Elizabeth
Page 2

Oct. 18th
Mar 3/55

Received Apr. 17, 1854
271470 - Mar 20/54

Thomas Powers minor of Thomas Powers pri.

Capt. Ramsey
Col. - 
Battle of Trenton

Ent. Dis. Special Case
War 1775.

Special
S. Cale.
C.C.
No Papers


C. F. Foulks
Philadelphia, Pa.
Page 3

Philadelphia March 23rd, (18)57

Hon. Sir,

    The enclosed application for Bounty Land, has been overlooked and suffered to remain in my office to this date.  Mr. T. Powers the applicant, has applied to me very often in reference to it, and I have always been under the impression that it had been sent to the Pension Office.  It is impossible for me with what evidence he has at his command to make the case out any clearer.

                                Very respectfully,
                                          //s//
                                  C.T. Foulks
                                  7th below Chestnut

To Hon. Geo. Whiting
Coms. of Pensions
Page 4

Bounty Land Claim
of Thomas Powers War of the Revolution



Presented by C.T. Foulks 7th below Chestnut St. Philadelphia, Pa
Page 5

State of Pennsylvania
County of Philadelphia ss.

    On this fifteenth day of August A.D. One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, personally appeared before me and Alderman (illegible) officio a Justice of the Peace, Thomas Powers aged sixty-seven years, a resident of Philadelphia in the state of Pennsylvania who being duly sworn according to law, deposeth and say that he is the son of Thomas Powers deceased - who was a private in the Revolutionary War and served as a substitute and in the place of Ramsey in the Company commanded by Captain Ramsey and was at the Battle of Trenton.  That he enlisted for the term of, and served during the whole said war.  That the said Thomas Powers deceased, was married to Elizabeth Spencer on the seventh day of June A.D. 1784 and the issue of said marriage was Sophia Gambel, William John & Thomas Powers.  That the said Thomas Powers deceased died on the -- day of September AD 1818 at Morrisville in the state of Pennsylvania and left no wife, child or children him surviving, save the said Thomas Powers this deponent.  That in consequence of the distance of time, he is unable to set forth his said father's service more fully.

    He makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the bounty land to which he may be entitled under the "Act of 1812, granting 160 acres of Bounty Land to the soldiers of the regular Army, or their heirs at law without respect to the age of the children."

    He further declares that he has not received a warrant for bounty land under this or any other Act of Congress, nor made any application therefore than the one now presented.                           //s//
                                     Thomas Powers
Attest:
W. G. Connon
Jos. Northrop

      Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and year above written; and thereby certify that I believe the said Thomas Powers who signed and executed the above declaration, and is now present, to be the identical man he represents himself to be, and that he is of the age above stated, and that I have no interest in said claim.
                                                                  //s//
                                                         W. G. Connon
                                 Alderman & Expo Just of Peace

The above figures 1884 were crazed
and 1784 inserted before the signing 
of this paper.
Page 6

State of Pennsylvania
County of Philadelphia

    Personally appeared Rihard French, (illegible name) about 13 (illegible)  qbove 13 street and Eliza Ann Michem No 19 Hilba St., citizens of the said county and state aforesaid, who being duly sworn according to law depose and say, that they were personally acquainted with Thomas Powers deceased during his lifetime, and knew him as the father of the said Thomas Powers Jr. who made the foregoing declaration.  That we were in the habit of visiting the house of the said Thomas Powers deceased that he acknowledged the said Thomas Powers Jr., to be his son and that the said Thomas Powers Jr., has always passed for, and represented to be the son of the said Thomas Powers deceased.  That the said Thomas Powers deceased died leaving no wife, child or children him now surviving, than the said Thomas Powers Jr.

    And they further say that they are still well acquainted with the said Thomas Powers Jr. and that he is the person now present who signs and executes the within declaration.  That the said Thomas Powers decd. died in Morrisville Berks County Pennsylvania, in September AD 1818.  They swear that they are disinterested witnesses.

                                         //s//
                                    Rich. French
                                     Eliza Ann Mechem

    Sworn to and subscribed before me this fourteenth day of August AD 1855 and I certify that the said Richard French and Eliza Ann Mechem are credible and respectable citizens.

                                               //s//
                                      W. G. Connon
                                Alderman & Ex off J. Peace

State of Pennsylvania
County of Philadelphia ss.
   
    I hereby certify the Wm. G. Connon before whom the foregoing declaration and affidavit were made, and who has thereunto subscribed his name, was at the time of so doing, an Alderman, Ex Officio Justice of the Peace, in and for the county aforesaid, duly commission and sworn.  In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my had and affixed the seal of my Office, as clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of said county this 23d day of March AD 1818.

                                         //s//
                                  Edw. G. Webb
                                          Prothonotary