Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B. L. Wt. 1659-200, Rignal Hillary, Md.
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Service
MD

Name
Hillary, Rignal
or Hillery

Number
B.L.Wt. 1659-200
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Mr. Gordon

Bounty Land Office
War Dept
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(illegible) County
February 4th 1832

Dear Sir

Has there issued a bounty land warrant to Elizabeth Magruder heir at law to Rignal Hillary of the Maryland. If so put it in haste if you can send me the original proof of his claim. I want to use it in the house today on a bill.

I will return it in haste

C A Witcliffe
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Prince Georges County, Maryland [illegible]

The day before [illegible] personally appeared me the undersigned justice of the peace for Prince Georges County and state of Maryland and made oath that he was personally acquainted with Rignal Hillary and knows that he entered the Revolutionary Army of the United States in the year 1776 and obtained a commission in 1777 and served till the end of the war as a Lieutenant in the company commanded by Capt Jonas Gray of the first Regiment of Infantry of Maryland troops on the continental establishment which Regiment was commanded by Col Lieutenant John Steward. Said Rignal Hillary died in the year 1783 at Anappolis on his way home after the army of the south was dispayed[?] Sworn to bevore the undersigned this 14th day of July[?] 1830

Levin Soper
Justice Pea P.G. County Mary
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State of Maryland, Prince Georges County Sct.

I hereby certify that Levin Soper gentleman before whom the within affidavit of Joseph Cross appears to have been made was at the time of so doing and since one of the State of Marylands justices of the peace in and for said County duly commissioned and sworn and to all [illegible] full faith and credit is and ought to be given

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of Prince Georges County Court, this 14th[?] day of July in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and thirty

Aquila Beall Clk of Prince Georges County Court
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Rignal Hillary
No. 1859
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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:

District of Columbia
County of Washington S.[?]

I, Elizabeth Magruder heir at law of Lieut Rignal Hillary do, upon oath, testify and declare, to the best of my knowledge and belief, that Lieut Rignal Hillary did enlist in 1776, for the term of during the war, and served in the Regiment No. One under the command of Colonel John Stone of the Maryland line; and that he continued in the service aforesaid until the 11th day of August[?] 1783.

I further declare, that I have never received a warrant for the bounty land promised to Lieut Rignal Hillary 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: therefor, know all men by these presents, that I, Elizabeth Magruder aforesaid, do hereby constitute and appoint Rignal Magruder 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 authorized and empowered to constitute and appoint one or more substitutes or attorneys under him, for the special purposes above expressed.

Attest,
Henry Wertz
Elizabeth Magruder

Personally appeared the above named Elizabeth Magruder subscriber to the foregoing declaration, and in my presence acknowledged the power of attorney thereto subjoined to be her free act and deed, for the purposes therein mentioned.

Attest,
Rignal Magruder
Henry Wertz Justice of the Peace.

In testimony that the abovewritten [blank] was a magistrate authorized to administer oaths, and take acknowledgments, &c., in the State of [blank] at the above date, and that his name appears to me to be his usual signature, I have hereunto affixed the county seal, and subscribed my name and quality, at [blank] this  [blank] day of [blank] 18[blank]

[no signature]
C. Clerk, &c.