Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B. L. Wt. 2197-200, George Evans, S.C.
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(5-1776)

Service
S.C.

Evans, George

Number
B.L.Wt.2197-200

Contents
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Form for Declaration and Power of Attorneys_____ this may be made by one of the heirs at law
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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 or 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 South Carolina
City of Charleston
We, George Evans of Harriett Ordinance heir at law of Lieutenant George Evans do, upon oath, testify and declare, to the best of our knowledge and belief, that the said George Evans did enter the service in or about 1776, for the term of the war and served as a Lieutenant in the Regiment No.       under the command of Colonel Hayes & also of Col Marion, of the South Carolina Continental line; and that he continued in he service aforesaid until the end of the War. 
We further declare that we have never received a warrant for the bounty land promised to the said George Evans on the part of the United States; no do we believe that he ever received it, or transferred his claim to it in any manner whatsoever: therefore, we pray that the said warrant may now be entered into us as his heirs at laws sworn to before Mr. H L Pinckney Mayor of Charleston.

H. Driscoll
George Evans

Know all men by these presents, That We, George Evans & Harriette O Driscoll aforesaid, do hereby constitute and appoint the Hon R. Barnwell Rhett to be our true and lawful attorney, for our 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. 
H. Driscoll
George Evans
Attest,
H L Pinckney,
Mayor of the City
of Charleston

Personally appeared the abovenamed George Evans & Harriett O Driscoll subscribers 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. 

Attest,

[signature is illegible]
H L Pinckney
Mayor of Charleston
and Justice of the Peace

In testimony that the above written H L Pinckney is a magistrate authorized to administer oaths, and take acknowledgements, &c. in the State of South Carolina 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 Charleston this fifteenth day of January 1878

Charles Starbucker C. Clerk, &c.
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George Evans
No. 2197.
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State of South Carolina
City of Charleston

Mayor's Office Han' 15th
1838.

I do hereby certify that George Evans, & Mrs Harriett O Driscoll are the only heirs of George Evans, who was a Lieutenant in the South Carolina Line, during the Revolutionary War, as will appear from the Records of the War Department, an that they are entitled to the bounty land to which he was entitled, but which was never received by him. 

H L Pinckney
Mayor of Charleston,
and Q. U. ex officio

To Peter Hagner Esq
Mind Auditor of the
War Department __