Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 21,870, for Thomas Luther, Rhode Island
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wheir with Thomas and Jonas Lyndon Luther is authorized by them to use all legal and proper means to obtain from the government of the United States the debt due on my fathers pension certificate at the time of his death.

Now therefore I write this letter upon the receipt of which you sir will oblige me by taking such steps in the matter as to law and justice may appertain.  Please address Seth Luther in the care of Mrs Mary Hill, 453 Noth Main Street, Providence Rhode Island "

The reason this matter has not reserved my attention before is that I was taken a prisoner by the Charter forces of this State on the very day my honored Father sunk into his grave and remained in the dungeons of Rhode Island Nine months without trial. When discharged I was incapable of attending to any business in consequence of the [illegible] practice upon me.  Since then I have been absent from the State in the (wes)