Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R., Elijah Dinsmore, N.H.
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE
N(ew). H(ampshire). 

Dinsmore Elijah

NUMBER
R

CONTENTS
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State of Missouri           Sct
County of St. Louis⎬
Personally appeared before me the undersigned a Notary Public for St Louis County Missouri Hannah Joy, and Mary Jane Dinsmore who being duly sworn upon their oath saith that they are the survivors and heirs at Law of their Grand Father Elijah Dinsmore who was an office in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary war and entered the Army of the Revolution from the State of New Hampshire and served during the whole Revolutionary was for which he received no pension from the Government that they as said heirs now claim the arrears of Pensions, Back pay Extra Pay and Bounty Land due from the
United States for the military service of their
Grand Father as aforesaid and as his legal
heirs and Representatives, and that said
deceased has left no widow and that they
are the surviving heirs and that he is deceased
Sworn to and Subscribed
Before me this 23d. December
Hannah Joy
A.D. 1851    ⎬
(signed) Hannah Joy
(signed) Mary Jane Dinsmore

(signed) Diogenes Wetmore
Notary Public
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State of Missouri
County of St. Louis ⎬ Sct
On this the Sixteenth day of January A.D. 1852 personally appeared before me the undersigned a Notary Public for Saint Louis County Missouri appeared John Gutbrod and Augustus Guibor witnesses and well known credible and disinterested witnesses and known to be such

Who being duly sworn upon their oaths saith
that Hannah Joy and Mary Jane Dinsmore
are the surviving heirs at Law of Elijah Dinsmore deceased an officer of the continental Army during the Revolutionary War and that they are persons of the highest respectability and residents of the City of Saint Louis Missouri and that the facts therein sworn
to by said parties and heirs at Law of their Grand Father deceased, are just and true in all their particulars. 

And said affiants further swear that they are wholly disintersted

Sworn to and Subscribed
Before me this 16th day ⎬ 
of January A.D. 1852
(signed) John Gutbrod
(signed) Aug(ust) Guibor
(signed) Diogenes Wetmore
Notary Public                        ⎬
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State of Missouri
County of St Louis⎬ ss
I the undersigned Recorder in and for said
County do certify that Diogenes Wetmore whose name is subscribed to the foregoing certificate or Jurat was on the day of the date
thereof and still is an acting Notary Public in and for said County duly commissioned and qualified & that his signature thereto is genuine-- Given under my hand and affixed seal the 16 day of January 1852
(signed) S D Barlow Recorder
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State of Missouri
City and County    Sct
of St. Louis          ⎬
On this the Sixteenth day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty two personally appeared before me the undersigned a Notary Public duly  commissioned and qualified and residing
within the City of St. Louis, Ma(r)y Jane
Dinsmore and Elizabeth Ann Kennedy Well known credible and disinterested witness and known to be such who being duly sworn upon their oaths saith that Elijah Dinsmore an officer in the Revolutionary Army in the New Hampshire line died at Conway New  Hampshire in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty two and that the nature of his service was in the War of the Revolution and that said Elijah Dinsmore dec(ease)d was also in the French and Indian Wars and was Captoned and taken prisoner of the French and Indians and was so imprisoned for the space of three years and affiants further
state that the widow of Elijah Dinsmore Sarah
Dinsmore died at Conway New Hampshire in the year Eighteen hundred and twenty Six. (1826)

And affiants further state that in consequence
of fire burning up the dwelling in which Elijah Dinsmore and Sarah Dinsmore lived in
New Hampshire all the Commissions and
records of the Marriage of said parties were
destroyed, and that said parties as aforesaid
were so old that the had to be
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carried out to prevent their being burnt up
Elijah Dinsmore deceased as aforesaid was aged about Eighty and Sarah Dinsmore his wife at the date of her death was aged ninety seven about-----and that in consequence of said Elijah Dinsmore(s) long service in behalf of the United States and the line of his duty his health was much impaired. and that said Elijah
Dinsmore was a Captain of Infantry

That the said Elijah Dinsmore as aforesaid was Commissioned of (left blank)  during the Revolutionary war and that he marched through Massachusetts under Gen(eral) Warren--and that he was a gallant and meritorious officer and rendered his county good service and affiants swear they are wholly
disinterested and that said Elijah Dinsmore was at the Battle of Bunker Hill in 17th June 1776
(signed) Mary Jane Dinsmore
(signed) Elizabeth Ann Kennedy
Witnesses
(signed) John H Stice
(signed) A. Wright

Sworn to and Subscribed
Before me this 16th day
of February A.D. 1852       ⎬    
(signed)  Diogenes Wetmore
Notary Public
for St. Louis County
Missouri

State of Missouri 
County of St Louis⎬
I the undersigned Recorder in and for
said County do certify that Dogenes Wetmore whose
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name is subscribed to the foregoing certificate or Jurat was on the day of the date thereof an acting Notary Public duly commissioned and qualified and that his signature thereto is genuine

Given under my hand and official
seal the 16th day of February 1852
(signed) Stephen D Barton Recorder
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October 11, 1937.

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Dr. Howard A. Denbo
804 Building & Loan Tower
South Bend, Indiana

BA-J/ady
Elijah Dinsmore
R. -- Rev(olutionary). War

Dear Sir:

The data contained herein were obtained from the papers on file in the Revolutionary War claim for pension based upon the military service of Elijah Dinsmore in that war.

On December 23, 1851, Hannah Joy, and her sister, Mary Jane Dinsmore, residents of St. Louis, St. Louis County, Missouri, applied for pension which might have been due on account of the service of Elijah Dinsmore, their grandfather. It was stated that Elijah Dinsmore entered the service in New Hampshire, place
not stated, was commissioned Captain in the New Hampshire line was in the battle of Bunker Hill and served during the whole of the Revolutionary War; that he also served in the French and Indian War and that he was captured and held prisoner for three years.

He died in Conway, New Hampshire, in 1822, aged about eighty years. His widow, Sarah Dinsmore, died in Conway, New Hampshire, in 1826, aged about ninety seven years. There are no further family data.

The claim for pension was not allowed as there was no provision of law under which the grandchildren were ntitled to United States pension for service of their grandfather in the Revolutionary War.
Very truly yours

A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator
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August 6, 1936
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BA-J/MMHF/eel

Memorial Branch
Office of the Quartermaster General
War Department
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir:

Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War service record of Elijah Denbo and with which you enclose letter of Dr. Francis J. D'Enbeau, of Terre Haute, Indiana, and the application for headstone for said soldier: Dr. D'Enbeau's reference-,  United States Veterans Bureau-  B.A.J/EEL-S.22723,
for the record of Captain Elijah Denbo.

The citation made by Dr. D'Enbeau as S.22723, refers to the claim for pension of Cornelius Denbo. That record and the record of Captain Elijah Dinsmore are furnished herewith as both my aid you in identification of records.

The letter of Dr. D'Enbeau and the original application for headstone are returned herewith.

Very truly yours

A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator.
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Copied from  ADY
August 6, 1936
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BA-J/EEL
Elijah Dinsmore-R

Memorial Branch
Office of the Quartermaster General
War Department
Washington, D.C. 

Dear Sir: 

The data which follow are obtained from the papers on file in the Revolutionary War claim for pension based upon the military service of Elijah Dinsmore in that war. 

On December 23, 1851, Hannah Joy, and her sister, Mary Jane Dinsmore, residents of Saint Louis, Saint Louis County, Missouri, applied for pension which might have been due on account of the services of Elijah Dinsmore, their grandfather. It is stated that Elijah Dinsmore entered the service in New Hampshire, town or county not shown, was commissioned captain in the New Hampshire Line, was in the battle of Bunker Hill, and served during the whole of the
Revolutionary War; that he served, also, in the French and Indian War and that he was captured and held prisoner for three years.

He died in Conway, New Hampshire, in 1822, aged about eighty years. His widow, Sarah Dinsmore, died in Conway, New Hampshire in 1826, aged about ninety-seven years. There are no further family data. 

The claim was not allowed as there was no law under which the grandchildren of a soldier were entitled to pension.

Very truly yours

A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator.
ADY


Letter in case
Cornelius Denbo
S. 22723
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June 23, 1936

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BA-J/MMHF/eel



Dr. Francis J. D'Enbeau
621 Poplar Street, Apt.# 1
Terre Haute, Indiana

Dear Sir:

Reference is made to your letter in which you request confirmation of certificates and  depositions of Lieutenant Joseph Denbo, of Heth's Company, 5" Regiment, Indiana Militia, which state that he was the son of Captain Elijah Denbo (Densmore, Dinsmore) of New Hampshire, and for whose services in the Revolutionary War said Joseph received bounty land, that the documents or deeds for the land were made out between 1802 and 1808 and signed by Thomas Jefferson, President of the United States and that you lost those papers in January, 1928, in Indianapolis, Indiana. 

This office has no further information in regard to Joseph Denbo, B. L. Warrant No. 24062-120-55 and Captain Elijah Dinsmore-R. than has been furnished you. It is not shown in either case that those two officers were father and son.

The transaction in regard to land referred to by you pertains, perhaps, to the records of the Commissioner of the General Land Office, this city. It is suggested that you apply to that official and furnish all the information you have in regard to dates, location, etc., to aid in the search of those records.

Very truly yours

A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator.
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January 16, 1933.

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BA-J/ady
Elijah Dinsmore
R.

Dr. Francis J. D'Enbeau
Terre Haute
Indiana

Dear Sir:

The data contained herein are obtained from the papers on file in the Revolutionary War claim for pension based upon the military service of Elijah Dinsmore in that war.

On December 23, 1851, Hannah Joy, and her sister, Mary Jane Dinsmore, residents of St. Louis, St. Louis County, Missouri, applied for pension which may have been due on account of the service of Elijah Dinsmore, their grandfather. It is stated that Elijah Dinsmore
entered the service in New Hampshire, place not stated, was commissioned Captain in the New Hampshire line, was in the battle of Bunker Hill and served during the whole of the Revolutionary War; that he also served in the French and Indian War and that he was captured and held prisoner for three years.

He died in Conway, New Hampshire, in 1822, aged about eighty years. His widow, Sarah Dinsmore, died in Conway, New Hampshire, in 1826, aged about ninety seven years. There are no further family data.

Their claim was not allowed as grandchildren had no claim whatever to a pension from the United States 

Very truly yours

A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant to the Administrator
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January 6, 1936.

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BA-J/ady

Dr. Francis J. D'Enbeau
Terre Haute
Indiana

Dear Sir:

Reference is made to your letter relative to
soldiers of the Revolutionary War.

Revolutionary War data furnished by this
office are obtained from claims made to the United States for pension and bounty land based upon military service of soldiers in that war.

A careful search of the records fails to show
such a claim on file on account of the services of Solomon, Stephen or Robert Densmore, all spellings of the names searched.

The records of two soldiers with the name
Elijah Dinsmore, all spellings of the surname searched are found on the Revolutionary War records of this office.  Their records are furnished you herewith, on separate pages, as found in the claims for pension based upon service in the Revolutionary War.

Very truly yours

A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant to the Administrator
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October 11, 1937

Elijah Dinsmore
S. 8333
BA-J/AWF

Dr. Howard A. Denbo
804 Building and Loan Tower
South Bend, Indiana

Dear Sir:

Reference is made to your letter in which you
request information in regard to Elijah Denbo who was born in Lee, New Hampshire, was a Captain in the Revolutionary War, and died in September, 1823 in Conway, New Hampshire; his son, Elijah Denbo, Jr. who you state was a Captain in the Revolution, but in a different regiment from his father; Solomon and Robert
Denbo, soldiers in the Revolution, and Robert Denbo of Jeffersonville, Indiana, Lieutenant from 1807 until 1811. You state that this name is variously spelled, Denbo, Denbow, Denmore, Densmore, and Dinsmore.

Revolutionary War data furnished by this office
are obtained from claims for pension and bounty land which have been made to the United States, based upon service in that war. A search of the records fails to show such claims on file on account of the Revolutionary
War service of either Solomon or Robert Denbo under any spelling of that surname. This office is unable to identify the record of the Robert Denbo, Lieutenant- 1807 to 1811, with the data furnished.

The Revolutionary War records of two Elijah
Dinsmores are furnished herewith.

Very truly yours

A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator
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Dr. Francis J. D Enbeau
Terre Haute, Indiana
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RECEIVED
MAR(CH) 10, 1936
MAIL SUB-DIV(ISION)
VET.(ERANS). ADM(INISTRATION)
NEW(illegible) 38
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 March 8, 1936.

Attention of:
A. D. Hiller,
The Veterans Administration,
Washington, D. C.

Dear Sir:

In an effort to find the last thread of  information necessary to completing my family history, I am addressing you to ask if you can possibly give me such data as will confirm the certificates and depositions of Lieutenant Joseph Denbo of Heth's Company, Fifth Regiment, Indiana Militia, War of 1812; which documents state that he was the
son of Captain Elijah Denbo, officially known otherwise as Elijah Densmore or Dinsmore, of New Hampshire who fought at Bunker Hill and  throughout the American Revolution. He, Elijah Denbo, was born in Lee, New Hampshire in 1738 and died at Conway, N. H. in 1822 or 1823.

There is no question but what the said Lieutenant or
Judge Joseph Denbo obtained bounty land because of the service of his father, the said Elijah Denbo, said land being located in southern Indiana in what later became Clarke, Harrison, Orange and Crawford Counties.   Less than ten years ago the parch
ment documents or deeds for this bounty land were in my possession.   They were made out between 1802 and 1808, properly endorsed and sealed and signed by Thomas Jefferson, President of the United States. These documents were lost or stolen in
Indianapolis, Indiana during the month of January, 1928.

I have been informed that the original documents, which would confirm the above mentioned data, were destroyed when the Capitol in Washington, D. C. was burned during the War of 1812.

If you cannot assist me in this matter would you please direct me to some source from which I may obtain this information. 

I have written you many times during the past two years.   For the invaluable quantity and accuracy of your reports, your assistance and kindness, I entertain the greatest appreciation.  May I tender you my sincere thanks.

Very respectfully
(signed)  Francis J Henbean
Francis J. D'Enbeau.

FJD'E/bee
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Dr. Francis J. D'Enbeau
Terre Haute, Indiana

Veterans Administration References to Denbo - Dinsmore - Densmore: 

BA-J/ady
Elijah Dinsmore
R.

BA-J/ady
Elijah Dinsmore
S. 8333

BA-J/EEL
Cornelius Denbo - S.22723
Joseph Denbo -- B. L. Wt. # 24062 - 120 - 55

( Certificate 21893, New Hampshire Agency, issued November 20, 1833, Act of June 7, 1832, New Hampshire Pension Records, V.9, p. 308, Deposition, states service under Colonel Elijah
Densmore, otherwise DENBO.).
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Captain Elijah Denbo was born 1738 in Lee, New Hampshire, died 1822 or 23 in Conway, N(ew). H(ampshire).   He was the son of Clement Denbo and his wife, Margaret DINSMORE.   He was officially known as Elijah DENBO, otherwise Elijah DINSMORE or, Elijah
DENSMORE.   He served in the Battle of Bunker Hill and at the Siege of Boston at Cambridge, Went with Washington's army to New York and Pennsylvania; served in Colonel Poor's  Regiment and served throughout the Revolutionary War. 

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RECEIVED
MAR(CH) 10, 1936
MAIL SUB-DIV(ISION)
VET.(ERANS). ADM(INISTRATION)
NEW(illegible) 38
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Dr. Francis J. D'Enbeau
Terre Haute, Indiana

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RECEIVED 
DEC(EMBER) 20, 1935
MAIL SUB-DIV(ISION)
VET(ERAN)S ADM(INISTRATION)
READER #10
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December 18, 1835

Veterans Administration,
Washington, D. C.

Dear Sir:

For the purpose of completing my family history, I am addressing you for information concerning Captain Elijah Densmore ( otherwise Denbo) of Burnham's and Wingate's Regiments, New Hampshire Troops, Revolutionary War.   Also Elijah Dinsmore, Solomon Dinsmore or Densmore, Stephen Densmore or Dinsmore and Robert Densmore or Dunsmore , all of Conway, N(ew). H(ampshire).,  Revolutionary War.  Said Eljiah
Dinsmore was a U.S. pensioner of the  Revolution at Conway, N(ew). H(ampshire). in 1840. He was born about 1763.

Have you any information or data concerning Robert Densmore or Dunsmore and Solomon Densmore or Dunsmore of the Pennsylvania Troops, Revolutionary War?    If so where
and when did these men die?   They settled in Shelby Co.  Kentucky about 1790.

Very respectfully

(signed) Francis J. D'Enbeau
FRANCIS J D'ENBEAU.


FJD'E/bee
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POWER OF ATTORNEY.
From
Hannah Joy and
May Jane Dinsmore of 
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Saint Louis Missouri


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Presented by
Wetmore & Hunter
ATTORNEY.S
St Louis M(iss)o(uri).
Francis S Evans Att(orne)y
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Know all men by these presents, That I, 
Hannah Joy and Mary Jane Dinsmore of the county of St. Louis and State of Missouri, have constituted and appointed, and by these presents do constitute and appoint Hampton Hunter and (lined out--of) Diogenes Wetmore of Missouri, my true and lawful Attorney IRREVOCABLY for us (lined out--me) and in our (lined out--my) names to receive from the United States all such sum or sums of money due me on account of Bounty Land, Pension,  arrearges of pay and Extra pay due me and my Sister Mary Jane Dinsmore daughters and heirs at Law of their Grand Father Elijah Dinsmore dec(ease)d. late a Captain in the Revolutonary (lined out--officer) army and in my name to execute such receipts and acquittances for the same as may be necessary, and generally to do all such lawful acts and things whatsoever touching the premises, and an attorney or attornies under him for the purposes aforesaid, to make and at his pleasure to revoke, hereby
confirming all and whatsoever my said attorney shall in my name legally do or cause to be done in and about the premises by virtue of these presents; and out of the sum or sums of money ascertained to be due as aforesaid, I hereby guarantee the payment to my said attorney for his services in the premises, the fee or commission hereunto stipulated to be paid by virtue of my obligation to him of even date with these presents.

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and seal, this 23d day of December 1851
(signed) Hannah Joy   (encircled --L.S.)
(signed) Mary Jane Dinsmore

STATE OF MISSOURI,
County of Saint  Louis  ⎬To-wit:

On this ----30 day of Dec(ember)---1857
Hannah Joy & Mary J. Dinsmore personally appeared before me, a Notary Public
in and for the county aforesaid, and  acknowledged the above power of attorney to be (illegible) and deed for the purposes therein contained.
(signed) J. Sidney Smith   (encircled --L.S.)
Notary Public
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Washington April 10 1853

Sir

We herewith enclose the papers in the case of
Elijah Dinsmore, dec(ease)d forwarded to us to by Messrs Wetmore and Hunter, of St Louis
Missouri.   We informed these gentlemen that we declined prosecuting the claim, and they requested us to forward the same to the Pension Office.  Any communications with referrence to the same, you will please
address to Messrs Wetmore & Hunter.

Very respectfully
Evans & Faut


James E. Heath Esq(uire)
Comm(issioner) of Pensions
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Evans & Faut 
July 22/(18)52
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Pen(sion) Office
July 22. 1852

Gentlemen

I have examined the application of the "heirs" of Elijah Densmore, who it is noted was a pensioner on the New Hampshire Roll for his service in the Revolution.   The only pensioner of that name on the Roll of New Hampshire claimed in his declaration under the Act of June 7, 1832, to have served in the grades of
private and fifer only, and was pensioned
for all the service then rendered which was
military, viz; for 8 months 16 days as private and 6  months as Fifer.   If he was the soldier referred to [He resided in Stafford Co(unty)  N(ew). H(ampshire).]    There is nothing due
for which his children can put a claim.   Grand
children have no claim whatever to pension or 
other gratuity from the government for the services of their grand father
Messers  Evans & Faut
Present(?)
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POWER OF ATTORNEY.
From Wetmore & Hunter
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To

Francis L Evans
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Presented by
F. S.  Evans
ATTORNEY.
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Know all men by these presents, That We. Hampton Hunter and Diogenes Wetmore of the County of St Louis and State of Missouri, have constituted and appointed, and by these presents do constitute and appoint Francis J. Evans of Washington D.C. (lined out--Missouri) our (lined out--my) true and lawful Attorney IRREVOCABLY for us (lined out--me) and in our (lined out--my) names to receive from the United States all such sum or sums of money due us (lined out--me on account of) as Attorney in fact of the Heirs of Elijah
Dinsmore deceased, for Pensions back pay, Extra Pay and Bounty land due said Heirs at Law and in our(lined out --my) name to execute such receipts and acquittances for the same as may be necessary, and generally to do all such lawful acts and things whatsoever touching the premises, and an attorney or attornies under him for the purposes aforesaid, to make and at his pleasure to revoke, hereby
confirming all and whatsoever our (lined out--my) said attorney shall in our (lined out--my) name legally do or cause to be done in and about the premises, by virtue of these presents; and out of the sum or sums of
money ascertained to be due as aforesaid, hereby guarantee the payment to our (lined out--my) said attorney for his services in the premises, the fee or commission hereunto stipulated to be paid by virtue of a contract (lined out-- my obligation) to him of even date with these presents.

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, We (lined out--I) have hereunto set our (lined out--my) hands and seal, this 16th day of January 1852

(signed) Hampton Hunter  
(signed) Diogenes Wetmore  (encircled--Seal)

STATE OF MISSOURI
County of St. Louis    ⎬  To Wit:

On this Sixteenth day of January 1852
Hampton Hunter and Diogenes Wetmore personally appeared before me, a Notary Public in and for the county aforesaid, and acknowledged the above power of attorney to be their (lined out--his) act and deed for the purposes therein contained.

(signed ) Peter W. Johnstone   (encircled--L.S.)
Notary Public
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State of Missouri
County of St Louis⎬ ss
I  the undersigned Recorder in and for said County do certify that Peter W Johnstone whose name is subscribed to the foregoing certificate of acknowledgement was on the day of the date thereof & still is an acting Notary Public in and for said County duly commissioned and qualified, and that his 
signature thereto is genuine.

Given under my hand and official
seal the 16th day of January 1852

(signed) Stephen D Barlow Recorder


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POWER OF ATTORNEY.
From Wetmore & Hunter
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To 

Francis S. Evans 

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Presented by
F. S. Evans 
ATTORNEY
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J E
Frankof


POWER OF ATTORNEY.
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