Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 5,945, for Benjamin Power, Maryland
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[illegible] 9406 &
B. P. 5945?
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[Rectangular mail receipt stamp]
[illegible]
APR [illegible] 1899
R E C E I V E D

Painesville, Ohio, 
April 20, 1899.

To the 
Commissioner of Pensions, 
Washington, D. C.

Sir:-

If consistent, will you kindly furnish 
me from their applications, a state
ment of the Revolutionary services of Benjamin 
and James Powers (or Power), both residents 
of Alleghany County, Penna., at the time pen
sions were granted?

Yours truly, 

(Miss) G. C. Truby
536 Mentor Avenue 
Painesville, Ohio.
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323 Spring Street, Aurora Ill.  Rev. War
December 6, 1918.

Mr. G. W. Saltzgaber, 
Washington, D. C.

Dear Sir:--

Joseph Martin was born 1741 according to Page 81 
Va. Militia, by J.T. McAllister, but family say 1761. 
He dies September 17, 1832 in Amherst County, Va.  Wife was 
Mary Sanders.  Did he receive a pension?

Please send record of Benjamin Power - Born in Prince William 
County, Va. about 1753 died at Sharpsburg. 1838-Married 
Elizabeth Keyes.

Respectfully yours, 

(Miss) Laura Guempelein, 
323 Spring St. 
Aurora, Ill. 

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PENSION 
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RECORD & PENSION OFFICE
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450707
MAY 22 1896
WAR DEPARTMENT

Le Crosse, Kansas 
May 18, 1896.

Benjamin Power
From Penn.
& 1 Co. Md. Rifles Rev. War

W. H. Russell 

Ask for a certificate 
of service record of 
above named man
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Record and Pension Office, 
WAR DEPARTMENT, 
Washington, May 23, 1896.

Respectfully returned to 
Mr. W. H. Russell, 
Commander-in-Chief, 
Sons of Veterans, 
La Crosse, Kansas.

The name Benjamin Power has not 
been found on the rolls, on file in 
this office, of any Pennsylvania or 
Maryland military organization in ser
vice during the war of the Revolution.

It is proper to add, however, that 
the collection of Revolutionary War 
records in this office is far from 
complete, and that the absence there
from of any name is by no means con
clusive evidence that the person who 
bore the name did not serve in the 
Revolutionary army.

It is suggested as a possibility 
that the desired information may be 
obtained from the adjutant general of 
the State from which the soldier en
tered the service.

The name Benjamin Powel, with rank 
given as private, appears on a roll 
dated at Philadelphia, December, 1776, 
of Capt. Houlgate's Company of militia 
of the 4th Philadelphia county bat
talion, commanded by Col. Henry Hill, 
Revolutionary War, but the records con
tain no special remarks as to his ser
vice.

By authority of the 
Secretary of War: 

F L Ainsworth 
Colonel, U.S.Army, 
Chief of Office.
(300a-a)
Rec'd Back Jun 4 1896
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CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE & ST. PAUL RAILWAY CO.
GENERAL PASSENGER DEPARTMENT, 
[illegible initials]

DICTATED BY | CHICAGO, ILL., Oct. 24th, 1895.

Hon. William Lochren, | 5945 I Md.
Commissioner of Pensions, 
Washington, D. C.

Dear Sir:

I desire to obtain a certificate showing the pension record 
in your Department of Benjamin Power, a Revolutionary soldier who served 
I believe with the Virginia line.  I am unable at present writing to 
give further details, but presume that from the information above given 
he can be readily located on the Revolutionary pension rolls.

Said Benjamin Power was my wife's great great grandfather, 
and it is in her behalf that I am making this inquiry.

Believe me to be

Very respectfully yours, 

Geo. S. Morsh
Room 415 Old Colony Bldg.
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Pa Jan 13

Hon H Denny
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J. L. Edwards Esqr
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Powers 
Pension
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Pennsylvania who has his claim & application for 
a pension as a revolutionary soldier before the 
War department & further saith not
Sworn & subscribed before | Benjamin Power
me this day of 
November AD 1834
Thos Sample J. P.

State of Pennsylvania }
Allegheny County } Sct.

I Hervey H. Peterson Prothonotary of the Court of Common 
Pleas in and for the County of Allegheny, do certify that 
Thomas Sample Esqr before whom the foregoing deposition 
was taken, was at that time and now is, an acting Justice 
of the Peace in and for the County of Allegheny aforesaid duly commissioned and sworn 
to all whose acts as such, full faith and credit are due and of right ought to be given 
throughout the United States and elsewhere.  In Testimony whereof I have 
hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this 22nd day of 
November 1834.
H. H. Peterson Pro