Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B. L. Wt. 556-100, Philip Henthorn, Va.
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[Standard Card Format]

Service      Va.

Henthorn, Philip

B.L.Wt. 556-100
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No. 556 P. Henthorn
Memorandum
April 18, 181 [last digit written over and illegible] 
The Warrant here enclosed was presented for Signature when William Simmons Esquire happened to be present, who suggested that an Attorney General of the United States had formerly given an opinion that a Land Warrant 
ought not to be issued to and Administrator or Executor simply as such, but that the Heirs at Law of a claim defunct should be legally ascertained and their arsenic Power of Attorney or Conveyance presented at the War Office before a Warrant to satisfy and original Claim to Bounty Land should issue. 
The Secretary of War, therefore, orders its issue suspended.

[Handwritten note] Write to the parties in this claim
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Philip Henthorn

Virga.
Admin of his estate was granted to David Gilliland in Allegheny Co. in May 1808
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No. 556 was issued in the name of Philip Henthorne, but an objection was afterward started to delivering it to and Administrator until they should be a legal authorization to that effect from the Heirs at Law: it is accordingly retained.
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{Standard Form with handwritten notes]

No. 556

Pursuant to an Act of Congress authorizing the Secretary
of War to issue Land Warrants and for other purposes, passed the 
15th day of April, 1806, Philip Henthorn, a Private in the 
late Virginia line, [bland lines with "zero" or an "O"] is intitled to 
One hundred Acres of Land 
to be located, agreeably to said act, on any unlocated parts of the fifty 
quarter townships and the fractional quarter townships, reserved by 
law, for original holders of military warrants.

GIVEN at the War Office, this sixteenth 
day of April in the year of 
our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eleven.

SECRETARY OF WAR

Registered,

[signed] Nat. Butting CLERK
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Letters of Administration
of the Estate of
Philip Henthorn
Deceased

Virga.

To: David Gilliland

[faint handwriting] I am your
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Allegheny County
I Samuel Jones Esqr. Register for the Probate of Wills & Granting letters of administration in & for the County Allegheny in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania To David Gilliland Administrator of all and Singular the Goods & Chattles, Rights & Credits which were of Philip Henthorn Late
Deceased. Greeting: Whereas the sd. Philip Henthorn lately died as is affirmed having whilst he lived & at the time of his decease divers Goods & Chattles rights & credits within the said Commonwealth by means whereof the full disposition & power of Granting Letter of Administration thereof is Manifestly known to belong to Me. I therefore desiring that the goods & chattles Rights & Credits which were of the sd. deceased may be well & truly administered converted and disposed of according to Law, Do hereby grant unto you the sd. David Gilliland (in whose fidelity in his behalf I very much confide) full power by the Tenor of these presents, to administer the Goods & Chattles, rights & Credits which were of the sd. deceased, as also to ask, Collect, levy, Recover & Receive, the Credits whatsoever of the sd. deceased which at the time of his Death were owing or in way belong to his, and to pay the debts in which the sd. deceased stood obliged so far forth as the sd. Goods & Chattles, Rights & Credits will extend according to their Rate and order of Law, Especially of well & Truly administering the Goods & Chattles, Rights && Credits, which were of the sd. deceased & making a true & perfect Inventory & Conscionable appraisement thereof & Exhibiting the same into the Registers Office at Pittsburg on or before the 5th day of June next and also a true and just account calculation & Reckoning of your Administration upon your solemn Oath or affirmation to Render on or before the 5th day of May A.D. 1809 or when Legally thereunto Required. And I & all Other Officers, against all persons by Reason of your administration aforesaid & saving all others their Rights & Ca. In testimony whereof I have caused the seal of the P. Office to be hereunto affixed. Dated at Pittsburgh aforesaid the fifth day of May A.D. 1808.
For Samuel Jones Reg.
[signed] Wm Jones