Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B. L. Wt. 305-100, Daniel Hummiston, Continental (Conn.)
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Continental (Conn.)
Hummiston, Daniel or Humiston or Homiston
B.L. [Wt?] 305-100
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This may certify that Jesse Homiston was legally appointed guardian to Betsey Homiston a minor, & only heir of Daniel Homiston deceased on the first day of April 1790 as appears from the records of the Court of Probate for the District of Wallingford in the State of Connecticut.

Probate Office Wallingford Certified by Geo W. Stanley Clerk of sd Court March 1st 1799.
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Daniel Hommiston
Capt Connt Line

Verified  5th Jan: 1807 &
Deld to R Whitehill Esq.
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By His Excellency
George Washington, Esq;
General and Commander in Chief of the Forces of the United States of America.

THESE are to CERTIFY that the Bearer hereof Corporal Daniel Hummiston from the State of Connecticut in Genl. Hazen's Regiment, having faithfully served the United States five years four months and being inlisted for the War only, is hereby Discharged from the American Army.

Given at Headquarters the 13th June 1783.

Signed G. Washington

By His Excellency's Command
J Trumbull

Registered in the Books of the Regiment,

Benjamin Morris Adjutant

THE above Capt. Daniel Hummiston has been honored with the BADGE of MERIT for five Years faithful Service.
 Moso Hazen
  Brig. Genl
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Headquarters, June 13, 1783.
The within Certificate shall not avail the Bearer as a Discharge, until the Ratification of the definitive Treaty of Peace; previous to which Time, and until Proclamation thereof shall be made, He is to considered as being on Furlough

GEORGE WASHINGTON.
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Log'd.  by W. Whitehill
20 Dec 1806
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Power of Attorney to receive Military Bounty Land

Know all Men by these presents: That I Elizabeth Moyer of Berks County Pennsylvania do make, constitute and appoint Robert Whitehill of Cumberland County and State of Pennsylvania aforesaid, my true and lawful attorney, for me and in my name to ask and receive a patent for the Military Bounty Land, to which my Father, Daniel Hummiston, was entitled in consequence of his services in the Revolutionary War. I being his only child and Heir, and to do all Lawful acts requisite for effecting the premises, hereby ratifying and confirming all that my said attorney shall lawfully do by virtue hereof. In witness hereof, I have hereunto set my name and seal, the sixteenth day of June one thousand eight hundred and six.
  Elizabeth Moyer  X mark
Sealed and delivered in presence of 
William Graydon  
Jacob Feather
  Be it known that on the seventeenth day of June one thousand eight hundred and six, before me, one of the Justices of the peace for the county of Dauphin State of Pennsylvania, personally came Elizabeth Moyer so named in the preceeding [sic] Power of Attorney and acknowledged the above letter of Attorney to be her act and deed.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal the day and year last aforesaid
  William Graydon