Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B. L. Wt. 2210-100, for Bennett Meakins, Maryland
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Service
Md.

[stamped Star]
Meakins Bennett

Number
B.L.Wt. 2210-100.
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Bennett Meakins
No. 2210.
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State of Maryland Anne Arundel County, to wit:
At an orphans Court held for Anne Arundel County, March 27, 1838.  Satisfactory evidence was addressed in Court to prove that Joseph Shenton Meakins in the County of Anne Arundel and State of Maryland is the Nephew and only heir at Law in fee, to Bennet Meakins, deceased, late a Soldier in the fourth Regiment of the Maryland line Continental Army of the Revolutionary War.

Nichs Brewer
Thos. H Dorsey
Jos. N. Stockett
Test.  Sam. Brown. [illegible] Reg. Wills, A.A. County. 

In testimony that the aforegoing is a true copy taken from the minutes of proceedings of the Orphan Court of Anne Arundel County.

I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of my office this second day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight.
[illegible off page]   A. A. County
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State of Maryland
Ann Arundel County } S.S.

I. Joseph Shelton Meakins heir at law of Bennett Meakins, deceased late a soldier in the army of the revolution in the Maryland Continental line, do upon oath testify and declare, to the best of my knowledge and belief that the said Bennett Meakins did entered the army of the United States in Dorchester County under Cap. Levin Winder for the term of during the war, and served according to the best information in the 4th Regt. and that he continued in the service aforesaid until the end thereof, when he was honorably discharged , and further declare that I have never received a warrant for the County Land promised by the United States, nor do I believe that he ever received it, [illegible] to transfer his claim to it, an any manner whatsoever, therefore,
Know all men by these presents that I, Joseph Shelton Meakins, only heir or [illegible] of the said Bennett Meakins dec do hereby constitute and appoint Alexander Ray of Baltimore to be my true and lawful
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attorney for me, and in my name to demand and receive from the Secretary of War, of the United States, a warrant for he [illegible] of County Land, which may be due me as the nephew and only heir at law of the said Bennett Meakins dec
and the acts of my said attorney I do by [illegible] presents confirm, for the special purposes above [illegible]
Attest-This twentieth day of March 1838
Joseph Schenton Meakins  William Brewer J.P.
Witness
Wm Brewer 

Anne Arundel County Court
I hereby certify that William Brewer gentleman who appears to have declared the aforegoing deposition was at the time [illegible] of the State of Maryland and Justice of the peace in  [illegible] for Anne Arundel County duly commissioned and sworn
In testimony whereof I have set my [illegible] and affixed the seal of Anne Arundel County Court this 30th day of March 1838
Wm S Green Clk [title illegible]
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State of Maryland, Anne Arundel County S.S.
This is to certify that on the [illegible] day of May Eighteen Hundred and thirty eight  Before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said County Personally appeared James Frazier formerly a resident of Dorchester County, he being born and raised there and a new resident of Annapolis and
[illegible] in due form of Law, that he was well acquainted with Bennett Meakins of Dorchester County in Meakins [illegible] in said County late a soldier in the Army of the Revolution of the Maryland Continental Line and further certifies to the best of his knowledge that Bennett Meakins served to the end of the war, and died leaving one nephew who is well known to him which is Joseph Thonton Meakins and he further certifies that Bennett Meakins is the identical person who enlisted under Captain Levin Winder
Sworn to and subscribed before me one of the Justices of the Peace for the County aforementioned
James Frazier
Wm Brewer Just of the peace for AA [initials]
Mark

This is to certify that Mr James Frazier is well known to me to be a man of good character and can be relied on
Wm Brewer

Anne Arundel County Court
I hereby certify that William Brewer Gentleman who appears to have undertaken and signed the foregoing affidavit was at the time of so doing and of the State of Maryland justices of the peace in and for Anne Arundel County duly commissioned and sworn 

In testimony is hereof I thereto set my name and affix the seal of Anne Arundel County Court this eighth day of [illegible May?] eighteen hundred and thirty eight