Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B. L. Wt. 227-200, John Hiwill, Continental (Mass.)
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3-1776

Service
Continental (Mass.)

*
Hiwill, John
or
Hiwell
or
Heivill

Number
B.L.Wt. -227-200.
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Hon. James Matthews
Bounty Land Office
Aug 24 1841

227
[illegible]

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Hon. John Bell
Secretary of War
Washington City
D.C.

R. Aug 4 1841
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Washington City Aug 18th 1841

Dear Sir,

I wish to obtain certified copies of all the papers on file, including the powers of attorney in the Bounty Land Office relating to the proof of heirship of John Hevill son, & only heir at law of of Lieut. John Neville of the army of the Revolution.

Respectfully Yours
Obedient Servant

[signature] Jas. Mathews

Hon. John Bell
Secretary of War
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No. 227
Jno. Hewill
Warrant  oficied &
del. [illegible] C. Carlton
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
STATE OF NEW CAROLINA
NEW-HANOVER COUNTY
PORT OF WILMINGTON, sc.

BY THIS PUBLIC INSTRUMENT
Be it known to whom the same doth or may concern, I PETER MAXWELL, residing and acting in the TOWN OF WILMINGTON, a NOTARY PUBLIC, duly admitted, commissioned and sworn in and for the County aforesaid, by Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the said State, 

DO HEREBY CERTIFY, That on the day of the date hereof at Wilmington aforesaid Before me the said Notary -  Personally [illegible] and appeared John Hiwill the party constituting and subscribing to the foregoing Power of Attorney and did then and there acknowledge this said signature and seal as thereto appears to be his voluntary act and deed for the purpose therein mentioned. 
[seal]
In testimony whereof the said Notary have hereinto signed my name and applied my seal Notarial at Wilmington this seventeenth day of January AD 1806 and XXXth year of the Independence of the United States of America. 

[signature] J.Maxwell notary public
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State of North Carolina 
New Hanover County
Wilmington

Know all man by these pursuits. That I John Hiwill only son of the late John Hiwill formerly an officer in the Army of the United States during the revolutionary War with Great Britain. Do hereby constitute and appoint Carlton Walker of Wilmington NC my [illegible] and lawful attorney for me to my [illegible] and in my name and stead to ask demand and receive from the proper office and officers of the United States at the City of Wilmington or else where to the full and compliant Titles grants or other conveyances to certain Military lands given or granted by the United States to my late Father John Hiwill for Military services as may appear on the proper Books he was in his lifetime [illegible] = titles unto. Giving and granting unto my said attorney by these presents my full and whole powers strength and authority upon receipt thereof Proprieties and all other [illegible} full documents for me and in my Name to do execute and perform as fully and [illegible] to all intents & purposes as I myself might or unto do where I personally present threat. Hereby Ratifying allowing and Confirming all and whatsoever my said Attorney shall lawfully do in and about the premises. 
In Witnes whereof I have here unto set my hand and seal at Wilmington this seventeenth day of January AD 1806 in the XXXth year of the Independence of those States.

[signature] John Hiwill
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Savannah July 10th 1804
Jas. Jackson Relative to the claim of the Heirs of Capt. Geo. Melvin and the Hier of Capt. Hiwell-
No. 227

R

Recd. 27th 1804

John
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Savannah, July 10th, 1804

Sir, 
I had the honor of your letter announcing the right of the heirs and legal representatives of Captain George Melvin to his claim against the United States, which his Widow and Administrator received the intelligence of with gratitude for your promptness in notifying my heir of it. She has a son but he is a minor. I have some of her papers but she is afraid to wish them by post, after the recent robbery of the trail. She wishes me to help and carry them with me on my [illegible] return to [illegible]. 
I have also been requested by a [illegible] Gentleman of their place. The son of the late Captain John Hiwille of the Massachusetts line, who settled after the War & died in this place, to inform you of his claim to his Father
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military rights - his Certificate as a member of the Cincinnati [illegible] the Massachusetts line under the lands of Generals Washington & Knox and in my lands, and I shall bring that and other papers to prove he is the sole Heir also on with me. I write now to request his claim may be entered - his Father I think must have been known to you, and I also think that for a considerable period he had charge of the music [?] of the Army. I here acknowledge the receipt of this and as Captain Hiwills name appears on the files of the War office would oblige me to be satisfactory to him. 
With the highest esteem
I am your obedient servant
Jas Jackson

Honorable Gen. Dearborn