Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B. L. Wt. 1131-400, for Alexander Skinner, Virginia
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Service
VA
Skinner, Alexander
Number
B.L.Wt. 1131-400
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Warrant No 1131 issued
to Richard Skinner &c heirs
of Surgeon Alexander Skinner
of the Virginia line

Augt. 15th 1825
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State of Maryland Calvert County Sc.
  I do hereby Certify that Basil Simmons and Edward Wood
Gentlemen were on the eleventh of July eighteen hundred and twenty five
and Still are Justices of the peace for Calvert County duly Commissioned
by the State of Maryland and qualified as the Law directs to every of whose
acts as Such full faith and credit is and ought to be given,
     In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed
     my name and affixed the public Seal of my office
     this first day of August in the year of our
     Lord eighteen hundred and twenty five

            William S. Morsell
            Clerk of Calvert County Court
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Washington City
    Personally appeared before me the 
subscriber a Justice of the Peace for said City
General Philip Stewart who being duly sworn
says that he was a Lieut in Col Washingtons
Regt of Cavalry during the war of the Revolution
and he says that he was well and intimately
acquainted with Doctor Alexander Skinner
a Surgeon of Lees ligean both during
said war of the revolution and subsequent
he says that the said Skinner was from 
Calvert County in the State of Maryland
where he ever understood that he was born
he believes that the said Skinner lived and
Died a single & unmarried man and further
he saith not

July 27th 1825
Israel Little J P
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The heirs of Surgeon
Alexr. Skinner of Lt.
Col. Lees Legion

Wt. issed No. 1131
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State of Maryland 
Calvert County
I Richard Skinner one of the heirs at law
of Doctor Alexander Skinner Deceased late
a surgeon in the army of the Revolution do
upon oath testify and declare to the best of my knowledge and belief
that the said Doctor Alexander Skinner was a Surgeon in
the army of the Revolution and that he continued therein to
the close of the war.  And I further testify and declare that
I have never received a warrant for the bounty land to which
the said Skinner was entitled nor do I believe that any of
my heirs have ever Received said warrant or that is there
them ever disposed of it to any one neither have I ever disposed
of it  Also I am induced to believe that the said Alexander Skinner
during his lifetime never received said land or disposed
of the same   Therefore Know all men by these
Presents that I Richard Skinner as aforesaid do hereby constitute
and appoint Joseph Wilson of Washington City my
true and lawful Attorney for me and in my name to demand
and Receive from the Secretary of war of the United States a 
warrant for the Quantity of land due to me as aforesaid and
my said attorney is hereby justly authorized and empowered to
Constitute and appoint one or more substitutes as attorney,
under him for the special purposes herein named
In witness whereof - I have hereunto set my hand and
seal this Eleventh of July 1825
   [signed]  Basil Simmons      Richard Skinner

Personally appeared before me the subscriber a Justice
of the Peace in and for said County the above named Richard
Skinner signed and sealed to the above power of attorney
and acknowledged the same to be his Voluntary act
and deed for the purpous therein named
Sworn subscribed and acknowledged before me
this Eleventh of July 1825
[signed}  Basil Simmons JP.
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State of Maryland 
Calvert  County
Personally appeared  before me the
Subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and
for said County   aged
and a person of credibility who being duly
sworn saith that  was acquainted with Doctor
Alexander Skinner who as    believes was a Surgeon
in the Army of the Revolution.  That he had neither 
brothers or sisters Being an illegitimate child and his 
mother Ann Skinner never maried or had any other
child.  That    was well and intimately acquainted
with the family of the said Ann Skinner there being
four Brothers and five Sisters that none of the 
Sisters were maried or had any children except the before
named Alexander by the said Ann.  That of the four Brothers
three of which (viz) Henry, Robert, and Maryland Skinner
maried and left families.  but says that all of the 
brothers and sisters of the said Ann and herself also have long
since been died.  That of the three brothers who maried they
they all of them left children, but it is believed that there are 
none of the children of Henry living at this day they however
maried or at least a part of them and left children.  Of the 
children of Robert one of which Richard Skinner is 
now living and in the same neighbourhood where the family
formerly resided  Knows not whither any more of the 
Brothers or Sisters of the said Richard Skinner are now living.
Of the said Maryland Skinners family he lift only 
one child a daughter who married James Wilson.  She is also dead
having one child a son named Hillary Wilson who is informed
is also dead & left several children and further saith
not   sworn and subscribed before me
this twelfth of July 1825

State of Maryland
Calvert County
JP Bazel  Simmons a Justice of the Peace
in and for said County and aged sixty four
years do hereby certify that I from my earliest infancy was
raised in this neighbourhood and that I had some slight 
personal acquaintance with Doctor Alexander Skinner who
I have ever understood was a Surgeon in the Army of the
Revolution.  I was acquainted with hos mothers family
They living untill the time of their death in my immediate
neighbourhood  The doctor was an illegitimate son of
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Ann Skinner and had no Brothers or Sisters she never 
having married.  The said Ann had four Brothers and as
many Sisters  none of said Sisters were maried or had
any children and three of the Brothers Maried and had
children (viz) Henry, Robert and Maryland.  All of the
Brothers and Sisters of Ann the mother of the said Doctod
Skinner are long since dead also  Also there are none
of the children now living that I know of the said Henry
Robert & maryland except Richard the person who executed
the foregoing power of attorney before me & is my next
neighbor.  Several of the children of Henry, Rob 
& Maryland married and left children
Certified by me this twelfth of July 1825
[signed] Basil Simmons JP

State of Maryland
Calvert County
Personally appeared before me the subscriber
a Justice of the Peace in and
for said County Sarah Hance a person
of credibility who being duly affirmed - saith that she
is now upwards of eighty years old that she in infancy
was acquainted with Doctor Alexre Skinner and
went to the same school with him.  That she at that
time understood him to be an illegitimate child of Ann
Skinner and he was known and recognized as such.  She
says that she was at that time well acquainted with the
Brothers and Sisters of the said Ann but the precise 
number or  names of them all she does not at this time
remember.  She says that all of the Sisters of the said
Ann and herself also died single and unmaried and
none of them had any children except the said Alexander
Skinner.  That of the Brothers of the said
Ann two or three of them maried and left children
but she knows not whether any of the children
of said Brothers are at this day living except Richard
Skinner one of the sons of Robert Skinner 
who is about her age and cousin to the said Alexander.
She feels confident that all of the Uncles and 
Aunts of the said Alexander have long since  since been
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dead and further she saith not
affirmed by me a Justice of the Peace
for Calvert County this 13th day of July 1825
[signed]  Edward Wood   Sarah Hance her mark

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The heirs of Surgeon
Alexr Skinner of Lt.
Col. Lees Legion

Wt. issd No. 1131