Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B. L. Wt. 2101-100, John Blaisdell, N.H.

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(3-1776)
SERVICE n.H.
NUMBER B. L. Wt. 2101-100
Blaisdell, John
Blasdell
CONTENTS

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Boston, Month March 31st 1835
Received this day by due course of mail, from the United States War Dept, Bounty Land Office, Land Warrant No 2101, for 100 acres of Bounty Land. Issued to Abner Blasdell, brother Lydia Blasdell, Nancy Marshall, Mary Sanborn, & Elizabeth Straw, sisters and the only heir at Law to John Blasdell, who was a Sergeant in the New Hampshire line, (of the Revolutionary army)
Reuben Baldwin

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John Blasdell
No. 2101.

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Authenticated
Certificate

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State of New Hampshire
Rockingham Ls Court of Common Pleas Jan, 7, 1835
was this day
Thereby certify that satisfactory evidence addend
to this court to prove, that, Abner Blaisdell,
a brother, and Lydia Blaisdell Nancy Marshall
Mary Sanborn and Elizabeth Straws Sisters
are the only heirs of John Blasdell late of Hampton
Falls, and that said Blasdell was
a soldier of the New Hampshire, line, in the army
of the Revolutionary war,
In testimony whereof I have here into
set my hand and offered the seal
of said Court this 16th day of
January 1835
B. Hoitt Clerk of said Court
of Common Pleas
Rock .. County

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Heirs of
John Blaisdell

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DEPARTMENT OF WAR.
State of New hampshire
Rockingham County. } ss.
I, Abner Blaisdell a Brother and one heir at law to John Blaisdell deceased, do upon oath testify and declare, that to the best of my knowledge and belief, John Blaisdell aforesaid, about, or in the year 1777 entered, or enlisted into the service of the United States, for the term of "During the War:" and that he continued in the service aforesaid, until the close of the same, when he received an honorable discharge at the termination thereof from the Regiment of the New hampshire line commanded by Colonel George Reed - and when he was a Sergeant
I further testify and declare that my Brother John Blaisdell aforesaid, departed this life in in the Town of Seabrook, in said County, about thirty years since - and left neither widow, or children
I further declare, that I have never received a warrant for the Bounty Land promised to John Blaisdell aforesaid, on the part of the United States, nor do I believe he ever received it, or transferred his claim to it in any manner whatsoever:
Therefore, KNOW All Men By these Presents, that I Abner Blaisdell aforesaid, do hereby constitute and appoint Reuben Baldwin of Freehold in the State of New York 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 Bounty Land due me and the other heirs at law of John Blaisdell aforesaid. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal, this fifth day of January in the year 1835.
Signed, Sealed, and Delivered,
in presence of
Lory Odell
Abner Blaisdell
State of new hampshire
Rockingham County, ss.
Be known that on this Fifth day of January in the year 1835 Before the subscriber, one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said County, personally appeared Almer Blaisdell the suhscriber to the above declaration, who made solemn oath to the truth of the same: and likewise acknowledged the power of attorney thereunto subjoined, to be his free act and deed; dated at Hampton Falls in said County the day and year above mentioned. 
Lory Odell
Justice of the Peace.
State of New Hampshire
Rockingham County. } ss.
I,  B. Hoitt Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas - for seriel County, do hereby certify, that Lory Odell before whom the foregoing declaration was sworn, and the subjoined power of attorney purports to have been acknowledged, is and was at the date thereof, one of the Justices of the Peace, in and for the County of Rockingham duly commissioned sworn and qualified by law to take affidavits, &c. and further that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of said Justice, and verily believe the signature puporting to be his is genuine. In witness whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of the said Court and subscribed my name at Portsmouth this fifth day of January in the year 1835.
B. Hoitt Clerk

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Deposition of 
Em
Stephen Dodge

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I Stephen Dodge of Hampton Falls in the County of Rockingham and State of New Hampshire