Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B.L.Wt. 983-100, Edmund Bird, Mass.

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Mass
Bird, Edmund
Number B.L.Wt. 983-10
Issued Mch 10, 1821

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983
the heirs of Edmund Bird
private
1st Regt Massa: line
Warrant issd March 10th 1831.
Joseph Watson
Suffolk County Mass.  Thos Dawes, Judge of Probate for said County
certifies that Daniel Bird, is the Son and only heir at law of Edmund
Bird Printer of the 1st Mass Reg. dated 23 Jany 1828
Power of all of Dan Bird to Joseph Watson dated at Suffolk
the 22d Feby 1821 and acknowled before of Blagge J.P.
No 29, 198- entity to Edmund Bird - 8th Mass Regt.

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[typed] SERVICE
[handwritten] Mass.

[handwritten] Bird, Edmund

[typed] NUMBER
[handwritten] B.L.Wt. 983-100
Issued Mch. 10, 1821

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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Suffolk County
Thomas
Dawes Esq
Judge of Probate of wills &c for said County
Hereby Certifies, That Daniel Bird is the son & only legal heir at Law of
Edmund Bird
late a Private in the First Massachusetts Regiment during the Revolutionary War now
deceased
Given under my hand & seal of Office at Boston aforesaid this Twenty third
day of January in the year of our Lord, one thousand Eight hundred Twenty one
Thomas Dawes

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for 29. 198 [looks like a filing notation]

NOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS
That -
I Daniel Bird - legal Heir at law
Edmund Bird deceased   f@29. 198


have constituted, ordained and made, and in my stead and place put and by these presents do constitute, ordain and make, and in my stead and place put

Joseph Watson of Washington DC. Esq. 
to be my true, sufficient and lawful attorney for me and in my name and stead, to
ask & [illegible] of the Government of the State & the Warrant for the Military Bounty land due & coming time as the legal Heir at Law of Edmund Bird late a private in the first
Massachusetts Regiment during the Revolutionary War deceased.

Giving and hereby granting unto my said attorney, full power and authority in and
about the premises; and to use all due means, course and process in the law for the full,
effectual and complete execution of the business afore described; and in my name to
make and execute due acquittance and discharge; and for the premises to appear, and the person of me the constituent to represent before any governor, judges, justices, officers
and ministers of the law whatsoever, in any court or courts of judicature, and there, on
my behalf, to answer, defend and reply unto all actions, causes, matters and things
whatsoever, relating to the premises. Also to submit any matter in dispute, respecting the
purposes aforesaid, one or more attorneys under my said attorney and the same again
at pleasure to revoke. And generally to say, do act, transact, determine, accomplish,
and finish all matters and things whatsoever, relating to the premises, as fully, amply and
effectually, to all intents and purposes, as I
the said constituent if present, ought or
might personally, although the matter should require more special authority than is herein
comprised, I the said constituent ratifying, allowing and holding firm and valid all and
whatsoever my said attorney or his substitutes shall lawfully do, or cause to be
done in and about the premises, by virtue of these presents. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this twenty second day of Feby in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and twenty one
Signed, sealed, and delivered,
in presence of us

S. Blagge
C.H. Blagge

Daniel Bird

Suffolk SS. 22 Febry 1821. Then the above named Daniel Bird acknowledged the above Instrument to be his free Act and Deed before me,
J Blagge
Justice of the Peace
Notary Public

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Reuben Baldwin
June 26th
1838
983
for 
Hon. Secretary of War
Bounty Land Office
Washington
No. June 22, 1838

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Boston, Massachusetts.
June 18th 1838.

Sir
An aged widow Lady of Dorchester by the name of Hannah Bird, has applied to me thro her Children soliciting my assistance in obtaining a pension under the act of Congress of July 4th 1836, & as proof of services of their late Father in the War of the Revolution, have presented to me a Patent Title for 100 acres of Bounty Land, which Patent was Issued by the United States to Daniel Bird only son & only heir at law to Edmund Bird decd: There are some incidents connected with this application of a singular character and I have refused to proceede untill I can be satisfied that their has not been some imposition practised upon the Dept at a former period in obtaining said Bounty Land. It is evident that the applicants husbands name was Edward Bird (not Edmund) and that he died long before the act of 1818. and that at the time of his death he had four children viz one son, Daniel & three Daughters. the latter all now living, said Daniel Bird is dead, to whom the patent was granted. It is evident that there was a pensioner by the name of Edmund Bird, who resided in Westchester County in the State of New York, and drew a pension under the Act of Congress of the 18th March 1818. There is said to be living testimony of the services of the applicant husband in the first part of the War but it is extremely doubtful whether he continued to its close, especially in the Land Service. The applicant is verry aged and completely superannuated, and no information can be derived from her. As the aged applicants case is much obscured

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by the lapse of time and the before mentioned circumstances, I have therefore concluded to addres the department for some information. as to the nature of the testimony on which the Land Warrant in satisfaction of the claim of Edmund Bird. was granted.
The above mentioned Land Patent was Issued to "Daniel Bird the only son & heir at law to Edmund " Bird decd who was a soldier in the first Regiment of the" "Massachusetts line in the Revolutionary Army. one" "hundred acres. Lot No. 21. in the third Quarter of the first" "Township. in the first Range of the tract. & Dated 28 Sept""1825 Signed J.Q. Adams President. Recorded in Volume" " 4th page 219" (Supposed No of the Warrant 983). Any information that will throw light on this case would be thankfully received; and that most desired in particular is the evidence of heirship on which the Warrant was Issued.
Please to answer this communication and forward that directed to me at this place
Verry Respectfully Sir I am your Obedient Servant
[signed] Reuben Baldwin

Hon. Secretary of War
Bounty Land Office
Washington

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[handwritten]
These papers all found in claim of Edmund R. Bird N. 16193. That soldier died in 1835 and this soldier was dead in 1821 when the bounty land was issued to his heir.
Apr - 11 - 1928 -
MHF