Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B. L. Wt. 2,190-100, William Welch, N.C.

SERVICE
N.6.
Welch, William
NUMBER
B.L.Wt. 2190-107
CONTENTS

William Welch
* 2190
Rev. War.
See

Sir
Beaufort N.C. 9 th Nov. 1837
I herewith notify you that I have received from the Commission of the Genl Land Office of the U States a Land Warrant for One Hundred Acres of Land No 2190--on a power of atty of Robert Welch only heir of William Welch a Soldier of the Revolutionary Army and of the North Carolina Line.
I am Very Respectfully you Obedient Servt J W Burch
William Gordon Esq. Genl Land Office

William Welch
N o 2190.
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State of North Carolina
Carteet County 3 At a Court held for Carteet County March term 1838 Satisfactory evidence was adduced in Court to prove that Robert Welch of the County of Carteet and State of North Carolina is the only heir of William Welch who enlisted in the Continental Line of this State (North Carolina) in the Revolutionary War and that he served to the end of said War and after the War he returned to this County where he died I think in the year of 1844 or 5 and that he was not on any pension Roll to the knowledge of the deponent. I certify that the deponent who makes the above statement is an aged and respectable man & whose deposition may be relied upon
I Gilbert Kinley Clerk of the County Court, do certify that the above evidence is taken from the records in my office
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed my official seal this 4th day of October A.D. 1857-
G. Kinley Clerk By David Kinley Clerk

State of North Carolina County of Carteret
I Robert Welch heir at Law of William Welch do upon Oath testify and declare to the best of my knowledge and belief that William Welch did enter the service in for the term of during the War and served as a Soldier in the Regiment no 10- under the Command of Colonel Abraham Shepard of the North Carolina Continental line; and that he continued in the service aforesaid until the end of the Revolutionary War. I further declare that I have never received a Warrant for the bounty land promised to William Welch on the part of the United States. Nor do I believe that he ever received it or transferred his claim to it in any manner whatsoever; Therefore know all men by these presents that I Robert Welch aforesaid do hereby constitute and appoint James W Hunt to be my true and lawfull 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; also all Bounty of Money and pay that may be due to me as heir of the said William Welch; and my said attorney is hereby fully authorized and empowered to constitute and appoint one or more Substitutes or attorneys under him for the special purposes above expressed March 1837
Attest J.W. Hunt
Robert Welch his mark Seal
Personally appeared the above named Robert Welch subscribed to the foregoing declaration and made Oath to the same; and in my present acknowledged the power of attorney thereto subjoined to be his free act and deed for the purposes therein mentioned - and that William Welch was never on the Pension Roll to my knowledge March 1837-
J.W. Hunt Justice of the Peace

State of North Carolina,
(Carteret County )
In testimony that the within written John H. Hare was a magistrate authorized to administer oaths, and take acknowledgements in the State of North Carolina at the above date and that his name there subscribed appears to be to be his usual signature, I have hereunto affixed the County Seal and subscribed my name and quality, at- Beaufort in the County of Carteret this 4th day of October A.D. 183.
Y. R. Muller. H. C. By David P. Hunter. S. G.