Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B. L. Wt. 1218-300, Joseph Walker, Conn.

SERVICE
Conn.
Walker, Joseph
NUMBER
B.L.Wt. 1218-300
CONTENTS
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Warrant No- 1218- issued to Catharine A. Walker &c - heirs of Captain Joseph Walker of the Connecticut line for 300- - acres of land -
February 21 st - 1827
and delivered to Jos: Watson

✓ No. 1218
Feb. 21. 1827

State of New York } County of New York } ss: I Catharine O. Walker of the City, County and State of New York and one of the heirs at law of Joseph Walker late of the County of Fairfield and State of Connecticut deceased do upon oath testify and declare that to the best of my knowledge and belief the said Joseph Walker was a captain of Webb's regiment in the Army of the revolutionary war in the Connecticut line on continental establishment and served as such to the close of the war. Also I do further testify and declare that I have never received a warrant from the United States for the quantity of land due the said deceased from the United States nor do I believe that he ever received it or trans- ferred his right to it in any manner during his life time.
Therefore know all men by these presents that I Catharine O. Walker — as aforesaid do hereby constitute and appoint Col. Joseph Watson 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 me in right of said deceased.
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 therein expressed and the same to revoke at will.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this sixteenth day of Febry 1827.
Teste me Marmore David M. Cowdrey
Catharine O. Walker
New York City and County ss.
Personally appeared before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said County the above named Catharine O. Walker — signer and sealor to the foregoing power of attorney and deposition and acknowledged the same to be her voluntary act and deed for the purposes therein named, sworn, subscribed and acknowledged before me this 16 th day of February 1827. J. Hammond Justice of Peace

State of New York City - County of New York } ss: I do hereby certify that Jeremiah Hammond Esquire before whom the foregoing power of attorney and deposition appear to have been taken and acknowledged was at the time of taking the same one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said County duly commissioned and qualified as such, and that to all of his official acts as such, due faith and credit should be given -
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office at New York this sixteenth day of February 1827.
J. D. Reyn
clerk of the City & County of New York
State of New-York County of New-York } ss: Be it remembered that on this day, the sixteenth - day of February Anno Domini 1827, there has been adduced to me satisfactory evidence to prove that Catherine O Walker who has made the foregoing declaration on oath and has subscribed the power of attorney herewith connected, is a daughter and one of the heirs of Joseph Walker late a Captain in the Continental Army of the revolution and that the other heirs of the said Joseph Walker are two in number, to wit; William A. Tomlinson aged about eight years and Susan J. Walker aged about nine years, both Grand-children of the said Joseph Walker.
and that the above named persons are all the heirs of the said Joseph Walker known to be living -
In virtue of all which, I have hereunto affixed my hand & seal official, in my capacity of a Notary Public this 16 th day of February at the City of New York.
J. D. Reyn Notary Public