Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B.L.Wt 401-100, Samuel Way, Penn.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Penn
Way, Samuel
B.L.Wt 401-100
CONTENTS
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N o 401.
Sam. way private. Perm. a line.
W. ip. 1 o Ab. 1808 & 2 o 1809 To Sam. Smith Esq.
Resolution

In Pursuance of an act of General Assembly of the State of Pennsylvania passed the 24 th day of February 1785 entitled an act for directing the mode of distributing the Donation Lands promised the Troops of this Commonwealth, and by order of the Surveyor General, with the approbation of the Honorable the Executive Council, I have Surveyed on the 24 th day of October 1785 the above described Tract of Two hundred Acres and allowance of Six Percent for Roads N o MLII Situate in District N o 5 on the West side of the Alleghany River in the County of Westmoreland
Benj. Lodge G.S.
To John Lukens Esq. Surveyor General
In testimony that the above is a copy of the original remaining filed in the Surveyor General's Office I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said Office at Lancaster this 22 nd day of February 1808
Sam l Corman D.L.

Sam. May Private 1052 - Mar. 30
Dist No 5 Donation Lands 200 00

I Certify that the within described Tract of Land appears to have been patented to Samuel Way as his Donation, promised by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for his Services as a private Soldier during the late Revolutionary War with Great Britain In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the Seal of said Office at Lancaster this 22 nd Day of February 1808
Sam l Lockman Atty.

Mr Samuel Smith Esq
For Congress from Essex County at Washington City
Am

I know all men by these presents that I Samuel way of Bedford County and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for Divers Considerations and good causes me hereunto moving Do make ordain constitute. and appoint my trusty friend Samuel Smith Esq. of the County of Erie. and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania my true and lawful attorney for me and in my name to act. touching and concerning or in any ways appertaining, to Apply to the Secretary of war, office of the united States for my lot of united States Military Bounty Lands and receive a warrant for the same in my name for my services, Having been enlisted for and served to the End of the Revolutionary war with Great Britain. Agreeable to the acts of Congress in such case made & provided, Here And I Do hereby Revoke all Prior. Powers of Attorney prior to this Date & Hereby Ratifying and allowing and Confirming what ever my said Attorney shall Lawfully do in and about, the premises by virtue of these presents in Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal this
13 th Day of February 1808
Samuel Way
Signed Sealed & Delivered in the presence of us
John Kuyper Wm Clark

Bedford County ss. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Personally came before me the within
one of the justices of the peace in and for said County the within subscribing Samuel way and acknowledged the within power of attorney to be his act and deed for the purpose therein mentioned and desired the same might be recorded as such as witness my hand & seal this 13 th day of February 1808 - -
Wm. Clark (Seal)
Pennsylvania } I Jacob Bonnell Prothonotary of the Court Bedford County } of Common Pleas in and for said County, do Certify that William Clark, Esquire Gentleman before whom the foregoing Power of attorney was acknowledged by Samuel Way is one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified, to whom official act as such full faith and credit is due as well in Court as thereout.
In testimony whereof I have here to set my hand and affixed the seal of said County this fifteenth day of February Anno Domini 1808. Jacob Bonnell

Bedford County ss
Personally appeared Samuel Way before me the subscribing Witness one of the Justices of the peace in and for Said County - and on his solemn affirmation Saith he is the same person mentioned in the foregoing power of attorney and that he was enlisted for and served during the Revolu- tionary war and to the end thereof with great Bravery in the army of the united States in the Pennsylvania line, and that he has never Received his Cota of the united States Military Lands - affirmed and subscribed before me this 13 th Day of February 1808
attest Wm. Clark }
Samuel Way