Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B. L. Wt. 1685-100, David Wilkinson, Continental New York Residence Of Heirs In 1830

SERVICE
NUMBER
Continental
Wilkinson, David
B.L.Wt. 1685-100
CONTENTS
New York residence of heirs in 1830

Grenville Greene Co NY Nov 1st 1830
Sir
I have received Bounty Land Warrant N o 1685 issued to Allen Wilkinson, Son and the other heirs at law of David Wilkinson who was a private in the Massachusetts Line of the Army of the American Revolution
Very Respectfully
Your ob l Serv t
Denis Wakely
To William Gordon Esquire of the U st ates Bounty Land Office Washington City

David Wilkinson N o 1685

State of New York Dutchess County
I Allen Wilkinson Son and one of the Burs at Law of David Wilkinson deceased Do upon oath Testify and declare That according to the best of my knowledge and belief my Father the said David Wilkinson about or in the year one thousand seven hundred and sixty seven entered for the term of during the war and served in the first Regiment of Artillery under the command of Colonel Brane in the line of the State of Massachusetts on the continental establishment and that he continued in the service aforesaid until the close of the war when he was regularly discharged from the said first Regiment of Artillery under the command of Colonel Brane. I further declare that I have never received a warrant for the bounty land promised to the said David Wilkinson on the part of the United States nor do I believe he ever received it or was assigned or transferred his claim to it in any manner whatsoever. Therefore
know all men by these presents That I Allen Wilkinson aforesaid Do hereby constitute and appoint Lewis Wakeley of Green County to be 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 to me and the other heirs at Law of David Wilkinson aforesaid. And my said attorney is hereby fully authorised & impowered to surrender the said warrant to the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States and to receive in lieu thereof scrip or a Treasury certificate agreeable to the act of Congress in such case made & provided In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my mark and seal.
Witness,
JOHN JOHNSTON.
Allen
Wilkinson mark
Dutchess County ss.
Personally appeared before the subscriber one of the Subscribers of the Pleadings and for said County Allen Wilkinson subscribed to the foregoing declaration and made solemn oath to the truth
of

of the deposition by him subscribed and likewise acknowledged the power of attorney thereto subscribed to be his free act and deed. Given under my hand at Hyde Park in the said County of Dutchess This 30 th day of September in the year 1930.
JOHN JOHNSTON. Justice of the Peace
State of New York,
County of Dutchess } ss I, Henry J. Trauer Clerk, of the County of Dutchess and of the County Courts of the same do hereby certify that John Johnston Esquire whose name is subscribed to the preceding Certificate was on the day of its date a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, duly appointed and elected and sworn and further that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Justice and verily believe that the signature to the said Certificate to be genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of my said Office the first day of October A.D. one thousand eight hundred and thirty —
Henry J. Trauer Clerk
for $2.25 per m

David Wilkinson Prov. Mass. line

State of New York Dutchess County ss:3
Surrogates Office Poughkeepsie October 1 st 1830.
I certify that satisfactory evidence has been adduced to me to prove that Allen Wilkinson is a son and heir at law in fee, to David Wilkinson formerly a soldier in the artillery of the American Army of the Revolution, & that he served until the end of the war.
Given under my hand & seal of office this 1 st day of October 1830
James Hooker Surrogate of Dutchess County.