Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B. L. Wt. 611-100, for William Mahew, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Mayhew William or Mayhew
B.L.Wt. 611 100
CONTENTS

182 No. 11. 91 William Mayhew
Sergeant
5. Regt.
Mass. Line.
Warrant issued under date the 10 th th February 1813. name of Claimant; - and add to the Hon ble Ch as Turner j r on the 27 th Feb y 1813.
[Faint signature or mark]
Dpd. Hon ble Ch as Turner j r Noted on Bl: 24 th Nov r 1812.

Power of Att y from Wm Mahew to Cha s Turner jr. to receive & dispose of Land Warrant.

Know all men by these presents, That I William Mayhew of Boston in the County of Suffolk Sargent in the fifth Massachusetts Regiment in the late Revolutionary War do constitute ordain and appoint Charles Turner Junior Esq r of Scituate in the County of Plymouth to be my true and lawful attorney for and in my name to receive a Land warrant from the Office of the Secretary at War of the United States for my services in the war as sargent as aforesaid with full power to appoint one or more Attorneys under him the said Attorney. Also to sell and convey the same and to receive the proceeds to his own proper use and benefit.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my name and seal this twenty first day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twelve.
Signed sealed and delivered in presence of Freeman Gridley
John Walker
Suffolk ss Boston October 21 1812 Then personally appeared William Mayhew and acknowledged the above instrument by him subscribed to be his free act and deed before me
Wm Morrison
} Justice of the Peace.
This Certifies that William Morrison is a Justice of the Peace in the County of Suffolk, State of Massachusetts
Charles Turner Jr. (M.C.) J. H. Varnum (S.U.S.)

By His Excellency GEORGE WASHINGTON, Esq; General and Commander in Chief of the Forces of the United States of America.
THESE are to CERTIFY that the Bearer hereof William Mayhew Sergeant in the Fifth Massachusetts Regiment , having faithful- ly served the United States five Years & upwards . and being inlisted for the War only, is hereby DISCHARGED from the American Army.
GIVEN at HEAD-QUARTERS the Eleventh day of June 1783.
G. Washington
By His Excellency
Command,
J. M'Intosh Col. & C.
REGISTERED in the Books of the Regiment,
H. Moxley Adjutant.
THE above Sergeant Mayhew , has been honored with the BADGE of MERIT for six Years faithful Service.
W. H. Knappton Com-5th Mass. Regt.