Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B.L.Wt. 2238-100, for Henry Mc Neal, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Continental (Mass.)
McNeal, Henry
B.L.Wt 2238-100
CONTENTS

Henry M c Neal N o . 2238.

Reuben Baldwin
Deed in right of his wife
Heirs: Mary McNeal
Ent.
Re d Oct r 13. 1838

Weld MS Oct 5
paid
56 1/4
Reuben Baldwin Esq. American Travelling Office No 47 Court St. Boston Mass

State of Maine. County of Franklin ss.
Probate Office Oct. 2. 1838.
I hereby certify that satisfactory evidence was this day adduced to me to prove that Mary Lakin of Carthage in the County of Franklin in said State is a Daughter and only heir at law to the Estate of Henry Mc'Neal late of Groton County of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Mass- achusetts, deceased, and that the said Henry Mc'Neal was a soldier in the war of the Revolution
Thomas Parker Judge
Franklin ss.
State of Maine.
J. Holmes A. Boardman, Register of the Court of Probate for said County, hereby certify that the Hon. Thomas Parker is the acting and qualified Judge of the Court of Probate for said County and that his signature to the prefixed certificate is genuine being this day first to the same in my presence and that the same is the original proceedings of said Court
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court of Probate this second day of October in the year of our Lord one Thousand eight hundred and thirty eight
H. A. Boardman, Register.

I Asahel Banger of Temple in the County of Franklin and State of Maine, Being sworn do hereby testify and say that I am in the fifty eighth year of my age, and that I was formerly well acquainted with Mr Henry McNeal late of Grafton Middlesex County and Commonwealth of Massachusetts deceased; said Henry McNeal was a Soldier in the War of the Revolution, and served several years in the Army, and after the termination of said War I lived three years in their fam- ily at Grafton, said Henry his wife Mary and two sons viz. Henry and Thomas are dead many years since, and the only branch of their family now living is Mrs Mary Lakin wife of Isaiah Lakin of Carthage in said County of Franklin. said Henry and Thomas her brothers died leaving no issue. That said Mary Lakin is the only surviving child and only heir at Law to the aforesaid Henry McNeal decd his Asahel & Banger mark
subscribed and sworn to this 28 th Day of Sept 1858.
before me Jesse Huse, Justice of the Peace
Witness Daniel Beale
I hereby certify that I have been acquainted with Asahel Banger the above Dependant for several years past, and to the best of my knowledge his character for truth and veracity is good. Jesse Huse Justice of Peace

Heir of Henry McNeal decd.

DEPARTMENT OF WAR.
State of Maine Franklin County. } ss.
I, Mary Lakin a Daughter and only heir at law to Henry McNeal deceased, do upon oath testify and declare, that to the best of my knowledge and belief, Henry McNeal aforesaid, about, or in the year 1777 entered, or enlisted into the service of the United States, for the term of "During the War:" and that he continued in the service aforesaid, until the close of the same, when he received an honorable discharge at the termination thereof, from the Invalid Regiment of the _____ line commanded by Colonel Lewis Nickle and when he was a Private . I further testify that my late Father, said Henry McNeal enlisted as a Soldier in the War of the Revolution, at Groton Middlesex County Mass ts and after serving his Country more than six years, was discharged from Capt Moses McFarlands Comp y and died at said Groton soon thereafter I further declare, that I have never received a warrant for the Bounty Land promised to Henry McNeal aforesaid, on the part of the United States, nor do I believe he ever received it, or transferred his claim to it in any manner whatsoever:
All Men By these Presents, that I Mary Lakin aforesaid, do hereby constitute and appoint Reuben Baldwin of Boston in the State of Massachusetts 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 Bounty Land due me as the only heir at law of Henry McNeal aforesaid. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal, this 28 th day of September in the year 1838. —
Signed, Sealed, and Delivered, in presence of
Hiram Belcher Jesse Huse
Franklin - County, ss.
Mary Lakin 
Be it known that on this 28 th day of September in the year 1838 Before the subscriber, one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said County, personally appeared Mary Lakin subscriber to the above declaration, who made solemn oath to the truth of the same: and likewise acknowledged the power of attorney thereunto subjoined, to be her free act and deed; dated at Farmington in said County the day and year above mentioned.
Hiram Belcher Justice of the Peace.
State of Maine Franklin County. } ss.
I, Jesse Huse Clerk of the Court of Franklin County , do hereby certify, that Hiram Belcher before whom the foregoing declaration was sworn, and the subjoined power of attorney purports to have been acknowledged, is and was at the date thereof, one of the Justices of the Peace, in and for the County of Franklin duly commissioned sworn and qualified by law to take affidavits, &c. and further that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of said Justice, and verily believe the signature purporting to be his is genuine. In witness whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of the said Court and subscribed my name at Farmington this 28 day of September in the year 1838.
Jesse Huse } Clerk of all the Judicial Courts for the County of Franklin