Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B. L. Wt. 2022-100, for James Mc Williams, Virginia

SERVICE
NUMBER
Continental
McWilliams, James
B.L. Mt. 2022-10-0
Va. - res. in 1834
CONTENTS

(Copy)
Land Office, Military Warrant N o . 7639.
To the Principal Surveyor of the land set apart for the Officers and Soldiers of the Commonwealth of Virginia
This shall be your Warrant to survey and lay off, in one or more Surveys for James M c Williams, his heirs or assigns the quantity of Two Hundred Acres of Land due unto the said M c Williams, in consideration of his services as a Private in Armand's Legion - agreeably to a certificate from the Governor & Council, which is recorded into the Land Office
Given under my hand and the said Seal of Office this 13 th day November 1834
200. Acres
Seal
W. Selden. Reg d L. Off. V a

State of Virginia County of Rockingham } ss.
I James McWilliams of the County and State aforesaid, do upon my oath declare and testify that in the year 1782 I enlisted for the term of three years, and served in General Armand's Corps under the command of Major Shaffner, Capt. Le Bart, Lieut. Fontaine, and Ensign or Cornet Rottland - and continued in the service till the close of the Revolutionary War. I further declare that I have never received a Warrant for the any Bounty. Land on the part of the United States. nor have I ever transferred my claim to such Bounty. Land in any manner whatsoever.
Therefore know all men by these presents that I James McWilliams aforesaid do hereby constitute and appoint Allan B. Bryan, of Harrisonburg, Rockingham County, State of Virginia to be my true and lawful attorney, for me and in my name to receive demand and receive from the Secretary of War of the United States, a Warrant for the quantity of land which may be due to me from the United States. And my said attorney is hereby fully authorised and empowered to constitute and appoint one or more substitutes or attorneys under him for the special purposes above expressed.
Witness my hand & seal, this 5 th day of March 1834.
attest.
D. S. Bagley
James McWilliams
This 5 th day of March 1834. James McWilliams above named personally appeared before the subscriber a justice of the Peace for the County of Rockingham, State of Virginia and made oath that that the foregoing statement of facts is true, and in my presence subscribed, the foregoing power of attorney & acknowledged the same to be his act & deed.
Abraham Smith
State of Virginia, Rockingham County to wit,
I Henry J. Garbill, Clerk of the Court of the said County, do hereby certify, that Abraham Smith esquire before whom the above Power of attorney appear to have been

Acknowledged, is one of the acting Magistrates in and for the said County duly commissioned and qualified, and that due faith and Credit is and ought to be given to all his official acts, done as such, as well without as within Court.
In Witness whereof, I have hereunto my hand and affixed the seal of my said County this 21 st day of March 1834. same in the 58 th year of the Commonwealth
J. F. Gault B.H.
James M. Williams No. 2022.
Mr. William C. Bryan Chairman of Joint Committee