Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B.L.Wt. 393-100, for Hugh Mc Elvery, Pennsylvania

SERVICE
NUMBER
Penn
McElvery, Hugh or McElvery
B.L. No. 393-100
CONTENTS

No 71.
19393.
Hugh M c Clery.
private
Penn a
M c M c Clay.
W h ever I deliver to Hon. Sam. Willey also is to handmit it to Hugh M c Clery.
3 rd July 1862.

Pennsylvania
Exemplification
In the Name and by the Authority of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania Thomas McKean Governor of the said Commonwealth To all to whom these presents shall come Greeting
Know ye that in consideration of the services rendered by Hugh McElroy Private in the late Army of the United States and in the Pennsylvania line there is granted by the said Commonwealth unto the said Hugh McElroy a certain tract of land N o 896 called "Hibernia" Situate in Donation District N o 5 in Mercer County Beginning at a corner thence by N o 901 902 and 903 North two degrees and a half West two hun- dred sixty one perches to a Maple thence by N o 897 North eighty seven degrees and a half East One hundred thirty perches to a Post thence by N o 890 North two degrees and a half East two hundred sixty one perches to a corner and thence by N o 895 South eighty seven degrees and a half West One hundred fifty perches to the Beginning containing Two hundred acres and allowance of Six p er Cent for Roads &c of which said tract was Surveyed in pursuance of an Act of the General Assembly passed 24 th February 1785
To have and to hold the said tract or parcel of land with the Appurtenances unto the said Hugh McElroy & his heirs to the use of him the said Hugh McElroy his heirs and assigns for ever
free and clear of all restrictions and reservations as to Mines, royalties quarrels or otherwise excepting and reserving only the fifth part of all gold and Silver Ore for the use of the Commonwealth to be delivered at the pits mouth clear of all charges
In Testimony whereof I have set my Hand and caused the great seal of the State to be affixed to these Presents at Lancaster this sixteenth day of February in the year of

our Lord One thousand eight hundred hundred and three and of the commonwealth the twenty seventh
Thos M c Lean (S d )
By the Governor
James Trimble
Deputy Sec y
Inrolled the 17 th Feb y 1803
I Timothy Matlack Master of Rolls do hereby certify
That the foregoing is a true copy (or exemplification) of an entry in Patent book 48 page 360. remaining of record in the Rolls Office, duly compared therewith.
Witness my hand & Seal of Office, at Lancaster, this 26th day of February A.D. 1786.
Matlack. M c R