Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B.L.Wt. 278-100, for Nicholas Jacoby, Pennsylvania

SERVICE
NUMBER
Continental (Pam.)
★ Jacoby, Nicholas
Blk. 278-100
CONTENTS

Nicholas Jacoby - a private in Van Buren's Troop. lodged by John Shorb -
The evidence adduced in this case was a grant from the Land Office in Pennsylvania for 200 Acres of Land to S. Jacoby for military services, but did not state that he enlisted for the war. Mr. Shorb engaged to procure a certificate from the Secy of the Land Office in Penn. a that his warrant was issued on proof that the S. Jacoby enlisted for & served to the close to the end of the war.
❖ The warrant above alluded was taken back again by Mr. Shorb.

Nicholas Jacoby
W. P. Riley
82

Thos M c Lean
Pennsylvania, ss.
In the Name, and by the Authority of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,
of the said Commonwealth,
To all to whom these Presents shall come, Sends Greeting:
Know ye, That William Bausman Esquire,
whose name is — subscribed to the Instrument of Writing hereunto annexed was at the time of subscribing the same, and now is, a Justice of the peace, residing in the Borough of Lancaster, in the County of Lancaster,
in the said Commonwealth; duly appointed and commissioned. And full Faith and Credit is and ought to be given to him accordingly.
Given under my Hand and the Great Seal of the State, at Lancaster — this fifteenth day of February, — in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and six and of the Commonwealth the twenty third.
By the Governor,
James Trimble Deputy Sec y

N o 23.
Letter of Attorney
Nicholas Jacoby
to
John Shurb
Witnesseth
At John Shurb.

To All People to whom these presents shall or may come, I Nicholas Jacoby Send Greeting — Know Ye that I the said Nicholas Jacoby for sundry good causes me moving, I have made, ordained and appointed & by these presents do make, ordain and appoint John Shorb of Adams County Pennsylvania, my true & Lawfull Attorney in my name & to my use, to apply for, make entry of (as he has verbally before been by me empowered) and receive a patent for one hundred Acres of land, to which I am intitled, by being enlisted for & during the Revolutionary war, by a Law of United States of America. Hereby giving & granting to my said Attorney my full power & Authority to take and use all Lawfull ways & means for obtaining the same as I my self might or could do, were I personally present, and on receipt thereof to sign seal and deliver all needfull and requisite Releases & Discharges, and to do all other matters and things respecting the premises as shall be by law required, holding him & sure. Ratifying & confirming whatsoever my Attorney or any other whom he may appoint, shall Lawfully do or cause to be done in the premises until the end shall be Accomplished In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal the twenty sixth day of April — Anno Domini eighteen hundred & six
Sealed & Delivered in presence of } Nicholas Jacoby Nicholas R. Nusear } H. M. Hissom

Adams Penn a County ss 3 Before me Robert McWhirter Esq r one of the Justices of the peace of in & for said County personally appeared Nicholas Jacoby and acknowledged the foregoing Letter of Attorney as his act and deed & desired the same may be valid for the intent and purpose intended. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal the twenty sixth day of April 1806
R. McWhirter