Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B.L.Wt. 77-100, for Peleg Luther, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Luther, Peleg
B.L. Wt. 77-100
CONTENTS

W N 77 Mary Luther Heir of Peleg Luther Sergt Mass.
by Phoebe Bishop Att.
Power of Att. taken out by the Heir M. Socor. Feb. 15. 1805.
Lodged in the War Office Dec 5. 1801

1861
Camp Wilson Fork Virginia Oct 16
I take this hasty opportunity to inform you of the death of your son Peter - he fell in the morning of one of the battles, working my place. I can give you this only consolation that he was a good soldier, & a brave soldier & has done honor to you, his family, & country. Perhaps you will be glad to be acquainted with what clothing he might have had, they were not trifling, & then had you none of his stuff, now before he went into action, with a hope that he might buy them if he was killed. I have sent his mother a very neat thing that they might be very acceptable to one of

his efforts to remember him by the some ways to him by the State, when it has he got I sincerely hope you & family from yours & their love I am your Most Humbly Servt
W. H. (sp?) J. M. (sp?) O. J.

[Faint, illegible handwriting]
P. L. G. Luthern 18.8.11 B. & H. 77-100

Widow Mary Luther
Luther

Henry Jackson Esq r ,
Colonel Commandant of the 16 th Massachusetts Reg t In the Army of the United States of AMERICA,
(To) Yea Luther GREETING.
I REPOSING Especial Trust and Confidence in your patriotism, Valour, conduct, and fidelity. DO, by virtue of the powers vested in me, constitute and appoint you to be Serjeant of the said Colonel's company in the Reg t under my command. you are, therefore, carefully and diligent- ly to discharge the duty of a Serjeant by doing and performing all manner of things therein to be- doing: and I do strictly charge and require all under your command to be obedient to your orders as Serjeant and you are to observe and follow such orders and directions from time to time, as you shall receive from me or any other your superior Officers, according to the rules and discipline of War. And this is your sufficient Warrant.
Given Under My Hand This Fourth day of October one Thousand Seven hundred and Eigh- -ty. H. Jackson Colonel 16 th Massachusetts Regiment