Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B.L.Wt. 736-100, for Moses Lock, New Hampshire

SERVICE
NUMBER
914
Lock, Moses
B & Mt. 736-100
Locke or
Locks or
CONTENTS

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Know all men by this presents, that I Elijah Locke of London in the county of Rockingham state of New Hampshire husbandman, have constituted & appointed & by these presents do constitute & appoint Richard Russell of Concord in said County & State, my true & Lawfull Attorney to ask & receive of the Government of the United States the bounty land due my Father Moses Locke late deceased - formerly a Soldier during the Revolutionary war - and the said Russell has full power & lawfull authority to procure any evidence necessary respecting said land in my name, & to appoint any Agent or Agents as an Attorney to transact any business relative to said bounty land - and also to obtain all legal & necessary titles to said lands from the the Government aforesaid - witness my hand & seal. This. Elijah Locke Third day of Dec: 1818
Sealed & delivered in presence of us Charles Walker Estwick Evans
State of New Hampshire & Leonard Rockingham ss. Dec: 3 rd 1818 Personally appearing the above named Elijah Locke acknowledged the fore- going Instruments by him subscribed to be his voluntary Act & deed - Before me Charles Walker Jus- tice of Peace

State of New Hampshire Secretary's Office
January 17 1819
I hereby certify that Charles Walker Esq. whose name is subscribed to the within certificate was on the day of the date thereof & still is a Justice of the peace within and for the county of Rockingham in said State duly commissioned & sworn, and that to his acts & attestations as such, faith and credit are due.
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the public seal of said State at Concord on the day of the date hereof — Sam l Sparhawk Secretary
To the Hon ble Secretary of War Sir, Please to deliver to S ch Lindon Esq. Member of Congress, the land warrant now in the within named Elish Cook Jr. Esq. Russell
Joseph L. Stone Bureau of Pensions Attorney

Certificate of kinship Elyah Lach vs Maun Lach

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State of New Hampshire Grafton ss { Leonard Swan Esqr Judge of the court for the probate of wills &c for said county To whom these Presents shall come
Know ye that Elijah Lock Greeting is out of the Wills at law to the estate of Moses Lock Deceased the said Elijah being the Respected Son of said Lock as appears by Satisfactory evidence now before me
In testimony whereof I have here unto set my hand & have affixed the seal of said court this first Day of January A.D. 1819
Leonard Swan Judge of Probate

To the Hon d Secretary of War.
Sir. Please to deliver to Enoch Lincoln Esqr, Member of Congress, the land warrant gran- -ted in favor of the Heirs at law of Moses Locke late a Soldier in the Revolutionary war. — London January 12 th 1819 Elijah Locke Witness Isaac Virgin

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Moses Lock, decd
prod:
New Hampshire line
Elijah Lock & others him at law
Wants ipd Feby 6 th 1879
Atton E Lincoln

~ Moses Lock
private
New Hampshire line
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Miss 700

Moses Lock late a private in the New Hampshire line
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Hon Enoch Lincoln H. R.
Jan'y 18. 1819

I Robert B Wilkins of Concord in the County of Rockingham in the State of New Hampshire, on oath declare, that I was personally acquainted with Moses Lock late of Epsom in said County deceased and knew that he was a private Soldier in the New Hampshire line, in the Continental revolutionary Army and faithfully served during the war war, and was honorably discharged for I repeatedly saw his discharge and am positive that Moses Lock late of Epsom aforesaid deceased is the very same person who rendered the Services above stated—
And I further declare that I was, a Lieutenant in the New Hampshire line aforesaid from the Nineteenth of April 1781 until the revolutionary Army was disbanded in the year 1783 and knew said Lock as well as I did any other Soldier of said line, and was intimate with him after he was discharged and returned home
Robert B Wilkins
State of New Hampshire
Rockingham ss I Concord January 6 th 1819
Be it known that on this thirteenth day of January A.D. 1819 before me Joseph Law Notary Public in & for said State personally appeared Robert B. Wilkins & subscribed his name to the above certificate & thereupon made solemn
the same is just & true
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed my Notarial Seal at Concord in the County & State aforesaid on the day aforesaid
Joseph Law Notary Public

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Lock, Philip GRADE Private LINE New Jersey
WARRANT NUMBER 8509 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED June 11, 1789 to Jonathan Dayton, assignee
*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.