Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 2381, for Daniel Mc Dorman, Virginia

SERVICE
NUMBER
Va.
Mc Dorman, Daniel
B.L. No 2384-100
CONTENTS

Daniel M c Dorman.
N o . 2,381.

Virginia
(At a Court held for Norfolk County on the 22 nd day of March 1831;
The Court doth certify upon satisfactory evidence, that Nancy Tait is the daughter and only heir at law of Daniel McDorman dec d who was a soldier in the war of the Revolution
Copy Test,
W m H. Wilson Clerk.
I William H. Wilson Clerk of the County Court of Norfolk, do hereby certify, that I have carefully examined the Records of the said Court from the year 1772 to the present time, and cannot find any will of Daniel McDorman on record. Given under my hand this 18 th December 1834.
W m H. Wilson Cl
Copy of a paper on file in the Virginia State Office Test
J. H. Parker Reg. L. Office

Executive Department, Richmond January 6 th 1834
Daniel M c Dorman is allowed Land Bounty for his services as a matross in the Continental Line for the war; if not heretofore drawn The Register will issue a Warrant accordingly John Floyd Teste, Geo. B. Richardson
On the Seventeenth day of December 1834, a Warrant N o 8084 for 200 acres, issued to Nancy Tait, heir of Daniel M c Dorman deceased. A Copy from the Records of the Virginia Land Office. Teste, S. H. Parker Reg. S. Office

State of Virginia City of Norfolk 3 ss
I Nancy Tait heir at law of Daniel McVorman do upon my oath declare and testify that to the best of my knowledge and belief the said Daniel McVorman did intend in the year for the term of during the war and served in the Regiment No under the Command of Colonel of the Virginia line and that he continued in the service until the war ended. I further declare that I have never received a warrant for the Bounty Land pro- mised to the said Daniel McVorman on the part of the United States, nor do I believe that he ever received it or transferred it in any man- ner whatsoever; Therefore I now all men by these presents, That I Nancy Tait heir at law of Daniel McVorman aforesaid do hereby constitute and appoint Robert B Bayly of King & Queen County Virginia to be my true and lawful Attorney for me and in my name to demand and receive from the Secretary of War of the United States a warrant for the quantity of Land due to me as aforesaid and my said Attorney is hereby is hereby fully autho- rized to constitute and appoint an agent or Attorney under him with all of the aforesaid powers expressed.
Witness my hand and seal this 35 th day of October 1845
attest
H. S. Vaux James B. Perkins
for as Nancy Tait (Seal) mark

State of Virginia, City of Norfolk
Personally appeared the above or before named Nancy Scott. Before me, John G. Colley a Justice of the Peace in and for the said City of Norfolk and in my presence subscribed her name to the foregoing declaration, and made oath to the same, and in my presence acknowledged the Power of Attorney thereto subscribed to be her act and deed. Witness my hand and Seal this 28 th day of October 1845.
John G. Colley (Seal)
Know all men by these presents that I Nancy Scott the undersigned heir at law of Daniel M c Dorman do hereby authorize and empower R B. Bagby of King & Queen County Virginia --- as my agent and attorney to surrender to the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States or to any other person authorized to receive the same any and all Bounties, Land Warrants, issued or to be issued for me or in my name, on account of the Revolutionary services of said Daniel M c Dorman, and to receive in lieu thereof or satisfaction therefor any and all certificates of Scrip or other equivalent to sell, transfer, and assign, in the same manner that I could do if personally present, with power to appoint an agent or substitute under him for the aforesaid purposes, and all the acts of my said attorney or his substitute, I will ratify and confirm by these

presents, Witness my hand and seal this 28 th day of October, 1845
Attest,
H. B. Vary James P. Skipkins
his of Nancy at  at (Seal) mark
State of Virginia, City of Norfolk ss
Personally appeared the aforesaid Nancy Tait Subscriber to the foregoing Power of Attorney before me Jno. G. Colley — a Justice of the peace in and for the said City and acknowledged the same to be her act and deed. Witness my hand and seal this 28 th day of October 1845.
John G. Colley J.P. (Seal)
State of Virginia City of Norfolk ss:
I John Williams Clerk of the Hustings Court of the City of Norfolk in the state of Virginia, do hereby certify that John G. Colley Esquire who hath given the two preceding certificates is now and was on the day of the dates thereof a justice of the peace in and for the said City, duly elected and qualified — that he is authorized by the laws of this State to administer oaths that full faith and credit are due to all his acts as such — and that the signatures "John G. Colley" subscribed thereto, are in his proper hand writing as I do verily believe. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court this twenty ninth day of October in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and forty five, and of the Commonwealth the seventieth
Jno. Williams cc

William Lloyd
London
1880