Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B. L. Wt. 1713-100, for George Sumner, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Sumner George
B.L.Wt. 1713-100
CONTENTS

HEAD-QUARTERS, June 13 th 1783.
THE within CERTIFICATE shall not avail the Bearer as a Discharge, until the Ratification of the definitive Treaty of Peace; previous to which Time, and until Proclamation thereof shall be made, He is to be considered as being on Furlough.
GEORGE WASHINGTON.
George Sumner B. L. 1713-100 Ms. 22.

By His Excellency GEORGE WASHINGTON, Esq; General and Commander in Chief of the Forces of the United States of America.
THESE are to CERTIFY that the Bearer hereof George Summer Soldier in the Eighth Massachusetts Regiment, having faithful-
ly served the United States Nine Months and being inlisted for the War only, is hereby DISCHARGED from the American Army.
GIVEN at HEAD-QUARTERS the thirteenth
of June 1783
G Washington
By His Excellency's
Command,
John M'Nutt
REGISTERED in the Books of the Regiment,
Francis Suth
Adjutant.

State of Massachusetts Essex County Probate Office January 1831
I certify that satisfactory evidence was adduced to me to prove that Thomas Sumner is the son and heir at law in fee to George Sumner late a soldier in the Eighth Regiment of the Massachusetts Line
Given under my hand and Seal of Office this fourth day of January 1831.
Sherron Leland Judge of Probate

George Sumner N o 1713

Dedham Jan 14th 1831
STATE OF Massachusetts County of Norfolk who am sole
Thomas Sumner of Dedham in said County of Norfolk heir at law of George Sumner
do, upon oath testify and declare, to the best of my knowledge and belief, that my father the said George did enlist in 17 for the term of during the war, and served in the regiment No. Eighth under the command of Colonel Jackson of the Massachusetts line; and that he continued in the service aforesaid, until the close of the war I further declare, that I have never received a warrant for the bounty land prom- ised to said George Sumner on the part of the United States; nor do I believe that he ever received it, or transferred his claim to it in any manner whatsoever: therefore,
Thomas Sumner
KNOW all men by these presents, That I Thomas Sumner aforesaid, do hereby constitute and appoint Benjamin Loeb of Scotland 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 fully authorized and empowered to consti- tute and appoint one or more substitutes or attorneys under him, for the special purpose above expressed.
Thomas Sumner
Attest.
James Richardson Simon Gould
Personally appeared the above named Thomas Sumner subscriber to the foregoing declaration, and in my presence acknowledged the power of attorney thereto subjoined, to be his free act and deed, for the purposes therein mentioned. — And also made solemn oath, that the above affidavit by him subscribed was true.
Attest.
James Richardson Justice of the Peace.
In testimony that the above written James Richardson was a magistrate authorized to administer oaths, and take acknowledgments, &c. in the State of Massachusetts at the above date, and that his name there subscribed appears to me to be his usual signature, I have hereunto affixed the county seal, and subscribed my name and quality, at Dedham this Jan 14 day of January 1831.
Levi Ware
C. Clerk, &c.