Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B.L.Wt. 2366-300, for Philip Richard Francis Lee, Virginia

SERVICE
NUMBER
Va.
Lee Philip Richard Francis
B.L.W. 2366-300.
CONTENTS

Memorandum for the Claim of Capt Philip Richard Francis Lee heirs for Waverly Land

Memorandum for Capt Philip Richard Francis Lee's heirs
Capt Lee was a Captain of the 1st Virginia Continental Regiment and died of wounds received at the Battle of Brandywine. For evidence see the rolls of the Virginia line in the State Department believed to be numbered Vol 7 No. 12/30. See, Lee, Memoirs of the War in the South, Vol. 1, p. 100. At page 16 where it is noted that Capt. Wharton was killed and Lee mortally wounded. His heirs now apply for the United States bounty fund to which he acquired a right.

District of Columbia, ss. At an orphan's Washington County, D.C. Court held in and for said County on this eighteenth day of August 1845. On motion of Henry Northrop, it was proven in Open Court to the satisfaction of the said Court that Richard Lee was the heir at law of Philip Richard Francis Lee, a Captain of the Virginia line of the Army of the Revolution and that his son Philip Thomas Lee alone left issue to wit, Sarah Russell wife of Rev. Benjamin Contee Margaret Russell wife of James Clarke Lee, Eleanor wife of William Dawson and Ann wife of William Gamble who died without issue. That Mrs. Sarah Russell Contee had four children to wit Alice Lee Widow of the late Governor Hunt, Philip Ashton Lee Contee (deceased), Edmund Henry Contee (deceased) and Sarah Eleanor Contee (deceased) who died in- testate and without issue. That also Lee, Philip Ashton Lee and Sally Hunt are the only heirs in the children and only heirs at law of the said Philip Ashton Lee, Contee deceased, and that Benjamin Con- tee of lawful age is the son and only heir at law of Edmund Henry Contee deceased. That William Dawson Robert Lee Dawson, Frederick Dawson, Philip Thompson Dawson (deceased), Mary Ann Dawson, Eleanor Georgiana Dawson and Frances Laura Dawson are the children and only heirs at law of the said Eleanor Dawson wife of William Dawson. That Philip Thomas Dawson died without issue, and lastly that Eleanor R. Contee Widow of Edmund Henry Contee has line R. wife of Josias Horstkins of Charles County Maryland Elizabeth Dyson (widow) and Sarah Emily Fendall wife of Thomas D.C. Fendall of Charles County Maryland, are the children and only heirs at law of Margaret Russell wife of

James Clarke Sec, the whole of which is ordered to be certified.
Nathl. Pope clerk Judge
District of Columbia,
Washington county, to wit:
I certify, that the foregoing is a true copy from the Original filed according to the office of the Register of Wills, for Washington county aforesaid.
Witness my hand and seal, of office this 9 th day of August in the year 1845.
Edw. A. Poach Register

I do hereby certify that Philip Richard Francis Lee, formerly a Captain in the 3 d Virginia regiment on Continental establishment, received a wound at the battle of Brandywine, on the 11 th day of September 1777, of which he languished about two months and then died.
Given under my hand this 1 st day of October 1798. James Wood late B. Genl.
Executive Department Richmond Va. Augt. 18. 1825.
I hereby certify that the foregoing is a true copy of a paper on file in this Department.
J. Richardson Secy. Com te .

Know all men by these Presents that we Alice L Kent Elisabeth Dyson Sarah Burchy Randall and Benjamin Cantle
of Alexandria in the District of Columbia do hereby constitute and appoint Henry Adair of Washington City our true and lawful attorney with powers of substitution and full attorney for us and in our names to prepare papers and collect proofs and warrants to enable us to obtain from the United States a warrant for the proportion of bounty land due us from the United States in right of the services of Philip Richard Lee as a Captain of the Virginia Continental Line of the Army of the Revolution and the aid of wounds received at the battle of Brandywine and to prosecute the same and to ask demand and receive from the Secretary of War of the United States a warrant for our respective proportion of the same and to deposit the said warrant when so received with the Commissioners of the General Land Office for land scrip and to ask demand and receive the certificates or land scrip therefor and to endorse sign transfer and make sale of the same and to do and perform all things touching the premises that we ourselves might do were we personally present - In witness of which we have set our hands and seals at Alexan- dria in the District of Columbia this seventh day of August 1825
Alice L. Kent E. R. Cantle Elizabeth Dyson J. C. Randall B. Cantle
District of Columbia } Personally appeared before me the subscribers a Justice of the peace in and for said County Alice L Kent Elisabeth Dyson Sarah Burchy Randall and Benjamin Cantle signers and seals to the foregoing power of attorney and acknowledged the same to be their voluntary act and deed for the purposes therein named Signed sealed and acknowledged before me this seventh day of August 1825
Chas McKnight Hume

District of Columbia County of Alexandria } to wit:
I, Caprius F. Lee, Clerk of the United States Circuit Court of the District of Columbia for the County of Alexandria do hereby certify that Charles M c Knight whose name is signed to the foregoing certificate of acknowledgement was at the date thereof and is now a Justice of the Peace duly Commissioned and sworn.
In testimony whereof I hereunto subscribe my name and affix the seal of said Court this 7 th day of August 1845.
Caprius F. Lee, C.C.
Power of Attorney filed of M c Knight & F. Lee for F. L. S. Property  land

Philip R. H. See
No. 2366.

Loos Memoirs Vol. 1. Page 164 - Battle of Brandywine. Septem r 11 th 1777
Col o . Henry Lee, states that, of the Captains of the 3 d Virginia Regiment commanded by Col o . Marshall, engaged in the battle of Brandywine, two only, Blackwell, and Peyton, remained fit for duty. Chilton, was killed, and Lee, mortally wounded and that, the Subalterns suffered in proportion. Lieutenants White, Cooper, and Ensign Peyton, were killed
* Presumed to have been Captain Philip Richard Francis Lee, in whose right the State of Virginia granted a Military Land Warrant for 4000. Acres, on the 21 st July 1784.