Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B. L. Wt. 1964-100, for Job Lunt, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Lunt, Job
B.L. Mt. 1964-100.
CONTENTS

Heirs of Job Lunt

DEPARTMENT OF WAR.
State of Maine Cumberland County. } ss.
I, William Lunt a nephew and one of their heirs at law to Job Lunt deceased, do upon oath testify and declare, that to the best of my knowledge and belief, Job Lunt aforesaid, about, or in the year 1777 entered, or enlisted into the service of the United States, for the term of "During the War:" and that he continued in the service aforesaid, until the close of the same, when he received an honorable discharge at the termination thereof, from the sixth Regiment of the Maine line commanded by Colonel Tupper and when he was a Sergeant . I further declare that my Uncle Job Lunt aforesaid departed this life in the town of Portland , in said State about thirty years since and left no issue.
I have never received a warrant for the Bounty Land promised to Job Lunt aforesaid, on the part of the United States, nor do I believe he ever received it, or transferred his claim to it in any manner whatsoever:
All Men By these Presents, that I William Lunt aforesaid, do hereby constitute and appoint Reuben Baldwin of Greenville in the State of New York 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 Bounty Land due me and the other heirs at law of Job Lunt aforesaid. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal, this 19 th day of August in the year 1833.
Signed, Sealed, and Delivered, in presence of Geo. P. Dorr
William Lunt
Cumberland County, ss.
Be it known that on this 19 th day of August in the year 1833 Before the subscriber, one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said County, personally appeared William Lunt subscriber to the above declaration, who made solemn oath to the truth of the same: and likewise acknowledged the power of attorney thereunto subjoined, to be his free act and deed; dated at Waltham in said County the day and year above mentioned.
Geo. P. Dorr Justice of the Peace.
Maine District Cumberland County. } ss.
United States for said District do hereby certify, that George Bishop before whom the foregoing declaration was sworn, and the subjoined power of attorney purports to have been acknowledged, is and was at the date thereof, one of the Justices of the Peace, in and for the County of Cumberland duly commissioned sworn and qualified by law to take affidavits, &c. and further that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of said Justice, and verily believe the signature purporting to be his is genuine. In witness whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of the District Court and subscribed my name at Portland this 26 th day of August - in the year 1833.
John Nussey Clerk U. S. Court.

Authenticated certificate of heirship in the claim by the Heirs of Job Lent
Job Lent No 1964

Maine District
Special District Court August 26. A.D. 1833
Upon examination of the following witnesses viz John H. Smith, Henry Green and Mary Burnham it has been satisfactorily proved in Court that Job Lunt late of Portland in this District was a soldier in the Massachusetts Line in the Revolutionary War — that he died at said Portland without issue — that the following persons are the heirs at Law of said Job Lunt being the representatives of his brother Michael Benjamin & sister Mary — who have severally deceased leaving the following children viz the said Michael Lunt left Mary Bibly, Patience Whitney — Isaac S. Lunt, Joshua Lunt, Eleanor Lunt, William Lunt, Job Lunt & Abigail Lunt — the said Benjamin Lunt left Joseph B. Lunt, Benjamin Lunt, Esther Bray, Betsey Irish, & Jane Bradford — the said Mary left Enoch Riggs, Mary Burnham & Eleanor Beck.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the District Court of the United States for Maine District the day & year first above written
John Mufsey Clerk U.S. Court

Boston Mass ts , October 17 th 1839.
Sir
Your favour of _____ is received enclosing Bounty Land Warrant No. 1964. Issued in favour of the heirs of Job Lunt deceased; late a soldier in the Sixth Regiment, Massachusetts line, of the Revolutionary Army. The receipt of which is hereby acknowledged.
Very Respectfully Sir. I am your Obedient servant Reuben Baldwin
Hon. Lewis Cass, Esq r Secretary of War of the United States Washington