Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B.L.Reg. 271470-55, for Thomas Powers, [Blank]

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★ Powers, Thomas
B.L. Reg. 271470-55
wife Elizabeth
(Died in Penn.)

Act 1812
Mar 3/55
March  Apr. 17. 1854
27/4/70 } Mar 20/67
Thomas Powers minor of
Thomas Powers mi
Leapt, Ramsey Col.
Battle. Trenton
Ent. } Special case Vis }
Mar. 17/75
Spec. Cal. C. C.
No Papers
C. T. Foulks Philadelphia Pa.

Philadelphia March 23 rd 57
Hon Sir
The enclosed application for Bounty Land, has been overlooked and suf- fered to remain in my office to this date.
Mr T. Powers the applicant has applied to me very often in reference to it, and I have always been under the impression that it had been sent to the Pension office. It is impossible for me, with what evidence he has at his command to make the case out any clearer.
With respect
C. J. Foulks 7 th below Chestnut
To Hon Geo. W. Hastings Com d of Pension Office

Bounty Land claim of Thomas Powers war of the Revolution
Presented by C. T. Foulks 7 th below Chestnut St Philadelphia Pa

State of Pennsylvania } County of Philadelphia } ss
On this fifteenth day of August AD, one thousand eight hundred and fifty five, personally appeared before me an Alderman in officio a justice of the peace, Thomas Powers aged fifty seven years, a resident of Philadelphia in the State of Pennsylvania, who being duly sworn according to law, deposes and says, that he is the son of Thomas Powers deceased who was a Private in the Revolutionary War , and served as a substitute and in the place of Ramsey in the Company commanded by Captain Ramsey and was at the Battle of Trenton . That he enlisted for the term of, and served during the whole of said war. That the said Thomas Powers deceased, was married to Elizabeth Spencer on the seventh day of June AD, 1784  1784 and the issue of said marriage was Sophia, Samuel, William, John, Thomas, Powers . That the said Thomas Powers deceased died on the day of September AD 1818 at Morrisville in the State of Pennsylvania and left no wife, child, or children him surviving, save the said Thomas Powers this deponent. That in consequence of time he is the distance of time, he is unable to set forth his said Father's service more fully.
He makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the Bounty Land to which he may be entitled under the "Act of 1812, granting 160 acres of Bounty Land to the soldiers of the regular Army, or their heirs at law without respect to the age of the children etc."
He further declares that he has not received a warrant for Bounty Land under this or any other Act of Congress, nor made any application therefor than the one now presented. Thomas Powers
Attest J. G. Covert Sworn to and subscribed before me the 15th day and year above written; and I hereby certify that I believe the said Thomas Powers who signed and executed the above declaration, and is now present, to be the identical man he represents himself to be, and that he is of the age above stated, and that I have no interest in said claim. J. G. Covert The above figures 1884 were erased, and 1784 inserted before the signing of this paper. Aldea J. G. Covert

State of Pennsylvania } County of Philadelphia }
Personally appeared Richard French and Eliza Ann Mitchell No 19 Hilldale St Philadelphia above 13th and Eliza Ann Mitchell citizens of the said County and State aforesaid, who being duly sworn according to law depose and say, that they were personally acquainted with Thomas Powers deceased during his lifetime, and knew him as the father of the said Thomas Powers Jr. who made the foregoing declaration. That we were in the habit of visiting the house of the said Thomas Powers deceased that he acknowledged the said Thomas Powers Jr. to be his son and that the said Thomas Powers Jr. has always passed for, and reputed to be the son, of the said Thomas Powers deceased. That the said Thomas Powers deceased died leaving no wife child, or children him now sur- -viving, than the said Thomas Powers Jr. And they further say that they are still well acquainted with the said Thomas Powers Jr. and that he is the person now present who signs and executes the within declaration. That the said Thomas Powers deceased died in Norristown Berks County Pennsylvania, in September AD 1818. They swear that they are disinterested Witnesses.
Richard French
Eliza Ann Mitchell
Sworn to and subscribed before me this fifteenth day of August AD 1855 and I certify that the said Richard French and Eliza Ann Mitchell are credible and respectable citizens.
Geo. Morris
Alderman Ex Officio
State of Pennsylvania } County of Philadelphia }
I hereby certify that Wm Kenner before whom the foregoing declaration and Affidavit were made, and who due thereunto subscribed his name, was at the time of so doing, an Alderman Ex Officio a part of the peace, in and for the County aforesaid, duly com- -missioned and sworn. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of my Office, as Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of said County this 18th day of March AD 1855
Edward G. Webb Prothonotary.