Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B.L.Wt. 755-100, for Frederick Parks, Connecticut

SERVICE
NUMBER
Conn.
Parks, Frederick.
B.L. 91# 755-100
CONTENTS

No 755
Frederick Parks fifer 1 st Connecticut Regiment
Hannah Edwards, Sister of others being at law
Warrant issued Feby: 17 th 1819
Hon: P. D. Kirtland

Hon. W. Kittredge presents the claim of the heirs of the late Frederick Parks of the 1 st Connecticut Regiment Rev. -Unionary War
M. H. No 455

J. C. Calhoun or Nath Cushing, War Dept. Section of B. & Lands
Patents for - by Doran Kirkland
City Washington

Hannah Edward Letter & order to deliver to The Hon. D. Ruckland M. C. The Land warrant issued in favor of the heirs of Fredk Parks dec. a Revolutionary Soldier
Dec. 18. 1818

South Hackersfield Nov. 9 th 1818
Dorance Kirkland Esq r Member of Congress from our District, is authorized to present to Your Department, the Discharge of Frederick Parks deceased, signed by General George Washington together with other papers. You will please to deliver the Deed or title of Land Alotted to the said Frederick Parks deceased to me and in my Name (for his services in the Revolutionary War) to Dorance Kirkland Esq r , who is authorized by these Presents to sign the Receipt for same on the Delivery of said Deed to him for same —
In so doing you will
Oblige Yours —
{ To The War Department } Hannah Edwards City Washington }
Personally came before me Hannah Edwards to me known and acknowledged the above Power of Attorney this 17 th Day of December 1818 Cornelius Gibbs Justice of the Peace In and for the County of Delaware N o 21

State of Newyork } ss Delaware county }
I Do hereby certify that Satisfactory proof has this Day been made Before me by the oaths of Mary Parks and Elizabeth Matison. both of the Town of Harpursfield in said county, that Hannah Edwards wife of Daniel Edwards. of the Town and county aforesaid, is Sister of Frederick Parks. (who as is said served as a soldier in the war of the Revolu- tion. and has since deceased) Being a single man and Unmarried — And I Do further certify that according to the above facts and the laws of this State. The above named Hannah Edwards is one of the Heirs at Law of the above named Frederick Parks —
In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my Seal of Office this twenty sixth Day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight Hundred and eighteen —
Robert North Surrogate

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 Frederick Parks in the 1st Continental Regiment, having faithful- ly served the United States Two Years and Six Months — and being enlisted for the War only, is hereby DISCHARGED from the American Army.
GIVEN at HEAD-QUARTERS the 6 th day of June 1783
George Washington
By His Excellency's
Command,
J. Humphreys Esq
REGISTERED in the Books of the Regiment,
J. B. M'Lean Adjutant,
THE above Frederick Parks has been honored with the Badge of Merit for Three Years faithful Service
Major General and in Chief Command

HEAD-QUARTERS, June 6. 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.
Handwritten: P. H. S. Co. 10th Regt. Pa. Vols. J. H. G.
Frederick Parks B. L. W. S. 755-100 Mass
Faint mirrored text from reverse side: CERTIFICATE of Discharge... George Washington