Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B. L. Wt. 1076-200, for Edward Phelon, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Continental
Phelon, Edward
B.L.Wt. 1076-200
Mass
or Phelan,
CONTENTS
Papers also refer to Patrick Phelon, Continental-Mass-B.L.Wt. 1077-200

1076 & 1077
The heirs at law of Edw. H. Falk. The late Lieutenants of the Massachusetts line
Warrants issued
January 24 th 1824

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Norfolk. Probate Department, May 20 th 1823.
It appears to me, upon evidence which is fully satisfactory to my mind, and I hereby certify that Ann Phelon, now resident in Wrentham, in the aforesaid county of Norfolk, Singlewoman, was sister, and is a legitimate Heir , to Edward Phelon and to Patrick Phelon, both deceased, who were officers in the Massachusetts Line of the Revolutionary Army of the United States. Witness my hand and seal of office, in Probate Court, at Wrentham, the day and year above written. Edward H. Medkirk Judge of Probate for Norfolk County.

claims of the heirs at law of Edward and Patrick Phelan: heirs of the Massachusetts line of the Revolutionary War = January 24 th 1824 - Warrant issued N o 2076 & 1077
2.15 3.40  5.55
18 1766  59
50 20 17 6  93

Know all men by these presents that I Ann Phelon of Wrentham in the state of Massachusetts do hereby constitute and appoint John Bailey of the City of Washington my true and lawful attorney for me and in my name to receive of the Secretary of War of the United States or of any other person authorised to deliver the same any warrants for Bounty Lands which may be granted to me as heir to Edward & Patrick Phelon - & the said Bailey is hereby empowered to appoint other attorneys under him for the same purpose In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal at Boston this thirtieth day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & twenty three
Witness Silas P. Holbrook
Ann Phelon
Subscribed S. May 31. 1823
At the above place and date personally appeared before me the above named Ann Phelon and acknowledged this power of attorney to be her free act & deed before
Suffolk ss:
Mark Moore Justice of the Peace In testimony that the above named Mark Moore was at the above date an officer duly qualified to take acknowledgments & that his name thereto subscribed appears to be his usual signature I have hereunto set my hand & the seal of my office
J. W. Alinder Clk
Boston

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT,
Feb. 7 th
1842 3
BY THIS I CERTIFY, That it appears by public, official documents remaining in this Department, that Edward Phelon served as a Soldier in  Capt. An Ensign in Company, and Col. Henry Jackson's Regiment, (being one of the Regiments in the Massachusetts Line, and on the Continental Establishment,) in the American Army, in the War of the Revolution, from July first 1777 to December 31. 1780, being three years and six months: that our records are not of a later date
Alden Bradford
Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.