Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B.L.Wt. 69-300, for Hezekiah Morton, Virginia

SERVICE
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Morton, Hezekiah
B.L. Wt. 69-300
CONTENTS

Rev. County Land. Warrant No. 69 - 300 Acres. Capt Hezekiah Morton. Va. Line.
Apr. 3, 1906 Visit to Mrs E. L. Williamson May 3, 1907 Visit to Mrs Edgar Allan.

O. W. AND N. DIVISION.
Department of the Interior,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS,
Mar. 31, 1906.
Searched by Hill
Original No.
Certificate No.
Claimant,
Soldier, Hezekiah Morton
Service,
Rev. War.
Remarks:
No pension papers found. data in letter taken from Agency Book and bounty land claim combined.
Chief of Division.

Mortons
Top Lk at Mills
W 1 N 69
300 ac
Issue
Oct 22/80
Issue
69

I know all men by the presents that I herewith Morton of the County of St Edward & State of Virginia late a Captain in the 3 d Reg t of Virginia Line in Continental establishment & Service; For several good causes to me thereunto moving have constituted nominated and appointed & by these presents do constitute nomi- nate & appoint John Watts my true & law- full Attorney for me & in my name to apply for & receive from the proper Officer of the United States authorized to grant the same a Warrant for such Military Services on Bounty of Land as may be due me for Ser- vices rendered in the late Revolutionary War with Great Britain & when received to grant and discharge for the same in my name and to do all acts & things for the procuring the Warrant which I might or could do were I personally present & to constitute one or more Attorneys if necessary & I do hereby con- firm & ratify every act & deed which the said John Watts or his Attorney shall lawfully do for the purposes aforesaid in Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal this 21 st Day of March One Thousand Eight Hundred & One
Frederick Morton Seal

Prince Edward County State of Virginia (to wit)
This Day Hezekiah Morton a resident of the County aforesaid and by Occupation a planter formerly a Captain in the United States Army came before us James Morton & Archer Allen Justices of the peace for the County a- foresaid and acknowledge the foregoing Power of attorney to be his Hand & Seal act Deed and We do moreover certify that the said Hezekiah Morton making this acknowledgment has been many years personally known to us and that he is the identical person he represents himself to be Given under our hands this 21 st Day of March one thousand eight hundred and one
James Morton
Archer Allen
State of Virginia
I Francis Watkins Clerk of Prince Edward County in the State aforesaid do certify that James Morton and Archer Allen who have subscribed their names to the foregoing acknowledgment of Hezekiah Morton of his Letter attorney are qualified and acting Justices of the peace in and for the County of Prince Edward in the State aforesaid, and that full faith is due to their acts as such — Certified this twenty first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and one.
Watkins Clerk

May 3, 1907.
Mrs. Edgar Allan, 1501 11th St. N.W., Washington, D. C.
Madam:
In response to your letter dated April 10, 1907, and received the 13th ultimo, you are advised that the records of this Bureau show that Hezekiah Morton of Prince Edward Co., Virginia, was pensioned under the Act of May 15, 1828, on a certificate issued August 3, 1829, at the rate of $480 a year, for services as a Captain in the Virginia Line on the Continental Establishment and died June 30, 1831.
There is no further data on file in regard to said pension.
Very respectfully,
Acting Commissioner.

March 8, 1906.
The Honorable,
The Secretary of the Interior.
Mr. Secretary:-
In reply to the communication of Mrs. Eliza Allan, 1701 11th. Street, N. W., Washington, D. C. of the 21st ultimo, received in this Bureau by your reference on the 28th, concerning the bounty land warrant of her late husband, a soldier of the Revolutionary War, I have the honor to advise you that the records of this Bureau show that bounty land warrant No. 22,444 was issued to her for her services as a nurse during the War. and that the same has been paid
Charged by direction of Chief.
Mrs. Allan's letter is herewith returned as requested.
Very respectfully,
Commissioner.

March 8, 1900.
The Honorable,
The Secretary of the Interior.
Mr. Secretary:-
In reply to the communication of Mr. Edgar Allan, 1507 11th Street, N. W., Washington, D. C., of the 31st ultimo, received in this Bureau by your reference on the 5th, concerning the bounty land warrant of Meredith Norton a soldier of the Revolutionary War, I have the honor to advise you that the records of this Bureau show that bounty land warrant No. 32 for 300 acres issued October 22, 1803, to one Meredith Norton for his service as captain, Virginia Line, Revolutionary War.
Mr. Allan's letter is herewith returned as requested.
Very respectfully,
Commissioner.

L.M.H.
April 3, 1906.
Mrs. Emmet L. Williamson, Martinsville, Virginia.
Madam:
In response to your letter dated March 26, 1906 and received March 28, 1906, you are advised that the records of this Bureau show that Hezekiah Morton of Prince Edward Co., Virginia, was pensioned under the Act of May 15, 1828, for services as a Captain in the Virginia Line on the Continental Establishment and died June 30, 1831.
Very respectfully,
Commissioner.

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Col. John Watts power of attorney

Be It known that John Walls of the County of Bedford State of Virginia, do hereby constitute my Friend John Rigg esquire of said county & State, my true & lawful attorney, to demand & receive from the War Office of the United States, two land warrants, one in the name of Hezekiah Morton for two hundred acres, one other in the name of John Weaver for one hundred acres agreeable to powers of attorney granted to me by each of them which were deposited in the war office in the month of May last, hereby ratifying and confirming whatever my said attorney may do in virtue of the same, given under my hands this 19 th day of March 1802.
In Presence of
John Walls
Test Jas. G. Smith Edw. Watts

O.W. 97
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Martinsville, Va
March 24, 1906
Friend Cummins Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir: - Will you kindly give me at your earliest con- venience the record of my ancestor -
Hezekiah Morton, a soldier in the Revolutionary war, enlist- ing as far known, from Prince Edward County Virginia. He

was pensioned according to the Act of 1828, and died in 1831, with rank of Captain.
Very truly,
(Mrs.) Emmet L. Williamson, Martinsville Virginia

Capt Hezekiah Norton Prince Edward Co. Virginia
Revolutionary soldier, dying in 1831.
Record wanted.

Hon. Alpheus S. Williams Com. of Pensions Washington D.C.
Dear Sir:-
I would like all the pension data concerning Capt. Hezekiah Norton of Rev. War. Whether wounded, amount of Pension granted date of death etc. I don't mean land grants I have a certificate that from the Land

Off. in Richmond Va. I mean the monthly pension allowed by the S. H. Gov. to date of death. I want facts, & not tradition or writing of the family history
Very resp. Yours
Isaac Edgar Allan
1504 11th St. N.W.
Washington D.C.
April 2nd
Written by hand & signed