Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B. L. Wt. 388-100, for George Pearson, Pennsylvania

SERVICE
NUMBER
Penn.
Pearson George
B.L. No. 388-100.
CONTENTS
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Donation Lands
District N o 1
Lot. CCVI
200 ac
George Pearson Private Rangers
July 15 1787

In pursuance of an act of the General Assembly of the State of Pennsylvania Passed 24 th day of February 1785 "entitled an act for directing the mode of distributing the Donation Lands promised the Troops of this Commonwealth" and by order of the Surveyor General with the approbation of the Honorable the Supreme Executive Council I have Surveyed on the 16 th day of November, 1785, the above described tract of two hundred acres of Land, and allowance of six percent for Roads &c. N o CCVI Situate in District N o 1 on the West side of the Allegany River in the County of Westmoreland
To John Lukens Esq r Surveyor General
William Alexander D.S.
I Certify the above to be a Copy of an original Draft of a Tract of Donation Land remaining in the Surveyor General's Office, for which a patent issued on the 16 th day of July 1787 to George Pearson private in the Revolutionary Army of the United States In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the Seal of said Office at Lancaster this 2 nd day April 1807 Sam l Colbrann

No 988.
George Prana-
Paiwah
Pinnelme
John B. Sayer. 1808. I Del. T. W. Hindley Eng.

Deed George Pearson to James Brady

Received the day of the date of the foregoing Instrument of writing of and from the therein named James Brady the sum of thirty dollars in full of the consideration within mentioned.
George Pearson
Lancaster County ss.
Personally appeared before me Frederick Kuhn esquire, one of the Associate Judges of the Court of Common Pleas for the county aforesaid George Pearson the within named grantor and acknowledged the within Conveyance to be his act and deed. In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this twenty sixth day of March A.D. 1807.
Frederick Kuhn Esq.

Know all men by these presents that I George Pearson of the county of Dauphin and State of Pennsylvania late a soldier in the Army of the United States during the war with Great Britain for and in consideration of the sum of thirty dollars to me in hand paid by James Brady of the Borough of Greensburg in the county of Westmoreland and State aforesaid the receipt and payment whereof is hereby acknowledged Have granted bargained and sold and by these presents do grant bargain and sell unto the said James Brady all my right title interest property claim and demand of in and to all land or lands whatsoever with the appurtenances thereto belonging to which I am intitled for my services as soldier in the army of the United States as aforesaid to him the said James Brady his heirs and assigns To have and to hold the said land and every part and parcel thereof forever: And I the said George Pearson for myself my heirs executors and administrators do hereby covenant and agree to and with the said James Brady his heirs and assigns the aforesaid land I will warrant and forever defend from all and every person or persons lawfully claiming or to claim in through or under me. In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal this twenty sixth day of March A.D. 1807.
George Pearson
Sealed and Delivered in the presence of
Nathan Brack - Daniel Gehricks

Received the day of the date of the foregoing Instrument of writing of and from the therein named James Brady the sum of thirty dollars in full of the consideration within mentioned.
George Pearson
Lancaster County ss.
Personally appeared before me Frederick Kuhn esquire, one of the Associate Judges of the Court of Common Pleas for the county aforesaid George Pearson the within named grantor and acknowledged the within Conveyance to be his Act and deed. In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this twenty sixth day of March A.D. 1807.
Frederick Kuhn Esq.