Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B. L. Reg. 272053-1855, for John Pierce, Other

Maine Pierce, John
Bk Pg. 272053-1855
Pier
Pier
THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES  ★ BOUNTY LAND FILES  ACT OF 1855 Rejected 272053  VETERAN John Pierce  1776 GRADE Private  SERVICE _____  CAN NO. 1999 BUNDLE NO. 45

272. 055
Act Mar 3 '11 Mar. 31. '17
Answered April 22. 1857.
Nicholas & John Pierce. was died.
John Pierce. -
Rev —
War —
See Pres. papers Act 1878.
Arthur M c Arthur Lexington. Me.
Ans? Apr. 24/57

Arthur McArthur
Simmington me
Apr 11/57
Mr
272.053 John Pierce deed
Ref to
Mr Boynton
Apr 14/57
Mr Gordon April 21/57

Comm. of Pensions Washington D.C.

W. L. Church in Dunn M c County, Tenn. No. 272.053.
Free
Hon George C. Whiting Comm d . of Penury Washington D.C.

Limington Maine, April 11 1887
Sir,
Your communication to me of 31 st ult. states that the application of Nicholas & John Pierce children of John Pierce d d  under Act 3 March 1855 has been received and filed in the N o 272.053. By reference to the papers in that case you will be informed that the application is not under Act 3 d March 1855 but for Revolutionary Bounty Land.
I am very respectfully Hon. George L. Whiting Your Ob t serv t Comm d of Pension Arthur M c Arthur Washington, D.C.

Simington Maine March 27th 1857
Sir,
I have to forward you the application of Nicholas a child of John Pierce late of Limberick Maine deceased for Revolutionary Bounty Land
I am very respectfully
Hon. George L. Whiting, Commr. of Pensions Washington D.C.
Yours Ob t Serv t Arthur M c Feilun

272.053

Department of War. Interior
Regulations for the heirs of Officers and Soldiers of the Revolutionary Army, who were slain by the enemy, or who have died since the war and have not received land from the United States.
State of Maine.
County of York
I or we  Nicholas Pierce for myself and in behalf of John Pierce, our children and heirs at law of John Pierce late of Simeonick, Maine, decd. do upon oath testify and declare to the best of my knowledge and belief that said John Pierce did enter the service in 17 for the term of During the war and served as set forth in his in the Regiment No. application for a pension  mand of Colonel under the law of 19 th April 1818, & to his time; papers  and that he continued in the service aforesaid until under said application reference is to be had. I further declare that I have never received a warrant for the bounty land promised to the soldiers and heirs of Revolutionary soldiers on the part of the United States; nor do I believe he ever recovered it or transferred his claim to it in any manner whatever.
Nicholas Pierce
Claimants' Signatures.
On November Seventh in the year 1856 the above to  Sworn and subscribed before me, and I have no interest in this case  Wm. M. McArthur Justice of the Peace.
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, That I we  for myself and John Pierce only surviving children, and heirs at law of John Pierce aforesaid, do hereby constitute and appoint ARTHUR McARTHUR, Esq to be our true and lawful attorney for us and in our name to demand and receive from the Secretary of the United States, or any other officer, a warrant for the quantity of land due us as aforesaid, and said attorney is hereby fully authorized and empowered to constitute and appoint one or more substitutes or attorneys under him for the special purposes above expressed.
Attest.
Wm. M. McArthur Daniel Moody Moses Moody
Nicholas Pierce
Claimants' Signatures.
Personally appeared the above named Nicholas Pierce
aforesaid subscriber to the above declaration, and in my presence acknowledged the power of attorney thereto subjoined, to be his free act and deed for the purposes therein mentioned. and I have no interest in this case. Wm. M. McArthur Justice of the Peace.
In testimony that the above written Wm. M. McArthur Esq. was a magistrate authorized to administer oaths, and take acknowledgments, &c. in the State of Maine & County of York at the above date, and that his name thereto subscribed appears to me to be his usual signature, I have hereunto affixed the County seal and subscribed my name as Clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court for said County, this Eighth day of November 1856
C. A. Cook
Clerk.
NOTICE.—If he was