Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B. L. Wt. 344-300, for Peter Minor, Virginia

SERVICE
NUMBER
Va.
Minor, Peter
B.L. Mt. 344-300.
CONTENTS

Suspended.
Proof required of his having served to the end of the War - or having been slain by the Enemy.

By a list of the officers and soldiers of the Virginia line on Continental establishment, entitled to bounties in land from the United States, transmitted to the Executive of Virginia from the War office of the United States in the year 1794, it appears that Peter Minor was a supernumerary Captain in the said line and as such entitled to a bounty in land from the United States.
Given under my hand at Richmond this 15 th day of April 1807.
Samuel Coleman S tk to The Executive of Va.

Brunswick District Court September Term 1789.
On the motion of Erasmus Gill who made Oath and together with Thomas Broadnax Theophilus Field and Edward Bickett entered into and acknowledged their Bond in the penalty of one thousand pounds conditioned as the law directs. Certificate is granted him for obtaining letters of Administration of the estate of Peter Mingo deceased in Due Form.
A Copy
R Turnbull C.B.D.
I Robert Turnbull Clerk of Brunswick District Court aforesaid do hereby certify the foregoing Order to be a Just and true Transcript from the Records now remaining in my Office. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal there being no seal of Office.
R Turnbull

I William Nelson junior one of the judges of the District and general courts of the State of Virginia do certify that the above attestation is in due form, and that R Gumbull is clerk of Brunswick District Court. Given under my hand and seal this 26 th  of January 1807.
Wm Nelson Jr
J. H. Calhoun Edward Heathcote
On this day personally appeared John H. Calhoun, to be his hand that, at this time, and for the acknowledgment the foregoing bond was acknowledged before me this 26 th day of January 1807.
John H. Calhoun of the State of Virginia
John H. Calhoun in the presence of John H. Calhoun

Know all men by these Presents, that I Erasmus Gill Admi- nistrator of Peter Minor deceased, of the County of Dinwiddie and State of Virginia have this day bargained and sold, and by these presents do bargain, sell and assign over to Thos. D. Harris of the County of Henrico and State of Virginia all my rights, title and interest in and to three hundred Acres of Land, due to the said Peter Minor deceased in consideration of his services as Captain in the Army of the United States, to the end of the war with Great Britain, under the command of
agreeable to an act of Congress, and I do moreover request, order and direct Henry Dearborn Esquire, Secretary at War. for the time being, or his successors, to issue to Thomas D. Harris, his heirs or assigns, in his or their own name as assignee of me the said Erasmus Gill administrator of the said Captain Peter Minor deceased, a Warrant for the Land aforesaid, and on Receipt of the same, I do hereby ratify and confirm any receipt or other instrument in writing, that he the said Thomas D. Harris may necessarily sign, or procure to be signed, in touching the premises aforesaid, as fully as I could do, if I was personally present.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand & Seal this 13 th day of January eighteen hundred & seven
Sealed & delivered in the presence of John Crawford John Aldridge Dinwiddie County, to wit;
E. Gill Adm (Seal) of the Estate of Peter Minor (Deceased)
This day Erasmus Gill came before us John H. Claiborne and Edward Watkins Justices of the peace for the said County aforesaid, and acknowledged the foregoing bargain & Sale and Power of Attorney, to be his hand & Seal, act & Deed, and for the purposes therein mentioned - Given under our hands this 13 th day of January eighteen hundred and Seven
J. H. Claiborne Edward Watkins

Dinwiddie County, to wit:
This day John Crawford one of the witnesses to the within Power of Attorney personal appeared before us Justices of the peace for the aforesaid County, & made Oath that he did see the within named Erasmus Gill administrator of Peter Minor did sign & seal the within Power of Attorney, and that the said Peter Minor is the same person who performed the service stated within, the said John Crawford having been a Lieutenant in the Continental Army - Given under our hands this 13 th day of January eighteen hundred & Seven
J. H. Cabell Edward Watkins
Suspended.
Proof required of his having served to the end of the war - or having been slain by the Enemy.
Copy to J. H. Cabell Power of Attorney

N. 3114.
Peter Minor & Co. V. Line
11. 1/2 100 & 200 Capt. Geo. Sanderson.

Rev. and 1812 Wars Section. B. L. Wt. 344-300
Aug am
January 3, 1927
Homer W. Charles 765 East 26th North Portland, Ore.
Sir:
I have to advise you from the records of this Bureau, it appears that Peter Minor of Dinwiddie County, Virginia, was a captain in the Virginia Line, War of the Revolution.
He died prior to 1807, date not stated.
Three hundred acres of bounty land was issued on Warrant No. 344 to Thomas D. Harris, assignee, by Erasmus Gill, Administrator of the estate of said Peter Minor.
There is no data on file as to family.
Respectfully,
WINFIELD SCOTT Commissioner.

Thos D. Harris
April 19, 1807
in City
PAID 19 3/4

Henry Dearborn Esq. Secretary of War Sir
Richmond 18 th April 1807
Please to deliver Capt. J. Davidson all warrants for Land that may issue in my name and his receipt shall be sufficient for the same -
Truly Yours J. D. Harris
Sir M c Ot. Abt. Genl. J. D. Harris

HOMER W. CHARLES 765 EAST 26TH NORTH PORTLAND, OREGON
October 26, 1926.
Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D. C.
Sir:-
Will you kindly advise me what records, if any, your office may have of the following soldiers of the Revolutionary War:-
First:- Peter Minor, or Minor, supposed to have been a commissioned officer of the 5th Virginia from February, 1776 to September 1778.

Second: Corbin Waymouth, sup- posed to have been a member of Capt. John Ingles' company second North Carolina battalion.
Third: John Pike, n o n c supposed to have belonged to a North Carolina regiment.
Very truly yours,
Homer W. Charles.