Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B.L.Wt. 1729-100, Jeremiah Brittan, New Jersey

SERVICE
NUMBER
New Jersey
Brittan, Jeremiah Brittain
B.L.W. 1729-100.
CONTENTS

State of Kentucky, So.
County of Spencer
Jeremiah Brittain age Seventy four years, do upon oath, testify and declare, that in the year one thousand Seven hundred and Seventy eight I enlisted for the term of "during the war" and served in the Regiment N o . 1. under the command of Colonel Ogden of the New Jersey Continental Line; and that I continued in the service aforesaid until the close of the war when I was regularly discharged from the aforesaid Regiment N o . 1. commanded by Colonel Ogden as aforesaid. Further declare that I have never received a warrant for the Bounty Land promised to me on the part of the United States; nor have I ever assigned or transferred my claim in any manner whatever. Therefore I now all men by these presents that I Jeremiah Brittain aforesaid do hereby constitute and appoint Charles S. Wickliffe of Felson County Kentucky to be my true and lawful attorney for me and in my name to demand and receive from the Secretary of War of the United States a warrant for the quantity of land due me as aforesaid; and my said Attorney is fully authorized me hereby fully empowered to constitute and appoint one or more Substitutes or attorneys under him for the special purposes above expressed. the said Jeremiah Brittain refers to his pay certificate dated 3 d August 1824. N o . 837 and of record in the Treasury Department of the United States, and his declaration there and make part hereof. given under my hand this 3 d day of March 1831.
Attest John Newman
Jeremiah Brittain
Seal
Before me Thomas Newman a Justice of the Peace for the County of Spencer in the State of Kentucky personally appeared the above named Jeremiah Brittain subscribed to the foregoing declaration and in my presence acknowledged the Power of Attorney thereto subjoined to be his free act and deed; and being well known to me to be a man of respectability and truth, and

that he is the identical person he therein represents himself to be, and he made solemn oath to the truth of the Deposition by him Subscribed this third day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty one.
Tho s Newman Justice of the Peace Commonwealth of Kentucky
Spencer County. ss In Testimony that the above written Thomas Newman was a magistrate authorized to administer oaths and take acknowledgements in the County of Spencer in the State of Kentucky at the above date, and that his name there Subscribed appears to me to be his usual Signature.
I have hereunto affixed the County Seal and Subscribed my name and quality at Taylorsville this third day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty one.
Raph d Dancaster Clerk Spencer County Court.

(Copy)
Revolutionary Claims.
Under the act, entitled "An act for the relief of certain surviving Officers and Soldiers of the Army of the Revolution," approved 15th May, 2828.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
10 Dec 1828.
Sir :
Your claim, under the abovementioned act, having been examined, you are found to be entitled to the pay of a Sergeant of Infantry in the Continental Line. The amount which may be due, accordingly, will be remitted to you by the Treasurer of the United States.
I am, sir, very respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
(Signed) Richard Rush.
M c Jeremiah Brittan. care of Raphael Lancaster Esq. Taylorsville. Spencer Co. Ky.
None copy. Mr B. belongs to the New Jersey Line Treasury Dept. must be paid at B.B. T.H. Dickinson, P.H.