Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B. L. Wt. 204-100, John Bryant, New Jersey

SERVICE
NUMBER
New Jersey
★ Bryant, John
B.L. Wt 204-100
CONTENTS

Certificate of John Bryant Serving as a soldier

This may certify that the bearer hereof John Bryant an Indian, served as a private Soldier in the first New Jersey Regiment from June 1777: and that he received a regular discharge therefrom at the end of the War with Great Britain, as appears by the Regimental Book of said Regiment. —
Given under my hand at Mount Holly in Burlington County, State of New Jersey this Twenty Seventh day of October Eighteen hundred and two. —
Whereby assign all my right and title of this the within To Amos L. Scarvel I have as signed By me
Rich. Cox Major & Commander of said N. Jersey Regt. when discharged
John J. Bryant Daniel M c Donough John M c Farland

To the Secretary of War
Please to deliver the Military Land Warrant in the name of John Bryant this power for which I lodged in your Office, to Mr Charles Tomkins
March 4 th 1805.
H. Nelson

John Bryant } Power to } of the William Holmes } Party Esquire

K NOW all Men by these Presents, That I John Bryant — late a Soldier — in the New- Jersey line of the late army of the United States of America, have made, ordained, constituted and appointed, and by these Presents do make, ordain, constitute and appoint William Helmer Liguore in the State of New-Jersey, my true and lawful Attorney, for me and in my name to receive of the Secretary at War of the United States my Warrant for all such Lands that I am entitled to receive as a Soldier — aforesaid by any resolve or law of the late or present Congress, and in my name or otherwise to give such receipt or discharge as may be necessary, and Attorney or Attornies un- der him for the purpose aforesaid, to make and at his pleasure to revoke, ratifying and by these Presents confirming all and whatsoever my said Attorney or his sub- stitute or substitutes shall lawfully do or cause to be done in the premises. — IN WITNESS WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and seal, this sixth day of April — in the year of our Lord eighteen seventeen hundred and ninety  four
Sealed and Delivered } in the Presence of }
D. DeFourey D. DeFourey
John Bryant

New Jersey ss: Be it remembered that on this sixth day of April in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred & four personally came before me Isaac Smith Esquire one of the Justices of the Supreme court of Judicature of the State of New Jersey, John Bryant within named who acknowledged that he executed the within power of Attorney as his voluntary act & deed for the uses & purposes
therein mentioned —
Taken & acknowledged before me the day & year above written — }
Isaac Smith
New Jersey ss: The within named John Bryant being duly sworn saith that he served as a soldier in the first New Jersey Regiment from the year 1777 to the close of the late revolutionary war, and that he hath never received nor sold the warrant for land which he was entitled to by an act of Congress — and further saith not —

Taken & sworn the 9 day of year above written }
John Bryan
Isaac Smith I here by assign all my right of this with its contents to a Francis Haniel by me John Bryan Daniel M c Donald John M c Farland

5. 107. -
John Bryant. Private N. Jersey.
Lodg. by Mr. Br. H.
General Helms says he has personal knowledge that Bryant enlisted for the war.
Good.
Yours truly J. S. [unclear]

His Excellency Joseph Bloomfield Esquire Governor, Captain General and Commander in Chief of all the Militia and and other Military force in the State of New Jersey, Chancellor and ordinary in the same. —
To all to whom these presents shall come Greeting Be it known That Isaac Smith Esquire, before whom the annexed Letter of Attorney was acknowledged, was at the time of taking the said acknowledgement and now is, one of the Judges of the Supreme Court of this State, and to whose signature and acts official full faith and credit is, and ought to be given in due course and thereout —
In Testimony whereof I have here- unto set my hand and caused the Great Seal of the State to be affixed. Given at the City of Trenton in the state aforesaid, this seventh day of April Eighteen hundred & four. and of Independence the Liberity eighth.
By the Governor John Beatty Secy. J. H. B. B.
Joseph Bloomfield Daniel M c Donough John M c Farland