Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B.L.Wt. 208-100, Joseph Brann, Continental (Va)

SERVICE
NUMBER
Continental (Va?)
Brann, Joseph
BL 7/12 208-100
CONTENTS

No. 208. To Brant Keller for of D. Berney, S. W.
Guards deliv. to Wm Simmons by order of the Secy of War.

Know all men by these presents that I Joseph Brann, late a Corporal in Col o Henry Lee's Legion of Horse, now of the State of Kentucky. Have bargained aliend Sold and made over to Daniel Virtue of the State aforesaid all my right title claim & interest of and and to, One hundred acres of land, which I am entitled to in consequence of my services in the Virginia Continental line, during the late war with Great Britain. And I do hereby Authorise and request the Honorable James W m Henry Secretary of war, to order the said warrant of one hundred acres to issue in the name of the said Daniel Virtue, And I do hereby empower the said Virtue on receiving said warrant to give as sufficient receipts, or acquittals as I myself might or, could do were I personally present, hereby ratifying & confirming all My said attorney shall lawfully do or cause to be done. In Testi- -mony whereof I have hereunto set my hand Seal this 28 th day of December 1799
Sealed signed and delivered in presence of Rob t Scott James M c Kinley Thos Harrison
Joseph Brann

Wayne County Pa
Personally appeared before us the subscribers Justices of the Peace in and for said County the above named Joseph Brann and acknowledged the above Power of Attorney to be his voluntary act and deed and desired the same should be recorded as such, Given under our hands and Seals this 28 th Day of December 1797
W. M. Irwin J.P. Robt. S. Ruppel J.P.
Wayne County Pa
Personally appeared before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said County John Harrison, who being duly sworn deposeth and saith that the above mentioned Joseph Brann was a Corporal in Col. Henry Lee's Legion of Horse, that he served with him in the same Legion and that he knows him to be the person he represents himself to be and also signed the above Power of Atty. Given under my hand this 11 th day of March 1798
W. M. Irwin J.P.
Note the words in and who signed the above Power of Attorney were interlined before attesting.
W. M. Irwin

Payette County Kentucky
As Clerk of the Court of the County aforesaid, I do certify that Hugh Hall Hain and Robert Russell Esquires, who have subscribed the foregoing acknowledgement and deposition, are Justices of the Peace in the County aforesaid, duly commissioned and legally qualified to perform all duties to their said Office appertaining
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affix the Seal of Office this 19 th day of April 1798 and in the 9 th year of the Commonwealth Levi Todd C.H.C.