Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B. L. Wt. 712-100, William Booth, Continental (Mass)

SERVICE
NUMBER
Continental (Mass)
Booth, William
B.L. Wt. 712-100.
Boothe or
CONTENTS

No 712
William Boothe Manuf Masa. Fittery Abigail Hancock & other heirs at law
Warrant issued Nov 23 d 1818
Seth Lyatt attorney —

Know all Men by these Presents,
That I Abigail Hancock (formerly Abigail Boothe) of Braintree, County of Norfolk, State of Massachusetts,
have constituted, ordained and made, and in my Stead and Place put, and by these Presents do constitute, ordain and make, and in my Stead and Place put
John Coates of Boston in the County of Suffolk, State aforesaid
to be my true, sufficient and lawful Attorney, for me and in my Name and Stead, and to my Use, to ask, demand, levy, require, recover and receive of and from all and every Person or Persons whomsoever the same shall or may concern, all and singular Sum and Sums of Money, Debts, Goods, Wares, Merchandize, Effects and Things whatsoever, and wheresoever they shall and may be found due, owing, payable, belonging and coming unto me the Constituent, by any Ways and Means whatsoever, as heir of William
Boothe, deceased, who served in Col. John Cram's Regiment during the Revolutionary War for his services in said war in the American Army - especially to ask for and receive of the Secretary of War, a warrant for one hundred acres of Land, granted by the United States, as a Bounty for his said services.
Giving and hereby granting unto my said Attorney my full and whole Strength, Power and Authority in and about the Premises; and to take and use all due Means, Course and Process in the Law for the obtaining and recovering the same; and of Recoveries and Receipts thereof, in my Name to make, seal and execute due Acquittance and Discharge; and for the Premises to appear, and the Person of me the Constituent to represent before any Governour, Judges, Justices, Officers and Ministers of the Law whatsoever, in any Court or Courts of Judicature, and there, on my Behalf, to answer, defend and reply unto all Actions, Causes, Matters and Things whatsoever, relating to the Premises. Also to submit any Matter in Dispute, to Arbitration or otherwise: With full Power to make and substitute one or more Attorneys under my said Attorney, and the same again at Pleasure to revoke. And generally to say, do, act, transact, determine, accomplish, and finish all Matters and Things whatsoever, relating to the Premises, as fully, amply and effectually, to all Intents and Purposes, as the said Constituent, if present, ought or might personally, although the Matter should require more special Authority than is herein comprised, the said Constituent ratifying, allowing and holding firm and valid all and whatsoever my said Attorney or his Substitutes shall lawfully do, or cause to be done, in and about the Premises, by Virtue of these Presents. In Witness whereof, I have hereunto set my Hand and Seal the eighth Day of October, in the Year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventeen
Signed, sealed and delivered in Presence of
Jeremiah Bulpinch Dolly Denton
Abigail Hancock mark

Norfolk ss. Braintree 17 th Oct. 1817 Personally appeared Abigail Hancock the subscriber of this ins- trument who was, formerly Abigail Booth the wife in fact of William Booth who died without children, and freely acknowledged the same to be her free act and deed. before me Ebenezer Dyer Davis Notary Public.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Norfolk ss. I Horatio Townsend Clerk of the Court in the above County do hereby certify that Eben Francis Thayer is a Justice of the Peace & Notary Public in and for said County, duly commissioned by the Executive authority of the State of Massachusetts, that the signature to the above instrument is in the hand writing of said Ebenezer Francis Thayer. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court, at Dedham, this thirty first day of October, Anno Domini 1817 Horatio Townsend Clerk.

UNITED STATES
OF AMERICA.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Boston, } fs. Suffolk, }
ON this fifteenth Day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen before me, WILLIAM STEVENSON, Notary Public, by legal authority admitted and sworn, and dwelling in Bos- ton aforesaid, and a Justice of the Peace for the County of Suffolk, personally appeared John Coates and acknowledged the within instrument of substitution to be his free act and deed.
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed my Notarial Seal, the day and year above written.
William Stevenson
} Notary Public, and Justice of Peace.

Know all men by these presents, That I John Coates of Boston, State of Massa- chusetts, attorney to Abigail Hancock of Braintree, State aforesaid, whose power of attorney authorising me to receive a war- rant of One Hundred acres of Land from the United States, granted to William Booth for his services in the Revolution, in the Massachusetts Line U.S. Army and claimed by the said Abigail Hancock and other heirs of the said William Booth, with power to substitute, is now lodged in the Office of the War Department of the United States, have by virtue of said authority substituted and appointed S ir H. Wyatt of the City of Washington my lawful substitute to claim & receive the said Land warrant, & to do execute, and perform all and singular the acts, deeds, mat- ters & things which by the said original Letter of attorney I am authorised and empowered to do — Hereby ratifying all that my said Substitute may lawfully do by virtue hereof. — In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal, This is the day of August, A.D. 1818.
In presence of Jacob Rogers Williamson
John Coates

William Booth.
Massachusetts Line.
Probate certificate

Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Norfolk County. Probate Department.
This is to certify, That it appears to me, from satisfactory evidence, That Abigail Hancock (formerly Abigail Booth) of Braintree, in said County, is one of the legitimate and legal heirs of William Booth, late of said Braintree, deceased, who was a Soldier, and enlisted to serve, and served the Term of during the War of the Revolution, in Colonel Crane's Regiment of Artillery, in the Massachusetts Line of the American Army; — and that the said Abigail is, by the Laws of the said Commonwealth, entitled to a share of all the Estate, Credits, and Rights of every description of the said William Booth deceased, which appertained to him at the time of his decease.
And there is no particular seal appropriated to said Department, or required by Law to be used by me in the proceedings thereof.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and Seal this 27th day of January, in the year of our L. O. R. D., One thousand, eight hundred, and eighteen.
Saml H. Merrill Judge of Probate for Norfolk County

By His Excellency GEORGE WASHINGTON, Esq; General and Commander in Chief of the Forces of the United States of America.
THESE are to CERTIFY that the Bearer hereof William Booth  Matross in the Third Artillery Regiment, having faith- fully served the United States six Years and two Months and being enlisted for the War only, is hereby DISCHARGED from the American Army.
GIVEN at HEAD-QUARTERS the 9 th Day of June 1783.
G. Washington
By His Excellency's Command,
J. Humboldt
REGISTERED in the Books of the Regiment,
Sam. Joseph Adjutant.

HEAD-QUARTERS, June Winter 1783.
THE within CERTIFICATE shall not avail the Bearer as a Discharge, until the Ratification of the definitive Treaty of Peace; previous to which Time, and until Proclamation thereof shall be made, He is to be considered as being on Furlough.
GEORGE WASHINGTON.
Twenty dollars gratuity of Massachusetts by resolve of 5 th March 1801 paid
William Booth of Braintree non loc.
Chase 20 $ Issued Gen. Thayer
71- 17/90 65- 23 80- — 100 316 40/90
W m Booth B.L. Mt. 712-100 Continental Mass