Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B.L.Wt. 243-100, Frederick Bauman, Continental. (Pa.)

SERVICE
NUMBER
Continental (Pa.)
Bauman, Frederick
B.L. Mt. 243-100.
or Baumann.
or Bowman
CONTENTS
or Boardman.
Pennsylvania residence in 1789.

Friday March 23.
Free
The Honorable Frederick Conrad in Congress City of Washington.

Honored Sir!
Reading, March 23 d 1800
99
139
The papers which I have sent you concerning Frederick Bauman, hope you will do your utmost endeavor to get a Patent for the Land to which the said Bauman was intitled to, and when obtained inform me of the same, I shall make you satisfaction for your trouble & Money laid out, and which shall be acknowledged as a particular favor done to your friend & Servant
Jacob Stout

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 Private William ... in the ... Regiment , having faithful- ly served the United States Seven years and five months and being enlisted for the War only, is hereby DISCHARGED from the American Army.
GIVEN at HEAD-QUARTERS the 11th day
1 June 1788
Elizabeth ...
By His Excellency's
Command,
John Marshall Secy of War
REGISTERED in the Books of the Regiment,
J. Pugh Adjutant.
THE above Private William ... has been honored with the BADGE of MERIT for Years faithful Service.
Lewis Nicola Col. Comdr

Power of Attorney Christopher Boardman to Jacob Stoudt
Seas Rec d . 5 th March. 1806.

Know all Men by these Presents that I Christopher Boardman of the County of Northumberland and State of Pennsylvania & Administrator of all and singular the goods and chattels rights and credits which were of his brother Frederick Boardman late a Sifer in the American forces of the United States deceased, have made & ordained constituted and appointed and by these presents do make ordain constitute and appoint Jacob Shoult of the same place Yeoman my true and lawfull Attorney for me and in my Name to ask demand and by all lawfull means recover and receive all such or sums of Money and other demands whatsoever which shall be owing and coming to my late brother the said Frederick Boardman deceased from the United States or the state of Pennsylvania and upon the receipt thereof to give an acquittance or release testifying the receipt thereof Giving and by these presents granting unto my said Attorney full Power and Authority to do or cause to be done all and every such act and acts thing and things whatsoever which shall or may be necessary and needfull to be done in the premises in as full and ample a manner as if I myself were personally present at the doing of the same And one or more attorneys for the purpose aforesaid under him to substitute and appoint and again at pleasure to revoke ratifying and allowing all and whatsoever my said Attorney shall lawfully do or cause to be done in the premises by Virtue hereof In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal the fourth — day of March in the year of Our Lord One thousand eight hundred and Six
Sealed & Delivered
In the presence of us
Thomas Bowman
Jacob Mack
Christopher Boardman Seal

Northumberland County ss,
On the 10th - day of March Anno Domini 1806. Before me the subscriber One of the Justices of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid came the within Named Christopher Boardman and Acknowledged the within written letter of Attorney to be his Act and deed and desired that the same might be recorded or accepted as such, And also declared that he did by the within written letter of Attorney constitute and appoint Christopher Boardman Jacob Stout therein named as and for his true and lawfull Attorney for the purpose therein contained In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal the day and year above written
Joseph Salmon J.P.
Northumberland County ss.
Recorded in the Office for Recording of Deeds &c in and for the County aforesaid in Deeds Book N. 10. The 5th day of March Anno Domini 1806. Witness my Hand and Seal of Office aforesaid.
John Boyd by his Deputy Robt. Gray Deputy

No 10 Copy Will of Frederick Downman deceased
W th 2 nd 24/3
by W th Monroe
86 years

In the Name of God Amen. I Frederick Dornman of the Borough of Reading in the County of Berks and Commonwealth wealth of Pennsylvania Bachelor and Musical Instrument maker, being at present very sick in body but of sound mind and disposing understanding and memory thanks be to God, and having taken the mortality of mankind into consideration have thought proper to make this my last Will and Testament in manner and form following that is to say. Principally and first of all I recommend my immortal Soul into the hands of Almighty God who gave it to be received through the Merits of my Redeemer Jesus Christ. And my body I give unto the Earth to be buried in a Christian decent manner accord- =ing to the discretion of my hereinafter named Executor and as touching those worldly estates wherewith it has been pleased God Almighty to bless me with, and which principally are and remain in Nafrau Weiburg in the middle Pallantine in the County of Kirchheim Polane in the Holy Roman Empire and in the hands of my Guardians there, Messieurs Alt and Kamunfels. I give and devise in manner and form following that is to say. I hereby order and request my hereinafter named Executor in the first place to pay and discharge all my just debts and funeral charges and expenses, and the residue I give devise and bequeath unto my loving Brother Christopher Dornman of Mount Bethel Township in the County of Northampton & State of Pennsylvania, and to my beloved Betrothed Bride Barbara Schelbachin, of the aforesaid Kirchheim Polane to be by them equally divided share and share alike and hereby constitute & appoint my said loving Brother Christopher Dornman to be sole & only Executor of this my last Will & Testament, hereby seriously request him to pay my just & lawful debts, and if my estate in America should not be sufficient to answer for that purpose to advance so much and then first again to repay himself with Interest & commissions out of my estate in Europe, and should he refuse to act my Executor on those terms I nominate & appoint my worthy Friends Esquire Daniel Stoudt & James Lemars Executors of this my last Will and Testament hereby allowing them twenty five per cent. commissions on all I have herein given & bequeath- =ed to my Brother and the monies advanced for the payment

of my debts, hereby revoking all former Wills & Testaments by me heretofore made declaring and ratifying only this and no other to be my last Will & Testament. In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal the third day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred & eighty nine. Signed sealed declared published and pronounced by Frederick Dorman who in our presence signed his name and we have at his request and in his presence and in the presence of each other signed our names —
Frederick Dorman
William Zoll Phillip Leine Benj ty Spitzer, Jr.
I do hereby certify that the foregoing writing doth contain a true copy of the original Will of Frederick Dorman decd. duly proved the 8 th day of June A.D. 1790. and remaining in the Register Office at Reading in and for Berks County. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office the 8 th day of March Anno Domini 1806.
Brailay Reg r
I do hereby certify that on the 8 th day of June A.D. 1790. Letters Testamentary on the original Will, were in due form of Law granted to Christopher Dorman, the Executor therein named he having been first duly sworn thereto — Witness my hand the 8 th March A.D. 1806.
Brailay Reg r