Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B. L. Wt. 1268-100, Conrad Buding, Continental

SERVICE
Continental
Buding Conrad for Conrad
NUMBER
B.L.Wt 1268-100
Penn residence in 1824.
CONTENTS

N o 1268
Conradt Buding
Armand's copy
add to
Hon Adam King
Penn a

DEPARTMENT OF WAR.
Regulations for the Officers and Soldiers of the Revolutionary War who acquired a right to Land from the United States, but have not received it.
By an Act of Congress, of the 16th September, 1776, it is provided, that the Officers and Soldiers who engaged for, and continued to serve, during the War, or until discharged by Congress, shall receive land in proportion to their rank.
N. B. Those who engaged for three years, or for any other period than during the war, are not entitled to land from the United States.
The following declaration must be filled up and sworn to by the claimant:
State of Pennsylvania }
County of York }
I, Conradt Duding aged Seventy six years, do, upon oath, testify and declare, that, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and Eighty two I enlisted for the term of "during the war," and served in Armand's Legion under the command of Colonel Armand of the line; and that I continued in the service aforesaid until the close of the war, when I was regularly discharged from the Legion regiment, commanded by Colonel Armand.
I 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 whatsoever: therefore,
Know all men by these presents, that I, Conradt Duding aforesaid, do hereby constitute and appoint Adam Rine, Esq. 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 to me as aforesaid; and my said attorney is hereby fully authorized and empowered to constitute and appoint one or more substitutes or attorneys under him, for the special purposes above expressed.
Attest, Lewis Shive
Conradt Duding mark
I, Frederick Hubner aged Seventy five years, do, upon oath, declare that I have been long acquainted with Conradt Duding who has subscribed the above declaration in my presence, and well know that he is the identical person he therein represents himself to be; and further, I know, or do believe, that he did perform the military service therein stated.
Attest, Lewis Shive
Fredk Hubner
Before me, Lewis Shive, as Justice of the Peace, in and for York County personally appeared the above named Conradt Duding subscriber to the foregoing declaration, and in my presence acknowledged the power of attorney thereto subjoined, to be his free act and deed; and, likewise, personally appeared Frederick Hubner who hath subscribed the above certificate of identity, both to me well known to be men of respectability and truth, and made solemn oath to the truth of the depositions by them respectively subscribed, this Twenty seventh day of February 1828.
Lewis Shive Justice of the Peace.
In testimony that the above written was a magistrate authorized to administer oaths, and take acknowledgments, &c., in the State of 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 this

In testimony that the abovewritten authorized to administer oaths, and take acknowledgments, &c., in the State of
was a magistrate at fixed the
STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA.
YORK COUNTY, SS.
I, MICHAEL W. ASH, Prothonotary of the Court of Common
Pleas for the said county of York, Do Certify, that Louis Shine —
Esquire by and
before whom the annexed Power of attorney was acknowledged
affidavit — and affidavit was made, is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the said County and as such is
duly commissioned and qualified; and that to all acts by him done in that capacity full faith and credit are and ought to be given, as well in courts of justice as elsewhere, and that he has then subscribed
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said court, in the borough of
York, this Twenty Seventh day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and twenty Eight .
Michael W. Ash
Prothonotary.
No. 12 Conna Anna Hon. A.