Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B. L. Wt. 865-100, Aaron Bickford, N. H.

SERVICE
NUMBER
W.H.
Bickford Aaron
B.L.Wt. 865-100
CONTENTS

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 Bear er hereof Aaron Wickford in the 11th Battalion of Regiment, having faithful- ly served the United States Seven years and being enlisted for the War only, is hereby DISCHARGED from the American Army.
GIVEN at HEAD-QUARTERS the 16 th Day of June 1780
G. Washington
By His EXCELLENCY
Command,
J. Trumbull
REGISTERED in the Books of the Regiment,
J. Mills Adjutant
THE above Aaron Wickford has been honored with the BADGE OF MERIT for Seven Years faithful Service.
June 16 th 1780 W. L. M c Farland

Bickford to Mellin

Know all Men by these presents That I Aaron Bickford now resident of the Town of Berwick in the County of York Common-wealth of Massachusetts Saylor in Consideration of forty two shillings L s to me in hand well truly Paid me before the delivery hereof by Daniel Rollins of Somersworth in the County of Stratford & State of Newhampshire Gentleman Do hereby sell & convey Confirm & for ever quit claim unto him the s d Daniel Rollins his heirs & assigns for ever all the Right title claim property & demand. s have of in and unto one hundred Acres of land wherever it may be assigned and located me as a Soldier in the Continental army during the late war in the N H ampshire Battallion having enlisted & served & being regularly discharged therefrom by his Excell. my Gen l Washington C o m d Gen l of Army —
So have and to hold the s d hundred acres of land to him the s d Daniel Rollins his heirs & assigns for ever in as full & ample an annuity with all the Priviledges and Appurtenances thereto in as full & ample a manner as the same was granted to me in Consequence of my enlisting into & serving in s d Army during the late war as will more fully appear by the Resolves of the Hon ble Contin l Congress for raising & establishing an army —
In witness whereof I do hereby set my hand & seal this 25 th day of March An o Domini
1788 —
Aaron Bickford
Signed sealed & delivered in Presence of us
J. H. Rollins Tobias Sturgis
York Feb. April 25 1788 The s d Aaron Bickford acknowledged the foregoing instrument to be his act & deed before me Benj. Chadbourne Esq r

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
York ss. I Daniel Sewall, Clerk of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the county of York, hereby certify, that Benjamin Chadbourne, now deceased, before whom the foregoing acknowledgment was taken, was at the time when the same was taken, a justice of the peace within & for said county, & duly qualified to act as such; and that I am well acquainted with his hand writing, and that the foregoing appears to be his signature. In testimony whereof, I hereunto set my hand and the seal of the said Court, the tenth day of February, A. D. 1819. (Daniel Sewall.)

Aaron Bickford
No 865.
Jacket is with Claim of Truworthy Dudley. B.L.Wt. 863-100.