Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 4339, Jeremiah Grisham, La. Residence In 1853

SERVICE
NUMBER
Grisham, Jeremiah
R.4339
La. residence in 1858
CONTENTS

Isaac
Jeremiah Grisham,
La. Act 1832
Susp.
See letter to G.W. Copley
May 27. 1837.

Jeremiah Grahams, San 7 infancy 1853 of the Parish of Ouachita La - Gave no details of Service in the Redyswar, nor his age or former residence

1887 July 27 P H Gresham-history Prior
Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
4339
P. O.
Jeremiah Gresham
Service:
REJECTED
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____ _____
Re-enlisted: _____ _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

Bayou Parish of Louisiana State of Louisiana April 22, 1837
Sir
Jeremiah Grisham a resident of this Parish requested me to write to the pension officer for his papers as an applicant for a pension, will you please send me the papers with the objections to obviate. If it should be contrary to the rules of the Pension officer to send the papers please forward me the objections. He applied some time ago say four or five years since
Yours Respectfully G. W. Copley
W. E. S. W. Maddox, Monroe, La.

Act of June 7. 1832.
Jeremiah Grisham.
(La.)
Power of Atty.
To examine claim.
4339
Chas. Lucher.
Atty.
Present.

Power of Attorney.
Know all men by these presents, that Jeremiah Grisham, Senior do hereby irrevocably constitute and appoint CHAS. C. TUCKER, of Washington City, D. C. My true and lawful Agent and Attorney to prosecute the Claim of Jeremiah Grisham, Senior for any amount of Revolutionary Pension or increase of Pension that may be due under the provisions of the Act of June 7. 1832. or any other Act or Resolution of Congress, and I hereby authorize my said Attorney to examine all papers and documents in relation to said Claim on file in the Departments at Washing- ton City, or elsewhere, to file additional evidence or arguments, and to receive the Certificate which may be issued for said Claim, and to appoint one or more substitutes under him for the purposes herein expressed: and to do all things that I might or could do, were I personally present. Hereby ratifying and confirming all that my said Attorney may lawfully do in the premises.
Witness my hand and seal this Twenty day of January 185 3 . In presence of L. L. Richard  his  Jeremiah Grisham Mason & Hays mark
STATE OF Louisiana COUNTY ss.  Parish of Ouachita On this 24 day of January 185 3 , before me a Sister of the Poor in and for the Parish and State above mentioned personally appeared Jeremiah Grisham and acknowledged the foregoing power of Attorney to be his act and deed for the purposes therein mentioned.
John F. Hays Justice of The Peace
STATE OF Louisiana Parish of Ouachita ss. On this 24 day of January 185 3 , before me the undersigned a Sister of the Poor the Poor in and for the Parish and State aforesaid, personally appeared Jeremiah Grisham a resident of said Parish and made oath according to law that he is the identi- cal man or person who executed the foregoing power of Attorney, and that he is directly interested in said Claim, and makes this affidavit to be filed with such additional evidence or argu- ments as my said Attorney may use in prosecuting said Claim.
Jeremiah Grisham mark
Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and year above written.
John F. Hays Justice of The Peace
STATE OF Mississippi Parish County of  Ouachita I B. F. Austin Clerk of the 12 th Judicial Dist Court do hereby certify that John F. Hays Esq., before whom the foregoing affidavit and acknowledgment were made and who has thereunto signed his name, was at the time of so doing a Justice of the Peace, in and for the County and State aforesaid, duly commissioned and sworn, and that all his official acts are entitled to full faith and credit.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed my name and affixed my official seal this 19 th day of February 185 3 .
B. F. Austin