Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B. L. Wt. 308-100, Christopher Hite, Continental Penn.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Continental Penn.
Hite, Christopher
B.L. Mt. 308-100
CONTENTS

N o 308.
Christopher Hite — private
Witnessed & Delivered to Gene Rea 12 Jan 1859

Know all Men by these Presents, that I Christopher Hite of the County of Bedford and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for divers good causes and Considerations me hereunto moving, have made ordained authorised nominated and appointed, and by these Presents make ordain authorise nominate and appoint and in my Place and Stead put and depute my trusty Friend John Rea Esqr. Member of the Congress of Franklin County and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania my True and Lawfull Attorney for me and in my Name and for my own proper Use and Benefit, to ask demand recover and receive of and from the honorable Officers or of any of them, at the Office of the Treasury one hundred Acres of Land due to me in Consideration of my Services for during the War in the Army of the united States of America with great Britain, and I do more over humbly request order and direct the said honorable Officers or any of them to issue in my Name to the said John Rea Esqr. a Warrant for the said Land, and on the Receipt of the same I do hereby ratify and confirm any Receipt or other Instrument of Writing that the said Mr. John Rea Esqr may ne- cessarily sign or procure to be signed touching the Premises aforesaid, as fully as I ought and could entirely do in and about the same were I personally present. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my Hand and Seal the second Day of Febr. 1806 Signed and delivered in the presence of Frederik Kenge. John Rea Christopher his X Hite (S.S.) mark

Bedford County. Is
Personally appeared before me the Subscriber one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the County of Bedford and State of Pennsylvania Christopher Hite a Citizen of the same County and Commonwealth and acknowledged the foregoing Power of Attorney to be his Act and Deed. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 2 nd day of December A D 1806.
Christopher Hite

Bedford County State of Pennsylvania the second Day of Decr 1806.
Personally appeared before me the Subscriber one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the said County and Commonwealth Christopher Hite a Citizen with whom I am well acquainted of the aforesaid County and by occupation a Farmer, duly swor- deposith and saith. That he was enlisted in the Services of the united States for and during the war with great Britain and proved to the End of the said war untill to his discharge from the said Services in Pursuance of Orders, received of the Commander in Chief - Sworn and subscribed before me
Christopher his X Hite (S.B.) mark
Christopher Reiley

Pennsylvania Bedford County ss Jacob Bonnett Prothonotary of the Court of the Common Pleas for said County Do certify that Christopher Reiley Esquire the Gentleman before whom the foregoing Letter of Attorney was acknowledged by Christopher Reiley is one of the Justices of the said in and for the County aforesaid regularly Commissioned and qualified to whom official Acts as such full faith and credit is due as well in Courts of Justice as elsewhere
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office this second day of December Anno Domini Eighteen hundred and six
Jacob Bonnett
E. B. H. Room of atty J. Bonnett

The Deposition of Matthew Organ Philadelphia Pa

Westmorland County 8 Commonwealth of Penn:
Before me a Justice of the peace for the County aforesaid came Matthew Organ being a person with whom I am well acquainted and a citizen of the aforesaid County, Who being duly sworn deposeth & and saith that Christopher Hite, a Citizen of Bedford County in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania by Occupation a Farmer was inlisted by Capt. John Wilkins in Bedford in the year one thousand Seven hundred & Seventy Seven for and during the war With Great Britain and Served to the end of the said War, first under the Command of Col. Oliver Spence and after that un- der the Command of Richard Butler in the first pennsyl- vania Regiment agreeable to an Act of Congress, that he was personally acquainted with the said Christopher Hite and that they were Mesmates together while in the service and that he knows him to be the same person whom he presents himself to be, and that he was Discharged at the end of the War, and the said discharge was signed by Col. Isaac Harmon and further this Deponent saith not.
Sworn and afixed his Mark before me March 11 th AD 1806
his Matthew X Organ mark
James White
Pennsylvania Westmorland County ss
I the Subscriber. Prothonotary of the Court of Common pleas for the County of Westmorland in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania certify that James White before whom the Deposition of Matthew Organ above written was Solemnly sworn to and Subscribed. was at the time of administering the said Oath and yet is one of the Commonwealth Justices of the peace for the Township of Unity in said County by lawful authority commissioned and to his Acts as such done and certified full faith and Credit is given and of right due. Given under my hand and Seal of Office the Eleventh Day of March One Thousand eight Hundred and Six.
Thomas Hamilton Protho