Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B. L. Wt. 497-100, Lewis Hart, Continental Conn. Residence In 1810

SERVICE
NUMBER
Continental
Hart, Lewis
B.L. Wt. 497-100
Comm. residence in 1810
CONTENTS

N o 1197.
Lewis Hart private 2 d R t L. Dragoon.
W th affix d 26. March 1822 & deliver d to Col. Talbot M. C.

Land Warrant No. 497. for 100, acres, issued March 26 th 1870, to Lewis Hart, a private of Sheldon's Dragoons - same delivered to Benj no Tallmadge -
Room No. 15 - Apl. 28/60.

111 497 100 am

Tontitogany Wood Co: Ohio April 21/1860
To the Commissioner of Pensions Lewis Hart a private
in the second Regiment of light dragoons of the revolutionary war, has received a Warrant for one hundred acres, lot num- bered twenty six in the second quarter of the eighth Township of the sixth range of the tract appropriated for satisfying warrants for military services. Warrant dated April 13 1830
Recorded Vol 4 page 45 B
Is not Lewis Hart entitled to sixty acres. more? If so What is the process to obtain it?
Respectfully yours Henry Warner

Louis Hart, power of Attorney —
20/10/18 3 1/2 2 3/4

To all people to whom these presents shall come Greeting—
Know ye that I Lewis Hart of Huntington in Fairfield County have appointed and by these presents do constitute & appoint Benjamin Talmadge Esq. my true & lawful Attorney for me & in my name & stead to ask demand and receive of the Secretary of War, the Land Warrant to which I am entitled for my services as a Trumpeter in the Second Regiment Light Dragoons during the revolutionary war with Great Britain, with power of substitution; hereby ratifying & confirming whatever my said Attorney may do in the premises, as fully as if done by myself in person.
In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal the 16th day of Feby. 1810
Signed sealed & delivered in presence of
Lewis Hart
H. Whitney
Sarah Dudley

State of Connecticut } ss. New Haven County }
On the 18 th day of July 1810
Personally came before me Josiah Dudley Notary Public by lawful authority commissioned & sworn (and residing in Derby in said County, Lewis Hart The signer & sealer of the within instrument and acknowledged the same to be his free act & deed for the purposes therein specified.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed my seal notarial the day & year first above on this side written
Josiah Dudley Notary Public

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Altho the within certificate is negatively stated yet Col. Talmadge asserted that no doubt would exist as to man's having secured to the slave the loan.
A.H.
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This Certificate that Levi Hart enlisted into into the 3 d Troop in the 2 d Reg t of L t . Dragoons, Commanded by Col. Elisha Sheldon, on the 8 th Day of April 1777, in the Capacity of Trun- sister to Service (during the war; nor does it appear, from the Regimental Book in my keeping, that he left 3 d Regiment be- fore the close of the Revolutionary war - Given under my hand, in Litchfield, this 2 d Day of Nov r 1809 ————— Bury Hallmudge late Maj r 2 d Reg t L.D.
To all concerned —————