Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B.L.Wt. 2374-200, Battle Harrison, Va.

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Va.
Harrison Battle
B.L.Wt. 2374-200.
CONTENTS

Power of Attorney John Harrison for Mary Lund

Know all men by these presents That I John Harrison of Fayette County and State of Pennsylvania do hereby constitute and appoint Henry Overstreet of Washington City my true and lawful attorney with power of substitution for me and in my name to prepare papers and collect proofs and documents necessary to enable me to obtain a warrant from the United States for two hundred acres of land in right of the services of my Uncle Battle Harrison as a Lieutenant killed in battle at the surrender of Fort Washington on the 16th day of December 1776 being at that time a Lieutenant of Col. Stephen's Riflemen Regiment of the army of the revolution and a part of the quota of that Regiment assigned to Virginia. And to prosecute at the same or cause it to be done before the Secretary of War for two hundred acres and if obtained to ask demand and receive from the said Secretary of War of the United States such warrant for the two hundred acres of land and no more and deposit the said warrant when so received with the Secretary of War the Treasury of the United States or the commissioners of the General Land Office for land scrip and to ask demand receive and receipt for the same and to endorse assign transfer and make sale of the same and to do and perform all manner of things touching the same which I myself might do were I personally present - In witness of which I have hereunto set my hand and seal this twenty first day of October 1845.
John H. Harrison mark
Witness Byersly Deborah Harrison
State of Pennsylvania } Personally appeared before me the undersigned Fayette County } John Harrison a justice of the peace in and for said County I John Harrison signed and sealed to the foregoing power of attorney and acknowledged the same to be his voluntary act and deed for the persons therein named. Signed Sealed and acknowledged before me this twenty first day of October 1845.
Adams Byersly J.P. Seal
Pennsylvania Fayette County ss.
I have known Peterstown of the County of Adams in and for said County, of Fayette do certify that Adams Byersly is a justice of the peace in and for said County duly commissioned and sworn and that the signature purporting to be his is genuine.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my name and the seal of the said Court at Uniontown the 24th day of October A.D. 1845.
A. Kaine Proth

Cherry for the Garden in Battle Pleasures care—

Memorandum for Mr. Gardner
Bothth Harrison's name will be found in the war list before Vol 7 in Stephenson's Rifle Regiment believed to be mounted The 11 th Regt

Wm Gordon Esqr Present

Washington City 29th Oct 1845
Mr Gordan
Sir you told me yesterday that you would go to the State Department to day to see the record in the case of John Edie. I have to ask of your kind there to examine the papers in Vol 440 of pgs the 2 nd line where Lt Battle Garrison's death will be found of the 10th of Novr 1776. killed at Fort Washington . I know not the no of the Regt it was in Gen Smith's brigade and will be found with the organization of this brigade at say pages 50 to 70. The papers will be forwarded to day as soon as the certificate from the orphan's court is made out —
Yours Respectfully Henry Ware Throp
W. 26. Page 43 - 11 th V a Reg t Col Morgan's Battery Harrison's P nt - Killed the 16 th Nov 1776

Copy Certification In re case of Battle Harrison
Battle Harrison No. 2374.
Henry Northrop Attorney
$1.50

District of Columbia, Washington County, ss.
At an Orphans Court held in and for said County on this twenty eighth day of October 1845. On motion of Henry Northrop, it was proven in open Court to the satisfaction of the Court by the deposition of Capt. Bridiger and a certi- ficate from the Register of the Land Office at Richmond Virginia, that Battle Harrison was a Lieutenant of the Virginia line of the Army, of the Revolution and was killed at the surrender of Fort Washington on the 16 th of Nov r 1776. and it was further proven by the letter of Battle Harrison from Columbus Ohio, and by the deposition of Crawford and Asa Springer that William Harrison who was killed in Crawford's defeat was the eldest brother of St. Battle Harrison, and that John Harrison now living is the eldest son of the said William Harrison, all of which is ordered to be certified. Battle Hope Garrison
District of Columbia,
Washington County, to wit;
I certify that the foregoing is a true copy from the Original filed and recorded in the Office of the Register of Wills, for Washington County aforesaid.
Witness my hand and seal, of Office, this 29 th day of October in the year 1845.
Edw. N. Pease Register

Affidavit Capt Andrews par Lt Battle Harrison

Berkeley County } S.S. Virginia - }
Personally appeared Harry Beadinger aged Eighty four years and about seven months before me Titotson Fryatt a Justice of the peace in and for the said County, and being duly sworn according to law - sayeth that Battle Harrison entered Captain Hugh Stephenson's Company of Volunteer Riflemen about the first of June 1775. raised in the said County, that he marched in this Company, with this deponent, to the Siege of Boston, that at the expiration of One year for which he engaged or soon thereafter he was regularly discharged, then returned to Berkeley, was there appointed a third Lieutenant in Col. Hugh Stephenson's Regt. of Riflemen, and advanced to Captain William Brady's Company of said Regt., that on the 16 th day of November 1776 said Battle Harrison was killed in the Battle, and Surrender of Fort Washington - and further saith not - Sworn to and subscribed this 7 th day of July 1838
Titotson Fryatt "
Harry Beadinger