Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B. L. Wt. 427-100, David Heney, Penn.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Penn.
or Heaney, David Heaney
B.Lt. 427-100
CONTENTS

Deed Poll David Henry to James Brady
Witness my hand
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Know all men by these presents that I David Keaney of Westmore- land County and State of Pennsylvania late a Soldier in the Army of the United States of America for and in consideration of the sum of thirty Dollars money of the State aforesaid to me in hand paid by James Brady of the Borough of Greensburg in the County of Westmoreland and State aforesaid the receipt and payment whereof is hereby acknowledged have granted bargained and sold and by these presents do grant bargain and sell release and confirm unto the said James Brady his heirs and assigns all my right to the interest property claim and demand of in out all lands or tenements to which I am entitled for my services as a Soldier in the Army of the said United States during the Revolutionary war with Great Brit- tain To have and to hold, the said land and appurtenances to the only proper use benefit and behoof of him the said James Brady his heirs and assigns forever, And I the said the David Keaney for myself my heirs Executors and Administrators and every of them do hereby covenant and agree to and with the said James Brady his heirs executors administrators and assigns that the aforesaid land and every part thereof he the said David Keaney will warrant and

forever defend to the said James Brady his heirs and assigns against all and every person or persons lawfully claiming or to claim the same in through or under him, in witness whereof the parties aforesaid have hereunto set their hand and seal this seventeenth day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seven
Sealed and Delivered in presence of us George F. Smith Robert H. Houston
David Henry Seal
Received the day of the date of the within Instrument of writing of the within named James Brady the sum of thirty Dollars being in full of the consideration money therein mentioned as received by me. Fist
George F. Smith Robert H. Houston
David Henry Seal

N o 427.
David Henry -
private Penn. Line
W h iped b. August 1808 & Del d to Mrs. Patterson att o to the Agency, Sam l Brady.

Know all men by these Presents that I James Brady of the county of Westmoreland in the State of Pennsylvania have nominated constituted empowered and in my stead put and by these presents do nominate constitute empower and in my stead put my trusty friend Doctor Thomas Patterson of the City of Washington my true and lawful Attorney for me in my name and for my use to apply for ask demand and receive of the Honorable the Secretary of the Department of War a Warrant for a certain tract of land commonly called Military bounty land formerly due from the United States to David Hehey and by him for a good and valuable consideration conveyed to me the said James Brady as per deed of conveyance filed in the office of the Secretary at War. And to give and execute in my name a receipt or receipts for said warrant and to do all other things necessary in the premises as fully and completely as if I myself were personally present; hereby ratifying and recognizing whatever my said Attorney shall lawfully do in my behalf.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this second - - - - - day of July One thousand eight hundred and eight -
Signed & sealed In presence of Walter Howard
Jamys Fleming
James Brady

On the eighteenth day of July in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eight personally appeared before me William Jack One of the Associate Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Westmoreland. James Brady and acknowledged the within to be his act and deed in Testimony Whereof I have hereunto Set my hand and Seal the day and year above Written
Yrs W. Jack

No 521. = 200 acres District No 3.
now Mercer County
Act. Ye 26 th Feby 1808.
to David Henry

In Pursuance of an act of General Assembly of the State of Pennsylvania, passed the 24 th Day of February, 1785 entitled an act "for directing the mode of distributing the Donation lands, promised to the Troops by this commonwealth," and by order of the Surveyor General, with the approbation of the Honorable the Executive Council, I have Surveyed on the 5 th Day of October one thousand seven hundred and eighty five, the above described Tract of Two hundred acres of land, and allowance for Roads N o 521. Situate in District N o 3 on the West-Side of the Allegany river, in the County of Westmoreland.
To John Lukens Esq r S r G. Evans Dep. Surv r
I certify that the above to be a true copy of an original Draft, remaining in the Surveyor General's Office; for which a patent issued to David Henry as his donation, promised by the Comm th of Penn a for his services as a Soldier during the Revolutionary war.
In TESTIMONY whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the Seal of said Office at Lancaster this 19 th Day of March 1808.
Sam l Lockman M c G.