Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B.L.Wt. 1432-100, Rush Hudson, Va.

SERVICE
Va
Hudson Rush
NUMBER
B.L. Wt. 1432-100
CONTENTS
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Rush Huds good a Crans
Chamblifton 300 crown
The Honourable Secretary of War
Mail Washington City
June July 2 nd 1862 th Dec.
on

Rush Hark good a Grant
Chamberlton 30 Vn crown
June 1841 Official th Dec.
The Honourable Secretary of War
Mail Washington City
on

Chambers Store Bedford City Virginia Nov 28 1828
Sir,
I have the honour herewith to Transmit to you Mrs Lucy Mountcastle's declaration & Certificat of Her ship in support of her land claim with respect to
Anthony Eraw Jr
We have sent the warrant by mail

No. 1432
Rev.
Richd. Hud-
-son Harris

Received of the Secretary of War a military land warrant No 1432 for 100 acres Issued In favour of Lucy Mountcastle Daughter & one of the Heirs of Rush Hudson a soldier of the Virginia line Issued at Chambers Stone Febr 19 1828
Anthony Evans Jr attorney

Personally appeared the above named Lucy Mountcastle subscribed to the foregoing acknowledgment and in my presence acknowledged the power of attorney thereto subscribed to be her free act and deed for the purposes therein men- tioned Given under my hand this 9 th day of October 1828. John Coleman John Stone
In testimony that the above written John Coleman was a Magistrate authorized to administer oaths and take acknow- ledgments &c. in the State of Virginia, at the above date, and that his name there subscribed appears to me to be his usual sig- nature, I have hereunto affixed the County seal, and subscribed my name and quality at the clerks office of the County Court of Amherst in the State of Virginia this 17 th day of October 1828
Robert Finsley, Deputy Clerk of Amherst County Court.

Virginia Ho Witt
At a Court held for Bedford County the 24th day of November 1828
Satisfactory evidence was adduced in court to prove that Lucy Mary  Hester and Elizabeth Hudson _____ is the daughter and only heir at law in fee to Hugh Hudson Deceased _____ late a soldier in the fifth Regiment of the Virginia line on Continental Estab- -blishment
I Gustavus Wingfield Deputy Clerk of the County Court of Bedford do Certify that the above evidence is taken from the records in my Office. In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my Official Seal this 20 th day of November 1828
8 Gallinago B. P. G.

to of Virginia Fayette County
(daughters I Lucy Mountcastle one of them heirs at law of Rush Hudson do upon oath testify and declare to the best of my knowledge and belief that Rush Hudson did enlist in the year 1778 for the term of during the war and served in the Regiment Number 5 and served under the command of Col Scott of the Virginia continental line, and that he continued in the service of said unit the close of the war, I further declare that I have never received a warrant for the bounty and promised to the said Rush Hudson on the part of the United States, nor do I believe that he ever received it or transferred his claim to it in any manner whatsoever. Therefore I hereby hereby these presents that I Lucy Mountcastle do hereby constitute and appoint Anthony Evans of Bedford County to be my true and lawful attorney, for me and in my name to demand and receive from the Secretary of War of the United States a warrant for the quantity of land due to me as aforesaid, and my said attorney is hereby fully authorized and empowered to constitute and appoint one or more substitutes or attorneys under him for the special purposes above expressed.
Lucy Mountcastle
Sally W Coleman

Rush Hudson Mc o
N o 1432
Prin Va
Mail to Anthony Evans Va
Patent, if o to Lucy Jordan as assignee of Lucy Mountcastle & to the other heirs of Rush Hudson Mc o on the 23 o Novr: 1829

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Hudson, Samuel GRADE Private LINE Massachusetts
WARRANT NUMBER 4380 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED Mar. 26, 1796 to Peter Swier
*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.