Certification for entitled land
Document 1789Certifies that the late soldier John Coffee of the 1st Pennsylvania Regiment is entitled to 100 acres of land. Coffee was discharged from service at the conclusion of the Revolutionary War. Coffee places his signature on the document.
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Know all men by these presents that [undecipherable] [undecipherable] late a Soldier on the [foot?] — [undecipherable] having [Enlisted?] [undecipherable] on the Service of the United States and being Intitled to [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Hundred [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Dollars in [undecipherable] [undecipherable] of Congress in that Case made and provided hath made and [undecipherable] Constituted and by these presents do make [undecipherable] his true and sufficient [undecipherable] Attorney [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] [undecipherable] him and [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] to have a Warrant for the aforesaid One Hundred acres of Land [undecipherable] [undecipherable] with the [undecipherable] Appointed to Survey the same [undecipherable] as he [undecipherable] are all to give him [undecipherable] and hereby Granting him full [undecipherable] power and authority to [undecipherable] powers and also such [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] obtaining and receiving the same as if I personally were [undecipherable] present and upon receipt thereof to Give [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] acquittance and discharge and [undecipherable] and to use [undecipherable] both [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] as the [undecipherable] and as to all things under his [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] to make [undecipherable] [undecipherable] as full and [undecipherable] as those things which [undecipherable] or may be Done [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] of the same [undecipherable] as if [undecipherable] was personally present Ratifying [undecipherable] and Confirming [undecipherable] or Shall [undecipherable] Sign [undecipherable] [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] of the [undecipherable] — Be it known [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Sealed this [undecipherable] Day of July — the year of our [undecipherable] One Thousand Seven Hundred and [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable]
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Personally appeared [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] of the Peace [undecipherable] and for the County aforesaid and State of [undecipherable: Pennsylvania?] [undecipherable] — and [undecipherable] acknowledged the power of Attorney with his [undecipherable] for the purpose therein mentioned and directed the Same — [undecipherable] before me [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Day of [undecipherable] July — [undecipherable] One Thousand Seven Hundred and [undecipherable] [undecipherable]
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Type
Autograph Letter Signed
Description
Certifies that the late soldier John Coffee of the 1st Pennsylvania Regiment is entitled to 100 acres of land. Coffee was discharged from service at the conclusion of the Revolutionary War. Coffee places his signature on the document.
Date
07/18/1789
Author
Recipient
Document number
1789071890001
Page start
1
Note
Partially illegible
Notable persons
John Coffee
Congress
Col. Tarrby
John Nicholson
Benjamin Lodge
soldier
1st Pennsylvania Regiment
Notable locations
land
Pennsylvania
Notable items
100 acres of land
land entitlement
discharge
service
Revolutionary War
land grant

