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] Sale, a Soldier on the
[undecipherable] County having [undecipherable] in the Service of the United States and being entitled, to his own [bounty?] [undecipherable] as [undecipherable] One Hundred [acres] of Land in the State of
[undecipherable] [Act] of Congress in that [Case?] and [provided?] [undecipherable] [undecipherable]
is a [undecipherable] made of [undecipherable] and by these [presents] to make, hold [undecipherable]
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[undecipherable] to Issue a Warrant for the aforesaid One Hundred acres of Land more
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the [undecipherable] — By [undecipherable] by these presents Signed with my Seal
[Dated?] this [undecipherable] [undecipherable] day of July — [undecipherable] Seven [undecipherable] One Thousand
[undecipherable] Hundred and [undecipherable] Nine [undecipherable] [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] [undecipherable] John Coffe
To the Justices of [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] Swearing Witnesses
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[Personally?] [appeared?] before [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] of [undecipherable]
State of Pennsylvania [undecipherable] [undecipherable] and did [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] of [undecipherable]
is his Act and Deed for [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] and the [undecipherable] [undecipherable]
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to be then [undecipherable] [undecipherable] One Thousand [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable]
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I do certify that the Within Named John Coffe late [filed in?]
in the first Pennsylvania [undecipherable] [Legally?] discharged at the
Expiration of the Warr.
[undecipherable] Lodge Col Lt & Plt
1st Penn. Rgt —
[3627]
John Coffe —
Pennsylvania [undecipherable]
John [undecipherable] McAlexander[?]
[undecipherable] [undecipherable] Arms
[undecipherable] [undecipherable] Coffe
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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

