Know all men by these present that I Barnny Colgan late a Soldier in the first Pennsylvania Regiment and in the War having been [undecipherable] to Lands by [undecipherable] Resolution of Congress so that [undecipherable] have made a provided HAVE do make ordain Constitute and Appoint and by these presents do make ordain Constitute and appoint John Nicholson of Westmoreland County and State aforesaid my true and lawfull Attorney for me and in my name to make Application to the [undecipherable] as a Compensation for the aforesaid lands in Order to Enable the [undecipherable] appointed to having the Said Lands [undecipherable] properly agreed to appointment – Giving and Hereby Granting to my Said Attorney the [undecipherable] and full authority to take from and follow such legal Causes as the [undecipherable] Obtaining and Receiving the Same as if I am personally present and after the [undecipherable] to give Such Sufficient Receipt Acquittance and Discharge – and for me and in my name to Sign Seal and Execute deeds on [undecipherable] Attestation or Attorneys under him to Substitute and again a then Person to [undecipherable] and further to do all and Singular those things which Shall as may be Necessary touching and [undecipherable] the premises as amply fully and as truly and faithfully as if I myself was personally present Ratifying allowing and Confirming whatever my Said Attorney Shall lawfully do as to Come to do in and about the Business of the [undecipherable] By [undecipherable] of these presents Signed with my Seal and Date this first day of August — in the year of our Lord one thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty— [mark] Barnny Colgan Joseph Steele and Edwards John [undecipherable] John [undecipherable: Rodney?] mark Westmoreland County [undecipherable] Personally Appeared before me the Subscriber One of the Justices of the [undecipherable] assigning the Justices of the Common Pleas in and for the County of Westmoreland and State of Pennsylvania Barnny Colgan and acknowledged the foregoing [Power] of Attorney as his act and Deed and Desired the Same to be Recorded as Such for the purposes act and Deed and [undecipherable] my hand and Seal the first day of August three [undecipherable] in the year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty Nine [undecipherable: signature] I do hereby Certify that the Within Named Barnabas Colgan late a Soldier in the first Pennsylvania Regiment was Enlisted for the Warr and Legally Discharged at the Resolution [undecipherable: signature] Benja[min] [undecipherable] Mast[er] [undecipherable] late 1^st P[ennsylvani]a [Bounty Colgan — Pennsylvania — by — John Nicholson 100 Acres [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] Barnny Colgan]