Grievances from troops and use of attorney
Document 1790Letter to General William Irvine on behalf of regiments in Pennsylvania and Virginia; mentions action by an attorney against the War Department in order to guarantee the lands promised to officers and soldiers.
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Know all all men by these Presents that we Patrick M'Cinfan Private of the first Connect[icut] [undecipherable] Regt Charles Robson Private of the first Virginia Regiment Henry [undecipherable] Private of the [Third?] Pennsylvania Regt [undecipherable] Academy of the first Virginia Regt Charles Morgan Private of the first Virginia Regt John Williams [undecipherable] of the first Virginia Regiment John Green of the [undecipherable] Virginia Regiment David Jacobs Private in the Second Pennt Regiment —
have made ordained Constituted and Appointed and by these presents do ordain Constitute and Appoint our well Beloved Friend William Irvine of the county of [undecipherable] State of Pennsylvania to be our true and lawful Attorney for us and in Each of our names Severally and Jointly to Ask Demand and Receive from the Secretary at War or who ever is or may be appointed by government to pay [Accounts?] for the Lands Promised to the Officers and Soldiers [by?] the Honorable the Congress of the United States Who Served During the War. And we and Each of us Ratify and Confirm Whatsoever our said attorney Shall lawfully do or [cause?] to be done in [getting?] and Receiving [Bounty?] Lands accordingly, our hand in the [undecipherable] as and Each of us do hereby Revoke annul and make Void all letter or letters of Attorney before any other Instrument of [Revocation?] by us or any of us made to any other Person or Persons Whatsoever thereby Ratifying and Confirming these our Letter of Attorney to the above named William Irvine [undecipherable] our true and lawful Attorney in Witness Whereof we have herewith set our hands and Seals this Seventeenth [undecipherable] one thousand Seven Hundred and [undecipherable]
[signed] John M'Clory Patrick S. M'Cinfan
Charles S. Robson Charles [undecipherable] Robson
James [Stikman?]
Henry [undecipherable]
James Beatham
Charles Morgan
John Williams
[undecipherable] John Green
David Jacobs
Ohio County [undecipherable]
Be it remembered that this [undecipherable] Day of February [undecipherable] personally appeared before me David [Chamberlin?] one of the Justices of [undecipherable] of Pennsylvania [undecipherable] Patrick M'Cinfan [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] Attorney as [undecipherable] to the foregoing Men of Attorney [undecipherable] declaring Known Personally to his Satisfaction that he is one of Patrick M'Cinfan Charles Robson Charles Morgan Henry [undecipherable] Charles [undecipherable] John Williams John Green David Jacobs [undecipherable] Signed Seal and Deliver the within [undecipherable] Being aid and Duly [undecipherable] Grounds he Same to be [Acknowledged?] according to [undecipherable] Given under my hand and Seal [undecipherable]
David [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] County [undecipherable] [undecipherable] that the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] [undecipherable]
[James?] County Virginia &c —
I do Certify that David [Chamberlin?] Esquire before Whom the within Instrument of writing was [torn/undecipherable] and who has Subscribed the Same — was at the Time thereof and Now is one of the Justices of the Peace for the County aforesaid Duly Commissioned and Sworn & that all faith and Credible ought to be given to all acts by him done as well in Courts of Justice as [without?]
In testimony whereof I have hereunto Set my hand and affixed the Seal of my office this 22d day of February 1790 End of the Commonwealth the 14th —
Moses Chapline Clk. D. C.
[endorsement] Power of Patrick M[undecipherable]
Charles Robson Charles Morgan
[James?] Batham Henry [undecipherable]
[John?] Williams John [Green?]
Type
Autograph Letter Signed
Description
Letter to General William Irvine on behalf of regiments in Pennsylvania and Virginia; mentions action by an attorney against the War Department in order to guarantee the lands promised to officers and soldiers.
Date
02/17/1790
Author
Recipient
Document number
1790021790001
Page start
1
Notable persons
William Irvine
Patrick M. Grosson [McGrosson]
Charles Robison
Henry Gass
James Beaham
Charles Morgan
John Williams
John Green
David Jacobs
private
regiment
Congress
[Henry Knox]
Secretary at War
attorney
Notable locations
Pennsylvania
Virginia
Cumberland County
United States

