[General Power John Nicholson to —] [John Nicholson Jany — 100 — [undecipherable]] [John Nicholson Power of Attorney] [Pa.] Know all Men by these Presents that I John Nicholson of the City of Philadelphia in the County of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania Comptroller General of the Said State do make ordain Constitute and appoint [undecipherable] my true and lawful Attorney [undecipherable] for me and in my Name and to my use to ask demand sue for levy recover and receive of and from all and every person or persons whatsoever all and every sum and sums of money [undecipherable] goods wares Merchandizes and other things whatsoever which are or shall be owing due payable or belonging to me [undecipherable] by any means or ways whatsoever and upon receipt thereof [undecipherable] acquittances or other sufficient discharges for the same to make seal and deliver and to do execute and perform all and every other act and acts thing and things device and devices in the law whatsoever needful and necessary to be done in and about the premises as fully and amply to all intents and purposes as I myself might or could do if personally present [undecipherable] hereby ratifying allowing and confirming all and whatsoever my said Attorney shall lawfully do or cause to be done in and about the premises by virtue hereof [undecipherable] And particularly and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing powers my said Attorney is hereby authorized and empowered to [undecipherable] receive any [undecipherable] Certificates Warrants or other [undecipherable] that may be due to me from the [undecipherable] of the United States or from the [undecipherable] of Pennsylvania [undecipherable] and to [undecipherable] Indorse [undecipherable] assign and transfer the same [undecipherable] and generally to do all such acts [undecipherable] as may be necessary to [undecipherable] for [undecipherable] complete [undecipherable] the premises [undecipherable] In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal this [undecipherable] day of [undecipherable] in the Year of our Lord one Thousand Seven hundred and [undecipherable] John Nicholson [L.S.] Signed Sealed and Delivered in the presence of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] County [undecipherable] Personally appeared before me [undecipherable] John Nicholson [undecipherable] and acknowledged the foregoing Power of Attorney to be his act and deed [undecipherable] Hugh Mattin We do hereby Certify, that the Within Named John Nicholson Served as a Sojourner in the [undecipherable] Pennsylvania Regiment and was faithful for the War and Legally discharged at its dissolution — [undecipherable signatures] Westmoreland County fs. I Do Certify that the within Subscribing Hugh Mattin before whom the within [undecipherable] acknowledgement was Made was at the time of taking Same, and Now is one of this Commonwealth Justices of the peace and also of the Common Pleas in and for Said County of Westmoreland duly Commissioned and Sworn. In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto Set my hand and Affixed the Seal of Said County this [undecipherable] Day of March in the Year of [our] Lord one Thousand Seven hundred and Ninety — [seal] [undecipherable signature]