Assignment and Power of Attorney
Document 1791Power of Attorney for Michael Faust to John Snell. Document certifying the service of Michael Faust, late soldier in the Pennsylvania Line during the Revolutionary War.
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Know all men by thefe prefents, that I [undecipherable] Adminiftrator of Michael Fauft late [undecipherable] in the fervice of the regiment commanded by [undecipherable] in the fervice of the United States of North America hath made ordained and conftituted and by thefe prefents do make ordain and conftitute, and in my place and ftead, put and depute [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] The Borough [undecipherable] my true and lawful attorney, irrevocable for me, and in my name and ftead, but to the fole ufe of him the faid [undecipherable] his heirs and affigns forever; to afk, demand, and by all lawful means to recover and receive all fuch fum or fums of money, as well as grants or confirmations, lands and tenements, or other demands whatfoever by the United States, or the State of [undecipherable] or any other perfon or perfons acting under their authority, and I alfo give and grant unto my faid attorney full power and abfolute authority, to fell and difpofe of all and fingular the lands, tenements, gratuities and donations, which I may be entitled to, or of right may claim. in virtue of any act of the United States in Congrefs affembled, or under the authority of [undecipherable] for or by reafon of my having ferved in the [undecipherable] regiments of the [undecipherable] line, and by good and fufficient affurances in the law, to grant convey and confirm, to the purchafer or purchafers the fee fimple and inheritance thereof, hereby granting unto my faid attorney, full power and authority to appoint one or more attornies under him or them, for the purpofe aforefaid; ratifying and confirming all and fingular whatfoever my faid attornies fhall or may do in the premifes by virtue hereof: In witnefs whereof, I have hereunto fet my hand and feal this [undecipherable] day of [undecipherable] and in the year of our Lord one thoufand [undecipherable] hundred and [undecipherable]
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THE [undecipherable] Day of [undecipherable] Anno Dom. 179[undecipherable] before me [undecipherable] one of the [undecipherable] Juftices of the Court of Common Pleas, for the County of [undecipherable] perfonally came [undecipherable] and on his [undecipherable] oath agreeably [strikethrough: [undecipherable], declared and fay,] that the property expreffed in the within letter of attorney by his free will and confent, for a valuable confideration, to him in hand paid, was tranfferred to the attorney within named, that he has not conveyed the whole or ony part thereof, before the execution of the faid letter of attorney. and defireth that the fame may be recorded as fuch: [strikethrough: and further this deponent faith not.]
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Type
Document Signed
Description
Power of Attorney for Michael Faust to John Snell. Document certifying the service of Michael Faust, late soldier in the Pennsylvania Line during the Revolutionary War.
Date
10/11/1791
Author
Recipient
Document number
1791101190101
Page start
1
Notable persons
Michael Faust
John Sne
Notable locations
Reading
Berks County
Notable items
power of attorney
letter of attorney

