Land warrant agreement
Document 1791Land warrant agreement of Augustus Milosock, late a drummer in Capt. Bushe's company in the 6th Pennsylvania Regiment.
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Know all Men, by these presents, That I Augustus Milksock of Lancaster County, late a Drummer in Capt Buchis Company in the 6th Pennsylvania Regiment commanded by Colt Butler in the service of the United States, For and in Consideration of the sum of three Dollars and a half, to me in hand paid at the Execution hereof, by George Moore, the receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge, have granted, bargained and sold, asigned, and set over, and by these presents do grant, bargain and sell, afsign, and set over, unto the said George Moore his heirs and afsigns, all my estate, right, title and Interest of, in and to, a certain military Land Warrant granted for surveying to one Due hundred acres of land in any of the districts appropriated to satisfy the bounties of land due to the late Army of the United States, and all the land surveyed or to be surveyed in pursuance of said Warrant, to have and to hold the said Warrant, right, and all the land to be surveyed in pursuance thereof, unto the said George Moore his Heirs & afsigns, to his & their only use and behoof forever. And I do hereby authorize & empower the said George Moore his heirs & afsigns, to exhibit and take in his or their Names, and to his and their only use and behoof, the Patent to be issued for the lands to be returned on the aforesaid Warrant to the board of Treasury. In Witness Whereof I have hereunto set my hand & Seal, this Fifth Day of December Anno Domini 1791
Signed & delivered in the presence of us.
Augustus Milksock [seal]
John Moore
George Moore Junr
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[strikethrough: Lancaster County] Philadelphia County ss
On the twentieth Day of January one thousand seven hundred and Ninety Two before me Jonathan B. Smith Esquire one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County aforesaid, Personally appeared John Moore Esquire one of the subscribing Witnesses to the within Instrument of Writing and upon his solemn Oath doth say that he saw Augustus Milksock execute the within Instrument of Writing and acknowledged it to be his act and Deed, and that he saw George Moore Junr the other Witness sign his Name as a Witness thereunto, and that the name John Moore thereto subscribed as a witness is of this Moore before me the Day deponent's hand writing and year above mentioned.
J. B. Smith John Moore
[endorsement:]
Augustus Milsock
to
George Moore
Type
Document Signed
Description
Land warrant agreement of Augustus Milosock, late a drummer in Capt. Bushe's company in the 6th Pennsylvania Regiment.
Date
12/05/1791
Author
Recipient
Document number
1791120590101
Page start
1
Note
Witnessed by John Moore and George Moore Jr.
Notable persons
Augustus Milsock
John Moore
George Moore
Colonel Butler
Capt. Bushe
drummer
Captain Bushe company
6th Pennsylvania Regiment
Notable locations
Philadelphia
Lancaster
Pennsylvania
Notable items
warrant
board of treasury
land
survey
district

