Power of Attorney of John Robins to Moses Martain
Document 1792Power of Attorney of John Robins to Moses Martain.
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[John Robins Power]
[a proxy to the State [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] from the U[nited] [S]t[ates] [undecipherable: Bounties?]]
[Right margin, rotated: [undecipherable]]
[Bottom left notation: [undecipherable]]
Saratoga [Co.]
Be it remembered that on the [undecipherable] day of July in the year of our lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety [undecipherable: probably two] personally came before me James Gordon a Judge of the court of Common Pleas for Said County. [Elenezer?] [Barnhave?] who made oath that he saw the within named John Robins sign seal and deliver the within [Power of?] Attorney [undecipherable] Personally for the uses therein Mentioned and that he together with Barnabas Lighthart signed the same as Witnesses
James Gordon
To All to Whom these Presents Shall Come [undecipherable] [undecipherable] — Greeting —
Know ye that I [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] in the [undecipherable] County [undecipherable] State of [undecipherable] [undecipherable: probably "do by these presents make, constitute, and appoint"] [undecipherable] my true and lawful [Attorney?] [undecipherable] for me and in my name [undecipherable] to ask demand [undecipherable] [sue for?] recover and receive [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable: possibly "all such sum or sums of money wages bounty or bounties"] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] United [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] services [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] during the [undecipherable] war [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] full power and authority [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable]
In Witness Whereof I have hereunto Set my hand and Seal this [undecipherable] Day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand Seven hundred and Ninety two
[Box, left:]
Sealed and [Delivered?]
[in the presence of?]
[undecipherable]
[undecipherable]
[undecipherable]
[undecipherable]
Barnabas X Lighthart his
mark John [cross mark] Robins [seal]
[Elenezer?] [Barnhave?] mark
[Bottom note, different hand:] [undecipherable: probably "granted the wages Ens[ign?] [undecipherable] with Col [Brattle?] taken prisoner at the Saratoga and the dispatch I [recover?] from there [undecipherable] during the war under Col [?] [Sprout?] in the regiment [undecipherable]"]
Type
Document Signed
Description
Power of Attorney of John Robins to Moses Martain.
Date
07/19/1792
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Saratoga
Repository
Document number
1792071990102
Page start
1
Notable persons
Moses Martain
John Robins
James Gordon
judge
Ebenezer Fornham
Ebenezer Farnham
Howell
Barnabas Lighthart
Colonel Sprout
Massachusetts Line
Colonel Beatle
Colonel Beatte
prisoner
Notable locations
Saratoga
Stillwater County
New York
Notable items
power of attorney
wages
enlisted
