Power of Attorney to Moses Mortain
Document 1792Power of Attorney granted to Moses Martain by John Winter, specifically to secure arrears of pension owed Winter, who was wounded in the war. Witnessed by Ebenezer Farnham and John Remington
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[John Winters
Power —]
[Marginalia on right side: undecipherable]
Be it known that on the Seventh day of August 1792
Before me Peter Lohra Notary Public for the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania by lawful Authority duly Commissioned and
Sworn Personally appeared Abigail [undecipherable] she being duly
Sworn according to law [undecipherable] Saith and says That she
[undecipherable] John Winter Signed [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] and had a knowledge
and delivered the written Letter of Attorney Also that the names of
Abigail [undecipherable] and John Pennington subscribed as witnesses to
the execution thereof as of the proper hands writing and signatures
of the deponents and the said John Pennington [undecipherable] —
[Abigail] [undecipherable]
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto Set my Hand
and affixed my Notarial Seal the day and
Year above written —
Peter Lohra Not Pub
Know all men by these presents that I John Winter of [undecipherable: probable reading Argyle] and
County of Washington & State of New York for Divers good Causes and Considerations
[undecipherable] Do hereby Constitute & Appoint Moses Martins of the County of [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] my State of New York to appear before board of War or any other [undecipherable] duly Authorized
by Congress to ask Demand and by all lawful means Receive and Receive in
my name and for my use All all my arrears of [undecipherable] for my being [undecipherable]
[undecipherable] in the Regiments of the United States of America in the
[undecipherable] Massachusetts Lines in Colonel [undecipherable] Third Regiment — I do hereby authorize
the Said Moses Martins with full power to [undecipherable] I [undecipherable]
and to assign over in my name a full acquittance of [undecipherable] of all the arrear-
ages of the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] up [undecipherable] the day of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] —
and Do further Invest him with ample authority to Substitute or his
Substitute or Substitutes Shall or may lawfully in the [undecipherable] in Wit-
ness thereof I have hereunto Set my hand and Seal this [undecipherable] Twentieth
Day of July 1792
his
John + Winter
mark
Signed Sealed & Delivered
in Respects of —
The Said [undecipherable] was Subscribed before
the Signing and Sealing of the above
[undecipherable]
Abigail [undecipherable]
John [undecipherable] Pennington
Type
Document Signed
Description
Power of Attorney granted to Moses Martain by John Winter, specifically to secure arrears of pension owed Winter, who was wounded in the war. Witnessed by Ebenezer Farnham and John Remington
Date
07/17/1792
Author
Document number
1792071790001
Page start
1
Notable persons
John Winter
Colonel Voss
Massachusetts Line
Moses Mortain
Moses Martain
Board of War
Colonel Joseph Voss
Ebenezer Farnham
John Remington
Peter Lohra
notary public
Notable locations
New York
Massachusetts
Argile
Argyle
Washington County
Albany County
Pennsylvania
Notable items
power of attorney
recover and receive
arrears of pension
wounded in the back
claim
petition
his mark

