Assignment and Power of Attorney
Document 1792Power of attorney for Thomas Tull, late a soldier in the 2nd Pennsylvania Regiment.
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[Exemplification
Power of Attorney & Dead Poll
Thomas Tull, of the Second
Pennsylvania Regiment
10 504 Issued
Oct. 27. P.3c]
Be it known that I Thomas Tull late a private Soldier in the [first/second] Pennsylvania Regiment commanded by Colonel Richard Humpton or any other Officer or Officers in the Service of the United States of North America hath made named and constituted and by these presents do make ordain constitute and in my place and stead put and depute Frederick Moliness of the City of Philadelphia my true and lawful Attorney irrevocably for me, and in my name and stead but to the use of him the said Frederick Moliness his heirs & assigns for ever to ask demand and by all lawful means recover and receive all such sum or sums of money as well as grants or confirmations lands and tenements or other demands whatsoever by the United States or the State of Pennsylvania a any person or persons acting under their Authority I also give and grant unto my said Attorney full power and absolute authority to fell and dispose of all and singular the Lands tenements gratuities and donations which he may be entitled to or of right may claim in virtue of an Act of the United States in Congress Assembled or under the Authority of Pennsylvania for by reason of my having Served in the [first] or any other Regiment of the Army of Pennsylvania and by good and Sufficient assurances in the law to grant convey and confirm to the purchaser or purchasers the fee simple and inheritance thereof hereby granting unto my said Attorney full power and authority to appoint one or more Attorneys under him or them for the purpose aforesaid ratifying and confirming all and singular whatsoever my said Attorney shall or may do in the premises by virtue hereof.
In Witness whereof I have hereunto Set my hand and seal this fourteenth day of July in the year of our Lord 1792.
Sealed & delivered in the— [presence of] Stephen Stevenson, Rob.t Ramsey
Thomas X Tull £8
Mark
Lancaster County ss
The Seventeenth day of July Anno Dom. 1792 Before me the Subscriber, One of the Justices of the Peace for the County of Lancaster Personally came the above named Thomas Tull and on his solemn Oath agreeably to law did depose and say that the property expressed in the within Letter of Attorney by his free will and consent for a valuable consideration to him in hand paid was transferred to the Attorney within named, that he has not conveyed the whole or any part thereof before the Execution of the said Letter of Attorney and desires that the same may be recorded as such if further the deponent saith not.
Alex.r Lowrey J[ustice of the Peace]
I Peter Lower, Notary Public for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania do hereby certify that the within and foregoing is a true and correct copy of an Original Appointment and Letter of Attorney and the acknowledgement thereof from Thomas Tull to Frederick Moliness therein named —
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto Set my Hand and affixed my Notarial Seal the Nineteenth day of September 1792
Peter Lower, No. Pub.
I do Certify that upon examining the appointments of the Justices of the Peace for Lancaster County that Alexander Lowrey Esquire resident in said County is a Justice of said County duly authorized and Commissioned.——
October 18th 1792. [signature: Gusteinmetz]
one of the Clerks in the
Secretary's Office
Type
Document Signed
Description
Power of attorney for Thomas Tull, late a soldier in the 2nd Pennsylvania Regiment.
Date
07/17/1792
Author
Recipient
Document number
1792071790201
Page start
1
Note
Witnessed by Stephen Stevenson and Robert Ramsey.
Notable persons
Thomas Tull
Second Pennsylvania Regiment
Colonel Richard Hampton
Frederick Molineur
attorney
Stephen Stevenson
Robert Ramsey
justice of the peace
Alexander Lowrey
Peter Lohra
notary public
George Steinmetz
Notable locations
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Lancaster County
Notable items
power of attorney
deed poll
sums of money
confirmations lands and tenements

