Assignment and Power of Attorney
Document 1792Power of attorney for John Williamson, late a soldier in the 1st Pennsylvania Regiment.
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Know all Men by these Presents, That I John Williamson [undecipherable] Private [undecipherable] in the fifth Battalion in the first Pennsylvania Regiment commanded by Colonel Thomas Stewart W. [undecipherable] Craig [undecipherable] for the [undecipherable] of the United States of America in hand paid to, and before the execution hereof by Frederick Adolonius the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, Have, and hereby Do grant, bargain, fell, transfer, convey and confirm unto Frederick Adolonius his heirs, executors, administrators, and assigns for ever, all the right, title and interest whatsoever, in law and equity, which I now have, or which [undecipherable] Executors, or administrators, may hereafter have, to the lands, pay, depreciation, clothing, rations, rewards, bounties, gratuities, prize-monies, and every other advantage, claim and demand whatever due and owing me — from and by the United States or any particular State, and I do hereby for my self my heirs, executors and administrators covenant and agree, to and with the said Frederick Adolonius his heirs, executors, administrators and assigns that my heirs, executors, and administrators, will, at any time hereafter at the reasonable cost and charges of the said Frederick Adolonius his heirs, executors, administrators or assigns, make, or cause to be made, any future conveyances and assurances in the law, necessary to be done, for the further transferring and confirming, all and singular the premifes and claims hereby granted and affigned, or intended so to be. And do make constitute and appoint the[undecipherable] my true and lawful attorney irrevocable to demand and receive for me, and recover from the United States, or any particular State, or any person or person, acting, by or under their or either of their authority, all and singular the premises, rights, claims, and emoluments herein above recited and said, and now withheld and detained from me by the United States Marshals of Pennsylvania or any particular State, with power, all-attorney or attorneys for that purpose, to make and substitute, and to do all lawful acts requisite for effecting the premifes, hereby ratifying and confirming all that any said attorney or Mark — Substitute or Substitutes, shall do therein by virtue hereof.
In Witness whereof have hereunto set my hand and seal the Nineteenth day of September Anno Domini, 1792.
Signed, Sealed & Delivered
in the presence of
David Sellers
William Miller
John J. Williamson
Mark
[seal]
[Marginalia: City of Philadelphia Before me Reynold Keen Esqr. One of the Aldermen for the City of Philadelphia Personally came the above named John Williamson and being duly sworn agreeby to law did declare and say that the within instrument of writing is true and agreed to with a [undecipherable] that the hand or before the execution hereof received the assigning or conveying his right to the same and acknowledged the assignment on the within to be his act and deed, desiring that it might be recorded as facto.
In Testimony whereof I have set my hand and seal hereto the Nineteenth day of September 1792.
Reynold Keen, one of the Aldermen for said City.]
Type
Document Signed
Description
Power of attorney for John Williamson, late a soldier in the 1st Pennsylvania Regiment.
Date
09/19/1792
Author
Recipient
Document number
1792091990001
Page start
1
Notable persons
John Williamson
Josiah Harmar
Peter Lohra
Frederick Molineux
Colonel Stewart
Isaac Craig
Colonel Butler
Daniel Hillyer
William Mullen
First Pennsylvania Regiment
Notary Public
Reynold Keen
alderman
David Hillyer
Colonel Craig
Notable locations
Great Britain
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Notable items
Revolutionary War
Letter of Attorney
testimony
notaryial seal

