Assignment and Power of Attorney
Document 1793Power of attorney for John Strobach, late a soldier in the Pennsylvania Line.
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KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, That [undecipherable]
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in the service of the United States of America, have, and do hereby make, constitute and appoint
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true and lawful Attorney for [undecipherable] and in [undecipherable] name and behalf, to ask, demand, and by all lawful ways and means to recover [and] receive of and from the United States and the State of [undecipherable] respectively, or from whomsoever it doth, shall or may in anywise concern, all and singular the Lands, Pay Arrearages and Depreciation of Pay, and other Claims and Demands whatsoever due and owing to [undecipherable]
for and in consequence of services as aforesaid, and upon receipt of the whole or any part thereof, in due form of Law, to execute and deliver requisite and sufficient Receipts, Releases and Acquittances for the same, with power also an Attorney or Attorneys under [undecipherable] for the purpose aforesaid, to make and substitute, and to do and execute all lawful acts requisite for effecting the premifes; as fully and effectually to all intents and purposes as [undecipherable] might or could do by being personally present done the same, hereby ratifying and confirming all [undecipherable] Attorney or substitute or substitutes shall do therein or [undecipherable] hereof. IN WITNESS whereof [undecipherable] have hereunto set [undecipherable] hand and seal the [undecipherable] day of [undecipherable] in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety [undecipherable]
[Sealed and delivered in the Presence of [undecipherable]]
Be IT KNOWN, that on the day of the date hereof, before me Peter Lohra, Notary Public, for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, by lawful authority duly commissioned and sworn, residing in the [undecipherable] of Philadelphia, personally came the above named
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In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my Notarial Seal, the [undecipherable] day of [undecipherable] in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety [undecipherable]
Type
Document Signed
Description
Power of attorney for John Strobach, late a soldier in the Pennsylvania Line.
Date
05/02/1793
Author
Recipient
Document number
1793050290101
Page start
1
Note
Largely illegible
Notable persons
Joseph Howell
John Strobach
Peter Lohra
merchant
Notable locations
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania

