Assignment and Power of Attorney
Document 1794Power of attorney of John White - late a soldier in the Pennsylvania Line - to Daniel Steven.
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[Penna
John White
to 619]
Know All Men by these Presents, That I, John White in the Commonw[ealth of Pennsylvania]
in the Service of the United States of America, for a valuable and full Consideration to me in hand paid, at or before the Ensealing hereof, by [undecipherable] Moore
the Receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, HAVE, and by these Presents, DO [underline: give, grant, bargain, sell, release, transfer and assign unto him, his Heirs, Executors, Administrators and Assigns for ever:] All the Right, Title, Interest, Property, Claim and demand, which I now have, or which [underline: my] Heirs, Executors or Administrators, may at any Time hereafter have, to all and singular the Lands, Pay, Arrearages of Pay, Cloathing, Rations, Regards, Bounties, Gratuities, Prize-Money, and other Demands, due and owing to me, from the United States, as Private [undecipherable] in the [undecipherable] Regiment; my Heirs, Executors and Administrators covenant and agree to and with the said [undecipherable], his Heirs, Executors and Administrators, that he the said [undecipherable] his Heirs, Executors and Administrators, shall and will, at any Time or Times hereafter, at the Request, Cost and Charges of Him, his Heirs, Executors, Administrators and Assigns, make, full, execute and deliver all and every such further Deeds, to be made, sealed, executed and delivered, all and every further and other Acts, Deeds and Assurances in Law or Conveyances and Conveyances whatever, as by him or them desired in Law, for the perfect, passing, conveying, fee, dealing, transferring and [undecipherable] of the Premises; or any Part or Parcel thereof; and the said [undecipherable] do hereby dealing, or which at any time my Heirs, Administrators, may at any time hereafter have, of, in and to, all here and singular the Lands, Pay, Arrearages of Pay, Cloathing, Rations, Bounties, and Gratuities, and their Administrators and Assigns for ever, as by his to their Council learned in the Law shall be reasonably advised, and Attorneys, one or more, his lawful Attorney or Attorneys, under him or them, to be my true and lawful Attorney, irrevocably, to ask, demand, recover and receive, of and from the United States, or from any Person or Persons acting by, from, or under them, or either of their Authority, all and singular, the Lands, Pay, Arrearages of Pay, Cloathing, Rations, Rewards, Bounties, Gratuities, Prize-Money, and other Demands, due, owing, payable, and belonging to me, or detained from me, by any Manner of Ways or Means whatsoever, and upon Receipt thereof, to execute and deliver sufficient and regular Receipts, Releases and Acquittances for the same, and to give such other Acquittances and Discharges in the Law to grant, bargain, sell, release and confirm the said Lands, to the Purchasor, or Purchasors thereof, his, her, or their Heirs and Assigns for ever. And also to ask, receive and transfer Certificates, and Registers, or other Stock, now or hereafter Standing in Any Name.
in the Name of the Treasury of the United States, or any particular State, for, or in consideration of Services as aforesaid, with Power as Attorney of Attorney, under him or them, to be made, for the settlement and discharge of all and every the premises for effecting the same, as is truly and effectually in all Intents and Purposes, as I might or could do by being personally present, hereby ratifying, confirming and allowing whatsoever my said Attorney, or his Substitutes, or Substitute may do in dealing and performing the Premises; IN WITNESS whereof I have hereunto set my Hand and Seal, this [undecipherable] Day of Apr[il] in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Ninety [undecipherable].
SEALED AND DELIVERED in the presence of:
[undecipherable] Zelle John X White
[his mark]
BE IT KNOWN, that on the Day of the Date hereof, before us Jacob Weaver one of the Justices of the peace for the County Philadelphia
Personally came the above named John White and acknowledged the within Letter of Attorney, to be his Act and Deed. IN TESTIMONY whereof I have hereunto set my Hand and affixed my Seal, this [undecipherable] Day of [undecipherable] in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Ninety [undecipherable].
Jacob Weaver
Type
Document Signed
Description
Power of attorney of John White - late a soldier in the Pennsylvania Line - to Daniel Steven.
Date
04/03/1794
Author
Recipient
Document number
1794040390301
Page start
1
Notable persons
John White
Daniel Steven
Jacob Weaver
John White
soldier
Pennsylvania Line
heirs
administrators
Notable locations
County of Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Notable items
Letter of Attorney
consideration
property
interests
clothing
pay
bounties
gratuities

