Know all Men by these [undecipherable] that [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] in the service of the United States of America, for a valuable and full consideration to him in hand paid, at or before the execution hereof, by [undecipherable] the receipt whereof, is hereby acknowledged, have, and by these presents do grant, bargain, sell, release, remise and assign unto him his heirs, executors, administrators and assigns forever, All the right, title, interest, property, claim and demand, which [undecipherable] now have or which [undecipherable] heirs, executors, or administrators, may at any time hereafter have, in and to all and singular the lands, pay, the charges of pay, cloathing, rations, resolves, bounties, gratuities, prize-monies and other demands, due and owing to me from the United States, or from any particular State. And do hereby for [undecipherable] my heirs, executors, and administrators covenant and agree, to and with the said [undecipherable] his heirs, executors, administrators and assigns, that [undecipherable] his heirs, executors, and administrators, shall and may, as well the receipt thereof to receive and take, and charges of pay, his successors administrators and assigns, make, feel, execute and deliver, or cause, or procure to be made, sealed, executed and delivered, all and every such release and releases or thing and things, conveyance, and conveyances, assurance and assurances in the law, for the perfect granting, conveyance, releasing, transferring and assigning, all the right, title, interest, property, claim and demand, which [undecipherable] now have, or which my heirs, executors, or administrators, may at any time hereafter have, in and to all and singular, the lands and other the premises hereby granted and assigned unto him, his heirs, executors, administrators and assigns forever, as by him, or their counsel, learned in the law, shall be reasonably advised, devised, or required. And I do hereby make, constitute and appoint the said [undecipherable] my true and lawful attorney irrevocably, to ask, demand, recover and receive, of and from the United States, or from any particular State, or from any person or persons, acting by, from, or under their, or either of their authority, all and singular the [undecipherable] bounties, gratuities, prize-monies and other demands due, owing, payable and belonging to [undecipherable] or detained from [undecipherable] by any manner of means or ways whatsoever; and, upon receipt thereof, to execute and deliver, to the said attorney, receipts, releases, and acquittances for the same, and by good and sufficient conveyances and assurances in the law, to grant, bargain, sell, and convey unto the said [undecipherable] his purchases, heirs and assigns, forever. And also to sell, assign and transfer, all certificates, and registered or other stock, now, or hereafter, Standing in any name in the books of the Treasury of the United States, or of any particular State, for or in consequence of [undecipherable] services as aforesaid, with power of attorney, or attorneys under him, for the purposes aforesaid, to make, and substitute, and to do all lawful acts requisite, for effecting the premises aforesaid, as fully to all intents and purposes, as might or could do, by being personally present, and to have done the same, hereby allowing, ratifying and confirming all and whatsoever my said attorney shall do, or shall cause to be done therein, by virtue hereof. IN WITNESS whereof [undecipherable] have hereunto set [undecipherable] Hand and Seal, this [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] [undecipherable] Robert Battersby Be it Known that on the day of the date hereof, before me [undecipherable] [undecipherable] State of New York and being Sworn accordingly do [undecipherable] declare and say that he Peter Forger Named in the within power of attorney as a Subscribing Witness to the within Power doth declare and say that he is a Distant Relation on the mother Side of the within Named Soldier Robert Battersby and further declares and saith he to his Knowledge knew said Battersby when in the service of the United States and in the New York line and further saith [undecipherable] — and I Thomas Smith Notary Public aforesaid do hereby [undecipherable] the Same Acquainted with Peter Forger and have known him upwards of [undecipherable] years and always have heard a good [undecipherable] of him and who Now lives in [Broadway] in this City. Sworn and Subscribed before me the day and year aforesaid — Th^o Smith N.Y. p[ublic] [seal]