[Illegible Text — Some or all of the pages of this file are wholly or in part illegible. We have not been able either to locate a better copy of the document, or to enhance its legibility electronically.] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Know all men by these presents that [undecipherable] bargain, sell, release, [undecipherable] and relinquish him, his heirs, executors, administrators and assigns for [undecipherable] and [undecipherable], their heirs, executors, or administrators, may at any time hereafter have, to all and singular the [undecipherable] premises of pay, [undecipherable], to [undecipherable] quit, bound to [undecipherable], grant, [undecipherable] and other [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to going to [undecipherable] from the United States, or from any particular State. And [undecipherable] executors, or administrators [undecipherable] covenant, and with [undecipherable] — [undecipherable] heirs, executors, administrators and assigns that [undecipherable] charges of him, his heirs, executors, administrators, [undecipherable] gage, seal, execute and deliver, or cause, or procure to be made, [undecipherable], endorsed and delivered, all and every such [undecipherable] indentures, deeds and acts, [undecipherable] and things, conveyances, [undecipherable], releases, [undecipherable] and allowances, in the law, for the perfect granting, conveying, releasing, transferring and assigning, all the real estate, interest, real property, claim and demand, which [undecipherable] may have, to the premises or belonging, or in any [undecipherable] thereof for [undecipherable] to, and all and singular, the [undecipherable] and other the premises hereby granted and all appurtenances — executors, administrators and assigns forever, as [undecipherable] or more learned in the law shall [undecipherable] advise, devise, or [undecipherable]. And do hereby make, constitute and appoint [undecipherable] — my true and lawful attorney irrevocable, to all, demand, recover, and receive of a claim the United States, or from any particular State, or from any person or persons, all[owing] to, from, or under either, or either of their authorities, all and singular the lands, pay, arrearages of pay, clothing, rations, rewards, gratuities, grants, [undecipherable] and other demands due, owing, [undecipherable], belonging or to belong, detained from in any manner of ways or means whatsoever, and, upon receipt thereof, to receive and deliver [undecipherable] and requisite writings, receipts, and acquittances, for the same, and be good and sufficient conveyances and allow to grant, bargain, sell, release and convey the said lands to the purchaser or purchasers thereof, his, her, or their heirs and assigns, with power of attorney, assign, and transfer, all certificates, and registered or other stock, now, or hereafter, standing or [undecipherable] in the books of the treasury of the United States, or of any particular State, for or in consequence, [undecipherable] as aforesaid. To make as aforesaid, with power of attorney, and under him, for the purpose aforesaid, consider, and substitute, and do to all lawful acts requisite, for effect to the premises as fully and effectually to all intents and purposes, as might or could do, he being present; and what to have done the same, hereby allowing, [undecipherable] and confirming all, the [undecipherable] [undecipherable], or his substitute or substitutes shall, or in [undecipherable] cause to be done [undecipherable] — NESS whereof of [undecipherable] have hereunto for [undecipherable] Land and seal [undecipherable] William Cole [seal] [undecipherable] in the year of our [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] — *Sealed and delivered in* *the presence of* [undecipherable] William Cole George Wood Be it known that on the [undecipherable] day of [undecipherable] [undecipherable] before me the [undecipherable] of the City of [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] --- On the fourth day of August 1796 was personally come before me the subscriber one of the Justices of the peace for the County and City of York the within named [undecipherable] George Wood one of the subscribing witnesses and being sworn according to law declares and saith that he is well acquainted with William Cole named in the within power of Attorney who [undecipherable] to be living [during] the last war in the New Yorke line Against great Britain and further saith not and of the subscriber one of the Justices of the peace for the county aforesaid do [undecipherable] that I have known George Wood upwards of nine years and know him to be an honest man as witness my hand and seal — George Wood [seal] Sworn to 4^th of August 1796 by the above George Wood [undecipherable] before me Fred Buchanan Ald^r & Justice of the Peace I do hereby Certify that the above Buchanan Esq^r above Named is a Justice of the [undecipherable] in and for the City and County of [undecipherable] in the State of [undecipherable] — Given [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable]