Power of Attorney
Document 1796Power of attorney for Joseph Roberts to Ebenezer Bailey.
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Know all Men by these Presents, that [undecipherable] of [undecipherable] in the service of the United States of America, for a valuable and full consideration to/of [undecipherable] hand paid, at before the execution hereof, by [undecipherable] the receipt whereof, is hereby acknowledged, have, and by these presents do grant, bargain, sell, release, transfer and assign unto him, his heirs, executors, administrators and assigns forever. All the right, title, interest, property, claim and demand, which I now have, to which executors, or administrators may, at any time hereafter have to all and singular the lands, pay arrages of pay, Cloathing, rations, rewards, bounties, gratuities, prize monies and other demands, due and owing to from the United States, or from any particular State. And do hereby for [undecipherable] heirs, executors and administrators covenant and agree, to and with the said [undecipherable] 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 or assigns, make, seal, execute, acknowledge and deliver, all and every such reasonable act and acts, thing and things, conveyance and conveyances, assurance and assurances in the law, for the perfect granting, conveying, releasing, aliening, and confirming of all and every title, interest, property, claim and demand, which now have, or which [undecipherable] heirs, executors, or administrators, may, at any time hereafter have, of, in and to all and singular the lands and other, the premiss hereby granted; and assigns, unto him, his heirs, executors, administrators and assigns forever, as by his, 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 the authority of either, or either of their Authority, all and singular the lands, pay, arrearages of pay, clothing, rations, rewards, bounties, gratuities, prize monies and other demands due, owing, payable and belonging to [undecipherable] detained from [undecipherable] by any manner of ways or means whatsoever, and, upon receipt thereof, to execute and deliver sufficient and requisite receipts, releases, and acquittances for the same; and to grant and confirm the conveyances and assurances aforesaid; and also to grant, bargain, sell, release and confirm the said lands to the purchaser or purchasers thereof, his, her, or their heirs and assigns forever. And also to list, align and transfer, all certificates and registered of other Stock, now, or hereafter, standing in [undecipherable] or either in the books of the treasury of the United States, or of any particular State, for or in consequence [undecipherable] of and also to constitute [undecipherable] one or more attorney or attorneys under him, for the purposes aforesaid, to make, and substitute, and to do all lawful acts requisite, for effecting the premises as fully and effectually as all intents and purposes as [undecipherable] could do if personally present, and I hereby ratify and have done the same, hereby allowing, ratifying and confirming all, and whatsoever [undecipherable] said attorney [undecipherable] or has substituted or substitutes, shall, or may do, or cause to be done therein, by virtue hereof. IN WITNESS thereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal, this [undecipherable] in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and [undecipherable] day of [undecipherable]
Signed, Sealed and Delivered in the presence of us
Daniel Stott
Wm. Gordon
Ebenezer Bailey [Seal]
BE it Known, that on the day of the date hereof, before me the subscriber [undecipherable]
Personally came the above named Ebenezer Bailey and acknowledged the above Deed, Poll and Letter of Attorney, as to be his Act and Deed [undecipherable]. In [testimony] whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed my seal this [undecipherable] in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred & [undecipherable] day of [undecipherable]
State [undecipherable] [undecipherable] 1796
I do swear [undecipherable] Named Soldier Ebenezer Bailey. I do hereby [certify] by the [undecipherable] I am acquainted to [with] him, the said Bailey and know him As A Soldier who Served During the last War And is Now Married and Lives About 4. Miles from me. This Soldier is About five feet 7½ Inches High and in forms me that he is About 42 years of age. In Witness my hand and seal of Office
Jo: Hugg
[Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County [undecipherable] that [undecipherable] the County of [undecipherable] about [undecipherable] Commission [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] [undecipherable] my [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Witness my hand and seal of Office [undecipherable] [undecipherable] day of [undecipherable] 1796 [undecipherable]]
Type
Document Signed
Description
Power of attorney for Joseph Roberts to Ebenezer Bailey.
Date
08/05/1796
Author
Recipient
Document number
1796080590001
Page start
1
Note
Partly illegible
Notable persons
Joseph Roberts
Joseph Gordon
Daniel Stout
Ebenezer Bailey
New York Line
Justices of the Peace
soldier
Joseph Hugg
Elisha Clark
clerk
Notable locations
New York
Gloucester County
Notable items
power of attorney
letter of attorney
deed, poll, and letters of attorney
lands, pay, arrearages of pay, clothing, rations, rewards, bounties, gratuities, prize-monies and other demands
last war
married

