[4 101] KNOW all Men by these Presents, That [undecipherable] duly [undecipherable] to the [undecipherable] who [undecipherable] in the service of the United States of America, for a valuable and full consideration to me in hand paid, at or before the execution hereof, to Joseph Whitton of Buck County [undecipherable] acknowledged, have, and by these presents do grant, bargain, sell, [undecipherable: spease?], transfer and allign unto him, his heirs, executors, administrators and assigns for-ever, all the right, title, interest, property, claim and demand, which I now have or my heirs, executors, or administrators, may at any time hereafter have, to all and singular the lands, pay, arrearages of pay, clothing, rations, [undecipherable: remarks?], bounties, gratuities, prize-money and other demands due and coming to me from the United States, in particular [undecipherable] and the said [undecipherable] executors and administrators covenant and agree, to and with the said Whitton his heirs, executors, administrators and assigns, that my heirs, executors, and administrators, shall, and will, at all time or times hereafter, at the request, cost and charges of him, his heirs, executors, administrators and assigns, make, seal, execute and deliver, or cause, or procure to be made, sealed, executed and delivered, all and every such reasonable act and acts, thing and things, conveyance, and conveyances, assurance and assurances in the law, for the perfect granting, confirming, alienating, transferring and assigning, all the right, title, interest, property, claim and demand, which I now have, or which my heirs, executors, or administrators, may at any time hereafter have of, 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 Whitton 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 authorities, all and singular the lands, pay, arrearages of pay, clothing, rations, [undecipherable: rewards?], bounties, gratuities, prize-money and other demands, [undecipherable] belonging or [undecipherable] to me, or in [undecipherable] manner or ways or means whatsoever, and, upon receipt thereof, to execute and deliver [undecipherable] quietus, releases, and acquittances for the same, and by good and sufficient conveyances and assurances in the law, 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 sell, allign and transfer all Certificates, and registered or other [undecipherable: flock?], now, or hereafter, standing in my name, in the books of the treasury of the United States, or of any particular State, for or in [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to [undecipherable] substitute, and do to all lawful acts requisite, for effecting the premises as fully and effectually to all intents and purposes, as might or could do, by being personally present, and to have and the same, his full allowance and matters, counsel and advice, and whether said attorney, or his substitute or substitutes, shall, or may do, or cause to be done therein, by virtue hereof IN WITNESS whereof, I have hereunto set [my] [Seal] this [undecipherable] day of [undecipherable] one thousand seven hundred and ninety [undecipherable] Sealed and delivered in the presence of us: Luke Brown [undecipherable] BE it Known that on the day of the date hereof, before me Benjamin Smith One of the Justices of the peace in and for the [undecipherable] County [undecipherable] in the State of New Jersey Personally came the above named Amos Frost and acknowledged the above Deed, Poll and Letter of Attorney, to be his Act and Deed. — In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my Hand and affixed my Seal, the [undecipherable]^th day of [undecipherable] in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety [undecipherable] [signed:] [undecipherable] August 24^th 1796 — Personally came before me the subscriber one of the Justices of peace for the County of Hunterdon State New Jersey the within Named Luke Brown one of the subscribing Witnesses to the within power of Attorney and being sworn [undecipherable] his to say that he is well acquainted with the within Named Amos Frost late a Soldier during the last war and Now lives in [undecipherable] and further this deponent saith that and the Subscriber One of the Justices afore said do [undecipherable: hereby?] that I am well acquainted with Luke Brown [undecipherable] Know him upward of Six years the within Named Amos Frost is a House Carpenter by trade [signed:] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [I] Jonathan Niles Clerk of the Supreme Court of the [undecipherable] do Certify that Benjamin Smith Esq before [undecipherable] the above Disposition was a [Justice] of the Peace for the County of Hunterdon in the State of New Jersey and that [his] [undecipherable] faith and credit out to be given to his attestations [undecipherable] my Hand and the Seal of the [undecipherable] Court at Trenton this 24 day of August 1796 [signed:] [undecipherable]