Pension Application of George Harman: BLWT1361-100

                        Transcribed and annotated by C. Leon Harris

State of Virginia

County of Bedford

            I Thomas Harman heir at law of George Harman dec’d do upon oath testify and declare to the best of my knowledge and belief that George Harman did enlist in 1777 for the term of during the war and served in the regiment No. fourteen under the command of Colonel William Davis [sic: Davies] of the Virginia Continental line and that he continued in the service aforesaid until the end of the war  I further declare that I have never received a warrant for the bounty land promised to George Harman on the part of the United States nor do I believe that he ever received it or transfered his claim to it in any manner whatsoever  Therefore

            Know all men by these presence that I Thomas Harman aforesaid do hereby constitute and appoint Leroy Jordan of Bedford County to be my true and lawful attorney, for me and in my name to demand and receive from the Secretary of War of the United States a warrant for the quantity of land due to me as aforesaid and my said attorney is hereby fully authorised and empowered to constitute and appoint one or more substitutes or attorneys under him for the special purposes above expressed                        Thomas hisXmark Harman