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Note: State of Ohio Muskingum county At the Court of Common Pleas, held in and for the County of Muskingum, on the 8th day of April, in the year of our Lord, Eighteen hundred and forty --- "Satisfactory evidence was adduced in Court to prove the Samuel Maxwell, Prescilla Maxwell, James Maxwell, Daniel Maxwell, James Morgan, Allen Morgan, Priscilla Harbison (wife of William Harbison), Oliver Morgan, Isaac Morgan, Margaret Jane Morgan, Eliza Maxwell (wife of Joseph Maxwell), James Johnston, Samuel Johnston, Daniel Johnston, Jane Wright, Mary Wright, William Wright, Prescilla Wright, Nancy Wright and James Wright are the children, grandchildren and only heirs at law to James Maxwell, late a private in the 8th regiment of Infantry, in the Pennsylvania line in the War of the Revolution for the benefit of which said heirs an Act of Congress was passed and approved on the 3rd of March 1839." I, E.T. Cox, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of said county of Muskingum, do certify that the above evidence is taken from the records in my office. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official seal this 22nd day of April, A.D. 1840 NOTE: The original onion skin Bounty Land Warrant was still in Maxwell family possession c 1970s when it was photocopied by our Morgan family researcher, Walter Morgan of Concordia, Kansas. I, also, have a copy of the original shared with me by Walter who has spent a good many of his close to 90 years researching our family heritage. Thank you Walter!!
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