POWER OF ATTORNEY
For ascertaining whether any increase or arrears of Pension are due the Widow or Heirs of Revolutionary Pensioners

State of Missouri
County of Osage
Be it known that before me Robert Rowden a Justice of the Peace personally appeared John Gibson aged 50 years, who being duly cautioned and then sworn in due form of law, states that he is the son-in-law of Charles Lane who was a Revolutionary Soldier in the State of Georgia and that he died on the ninth day of April 1837 and that his mother-in-law named (blank), she died on the 10 day August 1818 and that they were married on the 19th day of November in the year 1789 and that they were residents of the State of North Carolina and that they resided there (blank) years, and that (blank) resides in (blank) and that furthermore (blank) by these presents, constitutes, appoints, and fully empowers and authorizes, irrevocably and with powers of substitution, F.E. Hassler, of Washington city, D.C. as his true and lawful Attorney for him and in name and stead, to examine into, to prosecute, to demand, and to receive from the U.S. Government and State officers his rights in all and in any manner of claim for increase or arrears of Pension or Land that may be due (blank) as (blank) of (blank) who died leaving the same
undrawn, as in right of law (blank) may be entitled.
In witness whereof, (blank) has on this 22nd day of September 1853, hereunto
signed his name, and affixed his seal.
John Gibson (signature) (Seal)

Witness: A.E. Rowden
Witness: Robert Rowden

Signed, sealed, and acknowledged, and sworn to before me; and I fully certify, that has always by the community been known as the (blank) of (blank).
Dated on this 22d day of September 1853.
Robert Rowden J.P.

State of Missouri
County of Osage
I hereby certify, That Robert Rowden Esq., before whom the foregoing affidavits and acknowledgement were made, and who thereunto subscribed his name, was at the time of so doing, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, duly commissioned and sworn, and that his signature above written is genuine.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the Osage County Court, this Fourteenth day of November one thousand eight hundred and fifty three.
Wm. W. Lumkin
Clerk

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