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Know all men by these presents, That I Susannah Alexander of the County of Mecklenburg and State of N. Carolina do hereby Constitute and appoint William F Davidson my true and lawful Agent and Attorney to prosecute the Claim of Susannah Alexander for any amount of Revolutionary pension or increase of Pension that may be due, and I hereby authorize my said Agent to examine or cause to be examined all the papers and documents in relation to said claim on file in the Departments at Washington City, or elsewhere; to file additional evidence or arguments; and to receive the certificate which may be issued for said claim, which certificate I wish made payable to my said Attorney—

To appoint one or more substitutes under him for the purposes herein expressed; and to do all things that I might or could do where I personally present, Hereby ratifying and confirming all that my said Attorney and Agent shall lawfully do in the premises—

Witness my hand and seal this 13th day of October A.D. 1851.

Signed and sealed in the presence of—
J A Cannon}

State of N. Carolina
Mecklenburg County}
On this 13th day of October A.D. 1851—before the subscriber, a Justice of the County Court, in and for said County personally appeared Susannah Alexander and acknowledged the foregoing power of Attorney to be her act and deed, for the purposes therein mentioned.

In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand the day and year aforesaid

J A Cannon J.P.