Know all men by these presents that whereas James Stevenson late of London ... sometime major in His Majesty's Sixtieth Regiment of Foot did by his last will and testament give and bequeath unto one James Stevenson of the Seneca Tribe of Indians warriour now residing and living near to Newark in the

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Know all men by these presents that whereas James Stevenson late of London ... sometime major in His Majesty's Sixtieth Regiment of Foot did by his last will and testament give and bequeath unto one James Stevenson of the Seneca Tribe of Indians warriour now residing and living near to Newark in the county of Lincoln in the province of Upper Canada the interest of a certain sum of three hundred pounds ... : Newark, Upper Canada, power of attorney, 1796 May 3.

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Power of attorney, May 3, 1796, from the Seneca chief James Stevenson, granting John Stevenson, an Albany, N.Y., attorney, the right to obtain the interest due or coming due to him from a £300 inheritance bequeathed by his father, Maj. James Stevenson.

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