Legal/Financial

Benjamin F. Blood, Oath

1863-11-16

Date of Creation
November 16, 1863
Place of Creation
Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania
Document Genre
Legal/Financial
Repository
Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives
Collection
Office of the Governor, Thomas E. Bramlette: Appointments by the Governor, Civil Appointments, 1863-1867
Box / Folder
BR1-452 to BR1-453
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-007-0065
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FTP Identifier
32206577

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Benjamin F. Blood, Oath, 1863-11-16, Office of the Governor, Thomas E. Bramlette: Appointments by the Governor, Civil Appointments, 1863-1867, Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/KYR-0001-007-0065 (November 13, 2026).

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State of Pennsylvania
County of Allegheny
City of Pittsburgh } Sct.

I, Benjamin F. Blood residing in Pittsburgh, County of Allegheny, State of Pennsylvania, appointed by the Governor of the State of Kentucky, a Commissioner of Deeds for the said State of Kentucky, to take depositions, acknowledgment of deeds &c. to be used or recorded in the said State of Kentucky, do solemnly swear that I will well and truly Execute and perform all the duties of such commissioner, under and by virtue of the laws of the State of Kentucky.,

Benjamin F., Blood

Taken and subscribed this 16th day of November A. D. 1863. before me

A S Nicholson
Alderman; and Ex. Officio a Justice of the Peace in & for the said County of Allegheny

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ALLEGHENY COUNTY,
State of Pennsylvania. } SS.
{Seal}{Revenue Stamp}

I, HENRY EATON, Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Allegheny, in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the same being a Court of Law and Record, do by these presents certify that A S. Nicholson Esquire, before whom the foregoing afft was taken, and who has thereunto, in his own proper handwriting, subscribed his name, was at that time, and now is, an alderman in and for the City of Pittsburgh and EX-OFFICIO an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the said County, duly commissioned and sworn, and authorized by law to take acknowldgements, administer oaths, &c.; to all whose acts, as such, due faith and credit are, and of right ought to be given, throughout the United States and elsewhere.

In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, at Pittsburgh, in the said county, this 16th day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and of the sovereignty and independence of the United States of America the eighty-Eight

Henry Eaton Prothonotary.
JONSTONS PRINT

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{Seal}

An impression of my official seal as commissioner of Deeds for the State of Kentucky Nov, 16,, 1863

Benj. F. Blood

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An impression of my Official Seal as Commissions of Deeds for the State of Kentucky
Nov. 16, 1863
Benj. F. Blood

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Pennsylvania
Oath
B. F. Blood
Comr of
Deeds