State of Missouri
County of Jasper SS:

On this Seventeenth day of May A.D. 1855
before me the undersigned a Justice of the peace duly
authorized by law to administer oaths and for said
county personally appeared Jarrett Foster aged fifty eight
years a resident of Jasper County State of Missouri who being duly sworn
according to law declares that he is the identical
Jarrett Foster who was a private in the company of
Tennessee mounted volunteers commanded by Captain John Elliott
Regiment commanded by Maj Wm. Lauderdale in the war with Seminole Indians,

that he was enrolled at Ross’ Landing on the 1st day of November A.D. 1837, for the term of
six months, and continued in actual service in said
war for the term of six months and was honorably
discharged at Baton Rouge La., on the 12th day of
May A.D. 1838.

He makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining
additional bounty land to which he may be entitled under
the act approved the 3d of March 1855.
He also declares that he has received a warrant for Eighty acres No. [illegible] which he has under the act of 23 March 1852 since legally disposed of and can not now [illegible].

He hereby appoints O. W. Barnes of Washington City,
D.C. his true and lawful Attorney with power to [illegible].