Jan. 14, 1857Note - this is a transcription of the actual documents. I've done my best in transcribing this, but as you know, handwriting and document quality is not the best. Punctuation and spacing has been added in some places to make the documents easier to read. My comments are included in brackets [].
As children and heirs of John McQueen, Sr., deceased, we have this day employed John M. Price as our attorney in irvine, KY to inquire at the Pension office in Washington City D.C. and ascertain the amount of Pension that was allowed to said John McQueen Sr., deas'd and also to make any further inquiries or investigations in the __________ for the purposes aforesaid at the said Pension office or elsewhere and we hereby agree to ratify whatever we may do in the said __________. Given under our bonds this 14th January 1857. her
Polly X Embree
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Nancy X McQueen
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