Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B. L. Wt. 1942-100, for John Mc Lean, Connecticut
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Conn.  McLean, John  B. L. Wt. 1842-100
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(date stamp) Vergennes Vt Apl 31
(date stamp) Boston Ms May 7

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Reuben Baldwin Esq.
Sandwich Mass

Probate Certificate
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State of Vermont District of New Haven
Be it remembered that at a Probate Court (illegible) at Vergennes within and for the District aforesaid on the 18th day of February A. D. 1833.
It was made to appear to said court by producing satisfactory evidence that John S. McLean, Jarius B. McLean & Jemima Bragg, are the surviving Children & Heirs to the Late John McLean deceased: that Henry McLean, Catharine Ordoway & Sarah Reeves, who were also the children of the said John McLean are now dead, that Henry McLean left three children, James, Laura & Lorinda, all over twenty one years: Catherine Ordoway left three Children Tleuirs vis Melinda, Polly, & Sally, all Minors. Sarah was first married to a man by the name of William Tibbitts & by him had one child by the name of Mehitable Tibbitts. She was subsequently married to a man by the name of Henry Reeves & by him had four children vis John, Robert, William, and Hiram.  All minors under 21 years of age. & that the above children and grand children are the Heirs & the only surviving Heirs of the said John McLean, deceased, who was a revolutionary Soldier & a Sergeant in the Connecticut lines of the Revolutionary Army.
State of Vermont  District of New Haven
I hereby certify that the above written facts were duly proven in said court to the satisfaction of the same and according to Laws.  In testimony whereof I have (illegible) to set my hand and seal of office, at Vergennes this 18th day of February C. C. 1833.
J (illegible) Parker, Register

x Briggs
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Vergennes  April 29th 1833
Mr. Baldwin
Sir
This paper was (illegible) out in Feby last, but supposing you have left Boston are this (illegible) we (illegible) to send the (illegible) for fear it might not reach you - having received alive to day from you written to Mr. Bowman of Jay N. York. hasten to give you the benefit of the (illegible) the first mail.
Yours &C
John Parker
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John McLean
No. 1942
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Application for Bounty Land by John S. McLean heir to John McLean decd.
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DEPARTMENT OF WAR.

State of New York County of Essex ss
I John L. McLean, son and heir at Law to John McLean deceased, do, upon oath, testify and declare that to the best of my knowledge and belief, John McLean aforesaid, about, or in the Year 1777 entered, or enlisted into the service of the United States for the term of "During the War:" and, that, he served in Regiment No. two of the Connecticut. Line, commanded by Colonel Heman Swift; and that, he continued in the service aforesaid, until the close of the War, when he was regularly discharged from the Second Regiment of the Connecticut Line,commanded by Colonel Heman Swift and when he was a Sergeant. I further testify, that my Father the aforesaid John McLean departed this life on or about the Month of April in the year 1817 in the town of Addison and County of Addison and State of Vermont, and that he never drew any pension from the United States.  I further declare, that I have never received a Warrant for the Bounty Land promised to John McLean aforesaid, on the part of the United States, nor do I believe he has ever received it, or transferred his claim, in any manner, whatsoever: -- 
THEREFORE KNOW All Men, By These Presents, that I John S. McLean aforesaid, do hereby constitute and appoint Reuben Baldwin of Greeneville, in the State of New York, to be my true and lawful Attorney, for me and in my name, to demand and receive, from the Secretary of War, of the United States, a Warrant for the quantity of Land due to me and to other heirs of John McLean as aforesaid.  In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal,  Dated at Jay in said County this 9 day of August in the year 1832.
John S. McLean
Signed Sealed and delivered in presents of T. Bowman
COUNTY of Essex ss
Personally appeared before me Thadeus Gowman, Justice of the Peace, in and for the County aforesaid John McLean subscriber to the above declaration, who acknowledged the power of Attorney thereto subjoined, to be his free act and deed; and likewise made solemn oath to the truth of the foregoing declaration. Dated this 9 day of Aug. 1832.
T. Bowman Justice

STATE OF New York
COUNTY OF Essex ss  I Leonard Stern Clerk of the County of Essex aforesaid & Clerk of the Court of (illegible) Plea aforesaid county
In testimony that the above written was a Magistrate, duly authorized to administer oaths, and take acknowledgments, &c. in the State of New York at the above date, and that his name there subscribed appears to be his usual signature; I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the said County or of the (illegible) of said county and subscribed my name, at Elizabethtown this tenth day of August 1832
Leonard Stern clerk
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Deposition of
Daniel Champion a Revolutionary Soldier
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Adison County ss  Ferrisburgh  August 14th 1832
Daniel Champion of Ferrisburgh in said county a Revolutionary soldier, and lately inscribed on the pension list Roll of the Vermont Agency; being duly sworn and deposeth and saith; that he the said Daniel enlisted for the term of three years and served in Colonel Warness Vermont Regiment in the Revolutionary Army - that about six years after the termination of the said War there were three Brothers by the names of John McLean Jacob McLean and James McLean who removed from Salisbury and Mayfield in the State of Connecticut, to the Town and County of Addison, and State of Vermont, that I was well acquainted with the three before mentioned McLeans from the time of their removal to the before mentioned town of Addison, untill their Decease, being more than twenty years, that I always understood from the mouth of the before mentioned John and Jacob McLean that hey were Revolutionary Soldiers and served in the Connecticut line untill the termination of the War, that said John was a Sergeant, that said Jacob was a fifer &c.
That said John McLean died in the said town and County of Addison previous to the passage of the pension act of the 18th of March 1818, that said Jacob survived, and drew a pention under said act. That said John died leaving Issue (viz) three sons and three daughters, who are by name as follows, James McLean, Jemima (now) Jennima Briggs, Catherine Ordoway decd, Sarah Reeves, decd, Henry McLean, decd. John L. McLean, now living at Jay in Essex County N. York. 
Daniel Champion

Addison County ss
Be it known that on this 14th day of August in the year 1832; before the subscriber one of the Justices of the peace in and for said County; personally appeared Daniel Champion, a person well known to me to be of  respectibility in truth and made oath to the truth of the foregoing Deposition by him subscribed. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand the Day and your above mentioned
Stocleland Martin Justice of the Peace
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
Form VAM-51
12-5-41

Division of Veterans' Administration Archives

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*

NAME McLean, John  GRADE Private  LINE new York

WARRANT NUMBER 7479  ACERAGE  100  ISSUED  Aug. 6, 1790 to Jerh. Van Renselar, assignee

* The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrant Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates.  Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800.  Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.