Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 41,864, for Neil Mc Mullen, Pennsylvania
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Service
Penn

McMullen, Neil

Number
S.41864
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S4.540
Ohio

Neil McMullen of Liberty in the state of Ohio who was a private in the regiment commanded Colonel Miles, of the Pennsylvan[ia] [l]ine, for the term of one year

Inscribed on the roll of Ohio at the rate of 8- Dollars per month, to commence [on] 
the 20th of April 1818

Certificate of Pension issued the 17th of Sept 1819 and sent to George Tod Esqr [Esquire] Youngstown Trumbull Co Ohio

Arrears to 4th of Sep 1819 = $132.00
Semi-anl, all'ce [annual allowance] ending 4 Mar: 1820 48.
16 [illegible] 15/20 $180.00

Died July 21- 1824
{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818.}

Continued

Notification sent May 18th 1821. T. Sutherland, Esqr [Esquire]
Warren, Trumbull Coty, Ohio
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Niel McMullen
332
Pensioner
Copy
14,540
17 Sep 19
Con:
Con
J L. E

not greater [illegible]
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The State of Ohio}
Trumbull County}
on this sixth day of December AD 1820 Personally appeared in open Court (being a Court of record for said County Niel McMullen aged 67 years on the 24th June last past resident of Liberty in said County who being duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he Served in the revolutionary war as follows That I enlisted as a private soldier on or about the 12th March 1776 near Harrisburgh [Harrisburg] in the State of Pennsylvania for the term of one year & nine months in a company commanded by Capt [Captain] William Peoples and as I believe the 2nd Company in the 2d battalion of Pennsylvania Riflemen
commanded by Col. Miles of Philadelphia and Lieut. Col. Broadhead from the place of enlistment I was marched to Shippensburg thence to Philadelphia where our company joined the regiment thence to Amboy in New Jersey thence to New York and then to long Island where I was in said company engaged in a battle in which my Capt. was mortally wounded in this engagement I myself made my escape to N Y afterwards was in the battles of the white Plains Trenton Brandywine Germantown & in many smaller skirmishes was in winter quarters at Valley Forge where I received an honourable [honorable] discharge from our then Colonel Walter Stewart on the 1st day of January 1778 declaration by which former pension was drawn was dated April 20th 1818 certificate numbered 14,540
And I the said Niel McMullen do further declare that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th of March 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provissions [provisions] of an act of Congress entitled "an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary war passed on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or
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securities contracts or debts due to me nor have I any income other than what is contained in schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed viz
one Cow $10.00
1 Steer 8.00
1 Mare 40.00
1 Colt 20.00
Sundry other articles to the amount of 10.00
1 Horse 15,00
Debts due from said Declarant to others are as follows Viz
To Henry Barheisel in Judgement  $40.00
Doct [doctor] Henry Manning Phisician [Physician] bill 14.00 
John E Woodbridge for leather 8. 00
Caleb B Wick for medicine 8. 00
Doct. [doctor] J. Pleowden Phisicians [Physicians] bill about 5.00
Doctor Brainard do about 8. 00 
William Raye about 16.00
James Carr for blacksmithing 5.00
Jacob Fight Do, 4.00
Affragate [Aggregate] amt $108.00
Which leaves a balance against him of five dollars
The Declarant is by occupation a farmer but has been unable to do any thing from age sickness and decrepitude since last January, Margaret his oldest daughter aged
35 years is able to procure a subsistence by her labour [labor] Charles his oldest son aged 25 years, is also able to do labour [labor] sufficient for his maintainance [maintenance] Sally his second daughter aged 18 or 19 is able also to procure her living Anna his third
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Daughter able to labour for livelihood but as these his children may some or all of them leave him shortly he feels his dependance and also from his extreme poverty and incapacity to labour [labor] he solicits this aid from his Country
Niel McMullen
We George Campbell & Jacob Fight being acquainted with the circumstances of the Sd. declarant do believe that he is a poor man that he has no other property than that enumerated in the above Schedule and do upon our oaths say that the
value is not more than stated above also say that the debts due by said declarant are as stated in the foregoing schedule (as we verily believe)
Jacob Fight
his
George X Campbell
mark
Sworn & Subscribed before me Benjn [Benjamin] Armitage Justice of the peace

Sworn subscribed & declared to in open Court this sixth  day of December 1820 before me George Parsons Clerk

The State of Ohio}
Trumbull County}
I George Parsons Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for said County do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the record of said Court and I do further certify that it is the opinion of said Court that the total amount in value of the property is $103.00
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & fixed the seal of said Court on this 29th day of December 1820
George Parsons Clerk of the
Court for the County of Trumbull
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Please let me have the aforesaid
information at your earliest convenience
respectfully
Mrs. S. Knox Boyd
721 Church St
Rayersford, PA