Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 9,418, for Nathaniel Mitchell, Pennsylvania
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(3-1776)

SERVICE 
Penn. 

Mitchell, Nathaniel 

NUMBER
S. 9418
carded.

CONTENTS
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State of Pennsylvania
Washington County

Declaration of Nathaniel Mitchell in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 7th of June 1832.

On this 20th day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five personally appeared before me, Thomas Baird, Esquire, President Judge of the 12th judicial district of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (composed of counties of Green, Fayette and Washington), Nathaniel Mitchell of the Township of Donegal, County of Washington and state aforesaid and resident in said township, aged eighty-six years, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832; that by reason of old age and in consequence of the loss of memory, he cannot state the precise length of his service but according to the best of his recollection, he served not less than the (illegible) hereafter mentioned.

He first entered the service of the United States on the 29th day of October A.D. 1776 under Captain James McCammon of Franklin County and state of Pennsylvania as a volunteer and was marched by him to Philadelphia; and from thence in the direction of Mount Holly in the state of New Jersey in pursuit of the Hessians.  We continued the pursuit until we came within sight of Princeton.  The Hessians retreated in the direction of Trenton. This occurred about eight days previous to the battle of Trenton.

After this Captain McCammon with part of his company were sent out on a scouting party and the remainder of the company with this deponent were placed under the command of a Captain Smith and whilst under his command were (illegible) and engaged in the battle of Trenton.  General Washington was in command in this engagement and took the Hessians prisoners. 

After the battle, this deponent rejoined his Captain and battalion under Major Culbertson at Burlington and from thence they were marched to New Brunswick and were there discharged, about the 2nd day of January, 1777, and returned home after an absence of two months and twenty days, which includes the time he was traveling home.
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on the 20th day of September 1777 this deponent again volunteered and marched under the command of Captain McCammon in the direction of Philadelphia.  The longest period during this tour that we were stationed at any one place was in Bucks County in the state of Pennsylvania where our company was principally engaged as scouts.  We were marched into New Jersey and were discharged at (illegible) on the 20th day of November 1777 making this term of service in this tour two months and six days, including the time occupied in returning home. 

On the 18th day of October 1779 this deponent was drafted in the militia and marched under the command of Captain Jack to Bateman's Fort, thirty some miles above the Standing Stone on the River Juniata and after serving two months was discharged. 

He has no discharge now in his possession or any document which would establish any part of this service, nor can he now recollect that he obtained discharges in writing.  He knows of no living persons who could prove any part of his service excepting a man of the name of William Ramsey, of the county of Belmont, Ohio, whose affidavit is herewith transmitted, in corroboration of this declaration.  He recollects a man of the name of Simon Caldwell who was out with him in the same company in two tours of duty who at one time lived in the county of (illegible) and state of Virginia but does not know that said Caldwell is now living.

 He is unable to appear in court by reason of bodily infirmity.  He moved to the county of Washington in the state of Pennsylvania in the year 1814 and he continued to reside there until this time.  When he entered the service of the United States he resided in Franklin County of the same state.  He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and he declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any agency in any state.
Signed: Nathaniel Mitchell

Sworn to and subscribed this day and year aforesaid.
Signed:  T.H. Baird
President Judge
of the 14th judicial district of Pennsylvania


And the said Thomas H. Baird, President Judge as afore
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said, doth hereby declare his opinion that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier as he states.
Signed: T. H Baird

I, Geo Win Acheson, prothonotary of the court of common pleas of the county of Washington, Pennsylvania, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings before the Hon. Thomas H. Baird, Esquire, President Judge of the said county part of the 14th judicial district of Pennsylvania, in the matter of the application of Nathaniel Mitchell for a pension.  

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand the seal of office this 29thday of March A.D. 1836
Signed:  Geo Win Acheson

We, Thomas Hoge, a clergyman residing in the Borough of Washington County of Washington and state of Pennsylvania, and Joseph Henderson, residing in Donegal Township in the said county and state, do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Nathaniel Mitchell who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be eighty-six years of age; that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion. 
Signed:  Thomas Hoge, Joseph Henderson

Sworn and subscribed this 29th day of March A.D. 1826.
Signed:  Geo Win Acheson

And the said court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he states.  And the court further certifies that it appears to them that the Rev. Thomas Hoge, who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman resident in the Borough of Washington County of Washington and state of Pennsylvania and that Joseph Henderson, who has also signed the same is a resident in the township of Donegal in the said county and state and are credible pers
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sons and that their statement is entitled to credit.  
I, Geo Win Acheson, prothonotary of the court of common pleas of the county of Washington, Pennsylvania do hereby certify the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Nathaniel Mitchell for a pension.

In testimony whereof I have here unto set my hand and seal of office this 29th day of March A.D. 1834.
Signed:  Geo Win Acheson

(The rest of this document is illegible.)
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July 18, 1933.

BA-J/ILL
Nathaniel Mitchell
B.L.Wt. 1868-400
Nathaniel Mitchell
S. 9418

Mrs. Helen Weirauch
Stanton
Nebraska

Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War records of James Blacnchard, John Nitchman, Joseph Mitchell and two soldiers with name Nathaniel Mitchell.
A search of the Revolutionary War records has been made and no claims for pension or bounty land found based upon service of Joseph Mitchell as described by you, or of a John Nitchman. The James Blanchard who received Bounty land warrant No. 78 was not from any southern state.
The records of two Nathaniel Mitchells are furnished you herein; there is no way to determine whether or not they are the ones whose records you desire.

NATHANIEL MITCHELL-S. 9418.

The data which follow are found in the papers of file in pension claim S. 9418, based upon the service of Nathaniel Mitchell in the Revolutionary War.

Nathaniel Mitchell, while a resident of Franklin County, Pennsylvania, enlisted October 29, 1776, served as private in Captain James Mc[unintelligible]'s and Smith's Companies under Major Culbertson in the Pennsylvania troops, was in the battle of Trenton and was discharged January 2, 1777; he enlisted in the fall, 1777, he enlisted October 18, 1779 and served two months in Captain Jack's company stationed at Bateman's Fort.
The soldier moved from Franklin County, Pennsylvania, in 1814 to Washington, County, that state.
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Nathaniel Mitchell was allowed pension on his application executed October 20, 1835, at which time he resided in Denegal Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania. He was then eighty-six years of age, the date and place of his birth and names of his parents not show.
A son of the soldier was living in 1836, his name not stated. The name of the wife of Nathaniel Mitchell is not shown, and there are no further data relative to his family in the papers in this pension claim.

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NATHANIEL MITCHELL-B.L.Wt. 1868-400.

The data which follow were obtained from a claim for bounty land based upon service of Nathaniel Mitchell.
Nathaniel Mitchell entered the service in 1776, for the period of the war, in Delaware, the place not named. He served as Brigade Major of General Peter Muhlenburg's Brigade, as Major of Colonel Gist's regiment, and at the expiration of his service of more than three years, he was Major in the Delaware Line.
Nathaniel Mitchell was Governor of the State of Delaware and member of Congress from that State. He died "on or about" February 23, 1814.
Nathaniel Mitchell was survived by his wife, whose name is not shown, and seven children: William I. Mitchell, Theodore Mitchell, Alfred Mitchell and Dagworthy Mitchell, his only sons, Deborah Mitchell, Mary Ann Mitchell and Elizabeth Mitchell, his only daughters.
On July 6, 1832, in Washington, D. C., William I Mitchell, whose residence was Laurel, Delaware, applied for bounty land which was due on account of the service of his father as Major in the Revolutionary War.

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On the date of the application for land, it was stated that Deborah Mitchell had married Whiting Sanford; they were both deceased and were survived by one child only, Deborah Sanford. Mary Ann Mitchell had married John King of Georgetown, D. C.; they were both deceased; died in said Georgetown and were survived by an only child, Nathaniel king. Elizabeth never married and was then deceased. Dagworthy was deceased, having died unmarried, at the age of eighteen or nineteen years, in February, 1832, in Philadelphia. Theodore Mitchell was then a resident of Laurel, Delaware, Alfred Mitchell, a resident of Trenton, New Jersey, and William I. Mitchell, a resident of Laurel, Delaware, as noted above. The soldier's wife was not living at the time the application for land was made. No dates of births or marriages are shown in the papers in this bounty land claim.

Warrant No. 1868 for 400.acres of bounty land was issued August 2, 1832, in behalf of the surviving children named above, on account of the service Nathaniel Mitchell as Major in the Revolutionary War.

In 1832, Charles King, aged sixty-three years, and John King, aged sixty years, were resident of Washington, D. C., no relationship to the family shown.

For information in regard to the location of said land, you should apply to The Commissioner of the General Land Office, Interior Building, this city, furnishing that official the number of the warrant, acreage and date of issuance.

Very truly yours,

A. D. HILLER
Assistant to Administrator

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