Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B. L. Wt. 1434-200, for John Mahon, Pennsylvania
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Penn.          Mahon, John      B.L. #1434-200 Lieut.
                                              Issued Oct. 11, 1792   
                                               Flaharan & Wilcox
                                                Administration
                                                No papers
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Honorable George H. Mahon            MMHF                        
House of Representatives                  BA-J/ILL
Washinton, D.C.                          John Mahon

My dear Mr. Mahon:

            Reference is made to your letter which you request information in regard to your ancestor with the surname Mahon who served in the Revolutionary War.

            The Revolutionary War record has been found in the office of only one Mahon, exact spelling: it is that of John Mahon. It is shown that warrant #1434 for 200 acres of bounty land was issued October 11, 1792 on account of the service of John Mahon, Lieutenant in the Pennsylvania Line, War of the Revolution. Said warrant was issued to Flahaven and Wilcox, administrators.

             There are no further data relative to his service and none whatever pertaining to his family, because of the destruction of pap in such early claims when the War Office was burned in 1800.

            If you desire information in regard to the location of this land, you should address the Commissioner of the General Land Office, this city, and furnish that official the warrant number, acreage and date of issuance, as given in this letter.

             Should this not be the record in which you are interested, another search of the records will be made under other spellings of the surname.  It will aid materially if you can furnish the full name of your ancestor and the name of the state in which he resided at enlistment.

                                    Very truly yours,
                                     A. D. Miller,
                                     Executive Assistant
                                     to the Administrator
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December 16,  1933

Mrs. Robert M. Weber                   BA-J/ILL
113 Jackson Street                         John Mahon
Trenton, New Jersey.                      B.L.Wt. #1434

Dear Madam:

    Reference is made to you letter in which you request information in regard to Jacob Standford, Isaac Brittain, and John Mahon, revolutionary War soldiers, also Cornelius Standiford, a soldier of the War of 1812.

    A search of the Revolutionary War records has been made and no records found of claims for pension or bounty land on file made to the United Staes based upon service of Jacon Standiford or Isaac Brittain, under various spellings of the surnames.  The record of John Mahon has been found and is furnished herein.  The War of 1812 records fail to show a claim for pension on file on account of service of Cornelius Standiford, nor do the records show that a warrant for bounty land was issued on account of service of said soldier of Maryland troops.

    JOHN MAHON B.L. Wt. #1434-200 acres.

    The records of this office show that warrant #1434 for 200 acres of bounty land was issued October 11, 1792 on account of the service of John Mahon, Lieutenant in Pennsylvania Line, War of the Revolution. Said warrant was issued to Flahaven and Wilcon, administrators.

    There are no further data relative to his service and name whatever pertaining to his family because of the destruction of papers in such early claims when the War Office was burned in 1800.

    The above record is that of the only soldier with name John Mahon or Mahan, found on the revolutionary War records of this office.

                          Very truly your                           ,
                           A.D. Miller
                           Assistant to Administrator
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George H. Mahon                     Llyod Croslin
19th Dist. Texas                         Secratary

                      Congress of the United States
                            House of representatives
                               Washinton, D.C.

Veterans Administration
Revolutionary War Pension Record Office
Washington D.C.

Gentlemen:

I am working of a genealogy of my family, and I would appreciate it very much if you would send me an abstract of the records pertaining to the Mahon family.

Thank you very much, I am

Yours sincerely,
 //S//
George Mahon
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                                   Nov 23 1933
Veterans Administration
Washington D.C.

Dear Sirs:

Will you please send me what information you have of the following:  Jacob Standiford  Rev. War
he resided either in Baltimore or Hartford County during the war.
Cornelius Standiford War 1812
(no b.c. issued new book other acts researched)
Hartford County Maryland, If he didn't receive a pension please look up Bounty land - Warranty.
John Mahan - rev War - he lived in Penna or N. Jersey. 
Also Isaa Brittain - Rev War of New Jersey - Trenton.
Very Truly your
(Mrs Robert M) Elizabeth Ogden Weber
                          113 Jackson St - Trenton N J
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Mrs. Robert M. Brunet                 BA-J/ILL
803 West 12th Avenue                John Mahen
Pine Bluff, Arkansas.                    B.L. Wt. #1434- 
                                                    200 acres
                                                    Archimedes 
                                                    Mahan
                                                     B.L. Wt. #15614- 
                                                     160-50

Dear Madam:
    
      Reference is made to your letter in which you request the revolutionary War record of your ancestor, John Mahan, who may have served from Massachusetts or Pennsylvania and died in Alabama, before June 36, 1820. You state further that his wife's name was Mary and list a number of his children, one of whom was Archimides, who served from Alabama in the War of 1812.
    The records have been found of only one John Mahen (Mahan) who served in the Revolutionary War.  His record and that of Archimedes Mahan, who served in the War of 1812, are furnished you herewith. Only those Revolutionary War soldier are recorded in this office for whose service pension and bounty land have been claimed.

                                      Very truly yours,
                                       A.D. Miller
                                       Executive Assistant
                                       to the Administrator
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June 18, 1940

Mrs. Robert M. Brunet    BA-J/ILL
803 west 12th Avenue    John Mahen
Pine Bluff, Arkansas.        B.L.Wt. #1434-200 acres
                                         Archimedes Mahan
                                         B.L.Wt. #15614-160-50

Dear Madam:

The data which follow.

s for bounty land which were made to the United States based upon service of John Mahen, Revolutionary War, and Archimedes Haman, War of 1812.

          John Mahon
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War Department, this city, custodian of military records.

Archimedes Mahan- B.L. Wt. #15614-160-50

Archimedes Mahan (his signature shown Mahan) enlisted at Knoxville, Tennesse, and served as private in Captain Perry's company of Tennessee, Mounted Volunteers from September 23, 1813 to December 23: he was discharged from service at Sevierville, Tennessee. He served also from November 13, 1814 until May 13, 1815 as ensign in Captain Porter's company of Tennesse militia and was discharged at Mobile, Mississippi Territory.

Archimedes Mahan applied June 3, 1851 for the bounty land which was due under the Act of September 28, 1850 on account of his service in the War of 1812. He was then a resident of Perryville, Perry County, Alabama, aged about fifty-five years; the date and place of his birth and the names of his parents were not given. He was allowed one hundred sixty acres of bounty land on warrant #15614, Act of 1850.

There are no data whatever in regard to the family of Archimedes Mahan in the papers on file in this claim for bounty land.

For information in regard to the location of this land, you should address the Commissioner, General Land Office, Interior Building, this city, and furnish the following data; warrant #15614-160 acres, Act of 1850.

Very truly yours,

A.D. Hiller,
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator
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                                         803 West 12th Ave.,
                                         in : Bluff, Ark.,
                                          May 10, 1940.
Veteran's Administration,
rev. & 1812 War Sec.,
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir:

   Do you have on file in your office any pension record of John Mahan (or Mahon) who died "Cahawba County" Alabama, now Bibb Co., before June 26, 1820? His estate records in Bibb County of the above date, gives his wife's name as Mary and his children named are" Archimides, Edward, James, Christian, wife of Obed Lovelady, Polly, wife of Elijah Thomas.
   A sketch in a published book "Story of Coal and Iron in Alabama" states that John Mahan was an officer in a Maryland Regiment in the Revolutionary War and moved to Tennesse at the close of the 18th century and still later to Alabama where he died and gives the place of his grave and that the date of his death is on his tombstone, the year 1820. 
   It is possible that John Mahan may have served in the revolutionary War from Mass., or Pa. He was my great great great-grand father. I would also appreciate it if you would send me any pension records of his son, Archimides Mahan who served in the War of 1812 from Cahawba County, now Bibb County, Alabama. I am preparing papers for membership in the D.A.R. and Daughters of 1812 and I will thank you for this courtesy.

                                Respectfully,
                                        //s//
                                 Mrs. Robert M. Brunet
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Penn     Mahon, John

B.L.Wt. 1434-200-Lieut
Issued Oct 11, 1792 to Flahavan & Wilcox administration no papers.