Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B. L. Wt. 2464 - 200, for John Mitchell, Georgia
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(3 - 1776)
Ga.
SERVICE
CONTENTS
Mitchell, John
1000
NUMBER
B.L. Wt. 2464.200
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE
Ga.
Mitchell, John
NUMBER
B. L. Wt. 2464-200
CONTENTS
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John Mitchell
No. 2464
Hon. J. W. Jackson
House of Reps
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Georgia, Bibb County
Joseph A. White an heir at Law of Lieutenant John Mitchell of the Georgia Continental Troops during the Revolutionary War, do upon oath  testify and declare to the best of my knowledge that the said John Mitchell did enter the service in the Revolutionary War for the term of the War, and served as a Lieutenant in one of the Regiment under the command of General Jacklin Mclintock, of the Georgia Line and that he continued in the service aforesaid until the end of the War
I further declare that I have never received a warrant for the Bounty Land promised to the said John Mitchell on the part of the United States nor do I believe that he ever received it or transferred his claim to it in any manner whatsoever, Therefore know all men by these present, that I the said Joseph White, do hereby constitute and appoint Joseph W Jackson 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 and my said Attorney is hereby fully authorised and confer to constitute and appoint one or more attorneys under him for the special purpose above expressed
Attest
T R Blove
Joseph A White
E.S. Johnston
Georgia Perth County On this Fourteenth day of April in
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year 1852, personally appeared the above named Joseph White subscribed to the foregoing declaration and made oath to the same, and in my presence acknowledged the power of Attorney thereto subjoined to be his free act and deed for the purposes therein mentioned,
attest
E. J. Johnston
Georgia Public
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State of Georgia
Liberty County
Ordinary's Office 1852 30th of March
I certify that satisfactory evidence was   addressed to me to prove that Josph A White of Bibb County Georgia, Arabella Thomson, his sister of said County, William B Jackson of Chatham County Georgia and the descendants of John Mitchell the younger (if any) or the heirs at law in fee to John Mitchell who was a Lieutenant in one of the Georgia Regiments of Continental Troops in the Revolutionary War
Given under my hand and seal of office this 30th of March 1852
J. S. Bradwell
Ordinary
Liberty County
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Colonel W. A. Mitchell
Department of Civil and Military Engineering
United States Military Academy
West Point, New York
Dear Sir:
September 30, 1936
XXXXX
JOHN MITCHELL
B. L. Wt. 1464 - 200
BA-J/MLB
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the
Revolutionary War record of John Mitchell, Lieutenant in the
Georgia Line, who served to October, 1782, and in which you state
that he married Sarah Thweatt, of Virginia.
You are furnished herein the record of John Mitchell as found
in the papers on file in the claim for bounty land based upon his
service in the Revolutionary War.
The date and place of birth and names of the parents of John
Mitchell are not given.
John Mitchell entered the service for the term of the war, date
under General Lachlan McIntosh, to the close of the war. The date of
his death is not shown.
and place not given, and served as Lieutenant with the Georgia troops
On account of the Revolutionary War service of John Mitchell,
Warrant No. 2404, for two hundred acres of bounty land, was issued
April 22, 1852, to Joseph A. White and delivered to Honorable
Joseph W. Jackson, House of Representatives, for the benefit of the
heirs at law of this officer,
as follows:
The following were referred to as the heirs at law of John
Mitchell, Joseph A. White, of Bibb County, Georgia, Arabella Thomson,
his sister of said county; William B. Jackson, of Chatham County,
Georgia, and the descendants of John Mitchell the younger (if any)
the relationship of William B. and Joseph W. Jackson to soldier's this
family not shown.
For information in regard to location of the land cited above,
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you should write to the Commissioner of the General Land Office,
Interior Department, this city, quoting all date given in the
two preceding paragraphs.
No reference was made in the claim to wife or children.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator
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Mr. Alan T. Bowler
P. O. Box 96
Richmond, Virginia
Dear Sir:
August 30, 1933
John Mitchell
B. L. Wt. 1424-200
Revolution.
Reuben Mitchell
W. 532.
BA-J/MLB
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the
records of John Mitchell who served as lieutenant, R. Mitchell,
Thomas Mitchell, Francis Mitchell, Luke, John and Jonas Mann,
all of whom served in the Georgia line in the War of the
Revolutionary War data furnished by this office are obtained
from claims for pension and bounty land made to the United States
based upon military service of soldiers in that war.
A careful search of the records fails to show such claims
on file on account of the Revolutionary War service of Thomas
and Francis Mitchell, or of John Mann who served or were pensioned
from the State of Georgia; or of any Lake or Jonas Mann.
You are furnished herein the record of John Mitchell who
served as lieutenant, and of Reuben Mitchell, the only soldier of
surname Mitchell with initial R. who served from Georgia, found
in the Revolutionary War records of this office.
John Mitchell
B. L. Wt. 2464-200
are not shown.
The date and place of soldier's birth and names of his parents
John Mitchell enlisted for the term of the war, date and place
of enlistment not given, and served as lieutenant with the Georgia
troops under General Lachlan McIntosh, to the close of the war.
The date of death of the soldier, John Mitchell, is not shown.
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The names of the following children of the soldier, Reuben
Mitchell, and his wife, Ann, appear in the claim:
Ned born June 2, 1784 and in 1841 had been dead many years.
Lucy Bailey born February 24, 1784
Sarah, Sary or Salley born February 12, 1790
Benjamin born July 11, 1792
Henry  born March 1, 1794 and in 1848 living in Chatham Co., M. C.
Rheubon or Reuben born May 24, 1798 or 1799
All of the above named
 in except Ned, survived their mother.
The notation "" Mitchell was born March 1816 appears in
the claim but the record is torn and relationship to the family
not shown.
In 1818, one Robert Pennington made affidavit in the District
of North Carolina in support of the soldier's claim for pension;
his relationship to soldier's wife, Ann Pennington, not stated.
Very truly yours
3
A. D. HILLER
Assistant to Administrator
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DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL AND
MILITARY ENGINEERING
UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY
WEST POINT NEW YORK
Veterans Administration Bureau,
Washington, D. C.
Dear Sirs:
Sept. 1, 1936.
I wish to get such information as you have concerning John Mitchell,
who was a Lieutenant in the Georgia Line during the Revolutionary War.
Heitman's Historical Register of the Officers of the Continental Army
1775 -- 1783, page 296, says " Mitchell, John, (Ga) 1st Lt., 3rd Georgia,
5th April, 1778 and served to October 1782 ". The War Department Historical Records
show him as in a kind of special Georgia Battalion, and I think
this may later have been the 3rd Georgia Regiment.
He married a Sarah Thweatt of Virginia. Is it possible that he or
his wife applied for a pension.
Please let me know what information you have concerning him. The
matter of expense need not be considered. I shall pay whatever you decide
for searching the records.
Very sincerely yours,
W. A. Mitchell
Colonel, U. S. Army,
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Opinion by
Action:
Decided:
We concur: