Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B.L.Wt. 1468-150, for John Middleton, [Blank]
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Lee's Legion

Middleton, John


B.L.Wt.- 1468- 150-Cornet
Issued Mar. 2, 1799 to 
John Middleton, Son and heir
also recorded as above under
B.L.Wt. 2705

No papers


General Land Office reported
Apr. 19 - 1933 by phone
that 2705 was the 
warrant which was located
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Apr. 19, 1933


John Middleton W. 7464
John Middleton B.L. Wt. 2705
BA-J/MIB



Mr. F. Dorsey Bartlett
221 McDowell Street
Clarksburg, West Virginia


Dear Sir:

Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War Records of John Middleton whose wife was Eleanor Hardy, also, the record of his father, John Middleton, and a statement as to whether or not they were related to Arthur Middleton, the Signer of the Declaration of Independence.

A search of the Revolutionary War records has been made and the record of the first John Middleton has been found. The record has been found, also, of another John Middleton, a cornet, who had a son John, but whether or not Cornet John Middleton was the father of John whose wife was Eleanor, this office cannot determine, nor whether any of these were related to Arthur Middleton.

John Middleton, W. 7464

He was born November 20, 1761 in Loudoun County, Virginia, where he resided until 1796 when he moved to Harrison County, Virginia.

While a resident of Loudoun County, Virginia, he enlisted in September 1780, and served three months as a private in Captain John Butcher's and Daniel Figgins' Virginia companies.  He enlisted in April 1781, and served three months as a private in Captain Francis Berry's company, Colonel Elias Edmunds' Virginia Regiment.

He was allowed pension on his application executed August 25, 1832, while a resident of Harrison County, Virginia.


He died January 31, 1837, at his residence in Harrison County,, Virginia.
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John Middleton married March 28, 1797, in Winchester, Frederick County, Virginia, Eleanor Hardy.

Soldier's widow, Eleanor, was allowed pension on her application executed July 15, 1837, at which time she was aged seventy-eight years and a resident of Harrison County, Virginia, where she was still living in 1855.

In 1851 children were referred to but no names designated.


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John Middleton, B.L. Wt. 2705

The records show, also, that Warrant No. 2705, for 150 acres of bounty land was issued March 2, 1799, on account of the service of John Middleton as cornet in Lee's Legion, War of the Revolution.

Said warrant was issued to John Middleton, son and heir of John Middleton, the cornet.

There are no papers on file which were submitted in the application for bounty land, because of the destruction of papers in such early claims when the War Office was burned in 1800, consequently, this office has no further data in regard to John Middleton, the cornet.


Very truly yours,


A.D. Hiller
Assistant to Administrator
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Clarksburg, W. Va.
March 28, 1933


United States Government,
Pension Office
Washington, D.C.


Gentlemen:

Please furnish me with any available information pertaining to the life of John Middleton, who was my great-great-great-grandfatehr, on my mother's side.  This man was born about 1760; died 1-30-1836; his wife was Eleanor Hardy, who died 6-26-1864; they reared a family of children.

I have always understood that this man's father, whose name also was John Middleton, served in the American Revolutionary War, this, I am anxious to know about.  I have also been told that these two men were relations of Arthur Middleton, the signer of the Declaration of Independence:  of course if this is true it would be nice to know it.

I will appreciate anything you furnish me on either or both of these men.

Yours very truly,

F. Dorsey Bartlett
F. Dorsey Bartlett,
221 McDowell Street