Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 33079, for Samuel Mc Clure, Virginia
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Service:  Va.
McClure, Samuel
Number:  S33079
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Th
State of Illinois
Clark County
Set. This day personally appeared before the undersigned a
Justice of the peace in and for the County of Clark and State of Illinois
Samuel McClure who being first duly Sworn according to Law Deposeth and saith
that by reason of old age and the consequent loss of memory he cannot
swear positively as to the precise length of his service but according to the best of
his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below and in the
following Grade-To wit - I served as a private in the year Seventeen hundred and Seventy for a period of three months and Sixteen days under Captain George Mathews against the Indians six nations and I Served a period of three months in the
the next year (1775) against the Indians under Captain William Anderson and I also also served three months as a mounted Rifleman against the British under Captain Thomas Smith
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I also served two tours of three month
each under captain Johnson against
the British when we drew Lord Cornwallis into
Little York in Virginia. -This last named
town under Captain Johnson was the last
I rendered the United States and I was
discharged by Captain Johnson in August
in the year seventeen hundred and Eighty
one and Cornwallis was taken the same
fall after I left the Army. It was in
June 1774 that I entered the service under
Captain Mathews-- I can not say positively
but I think that in the town under Capt. Johnson
Abraham Smith was our Colonel and one
Guy Hamilton was a Major but in the previous town William Boyer was our Colonel I think one ??? Long was our Major and I
think he belonged to the Regular Army - under
Capt Smith Charles Baskin was one
Lieutenant and Christopher
on Ensign - I was Eighty five years
of age on the 16th day of May AD 1833
I have never directly or indirectly received 
one cent of or from the United States
from