Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B.L.Wt. 2130-100, for Levin Mc Gee, Delaware
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(3 - 1776 )
SERVICE
Del.
CONTENTS
McGee, Levin

NUMBER
B.L. Wt. 2130-100
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Sir

I send you enclosed the declaration and proof of kinship for bounty land due from the United States to Levin McGee who was a private in the Delaware line.  As correct as we could agreeable to the forms sent to us with your letter dated April 17 1834 Directed to our friend W. W. Grey we having neglected the business till now as the heirs, some of them could be ascertained, and if any thing should prove incorrect, and not agreeable to the regulations of the Department, please to inform us of it, that we may have it right.

Please direct your answer to George Town post office Sussex Co. Del. and you will oblige yours respectfully

Frazier Gray agent

Mr. Wm Gorden
Commission of bounty land office
Washington

Sir, Please to inform us if nothing is due on the Virginia claim if services be proven as we have been told  Some here received their pay for services rendered in the same case.
Yours Respectfully
Frazier Gray agent

Wm Gorden Esqr.

the above letter postmarked the 16th Dec. 1835.
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Sussex County
State of Delaware
January 4th 1836

Sir,

Your letter dated December 22nd 1835 is received and enclosed a Bounty Land Warrant, No. LN30 in right of the heirs of Levin McGee dec'nt, who was a soldier for the Delaware line in the Revolutionary War.  The receipt thereof I do hereby acknowledge from Me.

Frazier Gray agent

Mr. W. Gorden Bounty Land office
Washington City
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I Caleb P. Bennet, Governor of the State of Delaware: Do hereby certify that Levin Mcgee was an enlisted soldier in the Delaware Regiment during the war of this Revolution, He served both in the northern and southern armies and it appears from a copy of a Muster Roll now in my possession, signed by Col. C. H.  Williams that Mcgee was one of the survivors of the fatal field of Camden and was attached to one of the two companies formed from the remains of our Regiment after that battle. I do not recollect [illegible] whether Mcgee fell in the last campaign, or was disbanded with the regiment at Newcastle in Octbober 1783, but my impression is that the latter was the case. Levin Mcgee was a soldier of merit - he served his country of honour to the state, and reputation to himself.
Wilmington November 19 1835 
C.P. Bennet  
Newcastle County
on the nineteenth day of november 1835 before me Alexander Macbeth one of the justices of the peace in and for the county of New Castle personally appeared his exellency Caleb P Bennet who being duty affirmed according to [illegible] and says that the above account of the revolutionary service Levin McGee is [illegible] true to the best of his knowledge and belief.
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I William Hemphill Jones Secretary of the State of Delaware
{Do hereby certify that Alexander Macbeth is duly commissioned as Justice of the Peace and that full faith and credit are to be attached to his acts as such
{ In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Great Seal of said State at Wilmington this 20th day of November AD 1835

Wm Hemphill Jones
Secretary of State
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State of Delaware }
Sussex County      }

I John McGee heir at Law of Levin McGee do upon oath, testify and declare to the best of my knowledge and belief, that Levin McGee did enter the service in 1779 for the term  during the Ware (sic) and served as a private in the Delaware Regiment under the command of Col. David Hall of the Delaware line; and that he continued in the service aforesaid until peace was declared.

I further declare, that I have never received a warrant for the county land promised Levin McGee on the part of the United States; and the State of Virginia; nor do I believe that he ever received it or transferred his claim to it in any matter whatsoever therefore.

Know all men by these presents that I John McGee aforesaid do hereby constitute and appoint David Gray to be my true and lawful attorney, for me and in my name to demand and received from the Secretary of War of the United States a warrant for the quantity of land due to me as aforesaid; and my said attorney is hereby fully authorized and impowered to constitute and appoint one or more substitutes or attorneys under him for the special purpose expressed.

John McGee

Attest
John Gray

Personally appeared the above named John McGee 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.

Sworn and Subscribed 31st October 1835
Before Jno. Ponder  J. P.
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In Testimony that the within written John Ponder Esq was the magistrate authorized to administer oaths, and take acknowledgments, in the State of Delaware at the date within, that his name there subscribed appears to me to be his usual signature, I have hereunto affixed the County Seal, and subscribed my name and quality, at George Down this fifteenth day of December 1835.

George R. Fisher Prothy of the Superior Court, for Sussex County
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Levin McGee
No. 2130.
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Sussex County

Personally appeared before me the subscribed, a Justice of the Peace for said County, John McGee and made oath, in due form of Law, that William McGee, Jonathan McGee, Thomas McGee, Thoroughgood  Brittanham, Ann Brittanham, Elizabeth Brittanham, Abigil (sic) West, Wm.  McGee (son of Josiah) and Joseph Bonsell is the legal representatives and all the heirs at said of Levin McGee late a soldier in Delaware Regiment and that the said Levin McGee died about the year 1790 without leaving a widow or children or any nears of him then the above named nephews and nieces.

John McGee

Sworn and subscribed  before me}
this 31st day of October 1835      }

Jno. Ponder J. P.