Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 6753, for Lathlin Mc Kinnon, Pennsylvania
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Pennsylvania

McKinnon, Lathlin

R.6753
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Virginia [indiscernible] County Set
On this fourth day of October personally appeared before the Justices of the County Court of the County aforesaid [indiscernible], Lathlin McKinnon, a resident of the County aforesaid in the State aforesaid, aged seventy four years, who being first duly sworn, according to Law doth on his oath, make the following declarations, in order to obtain the benefit of the pensions made [available] by Act of Congress pas[s]ed [on] June 7th 1832, that he enlisted in the army of the United States, in the year 1776, with Capt. John Mann, and served in the 7th or 8th Regiment of the Pennsylvania Line on Continental Establishment, the Colonel[']s name was McKay or Mc[indiscernible], and the Major's name was Morris - marched with the Regiment, which was armed with (r)ifles, from Hancock Town, on the North side of the Potomac[.] I think about thirty or forty miles above Washington City to go against the Indians on [the] Alleghaney [Allegheny] River between Red Stone Fort and Fort Wheeler, and remained there eight or nine months, until we received orders from General Washington and marched to Philadelphia, in the neighborhood of which place he remained nearby three months, and marched from there to a placed called Cripple Town in the Jersies [New Jersey?] - where he was in an engagement with the British and Hessians, and with others was taken prisoner, and carried to New York, and was kept in close jail and subjected to the most cruel treatment for three months, when he with some of his comrades agree to yeild [yield] to the urgent solicitations.
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and threats of the enemy, and to enlist with them in order to obtain an opportunity to escape - that after he had enlisted with the enemy, he was  sent to Virginia and escaped from them near the Town of Suffolk in Nansemond County - that in the whole he served in the (A)merican army more than twelve months and was in close confinement as a prisoner, about three months, that he is a native of Scotland, and came to this County in the year 1771 aged thirteen years - that having escaped from the enemy in this part of the County, he settled in Super County, and has resided there ever since - that he knows of no one in this part of the world by whom he can prove his services, nor does he know whether any one is living near Hancock Town by [three indiscernible words] prove [indiscernible].
L McKinnon [crossed out]
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State -       
L McKinnon
Sworn to and subscribed in open Court - the fourth day of October [smudged] 1832[,] and the said Court do hereby declare their opinion that the above mentioned applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states -
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In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this fourth day of October 1832 [crossed out] 1832.
L. Lanier
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6753

Lathlin McKinnon


REJECTED
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Lathlin McKinnon
Virginia

Rejected

Letter 2 March 1835
Hon I Y Mason

6753
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Lathlin McKinnon
of
Virginia
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BRIEF objection to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of Lathlin McKinnon which require further proof or explanation

I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides? does
II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides? did

III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so?

IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served? has

V. Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amout of pension he is entitled?  Not found on payrolls and should therefore prove services by 2 credible witnesses

VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations? has

VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832?  has

VII. Has the Court given their opinion? have

IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate? has

X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal?  has
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XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service?
Continental Establishment [handwritten]
XII. If the Clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it?
XIII. If the application has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had?
XIV. [cross symbol] If the applicant has produced a witness or witnesses as to his service, has the magistrate who administered the oath certified that he, she, or they are persons of credibility?
Has the official character and signature of the magistrate been certified by the proper officer under his seal of office?
XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service?
XVI. Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct? Are [handwritten]
XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily?  And, if not, which of them is not so answered?
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EXPLANATORY NOTES.
*Quere V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:  "Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, 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 grades: For ____ year ____months and ____days, and for such service I claim a pension." [all spaces left blank]
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It is important in all cases to determine with precision  the period for which the applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service.  The use of the phrase about three or four months [italics] is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable.
[cross symbol] QUERE XIV. Proof of Service [italics]
In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimants entering service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged.  The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
[cross symbol] QUERE XVI. Mode of authenticating papers. [italics]
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticated the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the end of which must apss under the sea; of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.
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We the undersigned hereby certify that we have been intimately acquainted with Mr. Lathlin McKinnon of the County of Supen for a great many years, during which time, he has in all his transactions with his neighbors settled the same to their satisfaction, and we believed him to be a man of truth and honesty - Given under our hands this 1st [a "3" appears to have been crossed out] day  of October 1834[.]
Henry Mason
Green Adams
L P
Joseph Prince
Joel Man[indiscernible]
L.B.Jarratt
Thomas [indiscernible]
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I do hereby certify that I have beeeen [been] personally acquainted with Mr. Lathlin McKinnon of the County of [indiscernible] and State of Virginia for about thirty years as [indiscernible] and believe him to be an honest, upright man - and an [?] of a [?] that he would not make any pretentions to a claim either private or public that he did not think himself honestly instilled to - Given under my hand this 4th day of November  1834.