Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 36,302, for John Shehee, [Blank]
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Service Continental.                                   Shehee, John         
 or Conner.
Number S.36.302.
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12.488 R
Georgia
John Shehee alias John Conner
of Lincoln County in the state of Georgia who was a private in the regiment commanded by Gen [Charles] Armand of the U.S. Army
line, for the term of Six Years War
Continental
Inscribed on the Roll of Georgia
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 5 of January 1819
Certificate of Pension issued the 10 of July 1819
and sent Hon Peter Lamar
Lincoln County Georgia
Arrears to 4th of Mar 1819                 16.00
Semi-anl. all'ce ending Sep. 1819     48.00 =                                                          $64.00
{Revolutionary claim, }
{Act 18th March, 1818}

Cond. July 27, 1821 and Sent to
Peter Lamar, Clerk of Lincoln 
County Georgia
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Oath of
John Shehee
alias
John Conner
Private
77 to 83
[General Charles] Armand U.S. Caval
Admitted
Letters to be addressed to 
Peter Lamar in Lincoln County
Georgia about this claim
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Letters to be addressed to 
Peter Lamar in Lincoln County
Georgia about this claim
[Illegible]
Admitted
Oath of
John Shehee
alias
John Conner
Private
77 to 83
[General Charles] Armand U.S. Caval
Admitted
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Georgia Lincoln County 
John Shehee came before me and on his oath saith that he enlisted as a private soldier in the Revolutionary war under Capt Labraugh [Jerome LeBrun] in [General Casimir] Pulaski's troop that after Pulaski was killed he was commanded by one Col Ormonge that this deponant served six years and received his discharge at little york [Yorktown] in Pennsylvania which discharge was somehow lost or destroyed that this deponant is now upwards of Eighty years of age and his circumstances so low as to render the assistance of his country necessary for his support.
John Shehee his X mark
Sworn to before  me this 5 Janry 1819. Jno. M. Dooly JIC

Georgia Lincoln County 
I John M Dooly Judge of the Superior Court of the Western district of Georgia do certify that sufficient proof has been offered before me to evidence me to forward the application of John Shehee known by the name of John Conner for a Pension and I do certify from my own knowledge of his circumstances that they are so reduced as to render the aid of his country necessary for his support and that I have always
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understood he was a good Whig and served as he has stated in his affidavit
Given under my hand & seal this
5th Janry 1819.
Jno. M. Dooly J.I.C. {Seal}
We the undersigned being well acquainted with John Shehee known by the name of john Conner the applicant for a pension named in the foregoing certificate and affidavit for his services during the American revolutionary war and know that from his circumstances age and situation being blind that he is not able to support without the aid of his country or assistance of his friends and more over do believe he was a true soldier during the revolution
Given under our hands this 5 Janry 1819.
R Remson JIC
Thos Murray J.I.C.
James E. Todd J.I.C
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State of Georgia Lincoln County
 I Peter Lamar Clerk of the Superior Court of the County of Lincoln and State of Georgia do hereby certify that John M Dooly whose name [appears] to the [Illegible] certificate is the [Illegible] acting Judge of the Superior Court of the Western district of the State of Georgia.
Given under my hand and seal of office this 5th day January 1818
Peter Lamar Clk [Seal affixed]
I John M Dooly Judge of the Superior Court of the Western district of the State of Georgia certify that Peter Lamar, whose name is signed
to the [foregoing] certificate is the acting Clerk of the [Superior] Court of the County of Lincoln in the State of Georgia and that his [Illegible]
[Illegible] to be given to his attestations as such.
Given under my hand and Private Seal this 5th day of January [Illegible]
Jno M. Dooley {Seal}
J.S.C.
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John Shehee alias
John Conner ss
application for
Continuation of Pension
under the act of Congress
of 1818

July 27 1821
Sent to Peter Lamar Esq
Clerk of Lincoln County
Georgia
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Georgia Lincoln county
A schedule of John Shehee alias John Conner's property

Three head of horses value $100.00
one head of cattle...............    5.00
Six ploughs           ...."..........     6.00
Three pair plow gear....."..........3.00
Seven head of geese...........    3.50
38 head of hogs......."............  60.00
one pot, one oven, one spider 4.00
2 spinning wheels         ........    3.00
2 bee gums              .."............   3.00
3 chairs                          .........   2.00
1 table    .......................................50
Plates, dishes, knives & forks & mugs.......                                   3.00
8 hogs                 ......."............   4.00
2 iron wedges         .."............   2.00
1 iron tea kettle        "............   1.50
(?) old barrels.      ..................  1.00  
4 axes.........".............                  2.50

This property valued by John Little, Michael Sauley & John Fleming 
              .............................$ 204.00

Agreeable to the amount handed in said Conner is in debt ..$ 112.93 3/4

John Shehee alias John Conner (his X mark) 
 Attest
Peter Lamar  Clerk

The Justices of said Court viz Thomas Murray, Rem Remson, James E Todd, David Glazo, & William Dowling Esquires are of the opinion that the foregoing schedule is correct and that their valuation of the property as stated is reasonable according to valuation  of property of the  same kind generally and that they have no doubt but it is a fair showing of all his estate and moreover believe that he had declared the truth in his affidavit and know that he is perfectly blind
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State of Georgia Lincoln County 
I Peter Lamar  Clerk of the Inferior  Court of said County & State, it being Court of Record, Certify that the foregoing affidavit made by John Shehee alias John Conner Together with the schedule of his property are true copies taken from the original now of file in my office and do further certify that the Court gave the opinion as respects the true valuation of the property named in 
said Schedule, as certified on the page below said Schedule and ordered the same to be transmitted to the Secretary of War;

Given under my hand & private seal their being no seal of office this 1st day of September 1820
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Peter Lamar Clk  CIC.
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Georgia Lincoln County
Lincoln Superior Court August adjourned term the 7th day 1820
Personally appeared in open court John Shehee alias John Conner aged about Seventy years or upwards resident in said county who being duly sworn according to Law doth on
his oath declare that he served in the revolutionary war in General Pulaskee's [Casimir Pulaski] Troop of Horse, that he has received a pension from the United States under act of Congress of the 18th of March 1818
and which certificate bears date the tenth day of July 1819 and not numbered, and further swears that he was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818, and that he has not since that time by gift sale or in any name disposed of his property or any
part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring himself
within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled ""an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the
United States in the revolutionary war" passed on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities, contracts or debts due to me, nor have I any income, other than what is contained in the Schedule hereto annexed, and he further swears that he is blind and
in occupation whereby he can support himself and that the number of his family is five, himself his wife, two boys about seventeen & fourteen & a daughter about 13 or fourteen years old
Sworn to in open Court
this 7th day of August 1820
Peter Lamar Clerk

John Shehee
Alias, John Conner
by mark X
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Rev. & 1812 Wars Section.
June 10, 1925
Mrs. R.R. Fowler
Covington, Georgia
Madam:
	I have to advise you, that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S-36302, it appears that John Shehee, also known as John Conner enlisted and served six years as a private in Captain Le Brun’s [Jerome LeBrun de Bellecour], Generals [Casimir] Pulaski and [Charles] Armand’s Corps of Horse, dates of enlistment and discharge not given.
	He was allowed pension on his application executed January 5, 1819 while residing in Lincoln County, Georgia, about eighty years old.
	In 1820 the soldier stated that he had a wife, two boys, aged about seventeen and fourteen respectively and a daughter age about fourteen years, names not stated.
	There is no explanation of his being known as Shehee and Conner and the above noted in the only John Conner of Georgia found on the Revolutionary War records of this Bureau,

		Respectfully,
			
			Commissioner.
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36.302
Revy INVALID
File No 36.302
John Shehee alias Connor
Priv Rev War
Act:  18th March 1818
Index:--Vol. 2.., Page.. 372
(arrangement of 1870)
1925 - June 10 Hist to Mrs. R R Fowler mdu
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
Form VAN-51
12-5-41
BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
Division of Veterans' Administration Archives
NAME  Shehena (aka Shehee & Connor), David
GRADE  Private  
LINE  Massachusetts
Warrant Number  5013
Acreage  100
ISSUED  Sept. 1, 1790
to Theodosius Fowler-

The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of ""Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800"" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800.
Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.