Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 6785, for Redman Mc Mahan, South Carolina
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(3-1776)
SERVICE | NUMBER
S.C. | McMahan, Redman. | R. 6785
CONTENTS
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State of Tennessee}
County of Warren} S.S.

this the 20th day of October 1834 personally appeared before Mr. Frank Smartt a Justice of the peace in and for said County of Warren
and as such one of the Justices of the Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions of said County which Court is a Court of Record Redmon Mcmahan
a resident of the County of Warren aforesaid aged one hundred and three years the 1st day of last January who being first duly sworn
according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the act of Congress passed June the 7th 1832 (That from old age his mind is so [illegible] and his recollection so much impaired that he cannot now state the the names and ranks of all of his officers or any of the requests by number that he said in nor can he state the time of his entering or quitting the service or describe the country through which he marched indeed he cannot remember any of the incidents of his service except those that made a lasting and deep impression upon his mind.)  That
he inlisted in the army of the United States about twelve months before the British attacked fort Moultrie at Charleston South Carolina which he understands from information would make the time of his inlistment the spring season of 1775 when he was inlisted. there were two recruiting officers present the one of there was a captain Francis Marion his other he thinks was by the name of White he was as he thinks living in Craven district in the State of South Carolina where inlisted he may be mistaken as to the District but is certain he [illegible] the service in that State he enlisted to the one of those two officers is not certain which now is he certain the name of the latter was White he inlisted for six months [illegible] and
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for two years if required, after his enlistment he thinks he was marched to several places not recollected and ultimately to some fort when he thinks he remained for some time, he is impressed with the belief that during this time he was commanded by a Captain White tho he is not certain he does not remember that any field officers were with there during this time some considerable time after he had been in the service his company was marched to Charleston South Carolina and placed in a fort (Moultrie) here he was attached to a regiment of Artillery he thinks at this place
he served under a captain by the name of Butter does not recollect his given name he thinks that the Leutenant of this company was
by the name of Vandedice at all events he thinks during his ser vice that he and under an officer of that name at same time during his service he remembers not the number of Regiment of Artillery he was attached to, it was a South Carolina Regiment and does not remember the names of the field officers who commanded it upon [illegible] the names of [illegible] Moultrie and Elliott, he recollects that they commanding at Sullivans island but does not know whether they were Col. or Majors when the british attacked Sullivans
island he applicant in the battle acted in the artillery service and was in that Battle, after this battle he thinks he remained at Charleston for some time he does not remember at what
place his first term expired nor does he recollect whether he was detained upon the first enlistment six months or two years
at all its so soon as the time expired be it what doth it may have been he was discharged in writing where there or by whom he does not now remember he thinks it was for two years service and so soon as he was discharged from the first term he well knows that he immediately inlisted again
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to whoom where or where he does not remember or for what length of time he does not believe that he enlisted but trust and he thinks he remained in the service untill the Termination of the war he does not remember whether he was upon his second inlistment placed under new officers and in another Regiment or not, during his service he was at the battle at the Utaw Springs and two other besides that at Sullivans island and he thinks one of the other was at Guilford and upon that of Kings Mountain being mentioned he then
it was that at all events it was at a place when some men were hung after the battle he recollects of having seen general Washington and [illegible], he thinks he was stationed
for a short time at or near the house of the latter he can not from the causes above stated recite any thing more of his services except that he continued in it as he believes as a
regular untill or about the close of the war when he received a discharge in writing he does not remember when where or by whom it was given he does not remember the time
he served but is certain that he served at least five years some years after the revolution his discharges were burnt up in a house, he can prove by one witness if required that he was in the battle at Sullivans island and that he wore a leather Capp he has no fixed place of residence he lives about with his children as he can

He herby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and he declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any agency in any State

Redmon his X mark Mcmahan

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid before me}

Frank Smartt Justice of the Peace
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[illegible] the said Justice do hereby declare my opinion that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as
he states. And I hereby that the said applicant can not from bodily infirmity attend Court at the season of the year that the Court here come in for the ensuing five months, he is palzied [illegible] and very week both in body and mind, In testimony whereof I have hereunto set My hand this the day and year aforesaid.

Frank Smartt Justice of the Peace

State of Tennessee}
Warren County} Set

I William Edmondson Clerk of the Court of pleas and Quarter Sessions in and for the County of Warren aforesaid herby certify that [blank space] is a Justice of the peace in and for said County and that as such Justice of the peace is one of the Justices of said Court, and is duly commissioned and quallified to act as such and that the foregoing signatures purporting to be his are genuine and that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Justice in the matter of the application of Redmon Mcmahan for a pension In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my
hand and affixed my private seal there being no seal of office of said Court yet provided altho the same is a Court of record this the 20th day of October 1834

William Edmondson [the word seal is circled]

Clerk of the Court of Pleas and quarter
sessions of the County of Warren Tennessee

I John B. Forrester herby certify that William Edmondson is Clerk as a have that the above signature purporting to be his is genuine and
that there is as yet no seal of said Court this the 20th October 1834.

John B Forester
M Congress
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[Printed document with handwritten entries]
[Top line is crossed out}
[Stamped: REJECTED]

1785
P.O. Redman McMahan
Service:
Enlisted: _____, 18  .
Discharged:_____. 18  .
Application filed: _____, 18  .
Alleges:
Re-enlisted:
Attorney:
P.O.
____Recognized. _____ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis. Seached for _____, 18  .
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Redman McMahan
Tennessee
6785
Suspended
See letter to Hon. J. B. Forrester 6 Jany 1835
Rejected. Letter to Hon J.B. Forrester Mar. 24.36
do. 7 Apl 1836
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Redman McMahan Tennessee

Robt. Browns affidavit in McMahan's case

Hon. J.B. Forrester HR
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State of Tennessee}
Warren County}

On the 24th day of Septr 1835 personally
appeared Robert Brown before the Sampson Bethell a Justice of the peace for said County and made oath that he was well acquainted with Redman McMahan upwards of twenty
years, that he is a very old man and of quite
frail memory, that some year ago, before the Pension Law of 1832 when he seemed to have his mind & memory and from facts and circumstances then detailed by him to affiant he has no doubt but that McMahan [illegible[ [crossed out] at about the time the Battle of
Sullivans Island and that the believes McMahan was one of the artillerists. He also believes that he must have been with Genl Campbell a short time after the Battle of King's Mountain when nine men were hanged as said McMahan told him affiant  of facts & circumstances that affiant [illegible].

Robert his X mark Brown

Sworn to & subscribed Before me the date above

Sampson Bethell
Justice of the peace
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Mcminnville
Tennessee
October the 20th, 1834

Dear Sir

Inclosed you will find the declaration of Redmon Mcmahan for a pension, he has so lost his memory from old age that he can state but state very little more of his service that that he since as a regular or Artillery man allmost during the war from his statement I imagine the first of his service was in either the Second South Carolina Regiment that was formed in 1775 or to the Regiment of Artillery imployed at Sullivans Island Charleston
South Carolina when it was attacked by the Brittish in 1776, If he did not continue in the one or the other of these Regiments during the war. I know no means that you can ascertain the regiment or Company that
he served in after he quit them, except he served after he quit the first Regiment in a company commanded by Captain Butler of Vandedice the applicant if necessary can prove a part of his service, I would thank you if the declaration is in any respect informal before you send it back to examine the Rolls and see whether his name appears upon them or not that he may if required prepare his proof

yours with Respet &c
Andrew J. Marchbanks

Hon J. L. Edwards}

Return to A J Marchbanks McMinnville Tennessee

N.B. From an observation the applicant [illegible] after this declaration was made out
I think that it probable that he served under Captain Rutter after the Battle at Sullivans Island, he says he went away to the Frontiers with him, I do not remember of any of the
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regulars who were upon the frontier tho there may have been if not he [illegible] the above of the war he served as a Militiaman
A. J. Marchbanks
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No 32.507 Redman McMahan Tennessee

[Stamped, round, containing: McMINNVILLE Te OCT 21]

free

Suspended ser letter 6 Jan 1835 to J. B. Forester

Rolls. 4th Regt. enlisted 25 ded. 75 deserted 28 octr. 76-

J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington, City.

look on S.C. Rolls, deserted

Hon. J.B. Forester, H.R.

Nov. 3d Redmon McMahan Tenn.
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Thos Brown to affadavit
Hon. J. B. Forrester HR
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State of Tennessee Warren County

this day personly appeared Thos Brown
Before me David Young an acting Justice of
the peace in and for said county and made oath in due form that he the said Brown has just cause to believe that he saw Redman Mcmahan In the Revolution in Charlestown about the time of the battle in Sullivans Island drest in the artillery uniform and believes he the said Redman Mcmahan was then and there in the servis of this conterry as I the said Thos Brown has since that [illegible] of time bin aquanted with the said Redman Mcmahan in this said County of Warren for the share of twenty seven Eight years and during of this aquantis has heard the said Mcmahan talk a good deal about the war and sircumstances that did acur in time of the war that the Brown had a knolidg of himself 

Sworn to and subscribed before me this 16th day of January 1836
David Young
Justice of the peace

Thomas X Brown [illegible] mark

I certify David Young is a justice the peace and the above signature purporting to be his is genuine I also know Thom Brown he is a man of good character and his statements are entitled to full credit

John B Forester
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[Stamped, round, containing: MCMILLVILLW JAN 29 Te]
Free
Hon. John B Haristin
Washington City  D.C

Hon. J.B. Forrester HR

Redman Mcmahan

Mcmahan claim [illegible]
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State of Tennessee McMinnville 27th Jan. 1836
Warren Coun

I certify that I have been acquainted with
Redmon Mcmahan for near thirty years when he first settled in the county
I believe him to be a man of truth & an industrious good citizens & that faith and credit ought to be given to his statements as such he is still a citizen of this County & has been the principle part of his time from [illegible] Settlement until the present

Sworn to & subscribed before me the day & date above written

W C Smartt

test
J Pendleton Justis of peace

I certify that John Pendleton is a Justice of the peace for [illegible] Court and the above signature purporting to be his is genuine

John B. Forester
M Congress