Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 6683, for William Mc Daniel, Maryland
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(3-1776)

SERVICE     Md.

McDaniel, William

NUMBER R. 6683

CONTENTS
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33,498
Wm McDaniel
Ohio

Hon. T. Corwin
H.R.
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The State of Ohio
Clinton County

On this 22nd day of October 1835 personally appeared in open court before the court of Common Pleas of said county now sitting, William McDaniel a resident of said county and state aged eighty-one years and upwards who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of congress passed June 7, 1832.

That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated.

That he entered the service under Capt. John Brooks, Lieutenant Frederick Skinner, Ensign Norris in what was known and designated as the "Flying Camp" that he entered the service in the spring of the year 1776 but in what month or on what day of the month he does not now recollect; that he left the same in the fall of the same year having performed a tour of seven months duration; that he was in no regular engagement, but that he was in one light encounter on the island of St. George at the mouth of the River Potomac with a part of the forces under the command of Lord Dunmore, in the year 1776;that in that affair he was commanded by the officers before named; that at the time he entered the service he resided in the county of Calvert Maryland; that he was a volunteer that he marched from Calvert County MD to St. George's island from thence to Annapolis, MD where he obtained a written discharge which he has since lost; that he served with no continental regiment or company; that he never knew any regular officers or if he did, he has forgotten their names; and that he has no documentary evidence of his services.

He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pensino roll of the agency of any agency of any state.

Wm. McDaniel
Hix X Mark
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Sworn to and subscribed the day & year aforesaid.

Isaih Morris - Clk

We William Austin a clergyman residing in the county of Clinton aforesaid and James Harris, residing in the same county do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with William McDaniel who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration ; that we believe him to be eighty-one years of age and upwards; that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.

Wm Austin
James Harris

Sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid.

Isaiah Morris - Clk

And the said court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the above-named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states. And the court further certifies that it appears to them that William Austin who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman resident of the county of Clinton aforesaid and that James Harris who has also signed the same is a resident of the same county and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit.

I, Isaiah Morris, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County aforesaid to hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of William McDaniel for a pension.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of our said court this 22nd day of October 1835.

Isaiah Morris - Clerk
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Aberdeen
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William McDaniel
Wilmington
Clinton Co
Ohio

McDaniel Deposition 
Pension
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The State of Ohio
Brown County

Before me an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the county aforesaid personally came Walter McDaniel and after being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he resided in Prince Georges County in the state of Maryland in the year of our Lord 1776 that sometime in the Spring of the year 1776 his brother William McDaniel who then resided in Calvert County and state of Maryland volunteered into a corps called the "Flying Camp' for the term of either nine months or one year and sometime in the succeeding winter he saw him get his discharge at Annapolis in Maryland; and further this deponent saith not.

Walter McDaniel

Sworn to and subscribed this 26th day of November 1835.

Anderson Helm - JP SEAL

Dear Brother - Judge Anderson handed me a line from you to have dated 27th Oct last requesting him to take my deposition concerning your revolutionary services - I take the earliest opportunity of sending you my deposition as to the year you rendered the services other particulate dated do not recollect.

I am enjoying good health and I hope this line may find you enjoying the same blessing.

Your affectionate brother

Walter McDaniel

William McDaniel
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The State of Ohio, Brown County

I George W King clerk of the court of Common Pleas within and for the county of Brown aforesaid do hereby certify that Anderson Helm, Esq before whom the within deposition appears to have been taken was at the time of taking said deposition and now is an acting justice of the peace in and for said county of Brown; and that to all his acts as such due faith and credit is due and ought to be given as well in courts of justice as elsewhere: and also that the signature attached to the certificate of said deposition is genuine.

In testimony whereof I have set my hand and affix the seal of our said court this 16th day of December 1835.

G.W. King
Clerk of Brown Com Pleas
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June 23, 1939

BA-J/AWF
William McDaniel
R.6683

Miss Marshie Austin
332 Lincoln Avenue
Wilmington, Ohio

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War record of William McDaniel born June 1754 died December 24, 1836, in Clinton County, Ohio.

The data which follow were obtained from papers on file in claim for pension R.6683 based upon service of William McDaniel in the war of the revolution.

The date and place of birth of William McDaniel and names of his parents are not given.

William McDaniel applied for pension October 22, 1835, at which time he was aged eighty-one years and upwards and a resident of Clinton County, Ohio with post office address Wilmington, Ohio. He alleged that while a resident of Calvert County, Maryland he enlisted in the spring of 1776 served about seven months in Captain John Brooks' company in the Flying Camp and was in a skirmish with the forces under the command of Lord Dunmore, on the Island of Saint Goerge at the mouth of the Potomac River.

The claim for pension was not allowed as proof of six month's serves as required by the pension law
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was not furnished.

Walter McDaniel, brother of the soldier, William McDaniel, lived in Prince Georges County, Maryland in 1776, and in 1835, was a resident of Brown County, Ohio.

William Austin was a clergyman in 1835, and a resident of Clinton County, Ohio; he stated that he was well acquainted with the soldier, William McDaniel.

The papers on file in this claim contain no further discernible data relative to family.

Very truly yours

A.D. HILLER
Executive Assistant to the Administrator
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1939 June 23 hist to Miss Marcie Austin

6683
Wm McDaniel

REJECTED

The printed list of 1852 shows reasons for rejection
"Not six month's service"
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Rejected

See letter 7 Jany 1836
Hon. T. Corwin

I did not find  [illegible] this letter

did not serve six months

6683
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[vertical] Ohio Dec 29 [/vertical]

J. L. Edwards
Comr of Pensions
W City
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Washington 28th Dec 1835

Sir

I send you the enclosed petition for a pension please transmit to me the results of your examination of it.

Your Obt Serv Respectfully

Tho [illegible]

J.L. Edwards Esq
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332 Lincoln Avenue
Wilmington, Ohio
April 26 1939

RECEIVED STAMP - Apr 28, 1939 Vets Adm

Veterans Administration
Revolutionary War Pension Claims
Washington D.C.

Dear Sirs:

May I have the Revolutionary war record of William McDaniel born June 1754, died Dec. 24 1836 in Clinton County, Ohio.

Before coming to Ohio he seems to have lived in Berkeley County, Virginia; one of his daughters was born there in 1784. He came with her and her husband to Ohio in 1811 or 1813.

There are other William McDaniels I am told, and I regret that I can furnish so little about this one how died here.

Thanking you for anything you can do for me, I am

Sincerely yours
Marshie Austin

Miss Marshie Austin
332 Lincoln Ave
Wilmington Ohio.
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331 Lincoln Avenue,
Wilmington, Ohio,
June 19, 1939.

Veterans Administration,
Washington, D.C.
Dept. of Revolutionary War Pension Claims:

Dear Sirs:

Having received no reply to my letter of inquiry regarding the record of William McDaniel, who died in Clinton County, Ohio, I am writing again.

Mr. William M. Pettit, Secretary of the Ohio Society, has written that he was a soldier on the rejected list as shown in Executive Document No. 37 of the U.S. Senate, which is the Secretary of War's report to the 32nd Congress. May I have a copy of such record, together with any little items that may be given?

Sincerely yours,
[Marshie Austin signature]
Miss Marshie Austin
332 Lincoln Ave.
Wilmington, Ohio

RECEIVED JUN 22 1939
MAIL SUB-DIV
VETS. ADM.
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