Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 6,581, for John Mc Adow, Maryland
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SERVICE
Md

McAdow, John

NUMBER
R.6.581
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Power of Attorney
Know all men by these presents, that I,
George B. Meadow of the County of Platte, and State of Missouri and one of the children and legal representatives of John McAdow, his wife, who is now deceased, do hereby, irrevocably, constitute and appoint John T. Neely, of Washington City, D.C., and Richard H. Collins, of Maysville, Kentucky, my true and lawful Attornies, for me, and in my name to exercise into and present any claim that may be due, or found take one, the children and legal representatives of John McAdow and Mary McAdow, his wife, in virtue of so John McAdow's service in the Revolutionary War, and the several Acts of resolution of Congress relative thereto, and that might have accrued to either of the said parties, and not drawn during their life time, and now due to their legal representatives, and to receive the certificate of Pension, to, when issued by the Department:  I hereby confirming whatsoever my said Attorney of either of them, may do, or cause to be legally done, either in person or by substitution, in the presentation of said claim, except drawing money on the said claim, & revoking any other authority I may have given to any other person or persons in the previous whatsoever.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal, this third day of December 1852.
[signed on right] George Ballard [hand drawn seal]
[signed on right]
Signed in presence of
Ino Donipham
Thos L. Douglass
State of Missouri, Platte County, Set.
On the third day of December in the year 1852, personally appeared before me George
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B. McAdow and acknowledged the within Power of Attorney to be his act and decd. for the purpose & uses therein contained  William Turner J.P.

State of Missouri County of Platte} ss
J. P. R. (illegible signature), Clerk of the County court of Platte County, and State afforsaid do certify that William Turner Whose name is subscribed to the foregoing Certificate of acknowledgement was at the Time of signing, the (illegible) an acting, Justice of the peace for and within the county of Platte afforsaid, Duly elected, qualified and commissioned, and that all his official acts as such are and of Right ought to be entitled to full faith and credit
In Testimony, Whereof, I have set my name and affixed the seal of said County Court at office for Platte City, this 13th Dec. A.D., 1852.
P R (illegible signature) Clerk

(written sideways in margin)
John McAdow 
Rev soldier
act 1832
State of Kentucky
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Act of June 7. 1832
Suspended Claim
of
John MeAdow.
Kentucky

Power of Attorney.
to examine claim.
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Know all men by these presents that I Andrew McAdow Son and heir at law of John McAdow Dec who was a soldier in the War of the Revolution, do hereby nominate Constitute and appoint Charles C. Tucker of Washington City District of Columbia my true and lawful agent and attorney for me and in my name to examine all papers now on file in the proper Department aft Washington City D. C. in Relation to the Claim of said John McAdow to Pension and to file additional arguments and evidence in said Claim and with full and complete power and authority to prosecute said Claim and to (illegible word) the Certificate that may be issued therefor.
And all lawful acts done by my said agent and attorney as afforesaid shall be as binding to all intents and purposes as if done by me in my own proper person
Witness my hand and seal this 12th day of March 1854.
Andrew McAdow seal

State of Kentucky. Fleming County. Ss.

Personally appeared before me Andrew McAdow and acknowledged the foregoing power of Attorney to be his act and deed for the purposes therein Mentioned this 12th day of March 1854.
L. D. Browning J.P.F.C.

State of Kentucky Fleming County Set
I William T. Dudley Clerk of the Fleming County Court do hereby certify that L. D. Browning Esq before whom the foregoing power of Attorney was made and who has thereunto Signed his name was at the time of So doing a Justice of the Peace in and for the county & state aforesaid duly commissioned & Sworn & that his signature thereto is genuine
In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed my name & affixed my official Seal this 18th day of March 1854.
W. T. Dudley of C C
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33.969
John McAdow
Kentucky

Hon. Jno. Chambers 
HR
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State of Kentucky
Mason County Sct.
On this 10th day of October, 1836, personally appeared in open Court for Mason County now setting John McAdow, a resident of Mason County State of Kentucky, aged Ninety One years, 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..th 1832.
That he was born in the year 1755, in Harford County State of Maryland.  That the years of his was kept in his father's family Bible, but the same has been destroyed by time.  That in the spring of the year 1777 (he thinks) he enlisted as a soldier in the Revolutionary army for the term of four years.  That he was at Pittsburgh where he and brother had gone to settle some land they owned, and where both himself and brother James enlisted for the Maryland line under one Captain Richard Brown who was also from the State of Maryland, The company he enlisted in was called Browns rifle company, and his brother James was appointed Lieutenant to the company and he its first Seargent.  From Pittsburgh he marched to Little York from there to Lancaster and from there to Philadelphia where he thinks he joined the Main army- He remembers these marches more distinctly than any others he afterwards performed from the circumstances that his brother was attacked with a disease then prevalent called the putrid fever on the road between Lancaster & Philadelphia, and he returned with his brother to his fathers in Hartford County, Maryland, where his brother died.  He was also attacked with the same disease, but recovered in a few days and joined his company.  He states that he cannot remember the different movements of that part of the army to which he was attached, but recollects that they were most of this time, on marching & continue marching
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through the state of New Jersey & part of Pennsylvania particularly about the city of Philadelphia.  The company to which he belonged being a Rifle Company were mostly engaged as an advance corps.  He states that in the summer or first of Autumn of 1777, the Brittish army endeavored to obtain Possession of Philadelphia, and Gen.l Washington being informed that the enemy were landing at the head of Elk his company was ordered to repair there and watch the enemy.  When they arrived there they found that the Brittish had landed.  His company fired up on them and retreated within the American lines.  Soon after this was fought the battle of Brandywine creek in which he was engaged and in which the American army was compelled to retreat - He remembering that part of the enemy crossed the creek above the place of the action and attached them and compelled them to retreat down the stream.  He saw La Fayette fall when his horse was about under him, and being near, he assisted in extricating him from his dead horse and getting him up when he found that the bullet had wounded La Fayette in the leg - he thinks it was only a flesh wound.
The enemy shortly after the battle of Brandywine, took possession of Philadelphia and that shortly afterwards Gen.l Washington attached them at Germantown in which battle he was engaged.  He states that after the Battle of Germantown, that part of the army to which he was attached remained in the states of New Jersey, Pennsylvania & occasionally in Maryland, marching and counter marching through part of these states watching the movements of the enemy until a part of the enemy now departed to the state of Rhode Island he thinks in the latter part of 1780, to cooperate with the French fleet and prevent the British from invading that state  His company was ordered there and he went with it.  They remained there but a short time guiding that the enemy did not entered to land, they were marched back and shortly after his term of service having expired he was discharged honorably by his captain -
After his return home (he thinks about six months afterwards
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he heard that Washington was besieging Conwallis at Little York, and he was about raising a company of men to join the American army, when the Governor of Maryland ascertaining his object, requested him not to go, telling him he could be of greater service to his country by supplying the army with provisions - The Governor accordingly gave him orders to purchase Beef cattle for the army -  He remembers that he had heard of a tory by the name of Phillips down on the Delaware bay that had collected some 4 or 500 cattle for the use of the Brittish army.  that he went to Phillips and went to purchase them.  Phillips refused, and he & his men took about three hundred and drove them on to the town of Hanford and from there they were taken to the American army - He states that he kept a memorandum of events whilst he was in the service, but left it, as also his discharge at his fathers in Maryland and he believes that they have both been destroyed.  He at one time remembers and could related all the events of the war, but that lately his memory has failed him very much _ He says that he has an indistinct recollection of some of the events which occurred, and the camps they occupied and the marches they performed, but they are so confused and comingling together in his mind, that he will not undertake to narrate them.  And it is only the most striking occurrences that his mind seems to be at all clear upon.  He states that he was acquainted with Gen.l Washington previous to his entering the army and that the commander in Chief frequently [illegible] him with his notice_ He does not recollect the names of any other officers under whom he served except La Fayette Gen.l Smallwood (who he thinks was the commander of the regiment to which he belonged) and his captain Richard Brown_ that he served the whole term as seargent of Browns company.  He states that he was acquainted with a man by the name of Archibald Johnson and captain Jacob Slack who both knew him in the state of Maryland and by whom
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he could have proved his service had he sooner applied both have recently died, and he dies but he does not now know any person in Kentucky who was acquainted with him in Maryland except Capt. Benjamin Bayles of Washington Mason County who resided some six or eight miles from him in Maryland but whether said Bayles can prove his serving he knows not.  He knows of no other person by whom he can prove his service.  He states that he would not apply for a pension, but that he is getting very infirm and incapable of attending to his farm.  He would have applied for it some time ago but did not hen need it, and did not wish to undergo the trouble of procuring when he could well do without it.
He states further that he is acquainted with William Turner who resides in his neighborhood and who can testify as to his veracity and his belief of his services as a soldier of the Revolution -  And he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension, or an annuity, [word smudged so illegible] to present, and he declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any agency in any state.
Sworn and subscribed the day & year aforesaid.
[signed on right] John McAdow

I William turner residing in the County of Mason State of Kentucky do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with John McAdow who has subscribed and sworn to the above Declaration and that I believe him to be ninety one years of age: that he is respected and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution, and that I concur in that opinion_ sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
[signed on right] William Turner
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I Benjamin Bean residing in the County of Mason Do
hereby certify that I am well acquainted with John
McAdow who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing
Declaration, that I believe him to be ninety one years
of age, that he is a man of veracity and good standing
and that I believe him to have been a soldier of the
Revolution - I have heard Archibald Johnson
the person mentioned in the foregoing Declaration speak
of his knowledge of the said John McAdow in the
state of Maryland and I have heard him
frequently state that the said John McAdow
had served in the Revolutionary army - I do
not reside in the neighborhood of the said
John McAdow and cannot therefore state what
reputation he has acquired in his neighborhood
for being a soldier of the revolution - I was well
acquainted with the said Archibald Johnson
who died about one year ago at the age of
ninety five years as I have been informed - The said
Johnson was a man of strict veracity and integrity.
sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Beng. Bean

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
& served as he states. And the Court further states and
certifies that it appears to them that William Turner &
Benjamin Bean who have signed the foregoing certificates
are residents of Mason County & are credible persons
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& that their statements are entitled to credit, which is ordered
to be certified on said Declaration to the secretary of War.
State of Kentucky
County of Mason Sct:

I Marshall Key Clerk of the Court
of Mason County, state of Kentucky aforesaid
Do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the
original proceedings fo said Court in the matter
of the application of John McAdow for a pension.
And I further certify that the Court is a Court of
re[covered over here by the seal]
In testimony whereof I have hereunto 
set my hand and seal of office
this 20th day of October 1836
Marshall Key

[seal on lower left of this page with what appears to be a ribbon behind it.]
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[crossed out: Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.]

6581
P. O. _____
John McAdow
Service: _____

Enlisted: _____ , 18 __ .
Discharged: _____ , 18 __ .
REJECTED
Application filed: _____ , 18 __ .

Alleges: _____

Re-enlisted: _____

Attorney: _____
P.O. _____

_____ Recognized. _____ Contract
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____ , 18 __
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John McAdow
Kentucky
Suspended
letr 30 Jany 1837
Hon J. Chambers & to
G.G. Brewer for proof
of service
let: Hon J. Chambers
13 Feby 1837 do14
Feb 1834 do. 13
May 1837
6581
1832
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[round black stamp; upper left, inscribed as follows: ANNAPOLIS MD FEB 9]

J.L. Edwards, Esqr
Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington City
D.C.

Mail
[upside down stamp; upper right: FREE]

[upside down at the bottom of the page: John McAdow
G. G. Brewer letter]

[vertically on right side of the page: 11 Feby
G G Brewer
Case John McAdow
Allison]
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Land Office, Annapolis, Feby 8..th 1837;
Sir,
In reply to your letter of 30th Ultimo, respecting t
he case of John McAdow, of Kentucky, whom 
you say alleges to have enlisted in Captn Richard Brown 
Company of Rifelmen,__I have to state, that I have 
very carefully examined the muster and pay rolls of the 
revolution in this office, and they afford no evidence 
of his service,__there was no officer of the name of 
Richard Brown, that served in the Maryland line,__I do 
not find his name upon the muster roll of Army Ledger of 
the revolution,  If he had belonged to the Maryland his account 
would certainly appear upon the army Leger,
I am respectfully,
yr obt st
G. G. Brewer

[signed on left] J. L. Edwards, Esq.