Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 6781, for Samuel Mc Clean, Pennsylvania
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Penn / McClean, Samuel / R 6781
                 or
            McClane, Sarah
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These are to Certify, That Samuel McClean and Sarah Quin of Donegal Township were lawfully joined in Matrimony the 26th Day of July in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and eighty four per me, Witness my hand, 
Henry Mechlinberg A. M
Minister at Lancaster
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N 13931
Sarah McClean (aw? )
wo Samuel
Ky
Act 7 July 1838
Married 1784
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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th July 1838 entitled "An act granting half pay out of pensions to certain widow; and for the amendatory act thereto in 
State of Kentucky
Woodford County  } SS
On this 2nd day of April 1849 personally appeared for the County Court in and for the County of Woodford and State aforesaid Samuel McClean aged  Forty-nine years and Elizabeth Epler aged Sixty-- years residents of the aforesaid County and State and after being duly sworn according to law doth each make oath to the following declaration in order to obtain for the heirs of Sarah McClean deceased the benefit to which the said Sarah McClean was in her life time entitled by provisions for pensions by the Act of Congress passed July 7th 1838 entitled " An act granting half pay and pensions to  certain widows and the Amendatory act thereto passed by Congress of the United States of America in That declarants are children and heirs at law of Samuel McClean and the aforesaid Sarah McClean both of whom are now dead. That the Said Samuel McClean died in the town of _____________ in the County of Woodford in the State of Kentucky in Month of October on or about the 15th day of July in the year 1845.  That she died as aforesaid leaving declarants Samuel & Elizabeth above named and Joseph McClean of Brown County State of Illinois his sole surviving children and heirs
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at law. Declarants are fully satisfied and believe without any doubts at all that their father Samuel McClean aforesaid served as a private Soldier during the Revolutionary War & that to the best of their knowledge the said Samuel McClean was a resident of _____________ in the County of Lancaster in the State of Pennsylvania when he engaged in the Service and thinks he served in the Pennsylvania State Line; or in the Pennsylvania Continental Line for the term of "the War" That declarants does not recollect if they ever knew the Month, or year said father entered the army or when he was discharged from the service: nor do they recollect the name of his Captain or Subaltern officers nor the name of any of the field officers under who he served But thinks he resided in or near Lancaster State of Pennsylvania before he went to the army and for years after he returned from the army.  That declarants have no record testimony of the marriage of their father and mother except the certificate of marriage hereto attached which has been retained in the family by declarant.  Mother, up to the time of her decease and afterward in the possession of declarant Elizabeth Epler; which to their own knowledge has been considered by the family the marriage certificate and testimony of the Solemnization on the marriage of the said Samuel McClean & Sarah Quin at the time and place therein expressed.  Declarants respectfully gives reference to the attached certificate under act of Pennsylvania of June 13. 1777. evidence of The fidelity of the said Samuel McClean dated August ___1777. but whether it was entered into upon the engagement of the said Samuel to serve as a soldier or for any other Special account they do not know and assert that it has been kept in the family with Said marriage certificate by said Widow Sarah until her decease and then fell into the hands of declarant Elizabeth Declarant respectfully give reference to the accord in the War department for the engagement and service by said Samuel McClean and further that they believe the said father
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Samuel McClean was in Battle at Brandwine and at Germantown and that the said Sarah McClean mother of declarants aforesaid and widow of Samuel McClean died as aforesaid at the house and residence of said Elizabeth Epler and that she was married to Samuel McClean the 26th day of July in the year of our Lord one Thousand Seven hundred and eighty four at Lancaster in the State of Pennsylvania as expressed in certificate of marriage by Rev Mecklinberg Minister of the gospel which is before mentions and here attached
               her
Elizabeth X Epling   seal
               mark
Samuel McClean     seal

Sworn to and subscribed in the aforesaid court now sitting the day and year above mentioned
Thom McAshford J P

Presiding Justice of Said Court
State of Kentucky
Woodford County } SS
I Thomas Mc Ashford presiding Justice of the County Court in and for the above named County and State do hereby Certify that it has been proven the satisfaction of said Court that the aforesaid Samuel McClean & Eliazbeth Epler are residents of said county & state of Kentucky and they that are entitled to credit and of the truth of the statement in the foregoing declaration the said Court is fully satisfied all of which the clerk of said court is directed to certify give under my hand this 2nd day of April 1849
Thom Mc Ashford J.P.
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State of Kentucky
County of Woodford ] ss

I Herman Bowman Jr Clerk of the County Court in and for the aforesaid County and State do hereby certify-  It is this day ordered to be certified that the foregoing declarations by Samuel McClean and Elizabeth Epler was subscribe and sworn to in said Court which court is a court of record by virtue of the laws of the said State.
That the Hon Thomas McAshford is the president Justice of said Court and that the signature to the forgoing certificate purporting to be his is genuine  That said Court was fully satisfied of the truth of the foregoing declarations subscribed & sworn to by Samuel McClean and Elizabeth Epler- and that the two attached certificates mentioned in the said declarations is herewith now attached in the testimony where of I hereto subscribe my name and affix the seal of said County this 2nd day of April 1849

Herman Bowman Jr
[illegible]
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Know all men by these present that we Samuel McClean and Elizabeth Epler of Woodford County Kentucky do hereby nominate & appoint George W Hardin of Monroe County, State of Indiana our true and lawful attorney for and, in our names to obtain for us heir at law and children of Samuel & Sarah McClean any amount of arrears or pension money due the said Sarah McClean at the period of her decease by reason of her being the widow of the said Samuel McClean by virtue of an act of Congress of July 7. 1838. and an account of the services of said Samuel McClean a private soldier during the War of the Revolution & we authorize the said Hardin to do any and all reasonable and lawful acts to obtain for us any pension money as aforesaid or equivalent to which we are in any way entitled under any acts of the United States now in force on which may be passed hereafter by reason of said Samuel McCleans service in the Pennsylvania State Line or in the Pennsylvania Continental Line during the Revolutionary war--
Given under our hands and seals this 2d day of Apl in the year of 1849
              her
Elizabeth X Epler
               mark           Seal

Samuel Mc Clean      Seal
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State of Kentucky
Woodford County  }
I clerk of the above named County Court do hereby certify that the aforesaid Samuel McClean and Elizabeth Epler personally appeared before me and acknowledged the foregoing power of attorney to be their free act and decd each for the purposes as therein explained  Given under my hand and the seal of said County this         day     of 184
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F F C Triplett
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Samuel McClause
 
Son of 

Sarah widow 
of Samuel McClean



Please examine & (??) to
F.F.C. T.herter

Penna.
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Know all men by these Presents, That I Samuel
McClane one of the children of Sarah
McClane dcd the widow of Samuel McLean des---------------
------------------------ who was a Soldier
in the Army of the Revolution, do hereby constitute and appoint F. F. C. Triplett
my true and lawful Attorney
for me and in my name to prosecute against the Government of the United States, before
any Department thereof, any and all claim or claims I have to arrears of pay or Pension
money, under any Act or Acts, Resolution or Resolutions of the Congress of the United States, and
especially the Acts 4th July, 1836, 7th July, 1838, 3d March, 1843, 17th June, 1844, 2d February,
1848 and 29th July, 1848-as well as the more ancient Acts of 18th March, 1818, 15th May, 1828,
and 7th June, 1832.
Said Attorney is moreover authorised in any name to demand at any Department
of the said Government, a re-consideration of any decision hitherto or hereafter to be given, touching
my interests, and to obtain from any Department of the archives thereof, any and all
information or evidence of whatever character relating to or in anywise bearing upon the claim or
claims we hereby seek the investigation of
Said Attorney is moreover authorised to do any and all things necessary to carry out
the foregoing purposes, and to receive the Certificate of Pension or other character of drafts or
evidences of the amounts due me and to appoint one or more Sub-Attorneys, and to confer
upon him or them all the powers herein conferred upon himself hereby ratifying
and confirming all that my said Attorney may do by virtue of these presents.
WITNESS my hand and seal this 23d day of February 1853
Samuel McClane
State of Kentucky Woodford County sct
BE IT KNOWN, that on the 23rd day of February 1853 before the subscriber, a
Justice of the peace in and for the County and State aforesaid, personally appeared
Samuel McClane ----the----
subscribers to the foregoing Power of Attorney, and acknowledged the signing, sealing and delivering
the same to be his own voluntary act and deed for the uses and purposes
therein set forth.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I do hereunto subscribe my name.
B. H. Teryman J. P.
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Woodford County Kentucky  ss

Samuel McClane of said county aged 54 years being sworn says he has heretofore applied for arrears of Revolutionary Pension due him as one of the children of Samuel McClean and Sarah McClean both deceased
He makes this declaration for the purpose of renewing the said application for the arrears of Revolutionary Pension
Witness my hand and seal in Woodford County Kentucky February 23rd 1853

Samuel McClean  seal

Sworn and subscribed before me a justice of the peace in and for said county day and year above written and I do certify that said Samuel McClane is well known to me as he has therein described himself  I believe him to be of the age he calls himself (54 years) 

B W [illegible] J P

Woodford County Kentucky  Ss
I, Clemant Fourman JP
Clerk of the county court for the above named county do certify that B W Twyman whose genuine signature appears to the two foregoing certificates was at the date of signing the
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same are acting justice of the peace in and for said County duly commissioned and qualified.  Witnessed whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at [illegible], this 24 February 1838
Clement Furman J P
[illegible]
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Rev War Section
August 4, 1915

Mrs. Effie Preston Canine
La Grange, Indiana
Madam:
In response to your letter of the 27th ultimo, you are advised that in the Revolutionary War pension claim Rej. File No. 6,781, the children of Samuel McClean, alleged that their father lived in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, when he enlisted in the pennsylvania troops, Revolutionary War (names of officers and period of service not stated).
He married at Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, July 20, 1784, Sarah Quin of Donegal Township.  He died October 15, 1816, in Woodford County, Kentucky and she died there July 28, 1843, leaving the following children: Joseph of Brown County, Illinois Elizabeth Epler born in 1789 and Samuel born in 1880, both residing in Woodford County, Kentucky.  They applied for pension April 2, 1849.  on account of their father's services in the Revolution, but the claim was rejected for lack of proof that he served.
The above is the only Samuel McClean (under any spelling of the name) found on the Revolutionary War records of this Bureau
Very respectfully,
[illegible]
Commissioner
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6781

Sarah McClean

1915 Aug 4, Remit to Mrs Effie P Canine
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N 13931
Sarah McClean ded 
Ky
Letter Geo W Hardin 28th Aug 1849
Letter to J F C Triplett July 12 '53
6781
art 7 July 1838
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I Do hereby certify, that Samuel McClean hath voluntarily taken and subscribed the Oath of Allegiance and Fidelity, as directed by an Act of General Assembly of Pennsylvania, passed the 13th Day June, A. D. 1777
Witness my Hand and Seal the second day of August A. A. 1777

[illegible]
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(Addressed envelope)

5
revolutionary 
Mr. Adams
8 May 1849
Sarah McClean Decd.

Free

James L. Edwards esq.
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
D.C.  


Congressional Case
No papers
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Bloomington Indiana
May 1st 1849

James L Edwards, Esq

Sir enclosed I send the declaration of Elizabeth Epler & Samuel McClean with other papers claiming arrears of pension as heirs of Sarah McClean widow of Samuel McClean please inform me in relation to the case when actioned upon
I am very respectfully
Your obt Servt
George W Hardin
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Per Sec 

La Grange, Ind.,
July 27, 1915
Com of Pensions
Washington D.C.

Dear Sir: Can you give me any information in regard to Samuel McClean who was the son of Wm McClean.  Where they first came to America settled in York, now Adams Co Pennsylvania.  Samuel is a brother of Col. Alexander McClean who is buried in Fayette. Co. Samuel McClean is my gr. gr. grandfather and am very anxious to secure data that will entitle me to membership in D.A. R.
Can you find a Samuel McClean who enlist under Capt. Lockhart in the 1st battalion of Chester County militia in 1781 that fits in the above family.  Would you be able to learn name of wife? Any information you can give
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will be greatly appreciated.
Yours very truly
Mrs. Effie Preston Canine
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Bounty Land Warrant Record Card
McClean, Thomas   grade Private    Line Pennsylvania

Warrant number 9931               issued June 11, 1795
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