Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 40,147, for John Mc Mullen, Pennsylvania
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SERVICE
Penn

McMullen, John
or McMillan

NUMBER
S.40.147
B.L. Wt. 245-100
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4.240
4
Pennsylvania
John McMullen, Private
Capt Butler
Pennsylvania line, War
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the 1st of May 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 3rd of Nov. 1818 and sent to the care of David Beale, 
Judge, Mifflin County, PA.
Arrears to the 4th of September 1818 ____
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4th Mar. 1819
$33.??
$48.--
$81.??
Revolutionaray Claim,
Act 18th March, 1818
Continued
Mifflin Co.
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Know all men by these presents that I John McMillan of Millford Township Mifflin - County and State of Pennsylvania, do hereby - Authorize constitute and appoint William Beale Esq for me and in my name and for my use to make application to such persons and officers as are appointed by law to grand and give rights for the lands granted by congress of the U.S. to soldiers and their heirs who served in the ______ American Army in the Revolutionary War with Great Britton, therefore I do hereby authorise and impower my said attorney to apply for and receive for my use all the donation land due to me as a soldier that served till the end of the War in the Pennsylvania line in the third Regiment commanded by Col. Craig. And to take all lawfull ways and means to recover said lands and to do all such acts and things that may be necessary to be done respecting the same as I could do were I personally present. Ratifying and confirming all that the said William Beale as my lawfull attorney - shall do in and about the primises as. Witnys my hand and seal this. 20.th day of March 1806.
Witness present
George Meloy
Jacob Meloy
John x [his mark] M. Millan [drawn seal]
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Mifflin County Pa
Personally came before me the subscriber one of the Justices of the Peace for F. County the within named John McMillan [McMillen] and acknowledged the within Power of Attorney to be his voluntary Act and deed. Witness my hand and Seal this 20th day of March 1806.
George Meloy
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Application of John McMullen

4290
Mifflin Co
Nov 18
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Mifflin County PA
State of Pennsylvania

On this 25th day of August 1820. Personally appeared in open Court John McMullin of Wilford Township Mifflin County (being a Court of Record for said County) Who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows that is the day that he first enlisted in Captain William Butters Company in Hannahs Town on the first of March 1776 in Col Craigs Regiment and that he served in said Company units [illegible] 

Captain was advanced and then he served under Capt Thomas Butler and continued to serve under different officers to suit Capt Marshall & Captain Oarwall of the Pennsylvania line during the [illegible] of the war untill he was discharged in Philadelphia after the war was over. And that his declaration for the purpose of obtaining a Pension from the United States was first made before David Beale Esq. one of the [illegible] [illegible] of this county (Mifflin) and is dated on the first day of May 1818. In posession of [illegible] a certificate [illegible] made to him from the war department dated the third day of November 1818 authorizing him to Receive eight dollar per month from the said first of May 1818. [illegible] Certificate is numbered (4.240). And that the said John McMullin doth solemnly swear 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 saw or in any manner displaced of his property or any point thereof withheld thereby so to diminish it as to bring himself within the Provisions
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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 of March 18[illegible] and that he has not nor had any person in trust for him any property or security contracts or debts due to him nor has he any income in any possible way either in land or personal property or otherwise except that he annually receives a pension of forty dollars from the state of Pennsylvania and except his wearing apparrell.  And further that he has no wife or family and that he is under the necessaty of living in the house and family with strangers and and that he is about sixty eight years of age and that his occupation when he was able to work was a laborer but he is now and has been for many years been unable to do any kind of work or follow any employment to support himself but has wholy to depend upon his said pension to provide him with clothes victualing washing and boarding
                      his
Signed John X McMullen
                      mark
Sworn and declared in open court this 23 day of August 1820 (crossed out)
E Banks Prob
A pension from the state of Pennsylvania $40.00
I Ephraim Banks clerk of the court of (crossed out) and common pleas of Mifflin County do certify that the foregoing oath annexed hereto are truly copied from the record of the said that the total amounts in value of the property entitled in the annexed schedule is forty dollars the pension of & in testimony whereof I have herein set my hand and seal of (crossed out) the said Court on this 23rd day of August A.D. 1820
E Bankes Prob
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Lists an [illegible] of John McMullins property & pension from the State of Pennsylvania.......$40.00
Mifflin County PA

Personally appeared in open court [illegible] William Beale & Thomas Beale Esqrs who being duly sworn doth depose and say that they knew John McMullin the above applicant and that the said pension from the State of Pennsylvania is as they newly believe all the property [illegible] by said applicant and is a fair and just appraisment of the property of John McMullin. 

Signed 
Wm Beale
Thomas  Beale

Sworn & Subscribed in
open Court 03 Aug. 1820
before me E. Banks Proth
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State of Pennsylvania
Mifflin County P

On this first day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen before me the subscriber one of the Judges of teh Court of Common Please in and for the County of Mifflin and State aforesaid; Personally appeared John McMullen who being by me first duly swears according to law, doth on his solumn oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the late act of Congress entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the law and Naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War; That he the said John McMullen enlisted at Hannastown in Pennsylvania on the first of March in the year one thousand seven hundred seventy six in the Company of Captain William Butler in the Regiment of [inserted text: the] Col. [inserted: St. Clair] of the Pennsylvania line in the Continental Army, that he continued to serve in said company for one year, the term of his enlistment; when he was honorably discharged which discharge he has lost. That he then enlisted in the company of Captain Thomas Butter, in the Regiment aforesaid, for three years on during the War. That he faithfully served under the said Thomas about four years; Then Captain Marshal took command of the company; that he served for one time under the said Captain Marshal; then under Captain Henderson for some time; then and lastly, under and in the company of Captain Doyle from [Lancaster?] untill the year 1783 and the end of the War when he was honorably discharged from the service. That when he first enlisted under Capt Wm Butter they then marched from Hannas Town aforesaid to Carlisle from thine to Albany; from thine to Canada, that he was in the Battle of the Three Rivers, then some time after they retreated [to?] Tycondaroga [Ticonderoga] & lay there untill the next winter. The next battle he was in was at the short hills in the Jerseys, that he was in the Battle at Brandywine; That he was in Gemantown; that he was at the Battle and taking of Genl. Cornwallis in Virginia. Then from time after he marched with the Army to South Carolina he was at Savana & he was in many skermishes not above enumeration. That in addition to his long services sufferings & [fatauge?  i.e., fatigue] in the Revolutionary War as aforesaid. He on his oath or aforesaid doth declair that he enlisted in Greensburgh in Penna in Capt Cribs Company; an with him marched in the Army commanded by Genl. St. Clair, that he was in the Battle of St. Clairs defeat, that he was taken prisoner by the savages; and while in custody he saw his Captain killed & scalped by his [side?], he also saw Genl. Butter killed riped open & his heart taken out & wrapped in a piece of paper by the savages & took it with them. That the Indians took deponent prisoner with them to upper Canada when he was prisoner two years. Then he
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at St. Clairs defeat he was wounded three places to wit in the heel in the leg & on the little finger of his right hand. And further
that the said deponent John McMullen now is a residenter of Mifflin County aforesaid & has been a resident in the same thirty years against the 5th of August next and that he is 66 or 67 years of age - against hallow eve night next, he is not shure [sure] which of the years.

And further that he is now weak in body & infirmities that are [inserted: insident] 
to fatague [fatigue] suffering and old age; that has long since Received his donation land from the U.S. but from his necessities was
obliged to sell it for a very small sum indeed. That tho he is not worth Twenty dollars in the world, he has not now nor never had
any Pension from the United States, and that he is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his Country
for support; and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his [inserted: said] service but what is herewith [illegible].

Sworn to & declared before
me the day & year first
above written.
David Beale [ sigature]

[on the right hand side]
John [his X mark] McMullen

I [illegible] Beale Judge &c. as aforesaid do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said John McMullen did serve in the
Revolutionary War in the Continental establishment, as stated in the preceeding declaration, against the common enemy; and I now transmit the proceedings & Testimony taken & had before me, to the Secretary of
department of War pursuant to the directions of the aforesaditioned act of Congress. Witness my hand this first day of May one thousand eight hundred & eighteen, 1818.-
David Beale
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State of Pennsylvania Mifflin County

Personally came before me [inserted text: the subscriber] one of the Judges of the Court of Common pleas for Mifflin County aforesaid, William [inserted: Martin] of the said County and being duly sworn as law directs deposeth and saith That he is now and long has been  well aquainted with the before mentioned John McMullen; That the deponent well remembers him in the American Continental Army. That he 
said McMullen served the first year commencing some time in the [inserted: year] 1776 in Captain Wm Bullers Company with said deponant in the then Col. Arthur St. Clair Regiment, and that the said McMullen
served about four years in the same Regiment with this deponent, the deponant left the Regiment & joined the American light horse, after which time deponent had not such frequent opportunities of seeing said McMullen in the Army. Tho he declares he often seen him in the American Continental Army up to the close of the Revolutionary War in 1783, and tho deponant did not see the said M Mullen discharged; yet he verily believes
that he was honorably discharged, and further states that the said McMullen was always considered a vallient trusty good soldier, and always able and willing to perform his duty.

Sworn and subscribed before me
this first day of May 1818-
David Beale [signature]

[right hand side] Wm Martin [signature]

To the Honorable J. Calhoun Secretary of War, Sir, I John McMullen the before mentioned old soldier applying for a Pension as aforesaid, being old and weak and no scholor, and uninformed in the manner & form of apply
for & receiving a Pension; If my before mentioned application should be successfull
, as I hope that it will, I hereby constitute and appoint my trusty friend Col. William Beal (who has lately been a member of the Senate of this State) my lawfull attorney to receive
for my use the Pension that I may be entitled to from the United States, if it
be agreeable to the rules of the War department I request that it be paid and
Received half yearly, or at such stated times as your discretion and Judgment may
direct. Humbly praying that your honor will condesend to write me a few lines whether or no my above application is successful; in what
manner, & at what periods it will be paid to me or my said Attorney for my use. And you shall forever have the hearty and humble ┃
prayers of an old War worn soldier-

[right hand side]
John [his X mark] McMullen

[left hand side]
State of Penn Mifflin County
Before me one of the Judges of Court of Common pleas of Mifflin County aforesaid the above named John McMullen & acknowledged the above power & writing to be his act & deed.
David Beale

Note Please to direct your letter to
Mifflin Town post office Mifflin County State of Penna.
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State of Pennsylvania
Mifflin County
I Ephraim Banks [illegible] of the court of commons pleas of Mifflin County , do hereby certify that Darius Beale Esquire whose name is signed to the within instrument of writing, is an associate Judge of the Court of common pleas of Mifflin County in the State aforesaid duly commissioned and sworn, and to all whose official acts as such, all due faith and credit is and ought to be given as well in courts of justice as thereout
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of said Office to  be hereunto affixed this fifth day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & eighteen. 1818
E Banks [illegible]
John McMullens Dept [illegible]
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In reply to your request for a statement of the military history of James Glasgow, a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (and his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau. 

DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT
Aug 1780
Fall 1780
Spring 1781
Fall 1781
1782

LENGTH OF SERVICE
2 mos
6 weeks
2 mos
2 weeks
3 weeks

RANK
Pri
Pri
Pri
Pri
Pri

OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. 

CAPTAIN
Robert Means
-
Lt. Richard Johnstone
James Magill
Thomas Beale

COLONEL. 
-
Brown
-
-
-

STATE
Penn.
Penn.
Penn.
Penn.
Penn.

Battles engaged in, None stated

Residence of soldier at enlistment, Derry Township, Cumberland Co. Penn.

Date of application for pension, Jan. 7 1834; his claim was allowed

Residence at date of application, Derry Township, Mifflin Co. Penn.

Age at date of application, born in 1761 in County Tyrone, Ireland

Remarks: He died Oct 11 1840 at Mifflin Co. Penn; He married Jane McGlentick March 16, 1816  in Decatur Township, Mifflin Co. Penn; She was a resident of Huntingdon Penn in 1868 74 years of age. Their sons, James and William testify in the claim. No fee, 

Very respectfully
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October 4, 1932
Mr. J. Martin Stroup
Lewistown Pennsylvania
James Glasgow
W. 25633
BA-J/MCS
(handwritten)  and John McMillan S.40147
Dear Sir:
Reference is made to your letter of September 21, 1932, requesting information in regard to Colonel Arthur Buchanan, James Glasgow and John McMullen who served during the Revolution.
The Revolutionary War records of this office fail to afford any information in regard to any soldier named Arthur Buchanan.
The data which follow were obtained from papers on file in the pension claim, W.25633, based upon the Revolutionary War service of James Glasgow.
He was born in December, 1761, in County Tyrone, Ireland. The names of his parents were not given.
While living in Derry Township, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, (which later became Decatur Township, Mifflin County, Pennsylvania) with his father, he enlisted in August, 1780 , and served two months as private in Captain Robert Means' Pennsylvania Company. He enlisted late in the fall of 1780 and served six weeks as private with the Pennsylvania troops under Colonel Brown and was engaged in scouting for Indians. He enlisted in the spring of 1781 and served two months as private with the Pennsylvania troops under Lieutenant Richard Johnston and was engaged in guarding the frontier against the Indians. He enlisted in the fall of 1781 and served two weeks as private in Captain James Magill's Pennsylvania Company. He enlisted in 1781 and served three weeks as private in Captain Thomas Beale's Pennsylvania Company.
He was allowed pension on his application executed January 17, 1834, while living in Mifflin County, Pennsylvania.
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He died October 11 or 12, 1840 in Mifflin County, Pennsylvania.
The soldier married March 16, 1816, or in May, 1816 in Decatur Township, Mifflin County, Pennsylvania, Jane McClintick.
She was allowed pension on her application executed March 28, 1853, at which time she was living in Lewistown, Mifflin County, Pennsylvania.
In 1868 she was living in Huntingdon, Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, aged seventy-four years.
Reference was made to the large family of the soldier but the only names given were James, aged thirty years in 1854 and William, aged twenty-eight years in 1854.

The data which follow were obtained from papers on file in the pension claim, S.40147, based upon the military service of John McMullen or McMillan, during the Revolution.
He was born October 31, 1751, or 1752, place not given and names of parents not given.
He enlisted at Hannastown, Pennsylvania, the first of march, 1776, as private in Captain William Butler's Company in Colonel Arthur St. Clair's Pennsylvania Regiment, served one year and was in the battle of Three Rivers. He immediately re-inlisted as private in said regiment which was then commanded by Colonel Craig and served in the regiment under Captains Thomas Butler, Marshall, Henderson and Doyle until sometime in 1783 and was in the battles of Short Hills, Brandywine, Germantown, and in the siege and surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown an in may skirmishes which were not designated.
He enlisted in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, and served against the Indians in General St. Clair's Army and was in the battle of St. Clair's defeat where he received three wounds, was taken prisoner and carried to Canada and held for two years.
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In1806 he was living in Millford Township, Mifflin County, Pennsylvania.
He was allowed pension on his application executed May 1, 1818, while living in Mifflin County Pennsylvania, where he had lived for about thirty years
It was not stated that he was married.
He died January 3 1833.
Very Truly yours
A.D. Hiller
Assistant to Administrator
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40147
Invalid
Levy
File No 40147
John McMullen
Ln Rev War
Act 18th March 18
Index Vol T Page 319
ARRANGEMENT OF 1870
(handwritten)
P32 Oct 4 sent to Mr. J Urartin Stroup
Dec corres in Rev du Jas Glasgow No 25633 UCS
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Robert Whitehill Esquire
Representative in Congress
Washington City
(stamp Mar)
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Lancaster March 24th 1806. 

Dear Sir, 

At the request of John McMullen, an old soldier, and the heirs of several old soldiers in the late Revolutionary War, who live my neighbors in Mifflin County & on their behalf and for their use have undertaken to endeavour to procure the Bounty Lands due to them from the U.S. And for this purpose some time after the law passed entiteling the time for application & locating &? I sent forward to the War office their applications and depositions proving that they were entitled.[word crossed out] At last session of Congress I wrote to Mr. Vanhorne that was then in Congress requesting him to go to the office and assist to pressure Patants for said soldiers & heirs, which he accordingly went forward and got a Patant for Wm. Martins land and sent to me which I delivered to Martin. And Vanhorne informed me that the proofs for some of them seemed not to be quite satisfactory. But Patants would suffice to three of them, to wit, John McMullen, the heirs fo James Chambers, and the heirs of Samuel Henderson. 

Enclosed I sent you powers of Attorneys from them to me for that purpose. And having full knowledge and confidence in your friendship to old soldiers and their heirs, I have to request the 
favour of you to take the trouble to call at the proper office with the powers of attorneys and get the Patant aforesaid and send them by post to me. Direct to one to the post office at Mifflin Town, Mifflin County, as we expect to adjourn in five or six days. Therefore I expect to be at home before your letter could reach this place. 

Your complyance will much oblige your friend with due respect. 

Wm Beale
Robert Whitehill Esq
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APB I had full expectation that the proofs of all the soldiers and their heirs that went forwards would have been sufficient to prove that they were entitled to land. 

I am aquainted with them all, and for myself am certain that they are all justly entitled and had a hope that the officers would not be too particular about the proofs, when they could be satisfied of the justice of the claim. As they must know of this length of time when there is so many dead & gone that it is difficult and in some instances impossible to get proofs that are strictly legal. 

I am at a loss to know why the heirs of Thomas Hull cannot obtain land. I think the proofs are full in his case, his heirs have drew donation land from this state. Last winter I sent forward to the war officer an exemplification of their Patant (which was [illegible] [words crossed out] with others after I presumed they were satisfied with the validity of the claim) This Patant together with the proofs that are in the war office of his serving till the end of the war, and since that time was drowned in the River Susquehana.

In fact I think the proofs in this case are rather fuller than any of the others, and I sanguinly hope that the proper officers will see the justness and propriety of granting land to all three claimants I sent forward to them, at least [word crossed out] to the heirs of the slain Thomas Tull, and send them on with the others. 

Wm Beale
R. W.
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No 1906
200.000
September 10th, 1789
John McMullen Private

Thomas Bradford Atty

Good.
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John McMullen
Private
Acr 1906
[rectangular lines forming a box]
[inside box] 
MDCCCCVI
200 acres
3 212 pr
[outer top of box]
W 212
Vacant
[outer left side]
ash
S 160 pr
Lot No. 1909
[outer right side]
N160 ps
Lot No. 1915
pno
[outer bottom of box]
Lot No. 1905

In pursuance of an act of the General Assembly of the State of Pennsylvania passed the 24th day of February 1785 entitled
"An Act for directing the mode of distributing the donation Lands promised the Troops by this Commonwealth," and by order of
the Surveyor General with the approbation of the Honorable the Executive Council I have surveyed on the 22nd day of June 1786 the above described Tract of two hundred acres of land and allowance for Roads So. & W 1906 Situate in district W 3 on the West side of the Allegany River, in the County of Westmoreland.
G. Evans D. Survr.
To John Lukens Esqr
Surveyor General
[seal]
In testimony that the above is a Copy of the orig. Remay filed in the Surveyor Generals Office
I have hereunto set my hand and the
Seal of said Office at Lancaster this
31st day of January 1800
Sam Cochran llj
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G. K. McCLINTOC
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TREASURER
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Lewistown, Penna. 
September 21, 1932

United States Dept. of The Interior
Bureau of Pensions
Washington, D.C.

Gentlemen: 
I am interested in securing the military record of several Revolutionary War soldiers from Mifflin County for use in a series of articles which I am writing. Would you please send me a copy of the records on file in your bureau of the military activities of Col. Arthur Buchanan of the Fifth Battalion Cumberland County Associators of 1777-1778. I am not certain whether Col. Buchanan ever applied for a pension, however the following two soldiers did apply:

James Glasgow, who applied in 1834 at the age of 71 years. 
John McMullen, who applied in 1818 at the age of 81 years.

Thanking you for your attention to this and assuring you of my appreciation of your trouble, I remain, 

Sincerely, 
[signature] J Martin Stroup
J. Martin Stroup

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
RECEIVED SEP 22 1932
RECEIPT SECTION
[Illegible]
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES 
Form VAM-51
12-5-41

Division of Veterans' Administration Archives

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*

NAME Mr Mullen, Michael GRADE Private LINE Pennsylvania

WARRANT NUMBER 9888 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED March 9, 1799 to -not shown-

*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.