Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B. L. Wt. 2464 - 200, for John Mitchell, Georgia
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April 22, 1833, to Joseph A. White and delivered to Honorable
Joseph W. Jackson, House of Representatives, for the benefit of
the heirs at law of the soldier, John Mitchell.
The following were referred to as the heirs at law of the
soldier Joseph A. White, of Bibb County, Georgia; Arabella
Thomson, his sister of said county; William B. Jackson, of
Chatham County, Georgia, and the descendants of John Mitchell
the younger (if any), the relationship of William B. and Joseph
W. Jackson to soldier's family not shown.
For information in regard to the location of the land cited,
you should write to the Commissioner of the General Land Office,
Interior Department, this city, quoting all data given in two
preceding paragraphs.
No reference was made in the claim to wife or children.
On account of the Revolutionary War service of John Mitchell,
Warrant No. 2284, for two hundred acres of bounty land, was issued
Reuben Mitchell
W. 5373
The date and place of soldier's birth and names of his parents
are not show.
Reuben Mitchell enlisted in Mecklenburg County, Virginia, in
February, 1777, marched into the State of Georgia, for which state
his company was recruited, served as a private in Captain Isaac
Hicks' company, Colonel James Screven's Georgia regiment, and was
discharged in February, 1778.
Soon after the Revolutionary War, the soldier moved to the
State of North Carolina.
He was allowed pension on his application executed September
10, 1818, at which time he was aged about sixty-five years and a
resident of Chatham County, North Carolina where he was still
living in 1822.
Reuben Mitchell died February 11, 1826.
Soldier married April 2, 1781, Ann Pennington, a resident of
Mecklenburg County, Virginia; it was stated that her mother was
in own cousin of the "great and good man, George Washington
Soldier's widow, Ann, was allowed pension on her application
executed July 20, 1841, at the age of seventy-seven years and
while living about twenty miles from Martha's Vineyard in Chatham
County, North Carolina; she had lived in that county for forty-three
years and died there September 4, 1843.
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1933, Aug. 30. Hist to Alan T. Bowler
see the inclue W.5373, of
Reuben Mitchell
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1936 Sept. 30. Hist to Col. W.
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Mitchell