Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 23,938, for John Mc Mahan, South Carolina
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(8-1776)
Service Number
S.C. McMahan, John N. 23,938
or
McMahon,
Mary
Contents
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16764 R
Kentucky
John McMahan 
of Muhlenberg County in the state of Kentucky
who was a Private in the regiment commanded by 
Colonel Thompson of the S. Carolina 
line, for the term of three years

Inscribed on the Roll of Kentucky
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on
the 2nd of June 1818

Certificate of Pension issued the 24 of Apr 1820 
and sent to Hon. Alney McLean
House of Rep

Arrears to 4th of March 1820 168.76
Semi - anl. all'ce ending 4 Sept 1820 48

20 8 29/30 4/31 $216:76
160.
7.73
1.3
168:76 {Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818.}

File Sept '20

Let 30 Jan 38 [illegible]
A.W. [illegible]
let [illegible] 1842
[illegible] J. Reynolds
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5733
Illinois
Mary McMahon
S.C.
widow of John McMahon
who was a Private 
in the S. Caroline

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 
80 Dollars 00.
Cents per annum, to commence on
the 4th day of March, 1843.

Certificate of Pension issued the 
18 day of June 1844
and sent to 
Gen. John S. Davis
Sarahsville
Illinois.

[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book a
Vol. 1 Page 197

[illegible]
1838
1843
[illegible] 18, June '44
[illegible] to G. Buckingham
June 3 49
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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 and pensions to certain widows.

State of Illinois
Williamson County
On this fifth day of March AD 1844 personally appeared in open court before the Judges of the the County Commissioners Court in and for the County of Williamson and State aforesaid the court then judicially sitting Mary McMahan a resident of the state of Illinois in the County of Johnson aged Eighty five years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the act of Congress passed July the 7th 1838 entitled an act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows. That she is the widow of John McMahan who was a pensioner under act of March 18th 1818 of the Kentucky agency, and for proof of his rank and service refference is hereby made to proof and documents on file in office in the war department. She further declares that she was married to the said John McMahan in the month of June or July 1784, in Penalton district in the state of South Carolina by John Wilson an acting Justice of the peace in said district that she is now and has been ever since the death of the said John McMahan [illegible], and unmarried and has never been married to any other person. That her husband the aforesaid John McMahan died on the 23red day of December 1823.  That
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she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first of January seventeen hundred and ninety four, which is to say the time above stated sworn to and subscribed in open court this 5th day of March 1844
S/ Mary McMahan
X her mark

S/ AP Gordon [illegible]
State of Illinois 
Williamson County A

We Joab Goodall John N Calvert and John S Damron County Commissioners of said county and Judges of the County Commissioners Court of said county do hereby certify that Anderson P Gordon whose name appears subscribed to the foregoing declaration has on the day the same was sworn to and subscribed before [illegible] Clerk of the County Commissioners Court of Williamson County in the state of Illinois of [illegible] regularly [illegible] and qualified and that as such full faith and confidence are due and of rights ought to be given to all his official acts given under our hands and seals this 3rd day of March 1844
S/ John N Calvin
S/ Joab Goodall
S/ John S Damron
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State of Illinois 
Williamson County SS B
[illegible] Anderson P Gordon Clerk of the County Commissioners Court in and for said county do hereby certify that John N Calvert Joab Goodall and John S Damron whose  names appear to the foregoing certificate is and [illegible] as the time the same was made judges and commissioners of the county court of said County of Williamson and that the same is a Court of Records having a state and seal
In testemony whereof I have herewith per my hand and affixed the [illegible] seal
these being [illegible] provided [illegible] 
as officer in Marion this 3rd day of March 1844
S/ AP Gordon [illegible]
Seal

Washington City
District Columbia
I do certify that John N. Calvert, Joab Goodall and John Damaron, [illegible] judges of the County Commissioners Court of Williamson, State of Illinois, at the date of their aforesaid certificate (marked A) and that said Court is a Court of [illegible], [illegible] made and for recognised by the laws of said state, and the authorities, thereof - and also A.P. Gordon [illegible] the acting and regularly qualified Clerk of said Court, at the date of his aforesaid  certificaten (marked B) and that the signature [illegible] is genuine. [illegible] my hand this 18th June 1844
S/ John A McClernand
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Private
John McMahan serve
[illegible] from 24 July 1776 to May 31, 1777
John McMahan [illegible] served in Capt Liddell's co.

Private
John McMahan 
S. Carolina  [illegible] 
24 July  [illegible] 
 [illegible]  Thompson
 [illegible]  S.C.  [illegible] 
John McMahan
2nd June 1818
Muhlenburg
Service admitted
 [illegible] 
The residence of the applicant should be set forth the judge is to certify that from the reduced circumstances of the applicant he needs the support of his country if such be the facts which should be confirmed by the declarate.
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Muhlenburg County
State of Kentucky [illegible]
John McMahan this day personally appeared before me Henry P. Broadnax Judge of the Circuit Court of this County aforesaid and made oath states that as well as he now recollects and believes in the year of the revolutionary war near the commencement in ninety six district state of South Carolina he enlisted under Capt. John Caldwell of the third Regiment of Continental troops commanded by Col. Thompson that he served as a private soldier in said company and regiment three years and was honorably discharged at Charlstown South Carolina by James Mason Lieutenant  Col the said regiment and that he has lost his said discharge that he is about sixty eight years of age and has a very bad rupture in his abdomen and is unable to work for a livelihood that he believes the whole of the property owned by him is about of the value of 2000 dollars and no more.
S/ John McMahan
State of Kentucky
Greenville [illegible]
Be it remembered that John McMahon personally appeared
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before me, one of the circuit judges in and for the state foresaid, and swore upon the Holy Evangelist of Almighty God, that the facts contained in the above statement are true to the best of his knowledge and belief. Given under my hand & seal this 2nd day of June 1818.
S/ Henry P. Broadnax.
The Commonwealth of Kentucky
Muhlenberg Circuit [illegible]
I Charles F. Wing clerk of the circuit court for the circuit aforesaid, do certify that the foregoing Certificate and attestation [illegible], is the hand writing of the Honorable Henry P. Broadnax; and that he is the Presiding Judge in and for the Circuit aforesaid.
In Testimony whereof I have here unto set my hand and affixed the seal of my office this 4th day of June 1818 in the 27th year of the Commonwealth.
S/ Charles F. Wing
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The Commonwealth of Kentucky
Muhlenberg County [illegible]
February County Court 1820
Be it remembered that John McMahan the within mentioned applicant a Citizen of Christian County and Commonwealth aforesaid came into Court and exhibited proof to their satisfaction that he the John is about seventy years of age and from the rupture in his abdomane he is rendered incapable of doing any kind of manual labour and that he needs the assistance of his Country for support which is ordered to be certified to the war department.
In testimony whereof I Charles F. Wing 
Clerk of the County Court for said County have here unto set my hand and affixed my seal of Office this 7th day of February 1820
S/ Charles F. Wing
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Mary McMahon
Illinois
[illegible] 7 July 38
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The deposition of Jonathon Clark taken at his own house in Christian County and State of Kentucky on the 29th day  of July 1845, relative to John McMahan dec'd said to have been a patriot soldier in the War of Independence with Great Britain. The deponent being first duly sworn deposeth and saith that to the best of his recollection the said John McMahan was married in June or July 1784 to Mary Oliver in Pendleton District and State of South Carolina by John Wilson then acting Justice of the Peace in said District. The deponent saith that it was then lawful in saith State for a Justice of the Peace or a Minister of the Gospel to solemnize the rites of matrimony without license from the Clerk of the Court and that he the said deponent lived a near neighbour to him the said McMahan after he was married for 13 or 14 years in said District  and State aforesaid and the deponent states that he removed to Christian County and State of Kentucky in 1803 & 3 or 4 years after the said John McMahan with his wife and family removed to the said County of Christian and the state aforesaid and that he was well acquainted with him the said McMahan and family until his death , which took place om December 1823 and the deponent saith that he the said McMahan and Mary Oliver lived together as man and wife from their marriage until his the said McMahan's death for he was well acquainted with the whole family, and further the deponent saith, that he had it from McMahan himself, and others of credibility, that said McMahan [illegible] important services in the said war of Independence with Great Britain and further the deponent saith nothing.
S/ Jonathan Clark

Christian County, to wit.
The foregoing deposition of Jonathan Clark was this day taken, sworn to and subsribed by the said Jonathan Clark, before the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace for said county at the time and place, and for the [illegible] stated in the [illegible] thereof and I do further certify that the credibility of the venerable deponent in the above is indisputable. Given under my hand as a Justice of the Peace in said county this 29th day of July 1845.
S/ Benjamin A. King [illegible]
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Commonwealth of Kentucky
County of Christian, to wit [illegible] Abraham Stites [illegible] Clerk of the County Court of Christian County aforesaid do certify that Benjamin A. King, gentleman, whose name appears to the forgoing certificate was at the time of making the same and is now an acting Justice of the Peace of said County duly commissioned and qualified that full faith is due to his official acts and that his attestation & signature is genuine and I do further certify that Jonathan Clark named in the foregoing deposition was at the time of taking this same & being before a resident citizen of the said county of Christian. In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of the said Court the 7th day of November 1843 and in the 52nd year of the said Commonwealth circuit.
S/ Abraham Stites
G G G G 

Commonwealth of Kentucky
County of Christian, to wit
I Lemuel Clark the Senior & presiding Justice of the County Court of said County do certify that this foregoing attestation of Abraham Stites as Clerk of said Court is in due form of law.
Given under my hand the 7th November 1843.
S/ Lemuel Clark JP
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Rev
Widow, &c.
File No. 23938
Mary McMahon
Widow of John McMahon
Priv - Ill - [illegible]
Act: March 3rd 1843
Index :-- Vol. M, Page 25
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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8486
Illinois
Mary McMahon
widow of John McMahon
who was a pensioner under the Act of 1818 and who died on the 23 Dec. 1823 of Muhlen'g Co in the State of Ky who was a Priv in the [illegible] commanded by Captain of the Regt commanded by Thompson in the S. Caro. line for 2 years

Inscribed on the roll of Illinois at the rate of 80 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.

Certificate of Pension issued the 18th day of June 1844 and sent to Gen. John T. Davis Sarahsville Ill.

Total amount,  $400.00
[Act July 7, 1838.]
Recorded by F. L. Swann Clerk,
Book D Vol. 1 Page 441
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John McMahan [illegible]: Act March 18, 1818
to what time paid
Pen. Officer
March 9, 1822
Paid to March 4, 1820
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Mary McMahan widow of John McMahan - married in 1784 - died 23 Dec 1823

Act '38
$80 per an -
Issue another certificate also under act '43
(Issues 2 certificates)
Illinois Role

Sent certificates to Gen. John T. Davis,
Sarahsville, Illinois.

Enter & number the case under the act of 1843 -
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City of Washington
Jan 27 1838

J. L. Edwards [illegible]
Commissioner Pensions
Sir 
Herewith I have the honor to submit to you the application of Mary McMahon widow of [illegible] McMahon a revolutionary pensioner. I am informed that McMahon in his life time drew his pension in Kentucky should the paper presented be a formal [illegible] furnish me with a [illegible], and please inform me whether there are [illegible] & what the widow is entitled to.

Respectfully [illegible] humble [illegible]
 S/ [illegible]
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11071
No. under Act 1843 [illegible]
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Office of [illegible] of Lands
April 23 1844

Sir
I have the honor to enclose to you the papers showing the claim of Mary McMahan to a pension.

You will recollect that this case was brought to your attention at an early [illegible] of the present session of Congress and  that in [illegible] of some informality you decided you could not allow her pension that as her [illegible] furnished me with blank forms. The papers I later [illegible] are now made out according to your assertion . You will [illegible] advice me of what shall be done in the [illegible].
Your [illegible],
S/ John A McClernand
[illegible] L Edwards
Court of Pensions
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Mary 1842 Illinois
James L. Edwards [illegible]
Comm Pensions
Washington City
Hon John Reynold [illegible]
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John Reynolds presents his [illegible] to his friends [illegible] Edwards with the enclosed letter for a [illegible]. Please send the [illegible] to your friends J. R. with the letter.
7 March 1842
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House of Representatives
Congress U.S. June 13 1844

Sir
I inclose to you [illegible] early period of the present session, the pension papers of Mary McMahon of Illinois for your action upon them. You decided against the application on the ground of thi = regularity of the papers, and furnished me with blank forms, such as are used in such cases. Subsquently, some weeks [illegible] whilst in the Office of the Court of public lands inclosed to you the papers of a [illegible] application. Mr Blake told me he would cause them to be sent to you. I state these facts to identify this case. Please inform me now what has been your action in the [illegible]

[illegible]
S/ John A McClernand

Hon J. L. Edwards
Court of Pensions
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The depositions of William McMahan and Peter McMahan taken before the Hon [illegible] Commissions Court of Williamson County & state of Illinois at the Court House in Marion on the fifth day of March in the year of our Lord 1844 [illegible] court judicially sitting co
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Corder whose name appears subscribed to
the foregoing Depositions of William Mc
Mahan and Peter McMahan was on
the same was sworn to and subscribed
before him Clerk of the County Commissions
Court of Williamson County and State of Illinois
aforesaid regularly elected and qualified
and that as such full faith and confidence 
as due and of right ought to be
given to all his official acts given under
our hands and seals this 5th day of March
1844
John N Calvert. SEAL
Josh Goodall.  SEAL
John T [illegible] SEAL

State of Illinois        }. SS
Williamson County}                                    B

I Anderson P Corder clerk of
the County Commissions Court in and for said County do hereby certify that John N Calvert Josh Goodall and John T [illegible]  whose names
appear to the foregoing certificate now at the
time the same here made judges and com
missioner of the County Court of Williamson
County and that the same is a court of the
said having a clerk and a seal

SEAL 

In testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and affixed the clerk
private seal there being no public
Seal yet provided done at office in
Marion this 5th day of March 1844

A. P. Corder clk C C.C.C. [illegible]
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Washington City}
District Columbia}

I do certify that-
John N. Calvert, Josh Goodall, and-
John T. Davison, were judges of this County
Commissioners Court of Williamson County
State of Illinois, at the date of their aforesaid
Certificate (marked [illegible] ) and that said Court
is a court of Record so made and r[illegible] by the laws of said State, and by the
civil authorities thereof. And also that
Anderson P. Corder, [illegible] the acting and
regularly qualifies clerk of said Court,
at and that the signatures true to is genuine
this date of his aforesaid certificate
(marked B) witness my hand this 18th
day of June 1844.
John A N Clemand


Gen John T. Davis, Sarahsville, Williamson Co
Illinois