Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 31246, for Daniel Mc Cleland, North Carolina
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N.C.                McCleland, Daniel     S31246
Penn.
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13941        1394
Kentucky
Daniel McCleland Sen of Shelby Co. in the State of Kentucky who was a Captain in the ___ commanded by Captain Maban of the regiment commanded by Col. Montgomery in the N. Carolina line for 2 years.

Inscribed on the Roll of Kentucky at the rate of 480 Dollars -- Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 15 day of June 1833 and Sent to George P. Miller Shelbyville

Arrears to the 4th of March             960.00
Semi-anl allowance ending 4 Sept.  240.00

{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.}

Recorded by Danl Boyd Clerk
Book E Vol 7  Page 4 (?)

let to Hon. J.H. McHenry Jan 5 1847

Date of death not on AB
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7350
Daniel McCleland
from 1779 Captain 3 yrs  $480.

Letter to Jos. Lecampe
HT Jany 16 1833

George P. Miller
Shelbyville Ken
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7350 BRIEF in the case of Daniel McCleland of Shelbyville in the State of Kentucky
(Act 7 June, 1832.)

1.  Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge?  open Court

2.  If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?

3.  How old is he?  80

4.  State his service, as directed in the form annexed.
Period.
Spring In 1776 as stated within tour
Aug. 1777 written time not recently stated
in Spring 1778 as sub & discharged in June
in fall 1778 commissioned as Capt. Comp. of Rangers
rec.d his commission Gov. of Penna Served in all upwards of 4 years
Duration of Service.
Years. Months. Days.
Rank.  As a 
Private
Capt
Capt
Capt
Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.
Gen.
Capt. Maban Col Montgomery
Col. Irvine he believes & Genl. Rotten in Pennsylvania
Col Wall - Gen. Lacy under Col. County

5.  in what battles was he engaged:  Blackwater Springs.  Brandywine.  Germantown.

6.  Where did he reside when he entered the service?  Guilford County. N. Carolina

7.  Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls?  Traditionary & documentary as to the loss of his papers is an affidavit

8.  Are the papers defective as to form or authentication?  and if so, in what respect?  All correct except the affidavit as to the destruction of his commissions and discharges - the Justice before whom it was made is not certified to be such by any clerk &c

I certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
                  T. Waugh Examining Clerk.
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Affidavits of
John McClelland
William Wilson &
Mary Wilson
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State of Indiana
Jefferson County Sct
     Personally appeared before me a Justice of the peace in and for the county and state aforesaid John McCleland who being duly sworn say that in the year 1793 or 4 he was a boy living with his father Daniel McCleland Senr of Shelby County Kentucky and his father being from hours his house took fire and was burned and nothing was saved except what I a boy of 10 years was able to save by throwing out of window which consisted of clothing and bedding and some money.
                    D  McCleland
Sworn to and subscribed before me a justice of the peace in and for Jefferson County Indiana this 9th day of Feby 1833
              J Pugh   J Peace (seal)
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State of Kentucky
Shelby County Sct
     On this 17th day of September 1832 personally appeared in open Court before the Justices of the Shelby County Court now sitting Daniel McCleland Sen of the County of Shelby and State of Kentucky aged 80 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 7th June 1832 that he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated.  In the Spring 1776 in the County of Guilford and State of North Carolina, he the said Daniel McCleland Sen. volunteered in a company of horse commanded by Capt. Maban attached to the Regiment commanded by Col. Montgomery and that this company acted principally against the Torries, and was engaged at the battle of Blackwater Bridge where the Torries and Scotch were routed and many of them taken prisoner, which prisioners were sent under guardof Capt Maban company to Hillsborough where we were discharged.  In the fall 1776 he the said McCleland removed from Guilford County North Carolina to Mifflin County in the State of Pennsylvania.  About the first of August 1777 there was a company drafted in Mifflin County of which
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company for the said McCleland had the command as Captain and was ordered under Col. Irvine he believes and General Rotter to join the main army near the head of Elk.  He was in the battle of Brandywine and Germantown.  When winter came on Washington's army encamped at the Valley Forge, and he the same McCleland was discharged and went home.  In the Spring 1778 there was another company drafted in Mifflin County, the command of which was given to him the said McCleland as Captain, which joined the main army under Col. Watt and General Lacy and was discharged in the June following. Then the said McCleland then raised a company of rangers in the fall 1778 under the direction of the Col. of the County.  He received his commission as Captain of said company, as he believed from Governor Mifflin he served as Captain of the Rangers from the fall 1778 until the year 1781 he believes nearly three years, but a small part of which time he was not in active service.  The whole frontier of Pennsylvania was at that time subject to the incursions of the Indians.  The officers who commanded were various some of whom were Colonels Purdy and Turbott, and Major Elliott. He was in the battle of the Crooked Billet and many other skirmishes, and was actually engaged
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during the Revolutionary struggle upwards of four years.  In the fall of the year 1781 he was discharged and in the year 1786 he removed to Kentucky, and now lives in Shelby County.  In the year 1793 or 1794 he had his house burned in the County of Shelby in which all his papers together with his Commission and discharges were consumed which facts could be proved by many witnesses, some of whose certificates are herewith enclosed of the said Daniel McCleland Sen hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state or Territory.
Sworn to and subscribed this day and year aforesaid.
           Daniel McCleland

We John Tevis a clergyman residing in Shelby County and state of Kentucky and Benoni S. Newland residing in the County and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Daniel McCleland Sen who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be 80 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 we concur int hat opinion.  Sworn to and subscribed this day and year aforesaid.
                     John Tevis
                     BS Newland
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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 and served as he states and the Court further certifies that it appears to them that John Tevis who has signed the preceding certificate is a Clergyman resident in County of Shelby and state of Kentucky and that Benoni S. Newland who has also signed the same is a resident of the County and State aforesaid, and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
              Geo. Pettilly Presiding Justice
              Shelby County Court

I James S. Whitaker Clerk of the County Court of Shelby County Kentucky, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings in the matter of Daniel McCleland Sen for a pension.
     In Testimony whereof I have herein set my hand and seal of office this 18th day of September 1832.
      Att. James S. Whitaker C
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                     December 19, 1936
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                     BA-J/EEL  ON
                     Daniel McCleland - S.31246
Mr. Walter O. Shriner
2525 N. 10th Street
Terre Haute, Indiana

Dear Sir:
     Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War record of Captain Daniel McCleland, who have application for pension in Shelby County, Kentucky, September 17, 1832 and whose pension number was S.31246.
     The data which follow are obtained from the papers on file in Revolutionary War pension claim, S.31246, based upon the military service of Daniel McCleland in that war.
     The date and place of birth and that names of the parents of Daniel McCleland are not shown.
     While a resident of Guilford County, North Carolina, Daniel McCleland volunteered in the spring of 1776, served in Captain Maban's Company, Colonel Montgomery's North Carolina Regiment and was in an engagement with the Tories at Blackwater Bridge;  length of service and rank not shown:  in the fall of 1776, he moved to Mifflin County, Pennsylvania, and about August 1, 1777, was appointed captain in Colonel Irvine's Pennsylvania Regiment;  was in the battles of Brandywine and Germantown, and served until the army went into winter quarters at Valley Forge when he returned home;  in the spring of 1778, he entered the service as captain in Colonel Watts' Pennsylvania Regiment and served until June following:  he was in the battle of Crooked Billet: in the fall of 1778, Daniel McCleland was appointed captain of a company of rangers and received a commission from Governor Mifflin, and from this time until the close of the war, he was almost constantly engaged with his company, served on the frontier and at the forts defending the inhabitants from the Indians and was in a number of skirmishes.  He stated that he was under a number of officers among them Colonels Purdy and Turbott and Major Elliott and that his entire service amounted to about four years.
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     In 1786, he moved to the state of Kentucky.
     Daniel McCleland was allowed pension on his application executed September 17, 1832, at which time he was aged eighty years and resided in Shelby County, Kentucky.  He was referred to as Daniel McCleland, Senior.  He signed McCleland.
     In 1833, soldier's son, John, made affidavit in Jefferson County, Indiana.  John was born about 1783 or 1784.  The name of his mother is not given, nor are the names of any other children shown.   
     In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, the name and address of person paid and possibly the date of death of the Revolutionary War pensioner, Daniel McCleland (S.31246), you should address The Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, this city, and cite the following data:
     Daniel McCleland, Senior, Certificate No.13941, issued June 15, 1833, rate $480 per annum, commenced March 4, 1831, Act of June 7, 1832, Kentucky Agency. 
                         Very truly yours

                          A.D. HILLER
                          Executive Assistant
                          to the Administrator.
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31246
Revy
INVALID
File No. 31,246
Daniel McCleland Senr.
Capt. Rev War

Act:  June 7, 32
Index:-Vol 2, Page 268
[Arrangement of 1870.]

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1936 Jan 13 Hist to Miss Mattie M. Scott EEL

1936 Decr 9 - hist to Walter O. Shriner
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We the undersigned certify that we have known Daniel McCleland for a number of years and that he had his house burned together with the contents as set forth in his declaration and sworn to by him.
     Signed this 17th Sept 1833
               Robert Todd
               James Ballard
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The within affidavit was subscribed and sworn to in open court this 17th day of September 1832.
             Geo. Pettilly Presiding
             Justice Shelby County Court
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                 H.R. Washington 31 Dec. 1846

Dear Col.
     You will perceive by the enclosed letter that your particular friend John P. Duval is not dead for still the cause of my giving you some botheration - will you do me the favor at your earliest leisure to answer the enquiries contained in the enclosed letter & return it with your answer to me.
                    Your friend
                    John H. McHenry
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State of Indiana
             Jefferson County Sct
     Personally appeared before the subscriber a justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid William Wilson aged 67 years who being duly sworn according to law saith that he has been personally acquainted with Captain Daniel McCleland from his infancy that he knew said McCleland well during the revolutionary war in the Count of Mifflin and State of Pennsylvania and I believe he was a Captain in the said war and that he performed various services as a captain of a company of rangers from the year of 1778 to the year 1781.  This information I gained not from an actual knowledge but from common report and general belief through the community and I have no hesitation in stating my belief that he performed the services mentioned in his declaration.  I do not say this from a knowledge of the facts as having seen them but as I heard of them at the time they were performed being too young to be on the muster Rolls.
Sworn to and subscribed this 9th day of Feby 1833.
                Wm. Wilson
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I John Pugh a justice of the Peace in and for the County of Jefferson and State of Indiana do certify that I am well acquainted with William Wilson who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing affidavit that he is a man of veracity and respectability and that his statement is entitled to full credit.
    Given under my hand as a justice of the peace in and for Jefferson County Indiana this 9th day of Feby 1833.
                   J. Pugh J Peace (seal)
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State of Indiana
  Jefferson County Sct
     Personally appeared before the subscriber a Justice of the peace in and for county and state aforesaid Mary Wilson aged 78 years who being duly sworn according to Law saith that she has been acquainted with Captain Daniel McCleland from her infancy that she knew him well during the revolutionary war in the county of Mifflin and State of Pennsylvania that he was a Captain in that war and commanded a Company of rangers and that he served a tour of service at the time of that Freeland's ford was taken also that he was in a tour after the indians in Lachs Valley also another in Penns Valley all of which service she believes was performed between the years of 1778 and 1781 to the best of her recollection, and that she is now well acquainted with the said McCleland and has no hesitation in saying he performed the above service and believes he performed the services stated in his declaration as captain in the county of Mifflin in the State of Pennsylvania.
                       Mary X Wilson
                         (X her mark)
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 8th of February 1833.
              William M. Taylor JP
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I William M. Taylor a justice of the peace in and for the County of Jefferson and state of Indiana do certify that I am acquainted with Mary Wilson who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing affidavit that she is a Lady of veracity and respectability and that her statement is entitled to full credit. 
     Given under my hand as a Justice of the peace in and for Jefferson County Indiana this 8 day of Feby 1833.
                William M Taylor JP

The State of Indiana
Jefferson County SS
     I Richard C. Talbott Clerk of the Jefferson Circuit Court in and for the county and State aforesaid do hereby certify that John Pugh Esq. and William M Taylor Esq. whose names are respectively attached to the affidavits of John McClelland, William Wilson and Mary Wilson and who certifies to the Same, were at the time of taking and certifying said affidavits, two of the acting justices of the Peace in and for said County and now are, that they were duly elected qualified and commissioned and to all of their official acts due faith and credit is and ought to be given.
    
(seal)
      In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said County at Madison this Nineth day of February eighteen hundred and thirty thee.
          R.C. Talbott Clk
          By J.W. Savier Dy
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Shelby May of 16
Revolutionary Claim
Free
Hon. Lewis Cass
Secretary of War
City of Washington

Ky.
Returned
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                      (illegible) February 15th 1833
Dear Sir
     I herewith enclose you the papers in the case of Capt. Daniel McCleland for a pension with additional (smudged) proving the validity of his claim and I hope will be satisfactory.  I pray to attention to his (faded) will confer a great favor on the old gentleman as he is very old and inform.
     Please let me know as soon as practicable the fate of the claims of Daniel McCleland  Peter Watts  William Yernch James Lindsay Joshua Richardson James Hackman and Alexander Mazes which I sent on some months since.
     I have the honor to be being Respectfully yr Obt. Servt
                      Geo. Pettilley


Hon. Lewis Cass
Secretary of War
City of Washington
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State of Kentucky
Shelby County Sct.
     Personally appeared before me George Pettilly  a Justice of the Peace in and for said county Sarah Clayton aged 73 years who being duly sworn saith that she was acquainted with Capt. Daniel McCleland in the County of Mifflin and State of Pennsylvania during the Revolutionary War, that from general reports in the neighborhood where he then lived.  She believes the said McCleland did serve as Captain and she further states that her husband David Clayton previous to her marriage with him was an Ensign in the said McClelands company as she has often heard both him to be husband and Capt. Daniel Mccleland say (smudged) she states that she knew Col. Thomas Turbutt and Major Elliott of whom Capt McCleland saith in his declaration and also Col. Purdy.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 13th day of February 1833.
                             Sarah X Clayton
                              (X her mark)

Geo. Pettilly JPSC
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State of Kentucky
Shelby County Sct
     I George Pettilly a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and Commonwealth aforesaid do certify that Sarah Clayton who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing affidavit is a lady of respectability and that her statement is entitled to full credit.
     Given under my hand as a Justice of the Peace in and for said county this 13th day of February 1833.
          Geo. Pettilly  JPSC

     I James S. Whitaker Clerk of the County Court of Shelby County Kentucky, do certify that George Pettilly before whom the foregoing affidavit was subscribed and sworn to was at the time of doing the same, and now is one of the Commonwealth Justices of the Peace for Shelby County, duly commissioned and qualified, and that due and it ought to be given to all his official acts, and I further certify that his signature attached to said affidavit is genuine.
     In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 15th day of February 1833.
     Jas. S. Whitaker C
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An amendment to the declaration of Capt Daniel McCleland relative to his three year service as a Captain of Rangers in the County of Mifflin and State of Pennsylvania during the Revolutionary war.  The said Captain Daniel McCleland being duly sworn according to law by me George Pettilly a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Shelby and State of Kentucky saith that he was absolutely in the service of the United States during the three years mentioned which he served as Captain of Rangers in the County of Mifflin and State of Pennsylvania, and that what he meant in his declaration when he says "a small part of which time he was not in active service" was he was at home four months during the winter 1778 and spring 1779 and subject at a minutes warning to be called into service that he has no documentary evidence by which to prove his claim.
                           Daniel McCleland
     Subscribed and sworn to before me this 13th day of February 1833
            
Geo. Pettilly JPSC
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State of Kentucky
Shelby County Sct
     I James S. Whitaker Clerk of the Court of Shelby County Ky, do certify that George Pettilly before whom the within statement was sworn by was at the time of doing the same and now is one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid duly commissioned and qualified and that all his official acts as such are entitled to full credit.  I further certify that his signature thereto affixed is genuine.
     In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of office this the 14th day of February 1833.
                Jas. S. Whitaker
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(4 stamps)
RECEIVED NOV 1935
MAIL SUB-DIV

FRANKFORD KY
NOV 17 1935
4 PM

RED CROSS ROLL CALL JOIN

RECEIVED 
NOV 25 1935
PENSION (faded)

TTHIS SIDE OF CARD IS FOR ADDRESS

Veterans Administration
Rev. War Pension division
Washington, D.C.
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Nov. 17, 1935, Frankfort, Ky., 402  Shelby St.,

Gentlemen:  Will you kindly send me the pension record of Daniel McClelland who drew a pension in 1832-33 Shelby County, Ky., also all family relationships shown.  He married three times according to records, twice in Kentucky, and from the court records I am unable to straighten out all relationships of his heirs named in deeds and suits.  He married in Ky. 1787, but at least one son was born in 1780, and a dau. married 1793 here.
     I thank you in advance for information at your earliest convenience.  The pension record here says he was a Capt. of North Carolina troops.
                   Very truly yours,
                   (Miss) Hattie M. Scott
                    402 Shelby St.,
                    Frankfort, Ky.

can't identify 11-22-35 OW

(H.M. Scott)
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                       Washington D.C. Dec. 15, 1926

Veterans Bureau
Revolutionary War - Pension Section
Washington, D.C.

Gentlemen:-
     I would appreciate it very much if I could obtain a copy of the pension application of Captain DANIEL MCCLELAND.  I believe that this man made application from Shelby County Kentucky about Sept 17, 1832.  I am also under the impression that the number of his pension application was S 31246.
     I desire this information to prepare a history of the Shriner Family and its collateral relations.
     Please send this information to my Terre Haute Indiana address.
                     Yours truly,
                      Walter O. Shriner

2525 N. 10th St.
Terry Haute Ind.
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January 13, 1936
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BA-J/EEL 
Daniel McCleland - S.31246

Miss Hattie M. Scott
402 Shelby Street
Frankfort, Kentucky

Dear Madam:
      Reference is made to your letter in which you request record of Daniel McCleland, who served as captain in the North Carolina Troops in the Revolutionary War and received pension while residing in Shelby County, Kentucky.
     The data which follow are obtained from the papers on file in Revolutionary War pension claim, S.31246, based upon the military service in that war of Daniel McCleland.
     The date and place of birth and that names of the parents of Daniel McCleland are not shown.
     While a resident of Guilford County, North Carolina, Daniel McCleland volunteered in the spring of 1776, served in Captain Maban's Company, Colonel Montgomery's North Carolina Regiment and was in an engagement with the Tories at Blackwater Bridge; length of service and rank not shown: in the fall of 1776, he moved to Mifflin County, Pennsylvania, and about August 1, 1777, was appointed captain in Colonel Irvine's Pennsylvania Regiment; was in the battles of Brandywine and Germantown, and served until the army went into winter quarters at Valley Forge when he returned home; in the spring of 1778, he entered the service as captain in Colonel Watts' Pennsylvania Regiment and served until June following: he was in the battle of Crooked Billet: in the fall of 1778, Daniel McCleland was appointed captain of a company of rangers and received a commission from Governor Mifflin, and from this time until the close of the war, he was almost constantly engaged with his company, served on the frontier and at the forts defending the inhabitants from the Indians and was in a number of skirmishes. He stated that he was under a number of officers among them Colonels Purdy and Turbott and Major Elliott and that his entire service amounted to about four years.
     In 1786, he moved to the state of Kentucky.

(written in margins)
Daniel McClelland is listed as capt of NC bat not of Pa.  did not find sol under Cols. Irvine or Watts.

Found sol. in Pa Archive as capt under Col. Purdy in Cumberland Co. Mil
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      Daniel McCleland was allowed pension on his application executed September 17, 1832, at which time he was aged eighty years and resided in Shelby County, Kentucky.  He was referred to as Daniel McCleland, Senior.  He signed McCleland.
     In 1833, soldier's son, John, made affidavit in Jefferson County, Indiana.  John was born about 1783 or 1784.  The name of his mother is not given, nor are the names of any other children shown, and there are no further family data.   
     In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, the name and address of person paid and possibly the date of death of the Revolutionary War pensioner, Daniel McCleland (S.31246), you should address The Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, this city, and cite the following data:
     Daniel McCleland, Senior, Certificate No.13941, issued June 15, 1833, rate $480 per annum, commenced March 4, 1831, Act of June 7, 1832, Kentucky Agency. 
                         Very truly yours

                          A.D. HILLER
                          Executive Assistant
                          to the Administrator.