Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 33102, for Abraham Mitchell, North Carolina
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Mr Gideon Potter    a clergyman, residing in the county of Lawrence and State of Indiana, and Jessee Rector and Francis M. McBride and James Pace residing in the same county 
and state, hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Abraham Mitchell, who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be seventy two years of age, that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the revolution, and that we concur in that opinion. 
     Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid. 
         Gideon Potter MG 
         Jesse Rector 
         Francis M. McBride 
         James Pace 
 
  Interrogatories put by the Court. 
1. Question- When and in what year were you born? 
Answer- I was born in Pennsylvania on the 23rd day of August 1761.  
2. Question- Have you any record of your age, and if so, where is it? 
Answer-I have a record of my age taken from my fathers family register, which record is now at my home in this county. 
3. Question- Where were you living when called into service, where have you lived since the Revolutionary war, and where do you now live? 
Answer- when called into service I was living in Guildford County in the State of North Carolina 
where I also resided the twenty five or thirty years next succeeding the revolution, after which time I removed to the State of Indiana, where I at present reside, and where I have resided the sixteen years last past. 
4. Question- How were you called into service, were you drafted, or did you volunteer, were you a substitute, and if a substitute for whom? 
Answer- I was drafted into the service for a nine month tour, sometime during the year 1778, I afterward volunteered about the last
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RECEIVED
FEB 10  1940
MAIL SUB-DIV.
VETS ADM
READER #5

MRS. FRANK C. BUCKLEY
1708 NORTH TWENTY-FIRST STREET
SUPERIOR, WISCONSIN

                Feb. 1940
U.S. Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir:-
     Will you kindly send me a copy of the pension record of a soldier of the AM.REV., name ABRAHAM MITCHELL, who died in Lawrence Co., Indiana?
     I am particularly anxious to get any family data contained therein, name of wife, and names of any or all children mentioned.
      Thanking you for your trouble, I am,
            Sincerely,
            Mrs. F.C. Buckley
            1706 N. 21st St.
            Superior, Wis.