Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 7488, for James Mullins, Virginia
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Service 
VA

Mullins, James 
Mullings, Mary

Number 
R. 7488
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State of Illinois}
Edgar County} to wit:

Be it known that on this 30th day of May in 
the year eighteen hundred & fifty four [before] me James
[Steele] a Justice of the Peace in and for the county 
and State aforesaid, personally appeared Stephan Mul-
-lins aged Seventy years, a resident of said county
and State, who being first duly sworn, declares that he 
is the son James Mullins deceased, who was a revolu-
-tionary soldier, and of Mary Mullins now also deceased,
who was an applicant for a [willow’s] pension under
the act of 1836, for the services of her said husband James 
Mullins. That the said Mary Mullins, his mother died 
at Stephan Mullins residence in the State of Illinois on the 15 the day of 
March 1845, and that he the said Stephan Mullins 
and Jane Cassaday, Paul [Mullins], [unknown] Owens
are the only surviving children of the said James and 
Mary Mullins, and he makes this declaration to obtain
in behalf of the said surviving children and [himself]
the amount of pension to which his said [unknown]
was [entitled] up to the date of her death.
In testimony whereof he [unknown] hereunto set his hand 
and affixed his seal the day year above written. 
[unknown] J State 

Stephan Mullins  {seal}

Sworn to and subscribed before me this 30th day of May

James Stale 
J.P. {seal}
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State of Illinois}
Edgar County}

Be it known that on this 30th day of May AD 1854 before me an acting Justice 
of the Peace in and for said county, personally 
appeared Paul Mullins and Daniel Cassaday who
being by me first duly sworn according to law on 
this oaths declare that they were present at the 
residence of Stephan Mullins in said county
of Edgar and State of Illinois on the 15th day of 
March AD 1845 and that they then and there 
witnessed that death of Mary Mullins widow of 
James Mullins deceased, In testimony whereof
they have hereunto set [unknown] hands this this 
the 30th day of May in the year of our Lord
One Thousand Eight hundred and fifty 
four

Paul Mullins 
Daniel Cassaday

Sworn to and subscribed before me this 30th
day of May 1854

James Stale [unknown] {seal}
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State of Illinois}
Edgar County} 

I George  W. Rives Clerk
of the County Court for the county aforesaid 
Do hereby certify that James Steele whose 
names appears to the foregoing certificates [was]
at the date of signing the same an acting 
Justice of the Peace for the county aforesaid 
duly commissioned and qualified that his 
signature is genuine, and full faith and 
[cut off] are due all of his official acts-
In testimony whereof I have 
hereunto set my hand and affixed 
the seal of said Court at Paris 
this 30th day of May AD 1854

George W. Rives CLK
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The commonwealth of Kentucky 
Mercer County
August 21st 1837

On this day [unknown] appeared before the 
subscriber, Obediah Garnett, a Justice of The 
Peace in and for the County [aforesaid] duly com
-missioned to act as such, and member of the 
County Court of said County, Mrs Mary Mullins, 
a resident of said County and State, who being 
first duly sworn according to law, on her oath
makes the following declaration in order to 
obtain the benefit of the [unknown] made by
the act of Congress passed the 4th day of 
July 1836.
The states that she is the [unknown]
of James Mullins, who served in the year of 
the revolution: That she [intermarried] with the 
said James Mullins in Charlotte County
Virginina, the 26th of December in the year 1767.
-She was born in King William County Virginia,
in the year 1747, the [precise] month and day 
is not [recollected]. Her [husband] died in the 
year 1825 0r 6, in the County of Mercer afore-
-said- From her [extreme] age, and the great 
length of time which has elapsed, she cannot
at this time give a [precise] statement of 
all the service performed by her husband
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during the Revolutionary War; that she will [take]
such as she can now [collect]. Her said hus-
-band served [three] tours; the first was for three
months in the [militia] - he was in the battle 
in which Gates was defeated - In the [second] tour
he was a volunteer for six weeks and served 
that length of time and obtained a credit
for three months service. She does not recollect
the [precise] time of service of the third tour -
it was some or three years after the [performance] 
of the second tour above mentioned, and was 
whilst [Cornwallis] was in the County - she 
recollects [unknown] that the British took
of a [unknown] man belonging to her father-
a portion of the services of her husband 
aforesaid was performed in Virginia and a part
in the South - Her husband had three [separate]
discharges for his service that they were all
[unknown] by his children. The names of the [unknown]
officers under whom her husband were
[once] familiar to her but time has [unknown] them
{except one of them which was Apt. John Wadelleton in command of Gen. Gates}
from her memory. She trust that her failure to 
state the particulars of her husbands services will
[crossed out] prejudice her claim. Of the general correctness of the 
principal facts here stated she has no doubts
whatever [viz] the time of her marriage - the services
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of her husband in the war of the Revolution for a 
period of more than six months, the death 
of her husband - and that she has remained 
a widow ever since - 
All of which will more fully appear by the 
proof hereto [unknown] and which she trusts will 
be satisfactory and [entitle] her to the [unknown]
she thinks is due to her from the government.
Sworn to and aforesaid, the day and year
first above mentioned.
Mary Mullins

Mercer County Set-
August 21st 1837 - I certify that the following 
declaration was [unknown] to sign and from to 
by Mary Mullins, before me, as above mentioned.
That the applicant is personally known to me 
and I have the [unknown] confidence in the verity
of ant statements made by her - That from her 
extreme age and [unknown] she is unable, [crossed out]
without great inconvenience to attend the County 
Court to [unknown] to her declaration -
Given under my hand as a Justice of 
the Peace for Mercer County as aforesaid the day
and year first above mentioned-
O. Garnett
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5618
V.

Pension claim of
Mary Mullins of
Edgar County Illinois

No 5618

H. S. McRobert
Senate U.S.
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State of Illinois 
Edgar County

On this 16th day of June in the year of out Lord
one thousand eight hundred and forty two, [personally] appeared 
before me George Redmon, one of the judges in county [unknown]
[unknown] of the county [commissioners] court in and for the county
of Edgar and state of Illinois [said] court being a court of [record]
having a [clerk] and official seal and [so] declared by the the [unknown] of 
the state of Illinois [unknown] said [court] Mary Mullins a 
resident of said [county] of Edgar aged ninety five years on
the 26th day of [March] [unknown] 1842. Who being first duly sworn
according to law [doth]on her oath make the following declaration 
in order to obtain the benefit of the [unknown] [made] by the act of 
[congress] passed July 4, 1836. That [she] is the widow of James
Mullins and was a private in the company commanded by John
[Haddleton] of the [Virginia] militia in the Revolutionary war.
That her said husband James Mullins [resided] in the county of 
Charlotte in the state of [Virginia] in the year 1780 and in the 
month of May or June of that year he [entered] the service of the 
the United States in the [unknown] Militia under Captain John
Haddleton at [unknown] ferry on [unknown] River in Charlotte county
in the state of Virginia as a [substitute] for [William] Parker who 
was drafted for a three month tour to serve in that war
that [said] Mullins her husband served out the time of the 
[said] three months draft as aforesaid and was in the Battle 
of Gates defeat in South Carolina during the [town] & was
discharged and returned home [he] [thinks] about the last of 
August on first of [September] of that year he cannot 
recollect the [regiment] to which he belonged, nor the [unknown]
the officers of the [regiment] nor the officers names who had
command of the [troop].
That afterwards to [unit] in the same year he thinks the 
said James Mullins her said husband [volunteered] and went 
into the service of the United States in the Virginia Militia
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for a three months tour in the [same] county of Charlotte 
and [unknown] and [unknown] out his [said] three months tour
under [General] [Gieon] he thinks and [General] [unknown] but 
she does not recollect his captains name nor the regiment 
to which he [unknown] She states that during this [unknown]
time of service the said Mullins, her husband was at the 
Battle at Guilford courthouse in [North] Carolina 
that he [served] out his [unknown] tour, as a volunteer of 
aforesaid was [discharged] and returned home in the spring 
afterwards.
That perviously to [unknown] in the year 1778, the said
James Mullins her said husband resided in the said county
of Charlotte in the state of Virginia and in the [spring] of 
that year he was drafted into the service of the United Sates 
in the Virginia Militia and [unknown] the service at Charlotte
court house for the town of three months but [he] cannot
recollect the names of the officers under whom he served this 
tour but recollects the troops [unknown] marched to Richmond
in Virginia he was not in any battle or [engagement] during 
this tour that he recollects now. But that he served
out his time and was discharged at Charlotte court 
house and returned home in the [unknown] of the year
1778. He thinks but cannot [now] recollect the [unknown]
time of his entering the service of of his being discharged 
She further [declares] that the said James Mullins, [the said]
husband had his [respective discharged from the [several] tours 
of service as aforesaid given to [uniting] by his 
officers, but that said discharge was [unknown] by the children 
of her family during the [unknown] of their parents form home
in Charlotte county Virginia about the year [1783]
That she does not know any [person] now living who 
served with her said husband in the Revolutionary war
as aforementioned by whom she can [prove] the service of her 
said husband as above herein [specified]
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that she has a daughter, now living in the said county of 
Edgar in the state of Illinois, viz.
Sarah Mullins, now aged seventy three years past
who probably can testify of her said husbands service of 
aforesaid. 
She further states that she was married other the 
said James Mullins on the 26th day of December in the
year seventeen hundred and sixty four in the county of 
Charlotte and state of Virginia by one John Johnson
a preist of the High Church of England by [publication]
without a license. That her husband the said James 
Mullins died in the 5th day of April in the year 1827
in the county of [Mercer] Kentucky and that she has
remained a widow ever since that period.
She further declares that her husband the said James
Mullins never drew any pension during his lifetime for 
and on account of his said services nor was he placed 
on the pension roll or agency of any state or territory 
nor has this declarant his wide ever [unknown]
[unknown] for and on account of his said services nor she 
nor has she ever been [placed] on any pension roll
or agency of any state or territory.
She further declares that she has not any family 
record of her age or that of her husband or children 
nor was there any ever kept by her other her said husband 
nor has she any family record of her said marriage 
to the said James Mullins nor was there any family 
record of her said marriage ever kept or [made] by 
her or her husband nor does she know or 
believe that any record of her said priest who married 
them nor is there any record of her said marriage 
in the county of Charlotte Virginia where they were 
married or aforesaid. 
She further declares that she had born in wedlock with
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the said James Mullins eleven children viz. [unknown] who was 
[born] about ten months after marriage & died at eighteen 
months old next [unknown] [born] about [15] months after [unknown] [birth]
& died about four years age; next Sarah born the 13th of April
1768 who is now living in this county; next [unknown] who was
born about 18 months after Sarah & died in the 22 [year]
of his age; next [unknown] who was born 25th December 1773 & died 
at 9 months old; next [unknown] born in December 1775 now 
living in this county intermarried with Daniel Cassiday;
next Stephan who is now living in this county born in June 
1777; next [Susannah] born in Aug 1779 who is now living 
in Scott county Indiana & is intermarried with Abraham Owen;
Next Paul who was born in December about two years afterwards 
& is now living in this county; next a son born in Aug
born two years after Paul & died at about [nine] days old; next 
Polly who was born in September about two years after the last one 
[unknown] & died about nineteen years since.
She further declares that she has lived with her said husband 
from the time of her said marriage to him until the [time] of 
his death as aforesaid in the county of Charlotte Halifax 
in Virgina, next in [unknown] in Virginia, next in [unknown]
county Kentucky where her said husband died as aforesaid;
And that [she] has since [unknown] death go her said husband [unknown]
in [Mercer] county Kentucky and lastly in Edgar county
Illinois where she now resides & has resided for the 
last 20 months last and that she has never [unknown]
with any other person since the death of her said husband 
as aforesaid and that she has remained a widow ever 
since that period as will more fully appear by [unknown]
to the proof hereto annexed. 
[unknown] to & subscribed before me 
this 16th day of June 1842.
George Redman [unknown]
Mary Mullins
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I George Redman the county commissions in and for 
the county of Edgar and State of Illinois before whom the above 
declaration was made to certify that I have attended at the 
[residence] of the said Mary Mullins in the said county of Edgar
[on the day of the date] hereof for the purpose of taking the said 
[declaration] and that the same was then and there taken [unknown]
and [unknown] to [before] me and I do further certify that I believe 
the said Mary Mullins to be of the age of [ninety five] years 
as she states and that form her advanced age and [bodily]
[infirmity] and [consequent] [unknown] she is [unable] to attend at 
and before a court of [record] in and for the said county of 
Edgar and that she is a person of credibility & respectability
[unknown] [certify] for my own personal knowledge 
[unknown] under my hand at said county this 16th day of June 
1842
George Redman [unknown]

State of Illinois}
Edgar County}

On this 16th day of June A.D. 1842 personally 
appeared before me George Redman 
one of the county commissions in and for the said county of 
Edgar Sarah Mullins a resident of said county aged 
[seventy three] years past who being by me duly sworn according 
to [unknown] upon her oath says that she is a [unknown] daughter of 
James Mullins & Mary Mullins that her father James 
Mullins died on or about the 5th day of April in the year 
1827 in [Mercer] county in the state of Kentucky; that her 
father the said James Mullins resided with his family in 
Charlotte county in the state of Virginia from her [earliest] 
recollection which was she thinks as early as the year 1777
that her father was out three tours of three months each
in the Revolutionary was in the Virginia Militia while he
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lived in Charlotte county Virginia, she further says that her 
father [went] out she thinks the firs time when she was in
the fourth year of her age about the year 1778, was drafted and 
[went] with the troops she thinks to [Richmond] Virginia in the 
spring of that year that he returned home in the [unknown]
[afterwards] that in the spring about two years afterwards her 
father went out a second time in the Virginia Militia for 
three months as a substitute for on [William Parker] who 
was drafted in the neighborhood in Charlotte county 
Virginia under Captain [Waddleton] of the Virginia [Militia] 
That her said father served out his time as a substitute 
for Parker as she heard her father say after he came home,
and that he was at the Battle at Gates defeat while out the 
second tour & returned home in the fall he thinks or latter
part of the summer of the same year. 
That her father shortly after this return home the second 
time; [unknown] and went out in the Virginia militia 
from Charlotte county a third time for three months 
but she does not recollect the names of his officers she recollects 
that he was gone this time form home some length of 
time [over] his [town] & retuned home after his time was 
out and was in the Battle at Guilford court house 
while out this last time, she thinks that her father 
[unknown] in the three tours fully nine months that she can 
recollect the service of her father very well and can speak
of it as she has related with certainty  and well recollects 
the hardships the family had to endure while her father was 
out in the service as aforesaid & can recollect distinctly of 
her fathers return home each time.
That her mother Mary Mullins & her father James Mullins 
resided together & lived together as husband & wife form 
her first recollection to the times of her fathers death as 
aforesaid that they lived in Charlotte county Halifax &
[unknown] county in Virginia & next in Mercer county 
Kentucky while her father died as aforesaid that she
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was present at the death & [funeral] of her father 
that her mother Mary Mullins has lived in Mercer
county Kentucky since the death of her father and 
is now living in Edgar county Illinois & has lived 
there for the last 20 months past that her mother has 
never intermarried with any after [unknown] since her said 
father death that yet remains his widow.
That the said James Mullins and Mary Mullins, her 
father & mother as aforesaid, are the same [identical] persons
[unknown] & aforesaid in the declaration of the said Mary Mullins 
above hereto annexed as made on this day before George 
Redman on the county commissions of Edgar county 
Illinois, at the residence of the said Mary Mullins. 
That this affiant knows nothing of the first child of her father 
& mother as it died as they said at about 18 months old.
She knows all her other brothers & sisters viz. Martha who 
died about four years ago aged about [72] years. [unknown]
who died in the 22nd year of his age. [Coleman] who 
died while young. Jane now Jane Cassaday aged about 
67 last December. Stephan now living aged almost 65 years
Susannah now Susannah Owen living in Scott co. La.
aged almost 63 years. Paul who is living in Edgar county 
Illinois. a son not named who died in its infancy &
Polly who died about 19 years ago. Further said not. 
Known to & subscribed} 
before me this 16th day}
of June 1842}
George Redman [unknown]}
Sarah Mullins
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State of Illinois}
Edgar County}

I George [Redman], the county [unknown]
[unknown] in and for said county [unknown]
whom the [foregoing] [deposition] of Sarah Mullins,
[unknown] taken [subscribed] and [unknown] to before me this day 
do certify that the said Sarah Mullins is a resident of 
the said county of Edgar and is a person of respectability 
and [unknown] credibility of the age of [75] years, as she   
states which I certify from my own formal knowledge
Given under my [unknown] this 16th day of June 1842
George Redman [unknown]

State of Illinois}
Edgar County}

I Robert A. [Dickerson] Clerk 
of the county commissions court in and for the county of
Edgar and state of Illinois do certify that George Redman 
whose official signatures appear to the above and foregoing 
declaration of Mary Mullins, as having been taken subscribed 
and sworn to before him and to his certificate of [bodily infirmity]
and to the [deposition] of Sarah Mullins, as having been 
taken subscribed and sworn to before him & to his certificate 
of the credibility of the said Sarah Mullins, was on
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the day of the dates thereof [respectively] one of the county 
[unknown] in and for the said county of Edgar, duly
[unknown] and qualified as such that full faith and [credit]
[unknown] his official acts [&] that his said signatures 
[unknown] [unknown][and] I do further certify that 
said county [commission] court is a court of [good] 
of which the said George [Redimon] is one of the 
judges [on] county [commission] thereof 
In [testimony]whereof I have 
[hereunto] [subscribed] my name
and affixed the official seal of said 
court at [unknown] this 16th day of 
June [Ann] [unknown] 1842
Robert N. Dickenson Clk
By his dep. J. Harding
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Information as contained in his (or his widow’s) application for pen-
-sion on file in this Bureau.  R. 7488 James Mullins

DATES OF ENLISTMENTS OR APPOINTMENT 
1. [Spring] 1778
2. [May or June] 1780
3. 1781

LENGTH OF SERVICE
1. 3mons.
2. 3mons.
3. 3mons.
RANK
1. [Pvt.]
2.
3.
OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED
	CAPTIAN
1. offices [unknown] states
2. John [unknown]
3. offices [unknown] states
	COLONEL
1.
2.
3.
STAFF
1. Va.
2.
3.
Her claim was not allowed as she did not furnish sufficient
proof of six [months] service as required by [unknown] of July 4, 1836
[under] which she applied
Battles engaged in, [unknown] in SC and Guildford Crt.
Residence of solider at enlistment, Charlotte, V.
Dates of application for pension, June 16 1842
Residence at date of application, Edgar C. Ill.
Age at date of application, [U] Mar 26 1747
Remarks:  [unknown] died in [Mercer] C. Ky. Apr. 5 1827. He married in Charlotte, V. Dec. 26, 1764
Mary- Children: Nancy [b]. 1765; Martha [b]. 1766; Sarah [b]. Apr. 13 1768;
Ephraim [b]. 1769; Coleman [b]. Dec. 25 1773; Jane [b]. Dec. 1775 [mar] David Cassidy; Stephan [b] June 1777; Susannah [b] Aug. 1779 [mar] [unknown] Owen; Paul [b] Dec 1781;
a son who died in [unknown] [b] 1783; Polly [b] Sept 1785. [Widow] died Mar. 15 1845. [unknown]
Stephan Mullins, [unknown] Cassidy, Paul Mullins and Susannah [unknown] only [unknown] children. 
Very Respectfully,
—-
Claim R. 7487 was not with R. 7488 when this history was written.
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V2593

Mrs Mary Mullins 
[and] James 
[unknown] &
[care] of J. Harlan

[Hr] Jas Harlan
HR
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State of Kentucky 
Mercer County 

Sarah Mullins states that she is 
the daughter of James & Mary Mullins 
and is now in her sixty seventh year.
I have a distinct recollection of my
father James Mullins being in the three [tours]
in the service of the United States during
the Revolutionary War, & that he
was in the service more than six
months all together, I have no [recollection] 
of his immediate commander except that 
of Capt. John Wadddleton whose company 
he belonged when he was under Gen
Gates Command at the tome of his 
[defeat] as my father said when he 
returned home, he also said that his
gun was [struck] with a ball from the 
enemy [which] in the act of loading & was
so much injured that he had to throw it 
away & that he [unknown] [up] a [blacked out ink]
I have a recollection of seeing his several discharges 
three in all, at the time of my father service 
above mentioned he lived in Charlotte County
Virginia, my father died in Mercer County, Ky in 
the year 1825 or 1826 I am not certain which year
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& that my mother Mary Mullins the 
applicant for pension under the late law [of unknown] has remained a widow ever since 
sworn & subscribed this 21st day of August 
1837
her
Sarah + Mullins 
Mark

State of Kentucky 
Mercer County 

Sarah Mullins this day personally 
appeared before me a justice of the peace 
in & for said county & made oath that 
the foregoing statement are true to best of 
knowledge & recollection given under 
my hand this 21st day August [1837]
[O] Garnett J.P.

State of Kentucky 
Mercer County. I Thomas Allen Clerk 
of the court for the County afd do certify
that Obediah Garnett [Esq] whose name 
is subscribed to the [unknown] certificates hereto 
is an acing justice of the Peace on and 
one of the judges of the Mercer County Court
duly commissioned and qualified and as 
[unknown] full faith and [credit] in and [unknown]
to be given to [every] of his official acts as
such.

In testimony whereof Ihave 
hereunto set my hand &
seal of office that [unknown] day 
of September 1837
Tho. Allen
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State of Illinois}
Edgar County}

Be it known that before me 
Saml. [Connely] a justice of the Peace personally appeared 
Stephan Mullins aged 66 years, who being duly cau-
-tioned and their sworn in due from of law, states 
that he is one of the children or son of James Mullins 
who was a revolutionary solider in the State of 
Virginia and that he died on the 7th day of 
April 1826 and that his mother, named Mary 
died on the 15th day of March 18455. The time 
and place of their marriage this applicant does 
not know, but supposes and have [heard] my
father say they were married in Charlotte Cou-
nty in the State of Virginia. This [applicant] says
and knows that they lived together as man
&wife from the time of his recollection
to the time of the death of his father and 
that they were residents of the said county of 
Charlotte for some years and from there moved 
to the county of Halifax and resided there
some years and from there moved to the 
county of Mercer in the state of Kentucky 
where my father dies and that this af-
fiant now now resides in the County of Edgar
in the state of Illinois and has so resided 
for 17 years and furthermore by these 
presents constitutes appoints and fully empowers 
and authorizes [irrevocably] and with power 
of substitution F.E. Hassler of Washington D.C.
as my true and lawful attorney for me 
and in my names and stead, to examine 
into, to prosecute to demand and to receive 
from the U. S. Government and states officers my 
rights in all and in any manner of claims
for for increase of pension or [unknown] of pension
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or land that may be due me as a son and 
[heir] of James Mullins, who died leaving the 
same [unknown], as in right of law I may be 
entitled. In witness whereof Stephan Mullins 
has on this 25th day of October 1852 [hereunto] signed
his name and affixed his seal.
Stephan +(his mark) Mullins 

Attest
Saml. [Connely]
Paul Mullins

Signed sealed, acknowledged & sworn to 
before me; and I further certify that Stephan
Mullins, has always [unknown] the community been 
known as a person whose names is subscribed 
to the above dated on this 25th day of October 
1852
Saml. [Counely] J.P

States of Illinois}
County of Edgar}
I hereby certify that Samuel Counely Esq
before whom the foregoing affidavits and acknowledge-
ment were made and who has thereunto subscribed 
his name, was at the time of so doing Justice of the 
Peace in and for the County aforesaid duly comm-
issioned and sworn and that his signature above 
written is genuine 

[Set] my hand and affixed the seal
of Edgar County Court this 25th day
of October one thousand eight hundred 
and fifty two
James M Miller Clerk
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Power of Attorney 
from
Stephen Mullins 
to 
H. C. [Shalding]
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State of Illinois}
Edgar County}

Know all men by 
these presents that Stephan Mullins of the County and State aforesaid, the son and 
legal heir of James Mullins a revolutionary 
solider, and Mary Mullins his wife, who 
applied for a widows pension under act of 4th 
of July 1836 do hereby [constitute] name autho-
rise and appoint H.C. Spalding of the City
of Washington D.C. my true lawful and 
sole attorney, for me and my name 
and for my use and benefit to [prosecute] 
my claim for whatever amount of rev-
olutionary pension there may be due time 
as the son of the said James & Mary Mullins, 
to examine all papers or records on the files 
of the [Department], to file additional evidence 
and arguments, and to do any and all ne-
cessary acts in the [unknown] the same as I 
myself could do were I personally present .
And I hereby formally revoke annual 
and cancel all other powers or authority 
[heretofore] by me given to any [person] whom
so ever. Witness my hand and seal this
29th day of April 1854
Attest of seal}
[unknown] P. [Mullins]}
Stephan Mullins 

Sworn to and subscribed before me this 29th 
day of April 1854
James [Steele]
J.P.
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State of Illinois}
Edgar County} J. George W [Rives] Clerk
of the County, for the county 
aforesaid do hereby certify that James [Steele]
whose name appears to the [within] certificate 
was at the date of signing the same an acting 
Justice of the Peace for the County aforesaid 
duly commissioned and qualified according 
to law. that his signature is [genuine] and 
that full faith and credit are due all of 
[covered up] acts as such
I testimony whereof I have [hereto]
set my hand and affixed the 
seal of said court at [unknown] 
this 29th day of April [unknown] 1834
George W [Rives] Clk
Page 27

House of Representatives 
Jan 3rd 1849

Dear Sir. 
This is before your department 
a revolutionary claim in favor of Mary
Mullins of Illinois. I should be pleased 
to hear from you respecting it.

Yours Respectfully 
Hon J. L. Edwards
[unknown]
Page 28

Washington City 
June 27, 1862

Hon J. L. Edwards
Com Pensions 

Sir. I inclose the papers and proofs
of Mary Mullins of Edgar Co Illinois 
which she has has forwarded to me 
to see if she is entitled to a pension.

Please advise me of the result.

Your [unknown] seal

[Saml M Roberts]
Page 29

Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873,

7,487
P.O. Mary Mullins 

Enlisted:___,18
Discharged:_____, 18 
{REJECTED}

The claim [under this] no. 7487 was
placed with 7488, on April 29, 1929.
Page 30

Mary [unknown]
Kentucky 
Suspended 
Lee Papers

S B [True]
[Present]
Page 31

Stephan Mullins 
Dear Sir

We [hereby] request
and empower you to apply for the amount 
of Pension to which our mother Mary Mullins 
[widow] of James Mullins deceased was
entitled at [her] death for which she made 
application under the the act of Congress of 1836
[unknown] May 30th 1854

Paul Mullins 
Jane Cassaday
[Savanah] Owen
Page 32

{State of North Carolina 
{Comptroller’s Office

J. William J. Clarke Comptroller of Public 
accounts in and for the State aforesaid 
do hereby certify that it appears of record 
in my office among the payments made 
by paid State to [sundry] persons for 
Military services in the Revolutionary 
War as follows, to wit:

James Mullins Private 
for services in Continental Army from [June] 
1778 to August 1779 one hundred and 
eleven dollars and nineteen cents ($111.19)
Statement C. Entry 920
In testimony whereof I
have hereunto subscribed 
my name and affixed 
the seal of office 
this April 11th day 
1854
Page 33

Washington June 6th 1854

Hon L P. Maldo

Commissioner 

Sir.

I herewith submit the 
declaration of Stephan Mullins in behalf of 
[unknown] and the rest of the [children] now alive 
of James Mullins a revolutionary solider, and 
Mary Mullins his wife, who applied for a wid-
-ows pension and was suspended under [act]
4 July 1836. I also enclose a certificate [clearly]
establishing his service. 

[Very] Respectfully 
Your Obt. [Sert.]
R. C. [unknown]
Atty
Page 34

{Left side}

1688206

WAR DEPARTMENT,
THE ADJUTANT GENERAL’S OFFICE
WASHINGTON Aug. 29, 1910.

Respectfully returned to 

Mr. O. B. Lester, 
Tuscola, Illinois

The name James Mullins has not been
found on the rolls, on file this
Department, of any organization of 
Virginia or North Carolina troops that 
was in the war of the Revolution. 
The collection of Revolutionary war
records on this office is, however, 
far from complete, and it is suggested 
as a possibility that information 
concerning the subject of this in-
quiry can be obtained from the Li-
brarian, Virginia State Library, at
Richmond, or Sate Auditor of
North Carolina, at Raleigh, or from
the Commissioner of Pensions, this 
city. 
The records show that one James
Mullen served as a drummer in Captain
Joseph Powell’s Company, Colonel John 
Patton’s Regiment of Continental 
troops, Revolutionary war, and that he 
enlisted February 6, 1777, and de-
serted May 17, 1777. The place of 
his enlistment is not shown. 

[unknown]
-The Adjutant General 
(A. G. O. 72-1)

{Right side}

223 Ind. Ave
Washington D.C
Oct. 6 1911

Respectfully submitted 
to Hon Commissioner of 
Pensions with the re-
quest that an examina-
tion of the records of 
the Pension Office be 
made for [unknown] of 
service of James Mullins a solider of 
the war of [Independence]

O.B. Lester
Page 35

-UNOFFICIAL-

WAR DEPARTMENT,
OFFICE OF THE PAYMASTER GENERAL,
WASHINGTON. August 27, 1910.

The Adjutant General,

Washington, D.C.

Sir:

Will you kindly furnish me a repot form the records of 
your office, if such records contain the information, of the ser-
vice of James Mullins, a solider in the War of Independence, who
served in either a North Carolina of Virginia organization? He
claims to have served on the south under General Gates. I have 
no official record of such service.
The purpose of such report is to establish his descendants 
to join the Daughters of the American Revolution. 
Please mail such report to my address, Tuscola, Illinois, 
where it will reach me while on leave as a clerk in the office of
the Paymaster General. I am a great grandson of James Mullins.

Very respectfully,
O.B. Lester
Page 36

1911 Oct 11- Hist.
O.B. Lester

Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
7,488
P.O. Mary Mullins
wid. of James

{REJECTED}
Page 37

259[3]

Mary Mullins
Kentucky
2593

Suspended 
[unknown] Letter 15th
[Set] 37 H [unknown]

7H87
1836
Page 38

Rev Paper of Mary Mullins of Ills. widow of
James Mullins, suspended, under act of 1836,
May 10th /56.

H.C. [Spalding]
[Mr.] Cole - I will call tomorrow
Page 39

5618

Mary Mullins
of James
Mullins

Suspended

See let 28 [June] [’42]
[unknown] McRoberts

[unknown] the O B [Ficklin] May
1844

Hon [J Wentworth] Jan 10,
’49 
H.C. Spalding June 1854

7H88
At 4 July 1836
Page 40

[Sept] 15
[unknown]

Col. J.[S] Edwards

Commissioner of Pensions

[Unknown]
Page 41

Sir 
I [unknown] you herewith papers
containing the application of Mrs
Mary Mullins for a pension.

[unknown]
J. Harlan
Sept 14 1837