Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W 2954, for James Mc Gee, Delaware
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Service         Number
Continental  McGee, James  W2954
Del. Magee
Margaret
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18,761 
Pennsylvania 
James McGee 
of Warren in the State of Pena who was a private in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Grayson of the Virginia line, for the term of 1777 to 1780- 

Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 25 of November 1818 

Certificate of Pension issued the 9 of Oct 1822 and sent to John Galbraith Esq Franklin Ten

Arrears to 4th of Sept 1822               362, 66 
Semi anl. all'ce ending 4 March 1823  48
                                                           $410.66 
45 1 of 30
8
360
2.66 
{Revolutionary claim, }
{Act 18th March, 1818}
May 1. 1820 

Let to Hon. J. Galbraith, July 7. 1837. do. to fam 26 July 1837
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5931 
Penn[sylvania - torn off]
Philade[lphia - torn off]
Margaret M? McGee widow of James McGee who was a Private in the Penn & Va Line 

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 80 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence the 4th day of March, 1843. 
Certificate of Pension issued the 6 day of August 1844 and sent to Benjamin Bartholomew Warren Maine

{Act of March 3, 1843}
Recorded in Book A June 17, 1844 Vol. 1Page 129. 

Pen cert [illegible] sent to Warren Penna Nov 19 1844
Dead
Letters to Pension Agt June 20th 1845
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Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Eighteenth Judicial District
Warren County ss

On this ninth day of December in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight, personally came into open court of Common Pleas of said county Margaret McGee widow and which of James McGee
 late of said County deceased aged seventy six years, who being duly sworn in open Court aforesaid, made the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of
Congress of the 7th July 1838. That she was married to the said James McGee who was a Revolutionary soldier, in the month of May one thousand seven hundred and eighty one according to her best recollection, (the precise
in day not recollected, and of which she has no record or memorandum)  in Mifflin County in the State of Pennsylvania by Henry Taylor Esqr then a Justice of the Peace of that county. That her said husband was a soldier in the Revolution and as such a pension certificate
paid to him under the act of Congress of 1818, some time in the year 1822. ( ^...^)

That her said husband James McGee died
in the month of November A.D. 1823, the Precise day  not now recollected, and that she has since remained a widow and is still unmarried, and that she is seventy  six years of age past

 Margaret (her X mark) McGee


Sworn and subscribed in open
Court the 7th Dec. A.D. 1838

WP McDonra (?)    Proth

(^...^ indicates a word or sentence deleted)
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Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Warren County

Personally came into open Court of
Common Pleas of said County on this seventh day of December  A.D. 1838. Isaiah Jones Esquire a Justice of the Peace in and for said County who being first duly sworn according to Law deposeth and saith that he resided
in the immediate neighborhood of James McGee in Mifflin County as long ago as some where between fifty and sixty years, he thinks near sixty, and remembers distinctly
of its being understood and generally known and believed in the neighborhood that he was married to a certain Margaret McCracken whom he knew very well. This deponent cannot state the year but thinks it was between fifty and sixty years since, and as stated above, thinks nearly sixty   years. That the same James McGee was a resident in Warren County and was an applicant for pension, and as he understood a certificate issued to him about ^ or some time before ^ the time of his death, and the said Margaret McCracken lived and resided with the said James McGee after the time of their reported marriage as his wife and was universally 
 received in the neighborhood as such, and had a large family of children raised by them together as such That the said Margaret, is the same person that is now an applicant for pension, that she has remained a widow and unmarried ever since the death of her said husband James McGee which occurred a
number by years since, but cannot recollect precise by the time

Isaiah Jones   (his signature)

sworn and subscribed the 7th
December A.D. 1838

W. P. McDomer(?)    Proth
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Commonwealth of Pennsylvania 
Warren County 
Personally came into open Court of Common Pleas of said County on this seventh day of December A.D. 1838 Edward Jones aged seventy three years, who being duly sworn in open Court, deponeth and saith that he is well acquainted with Margaret McGee, who is now an applicant before said court for pension, widow of James McGee who died in said county about the year 1822 the precise time he cannot state. That her Maiden name was Margaret McCracken and was married as he verily believes to the said James McGee as he believes in the month of May 1781. This deponent says that he was not present at the marriage, but lived in the immediate neighborhood in Mifflin County Pennsylvania and it was universally understood and believed that they were married at the time aforesaid by one Henry Taylor then a Justice of the peace of that County and long since deceased. That they were afterwards lived together as man and wife and raised a large family of children as such written above he is well acquainted. That he well recollects seeing the said James McGee and Margaret shortly after they were said to be have been married sitting down to the communion table in the Presbyterian Church as man and wife. That the said James McGee with his wife and children remained to Warren County in the summer of 1804 the month after this deponent removed there. That he was well acquainted with the said James McGee and his family after that time until the time of his death and his family since. That the said Margaret has remained a widow ever since the death of her said husband James McGee & is still unmarried. Sworn and subscribed in open Court the 7th day of December A.D. 1838. Edward Jones
William McDowell Prothonotary
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5616
Margaret McGee
Pennsylvania
Admitted
Per ann $80
died Nov 1823
died 7 July 1838
Hon John Galbraith
Erie
Pa

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In testimony thereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office at Warren this fourteenth day of December A D 1838.
W M Donsell Proth [Prothonatory]

Pennsylvania
Warren County } I Nathaniel B Everest Presiding Judge of the Eighteenth Judicial District in the State of Penn. Do hereby certify 
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Commonwealth of Pennsylvania 
Warren County ss
Before me the subscriber a Justice of the peace in and for said county formally came Samuel McGee Esquire one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said County of Warren, who being duly sworn according to law deposeth and saith that he is the reputed son of James McGee Deceased and Margaret McGee who is now an applicant for pension that he remembers from his earliest recollection hearing his father and her speak of his fathers services in the Revolutionary War & that he resided with them until he was - 21 - years of age & afterwards in the same neighborhood, and that the present applicant is the same person who was always reputed as his mother that his father was an applicant for pension under the act of Congress of March 1818 and that a certificate issued to him some time before his decease which asserting to his best recollection took place in the year 1823 and that his said mother still resides in his immediate neighborhood & has remained a widow ever since, and is still unmarred - This deponent further says that he has no record of his age but according to the last date he has, & his best recollection he is now fifty 54 four years of age in 19th June last part,
Sworn & subscribed the 10th day of Decr A. D. 1838
Warren County ss Sworn & Subscribed 
before me the [illegible] one of the Samuel Meyer Justice of the Peace in & for said County the tenth day of Decemb A D one thousand eight hundred & thirty eight 
H. G. Magurt
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State of Pennsylvania 
Warren County ss 
I, William McDowell Prothonotary of the Court of Commonpleas in and for said County do hereby certify, that Henry G Sargent before whom the foregoing deposition or affidavit was taken and subscribed too was at the date thereof and is now an acting Justice of the peace in and for said County duly appointed and sworn and that full faith and credit ought to be given to all his official acts as such - I also certify that I am well acquainted with the signature of said Justice of the Peace and that the signature thereto subscribed purporting to be his is genuine as I verily believe and further certify that the foregoing affidant (towit) of Margaret McGee Isaiah Jones, and Edward Jones, were duly & severally taken in open Court at a Term of the Court of Common Pleas held at Warren in and for said County on the seventh day of December AD 1838 & subscribed to before me the Prothonotary of said Court aforesaid  

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office at Warren this fourteenth day of December A D 1838.
William McDowell Prothonotary
Pennsylvania 
Warren County } I Nathaniel B Eldred Presiding Judge of the Eighteenth Judicial District of the State of Penna. Do hereby Certify that Wiliam P. McDowell whose name appears to the foregoing certificate in the Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Warren and the seal thereto annexed is the seal of the said Court. And further that his attestation of the foregoing record is in due form witness my hand and seal this 14th day of Dec. AD. 1838
 Nathaniel B Eldred Pres. Judge 18th Judl. Dist in Penn

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5616
Margaret McGee
Pennsylvania
Admitted
Per Ann $80
died Nov 1823
died 7 July 1838
Hon. John Galbraith
Erie
Pa
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Warren County in the Sixth Judicial District 
Pennsylvania 
On this sixth day of March 1821 personally appeared in open Court of Common pleas in and for the County of Warren, being a Court of record in and for said County James McGee, aged Eighty seven years resident in - Brokenstraw Township in said County, who being first duly sworn according to Law doth declare that he served in the revolutionary war as follows to wit. That having served some time in Captain Rumford's Company he enlisted under Captain Nathaniel Miller Colonel- Grason's regimen Virginia Line, in the year 1777, that he remained in said service untill the year 1780 -
And I do solemnly swear that I was resident citizen of the United States on the Eighteenth day of March 1818, and that I have not since that time by gift, sale, or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress Entitled "an Act” “to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and Naval service of the United States in the revolutionary War” passed on the Eighteenth day of March 1818 and that I have not, nor any person in trust for me any property, or sureties, contracts or debts due to me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereunto annexed and by me subscribed
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This declarant return no property
He has no debts due to him – 
He has no family living with him but his wife, unable to do any thing for haherve support, he is a farmer by occupation but unable to do any thing for his support 
Debts which I owe 
To Charles Doherty about $20 
do William Connelly - $10 
do Arthur Robinson  - $6
do Andrew Bowman  - $3
                                     $39
James McGee 
State of Pennsylvania 
Warren County ss
I Lansing Witmore Prothonotary of the Court of Common pleas in and for said County do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the records of said Court, and I do further certify that it is the opinion of said Court that the total amount of debts exhibited by said declarant over & above the property he owns is thirty nine Dollars.- 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this Ninth day of March Anno Domini one thousand Eight hundred & Twenty one – 
Lansing Witmore Prothy
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Informal - see act
enclosed. a new declaration
made agreeably to form is
necessary

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James McGee depn
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Venango County ss Personally came before me the subscriber one of the Justices of the Peace in & for said County James Magee of Brokenshaw Township and County of Warren in the State of Penn. who being sworn according to law doth say on his sollemn Oath that he first entered the service of his Country sometime in the year 1776 in the troops called the Wilmington Greens Capt Jonathan Rumford commanded the Company and from Wilmington we were marched to Perth Amboy & there Joined Genl Washington, and was sent over to Staten land, & we look nine Hessians, & after that Remained some time in Perth Amboy & then was marched to Trenton & Crossed the Delaware there and went to the Cross Roads above Philadelphia & by the orders of Genl Washington raised a liberty Pole there on account of the good news Recd from France that the French Court had acknowledged our Independence, the time of my first enlistment being out but by the desire of Genl Washington I went with the troops up to Trenton and on Chrismass Eve took a Regiment of Hessian Soldiers, and when dismised went to Wilmington & there Inlisted again under Capt Mitchell and was marched to Perth Amboy and there was first under the command of Col Grasen who commanded the 16th Virginia Regt & from that went to the white plains & there had several khrimages with the British & then cross the North River to the Jerseys & was marched to Pennsylvania & was in the Battle of Brandywine and
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and in the Battle of Germantown the 4th of October & not long after went into Winter quarters at the Valley Forge and when the British Army left Phila we pursued them & came up with them at Monmouth in the Jerseys and a Number of Skirmishes took place and drove them to their Shiping at Sandy hook & Shortly after Storm the British fort of stony point under command of Genl Wayn & soon after took a party of British at Powles Hook of 160 with out any loss and then March to Morristown in Jerseys & for a year before this acted as Serjant Major, from Morristown was Marched to Phila and from there was Marched towards Charlestown South Carolina under the command of Col Guest and fell in with the enemy at Monks corner Col Washington commanded the light Horse some times the British drove us & Sometimes we drove them. the time of my enlistment being then out Coln Guest requested me to go back with some of our troops to guard Continental Stores & being said Stores Back to camden and there I got my discharge from Capt Young the latter end of April or some time in May 1780 my discharge I sold to Robert & Thomas Duncan of Carlisle who received all the emoluments due to me except the land that they never got, nor I my self never recd any compensation for the same, and am now in a helpless condition and need of assistance from my County
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Sworn & Subscribed before me Nov. 25 1818
James Mcgee 
Sergeant Major 
Isaac Cannely 
Venango County }
State of Pennsylvania }  I Alexander W Calmont Prothonotary of the Court of Common pleas of Venango County in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania do by these present certify that Isaac Connely Esq before whom the forgoing depositions were taken, and who has there unto in his own proper hand writing subscribed his name was at the time of taking such depositions and now is an acting Justice of the peace in and for said County, duly commissioned and Sworn to all whose acts as such due faith and credit is and of right ought to be given throughout the United States and Else where testimony where of I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said Court at Franklin in the said County of Venango the 5th day of December in the year of our Lord One Thousand Eight hundred and Eighteen
 A. W. Calmont Prothy
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Rev. and 1812
Wars Section
MHE/HMM
February 11, 1930.
Cora E. Mitchell
549 Lincoln Avenue
Toledo
Ohio.

Dear Madam:
I advise you from the records in the Revolutionary War pension claim W. 2954, it appears that James Magee (pensioned Mc Gee) enlisted in Delaware early in 1776, served fifteen months as a private under Captains Jonathan Rumford and Latimer "in the troops called the Wilmington Greens", and was in the battles of White Plains and Trenton.

He enlisted April 24, 1777, in Wilmington, Delaware, served as Sergeant Major in Captains Nathaniel Mitchell's and Young's Companies, Colonels Grayson's and Gast's Continental Regiments, and was in the battles of Brandywine, Paoli, Germantown, Monmouth, Stony Point, Paulus Hook, Monk's Corner and in a number of small skirmishes, and was discharged April 24, 1780.

In the summer of 1804 he moved from Mifflin County, Pennsylvania to Warren County, Pennsylvania.

He was allowed pension on his application executed November 25, 1818, at which time he was a resident of Brokenstraw Township, Warren County, Pennsylvania.

In 1821, he was eighty-seven years of age and was then residing in Brokenstraw Township, and at that time stated that he had no family living with him but his wife.

He died in November, 1823, in Warren County, Pennsylvania.

The soldier married in May, 1781, in Mifflin County, Pennsylvania, Miss Margaret McCracken. She was allowed pension on her application executed December 7, 1838, at which time she was seventy-
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six years of age and resided in Warren County, Pennsylvania. In July, 1844, she was living in Deerfield, Township, Warren County, Pennsylvania. She died November 3, 1844.

It is stated that they had a large family of children; the only name given is that of a son, Samuel, who was aged fifty-four years on June 19, 1838. In 1838 he resided in Warren County, Pennsylvania, and was then a Justice of the Peace.

There are no further family data.

This is the history of the only soldier named James Magee (Mc Gee) whose widow was Margaret, that is found on the Revolutionary War records of the Bureau.

Very truly yours,
EARL D. CHURCH
Commisioner.
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1909. April 21. Hist to
Nancy C. Morrow, A.E.P.
Letter with claim S.F. 22760
1913 Feby 8 Hist to Jessie E Magee
1920 June 25 Hist. to Martha [illegible]
McG. Taplin.(?)
1930 Feb. 11. Hist to Cora
E. Mitchell, M E. E.
1934. Dec. 18. Hist. to Mrs. E.B [blacked out]
See letter in [illegible] . Ebenezer [illegible]

WIDOW, &c.
File No. 2954

McGee or
Margaret Magee
Widow
McGee
James Magee
Pri Rev. War
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Act: March 3, 1843
Index: - Vol. M, Page 2.
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Letter to P.agt. Hon. J Galbraith Mar
19 -1840
Paid at the Treasury under the
Act of the 6th April 1838 from
4 Sep 1839 to 4 March 1840. Agt
notified 30th March 1841.
Let to Ben J Bartholomew 27 June 1844
" to Hon. C. M Reed July 9 1849

Pennsylvania 3449
Margaret McGee
widow of James McGee
who was a pensioner under the Act of March 18th 1818
and who died on the November 1823
of Warren in the State of Pennsylvania
who was a Private in the compy commanded
by Col. Grayson in the Virginia
line for 2 years

Inscribed on the Roll of Philadelphia 
at the rate of 80 Dollars - Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March 1836.

Certificate of Pension issued 11th day of July
'39 and sent to attn the Hon. J. Galbraith
Erie Pa

Arrears to the 4th of March     $240.00
Semi-annual allowance ending   40.00
                                                  $280.00

{Act July 7,}
{ 1838. }

Recorded by Resin Orme Clerk,
Book A Vol. 2 Page 158
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From, John. Galbraith
Free
Postmark Jun 30

James L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Washingotn City
D.C.

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James McGee 90022
Bars. Gooden 6 June 20
[illegible] 1818
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Erie, June 30, 1837
Dear sir,
If it is not too much trouble, and it be consistent with the rules of the Pension Office, I wish
to copies of the application of James McGee of
Warren County and Barnabas Evans of Erie County to obtain pension. They were both granted under the act of 1818 and I think within a year or two or perhaps three of the passage of that act. I don't care to have the papers entire, if I have the copies of the applications & certificates & perhaps the [illegible] of witnesses if there were any would be sufficient for me. I think that of McGee is in my hand  writing. If they can be provided to me, I should like to have them soon directed to me here.
I have the honor to be
very Respectfully
Your Obt Sert
John Galbraith

James L. Edwards Esq
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Margaret McGee, Pennsylvania roll, act
July 7. 1838 at $80 per annum
Be pleased to say to what
time she was paid
Pension Office }
July 9. 1844.  } pd to 4 March 1841
JH
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Col Edwards
Pension Office
Washington City
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Erie July 3, 1844
Col. Edwards
Sir
I enclose the deposition of Margaret McGee and likewise that of the Hon. John Galbraith to prove she has lost her certificate
The object is to obtain another to enable her to draw the Pension she is entitled to - Please forward the certificate to me together with the necessary blank for her to fill out to draw her pension
Very respectfully
yours,
Chas M Reed
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(envelope)

FREE

James L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City  D.C,

(notes to side)

5616
June 26
pr
7 July 1838
Pmt
(crossed out word)
Mr. McGee

(stamp)

ERIE
JUNE
19
PA
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Erie   June 19, 1839

J. L. Edward Esqr

Dear Sir

I enclose  the declaration of Mrs. Margaret McGee of Warren County & accompanying
 testimony which was taken last December, but having been some how mislaid has not been forwarded until now. In addition to the
testimony I can state, that I am very well acquainted with the whole family of McGee's- Knew the old man well for two or three years before he died & have seen the old lady every few months since. No body in the neighborhood doubts her having been the wife of James McGee the pensioner. She applied to the state Legislature  not long  after the death of her husband for an annuity which will be found in the Pamphlet Law of 1824 (I can  not turn to it, not having the Pamphlet by me), I know several of the lines of James McGee & the applicant, some of whom must be at last fifty four
or fifty five years of age.  Samuel the oldest son, I know very  well, is a Justice of the Peace, a respectable man & I have no doubt is about the age he states, fifty four or fifty five -

Will you be good enough to aid me
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(continuation letter from Erie)

last acts of Congress granting pensions & the forms adapted under them. There was a pamphlet published under a resolution of Congress containing all the laws & forms up to that time. I would be pleased to get one of the them & then adopted said

I have the honor to be
Very Respectfully
Your Obt Sert

John Galbraith

The certificate of James McGee has been
by some means mislaid-- I presume it was out
to Harrisburg when her application was made  
she states that she thinks it was dated in October 1822 but his faculties have so much failed that she did not wish to state it last she might be mistaken in the line. This is the matter first incited  & after was struck out of her declaration before sworn to
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT
Second Comptroller's Office
March 3d 1841.
Sir:
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An
act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain
Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury
of the United States, Margaret McGee,
---a Pensioner on the Roll of the Philadelphia Agency, at
the rate of Eighty
Dollars and Cents [and cents is crossed-out]
per annum, under the law of the 7th July 1838, has
been paid at this Department, from the
4th of Sept. 1839
to the 4th March 1840
Respectfully yours,
Albion K. Parris
Comptroller.
To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Present.
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In the Sixth Judicial District of Pennsylvania
Warren County ss.

On this third day of September 1822 personally appeared Open Court of Common Pleas, being a court of record for the said County of
Warren   James Magee (aka McGee) aged (according to the best of his knowledge and recollection, about 87 or 88 years, who being
first duly sworn according to Law, doth on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the provision made by the acts of Congress of the 18th March 1818 and the 1st May 1820. That he the said James Magee first enlisted for the time of 15 months,  early in the year 1776 in the State of Delaware in the company commanded by Captain Lattimore, in the Regiment *commanded by*  or colonel not now recollects, it was called the Wilmington Green, at the end of which he then he enlisted for the term of 3 years in the spring 1777 in the
State of Delaware in the company commanded by Captain attached   ^who was of the Delaware states and attached to ^  the 
Regiment commanded by Colonel Grayson in
the line of the State of Virginia on the continental establishment; that he continued to serve in the said corps until the 24th day of April 1780, when he was discharged from the said service in the town of Camden in the State of South Carolina Shortly previous to the expiration of his term he was (illegible)
Captain Youn's(?)  company from whom he received his discharge. That he was in the battles of Brandy Wine, Paoli Germantown and Monmouth and a number of smaller skirmishes
 not now all distinctly recollected, or known by what now called,

And in pursuance of the act of the 1st May 1820 I do

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swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on
the 18th day of March 1818, and that I have not, since that time
by gift, sale or in any manner disposed of my property or any
part therof, with intent thereby is to diminish it as to bring
myself within the provisions of an act of Congress, entitled?? "An
act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval
service of the United States in the Revolutionary War," passed on
the 18th day of March 1818; and think I have not, nor has any 
person in trust for me any property or necessities, contracts,
debt due to me; nor have I any income other than what is
contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me ____
James Megee

This declarant [strikethrough 'has an'] no family at present but his age can not
frequently unable to do any for her support. He is unable to
do any thing whatever, being grievously afflicted with the
Rheumatic pains
James Wager

Sworn to and declared in open court on the this day 
of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and twenty two before
Jesse Moore president of the
aforesaid court of Common please
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Warren county ss

I, John Brown, Clerk of the Court of Common
Pleas in and for the said county of Warren, do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath and the
schedule thereto annexed, an truly copied from the
records of the said court, and I do further certify
that it is the opinion of the said court that the total amount in 
value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is two
dollars. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand
and affixed the seal of the said court, on this fourth day of
September A. D. 1822.
John Brown 
Clerk (Prothonotary) of the court of
Common Pleas of Warren County
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swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on
the 18th day of March 1818, and that I have not, since that time
by gift, sale or in any manner disposed of my property or any
part therof, with intent thereby is to diminish it as to bring
myself within the provisions of an act of Congress, entitled "An
act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval
service of the United States in the Revolutionary War," passed on
the 18th day of March 1818; and think I have not, nor has any
person in trust for me any property or necessities, contracts,
debt due to me; nor have I any income other than what is
contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me ____
James Megee

This declarant [strikethrough 'has an'] no family at present but his age can not
frequently unable to do any for her support. He is unable to
do any thing whatever, being grievously afflicted with the
Rheumatic pains
James Wager

Sworn to and declared in open court on the this day
of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and twenty two before
Jesse Moore president of the
aforesaid court of Common please
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Philan[?] Bankl[?]
I indeed[?] two [?] of  Attorney by James Mc. Gee[?] [?] of Margaret M Gee to claim her pension Now[?] 4 Mar 1843 & Mar 4. 1844 and also from 4 Mar 1844 to 3 Nov[?] the day of her death — The [?] Certificate accompanies them —
You [?] [?] there is certaintty[?] a Clerical in the date of one of the [?] [?] 1844 instead of 1845 —
The party has [?] me I owe them to you to ascertain whether the Pension agnt[?] now may pay the money on little or either or whether they must go back to be reclif[…?]
Yours respectfully[?]
[?] [?]
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James Magee (McGee)

John Galbraith
Franklin, Pa

Recd 23 Aug 1821

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Franklin, Pa
August 15th
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Franklin August 14. 1821.
Hon. J. C. Calhoun
I enclose again the papers of James McGee
an applicant for U. S. pension, and I expect, are the required
additional testimony authenticated in the manner
directed by your note returned to me. I would be particularly
desireable in his case that the certificate could be made and
pensions to the 4th of Septm. as he is totally destitute of any
way of supporting himself, and unable to do any kind of
business whatever. The testimony was procured as soon as
I possibly could attend to it. 
The certificate of Seth Jewell, whose application
I enclosed at the same time I forwarded these papers before, 
has not yet arrived. If it be granted he will wish it
previous to the 4th of Sept. 
I am respectfully
Your Obt. Hbl. Sert. 
John Galbraith
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Franklin PA
Sept. 27th

Free

Hon. J. C. Calhoun
Secretary of War
Washington City
D. C. 

[at right angle to above]
Recd. 9 Oct. 1822
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Franklin Sept. 27. 1842 
Dear Sir
Mr. Mage, whose declaration and testimony were provided last week, is extremely anxious to know the [illegible] of his application. The old man is in a state of [illegible] and would like to know as soon as possible what he is to depend on. If the claim is allowed, as I [illegible] it will be, he would wish the certificate to is inclosed to me as soon as it is ascertained. The old man has been [illegible] extremely solicitous, also I should [illegible] have written sooner.
Very Respectfully
You obt. Hbl. Servt.
John Galbraith
Hon. J.C. Calhoun
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16.894
James Magee (McGee)
Jno. Galbraith
Franklin, Pa
Recd. 30 Sept 1822

(vertical)
Franklin
Sept. 20th
Free
Honorable J.C. Calhoun
Secretary of State
Washington City
D.C.
Page 39

Franklin 
Sept AD 1822 
Dear sir,
Inclosed the declaration of James Magee made according as requested by letter from the War Department of October last, It is not to be wondered at that an old frail man would not continually recollect all the minutia of his services, and that apparent contradictions should appear. he enlisted in Delaware and he says he belonged to the Virginia line now it is possible his name may be found on the Delaware Roll, as I have understood there was not a full Regiment of the Delaware line-- I believe he is a with pensioner. It is perfectly understood in his neighborhood that he served in the War and until he was dis charged although there are none who can swear to distant facts. All the testimony in his power accompanies this declaration. His discharge is lost - was given to a gentleman, That Duncan Esquire for the purpose of drawing his land and was very probably destroyed. 
With sentiments of high respect y
your Obt. Hbl. Servt.
John Galbraith
Honble. J.C. Calhoun
Page 40

Free

J.C. Calhoun
Secretary of War
Washington City
Page 41

Warren County ss 
Before me the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, personally came Samuel Mgee who being duly sworn according to Law deponeth and saith that he is the reputed son of James Mage of Warren County who is now an applicant for United States pension, that he well recollects that about thirty years ago he saw in the hands of his father the said James Mage [illegible] a certain Robert Duncan a certain paper that was then said to be the said James Magee’s discharge from the Revolutionary Army of the United States, but did not read it himself.
Samuel Magee

Sworn and subscribed before }
me the 4th day of Sept AD 1822 }
Daniel Jackson }

Warren County ss 
Before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said County personally came Irish Jones and Edward Jones respectable and credible citizens of said County, who being duly sworn according to law depose and say that about the year 1776 or 1777 they resided adjoint to James Magee who is now an applicant for United States pension in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. They saw him when it was said he was home on furlough with the uniform of the United States army on him and that it was well understood in the neighborhood that he was then a soldier in the Revolutionary Army of the United States, that it was then generally said by persons who belonged to the Army that he was eminent and honorably in that capacity.
Isaiah Jones
Edward Jones
Sworn and subscribed before }
Me on the 4th day of Sept. A.D. 1822 }
Daniel Jackson
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that he was eminent and honorably in that capacity.
Isaiah Jones
Edward Jones
Sworn and subscribed before }
Me on the 4th day of Sept. A.D. 1822 }
Daniel Jackson

Warren County ss
Before me the subscriber a Justice of the peace in and for said County personally came Jacob Bertam and James Daugherty who being duly sworn according to Law depose and say that they will acquainted with James Magee who is now an applicant for United States pension, in the Revolutionary Army of the United States, that he belonged to Colonel Grayons Regiment as they believe of the line of the State of Virginia on Continental Establishment, that he and in the said corps for the space of nine months and more that the said James Magee was in the battles of Gemantown, Brandywine and Monmouth.
Jacob Bertam
James (his mark) Daugherty
Sworn and subscribed - }
the 4th day of Sept. A.D. 1822 }

Warren County ss

Before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said County personally came Samuel Clark who being duly sworn according to law deponeth and with that he knew James Magee who is now on applicant for Pension to the United States, now residing in the said County of Warren, when in the actual service of the United States as a soldier, that in our march from the Valley Forge to the Battle of German Town when he knew him well and that was the only that I was personally particularly acquainted with him.
Samuel{his mark} Clark

Sworn and subscribed the 3d day of Sept. A.D. before me Daniel Jackson
Page 43

of the United States as a soldier, that in our march from the Valley Forge to the Battle of German Town when he knew him well and that was the only that I was personally particularly acquainted with him.
Samuel{his mark} Clark

Sworn and subscribed the 3d day of Sept. A.D. before me Daniel Jackson

Warren County ss 
John Brown, Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of said county do certify that Daniel Jackson esquire before whom the foregoing deposition was taken, was at the time of taking the same and now is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said county-- that his commission duly authenticated remains of record in the Court of Common Pleas - that full faith and confidence are due to all his official acts in that capacity. 

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court at Warren the 4th day of September A.D. 1822
John Brown Prothy
Page 44


Erin County ss

Before me the subscribed a Justice of the
Peace in & for said County, personally came John Galbraith of the borough of Erin, Attorney at Law, who being duly sworn according to law, deposeth & saith that he obtained for
Mrs. Margaret McGee of Warren County, Pennsylvania widow & relict of James McGee deceased a certificate of Pension from the Pension office of the United States, under the
act of Congress of the 7th July 1838 for five years pension the rate of eighty dollars per annum according to the best of his recollection. That under the said certificate into he drew up her power of Attorney to some gentleman 
in Philadelphia, he thinks John W. Rhoads Esqr and acted for her in receiving the account of her pension for the five years & paid it over to her or to her order That he had the certificate in his possession most of the time from the date of said certificate until after the last annual payment became due upon it, & thinks he took
possession of it at the time she gave her power to and the last payment - That he has diligently searched among his papers for said certificate but has not been  able to find it & does not know what became of it, but his best impression is that he forwarded it with said power in order to be surrendered to the pension agency 
not supposing it would be of any more consequence This deponent further says he is well acquainted with Margaret McGee the applicant, & has him for a number of years at lest  twenty & knows that she is the identical 
person, the widow of James McGee, to whom a certificate of pension was granted under the act of 7th July 1838, having attended in her  
the business for her throughout


John Galbraith   (his signature)

sworn subscribed the 2d
day of July A.D. 1844

G. N Bali
Justice Peace
Page 45

(envelope)

J. L. Edwards Esqr
Pension Agent
Washington City  DC

(to mail stamps)
FREE

WARREN PA
JUNE 19

(notes to left side)

June 24, 1847 ]
Mr. Goary(?)
Page 46

Warren  June  17 AD 1844

Dear Sir

Mrs. Margaret McGee's of Deerfield
Township Warren County Pennsylvania drew a pension under the act of the 7th of June AD 1832 and its supplement continuing the time mentioned in that act. The Hon John Galbraith Mr C M Reedy made often drew the Pension
on the old Lady and he her lost her certificate returned to the Pension agent  or knows not which    If it has been returned That it must be known of your department but  in either case I want information for a replace of the
certificate or placed in a situation that she may receive  it the funds  the old Lady is becoming quite feeble &  the circumstances requires the immediate bounty of the government which I see the government has extended & the continuance of  the act, it is now 1 year since she has drawn any thing   your immediate attention with direction upon the subject would infer a great favor upon her


Yours with respect
-
Ben T Basthssmen(?)
Warren, Warren Count

B Direct
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(envelope)

(;mail stamp)

FREE
WARREN 
JULY
12
PA

Hon J. L Edwards
Pension Agent
Washington city D.C

(notes on envelope)
Mail
---- 
h200 July 17, 44

Om pa
Mayt McGee

Benjam Bartholmew(?)
Warren Pa

6200
No 45 act 44
Marg Magee (aka Mcgee)
act 43844 on act
$80.00 per ann
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I
Hon L. L. Edwards
Pension Agent
Washington City D.C.

mail
B200 July 17, 44

one page
march 3, 1843
Mary McGee

FREE
Page 49




(illegible)July 11 (illegible)
Dear Sir
Enclosed is the affidavit of Mary
set Gee of Deerfield Township Warren County
agreeable to your instruction or at least as I can come at it as he is old and does not recollect the Regiment
& a very he indistinct recollection of the name of the captain
but believes it to be Mitchell. The has whichin the exertions
of the 4th C. M. Reed not of the District and in all probability his affidavit has been enclosed to your Department accompanied with the affidate of the Hart J W  Galbraith
that as it was not in pursuance of the direction provided to me I have thought proper to enclose this you will
or (illegible) the certificate to me at this place of the (illegible)
sent to W. Reed or the widow with the amount to be drawn
when drawn
The name of the Pension agent & also a firm
I am sorry to trouble you so much in relation to this matter
but the regulations are so strict without a form it is attested
with a great deal of difficely to obtain the money
Hon J L Edwards
yours Respectfully be
Ben Bartholomen-
Warren Warren County
Page 50

4200
Page 51

Informal
James McGee the applicant
must state the line of the
Army he enlisted--the [illegible]
Captain-- the date of his
inlistment and discharges
near as he can recollect
Page 52


Venango County ss,

 Personally came before me the subscriber one of the Justices of the Peace in & for said County
Arthur Magill who being duly sworn according to law doth on his solemn Oath say that he knew James Magee to be a Soldier in the Continental Army and that I saw him on furlow with his  Regimentals on and further says not-- 

Arthur Magill  (his signature)

Sworn & Subscribed
before me November
25tah 1818
Isaac Connely


Venango County ss

. Personally came before me the subscriber
one of the Justices of the Peace in for said County Richard Arthers who being sworn as the law directs doth depose and on his solemn
Oath doth say that he is acquainted with James Magee these  many years past and that I did consider him to be a soldier in the army the time of the American revolution I saw 
him in his uniform when on furlow at the old Town now where Lewistown stands in Mifflin County then Parading on  Regiment of Militia

Rich Arthers (his signature)


Both the  above depositions are entitled to faith & credit as I am personally acquainted with both of the Gentlemen

Isaac Connely

Sworn & Subscribed before
me Nov 26th 1818

Isaac Connnely
Page 53

James Magee or McGee
Warren Co. Penn -
28 June, 1820
-----
Col
regt 16th  (sic regiment)
virg. regt (additional) (sic Virginia regiment)
April 1777 - 5 yrs
----------
Not found on the rolls.
-------
The testimony on oath
of two or more disinterested and 
credible persons, certified as
such & by the judge,
proving 9 months
service, in continuance, on
contd estab, is required.
---
No property.

John Galbraith, agt
Franklin, PA  rec 5 Aug: 20
Page 54


Depositions taken in favor of James McGee  as applicant for United States pension

Warren County ss

Before me the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace
in and for said county, personally came Jacob Beetem  and Christopher Brice , who being duly sworn according to Law depose and repeatedly say that they are well acquainted with the above named James McGee,  that they know that he served  the continental Establishment in the Revolutionary War of the United States, for and during the full space and term of nine months and more in continuance -


Jacob Beetem ( his signature)
Christopher (his X mark)  Brice

Sworn and subscribed before me the 
8th day of December A.D. 1820

Daniel Jackson


Haven County ss

I Joseph Hackney, one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of said County do certify that Jacob Beetem, , who gave the foregoing deposition is a credible and to the best of my Knowles a disinterested witness - that faith and credit may be given to his testimony; as also Christopher Brice

Joseph Hackney
Page 55


Warren County ss

I Lansing Watmore, Prothonotary of the
Court of Common Pleas in and for said
County Do hereby certify that Daniel Jackson Esquire  who took the foregoing  acknowledgement is duly appointed a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, his  commission to that effect remaining of record

And further, I do certify that Joseph Hackney
Esquire who gave the foregoing certificate is duly 
appointed one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County

Witness my hand and official seal at Warren 
the ninth day of
December A.D. 1820

Lansing Watmore   Prothy
per
Samuel Saxton   Depy
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Warren County ss

I Lansing Witman, Prothonotary of
the Court of Common Pleas for the county
 of Warren, State of Pennsylvania do certify 
that Isaac Connely Esq whom  gave the foregoing certification and before whom the forgoing
oaths were taken, is one of the Justices of the Court of Common Pleas, for the county of
Warren &  in the for said District, in the State of
Pennsylvania, and that full faith and confidence
 on to all his judicial acts as such

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set
my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court at Warren the third day  of July in the our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty


Lansing Witman
Prother

(no seal was affixed)
Page 57


James Magee or McGee
Warren Co. Penn-
28 June, 1820
-----
Col
regt 16
Virg. regt additional
April 1777 - 5 yrs
----
Not found on the rolls
-----
The testimony, on oath
of two or more disinterested
and credible
persons, certified as 
such by the judge,
proving 9 months
service, in continuance,
on continental is required
-----------
No Property
John Galbraith, agt.
Franklin, Pa, recd 5 Aug 20

It is necessary that the Colonels name should be written legibly and a blank form of a Schedule for compliance with the act of 1st May 1820 is herewith transmitted.

Pension Office
Feby 1st 1821
Page 58

Warren County in the State of Pennsylvania
-
In the sixth Judicial District

On the twenty eight day of June in the year of
our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty, Before me the subscriber, one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Warren in the said district
personally came James McGee, of the age of eighty six years, a resident in the said County of Warren in the said sixth Judicial district, who being first duly sworn according to Law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the provisions of the late act of Congress entitled "an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War", that the the said James McGee enlisted first some time in the spring of the year 1776 under Captain Rumford in the Virginia line - That he again enlisted on the 24th day of April 1777 under Captain Nathaniel Mitchel attached to Colonel Nathaniel Greens Regiment
the (illegible)  of the Virginia line and was discharged in Camadon  in South Carolina
that he is not now in possession of his discharge although honorably obtained from his commanding officer- That he served for and during the space of five years -- that he has no other evidence of his services than what is herewith said. -- That he is in reduced
circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his County for support, and that he hereby renounces his claim to all other pensions  than what he now applies  for  And further, he solemnly swears that he was a resident citizen of the United States
on the eighteenth day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and that he has not since that time,  disposed of his property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring him within the provisions
of an act of Congress entitled or act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United State in the Revolutionary War , papers on

(continued)
Page 59

(cont'd Declaration of James McGee)

the eighteenth day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and that he has not, nor has any person in in trust for him, any property, or securities, contracts or debts due to him; nor has he any income, other that what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by him subscribes

 James McGee  (his signature) 

Sworn and subscribed before me
the Twenty eighth  day of June A.D.1820

Isaac Connely


The aforesaid James McGee in State of aforesaid, on his solemn oath states that he has no property owned by him or income whatever nor has any person in trust for  him any property, securities  or debts whatever

James McGee (his signature)

Sworn and subscribed before me
the Twenty eighth  day June of A.D. 1820

Isaac Connely

I, Isaac Connely one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas   in the county of Warren in the eighth Judicial districts in the State of Pennsylvania, Do certify that James McGee took the foregoing oath of service in the Revolutionary War , as stated in his declaration, as also the foregoing statement of property owned by him upon his solemn oath and
ministered by me to him, and that it appears to my satisfaction the said James McGee did serve in the Revolutionary War months, an as stated in the preceding declaration, and that he is in reduced circumstances and stand in need of the 
assistance of his Country for support, agreeably to the act of Congress aforementioned - I now transmit to the Secretary of the War Department the proceedings taken  and had before me in the premises agreeably to the acts
of Congress---
.


 Sworn under my hand and seal the twenty eighth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty.

Isaac Connely

(SEAL  had written)
Page 60

Margret McGees
Deposition of her
pention Certificate
being lost or mislaid
Page 61

Warren County
Personally appeared befoer james McGiIl a Justice of the Peace in and for the said county of Warren a Margrat Magee and after duly sworn according to law deposited and saith that she obtained a United States pensiom undr the act of Congress of July 7 1828 five years pension? and obtained a certificate from  the war office.  I gave my certificate to the Hon. John Galbraith as my attorney to draw my  five year pension and he [] my monthly and  handed it over to me but never returned my certificiate. I have writtend to him several times and he says my certificate is lost or mislaid or that he might have sent it to the pension office when he Mr. Galbraith drew the last draft of my money and he cannot fine it. I am the very identicall and same person and did obtian the said pension above stated, I want to obtain another certificate under these circumstance of my certificate being lost and further 
Faith not witness my [     ]  Seac this 18 day 
sworn and subscribed        of June 1844
trhe 18th day of June 184 4
before me
James McGill
                                          Margrat X Magee
                                                         Mark
Pennsylvania
Warren County

I Walter wl Hodges, Authority of the Court of Common Peace in and for the County of Warren in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania do hereby certify that James McGill Esq before whom the above affidavie of Margrat MaGee was made was at the date therof and now is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the said county duly comissioned and sworn and that full faith and
Page 62

(continution)

credit is and ought to be given to his official acts as such I also certify that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Justice of the Peace and verily believe the Signature
"James MaGill", subscribed thereto purporting to be his is genuine.- In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the Seal of the said Court at Warren the 21st day of June A.D. 1844

W. W. Hodges   Prothy.

(note on bottom)

Margaret MaGee
Deposition of her
pention Certificate
being lost or mislaid
Page 63

THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA.
Warren County SS:

I, Walter W. Hodges Prothonotary of the court of Common Pleas in and for the said county, Do hereby certify that James Magill Esq
who appears to have taken and certified to
the foregoing affidavit was at the date thereof, and now is an acting Justice of the Peace in Deerfield Township in and for said county, duly commissioned and sworn, and that full faith
and credit is and ought to be given to his official acts as such. I also certify that I am well acquainted with the hand-writing of the said Justice of the Peace and verily believe the signature "James Magill J.P subscribed thereto, purporting to be his, is genuine.


In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court at Warren, the Eleventh day of July
A. D. 1844

W..W. Hodges
for. Theo Clemons, Deputy

(note this certification was placed on top of the affidavit in question )

(SEAL affixed to upper left corner)
Page 64


State of Pennsylvania
Warren County ss

On this tenth day of
July AD one thousand Eight hundred and forty four Personally appeared before the Subscriber one of the Justice of the Peace of the Township of Deerfield Warren County and State aforesaid Margaret  McGee a resident of Deerfield Township Warren County & State of Pennsylvania aged some Eighty years old the precise age not known the Record of the same having been lost 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 on the 3rd of March AD 1843 granting pensions to widows of persons who
served during the Revolutionary War. That she is the widow of James McGee who was a Sergeant Major in the army First in the Pennsylvania Line and afterwards transferred to the Virginia Line the Regiment not recollected and belonged to Captain's Mitchells Company under whom he served and the annual
amount of the Pension which she received under the act of July 7th AD 1838 was the sum of Eighty dollars & further she declares
That she is still a widow

Margaret (her X mark) Magee

Sworn to & subscribed on the tenth
day of July AD 1844 before me as
tice of Peace of Deerfield Township
Warren County Pennsylvania

James McGill   JP


I do certify that I am well acquainted with the above deponent Margaret McGee & that she drew a pension under the act of the 7 of July AD 1838 & that she is still a widow

James Magill J. P.
Page 65


Warren County ss

Before me a Justice of the Peace in and for
said County, personally came Jacob Beetem, Samuel Clark; Asa Geer, John Thompson and Samuel Hunter credible and disinterested witnesses, who being duly sworn according to law depose and say that they are well acquainted with James McGee who is now
an applicant for United States Pension, that they are well acquainted with him during the Revolutionary War , that they know that he the said McGee served in the Revolutionary War of the United States on the continental establishment nine month and more in continuance that the facts stated in
his declaration on to the best of their knowledge and beliefs

Jacob Beetem ( his signature)
Asa (his  X mark) Geer
Samuel  (his mark) Clark
Same. Hunter ( his signature)

Sworn and Subscribed
this 30th of July 1826 
Before me

Daniel Jackson
Page 66


Warren County ss

I, John Brown, Prothonotary of the Court of
Common Pleas in and for said County, do
hereby certify, that David Jackson, Esquire, before whom the foregoing depositions were taken
is now an acting Justice of the Peace in and
for said county, that his commission duly authenticated remains among the records of said county and that full faith and credit are due to all his official acts as a Justice of the Peace

Given under my hand and seal
by Office at Warren
the 31st day of July A.D. 1821.

John Brown Prothy

(SEAL illegible but on upper left corner)
Page 67

Pension Dept.
Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir:
I am trying to establish
my record for the D.A.R.
I am told
James Magee
was in such war and
I am trying to find his record
he was born 1733 & died
1823 and enlisted in the
Virginia Line, in 1777.
I am told his widow (whose
name I think was Margret
McCracken) received pension.
Can you give me any
records
Thanking you, I am
Respt
(Miss) Jessie E. Magee
Box 278
Tulsa
Okla.

STAMP: US Pension Office
Feb 2
1918
Page 68

Rev Sec

(stamp)
DEP'T OF THE INTERIOR
RECEIVED
JUNE 2 - 1920
TO BUR. PENSIONS
SEC'Y'S OFF. - APPTS, MAILS & FILES

David City Neb
May 30" 1920

Com of Pensions
Washington D.C.


Dear Sir,

Will you please give me the Rev. War record of James McGee and Thomas McGee.  James  McGee was with the  Warren Co. Pa Rev soldiers & Thomas McGee later lived  in Preston Co.  Va and was a son of James McGee.  I would like also to know if that James McGee served part of a month in Gibbs 23" Regt in the war of 1812 and if he married a Miss Tanfax(?)

(continued)
Page 69

(cont'd letter info on James & Thomas McGee)

of Virginia.

Would like to know when & where he was born.

I am a descendant of those McGee's and wish definite knowledge to entitle one to join the D.A.R.'s

Thanking you for this information.

I am respectfully
Mrs. Martha McGee Taflin(?)

David City Neb.
Page 70

Rv
Page 71

549 Lincoln Ave., Toledo, O.,
Oct. 15, 1929

U.S. Pension Bureau
Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir,-- Please inform me of James McGee
who fought in Capt. Wm. Lamb's Company
8th Battalion Cumberland County in 1780, 1781
and 1782 was a pensioner and if so how
many pages are there in his pension record
as I should like to order a photostat copy.
Yours truly,
Cora E. Mitchell
Page 72

IN REPLY REFER TO
Rev. and 1812
Wars Section.
MMHF

3-2562
UNITED STATES
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Pensions
Washington

January 22, 1930.

Cora E. Mitchell,
549 Lincoln Avenue,
Toledo, Ohio.
Dear Madam:

I advise you that the data furnished by you are not sufficient to
enable this bureau to make intelligent reply to the queries contained
in your letter.
Please fill out such of the blank spaces below, as the information
in your possession will permit, and return to this bureau.
First name of widow Margaret
Full name of soldier James McGee
Residence of soldier at enlistment Probably Carlisle, Pa
Residence of soldier after service Cumberland Co. Pa. also Mifflin Co Pa 
and probably Centre Co. Pa.
Name of state from which he enlisted probably Phila
Approximate date of birth------
Approximate date of death------
kindly return attached letter with your reply.
Respectfully,
Earl D. Church
EARL D. CHURCH,
Commissioner.

STAMP:  US Pension Office Jan 27 1930
Page 73

(government form and schedule)

reply to your request of ...., received.............
for a statement of the military history of... James Magee....soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) (note or is crossed out) application for pension
on file in this Bureau.

W. File 2954.

DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT.
1776
April 24, 1777

LENGTH OF SERVICE.
15 Mos
3 years (crossed out and arrow noted to)
was discharged april 28, 1780

RANK.
Private (note under Latimer & Rumford)
Act. Sgt Maj ( note under Mitchel & Young)


OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.

CAPTAIN.
Latimer
Jonathan Rumford " Wilimington Greens
Nathaniel Mitchell
Young

COLONEL.
Wilmington Greens
Grayson
Gist

STATE.
Del.
Continental


Battles engaged in...Trenton, Brandywine and 
     Paoli Germantown Monmouth Stony Point

Residence of soldier at enlistment,.... not stated 
     Enlisted in Delaware

Date of application for pension, ....Nov. 25, 1818. 
     His claim was allowed

Residence at date of application....., Berkenstrain 
     Township, Warren Co. Pa

Age at date of application, 84 years. He died in 
     Nov. 1823 in Warren Co. Pa,

Remarks:..... Soldier Married in Mifflin Co. Pa. in May 1781, Margaret McCracken, She was allowed pension on an application executed Dec
7 (9 crossed out) 1838 while a resident of Warren Co. Pa. aged 76 years. They had a large
family of children of whom Samuel aged 54 years June 19, 1838 and a resident of Warren Co. Pa. is the only child (named given - crossed out) named

Very respectfully,


(note on Left lower corner)
Reissued by V.L.M. Liby
D. 1913
Page 74

December 18, 1934.

Mrs. E. B. Lane
1334 Cypress Street
Pueblo, Colorado.

BA-J/ILL
Ebenezer Hickox
S. 2617
James Magee
W. 2934

This
belongs
correspondence
in [these words are handwritten with an arrow drawn to James Magee]

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter in which you request
the Revolutionary War records of Ebenezer Hickox and James Magee, both pensioners.

The records of these two soldiers are furnished herein as found in the papers on file in pension claims, based upon their service in the 
Revolutionary War.

ELENEZER HICKOX -S. 2617.
Ebenezer Hickox was born May 29, 1755, in Watertown,
Litchfield County, Connecticut; the names of his parents are not
shown.
While a resident of Watertown, Connecticut, he entered
the service July 1, 1776 as drummer, Captain Michael Dayton's
Company, Colonel Baldwin's Connecticut regiment, was stationed
near New York at the time it was occupied by the British, and was
discharged at the expiration of service of five months. After
that he [illegible black out] himself in readiness for service in Connecticut.
was called out between April 1777 and July 1779, and served in
Captain Michael Dayton's company, Colonel Baldwin's regiment on
the following alarms; nine days at the burning of Danbury, nineteen
days at East Haven twenty-one days at New Haven, and twelve days
at Fairfield and Norwalk.
After the war, the soldier resided in Litchfield, Chatham,
Windsor and Granby, all on Connecticut, and after about 1820, in
Livingston, Jefferson and Hopewell, all in New York State.
He was allowed pension on his application executed May 27,
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1833, at which time he resided in Aurora, Portage County, Ohio.
Ebenezer Hickox had moved to that state in September 1832.
In 1833, one Walt Hickox was a resident of Ravenna, Portage
County, Ohio he stated then that he had been acquainted with
the soldier for about forty years, but he did not state any relationship between them. It was stated also that Ebenezer Hickox had been
a member of the Legislature of Connecticut.
There are no further data relative to the family of this
soldier.
JAMES MAGEE, W. 2954.
James Mgee enlisted in the spring of 1776, served as private in
Captain Jonathan Rumford's and Latimer's companies, of "Wilmington
Greens", was in the battles of White Plains and Trenton. He enlisted
April 24, 1777, in Wilmington, Delaware (also the place of his first
enlistment), served as sergeant major in Captain Nathaniel Mitchell's
company, Colonels Grayson's and Gist's Continental regiments, was in
the battles of Brandywine, Paoli, Germantown, Monmouth, Stony Point
and Paulus Hook, after that went south, was in the engagement at
Monck's Corner, also served in Captain Young's company under Colonel
Gist, and was discharged April 24, 1780.
The soldier resided many years in Mifflin County, Pennsylvania,
and moved about 1804, to Warren County, in that state.
He was allowed pension on his application executed November 25,
1818, at which time he resided in Brokenstraw Township, Warren County,
Pennsylvania. His application was executed in Venango County, Pennsylvania. His name was borne on the pension roll as James McGee.
In 1821, the soldier gave his age as eighty-seven years, but
he did not state the date and place of his birth, nor the names
2.
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of his parents.
James Magee, the soldier, died in November 1823, in Warren County, Pennsylvania.
He married in May, 1781, in Mifflin County, Pennsylvania, Miss
Margaret McCracken, the date and place of her birth and names of
her parents are not shown.

Margaret, the soldier's widow, was allowed pension on her application
executed December 7, 1833, at which time she resided in Warren
County, Pennsylvania; she was then past seventy-six years. In 1844, she resided in Deerfield Township, in said Warren County.  She died November 3, 1844.

It was stated that the soldier and his wife, Margaret, had a
large family of children, Samuel, the eldest of their sons, was born
June 19, 1784, and resided in Warren County, Pennsylvania, in 1838;
he was then a Justice of the Peace. No names of other children
were designated.
Very truly yours,
A. D. HILLER,
Executive Assistant to the Administrator.
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
Form VAN-51-
12-5-41

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
Division of Veterans' Administration Archives

Name McGee James
Grade Private
Line Delaware

Warrant Number  10840
Acreage 100
ISSUED April 7, 1792
to ----not shown-
*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of ""Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800"" which are
registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent
dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800.
Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.