Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 6632, for John Mc Clure, Virginia
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SERVICE
Va
Indian War 1786 - 1789
War of 1812
McClure, John
NUMBER
R. 6632
CONTENTS
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To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States in Congress assembled.
Your Petitioner Margaret McClure resident of the State of Georgia, most respectfully represents that her husband John McClure late of Said State, Served in the Revolutionary War from the State of Virginia in the States of Delaware, Maryland and Pennsylvania in the Continental Army as a non commissioned officer and that he served two terms which embraced nearly the whole Period of the war and was under Capt Tho Luck, Col Frelinghuisen [Frederick Frelinghuysen]. 
Your Petitioner further represents that her husband has applied for a Pension under act of Congress passed June 7th 1832. And that her claim has been suspended a number of times for the alleged Cause that she has not sufficiently identified herself with the Service Connected with his name in the Auditor's Office for the State of Pennsylvania,
Your memorialist feels convinced that there exists on the Suspended files of the Pension Office sufficient evidence to allow the issuing of a Pension Certificate under the Act aforesaid and for further proof and information your memorialist respectfully refers  your honorable body to the said papers.
Your humble Petitioner therefore prays that an Act may be passed granting him the Pension, as the widow & heir of the Said John McClure, which was due to him at his death which took place May 24th 1856, under the said Act of June 7, 1832. I am respectfully
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your humble Petitioner,

Signed in the Presence of
Margaret McClure
A. J. McClure
Martin, C. Fuller J.P
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State of Georgia Habersham County
On this day the 14th of July in the year 1855 before me a Justice of the Peace in and for the county and state aforesaid personally came John McClure aged ninety five years on the 15th day of April last and now a resident of the county and state aforesaid who after being duly sworn according  to the law makes the following  general supplimental declaration in order to aid his claim to a Revolutionary pension under the Act of Congress passed June 7 1832 in doing of which he intends  a more explicit declaration of some of the facts set forth in his original declaration made December 3rd 1844 and the supplimental thereto made in March 1845 both now in the file in the Pension Office together with such additional facts and statements in regard to his revolutionary services  as his attention and recollection have been called to since the filing of his original papers. He therefore states that he was the second son of his father John McClure by his second wife and was raised in Botetourt County State of Virginia that age of sixteen years being stout and well grown and large at that age in the year 1776 (and from the inspiration fixed on his mind) in the month set forth in his original he inlisted in the Regular army in said county for the term of eighteen months and was made after his inlistment an orderly sergeant and was sent as formerly related and  placed under the command of Captain [Frederick] Frelinghuyson and joined the main army under the officers as related in his original declaration. That during  this term of service he was at the Battle of Trenton, also the Battle of Princeton and with a division of the army he thinks commanded by General [Charles] Lee to guard and convey the prisoners taken at Trenton to Philadelphia. That the division of the
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army to which he belonged went into  winter quarters in January 1777 at Valley Forge. That a great part of the succeeding Spring and Summer he spend under  various commands in the neighborhood of Philadelphia until in the month of August or early part of September of that year the division of the army to which he belonged and himself were ordered under General [Anthony] Wayne into Connecticut to watch the movements of the enemy in that direction but to what particular point they marched he cannot recollect.  That while there his said term of service expired and he was discharged by Captain Ferlinghuyson - he believes in the month of October 1777 and he believes  he received his pay from the United States  paymaster - name he cannot recollect - while he was in Connecticut. He then returned to a place near the line of New York and Pennsylvania - the name of the place not recollected and immediately substituted himself for an inlisted soldier by the name of McAdams under the command of Captain Bawler [Captain John Balor, Sr.] by his consent and was a orderly sergeant in said company and served out the balance of his - McAdams- term of service in said company which was about eleven months. during which he was in various services in New York and Pennsylvania and was at the battle of Still Water under the command of the officers named in his original declaration and was discharged as therein related, thus ending his second term of service. In the early part of the fall of 1778 he again inlisted under a Captain [Thomas] Luck for the term of eighteen months under the command of the field officers mentioned in his original declaration. The regiment to which he then belonged was from Virginia as he believes at the time of his inlistment. The army to which he was then attached was in active service and passed through sections of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, new York and finally into Connecticut  where he was again
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discharged at the expiration of his last term of service in the Spring of 1780 by Major [Thomas] Quirk and again received his pay while in Connecticut as he believes but he cannot recollect the name of the place  where he was discharged nor can he remember the name of the officer from whom he received his pay. This ended his third term of service. He then remained in Connecticut at will about eight months. He then went to Armstrong's Station in Kentucky, remained for about two years, then returned to Russell County, Virginia where here remained until the year 1790 four years of this he served as an Indian spy. In February - as he believes -- 1790 he married and in December following to the state of South Carolina and settled in what was then the Pendleton District of the state. In 1792 his house caught fire when he was absent from home and was consumed with all his books and papers amongst which were his three discharges above mentioned and a journal of his own keeping in which were memoranda of his marches and movements and important events and transactions of all his terms of Revolutionary service. The loss of these papers may have caused some discrepancy in his recollections for from the fact of keeping a journal he did not fix dates and events  so accurately in his mind as he otherwise would have done. Still he believes that the relation given of his services are substantially correct so far as facts are concerned as to the dates of those events being mentioned positively. They are so stated from impressions fixed in his memory as the only data to guide him in his relations of gone by times As to the officers  and the various decisions  divisions of the army with which which he acted he did not always know at the time definitely to which of the states they belonged personally as the particular regular or continental lines of the different states was not with him a matter of inquiry at the time, his object being only to perform his duty under any officer that acted as his commander.
That when the law for the benefit of which he now asks
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was passed. He was stout and felt independent and able to gain his subsistence and also told that as he had lost his discharges could not get a pension if he did apply. He therefore  concluded to make no application until about the yea 1844. He becoming infirm from age and being dependent he was prevailed upon by his friends to make an application for a pension.
He  would further states as a matter of personal identity that he commanded as Lieutenant Colonel the regiment of South Carolina militia stationed at Lister's Ferry in the war of 1812. That in the year 1829 he moved from So. Ca. to Rabun County Georgia within  few miles of his present residence.
John McClure
Sworn and subscribed before me on the day nd year above written. And I certify that the declarant is well known to me and a man of truth, that his mind and recollection is still remarkably  good for one so old and that I am in no way interested in his claim. R.R. Jackson, J.P.
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State of Georgia Rabun County 
On this 3rd day of December in the year 1844, personally appeared Before the Inferior court of said County, John McClure a resident of the County and State above written aged 84 eighty four years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832. That he enlisted in the army of the United States on the 10th day of March 1776 for a term of eighteen months with Major Patrick Lockhart who sent him from Botetourt County State of Virginia his place of residence heading a company of eighteen men to Long Island and there in September or October joined the Army under Captain [Frederick Frelinghuysen], Major not recollected, Col. [Seth] 























Warner, and Genls [Charles] Lee, [Adjutant General Joseph] Reed, and [George] Washington and served said time as orderly sergeant and was in the battle of Trenton December 26th 1776 also in the battle of Princeton January 1777 and received a discharge from Capt. Frelinghuysen October 11th 1777 Then took the place of James McAdams (an enlisted soldier) in the State of Pennsylvania October 12
th  1777 and served eleven months. His McAdams’s remaining time under Capt. Bawler [John Bolar, Sr.] as orderly sergeant the Major not recollected Col. [Seth] Warner & Genl [Horatio] Gates and was in the battle at Stillwater October 15th 1777 also in the Battle at Monmouth June 1778 and received a discharge from Capt. Bawler September 12th 1778.  Then enlisted also in the State of Pennsylvania September 20th 1778 for a term of eighteen months under Captain Thomas Luck, Major Quirk, Col not recollected, and Genl Cadwallader [John Cadwalader]. And served said time as orderly sergeant and received a discharge from Major Quirk the last of March or first of April 1780 making an aggregate of three years and eleven months service as an enlisted soldier in the Revolutionary War on the part of the
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United States Marching through and performing said duty in the State of Virginia Maryland New York and Pennsylvania. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity except the present
and he declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any agency in any State he further declares that his
reason why he did not apply for a pension sooner are that he was so unfortunate as to get his house burnt
in 1792 at which time his discharges were burnt and he thought he could not reach pension without his discharges. s/ John McClure
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid s/ Edward Coffee J.I.C
Thomas William JIC
John York JIC

and the said Court do hereby declare their opinion that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states, said Court being a Court of record expertly adjudged by the tribunal of the State s/ Edward Coffee J.I.C
Thomas William J.I.C.
John York JIC

State of Georgia Rabun County
I James Bleckley Clerk of the
Inferior Court of said County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of said Court in the matter of the application of John McCann
for a pension. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand
private seal there being no seal of office this 3rd day of December 1844
s/ James Bleckley CIC
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December 13, 1939
Dr. George West Diehl
First Presbyterian Church
Corpus Christi, Texas
BA-J/AWF
John McClure
R. 6632
Dear Sir:
The data which follow were obtained from papers on file in claim for pension, R. 6632, based upon service of John McClure in the War
of the Revolution. John McClure was born April 15, 1760, place of birth not given. He was the second son of John McClure by a second wife. The name of his mother is not shown.
John McClure ( Junior) was reared in Botetourt County, Virginia. He alleged that he enlisted in Botetourt County, Virginia, where he then resided, March 10, 1776, and served three
years and eleven months as orderly sergeant under Captains [Frederick] Frelinghuysen, Bawler, [John Balor, Sr.] Thomas Luck, Major [Thomas] Quirk, and Colonel [Seth] Warner, that he was in the battles of Trenton, Princeton, Stillwater, Monmouth; and that while residing in Russell County, Virginia, he was an Indian Spy during the years 1786, 1787, 1788 and 1789; and that while residing in Pendleton District, South Carolina, he was Lieutenant Colonel of a regiment of South Carolina militia at Sisters Ferry, during the War of 1812.
He moved in 1829 from South Carolina to Rabun County, Georgia. He applied for pension on account of his service in the Revolutionary War,
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December 3, 1844, at which time he was living in Rabun County, Georgia.

The claim was not allowed as proof of service
as required by the pension law was not
furnished.

John McClure married sometime in 1790, in
Russell County, Virginia, name of this wife not
given, and there are no further data in regard
to her.

He married December 6, 1829, Margaret McClain. The date and place of her birth and names of her parents are not given.

John McClure was living in 1855 in Habersham
County, Georgia. He died May 24, 1856, leaving widow, Margaret McClure, then a resident of Habersham County, Georgia.

It was not stated whether there were any
children.

In 1856 one A. (?) I. McClure was of Habersham County, Georgia, no relationship to the
family shown.

Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator

.
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1917 Sept 28 Hist to Miss Addie Bass
1928 Jan 3 Hist to Hon Orie S Ware
was also in War 1812 for
1932 May 13 hist to Laura Black
Qualid pension See 1626
1939 Dec 13 hist to Davises West Diehl see his letter in Wm Dixon S.16104
1940 Mch 9 hist to Mrs Geo S Surezey
Was also in War 1812 for Invalid pension see 16226.0
6632 of Geo
John McClure
Service; Revy War Va troops
REJECTED
His declaration probably sent to Congress & returned Augt 1883
The printed list of 1852 shows
reasons for suspension-
"For proof of service for his 18 mos: each in the states of Virginia & Pennsylvania by refer to the several state records
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16226  April 24. 1816
John McClure
Habersham Co Georgia
War of 1812
For Revolutionary Claim
see rejected file 6632
His declaration sent to Congress
REJECTED
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John McClure of Geo
Georgia
Margaret  Ga troops

June 7 1832
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M Thompson Dec 23 1832
Do. - July 3, 1853
Let Evans & Fant Dec 22/53
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no 35.909
John McClure Geo
Let to Hon H Cobb Decemr 18 '4_
"  same  Jany 15 __
" TJ Hughes July 22 "4_
"  same  Sept 12 '45
" Hon JC Calhoun May 14 '46
" Hon SH Stephens Jany 6 '47
" I Trammell March 31 '47
" do  July 30 '47
"  same  1st March 1850
" M Thompson Aug 16. 1852
[over] act 7 June 1832
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John McClure Ga
TJ Hughes July 22 1845
AH Stephens Jany 6 1847
I Trammell Mch 31 1847
same July 30 1847
same Mch 1 1850
M Thompson Aug 16 1852
same Dec 22 1853
same July 23 1853
Evans & Fant Dec 22 1853
Rev Bates Aug 28 1855
Miller & Brown July 29 1856
Hon GW Jones Aug 7 1856
Hon Sam A Smith Nov 7/59
6632
June 7 1832
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No 35.909
John McClure Georgia
let to Hon W Cobb Dec 18 '44
let to same Jany 15 '45
let to Thos J Hughes July 12 '45
to same September 12 1845
do to Hon JC Calhoun May 14 1846
Hon AH Stephens Jany 6 '47
act June 7 1832
Let to John Trammell
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Clarksville Georgia
Febry 3d 1851

Dear Sir
In reply to yours of the 24th ult and that of F. S. Evans for the Commissioner of the 18th ult in relation to Major John McClure's claim
I think it altogether unnecessary to say any thing about the rules of June 1834, in his case as I consider that those rules have already been strictly complied with (as well as others) and further I am certain that John McClure is or has been regarded at the department as having performed the official service set forth in his declaration in the War of 1812. from
the fact that Matthew Rhodes was allowed an Invalid Pension to commence on the 17th day of April 1850. from the certificate of John McClure as Major in that same service
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John McClure
Georgia
Susp 7 June 1832
Add evidence

Evans & Faut
Washington City
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State of Georgia Habersham County 
Know all men by these presence that I John McClure of the State & County aforesaid reposing special trust and confidence in my worthy friend Elisha King of Adairsville Georgia do hereby nominate constitute and appoint him the said Elisha King my true and lawful attorney for me and in my name to prosecute my claim to a Revolutionary Pension, against the United States and to introduce such testimony as he may think most advisable for the support and perfection of the same and to receive from the commissioner of Pensions a certificate therefor, when it shall be so perfected, to appoint another attorney or attorneys to aid and assist him in such prosecution, if he should think it advisable so to do. And I do hereby ratify and confirm any and all such things as he may in his discretion think proper to do in the said matter, or touching and concerning the same and I do hereby revoke, disconnect, and declare void, all such power of attorney or other Instruments of writing as I may heretofore have made & executed for the purpose of authorizing any one to act for me in the matter, constituting appointing and confirming him the said Elisha King my only true and lawful attorney to act for me in the said Premises. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal the (blank) day of Sept 1853, 
John McClure

Witness A. M; Mauldin
R. L. Jackson J.P
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Georgia Habersham County
I James E Griggs Clerk of the Inferior Court within and for said County do hereby certify that R. L. Jackson Esqr whose name appears to the foregoing Power of Attorney as a subscribing witness was at the dates thereof an acting Justice of the peace within and for said County and commissioned and qualified according to law, and that his signature thereto appears to be genuine. Sworn under my hand and the seal of the Inferior Court for the County aforesaid this the 1st day of November 1853
Jas. E. Griggs Clk I.C.
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L E 123 No 3 Apl. 24, 1816.
John McClure of
Habersham Co Georgia
Will the Third Auditor be so good as to give the [necessary] certificate in this case?
Pension Office: May 27, 1850
JL Edwards
Letter to Hon Tiswell Uslele Speakr H. R. Aug. 27, 1850
Recd Mch 28
Letter to Thos J. Hughes
Clarksville Georgia Augt 27, 1850
Do to do. Nov. 20. 1850 
Letter to Thos. Lumpkin Jany 18 1851
Present
Letter to Hon Howell Cobb Apl12 1851 Do. to Thomas Lumpkin April, 1851, Do to do May 22, 1852
Let to Hon RE Fenton H.R. May 22/60
Papers sent from No 1 to No 10
M Rind
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Pension Office
May 27, 1850.

Sir
In answer to so much of the enclosed letter from Jas. M. Cumings as relates to his making application for a pension, on account of sickness contracted in the late war of 1812. I have the honor to inform you that, he is at present disabled, and that
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Brief in the case of John McClure 
July 9/53
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Brief in the case of John McClure
The claimant in December 1844 made a declaration which was very vague and obscure and manifested great ignorance of the service. Among the terms claimed was eleven months , from October 1777 as a substitute for an enlisted soldier named James McAdams, of the Pennsylvania troops - being the balance of McAdams term of enlistment. After the expiration of that service, he again enlisted in the Pennsylvania troops September 20th under Captain Luck, Major Quirk, colonel not recollected - General Cadwallader. He served as an orderly sergeant for the term of eighteen months, and received a discharge from Major Quirk the last of March or the first of April, 1780 making an aggregate of three years and eleven months as an enlisted service. The inconsistencies in his statements have been pointed out. He, 1845, made a supplemental declaration in which he did not mean to say his services as a substitute was in the Pennsylvania Forces nor did he mean to convey the idea that his officers were of the Pennsylvania Line, as "he could not recollect
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what State or Line they were of," but merely that "he became a substitute in the State of Pennsylvania." And, further, that he did not mean to convey the idea that his tour of eighteen months, ending in April 1780, was in the Pennsylvania Line; for he did not recollect the direct line of command from the higher officers down to his captain, &c. He also alleged certain service as an Indian Spy, after the close of the war.

The alleged service was not sustained by a particle of testimony - the only witness being a female, who stated she had seen, she believed, three discharges as a regular soldier. Numerous efforts having failed to establish the claim upon the averments of McClure, M. Thompson, Esq; on the 2d of June 1852; filed the certificate of the Auditor General of Pennsylvania, marked No 8, and on the 16th of August following, was informed that the soldier embraced by it was not his client of that name, but referred to a soldier who served in 1782 and 1783 - whereas claimant alleged no service beyond the 1st of April, 1780, &c. Hence, Mr. Thompson's argument [paper No. 9] in favor of the identity of his client with the soldier embraced by the certificate. It is not necessary to reply to that argument further than to say that Mr. Thompson has entirely misconceived the character of the payment indicated by that certificate. In the first place, they show
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conclusively that the soldier was attached to the 8th Regiment of the Continental Line, and received certificates for depreciation of pay due to him to January, 1783, for it will be seen in the caption of that certificate, that it was a settlement between the United States and us [John McClure and others] for pay, etc. to January the 1st 1782 and that after stating the amount of the certificate etc., the Auditor General proceeds to say that "the item below is under the same heading with the exception of the year, being 1783 [underlined] instead of 1782, viz. it was for depreciation of pay due to January 1783 on the same principle as shown in the first item and then follows the item - showing that the certificate was issued December 21st. 1784 being the same day on the first certificate was issued!. But secondly in connection with the evidence furnished by that certificate it is shown by our records that that John McClure was a sergeant in the 8th Regiment Pennsylvania Line and on the 5th of November,1789 received 100 acres of land  as a war's man in pursuance of the Resolution of the Continental Congress of September 16th 1776!
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T. J. Hughes
12 Sep. 1845
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Pension Office Sept 12, 1845
Sir
The service of John McClure as a spy from1786 to 1789 as shown by the deposition of John McClosky affords no grounds for a pension.
The act of 7 June, 1832 provides for these only who served during the Revolutionary War, which terminated in 1783. The statement of McCloskey adds nothing to the testimony on file in this case.

Thomas J Hughes Esqr
Clarksville Ga
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Georgia Habersham County
before me Laven J Heel an acting Justice of the peace in and for said County personally came
John McCroskey and after being duly sworn deposeth and saith that to deponent lived a short Distance of John McClure says 2 or 3 miles at the
time of his inlistment in the year 1776 I was Living amediately in the neighbourhood of his friends and relations and heard them frequently speak of his inlisting. I did not see McClure in the service but I am as sure that he was in the service of the United States as I could be of any
thing that I did not see from hearing his relations and friends so often and repeatedly speak of him having inlisted together with a great many other circumstances connected-- in the year 1791 McClure and my self become neighbours in Pendleton Dist South Carolina and I believe in
1792 John McClure had his house burnt. I heard him repeatedly speak of his loss and of his deep regret of having lost his discharges from the service of the United States that he hated the loss of his discharges so verry much. s/ John Moskey
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 14 day of Oct 1847
s/ Loren J. Keel J P
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State of Georgia Habersham County
I Lawson B Hambright Clerk of the Inferior Court of the County and
State aforesaid do hereby certify that Loven J Keel is a Justice of the peace in and for said County duly commissioned and qualified that his commission was dated on the 25 day of January 1845 and will expire
on the 6th day of January 1849 and that his Signature above written is Genuine
Given under my hand and seal of
said Court this 14th day of October 1847
s/ Lawson B Hambright CIC.
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Clarksville Georgia August 20th 1850
Sir I would thank you to inform me why the claim of John McClure Invalid of Habersham County State of
Georgia has not been acted on before now, the papers were sent in through Hon Howell Cobb early in the Session last winter and I am very anxious for his success, he is regarded
and respected as a soldier of the revolution as well as the war
of 1812, and I hope the department will do something favorable for him before long.
I believe Mr Cobb failed to send
the papers to the pension office untill last may perhaps
Answer me at Clarksville, Georgia
Yours with due respect &
Thomas J. Hughes
J. L. Edwards Comr of Pensions,
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Georgia Habersham Co 4 March 1847
Mr J. L. Edwards the pertition of John McClure of Rabun County having been forwarded to you some time past for a pension under the act of 1832 by a Mr Hughes of Clarksville who has neglected to give McClure any information in regard to the situation of his claim. Mr McClure has
requested me to write to you calling [Illegible] for information on the subject please inform me whether the claims has past if not what they lack please gave me the objections of any
and if the name of John McClure is not on the list of regulars from Va at Washington
your compliance will much
oblige the old man & confer a
faveroan me
yours most obedient Servt
John Trammell
Vanconsky
Post office
Ga
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Georgia Habersham July the 8th 1847
Mr JL Edwards
Sir inclosed you will find the
afidaved of Judith Forguson relative
to the claim of John McClure a petitioner for a pension under the act 7th June 1832 setting forth that McClure has rendered three different
towers one year each which I presume will be sufficient evidence - you will please direct your communications to me at this office
as I am his agent in this case
I am verry respectfully
your
Obedient Servt
John Trammell
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Hon JC Calhoun
14 May 1846
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Pension Office May 14. 1846
Sir
In answer to the enclosed letter from
Mr T.J. Hughs, relative to the case of John McClure, I have to inform you that his claim has not been admitted for want of the necessary proof
to his service during the revolution.
He has set forth in his declaration under the act of June 7, 1832, a service of several years in the regular
army; but his name cannot be found on the rolls
The rule in such cases is to require the testimony of credible witnesses. He has failed to produce such
proof. the affidavit of John McCoskey, which is the only affidavit except his own, that has been exhibited, does not establish any material fact in the case. He swears that the claimant was an Indian Spy from 1786 to 1789
such service as that is not provided for by law.
[Illegible]
35909 Georgia
J. C. Calhoun Senate U.S
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Pen Off Dec 18th 44
Sir
 I have the honor to inform you that the unsupported declaration of Jno McClure has been examined & filed. His narrative of his service is obscure and confused in its statements & exhibits such inconsistency &
ignorance of the service, that his claim will not be allowed except upon proof abundant & credible and furnishing a consistent statement of the several terms of service in which he alleges he was engaged. He states that he was sent to Long Island March 76 (before the declaration of independance) from Botetourt Co. Va at the head of 18 ms men and joined the army on Long Island in Sept or Oct. (which had been driven off the Island by the battle of 27 aug) under Capt Freelinghuyer, Col Warner, Genl Lee - Genl Washington -
There were no 18 month drafts or enlistments in 76 in Va & there was no Va Officers
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bearing the name of Frelinghuyser or
Warner. He again alleges that he became a substitute in the Pa forces under Capt Bowler Col. Warner Genl Gates for eleven months. There were no officers of the designated
names in the Pa line.
In the third tour he asserts that he entered for 18 mo in 78 in a under Capt Thos Luck Major Quirk & Genl Cadwallader. There was no authority to raise men for 18mos in 78 either in Va or [torn] Major Quirk was an officer in the State troops had command of no Capt named Luck & was never
commanded by Col (not Genl) Cadwallader. It is very apparent that he has no claim
Hon Howell Cobb
HR
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Washington City
House of Reps 6th Jan 1845
Sir
you will recollect that I replied to your note on the application of Mr McClure for a pension requesting a
suspension of action on the subject on account of my strong confidence in his integrity & a belief that he would give a satisfactory explanation to the apparent inconsistencies in his declaration. I have never received
the enclosed letter from his Attorney, which I submit to your consideration
together with papers concerning another claim
I am very Respectfully
Yr Obt Savt
Howell Cobb
J L Edwards Esq
Comr of Pen

Ritchie hws
papers handed to
Comr
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Washington City 16th Dec 1844
Sir I enclose to you the application of Mr John McClure of Ga for a pension & would ask for it your early
consideration. I am requested further to state that in addition to his services as set forth in his declaration that he was regularly elected and served as Indian spy for four years & to inquire whether or not
he is entitled to an additional pension
for that service.
I am very respectfully 
your Obt Sert
Howell Cobb
Mr J L Edwards
Com of Pen
WC
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House of Rep 20th Dec 1846
Sir
I have received your reply to the application of Mr McClure for a pension.
I know nothing of the circumstances
connected with this claim and only reply for the purpose of saying to you
that from my personal knowledge of
the character of Mr McClure I
cannot believe that he would attempt to practice a fraud upon the government and would therefore request a suspension of action upon his claim until he shall have had an opportunity of supplying the
necessary proof.
the errors in his statement are doubtless attributable to the feebleness of mind produced by extreme old age and should be considered an evidence of the justice of his claim than otherwise as an effort to commit a fraud would
have been more carefully prepared
I am Very Respectfully Yr Obt svt
Howell Cobb
J L Edwards Esq
Comr of Pen
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Hon H Cobb
Jany 15 '45
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271
Pension Office
January 15 1845
Sir I have the honor to return herewith the letter of Mr Hughes together with his statement in the case of John McClure, and to inform you that any explanation made by an Agent can have no weight, whatever, in any
decision made by this department. The objections to this claim pointed out in my letter to you the 18 Ultimo, can be satisfactory explained only by  the Claimant himself under oath, sustained by the most conclusive proof.
I must repeat that it is believed McClure has no claim whatever, and unless he can furnish a consistent statement of his services, and sustain
the same by the most satisfactory testimony no pension will be allowed
Hon H Cobb
House of Reps
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Washington, Nov 22d 1852.
Honble Jas E Heath
Comr of Pensions
Sir
I have the honor to submit a power of attorney from John McClure of
Union County, in the State of Georgia, who was a revolutionary Soldier, and whose application for a pension under the act of 1832 has been suspended. You will please allow
me to inspect the papers filed in his case at Pension Office
very respectfully
Your Obt Sert
KC. Spalding
Atty
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argument of Mr Thompson 
Aug 52
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Washington Aug 28 1852
Hon Jas E Heath
Commr of Pensions
Sir
In the official report of the then acting
Commir of pensions of 16th Inst. upon the claim of John McClure
of Georgia, for a pension under act of
7th June 1832 he says, "the certificate of the Auditor Genl of Pennd  in the case, "does not refer to
the claimant, as is evidenced
by his statement in 1844. From that it appears he left the service in 1780
The certificate shows a John McClure in service in
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1882 & 85. Does he say in his statement above referred to, or is it
fairly impliable from what does say,
or from the evidence that he did not reenter the service & serve at the
period, & in the capacity, and
position exhibited by the said 
Certificate?
By reference to the auditor Genl's Certificate you Will see it is not true
as stated by the acting Comissioner,
that "the certificate Shows a John McClure in service in '82 & 83"
That certificate, as will been seen, shows that John McClure Recd pay
for his
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services in the War prior to 1st Jany 1782 & therefore does refer to the Claimant as is evidenced by his statement in 1844.
Aside from this Which conclusively
establishes the claim, the acting
Commir seems to have entirely over
looked the important testimony
of Judith Ferguson, Who saw three
discharges in McClure's possession, showing as many years Service as
declared by him. The testimony of John McCroskey also shows the patriotic and meritorious Character
of McClure  & to which the Court
also bear testimony, & their full
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conviction of the facts set forth in his declaration.
For these reasons you will see that justice requires a reexamination of this claim which is respectfully solicited.
I have the honor to be &c
M Thompson
Atty for Jno McClure
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Washington June 2 1852
Hon James E Heath
Sir Having filed a power of atty a 
few days since, authorizing me to
prosecute the Claim &c of John McClure of Georgia under act of 7th June 1832 I herewith inclose a certificate from the Auditor Genl
of Pennsylvania in support
of said claim, & request that the
same be reexamined & the report made to me
have the honor to be Yours
Very resptfy
M Thompson
Atty for McClure
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Pension Office
November 20. 1850
Sir, It appears from an examination
of the additional evidence forwarded by you to this Office in support of the application of Major John McClure for an Invalid Pension, that although he was commissioned on the 30 day of September 1792, and was in all probability in the service acting as
an officer under said Commission yet
there is no evidence that he was injured until the 24 day of July 1813, which was during the war of 1812. And is of course if entitled at all to a pension, entitled under the Laws, Regulations and Rules which
governed other application for pensions on account of wounds injuries or disease incurred by soldiers in said war. and is
not one of the cases embraced in the act of April 25, 1808. As it appears from the evidence furnished that he was merely training the troops, and not actually in the service
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the United States at the time of receiving the injury, it is not in my power, under the laws, regulations and Rules to grant the applicant an
Invalid Pension.
I am respectfully
Your Obt Sert
J L Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
-
Thomas J. Hughes Esq
Clarkesville
Georgia
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Clarksville Georgia
December 15th 1850.
Dear Sir
I herewith refer the case of Maj John
McClure to you with this remark, that I think I have complied with every requisition made known to me by the department and yet they will not allow it. In the first place I was instructed
to make out his papers under act 24th of April 1816. and its supplements
which I did, and then they instructed me to make it out under the act of 25th of April 1808, and you see their
answer to that as herewith sent. And now if you can get it called up and allowed I will give you $25. as his claim will not retrograde I cannot afford to offer any more as this will take my fee in his first draw. I know he is entitled and I hope you can gain his claim
respectfully yours &c
Thomas J. Hughes
Tho Lumpkin Esq
Washington DC
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Washington D.C.
Feb. 11th 1851
Sir
You will confer a favor upon me by examining yourself into the merits of the claim of Major John McClure an applicant from my State for an Invalid pension. This case is believed to
have been made out in accordance with the spirit of the Pension laws.
I enclose you a note from Thos J. Hughes Esq. of Clarksville Ga relating
to this case.
I am with much respt
your Obt svt
Howell Cobb

R. French S Eranz
Chief Clerk
Pension Office
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No 12
72 Washington DC
April 9, 1853
Mr Thompson,
In the matter of the case
of M
Jno McClure of Georgia
Respectfully referred to the
Commissioner of Pensions
Dept. Int
Apl 22 53
Geo C Whiting
Chf Clk
April 1853
Pontrchette
Recd Apl 9. 1853
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Washington Apl 9 1853
Hon Robt McClelland
Secy of the Interior
Sir
In the case of John McClure of Georgia act of 7th June 1832.
I rec'd a power of atty from one of the
parties most immediately interested
& reviewed the same May 28th 1852
& on Jany 3rd 1853, another power
of atty revoking all former powers to every other person, was executed, and placed on file by me Jany 22
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1853. & from all of which it Will be
seen that I am the sole authorized agent in the Case, notwithstanding
Which I have accidentally Learned,
unofficially that said case has been
Carried up to you on appeal from
the Comm. of pension, by
some other agent or agents not
authorized to act in the premises.
you Will of course take notice that the
person properly authorized to act in the premises and none other
shall be recog-
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-nized in said premises.
I have the honor to be most respectfully your obt svt
M Thompson
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34 Cong. 1 Sess.
Petition of 
Margaret McClure
widow of John McClure
applicant for a Revolutionary Pension
1856, August 4. Referred to
the Com. of Pensions,
1857. March 3. Report adverse
No. 443.
[Illegible] Pension
Mr. Iverson
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Washington, Decr 15 1853
Dear Sir
We herewith enclose a power of Atty
and additional evidence case of John
McClure, Georgia Susp, Act 7th
June 1832
&
Very respectfully
Evans & Hant
Hon L. P. Waldo
Comr of Pensions
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House of Representatives
May 24th 1850
Sir you will please give the
Enclosed letters your earliest attention and oblige
yrs respectfully
Howell Cobb
J L Edward Esq
Com Pen
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Copy
Penson Office
July 23 1853
Sir
I have carefully examined the papers in the case of John McClure of Georgia for a pension under the act of June 7 1832. I do not find the service alleged to be satisfactorily proved
He does not produce the testimony of a single witness who saw him in service nor any record evidence in support of his claim, One witness says he is as sure that he was in the
service of the United States as he could be of any thing that he did
not see, but does not detail any circumstances corroborating that statement. One other witness speaks of having heard his discharges read, but does not give their contents.
the witness who speaks of service as an Indian Spy in the years 1786, 87,
88 and 89 does not strengthen the claim for no pension is given for that service. The certificate from the Auditor General of Pennsyvania is not applicable to this case, for in the first place it shows a service after the claimant, by his own story, had ceased
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to serve, and besides that we have the statements in this office showing that John McClure of the Pennsylvania was a Sergeant, enlisted for the war and that he received his Bounty Land as such in 1789
Signd, LP Waldo
Comr

M Thompson
Present
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Dahlonega May 3d 1855
Mr. R.W. Bates
Dear Sir
Mr. Rudolph has just returned from seeing old man John McClure in relation to his Pension the old man I must believe is entitled to a Pension as a Sergeant in the Va Continental Line now if it is not too much trouble take a copy of his declaration and the witnesses names & important portions of what they have sworn to
Perhaps if you were to examine
in the State Deponant you
might find his name. The old Gentleman bears as good a name as any man in the section of Country in which he lives I can get all or as many of his old acquaintances as will be necessary to establish his reputation as an old Rev. Soldier aged from 50 years up to 75. can we make this kind of proof strong enough to get it before the Court of Claims the old Gentleman gives a very good discription of the Battle at Trenton now if you could find any of the old muster rolls  of troops in
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that battle his name might be found on some of them
very respectfully yours
WM Varnum
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Power of Atty
John McClure
GA Susp, 1832
Miller & Braun
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Pension Office Jany 28th [Illegible]
Hon J Minot Com of Pensions
Dear Sir
We herewith enclose you a power of atty from Margaret McClure of Ga. It
seems to be the desire to have her claim considered of Congress and sends us a petition for that purpose. Will the Department in acknowledging the receipt of this note give us full condition of the claim
We remain yours
Miller & Braun
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Pension Office Aug 17 1856
Sir
I herewith enclose the papers in the case of John McClure of Georgia for pension under the act of June 7
1832 together with a letter of the late Commissioner of Pensions of the 23d of July 1853 to M Thompson Esq which will show upon what grounds this Office has refused to allow the claim
very respectfully
Yr Obt servent
J Minot
Commissioner of Pensions
Hon Geo Jones
Chm Com on Pensions
US Senate
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Washington Aug 5th 56
Sir, I am directed by Hon Geo W Jones the Chairman of Com. on Pensions, to request you to furnish to this office, such information as you
may be able to regard to the inclosed petition of Mrs Margaret McClure Respctfully Yours
H. B. Cozzens
Clk Co, Pensions
To Hon
J. Minot
Commr Pensions
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Committee Room
Invalid Pensions May 21, 60
Sir
Will you do me the favor to forward to me for the use of the Committee the papers or a copy thereof in the case of John  McClure applicant for an Invalid Pension perhaps from the State of Georgia. His petition is not
now before me
Very Respectfully
your obt sent
R E Fenton
Geo C Whiting Esq
Com &c
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Power of Atty
HC Spalding
Jany 25th 1853
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Washington, 25th Jany 1853
Houble Jos E. Heath
Comr of Pennons,
Sir
I have the honor to intrust a power of attorney from John McClure of
Habersham County State of Georgia who applied for a pension under act of 7th June 1832, and whose case has been suspended. I desire to examine the papers on file at the Department, in order to see what defects in evidence must be cured.
very respectfully
your obt. sect
H. C. Spalding
Attorney
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48, Washington DC
Feby 1, 1853
H. C. Spalding
Rel to claim of John McClure -

Referred to the Commissioner
of Pensions for Report
Dept Int Feby 3d 1853
Recd Feb. 2. 1853
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Washington Feby 1st 1853
Sir
As the attorney of John McClure an
applicant for a Pension under act of 7th June 1832
I have carefully examined the papers in this case, and have seen the objection to its allowance; Viz: Identity, made by the Commissioner of Pensions- I am instructed by the
Claimant to urge this claim to a speedy issue and now have the honor to ask that the case may be reported to you upon this my appeal
I am very respectfully
your Obt Sert
H C. Spalding
attorney
to Hon A. H. H. Stuart
Secretary of the Interior
Present
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RW. Bates
Washington
Aug 16. 1855
Enclo: Supplementory
Declaration of John McClure for
a Revolutionary Pension
under the act of June 7, 1832
John McClure Ga
Sus 1832

Susannah Arendall
Nathan Ga -sus 1838
Cole
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Washington August 16. 1855
Hon Secy of War
I enclose herewith the supplemental Declaration of John McClure of
Georgia an old Revolutionary veteran, and respectfully request that a most thorough examination of the Rolls in your Dept may be made for his service- Mr McClure is now more than
75 years of age and remembers well the tours he made during the Revolutionary War and it is believed that them is evidence in your Office to
Corroborate his testimony
I also enclose the Deposition of George Gober in support of the Claim of the widow of Nathan Arundel, be pleased also have from the Rolls
examined in this case-
You will return these papers as
soon as the examinations are made & oblige
Your Obt Servant
R.W. Bates
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State of Georgia Habersham County
Know all men by these presents that I
Margaret McClure of said County and State, do hereby constitute and appoint Messrs Miller & Brown of Washington City D C my true and lawful Attorney for me and in my name to prosecute my claim to the Pension due my Husband John McClure at his death for service in the Revolutionary war under act of Congress passed June 7, 1832, and to take up all his papers in the Pension Office for the purpose
of enabling them to urge said claim successfully before Congress and to receive the same when allowed,
Witness my hand & seal July 6th 1856 Margaret McClure
A. J. McClure
Martin C. Fuller J P

State of Georgia Habersham County, ⎬ Be It Known, That on the 6th day of
July 1856. Before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly authorized by law to administer Oaths, Personally appeared Margaret McClure above named and acknowledged the foregoing Power of Attorney to be
her act and deed. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand the day and year last above
mentioned
Martin C. Fuller J P
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John McClure was married to Margaret McClure December the 6th 1829.
Georgia, Habersham County
I hereby certify that the above contains a true Copy of the marriage of John McClure and Margaret McClure as entered in their family
record. July 15th 1856
Martin C. Fuller JP

State of Georgia Habersham County I Philip Martin Clerk of the Superior Court in the County and State aforesaid do hereby certify that Martin C. Fuller before whom the foregoing power of attorney was executed and whose name appears to the above certificate is and was at the date of the same a Justice of the peace in and for said County duly
authorized by law to administer oaths and take acknowledgements and that his name thereunto subscribed is genuine, In testimony whereof I have
hereunto subscribed my name and
affixed my official seal this 16th
day of July A.D. 1856
Philip Martin Clerk S.C.
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Power of Atty
of heir of
John McClure decd
of Georgia
Act 7th June 1832.
Col. M. Thompson
Present
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State of Georgia Habersham County
Know all men by these presents that I
John McClure of said County and State do hereby irrevocably
constitute and appoint M. Thompson of Washington City D.C. my true and lawful agent and Attorney to prosecute my claim for any amount of Revolutionary Pension &c. or increase of Pension that may be due and I hereby authorize my said Agent
to examine all papers and documents in relation to said claim on file in the departments at Washington City or elsewhere to file additional evidence or arguments and to receive the certificate which may be issued for said claim, and to appoint one or more substitutes under him for the purposes herein expressed and
to do all things that I might or could do were I personally present. Hereby ratifying and confirming all that my
said Attorney and Agent shall lawfully do in the premises and expressly revoking a former Power of Attorney
made by me to a Mr Spalding of Washing City either in his own name or in the name of any of the parties at
interest with him as well as a like avocation to the agency of all other person in said case, except my said
Agent M. Thompson of Washington City D C. Witness my hand and seal this 25th day of April A.D. 1853.
s/ John McClure
Signed and and sealed in the presence of s/ TC Tarrard
RL Jackson J. P.

State of Georgia Habersham County
On this 25th day of April AD 1853
Before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, personally appeared John McClure above named and
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acknowledged the foregoing Power of Attorney to be his act and deed for the purposes therein mentioned. In Testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand the day and year aforesaid
and I certify that I am not interested in the result of the case nor concerned in its prosecution
s/ R. L. Jackson J. P.

I Philip Martin Clerk of the Superior Court in the County and State aforesaid do hereby certify that R. L. Jackson before whom the foregoing
Power of Attorney executed, is and was at the date of the same a Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly commissioned and qualified and that the name thereto subscribed is his genuine signature
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 25th day of April A.D. 1853
s/ Philip Martin Clk, S.C.
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State of Georgia Rabun County Personally came Before me M. F Cannon one of the justices of the Peace in said county John McClure who being first duly sworn according to law saith on his oath in order to explain the true intent and meaning of his declaration of December 1844 (now at the war department). First. That he was sent (or started) to Long Island March 1776 from Botetourt County, Virginia, heading eighteen men! (not eighteen months men) and joined the Army of the United States where he met them after the Battle of the 27th August [Battle of Long Island] (which Battle drew them off the Island) in September or October under Capt. Frelinghuysen from the State of New Jersey he thinks. In his Second Tour he says he became a substitute in the State of
Pennsylvania (not the Pennsylvania forces) under Capt Bowler [John Bolar, Sr.] Col [Seth] Warner and Genl [Horatio] Gates for the time of Eleven months, but does not intend in his declaration to convey the idea that said officers were of the
Pennsylvania line, nor does he now recollect what state or line they were of. In the third Tour he says that he enlisted for a term of eighteen months under Capt Thomas Luck, Major [Thomas] Quirk and Cadwallader [General John Cadwalader] a higher officer than Quirk but does not know that Capt Thomas Luck was commanded in the line direct under and by Quirk and Cadwallader, but merely that Quirk and Cadwallader were there and higher in office than Luck. nor does he recollect from what state Capt Luck was, or by the authority of what state he enlisted under Luck. he only knows this distinctly that he
enlisted under Capt Thomas Luck in the State of Pennsylvania in the year 1778. he also says that in relation to the higher officers than his captains in his Three several tours. he does not recollect the direct line of command from the higher officers down to his Captains but that he in all his Services was mostly in the main Army and the higher officers named in his declaration were there.
He further States, that in addition to the services already enumerated in his declaration in favour of the
United States that he served four years as an Indian Spy. to wit 1786 - 1787 - 1788 and 1789 elected by
the magistrates of the counties of Russel ,Montgomery and Washington (State of Virginia) and that he was
a resident of Russel County (State of Virginia) at the time he rendered
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 the services as an indian Spy.
sworn to and Subscribed the 14th day of March 1846 before me
s/ John McClure
MF Cannon JP

I do certify that the above deposition
was made out for a Justice of the Inferior Court and that he could not conveniently be procured and that the
deponent, John McClure was unable to leave home and that it was altered from that of a justice of the Inferior Court to that of a justice of the peace
before it was sworn to and signed up,
s/ M. F. Cannon JP

I James Bleckly. Clerk of the Inferior Court of Rabun County certify that M. F. Cannon is a magistrate as above
and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine, in testimony whereof I have subscribed my name and affixed my private Seal there being no Seal of office.
this Eighteenth day of March One Thousand Eight Hundred and
Forty five
s/ James Bleckley CIC
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John H Cleveland who was a witness in his other applications has since died.
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Clarksville Georgia October 17th 1850
Sir I herewith send the papers of John McClure made out as near as possible in compliance with the instructions contained in yours of the 27th of last August and as I was somewhat surprised at being therein
informed that his name did not appear on the rolls of the Field and Staff Officers of the South Carolina
Militia for the War of 1812, I herewith send his appointment by President of a General Court Martial to come
On at his quarters at Camp Sisters Ferry 27 Febry 1815. which I think will give full satisfaction. I also send other commissions &c to show that he has always been regarded with confidence as a soldier and a patriot and I will first here remark that he
is a very old man and from his wound and age is scarcely able to walk and that he is the same man who applied for a pension from Rabun County Georgia in 1844 or 1845, for services rendered in the revolutionary in the State of Virginia & and as a spy after the close of that war in each of which he failed in consequence of being unable to furnish such proof as would justify the department to have given him a pension, and I have always been of opinion that he was justly
entitled as a revolutioner but if nothing more can be done for him I hope his claim as an invalid will be
readily allowed, answer me at Clarksville, Georgia
yours with due respect &c
Thomas J. Hughes
J. L. Edwards, Comr of Pensions,
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Mil. ent
Major John McClure
Letter to Thos. J. Hughes
Clarkesville, Georgia
May 18.1850
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JL Edwards Commissioner of Pensions, War Department, Washington City DC
W Howan
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Clarksville Ga May 14th 1850
Sir  I would thank you to inform me
if you have ever received an application for a Pension as an invalid in the name of John McClure Major in the war of 1812. through Hon Howell Cobb and if received, why they are not acted on. If the papers are at the Department I would respectfully request as early action on them as
posible and a report of the same to me at Clarksville Georgia
Yours Respectfully &c
Thomas J Hughes
J. L. Edwards
Comr of Pensions
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State of Georgia Baldwin County  On this 11th Day of November One Thousand Eight Hundred and fifty three personally appeared before me S B Brown a Justice of the peace in & for the State & County aforesaid
Gen’l. Benjamin Cleveland a Representative from Habersham County in the State Legislature now
assembled in this County at Milledgeville, and after being duly sworn states upon his Oath that he has ben personally and Intimately acquainted with old Col. John McClure who now Resides in Habersham County and who is an applicant for a Revolutionary Pension, (his application being made from Rabun County Georgia) for the last Thirty Years or upwards, and from his earliest acquaintance with him he has
ben regarded as a soldier of the Revolutionary war. he has often heared him speak of his Revolutionary services, giving a minute and detailed account of them, and that he always gave the same narrative of them so that he (affiant) is fully convinced and confirmed in the Belief that he rendered the services, for which he claims to be pensioned, he further states that said claimant has from his earliest acquaintance with him ben a Respectable and Reputable man. In the War of 1812 he the said applicant commanded as a Major from Pendleton District South Carolina for which service he has received Bounty Lands, under the late Act of Congress, he further states that he now lives a near neighbor to old Col. McClure the said applicant that he retains his Mental faculties uncomonly well for one of his age. That he even now speaks of the scenes of the Revolution with much accuracy and precision. he speaks of Battles, of Marches & of Incidents connected with them, with great minuteness and correctness, so as to confirm all who hear him, in the balief that he served as he alledges he did.
Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and date above.
s/  Benjamin Cleveland
SB Brown JP
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State of Georgia Baldwin County
On this 11th Day of November One thousand Eight Hundred and fifty three personally came Colonel H.T.
Mosely a citizen of Rabun County Georgia before me S. B. Brown a Justice of the peace in and for the State aforesaid and for the County of Baldwin and after being duly sworn declare upon his oath that he has been personally and intimately acquainted with Col John McClure formally of Rabun County Georgia but
now of Habersham County Georgia, and who is an applicant for a Revolutionary Pension for the last thirty five or forty years, and that from his earliest acquaintance with him, the said John McClure, he heard him speak of his Revolutionary service
he further states that in the time of the war of 1812. between the United States and Great Brittain there was a call in Pendleton District South Carolina (where Col McClure and affiant both then lived, for volunteers to serve in that war when the said Col John McClure became a Volunteer
and from the confidence Inspired in the minds of his acquaintances
by his Revolutionary character and services, he was elected a Field Officer in the volunteer Regiment which was then made up and Marched to Sisters ferry over a competitor who was thought to be his superior in point of Sprightliness of intellect, which fact he has often heard spoken of since, he further states that from his long acquaintance with old Col John McClure (the said applicant) that he does not for a moment doubt but that he Rendered the service for which he claims to be pensioned, and
that it is right he should receive it
Sworn to and subscribed before
me the day and date above,
s/ S. W. Brown J.P. 
H. T. Mozeley
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State of Georgia Baldwin County, On this Eleventh day of November one
Thousand Eight Hundred and fifty three personally appeared before me SB Brown a Justice of the peace in & for the State & County aforesaid John
Trammell a resident Citizen of Habersham County Georgia and a senator from the said County of Habersham in the Legislature now in session in Milledgeville in this County, and after being duly sworn according to law states upon oath that he has been personally and intimately acquainted with Col John McClure of Habersham County Ga formally of Rabun County Ga. who is an applicant
for a Pension for Revolutionary service (who made his application, from Rabin County), for the last Twenty years, and from his
earliest acquaintance with him he heard him speak of his Revolutionary Services, and he has during all
that time been regarded as a soldier of the Revolution by all who he has heard speak of that matter he further states that he has frequently heard the Old gentleman speak of loosing his discharges from the service by the Burning of his House, he further
States that he has heared an old Lady by the name of Mrs Furguson who is a Lady of truth and veracity say that she has frequently saw the discharges of him the said John McClure from the services in the war of the Revolution and heard them Read some two or three in number, and that she recollect sthe name of
one of the Captains mentioned in said discharges was Freelinghuysen, That she was intimately acquainted with & lived near to the said John McClure
at the time his house was burned and that she heard him say at the time that his discharges
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burned up and that he regreted their loss Very much, as he set considerable store by them
he further states that he is fully satisfied the Old Gentleman ought to be pensioned for the service he claim
Sworn to and subscribed
before me the day and Date above -
s/ John Trammell
SB Brown J.P.

Executive Department
Milledgeville Nov. 11th 1853
This is to certify that it appears
from the Records of this Department
that Samuel B. Brown whose signature appears above is a
commissioned and acting Justice
of the Peace in and for the County
of Baldwin State of Georgia and I
further certify that John Trammell whose signature appears above is the
Senator elect from Habersham County and Benjamin Cleveland the 
Representative elect from said 
County of Habersham State of
Georgia
Given under my hand and the seal of the Executive Department of the State of Georgia
s/ L. H. Briscoe
Sect Ex Department
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Clarksville August 7th 1845
To the Commissioner of Pensions.
Dear Sir,
I return the declaration of Zachariah Pulliam and Catharine Tankersly after having the examined and approved of
by the Inferior Court Court of Record of Habersham County you will therefore receive and file them untill I send further proof.
In relation to John McClures claim accident has led me to the proof of his services as a spy. which was by barely mentioning in the presence of John McCroskey that I should
have to go to Virginia to get proof for McClure when he McCroskey informed me that he was knowing to the services of John McClure but did not know that I wished to establish
his services as a spy. I do not know that I understand enough about the Pension Law to say whether or not he
would be entitled to any larger pension from a proof of his first claimed service together with his services as a spy or whether he is only entitled to what is called a full pension for all named when as much as two years service is clearly proven in either or both.
In relation to your letter of the 22nd of July last in refering  me to your letter to the Hon Mr Cobb for the proof required to sustain the claim of John McCure I gladly hope a failure
of those exact proof in his first claim for services will be no Bar to his claim for other services clearly set forth if so I  flatter myself that the old gentleman will early get a pension unless he should have to make out another declaration setting forth
his services as a spy. if his reference to them in the explanation of his first declaration will not answer. Answer me in Clarksville, Georgia
I remain yours very truly &c.
Thomas J. Hughs
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Matthew Rhodes
and 
John McClure

J. L. Edwards Comr of Pensions
War Department
Washington City
D C
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Clarksville Georgia March 11th 1850
Dear Sir
Some time in last November or December I sent the papers of Messrs Matthew Rhodes and
John McClure (Invalid) of Habersham County, Georgia claiming a pension, and as I think the proof was
made in terms of law I have been looking some time for an answer on them. All applicants do not
understand the manner in which such business is attended to and complain at their agents for the delay
I would therefore thank you for as early action on these claims as posible. Answer me at Clarksville Georgia
Yours truly &c
Thomas J. Hughes
J.L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
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Georgia Habersham County
Before me William B. Craig an acting Justice of the Peace in & for said County personally came Judith Ferguson and after being duly Sworn
Deposeth & saith on oath that she became acquainted with John McClure a petitioner for a pension
from the United States under the act of 1832. Now a citizen of Rabun County in said State, in the year (1790) Seventeen hundred & ninety- that this deponent saw his discharges from the services in the United States service and heard them read, she
believes three several discharges as a regular soldier. and that deponent thinks they were only one year each
and that deponent thinks one of the discharges were from Capt Frelinghuyson and that in the year 1792, Seventeen hundred and ninety two, deponent was present
when said McClures house was burnt
in then Pendleton District SC and that in the time of the burning deponent picked up said McClures pocket book all in a flame of fire deponent put out the fire but the papers were destroyed by the fire, and the said discharges were in said pocket book from the
best of deponent belief & recollection
Sworn to and subscribed before me
this 2nd July 1847
Judith Forgerson X her mark
s/ WB Craig J P

Georgia Habersham County This is to certify that deponent Judith
Ferguson has resided in my neighborhood for the last six or seven years and that her character has
always been good for truth & veracity so far as I know this July 2nd 1847
s/ Wiley Warwick, M.G.
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Georgia Habersham County
I Lawson B Hambright Clerk of the Inferior Court for said County
do hereby certify that W B. Craig whose name appears to the foregoing affidavit as a subscribing 
witness is a Justice of the Peace
for said County and that full faith and credit ought to be given to his attestation as such and that the
same is in due form. Given under my hand and seal this July 6th 1847
s/ Lawson B Hambright C.I.C.

Georgia Habersham County I C H Lutton One of the Justices of the Inferior Court of said County and State do certify That Dawson B Hambright, whose name appears to
the above and foregoing certificate is Clerk of the Inferior Court for said County, and that full faith and credit ought to be had and given to his attestation as such, and that the same is in due form,
Given under my hand and Seal
This July 6th 1847
s/ C H Lutton J.IC.
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No 1   35.909
John McClure
Ga
act 7 June '32
Dec '44
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I certify that James Bleckley is clerk of the Inferior Court of Rabun County & that I am acquainted with his handwriting & believe the within signature to be his. 16th Dec 1844
s/ Howell Cobb MC Ga
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POWER OF ATTORNEY - Revolutionary Pension Claims.
Know all Men by these Presents, That I, John McClure of Habersham
County State of Georgia formerly of Rabun County Georgia do hereby constitute and appoint M. Thompson of Washington City D.C. my true and lawful Agent and Attorney, to prosecute the Claim of _ for any amount of Revolutionary Pension, or Increase of Pension, that may be due; and I hereby authorize my said Agent to examine all the papers and documents in relation to said claim, on file in the Departments at
Washington City, or elsewhere; to file additional evidence or arguments; and to receive the Certificate which
may be issued for said Claim, which Certificate I wish made payable to me at the Savannah Georgia Agency
to appoint one or more substitutes under him for the purposes herein expressed, and to do all things that I
might or could do were I personally present. Hereby ratifying and confirming all that my said Attorney and Agent shall lawfully do in the premises.
WITNESS my hand and seal this 22nd day of May A. D., 1852,
s/ John McClure
Signed and Sealed in the presence of 
A. J. McClure Witness
Alfred Holcomb J.Peace
STATE OF Georgia
COUNTY OF Habersham
On this 22nd day of May A. D. 1852.
before me, the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid personally appeared
John McClure and acknowledged the foregoing Power of Attorney to be his act and deed, for the purposes therein mentioned.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I hereunto set my hand, the day and year aforesaid.
A. J. McClure Witness
Alfred Holcomb J.Peace
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Be it known, That on this _
A. D., eighteen hundred and fifty _
before the undersigned, _ a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid personally appeared
a resident of _ in said County, and
made oath according to law that he is the_ who was a Revolutionary Pensioner at the rate of_ Dollars per annum; that has been informed that the Pension _
Sworn to and subscribed, the day and
year aforesaid, before me.
_ J. Peace.

I Alfred Holcombe Justice of the Peace in and for said County do hereby certify that John McClure
who executed the foregoing paper, is a respectable resident of this County, and is, I believe, directly interested in said claim as therein set forth.
s/ Alfred Holcombe J. Peace

I, Philip Martin Clerk of the Superior Court in the County and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that Alfred Holcombe before whom the
foregoing papers were executed, was, at the date of the same Justice of the Peace in and for said County,
duly authorized by law to administer oaths, and the name thereunto subscribed, is his signature.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto subscribed my name and
affixed my official Seal, this 22nd
day of May A. D. 1852.
s/ Philip Martin Clk SC
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State of Georgia County of Habersham  Know all men by these  presents that I John McClure of the County of Habersham and State of Georgia who was a Revolutionary soldier in the company commanded
by Captain Frelinghisan, Capt  Bawlor & Capt Luck in the Regiment of _
commanded by Col _ in the Revolutionary War and he does by these presents Irrevocably constitute and appoint H. C Spaulding of Washington City D.C. my true and lawful Attorney with power of substitution and to receive upon this or supplementary applications the amount of Pension Increase arrears of Pension or land which may be due him as a Revolutionary soldier as aforesaid And to do all other Lawful things in and about the premises which I might or could do were I
Personally present at the doing of
the same. Hereby ratifying and
confirming all that my said Attorney may lawfully do for me and in my name - Witness my hand & seal this 2nd day of November 1852 -
s/ John McClure
John Trammell
Alfred Holcombe J P
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Georgia Habersham County 
I C H Sutton Clerk of the Court of Ordinary within and for said County do certify that Alfred Holcombe whose name appears upon the foregoing power of Attorney as a Justice of the Peace was at the date thereof a Justice of the Peace duly
Commissioned and qualified and that his Signature aforesaid is genuine
Witness my hand and seal of office this third day of November 1852
s/ C H Lutton Clk C.
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State of Georgia County of Habersham  Know all men by these
presents that I John McClure a Resident of the County and State aforesaid and a Revolutionary soldier aged 93 years do hereby constitute name and appoint H C Spalding
of Washington City in the District of Columbia my true and lawful Attorney, for me and in my name and in my behalf to prosecute my claim for a Pension from the Government of the United States, to fill agreements and additional evidence if necessary, and to do all other things required to be done to obtain the allowance
of my said pension, and with full
authorities to appoint a Substitute on
Substitute. If he shall deem it necessary and to receive for me and in my Stead my certificate when it shall be issued, And I hereby formally
annul, cancel and revoke all
every other power of Attorney by me
given to any and all persons,
whomsoever except my said herein
named attorney H.C Spalding
Witness my hand and seal this the
twenty day of December 1852
s/ John McClure
John Trammell
James L. Allen JP
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State of Georgia County of Habersham ⎬ Be it known, That on the
22d day of December 1852 before me 
the Subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said County personally appeared John McClure above named and acknowledged the foregoing Power of Attorney to be his act and deed In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand the day and year last above mentioned
s/ James L Allen J. Peace

State of Georgia County of Habersham I Hereby certify that
James L Allen Esqr before whom the
foregoing Power of Attorney was made is and was at the time of Signing the same an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly commissioned and Sworn and that his signature thereto is Genuine. Given under my hand and seal of
office at Clarksville Habersham County Georgia this the 23rd day
of December AD 1852
s/ C H Sutton Clk C.O.
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No 11
Revolutionary Pension Claim of John McClure of Georgia
act of 1832
revoking all former powers to M. Thompson
Please file this instanter
Jany 24. 1853
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State of Georgia County of Habersham
Be it Known that before me a Justice
of the Inferior Court in and for the County aforesaid duly authorized by law to administer oaths, personally appeared John McClure a resident of Habersham County in the State of Georgia who being first duly sworn according to law states that he is the Same John McClure of Habersham County formerly of Rabun County and State of Georgia, who was a revolutionary Sergeant and that he believes the United States are still
indebted under existing laws for the pension that was due under the application heretofore made and
that he is directly interested as a claimant in the pension for which application was heretofore as aforesaid and constitutes and appoints M. Thompson of Washington City D C his true and lawful attorney, with irrevocable power to examine into investigate and establish the claim for said pension and do all acts necessary thereto and hereby revoking all former powers of Attorney made
to any other person, In witness whereof he the said John McClure has on this third day of January AD 1853 hereunto signed his name and affixed his seal. s/ John McClure
A. J. McClure Witness
John B. King JIC
Signed, sealed, acknowledged and sworn to before me on this third day of January A.D. 1853
s/ John B. King JIC

State of Georgia County of Habersham To Wit
I James E. Griggs Clerk
of the Inferior Court of the County and State aforesaid do hereby certify that John B. King before
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whom the foregoing power
of attorney was acknowledged
and affidavit made, was at the date and time of so doing a Justice of the Inferior Court in and for the County
aforesaid duly commissioned and sworn and that his signature above written is genuine.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto
my hand and affixed the seal of
said Court this 3rd day of January 1853.
s/ James E Griggs Clk IC
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State of Georgia Habersham County  Personally Came Before me Elihu S. Barclay one of the justices of the
Inferior Court in and for said County John McCroskey who being first duly sworn according to Law, Saith on his Oath that John McClure served four
years in succession as an Indian Spy on the part of the United States. Sent from the Counties of Washington, Montgomery and Russel [Russell] in the State of Virginia elected by the Magistrates of said Counties in the following years separately Viz 1786 1787 1788 and 1789 and severally served as above through and during said years. deponent further says that he himself was a resident of Russel
County in the State of Virginia at the same time that John McClure served as an Indian Spy and was an
eyewitness to his services and knows of a certainty that he did render said services and that his particular
boundaries to range in were from the head of Clinch River to a place called the Rye Cove and his coadjutor in service was a man by the name of Alexander Mcfarland. deponent also further says that he has been acquainted with John McClure all his lifetime was a school mate with him in the days of their youth. has always understood him to be a true friend to his Country and to have rendered a large portion of services in the revolutionary war on the part of the Untied States previous to his services as an Indian Spy, but was an eyewitness to his services as a Spy only. he further says that John McClure has remained a friend to liberty and his Country, a proof of which is that even in his old age he served in the capacity of a Major in the late war in South Carolina, at Sisters ferries. s/ John McCroskey
 Sworn to and subscribed before me this 5th day of August 1845.
s/ Elihu S Barclay JIC

I certify that the veracity of John McCloskey is such as may be relied on for truth and honesty.
s/ ES Barclay JIC
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I Lawson B. Hambright Clerk of the Inferior Court of Habersham County in the State of Georgia certify that Elihu S Barclay is a Justice of the Inferior Court as above, and
that the foregoing signatures purporting to be his are genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto
affixed my seal of office and subscribed my name,
This August the 6th 1843.
s/ Lawson B Hambright C.I.C
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Georgia Habersham County SS
We James Jarrard a Clergyman
residing in Habersham County State of Georgia and Frederick Camp residing in the same County and State
hereby certify that we are well acquainted with John McClure
of Rabun County said State of Georgia, who has subscribed and sworn to the above deposition (said to be explanatory to his declaration of December 1844, at the war department) that we believe him to be Eighty four years of age. that he is reputed and believed in his neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution
and that we concur in that opinion
Sworn and subscribed this
15th day of April 1845.
s/ James C. Jarrard CLergy
Loven J Keel JP
Frederick Camp

I do hereby certify that James Jarrard who has signed the preceding certificate is a Clergyman resident in the County of Habersham, State of Georgia and that Frederick Camp is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit.
s/ Loven J. Keel JP

I Lawson B. Hambright Clerk of the Inferior Court of Habersham
County in the State of Georgia do hereby certify that Loven J. Keel
is a magistrate as above In Testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and seal of office that the foregoing signatures 
purporting to his are genuine
s/ Lawson B Hambright C.I.C.
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Eighth Regiment 1780 & 1781
We and each of us whose names are hereunto subscribed do acknowledge
to have received from Major Thomas B. Bowen & Captain Ercurius Beatty
Agents for the late Pennsylvania Line. the several sums opposite to our names respectively, the certificate, dated July 1, 1784, bearing interest at six per cent from January the first 1782 signed by John Pierce, Commissioner, and described as below, being for the balance of
a settlement between the United States and us for pay &c to January
the first 1782.
Date of Issues. Decemr 21st 1784
No of Certificates.  77903
Letter Px
John McClure 754
sums. Dollars 168 /9o Ms 46 
Signers. Isaac Craig
The item below is under the same heading with the exception of the year being 1783 instead of 1782
Decem 21st 1784
78034
Ax 
John McClure 754
120 / " 
Isaac Craig

Auditor Generals Office
Harrisburg May 5. 1852
I certify the above to be true extracts and copies taken from pages 205 and 213 of Payroll book A now on file in this office. Witness my hand and seal of office the day and year aforesaid
s/ E. Banks Aud. Gen.
Warrant No 10,099 for 100 acres issued Nov 5 1789 John McClure
a Lieut 8th  Regt Infty Pa line
Sep 16/76   W.G.
Fees $1.00 paid
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Clarksville Ga Sept 21. 1911
Secretary of The Pension Department
of United States Washington D.C.
Dear Sir
Have you records of
application for pensions for Revolutionary service from John
D. McCroskey (Crosky) and
McClure from
Habersham Co
Georgia
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The application was made
about the year 1842-46
and the service of each
was proved by the other
McCroskey was born in Va near Lexington.
The Daughters of the American Revolution have located these two
graves and are anxious
to plain marker for
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them. Please notify
Miss Addie Bass
August Zanachucher
Chapter D.A.R.
Clarkesville
Habersham Co
Ga
[stamp] US PENSION OFFICE SEP 23 1911
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ORIE S. WARE
SIXTH DISTRICT OF KENTUCKY
CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
WASHINGTON, D. C.
December 29, 1927.
Hon. Winfield Scott,
Bureau of Pensions,
Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir: If there is any record in your Bureau setting forth the
military service of John McClure of Bottetourt County, Virginia,
who served in the Revolutionary War in the regiment of Col. Wm.
Fleming and of William Porter of Rockbridge County, Virginia, who
served in said war, I kindly request you to give me copies of said
record.
Thanking you in advance for your kindness.
Respectfully.
s/ Orie S. Ware
[stamp] US PENSION OFFICE DEC 30 1927
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16 February 1940
Waynesboro Virginia
Dept of the Interior
Bureau of Pensions
Washington D.C.
Dear Sir
Will you kindly inform me whether
there is a record
of the service in the
War of the Revolution of Wm
Porter of Fincastle Botetourt
County Virginia and also
whether he received a pension
I believe he had a son Wm
and & I should like to be able
to identify Wm Porter Sr
perhaps by means of pension
paid to his wife Mary,
Also whether there is a
record of Revolutionary
service of John McClure,
of Lexington, Rockbridge Co. Pa
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these are my ancestors and
I am anxious to complete
the family history of them
also to obtain revolution
records for them.
I shall be very grateful for the 
information and the records
Very Truly Yours
Martha H. Swezey
Box 624 Chayneton, Virginia
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324 East Wisconsin Ave.,
Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
March 19, 1932

Department of the Interior
Bureau of Pensions
Revolutionary War Records Dept.

Gentlemen:

I wish to secure the Revolutionary War Record of
William McCorkle and John McClure (McCluer) members of John
Murray's Company of Volunteers from Botetourt Sept. 10, 1774.
These men lived in what was later Rockbridge County,

I also wish to secure record of Leven Sprigg (or
Levin Spriggs ) who served in the Jefferson County Militia as
Seargeant under Col. Cox and as Ensign under Col Cox and Gen.
Geo. Rogers Clark. He lived later I believe in Hardin or
Nelson County, Ky.

Please advise me if it is possible to secure
information regarding these records and the amount charged
for this. I shall forward the amount as soon as I receive
your communication.

Very truly yours,
Laura Black
Miss Laura Black
324 East Wis. Ave.,
Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

[note - there are  a number of grammatical edits and they were not transcribed]
.
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December 11, 1939.


BA-J/ILL
William Dixson
S. 16104
John McClure
R. 6632

Dr. George West Diehl
First Presbyterian Church
Corpus Christi, Texas.

Dear Sir:

Reference is made to your letter in which you request
the Revolutionary War records of Joseph Deacon (Ducowen), of
Armand' Legion, and William Dixon, of that same organization, also,
the record of in that war of John McClure from Natural Bridge,
Rockbridge County, Virginia.

A search of the Revolutionary War records of this office
has been made and no claim for pension or bounty land found based,
upon service of a Joseph Deacon under any spelling of that sur-name,  The record has been found of only one John McClure of Virginia. His record and that of William Dixon are furnished you
herewith.

Very truly yours,
A. D. HILLER,
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator.

[note]
See his letter in claim
William Dixon- S.16104
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John McClure
R. 6632
Reference is made to your letter in which
you request information in regard to John McClure
of Botetourt County, Virginia, a soldier of the
War of the Revolution.
The data furnished herein were obtained from
the papers on file in pension claim, R. 6632, based
upon the Revolutionary War service of John McClure.
He was born April 16, 1760 and stated that he was the second son of John McClure by a second wife. the place of his birth is not given nor is the name of his mother shown, 
He stated that he enlisted, March 10, 1776, 
Botetourt County, Virginia, where he then resided, and marched three years and eleven months as orderly sergeant
under Captains Frelinghuysen, Bawler, Thomas Luck, Major Quirk and Colonel Warner and that he was
in the battles of Trenton, Princeton, Stillwater and
Monmouth; and that while residing in Russell County,
Virginia, was an Indian Spy during the years 1786, 1787,
1788 and 1789; and that while residing in Pendleton
District, South Carolina, he was Lieutenant-Colonel
of a regiment of South Carolina Militia at Sisters Ferry,
during the War of 1812.
He applied for pension on account of his services in the Revolutionary War, December 3, 1844, at which time
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he was living in Rabun County, Georgia.
The claim was not allowed as proof of service as required by the pension law was not furnished.
He married in Russell County, Virginia, in 1790, name of wife not given, and there are no further data relative to her.
He married December 6, 1839, Margaret McClain.
In 1855 he was living in Habersham County, Georgia.
He died May 24, 1856, leaving widow, Margaret, who
in 1856 was living in Habersham County, Georgia.
There is no reference to children.
Very truly yours.
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Rev. and 1812
Wars Section.

January 3, 1928.

Honorable Orie S. Ware
House of Representatives.

My dear Mr. Ware:

In response to your letter of the twenty-ninth
ultimo, I have the honor to advise you that in the
Revolutionary War pension claim R. 6632, John McClure
stated that he enlisted in Botetourt County, Virginia,
where he then resided, March 10, 1776 and marched to
Long Island and served three years and eleven months
as an Orderly-Sergeant under Captains Frelinghuysen,
Bawler, Thomas Luck, Major Quirk and Colonel Warner,
and that he was in the battles of Trenton, Princeton,
Stillwater, and Monmouth.

He also stated that while a resident of Russell
County, Virginia, he served as an Indian spy in the
years 1786, 1787, 1788 and 1789; and that while a resident
of Pendleton District, South Carolina, he was Lieutenant-
Colonel of a regiment of South Carolina Militia at
Sisters Ferry in the War of 1812.

His claim for pension was not allowed as he failed

[illegile note]
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to furnish proof of service as required by the pension
laws.

He also stated in said claim that he was the son
of John McClure by a second wife, name of mother not
given.

Soldier was born April 15, 1760, married in Russell
County, Virginia in 1790, name of wife not given and removed to Pen Dist S.C . In
1844 he was living in Rabun County, Georgia, and in 1855 was living in Habersham County, Georgia.

Soldier died May 24, 1856, leaving widow Margaret Mc Clam,
whom he married December 6, 1829, [illegible]

There are several soldiers named William Porter
found on the Revolutionary War records of this Bureau,
who served with the Virginia Troops, and in order to
identify a particular soldier of that name, it is
requested that you furnish as much as possible of the
following data pertaining to said William Porter - 
Approximate dates of birth and death and places
of residence at enlistment and after service.

Your reply will be given immediate attention.

Very truly yours,

WINFIELD SCOTT
Commissioner.
[note] 
1855
     98
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60
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March 19, 1940


BA-J/AWF
John McClure
R. 6632


Mrs. George S. Swezey
Waynesboro, Box 624
Virginia

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter in which
you request the Revolutionary War record of William
Porter of Fincastle, Botetourt County, Virginia, and
of John McClure of Rockbridge County, Virginia.

In order to identify the Revolutionary War
record of the William Porter in whom you are partic-
ularly interested, should it be on file, some of the
following data in regard to him are essential-
approximate dates of birth and death and place of
residence at enlistment and after service.

The data which follow in regard to John McClure
were obtained from papers on file in claim for pension,
R. 6635, based upon his service in the War of the
Revolution. This is the record of the only John
McClure of Virginia found on file in the Revolutionary 
War pension records of this office. The surname was
searched under similar spellings.

John McClure was born April 15, 1760, place not
stated. He was the second son of John McClure by a
'second wife', name of his mother not given.

John McClure (Junior) was reared in Botetourt
County, Virginia.

He alleged that he enlisted in Botetourt County,
Virginia, where he then resided, March 10, 1776, served
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three years and eleven months as orderly sergeant
under Captains Frelinghuysen, Bawler, Thomas Luck,
Major Quirk, and Colonel Warner, that he was in the
battles of Trenton, Princeton, Stillwater, Monmouth;
and that while residing in Russell County, Virginia,
was an Indian Spy during the years 1786, 1787, 1788
and 1789; and that while residing in Pendleton
District, South Carolina, he was Lieutenant Colonel
of a regiment of South Carolina militia at Sisters
Ferry, during the War of 1812.

John McClure moved in 1829 from South Carolina
to Rabun County, Georgia, and applied December 3,
1844, for pension on account of his service in the
Revolutionary War.

The claim for pension was not allowed as proof
of service as required by the pension law was not
furnished.

John McClure married sometime in 1790, in
Russell County, Virginia, name of this wife not given,
and there are no further data in regard to her. He
married December 6, 1829, Margaret McClain. The date and place of her birth and names of her parents were not stated.
John McClure was living in 1855 in Habersham
County, Georgia. He died May 24, 1856, leaving widow, Margaret McClure, then a resident of Habersham County, Georgia.

In 1856, A. (?) I. McClure was of Habersham 
County, Georgia, no relationship to the family
given.

The papers on file in this claim contain no
further discernible family data.

Very truly yours


A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator