Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 41,832, for Abner Mc Mahan, New Jersey
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE
New Jersey
CONTENTS
.
McMahan, Abner
NUMBER
S.41.832
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14,513
Ohio
Abner McMahan
of Trumbull Co in the State of Ohio
who was a private in the regiment commanded
Colonel Maxwell of the N Jersey
line, for the term of one year
Inscribed on the Roll of Ohio
at the rate of 8
Dollars per month, to commence on
the 13 of May 1818

Certificate of Pension issued the 5 of March 1819
and sent to Calvin Pease Esqr
Trumbull C. Ohio
=
Arrears to 4th of 6 Sep 1819. 15 mo 19/31 1/30  125.96
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 March 1820
48 -
---
$173.96
{ Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818.}
Continued

illegible
Romed
Notification sent Nov 23. 1820 to
unto
Date of
death
not on
of
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State of Ohio Trumbull County ss
On this thirteenth day of May 1818 before me the subscriber one of the associate Judges of the Court of Common Pleas for said County personally appears Abner
Mc Mahan aged sixty four years resident in the County aforesaid who being by me first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the act of
Congress entitled "" An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the
United States in the revolutionary war
the said Abner McMahan enlisted at Hackettstown Sussex county & state of New 
 Jersey in the fall of the
year AD
1775
the day or month not recollected for
one year in the company of Capt Shaw his
given name is not recollected in the second regiment
of the Jersey line of Continental troops under the command of Col Maxwell or Maxfield his given name not
recollected. The name of the first lieutenant of the
company to which he belonged was Henry Line
the name of the ensign was George Reynolds and
that he served out his time and was at the battle
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of the three river in Canada that he was discharged at
Hackettstown aforesaid and that he is in reduced in
circumstances and stands in need of assistance of his country for support and that he has no other evidence now
in his power of his said services Sworn and declared before me the day and year aforesaidI 
Ephraim Jainby associate Judge as aforesaid do certify that I have been acquainted with Abner
McMahan for about thirty years past that
it appears to my satisfaction that the said Abner
McMahan did serve in the revolutionary war as
stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy; and now transmit the proceedings
and testimony taken and had before me to the Secretary
for the department of war pursuant to the direction
of the aforementioned
act of Congress

Ess Quimby
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The State of Ohio
humbull County

I George Parsons Clerk of the
Court of Common pleas for said
County do hereby certify that
Ephram Quinley Esqr whos signature
is affixed to the foregoing Certificate
is one of the associate Judges of
the Court of Common pleas in and for said County
and that the annexed is his signature that
he is duly commissioned and sworn agreeable to the laws
of said State and as such his official acts
are entitled to full faith and credit in Court and
Country
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set
my hand and seal of office at Warren the
day of May Eighteen
hundred and eight
George Pam[illegible]

I Calvin Pease one of the Judges of the Supreme Court
the State of Ohio do hereby certify
that I am personally
acquainted with the above named applicant Abner McMahon
and from my knowledge of his circumstances & the information of others, I believe him to be in reduced circumstances and that he needs the aid of his County
support-
Warren April 27th 1819

Calvin Peace
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The State of Ohio
Trumbull County
I George Parsons Clerk of the Supreme Court of said State within
and for said County do hereby certify that the Hon C Alon
Pease Esqr whos signature is affixed to the within Certificate which
Signature is in his own proper hand writing is one of the
Judges
of the Supreme Court of the State of Ohio duly Commission
and sworn agreeable to the laws of said State and as
Such his official acts are entitled to full faith and not
in and out of Court; In Testimony Whereof I have
hereunto set my hand and seal of office
the 27th day of April 19
at Warren
Geo Knous
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The State of Ohio
Trumbull County
on this third day of October 1820 Personally
appeared in open Court being a Court of record for said County
Abner McMahan aged sixty seven or sixty eight years resident
in Bazetta in said County who being first duly sworn according to
law doth on his oath declare that he served in the revolutionary war
as follows. That he enlisted at Hackettstown in New Jersey
as a private in the fall of the year 1775 for the term of one year
in Captain Archibald Shaws Company of the 2nd New Jersey
Regt commanded by Col Wm Maxwell that he continued to serve
in said Regt until he was honourably discharged in the fall of
1776 having completed the full term of one year the time for which he
enlisted said declarant was in the battle of the three rivers in Canada
from whence he returned back toTiconderoga where they lay until
was discharged
And I the said Abner Mac Mahan do solemly
swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the
that I have not since that time by gift sale or in
any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent
thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provision of
an act entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged
in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war passed on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have
not nor has any in trust for me any property or securities contracts
or debts due to me nor have I any income other than what is
contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed
List of Property - 
one old almost worn out saddle & saddle bags one old mare
$45
one small pot & one frying pan & old fire shovel & one old
hand saw $3.75 to old chairs one old Rifle Gun & two old water
$20 purchased with pension money received last spring
This declarant owes debts to the amount of twenty dollars or there
about this declarant is by occupation a day laborer but at
present unable to labour at all on account of extreme age & infirmity
of body, said declarant has neither wife or children living with
him this declarant is a pentioner under the act of the
18th March 1818 original declaration bears date on the thirteenth
day of May eighteen hundred and eighteen the number of his pention
certificate 14.53
Abner McMahan
Sworn to & subscribed in open Court this 3 day of October 1820 E. R. Thompson Clerk P.T.
Leicester King being acquainted with the circumstances of the
within named Abner McMahan know him to be a poor man &
believe that he has no other property than that enumerated in the
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above Schedule & do upon my oath say that
property is not more than $68.75 as I verily
believe
Leicester King
Sworn declared on & Subscribed to this 3d day of October 1820
in open Court before me
E R Thompson Clerk P.T.

The State of Ohio
Trumbull County
I Ebenezer R. Thompson Clerk pro tem
of the Supreme Court of the State of
within & for the County of Trumball
do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the
Schedule thereto annexed all truly copied from
the records of said Court and I do further certify
that it is the opinion of the said Court that the
total amount in value of the property is 8 dollars
15 cents
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & fixed
the seal of said Court on this Thompson
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December 6, 1934
XXXXXX
BA-J/EEL
Abner McMahan - S.41832

Mrs. Franklin H. McMahan
185 Belvedere Avenue
Warren, Ohio

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter in which you request information in regard to Abner McMahan and Nathan Kelly, soldiers of the
Revolutionary War who applied for pension while residing in Trumbull
County, Ohio.
[handwritten note] There is a Nathaniel Kelly of Turnbull Co in 1840 list]

A careful search of the Revolutionary War records has been
made and no record found of a claim for pension or bounty land having been made to the United States based upon the military service
in that war of a Nathan Kelly. The record of Abner McMahan has
been found and his history is furnished you herein, the data for
which were obtained from his claim for pension, S.41832, based upon
his military service in the Revolutionary War.

The date and place of birth and the names of the parents of
Abner McMahan are not shown.

[handwritten note] Found sol in book also his officers]

Abner McMahan enlisted at Hackettstown, Sussex County, New Jersey, in
in the fall of 1775, exact date not shown, served as a private in
Captain Archibald Shaw's Company, Colonel William Maxwell's 2" New Jersey
Regiment, was in the battle of Three Rivers in Canada and served one year.

He was allowed pension on his application executed May 13, 1818,
at which time he was aged sixty-four years and resided in Trumbull
County, Ohio.

In 1820, he was residing in Bazetta, Trumbull County, Ohio, and
then stated that he had no wife or children residing with him.

There are no data as to family.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant to the Administrator.
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41832
INVALID
Revy
File No. 41832
Abner McMahan
Pri Rev War

Act: 18 March 18
Index:-Vol. 8, Page 320
(Arrangement 1870.)

1934-Dec 6-Hist
to Mrs F.H. McMahan eel
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1 case
further proof of service,& Judge's certificate, that the applicant is in indigent circumstances are wanted.
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FREE

The Honorable J.C. Calhoun
Secy of War
Pension office
Washington City
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the Honorable J.C. Calhoun
 Secy of War
Sir
I received your note and have taken the panes
to go to New Jersey to get the evidence required. As you will herewith transmitted & duly [illegible] by myse seal of the county of 
Super N. Jersey-- please to enclose
my certificate to Calvin Pease Trumbul County
State of Ohio, put on the Ohio Agency-
I am Respectfully-
Abner McMahan
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New Jersey [illegible] county
Best remembered that on the 26 day of July 1819 personally appeared before me Job Johnson one of the Justices of the peac in and for the County Ezekel Ayers & Bing Daly [illegible] according to law saith that we was well acquainted with Abner McMahan & knew him to inlist in the United States services under Capt Adehebel than Lieutenant Henry Lose & ensign George Runnels & the deponent further saith that Abner McMahan bord at the deponents fathers til the regiment was [illegible] & then they marched to [illegible] the deponent saith that they mining the regiment returned back to Haketstown & marched for quckbeck & after Abner McMahan time was he released to the depoenents fathers & followed weaving there for some time
Ezekiel Ayers
Taken H [illegible] before me on the 26 day of July 1819

Job Johnson
I the subscriber do certify that I am well acquainted with Ezekial Ayers the above stated witness & release him to be a man of truth when under oath July 26 1819
Job Johnson
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New Jersey Sussex County
Be it Remembered that on the 23 day of July
1819
that personally appeared before Before me
John Ogden one of the Judges of the Court of Comon
pleas in and for said County Ioda Bell and being
duly sworn according to Law on his oath Saith that
his well aquainted with Abner Mc Mahan and
knew him to enlist in the service of the United States
In the year Seventeen hundred and Seventy
five
In the Rigement commanded by Willis Maxfield
Colonel of said Rayment where he continued to serve
as a permit Soldier for the term of one year and
In a Compay company commanded by Archibald
Shaw and then he faithfully did the [illegible]
soldier untill Legally discharged from the army
Taken and Sworn before
me this 23 day of July 1819
John Ogden
Ioda Bell

I the Subscriber one of the Judges of the Cort of Common pleas
in and for said County of Sussex due certify that I am well
aquainted with the witness is are well and believe him to
Bean an to Be Kelsdon when under oath
as witness my hand and seal this 22 day of July-
Ephraim Green Clerk of the Court of Com
mon pleas in & for said County of Sussex do certify that the
above named John Ogden Esqr who has taken the
above deposition of Isaac Bell and who has thereunto sub
scribed his name was at the time of taking & signing
the same & still is one of the Judges of the Court of Com
pleas in & for said County duly commissioned and sworn & to all his acts as
such full faith and credit is and ought to be given in witness whereof the
hereunto subscribed my name & affixed the seal of said Court this
27th day of July A.D. 1819 -
E. Green Judge
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State of New Jersey
Sussex County I Ephraim Green first clerk of the Court of common pleas in and for the said county of Sussex do certify that the within named Job Johnson Esquire who has taken the within deposition of Erskill - Ayers and who had thereunto subscribed his name was at the time of taking & signing the so deposition and still is one of the justices of the peace in & for said county fully authorized commissioned & sworn & to all his acts as such full faith and credit is and [illegible] to be given. In testimony whereof I have hereunto office ed the seal of sd court of sd county and have hereunto subscribed my name this 27th day of July AD 1819
E Green Esq
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MRS. FRANKLIN H. McMAHAN
165 BELVEDERE AVENUE
WARREN, OHIO
  July 2
Veterans Adm Bureau
Washington D.C
Will you please tell me if name
Abner McMahan or Nathan Kelly
appear on roll of Rev. War soldiers
They both applied for a pension as
Soldiers in Rev. while residents of
Trumbull Co.
Ohio
very truly
Mrs. Franklin H McMahan