Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 18,505, for Walter Mc Daniel, Maryland
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SERVICE
Md.

McDaniel, Walter

NUMBER
S.18505

carded

Contents
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Hon T. S. Namen
sent 16 Jan 1836
Sent to Hon J McDaniel 19th March 44

Date of death not on A.B.

[facing page]
Ohio 13474

Walter McDaniel of Brown Co. in the State of Ohio who was a Private in the Co. commanded by Captain Wheeler of the Reg.t commanded by C. in the Maryland line for one year. $40.

Inscribed on the Roll of Ohio at the rate of 40 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834

Certificate of Pension issued the 27 day of July 1833 and sent to N. D. Coleman. Maysville, Kentucky.

Arrears to the 4th of March 1933. 80 -
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept 33. 20
$100.00

Revolutionary Claim, 
Act June 7, 1932

Recorded by W. R. Palmer Clerk
Book 6, Vol. 8, Page 17
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13474
Walter McDaniel
Ohio
Declaration for pension
For - private
1 year $40

Capt. Wheeler 
Maryland [underlined].

N. D. Coleman
Maysville, Ken
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State of Ohio, Brown County [illegible]

On this, the 30 day of April 1833 personally appeared in open court, before the Court of Common Pleas for the said County, now sitting Walter McDaniel a resident of said County of Brown and said State aforesaid, aged eighty six years, who having first duly sworn according to the laws doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to attain the benefits of the act of Congress ratified June 7 1832.  That in the year 1776 in the month of April, precise day not recorded, he entered the service of the United States under Capt Hezekiah Wheeler, a capt of militia in Prince Georges County Maryland and served as a guard on the Potomac River to prevent incursions from the British ships into the interior of Maryland that he continued in that service as a minuteman making frequent short tours of two or three weeks against portion of the British who landed from the enemy ships to plunder the farms & barns & entering the buildings of the American citizens until August 1777 when he turned out as a volunteer under the same Capt Wheeler to serve a term of three months; that he served said term of three months in Col Luke Marburg's Regiment in Gen'l Smallwoods Brigade; that he marched this part of Maryland and
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part of Pennsylvania and was in the Battles of Peola and Germantown - and after Serving out the tour  was regularly and honorably discharged but has lost his discharge . The said declarant also states that in the month of September he thinks, or the Fall at any rate, 1780 he was drafted to serve a tour of nine months and marched to Baltimore where he remained about two months in the Barracks - and was then ordered back to Prince Georges, where he remained till the expiration of his term without having been called to perform any service worth mentioning. That after the expiration of that tour,  he again fell back into the minute Service & from that time till the close of the war was frequently engaged on short expeditions to repel sudden invasions of the enemy, & to protect the County on the river potomac from pillage & plunder 

That he never entered the regular service because his services in the way before mentioned were absolutely required on the Potomac & that service was as necessary to a successful defense of the Country as any other, and was considered as honorable and as patriotic 

That he was engaged only in the two terms of three & nine months, on which it was understood he could be taken out of his State But that he performed his duty faithfully
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in those tours - and also as a minute man throout the whole war except during the two tours aforesaid. That his two tours was one year and that his several tours as a minute man, amounted to more than a year actual Service - but that he will be gratified to receive a pension such as his claims may deserve that he is old infirm & very poor & needs the aid of his country
That he resided in the County of Prince Georges Maryland during the whole revolutionary war & served altogether under the same officers - that he remembers very well Maj Wm Lyle Coln Marberry & Genl Smallwood - that he removed from Maryland to Va. & to Ohio and now resides in Brown County Ohio He also states that he has no record of his age but was born in the County of Ann Arundel in the state of Maryland in 1747
He states that he Knows of no one who can prove his services in the revolution and has no documentary evidence in his behalf that he is well Known to John Evan, Esqr Genl John Cochran, & Wm Gilbert Esqr
who are highly respectable citizens of the County of Brown & the neighborhood in which sd Declarant resides & can Certify as to his character de      He hereby re
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[re]linquishes all claims whatever to a pension or annurity except the present declaration that his name is not on the pension roll of this agency of any state. Sworn to in open court & signed the day afores

GW King   Clerk
Attestee    ND Coleman

Walter McDaniel [signature]

We undersigned John Cochran, Wm Gilbert and Jno Evans residing the County of Brown, State of Ohio, hereby certify that the are acquainted with Walter McDaniels who has subscribed and sworn to the above Declaration that we believe him to be of the age he represents himself and that he respected & believed in the in the neighborhood where where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution & that we concur in that opinion

Sworn & Subscribed in Open Court this 30 day of April 1833

GW King Clerk             John Cochran
                                    William Gilbert
                                     John Evans

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter & after the after putting interrogations prescribed by the War Department that the above name applicant was a Revolutionary soldier & served as he states & the Court further certify that is appears to them that John Cochran, Wm Gilbert & Jno Evans who have "signed" the preceding certificate are residents of said County of Brown and are credible person & their statement entitled to credit

The State of Ohio Brown County
GW King  Clerk of the
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Court of Common please for the County of Brown Ohio, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Walter McDaniel for a pension

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 3d day of May 1853

[signed] G W King
[signed] G W King Clerk of Brown County Common Pleas

[white paper with ribbon beneath attached at left margin]
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August 16, 1933 

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Patrick McDaniel, S. 41861 
Valentine McDaniel, W. 25691
Walter McDaniel, S. 18505

Mrs. Walter Foltz
212 Harrison Street 
Newton, Kansas 

Dear Madam: 

Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War records of Patrick, Valentine and Walter McDaniel. 

Their records are given herein as found in pension claims based upon their service in the Revolutionary War. 

PATRICK McDANIEL, S. 41861 [underlined] 

The data which follow were obtained from the papers on file in pension claims, S. 41861, based upon the Revolutionary War service of Patrick McDaniel. 

The date and place of soldier's birth and names of his parents are not shown in the claim. 

He enlisted in June, 1775, in the State of Pennsylvania, served as private in Captain Robert Cluggage's company, Colonels Thompson's and Hand's Pennsylvania rifle regiment, was engaged in most of the battles on Long Island, in the battles of Trenton and Princeton, and while returning to camp after a furlough, he was captured by a party of Indians at Frenchtown where four of his companions were killed and he was taken prisoner to Canada and held until after peace was declared, returning to New York in the winter of 1783 or 1784. 

He was allowed pension on his application executed May 1, 1818, at which time he gave his age as seventy-six years and was residing in Coloraine Township, Hamilton County, Ohio. 

In 1820 the soldier was a resident of Hamilton County, Ohio,
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and stated that he was eighty years old, with no explanation of the discrepancy in age. 

There are no family data in the claim. 

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VALENTINE McDANIEL, W. 25691 

The papers on file in this claim show that Valentine McDaniel was born January 11, 1760, on the south branch of the Potomac River in Virginia; the names of this parents are not stated. When he was very young his father moved to Baltimore County, Maryland, and from there to Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. 

While residing in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, he enlisted in July or August, 1777, served one month as a private in Captain Zadock Springer's Pennsylvania company was engaged in guarding "Prickett's Fort on Monongala River"; sometimes in the early part of July, 1778, he enlisted in General McIntosh's Campaign and served five months as a private in Captain James Doherty's company, Colonel Broadhead's Pennsylvania regiment, and assisted in building Forts McIntosh and Laurens. 

The soldier moved, date not stated, from Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, to Mason County, Kentucky, and then to Clermont (which was later Brown) County, Ohio. 

He was allowed pension on his application executed April 30, 1833, at which time he was living in Brown County, Ohio, where he had lived "upwards of twenty years". 

The soldier died in Brown County, Ohio, January 13, 1845, as stated by his widow, or January 30, 1845, as shown by the official record. 

Valentine McDaniel married October 15, 1798, in Mason County, Kentucky, Sarah Jones. 

Soldier's widow, Sarah, was allowed pension on her application executed March 4, 1853, at which time she was living in Brown County, Ohio, where she was still residing in 1857 when she was aged about seventy-five years. 

No reference was made in the claim to children. 

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WALTER McDANIEL, S. 18505 [underlined]

Walter McDaniel was born in 1747 in Anne Arundel County, Maryland; the names of his parents are not shown. 

While residing in Prince Georges County, Maryland, he enlisted in April, 1776, as a minuteman and served at various times on short tours of two or three weeks each, until August, 1777, amounting in all to more than one year, in Captain Hezehiah Wheeler's and Bell's companies under Major Lyle. He volunteered in August, 1777, served three months as a private in Captain Hezekiah Wheeler's company, Colonel Luke Merbury's Maryland regiment and was in the battles of Paoli and Germantown. He enlisted in September, 1780, and served nine months as a private in Captain Hezekiah Wheeler's Maryland company. He continued to serve as a minuteman in Captain Hezekiah Wheeler's company to the end of the war. 

After the Revolutionary War the soldier moved from Maryland to Virginia, place there not stated, and from there he moved to Brown County, Ohio. 

Walter McDaniel was allowed pension on his application executed April 30, 1833, while a resident of Brown County, Ohio. 

No family data appear in the claim. 

Very truly yours 

A. D. HILLER 
Assistant to Administrator
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18505
INVALID
File No. 18,505
Walter McDaniel
Pri Rev War
Act: June 7" 32
Index: - Vol. 1, Page 249
[Arrangement of 1870]

1916 May 13 History to Mrs. C. H. Temple. [cents mark]
1933, Aug. 16 - Hist. to Mrs. Walter Foltz [ML,B in square]
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State of Ohio}
County of Brown} ss.
On this 26th day of Nov 1835 came personally before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in & for said county Walter McDaniel a resident of said county aged Eighty eight year & now a pensioner of the United States for services performed during the Revolutionary War who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following Declaration supplementary to his former declaration now on file in the War Department at Washington City - for the purpose of obtaining an increase of his pension proportioned to his services actually performed.

He was enrolled as a Minute Man under Capt. Hezekiah Wheeler in Prince Georges County State of Maryland in the year 1775 or 1776 to be kept in readiness day & night from that time to the end of the war - to march whenever called on to defend the country or annoy the enemy. The first services he rendered was when Dunmores fleet came up the River to Alexandria & burned Major Lyles house; I was then commanded by Major Lyle. A few days after that I went with Capt. Bell between the shipping & the enemy & took twenty two prisoners (besides some few killed); the prisoners were taken to Piscataway about seven miles from where they were taken.
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I then returned to my former company under Capt. Wheeler who followed the shipping down to Nansend ware house forty or fifty miles below the city of Washington. I was then discharged for 18 or twenty days. The next tour was in Calvert county Maryland. to guard country from being plundered by the Refugees in which I was engaged about thirty day. I was then called to Prince Georges County on the Patuxent river to a Town called Benedick to guard against the Refugees & was there ten or twelve days. I was on many occasions called to meet my company by day & night & to go a distance of several miles & find it a false alarm; ~ and in that was continued to serve as a minute man till the end of the War. I was commanded by Capt. Wheeler all the time. I believe my actual service in the field amounted in to one Hundred days. For all further particulars relating to his services in the Revolution he refers to his Declaration on file & the documents accompanying the same.
[signed] Walter McDaniel

Sworn & Subscribed this day & year above named & I certify that from age & bodily infirmity said declarant is in my opinion unable to attend the Court of Common Pleas for the purpose of making his declaration. Given under my hand & sela. 
[signed] Anderson Holm J P [seal surrounded by a circle]
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The State of Ohio
Brown County

I GW King Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County foresaid do hereby certify that Anderson Helm Esqr whose name is subscribed to the foregoing certificate is and was at the time of signing the same a Justice of the Peace in and for said County and duly commissioned & qualified and that as such full faith and credit is due to all his official acts given under my hand and the seal of this County this first day of December 1835

GW King   Clerk
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[letterhead]
MRS. WALTER FOLTZ 
212 HARRISON STREET 
NEWTON, KANSAS 
[end letterhead]

July 20th 1933 
Pension Department 
Washington, D. C. 
Dear Sir, 
Will you kindly send me copies of pension certificates of the following for Revolutionary War. 
Patrick McDaniel - Adams Co, Ohio - Private - Penns. Continental - June 7 - 1819 
Valentine McDaniel - Brown Co. Ohio - Private - Penns. Continental - June 6 - 1833 
Walter McDaniel - Brown Co. Ohio - Private - Maryland Continental - July 27 - 1833. 
Also any family data that may be on record. 
Sincerely. 
Mrs. Walter Foltz 
212 Harrison St. Newton, Kan.
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[letterhead] 
OFFICE OF
C. H. Temple, M. D. 
HALLAM, NEBR May 9 1916
[end of letterhead] 

[handwritten] 

Department of Interior 
Washington D. C. 
Dear Sir - 
Wishing to become a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution and finding Iam elegible through several ancestors, I wish to ask you to kindly look up the following names for me. 
Walter McDaniel (Maryland Continental) Oct, 4, 1833 
Valentine McDaneil (Pennsylvania) Sept. 1st, 1833 
John Hulett of Maryland married to Sarah Slack.
Hillis = (any one) 
Dobbins = (any one)
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Rev. War Section. 

May 13, 1916. 

Mrs. C. H. Temple, 
Hallam, 
Nebraska. 

Madam:- 

In response to your letter dated the ninth instant, you are advised that the Revolutionary War records of this Bureau fail to afford any information in regard to John Hulett of Maryland who married Sarah Slack; Walter Daniels October 4, 1833; or Valentine McDaniels September 1, 1833. 

You are herewith furnished the history of Valentine McDaniel W. File No. 25691, and Walter McDaniel S.File No. 18505 Rev. War. 

In order to identify a claim that may have been filed by any "Hillis, Dobbins or Temple", the full name of the soldier and some of the following data is essential: names of some officers under whom he served, his place of residence at enlistment and after services, the approximate dates of his birth and death, given name and residence of his widow. 

Very respectfully, 
GM Saltzgaber [signature] 
Commissioner.
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In reply to your request of [blank form space], received [blank form space] for a statement of the military history of Walter McDaniel a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) [prior parenthetical text crossed out] application for pension on file in the Bureau.

S18505

[form with the following column headings:] DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT., LENGTH OF SERVICE., RANK., OFFICAERS UNDER WHOME SERVICE WAS RENDERED [-] CAPTAIN. [-] COLONEL., STATE.

Aug 1776  frequent tours of 2 to 3 weeks each until Aug 1777 [-] minuteman [-] Hezekiah Wheeler [-] Major Wm Lyle [-] Md.

Aug. 1777 [-] 3mos. [-] private [-] [ditto marks] [-]  Luke Marbury

Sept. 1780 [-] 9 mos. [-] [blank] [-] [ditto marks] [-] [ditto marks]

Continued to serve as minuteman to end of the war.

[blank form line]
[blank form line]

Battles engaged in, Paoli & Germantown

Residence of soldier at enlistment, Prince George Co Maryland

Date of application for pension, Apl.30, 1833. His claim was allowed.

Residence at date of application, Brown Co. Ohio

Age at date of application, born in 1747 in Anne Arundel Co, Md.

Remarks: no family [illegible]

Respectfully,
Commission

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