Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B. L. Wt. 36745-160-55, for Benjamin Mc Connell, North Carolina

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Mcornell, Benjamin Jane
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1840 act Num 53 July 17th
Jane McConnel Benjamin McConnel Private
Capt. Joseph Lyons } N.P. Mil. Maj. George Davidson }
Ent. Sept 14 21 Dis. Oct 24 14 21
Private Capt. Lyons N.P. Mil. Revolutionary War
John N. Parker
Col. 160th Aug 7/56 Died
H. Cooper Shelbyville Tenn.
Vol No 1-108

october 2 1781
this is a Certify that brigadier general for our winter on when in pursuit of the enemy Enemy into getford orange and Chotahom the term of three weeks in the Light horse way
Joseph Byars Co. George Davidson mg.
McConnell, Benj. N.C. Biwrt 36745

Mrs Jane M c Caulell Application for Bounty Lord
1882

STATE OF TENNESSEE, COUNTY OF
On this day and date first above mentioned, personally appeared before me Daniel Stephens Justice of the Peace John B. Bates and George Kimbro residents of said County and State aforesaid, to me well known to be credible and disinterested persons, who being duly sworn according to law, declare they were present and saw and heard Mrs. Jane McCounell make and subscribe the foregoing declaration, and that she is the widow of Benjamin McCounell deceased, they having lived together as man and wife, and were as such considered in the neighborhood in which they resided, and that she is still his widow and truly the person she represents herself to be, and that they, the said witnesses, are residents of the State of
Tennessee County of Beauford and that they are disinterested witnesses.
John B. Bates George Kimbro
The foregoing declaration were sworn to and subscribed before me the day and year first above written by them the said applicant and witnesses and I certify that they are residents of the County and State by them set forth, and that I have no interest in the prosecution or otherwise of any claim of Mrs. Jane McCounell may have for Bounty Lands.
Daniel Stephens (J. P.) For Beauford County
STATE OF TENNESSEE, COUNTY OF
I John H. O'Neal Clerk of the County Court of the County and State aforesaid do hereby certify that Daniel Stephens Esq. before whom the foregoing declarations were made, is, and was at the time of so doing an acting Justice of the Peace within and for the County and State aforesaid, duly commissioned and qualified, and that his signature thereunto is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of my office as Clerk aforesaid, the tenth day of July A. D. Eighteen hundred and fifty five
John H. O'Neal Clerk. By his Deputy J. L. O'Neal

STATE OF TENNESSEE, COUNTY OF
On this the thirteenth day of July A D Eighteen Hundred and Fifty five personally appeared before me, Daniel Stephens a Justice of the
Peace within and for the county and State aforesaid Daniel M c Connell aged about seventy years a resident of Beaufort County in the State of Tennessee who being duly sworn according to law, declares that she is the widow of Benjamin M c Connell deceased, who was a Private
in the Company commanded by Captain Joseph Byers in the Regiment of Light Horse commanded by Colonel Major George Davidson in the War with Great Britain or Revolution War of Independence declared by the United States on the 4th day of A. D. Eighteen Hundred and Seventeen  sin that her said husband Benjamin M c Connell volunteered in said Company
County North Carolina on or about the 1st day of September A. D. Eighteen Hundred and Seventeen for the term of  indefinite term months, and continued in actual service in said Company and war for the
term of three months and was honorably discharged from said service at in County North Carolina on or about the second day of October A. D. Eighteen Hundred and Eighty one on account of, expiration of the Compaign for which he enlisted
and that his the said Benjamin M c Connell  3 services will appear by the examination of his certificate of discharge herewith filed with this declaration
She further states that she was married to the said Benjamin M c Connell on thirteenth day of September A. D. eighteen
Hundred and eight by one Archibald Cathey , a minister of the gospel in Meeblenberga County, State of North Carolina and that her name
before marriage was Darrah Rankin and that her said husband died July in Beaufort County, State of Tennessee on the eight
day of April A. D. Eighteen Hundred and Twenty and that she is still widow and that she received about the day of A. D. Eighteen hundred and
therefor  for said services Number under the act of the
She further states that she has not received, nor is not to her knowledge, entitled to receive Land Bounty under any acts except those and that she now applies for Bounty Land under the act passed by Congress the Third day of March A. D. Eighteen Hundred and Fifty Five.
She further states that having been married in North Carolina at so early a period and residing as she does now in Tennessee she cannot say whether there is any public record of her marriage or not, and that from her extreme age she cannot now think of sending back to find out - she stands almost alone in this country of those who started in life with her - and she can only furnish the evidence of her neighbors as to her reputed marriage - which she trusts may prove satis- factory to the department - Daniel M c Connell

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME McConnell Charles GRADE Corporal LINE Pennsylvania
WARRANT NUMBER 9921 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED July 27, 1789 To Richard Platt, assignee
*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.