Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 47465 & R 6688, for John Mc Daniel, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Mc Daniel John or Mc Donald
S.47 H65
Elizabeth
9 R6688
CONTENTS

Maine 11.297
John M c Daniel
Signed in the State of Maine who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Reed of the Regt commanded by Col M c Coll in the Massachusetts for
8 Mo Private - 26.68
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of 26 Dollars 68 Cents per annum, to commence on the 1th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 20 day of April 1833 and sent to E. Everett, Brunswick, Me
Arrears to the 4th of March 1833. 53.32 Semi-ant. allowance ending 1 Sept " 13.33
head - $ 66.65 Sept. 16, 1841
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by J. S. Sprague Clerk, Book C Vol. 1 Page 33

No 389 Elizabeth M c Donald Widow of John Mc act 29 July 1848
See State of M c Donald

Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 29 th July 1848
State of Maine
County of Penobscot ss. On this twenty third day of January in the year eighteen hundred and forty nine personally appeared before the Honorable Frederick H. Allen Judge of the District Court for the Eastern District for the said County of Penobscot at her place of residence, the being unable by reason of bodily infirmity to appear in Court. Elizabeth Mc Donald a resident of said County of Penobscot aged sixty seven years, who being duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 29. 1848. that she is the widow of John Mc Donald, who was a private in the Army of the Revolution that she cannot from recollection state the particulars of his service, or the Regiment or Company or corps in which he served, but for all these particulars, she refers to his declaration and the accompanying papers on file in the department; and that she has no documentary evidence thereof.
She further declares that she was married to the said John Mc Donald on the second day of April in the year seventeen hundred and ninety six, that her husband the said John Mc Donald died on the sixteenth day of September in the year eighteen hundred and forty one; that she was not married to him prior to his leaving

the service; but the marriage took place previous to the second day of January eighteen hundred. and at the time above stated. She further swears that she is now a wid-ow, and that she never has before made any application for a pension; and that her husband the said John McDonald was a pensioner of the United States on account of his revolutionary services, and that the balance of her pension due at his death, was paid at Portland, previous to Oct 5, 1841, and her pension certificate surrendered, at that time.
Witness, M c Mill
Elizabeth her McDonald mark
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year first above written before
Thos H. Allen Jud. Dist. Court for the Eastern Dist.
I certify that the above named Elizabeth McDonald is unable from bodily infirmity to appear in open court.
Thos H. Allen Jud. Dist. Court do.

State of Maine
Penobscot ss:
I, William S. Hilliard clerk of the District Court for the Eastern District for said County certify that The Hon Frederick H. Allen whose name is subscribed to the foregoing paper is Justice of said Court; and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this 24th day of January A. D. 1849
Wm S Hilliard Clerk

10.300
John M c Daniels
Admitted
8 mds
Private
A 2666
E. Everett
Brunswick
Maine

BRIEF in the case of John M c Dugal County of Lincoln in the State of Maine (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Court  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity? —  3. How old is he? 68  4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed. 
   Period. Duration of Service. Rank. Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.   Years, Months, Days.     Enlisted In 1781. 4 th April " 8 " As a Private Gen. Lieut. J. M c Sellon, Capt. J. Read, Col. Samuel M c Cobb  
 5. In what battles was he engaged? none  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Topsham Lincoln Cty Maine.  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Traditional & a credible witness.  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? correct 
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
J. Waugh Examining Clerk. March 11, 1833.

22.
July 29/28
389 May 10/49 Rec d of Elizabeth M c Donald
Williams
Col J. S. Edwards born of Runion Washington

STATE OF MAINE.
CUMBERLAND, SS.
Clerk's Office, Judicial Courts, PORTLAND. February 1st A. D. 1849
I Charles C. Harmon, CLERK OF ALL THE JUDICIAL COURTS.
In and for said COUNTY OF CUMBERLAND, certify that
Nathaniel Badger & Augustus C. Robbins.
and Acting Justices of the Peace,
within and for the County of Cumberland, as appears by the paper hereto
annexed; that they are DULY QUALIFIED TO ACT as such; that the
COMMISSION of the said Badger is dated July 29th A. D. 1847, and will expire July 29. A. D. 1854; - that
the commission of the said Robbins is dated June 22nd. 1848, and will expire June 22. 1855.
and that the following SIGNATURE purporting to be theirs, are Genuine.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the Seal of the Supreme Judicial Court, for said State, the day and year first above written.
Chas. C. Harmon, CLERK.

State of Maine
County of Cumberland ss On this twenty first day of January 1849. personally appeared before me the subscriber one of the Justices of the Peace within and for said County. Hannah Berry widows aged Seventy nine years, a resident of Brunswick in said County, who being first duly cautioned and sworn according to law doth on her oath declare and say, that she is well acquainted with Elizabeth Mc Donald widow of John Mc Donald, who now resides in Dipswent in the County of Penobscot, that the said Elizabeth is the affiant's sister, that her said sister was married to the said John Mc Donald on or about the sixteenth day of March seventeen hundred and ninety five that this affiant was present at the wedding and witnessed the ceremony, that the said John Mc Donald and her said sister lived together from that time as husband and wife till the death of the said John Mc Donald, which occurred on or about the sixteenth day of September eighteen hundred and forty one, and that her said sister has remained a widow ever since the death of her husband the said John Mc Donald, and that she now resides in Dipswent in the County of Penobscot.
Witness Wm. S. Murray
Hannah her Berry mark
Sworn to and subscribed the day of year just above mentioned before Nathaniel Badger Justice of the Peace

I certify that I am personally acquainted with Hannah Berry who signs and swears to the foregoing affidavit and that full credit is to be given to her testimony.
Cumberland ss January 26. 1849
Nathaniel Badger Peace
I also certify that that in the foregoing deposition the date was erased and written over so as to read "sixteenth day of March nineteen hundred and ninety five" before the same was signed.
Nathaniel Badger Peace

State of Maine County of Cumberland
On this 26 th day of January 1849 personally appeared before me the subscriber one of the justices of the Peace within and for the Coun- ty of Cumberland Nathaniel Badger a resident in Brunswick with in said County of Cumberland, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare and say, for the purpose of verifying an extract from the town record of managers of said town, that he holds the office of town clerk of said town of Brunswick and that the following is a true copy of the record with the exception of the date, which is expressed on the record in full legible figures, as follows.
"Managers in Brunswick March 16 th 1795" March Seventeenth hundred and ninety five. Joab Mc Donald to Elizabeth Coombs
A true copy attest Nathaniel Badger Town clerk of Brunswick I Nathaniel Badger above named depose and say that I hold the office of town clerk of the town of Brunswick in said County of Cumberland and that the above is a true ex- tract from the records of said Brunswick with the exception above expressed by me. Nathaniel Badger Town clerk of Brunswi- ck seen before me H. R. Knapp Justice of the Peace

I certify that in the copy of the record of marriage in the within deposition, the erasure was made and it was written over so as to read "March six teenth seventeen hundred and ninety five" be- fore the same was signed.
A. B. Alston's Spence.

State of Maine.
LINCOLN, ss—I NATHANIEL COFFIN, Clerk of all the Judicial Courts within and for the County of Lincoln, do hereby certify that the annexed paper, signed by the Judges and attested by the Clerk, contains the original proceedings of the
Court of Common Pleas, at a special session thereof holden at Lopsham in said County, by the Hon. Ezekiel  Hon.  Whitman & John Ruggles  one of the Judges of said Court on the 29 th , 30 th days, of August , A. D. 1832, in the matter of the application of John M c Daniel for a Pension.
IN TESTIMONY whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said Court this fift day of September A. D. 1832
Nathl Coffin CLERK.

John N. Daniel
10.300 4
Everett

State of Maine
Island District of the Superior Court
Lincoln Is. ss. At the Court of Common Pleas held at Topsham on the 29th & 30th days of August in the year of our Lord one Thousand eight hundred & thirty two, by the Hon. Gabriel Whitman, Chief Justice of the Hon. John Ruggles one of the Judges of said Court, personally appeared John M c Daniel of Brunswick aged about 68 years of age , 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 7. 1832, viz t
That he enlisted in the service of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the Revolutionary war in the Spring of the year 1781 according to the best of his recollection on or about the 4th day of April with Capt Joseph M c Lellan then of Portland, & joined Col. Samuel M c Cobb's regiment & a company commanded by Capt John Reed, said M c Lellan first was went one Pattern, 2 d Lieutenant, and Amos Lunt, Ensign. He Immediately after enlistment marched to whereby now Portland from Topsham, where he then remained & was employed in said service until the last of November or the first of December, when he received a regular discharge. he does not recollect that he received any certificate of discharge; if he had one it is now lost. he served the whole time for which he enlisted & received eight months pay. He was born in Topsham now in the County of Lincoln and State of Maine, about the year 1764, and has always lived in said Town of Topsham or in the adjoining town of Brunswick. He knows of no record of his age, excepting one made within a few years last past, and that he is known to Amos Lunt, Philip Owen and Daniel M c Manns all of Brunswick aforesaid.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the pension Roll of any agency in any State. John M c Daniel
Sworn & subscribed before me the day & year aforesaid
Gabriel Whitman
Ch. Justice of Court of Common Pleas

Court of Common Pleas
August 29. 1832.
I Amos Lunt of Brunswick in the State of Maine aged seventy nine nearly eighty years on oath declare, that I was Brigadier in the Company in which the said John M c Daniel served, commanded by Capt Reed my commission is dated July 9 th 1781. I served as ensign several weeks before I received my commission by appointment of the officers I well recollect the said M c Daniel, with whom I have ever since been acquainted & that he served till the expiration of the time for which he enlisted. I have not the means of stating at what time the said M c Daniel entered the service, but I have no reason to believe but that he served during the time for which I was connected with said Company. He served until Dec. 1. 1781.
Amos Lunt
Signed & sworn to before the day and year aforesaid
Geo. Ruggles Jus. C.C.P.
We Philip Owen Esq & William Daniel McWilliams resident in Brunswick in the State of Maine; hereby certify that we are well acquainted with the abovenamed John M c Daniel who subscribes & swears to the above declaration, and that we believe him to be about sixty eight years of age & that he is reported & believed in the neighbourhood, where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolu- tion, and that we concur in the opinion.
Philip Owen
Daniel Mc Williams
Signed & sworn to the day & year aforesaid John Ruggles Jus. C.C.P.

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above-named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that Philip Owen & Daniel McManus and Amos Lunt, who have signed the preceding Certificate are resident in said Brumawich and are credible persons, & that their statement is entitled to credit. And the said Court further certifies, that it appears to them, that the distance from Brumawich to Portland in the County of Cumberland, where all the Courts are held for said County being twenty seven miles, it is inconvenient for said Applicant to go that distance to attend Court, and that Brumawich Village is but half a mile distance from the place of holding this Court, and in the immediate neighbourhood of the residence of said applicant.
Erskine W. Jones Chief Justice of Court of Common Pleas
Attest Nath. Coffin Clerk

REJECTED
6688.
P. O.
Elizabeth McDonald
Service:
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges This claim was erroneously placed with and adjudicated
Re-enlisted: (with that of John McDonald b6f 10377 who died in 1825.
on receipt of report from Comptroller Gen. Dec. 15, 1921.
Attorney: they papers were removed
R.O. and placed with papers in 847465 John McDaniel, her husband.
Recognized. Contract.
Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

N 389
Elizabeth M c Donald
Mr
Letter J. B. H. in 25 th Augt 1849
66 88
act 29 July 1848

Wid. Geo. J. Smith, 67 Dr. Geo. J. Mylbroop, 206 E. Ridge St. Marquette Mich. M. & C. Mich. 7th Inf. Bist. Co. Mich. Macdonald 91 Mercer St., Princeton, N.J. M. & C.
Oct. 2 '96
Soldier pensioned to Henry A. May. See Wid. Roxbury Mass  23 249 23949
✓
47.465  INVALID.
Reys
WIDOW, &c.
PH. NO. John M c Daniel Pri Col M c Cobb
Mass Heavy Arty
Act 1832 1832
Index: Vol _____, Page _____
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Two sets of notes are filed in the case and I do not know which one if either has the Museum of M. D. D.

Bangor May 4. 1849
Col. J. A. Edwards
Sir
Enclosed I send the declaration of Elizabeth Mc Donald for a pension under the act of July 29 1848 and the deposition of Nathaniel Badger Junr. Clerk of Brunswick, verifying the records of her marriage, also the deposition of Hannah Berry proving identity of the declarant. The delay that has occurred in forwarding the papers is caused by a mistake on the part of the post office in the delivery of the letter enclosing the papers. I trust all will be found right & that I shall soon receive the certificate, which she writes to have sent to me.
I am very respectfully yours
J. B. Hill

J. B. Hill Esq 25 th August 1849

614 Pension Office
August 25 th 1849
Sir
The papers in the case of Eliza - but McDonald widow of John M c Donald have been examined and filed under the act of 29 July 1848.
It appears from the Certificate of the Town Clerk of Brunswick that John M c Donald and Elizabeth Cantz were married in 1795, but a more specific statement in regard to the case of Claimant's husband is required. There is but one person in the hundred Rolls who spells his name as Claimant does. Who was pensioned under the act of 18 March 1818, and in his Schedule states that he has no family. Mrs. M c Donald should give her husband's place of residence at the time of his marriage, application. the act under which he was pensioned and the amount of his Annual Stipend, and should also the date of his death.
As this letter was received under the circumstances mentioned that she was the widow of John M c Donald who died in 1820 in Fort 1837. It has little value. However she the  fact that her husband was pensioned the fact and signed by name
J. B. Hill Esq. Ranger Me

IN REPLY REFER TO
Rev. War Section ✓ Record Division.
3 1865
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
BUREAU OF PENSIONS
WASHINGTON
Dec. 10, 1921.
Chief of the Pension Section, Interior Department Division, General Accounting Office.
Sir:
For use in the following Revolutionary War pension claims, you are requested to furnish this Bureau with the dates of soldiers' deaths and dates of last payments of pensions and names of persons paid in each claim.
John McDonald, Ctf. 10377, issued May 6, 1819, rate $8 per month, commenced April 28, 1818, Act of March 18, 1818. Maine Agency.
John McDaniel, Ctf. 11297, issued April 20, 1833, rate $26.66 per annum, commenced March 4, 1831, Act of June 7, 1832, Maine Agency.
Very respectfully,
Washington Gardner
Commissioner.
Files 12/12/21

GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON
December 15, 1921.
INTERIOR DEPARTMENT DIVISION IN REPLY QUOTE INITIALS
The Commissioner of Pensions. (Record Div. Rev. War Sec.)
Sir:
In reply to your inquiry of the 10th instant you are advised that the records of this show final payments of pension in the following cases:
John McDonald, Ctf. 10377, issued May 6, 1819, rate $8 per month, commenced April 28, 1818, Act of March 18, 1818, Maine Agency,
Died at Scarborough, Cumberland County, Maine, February 8, 1825.
Payment for the period from September 4, 1824 to February 8, 1825, was made on March 21, 1825, to Joshua Libby, Admr.
John McDaniel, Ctf. 11297, issued April 20, 1833, rate $26.66 per annum, commenced March 4, 1831, Act of June 7, 1832, Maine Agency,
Died at Brunswick, Cumberland County, Maine, September 16, 1841.
Payment for the period from March 4, 1841 to September 16, 1841, was made on October 5, 1841, to James Cox, duly authorized attorney for the widow, Elizabeth McDaniel.
Your letter is returned herewith.
Respectfully,
J. R. McCarl, Comptroller General,
By John K. Dillie  6
smc

ROXBURY MILITARY HISTORICAL SOCIETY.
HENRY A. MAY, SECRETARY. 47 FLORENCE STREET, ROSLINDALE.
ROXBURY, MASS.,
Sept 19 th 1896
Commission of Pensions Washington D.C.
W.L.
Dear Sir:
I would like the record of the following military services that served from Mass in the war 1775-1783.
Richard Mc Daniels , think from Houghton Mass. Where lived or died - record.
James Mc Daniels recd a pension - York Maine - ( Waltham etc)
John Mc Daniel - recd a pension ( Lincoln Co Maine (Waltham etc)
John Mc Daniel - commenced pension March 7 1789 Where Town lived or died
John Mc Daniels . Mass line died Dec 29 1809 Waltham? etc.
John Mc Daniels . Houghton Where lived or died
Land Grants?
Yours truly
Henry A. May Secy R.M.H.S. 47 Florence St. Roslindale Mass
Have you any printed Documents on Pensions? Revolutionary 1812 1848 1861 War

685
M.P.O. D. X. B.
DEPT OF THE INTERIOR.
July. 11, 1895.
Respectfully referred to the Comm'r of Pensions.
[Signature] Acting Chief Clerk.
206 East Bay Ridge St., Marquette, Mich., July. 8, 1895.
Requests information, as specified, of his an- cestors, Enoc Northrop, supposed soldier of the Revolution, and John McDonald, also, of the Revolution, and of the War of 1812.

Geo. J. Northrop, M. D., 206 East Ridge St. Marquette, Mich.
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ms. not ut
Feby. 8th 1895
Hon. Secy. of the Interior Washington, D.C. Dear Sir:-
With a view of establishing my claim for membership in "The Sons of the Revolution", I would ask for information as to Enos Northrop, of Brookfield, Conn., said to have been a soldier of the Revolution and John Mc Donald, of Brunswick, or Topsham, Maine, (then part of Mass.) said to have been a soldier of the Revolution and of the War of 1812.
It was John Mc Donald on the Muster Rolls but the name was McDonald and he had a Land Warrant that was located in Illinois.
Do the records of the Pension Office or of the General Land Office contain any information about either of them that I can be furnished with?
As they were my Ancestors, I should be greatly pleased if you can have me furnished with the needed information.
Yours respectfully G. J. Northrop