Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 6756, for Neill Mc Kethan, North Carolina

SERVICE
W.L.
McKethan, Neill
PP 6756
CONTENTS
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July 11, 1945, and March 6, 1970
6756
P. O. Will McKeithan
Service: _____
REJECTED
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contr
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

Neill McKethan -
Mean
Rejected, Letter
17 April 1834 to
A. M c Lean Jr.
6756

Neill M c Kechnie Se 20.5746
Refuted 17 April
Arch d McLane Jr.

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after an investigation of the matter, the interrogatories presented by the War Department having been put - that the aforesaid Applicant served as he stated in the Resolutions war and was a soldier of the Revolution - and that Hon. Lauchlin Bethune and Col. David Gilles are men of truth and veracity.
James M c Neal
John M c Lauchlin
Daniel Ba r row
I Archibald McLean J r Clerk of the Court aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of this Court in the matter of the application of Neil McLean for a pension In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office this 11 th March Anno Domini 1834
Arch d McLean J r Clk.

North Carolina } Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions Cumberland County } March Term 1834
On this 4th day of March 1834 personally appeared before the Court aforesaid Neil MacKethan a resident of Cumberland County aged between Eighty and Eightyone years, who first being duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision of the act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832 That he volunteered in Edgecombe County N.C. in Captain Lofield Company of Infantry, Colonel Dossier, the name he cannot spell - but thinks it is according to the pronunciation in the year 1776 on the 5th day of May, for three months - 3 that he then resided in Tarborough Edgecombe County N.C. that they were marched from Tarborough to Wilmington N.C. and from there to Brunswick where they were stationed some time to prevent persons from passing up the River. The Captain's Compa- ny taking it week about in guarding the town of Bruns- wick - they remained alternately at Wilmington & Brunswick for three months when they were marched to Tarborough and discharged - for this service he claims a pension - He was in no battle nor never wounded, he has no documentary evi- dence to prove his service - That the Rev d Colin McIver to whose Church he is attached and has been for upwards of forty five years and from whom he expected to get a Certificate or now absent -
Answers to interrogatories put by the Court - 1. He was born in the Shire of Argyle Scotland, in 1753 - 2. He has the Record of his age - 3 He was living in Tarborough - and since the War in Cumberland where he now resides -

4. He was a volunteer -
5. Col. Norton, Cpt Herd - Cpt Thos. Gilmore - besides his own Officers Col. Matthews
6 He received no Discharge -
That he has as one by whom to prove his actual service -
That the Hon.ble. Lanchlin Bethune and Col. Maria Gillis can testify as to his character and as to belief of his service -
The hereby releases all claim for a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his claim is not on the pension. All of any agency of any State
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Neill his mark McKethan
Arch d B. McLean Jr. Clk.
We the subscribers testify that we are well acquainted with Neill McKethan, that we believe him to be of the age he represents - that his character for truth and veracity is un- doubted, and that he is a man of high respectability and stan- ding in Cumberland County - and that we believe from his state- ments that he served as he deposed to - and that the opinion of his serving in the War of the Revolution is common to all with whom he has conversed on the subject -
Sworn and subscribed as above
J. B. Thorne David Gillis

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME McKew, John GRADE Private LINE New York
WARRANT NUMBER 7531 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED July 16, 1790
to Wm. F. Vreedenburgh, assignee of J.
*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.