Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 6784, for Constantine Mc Mahan, Pennsylvania

SERVICE
NUMBER
Penn.
Mc Mahan Constantine
RR. 6784
CONTENTS

I know all men by these presents that I Andrew R. McMahan of Lawrence County Illinois do hereby with full power of substitution appoint C. H. Barkley of Louisville Kentucky my true and lawful Attorney for me and in my name to prosecute any claim I may have as one of the children of Constance McMahan nee late of Lawrence County Illinois to areas of pension application for which has heretofore been made
Said Attorney is authorized to receive a report on the present condition of said application and to do all lawful acts and deeds in this behalf all of which I hereby ratify
Witness my hand and seal in Lawrence County Illinois on this first day of January 1855
2 Witnesses
Lawrence
County of
his
J. M. W. Leon A. H. Beckett
Andrew R. McMahan Seal
State of Illinois

State of Illinois Lawrence County set
Be it known that on this 1 st day of January 1855 before me the subscriber a justice of the peace in and for said County personally came Andrew R McMahon a resident of Lawrence County Illinois to me well known, the subscriber to the foregoing power of Attorney and acknowledged the signing sealing and delivering the same to be his own voluntary act and deed for the uses and purposes set forth therein
In Testimony of which I do hereto subscribe my name H. B. Basset J.P.
State of Illinois Lawrence Lawrence County set
I Thomas H Watts Clerk of the County Court in and for said County do certify that Herman Basset whose genuine Signature appears to the above certificate was at the date thereof an acting justice of the peace in and for said County duly Commissioned and qualified
In Testimony of which I do hereto Subscribe my name and affix my official Seal at my office in Lawrenceville on this first day of January 1855
Thos. H. Watts clk.

N o 35-488.
Constantine Mahan
Illinois Pa
Act 7 th June '82

State of Illinois Lawrence County } ss
On this ninth day of March in the year of Our Lord One Thousand Eight hundred and forty Three personally appeared before the subscribers a commissioner of the County Commissioners Court of Lawrence County State of Illinois Constantine M c Mahan, of the County and State aforesaid aged ninety seven years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the Provisions made by the act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832 that he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year 1776 with Captain John Braisben, and served in at Philadelphia Regiment of the Pennsylvania line under the following named officers, to wit Arthur St Clair Colonel, Wood Major, John Braisben Captain and John Gross Lieutenant He lived in Sussex  New Jersey County, before he entered the service, that the Regiment marched from Philadelphia to Albany New York, to Lyconderago Crownpoint, and from thence to Canada designed to join the army under General Montgomery at Quebec met the army retreating after the fall of Montgomery near Quebec, was in no battle except a skirmish at the Three Rivers, remained in the service one year, does not remember the number of the Regiment, nor the particular time of his entry or discharge 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
Constantine his M c Mahan mark
Sworn to and subscribed this day and year aforesaid
Jas Mabb
I James Mabb Commissioner of the County Commissioners Court of Lawrence County aforesaid

do hereby declare it as my opinion that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states, and do also hereby certify that the applicant cannot from bodily infirmity at- tend the court
Given under my hand this ninth day of March A D 1843 Jas Nabb
State of Illinois } Lawrence County } I Ebenezer Zane Ryan Clerk of the County Commissioners Court do hereby certify that James Nabb who signed the above certificate is one of the Commissioners of said Court aforesaid and the above signature purporting to be his is Genuine
In Testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Lawrenceville this 9th day of March A D 1843
E. Z. Ryan Clerk

Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
REJECTED
Oct 84.
P. O.
Constantine W. Mahan
Service:
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18
Oct 21/84 Hon. Mr. Shaw in found that no allowance can be made. white

1 No 35:488.
Constantine M c Mahan
Illinois Pa
Suspended
Let to J. G. Borman April 27. 1843.
C. H. Barkley 12 Jany. 1855.
{ Hon. A. Shaw. No 239,759 see claim of James Robinson R.8907 for letter to Hon. A. Shaw. }
6784
Act 7 th June 1832.

Andrew R. McMahan Son of Constantine McMahan Act of June 7th 1832
Attorney W. H. Barkley Louisville Kentucky

Louisville Ky Jan'y 4 th 1855
Sir
Enclosed herewith I send you a power of attorney from Andrew R McMahan son of Constantine McMahan
This is a suspended case from what I can learn of it
I wish you if you please to give me such abstract of former papers as will enable me to have records examined in the state or state where service is alleged to have been performed
Respectfully W H Barkley
Hon S P Waldo Commissaire Washington D. C.

Lawrenceville Ill } April 27 }
May 8 '63
Civ:
Caroline M c Mahan Mrs. Carrol
Freo
Edwards Esq d Court of Pensions
Washington D.C. -

Lawrenceville Apr 25 1823
J. S. Edwards Esq. Dear Sir
I transmitted to your office sometime since the application of Canstant Tine McMahan for a pension has it been received and what action has been had on it
Respectfully yours J. A. Bowman

Mar 25 1843 Lawrenceville Ill March 17 J. J. Edwards Comm r of Pensions Washington City D.C.
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C. M. & Markham
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Lawrenceville Illinois March 17 th 1843 J L Edwards Esq
Dear Sir
Enclosed please find the Declaration of Constantine McMahan, a Revolutionary Soldier. The old man is extremely feeble, and so deaf that I could not prepare his declaration with as much accuracy or as fully as might otherwise have been done. That he was in the service as he relates no one ac- quainted with him ever doubted.
Respectfully yours
J H Bowman
Atty for applicant