Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 6,764, for John Mc Kinney, North Carolina

SERVICE
NUMBER
96
Mc Kinney John
99 6,764
CONTENTS

On this sixth day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty one personally appeared in open court Before the Judge of the Circuit Court of Madison County and State of Illinois and sitting John McKinley a resident of Madison County and State of Illinois and on his oath made the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832 That he was born on the second day of September 1760 according to his Father's Record and entered the service of the United States under one Captain Thomas Ballard he does not recollect the day or month on which he entered the service but it was he thinks in the Spring he entered the service and he thinks it was in seventeen hundred and eighty and served from that until the end of the war some times in service sometimes at home for they were not regularly organized but when there was fighting to be done they went and done it and then went home until another opportunity occurred He was born in South Carolina but raised in North Carolina from about ten years old in Rutherford County North Carolina and was living there when he entered the service which he did in said County and State they were immediately marched to South Carolina through Spartanburg and Camden Districts was only in one battle and that was under Captain Ballard at that time it took place as we were going to join General Marion who was lying between Camden and Georgetown on the way we fell in with some British and had a fight we were drove back there were about one hundred Americans I think this was in the Spring and took place eight or ten miles below Camden He was a volunteer volunteered for during the war he served off and on more than  more than two years was never regularly discharged and has no Record Evidence of his service He was part of his time under Colonel

Henderson thinks he joined Henderson on the water Erie River and thinks he served under him six months and laid for the principal part of the time at an old fort field He further states that he only served at a point that he knows of no person who knows of his service in the Revolutionary War. he has lived in this state since 1808 up to then in North Carolina except one year in He relinquishes every claim his interest whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid John McKenney H. T. Brown Clerk of Circuit Court of Madison County State of Illinois
We William Hadley a clergyman residing in Madison County and State of Illinois and Irvin B Randall Residing in Upper Salton County and State aforesaid also a clergyman and also John Runnels a Member of Congress from first Congressional District from and State of Illinois
Do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with John McKenney who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be Eighty one years of age that he is reputed to and believed in the neighborhood where he resided to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid Attest H. T. Brown Clerk of the Circuit Court of Madison County State of Illinois William Hadley Irvin B Randall John Runnels

And the said Court do hereby declare thereby that 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 serve as he states. And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that William Hoddy and Irvin B Randall are both clergymen who have signed the preceding certificate resident in the County of Madison & State of Illinois and that John Runnels who has also signed the same is a Resident in the the County of St Clare and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled.
I William T. ... Clerk of the Circuit Court of Madison County State of Illinois do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of John McKeney for a pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal
It appears this tenth day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty one
Attest Wm T Brown Clerk

personally appeared before me the undersigned an acting justice of the peace in and for Madison County and State of Illinois John McKim who being duly sworn deposes and saith that by reason of old age and loss of memory he cannot say particularly as to the precise time or length of time of his service but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than two years and for which he claims a pension.
Sworn & subscribed before me the undersigned justice of the peace in & for Madison County State of Illinois this 6 th day of October A.D. 1841 Samuel G. Bailey Regd Just for
I state to James L. Edwards Esq. that I have known the above Mr. McKim personally for a long time and know him to be an honest correct man. I have no doubt his statements are true. 15 th Oct 1841 John Reynolds

Enlistment by the Court
1 st Where and in what year were you born Ans I was born I believe in Camden District State of South Carolina on the second day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and sixty
2 d Where were you living when called into service Where have you lived since the Revolutionary War and where do you now live
Ans I was living in Rutherford County North Carolina I have lived the part of the time in North Carolina one year in the State of Kentucky in the County of Christian and came from them to the State of Illinois in the year Eighteen hundred and Eight and settled in the neighborhood where he now lives they was then a Territory and it was then called St Clare and now Madison County
3 d How were you called into service were you Draughted did you Volunteer or were you a Substitute and if a Substitute for whom I Volunteered never was Draughted nor was he ever a Substitute for any person
4 th State the names of some of your Regular Officers who were with the Troops when you served such Continental and Militia Regiments as you can recollect and the general circumstances of your service
Ans Captain Thomas Ballard was part of the time my Captain I was under several others but do not recollect their names I was part of the time under Colonel Henderson General Green was our General
We had no regular way of fighting but fought with the first Officer or Company we met when any thing to do

6th Did you ever receive a discharge from the service and if so by whom was it given and what has become of it
Ans I never received any discharge nor do I know of any of those who were with me receiving any discharge I served until the End of the Revolutionary War
7th State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood and who can testify as to your character for veracity and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution
Ans I am known to most of the old citizens of the County I would refer to William Hadly a clergyman William Otis Matthew Gilspie and Colier Brown
From the statements made to me by the above named John McKinley which sitting in open court as judge of the Madison County Circuit Court in the state of Illinois, I do not hesitate to express my opinion of the truth of the above answers and of his statements as made in his foregoing declaration - Given under my hand in open court this 7 th day of October 1841 Sidney Breese Associate Justice of the Supreme Court and presiding in the County of Madison

Nov. 2 July 11, 1902, and March 2, 1903.
REJECTED
6264.
P. O.
John M c Kinney Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____ _____ _____
Re-enlisted: _____ _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____ _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

* John M. Kinney Illinois
Rejected.
See let. 26 July 1841 1840 Hon J. Reynolds.
Service not performed in an organized corps.
6 16 4
Act of June 1832

35 266 H John McKennes Illinois

Edwardsville Ill Oct 14 th
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Wm John Reynolds Bellerive Illinois

Oct 20 1841 ST. LOUIS MO.
W. Mrs. McKinney Oct 1832.
Mrs. Catherine Lequin Cousin of Benjamin
Henry Reynolds, Belleville Ill.
Washing the body
Feb -
Rev. John
with the Rev. John
Dear

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME McLinney, John GRADE Private LINE Pennsylvania
WARRANT NUMBER 10113 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED April 2, 1791
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*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.