Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 38193, for James Mc Dade, Virginia

SERVICE
Va.
McDade, James
NUMBER
S. 38193
CONTENTS

7101 Virginia
James M c Dade
of Mason Co in the state of Virginia who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Wood of Campbell of the Virginia line, for the term of 4 years & 6 months
scribed on the Roll of Virginia at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 19 of August 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 5 of March and sent to J. M c Dade Point Pleasant - Va
Arrears to 4th of March 1819  52.35 Semi-ann. all ce ending 4 Sept 1819  48.
$100.35
Died July 30 1833
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued
William Stewart, March 1820 William Stewart, March 1820 William Stewart, March 1820

Lo Pa 1862 Free
The Hon. ble Secretary of War (Pension Office) Washington City
Mr. Powell

State of Virginia Mason County ss 3
on this 19 th day of August 1818
in Open Court before me the Subscriber presiding Judge of the said Court of Mason County personally appears James McBride aged sixty nine Years (to the best of his belief) resident in said County State who being by me first duly sworn according to Law doth on his Oath make the following declaration in order to Obtain the provisions made by the late act of Congress, entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War, that he the said James McBride in the spring following the battle of Trenton enlisted in Hampshire County State of Virginia in the Company Commanded by Captain William Vop of the 12 Virginia Regt. Commanded by Col n Wood of Gen Scotts Brigade that he continued to serve in the said Service the full term of Three Years following when he was discharged at Philadelphia in Pennsylvania after which he substituted in the place of Sarah Gandy for eighteen months which he served under Capt David Williams of said County of Hampshire State aforesaid who served under Col o Campbell to the Southward from which service he was discharged at Salisbury for the Carolinas doath which discharges it is his that he was in the battles of Brandywine Germantown and Monmouth and some skirmishing in the first term of service and in the second term of service

he was in the battle of Rattlesprings where he received a Bayonete wound threw the body - and a sword wound on the West and at Camden battle he received a Bullet wound at the ankle which fractured the bone and stiffen'd his legg to this day and that he is in Reduced Circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his Country for support and that he is unable to perform manual labour
I his James x McDade Sworn to and declared before me the day & Year aforesaid
I John Henderson
marks
I John Henderson Judge as aforesaid do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said James McDade did serve in the Revolutionary war as stated in the proceeding declaration against the Common Enemy and that he is in Indigent Circumstances unable to perform manual labour for subsistence and absolutely stands in need of the support of his Country
I now transmit the proceeding certified testimony taken and had before me to the secretary for for the department of war pursuant to the
directions of the aforesaid act of Congress the 19 th day
August A.D. 1818.
John Henderson
Virginia Marion county S t
I William Ferriss Clerk of the court for Marion county aforesaid do hereby certify that John Henderson Esq r . before whom the foregoing affidavit was made was at the time of signing the same a qualified Judge in said court. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and set the seal of Office this 20 th day of August 1818 William Ferriss

Point Pleasant 19 th Jan y 1818
Sir, I rec d your notice, my declaration and Certificate. should which lead on examination of the Rolls to be evidenced, it will entitle my Client to land for the first service
advise me the result of both.
and Oblige Yours
Very Humbly
James McDade

James M c Dade
7107
Sept 1819
W m Stewart Esq First Plant Va
glance

Virginia Mason County Set
On this twenty seventh day of September in the year eighteen hundred and twenty personally appeared before the superior court of law for said County of Mason being a court of record proceeding according to the course of common law with the jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount James M c Leod aged seventy one years, to the best of his belief, Resident of said County of Mason; who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he served in the revolutionary war as follows; That in the spring following the battle of Trenton he enlisted in Hampshire County, State of Virginia in the Company commanded by Capt n William Doss of the 12 th Virginia Regiment commanded by Col o Wood of General Scott's brigade that this declaration continued in said service for the term of three years next following when he was discharged at Philadelphia in the State of Pennsylvania after which discharge he substituted in place of Micah Ganay for the eighteen months and served under Captain David Williams of the County of Hampshire and in the Regiment commanded by Col o Campbell. From this last service after performing the same he was discharged at Salisbury in North Carolina - That to entitle himself to a pension under the acts of Congress in such cases made and provided he made a declaration

in pursuance of said Acts on the nineteenth day of August in the year eighteen hundred & eighteen.
That under & by virtue of said Acts & declaration he was placed in the list of Revolutionary Pensioners of the United States and his name inscribed on the pension list Roll of the Virginia agency as more fully appears by his certificate of pension Number 7187 and dated the 5th of March 1819
And I the said James M Dade do solemnly swear that I was a United Citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818, and that I have not since that time by gift, sale, or in any manner, dispose of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby to diminish it, as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled, an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and Naval Service of the United States in the Revolutionary war, passed on the eighteenth of March 1818; and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property, or securities, contracts, or debts, due to me, nor have I any income other than what is contained in the Schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed and which schedule contains One Horse Three Cows & One Heifer One feather bed and bedding One light bed and Covering One Chest One pot One Kettle Six head of sheep and perhaps about twelve head of hogs.
The declarant also states that with the aid of her children he cultivates a small piece of ground but is unable to do much of the manual part of said labour herself. That her family consists of herself, her wife and three children one of whom is nearly of age and a son who is an orphan.

The second is a boy aged about sixteen years and small of his age The third is a daughter aged fourteen in July last
Schedule of the property known before men- tioned previously said James M c Leod & sub- scribed with the value thereof as nearly as could be ascertained by disinterested testimony viz One house of the value of — $ 30 00 Three Cows of the value of — 30 00 One heifer of the value of — 7 00 One feather bed and bedding of value of 15 00 One light bed & bedding of the value of 5 00 One pot of the value of — 1 00 One oven of the value of — 2 00 One kettle of the value of — 2 50 Six head of sheep of the value of — 10 00 about twelve head of hogs of the value of 12 00 $114 50
James M c Leod his mark
Sworn to and declared on the 27 th day of Septem- ber 1820 in Open Court
I William Sterrett clerk of Maron County Superior court of law do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the Schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the records of said court; and I further certify that it is the opinion of the said court that the total amount of the value of said property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule is One hun- dred and fourteen dollars and fifty cents
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court this Thirteenth day of September 1820
William Sterrett

I have been solicited by the applicant within named to ask that the Honorable the Secretary of the war Department will have the goodness to give to this declaration as early an attention as practicable and should be be adjudged to come within the description contem- plated by act of Congress that his cer- tificate be enclosed to my care
William Ferriss Sept 30 th 1820

Rev. and 1812 Wars Section REL
July 16, 1929
Mrs. William Youngblood 2803 Twenty-second Avenue Ensley, Alabama
Dear Madam:
I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary war pension claim, S. 38193, it appears that James McDade, while residing in Hampshire County, Virginia, enlisted sometime in the spring of 1777, and served three years as a private in Captain William Vause's Company, Colonel Wood's Virginia Regiment, was in the battles of Brandywine, Germantown, Monmouth, and several skirmishes.
Shortly after the above noted service, he re-enlisted and served eighteen months as a private in Captain David Williams' Company, Colonel Campbell's Virginia Regiment. He was in the battles of Eutaw Springs, where he received a bayonet wound through his body and a sword wound on the wrist, and Camden, where wounded on the ankle by a bullet.
He was allowed pension on his application executed August 19, 1818, at which time he was residing in Mason County, Virginia, and was sixty-nine years of age.

In 1820, he referred to his wife and three children, a son nearly of age, son, sixteen years old and a daughter, fourteen years old, no names given.
He died June 30, 1833.
Very truly yours,
EARL D. CHURCH Commissioner.
Date of death from Agency Book

38193 INVALID.
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File No. 38193
James McDade Rev Geo W
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 265
[Arrangement of 1870.]
13 Apr. 14. Hist. to Minnie E. Hogan. C 1916 Mar. 30. Hist. to Mrs. Lucy Dozier Douglass - letter in S. 40995 John McDowell. f. 1929 July 16. Hist. to Mrs Wm Yarnall. BCh

MRS. WILLIAM YOUNGBLOOD 2803 TWENTY-SECOND AVE. ENSLEY, ALABAMA
March 5-1929.
U.S. Pension Office - Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir -
In Vol 2 of the U.S. Pension Roll for the middle states and Va., a book which was published in 1835, I find the following record
"James McVade private Va line.

placed on Pen Roll March 5 1879.
Pen commenced Aug 19 1818-
Age 86. died July 30-1833
Please give me this memo. complete record, as shown by the files of your office.
Very truly.
Mrs Fannie L. Youngblood.

Mrs. Lucy Dozier Douglas. College Park, Ga.
Letter dated Mch 4, 1916
" " recd. " 7, "
Asks for James M c Dade Va. Line. Pensioner - - 1818 - -
Letter - With Claim of John M c Donnell, S. 40995- Rev war
Please date circular Mch. 30 , 1915 - give to F.W.

College Park, Ga., 4/4/913.
Hon. J. L. Davenport, Commissioner, Department Of The Interior, Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir:
On page 80, in Senate Document (514), 1st. Session of the 23rd. Congress, there appears the name of James McDade age 86, 1819, Mason Co., Va. he died 7/30/933. If you can furnish me with statement, as to family, and service when he made his application, and when the pension ended, I will be grateful. His Revolutionary service, Va. Roll.
There also appears on the Georgia Roll of Revolutionary soldiers, in Senate Document (514), page 40, the name of John McDade, age 86, 1834, private in the Virginia Mil., Gwinnett Co., Ga., his statement made when he applied for a pension, with all family data and Revolutionary service desired.
Hoping to hear at an early date and thanking you for this, and past courtesies, I am,
Very respectfully,
Mrs. Minnie E. Hogan.

In reply to your request of _____, received for a statement of the military history of James Mc Dade a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his ( or his widow's ) application for pen- sion on file in this Bureau. S. 38.193
L. 38.193
    DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     Spring 1861 3 years disch'd at Philadelphia William Laure Laure Wood 12 Va.   ✓ 18 mos disch'd at Washington D.C. David Williams Campbell    J Largest not the only record of service 
Battles engaged in, Battle of Franklin, December 19, 1864. Battle of Spring Hill, November 29, 1864. Battle of Columbia, February 14, 1865. Battle of Dover, March 21, 1865. Battle of Appomattox Court House, April 9, 1865.
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Enl. in Hampshire Co. Va.
Date of application for pension, Aug. 19, 1818.
Residence at date of application, Mason Co., Va.
Age at date of application, 69 yrs.
Remarks: When decision was allowed, in Sept. 1870 he referred to his wife, a son nearly of age, some short written and daughter and son. I do not, but did not state their names.
Very respectfully,
Commissioner.

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
File 38,193
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Rev War
Washington, D. C., Mch. 30 th , 1916.
Mrs Lucy Dozier Douglass, College Park, Ga.
Madam:-
In reply to your request of Mch. 4 th , received Mch. 7 th for a statement of the military history of James Mc Dade , a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his ( or his widow's ) application for pension on file in this Bureau.
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     Spring 1777 3 years Private William Vane Wood 12 th Va.   discharged at Philadelphia.   ✓ 18 mos. David William ✓ Campbell   discharged at Salisbury N.C.   He sustained gunshot wound of ankle at Camden, and bayonet wound of body and sword wound of wrist at Eutaw Springs.  
Battles engaged in, Brandywine, Germantown, Monmouth, Camden &amp; Eutaw Springs.
Residence of soldier at enlistment, ✓ Enlisted in Hampshire Co., Va.
Date of application for pension, Aug. 19, 1818. His claim was allowed.
Residence at date of application, Mason Co., Va.
Age at date of application, sixty-nine years.
Remarks: Sept. 1820 he referred to his wife; a son nearly of age; son about 16 years old; and daughter 14 years last July, but did not state their names.
Respectfully,
Commissioner.