Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 6690, for John Mc Donough, Virginia

SERVICE
NUMBER
Va
McDonough, John or McDaniel or McDonald
R. 6690
CONTENTS

See Valley of Sept 15 th
True
McGowan & McDonald
Hon. J. L. Edwards Washington City D. C.

Sir, Lee Valley 17 th September 1839
I received your letter of the 21 st August requesting some additional proof relative to the case of Mrs. Margaret M c Donald. I applied to her for the papers alluded to in my affidavit she told me she left them with her son son-in-law then told her son to go and bring them to me he said he made enquiry of his brother-in-law and he told him they were all destroyed — I see no chance for the old lady to exhibit any better proof in her case than is now before you. The certificates of some respectable neighbours of hers are before you giving their opinions and belief of her husband's services and many more could be produced to the same effect who had been acquainted with M c Donald for many years.
I assure you Sir there is no doubt with some who were well acquainted with M c Donald in his lifetime, and frequently conversed with him relative to his service in the army of the revolution that he was a good soldier and one of those who served for some length of time.
The old lady when she applied to me to do her business I searched all M c Donald papers to see if I could find a discharge, I have no hesitancy in saying, and am certain in looking over the papers I found his name spelt M c Donald on all papers frequently. I see in the opinion of the Hon. Lewis Cass, secretary of war to Mr. Polk that considerable relaxation should be allowed in the absence of printed proof it would be to deprive many of them of the benefit of the act.

I do assure you Sir, if the opinion of the Hon. Secretary is applicable to any case that has been before you it is that of Mr. M c Donough It is the opinion of the neighbourhood where he resided in his lifetime he was a true patriot he also taught it patriotism to his children he had but two sons and lost one of them in the last war with Great Britain under the immortal Caesar. The old lady is now living with her youngest son in a half mile of me in absence in digence I give it as my honest opinion with the corroborant opinion of her neighbours that if any case merits a favourable solution it is Mr. M c Donald. I am going to move in a few days to the western Country and cannot attend to the old lady's business any longer and from her relations to me I do not think she can exhibit any proof of a different character more than she has done you can see Sir, merely deliberate on her case with what is before you and make your returns to John Mitchell Esq. Lee valley Hawkins County East Tennessee
I am Sir sorry
Respectfully your
Obedient servant
Levi Mitchell
Hon. J. L. Edwards Commission of Pensions

act 7 Jan 1882 Mrs. Donough
30.457
for her husband's pension which accrued before his death
for Jonesboro agency to be sent L Mitchell
Hon. J. Bloom HR
L. Mitchell

Declaration of Margaret M c Donough widow and Relict of John M c Donough
Received State of Tennessee On this 17 th day of March 1884 personally appeared Margaret Hawkins County M c Donough resident of Hawkins County and State of Tennessee aged sixty seven years before me Lewis Mitchell an acting Justice for said County and after being duly sworn according to law doth on her oath relate the following Declaration of her deceased husband's service as a soldier of the revolution as related to her by him in his life time
I was married to my husband John M c Donough the spring after he was married in Frederick County In the State of Virginia in which County he was living when he first went in to the service of the United States I was then living within three miles of him and I think I was about two years old I recollect of his joining the army of the United States at Winchester in Frederick County State of Virginia but I don't now recollect whether or not he enlisted or not I always understood from him in his life time he served during the war I never saw him when he returned to the neighborhood in Frederick County but during the war My husband always was called M c Daniel but I think his right name was M c Donough I am unlearned and so was my husband that I cannot tell how his name was spelt I have heard my husband in his life time relate a great many circumstances that took place in kind of his service I do not now recollect the names of any Officers he told me about except Morgan and Washington I also heard him state a great many battles he was in but I do not know recalled any but Brandywine and gave defeat at Camden he was what

That Circumstances that took place in time of his service. I do not now recollect the names of any Officers he told me about except Morgan and Washington I also heard him state a great many battles he was in but I do not know recalled any but Brandywine and gates defeat at Camden he was shot through the leg in time of his service but at what place I do not know I always understood from him he was a regular soldier during the war but if he did not enlist at Winchester in Frederick County State of Virginia he did enlist some where in the State of Virginia he returned home after the war was over in the said County and we were married and moved to the State of Tennessee Hawkins County where he died on the 14 th April 1833 I also certify that Owing to great bodily Infirmary I am unable to go before a court of record to make the following declaration I certify neither my husband's name or husband's  name  name  that  the  agency of any state  sworn to befriend me the day a fore mentioned
Levi Mitchell
her Margaret Nell Darnugh mark
State of Tennessee This 21 st day of March 1834 we Thomas Hawkins County & Bradley clergyman residing in the County of Hawkins and State of Tennessee and Peter Ogan residing in the same County before me Lewis Mitchell an acting Justice for said County and being duly sworn do declare we were well acquainted with the late John M c Darnugh for many years being near neighbours of his we believe him to have been of age & likely to have been in the revolution. We further certify that from frequent conversation with him and his relations various circumstances of the revolution we without hesitation say we believe him to have been a revolutionary soldier during the war or the best part thereof We further certify that the above named Margaret is the lawful widow and relict of the said

John M c Donough sworn to and subscribed the date before mentioned before me Lewis Mitchell C.P.
Thomas Crawby Peter O'conn
State of Tennessee
Hawkins County, ss. On this 24 th day of March 1834 came Capt James Bird before me Lewis Mitchell an acting Justice of the peace for said County and made oath that he was well acquainted with the late John M c Donough before his death for twenty years testifying that from various conversations with him he does believe him to have been a revolutionary soldier. During the best part of the war he further testified he understood from him he was a regular soldier but doesn't at this time know where he enlisted. sworn to and subscribed the day and year before mentioned before me
Lewis Mitchell C.P.
James Bird
State of Tennessee
I Peter Wolf resident of Hawkins County do hereby certify I was well acquainted with the late John M c Donough for twenty years, always heard him say he was a revolutionary soldier and I further certify I believe him to have been a soldier of the revolution given under my hand this 25 th March 1834
State of Tennessee Lewis Mitchell C.P.
Peter Wolf mark

Mr Donough for twenty years I have known him say he was a revolutionary soldier and I further certify I believe him to have been a soldier of the revolution given under my hand this 20 th March 1834
Louis Attilio P.
Peter P. Wolf mark
State of Pennsylvania
Hawkins County, ss. On this 29 th day of March 1834 Personally appeared John Brown resident in the County of Granger and State of Tennessee and after being duly sworn says he was well acquainted with the late John Mc Donough fifty years he being acquainted with him in the State of Virginia he always understood he was a revolutionary soldier five years or thereabouts war I recollect his letters and he was entitled to land for his services in the war and since he came to this country he told me he sold his claim of land he was entitled to for his services I believe him to have been in the service of the united States an uncle told me and he served five years in the service with Mr Donough He enlisted well as I have recollect in the State of Virginia I recollect of my uncle saying he Mr Donough was a very brave soldier sworn to and subscribed the day and year before mentioned before me
Louis Attilio P.
John Cogan

Since, I think it is my whose attestation is to the within papers is known to me to be a true copy of the papers for Hawkins County and his attestations within are genuine Apl 16 th 1834
John Black

Aug 10.
Learn. 2 o fce '36 M c Al.
FREE
Hon! J. L. Edwards Washington City D. C.

State of Tennessee
Hawkins County } This day came Louis Mitchell before me John Mitchell an acting Justice of the Peace for said County and after being duly sworn according to law doth on his oath say — that he was well acquainted with the late John McDonald for eleven years, he was always called by the name before mentioned which many other persons will testify if required to being illiterate and he could not tell the only proper way to spell his name and therefore his widow cannot tell how his name was spell when he was married I certify I have since his death looked over his papers, I find his name spelled in many papers John Mc Donald and also otherwise. I further certify that his widow always told me his name was pronounced Mc Donald when she first knew him but his name was spell differently in his papers, seeing I concluded it to the different ways men would spell his name This deponent says there are many certificates produced like the above, but to day how his name was spelled in the motor bill when he was insured he can not say But from what he can learn in the neigh- borhood and from a search of his papers he says he believes his name was properly spelled
John Mc Donald This 24 th July 18 th before me Mitchell J.P.
sworn to and subscribed Louis Mitchell

State of Tennessee Hawkins County } I, William O. Winston Clerk of the County Court of the County aforesaid, do certify that John Mitchell whose name appears to the within affidavit of Lewis Mitchell, is now and was at the time of signing the same, an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly commissioned and qualified, and that said signature appears to be in his own proper hand writing.
Witness my hand and seal of Office at Office in Rogersville this 31 st day of July 1837
W. Winston Clk
J. Edwards Washington City D. C.
FREE

Return an answer to me Lu Valery Hawkins County Tennessee Lewis Mitchell

January 17, 1934
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Mr. Hunter McDonald 924 Broadway Nashville, Tennessee
BA-J/EEL Archibald McDonald-S.38190 John McDonough -R.6690
Dear Sir:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request further information in regard to the Sergeant McDonald, Revolutionary War soldier, referred to in your former correspondence.
The records have been searched again in your behalf, and no record found of a claim for pension or bounty land made to the United States based upon service of an Angus McDonald. The records have been found of Archibald McDonald, of Winchester, Frederick County, Virginia, and John McDonough, or McDaniel, or McDonald, of the same county. Presuming that they may aid you some way in your research, they are given herein as found in the respective claims for pension based upon their service in the Revolutionary War. It might be suggested that you apply to The Adjutant General, War Department, this city, as a possible source of the military record of Angus McDonald.
Archibald McDonald S.38190
Archibald McDonald was born December 25, 1752; place of birth and names of his parents are not shown in the papers in the pension claim.
He enlisted in Alexandria, state not given, very early in the Revolution, served as a private in Captain John Fitzgerald's Virginia Company and in Captain Croghan's Company, Colonel Neville's Virginia Regiment; was in the battles of Brandywine, Paoli, Germantown; was at Valley Forge in the winter of 1777 and 1778, in the battle of Monmouth and at the storming of Stony Point and was discharged sometime in 1779, having served three years. He stated that he also served in the western army under General Wayne; no data for this service was given.

Archibald McDonald was allowed pension on his application executed August 7, 1821, while residing near Winchester, Frederick County, Virginia.
In above year, the soldier stated that his wife was aged sixty-five years and that he had a grandchild, aged about twelve years and an orphan, residing with him but he did not give the name of his wife nor that of his grandchild nor the names of the parents of said grandchild and there are no further family data.
The soldier died August 27, 1839, place not given.
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John McDonough R.6690
The date and place of birth and the names of the parents of John McDonough are not shown in the papers in the pension claim. The name also appears as McDonald and McDaniel but his widow stated that she thought "his right name was McDonough."
He married in the spring of 1783 in Frederick County, Virginia, Margaret, whose maiden name was not given; she was of Frederick County, Virginia. After their marriage, they moved to Hawkins County, Tennessee, where the soldier died April 14, 1833.
On March 17, 1834, while residing in Hawkins County, Tennessee, Margaret McDonough applied for the pension that might have been due on account of the services of her husband in the Revolutionary War and alleged that while residing in Frederick County, Virginia, he enlisted, date not given, served under Colonel Morgan, was at the battles of Brandywine and Gates' Defeat at Camden, and was wounded by a shot through one of his legs, and served to the end of the war.
Her claim was not allowed as she failed to furnish proof of service as required by the pension law.
It was stated that John and Margaret McDonough had two sons, one of whom was a soldier in the War of 1812; a son-in-law is also referred to, but no names are given, and there are no further family data.
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Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER Assistant to Administrator.

6690
P. O.
John M c Donough
Service:
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Printed list of 1852 shows
Cause of suspension, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
"The certificate of the Virginia auditor adduced
Alleges: as proof, speaks of a John McDonald, a different person evidently"
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18
1934. Jan 17 - Visit to Mr. Thompson in case and advised in standard - 638190-624 Signal. New letter

John M ac Donough Tennessee
Suspended let 6 May 1837 could not find
L. Mitchell do. 21 Augt 37 - do to same Sept 25 1837 - 24 0.49 to Mem. U. M. Cooke March 3. " " " Same Apr 11. 48
6690

This is to Certify, That it appears from a List in this Office of such Officers and Soldiers of the Virginia Continental Line, during the Revolutionary War, as settled their Accounts, and received Certificates for the balance of their Full Pay, according to an Act of Assembly, passed the November Session, 1781, that a Certificate issued on the 23 rd day of April 1782 , in the name of John Mc Donald as a Soldier of Infantry for £ 60. 16. 0, which Certificate appears to have been delivered to Capt. Shoffard and was given for services prior to the 1st January, 1782.
{ No Seal of Office. }
Given under my hand at the Auditor's Office, Richmond, this 12 th day of January 1836.
Jas E. Heath
AUDITOR.

Pension Office April 12 1848
Sir
I have the honor to return herewith Mr McAnally's letter and to inform you that the affidavit of C. McAnally in the case of John McDonough  acc is not at all satisfactory to identify him with the John McDonald to whom a certificate of disqualification for service in the Virginia Continental Line has been exhibited the Certificate of the Auditor of Virginia, was issued. McDonough's  Widow The widow who asserts his claim and all the witnesses who testified when it was first presented state that his name was McDonough which is a very different name from either McDaniel or McDonald. The evidence now on file is not at all satisfactory to identify the claim- -ant in this case with John McDonald  the  McDonough of the Va Continental Line
No additional has been received in the case of Fanny Russell since my report to you of the 18 th of Feb y last. I can see no good reason for changing the decision

Therein Communicated to you
Wm. W. M. Coe Apr 12 48
Wm Wm M. Coe House of Reps

(Sir)
Genl. H.
March 30 67
In reply to your enqui- ry in the case of John M c Donough dec d whose claim has been asserted by his widow since his death there is no specification or proof of service unless the certificate of the Aud r of P a shewing the service of John M c Donald for 3 years in the Continental Army is taken as evidence of his service. The names do not correspond. & he did not assert under act of 1818 or 1832 that he was a soldier. It is his claim & all the obligations imposed upon him in relation to the narration & proof of service sh d be fulfilled by those who set up a claim in his name , which he never asserted. The order for resuming payment of the pension of Chapman Poindexter was addressed to the Pen a Ag t at Knox- ville on 26 July last —

The claim of Obedience Barnard is admitted & the certificate will be sent to you
Wm. H. M. Cooke Mar. 2. 49
Hon W. M. Locke H.R.

L. Mitchell
Augt 21, 1837
Tex

War Department Pension Office
21 Augt 97
Sir
In the case of Mrs. Manga- ret McDonald  under act of June 1832 some additional proof of her husband having been called McDonald should be exhibited. The most satisfactory evidence would be some one or more of the papers alluded to in your affidavit showing his name to have been spelled McDonald .
Lewis Mitchell Esq. Lee Valley Tennessee

Louis Melchior
25 Sept. 1837
A. C.

War Dep. Pension Off. Sept. 25. 1837
Sir:
In answer to your letter of the 17 th inst. relative to the case of M rs Margaret widow of John M c Donough, I have to inform you that it is not in my power to admit her claim on the evidence exhibited. Ic
Ent.
Levin Mitchell Esq. Lee Valley Tennessee
Encl this as Tennessee Index act 7 June 1832 No. 30451

House of Reps
Feb. 22. 1847.
Sir.
Permit me to call your attention to the accompanying letter. You will please give me the information desired.
With great respect.
I am Your obedt Servt.
H. H. C. R.
Col. D. Edwards.

30.451
John McDonough deed Tennessee
Rev. James L. Edwards Washington City War

G. Ince Mitchell P. N. Le Valley 9
office

Rogersville 10 th 1832
Sir I inclosed you the declaration of John M c Daniel Alias John M c Danough with prooff of that fact. Also the certificate of J. E. Heath auditor of the Commonwealth of Virginia showing that John M c Daniel was a soldier of the Virginia line during the American Revolution You will have the evidence examined and inform me what further proof is necessary to make the vidaw to procure the balance due
I am Sir Your very Obedient Servt
John Mitchell