Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 7,275, for John Mitchell, Pennsylvania

SERVICE
★ Mitchell, John
NUMBER
R. 7275
CONTENTS

REJECTED
7275
P. O.
John Mitchell
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18 .
Discharged: _____, 18 .
Application filed: _____, 18 .
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18 .

John Mitchell Temper
Suspended let 11 Jan'y '37 Rev C. Johnson, do. 15 March 1837
R. 7275

Jan 10.
In at Tenn.
J. L. Edwards Esq
Com. of Pensions
Mr. Dave Johnson, H.R.

8 Jan 9 1837
Washington
Dr Sir,
I enclose you the printed papers of Mr. McIntire to which I beg your earlier attention - I
I am respectfully
Your friend
C. Johnson
Incl

Mar 15.
J. L. Edwards Esq.
Com. of Pensions
Hon. C. Johnson

Washington
March 13 th
Dear Sir,
Allow me to call your attention again to the claim of John Mitchell which has been suspended. I if this paper will persist in an allowance of even six months, that money be made to him - Many of these old men, being removed so far from the scenes of their early life that there is but little hope of furnishing any additional testimony - If there can be but ten months sufficiently established, it would be better for him to leave it than take the chances of seeking more testimony
I am respectfully
Your friend
C Johnson

Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 7 th of June 1832.
State of Tennessee Dickson County ss S.S. On this 12 th day of Octo ber 1836 personally in open Court before the Circuit Court of the County of Dickson & State of Tennessee the same being a Court of Record, appeared John Mitchell a resident of the County of Dickson & State of Tennessee aforesaid, aged Seventy years & ten months who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his Oath Make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed 7 th June 1832.
That in March 1781 in Westmoreland County in the State of Pennsylvania being then in the Sixteenth year of his age, he and three other boys then at School, named John Hayes John Culbertson John Sterrett, entered the service of the United States for the term of Six months as Militiamen who were called six months levies for the purpose of defending the frontiers under Captain Cannon, Lieutenant Samuel Murphy, and ensign Stephen Mahaffy; they rendezvoused at Dennison's Mill in Westmoreland County Pennsylvania and were marched from thence to Pittsburgh where being organised, they were thence marched to a Block House on the Allegheny River where they staid about one month, thence they were marched up to Fort Franklin on the Allegheny River at the junction of French Creek, they remained there about three months and were then marched down to Pittsburgh and were discharged, being there under the superintendence & command of Major Denny - they found their own subsistence.

and Clothing and on being discharged received Seven dollars and a third per month for their said tour of Six Months.
He afterwards in 1781 substituted himself in the place of one Curtis Voorhies who was drafted as a Militiaman for a tour of Three Months to guard the frontiers. The Company to which he belonged was stationed at Fort Hand on the Allegheny River and was commanded by Captain Shannon, the other inferior officers not being re-collected; they remained at that station until the expiration of the three months at which time they were discharged. A Company of Volunteers was then raised to defend at a Fort Called Le Boef on French Creek where the troops remained four months under the command of Captain Clarke and a sergeant named Elijah Mounts when they were discharged.
He was then drafted as a Militiaman in Westmoreland county for three months, and the Company was commanded by Capt Samuel McCreedy who conducted us to a station called Chenango on the Allegheny River at which place they remained until their term of service expired. He afterwards, and immediately on his discharge from the last mentioned service, substituted in the place of one David Downs who was in the Militia service and came from near Carlisle on taking his place this declarant entered the service and remained at Chenango two months when the term of his service expired and he was then discharged - this was near the close of the war
He states that the services rendered by him were in the character of a private soldier, that he has no written discharge that he has no written or documentary evidence of the services rendered by him nor does he know of any living Witness by whom

he can prove the same. He states that he was born in October 1765 in Northumberland County State of Pennsylvania, that he remained in Pennsylvania until 1798 when he removed to Natchez, where he lived between two and three years; he then removed to the State of Tennessee in 1801, and stopped near Nashville in Davidson County; he has lived some years in Williamson County, & for the last fourteen years has lived in Dickson County Tennessee where he now resides. 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 of any State or Territory in the United States.
John Mitchell
Sworn to & subscribed? the day & year aforesaid.
John C. Collins Clk.
We Simpson Bishop a clergyman residing in the County of Hickman & State of Tennessee aforesaid, and Simon Moyoys residing in the County of Dickson do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with John Mitchell who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be seventy years of age; that he is reputed & believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion. Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
Simpson Bishop
John C. Collins Clk.
Simon Moyoys
And the said Court do hereby declare 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 served as he states. And the Court further

certifies that it appears to them that Emerson Bishop who has signed the preceding Certificate is a Clergyman Heckman resident in the County of Dickson & State of Tennessee, and that Simon Myers who has also signed the same is also a resident in said County of Dickson & State of Tenn. and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
I John C. Collier Clerk of the Circuit Court of Dickson County and State of Tennessee do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of said Court in the matter of the application of John Mitchell for a pension. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office this 12 th day of October 1836.
Seal
John C. Collier Clerk of the Circuit Court of Dickson County Tenn.
Hon. C. Johnson H.R.
Mr Collins is I was at the time of signing the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Dickson - The whole paper, as well as certificate is in his hand writing which is well known to me and that he has no public seal of office belonging to his Court
8 th June 1836 Washington
C. Johnson
John C. Collier Clerk of the Circuit Court of Dickson County Tenn.