REVOLUTIONARY WAR PENSION APPLICATION EXTRACT - JAMES C. McGEE

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James C. McGee
S.31,250
Pennsylvania
26 Pages
James C. McGee was born in 1760 in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania and 
when about four years of age mvoed with his parents to Bedford County 
Pennsylvania

While residing in Bedford County, Pennsylvania, he volunteered and 
served as 1st sergeant in Captain Samuel Moor's Pennsylvania company of 
Indian spies, as follows:
from May, 1777, six months; from May 1778, six months, and from April 
1779, six months; was in several small skirmishes with the Indians and 
was severely wounded in the thigh by a bullet; shortly after the 
termination of the last named service, he volunteered in Westmoreland 
County, Pennsylvania, and served six months as 1st sergeant in Captain 
Lochery's or Lougherty's Pennsylvania company of Indian spies and was 
discharged in the fall of 1781. All of the above service as rendered at
the forts and on the frontiers protecting the inhabitants from the 
attacks of the Indians.

After the Revolutionary War he moved to the Territory of North Carolina 
(Which was later East Tennessee). lived there for som years; thence to 
Lee County, Virginia, where he lived for a while, then to Anderson and 
Campbell Counties, Tennessee where he lived many years; was 
commissioneed captain in Anderson County, Tennessee, by John Sevier, 
GOvernor of Tennessee, and later commissioned major in Campbell County, 
Tennessee by Governor Sevier. In February, 1835, he moved from Campbell 
County, Tennessee, to Wayne County, Kentucky.

James C. McGee was allowed pension on his application executed November 
25, 1835 while a resident of Wayne County Kentucky.

He died August 1, 1839.