Guilford County NcArchives Military Records.....McCleland, Daniel September 17, 1832
Revwar - Pension 
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Pension Application Of Daniel McCleland, Natl Archives Microseries M805, Roll __, Application #S31246
Shelby County, Kentucky, September 17th, 1832, Daniel McCleland, aged 80 
years: “That in the spring of 1776, in the county of Guilford and state of 
North Carolina, he the said Daniel McCleland, senior, volunteered in a company 
of horse commanded by Captain Mebane, attached to the regiment commanded by 
Colonel ?Montgomery, and that this company ___ principally against the Tories 
and was engaged at the Battle of ‘Blackwater Bridge’ [may have meant Moore’s 
Creek Bridge] where the Tories and the Scotch were routed and many of them 
taken prisoners, and which prisoners were sent under guard of Captain Mebane’s 
company to Hillsborough where we were discharged.”

“In the fall of 1776, he, the said McCleland, removed from Guilford County, NC 
to Mifflin county in the state of Pennsylvania. About the  1st day of August, 
1777, there was a company drafted in Mifflin County of which company he, the 
said McCleland, had the command as captain and was ordered under Col. Irvin, he 
believes, and General ?Rotter, to join the main army near the head of Elk. He 
was in the battles of Brandywine and Germantown. When winter came on, 
Washington’s army encamped at the Valley Forge, and he, the said McCleland was 
discharged and went home.”

“In the spring, 1778, there was another company drafted in Mifflin County, the 
command of which was given to him, the said McCleland, as captain, which joined 
the main army under Col. Watt and General Lacy, and was discharged in the June 
following. That the said McCleland then raised a company of rangers in the fall 
of 1778 under the direction of the colonel of the county. He received his 
commission as captain of said company, as he believes, from Governor Mifflin. 
He served as captain of the rangers from the fall 1778 until the year 1781, he 
believes nearly 3 years, but a small part of which time he was not in active 
service. The whole frontier of Pennsylvania was at that time, subject to the 
incursions of the Indians. The officers who commanded were various, some of 
whom were Colonels Purdy and Turbott and Major Elliott. He was in the Battle of 
the Crooked Billet and many other skirmishes and was actually engaged during 
the Revolutionary struggle, 4 years.”

“In the fall of the year 1781, he was discharged and in the year 1786 he 
removed to Kentucky and now lives in Shelby County. In the year 1793 or 94, he 
had his house burned, in which all his papers including his commissions burned, 
etc.”

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