Pension: Samuel McGuin, 1819: Grafton County, New Hampshire

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Samuel McGuin Revolutionary War Pension Application

This abstract is from a book called "N. H. Revolutionary Pension Papers", abstracted &
prepared by Mrs. Amos G. Draper 1917-1922
It is available at the New Hampshire Historical Society.


S45001
Mass. & N. H. Service

August 17, 1819 Samuel McGuin of Grafton County, New Hampshire, seventy-eight years
of age, deposed:

that he enlisted in the summer of 1776 under Capt. Cole, Col. Dean, Massachusetts Line for
three months; served out his term;

that he reenlisted for six months and served out his time;

that in March or April 1779 he enlisted under Capt. Samuel Cherry, Col. George Reid, New
Hampshire Line for nine months; "marched under Gen. Sullivan to the Susquehannah for
the destruction of the Indians"; served out his term and was discharged in January, 1780;

that "he, being a foreigner, has no knowledge of any person who served in said Corps with
him."

Pension suspended, awaiting further proof.

February 11, 1822 Jude Hall of Exeter, N. H. testified to service in said regiment with
Samuel McGuin from April, 1779 to January, 1780.
                                                   Jude Hall

February 11, 1822 Robert B. Wilkins of Concord, N. H. former Lieutenant in New
Hampshire Line, testified to knowing Samuel McGuin in the service in 1779, etc.
                                                   Robert B. Wilkins

June 13, 1822 Samuel McGuin of Andover, N. H. eighty years of age, testified that he has,
in his family, a wife, fifty-nine years of age (no name mentioned) and files a certificate
from the Selectmen of Andover, N. H. - Samuel Brown and Jacob Eastman - that, he is in need
of a pension.

Claim allowed and certificate 18708, New Hampshire Agency, was issued July 18, 1822,
Acts of March 18, 1818 and May 1, 1820.

From memorandum on file Samuel McGuin, one hundred and four years of age, was living in
Salisbury, N. H. in 1840.
(No other Revolutionary Pensioner, named Samuel McGuin from any state. B. M. D.)

(In the list of Persons residing in Merrimack County, New Hampshire, who have been
inscribed on the Pension list under the Act of Congress passed March 18, 1818, as recorded
in New Hampshire State Papers, Volume XXX on page 278, occurs the name: Samuel
Magoon. This is an error. It should be McGuin, and is so given in List of 1835, and also in
the Agency Book in the Pension Office.

(There is no Revolutionary Pensioner, named Samuel Magoon, on file. B. M. D.)