ALEXANDER McLEAN, REV. WAR PENSION, WASHINGTON, NEW YORK

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WASHINGTON COUNTY, NEW YORK
ALEXANDER McLEAN, #36187, War of 1812.
Rogers' Regiment. N.Y. Milita. ALEXANDER McLEAN, Pvt, Capt. Ichabod L.
Judson's Co. of New York State Detached Militia. War of 1812. Appears on
Company Pay Roll for Sept, 1814. Roll dated Oct 8, 1814. Commencement of
Service Sept 8, 1814; expiration of service Oct 8, 1814. Pay per month
8 dollars. Amount of pay 8 dollars. (File includes several over rolls for
other dates - all similar to preceding.)

State of Arkansas, County of Sebastian. On this 28th day of August A.D.
one thousand eight hundred and fifty five personally appeared before me
a Justice of the Peace..... aforesaid ALEXANDER McLEAN aged fifty nine
years, a resident of Crawford County Arkansas who being duly sworn... declares
that he is the identical same ALEXANDER McLEAN who was a private of the
uniform company of Albany Volunteers. Captains name JOHN R. WILLIAMS but
commanded when in service by Lieut. JUDSON or HUDSON whose christian name
is not now recollected, nor does he recollect the number of the Regiment....
That he volunteered according to the best of his recollection for the term
of three months and continued in the service...for about that time. That
he with his company was stationed at the Brookland heights near New York
City ... that he and his Company was sent home to Albany on a Steam Boat
and landed informely some time in December A.D. 1814, all of which will
as he believes more fully appear by the muster rolls of said Company. He
makes this Declaration for the purpose of obtaining the bounty land to
which he may be entitled under the act of..... Also that he has not receive
a warrant for Bounty land under any act of Congress and that he has not
made any other application...... /s/ A. McLEAN

Donaldson, Hot Springs Co - July 30th 1877 or 1878 Ark. Adjustant Genl.,
United States, Sir - I have been advised by friends to write to you for
information which I have endeavored in vain, to obtain elsewhere therefore
I trust you will pard the liberty I take of addressing a letter to you
on the subject. I am the widow of ALEXANDER McLEAN, a soldier of the War
of 1812. Sometime between the years 1853 and 1858, my husband received
a Land Warrant for 160 acres, for 60 days service in the War of 1812, through
the intervention of Mr. HENRY WILCOX, Attorney at Law Van Buren Ark of
which place, my husband had been a resident many years previous to our
marriage in 1842, and continued to reside there up to the date of his death
Oct 8th 1859. The Land Warrant could not be found after his decease, and
must have been lost or stolen so I have not been able to discover the least
trace of it. There was a bar? of marriage? later than 1815. existing against
me previous to act of March 9th, this bar is removed and being in necessitous
circumstances and aged nearly 60, I wish to make application for pension.
I have been told that you can furnish the Military history of the Soldiers
of 1812, the place of their enlistment and with what State troops they
enlisted.....ALEXANDER McLEAN - my husband was born Dec 1794, in Argyle
- Washington County New York and probably was acting as clerk in a store
at Salem Washington Co New York at the time he volunteered or enlisted....
Very Respectfully, F. A. McLEAN

ALEXANDER McLEAN WC-27087. War of 1812. Claim of Widow for Pension.....
State of Arkansas, County of Hot Spring} ss On this 25th day of April A.D.
one thousand eight hundred and seventy nine personally appeared.... FRANCES
A. McLEAN aged 58 years, a resident of Hot Spring county, in the State
of Arkansas, who... declares that she is the widow of ALEXANDER McLEAN
deceased... following is a full description of her said husband. He was
in his forty eighth year when she first saw him in 1842. his occupation
was that of Clerk from early youth up to the time of his decease. He was
born 25th of December 1794 in Argyle, Washington County, State of New York.
He was five feet nine and a half, or ten inchs in height. his hair dark
brown, eyes dark hazel, complexion dark clear, slightly florid - regular
features his person quite slender in early manhood, she further states
that she was married to the said ALEXANDER McLEAN at the town of Van Buren,
in the County of Crawford, and in the State of Arkansas, on the 19th day
of December A.D., 1842, by one Revd. Abe? or Mr.? McLEAN of Clarksville,
Johnson County Arkansas who was a Presbyterian Clergyman of the old school,
that her name before marriage was FRANCES A. McCRACKEN, and that she has
not remarried since the death of said soldier, and she further states that
her husband had been previously married to Miss MARY G.? INGRAM in 1829,
who died the 1st day of October 1829, some twenty miles or more from Van
Buren, leaving a son who died 9th of October 1829. and that her said husband
ALEXANDER McLEAN died near Van Buren in the State of Arkansas on the 8th
day of October A.D. 1859 and she further declares that he, when quite a
youth acted as clerk in store, belonging she believes - to a Mr. JOHN KENNADY
at Salem - Washington County, N.Y. remained there three years, then as
first clerk in the Post Office at Albany N.Y. the post master died and
he went to the city of New York found employment as a clerk in the Custom
house, his health failing he left New York in 1820, and went to Cuba, from
there to New Orleans where he acted as clerk in a Bank and also in the
Custom House, he lived in that place three or four years, his health again
failing, he came to Arkansas, taking charge of a trading house belonging
to a Mr. GLENN, among the Indians, and not very far from the Dwight Mission
House., after leaving the trading house, he acted as clerk for Mr. Rogers
a merchant of Fort Smith Arkansas, finally settling in Van Buren, Crawford
County, Arkansas where, for nearly a quarter of a century he was clerk
of the United States Court for the Western District of Arkansas, and that
from the date of her marriages to said ALEXANDER McLEAN, she and her husband
resided in Van Buren or vicinity, up to the time of his death....further
declares that heretofore she has made no application for pension.....and
that her residence is near Watermelon Island County of Hot Spring, State
of Arkansas, and that her Post office address is Donaldson - Hot Spring
county Arkansas...../s/ FRANCES A. McLEAN. Attest: DANIEL? MORRISON, MARY
E. WARING.

Department of the Interior. Washington, D.C. May 26, 1879. Sir: You are
informed that the claim No. 26.187 of FRANCES A. McCLEAN as widow of ALEXANDER
McCLEAN for a pension under Act of Mch 9.78, is rejected, on the ground
that there is no record evidence on file, showing that the soldier served
in the War of 1812. Very respectfully, Commissioner. ROBERT A. BURNTON,
Atty Present

Also personally appeared MARY E. WARING, aged 61 years, residing at Hot
Spring County Arkansas, and BELLE MORRISON, aged 35 years, residing at
Hot Spring County Arkansas, persons whom I certify to be respectable...say
that they have known the said FRANCIS A. McLEAN for 50 years and for 30
years, respectively;....following named facts and circumstances, viz: The
said MARY E. WARRING from fact that she is Mrs. McLANE's sister, - lived
near Mr. & Mrs. McLANE where they lived together as man and wife. The said
BELLE MORRISON because she is a daughter of the said FRANCES A. McLEAN.
I was about 15 years old when my father died. /s/ MARY E. WARING, BELLE
MORRISON. Sworn to.... 19 day of August, A.D. 1879....

Widow's Brief. Claim No. 36.187. Act of Mch 9th 78. Claimant, FRANCES A.
McLEAN. Soldier, ALEXANDER McLEAN. Action, Admitted. Examiner, E. C. MARSHALL.
Admitted Sept 15, 1879. M. C. FOSNES.



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