LICKING COUNTY OHIO - REVOLUTIONARY WAR PENSION APPLICATION ABSTRACT - JOHN MCQUOWN

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July 20, 2002

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John McQuown a soldier of the War of the American Revolution Pension Claim # S 
41821. The data furnished herein were obtained from the papers on file in 
pension claim, S 41821, based upon the Revolutionary War service of John 
McQuown. The date and place of his birth are not stated, nor are the names of 
his parents given. John McQuown enlisted in Fauquier County, Virginia, Fenruary 
25, 1776 and served as a private under Captain Shelton and in Captain John 
Blackwell's company in the third Virginia regiment, commanded by colonels 
Mercer, Weedon and Thomas Marshall; he was in the battles of Brandywine, 
Germantown, and in winter quarters at Valley Forge, and was discharged February 
25, 1778. John McQuown was allowed pension on this application executed April 
18, 1818, at which time he was living in Licking County, Ohio. In 1820 he was 
still living in Licking County, and then stated that he was seventy years of 
age, and referred to his wife Mary, aged sixty-four years and to a grandchild, 
Solomon McQuown aged twelve years. The soldier, John McQuown, died in March 1828 
leaving no widow: children did survive him. No names of children given, and 
there are no furthur data in this claim relative to family. I received this from 
the National Archives with Pension records.