REV. WAR PENSION APP. EXTRACT: JAMES McGEE (1818) WARREN CO., PA

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James McGee or James Magee
W.2954
Wife: Margaret McCracken
Continental Delaware
76 Pages

James Magee (McGee) enlisted in Delaware early in 1776 served fifteen 
months as a private under Captains Jonathan Rumford and Latimer in the 
troops called the Wilmington Greens and was in the battles of White 
Plains and Trenton

He enlisted April 24, 1777 in Wilmington, Delaware, served as Sergeant 
Magor in Captains Nathaniel Mitchell's and Young's Companies, Colonels 
Grayson's and Gast's Continental Regiments and was in the battles of 
Brandywine, Paoli, Germantown, Monmouth, Stony Point, Paulus Hook Monk's 
Corner, and in a number of small skirmishes and was discharged April 24, 
1780.

In the summer of 1804 he moved From Mifflin County, Pennsylvania to 
Warren County, Pennsylvania.

He was allowed pension on his application executed November 25, 1818, at
which time he was a resident of Bronenstraw Township, Warren County, 
Pennsylvania.

In 1821 he was 87 hears of age and was then residing in Brokenstraw 
Township, and at that time stated that he had no family living with him 
but his wife.

He died in November 1823, in Warren County, Pennsylvania.

The soldier married in May 1781 in Mifflin County, Pennsylvania, Miss 
Margaret McCracken. She was allowed pension on her application executed 
December 7, 1838 at which time she was seventy-six years of age and 
resided in Warren County, Pennsylvania. In July 1844, she was living in 
Deerfield Township, Warren County, Pennsylvania. She died November 3, 
1844.

It is stated that they had a large family of children; the only name 
given is that of a son, Samuel, who was aged fifty-four years on June 
19, 1838. In 1838 he resided in Warren County, Pennsylvania, and was 
then a Justice of the Peace

James McGee
BLWt 10840 issued April 7, 1792
Delaware, Private