ANDERSON DIST. SC - REVOLUTIONARY WAR PENSION APPLICATION - PETER McMAHON/McMAHAN Contributed by: Mary Lu Johnson [hellomlu@bellsouth.net] ***************************************************************************** USGENWEB ARCHIVES(tm) NOTICE All documents placed in the USGenWeb Archives remain the property of the contributors, who retain publication rights in accordance with US Copyright Laws and Regulations. In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, these documents may be used by anyone for their personal research. Any other use, including copying files to other sites, requires permission from the contributors PRIOR to uploading to the other sites. http://www.usgwarchives.net ***************************************************************************** McMAHON/McMAHAN, PETER, RWS, SC, #W21782 Widow Susannah SLATOR Transcribed/Extracted by Mary Lu Johnson 30 September 1833: Anderson District, SC, Affidavit of Benjamin Smith..."being sworn in due form of law on Oath sayeth that he was well acquainted with Peter McMahan before he was an Enlisted Soldier & does believe that he did enlist under Captain John Purvis and did serve out his time that he enlisted for & does think that he did enlist in the Revolutionary War in about one year after the war commenced & does further say that the said McMahan did doe [do] servis at the Seige of Ninety Six with him Said Deponent and at many other places in the uper [sic] part of the State after he had got his Discharge in the army Sworn to & Subscribed before me this 30th Day of September 1833. [Signed] Benjn Smith Wm McMurry, J.Q. [Justice of the Quorum] 2 October 1833: State of South Carolina, Anderson District...personally appeared in open Court being the Court of Sessions and Ci_____ Pleas for said District Peter McMahon a resident of said District and being Sworn declares as follows in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed 7th June 1832 - He was born in Pennsylvania in March after Braddocks Defeat being now according to his calculation in his seventy eighth year and that he removed into Abbeville in this State when a boy and at which place he entered the service of the United States but that by reason of old age & bodily infirmity & the consequent loss of memory he cannot swear positively to the precise length of his service or the time of entering it but has a distinct recollection that he enlisted in the State Troops for Six months to continue three years if required under Capt John Purvis and Col. Thompson and that he did serve three years. That his first ____ ___ was at Nelsons Ferry and that he has some ?confused notion or recollection of places and different marches made [line cut off in copying]. He knows of no other testimony than that furnished herewith of his service & his name is not found on the Pension List of any agency in any State and that he is a Pensioner of the State of South Carolina which he would cheerfully relinquish on being provided for by Congress. Sworn to in open court day & year aforesaid. [Signed] Peter McMahon Before Van A. Lawhon, C.C. We Sandford Vandiver a clergyman residing in Anderson District and James McKinney residing in the same hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Peter McMahon who has sworn to and subscribed the above declaration. That we believe him to be seventy eight years of age. That he is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion - Sworn to and subscribed the day & year aforesaid before Van A. Lawhon, C.C. [Both Signed] Sanford Vandiver, James McKinney Presiding Judge J. S. Richardson "after investigation of the matter" believes applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier; further Sanford Vandiver, James McKinney, John Warnock and Benjamin Smith's statements are entitled to credit. [Signed] J. S. Richardson, Pres. Judge 2 October 1833: Anderson District, SC, Affidavit of John Warnock "Being Sworn in due form of Law sath [sayeth] on his oath that he was well acquainted with Peter McMahan in the time of the Revolutionary War and that he knows that said McMahan enlisted under Captain John Purvis who was under the command of Colonel Thompson of the ?Hard/Third Regiment of this State the time of enlistment was for six month or three years of Required and after Six Months expired he was still retained in the service he thinks for the full time of Enlistment Deponant also says on oath he the said McMahan done a great deal of Mulitia Duty after his time of Enlistment was out the time he entered the service was either in the last of July or first of August Seventeen Hundred & Seventy five. Sworn to before me the Secon day of October 1833. E. S. Norris, J.P. [Signed] John Warnock 30 December 1845: Anderson District, SC, before William Magee Judge of the court of ordinary, Declaration of Susannah McMahan aged 81 years past..."is unable by bodily infirmity without great inconvenience to attend in open court...that she is the widow of Peter McMahen who was a private soldier and served in the war of the Revolution in the South Carolina Continental line...said Peter McMahan died in Abbeville District South Carolina on the ninth day of October 1783...married to Peter McMahen by Squire Moore who then lived in Cambridge Abbeville District South Carolina...knows of no person now living that can testify to the fact of her marriage to the said Peter McMahen except her neighbour William Hubbard who was at her marriage"... Susannah [her X mark] McMahen Sworn: William Magee, Judge of the Court of Ordinary 30 December 1845: Anderson District, SC, Affidavit of William Hubbard aged 84 years past, states he was present at the marriage of Peter McMahan and Susannah McMahan, formerly Susannah Slater in October 1783, Abbeville District, State of South Carolina; that he knows Peter McMahan was a pensioner in Anderson District, SC and that he died 4 August 1845. William [his X mark] Hubbard 21 April 1846, South Carolina 172, Pension Certificate, Susannah McMahan widow of Peter McMahon, Private in the Revolution, & died 4th August 1845, Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 80 Dollars to commence on the 4th day of August 1845, sent to Wm Magee, Anderson C.H. S. Carolina. 6 May 1848: Anderson District, SC, Declaration of Susannah McMahan, Act of Congress passed 2 February 1848. In the Court of Ordinary, before Herbert Hammond. Mrs. Susannah McMahon a resident of the said district and state aforesaid aged according to her statement and my own belief from her appearance Eighty three years past who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed on the second day of February 1848 to continue the pensions of certain widows that she is the widow of Peter McMahan who was a private Soldier and Served in the war of the Revolution in the South Carolina Continental Line of the united States Army and was a pensioner of the united States, on the Roll of the South Carolina Agency at the rate of Eighty dollars per annum in Anderson district South Carolina and for proof of his Services she refers to the Evidence on which he obtained his pension and deponent further states that the said Peter McMahon died on the fourth day of August Eighteen Hundred and forty five in Anderson District South Carolina leaving her his widow and that she still remains his widow and deponent further declares that she was legally married to the said Peter McMahon in Abbeville district South Carolina on the ninth day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand Seven hundred and Eighty three but has no documentary evidence in Support of the fact but only from recollections and she is informed that no Record of Marriage is kept in the Clerks office in Abbeville where she was married. She further states that she recollects of no other living witness to prove her statements by but her neighbor William Hubbard, who was present at her Marriage and witnessed the marriage ceremony. She states she was not married to her husband prior to his last services in the War but previous to the first day of January Seventeen hundred and ninety four on the time before stated as will appear by referring to the proof of William Hubband Sen. Susannah [her X mark] McMahan 13 May 1848: William Hubbard age 86 [On bottom of above doc] states Peter McMahan and the former Susannah Slator were married as above stated; that he was present at the ceremony and cannot be mistaken as he was married the year following himself; that Peter McMahan was a United States pensioner and died 4th August 1845. William [his X mark] Hubbard 13 May 1848: Anderson District, SC, Affidavit of Herbert Hammond, Ordinary of Anderson District..."do hereby Certify that William Hubbard Sen is a Respectable Citizen and his family Record [showing his own marriage the following year] which he produced before me proves that his statement concerning the time of the Marriage of Peter McMahan and Susannah McMahan (formerly Susannah Slator is a correct statement". [Signed] Herbert Hammond, P. A. D. [NOTE: Peter McMahan's will is recorded Will Book B, Page 208, Anderson Dist., SC. WPA microfilm transcript, Vol. 2 P 189, LOC F268 .S69. Wife Susannah McMahan is sole Executrix and heir, except: "my Brother William McMahan fifty Cents & unto my Brother John McMahan fifty Cents & unto my Sister Catharine Wright fifty Cents and unto my Sister Elisabeth Forbes fifty Cents and allso the Sum of fifty Cents to be Paid unto my Sister Peggy Wilkinsons Children". Peter [his X mark] McMahan Wits: Wm McMurry, Thomas Orr, James McKinney Susannah McMahan's will is recorded in Will Book B, Page 290, Anderson Dist., SC. WPA microfilm transcript, Vol. 2, Pps 259-260, LOC F268 .S69. Names "my friend Sole Executor". Legatees mentioned are: Item First: Alexander McKinney's son Robert Felix McKinney, 140 acres of land "whereon I now live" After my Desease or at his becoming of the age of Twenty one years. And to Samuel Van McKinney the mare and To James Oliver McKinney the Horse Talt and to Robert Felix McKinney the mule named Bet." Item Second: "Samuel Van McKinney & James Olliver McKinney and Robert Felix McKinney After my Desease my negro girl Adaline and all her increase if She Should have any Equally divided amongst them". Item Third: Peter Franklin McKinney Son of James McKinney 55 acres of land "after his becoming of full age including The House and Field The now live in...The family not to be Disturbed or put out of home before he is of full age". Also "sd Franklin one bed and furniture". Item Fourth: Susannah McKinney "one Side Bord one Bed and furniture and Also Ten Dollars". Item Fifth: Wm McKinney Jr. Ten Dollars. Item Sixth: Robert McKinney Ten Dollars. Item Seventh: Jane McKinney One Black heafer and one Blue Table. Item Eighth: Perry McKinneys Daughter Susannah McKinney one Cupbord and "Five Acres of Land where they now Live on Including the Land that is on the South East Side of Big Road". Item Ninth: "I also Give my Brother & Sisters Mary Oliver Jane Oliver Jemima Bates & John Slater fifty Cents to Each one of them..." Item Tenth: P. McKinney to sell "my negro woman Tilda" and any money after paying just debts "I give unto Said P. McKinney the Remainder of what money is Left." Susannah [her X mark] McMahan Wits: G. W. Rankin, A. L. Floyd, Z. B. Floyd