R6717 - Jennie Sharp Response - 2

R6717 - Jennie Sharp Response - 2

John Alexander McGee
When:
May 29, 1939

Description:


					May 19, 1939

					BA-J/AWJ
					John McGee-R.6717
Miss Jennie L. Sharp			Autustine Slaughter
Route #1				B.L.Wt.2168-400
Salvien, Kentucky

Dear Madam:

	Reference is made to your letter in which 
you request the Revolutionary War record of John 
McGee of Botetourt County, Virginia, served under 
General Andrew Lewis and Augustine Slaughter.

	You are furnished herein the Revolutionary 
War records of John McGee and of Augustine 
Slaugher.

John McGee - R. 6717

	The data which follow concerning John McGee 
were obtained from papers on file in claim for 
pension, R. 6717, based on his service in the 
Revolutionary war.

	The date and place of birth of John McGee, 
and names of his parents are not given.

	While residing in Rockbridge County, Vir-
ginia, John McGee served as a private in Captain 
William McGee's company and in the 12th Virginia 
regiment, was on Lewis' Campaign agianst the 
Shawnee Indians, was in the battle of Guilford 
Court House, wounded twice while in the service, 
and was discharged October 18, 1772, at Fort Ran-
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dolf.

	John McGee moved after the revolution to 
Tennessee. He was living in 1818 in Warren 
County, Tennessee.

	John McGee married sometime in the year 1792, 
in Sevier County, Tennessee, Esther Clendenning. The 
date and place of her birth, and names of parents 
were not stated.
	
	John McGee died January 24, 1820, in Warren 
County Tennessee. His widow, Esther McGee, died in 
the month of March, 1846, in Warren County, Ten-
nessee.  She was survived by the following children:
	Jane, widow of James Hennessee; Polly, wife 
of Ezekiel McGreger or McGregor; John McGee; Sally 
McGee; Samuel McGee; James L. McGee.

	Charles M. Forrest of Warren County, Tennessee, 
administrator of the estate of the widow, Esther 
McGee, applied for pension September 6, 1852, which 
might have been due on account of the services of 
John McGee in bahalf of the above named children.

	The claim for pension was not allowed, as proof 
of marriage of John McGee and Esther Clendenning was 
not furnished.

	In 1852, Richard McGee of Henry County, Ten-
nessee, then aged seventy-seven years, stated that 
he was well acquainted with the soldier John McGee; 
also in 1852, one R. McGreger was clerk of the court 
of Warren County, Tennsessee. Their relationship to 
the family of John McGee was not shown.

	The papers on file in this claim contain no 
further discernible family data.

(More discussion regarding Augustne Slaughter)

				Very truly yours


				A.D. HILLER
				Executive Assistant
				to the Administrator

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