PATRIOT Thomas Marshall [KY] McClanahan^{[1, 2, 3, 4]}

1753 - 1845  (92 years)

• Name	Thomas Marshall [KY] McClanahan
  Title	PATRIOT
  Born	1753	Cople Parish, Westmoreland Co., Virginia Colony
  	Found in Faquier Co., VA in 1762; Will in Simpson Co., KY
  Gender	Male
  Died	15 Oct 1845	Franklin, Simpson Co., KY
  Buried	Green Lawn Cemetery, Simpson County, Kentucky
  Person ID	I19145	My Reynolds Line
  Last Modified	22 Jan 2019

  
  

  Father	Lt. Col. William McClanahan, Reverend,   b. 23 Feb 1733, Cople Parish, Westmoreland Co., Virginia Colony ,   d. 15 May 1802, Greenville Co., South Carolina  (Age 69 years)
  Mother	Mary [Markham] 'Molly' Marshall,   b. 28 Apr 1737, Washington Parish, Westmoreland Co., Virginia Colony ,   d. 22 Jan 1809, Greenville Co., South Carolina  (Age 71 years)
  Married	Children of Rev. Wm. McClanahan and Mary Marshall: Elvira Stallard; Thomas Marshall McClanahan; William McClannahan; Nancy Basye; Peter John McClanahan; John Marshall McClanahan and Mary Triplett
  Notes	12 Rev. (Capt.) WILLIAM MCCLANAHAN (Wm.2 Thos.1), b. Cople Parish, Westmoreland County, Virginia, 23 Feb. 1733, apparently 3rd child, married, after her father's death in 1752 Mary Marshall, ante. Following the Marshall family to Goose Creek, Hamilton (now Leeds) Parish, Fauquier County, Virginia, he made this indenture: CONYERS TO MCCLANAHAME: (spelled this way throughout this document) This indenture made this 25th day of November in the 4th year of the reign of our sovereign Lord George the Third, by the Grace of God of Great Britain, France & Ireland, King Defender of the Faith: between John Conyers of the parish of Hamilton and County of Fauquier of the one part and William McClanahame of the same parish and county of the other part. Witnesseth that the said John Conyers for and in consideration of the sum of Fifty Pounds to himself in hand paid (the receipt whereof he doth hereby acknowledge himself to be fully satisfied and paid) hath demised, granted, and assigned 184 acres of land Scituate (??) and lying in the above County and bounded as followeth, viz: beginning at three white oaks on the eastern side of Carter?s Run (ca. 8 miles west of Warrentown, MLM), 40 poles below Pickett?s Mill, thence north 26 East and 11 poles to a pine marked for a corner to the dividing line between John Conyers and Samuel Conyers, thence with the dividing line South 3 degrees S.E. and 320 poles to a marked pine in the old line of the said tract, thence with the said line South 23 degrees, 35 poles to a marked pine, thence South 51 West 110 poles to a white oak, then South 70-1/2 west 110 poles crossing a branch to two pines, thence south 3 chains, west 72 poles to a corner of Carter?s Run, thence up the several meanders of the said Run to the beginning. Together with all houses, orchards, woods, waters, and appurtenances whatsoever to the said land belonging or in anywise appertaining. To have and to hold unto the said William McClanahame, his heirs and assigns from the Day of the date hereof until the full and term of one year thence next coming shall be fully completed and ended. Yielding and paying the fee rent of one year Indian corn upon the feast day of the Nativity of our Lord Christ only if the same be demanded to the intent that by virtue of these presents and of the Statute for transferring uses into possession of the said McClanahame may be in actual possession of the said 184 acres of land and premises and be thereby enabled to accept a grant of the revision and inheritance thereof. In witness whereof the parties to these presents Indentures have interchangeably set their hands and seals the day and year above written. In Presence of: Thomas McClanahame John Conyers, L.S. Samuel Conyers William (his ?x? mark) Pritchett At a Court continued and held for Fauquier County this 25th day of Nov. 1763, this indenture is as proved sale, act and dues of the said John Conyers by the oaths of Thomas McClanahame, Samuel Conyers, and William Pritchett, witnesses thereto and ordered to be recorded. Teste: J. Brooke, Clerk From Bk. 2 (1763-1767), pg 98/9; Hamilton Parish; from John & Alice Conners
  Family ID	F7103	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Nancy Ann Greene/Green,   b. 27 May 1752, Paris, Bourbon, Kentucky ,   d. 10 Apr 1816, Franklin, Simpson, Kentucky  (Age 63 years)
  Married	14 Mar 1778	Fauquier County, Virginia
  	Both wives are listed on the dedication stone
  Notes	Thomas Marshall McClanahan was married 2nd to Tabitha Williams; her children are Henrietta, Huldah, Thomas 'Marshall' McClanahan Jr., Arden Ebenezer McClanahan, Martha McClanahan, Mary McClanahan and Tabitha McClanahan.
  Children	1. William Smith [KY] McClanahan,   b. 18 Dec 1800, Paris, Kentucky ,   d. 29 Mar 1884, Linn County, Missouri  (Age 83 years)
  Last Modified	12 Oct 2018
  Family ID	F7105	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 2	Tabitha Williams,   b. 1789, Bourbon Co., Kentucky ,   d. 1884, Simpson County, Kentucky  (Age 95 years)
  Married	1 Mar 1817	Logan Co., Kentucky
  Children	1. Thomas Marshall McClanahan, Jr.,   b. Est 1805, Copal Parish, Westmoreland Co., Virginia Colony ,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Last Modified	13 Sep 2021
  Family ID	F7704	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

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  Marker Dedication-Thomas Marshall McClanahan and wives dedication.jpg

  
  

  Documents » Slide Show		Grave dedication of Thomas Marshall McClanahan The Franklin Favorite Oct 13, 2005
  		U.S. Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrants thosmmcclanahan.jpg
  		Two Thomas McClanahans in Kentucky TheVAMagazine of History VolXIX-No1pp 807-9Thomas McClanahan.pdf

  
  

  Histories

  Thomas Marshall McClanahan The Franklin Favorite Aug 15, 1918

  
  

• Sources

  [S32] Find-A-Grave.com, https://www.ancestry.com/mediaui-viewer/tree/74458697/person/330003327482/media/55458dbd-5402-4c4d-b021-f40faa0504ab. Thomas McClanahan Birth 1753, Westmoreland County, Virginia Death 15 Oct 1845, Simpson County, Kentucky Burial: McClanahan Cemetery Franklin, Simpson County, Kentucky Thomas Marshall McClanahan's stone was moved to Green Lawn Cemetery in Franklin, Simpson Co, KY. See FindAGrave Memorial 24724558 (Thomas Marshall McClanahan) for additional information and picture of the Tombstone. The body of Thomas Marshall McClanahan was not moved from his original resting place in McClanahan Cemetery SW 58, in Simpson Co, KY. [S32] Find-A-Grave.com, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/24724558/thomas-mcclanahan. lists marriage to Tabitha Williams [S48] Ancestry Link, https://www.ancestry.com/mediaui-viewer/collection/1030/tree/105548085/person/250045046213/media/c2775770-f424-4cea-8d40-39a3b0408032?_phsrc=XFO9550&usePUBJs=true. newspaper article [S150] Photograph, https://www.ancestry.com/mediaui-viewer/collection/1030/tree/105548085/person/250045046213/media/91a4cd6c-61da-4b30-b857-ce99cde826ad?_phsrc=XFO9550&usePUBJs=true. [S127] Geni, https://www.geni.com/people/Nancy-McClanahan/6000000007631194846. Nancy Ann McClanahan (Green) Birthdate: May 27, 1752 (63) Birthplace: Paris, Bourbon, Kentucky, USA Death: April 10, 1816 (63) Franklin, Simpson, Kentucky, USA Immediate Family: Daughter of Robert Duff Green and Ann Greene Wife of Thomas Marshall McClanahan Mother of Robert Green McClanahan; Joseph McClanahan, Private; Elizabeth Powel; Andrew Harrison David McClanahan; Lucy Rayburn; Jane Jones; Nancy Green Newland; William McClanahan; John Alexander McClanahan and Peter L. McClanahan Sister of Willis Green; Hannah Braselton; William Green; Nathaniel Greene; Robert? Greene; Henry Green; Thomas Green and Eleanor Ann Smith Half sister of John Greene and Elizabeth Green [S244] Colonial Families, https://worldfamilies.net/blog/31558. On 21:04pm, November 26th, 2013 David McClanahan said: Re: McClanahan Family Pedigrees Thomas McClanahan, d c1683 Northumberland Co VA, m Dorthy Mooney, d, c 1717 +William McClanahan, d c1771 Westmoreland Co VA, m Martha Smith ++Rev. William McClanahan, b 1732, d 1802 Greenville Co SC, m Mary Marshall, b 1738, d 1809 +++Thomas Marshall McClanahan b 1753 Westmoreland Co VA, d 15 Oct 1845 Bourbon Co KY, m 12 Mar 1778 Anne Green d 1816 ++++Alexander McClanahan b 1785 VA, d 1855 Smith Co TN, m 1813 Sarah Clymer b 1795 d 1865 +++++James H McClanahan b 1826 KY, m 2 Jan 1851 Mary Elizabeth Woodmore b 1820 VA d 25 Jan 1882 Trousdale Co, TN ++++++Bailey Peyton McClanahan b 6 jan 1854, Trousdale Co TN, d 25 Mar 1926, m 1874 Lillian Eller b 15 Oct 1859 TN d 5 Mar 1882 TN +++++++James Bailey McClanahan b 24 Dec 1878 Trousdale Co TN, d 7 Dec 1953 Trousdale Co TN, m 1900 Mary Wright b 30 Mar 1880 TN, d 10 May 1939 Trousdale Co TN. My kit number is B6951 and I am currently awaiting my yDNA upgrade results. [S107] Family Histories, The McClanahans Rev. William McClanahan Part 3.doc. THOMAS MARSHALL MCCLANAHAN (Wm. 3-2 Thos.1), b. Cople Parish, Westmoreland County, VA, 1753; to Fauquier Co., VA, ca. 1762 STATE OF KENTUCKY) SIMPSON COUNTY ) S.S. On the 10th day of September, 1832, personally appeared before us in open Court before the County Court of the County of Simpson (taken from Allen, Logan, and Warren Co?s., 1819), aged about 80 (eighty) years, being first duly sworn according to law, doth, under his oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain benefit of the Act of Congress passed 7 June 1832 (based on need, hence many applications were rejected, Mrs. A.W.B. Bell) (Burns) ?that he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served therein as stated, viz: that he was born, according to the history of his family, in the County of Westmoreland in 1753, but principally raised in the counties of Fauquier and Culpepper, and that in the latter part of the summer or the first of the fall of the year 1775 he entered in the service of the United States in a regiment commanded by Col. Patrick Henry, Lt. Col. Christy, and attached to a company commanded by Capt. John Green, Richard Taylor, 1st Lt; John Houston, 2nd Lt.; John Lee, Ensign. The rendezvous was at Culpepper Court House; from there he was marched to Williamsburg and was occasionally in some little skirmishes with some British stopping at Burrel?s Ferry and Old Jamestown, and while yet detained at Jamestown, Col. Henry left the regiment and entered the legislature of Virginia or filled some other civil post, and the command of the regiment devolved on some other officer not now remembered. About nine months after he first marched to Williamsburg (Sept. to May, MLM), the 2nd Virginia Regiment commanded by Col. Alexander Spottswood was brought down to Williamsburg, also, and the said McClanahan was, by the consent of the said Richard Taylor (then Capt. Of the company, the said John Green having been promoted to the office of Major), transferred to the Second regiment and took the place of a soldier by the name of Reuben McKinney, and the said McKinney took the said McClanahan?s place in the said regiment of the said company commanded by the said Richard Taylor. The said company was not long after marched somewhere to the north tent; the 2nd Regiment to which he now belonged continued at Williamsburg until late in the fall of 1776; then the said McClanahan was marched with the said regiment from Williamsburg to Fredericksburg, where they remained but a short time. From thence they marched through Alexandria to Baltimore; from there they took shipping and went to Annapolis, according to his best recollection, in pursuit it was said then, of tories, who were said to have been embodied on the eastern shore of Maryland, but found no tories. They were then marched to New Castle on the Delaware River, said to be about five miles from Wilmington, where the regiment was inoculated with the small pox, and remained until the spring of 1777, when it was again marched to Philadelphia, and there for the first time, furnished with clothing at the public expense. While there he was one of the guards to a man whose name was probably Dunbar who was hung in the suburbs of the city for some traitorous crime not now remembered. From Philadelphia the regiment was marched through a little town called Bristow or Bristoll, on the Pennsylvania side of the Delaware River opposite (if not misremembered) Burlington; thence across the river to Trenton on the Jersey shore; thence to Princeton. This place the regiment reached not long after a battle had been fought between the Americans and the British in which it was that General Mercer fell (battle, Jan. 3, 1777). After remaining here a while they were marched to Bondbrook on the Rareton (Raritan) River, which was quite in the vicinity of the British army then posted at Brunswick and Amboy, and here the regiment remained but a few days ere it was marched to a place called Middle Brook (now Boundbrook) at which the main army was encamped, commanded by General Washington. This was in the latter part of the spring or the first part of the summer of 1777 (Morristown, NJ, was winter headquarters of Washington in 1776/7; it was 17 miles above Princetown.) While McClanahan was here there were several small engagements between scouting parties of British and Americans; some of which he was in, and some not. In one of them there was an Ensign White and perhaps 20 men attacked in a rye field by a party of British Light Horse and all, or nearly all, were cut to pieces, with the said officer. He was in a small fight himself in which one of the British Guard Houses was taken, a Major killed, and the balance taken prisoners. It was here that General Morgan rendered such effective service when the British retreated with their force at Brunswick and Amboy, killed many men on the march. Here, McClanahan was one of a file of twelve men who shot a deserter condemned by court martial. It was not long after the British retreated at Brunswick and Amboy that General Washington marched the army to the Head of the Elk River, but not as he knows, for a few days before the army moved he was taken with what was then called ?Camp Fever,? which produced a delirium on him for some days. When he came to he was informed by a soldier in whose care he had been left that the army marched as above stated. It was some time before he got to Philadelphia from there as the British entered Philadelphia. Together with the other sick that were in the said city, he was taken to Burlington. Here, having obtained his health, he attempted to rescue a butcher, whom he, McClanahan, together with another had arrested by order of Captain (William) Washington, who afterwards commanded a troop of Horse in the south, for abuse and insolent language to the said Captain Washington, and he was honorably discharged and acquitted and the said commissary, he understood, was discharged from the service. From Burlington he went to the main army which was then situated at what was then called the Cross Roads, or Chestnut Hill. At this place a short time he relapsed into the said fever; from that time he lost his recollection until he found himself in East Town in New Jersey; from this, having gotten his health, he went to the main army again, stationed at Valley Forge, and his second enlistment now nearly expired, he, about the first of the year, 1778, enlisted in a company of Horse commanded by (he thinks) Capt. William Barrett, who belonged to Col. Baylor?s Regiment (Col. George Baylor, 1st Va. Light Dragoons) for three years, or during the war. One of the considerations of the enlistment was that he was to get a furlough for three months and twenty dollars to bear his expenses home. This, together with his furlough, was accordingly given him with orders to rendezvous again in Fredericksburg, VA, on the 10th day of April 1778. Accordingly, he met the said Capt. Barret in Fredericksburg and there got the said Capt. Barret to receive one John Green, whose sister he had in the meantime married in Culpepper County, VA, in his (the said McClanahan?s) place and got from the said officer a full discharge, which was lost in the burning of his father?s house in Culpepper some few years ago. Here ended his Revolutionary services except a short tour of duty performed afterwards in North Carolina when General Greene was retreating into Virginia from Cornwallis, under Capt. James Ward in a reg?t. commanded by Col. (William) Preston (Preston was County Lt. of Botetourt County) and he went into the service from Botetourt County, VA, where he then lived. He was in two skirmishes with the British on this tour; one at the Altemage River, and the other at the Ruddy Fork of the Haw River. His first enlistment was in the regiment commanded as aforesaid by Col. Patrick Henry (1st Va. Reg?t.) was for 12 months, the next one he entered the 2nd Va. Reg?t. commanded by Col. Alexander Spottswood as aforesaid was for two years, and that in the said Baylor?s regiment was for three years, or during the war. In conformity with all of which he served about three years. From Botetourt he moved to Montgomery County (see deed, J.A.S.). From there he went to Kentucky in 1778 and settled in what is now called Bourbon County, and shared largely in the Indian Wars which then and for some time after were carried on in the west. He was in the battle at Harmer?s Defeat at the Maumee Town, belonging to the immediate command of David Tharp (Thorp?), who, together with every man in his company was killed, except the said McClanahan along with seven or eight others. He was a spy in the expedition of Gen. Whayne (Wayne) under the immediate command of General Scott from Kentucky in 1793. From Bourbon he moved to Logan County, KY, and settled in that part that now constitutes a part of the said Simpson County, about the year 1802 or 3, and in that part he has lived ever since. He now has little or no property, a wife and seven children living with him, having had in all twenty (20) and as much as any man needs a pension or annuity except the present and declares his name is not on the pension roll of any State whatever. Subscribed and sworn before me the date aforesaid and year aforesaid. Thomas McClanahan, L.S. We, William Lane, a Clergyman residing in the County of Simpson and State of Kentucky, and Henry Stratton a resident of the same, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Thomas McClanahan, who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, and that we believe him to be about eighty years of age; that he is respected and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolutionary War, and we concur in the opinion. Henry Stratton, L.S. William Lane, L.S. And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after an investigation into the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary War soldier and served as he states, and the Court further certifies that it appears to them that William Lane, who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman and resident of the said County of Simpson, and that Henry Stratton, who signed the same, is a resident of the same County and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit. Simpson County Justice of the Peace: J. M. Robertson, J.P.S.C. I, John L. Moore, Clerk of the County Court of Simpson County, do hereby certify that the foregoing contents of the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of the said Thomas McClanahan for a pension. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of my office this tenth day of September, and in the year of our Lord, 1832. John L. Moore, C.S.C. Copy: Thomas McClanahan service, Official Records, War Dep?t., Washington, D.C. Saffill?s Rev. Men, pg. 274: Co. #8 as it stood April 1, 1777, Capt. Francis Taylor?s Co., Sgt. James Welch, Pvt. Thomas McClanahan. Payroll of Capt. Francis Taylor?s Co., 2nd Bat., Feb. 28, 1777; Hist. of Orange Co., Virginia, by W. W. Scott (1907), pg. 254, from v. #6, Va. Hist. Magazine, pg. 127, pay per month (in Spanish dollars): Francis Taylor, Capt. $40.00 James Welch, Sgt. $8.00 William Taylor, 2nd Lt. 27.00 Jeremiah Cox, drummer 7-1/3 Francis Cowherd, 2nd Lt. 27.00 James Quinn, Corp. 7-1/3 James Cowherd, Ensign 20.00 Evan Braman, Corp. 7-1/3 Samuel Clayton, 1st Sgt. 8.00 Thomas Shelton, Corp. 7-1/3 John Brown, Corp. 7-1/3 Privates @ 6-2/3 dollars: Archilles Foster Turner Thomason Henry Russell Joseph Henry George Brooks Shadrach Hill Randell Abbott Benjamin Dawson William Medley Thomas Morris William Ward John Finnell Thomas McClanahan Thornberry Bowling Robert White James Dearing Andrew Harrison Thomas Breedlove Jacob Burrus Stephen Ham Elijah Deer Elisha Estes Leonard Scale William martin John Almand John Snow Gerrard Morton Thomas Flexman Elijah Hawkins Lewis Pines Rob?t. Chandler Joel Foster James Brown James Jackson John Chowning Thomas Ballard John Gillock James Beasley Samuel Warren William Turner William Morris Edward Broaddus Joseph Thomas Perry Patterson James Long William Davis Henry Barnett James Gibbons John Johnson of Col. Rall?s Maryland Battallion. Ordinance to join my Co. at Baltimore, MD, Jan. 28, 1776, @ 6-2/3: Humphrey Shay of Col. Rall?s 1st Batt. To join my camp Jan. 28, 1776. The above is a just payroll, signed: Capt. Francis Taylor The above was commanded by Col. Alexander Spottswood until combined with the 11th Va., when it was commanded by the Dane, Col. Christian Febiger, October 9, 1777. Ill. Papers, VA State Lib.: 2nd Cont?l Line, of Botetourt, VA Index of Rev. Records in the VA State Archives, compiled 1912/?14 by Dr. J. H. Eckenrode. War Dep?t. letter: Capt. James Ward granted a certificate for supplies (Court Record, Spottsylvania Co., VA). This was evidently for State service. Idem, letter of March 28, 1946: list of men surnamed McClanahan found in the VA Continental service: Alexander McClanahan, Robert McClanahan, Capt. William McClanahan, William McClanahan. No military record has been found for these men and nothing has been found to show what counties they resided in. (See Augusta Co., VA, McClanahans, MLM) [S32] Find-A-Grave.com, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/108006291/tabitha-mcclanahan. Tabitha Williams McClanahan Birth 1787, Logan County, Kentucky Death 1884, Simpson County, Kentucky Burial: McClanahan Cemetery Franklin, Simpson County, Kentucky 2nd wife of Thomas Marshall McClanahan, married Feb 26, 1817 and bore him six children. *See excerpt from Simpson County, Kentucky Families Past and Present, 1819-1989 (referencing Thomas, his wives, children, etc)* ...Following the death of Anne, and his feud with his cousin Peter Moore, he removed to Logan County, where he claimed his Revolutionary War land grants in the reserved area "South of the Green River". His home place was on the present Billy Jeff Cherry farm on the Springfield-Gallatin Highway where he lived with his second wife, Tabitha Williams ("a cousin of Robert E. Lee"), whom he married in 1817, and who bore him six more children. Following a business career noted mostly for his court battles, he died in 1845 at the age of 92, after serving as a member of the founding committee of the Sulpher Spring Church-School and remaining a member the rest of his life. He was buried on his farm and joined in death later by Tabitha and several children... [S132] Revolutionary War Pension Applications. THOMAS MARSHALL MCCLANAHAN (Wm. 3-2 Thos.1), b. Cople Parish, Westmoreland County, VA, 1753; to Fauquier Co., VA, ca. 1762 STATE OF KENTUCKY) SIMPSON COUNTY ) S.S. On the 10th day of September, 1832, personally appeared before us in open Court before the County Court of the County of Simpson (taken from Allen, Logan, and Warren Co?s., 1819), aged about 80 (eighty) years, being first duly sworn according to law, doth, under his oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain benefit of the Act of Congress passed 7 June 1832 (based on need, hence many applications were rejected, Mrs. A.W.B. Bell) (Burns) ?that he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served therein as stated, viz: that he was born, according to the history of his family, in the County of Westmoreland in 1753, but principally raised in the counties of Fauquier and Culpepper, and that in the latter part of the summer or the first of the fall of the year 1775 he entered in the service of the United States in a regiment commanded by Col. Patrick Henry, Lt. Col. Christy, and attached to a company commanded by Capt. John Green, Richard Taylor, 1st Lt; John Houston, 2nd Lt.; John Lee, Ensign. The rendezvous was at Culpepper Court House; from there he was marched to Williamsburg and was occasionally in some little skirmishes with some British stopping at Burrel?s Ferry and Old Jamestown, and while yet detained at Jamestown, Col. Henry left the regiment and entered the legislature of Virginia or filled some other civil post, and the command of the regiment devolved on some other officer not now remembered. About nine months after he first marched to Williamsburg (Sept. to May, MLM), the 2nd Virginia Regiment commanded by Col. Alexander Spottswood was brought down to Williamsburg, also, and the said McClanahan was, by the consent of the said Richard Taylor (then Capt. Of the company, the said John Green having been promoted to the office of Major), transferred to the Second regiment and took the place of a soldier by the name of Reuben McKinney, and the said McKinney took the said McClanahan?s place in the said regiment of the said company commanded by the said Richard Taylor. The said company was not long after marched somewhere to the north tent; the 2nd Regiment to which he now belonged continued at Williamsburg until late in the fall of 1776; then the said McClanahan was marched with the said regiment from Williamsburg to Fredericksburg, where they remained but a short time. From thence they marched through Alexandria to Baltimore; from there they took shipping and went to Annapolis, according to his best recollection, in pursuit it was said then, of tories, who were said to have been embodied on the eastern shore of Maryland, but found no tories. They were then marched to New Castle on the Delaware River, said to be about five miles from Wilmington, where the regiment was inoculated with the small pox, and remained until the spring of 1777, when it was again marched to Philadelphia, and there for the first time, furnished with clothing at the public expense. While there he was one of the guards to a man whose name was probably Dunbar who was hung in the suburbs of the city for some traitorous crime not now remembered. From Philadelphia the regiment was marched through a little town called Bristow or Bristoll, on the Pennsylvania side of the Delaware River opposite (if not misremembered) Burlington; thence across the river to Trenton on the Jersey shore; thence to Princeton. This place the regiment reached not long after a battle had been fought between the Americans and the British in which it was that General Mercer fell (battle, Jan. 3, 1777). After remaining here a while they were marched to Bondbrook on the Rareton (Raritan) River, which was quite in the vicinity of the British army then posted at Brunswick and Amboy, and here the regiment remained but a few days ere it was marched to a place called Middle Brook (now Boundbrook) at which the main army was encamped, commanded by General Washington. This was in the latter part of the spring or the first part of the summer of 1777 (Morristown, NJ, was winter headquarters of Washington in 1776/7; it was 17 miles above Princetown.) While McClanahan was here there were several small engagements between scouting parties of British and Americans; some of which he was in, and some not. In one of them there was an Ensign White and perhaps 20 men attacked in a rye field by a party of British Light Horse and all, or nearly all, were cut to pieces, with the said officer. He was in a small fight himself in which one of the British Guard Houses was taken, a Major killed, and the balance taken prisoners. It was here that General Morgan rendered such effective service when the British retreated with their force at Brunswick and Amboy, killed many men on the march. Here, McClanahan was one of a file of twelve men who shot a deserter condemned by court martial. It was not long after the British retreated at Brunswick and Amboy that General Washington marched the army to the Head of the Elk River, but not as he knows, for a few days before the army moved he was taken with what was then called ?Camp Fever,? which produced a delirium on him for some days. When he came to he was informed by a soldier in whose care he had been left that the army marched as above stated. It was some time before he got to Philadelphia from there as the British entered Philadelphia. Together with the other sick that were in the said city, he was taken to Burlington. Here, having obtained his health, he attempted to rescue a butcher, whom he, McClanahan, together with another had arrested by order of Captain (William) Washington, who afterwards commanded a troop of Horse in the south, for abuse and insolent language to the said Captain Washington, and he was honorably discharged and acquitted and the said commissary, he understood, was discharged from the service. From Burlington he went to the main army which was then situated at what was then called the Cross Roads, or Chestnut Hill. At this place a short time he relapsed into the said fever; from that time he lost his recollection until he found himself in East Town in New Jersey; from this, having gotten his health, he went to the main army again, stationed at Valley Forge, and his second enlistment now nearly expired, he, about the first of the year, 1778, enlisted in a company of Horse commanded by (he thinks) Capt. William Barrett, who belonged to Col. Baylor?s Regiment (Col. George Baylor, 1st Va. Light Dragoons) for three years, or during the war. One of the considerations of the enlistment was that he was to get a furlough for three months and twenty dollars to bear his expenses home. This, together with his furlough, was accordingly given him with orders to rendezvous again in Fredericksburg, VA, on the 10th day of April 1778. Accordingly, he met the said Capt. Barret in Fredericksburg and there got the said Capt. Barret to receive one John Green, whose sister he had in the meantime married in Culpepper County, VA, in his (the said McClanahan?s) place and got from the said officer a full discharge, which was lost in the burning of his father?s house in Culpepper some few years ago. Here ended his Revolutionary services except a short tour of duty performed afterwards in North Carolina when General Greene was retreating into Virginia from Cornwallis, under Capt. James Ward in a reg?t. commanded by Col. (William) Preston (Preston was County Lt. of Botetourt County) and he went into the service from Botetourt County, VA, where he then lived. He was in two skirmishes with the British on this tour; one at the Altemage River, and the other at the Ruddy Fork of the Haw River. His first enlistment was in the regiment commanded as aforesaid by Col. Patrick Henry (1st Va. Reg?t.) was for 12 months, the next one he entered the 2nd Va. Reg?t. commanded by Col. Alexander Spottswood as aforesaid was for two years, and that in the said Baylor?s regiment was for three years, or during the war. In conformity with all of which he served about three years. From Botetourt he moved to Montgomery County (see deed, J.A.S.). From there he went to Kentucky in 1778 and settled in what is now called Bourbon County, and shared largely in the Indian Wars which then and for some time after were carried on in the west. He was in the battle at Harmer?s Defeat at the Maumee Town, belonging to the immediate command of David Tharp (Thorp?), who, together with every man in his company was killed, except the said McClanahan along with seven or eight others. He was a spy in the expedition of Gen. Whayne (Wayne) under the immediate command of General Scott from Kentucky in 1793. From Bourbon he moved to Logan County, KY, and settled in that part that now constitutes a part of the said Simpson County, about the year 1802 or 3, and in that part he has lived ever since. He now has little or no property, a wife and seven children living with him, having had in all twenty (20) and as much as any man needs a pension or annuity except the present and declares his name is not on the pension roll of any State whatever. Subscribed and sworn before me the date aforesaid and year aforesaid. Thomas McClanahan, L.S. We, William Lane, a Clergyman residing in the County of Simpson and State of Kentucky, and Henry Stratton a resident of the same, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Thomas McClanahan, who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, and that we believe him to be about eighty years of age; that he is respected and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolutionary War, and we concur in the opinion. Henry Stratton, L.S. William Lane, L.S. And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after an investigation into the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary War soldier and served as he states, and the Court further certifies that it appears to them that William Lane, who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman and resident of the said County of Simpson, and that Henry Stratton, who signed the same, is a resident of the same County and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit. Simpson County Justice of the Peace: J. M. Robertson, J.P.S.C. I, John L. Moore, Clerk of the County Court of Simpson County, do hereby certify that the foregoing contents of the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of the said Thomas McClanahan for a pension. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of my office this tenth day of September, and in the year of our Lord, 1832. John L. Moore, C.S.C. Copy: Thomas McClanahan service, Official Records, War Dep?t., Washington, D.C. Saffill?s Rev. Men, pg. 274: Co. #8 as it stood April 1, 1777, Capt. Francis Taylor?s Co., Sgt. James Welch, Pvt. Thomas McClanahan. Payroll of Capt. Francis Taylor?s Co., 2nd Bat., Feb. 28, 1777; Hist. of Orange Co., Virginia, by W. W. Scott (1907), pg. 254, from v. #6, Va. Hist. Magazine, pg. 127, pay per month (in Spanish dollars): Francis Taylor, Capt. $40.00 James Welch, Sgt. $8.00 William Taylor, 2nd Lt. 27.00 Jeremiah Cox, drummer 7-1/3 Francis Cowherd, 2nd Lt. 27.00 James Quinn, Corp. 7-1/3 James Cowherd, Ensign 20.00 Evan Braman, Corp. 7-1/3 Samuel Clayton, 1st Sgt. 8.00 Thomas Shelton, Corp. 7-1/3 John Brown, Corp. 7-1/3 Privates @ 6-2/3 dollars: Archilles Foster Turner Thomason Henry Russell Joseph Henry George Brooks Shadrach Hill Randell Abbott Benjamin Dawson William Medley Thomas Morris William Ward John Finnell Thomas McClanahan Thornberry Bowling Robert White James Dearing Andrew Harrison Thomas Breedlove Jacob Burrus Stephen Ham Elijah Deer Elisha Estes Leonard Scale William martin John Almand John Snow Gerrard Morton Thomas Flexman Elijah Hawkins Lewis Pines Rob?t. Chandler Joel Foster James Brown James Jackson John Chowning Thomas Ballard John Gillock James Beasley Samuel Warren William Turner William Morris Edward Broaddus Joseph Thomas Perry Patterson James Long William Davis Henry Barnett James Gibbons John Johnson of Col. Rall?s Maryland Battallion. Ordinance to join my Co. at Baltimore, MD, Jan. 28, 1776, @ 6-2/3: Humphrey Shay of Col. Rall?s 1st Batt. To join my camp Jan. 28, 1776. The above is a just payroll, signed: Capt. Francis Taylor The above was commanded by Col. Alexander Spottswood until combined with the 11th Va., when it was commanded by the Dane, Col. Christian Febiger, October 9, 1777. Ill. Papers, VA State Lib.: 2nd Cont?l Line, of Botetourt, VA Index of Rev. Records in the VA State Archives, compiled 1912/?14 by Dr. J. H. Eckenrode. War Dep?t. letter: Capt. James Ward granted a certificate for supplies (Court Record, Spottsylvania Co., VA). This was evidently for State service. Idem, letter of March 28, 1946: list of men surnamed McClanahan found in the VA Continental service: Alexander McClanahan, Robert McClanahan, Capt. William McClanahan, William McClanahan. No military record has been found for these men and nothing has been found to show what counties they resided in. (See Augusta Co., VA, McClanahans, MLM) Idem, dat. March 13, 1946: The name Alexander McClanahan, Col, VA, appears on a record under the following headings: ?A list of officers of the Virginia Line on the Continental Establishment who have rec?d. their full pay agreeable to an Act of Assembly passed Nov. Session, 1781, which shows the sum of L 277 S. 10 was rec?d. by himself on April 23, 1783. The collection of Rev. War Records in this office is incomplete, but it is possible that additional information may be obtained from the Librarian, Virginia State Library, Richmond, VA, or from the Archivist, the National Archives, Washington, D.C., who has custody of the U. S. Pension Records covering the period of the Revolutionary War.? VA State Library: Rev. Pay Rolls ? Illinois Papers, D 88 ? a payroll of Fayette Militia under Captain William McConnell, Station on actual service in repelling an enemy invasion of Indiana, on Expedition against the enemy, under George Rogers Clark, entered 24 October 1782: Thomas McClanahan entered October 24, discharged November 23, serving 30 days, pay L 2. Daniel Boone, County Lieutenant, signs this as correct. (To upper Miami villages. Boone & Harrod accompanied Gen. G. R. Clark to Piqua and Chillicothe). KY in Retrospect, pg. 165: Thomas Lanham, 1778 (see Pens. Appli.). Capt. William McConnell?s Station: 1 miles west of Lexington, 1779; also there were Thomas Smith, widow Mary Harper, Daniel Campbell, Alex. McConnell (my uncle, wrote Capt. Wm.), and Thomas Stevenson. Information relative to pension payments may be obtained by addressing an enquiry to the Comptroller General of the U.S. General Accounting Office, Wash., D.C., citing the date recorded opposite pension: Nat?l. Archives, Wash., D.C., dat. Mar. 28, 1946: Thomas McClanahan, W. I. 052: the veteran?s death occurred Oct. 15, 1845, and his widow, Tabitha McClanahan, applied for a pension July 19, 1853, under Act of Feb. 1853. No pension was passed for benefit of veteran?s widows prior to July 4, 1836. Parents: father, William McClanahan, mother?s name not known. Birth: Westmoreland County, VA, 1753, exact date not given, etc. (same data as pension record application, showing that Thomas went to Kentucky in 1778). Pens. Certif. #7 531 issued 25 April 1833, rate of $80.00 per annum, Act of 7 June 1832, Kentucky agency. Bounty Warrant #33 771 issued for 160 a. of bounty land issued Tabitha McClanahan, widow of Thomas, under Act of March 3, 1855. He married (2) Tabitha Williams March 1, 1817, Logan County, KY. (Date and place of birth of Tabitha not stated, but she was 64 years old in 1853, so b. ca. 1789, possibly in Bourbon County, KY.) See William & Mary College Quarterly, 2nd ser., v. 1, pg. 209, and Virginia Magazine of History & Biography, v. 19, pg. 308. Wid. file. Saffill?s Rev. Men: Capt. Francis Taylor?s Co., 1777, from March 28 to May 1777, Thomas McClanahan @ 6 2/3 dollars. Widow?s file #1052 in Wm. & Mary C.Q., 2nd ser., v. 1, pg. 209. Auditor?s Account #31, pg. 357, Richmond, VA, May 23, 1786: The U.S. for interest on Military Debt, Warrant to Thomas McClanahan, soldier for three years, interest Dec. 12, 1785, L 3, D. 6. Thomas Marshall McClanahan married (1) (bond) 14 March 1778, Ann Green in Fauquier County, VA. William Thomas signed the bond; James McClanahan a witness. According to strong evidence, the statement of William Smith McClanahan in VA Mag., H. & B., v. 25, pg. 263 that she was a daughter of an English Gentlemen, to the contrary, apparently was a daughter of Gen. Duff Green and orphaned several years before her marriage. Duff?s estate was appraised in Fauquier County, VA, 29 July, 1766; he left widow, Ann, as gdn. for minor children. Rev. Thomas Marshall Smith, of Logan County, KY, in his ?Tales of the Revolution, etc.? stated that Thomas McClanahan went to school with Ann Green, who was said to have been born in 1761, and d. ca. 1816 in Simpson County, KY. Duff Green married (1) Ann Thomas; (2) Ann Willis Henry Strother of Ft. Smith, Arkansas, in a letter to Mr. J. Adger Stewart, submitted to Mr. Lyon G. Tyler: ?Ann Green was said to have been with her husband when the wild men of the forest danced around the fort for days.? [S140] Virginia Magazine of History and Biography. Corrections in reports of Thomas McClanahan of Simpson Co. KY, and another Thomas McClanahan of Bourbon County, KY who died in 1809 in Bourbon County, KY who is NOT the s/o Wm. McClanahan and Mary Marshall of Culpepper Co., VA See Documents Page 307-309