West Tennessee
John Mallugan (Mulligan)
Private in the North Carolina militia and Indian wars for pension under the Act of June 7, 1832.

Recorded in the Office of Tennessee at the city of Jackson on the 8th day of August 1833.

Amount allowed per year $53.33
Amount received annually $53.33

Commencing on the 4th day of March 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued on the 15 day of August 1833 and sent to Hon. Cave Johnson.

Arrears to the 4th of March 1833 $106.66
Semiannual allowance ending 4 Sept. 1833 $26.67
$133.33

[Signed]
Recorded by Danl Graham, Clerk

Right side notation:
“Died Sept. 5, 1835”

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​(Declaration under the Act of June 7, 1832)

State of Tennessee
County Court of Perry County

On this 29th day of July 1833 personally appeared in open court before the worshipful the County Court of Perry County now sitting John Mallugan resident of said county and State aged seventy nine years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June the 7th 1832.

That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated.

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That he was born in Chester County in the Province of Pennsylvania. That he has no record of his age but has a Bible record of the same.

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That he entered the service in the first part of the year 1776 under Colonel Martin Armstrong in Guilford County North Carolina. He was drafted and served three months. The company was commanded by Captain William Moore and the regiment by Colonel Armstrong. They marched from Guilford County to Cross Creek and from there to Wilmington where they remained until the expiration of his three months. While there they had several alarms and marched to different places in pursuit of the Tories but never had any engagement.

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After returning home he volunteered under Captain Samuel Rutherford and marched to Salisbury and from there marched to the Yadkin River and was employed there guarding the frontiers against the Cherokee Indians. He remained there three months and was discharged.

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Soon thereafter he again volunteered under Captain James Martin and marched to the Catawba River and from there to the Cherokee nation. They were engaged in scouting and ranging through the country. He remained in service about three months and returned home.

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Soon thereafter he again volunteered under Captain William Moore in a company of mounted men commanded by Colonel Joseph Hardin and marched against the Cherokee Indians. They crossed the mountains and marched into the Indian nation where they remained some time destroying towns and provisions. They returned home after a service of about three months.

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About this time he volunteered under Captain Benjamin Cleveland in a company commanded by Colonel William Graham and marched to Cross Creek in pursuit of the Tories. They continued in service about three months and were discharged.

He again volunteered under Captain James Tate and marched to the lower end of the Yadkin River where they guarded the frontier settlements. They continued in service about three months.

While there he volunteered under Captain Charles Gordon and marched into South Carolina under Colonel Shelby. They were in the battle of Musgrove’s Mill and afterwards at the siege of Ninety Six. He remained in service about three months.

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After returning home he again entered the service under Captain John Hinds in a company commanded by Colonel William Graham and marched against the Tories near Cross Creek. They were engaged in several skirmishes. He continued in service about three months.

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He again volunteered under Captain John Hinds and marched against the Cherokee Indians. They crossed the mountains and remained in the nation about three months and returned home.

About this time he volunteered under Captain John Hinds in a troop of horse commanded by Colonel William Polk and marched toward Camden South Carolina. Before reaching Camden they were informed that Cornwallis had surrendered and they returned home. He remained in service about three months.

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He next volunteered under Captain William Moore in a troop commanded by Colonel Joseph Hardin and marched against the Cherokee Indians. They crossed the mountains and destroyed several Indian towns and returned home after a service of about two months.

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He next entered the service under Captain David Love in a company commanded by Colonel Benjamin Cleveland and marched against the Tories near the Haw River. They had several skirmishes and he remained in service about three months.

He further states that during all the above services he was frequently in actual service and in danger from the enemy though not always in battle.

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He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any state or agency.

[signed]
John Mulligan [his mark]

Sworn to and subscribed in open court the day and year aforesaid.

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Supporting Testimony 

We, Mordecai Alexander and Alexander Davidson residents of Perry County Tennessee hereby certify that we are well acquainted with John Mulligan who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be seventy nine years of age; that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a Revolutionary soldier and that we concur in that opinion.

[signed]
Alexr Davidson
Mordecai Alexander

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Court Certification

And the said court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he states.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 29th day of July 1833.

[signed]
Samuel Houston, Clerk of Perry County Court

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Pension Office Summary Letter 

April 11, 1928

Mrs. H. P. Hendrickson
Nixon
Tennessee

Dear Madam:

The data which follow were obtained from the papers on file in Revolutionary War pension claim S.4186 based upon the military service of John Mulligan in that war.

John Mulligan was born in 1754 in Chester County Pennsylvania. The names of his parents are not shown.

While residing in Guilford County North Carolina, John Mulligan volunteered and served as private with the North Carolina troops as follows:

From January 1776 for three years under Captains Thomas Douglass, George Gordon, Daniel Martin, James Tate, Samuel Rutherford, Charles Gordon, Benjamin Cleveland, John Hinds, David Love, William Moore and others whose names are not now recalled and Colonels Martin Armstrong, Joseph Hardin, William Graham, Benjamin Cleveland and others; was in the Battle of Musgrove’s Mill, South Carolina; in 1779 or 1780 he moved to Surry County North Carolina, volunteered there three months in Captain John Carroll’s company and served for months in guarding the frontier against Indians; after the end of the war he removed to Hawkins County Tennessee and lived there many years. He later lived in Washington County Virginia, then moved to Perry County Tennessee.

He was allowed pension on his application executed July 29, 1833 while residing in Perry County Tennessee.

He died September 5, 1835, place not shown. There are no data as to soldier’s family.

Very truly yours,
A. D. Hiller
Executive Assistant to the Administrator

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