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Patrick McCann, of Lewis & Harrison Co., [W]VA
Facts and Events
Military Service
- American Revolutionary War Veteran
Revolutionary War Pension Information
Information from “Virginia/West Virginia Genealogical Data from Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Records”, Vol. 3, compiled by Patrick G. Wardell, Lt. Col. U.S. Army Ret. :
McCan, Patrick - entered service in Pennsylvania Regiment; granted Pension 1818 in Lewis County, Virginia abt. age 33 but name dropped from Pension rolls in 1835 for fraud, when Pension Office determined he was too young to have served in Revolutionary War (age 12-13 in 1785); soldier was an Irishman, who had brother killed in action in Revolutionary War; query letter in file in 1915 from great grandmother Mary McCan (daughter of soldier) who was born 6/22/1788 in Lewis County, Virginia, & was not soldier's eldest child, further querier had spoken with Mrs. Mary Bennett Hagler, Milton, Iowa, who recalled that soldier had resided at her mother's home in Randolph County, Virginia 1850-55 when he was over age 90 (Mrs. Hagler being great grandaughter of soldier), further soldier had a son Patrick, & Pension Office may have confused soldier with that of his son; Pension Office reply to this query was that it was too late to change their decision, because original witnesses were all deceased. F-S18502, R1664.
References
- United States. 1820 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (National Archives Microfilm Publication M33).
Name: Patrick Mccan
Home in 1820 (City, County, State): Lewis, Virginia
Enumeration Date: August 7, 1820
Free White Persons - Males - Under 10: 1
Free White Persons - Males - 10 thru 15: 1
Free White Persons - Males - 16 thru 25: 1
Free White Persons - Males - 45 and over: 1 [b. 1775 or before]
Free White Persons - Females - 10 thru 15: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 16 thru 25: 2
Free White Persons - Females - 45 and over: 1 [b. 1775 or before]
Number of Persons - Engaged in Agriculture: 3
Free White Persons - Under 16: 3
Free White Persons - Over 25: 2
Total Free White Persons: 8
Total All Persons - White, Slaves, Colored, Other: 8
- United States. 1830 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (National Archives Microfilm Publication M19).
Name: [Patrick Mc Cann] [Pattrick McCann]
Home in 1830 (City, County, State): Lewis, Virginia
Free White Persons - Males - 5 thru 9: 2
Free White Persons - Males - 15 thru 19: 1
Free White Persons - Males - 60 thru 69: 1 [b. bet. 1761-1770]
Free White Persons - Females - 60 thru 69: 1 [b. bet. 1761-1770]
Free White Persons - Under 20: 3
Total Free White Persons: 5
Total - All Persons (Free White, Slaves, Free Colored): 5
- North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000.
Name: Patrick McCann
Gender: Male
Birth Date: 1760
Birth Place: Ireland
First Marriage Date: 1787
Death Date: 1853
Death Place: Harrison County, VA
Father: Lawrence McCann
Mother: Mary
Spouse: Hannah Johnson
Child: Mary McCann
- Graves, William T. Southern Campaign Revolutionary War Pension Statements & Rosters.
Pension Application of Patrick McCan (McCann) S18502 PA
Transcribed and annotated by C. Leon Harris.
[The file contains a certificate issued on 12 Oct 1833 to Patrick McCan of Lewis County VA for a pension of $95 per year for at least two years service as a Private and Sergeant in the regiment of Col. Daniel Brodhead. Written on the certificate is, “dropped from roll Mar 16, 1835 Fraud.” A note in the file states that McCan’s pension application was sent on 9 Aug 1834 to US District Attorney Washington G. Singleton, who investigated hundreds of pension applications from present West Virginia. For details see my appendix to the pension application of David W. Sleeth S6111. The following is Singleton’s report on McCan.]
Lewis county.
Patrick McCan. Pensioner Christopher Nutter [pension application W5434] aged 74 yrs has known Patrick McCan for 49 years. at that time to Wit in 1785 he McCan settled in this county then a lad of 12 or 13 yrs old. that McCan cant be older than sixty two years. [see endnote]
Wm Powers [S18164] aged 91 yrs. has known Patrick McCan since 1785. in that year he McCan
lived on a place belonging to Power’s Father. that he was then young, entirely too young to have been in the Revo. war. Powers says McCan is fond of talking and especially about himself. Never head him say that he served in the R. war – that McCan is an Irishman, & had a brother killed in the Rev. War.
Adam Flesher [S18403] aged 72 yrs. fully concurs in the statement above made by Wm Powers
in reference to McCann. Respectfully Reported/ W. G. Singleton/ Special Agent/ July 1834
NOTES:
Daniel Brodhead became Colonel of the 8th Pennsylvania Regiment on 12 Mar 1777 and served to the close of the war.
Patrick McCann married Hannah Johnson in Harrison County VA (from which Lewis was
formed in 1816) on 26 July 1787. He was then only 14 or 15, if Nutter, Powers, and Flesher are to be believed.
http://www.wvculture.org/vrr/va_view.aspx?Id=39278&Type=Marriage
The 1810 federal census for Harrison County lists Patrick McCann as over 45. The 1820 federal census for Lewis County also lists Patrick McCan as over 45. The 1830 federal census for Lewis County lists Patrick McCann as 60 to 70. These are the only census records I could find for Patrick McCan.
In the file is a letter to the Commissioner of Pensions by Joseph M. Kellogg of University Club, Urbana IL dated 6 May 1915, responding to a letter from the Pension Office stating that McCan had been dropped from the pension roll because the US district Attorney had found him to be “not more than 12 or 13 years old in 1785.” Kellogg’s letter reads in part as follows: “This information seemed somewhat strange to me at the time and since then I have been making some investigations along this line. I find that Mary McCann, my great grandmother, who was a daughter of said Patrick McCann, was born in Lewis County, Virginia, June 22, 1788, and as far as one can trust family tradition, she was not the eldest child by any means of said Patrick McCann and Hannah his wife. It would of course be impossible for her to have been the child of one Patrick McCann who was not more than 12 or 13 years of age in 1785.
Further; I had an interview with one Mrs. Mary Bennet Hagler of Milton, Iowa, who remembers old Patrick McCann well as living at her mothers in Randolph County, Va. during the years 1850 to 1855, when he was a very old man indeed, over ninety years of age at any rate. (She gives a conservative estimate. Others speak of him as being over 100, etc., but probably that is an exaggeration) Mrs. Hagler is a great granddaughter of Patrick McCann.”
Patrick McCann (McCann) was a legendary Indian fighter. See for example the article by
Michael J. O’Brien entitled “Patrick McCann, Hero of the Border” on p 79 of The Journal of the American Irish Historical Society, Vol. 21 (1922)
https://revwarapps.org/s18502.pdf
- Johnston, Ross B. West Virginians in the American Revolution. (Parkersburg, West Virginia: West Augusta Historical and Genealogical Society, 1959)
pg. 184.
McCANN (McCAN), PATRICK
Service - Pennsylvania Va. No. 16894 No. S. 18502
Pension certificate was issued to this soldier for two years service in Virginia and Pennsylvania, October 15, 1853, but was dropped from rolls, March 16, 1835. The soldier was aged 75 in 1833. A letter from descendant, James M. Kellogg, says that Patrick and Hannahh McCann lived in Randolph County, 1850. The had one child, Mary, born, June 22, 1788.
- Ancestry.com. Public Member Trees: (Note: not considered a reliable primary source).
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