George, Ensign MALLOW

MALLOW, Ensign George

 

State of Ohio

Greene County

 

 

On the 21st day of November 1832, personally appeared before me John Bales a Justice of the Peace in and for the county and state aforesaid, George Mallow a resident of said County and state aforesaid, aged 80 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 7th, 1832. That from a record of his age now in his possession, he was born in Lancaster County, State of Pennsylvania on the 17th day of March 1752, Old Style, that when he was about three years old, he was removed with his parents, in the time of Braddock's War to the South Branch of [the] Potomac in  what was then Augusta & afterwards Rockingham County, State of Virginia, where he continued to reside untill the year 1815 [when] he removed to Warren County, State of Ohio, where he resided till the year 1818 when he removed to his present residence in Greene County. That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated. That in the Month of March in the Year 1778 he entered as a volunteer in the Virginia Militia for a tour of six months in Capt. Robert Cravens Company, Michael Trout Lieutenant, and he (the said George Mallow) was ensign of said company, in Col. Benjamin Harrison's Regiment. The Company rendezvoused at Col. Abraham Smith's in Augusta County, State of Virginia, and on the first of May in the year aforesaid, the company marched through Greenbriar to the banks of the Monongahela river, and thence down that river to Tigers [Tygart's] valley, and remained in the valley untill about the middle of September following guarding the frontiers against the Indians. The Company was for the most part of the time divided into three parts, each under the command of an officer, The Capt. with one party occupied Westfall's fort, The Lieutenant with another party occupied Haggard's fort and the Ensign with another party occupied Wilson's fort with 15 men under his command. That about the time their six months tour expired, this deponent and all the company to which he belonged except about 15 men volunteered for a further term of three months to go with Gen'l. McIntosh against the Indians northwest of the Ohio, and returned home to Augusta to get ready for the expedition, and in a few days after their return, he set off with Capt. Cravens and his company with William Heron, his Lieut. about the first of October in the year aforesaid, and joined the main army under Gen'l. McIntosh at the mouth of Big Beaver on the north west side of the Ohio river and assisted in building Fort McIntosh about a quarter of a mile below the mouth of Big Beaver, after completing this fort, his company and himself marched with Gen'l. McIntosh and Gen'l. Broadhead the second in command to Laurance River, now called Tuscarawas River, and [assisted?] to build fort Laurance [Laurens] on the west side of said river, and as he understood about three miles above the mouth of White Woman's river, which river and the Laurence or Tuscarawas river, make the Muskingum river as he understood. Fort Lawrence he understood was about [86?] measured miles from Fort McIntosh. He remained at Fort Lawrence until about Christmas when his time of service expired and he with his company was there discharged after which they returned through Fort McIntosh and [illegible ] settlement home to his residence which was then known as Rockingham County, Virginia, a new county taken off Augusta having been in service as an Ensign for the full term of nine months. That in the Month of June 1781, he again entered the service as a private in Capt. Rush's company of mounted volunteers but does not remember the names of his Lieutenant or Ensign and served a tour of twenty days under Gen'l. Wayne and sometimes under Gen'l. Muhlenberg on scouting or reconnoitering parties in the neighbourhood of Richmond, Williamsburg, and Jamestown, Virginia, and was discharged between Jamestown and Richmond.

 

That he never obtained a written discharge for any of his services. That he has no documentary evidence of his services and that he knows no person that can testify to prove his services, except Frederick Miller of Preble County, Ohio, who he believes is still living, but he uncertain of whether he can procure his testimony or not, he being an old and infirm man, but he intends trying to procure his testimony. He, the said Miller, under him as a private in the same company for nine months. 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 the agency of any state.

 

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid, his George X Mallow mark

 

 

Pension application number: S-2735.  Ensign George Mallow of the Augusta Co., VA militia was born in Lancaster Co., PA., on 17 March 1752.  He died 14 April 1837 in Xenia, Greene Co., Ohio and is buried in Boots Cemetery, Xenia, Green Co., Ohio.

 

The information on George Mallow was submitted to the Friends of Fort Laurens Foundation by Anonymous of Grand Junction, CO.  The George Mallow pension application was obtained from the Revolutionary Pension Files on line at www.HeritageQuest.com.  Anonymous transcribed the pension in August 2007.  Information submitted to the Friends of Fort Laurens Foundation on 3 September 2007 via E-mail, “WWW.Form Submission to the Friends of Fort Laurens Foundation at www.friendsoffortlaurens.org.

 

 

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