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96 into Little York in Virginia. This last named tour under Captain Johnson, was the last I rendered the United States, and I was discharged by Captain Johnson in August in the year seventeen hundred and eighty-one, and Cornwallis was taken the same fall after I left the army. It was in June, 1774, that I entered the service under Captain Mathews. I cannot say positively, but I think that in the tour under Capt. Johnson, Abraham Smith was our Colonel and one Guy Hamilton was our Major, but in the previous tour Wm. Bowyer was our Colonel. I think one —— Long was our Major, and I think he belonged to the Regular Army. Under Capt. Smith, Charles Baskin was our Ensign. I was eighty-five years of age on the 16th day of May A. D. 1833.

I have never directly or indirectly received one cent of or from the United States or any one of the United States for my services, and I do hereby relinquish every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and I declare that my name is not on the pension role of any agency in any State. And for the services hereinbefore mentioned I claim a pension.

SAMUEL McCLURE.

June 21st, 1833."

The following obituary appeared in The Union, City of Washington, Jan. 13, 1846:

"And still another of the choice spirits of '76 has gone to his rest. Samuel McClure was born in Augusta County, Virginia, 16th May, 1748, and died at the residence of his grandson, Samuel McClure, Esq., in Clark County, Ill., the 18th December, 1845. He was a soldier of the Revolution, a brave and good man. Shortly after the close of the war he removed with his family to Kentucky. On his way they were overtaken by a party of Indians, his wife taken prisoner and his four childenchildren [sic] butchered. He made his escape, obtained help, overtook and severely punished the Indians and secured his wife. They arrived in Lexington without property, without children, but thanks to the strong arms and stout hearts of such men as Samuel