| 12. | Redman McMahan was born 1731 (son of McMahan and Catherine Cole); died Aft 1834, Jackson County, Alabama; was buried McMahan Cove, Jackson County, Alabama. Notes:
Pennsylvania Archives, Second Series, Vol II, page 498-499, under Provincial Officers and Soldiers, 1744-1757 lists "The Men under the Command of Samuel Perry, the 4th of August 1746":
Name, age, where born, date of enlistment and occupation
Redmand McMahon, age 20, born in Ireland, enlisted 13 July, laborer.
"The companies commanded by Captain Trent, Shannon, Deimer and Perry, were recruited under authority of a proclamation issued by Governor George Thomas, dated June 9, 1746, reciting the King's orders of the ninth of April, to raise four hundred men within the Province of Pennsylvania, to be employed in concert with the regular forces in the immediate reduction of Canada. The instructions for recruiting, together with a copy of Capt. Shannon's commission will be found in Pa. Archives, First Series, vol I, pages 688, 689. These companies went into winter quarters at Albany, N.Y., 1746-1747, and were finally discharged October 31, 1747, "the late intended expedition against Canada having been by his Majesty laid aside for the present." Votes of Assembly, Vol. IV, pages 50 and 71, Col. Records, Vol. V, 127."
Smoky Mountain Historical Newsletter 1991, Volume XVII, No 4 lists the following from Dick Fox, RR 9, Box 355, Sour Lake, TX 77659:
"Redmond McMohan was apprenticed to David Stuart as a cooper to begin 9 August 1747. Redmond was listed as a white male; his mother was listed as Catherine Cole. This is from the Augusta Parish Vestry Book, 1746-1780, p 101. Catherine Cole was listed in other Augusta County, Virginia records as a servant of David Stuart."
According to "The South Carolina Regulators", Redmond McMahan was an outlaw in Upper South Carolina. When the Regulators or Rangers crushed the outlaw bands in the late 1760's, they scattered to other states. It is not known if this is the same Redman.
"Montgomery County Virginia: The First 100 Years" (text by Judge C. W. Crush, index by Mrs. Frances Terry Ingmire; FHL 975.5785 H2c p 47) lists Redmond McMahon as one of the members of Captain Cox's company who signed an oath of allegiance to the Commonwealth of Virginia, refusing allegiance to George the third King of Britain.
On page 69 there is an abstract from Montgomery County Court Records (volume and page not cited) as follows:
"Whereas Redmond McMahon was taken Prisoner in the Battle of King's Mountain by the Virginia and Carolina Militia on the March to the Moravian Town, he had made his escape & came into Montgomery County where he surrendered himself to an Officer of the Militia. And whereas there is no Prison in Said County to confine the said McMahon untill an Exchange takes Place Therefore We the Subscribers do hereby bind ourselves Jointly & Severally our Joint & Severally our Joint & Several Heirs Exrs. & Admrs. to the Hon'ble Thomas Jefferson Esqr. Governor of Virginia or the Governor for the time being In the Just and full sum of five thousand Pounds Current Money of Virginia that the said Redmond McMahon will at any Time deliver himself up when legally called for, to the proper officer, as a prisoner of War to be exchanged or otherwise dealt with as the other Prisoners in the same Situation with him may be dealt with. As witness our hand this 6th day of February 1781.
Redmond McMahon
John Price
Dasswell Rodgers (mark)
Test
William Preston
James McGavock"
He was imprisoned for what we believe is desertion since his pension application was denied on grounds of desertion.
The "Personal Property Tax Lists for the Year 1787 for Montgomery County, Virginia (Netti Schreiner-Yantis, Genealogical Book in Print, 1987; FHL 975.5 R4sy vol 8, p 454-455) show that Redman McMahan and George Byrd were enumerated on the same day, so they were probably neighbors.
Warren County, Tennessee deed book A, page 22, 4 November 1811. Redmon McMahan to Enos Holbert 100 acres in Warren County on Barren Fork of Collins river, granted to McMahan by State of Tennessee 23 Aug 1808.
Deed book C, page 125, 8 January 1816, Redmond McMahan to Nathan Randolph for $120 part of grant from State of Tennessee 25 August 1802.
In 1826, Redman McMahan was making his home with his son Sanders in Alabama. Redman McMahan applied for a Revolutionary War Pension from Warren County, Tennessee in 1834 at the age of 103, making his birth date 1731. Thomas Brown claimed he knew Redman McMahan before their respective arrivals in Warren County, Tennessee. As mentioned earlier, his application was denied because of desertion.
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Reference:
Jim Christian, jsxian@worldnet.att.net, , 27 May 1998, 3 February 1999.
"The Stevenson Story", Elizabeth B. Woodall.
Redman — Mary McNulty. [Group Sheet]
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