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- During the War of 1812 John M. McTeer enlisted at Knoxville, Tennessee, on 20
September 1814 as a private in Captain David McKaney's (or McCarney's) Company
Tennessee Militia; he served 226 days, including the taking of Pensacola, until
he was discharged 3 May 1815. On 13 November 1850, 13 May 1851 and 3 April
1855, John M. McTeer of Gordon County, Georgia, applied for bounty land in the
right of this service; his warrant #35 411-80-55 was sent to Cassville,
Georgia. In July 1871 John M. McTeer aged 73 filed a pension claim from
Atchison, Kansas, allowed at $8.00 per month on 29 March 1872, Topeka Agency,
Act of 1871.
In 1838 these McTeers moved to northern Georgia. On 5 January 1839 John M.
McTeer of Cass (now Bartow) County, sold for $50 to William Tyler of Cass
County, one acre on the west side of Cassville. Witnesses: Stephenson
Johnson, James Watson. Acknowledged by Johnson on 7 January 1839, and filed
for record on 31 January 1867.
In 1840 John M. Mctier was listed as a resident of Cassville, Georgia; his
household had three males aged 0-5, 20-30 and 40-50; three females aged 5-10,
15-20, and 40-50 years; there was also one slave. In 1850 John M. McTeer was
living in Gordon County, Georgia; he was listed in that census as a "B Mason"
aged 52 years, with wife Mary aged 60, daughters Mary A. aged 24 and Martha aged
20 years. All four were born in Tennessee.
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Reference:
McTeer - Mateer Families of Cumberland County Pennsylvania, Frances Davis
McTeer, 1975, p 84.
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