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Patriot Summary
Nathaniel Landon (1757-1851) served as a private in the New Jersey militia in Captain Archibald Shaw's Company, Colonel William C. Maxwell's Regiment; the Pennsylvania militia in Captain Hawkins Boone's Company, Captain Robinson's Regiment and later Captain Robinson's Company, Colonel Elder's Regiment; and the New York militia in Colonel Henry Wisner's 4th Regiment. Nathaniel Landon was born in New York in 1757. He married Hannah Greene and they had five children, two girls and three boys. He came to Oakland County, Michigan about 1828. He was last of the Revolutionary War soldiers to file for a pension in Oakland County. Nathaniel Landon died in 1851, and is buried in the Lakeview Cemetery in Addison Township, Oakland County, Michigan. SAR Patriot Number P-232755 DAR Patriot Number A068484 Find-A-Grave Number 54737172From the History of Oakland County, Michigan by Thaddeus D. Seeley (1912)
Nathan Landon was the last of these Revolutionary soldiers to file a declaration in the Oakland courts for a pension, and he did so on the 13th of November, 1828, at which time he was seventy-one years old. He enlisted February 1, 1776, in Captain Archibald Shaw’s company, Colonel William C. Maxwell’s regiment of New Jersey troops, and served in the same until November 14, 1776, when the regiment was dismissed by General Gates, at Ticonderoga. Himself and his wife (seventy years old) lived with a son, Stephen, and his family, and the old people had no property save their wearing apparel and bedding.