The following information was assembled from numerous sources and cannot be used directly as proof of Qualifying Service or Lineage.
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State of Service: GA
Qualifying Service: Lieutenant
Birth: 07 Oct 1754 / St Matthews Parish / GA Death: 04 Nov 1822 / Effingham / GA
Qualifying Service Description:
Bethany County, 2nd Battalion, 1st Regt Georgia militia
Additional References:
Georgia's Roster of the Revolution: containing a list of the state's defenders; officers and men; soldiers and sailors; partisans and regulars; whether enlisted from Georgia or settled in Georgia after the close of hostilities, by Lucian Lamar Knight LL. D, F. R. S.; Georgia. Department of Archives and History, pg 365, 390
The revolutionary records of the state of Georgia, compiled Allen D. Candler, Vol 1, pg 149
Spouse: (1) XX XX; (2) Mrs Hannah Eliza Heffman Delwich Children: Eliza Hannah; Irwin;
Find-a-Grave Memorial has headstone picture and descendants information
Directions to Cemetery / Gravesite:
Author: Kenneth Scott Collins
Matthew Rahn b. 10/7/1754 d. 11/4/1822 EFFINGHAM COUNTY, GEORGIA
He served as a Lieutenant in the Bethany Company of the Effingham County, Georgia Militia. On June 25, 1782, he enlisted as a Sergeant in the 2nd Company of the 1st Georgia Regiment commanded by Captain William McIntosh. He drew land in the 1820 Georgia Land Lottery as a Revolutionary War Soldier and resident of Effingham County.
Buried: Jerusalem Cemetery, Ebenezer, Georgia.
See: (1) Bulloch County, Georgia Cemeteries, v. 6.
(2) Georgia Citizens and Soldiers of the American Revolution, p. 124.
(3) Georgia's Roster of the Revolution, p. 365, 390.
(4) Georgia Salzburgers and Allied Families, p. 263.
Source: Georgia Revolutionary Soldiers & Sailors, Patriots & Pioneers; Volume 1, by Ross Arnold & Hank Burnham with additions and corrections by: Mary Jane Galer, Dr. Julian Kelly, Jr., and Ryan Groenke. Edited by: Ryan Groenke.
A Georgia County-by-County compilation of Revolutionary War Patriots who made Georgia their permanent home and died here, including information on service history, birth dates, death dates and places of burial with an index.
Published by the Georgia Society Sons of the American Revolution, 2001.
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