Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 39,783, for Barny Johnson, Maryland
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(3-1776)

SERVICE     Md.

Johnson, Barny
or
Barney

NUMBER     S. 39,783

CONTENTS
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8931
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Pennsylvania Roll

Barney Johnson
of Philadelphia in the state of Penna
who was a Fifer in the regiment commanded by Colonel Guest of the Maryland 
Line for the term of seven years.

Inscribed on the roll of Penna
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence
on the 26 June 1818

Certificate of Pension issued the 3 of April 1819 and sent to Rich'd Peters, Esq Philadelphia

Arrears to 4th of March 1819 $66.36
Semi-anl. all'ce ending Sept 4, 1819 $48.00
Arr & 8 Mo 5/30 - 4/31 $114.36

{Revolutionary Claim Act 18th March 1818}

Continued

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Notification sent September 26, 1820 to D. Caldwell, Philadelphia, PA

Death - AB
Nov 10, 1820
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Auditors office Annapolis March 26, 1819

I hereby certify that it appears from the Muster Rolls remaining in the Auditors office that Barnard Johnson enlisted as a fifer in the third Maryland Regt. on the 18 Feby 1778 but it does not appear at what time he received his Discharge.
Thos. Karney Audtr.
State Md.
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Barney Johnson

76 - 7 years
3rd regt com by Col Guest
Maryland Line
Adm't

Crossed out - Sent to Annapolis for proof of service

(See Gen Cert on file)
Rich'd Peters
Philad.

Richard Peters
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District of Pennsylvania

On this twenty sixth day of June AD 1818 before me Richard Peters, Judge of the District Court of the United States in and for the Pennsylvania District personally appeared Barney Johnson of the city of Philadelphia who being duly sworn deposes and declares that during the war of the revolution he served against the common enemy as a Fifer in the army on the continental establishment that on the blank day of AD 1776 at Baltimore in the state of Maryland he enlisted in the third Maryland regiment commanded by Colonel Guest his Captain Armstrong, company and in the following year he joined the army of the United States at White Marsh in New Jersey and he entered in the service of the United States until the peace of Eighty-three. The said deponent further says that at the battle of Camden he was wounded by a British Light Horseman in the head and was made a prisoner after six months he was exchanged and he joined the same regiment at Baltimore.

That by reason of his reduced circumstances in life, he is in need of assistance from his county for support, that he never has received or been allowed any pension by the laws of the Unites States - that he is a resident citizen of the United States and that his discharge has been lost.

Barney Johnson

Sworn and subscribed this 25 day of June AD 1818 before me

Richard Peters
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District of Pennsylvania  ss

Dennis Dunning of the District of Southwark in the County of Philadelphia, duly Sworn Says that he is well acquainted with Barney Johnson the within named Deponent.  The said Barney has been known to the said Dunning Since he was fourteen years of age, and he well recollects his having enlisted as a fifer in the third Maryland Regiment, and that he served in the same during the remainder of the war.  The Deponent was a Drummer in the first Maryland Regiment.  The said Barney Johnson is now in indigent circumstances.
              his
Dennis   X   Dunning
            mark

Sworn & Subscribed before me June 26, 1818
[words cut off]
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Barney Johnson

No 8931

Philadelphia PA

Sep 1819
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Schedule
Eastern District of Pennsylvania

On this 30th day of June AD 1820 personally appeared in open court in the District Court of the United States in and for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania (being a court of record for the said district) Barney Johnson aged about fifty years resident in the county of Philadelphia in the said district, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare - that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows to wit - in the year 1776 or 1777 he served under General Smallwood in the Maryland Line in the 3rd Maryland Regiment and continued with him about two campaigns - after that he served in the same regiment under General Gates and then under General Greene - he continued in service till the end of the war and then was discharged - he received a wound in the head at Camden. He has received a pension under the act of 18 March 1818 by certificate No 8931.

I the said Barney Johnson do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an Act of congress entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War" passed on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities, contracts of debts due to me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed.

Real
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Real or Personal Estate - I have none except a few articles of household furniture not worth more than ten dollars. The greater part was seized and sold come time ago for rent.

I have a wife but no children - when I was able, I drove cart but of late from the effect of the wound on my head I have been unfit for any work.

Barney Johnson

Sworn to & declared on the thirtieth day of June 1820 in open court

D Caldwell Clerk Dist Court

I D. Caldwell Clerk of the District Court of the United States in and for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania do hereby certify that the foregoing oath is truly copied from the records of the said court and I further certify that it is the opinion of the said court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the foregoing schedule is ten dollars.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court on this twenty-eighth day of July AD 1820 and in the Forty-fifth year of the Independence of the said United States.

SEAL

D Caldwell - Clk Dist Court
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39783
INVALID
Revy

File No 39783

Barney Johnson
Fifer Rev War

Act 18th March '18
Index Vol 3 Page 265

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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The National Archives

Bounty Land Warrant Record Card

Division of Veterans' Administration Archives

Name: Johnson, Benedict
Grade: Private
Line: Maryland
Warrant Number: 11404
Acreage: 100 
Issued February 1, 1790 to not shown