Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W 796, for Jacob Johnson, New Jersey
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Declaration in order to obtain
the benefit of the Third section of the act
of Congress of the 4th of July 1836
State of New Jersey County of Hunterdon: on
this Twenty Ninth day of May in the year of
our Lord one thousand Eight Hundred &
Forty Six Personally appeared before the
subscriber one of the Justices of the Peace
in and for the said County of Hunterdon Sarah
Johnson a Resident of the Township of Clinton
in the County of Hunterdon ^ aged Ninety Three zero ^ who
being duly sworn first, according to Law
doth on her oath make the following declara
tion in order to obtain the benefit of the
provision made by the act of Congress passed
July 4th 1836: That she is the widow of Jacob
Johnson who was a Lieutenant in the war of
the Revolution and who during his life recie
ved a Pension from the United States of
the sum of one Hundred and Twenty Dol-
lars per annum as appears by an original
Pension Certificate now in her possession
& signed by the War Department of United
States & bearing date the Fifth day of November
one thousand Eight Hundred & forty one
and for proof of which she refers to the original
application of the said Jacob Johnson & to the
papers on file in the Pension office of the
United States relating thereto. She further
declared that she was married to the said
Jacob Johnson on the Twentieth day of Au-
gust in the year of our Lord seventeen Hun
dred and seventy four and that her husband
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the aforesaid Jacob Johnson died on the
Tenth day of April Eighteen Hun
dred and forty six and that she has re
mained a widow ever since that period
as by refference to the proof hereto annexed
will more fully appear
	Sworn to and subscribed on the
day & year above written before
me				her
David Hulsizer		Sarah	[P]  Johnson
Justice of the Peace		mark
also in the presence
of James N Reading
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State of New Jersey
County of Hunterdon
	On this fourteenth day of August AD one thousand
eight hundred and thirty two personally appeared in
open court before the Judges of the Inferior court of
common Pleas now sitting Jacob Johnson a resident
of the Township of Bethlehem, in the county and
State aforesaid, aged seventy eight years, who being
first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath
make the following declaration in order to obtain the
benefit of the act of congress passed June 7th, 1832.
That he was born in the Township of Amwell
and county of Hunterdon aforesaid on the twenty
third day of March AD 1754. That his age is recorded
in his father’s family bible from which he transferred
it to his own where it now is- Cannot tell the year
he was called into the militia service, but thinks that
it was soon after the declaration of Independence.
That he then lived in the Township of Amwell aforesaid
That he entered the militia service as a drafted mil=
itia man in the Township of Amwell aforesaid under
Captain Nathan Stout. William Chamberlin
Major and David Chambers Colonel.
That his first tour in the militia was under Captain
Joshua Kershow, Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Lowry
That he marched from Ringoes tavern in the
Township of Amwell aforesaid thro New Brunswick
to Perth Amboy as he thinks in the Month of
August 1776 where he remained one month.
That [scribbled out] immediately after this tour he
was appointed 2nd Lieutenant in the company
commanded by Captain Cornelius Hoppock, and
marched to Woodbridge under the command of
Lieutenant Colonel William Chamberlin, I think
in the fall of 1776 - where he continued one month
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guarding the public magazine located at this
place.
That a month here intervened and that he then went
again to Woodbridge under the command of Captain
Nathan Stout attached to a regiment commanded by
Colonel Isaac [Smith?] - where he remained one month-
	That late in the fall of 1776 he marched to Haddon=
field in the county of Burlington on the way to
Red Bank under the command of Captain Charles
Reading and that he was out at this time one
month.
That he marched to Elizabeth Town in the fall or
winter of 1777 under the command of Captain Charles
Reading attached to the regiment commanded by Colonel
Joseph Philips where he remained one month.
That he marched to Smith’s farms near Blazing
Star in the summer of 1777 under the command of
Captain Philip Snook, attached to the regiment com=
=manded by Colonel William Chamberlin, where he
remained one month.
That he was one month in the public service at
Steel’s gap in the summer of 1777 under the com=
mand of Captain Philip Snook attached to the
regiment commanded by Col David Chambers.
That he was one month in the public service at
Boundbrook under Captain John Philips attached to
the command of Lieut Col William Chamberlin
in the fall of 1777.
That he started for Germantown just before the
battle at that place under Captain Philip Snook
attached to the command of Col David Chambers, but
that he was taken sick on the route and obliged
to return.
That he was one month in the public service
at Pompton Plains under Captain John Philips
in the fall of 1777 —
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That he went to Trenton under Captain Philip
Snook, attached to the command of Col David Chambers
& Lieut Col William Chamberlin in the winter of [smeared]
1777 where he remained two months
That he also went to Passaic falls in the fall
of 1777 under Captain Philip Snook attached to
the command of Col David Chambers where he
remained one month.
That he was also stationed about the same time
and under the same officers at Sourland Mountain
That he also went to Hopewell Meeting house in
the winter of 1777,78 under Captain Nathan Stout
attached to the command of Lieut Col William Cham=
=berlin where he remained one month.
That he went to Monmouth in the summer of 1778
under Captain Philip Snook attached to the com=
=mand of Col David Chambers, Lieut Col William
Chamberlin, and Major Cornelius Stout, and that
he was in the service at this time one month
That he was in the service one month in the
winter of 1778 under Captain Nathan Stout at=
=tached to the command of Col David Chambers at
which time we engaged the British at Vanveghten’s
bridge and took from them seventy nine waggons
loaded with plunder. —
That he was also engaged in the waggon service
carrying provisions & forage for the American army
four months in the winter of 1778.79.
That he was out one month under Captain
Philip Snook at the time of the revolt of the
Pennsylvania line at Princeton in the winter
of 1781 —
That he was in the battle of Boundbrook, and
that Genl Philemon Dickerson & Genl Frederick
Frelinghuysen commanded —
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Also in the battle at Vanveghten’s bridge, and
that Genl Dickerson commanded
Also in the battle of Monmouth attached to the Brigade
commanded by Genl Dickerson. That is the battle
my his captain, Philip Snook was wounded in the early
part of the action, in consequence whereof the command
of the company devolved upon me him till the action
was ended —
That he knew Generals Washington, Dickerson
Lafayette, Maxwell, Sullivan and many others
That he cannot recollect particularly the names
or numbers of the continental & militia regiments.
That he never received a written discharge —
That he does not recollect of receiving a commission
as 2nd Lieutenant,  but  that he held the same in
[illegible] of an election by his company as before
stated till the end of the war, and that if he
ever did receive a commission he has lost the
same — That since the revolutionary war he
has resided in the Township of Amwell till
about seven years ago when he moved to the
Township of Bethlehem where he now resides.
That the Revd Holloway W. Hunt, Matthias Abel
and many other persons resident in my his neighborhood
can testify as to his character as a man of truth
and veracity and as to their belief of my his statement
of service rendered in the revolutionary war.
That he has no documentary evidence by which
to refresh his recollection of Events, and that as to
the date as before stated he is aware that there
[inserted: and his participation in them as stated]
may be many inaccuracies, but of the events
he is well assured in his own mind —
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That in addition to the periodical terms of service
he was out at least fifty times upon general alarms
sometimes three weeks at a time, and never less than
one week, and that at these times he was frequently
put to the most arduous and fatiguing services, but
that with his infirmity of memory he cannot pretend
to specify the particular periods —
That he believes he can establish substantially
all he has herein set forth as to his services in the
revolutionary war by all Matthias Abel, Moses Stout
and Joseph Boss and perhaps others.
And he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever
to a pension or annuity except the present and
declares that his name is not on the pension roll
of the agency of any State — Jacob Johnson
Sworn and subscribed
the day and year aforesaid
in open court
John Barton

We Holloway W. Hunt a clergyman residing
in the Township of Bethlehem, county of Hunterdon
and State of New Jersey and Benjamin Egbert
resident of the same place hereby certify that we
are well acquainted with Jacob Johnson who has
Subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that
we believe him to be seventy eight years of age, that
he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where
he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution
and that we concur in that opinion. —
in open court
Sworn and subscribed	Holloway W. Hunt
the day and year aforesaid	Benjn Egbert
John Barton