Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 39,790, for Hugh Johnston, Pennsylvania
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(3-1776)

SERVICE  
PENN.

JOHNSTON, HUGH

NUMBER
S.39,790
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3818
PENNSYLVANIA ROLL

Hugh Johnston
Capt. Campbell      
private
Pennsylvania line 1777 war
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionay War.
 
Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania at the rate of eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 15 of April 1818.

Certificate of Pension issued the 22of October 1 818 and forwarded to Andrew Boden
Carlisle Penna.

  37.33  Arrears to 4th of Sep 1818
  48.00  Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Mar 1819
$85.33

4 mo 20/30
{Revolutionary claim,  }
{Act 18th March, 1818}

Carlisle [illegible]
Cumberland Co.
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Copy of Hugh Johnstons Affidavit
and Schedule, for a Pension 

[sideways]
No 3818

Mar, 19
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Pennsylvania, Cumberland County [illegible]

On the seventh day of August 1820 personally appeared in open Court being a Court of Common Pleas for the County of Cumberland aforesaid the same being a Court of record in and for the said County and proceedings therein being according to the Course of Common Law, with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount and keeping a record of their proceedings Hugh  Johnston aged about sixty years resident in said County who being first duly sworn according to law saith on his solemn oath declared that he served in the Revolutionary War, he enlisted under Col. Butler at  Sunbury and was discharged immediately after the defeat of Cornwallis, that at the time of his discharge he was under the command of Captain Thomas Campbell in Col. Butler's regiment that he served about five years and that the date of his original declaration is the 15th of April 1818, and the 
number of his certificate 3818.  
And I solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th 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 or naval service in the United States in the Revolutionary War passed on the 18th day of March 1818 + that I have not nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities contracts or debts due to me, nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed + by me subscribed. 
  
 Schedule
One tin plate stove, one tea table, one small stand, [illegible] old chairs, one spade and one ax
The above property, valued at seventeen dollars and fifty cents
By the Court J. P.
By occupation a labourer and by reason of old age and a complaint in his leg, is unable to earn his subsistence by manual labor, has a wife and one daughter, his wife has been a 
charge to his daughter for five years past owing to the cancer and other complaints.
Sworn + subscribed the eighth day of August A.D. 1820 Before John Reed, President Judge, +.

Hugh   X   Johnston
    His Mark
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Cumberland Co. SS
I, Robert McCoy, Prothonotary of the Court of Common Plea is and for said County of Cumberland do hereby Certify that the foregoing oath and Schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the Record of 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 aforesaid schedule is seventeen dollars and fifty cents.  

IN TESTIMONY whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Carlisle the fifteenth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty.  

Robt McCoy Proty
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Hugh Johnston privt.
15 April 1818

To Andrew Boden
Carlisle, Pa.
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State of Pennsylivania}
Cumberland County  }  SS

On this 15th day of April 1818 before me the Subscriber one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in + for said County personally appearing Hugh Johnston about aged fifty-two years, resident in Carlisle, in said county + state, who being by me first duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the late act of Congress entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land+ naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War". That he the said Hugh Johnston enlisted in Sunbury in the state of Pennsylvania, under a captain whose name he cannot now recollect in the German or fourth Pennsylvania Regiment.  I was soon after transferred into Captain Thomas Campbell's company in the same regiment that the time when he enlisted was in or about the year 1777, + his enlistment was for three years or during the war.  That he continued to serve in the said corps. or in the service of the United States until the year 1873, when he was discharged from service in Carlisle, State of Pennsylvania by Colonel Burler That he was in the battles of Stony Point and Germantown.  And that he is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support.  That his discharge has been mislaid either among the papers in the public office of the State of Pennsylvania or of the United States ( he cannot say which) having been sent a great many years ago to Philadelphia to obtain a pension or bounty land.  And that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services.  

Hugh   X   Johnston
     His Mark

Sworn to + declared before me
the day + year aforesaid
Jacob Hendel

I, Jacob Hende, Judge as aforesaid do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Hugh Johnston did serve in the revolutionary war, as stated in the proceeding declaration, against the common enemy; + I now transmit the proceedings + testimony taken  + had before me, to the Secretary of the Department of War , pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress -  April 15 A.D. 1818.

Jacob Hendel
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State of Pennsylvania}
Cumberland County } SS

I Robert McCoy, Esq - Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas in + for said county do certify that Jacob Hendel Esquire, within named is a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of said county (the same being a Court of Record) + that hiss acts as such are entitled to full faith + credit, + that  the name "Jacob Hendel" signed to the foregoing declaration + Certificate are in the said Jacob's proper handwriting.  

Written by my hand + seal of office at Carlisle this 16th day of April A. D. 1818. 

Robt McCoy Protho




Hugh Johnston privt
15 April 1818

To Andrew Bodin
Carlisle, Penna.
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39789 [89 crossed out replaced with 90]

INVALID

REVY.

File no.  39.790

Hugh Johnston

Priv Rev War

Act:  18" March 18

 Index: -- Vol. 3, Page 260

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVVES
FORM VAN-51
12-5-41

Division of Veterans' Administration Archives

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*


NAME  Johnston, Isaac    GRADE  Private
LINE  Pennsylvania

WARRANT
NUMBER   7336  AUD   9661  
ACREAGE  100 each
ISSUED  March 2, 1792
To Thomas Shaw, assignee



* The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions  of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates.  Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800.  Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in the National Archives.