Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 13551, for Moses Johnson, New Jersey
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Service
New Jersey

Johnson, Moses

Number 
S.13551

carded
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[illegible] to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.
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No 19808[number underlined]

Moses Johnson
Allegany Co. N. York

Adm 17. Months and 21. days

56.60
2 31
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58.94

[illegible] C. Collins Agt
Angelica N. York
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REGULATIONS UNDER THE ACT OF JUNE 7, 1832.
The following regulations have been adopted:
This law has been construed to extend, as well to the line, as to every branch of the Staff of the Army,
and to include under the terms "Continental Line," "State troops," "militia" and "volunteers," all persons enlisted, drafted, or who volunteered and who were bound to military service, but not those who were occasionally employed with the army upon civil contracts, such as Clerks to Commissaries and to
Store Keepers, &c. Teamsters, Boatmen, &c. Persons who served on board of Private Armed Vessels are also excluded from the benefits of the law, as well as persons who turned out as patrols, or were engaged in guarding particular places at night, and were not recognized as being in actual military service.
Four general classes of cases are embraced in this law:
1. The Regular Troops.
2. The State Troops, Militia, and Volunteers.
3. Persons employed in the Naval service.
4. Indian Spies.
As rolls of the regular troops in the Revolutionary War exist in this Department, all persons, claiming the benefit of this law as officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians or privates, will in the first instance, make application by transmitting the following declaration, which will be made before a Court of Record of the County where such applicant resides. And every Court having by law a seal and Clerk is considered a Court of Record.

DECLARATION.
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832.
State,Territory or District of County of [brace 88]
On this [form field] day of [form field] personally appeared (a) before A.B. a resident (b) of [form field] 
in the county of [form field]
and State, Territory or District of [form field] aged (c) [form field] 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 provion [sic] made by the act of Congress, passed
June 7th, 1832. That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year (d)
[form field], with [form field] and served in the
[form field] (e) regiment of the [form field] line, under the following named officers:

[Here set forth the names and rank of the Field and Company Officers, the time he left the service; (and if he served under more than one term of enlistment, he must specify the particular period, and rank and names of his officers;) the town or county and State in which he resided when he enered [sic] the service; the battles, if any, in which he was engaged,
and the country through which he marched. [symbol of hand pointing right to following text] This form is to be varied so as to apply to the cases of officers and persons who belonged to the militia, volunteers, navy, &c.]

He hereby relinquishes every claim (f) whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he
declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any Agency in any State, or (if any) only on that of the Agency in the State of [form field]
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
A. B.
[And then will follow the certificate of the Court.]
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion (g) that the above named applicant was a revolutionary
soldier, and served as he states.
I [form field] of the Court of [form field] do hereby certify (h) that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of
the application of [form field]
for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office (i) this [form field] day of [form field]
&c.
If, on examination of the proper record the names of applicants, making such declaration, cannot be
found, they will produce such proof as the rule given in note (j) points out.
Every applicant who claims a pension by virtue of service in the State Troops, Volunteers or Militia,
except those who belonged to the New Hampshire Militia and State Troops of Virginia, will make and
subscribe a declaration similar to the foregoing, with the following additions, viz:
(k) We, A. B., a Clergyman, residing in the [form field] and C.D. residing in (the same) hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with [form field], who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be [form field]
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.
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
[And then will follow the certificate of the Court.]
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after
putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Solider, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that A. B.[form field] who has signed the preceding certificate, is a clergyman, resident in the [form field] and that C. D., who has also signed the same is a resident in the [form field] and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
I, [form field] Clerk of the Court of [form field] do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of [form field]
for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal [form field] of office, this [form field] day of [form field]
& c.
Every applicant will produce the best proof in his power. This is the original discharge or commission; but if neither of these can be obtained, the party will so state under oath, and will then procure, if
possible, the testimony of at least one credible witness, stating in detail his personal knowledge of the services
of the applicant, and such circumstances connected therewith, as may have a tendency to throw light
upon the transaction.
If such surviving witness cannot be found, the applicant will so state in his declaration (l) and he will
also, whether he produce such evidence or not, proceed to relate all the material facts, which can be useful in the investigation of his claim, and in the comparison of his narrative with the events of the period of his alleged service, as they are known at the Department. A very full account of the services of each persons
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State of New York
Allegany County: on this thirty first day of October
in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and thirty two personally appeared in open Court before John Griffin Esq. first Judge and Asa S. Allen and
Josiah Utter Esq. assistant Judge in and for the County of Allegany now sitting at Angelica in said County Moses Johnson a resident of the Town of Amity in the County and State afore
said aged fifty nine 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 entered the Service of the United States
under the following named officers and served as herein stated
That he was born at a place called Hanover in the County of Morris in the State of New Jersey on the 17th day of May 1763 according to the record which he keeps which was taken from his Fathers
family Bible that he resided there until he entered the Service. That at the age of fourteen years in the month of June 1777 he served in the
Militia of New Jersey in a company [illegible] in the
County of Essex as a substitute for one of his
uncles a man by the name of Jonas Ward
he was stationed during this term of service at
Newark keeping guard that he remained there guarding
the lines for one month after which he was discharged and went home to Hanover he