Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 33,341, for Daniel Johnson, Pennsylvania
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Service                                     Number
Penn.         Johnson, Daniel     S.33,341
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Contents
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No. 821 
New Jersey Revy
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Daniel Johnson, of Hunterdon Co. in the state of N. Jersey, who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Hand, of the Pennsylvania line, for the term of two years.
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Inscribed on the Roll of Jew Jersey, at the rate of 8 dollars per month, to commence on the 4 of August, 1820.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 22 of Sept 1820 and sent to J.T. Blackwell Agent, Flemington, N.J.
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Arrears to 4th of Sept 1820                       $8.29
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 March 1821        48.00
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                                                                $56.29
M. 28/31
       4/30}
                                (Revolutionary claim,}
                                {Act 18th March, 1818}
                                  and 1st May 1820.
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17,307
Daniel Johnson
Hunterdon Co. N.J.
4 August 1820.

Col. Hands Regt.
Penna Line enlisted 
for 2 years
1776.

found on the rolls.
No property
Admitted

J.T. Blackwell,
agent
Flemington, N.J.
28 August, 1820.
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17,307
Daniel Johnson's
J
Hunterdon Co, N.J.
applied for benefit of pension act

J. T. Blackwell
Agt
Flemington, N.J.
Recd. 28 Aug 1820.


J.T. Blackwell
Agt.
Flemington, N.J.
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State of New Jersey
Hunterdon County} ss

Inferior Court of Common Pleas of the Term of August 1820.

    On the fourth day of August 1820, personally appeared in open court Daniel Johnson of the Township of Amwell in said county aged sixty seven who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the permission made by the acts of Congress of the 18th March 1818 and the first of May 1820.  That he the said Daniel Johnson enlisted for the term of one year in the month of July in the year 1775 at Lancaster in the state of Pennsylvania in the company of riflemen commanded by Captain James Ross in the Regiment commanded by Col. Thomson, afterwards commanded by Col. Edward Hand in the line of the state of Pennsylvania on the continental establishment, then marched for Boston as far as Reading, then countermarched and sent to Trenton, New Jersey where we received seven waggons loaded with powder, which we escorted to Cambridge, from thence marched to Prospect Hill where we joined General Greene's Brigade, stood the advance picket when hill fort was built, marched down from Prospect Hill under cover of the cannon, waded to water to Lichmon's Point drove Sir Henry Clinton's forces off the Island, as the English were vacating Boston in March 1776 under ordered for New York from thence to Long Island, where we remained until the first fleet on the enemy hove in sight at Sandy Hook about the expiration of our year's service.  We were then received by General Washington and requested to stay until we could see where the British would land - stayed until the enemy landed at Staten Island and were then regularly discharged at the Nanoius below New York.
   And the Said Dnaiel Johnson doth on his oath further declare that he enlisted a second time in the same regiment in the company commanded by Captain John Doyle for two years and during that time received a wound in the right side, was at the time of taking the Hessian at Trenton and shortly after at the Battle of Princeton and then marched to Morristown; was taken sick there this excessive fatique and after serving thirteen months in the month of October 1819 he travelled to Lancaster Pennsylvania to visit his old officers Captain Ross and Doyle but found both dead.
                                          his
                                Daniel  X  Johnson
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And in pursuance of the Act of the first May 1820 I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the Unite States on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time by (next page.)
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by gift, sale or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with the 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 the 18th day of March 1818.  And 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 credit or any description of property in the world, everything that I had having been sold last fall under an execution.
My family consists of a wife and five children my wife is fifty years old - I have thirteen children living, five in my own family of whom the eldest is twelve years of age and the youngest not yet four.  Three boys and two girls.  I am by trade a tailor which is my only means of subsistence for myself and family.  when my furniture was sold, my friends bought some of it and left it with me.  Of the eight children not living with me, five of them are male and three females the oldest of them is twenty four years of age.  They work out, but none of them is in a situation to render me any assistance.
                                                 his
                                     Daniel    O    Johnson
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Sworn and declared in the fourth
day of August 1820 before me 
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   Elmer Stevenson

I John T. Blackwell Clerk of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas of the county of Hunterdon do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath is truly copied from the record of the said court. 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court on this fourth day of August 1820.
                                     //s//
                            J. F. Blackwell
                         Clerk of Hunterdon
                                 Pleas. 




Of the eight children notelf and falmily.  When my en living five in my own family of whom the eldedst is twelve years of age and the youngest not yet four, three boys and two girls, I am by trade a Taylor which is my only means of subsistence for any
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L.W.B.
I:33341
I.2

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
BUREAU OF PENSIONS
WASHINGTON, D.C.

October 13th, 1899.

Sir: -

    In response to your recent communication I have the honor to advise you that a very careful search fails to reveal a Daniel Johnson, or Johnston, upon the Revolutionary War pension or bounty land records of this Bureau which in any way corresponds with the data you furnished.
    One Daniel Johnson made an application for pension on August 4, 1820, at which time he was 67 years of age and residing at Amell, Hunterdon County, N.J., and his pension was allowed for two years' actual service as a private in the Penna. troops, Revolutionary War. He enlisted at Lancaster, Penna., and served under Capt. Ross and Col. Hand.

                              Very respectfully,
                              Acting Commissioner.
 Hon. W. H. Moody,
House of Representatives.


(Transcriber's Note: the following notice is printed on the top left-hand corner of this page.)

This Bureau can furnish the military
record of only such Revolutionary soldiers
as were pensioned or whose widows were
pensioned for their services.
Such of the original muster and pay
rolls of the Revolutionary War and the
War of 1812 as are now in the possession
of the Government are on file in the Record
and Pension Office, War Department.  Original
rolls and other records pertaining to service in the Revolutionary War may also be found on file in the archives of many of the original States. 
                      O. W. & N. Div.
              .          Revolutionary
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33 342
Revy INVALID

File No. 33 341
Daniel Johnson
Priv  Rev  War

Act: 18 March 1818

Index:-Vol. 2, Page 2o8

{Arrangement of 1870.}

Oct. 13, (18)99
Hon. W.H. Woody
H of R