Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 15482, for Robert Johnston, North Carolina
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Service:                                              Number:
N.C.             Johnstons, Robert           S. 15482
S.C.              Johnson
                                                     carded
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Kentucky
Johnston
Robert Johnson
of _____ in the State of Kentucky
who was a private in the _______ commanded
by Captain _________ of the _______ commanded
by ______ Richards in the South Carolina 
line for 9 months and N.C.  

Inscribed on the Roll of Kentucky 
at the rate of 30 Dollars _____ Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 18 day of April
1834 and Nathaniel
______________________
Arrears to the 4th of March            90,000
Semi-anl. allowance ending Sept    15,000
                                                        105,000
                        {Revolutionary Claim,
                            Act June 7, 1832}
Recorded by Ann Boyd  Clerk
Book E, Vol 7, Page 15
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State of Kentucky
Nelson County Court
Be it remembered that upon the 10th day of May
in the year 1834. personally appeared in open Court Robert
Johnson aged eighty four years a citizen of Nelson County Ky and in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the United States passed in the year 1832 granting pensions and further the benefits of certain officers and soldiers of the Revolution and being sworn upon his oath makes the following declaration
That in the year 1775 he was a citizen of South Carolina and resided near Camden, that in the fall of the year 1775 he cannot state the precise day but believes it to be in the month of September and the last of the the month he entered the service as a private militia man for a tour of duty of three months in the company commanded by Capt.
Drakeforce and the first Lieutenant was John Sanders our principal commander was Col. Richardson. The troops were marched up on Purdy River and was a near cane break on said river when took some tories prisoners who had joined the King - These tories were called Scotts Ster. The troops to which he was attached continued their sorties in different sections of the country suppressing and dispersing
the tories for the full term of three months - at the termination the tour at which time this affiant was discharged and he states that at the he cannot remember the precise day he entered into the military service of the United States or quit it under this engagement -
he states positively that he served for the full period for which he entered and that was for three months - after this tour the affiant moved to Rowan County State of North Carolina and in the year 1776 in the fall of that year and after he had raised his crops to wit on the 1st of September near as he can recollect for he will not be possible
as to the precise day he again entered the public service as
a private militia man in the company commanded by Saml Young - our company was under the command of Genl Griffen Rutherford
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of said County of Rowan the troops to which he was attached during this tour was stationed upon the Catawba River and remained there some time to guard the frontier against the Indians and  were afterwards marched into the Cherokee County against the said Cherokee Indians - the troops marched as far as the over hill towns - we destroyed the corn and other property of the Indians in this town and at other places - after destroying the Indian towns and property by the troops returned and were discharged- this affiant returned to the county of Rowan having faithfully served upon this tour the full period of three months as a private in the manner stated
In the year 1781 he was still a resident of North Carolina and resided on the Catawba River when he was called upon by his country again to enter her service and be united[?] himself under the command of Capt Walker and was marched from his resident in Burke County and stationed at a Fort situated above the Quaker meadow near the Blue Ridge - there were thirty men stationed at this Fort as a guard under Walker and this affiant remained in the military service of his country upon this tour for the full period of three months the time for which he entered and was honorably discharged from the same on the termination of each tour but he has not his discharge having long been lost or mislaid the same  nor has he evidence of his service nor does he know that he can prove the fact of his actual service by any living witness He remove to Kentucky in the fall 1783 and that resided herein since. He is known personally to many of the citizens of Reign[?] Co.
to wit the Hon Benj Hardin now a member of Congress A Wickliffe formerly a member of Congress John Rowan Key & others
and also to James and William Filly He states that he served in all the tours of duty of three months each, and in all nine months as a private soldier in the militia of the United States. That he is not upon the pension Roll of any State or of the United States and hereby relinquishes all claim to a pension other than the one now claimed
Signed
Robert Johnston
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Stanislaus Haydon Alexander Hunter
Also came into court. James Suttle and William Suttles citizens of