Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 33337, for Thomas Johnson, New Jersey
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New Jersey    Johnson,Thomas S33337
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(161)  New Jersey  Thomas Johnson 4th Capt Polhamus NJ line private, Army M.D. $8/ 7 April, 1878  Certified 14 April, 1878 Sent to Howard W. Southard, House of Reps U. States  Amt. to 4th Sept. 1878 4 29/31 mos. $39.48  Percy Clarin Act. 18 March 1878
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Mrs. Johnsons Deposition &c (compouont)

State of New Jersey
Somerset County. } SS.

On this 24th day of June 1820 personally appeared in open Court to wit, in the Court of Common pleas in & for said County holding
at Bridgwater [illegible] Court of record proceeding according to the course of the Common Law, with a jurisdiction unlimited in amount and keeping a record of its proceedings and it also having the power both of fine and imprisonment Thomas Johnson aged seventy years a resident in the Township of Franklin in said County of Somerset who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare
that he served in the revolutionary war as follows.  That he enlisted in the Continental Establishment of the United States in the year of our Lord 1775 in the fall of the year in a company commanded Capt. John Polhemus, at Rocky Hill in said County of Somerset for one year that he was attached to the first Jersey Regiment commanded by Col.-- Wines. That he was marched into Canada by sd Wines-
and was afterwards marched back into sd State of New Jersey to Elizabeth Town where he was discharged in the fall of the year 1776.  That he was in said service more than one year. That the state of his original declaration is about the 7th of April 1818 and the No of his certificate (161)- and I do 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 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 of March 1818, and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities contracts or debts due nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereunto annexed and by me subscribed viz:

Real property I have none

Personal Property} 
1 cow $15- 1 Hog $250- 1 old table 1 Chest- 1 trammel all of the value of $150 
6 old chains 75 cents- 1 Grinder 1 tea kettle, three pots of the value of$6- 2 old spinning wheels-80 cents- 2 h[illegible] + 1 pitchfork 50 cents a shovel & tongs-50 cents- 1 washtub 37 cents, Geese & hens $200--
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Sworn to and declared the 24th
of June 1820 in open court before
Dickinson Mills Presiding Judge

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Thomas. X.  Johnson
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This deponent further saith that he is by occupation a farmer that he is a cripple and has been for many years past that he is unable to earn a support by manual or hand labor- That he is so infirm and decrepit that he cannot walk without a staff- That he has no family except a wife who is 79 years of age & unable to do but little- That he has nothing else to depend upon for the support of himself and wife than the property above stated except his said pension

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Thomas. X.  Johnson
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Sworn to and declared on the 24th
day of June in open Court A.D. 1820

Dickinson Mills
presiding Judge

The Court are of the opinion that the property given up by the applicant does not exceed the value of twenty Eight dollars forty two cents
Dickinson Mills
John Ricky
A. Howell

I Saml Swan Clerk of the Inferior Court of common pleas of the County of Somerset afsd do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the Schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the words of the said court and I do 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 twenty eight Dollars and forty two cents-

In testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and affixed the seal of the
said court on this 27th day of June
1820 -

Saml. Swan Clerk of
the court of the County of Somerset
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Thomas Johnson
N Brunswick
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In the case of Thomas Johnson of Rocky Hill
in the County of Somerset and State of New Jersey, claiming to be entitled to a Pension under the act of Congress of the United States entitled ""an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the
"United States in the Revolutionary War"-

State of New Jersey
Middlesex County

On the Seventh day of April in the year of Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen before me Thomas Hance one of the Judges of the Court of Common pleas of the County
of Middlesex in the State aforesd came Thomas Johnson the applicant above named and being duly sworn according to law doth declare depose and say that he enlisted in the Autumn of the year one thousand seven hundred and
seventy five at Rocky Hill aforesaid in the company of Capt John Polhamus in the first Jersey Regiment on the continental establishment commanded by Col. Wynds- that he lay some time at New Brunswick- then proceeded to New York and in the spring of the
year Seventeen hundred and seventy five - that he proceeded with the Regiment to Canada, that he there served as a Sergant in said Company during the
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campaign and having served more than a year was discharged at Ticonderoga & returned to New Jersey where he has continued ever since a Resident citizen of the United States- and this deponent further faith that he is now in such reduced circumstances of life that he stands in need of assistance from his country for support.-

Thomas Johnson

Sworn & subscribed
this 7th April 1818
before me-
Thos Hance

Middlesex County ss: Benjamin Applegate of
South Brunswick in the County afsd being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he is well acquainted with Thomas Johnson the applicant - that the said Thomas Johnson did serve in the
army of the Revolution as a Sergant [Sergeant] in the company of Capt Polhamus for one year - and that this deponent was a soldier in said company during said term.

Benjamin Applegate
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Sworn & subscribed
this 7th April 1818
before me.-
Thos Hance

I Thomas Hance Judge of the Court of Common pleas of the County of Middlesex do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Thomas
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Johnson did serve in the Revolution War as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy- And I now transmit the proceedings and Testimony taken and had before me to the Secretary of the Department of War, pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress.

Dated April 7. 1818

Thos Hance

State of New Jersey
Middlesex County} 
I William P. Deare Clerk of the Court of Common
pleas of the County of Middlesex certify that Thomas Hance who hath subscribed his name to the foregoing attestations is a Judge of said Court duly commissioned Sworn.

Witness my hand & the seal
of said Court this Seventh day
of April Eighteen hundred and
eighteen.-
Wm P. Deare Clk
Middl
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33337
Revy INVALID
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File No. 33,337
Thomas Johnson
Pri Rev War
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Act:__18 March 18__
Index: -- Vol. 2 ___Page 207_____

{Arrangement of 1870.}