Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 34944, for Solomon Johnston, South Carolina
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( 3-1776 ) SERVICE S.C. Johnston Solomon or Johnson NUMBER S. 34944 B.L.Wt.
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( left page ) 19.807 Mississippi Solomon Johnson of Jefferson Co. in the State of Mississippi who was a private in the company commanded by  Captain Schburg of the regiment commanded by Colonel Sumter in the S. Carolina line, for the term of three years  from 1777 to 1780. Inscribed on the Roll of Mississippi at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 12 day of May 1827 . Certificate of Pension issued the 4th of Sept. 1827  and sent to  Alexr. Montgomery  Esq. Petit gulf Mississippi . Arrears to the 4th of Sept. 1827  $ 30.22 Semi-anl. all'ce ending4 Mar. 1827  $ 48.00 ( total $ 78.22 ) { Revolutionary Claim Acts March 18, 1818 , and May 1, 1820 } ( right page )  Paid at the Treasury  under the Act of the 6th April 1838 from 4 March 1837 to 4 Sept. 1837 agt notified 12 Dec  1838 . Paid at the Treasury under the Act of the 6th April 1838 from  4th Sept 1837 to 4 March 1838. Agt notified 24 April 1839. Paid as above from 4th March  1838 to 4th Sept. 1838 Agt notified 16 Oct. 1839.Paid as above from 4th Sep 1838 to 4th March 1839. Agt notified 7 March 1840. Paid as above from 4 March 1839 to 4 Sep. 1839  Agt notified 4 June 1840.Lett. to G.E. Marlin Dec 3, 1840 Let. to  Pens. Feb 21 1843
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Solomon Johnson 's petition for bounty  write for information of service to State authority of So. Carolina
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[ State of Mississippi
County of Jefferson ]
Solomon Johnson aged sixty five
years do upon oath testify and
declare that I entered the service
in seventeen hundred and eighty
for the term of during the war in
the regiment commanded by
Colonel Charles C Pinckney in the
line or State of South Carolina
and continued therein until
the close of the war in seventeen
hundred and eighty three, and
was discharged from the regiment
commanded by Colonel
Mayson or Maim of the line or
State of South Carolina I further
declare that I have neither
received assigned or transferred
my claim in any manner whatsoever: Therefore, I request the secretary of war to have the warrant
sent to me at Peter Duffers Jefferson
County Mississippi State and this
shall be his receipt for the same
before me the 18th Dec 1827 Solomon  Johnson ( his mark)
Alex Montgomery ( signed ) J.P.
Before me a Justice of the Peace,
personally appeared Solomon Johnson subscriber to the above and
acknowledged the declaration and
letter of order to be his free act
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and deed for the purpose therein mentioned . At the same time also appeared John Shorter a  person of truth and respectability  who upon oath deposed and sayeth that he was well acquainted with  Solomon Johnson who was a soldier in the regiment above mentioned, and who he has  every reason to believe, did perform the service as mentioned by him. Sworn and subscribed to by John Shorter this  18th  Decr. 1827.  John Shorter ( his mark X ) Alexr. Montgomery ( signed ) J.P. In testimony  that the above named  Alexander Montgomery  was a Magistrate duly authorized to administer oaths and take acknowledgements . I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of the County Court of Jefferson  County this 12th day  of January 1828. Isaac Pipes ( signed ) clk
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Sol. Johnson declaration for pension
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34944
Revy INVALID.
File No.34944
Solomon Johnson
Pri  Rev War
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Act: 18 March 18"
Index: --Vol. 2, Page 207
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Respect referred to the
Commissioner of Pensions
Bounty Land Office
Novr 20th 1840

No [illegible]
Nov 26th
Solo Johnson
[illegible]
Rd Nov 19th 1840

William Gordon Esq
[illegible] Bounty law Office
Washington City
D.C.

[illegible stamp
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                           Rodney, Mississippi,
                           October 28th, 1840.

William Gordon, Esqr.
 Washington City, D. C.

     Some few days since (owing to the irregularities of the mail) I received from Col. Johnson, your letter to him in relation to the pension of Solomon Johnston of Miss., dated 13th April, last.  I have been advised by Colo. Johnson and Col. Benton of Mo. to seek relief from Congress for my old friend Johnston. In order that there may be no difference in the facts which are necessary to be made known to Congress and those which are of record in your office.  I have to ask you to send me a copy of the affidavit which is filed in your office, and which was sworn by Johnston some years ago, when he made application for a pension from the Government.  Johnston is now very old and impaired - it is difficult for him to make known the facts, owing to recent stroke of palsy.
     I will forward the necessary auth. by Hon. A. G. Brown of this state, when I know the amt.

                           I am, with much respect,
                           Your ob't serv't.
                             Gill E. Martin. (signed)
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 [25 scratched out]

J. L. Edwards Pension Commissioner
Washington
District Columbia

Written upon
subject pensions
the [illegible] it is required
[illegible] to be [illegible] 

Stamp
RODN
FEB
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[vertical]
Feb 20 1843
Solo Johnston
[illegible]
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To Jas. L. Edwards, Esq            Rodney                     
                                                Jan. 30, 1943
Honorable Sir,
     Being appraised (apprised) that you are a commissioner of pensions of the United States. And having served as a soldier in our armies from the earliest period of our countries (country's) struggles for independence untill (until) the restoration of peace.  I avail myself of this opportunity in my advanced stage of life, being 89 years of age, by means of an amanuensis, to confer with you upon the subject of my pension, to which I beg leave to call your attention for a few moments.  After having made application I have received at the rate of Ninety Six Dollars per year from the year 1826 to the present.  I am told that the law for remunerating Revolutionary pensioners took effect previous to 1816 if so I must be entitled to $96 per year or at that rate, for all the time intervening between the time that the act took effect, and the date of my first receipt, which is in the pension office.
You will please to examine those records, and inform me of the amount of money due me in arrears:  also the proper mode of procedure to obtain the same.
Please to direct a letter containing the above requisite information to me or my agent: at Rodney Jefferson Co, Miss.  And oblige a Revolutionary Soldier.
                                      Yours very Sincerely,
                             (signed) Solomon Johnston
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Fayette Mi
Jany 14th

Honorable James Barbour
Secretary of War
War Department
Washington D.C. 

Bounty D Office
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Solomon Johnson
So Carolina line
[illegible] his land
Wrote to So. Car to Secre-
tary of State
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TREASURY DEPARTMENTS
Second Comptroller's Office
March 8th 1839

Sir:

Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An
act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain
Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury
of the United States, Soloman Johnston
a Pensioner on the Roll of the Mississippi Agency, at
the rate of Eight - Dollars 
per month under the law of the 18th March, 1818, has
been paid at this Department, from the 4th of Sept, 1837
to the 4th Sept. 1838,
Respectfully yours
Albion K. Parris
Comptroller.
To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Present.
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TREASURY DEPARTMENTS
Second Comptroller's Office
May 8th 1839

Sir:

Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An
act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain
Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury
of the United States, Soloman Johnston
a Pensioner on the Roll of the Mississippi Agency, at
the rate of Eight - Dollars 
per month under the law of the 18th March, 1818, has
been paid at this Department, from the 4th of March, 1839
to the 4th Sept. 1839,
Respectfully yours
Albion K. Parris
Comptroller.
To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Present.
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TREASURY DEPARTMENTS
Second Comptroller's Office
December  8th 1838

Sir:

Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An
act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain
Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury
of the United States, Soloman Johnston
a Pensioner on the Roll of the Natches Mississippi Agency, at
the rate of Ninety six Dollars 
per annum under the law of the 18th March, 1818, has
been paid at this Department, from the 4th of March , 1837
to the 4th Sept. 1837,
Respectfully yours
Albion K. Parris
Comptroller.
To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Present.
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TREASURY DEPARTMENTS
Second Comptroller's Office
February  19th 1840.

Sir:

Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An
act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain
Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury
of the United States, Soloman Johnston
a Pensioner on the Roll of the Mississippi Agency, at
the rate of eight Dollars 
per month under the law of the 18th March, 1818, has
been paid at this Department, from the 4th of Sept., 1838
to the 4thMarch  1839,
Respectfully yours
Albion K. Parris
Comptroller.
To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Present.
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TREASURY DEPARTMENTS
Second Comptroller's Office
October  4th 1839.

Sir:

Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An
act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain
Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury
of the United States, Soloman Johnston
a Pensioner on the Roll of the  Mississippi Agency, at
the rate of eight Dollars 
per month under the law of the 18th March, 1818, has
been paid at this Department, from the 4th of March , 1838
to the 4th Sept. 1838,
Respectfully, yours,
Albion K. Parris
Comptroller.
To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Present.
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Free

[illegible]

The Secretary of War
War Department
Washington D.C.

Pension Office
Sept 4th 18[illegible]
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Petit Gulf August 7th 1827

Dear Sir

you will be pleased to
examine the enclosed petition for
a pension but if it be sufficient
to entitle the applicant to the benefits
of the act of Congress you will be
pleased to transmit such documents
to me as will authorize the petitioner
to amend it or to the petitioner
[illegible] Greenville in this county

your with Respect
Alex Montgomery
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
Form VAM-51
12-5-41

Division of Veterans' Administration Archives

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*


NAME  Johnston, Stephen

Grade Private

Line Virginia 

WARRANT
NUMBER  12279

ACREAGE  100

ISSUED   May 11, 1793

 to John Stockale, assignee

{note: This man's name is
Stockdale and Stockdell elsewhere 
in the old book - mHp}
*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.