Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 3,4938, for Archibald Johnson, Maryland
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Service
MD

Johnson, Archibald

Number
S.34938

B.L.Wt. - 1388-100
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5241
Maryland

Archibald Johnson
Capt. Gaither
Sergeant Maryland Line
in the army of the United States during the revolutionary war.

Inscribed on the roll of Maryland at the rate of 8 dollars per month to commence on the 1 of April 1818

Certificate of Pension issued 7 of Jany 1819 and sent to Jno Johnson Port Tobacco Char Co, MD

Arrears to 4th of Sept 1818 5 mo - 6/30 $41.06
Semi-anl all'ce ending 4 Mar 1819 $48.00
$89.06

{Revolutionary Claim Act 18th March 1818}

Four Years

Port Tobacco
Charles County

Last paid 4 Sept 1819
Let Hon R C Schenck
Aug 12, 1850
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Ho of Reps
July 20, 1850

Sir

Archibald Johnson a revolutionary pensioner died in 1818 or 1838 & Thomas W Johnson his son & only heir who resides in my district believes that his father's pension was not paid up to the day of his death. Will you please inform me whether there was not something in arrears? The pensioner was a soldier of the Maryland Continental line - there was one of the heirs who has been dead many years.

Thanking you

Respectfully
Your obd servant
Robt Schenck

J L Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
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Certificate of the judge [?] as to his reduced circumstances - but not as to his being satisfied that he served for min months as to the time stated within, on the continental establishment during the rest of war.

Apr 16, [?]
GB

Maryland Roll
Judge Johnston
Admitted


A Johnson
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State of Maryland
First Judicial District

On the first day of April eighteen hundred and eighteen personally appeared Archibald Johnson of Charles County before the subscriber the chief judge of the above district in which Charles County is included and made oath on the Holy Evangely of Almighty God that in the spring of the year seventeen hundred and seventy-nine that he enlisted as a soldier in the first Maryland regiment and that he was placed in Capt. Henry Gaither's company and promoted to the rank of sergeant in the same year, that he was transferred at different periods in the same grade from one company to another in consequence of casualties by which the companies were reduced; that he continued to serve to the end of the war and returned with all of the Maryland line from the southward in the year 1783 and was discharged at the City of Annapolis in the fall of that year.

The said Johnson also made oath that in the winter of the year 1782 he was appointed a deputy [illegible] master in the southern department and continued to act as such until the continental horses were sold and disposed of - that he is now poor and needy and stands in need of the assistance of the United States

JW Johnson
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Port Tobacco April 1st 1818

Sir

Having been satisfied that Archibald Johnson mentioned in the preceding affidavit stands in need of assistance from the United States in pursuance of the act of congress passed for the relief of the indigent officers and soldiers in the revolutionary war, I have the honor to communicate this information to the war department.

Your obd servant

J W Johnson

In the above date appeared also Robert Halkerston and made oath that he knew the above mentioned Archibald Johnson to have been a soldier in the revolutionary war. Sworn to before the subscriber the Chief Judge of the First Judicial District.

J W Johnson
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State of Maryland Charles County

I hereby certify that John Johnson Gentleman before whom the within affidavits appear to have been made and whose name is thereto subscribed was at the time of so doing Chief Judge of the First Judicial District of the state of Maryland comprehending the counties of Saint Mary's, Charles and Prince Georges, duly commissioned and sworn and to all whose official acts as such full faith and credit is and ought to be given as well in courts of Justice as thereout.

In testimony whereof I have hereto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of Charles County Court this first day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.

John Barnes Clk of 
Charles County Court

SEAL
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Bounty Land
For Revolutionary Services - Claim of Heirs

District of Columbia
County of Washington

I Pamela Dixon daughter of one of the heirs at law of Archibald Johnson late of the county of Charles and state of Maryland but now deceased do upon oath testify and declare that to the best of my knowledge and belief the said Archibald Johnson was a sergeant in the second regiment of Infantry belonging to the Maryland line on continental establishment during the revolutionary war. I do further testify and declare that I have never received a warrant from the United States for the quantity of land due the said deceased from the United States; nor do I believe that he ever received it or transferred his right to it in any manner during his lifetime.

Therefore, know all men by these presents that I Pamela Dixon as aforesaid do hereby constitute and appoint Col. Joseph Watson my true and lawful attorney for me in my name to demand and receive from the Secretary of War of the United States for the time being, a warrant for the quantity of land due in right of said deceased. And my said attorney I do hereby fully authorize and empower to constitute and appoint one or more substitutes of attorneys under him for the special purpose herein expressed and the same to revoke at will.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this sixth day of October AD 1828.

Pamela Dixon
Her X Mark - SEAL

In presence of Jno Charles

Personally appeared before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for the above-named county the above-named Pamela Dixon signer and sealer to the foregoing declaration and power of attorney and made oath in due form of law to the one and acknowledged the that as her voluntary act and deed for the purposes therein named.

Jno Charles - JP - SEAL

Sworn, subscribed and acknowledged before me
this sixth day of October AD 1828.

District of Columbia
County of Washington

Personally appeared before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for the county aforesaid Mary Ann Clements and Jonathen N Clements both credible and disinterested persons who being duly sworn did depose and say that they verily believe that Archibald Johnson named in the within declaration, signed by Pamela Dixon served in the Maryland line during the revolutionary war; That they have understood that he died about ten years since viz. on or about the twentieth day of August 1818 at blank within the county of Charles leaving no widow and that Pamela Dixon the widow of John Dixon and Thomas Johnson now of Frederick County, MD are reputed and only heirs at law of him the said Archibald Johnson.

Jno Charles - JP

Sworn and subscribed before me this sixth day of October AD 1828.
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(NO. 4)

District of Columbia
County of Washington

Be it remembered that on this day to wit the sixth day of October anno domini 1828 there has been adduced satisfactory proof by the deposition of Mary Ann Clements and Ignatius N Clements two credible witnesses and other explanations and information submitted that Pamela Dixon who has made the declaration on oath, and has subscribed the power of attorney herewith connected is a daughter and one of the heirs of Archibald Johnson late a sergeant in the continental army of the revolutionary war and that the other heirs of the said Archibald Johnson are two in number viz Pamela Dixon who is a daughter of the said Arch Johnson and resides or is supposed to [illegible] county of Charles and Thomas Johnson of Frederick County MD and who is a son of said Arch. Johnson and that the above named persons are the only heirs of the said Archibald Johnson known to be living.

In witness of all which I have hereunto affixed my hand and seal official in my capacity of a Justice of the Peace this sixth day of October Anno Domini 1828.

Jno Chalmers - SEAL

(No. 5)

District of Columbia
County of Washington

I do hereby certify that John Chalmers Esquire before whom the declaration power of attorney and deposition hereto annexed appear to have been signed and made was at the time of signing and making  the same one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the county of Washington aforesaid duly commissioned and qualified as such and to all his official acts as such due faith and credit should and ought to be given.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office at Washington City this sixth day of October 1828.

Wm. Brent - Clerk

(No 6)

INSTRUCTIONS

It is only requisite that one of the heirs should sign the declaration and power of attorney. Although in the state of Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Connecticut and Vermont; the Judges of Probate in New York and New Jersey  the surrogates; in South Carolina and Georgia the Ordinaries; in Virginia, North Carolina, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee and the other Western states, the Courts of Record are considered as authorized to certify heirship; yet it is deemed expedient to accompany their certificates (which must be under seal or their absence accounted for) with the evidence on which they may grant them and hence the deposition No 3 herewith which is indispensable as to the states of Pennsylvanian, Delaware, Maryland and North Carolina where it has been considered that no particular officer is authorized to certify heirship yet even in these it is advisable to cause the certificate of heirship No 4 to be signed by the officer charged by law with the granting letters of administration and receiving the proof of wills.

DIRECTIONS AS TO FILLING OUT THE BLANKS

In the declaration after the name in the first line, place the degree of relationship - after regiment in the 5th line place infantry, artillery, dragoons, invalids, sappers and miner, Hazen or Congress as the case may be the other blanks sufficiently indicate the words to be supplied.

In deposition No 3 previous to the word widow place the word a or no as the case may be and in the blank which follows, place the names of all the heirs having care after the name of each to state his or her degree of relationship to the deceased; the other blanks sufficiently indicate the words to be supplied. In the certificate of heirship, No. 4, after the word proof, insert the words to me or the court of holden at as the case may require; and previous to the words and one insert the degree of relationship of the person who signs the power of attorney. In the large blanks, insert the names of all the other heirs, designating their relationship and residence; the other blanks sufficiently indicate the words to be supplied.

Archibald Johnson 
No. 1388
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own

REVOLUTIONARY WAR RECORDS SECTION. 3-525

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Washington, D. C., 4 -14, 1922

In reply to your request of ___, received ___ for a statement of the military history of Archibold Johnson a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau. S. 34938
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DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT.
Spg 1779
Winter 1782
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LENGTH OF SERVICE.
winter 1782
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RANK.
Pvt + Sgt.
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OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.
CAPTAIN. | COLONEL.
Henry Gaither
Deputy Forage Master of southern Dept of Ammo + dis in Fall of 1783.
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STATE.
Md
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Battles engaged in, None stated
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Not stated
Date of application for pension, Apl. 1, 1848 - al.
Residence at date of application, Charles Co., Md.
Age at date of application, Not stated
Remarks: He d. Aug 20, 1818 leaving no widow and the fol. chr - Pamelia widow of John Dixon of Cornwallis Neck, Charles Co., Md + Thomas Johnson of Frederick co., Md
The above noted is the only Arch a Johnson or Johnston of Md.
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34938
Revy INVALID

File No 34938
Archibald Johnson
Serg Rev War

Act: 18 March '18

Index Vol D Page 207

[Arrangement of 1870.]

1922 Apr 13 - Hist to Mrs W E McRae
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Please state to what time Archibald Johnson who was inscribed in the Maryland Roll under the act of March 18, 1818 at the rate of $96 per ann has been paid?

W O L

July 22 1950
Not on the Maryland Roll
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Washington Dec. 5. 1848- 
Ho. Of Reps.

Sir

Archibald Johnson a soldier of the Revolution, 
in the Maryland line, died in 1818, leaving one son 
who resides in my district in Ohio. It is not known 
in what company or Regiment he served, but he was on the 
pension roll at perhaps $8 per month for some years before his death. 

The object of inquiry now is the claim of that revolutionary soldier, or of his heir in the father's right to 
bounty land. It is understood that a search will 
show that he was entitled to a warrant for land, 
but which he never received in his life time; & the 
son now desires to obtain the necessary information, 
to take steps for securing the grant 

Will you please refer this subject to the proper 
office, if it is not in your branch of the department, 
& let me have the answer as soon as it can be furnished?
Respectfully 

Your obdt Sevt.
Robt Schenck

To J. L. Edwards Esqr. 
Comr. of Pensions
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Decemr. 7th 48. Informed Mr Schenck that land Warrt. No. 1388. for 100 acres issued the 15th Octr 1828 to Pamelia Dixon, daughter and the 
other heirs at law of Archd Johnson, decd [deceased] who was soldier of the Maryland line-
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Hon. R.C. Schenck 
ans. [answered] Decr 7th 48

Archd. [Archibald] Johnson

W1388-160-12

Recd Decr 6th 48
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[Illegible note in pencil]
Rev

ElDorado Ark.
Mar 13, 1922 

Commissioner of Pensions 
Washington D. C.

Dear Sir:- 
I am writing to you for any information you can give me concerning Archibald Johnston who served in the Revolutionary War as a corporal in the Lieut Col. Co. Maryland Regiment commanded by Maj Levin Winder He enlisted May 23 and was discharged Nov 1, 1780
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Have you any data concerning his ancestors or descendants? I will greatly appreciate any information you can give me or will gladly pay you for any service - 
Thanking you very kindly 
I am Respt 
(Mrs) W. E. McRae 
415 West Ave. 
ElDorado Ark

[stamp] U S PENSION OFFICE MAR 16 1922

[stamp] RECORD DIVISION MAR 17 1922