Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B. L. Wt. 2131-200, Robert Barnett, Continental N. H.
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Service: Continental N H
Name: Barnett, Robert or Barnet
Number: B.L.  Wt. 2131-200
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State of New Hampshire
Rockingham ss
Probate Office at Exeter in said county
August 12, 1835

I, John Kelly Register of probate for said county certify that at a Probate Court holden at Exeter in and for said county on this 12th day of August AD 1835 by and before the Hon. John Harvey, Judge of said court it was proved to the satisfaction of said judge that Robert Barnett, late of Derry, otherwise Londonderry in said county, deceased, a lieutenant in the Revolutionary Army died in that town in January AD 1800 leaving a widow, since deceased and an only child named Mary, usually called Polly.  That the said child was the lawful wife of Nathaniel Johnson of Cambridge in the county of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts; that she died in Windham in said county of Rockingham in the year 1800 leaving only one child a daughter the daughter of the said Nathaniel Johnson by the said Mary his wife and the said child died in 1812; and that the said Nathaniel Johnson is thus the heir at law of the said Robert Barnett deceased who was  lieutenant in the fifth regiment of Foot in the revolutionary army, commanded by Colonel John Stark.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said Probate Court for said county of Rockingham.
John Kelly, Register of Probate
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DEPARTMENT OF WAR

Regulations for the heirs of Officers and Soldiers of the Revolutionary Army, who were slain by the enemy, or who gave died since the war, and have not received land from the United States.
By an Act of Congress of the 16th September, 1776, it is provided, that the Officers and Soldiers who engaged for, and continued to serve during the war, or until discharged by Congress, and the heirs of such Officers and Soldiers as shall be slain by the enemy, shall receive land in proportion to their rank.
N. B. Those who engaged for three years, or for any other period than during the war, or who died of sickness, fatigue, or casualty, are not entitled to land from the United States.
The following declaration (and enclosed blank form of heirship) must be filled up and signed by the proper authorities:
State of New Hampshire
County of Rockingham
I, Nathaniel Johnson, heir at law of Robert Barnett do, upon oath, testify and declare, to the best of my knowledge and belief, that said Robert Barnett did enter the service in 1775, for the term of _________ and served as a Second Lieutenant in the Regiment No. 5 under the command of Colonel John Stark, of the ___________ line;  and that he continued in the service aforesaid until the close of the war.
I further declare that I have never received a warrant for the bounty land promised to said Barnett on the part of the United States; nor do I believe that he ever received it, or transferred his claim to it in any manner whatsoever; therefore, 
Know all men by these presents that I, Nathaniel Johnson aforesaid, do hereby constitute and appoint Samuel [illegible] a member of Congress from Massachusetts to be to be my true and lawful attorney for me and in my name to demand and receive from the Secretary of War of the United States, a warrant for the quantity of Land due to me as aforesaid; and my said attorney is hereby fully authorized ad empowered to constitute and appoint one or more substitutes or attorneys under him, for the special purposes above expressed.
Nathaniel Johnson
Attest, John Kelly

Personally appeared the above named Nathaniel Johnson, subscriber to the foregoing declaration, and made oath to the same, and in my presence acknowledged the power of attorney thereto subjoined to be his free act and deed, for the purposes therein mentioned.
Eben Coe, Justice of the Peace
Attest, John Kelly

In testimony that the above written Ebenezer Coe was a magistrate authorized to administer oaths, and take acknowledgements, &c. in the State of New Hampshire at the above date, and that his name there subscribed appears to me to be his usual signature, I have hereunto affixed the seal of the probate court for said county and subscribed my name and quality at [illegible] this 12th day of August AD 1835.
John Kelly, Register of Probate. Clerk, &c.
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State of New Hampshire
Rockingham 
Probate Office, August 112, 1835

I certify that satisfactory evidence was adduced to me, to prove that Nathaniel Johnson is the son in law and only heir at law in fee to Robert Barnett, late Lieutenant in the 5th regiment of foot commanded by Colonel John Stark in the Revolutionary Army. 
Given under my hand and seal of officer, this 12th day of August AD 1835 Army.
John Harvey, Judge of Probate

The above form will answer for the following States: viz.
Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Vermont=Judge of Probate
New York, New Jersey = Surrogate
South Carolina, Georgia = Ordinary
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Affidavit
of
John Gregg
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  I John Gregg of Derry County of Ruckiingham State of New Hampshire aged sixty two years testify & say that I was well acquainted with the late Captain Robert Barnett of this town, a Lieutenant in the Revolutionary War. He died in this town, then (illegible) in January A.D. 1800, and at that time was my nearest neighbor. I attended his funeral. He left a widow now deceased, and an only child, a daughter, named Mary, called among the neighbors Polly; who is also dead. She died in the year 1808 and left an infant daughter by her husband Nathaniel Johnson who now resides, as I am informed, in Cambridge, Mass.  According to the best of my recollection the said Nathaniel Johnson & Mary Barnett were married in the year 1807. The infant daughter of the said Nathaniel Johnson and Mary, his wife died about twenty one years ago, aged about
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four years.  I think I am correct respecting the dates above stated, or nearly so.
Derry Nov 29th 1833
John Gregg


State of New Hampshire  
Rockingham ss
November 29th 1833
  Then the above named John Gregg personally made solemn oath that the foregoing affidavit by him submitted is true. I also certify that the said John Gregg is well known to me as a person of credibility and truth. Before me.
David A. Gregg
Jus. Peace
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Affidavit
of Saml. Adams
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 I Samuel Adams of Derry County of Rockingham & State of New Hampshire Esquire aged fifty four years do testify & say, that I was a neighbor to, and well acquainted with the late Captain Robert Barnett of this town, who was a Lieutenant in the Revolutionary War. He died in Derry, then Sandonderry, in January 1800.  I recollect the time of his death, by the circumstances, that I taught school in the town of Stitchfield that winter. He left a widow who died about four years ago. Polly Barnett, or Mary, as she was sometimes called, was married to Nathaniel Johnson now of Cambridge Massachusetts in 1807. I think, she was the child child & daughter of said Captain Robert Barnett.  Said Mary died in Windham in the year 1808, leaving an infant daughter, who died
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I think in 1812.  I think that I am correct in the above dates.
Saml Adams
Derry Dec. 2nd 1833

State of New Hampshire
Rockingham ss

   Then on this 2nd day of December 1833 the above named Samual Adams personally made solemn oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed. I further certify that the said Samuel Adams is to me well known as a person of credibility and truth. Before me.
David A. Gregg
Jus Peace
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Affidavit
of
John Clark
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I John Clark of Derry County of Rockingham & State of New Hampshire Esquire, aged fifty eight years, testify & say, that I was a neighbor to and well acquainted with the late Captain Robert Barnett of this town, who was a Lieutenant in the Revolutionary War. He died in this town , then Sandonderry, in January A.D. 1800. I attended his funeral. He left a widow, who deceased four or five years ago. He also left an only child, reported to be his daughter, by the name of Mary, usually called Polly by the neighbors.  Nathaniel Johnson , said now to reside in Cambridge County of Middlesex & Commonwealth of Massachusetts, was married to the said art in the winter or spring of 1807. Said Mary died in Windham in this County in the year 1808, leaving a female infant child, which died at about the age of four years.
John Clark
Derry Dec 2nd 1833
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State of New Hampshire
Rockingham ss
Dec. 2nd 1833.
  Then John Clark appeared & made solemn oath that the foregoing affidavit by him submitted is true.  I further certify that said John Clark is to me well known as a person of credibility & truth.
Before me
David A. Gregg
Jus. Peace
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State of New Hampshire
Rockingham County ss

  I Peter Chadwick, Clerk of the Superior Court of Judicature for the County and State aforesaid to hereby certify that David A. Gregg Esquire before whom the written affidavit of John Clark and the annexed affidavits of John Gregg and Samuel Adams were sworn is a Justice of the Peace within and for the County of Rockingham aforesaid and that hence his signatures to the certificates thereof are genuine.
  In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court this fifth day of December A.D. 1833.
P. Chadwick
Clerk of the 
Court Rockingham County
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THE CONGRESS OF THE COLONY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
To Robert Barnet, Gentlemen,
Greeting,
We, reposing especial Trust and Confidence in your Courage and good Conduct, Do, by these Presents, constitute and appoint you the said Robert Barnet to be [illegible] in the _______ company in the Regiment of Foot, whereof John Stark Esq is Colonel Raised by Congress aforesaid, for the defence of American Colonies.
You are, therefore, carefully and diligently to discharge the duty of an Ensign in leading, ordering, and exercising the said company in Arms, both inferior Officers and Soldiers, and to keep them in good Order and Discipline; and they are hereby commanded to obey you as their Ensign, and you are yourself to observe and follow such Orders and Instructions as you shall, from  Time to Time, receive from the General and Commander in Chief of the Forces raised in the Colony aforesaid, or any other your superior Officers, according to such military Rules and Discipline in War, as have been or hereafter shall be ordered by the Congress of said Colony, in Pursuance of the Trust Reposed in you.
By order of the Congress,
Nathan. Folsom, President P.T.
Exeter, the 29th of July AD 1775.
E. Thompson, Secretary
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Nathan Johnson
East Cambridge
Mass.
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In Pursuance
of an ACT of CONGRESS
of the 30th September 1788

Robert Barnett Esquire
is to Rank as a Captain by Brevet, in the ARMY of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 

GIVEN under my Hand
at Trenton the fourteenth day of December 1784

Richard Henry Lee
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IN CONGRESS
The DELEGATES of the United Colonies of New-Hampshire, Massachusetts-Bay, Rhode-Island, Connecticut, New-York, New-Jersey, Pennsylvania, the Counties of Newcastle, Kent, and Suffix on Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North-Carolina, and South Carolina, to Robert Barnett Gentleman
WE reposing especial truth and confidence in your patriotism, valour, conduct and fidelity, DO by these presents constitute and appoint you to be Second Lieutenant of Captain George Rieds Company, in the 5th Regiment of Foot Commanded by Colonel John Marks in the army of the United Colonies, raised for the defence of American Liberty, and for repelling every hostile invasion thereof. You are therefore carefully and diligently to discharge the duty of Second Lieutenant by doing and performing all manner of things thereunto belonging.  And we do strictly charge and require all officers and soldiers under your command, to be obedient to your orders, as Second Lieutenant.  And you are to observe and follow such orders and directions from time to time as you shall received from this or a future Congress of the United Colonies, or Committee of Congress, for that purpose appointed, or Commander in Chief for the time being of the army of the United Colonies, or any other your superior officer, according to the rules and discipline of war, in pursuance of the trust reposed in you. This commission to continue in force until revoked by this or a future Congress.
Attest  [signed] Chas  Thomson [illegible]
By Order of the Congress, [signed] John Hancock President
[illegible] 1776