Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 7940, for Thomas Johnson, New Jersey
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Service New Jersey

Johnson, Thomas
Johnson, Abigail

Number W7940
 BL WT 12847-160-55
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New Jersy 17.889

Thmas Johnson

(Unreadable) in the state of New Jesey
(Unreadable) who was a Private in the (unreadable), commanded by Captain Green of the (unreadable) commanded by Col Henderson in the New Jersey (unreadable) time for seven months.

$23.33

Inscribed on the roll of New Jersey at the rate of 23 dollars 33 cents for annum to commence om the 4th day of March, 1834.

Certificate of Pension issued 5 day of Oct 1833 and sent to DLY McCesney Hightstown NJ

Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1833 - $58.33
Semi- Anu allowance ending 4 84 - 11.66
$69.99

Revolutionary Claim Act June 7, 1832
Recorded by Mark Palmer Clerk,
Book (unreadable) Vol Three Pay 117
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New Jesey   Trenton

Abigail Johnson, widow of Thomas Johnson NY
who served in the Revolutionary War as a private

Inscribed on the roll at the rate of 23 dollars 33 cents per annum, to commence on the 3d February, 1853.

Certificate of Pension issued the 10th day of Dec 1853 and sent to Peter P Runyson New Brunswick NJ
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72.743 Act March 3/55
April 16/55
Abigail Johnson, wid of
Thomas Johnson, dec'd Private
Revolutionary War
Private [illegible initial] J Mila
[illegible initial] J. [illegiblel] 33-3166
[vertically written across the above:] No 1284[illegible] 1855
Boynton
Ad. 160 ac's Dec 13/55 
D[illegible]
Peter P. Runyon
New Brunswick
N. Jersey
[illegible word vertically above last 3 lines]

[second column] Cir P. P. Runyon Oct 2 of 55
Vol. 8. 77. [illegible]
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Thomas Johnson 

Months $23.33
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State of New Jersey
Middlesex County

Declarations in order to obtain the benefit of the act of congress of June 7th 1832.

On this tenth day of September. Personally appearing in open court at the Inferior court of common pleas (unreadable) for said county, held at the city of New Brunswick. Now letting being a court of records = Thomas Johnson a resiedent of the township of South Amboy in the county of Middlesex and state of ones aid = aged seventy two who being duly [illegible] according to law [illegible] on his oath make the following declarations in order to obtain the benefit of the act of congress passed June 7th 1832.

"That in the month of March 1776 he volunteered under Capitain James Green and Col Hendrickson in [illegible] county and marched to Mammouth court house, threw Gery Middle [illegible] along the shore back to Juction [illegible] marching a tour of one month.
[1776 March 1 month]
Drafted under Capt Peter Perrine and col Seudeleup in Middlesex county and marched to Elizabethtown and [illegible] rivers and immediately after the emergancy had to evacuate New Brunswick marched there and on as far as Amboy. This tour was one month. 
[1777 June 1 month]
Was drafter under capt and col Seuddus and marched to Thottsmoord. South and along the Amboy shore as far Cheesequorty and was discharged at Amboy after the month had expired.
[Aug 1 month]
Was drafted under Capt Perrine and Col Hayer or Col Seuddus cannot say which as they were frequently commanded by both. Marched to New Brunswick. They attacked [illegible] Woodbridge [illegible] town and back by Amboy. Their tour was one month. 
[Oct 1 month]
Was again drafted under same officers and marched to Kingston and on as far as the Deleware. The British at time were leaving Philadelphia remained out [illegible]
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1778
Was out a number of short tours but cannot disti[illegible] recollet them. as also in the year 1779.
1780 June. Was drafted under Capt [illegible] and Col Poc[illegible] 1. mo and marched to New Brunswick and back of Springfield was there during the engagement and was out this [illegible] one month
August was drafted under lance officers together with [illegible] 1. month, Heard marched to Amboy. Blazing Star [illegible] and Bronan[illegible] and remained out around that region of Country until the month expired. The said applicant produced the testimonies of Ashero Applegate and John D. Dishow who knew him in the service being out at the same time and Places a number of times. during the Revolutionary war
And Doth hereby relinquish every claim whatsoever to a Pension or annuity except the Present and also declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of the Agency of any state. 
Sha[illegible] Johnston
[illegible] to Ana Subscribed the day 
and year aforesaid 
H Ford. Judge
C. Hess to [illegible] of the [illegible] - WE Redford Job. a citizen ['Clergyman" crossed out] resident in East Windsor in ["of" crossed out] Middlesex county and state of New Jersey
and C'G of Chesney of the same Place Hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Thomas Johnson who has subs[illegible] and sworn to the above Declaration and that we believe him to be 72 years of age. that he is respected and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that he concurs in that opinion
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
H Ford Judge   [illegible] Job
Justice of the Peace   Charlie J[ack/] Shearn
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Interrogatories put by the Court by the said Applicant
1. Where and in what year were you Born?
A. In South Amboy Middlesex Co. N. Jersey. In the year 1761.
2. Have you any record of your age and if so where is it?
A. Only Traditionary
3. Where were you living when called into service where have you lived since the Revolutionary war, and where do you now live?
A. In South Amboy, and have always lived in same place
4. How were you called into service were you drafted, did you volunteer or were you a substitute and if a substitute For whom.
A. Drafted and a volunteer
5. State the names of some of the regular officers who were with the Troops when you served such Continental and Malitia Regiments as you can recollect and the general circumstances of your service
A. Genl Washington, Col Scudder, Col. Hyer, Col Dykins Capt Green; Capt Nixon Seer Declaration
6. Did you ever receive a discharge from the service
A. None but verbal
7. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighbourhood
A. Samuel Disbrow, Andrew Applegate, Joseph Cheney Maj John F. McDowell. Capt Peter Applegate 
Thomas Johnson

Sworn and Subscribed the day
and year aforesd in Open Court
J. S. Ford
[illegible] a Justice of the peace
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And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the Investigation of the Matter and after putting the Interrogatories prescribed by the war Department that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary
Soldier and served as he states.
And the Court further certifies that it appears
to them that Redford Jobs who has signed the preceding Certificate is a credible person resident in Heights Town Middlesex County N. Jersey and that Charles [illegible] who has also signed the same is a resident in the same place and is a credible Person and that their statement is entitled to credit.
John B Mount
J. D. Crockett
D. Ford
[illegible] Van Winkle

State of New Jersey
Middlesex County Ss
I Nicholas Booraem clerk of the court of  Common Pleas of said County of Middlesex
do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Thomas Johnson for a pension and that John Smith before whom the affidavits of Asher Applegate & John D. Lewis [illegible] was taken was at the time a justice of the peace in and for said County duly commissioned and sworn and that his signature thereto is genuine
In witness whereof I have hereunto set
my hand & seal of office at the New Brunswick this Sixteenth day of September AD 1833
N. Booraem
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State of New Jusey
Middlesex County Ss
Be it known that on this Fifth day
of Sept 1833 Personally appeared before
the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said County. Asher Applegate who being duly sworn according to Law Deposeth and
Saith that he was well acquainted with Thomas Johnson an Applicant for a Pension before the Revolutionary war and remembers
perfectly well seeing the said Thomas Johnson serves the same Battalion in the service of the United States in the New Jersey Malitia
in the year 1777 in the month of June and also in the month of August in the same year and also saw him in the same service in the year 1780 at Springfield a few days after the Battle of said place saw him in New Brunswick under arms
Shortly after the Enemy left that place and further saith not
Asher Appelgate
Sworn to and subscribed the day
and year above written Before me
John Smith 
I also certify that Asher Applegate
who has testified in favor of Thomas Johnson is a credible person and entitled to credit and belief
John Smith
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State of New Jersey
Middlesex County Ss
Be it known that on this Fifth day of
Sept 1833 Personally appeared before the
Subscriber a Justice of the Peace in for said County, John D. Disbrow who being duly sworn according to Law Deposeth and saith that he
was well acquainted with Thomas Johnson an applicant for a Pension long before the Revolutionary war and that he well remembers
Serving with the said Johnson and in the same Battalion of the New Jersey Malitia during the said War &  saw him in the year 1780 immediately after the Battle of Springfield and at other places during the said war at that time Capt Perrin and Col Scudders commanded and further saith not-
John D. Disbrow

Sworn to and subscribed the day
and year above written
John Smith

I further certify that John D Disbrow is a credible
Person who has testified in favoure of Thomas Johnson and is entitled to full credit and belief
John Smith
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72.743.
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State of New Jersey
County of Middlesex SS
On this 2nd day of April A.D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty five, personally appeared before me, a Justice of the Peace, within and for the County and State aforesaid, Mrs Abigail Johnson, aged about 75 years, a resident of the Township of Monroe in the County of Middlesex, in the State of New Jersey, who, being duly sworn according to law, declares, that she is the widow of Thomas Johnson, who was a private in the Revolutionary war, and afterwards a pensioner of the County of Middlesex, New Jersey, and of the Trenton, New Jersey Agency, at 23.33$ per annum, under the act of June 7th 1832; and that she is the identical Abigail Johnson, who is now, as the widow of Thomas Johnson, deceased, drawing a pension at the Trenton New Jersey Agency, of 23.33$ per annum, under the act of February 3rd 1853, on Certificate No. 3,166, of the date of December the 10th AD. 1853 She further States, that she
was married to the said Thomas Johnson
in Cranberry New Jersey, on the ____ day of ---AD ----by one John Woodhull a minister of the Gospel, and that her name before her said marriage was Abigail Rue and that her said husband died at Cranberry Middlesex County New Jersey on the last day of February A.D. 1838 - or 9.
She further declares, that she has heretofore furnished proof of the above facts, and
which is now on file in the Pension office
among the papers on which her pension
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certificate above mentioned, was granted, and
to which she respectfully refers, and makes a part of this declaration. That she is now a widow, and makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the bounty land to which she may be entitled under the "Act approved March 3d 1855; and that she has not heretofore made application, or received bounty land under this or any other act of Congress.
Abigail Johnson X her mark

We, Jane E. Lewis and William H. Courter,
residents of the County of Middlesex, in the State of New Jersey, upon our oaths declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and
acknowledged by Mrs Abigail Johnson, in
our presence; and that we know from our
personal knowledge of her, that she is the
identical person she represents herself to be;
that she is now a widow; and that we
have no interest in her claim to bounty
land.
Jane E Lewis
Wm H. Courter

The foregoing declaration and affidavit
were sworn and subscribed before me,
on the day and year first above written and
I certify, that I know the affiants to be credible persons; that the claimant is the person she represents herself to be, and that
I have no interest in this claim
Thomas Huffman  Jus P
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State of New Jersey
County of Middlesex
I Nicholas Mooreau clerk of the court of Common Pleas in and for the County aforesaid do hereby certify that Thomas Huffman whose genuine signature appears herein is and was at the the time of signing the service a Justice of the peace in & for the County of Middlesex in the State of New Jersey and authorized to execute oaths for general purposes and that full faith and credit are due to all his official acts. I further certify that said county court is a court of record having genuine jurisdiction and a clerk there; and that I have no interest in this claim
In Testimony where of I have hereto set my hand & seal of office in New Brunswick this 11th day of April AD 1855
N Mooreau Clk
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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of 3d February 1853
State of New Jersey
County of Middlesex Ss
On this twenty second day of October one thousand eight hundred and fifty three personally appeared before the Court of
Common Pleas within and for the County and State aforesaid Abigail Johnson a resident of the township of Monroe in the County
of Middlesex and State of New Jersey aged sixty five years who being duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the 2d section of the act of Congress passed February 3d 1853 That she is the widow
of Thomas Johnson who was a Private in the
Revolutionary War and drew a pension at the
note of twenty three dollars and thirty three cents per annum at the New Jersey agency at
Trenton She further declares that she was
married to the said Thomas Johnson on the
28th day of July 1810 by John Woodhull D. D.
a Presbyterian Minister She proves her said
marriage by the Certificate of the Clerk of
Monmouth County that her name before her
said marriage was Abigail Rue that her said
husband the aforesaid Thomas Johnson died at the township of Monroe aforesaid on the twenty eighth day of February 1838
That she was married to him at the same above stated
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She further declares that she was a widow at the passage of the act and is still a widow and that she has never before made application for a Pension
Sworn to and subscribed in open Court the day and year above mentioned
Sworn to in open Court the day and year above mentioned the Court being satisfied that the facts forth therein are true 
Abigail Johnson X her mark

Peter P. Runyon
D. Fitz Randolph
Abrm P. Provost

State of New Jersey
Middlesex County Ss
Before the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County personally appeared Daniel H. Johnson aged thirty seven years a resident of the township of Monroe in said County
who being duly sworn upon his oath doth depose and say that he is the son of the above named Abigail Johnson who signed foregoing declaration in his presence that she is the widow of Thomas Johnson his father, the identical person who drew a pension
at the rate of twenty three 33/100 in May at the New Jersey Agency as a Revolutionary Pensioner that his the said Thomas Johnson died at Monroe aforesaid at the time specified in her said declaration and that the said Abigail Johnson is a widow and has been ever in the death of his said father
Daniel JS Johnson
Sworn to and subscribed in open Court the 22d day of October 1853 and the Court
certify that the foregoing affiant is a credible person
Peter P. Runyon
D. Fritz Randolph
[signature cut off image] [Abrm P. Provost]
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State of New Jersey 
Middlesex County Ss. 
By the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County personally appeared Asa Applegate who being duly sworn according to law upon his oath doth depose and saith that he is sixty four years of age is a resident of the City of New Brunswick in said County that he was well acquainted with Thomas Johnson
the late husband by Abigail Johnson the person who signed the foregoing declaration in his presence known that the said Thomas Johnson was a Revolutionary Pensioner. That he drew his Pension at Trenton in New Jersey So well acquainted with the said Abigail Johnson knows as it is the widow of the identical Thomas Johnson who drew a Pension at New Jersey agency and is now dead that she was the widow the said Thomas Johnson on and before this 3rd day of February 1853
Asa Applegate

Sworn to and subscribed in open Court in the
22nd day of October 1853 and the Court do certify that they are acquainted with the above named affiant and that he is a credible person and that his statements they believe to be true
Peter P.Runyon
D. Fitz Randolph
Abrm P. Provost
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State of New Jersey
Middlesex County

I Nicholas Booream Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County and State above mentioned do hereby certify that Peter P Runyon Daniel Fitz Randolph and Abraham P. Proval whose genuine signature appear within are and were at the time of signing the same Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County & State aforesaid duly commissioned [illegible] that said Court is a court of record having General Jurisdiction
Given under my hand & seal of office at New Brunswick this 29th day of November AD 1853
N Booream Clerk
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The persons whose names follow were married
by me John Woodhull D.D. Namely
July 28th 1810 Thomas Johnson and Abigail Rue
Both of Middlesex

John Woodhull D.D.

State of New Jersey
Monmouth County Ss
I Daniel Christopher Clerk of said County hereby certify that the foregoing is a true copy from the records of Marriages in my office as appears of record in Book A. of Marriages folio 148 - with many other Entered of record at the same time and certified to as being married by the said John Woodhill D. D. at the different
dates therein specified -
In Testimony Whereof I have hereto
set my hand and affixed my seal
of office at Freehold this Seventh
day of October AD Eighteen hundred
and fifty three AD 1853
Daniel Christopher Clerk
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Revy WIDOW, &c
File No. 7940
Abigail Johnson
Widow
Thomas Johnson
Pri. Rev. War
Act: Feb. 3, 1853
Index: - Vol. A, Page 378
(Arrangement of 1870.)
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12847

[illegible]
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Please state the time of the death of pensioner, and to when paid?
Respectfully,
S. Cole
For Comm

F. Burt Esq & Auditor
Dec. 5. 53

Thomas Johnson, Act 1832, $23.33 p. annum
Died 28th Feby, 1838 Paid
to his death

F. Burt
Auditor
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Brief in the case of Abigail Johnson, wife of Thomas Middesex County and State of New Jersey
act Feb. 3. 1853
Claim, ("original," [crossed out] or for increase)
Proof exhibited, (if original.)
Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance.
Marriage and identity proved by
two accredited witnesses
(If for increase.)
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what?
Allowed $23.33 from
Feb. 3. 1853.

Name and residence Agent
Peter P. Runyon Esq.
New Brunswick, N. S.
J. F. Adams Examining Clerk
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New Brunswick New Jersey Decr 1st 1857
To the Commissioner of Pensions
Dear Sir
Please find the Declaration of Abigail Johnson widow of Thomas Johnson a Revolutionary Pensioner under the act of 7 Jn 1832 & he applies under the act of February 3d 1853 
Will the Commissioner
give this application his attention at his  earliest convenience and communicate the result to the subscriber
With great respect &c
Peter P Runyon
L. P. Waldo Esqr
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Bounty land claim
Law of March 3, 1855
Supplemental evidence
Abigail Johnson
No 72743

Peter P Runyon Agent
New Brunswick N. Jersey
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Notes given by the Commissioners of the several Counties of the State of New Jersey
for Militia service during the Revolutionary War.
NO. OF CERTIF.
1411
DATE.  May 1, 1784
SIGNED BY Thomson Stelle
STATE OF NEW JERSEY
PAYABLE TO Thos Johnson
AMOUNT.  Lo. 15.5

STATE OF NEW JERSEY
I, THOMAS S. ALLISON, Secretary of State of the State of New Jersey, do hereby certify, that the foregoing is a true abstract from a Book, headed as above, as taken from and
compared with the original, now remaining in my office.
And I do further certify, that Thomson Stelle
was, by an Act passed by the Legislature of this State, December 20, 1783, entitled, "An Act to procure an estimate of the sums due to the Militia and Troops who have been raised for the defence of the frontiers of the State, and to provide for the settlement of the same," appointed a Commissioner for the County of Middlesex for the purpose of settling and adjusting the pay-rolls of
the Militia and Troops of this State, as aforesaid, and also for signing and delivering out to each and every person a note for the payment of what may be justly due.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed my seal of office, at Trenton,
in said State, this thirtieth day of November A. D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five

Tho. S. Allison
Secretary of State.