Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 1838, for Robert Johnson, Virginia
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Va.               Johnson, Robert                 S.1838
Carded
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5546
Tennessee. East
Robert Johnson
Knox Co in the State of Tennessee
was a private in the Company commanded
Captain J. Early of the Rgt commanded
Col Linches in the Militia line 
for
6 Months
Robert Johnson
Virginia Line Records corrected

Inscribed on the Roll of Tennessee Nov 20 '03
the rate of 20. Dollars - Cents per annum
commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 11th day of Feb.y 
1833 and sent to 
Hon. ble. D. Arnold H of R.

Arrears to 4th of Septr 1832 -            $ 30.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Mar: 33  10.00
                                                              40.00
{Revolutionary Claim, 
Act June 7, 1832.}
Recorded by Francis F. Francion Clerk
Book D  Vol. 9 Page 103-

[Right side Notation] Date of death not on A.B.
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3960
Application of Robt Johnson 
for a pension

Sent to James Hair 
Knoxville

I Tho D. Arnold a member of Congress from the district in which Knox County is cituate do hereby certify that Wm Swan is Clerk of the Circuit Court in and for said County of Knox and state of Tennessee 
and that the signatures annexed to the within declaration 
of Robert Johnson which purports to be his are his genuine signatures.
                   R.D. Arnold
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3960
Application of Robt Johnson for a pension

Sent to James Hair
Knoxville

I Tho D. Arnold a member of Congress from the district in which Knox County is cituate do hereby certify that Wm Swan is Clerk of the Circuit Court in and for said County of Knox and state of Tennessee and that the signatures annexed to the within declaration of Robert Johnson which purports to be his are his genuine signatures.
R.D. Arnold
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 State of Tennessee  SS
 Knox County
 
     On this 13th day of August 1832 Personally appeared in open Court before me Samuel Powell one of the Circuit Judges of law and equity in and for the state of Tennessee and for the first Judicial Circuit in the Circuit Court now sitting Robert Johnston a resident of the County and State aforesaid in the said County and state aged Seventy three years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in
 order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832  That he entered the service of the united states under the following named officers and served as herein stated  He lived in Bedford County Virginia at which place he volunteered on the 21st day of September 1780 under Capt Jacob Early in Col Linchs Regiment of volunteers & Riflemen
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Marched to Petersburgh Va., had our head quarters about two miles from Petersburgh  was in no battle  lay there till we were discharged which discharge bears date December 21st 1780 signed by W Leftwich Liut Col and accompanies this declaration  Served at the above tower three months when we arrived at Petersburgh we joined Gen’l  Lawson and went under the command of the regular officers Again while living at the same place in the Spring of 1781 volunteered under Capt Bowen Price in Col Linches Regiment of Rifle men marched to North Carolina to Gilford  and on Haw River after Cornwallaus men we joined Col  Washington who commanded a troop of horse and a number of infantry  we was then under his command  he Johnston was in the battle at Gilford  Genl Green was commander in chief  we were defeated  we then pursued Cornwallace across deep River and lay in the neighbourhood of the fall
of that River till it was understood that
Cornwallace went on board of his vessels at Cross Creek  he was there honouraby but verbally discharged  Served three months  Prooves that he was in the battle of Gilford by
 James Crews   He served in the whole six months  He has his discharge as to the first tour above written and can proove his actual service in the battle of Gilford by James Crews 
he has no other documentary evidence nor he knows of no other person whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his actual service  He hereby relinquishes his every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state 
There is no clergyman living amediately in his neighbourhood nor he knows of none by whom he can proove the report of his actual service
      Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
                         Robert Johnson
In open Court
Wm. Swan Clk
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     We Andrew McBathe and James Cruis residing in the said Count of Knox and state of Tennessee hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Robert Johnston who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be seventy three years of age that he is reported and believed in the neighbourhood where he now resides to have been a soldier of the revolutionary and that we concur in that opinion and the said James Cruis further saith that the said Robert Johnston was actually in the battle Gilford that he was a soldier and was also in that battle in company with said Johnston.
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
                    Andrew McBath 
                    James X Cruis
                       (X his mark)
In open court
Wm. Swan Clk

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 farther certifies that it appears to him that that Andrew McBathe and James Cruis who has signed the preceding certificate is resident of the said County of Knox and State of Tennessee and is credible persons and that their statement is intitled to credit.
                         S. Powell Judge of
                         the Circuit Court of
                         the State of Tennessee
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I Wm Swan Clerk of the Circuit Court of the said county of Knox and State of Tennessee do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the Circuit court in the matter of the application of Robert Johnston for a pension and that the said Samuel Powell who signed the above certificate is one of the Judges of the Circuit Court of Law and Equity in and for the State of Tennessee and that the signature annexed thereto is his genuine signature.  In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and private seal haveing (sic) no seal of office at office in Knoxville this 17th day of August 1832.
(seal)
    Will. Swan

3960
Application of Robt. Johnson for a pension

Sent to James Hair
Knoxville

I Thos. F. Arnold a member of Congress from the district in which Knox County in cituate do hereby certify that Will Swan is Clerk of the Circuit court in and for said County of Knox and State of Tennessee and that the signatures annexed to the within declaration of Robert Johnson which purports to be his are his genuine signatures.
              Tho. D. Arnold
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            February 9, 1931

Rev. & 1812 Wars Section
EEL  AWN

Mrs. James G. Johnson
1810 Dandridge Pike
Knoxville, Tennessee

Dear Madam:
     You are advised that it appears from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S.1838, that Robert Johnson was born April 7, 1759, in Albemarle County, Virginia.
     While residing in Bedford County, Virginia, he volunteered September 21, 1780, served as a private in Captain Jacob Early's Company, Colonel Lynch's Regiment of Riflemen in the Virginia Troops and was discharged December 21, 1780.
     He enlisted in the spring of 1781, served as a private in Captain Bowen Price's Company, Colonel Lynch's Virginia Regiment, was at the battle of Guilford length of service three months.
     After the Revolution, he continued to live in Bedford County, Virginia, until 1787, when he removed to Knox County, Tennessee.
     He was allowed pension on his application executed August 13, 1832, while residing in Knox County, Tennessee.
     There are no data as to his family.
               Very truly yours
               E.W. MORGAN
               Acting Commissioner.

Date of death not on AB
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(left panel)
1906 May 25.  History to Hon. Sec. Int for Mrs. S.A. Chappell - letter ret -
1931 - Feb 9 - Hist to Mrs. Jas. G. Johnson  EEL

(right panel)
Rev War
1838
INVALID
File No 1838
Robert Johnson
Priv. Tenn. Mil.

Act:  June 7, 1832
Index:-Vol. A, Page 194

[Arrangement of 1870.]

Robert Johnson
Virginia Line.  Records corrected Nov. 20 '03
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3-595.
O.W. AND N. DIVISION

Department of the Interior
BUREAU OF PENSIONS
May 25, 1906
Searched by Gibb
Original No.
Certificate No
Claimant,
Soldier, Robert Johnson
Service, Va. Service
Rev. War

Remarks:  
No claim as above except Inc. 1838
No. B.L.
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Amended Application of Robert Johnson for a Pension

Direct to
James Hair
Knoxville
Tennessee
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 State of Tennessee  Ss
 Knox County
 
     On this 5th day of January 1833 Personally appeared before me Zac. Booth one of the acting Justices of the Court of Pleas and Quarter sessions in and for the said County and state came Robert Johnson who after being duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following amendment to his declaration which declaration was made in
 the county and state aforesaid and bears date the 13th day of August 1832 and was numbered in the War Department No 3940 and sent back for amendment  That he was born in Albemarl County Virginia on the 7th of Aprill 1759  that he has a record of his age at home in a book similer to a pocket book made and kept for the purpose of keeping a family record in  That he continued to live in
 Bedford County till about the year 1787 at which time he removed to Knox County state of Tennessee where he has lived ever since and still lives  That he was a volunteer neither drafted nor a substitute  That he dose not recollect the names of the regular officers who ware with the troops where he served or of the
 continental or militia regiments or the general circumstances of the service farther than is stated in his declaration which this is intended to amend That he never did receive but one writen discharge from the service which is mentioned in his declaration and sent to the War Department. He did not receive a commission  That he is known in his present
 neighbourhood to Wm. Tipton  John Dayle  Thos. Anderson  Jacob Husong all of whom he believes can testify that the believe him to be a man of verasity and that they believe he served as a Soldier of the revolution  

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
              Robert Johnson
Zac Boothe
One of the Justices of the Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions for Knox County
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State of Tennessee
Knox County SS
     On this 5th day of January 1833 Personally appeared before me Zac. Boothe one of the acting Justices of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions in and for said County came James Hair who after being duly sworn according to law deposeth and saith that the discharge of the within named Robert Johnson was given to him to send to the War Department with his declaration.  That he is the agent of the said Robert Johnson as for a providing him a pension goes.  That he forgot to enclose the said discharge in the declaration but discovered his mistake on the next day and enclosed the discharge in a letter with the appropriate directions on the envelop that it might be known to belong to Johnson's file of papers and sent it to the War Department and it has not been returned.
                       James Hair 
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 5th Janu 1833
And I do hereby further certify that James Hair who has sworn to and subscribed the above certificate is a creditable person and his statements is intitled (sic) to credit.
Zac Boothe one of the acting Justices of the Peace of the Court of Pleas and quarter Sessions

State of Tennessee
Knox County
     I Charles McClung Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions in and for said County do hereby certify that that Zac Boothe before whom the above affidavits were made is an acting Justice of the court of Pleas and Quarter sessions in and for said County duly commissioned and sworn as such
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and that the above signatures which purports to be his are his genuine signatures and that full faith and credit is due and ought to be given to all his official acts.  In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office at office in Knoxville this 10th day of January 1833.
                         Chas. McClung
                         By his Dep
                             Wm. Swan

(seal)
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                        1810 Dandridge Pike
                        Knoxville Tenn.

To the Bureau of Pensions: -
     Will you please send me the war record of Robert Johnson who was a Revolutionary soldier, serving in the 1st Va. regiment, and drawing a Pension from Tennessee in 1840 at the age of 81.

              Respectfully,
              Mrs. James G. Johnson.

Jan. 18 - 1931.
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COPY.
Letter of Inquiry ret. to Secty. Inter.  c

           L.M.H.   May 25, 1906.

The Honorable,
The Secretary of the Interior:

Dear Sir: -
     In reply to your communication dated the 16th instant and received the 21st, requesting information for Mrs. S.W. Chappell, of Petersburg, Indiana, R.F.D. No. 1, I have the honor to advise you that a careful search of the records of this Bureau fails to show any claim for bounty land filed on account of the services of Robert Johnson, a soldier in the Virginia troops, Revolutionary War.
     From the papers in Survivor's File No. 1838, it appears however that one Robert Johnson was born in Albemarle county, Virginia, April 7, 1759 and volunteered in Bedford Co., Virginia, September 21, 1780, and served three months in Captain Jacob Early's company, Colonel Lynch's regiment of Riflemen;  volunteered same place in Spring of 1781 and served three months in Captain Bowen Price's company same regiment.
     He was allowed pension on an application executed August 13, 1832 at which time he was a resident of Knox county where he had lived since 1787.
                   Very respectfully,
                        Commissioner.