Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 29933, for Elisha Johnson, Connecticut
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
Conn.

Johnson, Elisha

NUMBER
S.29933

CONTENTS
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Massachusetts
Elisha Johnson of Norwich in the State of Mass who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain Hanchet of the regt commanded by Col Willis in the (illlegible) Conn line for 2 (illegible) 
Inscribed on the Roll of Mass at the rate of 80 Dollars -- Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831
Certificate of Pension issued the 7th day of Feby 1833 and sent to Clairmant Talley  at Brady Massachusetts
Arrears to 4th of Sept 1832  $120
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Mar 33  40
$160
{Revolutionary Claim Act June 7, 1832
Recorded by J F M Blair Clerk
Book D Vol (illegible) Page 60
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State of New York Steuben County
James Johnson of Bath in Said County of Steuben being duly sworn saith that Elisha Johnson of Norwich Hampshire County in the State of Massachusetts is a brother of this deponent. That on or about the first day of December in the year one thousand seven hundred seventy five the said Elisha Johnson and this deponent enlisted in the Continental line of the army of the revolution at Roxbury in the said state of Massachusetts in the company commanded by the time of said enlistment by a Captain Hanchet. That the said enlistment was for a period of thirteen months, That the said company remained at Roxbury until the time Boston was abandoned by the British troops. That from Roxbury aforesaid the said company marched to New York where it remained until the time New York was taken by the English Troops in September 1776. That the said Elisha Johynson was a member of the said company during all the period of the said enlistment, was engaged in the action on Long Island on the 27th August 1776 and was discharged from said enlistment at Pekeskill in the State of New York at the same time with this deponent on the first day of January 1777. That the regiment to which the said company was attached was commanded by a Colonel Willis of Hartford, Connecticut. That immediately after the said discharge the said Elisha Johnson in Company with this deponent returned home to Middletown in the said state of Connecticut & after remaining at home a few days again enlisted in the same month of January 1777 for the period of three months, and marched immediately after said last mentioned enlistment to Rye Neck where they remained until the termination of the said enlistment when they were regularly discharged at Rye Neck aforesaid. That this deponent from the length of time which had expired since said enlistment is unable to state the names of any of the officers who commanded during the said last mentioned term. That after said last mentioned discharge of said Elisha Johnson and this deponent again returned home to Middletown, where they remained a short time when there was a call made for volunteers
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to go to the assistance of that part of the army then stationed at Peekskill that the said Elisha Johnson and this deponent volunteered in said service for six week and in pursuance thereof marched to Peekskill and immediately on their arrival at Peekskill in the month of April 1777 the said Elisha Johnson enlisted in the regular army in the Quarter Master General's department in the regiment commanded by a Colonel Hughes and the company commanded by a Captain Campbell.  That said last mentioned enlistment was for the period of one year. And that the said Elisha Johnson and this deponent continued in the said last mentioned regiment during the whole of the period of the said last mentioned enlistment and were formally at the expiration thereof and in the month of April 1778 discharged at Fishkill in the State of New York and returned from therein company home. And this deponent further said that his recollection so far as concerns the name of the officer who commanded the company in which the said Elisha Johnson and this deponent enlisted the last time is somewhat indistinct, but this deponent is rather of the opinion that the name was Campbell as is above stated and further this deponent saith not.  James Johnson
Subscribed and sworn this 4th day of July 1832 by the above named James Johnson (to me well known and who I certify is a credible witness) before me Geo C. Edwards first Judge Steuben County, New York.
State of New York Steuben County
I David Rumsey Clerk of said County do certify that George C. Edwards Esquire before whom the above affidavit purports to have been sworn was on the day of the date of the same first Judge of said county -- and also that I am acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe his name subscribed to said affidavit is his proper handwriting and signature. Witness my hand & seal of office at Bath this fourth day of July 1832. D. Rumsey
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Hampden  March 14th 1829
Then personally appeared DAniel Collins Esq of Chester and Ebenezer Whipple of Norwich and made saith that in affirming the real and personal estate of Elisha Johnson of said Norwich a claimant under the U. States Revolutionary pension laws, they would act impartially according to their best skill and judgment. Before me Lemuel Johnson Just Peace

Norwich March 24th 1829
To the Justices of the Court of Common Pleas now holden at Northampton We the subscribers certify that at the request of the said Elisha Johnson being first duly sworn as aforesaid, We have proceeded to appraise the real and personal estate of the said Elisha, specified in the schedule as to which this paper is attached and upon a careful examination of the same, do appraise and estimate the value of same in cash at seven hundred and fifty five Dollars. Daniel Collins Ebenezer Whipple

Declaration, in order to be continued on the Pension list under the Act of May 1st 1820
County of Hampshire. On this 25th day of March A D 1829 personally appeared in open Court the same being a Court of Common Pleas and a Court of Record (constituted such by an Act of Legislature of the Commonwealth creating it ) and  now sitting at Northampton within and for said County Elisha Johnson resident in Norwich in said county aged seventy nine who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his Oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the Pension made by the Acts of Congress of the 18th of March 1818 and the 1st of May 1820 that he the said Elisha Johnson enlisted on or about the first day of December in the year aforesaid seventeen hundred and seventy five at Roxbury near Boston into the twenty second Regiment Continental line commanded by Col Samuel Willis in the third company of said regiment commanded first by Capt Oliver Hanshett, next by Capt Hyde, and afterwards by Capt Ebenezer Huntington, to serve until the first day of January A D 1777.
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and that he continued to serve in said corps until the said first day of January when he was discharged from the service at Pittskill in the state of New York and that he hereby relinquishes any claim whatsoever to a pension except the present, that his name has been placed on the pension list that the No of his pension certificate is not minuted but that the same is dated March 27, 1819, and signed J. C. Calhoun. And that he never before exhibited a schedule of his property because he had understood that a Revolutionary Soldier could not be continued upon the pension list unless his situation was nearly or quite equivalent to that of a pauper, his evidence of service is filed in his original application in the War Office. Elisha Johnson
And in pursuance of the act of the first of May 1820 I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the eighteenth day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any manner disposed of my property, or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it or to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled "an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War" passed on the 18th day of March 1818; and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities contracts or debts due to me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereunto annexed and by me subscribed. My age and infirmities disqualify be for (illegible)
Schedule of my property real and personal
64 acres of land with the appertenancy 1 horse ,2 cows, 1 two year old heifer, 2 calves, 1 swine, 19 sheep, 1 large iron kettle, 2 small iron kettles, 1 pr andirons, 12 barrels ,1 sleigh, 1 deck, 1 loam, 1 bureau ,1 chest drawers, 2 tables, 1 candle stand, 1 set of chairs, 1 pot, 1 tea kettle, 1 sides, 1 gridiron , 1(illegible), 1 gun, 1 wagon, 1 axe, 1 (illegible) Costs $20  All $755
Since the 18th of March 1815 no change has taken place in my real estate nor any in my personal estate other than the usual disposition of the produce of a small farm.  Elisha Johnson
Sworn to and declared on the twenty fifth day of March 1829 before the aforesaid Court of Common Pleas.  S. Stoddard Clerk
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Hampshire SS March 26th 1829
I the subscriber Judge of the Court of Common Pleas now holden at Northampton within and for said county do hereby certify that in my opinion the real and personal estate of Elisha Johnson as stated in the schedule concerned is of the value and amount of $755 and that the declaration of said Johnson is true. D.Cummins

Commonwealth of Massachusetts Hampshire SS
I Solomon Studdard Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for the said County of Hampshire, do hereby certify that it appeared to the satisfaction of the Court that the said Elisha Johnson did serve in the Revolutionary War as stated in this prequisite declaration against the common enemy for the term of nine months under one engagement on the Continental establishment. I also certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the records of said Court. And I do further certify that it is the opinion of said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is $775.00. 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court this twenty sixth day of March A D 11829. S. Stoddard Clerk of S Court.

Note  Samuel Johnson Esq before whom the appraisers were sworn not being a Justice of Peace in the County of Hampshire but of the County of Hampden I suppose it is improper for me to certify to the facts, although I have no doubt of it, I know the signature to the certificate to be the hand writing of said Samuel Johnson. S. Stoddard
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I Elisha Johnson of Norwich in the County of Hampshire & Commonwealth of Massachusetts being sixty eight years of age Testify and say I enlisted as a private soldier in Dec 1775 in the Company commanded by Capt Harchet in the Regt commanded by Col Willis in the Connecticut line which company was afterwards commanded by Capt Huntington. I enlisted for one year & I continued to serve in said company & through until the first of Jan 1777 when I was honorably discharged at Teaks Kils in the State of New York. And in April 1777 I again enlisted into the company commanded by Capt Campbell in the Regt commanded by Col Hughes in the New York Line for twelve months in the Quartermaster General Department and I continued to serve in said company & Regt. for a year, the time of my enlistment, and I was at the end of the year honorably discharged at Fish Kills in the State of New York. I am in reduced circumstances & indeed, I am in indigent circumstances, and in absolute need of assistance from my County for support, and I pray my pension may be allowed me government to the Laws of the United States of March 1st 1818. Decd 26th 1818. When I first enlisted I belonged to Middletown in Connecticut, but I was live in Norwich in Massachusetts as above stated. Elisha Johnson

Commonwealth of Massachusetts Hampshire SS Dec 26, 1818. Personally appeared Elisha Johnson above named before me the Subscriber and made solemn oath that the above statement and deposition by him subscribed contains the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth. In testimony whereof I have hereunto my hand and affixed my official seal this day and year aforesaid. Samuel Hinckley, Judge of the Court of Probate of wills (illegible) within and aforesaid County. I further certify that the above named Elisha Johnson is in indigent circumstances and in absolute need of assistance from his country for support. Dec 26, 1818.  Samuel Hinckley, Judge as above said.
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts Hampshire SS. Feb 10, 1819. I Samuel Hinckley Judge of the Court of Probate of Wills & being a Court of Record in aforesaid County do certify that the evidence of James Johnson who has the reputation of being a very credible witness & in this case (illegible) disinterested & who has obtained his Pension Certificate for his services as a Private Soldier of the Revolutionary war (for services) done at the June (illegible) under the foresaid enlistment as stated by the within Elisha Johnson together with the evidence of Johnson Briggs who is certified to be a reliable witness, before James O. Walther a commissioner duly appointed by the State of New York swears to the services of the said Elisha Johnson as witness states. I may from the witness of these two witnesses it is clear and incontestable in my opinion that the said Elisha Johnson did serve in the revolutionary war for more than nine months in continuance against the Common Enemy and on the continental establishment and I new transmit the proceedings & testimony in the case to the Secretary for the department of war pursuant to the Law of the United States of March 10th 1818. I am also satisfied that the said Elisha Johnson is in indigent circumstances & needs the assistance of his country for support given under my hand & seal of Office the day & year aforesaid. Samuel Hinckley Judge as aforesaid.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts Hampshire SS. I Josiah Dwight Clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court in the County of Hampshire certify that Samuel Hinckley Esq is Judge of the Court of Probate of Wills &c in aforesaid County of Hampshire & that his signature to the foregoing certificates are his proper hand writing. 
In testimony whereof I (illegible) subscribe my name & office the seal of said Court this fifteenth day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & nineteen. Josiah Dwight
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29933
Revy INVALID
File NO. 29933
Elisha Johnson
Pri Rev War
Act: June 1th 32
Index: Vol. 2, Pate 215
[Arrangement of 1870]

(right side) 
Mch 24 - 1902
Mrs. W. M. Stephens
Ogdensburg, N. Y.
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(left side)
Massachusetts
Elisha Johnson of Norwich in the state of Massachusetts who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Willis of the Connecticut line, for the term of 13 months 
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 8.00 Dollars per month to commence on the 16th of December 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 27 of March 1819 and sent to Samuel Hurcleley Esq Northampton Massachusetts
Arrears to 4th of Mar 1819. 2 6/31 & 11/31 mo  $18.57
Semi-and. all/ce ending 4th Sept 1819  $48--
$66.57
{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818}

Discontinued

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On Cellu (illegible) June 1832
to S. Johnson Sr. 

(illegible) sent to the Can of Mr. L. Johnson Talley's & Reads Map 27 May 1831
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Pension Office
Feby 24 1831

Halley & Road                   fre c
Jul 19 
Hon. Secretary of War
City of Washington
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Talley & Roads
Mass. Feby 17th 81
Hon Sec at War
Sir - The reply of your Department to application of Elisha Johnson at (illegible) Rev. Pens is (illebible) received. The reason that Mr. Johnson's declaration was not sent was - that it was mislayed by him,. It is now found and (illegible). The facts of Mr. Johnson's (illegible) and amount of his debts does not appear on face of his declaration. If required, affidavits will be forwarded of both; but Mr. Johnson flatters himself that his declaration above will be satisfactory to your department, if not, please advise him as soon as convenient. For E. Johnson
Yours very respectfully
L. Johnson
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(left side)
Elisha Johnson's application for a pension.
Adm

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Elisha Johnson's application for a pension.
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November 2d 1818
I James Johnson do make oath and certify to my certain knowledge that Elisha Johnson of the Town of Middletown i the State of Connecticut (county now not (illegible)) did inlist in the Continental Service in the Revolutionary War about the first day of December 1776 to serve until the first day of January 1777 and did serve his time out faithfully and was discharged at Peeks Kill first day of January 1777 his officers were Capts Hide Huntington & Hanchet successively within 13 months & Huntington is now a member of Congress will be in Washington this month mentions in his letter to me date (illegible) Sept 11th 1818. Further I do certify that Elisha Johnson the above soldier did inlist about the first of April 1777 under Col Hughs in Capt Carshill, company New York Line for twelve months or one year in the Quarter Master Generals Department & inlisted at Peeks Kill & served one year faithfully & discharge honorable at Peeks Kill. James Johnson
Sworn and subscribed before me this 2d day of November (illegible) Tho McBurney
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State of New York Steuben County Clerks Office SS
I Edward Howell Clerk of the County of Steuben do hereby certify that Thomas McBurney whose name appears to the within affidavit and before whom the same that Made was on the day of taking the same first Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County duly commissioned & qualified and that full faith and credence are due to all his official acts as such. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said County this 2d day of November 1818. E. Howell
James Johnson's affidavit.
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State of New York (illegible) CountySS
I Joshua Briggs of Luthven in the County of Madison being duly sworn saith that during the last part of the Revolutionary War he was well acquainted with Elisha Johnson then of Middletown in Connecticut but now of Warwick in the County of Hamshire Massachusetts, that said Johnson enlisted as a private into the Company of Captain Oliver Hanchet in Colonel Samuel Wyleys Regiment of Connecticut Troops some time in December 1775 at Roxbury in Massachusetts and served in said company about nineteen months under Captain Hyde and Captain Ebenezer Huntington (the said Captain Hanchett having been taken a prisoner by the enemy in Canada) and was discharged at Peeks Kill State of New York the first of January 1777. This deponent further saith that he knew the said Johnson & was witness to his service during the whole of said period, thinks he was in the battle of Long Island and had the small pox during the same time. Joshua Brigg.
Sworn by the said Joshua Brigg (a credible witness) Before me this 28 day of December 1818. James O Wattles Court for taking affidavits &c
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In the case of Elisha Johnson
Additional Proof
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The testimony of this witness only goes to corroborate the evidence of the other two witnesses.
Seth Halley of Russell in the county of Hampden & Commonwealth of Massachusetts, being of lawful age and duly sworn, do depose and say: that I was born in Middletown, in the county of Middlesex and State of Connecticut, that I was from my earliest years intimately acquainted with Elisha Johnson now of Norwich in the County of Hampshire and Commonwealth of said, formerly E. Middletown; and also with the family of said Johnson. He the said Johnson being born in said Middletown about two miles from me. That in the month of December A. D. 1775 I enlisted as a soldier into capt Elrich Hubbards Company. Huntington regiment, Connecticut Line to serve for the term of one year and joined my regiment in the month of January 1776 at Roxbury near Boston; That I perfectly recollect that the said Elisha Johnson and his brother James Johnson (who as I am informed now lives at Bath in the county of Steuben and state of N. York) were then in camp near Boston and both belonged to and did duty in Willis' Regiment, Connecticut Line; that I saw them frequently from the month of February 1776 until the evacuation of Boston. That after the evacuation of Boston I was with my company ordered to the City of New York whither when I arrived I again saw the said Elisha & James Johnson there frequently, they still belonging in P Hills regiment; that after the retreat from Long Island I saw the said James Johnson at Stanford in Connecticut in the Hispital in which we were both confined by sickness; that after our recovery we both left Stamford together to join our respective regiments near Peeks Kill, at a place called Crumps Ponds was parted. I being again taken sick, this as near as I can remember was about the month of November 1776, and further
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I the said deponent say not. Seth Hawley
Hampden SS Dec 22 1818
To the Hon. Samuel Hinkley, Judge of the Probate Willoc within & for the County of Hampshire
I hereby certify that on the day & year above said at my dwelling house in Chester in the County, personally appeared Seth Hawley and made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed before me the subscriber, and of the Justice of the Peace within and for said County. In faith of which I have hereunto affixed my hand & seal. William Wade
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free
Hon. Secretary at War
City of Washington

Halleys x Roads Ms
Feb 8th
Pens. Office
13 July

On Mass: Roll
Sept 1819
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Halley X Roads Massachusetts Feb 4th 1820
The Hon. Secretary at War;
Sir 
By securing to the documents in the War Office,you will perceive that Elisha Johnson of Norwich in the county of Hampshire, Com'th of Massachusetts was placed on the roll of Revolutionary Pensioners under that original law of Congress.  Mr. Johnson now asks to be restored to that Roll.  If I rightly approached the spirit of the law on the subject, as well as the letter of it, he would seem to fall most surely within its provisions. Mr. Johnson is indeed in possession of a small real estate of the value of about seven or eight hundred, which he has been permitted to occupy by his relations, who are his creditors to the amount or nearly the amount of all his property. His being to be burdensome to his County, he has until recently, by the indulgence of his creditors and his industry been able to support himself.  He is now no longer able to do so. He is near eighty years of age and besides the usual infirmities (illegible) to that period of life, is almost deprived of his sight.
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It will, he trusts, add to the strength of his case -- that, while in the service of his Country on the North River, he was nearly deprived of the sight of one of his eyes by the small pox.  Under these circumstances, he flatters himself that his name will again be restored to the list of Revolutionary Pensioners. 
Should any doubts be entertained, of the (illegible) of the foregoing representation, Mr Johnson will forward to your department such evidence of its truth, as you may suggest as necessary.
Mr. Johnson requests an answer as early as will suit the commissioner of your department. 
I have the honor to be Sir Very Respectfully Your Obd serv L. Johnson for Elisha Johnson.
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Elisha Johnson's Affidavit
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I Elisha Johnson of Norwich in the County of Hampshire and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, being duly sworn do depose and say -- that I was a revolutionary soldier, that I was inscribed on the roll of revolutionary pensioners, but was stricken from said roll, as per advice from the War Department; was born in Middletown Connecticut, where I lived at the commencement of the revolutionary war; afterwards resided at Harrinton County. Litchfield, same state; afterwards removed to said Norwich, where I have resided for about thirty years as when I still resided. While in Campbell's company, Hughes' regiment being near Rectskill on the Hudson, I suffered severely by the small pox & nearly lost the wight of one of my eyes, am now in my eighty third year. My pension certificate is in the hands of Judge Hincley of Northampton in the County who was my agent for securing my pension before I was struck from the Roll. And further this deponent saith not. Elisha Johnson
Hampden SS July 17th A. D. 1832
Personally appeared Elisha Johnson of Norwich, who being duly cautioned in the foregoing affidavit, being carefully read to him saith Johnson, from I himself, being unable to read, am subscribed by him - made solemn oath that the contents thereof are true. Before me Lewis Calleris
D. Master Talleys Roady Mas and Jus. of the Peace.
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No. 456
Elisha Johnson Private 2 years 
Claimant $80 fr 
Talley's X Roads Mass 

Tallys X Roads Reg
July 17
Con. Secretary at War
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No. 456
Elisha Johnson Private 2 years
Claimant $80 fr
Talley's X Roads Mass

Tallys X Roads Reg
July 17
Con. Secretary at War

July 21 1832
Pension Office
Old case
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Talley & Roads, Mass
Hon. L. Cass Sec at War
July 17th 1832

Sir - 
I having been informed in reply to an enquiry addressed to the Department of War, that they need no collateral evidence on file obtained by Phyllis D Huntington, I have written to his brother James Johnson of Bath Co Steuben in Hughes' Regiment N. York line, which at his request I inclose. I do not know whether I may not have misconstrued that part of your letter to Chairman of Committee of Ongoing in (illegible) to cases whose affidavits have been once on the (illegible) list to (illegible) have been stricken off. You will perceive I have proceeded upon the supposition that in such cases, no new declaration in a Court of Record was necessary. If I am wrong, your Department will correct me. Mr. Johnson would be glad to learn the result of the present application as early as to purpose of business in your Bureau will journal. 
I am, Sir, with very great respect your &c L. Johnson  Elisha Johnson
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(stamp) Pension Office U. S. Feb 8 1902
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Will you kindly advise me if this is true and give me what doth you have regarding him. Very truly yours. E. M. Stephens Feb 4th.
Addressee Mrs. N. M. Stephens 54 Morris St Ogdensburg N. Y.
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(stamp) Pension Office U. S. Feb 8 1902
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(date stamp): Feb 112 1902

Pension Department
Washington D. C.
Gentlemen:
 I am interested in obtaining Revolutionary records of Elisha Johnson whom I understand served  in Mass militia and placed on Pension roll Feb 23, 1833, being then eighty five years old.
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Will you kindly advise me if this is true and give me what doth you have regarding him.  Very truly yours E. M. Stephens. Feby 4th Address Mrs. N. M. Stephens 54 Morris St. Ogdensburg N. Y.