Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 26,679, for Jedidiah Johnson, Vermont
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VT

Johnson, Jedidiah
Elizabeth

W 26679
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8529

New York

Jedidiah Johnson

of Plainfield in the State of New York who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain White of the Regiment commanded by Colonel Allen in the Vermont line for 9 months and 20 days

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Inscribed on the roll of New York at the rate of 32 dollars 22 cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March 1831

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Certificate of Pension issued the 16th of April, 1833 and sent to J C Walworth, Burlington VT

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Arrears to 4th of Mar '33 -- $64.44
Semiannual allowance ending 4 Sep 33 -- $16.11

Total $80.55

Revolution Claim Act June 7, 1832

Recorded by Ino Cromwell, Clerk

Book E Vol 4 Page 22
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4099

New York - Albany

Elizabeth Johnson, widow of Jedidiah Johnson

who served in the Revolutionary War as a private

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Inscribed on the roll at the rate of 32 dollars 22 cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March 1848

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Certificate of Pension issued the 2nd of March 1849 and sent to Hon Wm Duer, H of Rep

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Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under Act February 2, 1848, Page 103, Vol 4
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State of New York
Otsego County.

Declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the Act of Congress passed June 7, 1832

On this 28th day of January 1833 personally appeared before James C Walworth Esquire one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Otsego, Jedediah Johnson aged Seventy five years, a resident of the town of Plainfield in the said County of Oswego and State of New York 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 was born in the town Roxbury near Boston in the State of Massachusetts in the year 1758 and that there is a town Record of his age at that place and that he is now 75 years of age. That in the year 1779 in the town of Guilford Windham County and State of Vermont, he entered in the United States service under the following Officers about the tenth of May; he enlisted for the term of Nine Months in to Captain William [Mitre's]  and Green was his Lieutenant and Col. Albert Regiment and General Ethan Allen's Brigade of Vermont Troops and was immediately mustered and marched through Bennington in Vermont and Cambridge N. Y. to Fort George at the Head of Lake George in N York state and there did Garrison duty at that fort and in the month of June there was a party of Brittish and
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Indians came up the Lake and landed and attacked the Garrison in the Fort about Sunrise in the morning and we repulsed them and killed and took more than thirty of them prisoners; and Richard Bailey a mess mates with this applicant was wounded in the Arm by a musket ball and the enemy then retreated and went down the Lake again.  and in the month of February 1780 he was verbally discharged by Captain White and then returned home to Guilford after doing Nine month and twenty days service and for such service I claim pension and that he was never was in any other battles than the one above mentioned and that he never received a written discharge and does not know of any documentary Evidence to prove his service by and does not know of any living witness to prove his service by or whose testimony he can procure and that he never served as a Substitute for any other person and that he was never drafted in the Militia and that the Rev Joshua Wills is a Clergyman residing near him and is well acquainted ith him and John Dye is his neighbor and can testify to his character and credibility for truth and their belief of his services and that belief is general in his neighborhood. and that since the war he has resided in the town of Guilford (aforesaid) in Vermont and then moved to Hosick in N York State and then to Brookfield in Madison County N York and then to Plainfield in Otsego
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County where he now resides and that he positively knows that he has done as much as Nine months and twenty days in the Revolutionary War

He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and
declares that his name is not on the Pension Rolls of the agency of any state.

Subscribed and sworn the day and year aforesaid.

Jedidiah Johnson

James C Walworth, a judge of Otsego County Court

We Joshua Wells a Clergyman residing in the town of Plainfield in the County of Otsego and State of New York and John Dye residing in the same place do Certify that we are well acquainted with Jedediah Johnson who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be seventy five years of age; that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion and from his old age and bodily infirmities that he is unable to attend the Courts

Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
James C Walworth, a Judge of Otsego County Courts

I James C Walworth the Judge mentioned in
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above application on Declaration do certify and declare it is my opinion after the investigation of the Matters 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 said Judge further certifies that it appears to him that Joshua Wells that has signed the preceding certificate is a respectable clergyman residing in the town of Plainfield aforesaid and John Dye who has also signed the same is a resident of the town of Plainfield and is a credible person and that their statements are entitled to Credit. And the said Judge doth further declare and certify that the said Applicant (Jedidiah Johnson) from Bodily infirmities is unable to attend the Courts. In testimony of the above

I have here unto set my hand this 28th day of January 1833
J. C. Walworth a Judge
of Otsego County Courts


(Jedidiah Johnson  23872)

State of New York
Otsego County ss. 

I Horace Lathrop Clerk of the said County do certify that James C Walworth before whom the preceding affidavits purports to have been sworn was at the date thereof a Judge of Otsego County Courts & that I am acquainted with his hand writing & verily believe his name subscribed to the said affidavits to be his own proper hand writing & signature

Witness my hand & seal of Office this 6th day of February 1833

Horace Lathrop
By the Deputy
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This will apply under the act of 3 March 1843 and 17th June 1844

State of New York
Madison County

On this Sixth day of January 1845 personally appeared before the Subscriber a Judge of Madison County Elizabeth Johnson a resident of Eaton in the County of Madison and State of New York aged Seventy four years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provisions made by the act of Congress passed March 3 1843 and June 17th 1844 entitled an act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows. That she is the widow of Jedediah Johnson who was a private in the Army of the Revolution and a pensioner under the act of Congress of 1832. She farther declares that she was married to said Jedediah Johnson on the sixteenth day of February in the year Seventeen hundred and ninety two at Guilford by William Bigelow JP.  That her husband the aforseaid Jedidiah Johnson died on the Eighteenth day of July one thousand eight hundred and forty three; that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service but the marriage took place previous to the first day of January seventeen hundred and ninety four at the time above stated. she further declares she has not me intermarried but continues the widow of said Jedidiah Johnson.

Elizabeth Johnson (her mark)

Sworn and subscribed on the day and year above  written before me

Sardis Dana Judge of Madison County Courts

I further certify that from some acquaintances and information derived from her acquaintances, she sustains a good character for truth and veracity.   That from old age and infirmity she was not able to  attend court and I further certify that the reason that the above named Elizabeth Johnson made
her mark instead of writing her name, was because she could not write.

Sardis Dana, the Judge of Madison County Courts
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State of New York
Madison County

Joseph French being duly sworn says he resides in Eaton County of Madison and State of New York in the same dwelling house with Elizabeth Johnson widow of Jedediah Johnson: that said Jedediah Johnson died in the same house on the 18th day of July one thousand eight hundred and forty three; that his widow the above named Elizabeth Johnson has not since intermarried but remains the widow of said Jedediah Johnson; that said Jedidiah Johnson was a pensioner of the noted State under the act of 1832

Joseph French

sworn and subscribed on this sixth day of January 1845 before me
Sardis Dana

State of New York
Madison County Clerks Office

I Zadock J. Bentley Clerk of the said County of Madison hereby certify that Sardis Dana Esqr. the Judge whose name is signed to the foregoing Jurats or affadavits and certificates at the time the same bear date a Judge of Madison County Courts duly appointed commissioned and qualified. And that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of such Judge and verily believe his signature aforesaid are respectively genuine. In witness whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and affixed my seal of office this 7th day of January 1845

Z J Bentley Clerk
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Copy of Record

Certificate of Marriage

Windham County

Guilford February 16th 1792

Therein the ordinance of Marriage was administered to Jedidiah Johnson and Elizabeth Perry, both of Guilford aforesaid.

William Bigelow, Justice Peace

The above is a true record.

Attest:  Wm Bigelow, Town Clerk

Guilford Vermont
Town Clerk's Office

November 23rd AD 1844

I hereby certify that the above is a true copy of record of marriage as recorded in this office in Vol 2nd, page 252 of Town and Land records

Attest, John Lynde Town Clerk

[illegible] Just learnt that an act was passed in June 1849 which would not admit of the application of Mrs. Johnson.  Have interlined this declaration to apply to the present case presuming there is not new forms for the case and that all the proof that could effecte the last act has been
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O. W. and N. Division,
3-525

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
Bureau of Pensions,
Washington, D. C.

In reply to your request of ____ received ____ for a statement of the military history of Jedidiah 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.

W.26679

DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT - LENGTH - RANK - OFFICERS - STATE

May 10, 1779 - 9 months 20 days - Private - Captain William White - Colonel Allen - VT

Battles engaged in: Ft George

Residence of soldier at enlistment:  Guildford, WIndham Co, Vt

Date of application for pension:  Jan 28, 1833.   This claim was allowed

Residence at date of application:  Plainfield, Otsego Co NY

Age at date of application:  born in Roxbury Mass in 1758

Remarks:  He married in Guilford VT Feb 16 1792, Elizabeth Perry. He died July 18, 1843 and she was allowed pension on an app ex Jan 6, 1845 while a resident of Eaton, Madison Co NY, aged 74 years


respectfully,
Commissioner.
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Rev

WIDOW

File No:  26679

Elizabeth Johnson

wid of Jedediah Johnson

pri, Rev War

Act:  Feb 2nd  '48

Index:  Vol A, Page 382
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1915 Oct 25: History to Mrs Caldwell Daniel 
Hester Civil War
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Elizabeth Johnson
NY

Suspended

Letter to Hon G Robinson, 20 July 1825

Letter to same, Marc 8, 1845

Letter to J Clark, May 1, 1845

Letter to same 17 Sep 1845

Lrt to Hon Wm Dula, Jany 8 '49

Act July 7  '38
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8493

New York - Albany

Elizabeth Johnson, widow of Jedidiah Johnson

who was a private in the Revo

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Inscribed on the roll at the rate of 32 dollars 22 cents per annum to commence on the 18th day of July, 1843
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Certificate of Pension issued the 2nd of March 1849 and sent to Hon Wm Duer, H of Rep

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[Acts of March 3, 1843, and June 17, 1844]

Recorded in Book A, Vol 2, Page 78
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Jedidiah Johnson, Otsego Co, NY - Act of June 1832

$32.22 per annum

To what time was he last paid?
GA

Pension Office
Feb 24, 1849

Died 18th July 1843
Paid to his death.  BLB
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State of Vermont

Secretary of State's Office
Montpelier August 2, 1845

I hereby certify that I have made search for proof of the Revolutionary service of Jedediah Johnson among the papers in this office, but find no proof thereof.

I also certify that I find no mention of any Colonel by the name of "Allen" before the year 1780 when Col Ira Allen and Col Ebenexer Allen are on the Rolls and elsewhere mentioned.  Said Ebenezer Allen was Major and commanded a detachment or detachments prior to 1780.

There does not appear the name of any Captain of the name of White, except of Potham White and there are no Rolls of his Company except for 1781.

The Revolutionary Papers and Payrolls in this office are not complete and this is more especially the fact as to the first years of the War.  Consequently there may have been service of Officers and privates of which the proof is not in this Office.

In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and affix the seal of this Office this 2nd day of August AD 1845.

Ferrand F Merrill
Deputy Secretary of State
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State of Vermont

Secretary of State's Office
Montpelier  February 15, 1845

I hereby certify that I have made examination among the Pay Rolls in this Office, and that the name of Jedediah Johnson is not on said Pay Rolls.

I further certify that there is no Pay Roll of Capt William White in this Office.

And I also certify that the Pay Rolls in this Office are supposed to be incomplete.

In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and affix the seal of this Office this 15th day 
February in the year of our Lord Christ 1845

Ferrand F Merrill
Deputy Secretary of State
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Brookfield 

Paid

Aug 13

James L Edwards, Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City DC

Aug 18, 1845

Add'l in case
Elizabeth Johnson
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Brookfield N York August 12th 1835

Dear Sir

Some time past I received a note from you on the subject of Elizabeth Johnson Claim as a pensioner for the service of her husband Jedidiah Johnson who was a pensioner under the act of 1832 requesting some information further from the Secretary of State of Vermont saying in substance that you presumed allthough the records was incomplete yet that
they were so nearly so that the secretary would give something more definite.  I included your letter to the secretary that he might see what was required. After waiting an unusal time I wrote him again when I received a note from him that he was searching their old papers & it would take him two or three weeks longer when he would give all the information he had
at the same time observed that those papers were very badly made & was not complete and the absence of the name of a soldier was not proof that he had not served but only 
presumption & it appeared evident there was much [illegible] of officers and privates of where there was no records at all especially in the early part of the war & what papers they had related to the service had been in wherever for fifty years when found in the [illegible].  I have just received the enclosed certificate which does not prove the service of Johnson neither does it disprove it.  It shows conclusively that Allen was an officer and  commandant at the time Johnson served but no rolls of his service prior to 1780 when he was Col. It therefore stand on Johnson's affidavit and his proof unspecified by the records and therefore trust you will be satisfied she is entitled to the small pension claimed which will be of the greatest consequence to her as she is a very worthy old lady but not
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in our County from [illegible] when she will end her days without this aid.  She is out of health and [illegible] of escape is this little pension.  I regret exceedingly that there old [illegible] records are relied on when the [illegible] of militia service in the early part of the was especially I have not the least [illegible] your intention is to do Justice in all cases but when the records are defective great injustice may be done by placing too much confidence in them in fact.  I believe I have not had a case where the husband was pensioned under the act of 1832 where the widow has not been referred to the state records for militia service and in nearly every case when the pension has been paid for the husband cut down to a trifle on rejected and two or three cases to less than 30 dollars per annum when I have not the least coube the service was sufficient for a full pension.  I do not fault your intention for justice but a prejudice generally does some times great injustice where a personal [illegible] remains it from [illegible]

Joseph Clark
Very respectfully yours

James L Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
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Washington
Decr 30 

Sir:

I enclose your leteer within [illegible] the case of the application of Elizabeth Johnson.

Be so good as to remit your answer on the [illegible] when decided to me

Respectfully your most,

W Duer
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Washingto:

Feb 22 '49

Sir:

At the request of a constituent , find your ltr enclosed

Respectfully

W Doer
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State of New York
Madison County

On this eighth day of December in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty eight personally appeared before the subscribed a Justice of the peace in and for the County aforesaid and state of
New York, Elizabeth Johnson a resident of the town of Eaton in the said County of Madison aged Seventy five years who being duly sworn according to law doth make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provisions made by the Joint Resolution of Congress relative to evidence in application for pensions approved July 1st 1848. She declares that she is the widow of Jedidiah Johnson who was a pensioner of the United States under the act of Congress of June 7th 1832 and who in his life time received a pension under said act at the rate of Thirty one dollars and some cents per annum. She further declares that as the widow of the said Jedidiah Johnson she made application to the pension department for a pension under the act of congress under the act of July 4th 1838, and the necessary proof of her marriage and the death of her husband which was acknowledged by James Edward Esq, Commissioner of pensions in a letter to Hon Orville Robinson which letter bears date at the pension office Jan. 20th 1845 with a promise to grant a pension under the act of March 3, 1843 and 17th June 1844 provided the alleged service of Jedidiah Johnson be duly certified by the Secretary of Vermont which evidence she has been unable to procure. She further declares that she has not intermarried since the death of her husband the said Jedidiah Johnson but remains his widow and that by existence of the above mentioned Joint Resolution of Congress she claims a pension of the same amount her husband drew per annum from the 18th July 1843, the day of the death of her said husband. under the act of March 3, 1843 and 17th June 1844 and the subsequent acts

Elizabeth Johnson (her mark)

Sworn and subscribed on the day and year last above written before me Horace Parmer, Justice of the peace

Witness Mary A White

I further certify the above declarant is personally known to me and that from old age and infirmity cannot write her name 

Horace Parmenter Justice of the peace
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State of New York
Madison County Clerk's Office

I, A Scott Sloan, Clerk of said County hereby certify that Horace Parmenter Esq before whom the within declaration on oath was taken and whose name is subscribed to the present thereof and to the certificate thereunder written was on the day of the date thereof a Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly elected and qualified.  That I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Justice and verily believe that his signature to the said jurat and certificate is genuine. 

In testimony whereof I ahve hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my official seal this 19th day of December 1848.

A Scott Sloan, Clerk
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Brookfield

April 18

April 22, 1848

Rec'd

Elizabeth Johnson

James L Edwards Esqr
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City DC
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Brookfield N York April 16th 1845
James L Edwards Esqr

Dear Sir

Early in the last sesion of Congress I sent the papers of Elizabeth Johnson for a pension for the services of her late husband who was a pensioner under the act of 1832 to Hon Orville Robinson, Rep from this district. The first answer from it was a note sent me by Mr Robinson including your letter to him dated Jan 20 1845 which closes with this remark. The date of the Marriage and identity are established; and a certificate will be issued under the act of March 3d 1843 and 17th June 1844 allowing a pension provided the alleged service of Jedidiah Johnson be duly certified by the Secretary of Vermont. He says he enlisted in May 1779
for 9 months in Capt Wm White Company in Col Allens Regiment and served 9 months and 20 days. On receipt of this I sent to the Secretary of Vermont and received a certificate that there was no pay roll of that time and that the records in that office were very imperfect.  I sent this likewise & lately received from him your note to him dated March 8th 1845 which
concludes as follows. Whilst this department is well aware that the Rolls in the Office of the Secretary of Vermont are incomplete, it is under the impression that they are so nearly entire as to render the [illegible] of an officers name from them very strong [illegible] evidence against his having served.  It is not known to this department nor believed that Col Allen commanded nine months in 1779. and before any testimony can be admitted to establish service under him for the time mentioned, the Department feels bound to require the production of proof as to the authority under which such service was rendered. On account of this note, I sent to the Secretary of Vermont, and have just received the following note from him

Secretary of States Office Vermont
Montpelier April 8th 1845

I have made further search in the case of Jedediah Johnson in pursuance of your letter of March 23.  There were two Allens who were Cols Ira and Ebeneezer.  Ebeneezer was also Capt.  I have made diligent serach but do not find any rolls of any company in either of their regiments before 1780 or any proof
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that they were cols before that year.  It may be that Mr Johnson called his superior Col because he was afterwards Col but at the time of his service was Major. I find rolls of Capt Lathom White in 1781 in Col Flethcher's Regiment such being the result I suppose you do not wish a certificate. 
 If you do I will send such as you direct.

Respectfully, F F Merrill
Deputy Secretary of State

This is all the information I can procure and you will decide the case as you think proper.  The widow is a very worthy old lady very poor without any relatives to support her and is now in our County poor house where her husband died.  She left it after his death but could not support herself and returned last fall & will close her existence there unless she receives this little pension with that she can support herself during the time it continues.  She resided in this town with her husband many years before he received his pension but at that time resided in Otsego County but a short distance from his residence in this town. he afterwards returned to this town
and remained here until he went to the poor house.  I know nothing of his proof of service but I can freely say I have no doubt of his being a Revolutionary soldier and serving as stated by him as near as he could recollect. he was allways considered an honest man but of small abilites, & if he had made a mistake of the company & Regiment both it would not be as strange as several other cases. I have had one of which I will give you under the act of 32. I made the papers of Nathaniel Hoskill who testified that he enlisted for nine month in Springfield Mass around the time, Capt and Col and where he served was one of the guards at Andrews [illegible]  West Point being continental. I sent his declaration which was actioned with a remark that it was not sustained by the records in the War Department for the evidence was required. I then provided the testimony of a Sergent & applicants brother that they enlisted with him and testified that they was with him nine months in the same company and regiement.  I sent their testimonry which was rejected and I gave it up but afterwards being positive he served as stated being a man of great abilities and was respectable, I wrote Thos W [illegible]
that they enlisted with him & testified that they was with him nine
month rent the testimony which was rejected & I give it up
but afterwards being portion he serve as stated being a man of great
abilities and good reputation I wrote No W R Fuller
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Representative who was well aquainted with Hoskill. he went into the War Office and searched the records and found his name inlistment and discharge exactly as Hoskill testified, only he was in another Regiment & you sent his certificate. he was a strong man yet could not tell his regiment when he claimed but one tour-- You are aware at this late day it is impossible to establish a claim by parole evidence & to be governed by state records would exclude nearly all, in this case it appears there seems such a Col who was at that time Major and probably commandant of action which might have made Johnson believe he was Col.  There is nothing strange in this.  I trust you will be satisfied that she is entitles to this little stipend, if not it settled to linger out her few remaining days in our poor house.  I think I have discharged my duty and done all in my power that positively be done.  I presume it will be. 

Please direct Joseph Clark, Brookfield N York

Very Respectfully your obedient servant

Joseph Clark
P.S. I wish as early in answer to this as consistant on account of her anxiety
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State of New York
County of Madison

On this 26th day of January 1849 personally appeared before the subscriber one of the Justices of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, it being a Court of Record, Elizebeth Johnson resident of Eaton in the County of Madison aged Seventy five years
who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed March 3d 1843 and 17th June 1844 and 2d of February 1848 and the Joint Resolutionof the 1st July 1848. granting pensions to certain widows of Revolutionary Soldiers. That she is the widow of Jedediah Johnson who was a private in Capt Whites company in Col Allens Regiment in the Vermont line and served nine months and twenty days as will appear by reference to the proof on file in the pension department for which he drew a pension of Thirty one dollars and some cents per annum during his life under the act of Congress of 1832. she further declares that she was married to the said Jedidiah
Johnson on the sixteenth day of February in the year seventeen hundred and ninety
and that her husband the aforesaid Jedidiah Johnson died on the eighteenth day of July one thousand eight hundred and forty three. that she was not married to him
prior to his leaving the service but the marriage took place previous to the first of January seventeen hundred and ninety four, at the time above stated. she further declares that she made application for a pension in 1844 and provided record evidence properly authenticated of her marriage and proof of the death of her husband which evidence was pronounced satisfactory by Mr Edwards in a letter to Hon Orville Robinson which letter bears date at the pension office January 20th 1845 with a promise to issue a certificate as soon as a Certificate from the Secretary of Vermont of her husband's service was reecived and she still remains his widow.

Elizabeth Johnson (her mark)

sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before me, Charles Mason, a Justice of the Supreme Court of the state of New York

I further certify that from old age and infirmity the above named Elizabeth Johnson cannot reasonably attend Court or write her name

Charles Mason, a Justice of the Supreme Court of the state of New York
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State of New York
Madison County Clerk's Office

I A Scott Sloan, Clerk of said county, do hereby certify that Charles Mason, Esq before whom the within affidavit purports to have been taken and whose name is subscribed to the jurat thereof, was on the day of the date thereof an acting Justice of the Supreme Court of the state of New York.  That I am acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe that his signature to said jurat is genuine.

in testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official seal this 13th day of February 1849

A Scott Sloan, Clerk
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11.597

Elizabeth Johnson

NY
Act July 7 '38

Married before 1794

July 18th '43

Rejected

Act 3 March 43 and 17 June 44 12 July 48

$132.22 annum

18 July 1843
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J L Edwards, Esq

Sir:

I herewith send you the application of Elizabeth Johnson which I wish you would examine with as little delay as may be and communicate the result

Respectfully yours

O Robinson

House of Reps
Jan 13 1845
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J L Edwards Esq

Dear Sir:

I herewith send you the certificate of the Secy of State of Vermont in regards to the services of Jedidiah Johnson whose widow Elilzabeth Johnson is making application for a pension and whose papers are on file.  Will you examine these papers and give me answer.

Respectfully yours

O Robinson

House of Reps
Mar 1, 1845