Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 7093, for Joseph Johnson, North Carolina
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[typed form, with handwritten responses]

[3-1776]

SERVICE
N.C.

Johnson, Joseph

NUMBER
S.7093

Carded
CONTENTS
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[typed form, with handwritten responses]

[left side] Georgia 32,206
Joseph Johnson decd [deceased]
of [blank] in the State of Geo. who was a Lt. in the Co. commanded by Captain [blank] of the [blank] commanded by [blank] in the N. Ca. line for 2 years

Deduct $240 per ann [annum] [Illegible] pd under act 1818 since Mar. 4. 1831

Inscribed on the Roll of Georgia at the rate of 320 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March 1831 & endg [ending] 23 May 1841 day of his death

Certificate of Pension issued the 12 day of Sep. 18[?] and sent to H. H. Sylvester Charlestown NC

Arrears to the 4th of [blank]
Semi=anl. [annual] allowance ending [blank]

{Revolutionary Claim}
{Act June 7, 1832}

Recorded by FL Swann, Clerk
Book E Vol. 6 Page 94
Payl [payable] to Hannah Sorrell, Joseph Johnson Danl Johnson, Morgan Johnson A. J. Johnson & Benj. J. Johnson

[right side] Letter to 3d Audr [Auditor] 29. Dec 184[paper torn] 
repd [reported?] See – let: to Agt. Sep. 12" 1844
let to H H Sylvester Dec 11 '45
Paid at Treasury under act 6 April, 1838, from 4th March, 1831, to the 23d day of May 1841. Agent notified 17 April, 1845. 
1883 Dec 1. Mrs. Hannah Sorrell that the increase exhausted all the provisions of the pension laws, as there was not then nor is there now any law granting the reversion of his pension to his children
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[typed form, with handwritten responses]

[left side] Georgia [crossed out - North Carolina] 

Joseph Johnson Lieut. North Carolina line in the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.

Inscribed on the Roll of North Carolina at the rate of 20 Dollars per month, to commence on the 9 of May 1818

Certificate of Pension issued the 11 of January 18” and sent to Hugh Potter Esquire Raleigh N.C.

Arrears to 4th of Sept 1818 $77.49
Semi-anl, all'ce [annual allowance] ending 
4 March 1819 120.
197.49

{Revolutionary claim,} 
{Act 18th March, 1818.} 

6 yrs Continued Fille Sept. 19 Somerset Coy [County]

[right side] Letter to Hon. J. C Alford 22 Feb 1840
Same person [Illegible] to Pen. Agent 17 June 1840
To Georgia from 4 March 1839. 27 June 1840. Agt. Notified [Illegible] to Hon J.C. Alford of House of Reps 
Paid at the Treasury under the Act of the 6th April 1838 from 4th March 1839 to 4 March 1840. Agt. notified 3d Decr [December] 1840

[written sideways] Notification to Thomas [Illegible] Refund pay 30 Oct 1820 Pittsburg, N Ca.
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[typed form, with handwritten responses]

TREASURY DEPARTMENT
Second Comptroller’s Office,
December 31st, 1845

Sir:

Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled “An Act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States,” and the third section of the Act of August 23, 1842, extending the time within which pensioners may receive their pensions from the pension agents, one of the six children of Joseph Johnson decd [deceased] a Pensioner on the Roll of the Georgia - Agency, at the rate of Three hundred & twenty Dollars [crossed out and Cents] per annum, under the law of the 7th June 1832. has been paid at this Department, from the 4th of March 1831, to the 23d May 1841. 

Respectfully, yours, 

Albion K. Parris
Comptroller.

To the COMMISSIONER OF PENSIONS, 
Present.
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State of Georgia} 
Troup County} Personally appeared in open Court Daniel Johnson of the County and State aforesaid and after being duly Sworn deposeth and Saith that to the best of his Knowledge and from the Records of Court and all other Concurring testimony that Joseph Johnson was married to Mary Cummings in the year eighteen hundred and one [1801] or thereabouts both living in Chatham County State of North Carolina at the time of their marriage.
He further states that Joseph Johnson volunteered his services in the Army of the United States in the year Seventeen hundred and seventy four [1774] or five and continued in said Service as first Lieutenant until the close of the war.
He further states that Joseph Johnson drew annually the sum of Two hundred and forty dollars [$240] from the time of the Pension Act of Eighteen hundred and Eighteen [1818] up to the fourth day of March Eighteen hundred and thirty nine [1839] and was residing at that time in Chatham County State of North Carolina.
He further states that on the Seventeenth day of March in the year Eighteen hundred and thirty nine [1839] he the said Joseph Johnson Removed from Chatham County State of North Carolina to Troup County State of Georgia and was regularly transferred from the pension Roll of North Carolina to the Agent for paying pensions in the State of Georgia and here Claimed and received from the Pension Agent in Savannah State of Georgia the above named sum from the fourth day of March Eighteen hundred and thirty nine [1839] up to the fourth day of September Eighteen hundred and forty [1840].
He further states that Joseph Johnson died on the twenty third day of May Eighteen hundred and forty one [1841].
He further states that no payment has been made since the death of Joseph Johnson. He also states that Mary Johnson wife of Joseph Johnson died on the twenty seventh day of September Eighteen hundred and forty one [1841].
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He further says that at the time of the death of Mary Johnson which was on the twenty seventh day of September Eighteen hundred and forty-one there was then and it is at this time living Six of the children of Joseph and Mary Johnson. 
He further states the following named Children of Joseph and Mary Johnson are yet living and was living at the time of their death all of lawful age to wit - Hannah Sorrell, Joseph Johnson, Daniel Johnson, Morgan Johnson, Andrew J Johnson and Benjamin J Johnson. 
He further states that Mary Johnson the wife of Joseph Johnson departed this life as before stated on the twenty seventh day of September Eighteen hundred and forty-one without being intermarried to another person after the death of her husband. He also states that Arris Sorrell of Chatham County North Carolina departed this life in the year Eighteen hundred and forty-two [1842] and that Hannah Sorrell his wife yet resides in Chatham County State of North Carolina.

[Signed] Daniel Johnson
Sworn to and Subscribed before us} 
this 4th September 1843}
J. W. Beall, JIC}
Daniel Ware, JIC}
John Douglass, JIC} 

Georgia}
Troup County} I John E Gillespie Clerk of the Inferior Court in afor Said [aforesaid] County Certify that the foregoing signatures are genuine and that they are acting Justices of said Court
Witness my hand & seal of office Septr [September] 4th 1843.
John E. Gillespie C.J.C.
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State of North Carolina} 
Chatham County} Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions Begun & held on Monday, 14th August 1820 

On this day of August 14th, 1820 personally appeared in open Court being a Court of record for the County and State aforesaid Joseph Johnson aged about Sixty Six years resident in the County of Chatham and State of North Carolina who being first duly sworn upon the Holy Evangelist of Almighty God according to Law, doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War that the said Joseph Johnston was appointed an Ensign in the year 1776 in the Company commanded by Captain Matthew Ramsey in the Regiment commanded by Col. John Williams in the Line of the State of North Carolina in the Continental establishment; that he continued to Serve in said Corps until about the year 1778; and the said Joseph Johnson still continued to serve in the Continental Army of the United States under the said Captain Matthew Ramsey & commanded as well as I can remember by Col. Thomas Armstrong until the peace between this Country & Gt [Great] Britain in 1781 at which time the said Joseph Johnson was held as a prisoner in [crossed out - Charleston So. Carolina] Wilmington N. Carolina. That he was engaged in the Battles of Stono [June 20, 1779], Cambden [sic, Battle of Camden, August 15-16, 1780], and Guilford [March 15, 1781] besides many other skirmishes with the Enemy and that he has no further evidence of
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of his services save that which was exhibited before his Honor Henry Potter at Raleigh Judge of the District Court North Carolina in the year 1818 and thence returned to the War Department at Washington City on which a pension was granted to the said Joseph Johnson commencing with the date of the aforesaid declaration before his honor Judge Potter and that he has regularly received his pension down to the fourth of March last 1820 commencing as well as I can State about May 1818. 
And I the said Joseph Johnson do solemnly swear that I was a resident Citizen of the United States on the 18th March 1818; & 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 as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled “An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land & naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War” passed on the 18th March 1818; and that I have not nor has any person for me in trust any property or securities, contracts or debts due to me; nor have I any income other than what is contained in the Schedule hereto annexed; and by me subscribed --
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Here follows a List of my property, I own no real estate to wit of personal one small heifer; Eight small Hogs; three grown Hogs; five small pigs, one pine chest, 1 pine Table; 3 old chairs; one Pot, 1 Dutch oven; some small articles of pewter & earthen Ware about the value of five dollars, one weeding hoe, one grubbing hoe, two old plow hoes, I have been in the habit of cultivating the Earth; but have been for some years unable to pursue it; That for some two or three years I have been in the habit of earning as far as I was able for my support the business of Shoemaking; but now from a loss of my eyesight am unable to do but very little at that business – 
I have a wife aged about forty five [45] years, a daughter Hannah aged about seventeen years; a son Joseph aged about fifteen years; a son Caswell aged about Twelve; Daniel about ten years, Morgan about seven or six years, Jackson about four, Jasper about two years old  -- I have a charitable neighbor who allows me to live on a small piece of Land – 

[Signed] Joseph Johnson
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Sworn to and declared on the 14th day of August 1820 before
N. Stedman {Seal}
Thomas Parish JP {Seal}
Thos. Clegg JP {Seal}
Joseph Johnson

I Thomas Ragland Clerk of the County Court of Chatham do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the Schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the Records of the Court aforesaid; and I do further certify that that it is the opinion of the Court aforesaid that the total amount of the Value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule is Thirty – dollars – 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the said Court on this 14th Augt [August] 1820
Test Thos. Ragland Clerk

Not numbered.
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June 7. 1832 
Declaration of 
Hannah Sorrell 
Heirs of Joseph Johnson 
Decd [deceased] 
[crossed out - Return to be made to James A. Craig Ruffins Mills]
H H Sylvester Orange Co N. Carolina
Present
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Declaration

In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7 1832

State of North Carolina} 
Chatham County} Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions 
November Term A.D. 1843.

On this the 15th day of November 1843, personally appeared in open Court before the Court of pleas & quarter sessions now sitting Hannah Sorrell, one of the children and heirs at Law of the late Joseph Johnson, a resident of said County of Chatham aged 41 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 act of Congress passed June 7, 1832. 
That her second father, Joseph Johnson aforesaid, some time in the year of 1776, to the best of her understanding, enlisted in the United States Service, and was Lieutenant in Captain Ramsey's Company of the 9th Regiment, and continued to serve as Lieutenant therein till some time in the spring of 1782, when he was regularly discharged. 
This declarant remembers of hearing her decd [deceased] father speak of being in the service under Capt. Ramsey, Col. Williams, Genl Cashell, Genl Gates & Akers. She further sets forth that to the best of her recollection and information her deceased father, then living in the County of Chatham aforesaid was admitted to a pension of $240 p. a. [per annum]under the act of Congress passed 18 March 1818. That her father was pensioned some time in 1819 under the last mentioned Act as Lieutenant, and was regularly paid his annuity at the Agency in Fayetteville ‘till the 4th of March 1839. Soon after receiving this last payment said Lieut. Johnson, Moved to, and settled in Troup County, State of Georgia, and was regularly (as this declarant understands & believes) transferred from the North Carolina Agency for paying pensions; to that in Savannah, State of Georgia, at which last named Agency her deceased father was paid from the 4th of March 1839 to the 4th of September, 1840, as appears from the evidence hereunto annexed. 
The said Hannah Sorrell Declarant as aforesaid, further set forth that, that she is informed the act of 1832, makes a more liberal provision for the officers & Soldiers of the Revolutionary army then that of the 18th March 1818 - and
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and that there is due the heirs of said Joseph Johnson, for his Services as Lieutenant in the North Carolina line. Army of the Revolution under the Act of 7 June, 1832 - $320 per annum. 
But as he decd [deceased] father recd [received] a stipend of $240. p. a. [per annum] there will be due the said heirs the amount of the difference between $240. p. a. [per annum] from March 4th 1831. and $320. to the 23d day of May, 1841, the day on which her father Lieut. Joseph Johnson aforesaid died. 
The said Hannah Sorrell declarant as aforesaid further states that her decd [deceased] father left surviving the following children. To wit, the declarant Hannah Sorrell, Joseph Johnson, Daniel Johnson, Morgan Johnson, Andrew J. Johnson, and Benjamin I Johnson, all of lawful age. 
The declarant further states that her father married a second time, and thinks it was in the year of 1801, or thereabout. to Mary Cummings and that her mother the aforesaid Mary died as above set forth in the year of 1841, and that the six above named heirs were then living. 
That as to further proof of her decd [deceased] Fathers Revolutionary services she refers the Commr [Commissioner] of Pensions to the proofs on file in that office. 
[signed] Hannah Sorrell
Sworn & Subscribed in open Court the day & year first above written. 
Witness
N. A. Stedman C.C.C.

And the said Court do hereby [Illegible] their opinion after the investigation of the matter. That the late Joseph Johnson was a Lieutenant in the North Carolina line and was admitted to a pension as set forth in the foregoing declaration under Act of Congress passed 18 March, 1818, - that said Lieut. Johnson pensioner removed from this County (Chatham), in 1839 & settled in Troup County, State of Georgia and died on the 23d day of May 1841, and that from the annexed evidence and from the evidence furnished this Court it appears that said Lieutenant Joseph Johnson left surviving him the Six following children, to wit: Hannah (who intermarried with Arris Sorrell), Joseph Johnson, Daniel Johnson, Morgan Johnson, Andrew J. Johnson and Benjamin I Johnson, all of Lawful age.
I further certify
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that satisfactory evidence was furnished said Court that the Declarant Hannah Sorrell is a credible person and her statement intitled to credit & belief. 
In testimony whereof, I Nathan A. Redman Clerk of the Court aforesaid, have hereunto set my hand & seal of office this 17 day of November in the year of 1843. 
N. A Stedman C. C C 

I further certify that the foregoing declaration after being read in open Court was approved, and, whereupon it was ordered by the Court that the Clerk certify the same to the War Department. 
November 17 1843 N. A. Stedman C. C. C.
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[left side] Wrote him & [into?] the certificate the 7th Sept 1808

[right side] [crossed out Joseph Johnson]
Henry Potter, Esqr. Judge, Raleigh, Wake county, North Carolina.
Joseph Johnson, Lieut. North Carolina line, Revolutionary Claim Admitted. The North Carolina rolls in the pension office, are in a mutilated state, and the part which should contain the name of the applicant is torn out. Satisfactory testimony is required, under the seal of the Court, that the certificates are genuine, and given by officers of the N. Carolina line, during the revolutionary war. The judge is desired to certify, under the seal of the Court, that he is satisfied the claimant is in reduced circumstances and in need of the support of his [cut off]
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District of North Carolina SS
On this Ninth day of May 1818, before the Subscriber, one of the Judges of the United States for the District aforesaid personally appeared Joseph Johnson, age Sixty-three years, resident in Chatham County in the said District, who being by me first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the provision made by the late act of Congress, entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land & naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war:" That he the said Joseph Johnson, in the year 1776, obtained a commission of Ensign, in the State of North Carolina, in the company commanded by Captain Matthew Ramsay [Matthew Ramsey] of the Ninth Regiment, of the North Carolina line, on the Continental establishment, in the war of the Revolution; that he continued to serve under said commission for some months, when, in the year 1777, he received a commission of Lieutenant, under the same Captain, and served as such, and the said service of the United States, in said Regiment & in the Sixth Regiment, to which he was transferred, until the end of the war, when his service ended of course, in the State of North Carolina -- that he was in the battles of Gates defeat [Battle of Camden, August 15-16, 1780], Stono [June 20, 1779], & Guilford [March 15, 1781], and that he is in reduced circumstances, & stands in need of the assistance of his country for support -- and that he has no other evidence now in his power, of his said services, except the papers now exhibited. 
Sworn to & subscribed before me,} 
the day & year aforesaid.} [signed] J. Johnson
H. Potter, DJUSNC
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I Henry [Potter] Judge as aforesaid, do certify, that it appears to my satisfaction, that the said Joseph Johnson did serve as an officer in the revolutionary war, as stated in the preceding declaration, against the common enemy, for the term of nine months, on the Continental establishment; and I now transmit the proceedings & testimony taken & had before me to the Secretary for the war Department, pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress. Raleigh 11th May 1818.
H. Potter DJUSNC 

I further certify, that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Joseph Johnston is in reduced circumstances & stands in need of the assistance of his country for support. And I now transmit all the proceedings & testimony taken & had before me, to the Sec.y Secretary] for the war Department. 
Raleigh 1st Jany 1819
H. Potter DJUSNC
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[typed form, with handwritten responses]

Rev. and 1812 
Wars Section 

AWF/HMM Own

May 2, 1930.

Mrs. Myrtle D. Loy 
Plainfield Indiana. 

Dear Madam: 

I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim S. 7093, it appears that Joseph Johnson, in 1776, was commissioned ensign in Captain Matthew Ramsay's Company, Colonel Williams' North Carolina Regiment; in 1777 was commissioned lieutenant in the same company in Colonel Armstrong's North Carolina Regiment. He was in the battles of Stono, Gates' Defeat and Guilford; and in 1781 he was a prisoner at Wilmington, North Carolina, no details as to the cause of being a prisoner or as to his release. He served until May 15, 1782. 
He was allowed pension on his application executed May 9, 1818, at which time he was living in Chatham County, North Carolina, aged sixty-three years. 
He died May 23, 1841 in Troup County, Georgia, having moved there in 1839. 
The soldier married, in 1801, Mary Cummings. They were both then of Chatham County, North Carolina. She was his second wife, the name of his first wife is not given. The widow, Mary, died September 27, 1841. 
In 1820 the soldier referred to the following children: 
Hannah aged seventeen years
Joseph " fifteen "
Caswell " twelve "
Daniel " ten "
Morgan " six " or seven years
Jackson " four "
Jasper " two "
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In 1843 the following children were living: 
Hannah, widow of Arris Sorrell, 
Joseph Johnson 
Daniel Johnson 
Morgan Johnson 
Adrew [Andrew] I. or J. Johnson 
Benjamin I. or J. Johnson. 

Very truly yours, 

EARL D. CHURCH 

Commissioner.
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[typed form, with handwritten responses]

[left side] 7093
Revy War 
INVALID

File No. 7093
Joseph Johnson
Sergt. Rev War

Act: June 7th, 1832
Index: - Vol. 1st, Page 196

[Arrangement of 1870.]

[right side on a slant] 
1929 Jan. 18 – Hist. to Hon. Carroll Reece for S. H. Thompson See letter in James Johnston W.7935 awf.
1930 – May 2 – Hist. to Mrs. Myrtle D. Loy awf
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35840 
Joseph Johnson 
Decd [deceased]
Georgia 
Act June 7th 32 
--- 
2 years Lieut [Lieutenant]
--- 
$320 per an [annum]
---
from 4th March 31 to May 23d ‘41, 
Certificate issued in favor of Hannah Sorrell, Joseph Johnson, Daniel Johnson, Morgan Johnson, Andrew J. Johnson & Benjamin J. Johnson deducting what has been paid under act 1818. 
H. H. Sylvester Esq Washington
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State of No. Carolina Secretary's Office 25th Decr [December] 1818
I do hereby certify that it appears from the musterroll [muster roll] of the No. Carolina Continental line that Joseph Johnston a Lieutenant was in the service of the United States on the 28th November 1776 and served until the 15th of May 1782 in the 9th Regiment in Capt. Ramsey Company. 
Given under my hand the date above
Wm. Hill Secretary of State
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John C. Calhoun Esqr [Esquire]
Secretary at War 

Dr Sir
Inclosed [Enclosed] is the declaration of Joseph Johnson who is a pensioner under government and he now applies under the act of Congress of May 1820. Should his case be entered under that act of Congress & his future pension allowed he requests that you would on a line directed to Haywood Chatham N. C. that he may know if requisite to apply at the Loan office Fayetteville, N. C.as early as such will be much desired if Convenient - Remain Dr. Sr
yours Obedient Servant
Respect
Jno A. Ramsey
Chatham N.C. 4th Sept 1820
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[typed form, with handwritten responses]

TREASURY DEPARTMENT
Second Comptroller’s Office,
November 25th, 1840

Sir:

Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled “An Act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States,” Joseph Johnson, - a Pensioner on the Roll of the Georgia Agency, at the rate of Twenty Dollars and --- Cents per [crossed out – annum] month, under the law of the 18th March 1818, has been paid at this Department from the 4th of March 1839 to the 4th Sept. 1840.

Respectfully, yours,

Albion K. Parris
Comptroller.

To the Commissioner Of Pensions,
Present.
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Pension Office 
[Margaritaville?] June 22d 1840 

James L Edwards Esquire
Commissioner of Pensions

Sir—
Joseph Johnson a pensioner under the Act of 1818, at Twenty dollars per month was paid at this Office to the 4th March 1839. 
I am sir – 
very respectfully
Your obt svt [Obedient Servant]
[James Huske?] Agency
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War Department 
Pension Office 
22d Feb 1840 

Sir
In answer to your letter of the 18th inst. in the case of Joseph Johnson, a pensioner under the Act of the 18th March 1818, I have to inform you, that the enclosed printed instructions should be strictly complied with, in order to his being transferred from the North Carolina to the Georgia Agency. 
I have the honor to be 
Very Respectfully 
Your Obt Sert [obedient servant]
J L Edwards

Hon. J. C. Alford 
House of Representatives
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House representatives 18th Feb 1840

Dear Sir, I have in my possession, a pension certificate in favor of Lieutenant Joseph Johnson of North Carolina granted 17th Jany [January] 1819. he has removed to Georgia and desires to receive his pay in that State, his pay as believed Considerably in account of his removal, his certificate is so near worn out I cannot trust it by mail and therefore desire a personal interview at same day soon that will suit your convenience
I hope then will be no obstacles found in this matter as Lieutenant Johnson is old and his claim indisputable
Respectfully 
J C [Sefore?]
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State of North Carolina Chatham County Personally came before me this Francis Drake one of the acting Justices of the peace in and for the State and County aforesaid James Christian and maketh oath that he was well acquainted with Joseph Johnson during the revolutionary war & since, and of his services during that period; He states he was himself a soldier under Mathew Ramsey Captain and the said Joseph Johnson Lieutenant of said Company; that the said Joseph Johnson acted as a Lieutenant under Mathew Ramsey in the Ninth regiment of the North Carolina Continental Line; that he believes some time in the year 1777 the said Johnson and Company marched from Hillsboro N. Carolina to Halifax N. C. and from thence to Fredericksburgh [Fredericksburg] in Virginia and thence to Alexandria Va. where he believes he was ordered on to the South for the purpose of recruiting men in the regular service and believes the said Johnson Served faithfully his Country in that capacity for Nine month & longer. The said deponent maketh oath that he is in no wise interested in the said Johnson in getting a pension from government; that he has ever known the said Johnson since that period that he is now in reduced circumstances of life & stands in need of his country; assistance for Support - Given under my hand & seal this 14th November AD 1818
Sworn to & subscribed before me this day 
[signed] James Christian {Seal}
Francis Drake J. P.
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State of North Carolina Chatham County I do hereby certify that the above affidavit of James Christian has have freely & voluntarily made before me this day & that I believe the said James Christian is a man of faith & upon oath is entitled to full credit. Given under my hand & seal this 14th Nov 1818. 
Francis Drake J. P. {Seal} 

I hereby certify that I am well acquainted with the within applicant Joseph Johnson for a Pension; that I have known for a great number of years; that I always, had understood he was an officer in the Regular service of our Country during the war of the Revolution and that he is a man in the most reduced circumstances of Life. 
Given under my hand & seal the 14th Novr [November] 1818
Francis Drake J.P.
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State of No Carolina} 
Chatham County} I Thomas Ragland Clerk of the County Court of pleas & quarter Sessions for the County of Chatham do hereby certify that Francis Drake person whom the within deposition of James Christian was taken is an acting Justice of the peace in & for the County of Chatham & to whose official acts full faith & credit is due & should be given in testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & the seal of office the 20th of November 1818 
T. Ragland Clk [Clerk]
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State of North Carolina Chatham County This day came before me Zachariah Harman one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the State and county aforesaid Thomas Ragland Esquire Clerk of the Court of the Pleas & Quarter Sessions for the said County and maketh oath that he was acquainted with Joseph Johnson of the aforesaid County during the Revolutionary War and Since, that during the year 1777 and 1778 he was frequently with the said Johnson, that the said Joseph Johnson was acting in the Ninth Regiment of the Continental line as a Lieutenant in the company commanded by Captain Matthew Ramsey; that he never saw the Commission of the said Johnson but well remembers he was always understood to act in that capacity – and was duly obeyed as such – I also remember that during this time a company of Nine months men of which the said Johnson appeared to have a command or somewhere near about it that was ordered to march to the Town of Peytonsburgh [Peytonsburg] in Virginia there to rendezvous and believe they did go on to Virginia and then returned; after this I left the company myself at Moon's Creek but understood that the said Johnson was ordered to march on the southward – it is hereby intended that the said Thomas Ragland maketh this statement to the best of his recollection; and he always understood that the said Johnson was in service of his country during the greater part of the War – 
That the said Deponent is no wise interested in the said Johnson getting a pension from government; and he believes from his knowledge of the circumstances of the said Johnson that they are quite reduced & that he stands in need of his country's assistance for support. – 11th Novr [November] 1818. 
Sworn to & subscribed in the presence of 
Zach. Harman, JP 
Thos Ragland
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State of N Carolina}
Chatham County} I Thomas Ragland Clerk of the County Court of pleas & quarter Sessions for County of Chatham do Certify That Zachariah Harman before whom the within deposition was taken is an acting Justice of the peace in and for the County of Chatham & to whose official acts full faith & credit is due & should be given 
In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & the Seal of office the 20th of November 1818
T. Ragland Clk [Clerk]
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Georgia} 
Muscogee County} Personally came before me Daniel Higdon [W25769] who being duly sworn deposeth and saith that Lieut. Joseph Johnston volunteered in the revolutionary war in the year seventeen hundred and seventy four [1774] or five and continued until the end of the war and the witness further deposeth and saith that the said Lieut. Joseph Johnston was married in the year Eighteen hundred and one [1801] or thereabouts to Mary Cummings both of Chatham County North Carolina and continued there until the said Joseph Johnston removed to Georgia I saw him in Troupe County Georgia in Eighteen hundred and Thirty nine [1839]. 
Sworn to and subscribed before me in office this August the eighteenth day Eighteen hundred and forty three [1843]. 
Daniel [his X mark] Higdon

James W. Massey J P 
Georgia} 
Muscogee County} I Nelson M Lester Clerk of the Inferior Court of said County do hereby certify that James W Massey whose name appears to the above affidavit is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County and was at the time of signing the same and that full faith and credit ought to be had and given to his attestations as such. 
Given under my hand and private seal there being no seal of office this nineteenth day of August Eighteen hundred and forty three 
Nelson M Lester Clk.I.C.
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Georgia}
Muscogee County} I Josephus Echols Shall a justice of the Inferior Court of said County do hereby certify that Nelson McLister whose name appears to the within certificate is Clerk of the Inferior of said County and that full faith and credit ought to be and given to his attestations as such 
Given under my hand this 19th day of August 1843
Josephus Echols J J.C.
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State of Georgia} SS
Troup County}
On the twentieth of April in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred and forty [1840] before the Subscriber a Justice of the peace in and for said County of Troup, Personally appeared Joseph Johnson, who on his oath declares that he is the same person who formerally [formerly] belong to the company commanded by Captain Matthew Ramsey -- in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Thomas Armstrong -- in the service of the United States, and that his name was placed on the pension Roll of the State of North Carolina, from whence he has lately removed, & that he now resides in the State of Georgia where he intends to remain, and wishes his pension be there payable in future, the following are his reasons for removing from the State of North Carolina to the State of Georgia, Viz. That in consequence of age and bodily infirmity he was induced to have North Carolina and move to Georgia where his sons reside, and that he may receive their aid assistance and protection – 
Sworn to & Subscribed before me
[Signed] Joseph Johnson
Eli C. Joiner J.P.
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State of Georgia} 
Troup County} S. S.
The this the twentieth day of April Eighteen Hundred and forty I Eli C Joiner a Justice of the peace for said County do hereby certify that Joseph Johnson hath this day appeared before me and taken the Oath of Identity as a pensioner of the United States, and that the foregoing Signature purporting to be his is genuine.
Given under my hand and seal the day and year above mentioned
Eli C. Joiner J.P. {Seal}

State of Georgia} SS. 
Troup County}
On the twentieth day of April Eighteen Hundred and forty before the Subscriber a Justice of the peace for said County of Troup. Personally appeared Peter Farrar --- who on oath deposeth and Saith Joseph Johnson who hath this day appeared before Eli C Joiner a Justice of the peace for said County to take the oath of Identity is the Identical person described in the foregoing affidavit. 
P. Farrar
Sworn to & Subscribed before me 
Eli C Joiner J.P.
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State of Georgia} SS 
Troup County} This the Twentieth day of April Eighteen Hundred and Forty I Eli C Joiner a Justice of the peace for said County of Troup and State aforesaid do hereby certify that Peter Farrar --- who hath this day made Oath before me to the Identity of Joseph Johnson is a person of veracity and character, and that the foregoing Signature purporting to be his is Genuine.
Given under my hand and seal this the day and year last above mentioned. 
Eli C Joiner JP {Seal}

State of Georgia Troup County 
Clerks Office Inferior Court
April 20th 1840 
I Wiley H. Sims Clerk of the Inferior Court of Troup County do hereby certify that Eli C Joiner who has attested and signed the foregoing affavit [affidavits] and certificates is a Justice of the peace in and for said County, that due faith and credit should be had to his attestation and signature as such that the signatures above purporting to be his is genuine.
Given under my hand and seal of Office the day and year last above mentioned. 
W. H. Sims Clk. 
Infr. [Inferior] Court Troup County
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[stamp] U. S. PENSION NOV 30 1883 OFFICE
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Nc to Geo. Lt 
Geo 1832. 32. 206 [crossed out – wid. 1883 4369] died May 31. 1831 7093 

Gulf, N.C. 
Nov. 26" 1883. 

Hon. Wm. W. Dudley, 
Washington, D. C. 

Sir,

I am the daughter of Joseph Johnson, he was a Captain in the Revolution War please Let me know by return mail what my chance is for a pension now, as I have got some one severl [several] years ago 
Respectfully 

[signed] Hannah Sorrell 
"Gulf”, 
Chatham Co., 
North Carolina
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Washington Dec 20 1843

Sir

I enclose herewith the declaration for pension under the act of July 7 1838, of Mary Wolf ,Lucy Newsom, Martha Smith, Nancy Flinn. and Barbary Tuttle of N.C. 
Also the application of the heirs of Joseph Johnson a pensioner formerly on the NC Agency but late of Georgia, for arrears of pension under the Act of June 7 1832. 
And the declaration of Amy Farrar of NC under the act of March 3 1843. 

Please report to me 

I am Sir Respectfully
H H [Illegible] 

Hon J L Edwards
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Plainfield Ind. 
Feb. 28, 1930 

Adm. of Pensions, 
Washington D. C.

Dear Sir,

Would like the military record of Joseph Johnston (or Johnson) 1st Lieutenant of 1st North Carolina Regiment Revolutionary War. 
The War Dept. records are far for complete, & it was suggested the Pension Dept. might throw additional light on the subject. 
It is known he was in the Battle of Guilford Court House. 
He was commissioned Feb. 1st 1779 & served to close of war. 
Thanking you in advance for any further information. 
Yours Respectfully
Myrtle D. Loy
(Mrs.)

[circular stamp] PENSION MAR 1 1930 U. S. OFFICE
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[typed form, with handwritten responses]

Awf

From the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S.7093, it appears that Joseph Johnson, in 1776, was commissioned Ensign in Captain Matthew Ramsay's Company, Colonel Williams' North Carolina Regiment; in 1777, was commissioned Lieutenant in the same company in 

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[typed form, with handwritten responses]

in Colonel Armstrong's North Carolina Regiment. He was in the battles of Stono, Gates' Defeat and Guilford, and in 1781, he was a prisoner at Wilmington, North Carolina, no details as to the cause of being a prisoner or as to his release. He served until May 15, 1782. 
He was allowed pension on his application executed May 9, 1818, at which time he was living in Chatham County, North Carolina, aged sixty-three years. He died, May 23, 1841 in Troup County, Georgia, having moved there in 1839. 
The soldier married in 1801, Mary Cummings, they were both then of Chatham County, North Carolina. She was his second wife, the name of his first wife is not given. The widow Mary died, September 27, 1841. 
It does not appear that the soldier or his widow ever lived in Greene County, Tennessee. 
In 1820, the soldier referred to the following children: Hannah, aged seventeen years; Joseph, aged fifteen years; Caswell, aged twelve years; Daniel, aged ten years; Morgan, aged six or seven years; Jackson, aged four years; and Jasper, aged two years.

[written sideways] See Misc corresp [correspondence] for Mrs. F. E. Bartley Awf

In 1843, the following children were living: Hannah, Widow of Arris Sorrell; Joseph Johnson, Daniel Johnson, 

[written on bottom] The 1" of this letter in James Johnston W. 7935 - addressed to Hon. Carroll Reece -

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Morgan Johnson, Andrew I. or J. Johnson, and Benjamin I. or J., Johnson. 

Very truly yours 

WINFIELD SCOTT 
Commissioner.

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