Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 1436, for James Johnson, Massachusetts
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
Mass.
N.H.

Johnson, James
...................Anna

NUMBER
W. 1436
B.L.Wt. 10296-160-55

CONTENTS
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9032

BRIEF in the case of James Johnson ["of" stricken out]
Salisbury  Merrimack Cy in the State of New Hampshire
(Act 7th June, 1832.)

1.  Was the declaration made before a Court of a Judge?  a Court

2.  If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  ------

3.  How old is he?  72

4.  State his service, as directed in the form annexed.

[Column 1]
Period.
[1]  75-Dec -- Feby 76
[2]  76-June or July -- Dec'r.
[3]  77----------------------
[4]  77 July or Aug't. -- Sept or Oct
[5]  78 Aug't. --- Oct ---
[6]  79 July ---Jany 1780
[7]  80---------Apl or May  '81

[Column 2]
Duration of Service.
Years,...............Months,..................Days.
[1]---------------2--------------------
[2]--------------26--------------------
[3]------------------------------15 or 20
[4]--------------------------------27
[5]---------------2----------------0
[6]---------------6--------------------
[7]---------------6--------------------

[Column 3]
Rank.   As a
[1]  private
[2]  -- " --
[3]  -- " --
[4]  -- " --
[5]  -- " --
[6]  Corporal
[7]  Private

[Column 4]
Names of General and field Officers under whom he served.  ["Gen" stricken out]
[1]  Col. Webb -- Capt Connor
[2]  Col Wyman -- Capt Sheppard
[3]  Capt Webster & Col Gerrish
[4]  Capt   do------Col. Stickney
[5]   do----do-
[6]  Capt Rennels   Col Mooney
[7]  Capt Lunt   Col Tupper

5.  In what battles was he engaged?  none   12 days per rule of service

6.  Where did he reside when he entered the service?  Salisbury

7.  Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls?  no living witnesses

8.  Are the papers defective as to form or authentication?  and if so, in what respect?-----------------

I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
H.G. Eastman
Examining Clerk.

---0 per roll of service

X  father of Dan'l Webster
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9032

BRIEF in the case of James Johnson ["of" stricken out] 
Salisbury  Merrimack Cy in the State of New Hampshire
(Act 7th June, 1832.)

1.  Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge?  a Court

2.  If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  ----

3.  How old is he?  72

4.  State his service, as directed in the form annexed.

[Column 1]
Period. 
[1]
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State of New Hampshire
County of Merrimack SS.

On this seventeenth day of April in the year Eighteen hundred and fifty five personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace in and for the State and County aforesaid Anna Johnson aged eighty five years a resident of Hopkinton in said County who being duly sworn according to law declares that she is the widow of James Johnson who was a soldier in the War of the Revolution and a pensioner of the United States at the rate of Eighty Two Dollars per annum under the Act of June 7 1832 and that his name was on the Roll of the Concord N.H. Pension Agency.  that she is now in receipt of a pension at the same rate per annum that her said husband drew, under the Act of Feb 3d 1853 and that his name is now on the Roll of the Concord Agency aforesaid:  that she refers to the evidence filed in the Pension Office in support of the claim of her said husband and herself under the Acts of Congrefs before named for proof of her said husbands Service of his death and of her marriage to him:  that She Still remains a widow.

She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the Bounty Land to which
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she may be entitled under the Act approved March 3d 1855--
Anna   x her mark   Johnson
Witness
Moses Colby
William Webber

We Moses Colby and William Webber residents of Hopkinton in the County of Merrimack & State of New Hampshire upon our oaths declare that the foregoing declaration was Signed and acknowledged in our presence by the said Anna Johnson and that we believe from the appearance and Statements of the applicant that she is the identical person she represents herself to be and that we have no interest in his claim.
Moses Colby
William Webber

The foregoing declaration and affidavit were sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and year first above written--and I certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons--that the claimant is the person she represents herself to be & that I have no interest in this claim.
Horace Chase   Justice of the Peace
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No  296

Rev Army
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April 2. 1853
__________________________
Appl. of Anna
Johnson widow of
James--
Merrimack Co.
N.H.
______________________
1941

Act 3d Feby: 1853
$82.00 Per Annum
Commencing 3d Feb:  1853

Revy:
____________________

S.D. Stevens
Concord
N.H.

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
Pension Office, Official Business
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James Johnson

Affidavits of
Thomas Hills
Benj'a Pettengill
Abr'm Fifield
Joseph Little
Friend Little
& John Bailey
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Benj'n Pettengill

1778
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I John Baley of Alexandria in the County of Grafton in the State of Newhampshire depose and Say that James Johnson of Sailsbury in Said State and my self Enlisted into the Continental Service in the year 1780 and did a Tower for the town of Malden in the State of Massachusetts  we pased muster before Justin Ealy at Springfield in Said State of ["Newhampshire" stricken out] Massachusetts in September folowing we marched to west point and joined the tenth Massachusetts regiment Commanded by Colonel Benjaman Tupper  we Served together in said regiment the full term of the months for which i never knew  That Said Johnson ever receved any ["pay" stricken out] wages we both belonged to Captain Lunts Company
John Baley

State of Newhampshire
Grafton  fs    November 16th 1831

personly Came John Baley and made oath that the above affadavit by him Subscribed is true 
before me  Wm. Crawford  Jus Peace

I hereby Certify that I am well acquainted with the above named John Baley and I Consider him a Credible wittness
Wm. Crawford   Jus Peace
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Concord N.H.  April 25 1855.

Sir:

I herewith forward the applications of Anna Johnson widow of James, Abigail Chadwick widow of John and Molly Chase widow of Samuel for bounty land warrants under the act of March 3d 1855.

I am very respectfully
Your Obt Servt
S D Stevens

Hon LP Waldo
Comm'r of Pensions
Washington
D.C.
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Johnson