Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 4454, for James Johnston, New Jersey
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(8-1776)

SERVICE | NUMBER
New Jersey | Johnston, James | S.4454

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CONTENTS
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I, John N. Cumming, who was an officer in the Revolutionary Army from Oct. 1775 to the conclusion of the war, do certify that James Johnson of the Crossroads of Cumberland was enlisted in Oct. 1775 in the company commanded by the late Governor Rich'd Howell & in which company I was First Lieutenant. In the year 1777, I commanded a company & James Johnson was commissioned as ensign and resigned the following November, having been more than two years in the army and I am willing to declare the above under oath. Given under my Hand at Newark, New Jersey, this 31st day of March 1818.
s/ J.N. Cumming, late Lieutenant Col(onel), Comm(andant) Jersey Battalion, Revolutionary Army
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The property in the 1st Schedule was valued at $523.33 but the real estate which was estimated at $400 was mortgaged for a bona fide debt of greater amount than the valuation, subject to be foreclosed at any moment.

By a 2nd Schedule, it appears that all his property has been given up to his credit and that he is not worth one cent.

68 yrs. old, a helpless wife & one daughter, aged 32. Not well.
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S.F.4454
James Johnston
N.J.
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Ensign James Johnson of Col. Shreeve's Regiment is discharged from further service in the American Army at his own request. Head Ens(ign) Nov. 15, 1777.

By command,
s/ Rob't H. Hamson Sec(retary)
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Cumberland County, New Jersey; Act of 1820.

I certify that I have sometimes visited & attended to the case of Elizabeth, wife of James Johnston, of this County, who has been in a painful & distressed situation for about two years past & the greater part of that time confined to bed. Her nervous system has been much affected & she is now greatly debilitated.

Together with a slight degree of paralysis, she often labors under strong spasmodic & hysterical affections. Latterly, the symptoms are frequently so distressing that she finds no rest but by a free use of anti-spasmodic & opiate medicines. Upon the most deliberate consideration of her case, I cannot discern any good reason to hope for an effectual relief of her complaints but by death, which may yet be sometime distant.
s/ Eben. Elmer
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I, Ebenezer Seeley, Clerk of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas of the County of Cumberland and State of New Jersey, do hereby certify that on the Twenty fifth day of September One Thousand Eight Hundred and Twenty, James Johnston made & executed an assignment of all his estate, both real and personal, to Jacob Shull & Lucius Q.C. Elmer, Esquires, for the use and benefit of all his creditors pursuant to an Act of the Legislature of the State of New [Jersey] entitled, "An act to secure to creditors an equal and just division of the estates of debtors, who convey to assignees for the benefit of creditors," passed February 23rd 1820, which said assignment is duly recorded in the Clerk's Office of Cumberland County. In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my Seal of Office the Twenty third day of June One Thousand Eight Hundred and Twenty three.
s/ Eben. Seeley, Clerk

A certified copy of the assignment was forwarded to the Sec(retary) of War with Mr. Johnston's last petition.
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Cumberland Court of COMMON PLEAS, held Bridgeton in and for the County of Cumberland on Tuesday the Seventeenth day of July in the year of our Lord Eighteen Hundred and Twenty one.
PRESENT, s/ James Clark

James D. Westcott and John Mulford, Esquires, Judges of the Pleas.

James Johnston appeared before the Court and prayed the benefit of the Laws of the State of New Jersey, made for the relief of persons imprisoned for Debt, agreeably to the prayer of his Petition, presented at the last Term. AND the said James Johnston, having exhibited to the Court an account of all his estate, both real and personal, either in possession, reversion or remainder, together with an inventory of all his deeds, bonds, notes, books of account, vouchers and specialties whatsoever, with the sums due thereon, and a list of all his creditors with the amount of debts due to them, and being examined in open Court on Interrogatories, touching and concerning the disposition of his estate, and the truth and fairness of the account and inventory so as aforesaid exhibited and having in legal form and under the direction of the Court executed an assignment of all his estate, both real and personal, whatsoever and wheresoever, for the use of his creditors, to Ebenezer Elmer, a judicious and responsible freeholder of the said county of Cumberland and filed the said assignment in the office of the Clerk of this Court - And the Court being satisfied that the conduct of the said James Johnston hath been fair, upright and just, and that he hath in all things complied with the Acts of the Legislature of New Jersey, passed for the relief of persons imprisoned for Debt: do therefore order and direct that the said James Johnston be discharged from the custody of the Sheriff of the county of Cumberland pursuant to the provisions of the before mentioned acts.

I, the Subscriber, Clerk of said Court DO CERTIFY the foregoing to be a true Copy of the Original entry in the Minutes of said Court. In testimony whereof, I have subscribed my name and affixed the Seal of said Court hereunto [crossed out: the day and year above written] June 16, 1823.
s/ Eben. Seeley, Clerk
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Rev(olutionary) War
4454
INVALID.
File No. 4454
James Johnston
Ensign, N.J. line

Act: Mar. 18th/'18
Index -; Vol. A; Page 195.
{Arrangement of 1870.}
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Real estate valued at $400 is mortgaged for bona fide debt of a greater amt. than its valuation, subject to be foreclosed at any moment.

Sched. under act Mar: 1823 dated 23rd June 1823. Nothing.

States that Jacob Shull & Lucius Q.C. Elmer were appointed commissioners to sell his real & personal estate & that everything that he had was sold on the 27 Mar. 1821 & that has since availed himself of the benefit of the insolvent [illegible]; a certificate of his having taken the benefit of the insolvent & of his property having been disposed of properly authenticated is furnished.

Aged 70 yrs., in wheelwright; unable to pursue it in consequence of infirmities.

s/ Ebenezer Seeley, Esq.
[illegible]

Johnston, James
N.J. S.4454
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Ensign James Johnston.
Petition & schedule.