Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 26533, for John Johnson, Massachusetts
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Service
Mass.  
Johnson, John  
Number W26533
Tibbetts, Anna   
Tibbets  (formr widow)
B. L. Wt. 215-60-55
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162,133
Act Mar 3/55
June 7/55
Anna Tibbetts form. widow of 
(Edwaard Tibbets-Sergt-crossed out)
John John Johnson Pri
(Gen. Geo. Washington=crossed out_
Mass. Cont. line
Rev. War
Recd Pension
Ad:60adm Apl. 11/56
Boyton.
Waterhouse
North Pownal Me.
#215 issued Apl. 30/56
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5354
Maine
Anna Tibbetts formerly widow of 
John Johnson Mass who served in the Revolutionary war as a Private for two years

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 80 dollars 
00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March 1848

Certificate of Pension issued the 22d day of Febry. 1850 and sent to Hon. C. Santelle
House of Reps.

Recorded on Ross of Pensioners under act February 2, 1848, Page 39, Vol. 1
recorded

Act 3 Mar 55  162133
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1790 April 15th
Marriage is intended between John Johnson
and Anna Taylor (or Saylor) both of Fairfield a plan not 
incorporate near this town.
I A. H. Clark do depose & say that I am the
town clerk of the town of Pittston in the County
of Kinnebec & State of Maine, that the above is
a true extract from the record of said town
and that the date of the intention of marriage
between John Johnson and Anna Taylor is in fair
legible [illegible] "1790"  April 15th (seventeen hundred
& ninety April fifteenth)
A.H. Clark  
Town Clerk

State of Maine,
Kennebec County, S.S.  Sworn to and subscribed before
me the 14th January 1847.
(signature Geo. W. Morton) Justice Peace
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Bounty Land.

Act of March 3, 1855.

Claim of Anna Tibbets former
widow of John Johnson
war of the revolution.
162133

Ai Waterhouse, Attorney.
North Po[illegible], Me
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BOUNTY LAND CLAIM.
DECLARATION OF CLAIMANT.

State of Maine
County of Kinnebec SS.
On this eighth day of May A.D. one thousand eight
hundred and fifty-five, personally appeared before me, a Justice of the Peace, duly authorised to administer oaths, within and for the County and state aforesaid,
Anna Tibbits, aged eighty five years, a resident of Litchfield in the
County of Kinnebec and State of Maine who being duly sworn
according to law, declares that she is the widow of Edward Tibbets, widow of
Johnson, deceased, who was a sergeant in the company commanded by Captain
--which she cannot remember, in the ____________Regiment of Continental soldiers commanded by Genl. George Washington in the war of the Revolution.
She states that her said husband, John Johnson [illegible]
one received one hundred acres of Bounty Land for his
Revolutionary service, but she cannot tell by what act.  She states
That her said husband enlisted at New York on or about the
first of the war, in A.D. 1775 for the term of during the war,
and continued in actual service in said war for the term of during the war of the
Revolution, and was honorably discharged at West Point honorably at the end of 
the war.  She never before made application for Bounty Land by virtue of any act
granting Bounty Land, on account of service of said husband.  She further states,
that she was married to the said John Johnson in Litchfield and was
married also to Edward Tibbits in Litchfield, & married to said for
Johnson on the sixth day of October A.D. 1790 by one
Rev. Mr. Snow a Clergyman and that her
name before her said marriage was Anna Taylor; that her said Husband 
died at Winthrope Pond, He was drowned in said pond. on the first day of March
A.D 1810 and that she is now a widow and a revolutionary pensioner,
at 80 dollars per annum, she further requests 
that the Pension department refer to her papers, and 
declaration on file by which she was pensioned to identify her claim.
She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the Bounty Land to which
she may be entitled under the act approved March 3, 1855.  Granting additional 
Bounty Land making one hundred and sixty acres, to each person not having 160
acres.  And for the purpose of this application, I the said Anna Tibbets & formally
widow of John Johnson, deceased by whom she was pensioned.  hereby 
constitute and appoint Ai Waterhouse of Durham in the State of Maine, my true
and lawful Attorney, for me, and in my name, to demand and receive from the
Secretary of the Interior a warrant for the quantity of land due me as aforesaid:
and I fully authorise and empower him to constitute and appoint one or more substitutes under him for the purpose therein expressed, hereby ratifying and confirming whatever my Attorney or his substitutes may lawfully do in the premises
and address him to north Pownal, Maine. 
Anna Tibbits mark 
Witness,
Eliza Gray
Susan E Gray
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AFFIDAVIT OF WITNESSES.

We, Eliza Gray and Susan E. Gray
residents of Litchfield Co. of Kennabec in the State of 
Maine upon our oaths, declare that the foregoing declaration
was signed and acknowledged by Anna Tibbits in our presence;
and  that we believe, from the appearance and statements of the 
applicant, that she is the identical person she represents herself to
be. and we have been well acquainted with said declarant for 
many years, and do know that she is the widow of Edward Tibbits,
& reputed to be former widow of John Johnson and that she is now
a widow, and reputed to be the widow of John Johnson, and is now
a widow.
Witness,  Ai Waterhouse
(signature of Eliza Gray)
(signature of Susan E. Gray)
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Anna Tibbetts
formerly widow of John Johnson 
Maine

h. d. 1 Mar 1810
Cap. Gates, Col. Bigelow 
Mass line
admitted
pr 2 yrs $80
from 4 March 1836 to March 1841 from 42-48
for 48 (illegible)

Hon. C. Sandette, H. R. 
Augusta Maine
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Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th July 1838 entitled "An Act granting half pay ad pensions to certain widows" and Act to amend the same approved August 23, 1842.
State of Maine
Kennebec County ss. On this third day of August 1846 personally appeared before the open Court 
of Probate for the said County of Kennebec being a Court of Record, Anna Tibbetts a resident of Monmouth in the County of Kennebec and State of Maine aged seventy six 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 July 7, 1838 entitled "an Act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows" and an act to amend the same approved August 23, 1842. that she was formerly the widow of John Johnson who she has reason to believe and does believe did in the year 1777 enlist as a private into the army of the Revolution for the period of during the war that he served in Colo. Bigelow regiment of the Massachusetts line; that he had two brothers viz. James & Jasper Johnson who served in the same company; that her husbad served fully the time of his elistement; that she was married to the said John Johnson the sixth day of October in the year seventeen hundred & ninety. That the aforesaid John Johnson died on the first day of March A. D. 1810. That after the death of the said John Johnson re remained a widow until she intermarried with Edward Tibbetts on the Twenty first day of August one thousand eight hundred and fourteen and that the said Edward Tibbetts
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died on the sixteenth day of March 1846. that she was not married to the said John Johnson prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first of January seventeen hundred and ninety four viz. at the time above stated and that her maiden name was Anna Taylor. that she had a family by the said Johnson of eleven children, six of whom are now living.
Anna   X   Tibbetts
her mark

I hereby certify that the above named Anna Tibbetts, whose mark is affixed to the foregoing statement made oath to the truth of the same as above stated.
Before me Williams Emmons
Judge of Probate

State of Maine
Kennebec County, ss
I the subscriber Register of the Court of Probate for the said County of Kennebec do hereby certify that the Hon. Williams Emmons is the Judge of the said Court and that they foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Judge in the matter of the application of Anna Tibbetts for a pension.
Witness my hand and seal of the said Court of Probate the third day of August A. D. 1846
Francis Davis
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I John Plummer now residing in the town of Monmouth county of Kennebec and state of Maine do hereby testify upon oath that I lived within one mile of the late John Johnson who of said Monmouth and was personally acquainted with him and his wife Ann Johnson who now makes application for a pention and that said Anna Jonson was the wife of said John Johnson who died in 1810 and they had six or seven children at the time of his death & I often heard him speak of his being in the revolutionary war and I also new his brother James Johnson.
Monmouth August 4th 1846
In testimony of the above parts I give my name.
John Plummer

Kennebec SS, August 4th 1846
Then the above named John Plummer made oath that the above affidavit by him subscribed was true.
before me John Neal, Justice of the Peace

I certify that the above named John Plummer is a credible witness and entitled to full cerdit & belief.
John Neal, Justice Peace.
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I Osgood Johnson of Windsor in the County of Kennebec and state of Maine aged seventy six years a native of Lyndeborough ^ New Hampshire, do depose and say that my late father and his cousin both named John Johnson was both residents of said Lyndeborough, both of whom enlisted into the army of the Revolution. My father never returned home but died while a soldier as I have always understood and fully believe. The other John Johnson I well remember was entitled to land on account of his service in the army and sold it to a man named Potter of Pittstown New York. After the close of the war the said John Johnson returned to said Lyndeborough N. Hampshire where he remained some time and the removed to a place not then incorporated but now called Littlefield in the State of Maine. Some years after the said Johnson moved as above stated I (illegible) removed to the District of Maine to a place named Pittston a part of with has since been incorporated into a town called Gardner and adjoining said town of Littlefield a short distance from the residence of the said John Johnson who had married & had several children. His reported wife ^ maiden name was Anna Taylor with whom he was living and continued to live till his death as her husband. After his death his reported widow the said Anna intermarried with Edward Tibbetts with whom I was acquainted and who is now dead. Since his death she has remained a widow, my recollection does not enable me to state the names of the
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officers under whom the said John Johnson served if ever heard or know but that he serviced as a soldier in the army of the Revolution and was entitled to lad for said service which he received and sold as above stated. I well know and that the said John Johnon who received the land as above stated for his service in the war of the Revolution was a native of Lyndeborough N. Hampshire and the same individual who lived with his reported wife the said Anna as her husband and brought up a family of children (illegible) of them (illegible) I well know.
Osgood Johnson

State of Maine
Kennebec County S. S. 
On this fifth day of October 1848 personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace in and for said county Osgood Johnson whose name (who I certify is entitled to full credit and belief) and made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed.
John Neal Justice of the Peace
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State of Maine 
Kennebec County SS.
I William M. Stratton Clerk of the Judicial courts for and within said County hereby certify that John Neal is a Justice of the Peace as stated on this instrument and that the signature thereto purporting to be his is genuine.
Witness my hand and the seal of the Supreme Judicial Court of said State, the ninth day of October, A. D. 1848
W. M. Stratton
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WIDOW, &c.

File No. 26,533
Anna Tibbetts
formerly Wid. of John Johnson
Priv. Rev. War
Act Feb 2, 1848
Index: Vol. M; Page 276

[Arrangement of 1870]
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(illegible) Act 2 Feb : 48  Me
Boyton
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Yours Re
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(illegible) Act of 53  Ohio
Boynton
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215
60 acres
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V  No 13215
Anna Tibbetts
Me
Hon. L. Severance
February 2, 1847

Let. to Geo. W. Morton July 23, '47
Let to Hon Hiram Belcher Apl. 26, 1848
Let. to G. W. Martin Oct 17 '48
Act 7 July 1838
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10847
Maine
Anna Tibbetts, formerly Widow of John Johnson who was a pensioner under the Act of.......and who died on the 1 March 1810 of.......in the State of Maine who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Gates of the Regt. commanded by Col. Bigelow in the ..........line for two years.
Inscribed on the Roll of Portland at the rate of 80 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March 1836
Certificate of Pension issued the 22 day of Febry 1850 and sent to Hon. C. Sandette, House of Reps.
Total amount $ (blank)
[Act of July 7, 1838]
Recorded by J. P. Chase, Clerk
Book D. Vol. 1 Page 19
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8763
Maine
Anna Tibbetts, formerly widow of John Johnson who was a Private in the Revolution for two years
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 80 Dollars 
00 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843
Certificate of Pension issued the 22nd day of Feby '50 and sent to Hon. C. Sandette
House of Reps.
[Acts of March 3, 1843, & June 17, 1844]
Reorded in Book A Vol. 2,  Page10
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James L. Edwards Esq.
Commr. of Pensions
Washington City D. C.

Postmark: Augusta Me. Oct 10
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Knap's 5th Masstts. Vol. 2 p. 178

Augusta Maine
Oct. 9 1848

Sir
The papers of Mrs. Anna Tibbetts formerly the widow of John Johnson are on file in your office, as he served in Col. Bigelow regiment and is the only one of that name who enlisted for during the war (with the exception of one who deserted) as will appear by the certificate of the Secy. of Massacchusetts, and consequently the only one intitled to land. I have enclosed and affidavit of Osgood Johnson who is a respectable person and who remembers well that this same John Johnson who  lived with the present Anna Tibbetts as her first husband, was the identical person who received a grant of land for his revolutionary services and sold it as states in his affidavit. Will you have the goodness to come to be ascertained if there are any records in possession of the War department showing that a John Johnson rec'd land on account of his revolutionary services. If any record can be found perhaps it will be sufficient to indentify her late husband as the individual who rec'd it.
Very respectfully
Your obt. servt.
Geo. W. Morton

James L. Edwards Esq.
Commr of Pensions
Washington City
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postmark Worcester Jul. 27

Mr. George W. Morton
Augusta.
Maine
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City Clerks Office
Worcester July 26 1848

Mr. Geo. W. Morton,

Sir,
I have searched the old town records, but have not been able to find anything of John Johnson, therein. Lincoln History of Worcester speaks of a Capt. John Johnson, a soldier, 1754, but I have looked all through the records of that year and do not find anything of him.  Where he got his information I do not know, Mr. Lincoln is not living.

O. A. Hamiilton
City Clerk
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13215
Anna Tibbetts formerly widow of John Johnson
Me.
Act 7 July 1838
Married 1790
husband died 1810
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I Israel Hutchinson of Hallowell in the County of Kennebec and State of Maine do depose and say that I was well acquainted with John Johnson formerly of Linenboro in the State of New Hampshire, that said John Johnson with two of his brothers named James & Jasper were soldiers in the war of the Revolution. They all served in the Massachusetts line. After the war the said John Johnson came in the District, now state of Maine and married Anna Taylor of Littlefield in said state with whom he continued to live in the band of matrimony until his death in the year 1810, that had a family of children some of whom are now living. After the death of the said John Johnson his widow, the said Anna intermarried with Edward Tibbetts who is now dead. I was well acquainted with all three of the brothers viz. John, James & Jasper Johnson & remember well of their entering the revolutionary army and belonging to the Massachusetts line of soldiers, but their officers name I do not recollect if I ever knew. I understood they served together in the same company and regiment.
Israel Hutchinson
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State of Maine
Kennebec County SS September 5th 1846
Personally appeared Israel Hutchinson whose signature is borne in the within affidavit and subscribed the same and made oath to the truth of said affidavit before me. and I certify that the said Israel Hutchinson is personally known to me as a credible witness and whose testimony is worth of perfect confidence.
J. Burton, Justice Peace
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State of Maine
Kennebec County SS
(seal)
I William M. Stratton, Clerk of the Judicial Courts within and for the County of Kennebec hereby certify that John Neal, John Dennis, Joseph Burton and George W. Morton are Justices of the Peace as stated in the papers hereto attached and that their several signatures borne on said papers are genuine.
Witness my hand and the seal of the Supreme Judicial court this sixteenth day of January a. D. 1847
W. M. Stratton Clerk
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I Zebulon Cram now residing in the town of Littlefield County of Kennebec & State of Maine do hereby testify upon oath that I was personally acquainted with John Johnson of Lainsborough in the County of Hillsborough ^& State of Newhampshire at the time of his enlisting into the service of the United States in the revolutionary war. (his Fathers & my Fathers for me joined) and I think he served five or six years and I also new him after he came to the now State of Maine and married Anna Tailor now the widow of Edward Tibbets and I also  know her to be the widow of said John Johnson that they lived together as husband & wife in the town of Monmouth in said county of Kennebec.
Littlefield August 25th 1846,
Zebulon   X   Cram
his mark
In testimony of the above facts I give my name
John Neal

Kennebec SS. August 25th 1846 Then the above named Zebulon ram made oath that the above affidavit by hi subscribed was true.
Before me John Neal Justice of the Peace

I herby certify tht th above named Zebulon Cram is a credible witness and entitled to conffidence & belief
John Neal Justice of the Peace
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Secretary's Office, Boston:
May 10, 1847

I hereby Certify, That, from an examination of the Books and Documents relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution, which remain in this Department, it appears that the name of John Johnson is borne upon an account on Army Books as a private in Capt. Pierce's Company, Col. Bigelow's regt. and there credited by his service from July 4 1777 to December 31 1779, 29 months and 27 days at 40/ per month and charged to a Bounty of L24 paid him by the town of Newton Jully 4 1777--enlisted for 3 years. 
Upon an account in Army Books as a private in Capt. Brown's Company, Col. Bigelow's regt. and there credited by his service from April 25 1777 to December 31 1779 32 months and 6 days at 40/ per month and charged to a Bounty of L60 paid him by the town of Worcester September 1777, enlisted for during the war.  Upon
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Upon an account in Army Books as a private of Lainsborough in the Colonel's Company, Col. Bigelow's regt. and there credited by his service from January 1 to April 25, 1780, 3 months and 25 days at 40/ per month. Upon an account in said Books as a Corporal of Woburn in the Lt. Colonel's Company, Col Bigelow's regt. and there credited by his service from January 1 to December 31 1780, 12 months at 44/ per month, enlisted for during the war. It is noted in the account at follows viz: " Deserted 17th June 1782, as per certificate of Capt. Smith." Upon another account in said Army Books as a  private of Worcester in Capt. pierce's company, Col Bigelow's regt. and therefore credited by his service from January 1 to December 31, 1780, 12 months at 40/ per month, enlisted for during the war. The names of John & Jasper Johnson are borne upon a list of Continental soldiers as enlisting for Newtown, town they belong to unknown. The preceeding is all the evidence

And I further Certify, That, before search made for evidence of said facts, the Commissioner's letter of February 21 1847 was filed in this Office; that the search was made by myself and my clerks alone; and that said letter, and the certificate above set forth, contain all the facts and circumstances within my knowledge, pertaining to the casse.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
John. G. Palfrey
Secretary of the Commonwealth
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of services of John Johnson in Col. Bigelow's regt. shown by the Army Books or rolls in this office.
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I Israel Hutchingson of Hollowell in the County of Kennebec and state of Maine, do depose and say that I was formerly a resident of Linesboro New Hampshire. that I was well acquainted with James Johnson, Jasper Johnson & John Johnson who were brothers. I was well acquainted with their parents. The sd. James Jasper & John are enlisted into the army of the Revolution. After the war they all removed to the District of Maine where I frequently saw James & John. The said John Johnson married Ann Taylor by whom he had a family of children & with whom he continued to live as her husband till his death. The said Johnsons were residents of Linesboro N. Hampshire at the time of the Revolution where their parents resided.
Israel Hutchinson

State of Maine
Kennebec County S. S. On this eighth day of March 1847 personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace in and for the said county of Kennebec Israel Hutchinson being a reputable person and made oath to the truth of the above affidavit by him subscribed.
J. Burton Justice Peace
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State of Maine
County of Kennebec SS
(seal)
I William M. Stratton Clerk of the Judicial for the county of Kennebec, hereby certify that Joseph Burton Esq. is a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly commissioned & qualified-and the withing signature purporting to be his is genuine.
Witness my hand and the seal of the Supreme Judicial Court this eighth day of July in the year of our Lord 1847.
W. M. Stratton
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Secretary's Office, Boston
Oct. 22 1846

I hereby Certify, That, from an examination of the Books and Documents relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution, which remain in this Department it appears that the name of John Johnson is borne upon an account in Army Books as a private in Pierce's Company in Col. Bigelow's Regt. and there credited by his service from July 4 1977 to December 31 1779 20 months and 27 days at 4 o/ per month and charged to a Bounty of L24 paid him by the town of Newtown July 4 1777. Upon another account in said books as a private of Lainsborough in the Colonel's Company Col Bigelow's Regt. and there credited by his service from January 1 to April 25 1780, 3 months and 25 days at 4 o/ per month. The names of James & Jasper Johnson mentioned in the annexed application are also borne upon said Books as privates of Lainsborough in same Company and Regt. with that
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of John Johnson in the year 1780 and in same Regt. (not company) in the years 1777, 1778 & 1779.
( image of small book copied here on document)

And I further Certify, That, before search made for evidence of said facts, the application hereto annexed was file in this Office, in the form in which the same now appears; that the search was  made by myself and my clerks alone; and that said application, and the certificate above set forth, contain all the facts and circumstances within my knowledge, pertaining to the case.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth the date above written.
John G. Palfrey
Secretary of the Commonwealth
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Application for Certificate of Revolutionary service made by the widow of the party who rendered the service.

The Secty. of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is hereby requested to furnish evidence from the rolls in his office of the service of my late husband John Johnson. He enlisted she believes from some town in Massachusetts for the period of the Revolution in the year 1777 and served in Col. Bigelow's regiments of the Masstts. line and served during the war and recd. an honorable discharge. That he had two brothers who served in the same regiment and company with him named James & Jasper Johnson. I am now seventy six years old and my memory does not enable me to state my husbands service more fully than above stated. 
Witness my hand the third day of August A.D. (illegible)
Anna   X   Tibbetts
her mark
Witness Asaph R. Nichols

State of Maine
Signed by said Anna Tibbetts in my presence at Augusta in the state of Maine.
A. R. Nichols Justice of the Peace
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Augusta, Maine
July 7, 1847

Sir,
The enclosed papers are sent you in support of the claim of Anna Tibbetts (formerly the widow of John Johnson) for a pension. In your letter to Hon. Luther Severance dated 2d Feby last relating to her case, you required a certificate of the Secty. of Massachusetts of the services of two soldiers named John Johnson in 15th Mass. regiment. His certificate is as full and particular as the rolls in his office will show of the service of any soldier in that regiment of the name. The affidavit of Israel Hutchinson will prove that the brothers James,, Jasper & John Johnson as the last named they husband of the applicant were brothers and that they resided in Linesboro N. H. that they were soldiers in the army of the Revolutions. If the enclosed are satisfactory to you and deemed sufficient to have her claim allowed, I would respecctfully request you to allow her claim and transmit me a certificate for her.
Very respectfully 
yr ob. sevt.
Geo. W. Morton

James L. Edwards Esq.
Commr. of Pensions
City Washington
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This letter to be remained on file
it showing that the widow is living
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Augusta Maine
Jany. 7, 1860

Hon. Cullen Santelle

Dear Sir,
In the Commissioner of pensions letter to me dated Oct. 17, 1848 relating to a claim of Anna Tibbetts, widow of John Johnson for pension under the act of July 7 1838 I am informed that there were four soldiers bearing the name of her late husband for whose service in the Massachusetts line land Warrants have been issued, and in order to identify her husband with either of them it should be shown at what time the warrant was granted whether it was issued to an agent or to himself in his life time or to his heirs after his death. he also informs me that the affidavit of Osgood Johnson does not enable him to identify her husband with either of the John Johnsons to whom bounty land was granted for service in the Massachusetts line.
The John Johnson husband of the applicant had two brother named James and Jasper who served in the same company and regiment with him in 1780, and in the years '77, '78 & '79 in the same regiment, and his brother James' widow was pensioned under the act of July 4, 1836 for her husbands service. It  seems to appear by the certificate of the Secretary of Massachusetts dated Oct. 22, 1846 that the service from April 25, 1777 to Dec. 31, 1779 32 mo. & 6 days and from Jany 1, 1780 to Dec. 31, 1780 was the service performed by her husband.
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as his brothers James & Jasper were at that time in the same regiment and part of the time in the same company. The widow is extremely poor and it is desirable to have her claim allowed as soon as possible. Her case has been made in good faith and on review of her papers I believe the Commr. of Pensions will allow her claim. You will confer a favor by presenting this to him and request him to have the papers relating to the case examined.
Yrs. Respectfully
Geo. W. Morton

P.S There is evidence with papers on file that the late husband of the applicant had two brothers named James & Jasper in the service at the same time. I also enclose a letter from the City Clerk Worcester, Masstts. showing that the records furnish no evidence of the service of any one by the name of John Johnson in the Revolution although the revolutionary roll of Masstts. show that he went from that town, it is a fact that the three brothers then John, James & Jasper were natives of Lyndeboro N. H. yet the all entered the army of the Revolution and were in the Massachusetts line.
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I Israel Hutchinson of Hallowell in the County of 
Kennebec and State of Maine do depose and say that I have always understood that I was born in Linesboro New Hampshire; that at the time of the Revolution I was a resident of said town and was at the time of my enlistment into the Revolutionary Army I was well acquainted with two men named John Johnon who were residents of the said town, both of whom enlisted into the army. That one of the said Johnsons never returned home but died as I understood in the army while a soldier and the other I always understood served out the time of his enlistment and returned to said Linesboro to my certain (illegible) subsequently he moved to the then District of Maine, now State of Maine and died several years since. He married Anna Taylor by whom he had several children many of whom are now living. The said Anna his widow after his death married again with Edward Tibbetts who is now dead.
Israel Hutchinson

State of Maine
Kennebec County SS  On this twentieth day of March 1848 personally appeared Israel Hutchinson above named who I certify is a credible witness subscribed and made oath to the truth of the above affidavit.
Before Me
Geo. W. Morton, Just. Peace
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I Mary Hutchinson of Litchfield in the County of Kennebec and State of Maine aged eighty nine formerly of Lanesboro in the State of New Hampshire do hereby testify that I was personally acquainted with John Johnson the first husband of Ann Tibbets now a widow of Edward Tibbets who makes application for a pention. Near the commencement of the revolutionary war the said Johnson resided at my Fathers in said Lanesboro and I well recollect of his enlisting in to the service of the United States and of his going a way and we heard from him a diferent times with the others who sent from the same town. I was personally acquainted with said Johnson after he came to the State of Maine and at the time of his marriage with said Anna Tibbets and of his living with her and of their having a number of children and untill his death. I further testify upon oath that I had a brother by the same name who enlisted in to the said service at or near the same time who died before his term of service expired.
Mary    X    Hutchinson
          her mark
Litchfield March 22d 1848
Witness John Neal

Kennebec SS March 22d 1848 Then the above named Mary Hutchinson made oath that the above affadafit by her subscribed was true.
Before me
John Neal Justice of the peace

I hereby certify that I have been personally acquainted with the above named Mary Hutchinson for twenty or thirty years and that she has sustained a good character in every respect and still retains her faculties and memory remarkably for a person of her age.
John Neal Justice of the Peace
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State of Maine
Kennebec County SS
I William M. Stratton, Clerk of the Judicial Courts within and for said County & State, hereby certify that George M. Morton and John Neal are Justices of the Peace as stated in the annexed instruments and that their signatures are genuine.
Witness my hand and the seal of the Supreme Judicial Court of said State this seventh day of April A. D. 1848
Wm. M. Stratton

George W. Morton, Esqr.
Augusta