Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 10918, for William Johnson, South Carolina
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Monroe Co Ala March 9th 1846
Hon J.L. Edwards
Dear Sir I avail myself of this opportunity of addressing you a few
lines to inform you that I have not received a letter from you since I sent you my last evidence (Ephram Prescoat) and cannot tell whether you received it not it was put into the hands of Mr John Meggs to forward to you but he gives me no satisfaction about it if you have received the evidence I want you to
let me know whether it is sufficient to
obtain the pension or not and if it is let me know what has been done with it write me as soon as you can and oblige pls
Wm Johnson
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Dec 29 48
Record proof of Service
William Johnson
formerly of Florida, now
of Alabama.
for Revolutionary Pension
Act 7. June 1832
B Ames
See letter from the
Pension Office of
28 Nov. 1848, to
E. F. Brown Atty.
Wash. D.C.
25. Dec. 1848.
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Pensacola July 8 1841
Sir
Inclosed herewith I send you the evidence in support of the claim of William Johnson for a pension
Will you please communicate with me on the subject
With great respect
Yr Obt Svt
Benj. D. Wright

Col J. L. Edwards
Pension Commission
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Territory of Florida Santa Rosa County
I Duncan G McArthur Clerk of the County Court of the County of Santa Rosa, do hereby certify that the
foregoing statements of
William Johnson, Benjamin
Journigan and the certificate of the Hon Robert McKinnon contains
the Original proceeding of the said Court in the matter of the application of William Johnson for a pension
In Testimony whereof I have set my hand and private seal there being no seal to said Court this twenty seventh day of October A.D 1843
s/ D J McArthur Clerk
County Court Santa Rosa County
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Almirante, West Florida March 28 1845
To His Excellency James K. Polk
President of the U. States of America
Washington D.C.
Respected Sir
Pardon the presumption I as assume in thus addressing you. I desire only
to appeal to your Excellency in behalf of an old man who is fast approaching his end through decrepitude and poverty. I have striven in every possible manner
to bring his claim for a pension to an issue. I have very frequently applied to the Comr of Pensions how to proceed in the matter, and have according to his printed and written
instructions fulfilled them, and after a lapse of some months I again applied to him to know the cause of the delay
and was informed by him, that the papers &c substantiating Mr Johnson's claim had not been received at his office. When after an examination of papers received, by Chas Tweed Esqr I found a letter dated Novr 18th 1843 from J. L. Edwards Comr of Pension stating that the papers in reference to Wm Johnson's claim for a pension as a
Revolutionary soldier, had been received at his office and that it was necessary that Supplemental evidence
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when I came from Florida & he knew & told me himself where he had seen & knew me -- And this has partly been the means of renewing my hopes that the Government will hear & allow my claim Hoggle lived in an adjoining district to me in South Carolina & though younger than I was with his Father in the war & we saw each
other frequently -- though his recollection about some things is more clear than my own. I moved
from Carolina to the State of Georgia not far from Savannah about 48 years ago I then moved to Florida where I lived some seven or eight years and about two years ago came up here where I have lived since in or near the town of Marion Perry County. I am confident my name was on the 
roll at Columbia in South Carolina if it was not it was not my fault for it ought to have been there -- I made application while I lived in Florida for a pension; but I then did not know that Mr Hoggle or any other person was living by whom I could prove satisfactorily my services, & except that I, on my former application while I lived in Florida, by one Ephraim Prescoat proved that he knew that I started to go to join General Greene's Army & was gone as much as nine
months that time but could not swear that he saw me in the service & besides he was young at the time & I had employed him to stay at my house while I was gone in the Army. This was the objection if any I suppose to my claim -- I will be glad if the department will spare the time to
turn to & see the papers in my former applications from Santa Rosa or at Pensacola by & through Judge Wright Prescoat lived in Coffee County Alabama & I came up
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there & got Mr. Meigs to procure Judge Claxton to take Prescoat’s evidence some three years ago. They all thought there, who knew my application as made, that it would succeed but it seems that it did not: while many many others who did not serve one fifth the time I did have received their pensions in different
parts of the Country & I think it hard indeed. John B. Meigs Esquire of Walton County Florida I believe has all the correspondence from the War Department if any  r (if not destroyed) which relates to my former application I wish I had it all again & could send it to the Department; but I
cannot get it. I know there seemed there to be very little in the way yet I never could get my allowance -- until all seemed to get tired of trying & so it lay -- I have, nor have had, no other
motive on earth, in changing the agents or persons I have spoken to to get my pension, then simply because I had moved up here & found the old Mr Hoggle whose evidence I send & I
never did rest satisfied with the application lying so without trying to get it honestly & fully before the Department once more. It makes me sorry to know how hard & long I served to see that others have drawn & I am to be thought of as unworthy by their side & I feel deeply that it is
not just nor right. I have to state that if there appears to be anything wrong about my not applying sooner, or later, or in some different way, I must say that I have done the best I could or knowed how -- I am old & not active to get about I have been afflicted with rheumatism & a touch of palsy for
some 17 years, off & on, & it is the good feelings of those gentlemen where I happen to be who have more learning than I, or than my close relations, if present, would have; that enables me to know how to even begin to apply for a pension & if it is not
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Wm Johnson
Act 7. June 1832
See Let for Pension
Office of 28 Nov. 48,
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25 Dec. 48
E.F. Brown
Atty
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Milton
Oct 30th 
Four
Hon David Levy delegate from Florida
Washington DC
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Washington
Novr 3 1841
Sir The enclosed letter relates to
a case pending before you. Be pleased to inform me what is necessary to be obtained, or whether this letter will not be sufficient to satisfy the doubts heretofore
existing in the case. If so, it will save the claim and the considerable expence which it seems these 
certificates will cost
I have the honor to be
Respy
Brooser D Levy
JL Edwards Esq
Comm of Pensions
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Almirante Fla.
Mch 18/43
John B Miegs
Pension for Wm Johnson
In 97 [Illegible] 22/43
Pension Office
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Almirante, Walton County W.Fla
March 18th 1843
Hon John C. Spencer
Secretary of War
Washington D.C.
Sir
some months past I received
directions from the Com of Pensions to apply to Wm B Laval Comptroller Genl of So Carolina to review the State Rolls of Troops employed in
the Revolution for the name of Wm Johnson. that gentleman informed me by letter that the name of Wm Johnson was of frequent occurrence
on the State Rolls. I have been informed by Mr Johnson that Judge Wright of Pensacola told him that there were five persons of the same name on the State rolls, and that
if he (Mr Johnson) would pay $3. for
each name, that a certificate granting him his pension could be obtained. The Hon Secretary will confer a favor on me by informing me as early as possible if such are the rules of Government in relation to pension
of the same names. the applicant Mr Johnson is now nearly 90 years of age and entirely unable to support himself and truly destitute.
Very Respectfully Sir
Yr Obt Servt
John B Miegs
PS  I am the only duly authorized person to apply for said pension
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Rt. 1, Box 45
Selma, Ala
May 25, 1927
[stamp] US PENSION OFFICE MAY 28 1927

The Pension Bureau,
Washington, D.C.
Dear Sirs
Please send me the
War Record of Revolutionary
Soldier William Johnson
who was born in Edgefield District, S.C. Oct. 16, 1757 and is buried near
Selma Ala. in Dallas Co. He died
April 23, 1854
William Johnson's son was Lewis Johnson