Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 11,982, for Philip Johnson, New York
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a Justice of the peace named McVain in the town of Palentine Montgomery County New York. That the said Justice and persons present at their marriage are all dead, and that she has no Record of her marriage. Her name before marriage was Susannah Pettit, that she cannot state the date of her marriage more particularly that is above Stated, but knows it was the year previous to the War with great Britain of 1812, that her said Husband died in Vienna Oneida County New York on the 18th day of March A.D. 1845, that she was not married to him prior to the second day of January eighteen hundred, but at the time above Stated.
She further declares that she is now a widow.
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      Susannah  X    Johnson
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Sworn to and subscribed by making her mark On the day and year above written before me in open Court. -
L Sheldon
Erie County Judge

State of New York,		}
Erie County Clerk's Office,	} ss.    I, Charles R Durkee, Clerk of said County, and of the Courts thereof, certify that Hon. Linus Sheldon before whom the annexed affidavit was taken, and whose name is subscribed in the certificate of proof thereof, was at the time of taking the same, a County Judge in the said County, duly sworn and acting as such, and authorized to take the same; and further, that I am well acquainted with his hand writing, and verily believe the signature thereto to be his genuine signature;
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the Seal of said County and the Courts thereof, the 16 day of May A.D. 1863.
[SEAL]      [Signed] Chas. R Durkee Clerk.
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Montgy Co. Court
In the matter of
the application of
Philip Johnson
for a pension

Proceedings etc
12.458

No 13
To the care of
Giles F Yates
Schenectady N.Y.


[Upside down]
Philip Johnson
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State of New York		}
County of Montgomery} ss.
On this Nineteenth day of September in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, personally appeared in open Court, before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County now sitting, Philip Johnson, a resident of the town of Palatine in said County, aged sixty-eight years and upwards, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7th 1832.
He was born in the month of May in the year 1764, at a place called Little nine partners in the County of Dutchess in said State. He has no record of his age except a memorandum thereof kept by a relative of his, residing in the County of Oneida in said State.
When he was called into the service of the United States, he lived in the town of Kinderhook in the County of Columbia in [said] State. Since the
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the neighborhood of said forts, he was often out with scouting parties, and sometimes engaged in skirmishes with the enemy. He was with the troops of his Regiment in the summer of the year 1781 who were in the battle of Turlock in Schoharie County a few miles from Cherry Valley - and this was the only battle in which he was engaged.
The following are the names of some of the Regular officers whom he recollects, viz
Lieutenant Fonda & Captain Tierce of the State Troops, Colonel Van Schaick, General Schuyler, General Van Rensselaer, Lieutenant Abraham Ten Eyck, Capt. Marshall Lieut Bloodgood, Sgt. Fonda etc.
He never received any written discharge from the service. He has no documentary evidence, and knows of no person now living who can testify to his services.
The following are the names of persons in the neighborhood where he now lives, who are acquainted with him, and who can testify as to his character for veracity, and their belief of his services as a soldier of the revolution, viz - Jacob P. Empie & Lodaurick Frederick -
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the
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Saginaw City May 17th 1865

Hon. Joseph H Barnett

Dr Sir
Susannah Johnson desired me to forward her application for a transfer of her Pension from N. York to Mich. so that hereafter her Pension will be payable at the Pension office at Detroit Mich Please address your answer to me at Saginaw City Mich.
Yours truly
J. H. Sutherland
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County, New York. was pensioned under the Act of 7" June, 1832, on the New York roll, at the rate of $56.22 per Annum. He died 18" March, 1845. 
If the Claimant was a widow and the widow of said Philip Johnson when she applied, She was entitled to a pension. If on the Contrary, she was not a widow, her claim was fraudulent.
In case, the Applicant was formerly the widow of said Philip Johnson, but, had subsequently intermarried with another person, and her last husband is deceased it become important to know, when her last husband died. 
You will perceive that, the proofs of widowhood are not clear and explicit. It consists of the general declaration that, "She is a widow."
If your investigation leads to the conviction that, the claim was improperly allowed, You for will be please to so inform me, that the subject may be further considered.
I am Yours Respectfully,
Commissioner

Wm. A Dart, Esqr.
M.C. Dist. Atty;
Potsdam, N.Y.
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United States District Attorney’s Office
Northern District of New York 
Potsdam, Dec 21 1864

Sir 
Sometime since I wrote you concerning an alleged fraud upon the Pension Department. I have caused inquiry to be made and discover that at Buffalo in June 1863 one Susannah Johnson applied for pension as widow of one Philip Johnson a revolutionary soldier. The certificate granted her bore date July 28 1863 No. 7,154.
I have to request that you will send me a copy of the application and papers accompanying upon which that pension was granted in order that I may prosecute the investigation further and with greater certainty.
Very Respectfully 
Your obedient servant 
William A Dart
US Atty

Hon. J H Barrett
Comr of Pensions
Washington D.C.
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7154
Increase 
Brief in the Case of Susannah Johnson Widow of Philip Johnson
Private Revy War.   Fort Dodge
Webster County and State of Iowa     Des Moines [written in the margin]
Act 2d Sec Feb 3, 1853.

CLAIM FOR NEW PENSION CERTIFICATE,
PROOF EXHIBITED,
Pensioner on the Roll of Iowa at $56.22 per ann.
Certificate returned

Claim increase pension under act of July 27, 1868
13th Sec.
 Personal identity & continued widowhood alleged.

Admitted to pension at $96 per ann to commence July 28, 1868 deducting payt since May 20, 1869.

WE Trask
Examining Clerk.

Claims
Care [?]  Name and residence of Agent.
Duncombe & Beecher
Fort Dodge
Iowa.
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Schenectada Dec 3d 1840

 J. L. Edwards Esq 
Commissioner of Pensions 

Sir
 In the matter of the application of Philip Johnson [underlined] I have since the receipt of your letter under date of April 16 1840, ascertained by reference to old memoranda which I thought I had not preserved, that I made out his original declaration. His want  of success under his present application I doubt not, is my fault. I feel therefore bound to make all the atonement I can. When making out papers under the act of 7th June 1832, as early as that year, I remember that my impression was, that no particular specifications of length of service was necessary, and in some cases accordingly, after setting forth as much as service as would entitle the applicant
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No. 12,458
Philip Johnson

G.F. Yates
Schenectady N.Y.
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Albany Pension Agency
May 27th 1865

Joseph H. Barrett Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions

Sir,
In reply to your letter of the 25th inst. I have to state that Susannah Johnson a pensioner under the act of 3d February 1853 (2d Section) at fifty six  22/100 dollars per annum, was last paid at this Agency to the fourth day of March, 1864.
This pensioner was reported to the pension office in July 1864, transferred to the Canandaigua (N.Y.) Agency.
I am, Very Respectfully
Your obt Servt
D. Wright
Pension Agent

Transferred to Canandaigua Agency in July 1864 & [illegible] on the roll of this agency
D. Wright
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Hon P.J. Wagner
HR [?]
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Know all Men by these Presents that I Philip Johnston, private in the Service lately Commanded by Col. Marinus Willett in the State of New York for the consideration of -- Lawful Money of the State aforesaid and for divers other good causes and considerations, me, hereunto moving, have granted bargained & sold assigned and transfered and by these presents Do Grant Bargain Sell Assign and Transfer unto Edward Cumpston of the City of Albany all such Sum and Sums of Money as are due and owing to me for pay and Wages, for my services for the year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty one, in the Levies aforesaid and I do hereby appoint the said Edward Cumpston my true and Lawful Attorney in my name, but solely to his use, to ask demand, sue for, recover and receive the pay and Wages aforesaid of the pay master of the said regiment or other person or persons, now or hereafter, to be authorized to pay and discharge the same, and to have, use and take all Lawful Ways and means in my name or otherwise for recovery thereof and Requitances or other discharges for the same, for me and in my name to make, Seal and Deliver and to do all other lawful acts and things whatsoever concerning the premises as fully and in every respect as I myself might or could do if I were personally present; And an attorney or attornies under him for the purposes aforesaid to make, and at his pleasure to revoke; ratifying and allowing all and Whatsoever my said Attorney shall in my name Lawfully do or cause to be done in and about the premises, by virtue of these presents; In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal this Sixth Day of April in the year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty four
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Philip   X   Johnston
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Sealed and delivered in the presence of 
[Signed] Egbert Van Schaack
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Johnson
[illegible]
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in Rev War .
I am filling out her application papers - to the D.A.R. for her.
Respectfully
Mrs. William D. Brett
Registrar Milwaukee
Ch D.A.R.

Jan 14
1909