Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 13553, for Thomas Johnson, Maryland
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[handwritten on pre-printed card]
SERVICE                                           NUMBER
Md.          Johnson, Thomas           S. 13553
carded
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[on left side of page] Reported
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32729
Maryland
Thomas Johnson Dec of Baltimore Co in the State of Maryland who was a private in the Compy commanded by Captain Smith of the Regt commanded by Col Gist in the Maryland line for two years
Inscribed on the Roll of Baltimore at the rate of 80 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831. & end 17th January 1849, when he died.
Certificate of Pension issued the 13~ May 1850 and Sent to Col. J. G. Berrett, Prest
Arrears to the [illegible] of Payable to John Guyton, Admr. for only surviving children, viz: Elisha Johnson, Mary Ann Guyton Eliza Johnson
{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832}
Recorded by J P Chase Clerk,
Book E2 Vol. 5 Page 104
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37502
Thomas Johnson
Md
Act 7 June '32
wait for Mr Brewer answer
Thomas Johnson [illegible crossed out]
Capt Smiths Company
april 1779 enroll [illegible] 1779 sieve Girls Regt
Act 7 June 1832.
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State of Maryland
City of Baltimore S. S
On this 25th day of March eighteen hundred and forty seven, Personally appeared before me, the subscriber, Associate Judge of Baltimore City Court, Thomas Johnson a resident of said City aged eighty seven years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath make the following Declaration in or der to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832: That he entered the Military Service of the United States, in Baltimore County, as a Private in the Flying camp, when he was of the age of 16 or 17 years, as he believes, under command of Captain Yates and Served Six or nine months. He again entered the Service in the year 1777, as he believes under command of Captain Baker, the length of this service not now recollected: and again in or about the year 1781 he entered the Service of the United States and Served untill the close of the War in what was called Gist's Regiment. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatsoever to a Pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any agency in any state; and the reason why he has not sooner applied, is that he had not, until recently, any one to aid him therein. 
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year aforesaid, by [signed] Thomas Johnson
Before me, at the residence of the Said
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Thomas Johnson in the City of Baltimore aforesaid He being from bodily infirmity unable to appear in open Court.
As Witness my hand the day and year first above written
[signed] W. G. D. Worthington
Associate Judge [illegible]

State of Maryland
City of Baltimore Sct.
I hereby certify that the Hon'ble WGD Worthington whose name is subscribed to the above affidavit & before whom the same was made was at the time of so doing & still is one of  the associate Judges of Baltimore City Court duly commissioned & qualified & that to all acts by him made full faith and [illegible] are due as well in Courts of justice as the [illegible]
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of my office this thirteenth day of April eighteen Hundred and forty seven
[signature illegible] Clk
Balto City Crt
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State of Maryland
Baltimore County to wit
Be it remembered that on this thirteenth day of March in the year one thousand eight hundred & forty seven. Before me one of the Justices of the 8th election district of the State of Maryland in and for Baltimore County - Personally appeared Charles Roberson a resident of Baltimore County Aged eighty seven years or thereabouts, who being duly sworn according to Law, doth on his oath declare that he has been personally acquainted with Thomas Johnson now of the City of Baltimore, formerly Baltimore County, from his boyhood until the present time and knows that the said Thomas Johnson was engaged in several Tours of actual Service of the United States, during the War of the Revolution and this deponent says he believes the said Thomas Johnson was in the Flying Camp in the year seventeen hundred and seventy six and also knows he was out regularly two years or upwards near the close of the war, in what was called Gists Regiment of the State Maryland
Witness Henry Youngor
        his
Charles X Johnson
         mark
Sworn and subscribed to before me And I do hereby certify that the above named Charles Roberson is noted for truth and veracity
[signed] Edwd Rider Justice of the 8th election district
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State of Maryland Baltimore County Sct
I hereby certify that Edward Rider Gentleman before whom the within deposition was made and who had there signed his name was at the time of so doing a Justice of the Peace of the state aforesaid in and for the Eight Election District of Baltimore County duly commissioned & sworn
In Testimony whereof I hereto set my hand and affix the seal of Baltimore County Court this 18th day of March 1847
[signed] A. W. Bradford Clk
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Baltimore May 6, 1850
I do hereby authorise James G Berret Esq of the City of Washington to apply to the Commissioner of Pensions or any other proper officer of the United States, for the arrears of Pension due to the legal representatives of Thomas Johnson who was an applicant for a Pension as a soldier of the revolution in the Maryland line, and who died in this City on the 17th January 1849 leaving three children
[signed] John Guyton Admr
Witness
[signed] William Warfield
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State of Maryland
Baltimore County Orphans Court, Sct
It is hereby certified on this twenty ninth day of April 1850, That Satisfactory evidence has been exhibited to Said Court, by the Testimony of the Oaths of Dr. James Montgomery John Guyton, William Guyton and Alexander Lealey That Thomas Johnson, who was an applicant for a revolutionary Pension from the United States as a Soldier in the Flying Camp and in Gists Regiment of the War of the Revolution Maryland line in the  Died  in this City on the 17th day of January 1849. That he did not leave any widow, but did leave Three children only named Elisha Johnson, Eliza Johnson and Mary Ann Guyton
[signed] Charles Howard
[signed] John H Briscoe
[signed] John Burnes

Maryland, Ss.
I hereby Certify that Charles Howard. Joh. H. Briscoe and John Burnes Esquires, who have subscribed the aforegoing as Certificate, were at the time of so doing, the Justices of the Orphans Court for Baltimore County, duly commissioned and qualified according to Law
In Testimony Whereof I hereunto Subscribe my name, and affix the seal of the Said Orphans as Court, this 29th . Day of April in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and as fifty.-
Test: [signed] D. M. Perine Register
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[handwritten on pre-printed form]
[Rev War written vertically on left upper margin]
INVALID.
File no. 13,553.
Thomas. Johnson
Priv. Rev. War.
Act: June 7" 1832
Index:--Vol. 1, Page 197
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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37,502
Thomas Johnson, Maryd
Letter to A. Yearly, May 11.47
to same Oct 21 48
Act 7 June 1832.
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LAND OFFICE,
ANNAPOLIS, 8th April, 1850, 
I Certify, that it appears by a Depreciation Pay Roll, remaining in my Office, that Thomas Johnson, -- a private, (Gist's Regt) of the Maryland Line, Received [80 pounds" 9" 8d --] Depreciation Money, issued to the Maryland quota of troops on Continental Establishment, on the 27th day of October, 1783.
[signed] George G. Brewer, 
Register Land Office, [illegible crossed out] Md.
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Washington 10 May 1850
Sir: 
In enclose the application of Thomas Johnson's children claiming the amount of Pension due their father at the time of his death.
Very Respectfully Your Obt. Sert.
[signed] James G Bunt

HOn J L. Edwards 
Commr of Pensions
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[on left margin 37502, written vertically]

[left center CC Thomas Johnson June 7, 1832 written vertically]

J. L. Edwards, Esqr.
Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington

[oval stamp, illegible]
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Baltimore April 13, 1847
J. L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Sir
Herewith we send you the application of Thomas Johnson for a revolutionary Pension under the act of Congress passed 7 June 1832. He has recently applied to us, to aid him therein. And we believe him to be a good man and true and that his statement is entitled to credit.
Very respectfully we are your obt. Servants
[signed] Alexr Yearley & Son

[attached at lower left corner of page:
Sir,
I have examin
of Bernard Glenn, decd. 
under the act of July 5, 183]
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Baltimore April 13, 1847
J. L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions

Sir
Herewith we send you the application of Thomas Johnson for a revolutionary Pension under the act of Congress passed 7 June 1832. He has recently applied to us, to aid him therein. And we believe him to be a good Man and true, and that his statement is entitled to credit.

[obscured by overlay] respectfully We are your obt. Servants
[signed] Alexr Yearley & Son

[overlay: This is a very doubtful case. The testimony of Charles Roberson is nothing worth]
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Land Office, Annapolis, 
6th May, 1847.
Sir,
Your letter of the 3rd. Inst. was received, in which you request to be informed "whether Mr. Yearley or any other person has applied to me for evidence of the service of Thomas Johnston in the Flying Camp in 1776, and in Gists Regiment from 1780, to the end of the war, and if so, what were the precise enquires". In answer, I have to state that I make no record of the letters I receive or my answers thereto, and am therefore unable to give the information desired. I have examined a file of letters received from Mr. Yearley, and it does not appear that he requested in any one of them, a Certificate or information as to the service of Thomas Johnston. I am under the impression however, that I furnished a Certificate from the rolls, to some one, in respect to Thomas Johnston, and it may have been obtained by Mr. Yearley on some other person in person, but I cannot now recollect by Whom. The rule with us is, If application is made to know whether a certain Soldier is upon the Master rolls, the examination is made, and if his name appears, and it is desired, a Certificate is furnished of his enlistment &c. I have no authority to refuse furnishing a Certificate, although it seems to me, that
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that frauds may be practiced, bacause, it is in the power of the applicant for a pension, to make out his declaration to conform to the certificate he is furnished with from the Muster and pay rolls.
It would be better, if the applicant for a pension, was required to produce his declaration, before any information should be furnished from the rolls in this office.
I am very respectfully, Your obt. St.
[signed] G. G. Brewar

J. L. Edwards, Esqr,
Commr. of Pensions,
Washington City, D. C.
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37502
Thomas Johnson, Ded.
Maryland
Baltimore
admitted
Private 2 years $80.-- com. 4 Mar 1831 to 17th January 1849, when he died, children, Elisha Johnson, Mary Ann Guyton & Eliza Johnson payable to John Guyton Admr.

Cap Smith Col: Gist
Md Line

Act 7 June 1832
J. G. Berret, 
Prest.
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State of Maryland}
City of Baltimore} Sct:
On this fifth day of April eighteen hundred and fifty, Before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace of the State of Maryland in and for the City of Baltimore aforesaid, Personally appeared Thomas L Bond, now resident of said City, aged eighty nine years formerly of Baltimore and Harford Counties, who being duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath declare, that he was personally acquainted with Thomas Johnson, late a resident of this City and formerly a resident of Harford and Baltimore Counties who in the year 1847 applied for a Revolutionary Pension from the United States, and who died in this City on the 17 January 1849, leaving three children. That their acquaintance commenced in their boyhood, he this deponent being as he believes about one year younger than said Johnson, that they went to the same school together, at the time of the commencement of the revolutionary war: that this deponent did not engage int he military service in the War of the revolution except in the local militia. But that the said Thomas Johnson to deponents own knowledge did engage in said war and served in the Flying Camp, and afterwards in Gists Regiment, during a period of several years, and that on his return home he mentioned to this deponent many incidents of the war, and the belief of the neighbourhood was that he had long and faithfully served therein. 
[signed] Thomas L Bond
witness [signed] Hugh I Morrison
Sworn to and subscribed before me, and I hereby certify that the above named deponent Thomas L Bond is a person of good
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character, and entitled to full credit
[signed] Hugh I. Morrison J. Peace

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State of Maryland,
Baltimore County, Sct.
I herby Certify, that Hugh I. Morrison . . . Esquire before whom the annexed affidavit . . .  was made and who has thereto subscribed his name was at the time of so doing a Justice of the Peace of the State of Maryland, in and for the City of Baltimore, duly commissioned and sworn.
In testimony whereof, I have hereto set my hand and affix the seal of Baltimore County Court, this -- sixth day of April A. D. 1850.
[signed] A W Bradford
Clerk Baltimore County Court.
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Balto April 6th 1850
I do hereby certify that Thomas L Bond the deponent within named has been personally known to me during a period of Forty years past, And it gives me pleasure to say that he is a Gentleman of high Standing and good character that he has to my knowledge filled with credit various and highly responsible civil offices in the State ~ as a member of the Legislature, High Sherriff, and Register of Wills of Harford County. and that his statements are entitled to full credit.
[signed] Elijah Manstgen
May of the City of Baltimore
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Thomas Johnson
May 5th 1848
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Baltimore May 5. 1848.
J. L. Edwards Esq
Comr. of Pensions.
Sir
Your letter dated May 1. 1857. respecting the application of Thomas Johnson for a Pension was duly recd. And in answer thereto I have to say.
1. As to his delay in making his claim -- That he was not entitled to pension under the act of 1818: he being then in easy circumstances, And since the year 1832, under a reverse of fortune, he has been living in Baltimore County, untill a short time prior to making his application when he removed to this city, and I was sent for to see him, "an old soldier of the revolution," to examine if he had any claim to a pension, the investigation has satisfied me that he has a fair claim thereto.
2. his age is proven in the deposition of Thomas S. Bond herewith presented. 
3. As to his service in the Flying Camp, and in Gists Regiment, The deposition of Thomas S. Bond, a very aged and highly respectable Gentleman whose personal knowledge of Mr. Johnson reaches back to their boyhood, a period of at least 75 years, shews that he was actually engaged in those service; And the certificate of George G. Brewer Esq shews a length of service in Gists Regiment which would entitle him to a full pension. And he is not able to State further particulars, as his discharges are lost, his comrades in the Service dead, and his memory
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memory, by reason of his great age, impaired.
His case is respectfully Submitted to your kind consideration.
by Your most obt. Servt
[signed] Alex: Yearley
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State of Maryland, city of Baltimore S. S
Be it remembered that on this 23rd day of June Eighteen hundred and forty Seven before me The subscriber a Justice of the peace for the state of Maryland in and For Baltimore City, Personally appears Thomas S Bond. now a resident in this city, aged 86 years Who being duly sworn according to Law, doth on his oath declare that he has been personally acquaint with Thomas Johnson, who is now a resident of Baltimore City, From his boyhood. until the present time [illegible crossed out] This deponeth, having lived int he same Neigtbourhood and been school mates together, at the time of the commencement of the war of the revolution. that he believes the said Thomas Johnson is one year older than himself. Say he is 87 years old, that this deponent did not engage in the Military Service in the war of the Revolution. Except in the local militia-- But that the said Thomas Johnson by his own statements and by common report, and from this deponent own Personal Knowledge that the said Thomas Johnson was in the actual Service a considerable time, in the said war, First in the Flying Camp. afterwards in Gists Regiment and This deponeth Knows of the said Johnson absence From the Neighbourhood some Years and on his return at or about the Close of the war, he stated to this deponent Many particular circumstances relative to his Military Services which are not now distinctly recollected Except as above mentioned
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Subscribed and sworn to before me, and I do hereby certify that the within named deponent Thomas L Bond, is well Known to me, as a gentleman of high Standing and good character, that to my own Knowledge he has filled with credit various and highly responsible civil offices in the state of Maryland.
 and that full reliance is and should be had in all his statements
[signed] Tho L Bond
[signed] WM [illegible] Justice of the peace [illegible]

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State of Maryland
Baltimore County, Sct.
I hereby Certify that William Stansbury Esquire before whom the annexed deposition was made and who has thereto subscribed his name was at the time of so doing a Justice of the Peace of the State of Maryland, in and for the City of Baltimore, duly commissioned and sworn.
In Testimony whereof, I hereto set my hand and affix the seal of Baltimore County, Court, this fifth day of May A. D. 1848.
[signed] A W Bradford
Clerk Baltimore County Court.
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Land Office,
Annapolis 18th, April, 1848,
IN a bundle of papers relating to the Revolution and endorsed, "Returns of the Flying Camp for the Western Shore," remaining in this office, I find in said bundle, a Muster roll or an Enroll[remainder obscured by overlay] Company, dated the 18th, of July, [remainder obscured by overlay]

[overlay handwritten on pre-printed form]
LAND OFFICE,
ANNAPOLIS, 18th, April, 1848,
I Certify, that it appears by a Depreciation Pay Roll, remaining in my Office, that Thomas Johnson, a private, Gists Regt. of the Maryland Line, received [British pound] 80 " 9c" 8d -- Depreciation Money, issued to the Maryland quota of troops on Continental Establishment, on the 27th, day of October, 1783.
[signed] George G. Brewer,
Register Land Office, [cross our illegible] Md.
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Land Office, 
Annapolis 18th, April, 1848, 
In a bundle of papers relating to the Revolution and endorsed, "Returns of the Flying Camp for the Wester Shore," remaining in this office, I find in said bundle, A Muster roll or an Enrollment of Captn. Thomas Yate's Company, dated the 18th July, 1776, and upon which roll, is the name of Thomas Johnson, enrolled as a private. The rolls of the "Flying Camp," are very imperfect and I am unable from any record or paper in this office, to ascertain the length of time he was in Service, as to my certifying whether I have heretofore Communicated to any one that such evidence existed, I am unable to do so, I certainly never made any Communication to any one, that the name of Thomas Johnson appeared upon the roll, without I was called on and asked to make the examination, and I have no recollection of having been called on by any other than. Mr. Yearley, It is however impossible for me to recollect names, when I have such a multiplicity of business to attend to throughout the year.
[signed] George G. Brewer
Regr. Land Off. Md.
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[seal at center top margin]
[handwritten on a pre-printed form]
MARYLAND, Sc.
THE STATE OF MARYLAND,
To all persons to whom these Presents shall come, Greeting: KNOW YE, that Thomas Johnson late of Baltimore County, deceased, hath died intestate, -- and Administration of all the goods, chattels, credits and personal estate of the said deceased, is hereby granted and committed unto John Guyton who is appointed ADMINSTRATOR of the said deceased.
WITNESS, Charles Howard Esquire Chief Justice of the ORPHAN'S COURT, of Baltimore County, this 6th day of May in the year of our Lord Eighteen Hundred and fifty

Test, [signed] D. M. Perine Register of Wills for Baltimore County