Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 5600, for Abel Johnson, North Carolina
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(8-1776)
SERVICE
N.C.
Johnson, Abel
Ann
NUMBER
R.5600
CONTENTS
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Oct 19
In the matter of Mrs. Ann Johnson of N.C.
Additional testimony 
Oct. 19/52
I.HK
Joseph Brigan
[illegible]
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State of North Carolina 
Johnston County 
This day personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace in and for said county, Henry Johnson, a resident of said county and made oath in due form of law that he was born on the 6th day of June 1779 agreeable to the family record of his father Abel Johnson and that the testament set to the pension office of J. H. Kirkham does contain his age so by that age he [Illegible]. But that the testament does not contain his father’s family record but that his age was taken from his father’s record and wrote by his brother in law in said testament by his esquire many years ago and that his said father’s old family record has been lost and not seen on hand of in ten or twelve years and he further states on his oath that he has no other way of proving the marriage of his said father and mother than this and the other proof he has already sent to the pension office. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 30th October 1845.
N. Bryan, Justice of the Peace
Henry Johnson
I, Nathan Bryan, the above magistrate do hereby certify that the affiant was duly sworn and subscribed before me by Henry Johnson who is personally known to me and has been for a great many years and he is represented and believed to be a man of truth and undoubted veracity and has been a member of the Baptist Church for many years, in my neighborhood. And I believe him to be the age he represents himself to be from his appearance and that he has one brother older than himself who is dead. Given under my hand on the day and data above written.
N. Bryan, Justice of the Peace
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State of North Carolina
Johnston County
I, Thomas Bagley, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas and Quarter Sessions in and for the County and State aforesaid do hereby certify Nathan Bryan, Esq. whose name appears to the above affidavit is now and was at the time of [Illegible] an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County and that the signature purporting to be his is genuine. 
Given under my hand and seal of office at Smithfield this 3rd day of November 1845.
Thomas Bagley, Clerk
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State of North Carolina
Comptroller’s Office
I, William J. Clarke, Comptroller of Public Accounts in and for the State aforesaid do hereby certify that it appears of record in my office among the payments made by said State to sundry person, for military services in the Revolutionary War as follows,
Abel Johnson
Book W. No. 2, Page 13/20/5 
Said payments were for Militia service, in the years 1782 and 1783. 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my seal of office this 15th day of October 1852. 
William J. Clarke, Comptroller
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State of North Carolina Johnston County September 6, 1845   this day personally appeared before me, J L Leach, one of the acting Justices of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for said County, Mr. Henry Johnson who deposeth and sayeth on his said oath that he has made diligent search and inquiry from his brother’s family record (Abel Johnson, deceased) of his said Children ages therein contained which is destroyed or lost and cannot be found further the deponent sayeth not.  Sworn to and subscribed before me this day and year first above written.  Henry Johnson his mark   Test  J L Leach [JP]     
At the same time and place came before me, the said Henry Johnson in the son of Abel Johnson who deposeth and sayeth that the that the peace of paper attached to this affidavit is his family record of his age and of his children’s ages wrote many years ago which was cut out of his Testament.  Henry Johnson his mark  Test  J L Leach  [JP]   
 And I J L Leach [JP] do further certify that I cut the attached peace of paper from the family Testament of Henry Johnson and sealed the same to this affidavit. J L Leach, [JP]      September 6, 1845 State of North Carolina Johnston County I, Thomas Bagley, Clerk of the County of Court of Johnston do hereby certify that James L. Leach, whose name appears to the foregoing affidavit, is now and was at the time of the executing the same an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County that the signature purporting to be his is genuine. Given under my hand and seal of office September 13, 1845. Thomas Bagley, Clerk
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Henry Johnson
June the 6 1779
Riley Johnson was born March 11 1925
[unreadable] Johnson 
[unreadable] Johnson
His wife was born July [unreadable]
Nancy Johnson [unreadable]
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State of North Carolina Johnston County On this day, the 28th of May 1845, personally appeared in open court Henry Johnson, a Resident of the County and State aforesaid (and made the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed July 4 1836). And being first duly sworn according to law doth declare on his sworn oath that he will be sixty six years old the 6th day of the coming June (next month) that he is the son of Ann Johnson who was the widow of Abel Johnson who was a soldier in the Revolutionary War in the Militia Service in the State of North Carolina for two years as he has often heard him say a great many times and he further sayeth that his said father has often told him and others of the soldiers in service with him to wit: Barney Johnson, Jacob Mathews, Hardy Mathews or Mathis and he further states that he has heard herd him speak of his Captain by the Name of Eben. Folsum of being under his command (and that his father Abel Johnson has been dead about twenty four years and was at the time of his death about Sixty four years old (64) and further States that his said father and mother was married in Cumberland County in said State as he has always understood in the year 1777. And distinctly recollects of hearing his father speak of Being in the Revolutionary Service at the Close of the war and under the said Captain Isrel Folsum or Eben Folsum And he further Declares that his said mother Ann Johnson Remained a widow from the day of her said Husband’s death up to the time of her death which occurred on the 9 day of April 1838 and that she was at the time of her death
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Seventy nine years old and that she never married she never married after the death of her said husband Abel Johnson but died the widow of the said Abel Johnson in the said County. And he further declares on his said oath that his said mother, Ann Johnson, never made an application for a pension during her life and that his mothers maiden name before she was married to her said husband was a Miss Ann Johnson and declares that the following named children are all that survived his Said mother Ann Johnson the widow of the said Abel Johnson – Deceased them names to wit  Myself Henry Johnson or Amos Johnson and Nancy Johnson who married Jessy Wellons and further sayeth on his said oath that his said father had by his mother one child older than himself by thirteen months as he has always understood by his father and mother which died and he further sayeth that he was never apprised of the fact that he was entitled to a pension or pay extending to him for his fathers services in the Revolution War until very recently (also nor never knew until recently that his said mother would have been entitled to pay for her said Husband’s services in the Revolution War and he further states his place of Residence was in Johnson County said State where he lived and died and further states that the family Records have been lost of mislaid for many years past.  And that he now in Right of himself and Brother and Sister Relinquishes every claim to a pension except the present Sworn and subscribed in open Court the day and year first above written before me in Said Court     
Henry Johnson  his mark
Test Tho Bagley [unreadable]
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State of North Carolina
Wake County}   August 31th 1846     This day came before me the undersigned one of the acting Justices of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions of said County To wit appeared David D. Dupree who being first duly sworn according to law depose as follows that he is Thirty Eight years old and that he has very recently settled that himself and family in the City of Raleigh and Since which time witness has been Enformed that the Pension department in Washington City Require Information or proof of Marriage and the Revolutionary services of Abel Johnson Deceased   the Witnesses Grandfather.   All he has to say is as follows that my mother said Witness whose maiden name was Sally Johnson and Daughter of the said Abel Johnson and as he has always understood and who was from the Earliest Recollection of the Witness Represented and believed a Soldier of the Revolutionary War and that he has heard the said Abel Johnson and his wife often speak of his serving in said war I recollect of hearing his wife speak of his officer by the name of Capt. Folsom   Witness further depose as follows that the Testament sent as he understands to Washington by Mr. Kirkham was the property of the Witness Father’s during his Life and Witness says that his mother age is wrote in said Brook by her Husband Peter Dupree at least 35 years ago Thirty five years When Last Seen by witness it was very dull but so as to be understood as follows
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as well as my memory serves me her name was wrote Sally Dupree was born Aug. the 11th  in 1782 or 1783 in Said Book with Several other Names – and the following Names are her three Brothers older than herself, Jonathan Henry and Samuel and also Four younger Amos Nancy Elizabeth and Edith and all of the above all the children of the said Abel Johnson,  Deceased   Said Witness further states that his Grandfather Abel Johnson died about the date 1829 and his Grandmother said Abel Johnson wife Died about the date 1838 --- D.D. Dupree
Sworn to and subscribed to before me Jordan Womble JP   
I have known D D Dupree a few years and have never heard his carrecter [character] called in question and so far as I know or have heard he bears a good carrecter given under my hand and seal 31 August 1846 Jordan Womble  [seal]      
I have been acquainted with D.D. Dupree the witness whose name appears to the above affidavit and have no doubt, but the facts set forth are true and correct. And further that I have been acquainted with the mother of said witness from the time of her marriage up to her death which marriage took place about the year 1807 when I was a school boy to Peter Dupree deceased one of my neighbours; I have been acquainted with her brother Henry Johnson, a great many years and he must have been older thanker, and born previous
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To the year 1784 seventeen hundred and eight four. Wake County, North Carolina September 1st 1846 Parker Randy, JP     
State of North Carolina Wake County     Be it known that before the undersigned, a Justice of the Pleas and Quarter Sessions of said County to wit appears this the 30th day of September 1846, Barney Johnson credible and intelligent witness who being first duly sworn according to law depose as follows that he is 50 years old and that he heard the Mr. Abel Johnson deceased say as follows: That he served under two Captains in the Revolutionary War. His first captain he cannot recollect the length of his service under him whose name is Capt. Lytle. But witness recollects distinctly that the said Abel Johnson told him that he served three tours of six months each under Captain Folsom in a cavalry or horse company in the Militia Service and was discharged at the close of the war. And further witness states that the said Abel Johnson went sometime after the war to a creek and showed witness where he washed himself at the creek near his house immediately after he got his discharge and put on clean clothes at said creek before he would go home to his family in his ragged and dirty situation as he mentioned he was ashamed to be seen by them in his dirty situation that these facts are as fresh in his memory as though the conversation had only occurred last week and that he also heard the said Capt. Folsom speak of the said Abel Johnson being with him in the said war, the said Johnson was a man of undoubted veracity and his statement to him the said witness believes was true and that he died many years ago leaving his widow who died 1838 and left surviving Henry, Amos and Nancy Wellons their lawful Children.   Barney Johnson    Sworn and subscribed to before me.  W S Whitaker
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Commissioner of pension your letter of the 29 July 1846 was received in the case within Sally Dupree was the daughter of Abel Johnson deceased aforesaid who was Born August 11 the 1782 or 1783 which will more fully appear by Reference and a careful examination of the Testament now on file in Amos Johnson case who died 1838 widow of Abel Johnson  Claim with the rest of papers at the time and the undersigned drew up the papers-- I did not learn who the said Sally Dupree was before her marriage, and did not notice or offer as  evidence but from Mr. D. D. Dupree’s affidavit she was the daughter of Abel Johnson and her age therein wrote in said testament 35 years ago and born 1782 I think is good evidence I therefore sincerely hope this claim will be examined again also a search in Said testament for Sally Dupree’s name Repectfully H. Kirkham  Feb. 15th 1849
2  D D. Dupree Deposition in Ann Johnson widow of Abel Johnson
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State of North Carolina 
Wake County 
I, James S. Marriott, Clerk of the Court of Pleas and the Quarter Session for the County aforesaid do hereby certify that Jordan Womble, Parker Randy and Willy Whitaker who signed the foregoing proceedings are acting Justices of the Peace in and for said County and that the signatures purporting to be theirs are genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of said court and subscribed my name at office in Raleigh the 6th day of October 1846.
James S. Marriott, Clerk
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[POWER OF ATTORNEY.] Know all men by these presents, that I, William H. Coats, administrator of Ann Johnson deceased, of the County of Johnston, and State of North Carolina. L. Blanchard True, of Washington D.C., do hereby make, constitute, and appoint my true and lawful attorney, for me and in my name, to examine all papers filed in any Department or Office of Government, upon which a Revolutionary pension was claimed in right of Abel Johnson deceased, on account of the military services of Abel Johnson deceased and to obtain, by all lawful means, any and all additional amounts that may be due from the United States to said Ann Johnson (widow) of Abel Johnson by virtue, of said services, as Private in the Company of Captain Lyttle and Capt. Folsom in the Regiment of  and in the Militia line of the forces of North Carolina. And for good and sufficient reasons, I do hereby revoke and cancel any and all other Powers of Attorney and authority which I may at any former time have given to any person or persons for the above specified purposes; and I do hereby vest the same irrevocably in my said Attorney hereto appoint, said L. Blanchard True. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal this twenty sixth day of July, in the year A.D. 1856. W. H. Coats, Adm [Administrator]  In presence of B. Coats Pelick Massey    [seal]     
State of North Carolina County of Johnston On this the twenty sixth day of July in the year A. D. 1856  personally appeared before me David H. Holland, JP  duly authorized by law to administer oaths and take acknowledgements in an for the county aforesaid, William H. Coats, Administrator of Ann Johnson, widow of Abel Johnston. Subscriber to the above and acknowledged the foregoing Power of Attorney to be his true act and deed, for the purposes therein mentioned; and made oath, in due form of law, that he is not personally interested and only as Administrator of Ann Johnson in said claim. And I further certify that he is personally known to me to be the identical individual represented. D. H. Holland   [seal]
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State of North Carolina
Johnston County
I, John H. Keneday, Clerk of the Court of Pleas and [Illegible] for the County of Johnston aforesaid do hereby certify that David H. Holland whose name appears to the foregoing certificate was at the time of the date thereof a magistrate in and for said County, duly commissioned and sworn and that the signature purporting to be his is genuine. 
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said court of office the 26th July AD 1856. 
J. H. Keneday, Clerk
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Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
5600
P.O. Ann Johnson 
Service: 
Enlisted: [REJECTED]
Discharged:
Application Filed: 
Alleges:
Reenlisted:
Attorney: 
Recognized: 
Contracted:
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No. 6532
Ann Johnson dead
N.C.
[Illegible]
Sent to A. Ray, August 14 1845
J. H. Kirkham October 24, 1845
A. Ray November 20, 1845
To Same December 13, 1845
J. H. Kirkham July 29, 1846
Act 4 July 1836
P.H. Kirkham August 30, 1849
A. Ray November 11, 1850
Jo Benson April 7, 1853
July 4, 1836
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11532
Ann Johnson dead 
N.C.
[Missing text] A. Ray August 12, 1845
Letter to J. H. Kirkham October 24, 1845
Letter to A. Ray November 26, 1845
Act 4 July 1836
Letter to P. H. Kirkham 30th August 1847
Letter to A. Ray November 11, 1850
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6532
Ann Johnson dead 
North Carolina
A Ray August 12, 1845 
J. H. Kirkham October 24, 1845
A. Ray November 20, 1845
Same December 13, 1845
J. H. Kirkham June 12, 1846
Same July 29, 1846
Same August 30, 1849
A. Ray November 11, 1850
J. Bryan April 7, 1853 
L. B. Price May 19, 1857
Same May 6, 1857
S.600
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William H. Coats, Administrator
Ann Johnson dead April 9, 1838
Amos Johnson, Son
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State of North Carolina Wake County 
This the 23rd day of August 1848 personally appeared before me, William R. Poole, one of the acting Justices of the Peace in and forth the County and State aforesaid, Mr. Isaac Coplin who being first duly sworn according to law deposeth as follows that he is in his 59 year of his age. And from his earliest recollection Henry Johnson, Amos Johnson, and Nancy Wellons are the only surviving heirs of Abel Johnson and his widow Ann Johnson. Question was this Ann Johnson the widow of Abel Johnson who is represented to of been and served as a soldier in the Revolutionary War (answer she was the identical widow of the said Abel Johnson who was reported to have served in the Revolutionary War. Question as you know the age of the oldest child living. Answer the above named Henry Johnson and myself were play mates together while boys. He being larger and stouter than myself and was said and believed to be seven years older than myself. The deponent further states that he was very intimately acquainted with the said Abel Johnson the father of the above children now making application for a pension for their father’s services. He further states he has heard him the said Abel Johnson say that he served in the Revolutionary War with his father and often heard them speak of their services in conversation. Deponent further states that Ann Johnson died the widow of the said Abel Johnson never married after her said husband’s death and left surviving heirs by her said Husband Henry Johnson, Amos Johnson, and Nancy Johnson Wellons
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and further this deponent sayeth not Sworn to and subscribed me the day and year first above written   Isaac Coplin his mark     Will. R. Poole  
I, William R Poole a Justice of the peace in the County aforesaid and do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Isaac Coplin the within deponent and he is a man of truth and under veracity given under my hand this the 23d day of Augt 1845 Will R. Poole      
State of North Carolina Wake County I James T. Marriott Clerk of the Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions for the County & State aforesaid do hereby certify that Will R. Poole whose name appears to the foregoing is an acting justice of the Peace in and for wake County and that the signatures to be his are Genuine        
In Testimony whereof I hereunto affix the seal of said Court and subscribe my name at office in Raleigh the 12th day of Sept AD 1845    Jim T Marriott [unreadable]   By W. H. High [unreadable]
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No. 6532
Ann Johnson, 
Widow of Abel 
N.C.
Act 4 July 1836
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State of North Carolina Johnston County}   I, Thomas Bagley Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for said County state, do hereby certify that Henry Johnston came in open Court and made the above declaration do certify that satisfactory evidence was produced in open Court that the above named children are all that survived Ann Johnson Widow of Abel Johnson deceased I further certify that it was also proven to the satisfaction of the said Court that Ann Johnson widow of the said Abel Johnson Married and died as aforesaid stated. Given under my hand & Seal of office the 28th day May 1845 Thos Bagley CCC
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State of Jesse North Carolina
Johnson County}  this day came before me J. P. Leach an acting Justice of the peace for the County aforesaid.  Jessy Wellons a resident of the County of Johnson and State of North Carolina aged fifty three years (53) who being first duly sworn according to Law deposeth as follows that he was well acquainted with Ann Johnson the widow of ( Abel Johnson, who has been represented from his earliest Recollection a Soldier in the Revolution War of the United States) he further states that he married the daughter of Abel Johnson, and he further declares on his said oath that he well recollects the time when Ann Johnson died the widow of the said Abel Johnson Question why as you know so well the time that she died ( Answer I was present when she died which occurred on the 9 Day of the April 1838 and furthermore declares on his said oath made her Coffin and Saw her Berried [buried]    Jesse Wellons  ( Sworn to and Subscribed before me the 27th of May 1845    J P Leach  [seal]      
I hereby certify that I am well acquainted with the Deponent Jessy Wellons and no that he is a man of truth and and Respectability J P Leach [JP}   May 27 1845
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State of North Carolina
Johnston County

I, Thomas Bagley, Clerk of the Court of Pleas and [Illegible] for the County of Johnston do hereby certify that James P. Leach, who name appears to the foregoing affidavit is now and was at the time of executing the service an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County and that the signature purporting to be his is genuine.
Given under my hand and seal of office May 27th 1845.
Thomas Bagley, Clerk
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We, the undersigned citizens of Johnston County, North Carolina hereby certify that we were well acquainted with Mr. Abel Johnson deceased who married Miss Ann Johnson and knew him many years before his death and that we understand his children’s application for a pension was deposited in the pension office about the 20th of June of the present year. That the said Johnson was called a Soldier of the Revolutionary War and so believed to be in the neighborhood and where he lived and we believe that he is the identical person named in a certificate from the comptroller of the State of North Carolina at Raleigh in the name of Abel Johnson whose certificate as we are informed is filed with his papers in the pension office. He was generally supposed to have been a Revolutionary Soldier and we believe he is the identical person who performed the service, and has always bourn the character of a respectable man. 
I knew Abel Johnson about 15 or 20 years, Britin Langdon
I knew him forty years before his death and heard my father say he was with him. Benjamin Harold       M. W. Johnson      William White      John Messer    
I Certify the above assigning men are respectable residents of the said County, and are entitled to credit as witnesses my hand and seal Sept 6 1845.    R. W. Stevens  [seal]
11 September 1845 Jessy Wellons
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State of North Carolina
Johnston County

I, Thomas Bagley, Clerk of Johnston County Court do hereby certify that the name of Robert W. Stevens, Esq., whose name appears in the certificate is now and was at the time of executing the same an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the aforesaid County and that the signature purporting to be his is genuine. 
Given under my hand and seal of office at Smithfield the 13 of September A.D. 1845.
Thomas Bagley, Clerk
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Washington D.C. February 20, 1854 Sir, The Comptroller of your State says in one of his certificate or rather certifies that the name of Abel Johnson appears of records in your office as having the following specie certificate issued in his favor for military service (viz) one for twenty Pence, five Shillings. See Book G., No. 16, Page 25. Also another for eighteen Shillings. See Book No. 11, Page 20. The following certificates issued in the name of A. Johnson (viz) one for one Pound, eight Shillings (£1.8). See Book No. 24, Page 13. Another for 13 Pounds, ten Shillings (£13.10). See Book No. 24, Page 98. Another for one Pound, seven Shillings and four Pence. See same Book, Page one hundred and seven. And another in Book S. No. 26
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Page 26 for eight Pounds, six Shillings, and six Pence. 
Given under my hand and seal.
The next certificate in this same case from your office is as follows:
“do hereby certified it appears of record in my office among the payments  said state to Sundry persons for military service in the Revolutionary War as follows:
Abel Johnson – Book W, No. 2, Page 13	£20.5 
				    Page 32	£20.5
Payments both specie 
Said payments were for military service in the years 1782 and 1783.
In testimony whereof

Sir, 
The above is a true copy of the before mentioned certificates. Please reinvestigate this case and report to me. 
I am sir most your obedient servant,
I. B. True
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State of North Carolina
Comptroller’s Department

I, C. H. Brogden, Comptroller of Public Accounts in and for the State aforesaid, do hereby certify that it appears of record in my office among the payments made by said State to sundry persons for military service in the Revolutionary War as follows:

Abel Johnson
Book W. No. 2 Page 13: £20.5 Wilmington 
Book W. No. 2 Page 31: £20.5 
Book W. No. 2 Page 32: £20.5 All Specie

Book D. No. 18 Page 6: £15/1/6 Specie
Book G. No. 16 Page 25: £20/5/0 Specie
Long Book No. 11 Page 20: £18/5/0 Specie

Abel Johnson
Book No. 24, Page 6: £5/17/6
           Page 107: £1/3/4
Book G. No. 16 Page 57: £1/0/0
Book No. 54, Page 13: £1/8/0 
  	           Page 98: £13/10/0
Book S. No. 26: £8/6/6 All Specie
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The Book do not show at what period of the Revolutionary War, the service paid for was rendered in the case of A. Johnson. 
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office at the city of Raleigh this 4th day of March A.D. 1857
C. H. Brogden, Comptroller, N.C.

Per I. B. True, Present
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Washington D.C. 
March 7, 1854
His Honor 
The Commissioner of Pensions
Present
Sir, 
Enclosed please find papers completing the requirements of the Pension Office in the case of Revolutionary Pension in right of Ann Johnson of N.C., widow of Abel dead. 
Please have the goodness to transmit me the certificate to this office. 
I am your most obedient servant.
Yours, 
S. B. Price 
Agent in this Case
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March 24/96
Recd 
Abel Johnson, dec
J. L. Edwards, Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City, D.C.
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Raleigh, North Carolina March 19th, 1846 Sir, Some time since I received a letter from Mr. Alexander Ray of your city who wrote by your relative to the Revolutionary Service of one Abel Johnson whose children are now claiming a pension at your hands. which I do hope you will Examine the claim again. And refer particular to Mr. Rubin Barbers Deposition in one of them. He says he is very certain that the said Abel Johnson was in service with him at the time he had two children at home and he left him, in Service, to something to this account and as to the age of his son Henry Johnson please refer to Mr. Charles Coplins Deposition which is the only means they have to prove the marriage as the record of Abel Johnson has been lost many years ago (and also all of the living witnesses who was with the said Johnson is dead except the said Rubin Barber. Therefore, must rely on Comptroller’s certificate.  Your attention to this will oblige the heirs and your obedient Servant  J. R. Kirkham I am told that the services of this old soldier could of been proven more satisfactory (6) years six year ago and no doubt the marriage. I do hope it will pass satisfactory.  J. R. K.
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State of North Carolina 
Comptroller’s Department

I, C. H. Brogden, Comptroller of Public Accounts in and for the State aforesaid, do hereby certify that the payments made to Abel Johnson of the Wilmington District in North Carolina for military service in the Revolutionary War were in the District and State aforesaid.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 9th day of April A.D. 1857
C.H. Brogden, Comptroller, North Carolina
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Washington D. C. April 14, 1857 His Hon The Com [Commissioner of] Pensions Dear sir, You will find enclosed the comptrollers certificate made or given whose forwarding your late report in the case Ann Johnson wid [widow] of Abel do [Johnson] of North Carolina claiming Rev [Revolutionary] Pension, also was sent him a copy of his former certificate in said case: see enclosed, whose which he goes the supplemental certificate in the case, enclosed as above.     Senator Butler in his famous Brooks and Sumner speech shows that the Revolutionary Service of the Carolinas is mainly Militia Service was far superior to Continental Service, though there we find
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So many wars men in 1776 - each of whom must have served so much longer than this man if all the service of both Abel Johnson be accredited to him but that he did service is abundantly proved and substantiated in part by men who served with him and were themselves Pensioned for the same service -  One of the comptrollers Certificates certifies that £40.10 Shillings was for his said Abel Johnson Revolutionary Service during the years 1782 and 1783 while the above deponent and Revolutionary pensioner state on oath that he himself was serving with Abel Johnson when Cornwallace [Cornwallis] was on his way from the south to Yorktown, Virginia, which
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From history we know and have been in 1781. Then here we have Abel Johnson for a certainty in the Revolutionary War during the years 1781, 1782, and 1783 -     Service accredited to Abel Johnson in about 3½ years therefore full pension will be expected for the short period due -  Please enclose me the certificate and oblige.    I am sir most obediently yours, I. B. True    Agent in this case --   Enclosed is a Certificate of Court not called for of there being but one child in this Johnson case  I. B. True
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Washington D. C. March 10th 1856    Hon. Judge [unreadable]   Com. Pens. [Commissioner Pensions]  Sirs:   Herein we enclose you a brief of some of the evidence of service and marriage now on file in the Case of Ann Johnson N. C. widow of Abel for Rev. [Revolutionary] Pensions Act 1836 -    Willy Johnson, brother of Abel Johnson, aged 85 in 1849, declares that his said brother Abel Johnson served 2 years till close of the Rev. War and that he was in the Battle of Guilford C.H. [Guilford Court House].      
Henry Johnson, son of Abel Johnson, aged 66 in 1845, declared that he had often heared his father said Abel Johnson say that he was a Soldier in the N. C. Militia for 2 years and that his father said Abel Johnson often told him and others of Soldiers serving with him viz: Barney Johnson, Jacob Mathews, and Hardy Mathews or Mathias, and often spoke of his Capt. Ebon or Israel Folsom.    
Jesse Wellons, aged 53 in 1845, declared that he was well acquainted with Abel Johnson and that he was ever regarded and believed a Soldier of the Rev. in the N. Ca.  Militia.     
3 witnesses declare that they knew said Abel Johnson for 50 years and that he was ever regarded and believed a Soldier of the Rev. in the N. Ca. Militia in the neighborhood where he resided and that they have heared their brothers say that said Abel Johnson was in service with them ---      
D. D. Dupree, aged 38 in 1846, declared he has often heared said Abel Johnson and his wife both speak of his being in the Rev. Service in the N. Ca. Militia and of his serving under Capt. Folsom ---    
Barney Johnson, aged 50 in 1846, declares that he knew Abel Johnson well, that he heared him say often that he served under Capt. Lyttle and Capt. Folsom - that he served under said Capt. Folsom 3 tours of 6 months each in the Cavalry of N. Ca. Militia and that he was discharged at the close of the war - and that said Abel Johnson showed him the creek where he washed
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Himself after his discharge on his way home - and that he has heared said Captain Folsom speak of said Abel Johnson being with him in service in the Rev. War in the N. Ca. Militia in a company of Cavalry.     
Issac Coplin aged 59 in 1845, declared that he has often heard said Abel Johnson speak of his service in the Rev. War in the N. Ca. Militia -     
Reuben Barber, aged 83 in 1845, of Johnston Co. N. Ca. where Abel Johnson lived declares that he was himself a Soldier in the Rev. War and served under Captains William Hunter and Captains Heardy Bryant and Robert Key - and that he was intimately acquainted with said Abel Johnson and that he was in service with him in Cumberland Co. N. Ca. in the years 1781 and 1782 and on both sides of Cape Fear River together - and that he left said Abel Johnson in service - and that he saw him no more after the Rev. War ---   
Certificates of N. Ca. dated June 2nd, 1846 show payments made Abel Johnson for service -  £45 Pounds, 14 Shillings, 10 Pence.      
Again per certificates of N. Ca. dated June 15, 1852 show payments made to Abel Johnson for service in the years 1782 and 1783. - £40 Pounds and 10 Shillings Specie      
These certificates of service exactly tally with the evidence in the case herewith filed.     Willy Johnson, brother of Abel Johnson, aged 85 in 1849, declared that said Abel Johnson was married and had 2 children when Battle of Guilford C. H. [Courthouse] was fought in which Battle said Abel Johnson served  - That said Abel was 7 years older than himself and died in 1821 and his wife died in 1838 aged 78 and that he served 2 years after marriage -       Hardy Blacklock, aged 79 in 1845, declared he was near Neighbor and well-acquainted with Abel and Ann Johnson both before and after marriage - That they were always regarded as man and wife - and that he was well-acquainted with surviving children, Henry, Amos and Nancy
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That said Abel and Ann Johnson were married in Cumberland Co. N.Ca.  in the year 1777.      
Peter Randy, Justice of Peace, declares that he was well-acquainted with Henry Johnson oldest living child of Abel and Ann Johnson for many years and that said Henry Johnson must have been born previous to the year 1784.      
Barny Johnson, aged 50 in 1846, declares Ann Johnson widow of Abel do died in 1838 and that Henry, Amos and Nancy are their surviving children –      
D. D. Dupree, aged 38 in 1846, declares that said Abel Johnson died in about 1821 and that his widow Ann Johnson died in 1838 ---      
Jesse Wellons, aged 53 in 1845, declares that he married the daughter of said Ann and Abel Johnson - That he was present when said Ann Johnson died  - That she died 9 April 1838 and that he made her coffin and saw her buried ---    
Isaac Coplin aged 59 in 1845 declares that Henry Johnson oldest living child of Abel and Ann Johnson and himself were playmates together and said that Henry Johnson was 7 years older than himself ---      
Reuben Barber, Rev. Soldier aged 83 in 1845, declared that he personally knew said Abel and Ann Johnson both before and after marriage - That he lived close to them in the same neighborhood - and that they were ever regarded as man and wife - and that they had children before he was in Service with said Abel Johnson in the years 1781 and 1782 - that he saw their children before he went into service with said Abel Johnson - that he was well acquainted with Henry, Amos and Nancy, the only surviving children        
Henry Johnson, son of Abel and Ann Johnson, aged 66 in 1846, declares that his father said Abel Johnson and mother said Ann Johnson were married in Cumberland Co. N. Ca. in the year 1777 - that his father said Abel died in 1821 aged 64 and his mother Ann died in 1838 aged 79 - that three survives Henry, Amos, and Nancy Children of said Ann and Abel Johnson - that himself was the 2nd child of said Ann and Abel Johnson and was born June 6, 1779 -that there was 1 Child older than himself by 13 months, now dead - that his own old family record (now on file in the case) is his own family Record of Births and Marriages - and that it proves his birth to have been in 1779 !!
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All of which is herewith most respectfully submitted to your Honor, upon the firm belief that by a carefully reexamination this claim will be – must be allowed.
I am sir, your most obedient servant,
I. B. True
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Oct. 7 1848
[illegible]
Ana Johnson.
James L. Edwards
Commission of Pensions
War Department
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Washington September 30, 1845
Sir, 
In the case of Ann Johnson dead, widow of Abel, for the Act 4 July 1836, of North Carolina. I have herewith enclose from the evidence in the case the Bible, from which the record of the children was taken. I am informed by or will be transmitted to the department.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
Alex Ray 

J. L. Edwards, Esq.,
Commissioner of Pensions
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Nov. 17. 1845
Adatter can
Ann Johnson
James L. Edwards, Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions
War Department
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Washington November 15, 1845 Sir,  J. H. Kirkman, Esq., of Raleigh, N.C. has forwarded your letter to him, of the 26th October last, in the case of Ann Johnson deceased for the act 1836.        
You state “the record of the ages of the children of Ann Johnson, appears to have too recently made to be recorded as evidence of the marriage in this case.”      
I herewith, enclosed, an affidavit made by Henry Johnson repeating the record, which was presented by W. Kirkman under the impression it was an original record of the ages. And by the affidavit of J. W.  Johnson appeared differently.  Will you be pleased to take up the claim again for further consideration.      I am very respectfully your obedient servant, Alexander Ray       
J. L. Edwards, Esq. Com of Pens [Commissioner of Pensions]
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June 25, 1845
Ann Johnson decd
July 4, 1836
J. L. Edwards, Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions
War Department
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Washington March 24, 1845
Sir,
I herewith present an application made by Henry Johnson in his and in the name of the surviving children in light of their mother Ann Johnson late of North Carolina dead for the benefits of the act of 4 July 1836.
I remain very respectfully your obedient servant,
Alex Ray 

J. L. Edwards Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions
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May 7/49
Sally Dupree
Addit Evid
Ann Johnson
Widow Abel Johnson
[stamp] Raleigh May 4 N. C. Free

J. L. Edwards, Esq.
Commission of Pensions
Washington City, D.C.
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Raleigh May 3rd 1849
Sir, your early attention to this and Mrs. Burches  claim I sent you last month or in March will confer a favor on your most obedient servant. 
J. H. Kirkham 
J. L. Edwards., Esq.
Commission of Pensions
Washington City, D.C.
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Raleigh, N. C. [North Carolina]
Compt. Office
I, William F. Collins, Comptroller of Public Accounts in and for the State of North Carolina do hereby certify that the name of Abel Johnson appears of record in this office as having had the following specie certificates issued in his favor for military service, viz, for twenty Pounds, five Shillings. See Book G., No. 26, Page 25 also another for Eighteen Shillings. See Book No. 11, Page 20. The following certificates found in the name of A. Johnson, viz, one for one Pound, eight Shillings (£1.8)  See Book No. 24, Page 13   Another for thirteen Pounds, ten Shillings (£13.10)   See Book No. 24, Page 98. Another for one Pound, seven Shillings and four Pence. See same Book, Page 107 and another in Book 5, No. 2, Page 26, for Eight Pounds, six shillings, and six pence.
Given under my hand and seal this 2nd day of June A.D. 1845
William F. Collins, Comptroller
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Raleigh, N. C. [North Carolina]
Compt. Office
I, William F. Collins, Comptroller of Public Accounts in and for the State of North Carolina do hereby certify that the name of Abel Johnson appears of record in this office as having had the following specie certificates issued in his favor for military service, viz, for twenty Pounds, five Shillings. See Book G., No. 26, Page 25 also another for Eighteen Shillings. See Book No. 11, Page 20. The following certificates found in the name of A. Johnson, viz, one for one Pound, eight Shillings (£1.8)  See Book No. 24, Page 13   Another for thirteen Pounds, ten Shillings (£13.10)   See Book No. 24, Page 98. Another for one Pound, seven Shillings and four Pence. See same Book, Page 107 and another in Book 5, No. 2, Page 26, for Eight Pounds, six shillings, and six pence.
Given under my hand and seal this 2nd day of June A.D. 1845
William F. Collins, Comptroller
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Washington 
March 29th 1850
James L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Sir, 
I have received from P. H. Kirkham, Esq. of Raleigh, N.C. your letter addressed to him August 20, 1849. Also the enclosed affidavit in the case of Ann Johnson deceased, under Act 1838, which I am requested to present additional evidence in the case.
I remain your most obedient servant, 
Alex Ray
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North Carolina 
Cumberland County
I, John McLennon, Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions of said County do hereby certify that I have made diligent search in my office for the bond of Abel Johnson for the marriage between him and Ann Johnson and cannot find it.
In witness thereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court of Office this 19th day of June 1845.
J. McLennon
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State of North Carolina Johnson County} May 30 1845
This day personally appeared before me O. N. Wettering JP one of the justices of the peace in and for the county and state aforesaid.  Mr. Rubin Barber a solider of the Revolutionary War and a resident of the county and state of North Carolia and first being duly sworn according to law, deposeth and sayeth that he is in his 83 years of his age (eighty three) and a soldier in the Revolutionary War served [illegible] the following captains William Hunter Capt. Hardy Bryant and Rotins Hy and was very intimately acquainted with Abel Johnson in the Revolutionary war and was a soldier in the said War with him in Cumberland County And further states that he saw him this side of Cape Fair and also on the side of Cape Fair River in service in the said war of the American Revolutionary War and left him in service.  And further states that he was very intimately acquainted with his wife before he married her who was a Miss Ann Johnson and was also acquainted with the said Abel Johnson before he married the said Miss Ann Johnson but did not see them married.  And from his earliest recollection they lived as man and wife and never in his life heard it disputed but what they were legally married and was intimately acquainted with their first child – and those three now living which are the only surviving children of their father & mother Abel Johnson and his widow Ann Johnson who are both dead leaving only surviving them Henry Johnson Amos Johnson Nancy Johnson who married one Jefrey Wellons.  The deponent further affirms (in Cumberland County in said state was where he saw the said Abel Johnson in service in the Revolutionary War and the three children above named are all that survived Ann Johnson aforesaid.
Further the deponent sayeth not.  Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and year first above written.  
Reuben Barber
Before me N. Wettering JP
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I hereby certify that I am well acquainted with the deponent Rubin Barber and no (sic) that he is a man of truth and respectability and so reputed by all that no (sic) him given under my hand officially this Thu 30 of May 1845
BJ Wettering JP
State of North Carolina
Johnston County }
I Thomas Bagby clerk of the court of pleas & quarter sessions in and said county do hearby (sic) certify that R. W. Stevens Esq whose name apears (sic) to the foregoing affidavit & certificate is now and was at the time of executing the same an acting justice of the peace in and for said county and that the signature purporting to be his is genuine
Given under my hand and seal of office the 5th June 1845
Thos. Bagby Clerk
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State of North Carolina Cumberland County May 31st 1845    
this day personally appeared before me John Wilborn, one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the County of Cumberland W. Hardy Blalock a resident of the County and State aforesaid and first being duly sworn according to law deposeth and sayeth that he is seventy nine years old (79) that he was well-acquainted with Abel Johnson and his wife before the marriage and after their marriage but did not see them married    and knew when he the said Abel Johnson was coating [courting] his said wife Ann Johnson who was a Miss Ann Johnson her maiden name    and always believed from his earliest recollection to the present that they were lawfully married and never heard it disputed in his life    and lived as man and wife   (and further deposeth and sayeth that he has been acquainted with their children who is now about make application for a pension). Their names are to wit: Henry Johnson, Amos Johnson, and Nancy Johnson who married one Jessey Wellons and he further states that he was at the time of the marriage between the said Johnson and Miss Ann Johnson was being in the immediate neighborhood and was playmates together    and the above are the identical children of Abel and his wife who married in Cumberland County, North Carolina, in 1777.  W. Hardy Blalock his mark    Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and year aforesaid.  Jno Wilborn  JP      I hereby certify that I am well acquainted with the Deponent above Hardy Blalock and is a man of truth and respectability and so said by all that no [know] him this 31st of May 1845.   Jno Wilborn  JP
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State of North Carolina
Cumberland County
I, John McLennon, Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions of said County do hereby certify that John Wilborn, Esq., who name in his proven handwriting appear to the within affidavit of Hardy Blalock and also to the certificate annexed was at that date an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County. Duly commissioned and sworn and that full faith and credit are due to his official acts. 
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court of office this 6th day of June 1845.
John McLennon, Clerk
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State of North Carolina
Johnston County
I, John H. Keneday, Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for said County do certify that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited before me on oath of Amos Coats and Gaston Johnson that Amos Johnson is the only surviving child of Abel and Ann Johnson and that there is none other. 
In witness thereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said Court of Office in Smithfield the 24th day of March A.D. 1857
J. H. Keneday, Clerk
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State of North Carolina Johnson County North Carolina    this 6th day of September 1845 personally appeared before me R W. Stevens one of the acting Justices of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for said County W. Rubin Barber a soldier of the Revolutionary War who being first duly sworn according to law deposeth and say on his said oath that he is in his 83 year of his age and was very intimately acquainted with Abel Johnson and his wife before their marriage and after the marriage and before the Revolutionary War and fote [fought] the war and saw him and was with him the said Johnson in the War    question was this said Johnson and Ann Johnson the father and mother of those children making application for a pension,     they are their Identical children    what are the names Henry Johnson Amos Johnson  and Nancy Wellons     was the said Henry Johnson Born before you and his father Abel Johnson was in service in the War together     he was      what time was it that you are in service with his father     in the year seventeen Hundred and Eighty one and two. 1781 and 1782     why do you know so well the time.      Ans. [answer]  I am very positive it was after Lord Cornwallis passed through Fayetteville N.C. on his way north then you are positive that the said Abel Johnson and his wife who was a Miss Ann Johnson were married and had children before you and him were in service together   ans. [answer]    I am verry positive as to that fact.  I was living in the immediate neighborhood when they were married and I saw their children before we went into Service    where was it you were in Service with the said Abel Johnson    in Cumberland County N.C. on this side of Cape Fear River and on the other side of river .  we separated or parted and I saw the said Abel Johnson no more until after the war and further this deponent sayeth not.     Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and year first above written    R. W. Stevens JP    Rubin Barber I do hereby certify that Rubin Barber age wrote above between the fifth and sixth line was wrote before sworn to    R. W. Stevens JP  [seal]
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I hereby further certify that I am personally acquainted with Mr. Reuben Barber the above written deponent and have known him fifteen years and is a man of truce and undoubted veracity. Given under my hand and seal the 6th of September 1845.
Robert W. Shaw

State of North Carolina
Johnston County
I, Thomas Bagley, Clerk of the County Court of Johnston County do hereby certify that the name of Robert W. Shaw, Esq., whose name appears in the foregoing affidavit is now and was at the time of executing the same an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said Court, and that the signature purporting to be hist is genuine.
Given under my hand and seal of office at Smithfield the 13th September A.D. 1848.
Thomas Bagley, Clerk
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Ann Johnson 
Widow of Abel dead
For Revolutionary Pension 
Act 1836 
North Carolina 
Suspended

Per 
L. B. Price 
Present
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State of North Carolina Johnston County At a Special Court consisting of John G. Gully, Needham Ingram, and Robert Massengell, Esqs., Justices of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for said County of Johnston held at the Clerks Office of said County.   It is ordered that special letter of administration be granted to William H. Coats (upon his entering into bond in the sum of five hundred dollars with John G. Gully and Needham Ingram) on the estate of Ann Johnson deceased (widow of Abel Johnson) and he is hereby authorized to collect and to take in possession the estate of the said deceased. June 21st, 1856.    Attest J H Keneday }
J G. Gully [JP]
Needham Ingram  [JP seal]
R Massengell  [JP seal]
State of North Carolina Johnston County    Know all men by these presents that we William H. Coats, John G. Gully, and Nathan Ingram are held and firmly bound unto the State of North Carolina in the sum of five hundred dollars to be paid to the said State to which payment well and truly to be made, we bind ourselves, our heirs, executors and administrators, jointly and severally, firmly by these presents.   Sealed with and dated this twenty first day of June A.D. 1856.     
The condition of the obligation is such that if the above bounded William H. Coats administrator of all and singular the goods and chattels, rights and credits of Ann Johnson deceased, do make or cause to be made a true and perfect inventory of all and singular the good and chattel rights and credits of the said deceased, which have or shall come to the hands, possession or knowledge
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of the said William H. Coats is into the hands or possession of any person or persons for him and the same so made do exhibited or cause to be exhibited to our said County Court of Johnston within ninety days after the day of these presents  and the same goods, chattels and credits of the said deceased at the time of her death, or which at any time hereafter shall come into the hands or possession of said William H. Coats or into the hands or possession or any other person or persons for him do will and truly administer according to law. And further do make or cause to be made, a true and just account of his said administration within the time required by the act of assembly after the date of these presents and all the rest and residue of the said good, chattels and credits which shall be found remaining in the hands of or due from the said administrator shall deliver and pay unto such persons respectively as the same shall become due pursuant to the true intent and meaning of the act of Assembly in the case made and provided - And if it shall appear that any will or testament was made by the deceased and the executors therein named do exhibit the same in court making a request to have it allowed and approved accordingly   If the said William H. Coats above bounden, being hereunto required do render and deliver the said letters of administration (probate of such testament being first had and made in the Said Court) then this obligation to be void and of no effect; otherwise to remain in full force and Virtue     
Signed, sealed and delivered in presence of J. H. Keneday
W. H. Coats [seal]
J. G. Gully  [seal]
Needham Ingram  [seal]
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State of North Carolina Johnston County Personally appears before me, John G Gully   one of the acting Justices of the County aforesaid   B. H. Tomlinson and A.G. Johnson to me well known and maketh oath in due form of law that Amos Johnson Senior is the only surviving child of Ann and Abel Johnson deceased which is now know to be living by us. 
B. H. Tomlinson    
A. G. Johnson     
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 21st day of June A.D. 1856. 
J. G. Gully, JP     
State of North Carolina Johnston County}    I, John H. Keneday, Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for the County of Johnston aforesaid do hereby certify that John G Gully Esqr. whose name appears above and who witnessed the above deposition was at the time of the date thereof an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid duly commissioned and sworn and that his signature thereto is genuine.     
In testimony thereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said Court of Office in Smithfield  the 21st day of May A. D. 1856     
J. H. Keneday, Clerk [seal]
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State of North Carolina
Johnston County
I, John H. Keneday, Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for the County of Johnston aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true copy of the order appointing Wm H Coats, Administrator of Ann Johnson deed (widow of Abel Johnson) and also a true copy of the Administrator bond of the said Wm H. Coats, which said bond was duly executed and is now on file among the records of my office.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said Court of Office in Smithfield the 21st day of June A.D. 1856.
J. H. Keneday, Clerk
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Suspended "for proof of service and marriage" see p. 276

Ann Johnson, dead,
Widow of Abel 
Power of Attorney by 
Amos Johnson (Son) 
Case suspended 
I. B. True, agent in this Case
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Know all men by these presents that I Amos Johnson, of the County of Johnston, and State of North Carolina, do hereby make, constitute and appoint L. Blanchard True of Washington City D.C. my true and lawful Attorney for me and in my name to examine all papers filed in any Department on Office of Government    
And for good and sufficient reasons I do hereby revoke and cancel any and all other Powers of Attorney and authority which I may at any former time have given to any person or persons for the above specified purposes, and I do hereby invest the same irrevocably in my said Attorney herein appointed, said L. Blanchard True    
In testimony whereof I have set my hand and seal, this 3 day of December A. D. 1853 In presence of Wm H. Wellons 
Amos Johnson his Mark   
State of N. Carolina County of Johnston} On this 3d day of December A. D. 1853, personally appeared before me the subscriber to the above, and acknowledged the foregoing Power of Attorney to be his free act and deed for the purposes therein mentioned, and made oath the in due form of Land that he is personally interested in a claim against government   And I further certify that he is personally known to me to be the identical individual represented   
A. Coats JP [seal]
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Mr. Wiley Johnson 
Affidavit 
Marriage and Services of his Brother
Abel Johnson
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State of North Carolina Johnson County Oct 1 the 1849 This day personally appeared before me the undersigned an acting Justice of the Court of pleas and quarter Sessions for said County & State afforesaid old Mr Wiley Johnson aged by Eighty five years of age, who being first duly sworn according to law depose as follows that he is informed that the pension department requires proof of service and marriage of Abel Johnson and his wife Ann Johnson this is to inform Said department that he this deponent Wiley Johnson is the Brother of said Abel Johnson and recollects distinctly that his said Brother was a married man and had two children at the time of the Battle at Gilford Court House in the State of North Carolina during the revolutionary war and that he said Brother was at the said Battle at Gilford Court House and was at the close of the war and served two years   This deponent states that he is the youngest son of his father and mother and Amos Johnson who has three sons older than himself   and that his said brother Abel Johnson was about 7 years older than himself who deceased about 29 years ago and that his wife deceased about 1838 and that Henry Johnson made application for a pension a few years ago is the son of Abel Johnson and Ann his wife and that also Nancy Wellons and Amos Johnson is also their lawful children all three of whom survived their mother   deponent further states that he knew his said brothers Abel Johnson wife before he married her who was a Miss Ann Johnson and did Serve after their marriage two years  Wiley Johnson his mark
Sworn to and subscribed to before me}   H. H. Finch  JP}

I H. H. Finch JP  do hereby further certify that I have been acquainted with Mr. Wiley Johnson who has this day appeared before me and made
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affadavit in due form of law fifteen 15 years   he is a man of truth and undoubted veracity and his foregoing statements I believe true and Correct   he is a very aged man but of sound mind and memory and his statement is entitled to entire faith and credit as witness my hand and seal this 1 day of October 1949   H. H. Finch [JP]       
State of North Carolina Johnson County } I Thomas Bagley Clerk of the Court of pleas and quarter session of Johnson County in the State of North Carolina hereby certify that H H Finch Esqr whose name in his proper hand writing appears to the foregoing affidavit Wiley Johnson also to his of own certificate was at that date an acting Justice of the peace in and for Said County duly Commissioned and Sworn and that full faith and credit are due to all his official acts in Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said Court at office in Smithfield Johnson County this 4th day of November 1849   Thos Bagley