Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 14981, for Henry Johnston, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
mass
Johnston, Henry Polly
W. 14981
CONTENTS

Massachusetts 1220
Polly Johnston widow of Henry Johnston
who died on the 26. April 1801 of Middlesex Co. in the State of Mass.
who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain Field of the Regt. commanded by Col. Shepard in the Mass. line for 23 mos. & 18 days
Inscribed on the Roll of Mass. at the rate of 78 Dollars 66 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 26. day of July 1837, and sent to Abner Bartlett, Medford, Mass.
Arrears to the 4th of March '37 472.00 Semi-ann. allowance ending 4. Sep. " 39.33
$ 511.33
45 a month.
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act July 4, 1836, Section the 3. }
Recorded by D. Brown Book A. Vol. 1 — Page 54
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1286
Polly Johnson wid of Henry Mass.
Adm o private 23 m. 18 days $78.66 per ann, commencing 4 March 1831.
Mass. Genl. line Col o Shepard, Capt. Field,
Abner Partell Esq Medford Mass

(Copy)
April 5. 1779. Henry Johnston & Polly Cheapton both resident in Providence were lawfully joined together in marriage upon the fifth day of April A.D. 1779. (Signed) for Jos. Snow Pastor.
Providence January 31st A.D. 1837.
I hereby certify that the above is an exact & perfect copy from the Records of the Richmond Street Congregational Church in said Providence & that the said copy was made by me this day. Walter S. Burgess.
State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations Providence ss
In the city of Providence this first day of February in the year Eighteen Hundred and Thirty Seven personally came the said Walter S. Burgess who signed the above certificate and before me made oath that the same is just and true in all its parts. And I further certify that I am personally acquainted with the said Walter S. Burgess and that he is entitled to full credit for truth and veracity and for respectability of character.
Horace A. Manchester Justice of the Peace.
State of Rhode Island &c Providence ss I DeWitt Randall Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas within & for said County being a Court of Record do hereby certify that Horace A. Manchester Esquire is a Justice of the peace in the City of Providence and said County was duly elected by the General Assembly at their May Session A.D. 1836 and duly commissioned bearing date the ninth day of May A.D. 1836 and that his signature above written is genuine. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said Court at Providence this 1 st day of February A.D. 1837. DeWitt Randall Clerk
justices

Henry Johnson was admitted a patient at the Marine Hospital New London on the 7 th of April 1801 from on board United States Ship Connecticut and died in said Hospital 26 th of April 1801
Certified James Lee Surgeon Attending Marine Hospital Port N. London April 3 rd 1801
Rev. Huntington agent for the Marine Hospital at New London
Henry Chapman Pastor of the First Church N. London and officiating Minister at the funeral Funeral of the Henry Johnson
Swells
22.

We Nathan Waitt & Andrew Blanchard both of Medford in the County of Middlesex a Common wealth of Massachusetts do severally depose and say that we were personally acquainted with Henry Johnston husband of Polly Johnston, that the said Johnston & his wife lived together in said Town of Medford during several years after the revolutionary war and had several chil- -dren born in said Town of Medford that we believe the said Henry has been dead more than thirty years. The said Polly Johnston still resides in said Medford and has done so & remained the widow ever since the death of her said husband the said Henry Johnston                                                     Andrew Blanchard. Nathan Waitt
Commonwealth of Massachusetts. County of Middlesex. In the Town of Medford on this sixth day of February in the year eighteen hundred

and thirty seven personally appeared the said Andrew Blanchard and Nathan Waitt and severally signed their names to the foregoing affidavit and made oath that the same is true, before me the subscriber, I also certi- fy that I am personally acquainted with the said Blanchard and Waitt and that they are per- sons of veracity & entitled to full credit.
Abner Bartlett Justice of the Peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Middlesex County ss.
In this Seventh day of February in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and thirty seven personally appeared before me Samuel P.P. Fay Judge of the Court of Probate within & for the County of Middlesex aforesaid Polly Johnston a resident of Medford in the County and Commonwealth aforesaid widow aged nearly seventy eight years who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 4. 1836 - That she is the widow of Hen- ry Johnston late resident at Medford aforesaid Marine, that the said Johnston served as a private several years in the war of the Revolution - That after she was married to said Johnson the ceremony which marriage took place at Providence, Rhode Island in April 1779 - She re- members that her husband was then in Captain Wright's company of Infantry, Col. Shepard's Regiment, as she thinks - He was afterward in Capt. Haskell's company in the same regiment - which regiment was afterward under Col. Rice - Her husband as she always understood belonged to the continental troops or regular army & was enlisted dur- ing the war - She was a resident in Honeham, a town ad- joining Medford in 1778 & went in the fall of that year to the

army in Rhode Island to wash for the soldiers & continued with the army until her husband was discharged nearly four years after her marriage - she continued with her husband & the army in all their movements in New York & New Jersey - she remembers well being on the north river & when Major Andre was hung - Her husband was severely wounded in the service not a long while before he was discharged - He was disabled by his wound for service for a great while - for which he received a pension until the time of his death. For the particulars of his service, she refers to the rolls & evidence on file in the war department - She was married to the said Henry Johnston at Rhode Island Provi- dence in Rhode Island the fifth day of April in the year seventeen hundred & seventy nine by Joseph Snow pastor of a congregational church in Providence. Said Henry Johnston her husband died on the twenty sixth day of April eighteen hun- dred & one at the Marine Hospital in New London hav- ing been received there from on board the United States ship Connecticut about nineteen days before as ap- pears by the certificate herewith forwarded - and she has remained a widow ever since & has always resided in said Medford -
Abby Johnston
Middl. Prob. Off. Cambridge - Subscribed & sworn to the day & year aforesaid -
J. P. Day Clerk

And the said judge of Probate does hereby certify his opinion, after examination of said declarant & investigation of the matter, that the facts stated by her in her declaration aforesaid are true - and that the said Polly Johnston is a respectable & credible person -
J. P. T. Fay Prob
Commonwealth of Mass. county of Middlesex ss. I Isaac Cooke Register of the Court of Probate in & for the County of Middlesex & Commonwealth do hereby certify that Samuel P. T. Fay Esq. whose own signature is hereunto written on the foregoing paper is the judge of said Court duly commissioned & qualified: I also certify that Abner Prout Esq. is a justice of the Peace in & for said County of Middlesex duly commissioned & qualified & that the signature written to the attestation on the foregoing is Andrew Blanchard & Nathan West - hereto annexed is his genuine signature. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said Court this ninth day of February AD 1837. Isaac Cooke Reg

I Am W. Fulton of Medford in the County of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts single woman de- pose and say that I am the daughter of John Fulton late of said Medford now deceased, that I am sixty eight years of age, that some time before my father's death which happened in Febra- -ary seventeen hundred and ninety, he removed with his family from the centre of the village in said Med- ford on to a farm, which he owned about a mile and half out of the village, on the road leading to Stoneham; at that time Henry Johnson lived with his wife and family in a small house about half a mile from us towards said town of Stoneham, he Johnson was well known to me before that time, having often worked with my father in the distil house, while my father lived in the village, but after we removed to the farm, he was our nearest neighbor in that direction, and I saw him much oftener, and after my father's decease, said Johnson was frequently called upon to work and perform small jobs and errands for my mother & the family, in which way he was very clever and attentive; though he was often, especially when affected by liquor, very abusive to his wife & children, who were obliged frequently to flee to the neighbors for protection; his wife used often to have recourse to us, on such occasions, with some of her young children - Said Johnson was an Englishman

not born in this country, but had served in our army as a private soldier and was wounded in that service, as I have often heard him say, and of which fact I have no doubt and never heard it disputed. I have often seen the scar, when he said he was wound- -ed, it was on the inside of his wrist and came extend- ing quite across in an oblique direction, it must have been a severe cut or wound & have severed all the cords on that side, he said he had never recovered the entire use of his hand, and he used often to complain that he could not work with it, as before - I understood that he received a pension on account of it and have often heard him speak of going down to Boston to see it.
Said Johnson died upwards of thirty years ago, as I understood in the hospital in New London in the State of Connecticut. My brother John Fulton who then & still does live in New London, told me that he at- -tended his funeral there. My brother knew him well when he worked in the distil house with my father in Medford, when my brother worked also at the same time - I remember perfectly well that his widow the present Mrs Polly Johnson went into mourning on that occasion, and that the usual notice and prayers were put up at the Church in Medford when she then & now attends public worship, and of which Church she is a worthy member - soon after his death she had her

house removed on to a small piece of land given to her for the purpose by my mother Sarah Fulton and has ever since resided in it and still does so, it stands not twenty  five rods from the house in which I now reside and in which my father & mother resided until their decease.
Ann W. Fulton
I Elizabeth S. Fulton depose and say that I am the sister of Ann W. Fulton, subscriber to the above written deposition - that I am fifty two years of age and have always resided with my said sister in the house and on the farm of my father John Fulton since he removed on to it, as related in my sister's deposition. That I remember most of the facts related in that Deposition; I have often heard the said Henry Johnson therein mentioned, talk of his serving in our army and of being wounded there, and have seen the scar which he said was formed by said wound it was large & extended from the wrist upwards on the arm the muscles & tendons of the wrist & arm seemed to be stiffened as was the bone & he complained of its being lame at sometimes painful & used often to have it bound round with flannel.
Elizabeth S. Fulton

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Middlesex County. ss. On this ninth day of June 1837 personally appeared before me the subscribers of the Justices of the Peace for said County, the above named Asa W. Fullton and Elizabeth S. Fullton and subscribed their names to the above affidavits respectively and severally made oaths to the truth of the same. I also certify that the said affiants are each entitled to full credit for veracity.
Abner Bartlett Justice of the Peace
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M. B. H.
7.
Mid 14921
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
Bureau of Pensions,
Rev War.
Washington, D. C., Feb 27 1906
Madam:
In reply to your request for a statement of the military history of Henry Johnston , a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     - 23 mos 18 days Pri. Wright Haskell Shepard Shepard Purcell Mass.   and received a wound of wrist for which he was pensioned.        
Battles engaged in, None stated
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Not stated
Date of application for pension, Feb 7 1837; her claim was allowed
Residence at date of application, Middlesex Co Mass.
Age at date of application, About 78 years.
Remarks: He died April 26. 1801. He married Polly Cheaptun, at Providence, R. I. Apr 5. 1779.
Very respectfully,
Mrs Lucy A Griffin Box 146
15567b2m11-01
East Bridgewater Mass
Commissioner.

1906 Feb 27- History to Mrs Lucy A. Griffin M.B.H.
Rev
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 14981
Polly Johnston Widow of Henry Johnston Briv Rev. War
Act: July 4 th 1836
Index: Vol. a , Page 380
[Arrangement of 1870.]

I Almer Bartlett of Medford in the County of Middlesex & Commonwealth of Massachu- setts Counsellor at law, depose and say that some time in the last winter, Mrs Polly Johnson of this Town applied to me to assist her in obtain- -ing the benefit of the provision, made by the Act of Congress passed July 4. 1836. in behalf of the widows of Soldiers of the Revolution - that She then stated to me that her husband Henry Johnson served in the American Army several years in Colonel Sheppard's regiment first in Capt n Wright's Company & then in an other company. I asked her the name of the Captain of the latter company, she said, "they called it 'the Colonel's Company'" but having no knowledge that there was any such name or style of a company in the service, I still insisted on having the Captain's name, when she said Captain Haskell commanded it - I attend- -ed with her before the Judge of the Court of Probate when she made her declaration, forwarded to the Pension Office, & wrote a part of it, I think I did not insert in it what she had previously told me viz. that "they called it

the Colonel's Company" - for I considered that to be a mere cant or phrase, which she had heard used among the soldiers but which would not be found on the rolls or records of the army - that since I received a note from Mr Edwards Commissioner of Pensions in May, I have conversed with Mrs. Johnson on the subject & read it to her, wherein he says that "the rolls do not support her statement" still she persists in saying that her husband enlisted & served first and at the time of their marriage in Wright company - I asked her if she knew Capt Wright personally, she said no, that she did not know that she ever saw him, but that her husband all ways called it Wrights company that it was called Infantry and she thinks it was unformed different from the regiment, that some time after she was married the company was sent off to the South she thinks to oppose Cornwallis, that Wright left & she thinks Capt Spring took the command, that they would not allow any women to go which was the cause of her husband's leaving it and entering "the Colonel's Company" that as to this latter com

-pany she does not feel so sure, about the Captain that it was commanded by different persons that Ensign Yeomans used to command it some times but the last part of the time which her husband belonged to it which was after the capture of Cornwallis, she feels very certain Captain Haskett commanded - it was in this company she says, that her husband received his wound, that he enjoyed a pension afterwards during life on that account that she received the arrears of it after his death by the hand of a Mr Munroe who kept a shop in Boston & whom her husband was indebted a small sum when he died, that I have inquired after said Munroe & learned of his son who now lives on or near the place formerly occupied by his father that the old Gentleman is dead.
Abner Bartlett
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Suffolk ss. Be it known that on this 23 rd day of June 1837, personally appeared Abner Bartlett, a person of veracity, who is well known to me, and having subscribed the above in my presence, made oath to the truth of the above affidavit.
Before me, Wm. Tuttle. Just. of the Peace.

Medford June 27. 1837
James L. Edwards Esq.
Sir. Since the receipt of your note of May 20 relative to the case of Mrs Polly Johnson, widow of Henry Johnson, I have taken some pains as time would permit, farther to investigate and procure facts connected with it so as to satisfy the department of the merits of her claim. I have examined the books in the Com ty Office in Boston, containing account of the services & pay of Sheppard's Regiment; I should have looked at them before but had been told that all book relating to the army had been forwarded to your Office to facilitate the investigation of such claims. I now transmit extracts from these books, tho' I suppose you are in possession of similar evidence of the services and perhaps more than they contain. But just allow me one word on the evidence already transmitted & the record, no doubt in your possession relative to his services. Henry Johnson appears to have served in the years 1779 & 1780 in Sheppard's Regiment, the first year in one company & the 2 d in another comp y . These services being proved by the rolls & records of the army, the evidence required by the department, as I understand its rules heretofore published, with the marriage certificate & affidavits accompanying it would be amply sufficient I suppose to establish her claim, if the Henry Johnson thus appearing on the rolls should be proved to be the same person mentioned by that name in the marriage certificate - now if the declaration of the widow supported by the rolls, as to the services, is ever to be received as evidence of such identity; I think Mrs Johnson's Statement, when duly considered, will be entitled to the same respect - first - It was made from memory alone without inspection of the rolls or records of the army or other documents. This you will see must have been the case from the mistake in her declaration of the names of the Captains of the companies in which he appears to have served by the records, this mistake could not have happened, had the

the record been previously examined. The declaration therefore tho. false in this particular in point of fact, must nevertheless be taken to contain & declare the honest conviction of her own mind, for it was a direct appeal to the re- cords which she well knew would be searched for con- firmation or refutation of the facts so stated and every motive of interest would prompt her to give them accu- rately - but she has failed it seems to give the Captain's names aright, & this is, I agree the more remarkable, as she states that she was with her husband in the army ever after her marriage, which would include nearly his whole time; but as before observed this can not have taken place by design or willful misrepresentation, it must be charged solely to her want of correct knowledge of the facts or want of memory to retain or recollect them at this dis- tance of time? altho. attached to the Army as she states does it necessa- rily follow that she must have known the names of the men actually commanding these companies from time to time? The wife of a private, constantly employed at work in the rear & retired places of the camp, it is hardly supposable that she could have known them by sight much less can she be supposed to have been personally ac- quainted with their respective commands, having no occasion, indeed always prohibited from being near any action or man- euvering of the army, her knowledge of the officers & their respective commands almost necessarily could have been nothing more than hearsay & reputation in the camp. nor is it probable that she had occasion or curiosity even, to have ascertained with any greater certainty the name of any Capt or Officer in whose company her husband actually served at any given time. She would naturally hear him mention it, but feeling no personal interest, it would make very little impression if several

Should have been named at different times, it would be quite likely that sixty years afterwards she might misremember these right out names. but should such a mistake be allowed to set aside the or destroy the credibility of a declaration, otherwise fully verified & supported in its essential allegations, by a comparison with the rolls & records of the army, as to the services of the soldier, on the contrary, should not a declaration made from memory & generally supported by the record as to facts required to be proved by the record touching services in the army, be entitled to great weight as evidence, of things therein stated of which the Declarant must have been personally knowing & in which she must have had the greatest interest in life & could not mistake nor forget while her reason continued. I mean the great fact of the identity of this Henry Johnson in Sheppard's Regt. with the Henry Johnson mentioned in the Marriage Certificate. She positively asserts it in her declaration. She must know the fact. If then for it be not true, she must be for perjured. Not so with respect to the names of the Captains, here there is ample room for innocent mistake. Suppose, having examined these books in Boston she had named the companies in which her husband served as the stand on those books, would not her claim been well made out? Yet her statement would have looked all claim to the character of Evidence of those services which would have been merely copied from the record. While now it holds a high character as evidence - having been made without inspection of the records, & yet confirmed in so many of its facts by subsequent comparison with the record - and if my affidavit, which I have put into the case, can avail her. I presume every doubt will be removed from your mind as it was from mine. the moment I opened the book in the War Office & saw the description of the company in which he last served.

The other affidavits & papers now transmitted you will see are intended to identify him by means of his wound & pension. These two facts, his wound & pension, are both asserted in the declaration, allow me to refer to the papers which I suppose are on your files, for the proof of both facts. I have not seen nor have I access to any documents on this subject but venture to submit it to this list out of the confidence in the reputation of the fact here & the affidavits & papers above mentioned - I have no doubt you will also find Mr Solomon Munn as rec d  as administrator of the last pay of his pension in 1801 - agreeable to the certificate from Prov. Offic. I think if you have the pension papers to turn to all will be cleared up.
The suggestion in your note of the discrepancy between the marriage certificate & the fact of Sheppard's Res d being a resident of Massachusetts men, I presume is sufficiently explained by the fact abundantly proved that he was a foreigner having no place of birth or settlement in this country. He I suppose considered himself a citizen at large & hailed from whatever town or place he happened to be in or come last from, that I suppose is the meaning of the word "transient" affixed to his name in the L t Col y Company. Excuse Sir the length of this paper, but read it Respectfully yours. Abner Bassett

Suffolk ss. August 18 th 1801. —
Solomon Munroe of Boston in said county Trader is admitted Adminr on the estate of Henry Johnson late of said Boston, Mariner deceased, intestate, Samuel Gridley, Gentleman and William Garrison, Trader, both of Boston aforesaid became bound with the said Adminr for the due discharge of his said Trust
Attest
Perkins Nichols Reg n
A true Copy
Attest. Eliza W. B. Peabody, Reg n

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Suffolk County.
The subscriber, Register of the Court of Probate, for said County, Hereby Certifies, and Attests, that on the _____ day of _____ in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and _____ that the foregoing paper hereto annexed relative to the estate of Henry Johnson late of said Boston Mariner deceased intestate is a true Copy as taken from the records of the Probate Court, for the county aforesaid
late of said Boston, _____ deceased, _____ testate, and became bound according to law for the faithful discharge of said trust.
Given under my hand and the seal of said court, at Boston aforesaid, this Tenth — day of June — in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty seven. —
Oliver W.B. Peabody
Register of the Court of Probate, Suffolk County.

A. Bartlett
20. May 1837
O. C.

War Dep t
Pension Office
May 20. 1837
Sir,
The papers in the case of Mrs Polly Johnston, widow of Henry Johnston, dec. have been examined and placed on our files. She alleges that her husband served in Haskell's company and in Wright's also, and that those companies belonged to Shepherd's reg t . The rolls contain do not support her statement. It appears that there was a man named Henry Johnston in that reg t . but he he did not serve under either Capt Haskell or Wright; and it is not therefor probable that he could have been her husband; because the marriage certificate as to the husband; and moreover, the certificate as to the marriage states that Johnston belonged to Providence, and Shepherd's reg t was composed of Massachusetts men. The evidence is not sufficient to authorize the Dep t to admit the claim.
Ent d
A. Bartlett Esq r Medford Mass.
Enter this in Book No. 1286

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, June 28 1837.
I hereby Certify, That, from an examination of the Books and Documents, relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution, which remain in this Department, it appears that Henry Johnson served as a Private in the fourth Massachusetts Regiment, commanded by Colonel Shepard in Captain Bickel's Company from the 12 January to the 31 st December 1779 - Eleven months & eighteen days - and in the 2 d Colonel's Company from the 1 st of January to the 31 st of December 1780 - (Transient) twelve months (and in the last service is termed a transient person) making in the whole twenty three months and eighteen days. m. d. 11. 18. 12 - 23 - 18
John P. Bigelow
Secy of the Com'tee

Boston June 28. 1837.
James S. Edwards Esq.
Sir,
At the request of my friend Mr. Bartlett I enclose the papers in the case of the widow of Henry Johnson - and add the little recollections of my boyish days. - When a boy I knew Johnson the husband of the applicant, he was a sailor and said to be in the service of the U. States. I always understood that he had been a Revolutionary soldier - that he had deserted from the British and entered the American service.
As Medford is my native place and where I have lived most of my life, I have always known the applicant personally, or by reputation, and believe her to be a person of veracity - and I have no doubt that her late husband is the individual Henry Johnson referred to, in the certificate of the Secretary of the Commonwealth bearing date of this day.
I am respectfully Your Obs Servt.
Wm. F. Dike C. Clerk S. J. O'Hara

I Simon Hall of Medford in the State of Massachu- setts laborer depose and say that I am the son of Francis Hall late of said Medford deceased, that I am fifty six years old last August, that as long ago as I can remember, my father lived in said Med- -ford about two miles out of the village, on the road leading to Stoneham & continued to reside in that place seven or eight years, that Henry John- son was one of his nearest neighbors, then oc- -cupying a small house with his wife & family about half a mile from my father, I remember him well, he used to beat & abuse his wife & on such occasions, I have known her apply to my father & protect her & her children from his violence. I have often at her request hid away her children in my father's barn for the same reason. he used to follow her, but my father would not suffer him to come into the house. He was a foreign- -er but spoke good English, used to work in Mr. Samuel Tufts' brick yard & Hutchinson Tufts'. Also

both in the neighborhood of my father's house. I have often heard him talk about his being a soldier in our army and have heard him mention the circumstance of his having been wounded in it, in one of his wrists - indeed it was universally understood & believed in the neighborhood that he served as a soldier in our war. I remember of hearing of his death, thirty odd years ago he was absent but I do not remember when. his widow the present Mrs. Polly Johnson I have known ever since; soon after the death of her said husband she removed the house, which they used to live in, on to a piece of land belonging to the widow Sarah Fulton, and she still lives in that house on that spot, generally alone. She is an industrious, cheer woman and always was so, in my opinion, ever since I remember her, which must be nearly or quite fifty years. Simon his X Hall mark att John Brown

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Middlesex County to wit. On this seventh day of June 1837 personally appeared before me Abner Bartlett one of the Justices of the Peace within and for said County Simon Hall a person well known to me and who is entitled to full credit for veracity, and signed with his own hand the above affidavit to which his name is subscribed and made solemn oath that the same is true. Before me Abner Bartlett Justice of the Peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
By His Excellency EDWARD EVERETT, Governor and Commander in Chief in and over said Commonwealth.
To all whom it may concern:
Edward Everett
Know Ye, That Oliver W.B. Peabody Esq rs is the Register of Probate and William Duff Esq rs is a Justice of the Peace - both for the County of Suffolk - and that Ebenezer Bartlett Esq rs is a Justice of the Peace for the County of Middlesex, (and have been so for the month last past) in the said Commonwealth, duly constituted and commission- ed, and that to their Acts and Attestations, as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given in and out of Court.

in the said Commonwealth, duly constituted and commissioned, and that to their Acts and Attestations, as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given in and out of Court.
In Testimony Whereof, I have caused the Public Seal of the Commonwealth to be hereunto affixed, this twenty eighth day of June, A. D. 1837, and in the Sixty first Year of the Independence of the United States of America.
By His Excellency the Governor.
John P. Bigelow Secretary of the Commonwealth.

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To the Pension Office
Please send me the war record of Henry Johnson who was a Private in the war of the Revolution.
Residence Bedford or near Boston Mass.
His widow
Polly Johnson was granted a Pension for the year of one thousand eight hundred and thirty seven
Recorded in the Pension Office, in Book A. Vol. 1, page fifty four.
Address. Mrs. Lucy A. Griffin
East Bridgewater - Mass
Box 146

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Johnston, Henry GRADE Private LINE New Jersey
WARRANT NUMBER 8416 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED February 11, 1800 To Abraham Bell, assignee
*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.