Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 16168, for James Johnston, North Carolina

SERVICE
NUMBER
16
Johnston, James or Johnson
S. 16168
Carded
CONTENTS

+ Indiana 2769 East Tennessee
James Johnson
of Knox - in the State of Tenn. who was a Privt in the _____ commanded by Captain _____ of the _____ commanded by _____ in the Peninsular line for 9 months from 1780.
Inscribed on the Roll of East Tenn. at the rate of 30 - Dollars - • Cents per ann to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 5 th day of Dec. 32 to L. Arnold and sent to Hon. E. D. H. Rep.
Arrears to 4th of Sept 1832 45.- Semi-ant. allowance ending 4 Mar 33 15.- 100.-
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Nathan Rice Clerk, Book D Vol. 9 Page 103
See Cir. Tra. June 22: 1831
To Indiana from 4 Sept 1834 - July 15: 1835
See letters to J. H. Stewart V.S.H. Merrill, P. Agt. Nov. 27. 1835

Delphi Ind April 21
Lee
Hon. Lewis Cass, Secretary of War,
application for Transfer
Washington City,
Inverness
to the
James Johnson

APPLICATION FOR A TRANSFER.
State of Indiana
County of Carroll
ss.
On this sixteenth
day of March
1885
before me, the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace for the said County of
Carroll
personally appeared James Johnson
who, on his oath, declares that he is the same
person who formerly belonged to the company commanded by Capt.
Flannegan & Capt. Adrion in the Regiment commanded by Colone
Brown
in the service of the United States; that
his name was placed on the pension roll of the State of Tennessee
from whence he has lately removed; that he now resides in the State (District,
or Territory,) of Indiana where he intends to
remain, and wishes his pension to be there payable, in future. The follow-
ing are his reasons for removing from Tennessee
to Indiana and that he is old and infirm
and the only son he has removed to the
latter State and he changed his place of residence
for the purpose of residing with his son
Sworn and subscribed to, before me, } the day and year aforesaid. }
James Johnson
John Chambers J.P.
The oath to be taken before a duly qualified Magistrates, whose official character and signature must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office. The county Clerk, Secretary of State, or some other officer, must certify, under his seal of office, that the officer who administered the oath is a Justice of the Peace, Judge, Mayor, Alderman, or Notary Public, as the case may be, and that the signature purporting to be his is genuine. The oath must be supported by the testimony of some respectable person, as to the Pensioner's identity. He must swear that the person who has taken the above oath is the person described in the affidavit. The Magistrate must certify, that the witness is a person of veracity; and the affidavit must also be authenticated in the manner above directed.

State of Tennessee } ss On this 13 th day of August 1882 Knox County } Personally appeared in open Court before me Samuel Powell  Edward Scott one of the Circuit Judges of law and Equity in and for the said state of Tennessee and for the first  second Judicial Circuit was sitting
James Johnston a resident of the County and State aforesaid in the said County and state aged Sixty Six Years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832 that he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated
— He lived in McLinburg  Linburg County North Carolina at that place in the first week of May 1780 he volunteered under Capt Samuel the  P. Lane  Polk & Maj William Lowry  Smith in a company called the County rangers we reconnoitred the Country generally in search of Tories went to Hamsavers Mill got there after the battle then in the last week of July in the upper end of South Carolina on Waxhaw Creek we caught and killed eight Tories while they were in the act of plundering a whigs house the whigs name not recollect on the 5 th day of August 1780 Col Sumpter  Sumpter and Col Erwin  Erwin joined us at Land ford on the Catawba River and on the 6 th we attacked & defeated the British and Tories at the Hanging Rock and took prisoners of them and we continued on in quest of the Tories and

3939
Application of James Johnson for a Pension
Deed to James H. Haire Knobell Tennessee

British till the first week in November 1780 we were then honorably but rebelly discharged saved six months
Again at the same place in the first week in October 1781 volunteered under Capt James Osburn in Col Robert Erwin's Regiment of Riflemen Marched to the Eastern border of North Carolina on the river after the Tories Stayed in that part of the state three months Cannonball being captured the Tories became present and we were then honorably but rebelly discharged saved three months in the whole saved nine months
He has no documentary evidence and he knows of no person whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his actual service He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state and that there is no clergyman residing immediately in his neighbour- hood nor he knows of none by whom he can prove the report of his service
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
In Open Court,
James Johnston
Wm Moran Clk
We James Cruse and Samuel Feldergrin residing in the said County of Knox and state of Tennessee hereby certify that we are well acquainted with

James Johnston who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be twenty six years of age that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion and they further state that they had Capt Samuel Gilmore in state that the said Johnston served one term of duty in due time during the Revolutionary war and that he was a good soldier Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
In Open Court
James his Cross mark
Wm Swan Clk
Sam Flemmons
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states and the Court further certifies that it appears to him that James Cross and Samuel Gilmore who has signed the preceding certificate is undoubt in the said County of Knox and state of Tennessee and is credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit
E. Ponder Judge of the Circuit Court of the state of Tennessee
I 88m Swan Clerk of the Circuit Court of the said County of Knox and state of Tennessee do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of James Johnston for a pension and that the said Samuel

4 Powell who signed the above certificate is one of the Circuit Judges of Law and Equity in and for the state of Tennessee and that the signature annexed thereto is his genuine signature In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and put my seal having no seal of office at office in Knoxville this 17 th day of August 1832
Seal
William
3939 Application of James Johnson for a Pension
Secret to James H. H. H. Knoxville Tennessee

1812 Wars Section.
January 11, 1927.
Mr. John Feast, Pension Bureau, Washington, D. C.
Sir:
I have to advise you, that the Revolutionary War pensioner James Johnston rendered no other services than those stated in the two attached bureau reports of June 30, 1902 and February 7, 1913, nor is there any further data on file as to family than as stated in said reports.
The date of his death is not on record. For the same and for the date of last payment of his pension and the name of the person paid, you should apply to the Civil Division, General Accounting Office, Washington, D. C. citing all of the following data: James Johnston, Certificate 2769, issued December 5, 1832, rate $30 per annum, commenced March 4, 1831, Act of June 7, 1832, Indiana Agency.
Respectfully,
WINFIELD SCOTT, Commissioner.
Mr. Feast brought to the section Jan. 11 1927 the two reports furnished Mr. M. B. Alexander - and said Mr. A. wanted to know if we had any more information and when soldier died and how to find out about death. AW.
reports returned as requested by
Mr. Feast

16.168 INVALID.
File No. 16.168
James Johnson Pre Rev War
Act: June 7" 82
Index:—Vol. / , Page 447
[Arrangement of 1870.]
June 30-1902
W.B. Johnson, Omaha, Ne
1912 Feb. 7. to Wellington B. Johnson c from Card catalogue.
1914 Feb. 24. History to Mrs. G. L. Londermillek. Ltr.
1910 Oct. 7. Wellington B. Johnson advised to apply to Q.M. Genl. for tombstone. Aw
1927 Jan. 11. Mr. Frost informed in behalf of Wellington B. Johnson, no funeral services or family clerk & how to apply for date of death (his two reports re- turned) aw.

J L Edwards Count of Penn.
Mr James Johnson,
Delphi,
Indiana

June 17. Mr. Brewster Delphi Indg June 28
Edwards Commissioner of Pensions Washington City D. C.

W. London
5 May 1835
Pension office

State of Indiana Carroll County } Before the undersigned a Justice of the Peace within and for the County of Carroll, personally appeared George Malcom, who being by me duly sworn upon his oath saith that James Johnston, who subscribed the within oath is the identical person, named in a pension certificate, number 2769, and dated at the War Office of the United States, the 5 th day of Dec. 1832 - and that the said Johnston, who has taken the above oath, is the person described in the Affidavit.
Sworn to and subscribed this 16 th day of March 1835 John Chambers J.P.
George Malcom
I John Chambers Justice of the Peace do hereby certify that George Malcom above named, is a person of veracity.
State of Indiana Carroll County } I, David F. Vanderveer Clerk of the circuit court of the county aforesaid do hereby certify that John Chambers before whom the foregoing oath of identity appears to have been taken and whose signature is affixed thereto is and was at the taking thereof an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the county aforesaid - In witness my hand and official seal at Delphi this 20 th day of April 1835 David F. Vanderveer

An affidavit to James Johnsons application for a pension which application bears date August 13 th 1832 and was numbered in the War Department 3939 and sent back for amendment
State of Tennessee } Personally appeared before me Knox County } Elijah Johnson one of the Justices of the Court of Pleas and Quarter sessions in and for the said County of Knox and state of Tennessee James Johnson a resident of the said County and state who after being duly sworn according to law deposeth and saith that he is the same James Johnson who subscribed and swore to the said declaration above mentioned
That he was born in the state of Pennsylvania on the waters of Delaware River the name of the county not recollecting on the 5 th of Octo 1755
That he has a record of his age in his family bible at home He continued to live in M c Kinburgh County South Carolina till in the fall of 1787 1789 at which time he moved into Knox County state of Tennessee and has lived there ever since and still continues to live there That he never did receive a commission
He believes that in addition to James Cross and Samuel Glanahan who testified for him he can prove by Robert Houston David Bearmant
John M c Cammon and a number of others of his acquaintances, & present neighbours too to mention that that he is a man of veracity and that they believe him to have been a soldier of the revolution He had no acquaintance with the regular officers or Continental or military regiments except his own Regiment but what is stated in his declaration
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 10 th day of November 1832 James Johnson
Elijah Johnson
A Justice of the Court of Pleas and Quarter sessions in and for the County of Knox and state of Tennessee

State of Tennessee } I Charles M'Clung Clerk of the Knox County } Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions in & for the said County of Knox and state of Tennessee Do hereby certify that Elijah Johnson before whom the within affidavit of James Johnson was taken is an acting Justice of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions in and for the said County and state duly commissioned and sworn as such and that full faith and credit is due and ought to be given to all his official acts and that the signature which purports to be his is his genuine signature In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office at office in Knoxville this 14 th day of 1805 December 14 th 1805
Chas M'Clung
By his Deputy J. M'Clung

Free P. m. 10 1/2 #38 Hon Thos D. Kinkead Washington City D. C. sent
Hon. T. D. Kinkead H. Re Dec. 1. 1832

Knoxville Nov 13 th 1832
Hon Thos. D. Arnold
Dear Sir
I have made a number of applications for pensions and have had four returned to me not paid, with with avit, Thos Hall, Arthur Scott, Robert Johnson, and James Johnson, with the following reasons assigned, why they did not pass, to wit, 1st. the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, are not embodied in the Declaration
2nd, as the Clerk of the Court, for Knox County, has no seal of office, the number of congress from this District, must certify to his official character and signature. 3 d the discharge of Rob t Johnson and the parole of Thos Hall, ought to have been transmitted to the Department
As to the first objection if the Declaration has to be made entirely new, and proved again in court, it will be putting the old, infirm, worn out soldiers, to great inconvenience trouble and expense. In the first place there is no process, by which we can compel the attendance of witnesses. 2 nd by, the courts are not bound to attend to the examination of pensioners, as a part of their official duty, and there is great complaints made by solicitors, about the time taken up in that way. 3 d our Counties are large, some of the pensioners live twenty five miles from the court house, State's attorneys are scarce, and there is but few intelligent preachers, that know any thing about the matter, add to this, that none of the services were performed about here, and you may see the vast trouble, and expense, there is in making the proof. The Courts have interrogated them to their satisfaction, and satisfied that part, and I cannot see the necessity of

of bringing the applicant again into court, with his witnesses, to prove the same things that he has already proved, and for him to be asked the same questions over again, and for the court to make the same certificate over again.
If it will do to pursue the  that plan that I have laid, with James Johnson's application, which you will receive herewith enclosed. It can be done with out much inconvenience to the applicant, who was in no fault about the omissions in the declaration, and I assure you that many who attended court, were very infirm and had great trouble to procure the proof, and a different rule insisted upon, may deprive some, of the advantage of the law, altogether.
As to the 2 d objection, if the claims are not forwarded before the fourth of march, it will work great delay, after that time we will have no number of causes, till after the next August elections, and there is but one Circuit Court, between now, and the time causes adjourn.
As to the 3 d objection, I forgot to send the discharge, and parole, with the declarations, but I sent them by the next mail, with appropriate directions, so that they could be known and used in their place, they are now in the office at Washington. Please be so good as take the application of
Mr Johnson to the Department, and make out such certificate as they want, as to the official character and signature of the Clerk, of the Circuit court, and get them to pass upon it immediately, and let me know the result. All my applications are subject to the first objection, and a great part to the second. They say where are sheet want hold the whole, that the paper attached must be fastened with narrow ribbon, and the end put under the seal. That makes an impossible case.

where there is no real. As soon as I hear from you, I will again try what I can do, for the mutilated, war worn soldiers, who offered their blood, their treasure, and their all, as a willing sacrifice, upon the altar of liberty. You know they are gently poor, and the smallest pension that can be given them, will assist to feed, and cloath, and comfort them, it will fall upon them like the dew from heaven
I will address the balance of my applications to you, and through you to the Department, as a great part of them will demand your certificate
I am Dear Sir with Great Respect your very Humble Servt
James Hair
PS Please delay no time in getting this claim paid upon and inform me of the result I shall wait your answer with a great number of anxious waiting soldiers
J H

6/111. 112
26 Nov. 1835.
Pension Office
Delphi Ind Nov. 10 5
Jas Johnson Inda
2769 Inda
Inda
Hon. Levin Cass.
Secty of War Washington City.

Seiphi, Wabash County, Ind a
Nov. 10. 1833
Wm Vans Cask Sec of War.
Sir.
During the last Session of Congress, application was made to you by our Representative Wm E. A. Hanegaw, to have the James Johnson, a Revolutionary Pensioner, transferred from the East Tennessee Agency to the State of Indiana which was accordingly done.
Mr J. resides in this County. A few days since he applied for his pension at the Branch of the Indiana State Bank at Vafayetho, but could not draw his money, on account of his name not appearing on the list of Pensioners to be paid at that Branch.
You will do Mr J. a great service by giving such the necessary directions to the Cashier of the Branch at Vafayetho, so that Mr J. can procure his money at that Place. - Your immediate attention is respectfully solicited.
Very Respectfully James H. Stewart.

2 - 15 - 1914
Dept. of Interior - Bureau of Pensions
I am very anxious to know the record of War Service of an ancestor, one James Johnson who probably went from Ripley County, Indiana, served in the "Revolution" was wounded and drew a pension, died in Indiana, Ripley County at an advanced age, can you give me his wifes name also. I do not know who his captain or any officers were.
Yours respectfully
Mrs G. L. Lordernilk La Grange Missouri

R
O M & N
Omaha, Neb. May 26. 1902
Pension Commission, Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir:—
In tracing my genealogy in order to secure enrollment in the Sons of the American Revolution, I found the military history of James L. Johnson , a private soldier of the Revolutionary War. I know only the following facts concerning him.
His full name— James L. Johnson. L. probably is Lowry. I think he enlisted in Virginia.
In 1809 he lived on Stock Creek, near Knoxville, Penn. " 1834 " moved to Pittsburgh, Ind., where he died in 1837 or 1838.
I do not know the name of his widow, but he left a son named Lowry Johnson.
James L. Johnson drew a pension.
Can you supply me the military record of this man? He is my Great Grand father.
Respectfully,
W B Johnson,
City Engineer's Office.

1532 A St., N.E., City, Oct. 6, 1915.
Hon. G. M. Salzgaber,
Commissioner of Pensions.
Sir:-
Please send me the necessary papers for making application for a grave stone at the grave of a Revolutionary soldier. ✓
My great grandfather, James Johnson, was in the North Carolina troops, drew a pension for many years, and is buried in Carroll County, Indiana.
His grave is decorated each year, and it is desired to mark it permanently, which we understand the Pension Office does on submission of the necessary proof.
Respectfully,
Wellington O. Johnson

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Washington, D.C., Jan. 25, 1912.
The Hon. Commissioner of Pensions, City.
Sir:-
I wish to establish my right to unite with the Sons of the American Revolution, and it is necessary for me to know the military record of my great grandfather, James Johnson, possibly spelled Johnston, who was a pensioner and died at Pittsburgh, Ind., about 1840, may be a few years earlier or later.
I am under the impression he is the same man who is named on page 76 of the Tennessee list of pensioners, found in the report from the Secretary of War in response to Resolution of Senate on the 5th and 30th of June and 3rd of March, 1835.
This man was a private in the N.C. Militia, drew $30 per year, was placed on the Roll Dec. 5, 1832, for a pension beginning March 4, 1831, and at that time was 78 years old. The family removed from Tennessee about 1840, and my great grandfather died a few years after.
Thanking you in advance for this information,
Respectfully,
Wellington B. Johnson
1532 A Street, N.E.
my JAN 31 1912 mw

In reply to your request of _____, received _____ for a statement of the military history of James Johnston or Johnson a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pen- sion on file in this Bureau. S. F. 16168
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     May, 1780. 6 mos. Pri Samuel Flannigan v N.C.   Oct. 1781 3 " James Osborn Robt. Erwin         
Battles engaged in, Hanging Rock
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Mecklenburg Co N.C.
Date of application for pension, Aug. 13, 1832. His cl. was al.
Residence at date of application, Knox Co. Tenn
Age at date of application, B Oct 5, 1755, in the waters of the Delaware River in Pa.
Remarks: In 1835, soldier was a resident of Carroll Co., Indiana, living with an only son (name not stated). There is no further data relative to family. For date of last payment of pension and person to whom said payment was made apply to the Auditor for State Dept. Treas. Dept., etc., etc.
Respectfully,
Commissioner.

aw Re Section. Rev. &
October 7, 1915.
Mr. Wellington B. Johnson, 1552 A Street N. E. Washington, D. C.
Sir:
In response to your letter dated the 6" instant, you are advised that application for a gravestone for the Revolutionary War pensioner James Johnston of North Carolina, Sur. File No. 16,168, whose history was furnished you by this Bureau on February 7, 1912, should be made to the Quartermaster General, U. S. A. War Department.
Very respectfully,
Commissioner.