Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 26697, for James Johnson, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER _____
mass
Johnson, James Barnah
W. 26697
Lab. closed on 1 Sept.
CONTENTS

McCune - 2949
Margaret Johnson widow of James Johnson,
who died on the _____ 1814 of Kennebec in the State of Maine who was a Sgt. in the County comman by Captain Brown of the Regt. comman by _____ in the State of line for 2 years
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of 120 Dollars & Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.
Certificate of Pension issued the 24 th day of July '39, and seal by Geo. W. Melcher and Augusta, Me.
Arrears to the 4th of Mar. - $ 960.00 Semi-annual allowance ending 60.00
$ 1020.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act July 4, 1836, Section the
Recorded by R. Burain Clerk Book A Vol. 2 - Page 9

I Israel Hutchinson of Hallowell, Kennebec County, Maine, aged seventy four years, & a pensioner on the Maine Roll under the Act of Congress of March 18, 1818, do upon oath testify & say, that I well knew Hannah Johnson of Augusta in said County, widow of James Johnson, deceased. That I well knew the said James Johnson during the Revolutionary War, we both being residents of Lyndeboro', New Hampshire. That I well recollect that said James Johnson enlisted into the service in the Revolutionary Army during the war, & I think in 1777, for three years, & during the time returned home I was married. That he again returned to the service in the Army, & as I always understood & believed served out his period of enlistment. I think that I have seen the said James Johnson's warrant as a Sergeant, & his discharge from his regiment, which was one of the regular Massachusetts regiments, but which one I cannot now recollect. I well recollect that John & Jasper Johnson, brothers of said James, served in the same regiment with him, & after the war frequently heard each of them speak of their said service together, I always understood & believed that said James, Jasper & John, served together for three years in one of the Massachusetts regiments,

if I recollect right James was a Sergeant, Jasper & John are both dead,
Israel Northman
State of Maine. Kennebec p: Subscribed & sworn to this 5 th day of March 1839, the deponent being a credible & disinterested witness.
Before me Wm Woart Jr Jus. Pacis.
Kennebec p: State of Maine.
I the subscriber clerk of the Courts for said county hereby certify that William Woart Jr before whom the foregoing affidavit was sworn, was at that time & now is a Justice of the Peace of the Quorum in & for each & every county in this State.
Witness my hand & the seal of the Supreme Judicial Court of said State, this 25 th day of March 1839.
J. A. Chandler

I received the oath and declaration of Hannah Johnson, for a pension, at her residence. She was eighty one years of age - was very lame, and from age and infirmity quite unable to to appear in court.
Nathan Weston C.f S.p. C.
The declaration above alluded to, was taken and certified, as the original case will show, September 20. 1830.
Nathan Weston

Hannah Johnson, widow of James Johnson, for Pension, under Act of July 27, 1836.
Me. 4062
on roll 15 Regt. Sergt. 3 years.
adm'd
2 years length
120 $
no deduction
Georgetown Augusta Maine

State of New Hampshire Secretary of the State's Office
I hereby certify that the within named Device Stiles is a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Hillsborough is duly qualified and his signature is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have here- unto set my hand and caused the seal of the State to be affixed this 29 th day of October Anno Domini 1838.
J. M. Whipple Deputy Secy

I, Israel Herrick Clerk of the Town of Lyndeborough in the County of Hillsborough and State of New Hampshire, do hereby say, that the marriage, of James Johnson and Hannah Hutchinson, is not entered on the Records of said town between the years 1775 and 1800.
Israel Herrick Town Clerk of Lyndeborough State of New Hampshire } Hillsborough ss. } Septem r 25. 1838
Sworn to Before me David Stiles Jr. Clerk

Declaration. In order to obtain the benefit of the third section of the act of Congress of the 4th July 1836. State of Maine.
Kennebec County ss.
On this twenty eighth day of September A.D. 1838 personally appeared before the Hon d Nathan Weston Chief Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of said State, Hannah Johnson a resident of Augusta in the county of Kennebec and State of Maine, aged eighty one 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 Act of Congress, passed July 4th 1836: That she is the widow of James Johnson, who in the year 1777 enlisted for the period of three years into Captain Brown's company of the fifteenth regiment of the Massachusetts line, and that he fully served the period of three years and received an honorable discharge, that while a soldier under above mentioned enlistment being absent from the army on furlough she was married to him in the town of Lyndeboro' New Hampshire. She further declares that she was married to the said James Johnson in the month of October in the year seventeen hundred and seventy eight, that her husband the aforesaid James Johnson died in the year One thousand eight hundred and fourteen, and that she has remained a widow ever since that period as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed. and that her name before marriage with the said James Johnson was Hannah Hutchinson.
Hannah Johnson her
Sworn to and subscribed, on the day and year above written, before me, (the applicant being, from age and infirmity, unable to appear in open court.) Nathan Weston C.J. S.J.C.

State of Maine
On the twenty eighth day of September, 1930, Hannah Johnson, the applicant within named, was examined and sworn, as within stated. I am satisfied, that she was married to James Johnson late a revolutionary soldier of the United States, in the month of October, 1770, before the close of her husband's revolutionary services, that the said James Johnson deceased in 1814, and that the applicant has ever since remained his widow.
Nathan Weston C.J. S.P.C.

5 I Cynthia W Grant of Augusta in the County of Kennebec & State of Maine, aged forty two years, depose and say, that Hannah Johnson who submitted the foregoing declaration, has remained unmarried ever since the death of her late husband James Johnson, who died as I have always understood in the year A.D. 1814.
Cynthia W Grant
State of Maine
Kennebec County ss. September 29th 1838. Subscribed and sworn to. I certify the deponent is a credible witness. Before me
Georges M. Weston Justice of the Peace
George W. Morton Esq is a Justice of the Peace for the county of Kennebec. Nathan Weston
State of Maine.
Kennebec ss. I the subscriber clerk of the Judicial Court for said County hereby certify that the Hon. Nathan Weston before whom the proceedings were had is the Chief Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of said State. I also certify the annexed contains the original proceedings of the said Chief Justice in the matter of the application of Hannah Johnson for a pension. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of the said Court this third day of November A.D. 1838.
Thomas Swan

I Mary Hutchinson of Monmouth in the county of Kennebec, & State of Maine, aged seventy nine years & the widow of Behemoth Hutchinson late of Litchfield (adjoining Monmouth) deceased, as whose widow I now claim a pension under the Act of Congress of July 7, 1838, do upon oath state, that during the Revolutionary War I lived at Lyndeboro' New Hampshire, & well knew James Johnson & Hannah Hutchinson of that place. That said James Johnson left that place & went down into the State of Maine, where as I always understood I believed he enlisted in 1775, as a soldier in the Massachusetts Troops for eight months. I served at Cambridge. That at the expiration of that period of service, as I always understood I believed he again enlisted as a soldier for one year & served out that period also. That the said James Johnson then returned to said Lyndeboro' & after a very short time again enlisted as a soldier for three years. This latter enlistment I knew about, as he enlisted at Lyndeboro', as did his two brothers Jasper & John, & went away into the Army. That the said James Johnson returned from the Army to Lyndeboro', or Furlough in the Fall of 1778, & was at home several weeks. That during that time the said James was married at Lyndeboro' to my said husband's sister Hannah Hutchinson above named. I was present at the marriage. My marriage was on the first day of October 1778. & the said James Johnson & Hannah Hutchinson were married on the twenty eighth day of October seventeen hundred & seventy eight, by the Reverend Sewell Goodridge. The said James Johnson then left soon afterwards for the Army, & after serving about

one year & a half longer, as I always understood & believed, was honorably discharged & returned home. I do not recollect the names of any of the Officers under whom the said James Johnson served, but always understood & believed & do now believe that he served as I have before stated. I do know that he was married at Lyndebury, New Hampshire on the 28 th day of October 1778, & that when he went into the Army for three years, as I have stated, he went with his brother's Jasper & John, & I always understood that they all served together, & I think in some Massachusetts regiment. The said James Johnson I have heard died many years ago. His widow the said Hannah Johnson is now living in Augusta, Maine.
My dear X Hutchinson mark
State of Maine,
Kennebec ss: Subscribed & sworn to this 18 th day of August A D 1838, the deponent being a credible & entire, disinterested witness.
Before me Wm Woodard Esq Justice Peace
William Woodard Esq is a Justice of the peace for the county of Kennebec. Nathan Weston

I Benjamin Goodridge of Lawful age depose that I am a son of the late Reverend Sewall Goodridge of Lyndeborough State of New Hampshire, and have had in my possession Most of his Records since his decease and I believe he solemnized Most of the Marriages in the Town from 1768 to 1806 some of which I find Recorded on his Memorandums and some are lost. I find among the certificates left of Publications One certifying the Publication of James Johnson and Hannah Hutchinson, in the then usual form for intentions of Marriage, which certificate is hereunto Annexed in the hand writing of Peter Clark who
This Certifieth that Mr James Johnson and Mrs Hannah Hutchinson both of this Town have been Published as the Law Directs per Peter Clark J. Clerk Lyndeborough October 27 th 1778.
----- Benjamin Goodridge Personally appeared and made Oath that the Above written Affidavit by him subscribed is true and I certify that the deponent is a man of strict veracity and entitled to full credit
David Hiles Just of Peace
My Genl a General certificate with my signature and date of Commission is now in the Pensions Office. D.S.

I Benjamin Goodridge of lawful age depose that I am a son of the late Reverend Sewall Goodridge of Lyndeborough State of New Hampshire, and have had in my possession Most of his Records since his decease and I believe he solemnized Most of the Marriages in the Town from 1768 to 1806 some of which I find Recorded on his Memorandums and some on lists. I find among the certificates left of Publications One certifying the Publication of James Johnson and Hannah Hutchinson, in the then usual form for intentions of Marriage, which certificate is hereunto Annexed in the hand writing of Peter Clark who was many years Town Clerk of Lyndeborough but I find no Record of their Marriage
Benja Goodridge
State of New Hampshire Hillsboro Jo.
October 17 th 1838 Then the above named Benjamin Goodridge Personally appeared and made Oath that the above written Affidavit by him subscribed is true and I certify that the deponent is a man of strict veracity and entitled to full credit
David Stiles Just of Peace
My Genl A General certificate with my signature and date of Commission is now in the Pensions Office D.S.

February 14, 1912.
Hon. John A Martin, House of Representatives.
My dear Mr. Martin:
In reply to your letter dated the 13" and and received the 14" instant, and the enclosed portion of a letter relative to one James Johnson who served in the Revolutionary War, I have the honor to advise you, that from the papers in the claim of James Johnson, Wid. File No. 26,697, Rev. War, it appears that the soldier enlisted in the district of Maine in 1775, and served eighteen months in the Massachusetts troops; names of officers not stated.
In 1777 he enlisted in Captain Brown's company, 15th Massachusetts regiment, and served as a Sergeant three years.
He married at Lyndeboro, New Hampshire, October 28, 1778, Mrs. Hannah Hutchinson, and died in 1814; place and manner of death not stated.
She was allowed pension on an application executed September 28, 1838, when she was eighty-one years old and a resident of Augusta, Kennebec County, Maine, where her pension was paid. She died May 16, 1847.
It is not stated that soldier ever served in the War of

Wid. File No. 26,697, - 2
1812, nor whether there were any children.
The above noted is the only soldier of that name, whose widow was a Revolutionary War pensioner at Augusta, Maine Agency.
The pension records of the War of 1812 fail to afford information in regard to the widow of Captain James Johnson, named Hannah who died at Augusta, Maine, "in the forties."
Very respectfully,
Commissioner.

26697 WIDOW, &c.
File No. 26697 Hannah Johnson Wid of James Johnson Sergt. Rev. War.
Act July 4 th 1836
Index: Vol. A , Page 382
[Arrangement of 1870.]
1908 June 18 Hist. So Mrs. A. R. Gordon. V.L.M. 1908 July 1, Anna E. Bell. V.L.M. 1912 Feb 14 Hist. So Hon John R. Martin. V.L.M.

- Scaphander - Sec. No. 16 Moreton Feb. 14 th 39 -
4 July 1836

Case of Hannah Johnson, widow of James Johnson. transmitted in Orl o last. by Gov. Morton.
The claims under act July 4. 1836.—,
Report Geo. W. Morton, Esq. (of Augusta, Maine)
Now Present

Augusta, Maine
March 30. 1839.
Sir
I herewith transmit the affidavit of Israel Hutchinson, and the additional certificate of Judge Weston in support of the claim of Hannah Johnson for pension under the Act of July 4. 1836. It is hoped this will be satisfactory to you, and is such additional testimony in support of the claim, as you require in your letter of 14th February last. Mrs. Johnson is very feeble, and cannot live many months.
I am very respectfully
Your Obt. Servt.
Geo. W. Morton
James L. Edwards Commr of Pensions Washington City

Augusta, Me. Nov. 6. 1838
Sir,
I herewith transmit the application of Mrs. Hannah Johnson, widow of James Johnson, for pension under the Act of July 4. 1836. Will you please to send me a certificate for her, when her case is examined and allowed.
I am respectfully
Your Obedt Servt Geo. Morton
James L. Edwards Esq Commr of Pensions Washington. DC

RECORD DIVISION.
Department of the Interior, BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Briefed by Hill
Claim No. _____
Certificate No. _____
Claimant Hannah (Wid.)
Soldier James Johnston
Service Mass (Maine)  who died in 1814
Additional Service War 1812
No. _____ claim, State records _____, 190_____
No claim, combination records _____, 190_____
REMARKS:
No 1812 Wid as above No D.W. Wid as above See D.W.W. File 26697. June 26, 1908.

RECORD DIVISION
Department of the Interior BUREAU OF PENSIONS
Briefed by cu FEB 14 1912
Claim No. _____
Certificate No. _____
Claimant Widow a pensioner at Augusta Me. died in the H ome Soldier James Johnson
Service _____
Additional Service Res.
No _____ claim, State records _____, 191
No claim, combination records _____, 191
REMARKS:
No widow as above except Hannah wid of James. W. 26697.
The only other widow of a James Johnson on the Agency was paid at Port- land see W. 21122

1775 Henry Jr 3rd Muf.
Capt 1775 H.

St Peter Minnesota June 10 - 1908 U. A. H.
Sir Will you please inform me whether James Johnston of Maine a Revolutionary soldier was pensioned his wife's name was Hannah Hutchinson thanking you in advance for your courtesy I am respectfully
Mrs C. R. Gordon. 410 3 rd St. N. St Peter Minnesota

Rev
St. Peter June 19. 1908
Commissioner of Pensions Washington D.C.
Sir.
Will you please tell me if James Johnston of Maine a Revolutionary soldier. also a soldier of the War of 1812 was a pensioner of 1812
REC JUN 22 1908
His wife's name was Hannah Hutchinson -
Army and Navy Division FILES JUN 23 1908 RECEIVED
Thanking you in advance for your courtesy I am
Respectfully yours
Anna E. Bell
U.S. PENSION OFFICE JUN 22 1908
Mrs. Anna E. Bell 313 Chatham Street St. Peter, Minnesota

SIXTY-SECOND CONGRESS.
WILLIAM C. ADAMSON, GA., CHAIRMAN. WILLIAM RICHARDSON, ALA. SAMUEL W. GOULD, ME. THETUS W. SIMS, TENN. FRANK E. DOREMUS, MICH. WILLIAM R. SMITH, TEX. J. H. GOEKE, OHIO. ROBERT F. BROUSSARD, LA. FREDERICK C. STEVENS, MINN. HENRY M. GOLDFOGLE, N. Y. JOHN J. ESCH, WIS. COURTNEY W. HAMLIN, MO. JOSEPH R. KNOWLAND, CAL. ADOLPH J. SABATH, ILL. WILLIAM M. CALDER, N. Y. JOHN A. MARTIN, COLO. EDWARD L. HAMILTON, MICH. J. HARRY COVINGTON, MD. MICHAEL E. DRISCOLL, N. Y. WILLIAM A. CULLOP, IND. EBEN W. MARTIN, S. DAK. WILLIS J. DAVIS, CLERK.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES U. S.
COMMITTEE ON INTERSTATE AND FOREIGN COMMERCE WASHINGTON, D. C.
Feb. 13, 1912
Hon. J. L. Davenport, Comr. of Pensions, Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir:
I am enclosing portion of a letter received relative to one James Johnson, who served in the Revolutionary War. His widow seems to have drawn a pension as indicated in marked paragraph. I will thank you for any available information.
Very truly yours,
A handwritten signature in cursive, appearing to read "John A. Martin", written in dark ink on a horizontal line.

information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau. James Johnson W. F. 26697
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     1775 8 mos. Officer not stated not stated Mass   1 yr. " " " " " " "   1777 3 yrs. Sgt. Brown 15 th Regt. "  
Battles engaged in, _____
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Lynchburg T. H. during Revolution
Date of application for pension, Sept. 28. 1838. Her el. was al.
Residence at date of application, Augusta, Kennebec Co. Me.
Age at date of application, She was 81 years old
Remarks: Soldier married at Lynchburg T. H. Oct. 1778 Mrs. Hannah Hutchinson. He died in 1814. She died May 16, 1847*
(2 children: Joseph & John)
* from agency book