Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 26,675, for Nathan Johnson, Massachusetts

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10.522 Maine R
Nathan Johnson
of North Berwick the District state of Maine who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Vose of the Massachusetts line, for the term of Three years
Inscribed on the Roll of District of Maine at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 28 of April 1810
Certificate of Pension issued the 11 of May 1816 and sent to Wm Widgey Esq Portland Maine
Arrears to 4th of March 1819 - 10 3/4 30 3/4 81.83 Semi-ann. all'ce ending Sep 1819 - 6 mos 48.
$129.83
{ Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818. }
Notification sent to John Murphy Esq 26th June 1820
Portland Maine
Paper copied for D r Agent of Maine Dec 13. 1836

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Maine 317
Mary Johnson of Cumberland in the State of Maine
who was a servant  in the commanded by Captain Mass  of the commanded by time for  in the widow of Nathan John- son dec d late a private in the Revolution
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of - 50 - Dollars Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.
Certificate of Pension issued the 14 day of Dec r 1836 and sent to Hon. J. Puggles Senate W.S.
Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1836 $440.00 Semi-ann. allowance ending Feb y 1837 40.00 $480.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by W. H. Gadson Clerk, Book A. Vol. 7. Page 10

The following is a copy from the record of the plantation of Maduel now Town of Friendship Me
December 27: 1796 I gave a certificate to Nathan Johnston when I had published about the 8th to Mary Gordon
Sedate Hadsworth Plantation Clerk
A true copy Attest Melzar Thomas Town Clerk
State of Maine
Lincoln ss December 1 - 1836 Then personally appeared Melzar Thomas Esq Town Clerk of Friendship and made oath that the foregoing is a true copy from the Book of Records of the Town of Friendship in his possession.
Before me Cornelius Bradford Justice of the Peace
Fees
To Melzar Thomas for his services $ 2.00 To Cornelius Bradford for eight miles travel 1.60 administering the oath & certificate 20 making return of papers 30 $ 2 - 10

I certify that the within named Cornelius Bradford is known to me and that he is a Justice of the Peace within & for the County of Lincoln, State of Maine, and duly authorized as such to administer oaths.
Washington Dec 10. 1836.
John Reaggle S. M. S.

To the Hon Secretary of War...
To obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress entitled "An Act granting half pay to widows or orphans, where their husbands and fathers died of wounds received in the military service of the United States in certain cases, and for other purposes" - approved the 4 th day of July AD 1836. Mary Johnson of Cumberland in the County of Cumberland State of Maine widow of Nathan Johnson late of said Cumberland a pensioner of said United States under the Pension Act of March 18 th 1818, deceased, on oath declares that she is now Eighty seven years old; that her maiden name was Mary Gordon that she lived at a place called Meduncook now Friendship in the County of Lincoln & State of Maine, and was lawfully married to said Nathan Johnson who then lived at said Meduncook on the " " day of January in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and seventy that the marriage ceremony was performed by a justice of the Peace who lived at what is now St George, a town laying on the East side of St Georges River in Maine. opposite to said Friendship. and the justice name she

& gets quite angry thinks, Mrs. Kelley. That search has been made for the Records of said justice, but none have been found, nor does she know that he kept a Record of his official acts. Your applicant further states that she had no acquaintance with said justice who married her to said Johnson & never saw him before or since said marriage & that there being no Magistrate at Meduncok was the cause of their going to St. George to have nor is there any person but likely none living who was present at her marriage to her knowledge. The marriage ceremony performed. - Soon after her said marriage she moved with her said husband to the house of his father in North Berwick in said County of Cumberland where she resided with her said husband until he enlisted into the Revolutionary Army in the service of the United Colonies. That she understood believes her said husband enlisted into the three years service & faithfully served out his term of enlistment for which service she knows he received a pension of twenty dollars per year from the year 1818 to the day of his death, which happened on the 30th day of October A.D. 1830. And your applicant further declares, that she ever lived the wife of said Johnson from the day of her marriage aforesaid until his death & had & brought up, a large family of children and since his death to this time she has remained

& still remains unmarried & the widow of said Johnson. - Your applicant therefore prays that, as her marriage took place with said Nathan Johnson "before the expiration of his last term of service" & as said Nathan died as a pensioner leaving your applicant his widow, she may be allowed the pension that said Nathan would have received if living.
witness S. Mufsey
Mary her X Johnson mark
United States of America.
Marine District Ct.
Special District Court
Be it known that on this twenty seventh day of Sep- tember in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty six, personally appeared in Open Court, being a Court of Record, the above named Mary Johnson and made oath to the truth of the foregoing declaration by her subscribed. And I further certify that it has been satisfactorily proved in Court that the said Mary Johnson was lawfully married to Nathan Johnson deceased, late a Revolutionary Pensioner, in the month of January in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy and prior to his death

the expiration of the last period of his said Nathan Johnson's service in the Revolutionary Army: — that said Nathan died on the thirtieth day of October in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred and thirty one , leaving said Mary his widow and that she has not intermarried since his said decease but remains the widow of the said Nathan —
In testimony of which I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the District Court of the United States for said District this twenty seventh day of September A.D. Eighteen hundred and thirty six
John Mufsey Clerk U.S. District Court
Ashe Mann
Judge of the United States for the Dist. of Maine

N o 102. Nathan Johnson
Copy
Record of the said Court: and I do hereby certify that it is the opinion of the said Court that the herewith copy of that the foregoing copy and the original thereto annexed are true copies from the I John H. Sargent, Clerk of the District Court of the United States for Maine District do
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10,522 11 May 1849

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. DISTRICT OF MAINE, ss.
At a District Court of the United States begun and holden at Portland within and for the District of Maine, on the first Tuesday , being the sixth day of June and by adjournment from day to day, on the ninth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty, before the Honorable ALBION K. PARRIS , Judge of said Court.
ON this ninth day of June in the year above written, personally appeared in open Court, the same having "the power of fine and imprisonment," and being a Court of Record for said Maine District, Nathan Johnson aged seventy seven years, resident in North Yarmouth in said District, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows, viz. as a private in the company commanded by Capt. Hill in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Jos. Vose in the line of the State of Massachusetts on the Continental Establishment, as is more particularly mentioned and described in his original declaration, made on the 20th day of April A. D. 1818, and on which said declaration his Certificate of Pension, numbered 10.522 , was granted. And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818; and that I have not since that time by gift, sale, or in any manner disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an Act of Congress, entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States, in the Revolutionary War," passed on the 18th day of March, 1818: and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities, contracts, or debts due to me; nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed; that my occupation and ability to pursue the same, together with the number and other particulars of my family, are in fact and in truth as is particularly described on the back hereof, also subscribed by me.
Witness Jos. B. Cope
Nathan X Johnson mark
Sworn to and declared, on the ninth day of June A. D. 1820.
BEFORE Albion K. Parris
U. S. District Judge for the District of Maine.

SCHEDULE of the real and personal estate, (necessary clothing and bedding excepted) belonging to me the subscriber, viz :
Real estate — none —
Personal estate — One yoke of oxen — one cow — two calves — three sheep — one pig — a few very poor articles in the house — I have no income and without my pension, I must have been supported by the town
Witness Jos. Pooke Nathan his X Johnson mark
Sworn to Before Albion H. Barris U. S. Dist. Judge
SCHEDULE of the family residing with me Nathan Johnson, who, by occupation am a Mariner, which I am not able to pursue by reason of age —
   NAMES. AGES. Capacity of each to contribute to their support.     Wife — Mary I have no other family 70 a very feeble woman    Witness Jos. Pooke Nathan his X Johnson mark Sworn to Before Albion H. Barris U. S. Dist. Judge

ms 8 m 10/50 MAINE DISTRICT, ss.
I, JOHN MUSSEY, Junr. Clerk of the District Court of the United States for Maine District, do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath, and the schedules thereto annexed, are truly copied from the Record of the said Court; and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule, is seventy one . . dollars and no more . . . cents.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this ninth . . . day of June A. D. one thousand eight hundred and twenty.
John Mussey Junr
Clerk of the U. States District Court for Maine District.
$71-

Nathan Johnson
Private
1 st Massachusetts Regiment
1777- 3 years
On roll
Admitted

To the Honorable WILLIAM WIDGERY , one of the Associate Judges of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the first Eastern Circuit of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
RESPECTFULLY SHOWS....
Nathan Johnson of South Berwick in the Maine District, that he served as a private soldier in the war of the revolution for the term of three years on the Continental Establishment, that he yet is a resident citizen of the United States at North Berwick aforesaid, and that by reason of your applicant's reduced circumstances in life, he is in need of assistance from his country for support. being now seventy five years of age
And your applicant further represents, that in the service aforesaid, he belonged in his said capacity of a private soldier to the 1st Company of the 1st Regiment, of the Massachusetts Line, that he entered said service on or about the 1st day of April one thousand seven hundred and 75 and that he left said service on or about the 1st day of April one thousand seven hundred and 81  the period of his enlistment having expired and he having received an honorable discharge which he has since lost
WHEREFORE, inasmuch as your applicant, as he verily believes, comes under the provisions of the Act, entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war," he prays your honor to institute an enquiry into the circumstances of his case, and that such farther proceedings may be had touching the premises as are prescribed by law, in order that your applicant may be placed on the Pension List of the United States.
Dated at PORTLAND, this 28th day of April 1818. Nathan Johnson
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
MAINE DISTRICT, ss.
BE IT KNOWN, that on the 28th day of April one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, personally came before me, WILLIAM WIDGERY , one of the Associate Judges of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the first Eastern Circuit of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, resident at Portland, within the County of Cumberland, in said Maine District—the said Court being a Court of record of said State, Nathan Johnson the above named applicant, and made oath that the several statements by him made in the foregoing application by him signed are true. And the said Johnson farther offered in evidence that he has no farther evidence in his power
WHEREUPON it does appear to the satisfaction of me the said Judge, that the said Nathan Johnson served in the revolutionary war as alledged in his application, against the common enemy. as witness of his country for that time
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I the said Judge, have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the said Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the County of Cumberland, to be hereunto affixed, this 28th day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and of the Independence of the United States the forty-second.
Wm Widgery Associate Judge of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the first Eastern Circuit of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
CUMBERLAND, ss. I the subscriber, Clerk of the Courts in said county, certify that Hon. WILLIAM WIDGERY , is an Associate Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, as stated in the annexed Certificate, and that his signature to the same is his own proper signature.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I do hereunto subscribe my name, and affix the Seal of said Court, this second day of October A. D. 1818.
Geo. Bradbury

MAINE DISTRICT, ss.
BE IT KNOWN, that on the 28th day of April one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, personally came before me, WILLIAM WIDGERY, one of the Associate Judges of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the first Eastern Circuit of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, resident at Portland, within the County of Cumberland, in said Maine District—the said Court being a Court of record of said State, Nathan Johnson the above named applicant, and made oath that the several statements by him made in the foregoing application by him signed are true. And the said Johnson farther offered in evidence
rolls and no further evidence is hereunto affixed
WHEREUPON it does appear to the satisfaction of me the said Judge, that the said Nathan Johnson served in the revolutionary war as alledged in his application, against the common enemy.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I the said Judge, have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the said Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the County of Cumberland, to be hereunto affixed, this 22nd day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and of the Independence of the United States the forty-second.
Wm Widgery
{ Associate Judge of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the first Eastern Circuit of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
CUMBERLAND, ss. I the subscriber, Clerk of the Courts in said county, certify that Hon. WILLIAM WIDGERY, is an Associate Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, as stated in the annexed Certificate, and that his signature to the same is his own proper signature.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I do hereto subscribe my name, and affix the Seal of said Court, this second day of October A. D. 1818.
Geo. Bradbury

N o 556
3. Sec, Mary Johnson widow of Nathan Maine.
adm? 2 years pri 80 $ no donation died in 1830
Hon. J. Ruggles Senate.

I Robert Johnson of Cumberland in the County of Cumberland & State of Maine yeoman aged Fifty one years in oath testify & say, that Mother Johnson late of said Cumberland a pensioner on the military establishment of the U States deceased was my Father - and that Mary Johnson the widow of said Nathan is my mother - I have ever been informed & believe that my said Mother's maiden name was Mary Condon that she lived at Medecook, now Friendship in the County of Lincoln & State of Maine before she was married to my said Father & that she was married in January AD 1770. I further say that I have been informed by my late Father & also by my Mother that their marriage ceremony was performed by Justice John Kelley a Justice of the Peace who resided at that time at St George in the County of Lincoln. and I can also declare that in August last I went to St George to find if possible the Records of said Justice Kelley. I found by the old men at St George that such a Justice lived there before the Revolutionary War, but no Records or trace of Records could be found. and that it was the opinion of the people there who knew Justice Kelley that he never kept any Records & that he had been dead upwards of thirty years. I further say that I have ever been informed & believe that my said Mother was lawfully married to my said late Father as before stated in 1770. that she lives with me & is unmarried being now Eighty seven years old & that

my son father drew a pension of ninety six dollars per year from about the year 1818 to the day of his death. & he died on the 30 th of Oct 1830. & I understood from him that he was a three years man & served three years & nine months in the war of the Revolution Robert Johnson
Cumberland Co. Sept 27 th 1836 Subscribed & sworn to before me John Anderson Justice of the Peace
I hereby certify that the above named Robert Johnson is well known by me to be a man of good character for truth & veracity
John Anderson Justice of the Peace
Manor District
District Clerk's Office, September 27. 1836
In testimony that John Anderson Esquire who subscribed the above certificates is a Mag- istrate duly appointed and qualified as such and that full faith and credit are due his Official attestations I have hereto set my hand & affixed the Seal of the District Court of the United States for said District the day and year last above written
John Mufsey Clerk U.S. Dist. Court

Maine District
District Clerk's Office November 5 th 1836
In testimony that James Prince Esquire who subscribed the above certificates is a Magistrate duly appointed and qualified as such and that full faith and credit are due his Official attestations I have hereto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the District Court of the United States for said District the day and year last above written.
John Nufsey Clerk D.C. Maine
[Handwritten signature and flourish]

WIDOW, &c.
File No. 2667.5
Mary Johnson
Wid. of
Nathan Johnson
Rev. War
Act: June 8 th 1832
Index:—Vol. A , Page 389
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Abigail
Mary Johnson widow of Nathan
Sept 1 st
See letter to John Andrews
Ms. A. 9. 2. 1838

Deaths recorded —
Nathan Johnson died at North Yarmouth October 30 th 1830 recorded Nov r 1 1830 by William Buxton Town Clerk —
North Yarmouth } Copy Record Sept 26 1836 } Attest Samuel Sweeten Town Clerk

Nathan Johnson pri-88/p. mo. To what time p.d at the M c aynes act 1818?
G.M.C.
Dec. 13. 1836
Died 30 th Oct 1830 p to that period J.H.

Deposition

I Joseph Johnson of Falmouth in the County of Cumberland and State of Maine aged 87 years do testify and say that my Brother Nathan Johnson was married to a woman by the name of Mary Condon at a place then called Mead, now incorporated by the name of Friendship, he was married in the year 1769 he then moved into my Father's house in North Berwick, and after the commencement of the revolution he enlisted in the service for the term of three years, after he returned from the United States service he resided in the town of North Berwick and followed the sea for a living. His widow is now living with her son Robert Johnson in the town of Cumberland, his first child was born in my Father's house in North Berwick in the year 1771.
Cumberland Sept 28 th 1835
Joseph Johnson
Personally appeared the above named Joseph Johnson and made oath that the foregoing statement by him subscribed is true before me James Paine Justice of the Peace

Joseph Johnson
I hereby certify that the within named Joseph Johnson is a man of truth, and his statement entitled to full credit,
James Prime quorum of the Peace

W. R. Yorks Repository

I William R York of Falmouth in the County of Cumberland and State of Maine, aged 79 years, do testify and say I was intimately acquainted with Nathan Johnson for more than sixty years before his decease, and that I well remember that he was married in a plantation then called Machias and that I am quite confident that he was married before the revolutionary war commenced, and that his wife was named Mary Linda. He removed to North Falmouth whether before or after he went into the service I am not positive, but that he always lived together and brought up a family of children and I have no doubt but they were lawfully married; his oldest son has sailed with me to the west Indies, he is now 67 years old.
Wm: R York
Cumberland Sept 20 th 1856 Personally the above named William R York and made oath that the above statement by him subscribed is true before me James Dorr Judge of the peace

W. R. Spence Deputy Clerk
I hereby certify that the within married William R. Guck is a man of truth, and his statement entitled to full credit James Prince Justice of the Peace

Joseph Gatto Deposition

I Joseph York of Bethel in the County of Cumberland and State of Maine aged 87 years do hereby and say that I was well acquainted with Nathan Johnson for for more than seventy years before his decease, he was married in a place then called Madumook to a woman named Candace and I have no doubt but she was married before the revolutionary war commenced, he moved to North Yarmouth, whether before or after he went into the service I am not positive, they lived together and brought up a family of children, and I have no doubt but they were lawfully married.
Joseph York
Cumberland ss Sept r 20 th 1856 Personally appeared the above named Joseph York and made oath that the foregoing Statement by him subscribed to be true according to the best of his knowledge, before me James Paine justice of the peace.

Joseph York Seymour
I hereby certify that the within named Joseph York is a man of truth, and his statement entitled to full credit
James Barrow Justice of the Peace

Definition
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I Seth Blanchard of Northarmouth in the County Cumberland and State of Maine Aged 77 years do now and say that I was  have been personally acquainted with Nathan Johnson and his wife from the year 1780 up to the time of his death; and have known them to live together, he was with me in the year 1786 - and his oldest son Ebenezer at time was about forty years old; and he has sailed with me and two other of his Brothers; and I have no doubt that the said Nathan was lawfully married; his widow now lives a nigh neighbor to me, aged about 68 years;
Seth Blanchard
Cumberland of Sept. 20 th 1836
personally appeared the above named Seth Blanchard and made oath that the above statement by him subscribed is true before me James Prince Justice of the peace
I hereby certify that the above named Seth - Blanchard is a man of truth, and his statement entitled to full credit.
James Prince Justice of the peace

Portland Nov 5 th 1836
Sir - I herewith transmit the declaration of Mary Johnson, widow of Nathan Johnson late of Greenland in that County a Revolutio nary pensioner deceased, for the benefit of the Act of Congress of July 4 th 1836. - I presume the evidence of the marriage will be deemed sufficient, it being the best that can now be had. By the law as settled in this State & which governs in all cases where the fact of marriage is material, evidence of cohabitation as man & wife & common report & belief of marriage uncontradicted is sufficient evidence of marriage. Indeed in many cases, no other evidence of a marriage solemnized in a new country, before the Revolution, can be had. for not one justice in 20 kept any records. I would refer to Judge Paine who was for many years a Judge of our Supreme Court, & is now 2 nd Comptroller, for the correctness of my statement of the laws of this State.
I have the honor to be, Sir, with great respect your obedient John Andros
To Hon. Jas L. Edwards Comptroller of Kentucky

Mary Johnson Dec 12
Inat
1000 1/2 1/2 4 pbs 3/4
Mrs
L. Edwards Com. of Pub  Pub lics Washington
Stuggle Senate Ms

Senate Chamber Dec 12 1836
Sir
At the request of Hon. Mr. Anderson of Portland Me. I send you the enclosed certificate, which is to be used in the case of Mary Johnson applicant for a Pension under the act 4th July 1836. she being the widow of Nathan Johnson, a Revolutionary Pensioner, deceased.
Very respectfully &c John Ruggles
James L. Eccleards Esq Com. Pats

18th Dec 1841
Mr. Brown told Me that the Cable is now at the Netherland
Washington
18th Dec 1841
18th Dec 1841
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