Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 21476, for Ebenezer Johnson, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER _____
1. 2nd
Johnson, Obenezer Eleanor
No. 21476.
B. L. Wt. 658-100.
CONTENTS

Massachusetts.
2007
Ebenezer Johnson.
private Mass. line 1779. 3 years.
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts, at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 8th of April, 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 31st of July 1818 and sent to Stephen Minot, Esq. Haverhill, Mass.
Arrearages to 1st Sep r 1818 27/30 $ 39.20
{ Revolutionary claims, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued

N o 058.
Ebenezer Johnson Private.
8 th Reg t Massachusetts Line
Warrant issued to John Coates Assignee in right of the abovement. E. Johnson under date Oct. 1 st 1876 and delivered to the said Coates the same day.
Oct. 1 st 1876.

Wadsworth 790.
Ebenezer Johnson
widow of Ebenezer Johnson deceased
who died on the 20 February 1823 of Bristol Co. in the State of Mass. who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Abbott of the Regt. commanded by Col. Tupper in the Mass. line for 2 yrs. & 10 days
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Inscribed on the Roll of Mass. at the rate of -50- Dollars Cents per ann to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 20 day of April 1837 and issued to Benj. Merrill Esq. Salem Mass.
Arrears to the 10th of Nov 1837 $450.00 Semi-ant. allowance ending 4 Sept 37. 40.00
$ 520.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act July 4, 1836, Section the 3.
Recorded by M. G. Atkinson Cle Book 17 Vol. 1 Page 54

2007
Ebenezer Johnson
July 1818
June 25 1820
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
ESSEX, ss.
At the Circuit Court of Common Pleas of the Middle Circuit, begun and holden at Salem, within and for the County of Essex, on the third Monday of June, A. D. 1820.
Present, Hon. SAMUEL DANA, Chief Justice.
Hon. WILLIAM WETMORE, and
Hon. STEPHEN MINOT, Associate Justices.
In open Court here, being a Court of Record for said Circuit, proceeding according to the course of the common law, with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, keeping a record of its proceedings, and having the power of fine and imprisonment, Ebenezer Johnson resident in Andover in said Circuit, who is named in Pension Certificate No. 2007 now in his possession, of which the following is a true copy, to wit,
"WAR DEPARTMENT.....REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM."
"I certify that, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 18th March, 1818, Ebenezer Johnson late a private in the Army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the Massachusetts Agency, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the eighth day of April one thousand eight hundred and eighteen "
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"Given at the War Office of the United States, this thirtieth first day of July one thousand eight hundred and eighteen "
J. C. CALHOUN, Secretary of War."
appears, and exhibits to the Court here a Schedule, subscribed by him, as follows, to wit,
SCHEDULE,
containing his whole estate and income, his necessary clothing and bedding excepted, to wit, no real estate
   The improvement of a small house and barn and \frac{3}{4} of an acre of land for life, worth sixteen dollars fifty cents per year $16.50   1 cow 12.00 4 sheep & 3 lambs 6.00 1 one hog 4.00 22.00   An old time piece 4.00 old case of drawers 75 4.75   1 chest 1 brass kettle 1 trunk and 1 table 6.00   5 old chairs & pewter plates 4.00   Tin ware 1.00 small brass kettle 1.00 iron ware 4.00 6.00   Crockery ware 2.00 brown ware 1.00 3.00   3 small looking glasses 1.50 And irons shovel & tongs 1.50 3.00   Empty bbls. pork bbl & 50 lb pork 3.00   Pails, knives & forks 1.50 2 hay forks & 1 rake 2.10   Ax, hoe, iron bar, shovel and fork 1.50   71.85  
He is 70 years of age, a laborer but very feeble & infirm and has lost the use of his left hand - has been sick and confined to the house for the five months past with the rheu-

matism - His family are his wife aged 72 years, a poor sickly woman having carried a wen attached to the four part of her left shoulder, as large as a common tea kettle for twenty years past - they are wholly unable to support themselves -
He served one year from Jan: 1776 in Capt. Lees Company Col. Glovers Regiment - He also served three years from March 1778 in Capt. Abbots Company, Col. Tappers Regiment, and before the expiration of the said three years, he enlisted again in the same Company & Regiment for, and served, during the war, all in the Massachusetts line, and was honorably discharged in June 1783
Ebenezer Johnson
Essex J. July 13. 1820 Then the above named Ebenezer Johnson made oaths that the above schedule & statement by him subscribed are true, before me -
Stephen Minot Judge of said Court

and at the same time he produces to the Court here the following Oath, taken and subscribed by him, before the Hon. Stephen Minot a Judge of said Court as aforesaid, to wit,
I, Ebenezer Johnson do solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the eighteenth day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner whatever, 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 eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, 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. So help me GOD.
Eben. Johnson
Essex, ss. C. C. C. P. June, Term, A. D. 1820.
Then the abovenamed Ebenezer Johnson took and subscribed the aforewritten Oath before me
Stephen Minot
Judge of said Court.
I, ICHABOD TUCKER, Clerk of the Court aforesaid, do hereby certify that the foregoing Oath, and Schedule 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 eighty five cents —
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, at Salem, in said County of Essex, on this 17th day of July — A. D.
1820
Attr.
Ichabod Tucker, Clerk

969. 3. sec.
Mrs Eleanor Johnson
widow of late Pensioner
Edward Johnson dec.
old Case
adm'd
2 yrs pri
80 $
No deduction - deed in 1823. Afraid of
Please address reply to
Brig. Merrill
Salem Mass.

Declaration
in order to obtain the benefit of 3d Section of Act of Congress of 4 th July 1836:
State of Massachusetts Essex County ss:
On this tenth day of December 1836 personally appeared before the Honorable David Cummings Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Essex, Eleanor Johnson a resident of Andover in the County of Essex aged 89 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 Ebenezer Johnson who was a private soldier in the Revolutionary Army: that he served as a private all the year 1776 in Capt Lee's Company in Col. Glover's Regiment and thenceforth during the years 1777-1778-1780 in Capt Abbott's Company in Col. Putnam's Regiment, both services being in the Massachusetts Line of the Revolutionary Army on the Continental establishment, as she doubts not will fully appear on reference to the Rolls of the Army:
She further declares that she was married to the said Ebenezer Johnson on the eleventh day of May seventeen hundred and sixty nine: that her said husband Ebenezer Johnson died at said Andover on the twenty first day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty three and that she has remained a Widow ever since that period

as will more fully appear by reference to the proofs hereto annexed
Eleanor Land Johnson mark
Sworn to & subscribed on the day and year above written, the applicant being unable to appear in court by reason of bodily infirmity. Before me David Cummings Jr.
State of Massachusetts Essex County ss:
I certify that David Cummings is a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County and that his Signature above written is genuine - and that William Stevens is a Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly qualified and his Sig- nature on the annexed affidavit is genuine.
Dated Dec. 31. 1856
John Prince Clerk of all the Judicial Courts in the County of Essex.

I Bailey Loring resident at Andover in Massachusetts on oath testify -
That it appears by the Records of the First Church in Andover, of which Church I am now the Minister, and which Records I now have in custody, that Ebenezer John- son and Eleanor Edmonds were lawfu- lly married on the 11 th day of May 1769. Bailey Loring.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Essex ss: Dec r . 29 th 1836. Then the Rev. Bailey Loring subscribed and made oath to the above affidavit before me William Stearns Just. Peace
To Ebenezer Johnson, the husband, was a Pensioner.

Ilw. Johnson } (April 8-1818- }
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8 th Maria Regt
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7 th Regt

I, Ebenezer Johnson of the age of 68 years declare and say, that I am a resident Citizen of the United States; that I reside in and belong to the town of Andover in the County of Essex, in the Middle Circuit in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts: — That in April 1775 I enlisted as a private soldier into the army of the revolutionary war, for 8 months, & entered the service accordingly in Capt. Prince's company, in Col. Mansfield's Regt. of Massachusetts troops & served accordingly that time out near Boston, & then was discharged by the expiring of my time of enlistment: — Again in March 1776 I enlisted to serve till the 1 st Jan y 1777, & entered then in Capt. Lee's Company, in Col. Glover's Regt. of Massachusetts troops, & served therein accordingly therein that time out, & then left the service by my time expiring: Again in March 1778 I enlisted & entered the service again for 3 years in Capt. Stephen Abbott's Company, in Col. Benj d Tupper's Regt. being the 10 th Regt. of the Massachusetts Line, & served therein till the fall of the year 1779, & then I re-enlisted in the same C o for during the war, & served therein, & in Capt. Parke's C o , & afterwards in Capt. Wilks's comt in the 8 th Regt. of the Massachusetts Line, until June 13. 1783 when I was honorably discharged by Genl. Washington at Newburgh near West Point, & so left the service: I also say that I have not now got the said discharge in my power, & know not where it is. Also I say that I am, by reason of my reduced circumstances, in like in need of assistance from my country for support; and that I never had any pension allowed me by the Government of the United States.
Ebenezer Johnson
Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Esq. April 8. 1818. Then the above named Ebenezer Johnson made solemn oath that the said declaration by him subscribed is true before me,
Stephen Minot, { Judge of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Middle Circuit.
I, W m Parker depose & say that I was in the service in the Revolutionary war in the 3 years service & I then was acquainted with the above named Johnson & know that he was in the service as he states nearly two years, in 1778. & 1779. & 1780; I have no doubt of his being in need as he states & it is so understood by his neighbors.
William Parker
Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Esq. April 8. 1818
Then the above named W m Parker made solemn oath that the above my declaration by him subscribed is true before me,
Stephen Minot, { Judge of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, etc.

Whereupon it appearing to my satisfaction that the said Ebenezer Johnson did serve in the Revolutionary war, as stated in his declaration aforesaid, against the common enemy. I now certify & transmit the testimony in the case. I also certify that in my opinion the said Johnson is in indigent circumstances, & in need of the proceedings had thereon to the Secretary of the Department of War, & assistance from his country for support.
Stephen Minot, } Judge of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Middle Circuit.
I depose & say the said Eben r Johnson is in indigent circumstances & in need of assistance for support.
Isaac Lovejoy Simon Wardwell Stephen Long
Essex ss. July 21. 1818 Then the above named Isaac Lovejoy, Simon Wardwell & Stephen Long, severally made oath that the declaration by them subscribed is true, before me Stephen Minot. Judge as aforesaid.

WIDOW, &c.
File No. 2476 Ebenezer Johnson Widow of Ebenezer Johnson of New York
Act July 25 1856 Index: Vol. 24 Page 381
[Arrangement of 1870.]

To the Secretary of the Department of War, Sir, please to transmitt the Certificate of allowance of my Pension under the late law to Stephen Minot, Esqr. of Haverhill Mr. who will forward it to me.
Andover April 8. 1818
Ebenezer Johnson

Ebenezer Johnson Mass. 8 th Vno. act 1818 when last
Y.W.C. apl 24. 1837
Died 24 th Feb 1823 p th New Bedford 14

This was done while in the Prisoner.
By His Excellency GEORGE WASHINGTON, Esq., General and Commander in Chief of the Forces of the United States of America.
THESE are to CERTIFY that the Bearer hereof Ebenezer Johnson in the 8th Massachusetts Regiment , having faithful- ly served the United States Eight Years and being inlisted for the War only, is hereby DISCHARGED from the American Army.
GIVEN at HEAD-QUARTERS the Thirteenth Day of June 1781.
By His Excellency Command,
William Hull
REGISTERED in the Books of the Regiment,
Francis Light Adjutant
THE above Ebenezer Johnson has been honored with the BANNER OF MERIT for six Years faithful Service: M. Jackson Col.

~ Second Indenture ~
Andover Jan'y. 24. 1800 We the subscribers witnesses to the within Instrument have been personally acquainted with Ebenezer Johnson for ten years or more & know him to be the same Solomon as represented therein.
Ebenezer Poor Lem Poor
Ebenezer Johnson to John Cates -
Notes
A Certificate from a Officer of the Reg't made proving William and family and the ...

Andover, (State of Massachusetts) April 25 th 1814. I the subscriber, who was an officer in the Massachusetts Line of the American Army in the Revolutiona- ry war, between the United States and Great Britain, do hereby certify, That I have known Ebenezer Johnson who signed the within Instrument for more than thirty years that I knew him when serving in the war, and know him to be the identical per- -son he represents himself to be.
Frederick Fayerweather M a ss s Reg t
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Essex ss. Town of Andover July 9 th 1816. This day per- sonally appeared the above named Frederic Fayer and made solemn oath to the truth of the above statement by him subscribed
Before me John Phillips Justice of the Peace

To all Persons to whom these Presents shall come,
KNOW YE, That I Ebenezer Johnson of Dover in the County of York , Commonwealth of Massachusetts late a soldier in Capt. Ropes Company Col. Michael Jackson Regiment in the Service of the United States of America, for and in Consideration of the Sum of
Thirty Dollars to me in Hand paid, at and before the Ensealing and Delivery of these Presents, by
John Coates of Horton , County of Suffolk , Commonwealth aforesaid
have sold, remised, released, quit-claimed, transferred, and assigned, and by these Presents do sell, remise, release, quit-claim, transfer, and assign to the said John Coates his Heirs and Assigns forever, all the Right, Title, Interest, Claim, and Demand, which I have, and all Right, Title, Interest, Claim, and Demand, which I, my Heirs, Executors, or Administrators, at any Time hereafter may have to all the Land which I am entitled to, and to all the Land which I, or either of them, may at any Time hereafter be entitled to, from the Congress of the United States of America, for my Services as a soldier in the Army of the United States of America, for and during the War with Great-Britain, and to every Part and Parcel thereof: And I the said Ebenezer Johnson do, for myself, my Heirs, Executors, Administrators, and Assigns, hereby covenant and agree to and with the said John Coates his Heirs and Assigns, that I the said Ebenezer Johnson my Heirs, Executors, Administrators, or Assigns, shall and will, at any Time or Times hereafter, at the Request, Cost and Charges of the said John Coates his Heirs or Assigns, do, make, seal and execute, or cause or procure to be done, made, sealed and executed, all and every such reasonable Act and Acts, Thing and Things, Conveyance and Conveyances, Assurance and Assurances in the Law whatsoever, for the perfect granting, conveying, remising, releasing, transferring and assigning all and singular the Right, Title, Claim and Demand, which I the said Ebenezer Johnson have, or which I the said Ebenezer Johnson my Heirs, Executors, or Administrators, may, at any Time hereafter, have, of, in, and to the Land aforesaid; and of, in, and to every Part and Parcel thereof, unto the said John Coates
his Heirs and Assigns, to the only proper Use and Behoof of the said John Coates his Heirs and Assigns forever, as by his or their Council, learned in the Law, shall be reasonably advised or devised or required. And I the said Ebenezer Johnson do hereby appoint the said John Coates my true and lawful Attorney irrevocably, to ask, demand, solicit, and obtain in my Name, or otherwise, but for the sole Use and Behoof of the said John Coates his Heirs, and Assigns, forever, from the United States, a Grant or Grants, Patent or Patents, for the Land aforesaid; hereby ratifying and confirming all and whatsoever my said Attorney may do respecting the same. And I the said Ebenezer Johnson for myself, my Heirs, Executors and Administrators, do covenant, promise and grant to and with the said John Coates his Heirs, Executors, Administrators, and Assigns, that I will not revoke or annul the Power of Authority herein contained, or do any Act which shall impede the said John Coates in soliciting or obtaining a Grant or Grants, Patent or Patents, for the Land aforesaid.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my Hand and Seal this twenty fourth Day of January in the Year of our LORD One thousand eight hundred and
Signed, sealed and delivered in the Presence of us, Ebenezer Johnson Ebenezer Johnson Samuel Root Dover aforesaid
Ebenezer Johnson
STATE OF Massachusetts January twenty fourth 1802
Personally appeared the above-mentioned Ebenezer Johnson and made Oath, that he had never before sold, or otherwise disposed of his Military Bounty Lands; and further, that he acknowledged the above to be his free Act and Deed, and desired that it might be received as such,
Before me, Timothy G. Wood Notary Public
There is here 1802 - This is to certify that I have been sworn all re- qualified with the above 1802 to the instrument for five years or more if that they are then of good and sufficient qualification Test Timothy G. Wood Not. Public