Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 16429, for Phineas Johnson, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Johnson, Phineas
S. 16429
CONTENTS
carded

Phineas Johnson of Brookfield in the State of N H who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Poor of the Regt commanded by Col Fry in the N H line for 8 Mos & D r from 1775
Inscribed on the Roll of N H at the rate of 27 Dollars 10 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 27 th day of October 1832 and sent Amasa Coffin Waltham N H
Arrears to 4th of Sept 1832 $20.65- Semi-ant. allowance ending 4 Mar 33 13.55
$54.20
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by J H Blosse Clerk, Book D. Vol. 1 st Page 162.

50 20 Phineas Johnson N.H.
Ex M.G.E.
1 v. subscription post. amount of which was his and mother.
Admitted
8 Mo & 4 days
To Anna Cope Wakefield N.H.

3620
BRIEF in the case of  Phineas Johnson Brookfield, Stafford Co  in the State of  N. Hampshire (Act 7 June, 1839.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Open Court  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity? —  3. How old is he? 85  4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed. 
   Period. Duration of Service. Rank. Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.   Years, Months, Days.     In 1775 20 April — 9 private Col. Jas. Frye Col. B. Morr minute men  
 5. In what battles was he engaged? Bunker Hill  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Andover Mass  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Traditionary evidence & living witnesses his brother  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? Dr. Cagney's Certificate 
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
H. C. Easton Examining Clerk.

3620 Phineas T. Barnum
Ed. P. B.
1810

Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7 1832
State of New Hampshire County of Stafford ss
Superior Court of Indictment August Term 1832 on this twenty second day of August 1832 personally appeared in Open Court before the Judges of the Superior Court of Indictment now in session at Exeter within and for said County of Stafford Phineas Johnson a resident of Moultonboro in said County of Stafford and State of New Hampshire aged Eighty five 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 1832 That he entered the service of the United States under Captain Thomas Poor in Col.
James Fry's Regiment of Massachusetts Minute Men on the twentieth day of April 1775 and marched to Cambridge, near Boston in Massachusetts and served as a private soldier in said Company Nine months at the end of which time he was dismissed at Cambridge aforesaid; that he never had any written discharge; at the time he entered the service he lived in Concord in the County of Essex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts; that he

helped throw up the temporary fortification on Bunker's Hill and was in the Battle that took place the next day on those heights with the British; The field Officers of the Regiment were Col. James Fry of Andover Lieut. Col. Brackett of Haverhill; Company Officers were Capt Thomas Dorr Lieut. Benjamin Varnum 2d Lt. Samuel Johnson Ensign Cyrus Marble. There was a Col. Prescott who belonged to another Regiment. The time that he was at Cambridge there were three Regiments stationed there
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State in the Union
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid Attest A. Peirce Clerk
Phineas his X Johnson mark
We Joseph H. Hobbs and Amasa Cogg residing in Wakefield within three Miles of Phineas Johnson of Brookfield; hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Phineas Johnson, who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be eighty five 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 Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid Attest A. Peirce Clerk
Joseph H. Hobbs Amasa Cogg

And after a full investigation of the whole subject the said Court do hereby declare their opinion that Phineas Johnson the afore named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as he states. — And the Court certifies that it appear to them that Josiah B. Hobbs & Amasa Cope, who have signed the preceding certificate are resident in Wakefield in said County — are both Magistrates — and also Councillors of this Court, and their statement is entitled to credit —
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the Seal of said Court, this 22 nd day of August 1832.
A. Prince, Clerk.

I Timothy Johnson of Brookfield in the County of Shapsire and State of New Hampshire aged Seventy eight years depose and on oath declare that I am well acquainted with Phineas Johnson of Brookfield who is now present; am well knowing that in year 1775 he went to Cambridge before the Battle of Bunker Hill in the company of Minute Men raised by Captain Thomas Dorr of Ando- ver, Essex County, Massachusetts; My Brother Samuel Johnson was Second Lieutenant in Captain Dorr's Company My Brother Phineas was absent in the Army the Summer and fall of 1775 but he returned to Concord in January 1776 -
Timothy Johnson
State of New Hampshire Shapsire ss August 22 d 1832
Then personally appeared the above named Timothy Johnson and made solemn oath that the above deposition by him signed is just and true
Before me Amasa Lapp Justice of the Peace

I hereby certify that the within named Timothy Johnson who signed the within deposition is of good veracity and strict truth
Amasa Cook Justice of the Peace
State of New Hampshire
Stafford ss. I Andrew Deice Clerk of the Superior Court of Judicature for said County of Stafford certify that Amasa Cook Esq., before whom the within affidavit was taken is a Justice of the Peace for said County and the signatures purporting to be his are genuine — In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this 28 th day of August 1832.
A Deice Clerk

16.429 INVALID.
File No. 16.429
Phineas Johnson Pr. Rev War
Act: June 7 th 32
Index:—Vol. A , Page 447
[Arrangement of 1870.]