Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 36644, for Daniel Johnson, Connecticut

SERVICE
NUMBER
Continental (conn.) Johnson, Daniel
S. 36644
CONTENTS

Died Nov. 11, 1831 Spencer, Conn.
19,903
Connecticut
Daniel Johnson
of Hartford County in the State of Connecticut who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Barton of the Regiment commanded by Colonel Howers in the Cont. line, for the term of three years Continental from October 1778 to December 1780
Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 29 th day of March 1828
Certificate of Pension issued the 25 th of August 1828 and sent to the Hon. J. A. Foot Cheshire Connecticut
Arrears to 4th of Sept 1828 $ 41.83 Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 March 1829 = 48 $ 89.83
{ Revolutionary Claim, Acts March, 18, 1818, and May 1, 1820. }
Recorded Vol 3 rd page 54 Book 6. R. H. Bruce

I Daniel Johnson of New Hartford in the County of Litchfield & State of Connecticut do depon & declare that in the Month of October 1778 I enlisted into the service of the United States in the Revolutionary War, in the Compa- ny of Artillery commanded by Capt. William Barton & Col. Ezekiel Chivers Regiment in the Massachu- setts line. That in the Spring following I was appointed a Serjeant in the same Company & within about two months afterwards was appointed a Lieut t in the same Company & Adjutant of the Regiment. That I did the duty of Lieutenant of said Company & Adjutant of said Regiment from that time until the month of October 1781 when I was regularly discharged making the whole term of my said service about three years. That my Commission & discharge are not to my knowledge in existence. I further declare that I am Fifty six years of age & by reason of my reduced circumstances need the assistance of my Country for support.
Daniel Johnson
State of Connecticut, Litchfield County So. Personally appeared the above named Daniel Johnson & made solemn oath to the truth of the foregoing Affidavit, at Litchfield the 22 d day of April A. 1818 - before me -
Augustus Pettibone Chief Judge of Litchfield Court of Common Pleas

I Frederick Wolcott, Clerk of the County Court, or Court of Common Pleas, within the County of Litchfield in the State of Conn t certify that Augustus Pettibone Esq r in as is & was on the twenty second day of April A.D. 1818 Chief Judge of said Court, & that his name subscri- -bed to the preceding Certificate is his proper hand writing & sign attested.
In test whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the Seal of said Court this third day of October A.D. 1821. —
Frederick Wolcott, Clerk.

District of Connecticut ss County of Litchfield, County Court On this twenty eighth day of September eighteen hundred twenty five personally appeared in open court being a court of record for said county in said district, having the power to fine and imprison Daniel Johnson of New Stamford in said county aged fifty nine years resident in New Stamford, in said county, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War, as follows, from October seventeen hundred seventy eight to October seventeen hundred eighty one a period of three years in the Revolutionary War that he enlisted into a company of artificers in service of the United States in the Massachusetts line, commanded by Captain William Barton, and Colonel Ezekiel Chittenden Regiment, that he was discharged in the month of October seventeen hundred eighty one, and that this discharge is now lost, and that by reason of his reduced circumstances, he seeks the assistance of his country for support, And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred eighteen, and that I have not since that time, by gift sale or in any manner, disposed of any property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby, so to diminish it, as to bring myself within

the provision 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 for me 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.
Schedule of the Estate of Daniel Johnson of New Britain in the County of Litchfield, and State of Connecticut
   One two Bear Old $ 8   Two Swine - at 28 4   Two beds and Bedding - 10 20   Two Old tables 150 3   One axe 1   One Scythe 1 50   Six Old Chairs 34 2 04   One Old Brass kettle 1   One do Pot and kettle 1 25  
Daniel Johnson $41. 79 cts
Sworn to and declared, on the twenty eighth day of Sept Anno Domini eighteen hundred twenty one before the said court, Certified by
Frederick Wolcott, Clerk

I Frederick Wolcott Clerk of the County Court in the County of Litchfield and State of Connecticut, do hereby certify that the foregoing Oath and the Schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of the Court, and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court, that the total amount in value of property, exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is forty one dollars, and Seventy nine cents. In testimony whereof, I have hereto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this twenty eighth day of September eighteen hundred twenty one.
Frederick Wolcott, Clerk of the County Court for the County of Litchfield.

In reply to your request of Jan , received for a statement of the military history of Daniel Johnson a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau. S. File 36644
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     Priv   6 Oct. 1781 Sergt Continental   Oct 1. 78 to 31. 80 Quar William Barton Flora Artillery   1st Flora Infantry  
Battles engaged in, Residence of soldier at enlistment, Date of application for pension, Feb 22, 1818  Illon's Residence at date of application, New Hartford, Litchfield Co Conn. Age at date of application, 56 yrs Remarks: Died Nov 11 1837 Litchfield Co Conn.
In reply to your request of Jan , received for a statement of the military history of Daniel Johnson a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau. S. File 36644 

Sur. File No. 36,644, Daniel Johnson, enlisted October 1, 1778 and served until October 1781 as Sergeant, Lieutenant, and Adjutant, under Captain William Barton in Colonel Flower's regiment of Continental Artillery Artificers.
In 1818 he was fifty-six years of age and a resident of New Hartford, Connecticut. He died November 11, 1821.
Mary Fuller Martin for tombstone
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36 644
Rey INVALID.
File No. 86, 0 1/2
Daniel Johnson Rev  Rev  MD
Act. 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 252
[Arrangement of 1870.]
1909 Nov 17. To Mary Fuller Martin for tombstone, letter in M. file 20595 Mel Kling- 1911 July 31. To above. " " " " " " 1911 Aug. 8- " " " no family data & for other such. Mel Kling.
1921, Feb. 2 Hist. to Alfred W. Johnson - Eu.

Comptroller's Office Hartford Aug: 16. 1826.
State of Connecticut ss.
It appears upon examination of the Books of the late "Committee of Pay Table", deposited in this Office, that Daniel Johnson served as a private in Capt. William Barton's Company of Artillery Artificers in Col. Hovey's Regiment from October 1. st 1778 to December 31. st 1780 or that he was paid for his services during that period.
Certified per
James Thorny Comptroller

Comp. Book p. 25 I certify that James Thomas Esq is Comptroller of public accounts of the State of Connecticut, & that the within signature is his. — E. Phelps H. R. Dec 26 th 1827

Cheshire Oct 20 th August 1828
Sir
Enclosed is an application brought to me by a poor old Revolutionary Soldier from a distance of more than 30 miles, begging me to try to ascertain the reason why he cannot be placed on the Pension list? He has been trying for a long time & cannot find out any thing about it.
From his statement it seems his application was made in due form - with the regular schedule of property, not exceeding one hundred Dollars - That there was a mistake in the name of the Col. of the Reg t as he was told & found true - That the enclosed Paper has been transmitted, & was returned to him without note or comment -
Please inform me if any further proof is necessary - or if any other objections or difficulties prevent his obtaining the Pension - or if this is sufficient transmit me the Certificate & oblige Yours Respectfully Sam t A. Hood

These may certify, that I Lieutenant Lament Peck of Bristol in Hartford County, have been personally acquainted with Mr Daniel Johnson late of said Bristol, but now of New Hartford in Litchfield County, from his childhood to the present time, & I was also knowing to his being in the service in the company, commanded by Captain William Barton, for the term of two or three years, in time of the Revolutionary war, against the common enemy of the United States of America, which said company was annexed to the Regiment commanded by Colonel Brachiel Chivers. Bristol April 7 th 1810 ~ Lament Peck.
Hartford County ss Bristol April 7 th 1810 ~ Personally appeared Lieut. Lament Peck whose name is annexed to the above certificate, & made solemn oath to the truth of the statements & facts therein contained.
Before me Tracy Peck Justice of Peace I further certify that the above named Lament Peck is personally known to me & that his testimony is entitled to full faith & credit ~ Tracy Peck Justice of Peace

Trusty Servant Certificate
see Collas 24 Oct. 1821 & Jan. 26 1828 to Hon. E. Phelps H. C.
of the County Court or Court of Common Pleas I Thomas Chester Clerk of the County of Hartford do certify that the within named Tracey Peck Esq. is a Justice of the Peace for the County of Hartford & I believe the signature of the name of the said Justice to be the hand writing of the said Tracey Peck witness my hand & the seal of the County Court for said County of Hartford this 7 th day of April A. 1818.
Thomas Chester Clerk

We Joel Greenleaf, Jared W. Purdie & Charles G. Davis Esqs all of Bristol in the County of Hartford & State of Connecticut, now in the commission of the Peace within said County and being duly sworn & acting as Justices of the Peace within said County. & Francis Dick & Avery Atkins both of said Bristol & being the major part of the Justices of Bristol aforesaid, and all of whom being of lawfull age, depose & say that they are severally acquainted with Mr Daniel Johnson now residing in Bristol aforesaid, he having resided in the Town of New Britain in Litchfield County in said State, for several years previous to the last three years, and we know him to be poor indigent & honest & entirely dependent on his friends for a subsistence, that he enjoys poor and declining health & has several unremediable bodily infirmities, & is wholly unable to perform labor now, he being now in the sixty sixth year of his age - And the Deponents further depose & say that they have long understood that said Daniel Johnson served in the Continental establish- ment in the Army of the Revolution, & that the Deponents virily believe & are of the opinion that said Johnson is justly entitled to a pension from the United States, agreeable to the provisions

of the acts of Congress, "providing for certain Persons engaged in the Land & Naval service of the United States in the revolutionary War," and further the Deponents say not,
Joel Truesdell } Justice of the Peace Charles G. Ives }
Irney Peck } Selectmen Avery Atkins }
State of Connecticut } October 1 st ss, County of Hartford } Bristol September 2 1827. on the said October day of September 1827, personally appeared the aforesaid Charles G. Ives
Irney Peck & Avery Atkins & were examined, cautioned & sworn agreeable to law to the foregoing disposition, taken at the request of the aforesaid Mr. Daniel Johnson, to be by him used & impounded in procuring a pension from the United States, under the acts of the Congress of the United States. - Sworn before certified by me Joel Truesdell Justice of Peace
County of Hartford ss. Bristol Octo. 1 st 1827. Personally appeared Joel Truesdell Esq. & made solemn oath to the truth of the foregoing disposition by him subscribed. - Sworn before me - Charles G. Ives Justice of Peace

I certify that Joel Truesdell, & Charles G. Jones are Justices of the Peace within & for the County of Hartford Conn. D. Phelps - H.R. Dec. 26-1827 -

This may certify that M c Daniel Johnson of the Town of Newhartford, County of Litch- -field in the State of Connecticut, served in the revolutionary war, from the year 1778. until the year 1781. which makes three years in Captain William Barton's Company, in Colonel Ezekiel Chivers Regiment of Artillery - men and was regular discharged
Attest ————— W m Barton
State of Connecticut Middlesex County ss } Chatham April 6 th 1818
Personally appeared William Barton and made solemn Oath, that the above Certificate by him subscribed. Is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.
Sworn before me John Parmelee Justice Peace
I further certify that the above named William Barton is personally known to me that his testimony is entitled to full faith & credit
State of Connecticut. } John Park Clerk of the Court of Middlesex County ss } Common Pleas of the County of Middlesex do certify that John Parmelee

of Chatham in S tate was on the 16 th day of April 1818 a justice of the Peace within & for said County of Middle sex at P o Court on file in my Office & that his name subscribed to the preceding certificate is his proper Hand Writing & signature In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my Hand & affixed the seal of P o Court this 10 th day of March A.D. 1819 — J. S. [unclear]

of the County Court or Court of Common Pleas I the undersigned Clerk of the County of Middle- sex do certify that the atty. named John Parnell Esqr. is a Justice of the Peace for the County of Middlesex & I believe the signature of the name of the said Justice to be the hand writing of the said John Parnell Esqr. Witness my hand & the seal of the County Court for said County of Middlesex This

pen. to com: 29 March 1828
send cut. to Hon. S. A. Foot, Cheshire, Con.

STATE OF CONNECTICUT, County of HARTFORD, ss. County Court, or Court of Common Pleas, holden at Hartford in said County, on the fourth Tuesday of March 1820
County of Hartford ss
ON this 27th day of March
1820 personally appeared in open Court,
the said Court being a Court of record for said County, having the power of fine and imprisonment,
Daniel Johnson
aged
resident in
said County
in the County of Hartford, aged 66 years.
who being first duly sworn according to law doth, on his oath, declare that he served in the
Revolutionary War as follows:
make the following declaratio March 10th 1820 & the 1st of May 1820 That he the said Daniel Johnson or 1770 in the State of Massachusetts in the company commanded by in the line of the State of Massachusetts on the continental establishm where he was discharged from the service in Springfield in the State pension except the present that his name is not on the roll of any State for not making earlier application for a pension His former application was and in pursuance of the act of the 1st May 1820
"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 since the 10th of March 1818 the following changes have been made in my property
in presence of Nathan Johnson — Daniel X Johnson mark

in order to obtain the provision made by the acts of congress of the 10 th listed for the term of three years on the first day of October in the year Captain William Barber in the regiment commanded by colonel Flowerd ent that he continued to serve in the said corps until December 31 st 1700 of Massachusetts that he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to or except said Massachusetts & Connecticut & that the following are the reasons rejected from an inaccuracy in naming the colonel of his regiment.
Sworn to and declared by said on the 27 th day of March 1820 before said Court, and it is the opinion of said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is 1000 dollars and 50 cents.
I, Clerk of the County Court or Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Hartford aforesaid, do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true copy of the record of said Court. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court on this day of 182
Clerk of the County Court or Court of Common Pleas in and for said County of Hartford.

I Thomas Chester clerk of the county court of the county of Hartford aforesaid do hereby certify that it appears to the satisfaction of the court that the said Daniel Johnson did serve in the revolutionary war as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy for the term of nine months under one engagement on the continental establishment. I also certify that the foregoing oath is truly copied from the records of the said court. In testimony whereof I have
hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court on this 29 th day of March 1820. Thomas Chester clerk

Pension
West Hartford, Conn DEC 29, 1920
Department of the Interior Bureau of Pensions Washington, D.C.
Sirs:-
Will you kindly furnish me with the military history of Daniel Johnson who served from Conn. as private in the War of the Revolution under Capt. Barton, Col. Fowler, He is supposed to have lived in Hartford, Conn about 1825-30.
Respectfully
Alfred W. Johnson
P.O. Box 21