Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 1294, for Ebenezer Johnson, Connecticut

SERVICE
NUMBER
Johnson, Ebenezer Elizabeth
N. 1294
B.L. Mt 30765-160-55
CONTENTS

Letter to Hon. J. Pratt 6 Jan. '38.
Albany 31.259
Ebenezer Johnson of Greene Co. in the State of N. York who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain Collins of the Reg't commanded by in the Cont. mil. time for 6 months
Inscribed on the Roll of Albany at the rate of 20 Dollars — Cents per annum to commence on the 14th day of March, 1831.
Beneficiary of Pension issued the 14th day of Nov. 1837 and sent to T. B. Hosford Lexington Heights N.Y.
Amounts to the 14th of Sept. '37 130 00 Semi-ann. allowance ending 4 Mar. '38 10 00 $140 00
{ Revolutionary Elam, } { Act June 7, 1832 }
Recorded by D. Brown Clerk, Book 62 Vol. 4 - Page 36

178569 Mrs 3 June 21/33
Elizabeth Johnson wid of Ebenezer Johnson
Revolution Pension
Ms. A. 9. 2. 20. 105
War of Revolution
July 22-1837
AD 16000, Jan. 14/56.
RF 11
Ms. A. 9. 2. 20. 105
Watson B. Hall Levett Green
Vol 1, page 85.

1097 New York Elizabeth Johnson widow of Ebenezer Johnson who served in the Revolutionary war, as a Private Conn te Line
scribed on the Roll at the rate of 20 Dollars per annum, to commence on 4th day of March, 1818. 2 February 1853 certificate of Pension issued the 30th day of July 1853 and sent to
Alfred Peck P.M. New Canaan Co. N.Y.
on Roll of Pensioners under act Page 76 Vol. 24 January 1853

Ebenezer Johnson son of John & Chloe Johnson was born April 14 th 1764.
I have copy from the Records of the town of Guilford.
Attest Samuel Fowler town Clerk.
George Griswold Clerk of the Court of Probate for the District of Guilford in New Haven County. Do Certify that Samuel Fowler who has attested and subscribed the foregoing Certificate, is the Town Clerk of the Town of Guilford in S. County. That I am well acquainted with the hand writing of S d Fowler & believe his signature to the foregoing Certificate to be genuu.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & Seal of Office this 20 th Day of August 1833.
George Griswold Clk

9430 Elmeyer Johnson
Oct 16 No. 27
Under pay roll of craft John Linn Ent 18 May 1781 dis 18 July " " D. 16 specification wgt
10 wch 56 17 Dec. 11
Stephen Harsford Somerton Heights N.Y.

BRIEF in the case of Ebenezer Johnson of Lexington in the State of N. York (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? before a Judge  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity? the Judge so certifies  3. How old is he? 67 years  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, As a Gen.     1779 Substituted 1 Drummer Officers not recalled Cornwall   " do 1 Piper Capt. Augustus Williams "   " do 1 " " do "   " do 1 " John Vest "   " do 1 " do do "   " do 1 " do do "  
in 1781. Volunteered under Capt. Vest. for 600 years, to do duty when called for, that the Company performed no duty in the Winter from Jan'y to March - that "he forgets the very time he was discharged" - the whole of the above service was in guarding the Coast near Guilford Connecticut.
5. In what battles was he engaged?
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service?
Guilford Connecticut
7. Is his statement supported by living or
incidental evidence, or by the rolls? True
by proof, by traditional evidence, by
Service alone
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? the papers are not attached according to the Regulations
I certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
W. Gordon Examining Clerk.

Elizabeth Johnson Application for Pension

Erwin N.Y. May 2 d 1858 Hon. L. P. Waldo Commissioner of Pensions
Sir I have the honor herewith to transmit you the application of Elizabeth - Johnson for such Pension as she may be entitled to under the act of Congress of 3 March 1853 together with the proofs of her claim - If the form of application is imperfect or the testimony insufficient you will please advise me thereof. If a Pension is granted the cert- -ificate may be sent either to me or the applicant the Post Office address is the same
Erwin New York Most Respectfully your Alfred Peck

State of New York On this 5 th day of May 1853 Greene County S.S. } personally appeared before me Alexander H. Bailey Judge of Greene County courts in the state aforesaid Elizabeth Johnson a resident of Jewett in the County and State aforesaid aged seventy one years who first being duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provisions made by the act of Congress passed the 3 rd day of February 1853 granting Pensions to Widows of Pensioners who served during the Revolutionary War; That She is the Widow of Ebenezer Johnson who was a private in the Revolutionary Army that he was in his life time and until his death a pensioner of the United States. That in regard to the nature of Service and Officers under whom he served she refers to the evidence filed upon his application in the Pension Office at Washington She further declares that she was Married to the said Ebenezer Johnson on the 28 th day of Mar- ch in the year 1831 that her said husband died on the 2 nd day of October in the year 1848 at Lexington in the County and State aforesaid. That she was not married to him prior to the second day of January Eighteen hundred but at the time above stated She further declares that she is now a widow
Sworn to & subscribed
her
The day & year first above written before me
Elizabeth
Johnson
mark
A. H. Bailey
Greene County Judge
State of New York
Greene County ss. I Alexander H. Bailey County Judge of said County, before whom the foregoing declaration was made, do hereby certify that the same is a true and

Elizabeth Johnson is unable to appear in open court for the purpose of making said dec- laration by reason of old age & bodily infirm- ity — I further certify that "Sixty nine" in the 5 th & 6 th lines of said declaration were erased and the "seventy one" substituted, before execution dated May 5, 1853 — A. H. Bailey
State of New York,
Greene County Clerk's Office. I, JACOB VAN ORDEN, Clerk of said County, do hereby certify that Messrs. H. Bailey who has before the annexed affidavit before whom the annexed deposition was made, was at the date thereof a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, and duly authorized to take the same, and that the signature purporting to be his I believe to be genuine.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said County this 7 day of May 1853
Jacob Van Orden Clerk.

Elizabeth Johnson is unable to appear in open court for the purpose of making said dec- laration by reason of old age & bodily infirm- ity — I further certify that "Sixty Nine" in the 5 th & 6 th lines of said declaration were erased and "Seventy one" substituted, before execution. Dated May 5, 1853 — A. H. Bailey Premises Judge

Missionary
Marriage

Marryed by me on the 28 th day of March 1831 Ebenezer Johnson aged 65 years to Elizabeth Hall aged forty seven years both to me well known and both resi- dents of the town of Lexington in the county of Green and state of New York —
Morris Austin

State of New York Greene County, SS
Munson Buel and Elijah Moore being duly sworn severally depose and say that they are well acquainted with Elizabeth Johnson the person named in the annexed Application for pension that they know her to be the Widow of Ebenezer Johnson that she was Married to him on the 28 th day of March in the year 1831 that the said Ebenezer Johnson died on the 2 nd day of October in the year 1843 that he was at the time of his death a pensioner of the United States at the Albany agency at the rate of Twenty Dollars per year and that the said Elizabeth Johnson is now his Widow and the said Munson Buel saith that the Record of Marriage hereto attached was made by him at the time of said marriage and has remained in his possession ever since
I certify that I'm well acquainted with Elizabeth Johnson the person making making the annexed application for pension and with Munson Buel and Elijah Moore who made the foregoing Affidavit and that they are all residents of the Town of Newell in the County and State aforesaid and that they are all persons of good char-
State of New York,
Greene County Clerk's Office. I, JACOB VAN ORDEN, Clerk of said County, do hereby certify that
George W. Miles
before whom the annexed deposition
was made, was at the date thereof a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, and duly authorized to take the same, and that the signature purporting to be his I believe to be genuine.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said County this
day of May 1853
Jacob Van Orden Clerk.

State of New York Green County, SS.
Munson Buel and Elijah Moore being duly sworn severally depose and say that they are well acquainted with Elisabeth Johnson the person named in the annexed Application for Pension that they know her to be the Widow of Ebenezer Johnson that she was Married to him on the 28 th day of March in the year 1831 that the said Ebenezer Johnson died on the 2 nd day of October in the year 1843 that he was at the time of his death a pensioner of the United States at the Albany agency at the rate of Twenty Dollars per year and that the said Elisabeth Johnson is now his Widow and the said Munson Buel saith that the Records of Marriage hereto attached was made by him at the time of said marriage and has remained in his possession ever since
I certify that I'm well acquainted with Elisabeth Johnson the person Elijah Moore making the annexed application for pension and with Munson Buel and Elijah Moore who made the foregoing Affidavit and that they are all residents of the Town of Dewitt in the County and State aforesaid and that they are all persons of good character for truth and credibility and that the facts as so forth by them are true to the best of my knowledge and belief and that I'm uninterested in this matter and Dubuque before me this twenty eighth day of April in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty three Geo. W. Miles Justice of the peace

STATE OF NEW-YORK,
Greene County Clerk's Office.
I, JACOB VAN ORDEN, Clerk of said County, do hereby certify that Geo W Miles Isner before whom the annexed Affidavit &c was made, was at the date thereof a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, and duly authorized to take the same, and that the signature purporting to be his I believe to be genuine.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said County this 25 day of June 185 5
J. Van Orden Clerk.

State of New York } ss Greene Co. }
On this 14 th day of June 1855 before me a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid personally appeared Elizabeth Johnson aged 73 years who being duly sworn according to Law declared that she is the widow of Ebenezer Johnson who was a private in the Revolutionary War. As to the Company, Regiment, and other particulars you are referred to evidence on file in your Office by which a Pension Certificate was granted to the said Elizabeth Johnson under the Act of Feb. 3 rd 1853. She further states that she was married to the said Ebenezer Johnson at Livingston on the 26 th day of March 1831 by one Henry Soper a justice of the Peace, and that her name before her said marriage was Elizabeth the Hall. That her said husband died at Livingston on the 2 nd day of Oct. 1843, and she is now a widow, and she believes that the original record of her marriage was forwarded with the other evidence at the time above mentioned. She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the Bounty due to which she is entitled under the Act of March 3 rd 1855 never having received Bounty before or knowing that she is entitled except for the above service.
See H. Miles { between Elizabeth her Johnson Mason B. Hall } mark
Sworn to and subscribed and acknowledged before me this day and year first above written and on the same day personally came before me Thomas Mearns and Lewis Mearns residents of New York in Greene County and State aforesaid to me known as credible witnesses who being
duly sworn declare that they are personally acquainted with Elizabeth Johnson widow of Ebenezer Johnson who has made and subscribed

above written and on the same day personally came before me Thomas Merwin and Levett Merwin residents of Brewster in Greene County and State aforesaid to me known as credible witnesses who being
duly sworn declare that they are personally acquainted with Elisabeth Johnson widow of Ebenezer Johnson who has made and subscribed the foregoing declaration that they were personally acquainted with Ebenezer Johnson and his wife during the lifetime of the former and know that they lived together as man and wife and so be so reputed and that they believe that the husband of the said Elisabeth Johnson was the identical person who performed the military services mentioned in the above declaration that the above named Ebenezer Johnson is now dead and the said Elisabeth Johnson is now the widow of the said Ebenezer Johnson. And they further swear that they are disinterested
Levett H. Merwin
Thomas Merwin
Sworn to and subscribed and I certify that I am not interested in the claim or concerned in its prosecution
Geo. W. Miles Justice of the peace
Direct - Mason T. B. Hall JEWETT Greene Co N.Y.

1900 Wm. Johnson Application for a pension
Small Private 6 months
In pay roll of Captain St. B. ... 1897
L. H. ... Esq. Lexington Heights New York

State of New York. Greene County ss.
I William T. B. Hermance Clerk of the County of Greene do certify that Munson Dool Esquire before whom the foregoing declaration. and affidavits were sworn, was at the date of the same a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of the said County and that the signature of the said Judge thereto attached is his genuine Signature
In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and seal of office this sixth day of September 1832
William T. B. Hermance Clerk

Declaration In order to obtain the benefits of the act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832
State of New York —
Green County ss On the Twenty Eighth day of December 1832 personally appeared before me Munn Buell one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas In and for the County of Green and State of New York Ebenezer Johnson of the Town of Lexington In the County of Green and State of New York aged sixty seven years old who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declarations In order to obtain the benefits of the act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832 That he entered the service of the Continental States In the revolutionary war the first time at the Town of Guilford New Haven County State of Connecticut on the first day of April In the year 1779 That there was a Captain and his Company raised at Guilford drafted men belonging to the Town of Suffield In the County of Hartford State of Connecticut and after their arrival the drummer of the Company learning that I was a drummer hired me to take his place for the term of one month the term for which that Company was drafted I did then and there take his place and did serve In the said Company one month and at the expiration of said time I was discharged at Guilford aforesaid don't remember the Captain or drummers name

And he further says that he againe Entered the Service the second time at Guilford aforesaid for the time of one month on the first day of May 1779 In Captain Augustus Collins Compa- ny of Guilford was hired to go by Mr Samuel Rowson of Guilford who was then drafted himself for the time of one month I did take his place In the said Company and did serve the time of one month at the expiration of said time I was discharged at Guilford aforesaid I served as a sifer In the said Company And He further says that he Entered the Service a Third time at Guilford aforesaid for the time of one month on the Tenth day of June 1779 In the Company Commanded by Captain Augustus Collins of Guilford was hired to go by Mr Timothy Shelley of Guilford who himself was drafted for one month I then Entered the Service In the said Company and served at the month and was then discharged at Guilford aforesaid And he further says that he Entered the Service a fourth time at Guilford aforesaid for the time of one month on the fourteenth or fifteenth day of July 1779 In the Company Commanded by Captain Peter Veal of Guilford aforesaid that he was hired to go by Mr Graves of Guilford who himself was drafted for one month that I took his place In the said Company and served one month and at the expiration of said time I was discharged at Guilford aforesaid And he further says that he Entered the Service a fifth time at Guilford aforesaid for the time of one month on the seventh fourteenth eighteenth day of August 1779 In the Company Commanded by Captain Peter Veal of Guilford that I was hired to go by Mr Reuben Seet of Guilford who himself was drafted for one month that I did take his place In the Company and did serve out the time of one

month and was then discharged at Guilford And he further says that he entered the service the sixth time at Guilford aforesaid for the time of one month in the Company Commanded by Captain Peter Seal of Guilford on the twenty second or twenty third day of September 1779 that he was hired to go by a Mr. Bar- nery of Guilford aforesaid his Christian name he forgets that on that day he entered the service in said Company and served out his month and was then discharged at Guilford aforesaid And he further says that there was a Company raised in Guilford for the term of two years to guard the sea coast at Guilford under the command of Captain Peter Seal that on the first day of March in the year 1781 he entered the service the seventh time that he volunteered his services in the said Company of Captain Peter Seal and did then and there its duty in the said Company until the first day of November in the year 1783 and he further thinks according to the best of his remembrance that he says he is an old infirm man and cannot positively swear to that fact of its being until the enemy left New York but that in his impression he further says that he served at the rate of twelve or twenty six months in the service of the United States in the revolutionary war at the expiration of his service in the year 1783 he was discharged at Guilford aforesaid And he further says that this declaration is for the purpose of more particularly than the one he made the third day of September 1832 which accompanies this declaration and is contained by me as a part of the same as to time of enlistments and other things.
Ebenezer Johnson
Sworn and Subscribed this 28 th day of December 1832 before me Munroe Doolittle one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Greene and State of New York

Clerks Certificate
I William T. B. Hermance Clerk of the County of Green do certify that Mennon Buel Esq. before whom the foregoing declaration and affidavits were taken and sworn was at the date thereof and now is a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Green and his signature thereto affixed is a genuine signature.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 29 th day of January 1833
William T. B. Hermance
Clerk as aforesaid.

Declaration In order to obtain the benefits of the act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832
State of New York
Green County ss On the third day of September in the year 1832 personally appeared before me William Buel one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Green State of New York Thomas Johnson of the Town of Haines in the County of Greene State of New York aged Sixtyseven years old who being first duly sworn according to Law with me his oath in after the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832 that he entered the service of the United States under the following Officers and served as hereinafter stated That on the first day of April 1814 there was a Captain and his Company arrived at Guilford belonging to Ruffield in the County of Hartford State of Connecticut Drafted them for one month to guard Guilford Coast and on their arrival the Commander of said Company learning that I was a drummer hired me to take his place for one month which I did and faithfully served out the month in the said Company and was discharged at Guilford That the Officers and Commanders that served me were all of Congress and I served in them before was given and have not their names And he further says that he again entered the service at Guilford on some of the first days of May there after immediately after being discharged for one month In Captain Christopher Collins Company engaged for one month was hired by Samuel Benton of Guilford who was drafted for one of the Militia Companies in Guilford for one month I took his place in the said Company for the said one month served as a fifer in the Company and was discharged at Guilford on some of the first days of June And he further says that in March he was discharged a second draft took place when on or about the fourth day of June entered the service again at the Town of Guilford upon which Captain Christopher Collins Company was hired by Mr Timothy Shelly of Guilford who was himself drafted from one of the Companies of Militia in Guilford for one month that he took his place under the said Captain and served out the said month faithfully at Guilford and at the expiration of said time I was discharged at Guilford on or about the fourth of July And he further says that sometime about the fourth or fifth of July he again entered the service and served under Captain Peter Vial was hired by a Mr. Powerfagolake Captain of Guilford who himself

himself was drafted as a volunteer for the term of one month that he took the place of Mr. Graves under said Captain and faithfully served out the month and was discharged at Guilford on or about the fifteenth or sixteenth of August and he further says some days after that (like as then) and the twentieth of August in the same year he again entered the service for one month at Guilford for the Company commanded by Captain Peter Paul of Guilford was hired by a Mr. Palahiah Sect of Guilford who himself was drafted for one month I took his place under the said Captain and faithfully served out the said month and was discharged at Guilford about the twentieth of September and he further says that he again entered the service for one month for Captain Peter Paul's Company at Guilford was hired by a Mr. Parmenter of Guilford who himself was drafted for one month I took his place and served out the month under the said Captain and was discharged at Guilford that he entered the service sometime about the twenty fourth or fifth of September and was discharged about that time. In between all this service was performed in the year 1779 for the Guarding the Coast at Guilford against the British forces who were actively and mightily invading and plundering the inhabitants of their property and he further says that sometime about the first of March 1781 there was a Company organized and raised in Guilford for the year to be commanded by Captain Peter Paul to guard the Coast at Guilford that volunteered at that time under the said Captain Peter Paul for the said one year and continued to be active in the said Company when called for until after the Battle of Guilford in the year 1781 and he further says that the Company performed no duty in the winter season from January to March that he forgot the very time that he was discharged all the while he was guarding the Coast at Guilford against the Enemy's boats invading and plundering the inhabitants and he further says that during their time he was in three battles that he was in the Battle where the British ships and vessels chased Captain Snowbridge of New Haven on his passage through the Sound from the West Indies as he was then with a heavy cargo of sugar and molasses the British kept at a distance that he saw two or three vessels that he with others fired their guns at a vessel that was a British vessel that gave a broadside that killed a day a one of the Enemy's Gun boats who attempted to take the vessel that during all this time the Enemy's fleet from their own coast perhaps almost as many ships from a distance from the sea that we at Eastport a number of men were saved the ship for her say that he was in the Battle at Guilford and near Guilford Town where a battle was going on and saw some of the Enemy's men and he further says that he was in a Battle during that time at a place called Suckam's Creek

...some time since I drove them off. That he was in a Northern Battle during that time at a place called Jackson's Creek
Says that he never received any written discharge from his officers and that he has no documentary evidence and that he knows of no person whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his services other than those that accompany these proceedings and he further disavows every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and further declares that his name is not on any pension roll of the agency of any state
Sworn and Subscribed this third day of September In the year 1832 Before me Ebenezer Johnson Munson Root - one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas and for the County of Green State of New York
Clergyman's Certificate
We Heythrop Pettit Clergyman and Paulus Hosford residents of the Town of Jessup in the County of Ulster do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Ebenezer Johnson who has Subscribed his name and swore to the above declaration that we believe him to be sixty seven years of age and that he is respected and esteemed in his neighborhood where he resides to have been a Sol- dier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion
Sworn and Subscribed this third day of September In the year 1832 Before me Munson Root - one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas In and for the County of Green and State of New York
Heythrop Pettit Paulus Hosford
Interrogatories of the Judge
Question 3. Where and In what year were you born and have you any record of your age and if so where is it? I know I was born in the Town of Milford near Haver County State of Connecticut. I am now sixty seven years of age I believe

Question 1 Have you any record of your age and if so where is it -
Answer I was Born at Guilford In the County of New Haven State of Connecticut I am now sixty seven years of age I have no record of my age but from my family testimony of my age as told by my Father.
Question 2 Where were you living when called into service and where were you served during the Revolutionary War and where do you now live
Answer When I Entered the Service I Lived at the Town of Guilford In the County of New Haven State of Connecticut where I did all my military service until after the war I removed to Wallingford In said County from thence I moved into North Berne State of New York where I stayed a short time and from thence moved to the Town of Goshen where I have lived for forty years and where I now live with my family.
Question 4 How were you called into Service were you drafted or did you volunteer or were you a substitute for a substitute for whom
Answer When I Entered the War in the first named month after month I was drafted by the aforementioned Samuel Root on something like Mr. Dyer Mr. Pitkin and Mr. Darrow of Guilford appointed and when I enlisted for the two years in the service I was on to guard the Co. Commander Captain Peter Hale of Guilford I voluntarily enlisted my
Question 5 State the names of some of the regular Officers who were with the troops where you served such Continental and Military Regiments as you can recollect and the General Commanders of your service
Answer At the time I first served there was the Militia Regiment at Guilford and its County had monthly drafts to guard the Co. at Guilford Captain Comstock there was the regiment I have that I ever recollect was Captain Dyer and I know the Militia Col. whom name was Fowler he never did any other military duty only at Guilford and knew of no other officers in the service.
Question 6 Did you ever receive a discharge from the service and if so by whom was it given
Answer I never received any written discharge when my services were offered my Captain discharged me.

Question 7 th State the names of persons to whom you are acquainted and know in your present neighbourhood who can testify as to your charac- ter for morality and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution - - - - -
Answer I will know Ruben Stafford Esquire attorney at Law Lexington High have lived a neighbourhood him within half a mile for more than thirty years I will know Stephen Johnson of the same place have lived the same length of time a neighbourhood him in a house and Samuel Johnson my boy's son.
Certificate of the Dredge
I the undersigned - Dredge as aforesaid do declare that my opinion is after the investigation of the matter and after perusing the interrogatories presented by the department of war that the above named application was a voluntary request and served as a statement of the said dredge as further certify that it appears to me that the said Richard Pickett who signed his name to the fore- going certificate is a gentleman of the highest integrity and that the said Ruben Stafford who signed his name to the foregoing certi- cate will bear the test of truth and fairness and be able to pass credit as a witness. I therefore do hereby certify that it is my opinion that the said application by reason of having been cannot attend Court. But I do further certify that the same application in all circumstances will bear the test of fairness and justice. With this reference to the above ground of belief in the high integrity of the said persons and the facts of the matter as above narrated the said application was made. But I do further certify that the said application was made by one of the said persons to the other with the consent of the other.
Perkins Certificate
I William T. D. Heermann Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas and for the County of Green do hereby certify

State of New York
Green County ss. Reuben Hosford of the Town of Scarsdale in the County of Green and State of New York being duly sworn on his oath deposes and saith that he well knows Mr. Ebenezer Johnson of the Town of Scarsdale in the County aforesaid that he his said neighbor to him for more than thirty years within some three miles of his house during all which time he has often heard the said Ebenezer Johnson say that he had been a soldier in the revolution war at Guilford in Connecticut and further he has heard others of his neighbors in the village that Ebenezer Johnson five years since in the course of some disorder in company with the said Ebenezer Johnson at the Town of Guilford in the County of New Haven when he was in a company in company with the said Ebenezer Johnson when he made a stop in his own native place of New Haven says when some of his relations went down to Guilford in order to a fishing party and myself and the said Ebenezer Johnson accompanied the said Ebenezer Johnson and there and there show me the spot of ground in which he had fought a battle in the revolution war against the British army and there no doubt but that he served as he states Mr. Ebenezer Johnson has been one of the deacons in the Congregational or Presbyterian Church which have belonged for more than twenty years and is considered a man of truth and veracity and entitled to full credit as a witness
Sworn and subscribed this Third day of September 1821 Before me Munson Root one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas In and for the County of Green State aforesaid
Reuben Hosford
I the said judge do certify that the said Reuben Hosford who has subscribed and sworn to the above affidavit is a man of truth and veracity
Munson Root judge aforesaid
State of New York

State of New York
judge and justice
Given County of Schoharie... I, Steven Johnson... of the Town of Schoharie... in the County of Schoharie... State of New York... having duly sworn on his oath... deposition and that the truth of the same is true to the best of his knowledge, information and belief... I, Steven Johnson, do hereby certify that the foregoing deposition is true to the best of my knowledge, information and belief.
Given under my hand this... day of September... in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and... and for the County of Schoharie State aforesaid
Steven Johnson
I the undersigned... do hereby certify that the said Steven Johnson... has been and is now the true and lawful... Commissioner of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Schoharie State of New York
State of New York... I, Steven Johnson... of the Town of Schoharie... in the County of Schoharie... State of New York... do hereby certify that the foregoing deposition is true to the best of my knowledge, information and belief... I, Steven Johnson, do hereby certify that the foregoing deposition is true to the best of my knowledge, information and belief.
Steven Johnson

The said Judge do Certify That the said Samuel Johnson who has signed and sworn to the foregoing affidavit is a man of the the said County.
San Jacinto River
State of New York,
Young County, Texas. I am a son of the late John Johnson of the County of Franklin, State of New York, being duly sworn on his oath before the notary public, the said John Johnson, the late of the County of Franklin, who has resided his name to the preceding substance in one of the other clides of this paper and that he has no further say that he has these things passed the said John Johnson being lawfully and further very great and kind his fellow citizens and all people of the Commonwealth of Texas, said John Johnson being a free man at every time and place and at all times and that he is not under any compulsion. The foregoing was acknowledged before me this 10th day of the month of June, 1851, and I do hereby certify that the same to be true.
She was born in December 1832. Died in September 1834. The year 1834. Before the Mission Book - one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in Andover County of Middlesex -
Ira Johnson
of the same things as before that the want of a standard in the English language is the chief reason why it is not used as a language of international communication.
Mission Point Lighthouse, Forest

State of New York
Given hereby to Henry Johnson of the Town of Germantown in the County of Greene in the State of New York says that he is the son of Elias Johnson who has described his name to the preceding declaration says that he well remembers of hearing his father state that he had been a revolutionary soldier at Guilford Connecticut a number of campaigns and that he had been engaged in battle there till he heard more than thirty of his comrades fall off their horses during the same time.
Henry Johnson
In presence subscribed this third
day of September 1831 before me
Thomson Root one of the Judges of the
Court of Common Pleas aforesaid
I Thomson Root do hereby certify that Henry Johnson who has above signed his name to the above affidavit is a man of truth and veracity
Thomson Root Judge aforesaid

Green County Sp Sixteen miles of the Town of P'ington in the County of Green and State of New York being duly sworn on his oath deposeth and saith that he is well acquainted with Simon Ebenezer Johnson that he has lived a neighbor to him for about forty years and that he has at this time carefully examined the preceding declaration which the said Ebenezer Johnson has signed his name to on one of the other sides of this paper and he further says that he has for more than thirty years ago heard the said Ebenezer Johnson state from all most every word that he has stated in his declaration as recited and that since that time he has heard him repeat the same a number of different times when speaking of his services in the Revolutionary War and further he has heard the same mentioned by his neighbors and that it is the general opinion in his neighborhood where the said Ebenezer Johnson resides so far as he can learn that he served in the Revolutionary War as a soldier and that he can give that testimony
sworn and subscribed this day Simson Fowler day of September 1832 before me Munroe Butcher of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Green State of New York
I the said Judge do certify that Simon Fowler who has signed his name to the above affidavit is considered as a man of truth and veracity Munroe Butcher

State of New York Monroe County } Phoebe Atwater of the City of Rochester in the County of Monroe State of New York being duly sworn on her Oath deposes and saith that she is now seventy three years old that her Father's name was John Johnson that she was born in the town of Old Guilford in the County of New Haven in the State of Connecticut that she continued to live from her birth until after the Revolution closed at said Guilford with her parents, she further saith that she has a Brother by the name of Ebenezer Johnson now living in the town of Lexington in the County of Green and State of New York who she is informed has made an application to the Board of War for a pension that her said Brother is two or three years younger than herself, and she further swears that when he was about fifteen years of age he was hired by several persons in Guilford and elsewhere who were drafted to take their places that she and she believes seven monthly drafts faithfully served as a substitute for them as a drummer and fifer in the said Company and she further swears that she will know that sometime in the year of 1781 Capt Peter Veal of Guilford enlisted a Company to Guard the coast of Guilford for the term of two years and his Company was raised as was said to prevent drafts and she further swears that she will know that her brother Ebenezer Johnson did enlist in the said Company for the term of two years under the said Capt Peter Veal and did serve his two years out in said Company that she thinks his services expired a little time after peace took place and she further says that the reasons she is so particular in it he was frequently at home during this time while he was not on duty in said Guilford and will know the same to be true and further saith not
Sworn and subscribed Phoebe Atwater May 19th day of June 1834 before me Nathaniel Dreyer Notary of the Peace in and for the County of Monroe and State of New York
I the said Nathaniel Dreyer Notary as aforesaid do hereby certify that the said Phoebe Atwater who has above signed and sworn to the above affidavit is a woman of respectability, truth and veracity and is well entitled to full credit as a Witness. Dreyer Notary as aforesaid

State of New York Monroe County ss: I certify that Nathaniel Draper Esq. before whom the within affidavit was sworn is a Justice of the peace in and for said county elected and sworn as such Justice, and that I am well acquainted with his hand writing and truly believe that his name subscribed to the within certificate, is his proper hand writing and signature. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the court of common pleas of said coun- ty this nineteenth day of June 1834. Leonard Adams clerk

John  WIDOW, &c.  an
File No. 1294
Elizabeth Johnson, Widow.
Elizabeth Johnson, Prob. Rev. War.
Act: Heads 2. 185-3.
Index: — Vol. A Page 396
[Arrangement of 1870.]

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Ves ans

New Jersey York
Rejected
See list to R. Hosford
Feb. 13. 1835
set to E Johnson 30 March 1835
" " Hon. A. Ward 15 May 1835
" " R. Hosford 25 Aug 30
Same Feb. 10. 1837
Same June 19 1837
" Hon G Pratt 7 Oct 1837

Ebenezer Johnson, act y June 1832: - Paid to d th Sept. 1843, no date of death on our Books,
F. Burch Auditor.

Pension Office 27 July 53
This case is respectfully referred to the 3 d Auditor for date of death of Soldier and date of last payment —
Very Respectfully
J. C. Calhoun Chief Clerk
D. W. C.

May 9. 1853 No 1602 App. of Elizabeth Johnson widow of Elizur
New York 31259 Act 3rd Febr. 1853
Rev:
Alfred Peck P.M. Jewett Green Co
my Wargood Evidence complete
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR PENSION OFFICE, OFFICIAL COPY

Declaration Good on 5 May 1853 -
A H Daily Judge County Court
Maria 28 March 1831 Certificate on file, and Sworn to by two Witnesses - that she is the Widow of the identical Ebenezer Johnson who was a pensioner of the U States - at 20$ per year - that he died 2 nd Oct, 1843 = that Munson Pierce who married them knew that the Certificate attached was made by him at that time and remained in his possession Certificate of good character of Declarant and Witnesses -

Official
FREE
118569
To the Champion of Russia Washington City D.C.

New York
Rev.:
Ebenezer Johnson 10 3/4
Ebenezer Johnson
Suspended let R. Hosford 8, June 1833
let. R. Hosford † 7 May 1834 let to Claimant June 14. 1834 let to R. Hosford - July 3 rd 34 " " June — Aug 15. 34 " " " Nov 28. 1834 Act 7 June 33 " " " Dec 27 th 1834

Elizabeth Johnson Wid of Ebenezer Johnson p 20.00.
Died 20 th Oct 1843

Brief in the case of Elizabeth Johnson Wid of Elenzer Johnson Green County and State of New York Under the act of 3 rd Feby 1853
Claim, ("original," or "for increase.")
Proof exhibited, (if original.)
Is it documentary, traditional, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance.
Elenzer Johnson was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States under the Act 7 th June 1832 at the rate of 20 00 per annum for 6 months service. Died 20 th Oct 1843.
Her Widow Elizabeth Johnson applied for a Pension under Act 3 rd Feby 1853 - in the County & State aforesaid.
Marriage proven by Certificate on file, and also by parole.
(If for increase.)
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what?
Testimony of two Witnesses - Identity and proof of Widowhood proven -
She is allowed a Pension at the rate of $20. 00 per Annum commencing 3 rd Feby 1853
July 29 th 1853
Name and residence of Agent Alfred Peck Esq r Stuatt Green County New York
Daniel McCook Examining Clerk

State of Connecticut
New Haven County ss Reuben Johnson of the Town of Guilford In the County of New Haven and State of Connecticut who being duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath say that he is well acquainted with Ebenezer Johnson formerly of the Town of Guilford aforesaid but now of the Town of Farmington In the County of Green and State of New York and has been well acquainted with him for more than fifty years and within this length of time and for many years past I have often heard some persons who are now dead say that the said Ebenezer Johnson was a soldier In the Revolutionary War for a number of campaigns all of which he verily believed to be true and further saith that Reuben Johnson
sworn and subscribed this twentieth day of August 1833 before me. Abiel Prosser one of the Justices of the peace In and for the County and State aforesaid
I The said above named Justice do certify that the above named Reuben Johnson is a man of truth and veracity
Abiel Prosser Justice as aforesaid

Ebenezer Johnson
20620 Wichita - E Oct 17 3 Gen Hon. James S. Edwards Esq. Municipal of Paines City Washington

Dear Cousin S t Edwards Esq e
Washington Nights. Dr. C. S. N. York October 16 th 1837.
10/2/54
It was last December that Mr. William Bell, and myself to Mr. Brown, a member of Congress, being the City of a Bell family sent to the bearing date June 17th 1852 respecting the pension claimed by the Ebenezer Dyer, in that Bell your Mother called upon him to explain to you why he should have been admitted to the service only for Captain Dyer's Company in the year 1852, when it disbanded under orders that he received the greater part of that year, and your further State that there is no attempt in that paper at explanation, on the basis of your Mother's Bell I sent to Mr. Johnson to call on her immediately at any office and within a day at most since after he had my request, I then very briefly read your Mother's Bell more than once to him and she also perused the same herself, I informed her that it was her duty immediately to comply with the requisition contained in your Mother's Bell to Mr. Johnson to explain to me by saying that you had called on him to make a explanation immediately, that why such a case as yours should have appeared before your Mother he could not tell that he ever served any private in the service of the country for more than one Continued his services agreeable to the testimony without explanation Except the time he had been in the service, Mr. Johnson then said that if he will before his Mother's Bell, of every thing that he could say that he will explain to you a Bell as prepared to give Mother's Bell most certainly an attempt has been made if it was not a satisfactory one, it was the explanation that Mr. Johnson could make But your Mother further says that in the explanation of the Bell reason an effort was made to make it appear that according to the provisions of the department all the services are eligible in their respective departments does not stand in the way of giving her the explanation required to Mr. Johnson when her services ended and that a respectable witness a Success Committee was appointed to her performing the duties therefore should not have been so prominent as to have made the effort, and very likely she was not aware of the fact until which was given to her in the Bell and that she was not your Mother's Bell that the same was given to her in the Bell.

By paroll Evidence, this I say to your Honour as the Compt. Law and Rule of Evidence, unless some ambiguity arises, and then it may be explained by paroll Evidence, but I am not well informed enough to see the application, there has been no Evidence found by Mr. Johnson in opposition to what you call our Call a Record. Mr. Johnson's Testimony to the paroll Statement is not your Record if I correctly understand the term in your meaning. Better, Mr. Johnson and two other Witnesses swear positively that Mr. Johnson performed this two years service, with an Exception the Roll or Return goes to prove only two months service. two different Qualities of Evidence do here perfectly harmonize all the difference between them, the written Record goes to prove positively of its Evidence that in the year 1782 Mr. Johnson served two months in Captain Dole's Company in the two years service, these three other Witnesses know more than that Record they had only prove the two months but swear that he served longer during his enlistment at your Honour's who is a much better Judge of Legal Sufficiency than Myself will wisely adjudicate the Question, your Honour may not yet disposed to agree with me in sentiment when I say that the Record laid before your Honour is in full proof of two months service under Capt. Dole in 1782, and I was very well pleased that that Record recites its appearance, although your Honour in a previous Letter sent to me bearing date August 8 th 1836 — there gives a reason why that Muster Roll had not been sent in or forwarded to this Office from the State of Connecticut from the 3 rd of April 1780 to the 8 th of January 1781 the reason why Capt. Dole's account does not appear on the Books of the Paymaster in Connecticut for the service specified it may be a difficult Question as to the correctness of it at the time, and on this Roll your Honour says that only two months of the reasons above alleged Why does that Roll appear before your Honour, but I am not yet disposed to make a motion on that point for I was well pleased in being informed that you had received that Record for two reasons, the one was that your Honour had stated in an earlier bearing date August 15 th 1834 that it did not appear that Capt. Dole had ever been in service after 1777. all this went to the Credit

of Mr Johnson and his Witness that what they had sworn to his services were true, a Second reason was that it went to show a part of the services which they had sworn that he performed, if Mr Johnson had left the service as an English Soldier would have been returned a deserter I must think that some who have known him has stated to your former Sister is your opinion that it was such a record as could not be depended on anywhere it would have been soon lost or, as respects the services of Mr Johnson in the year 1861 your Honour does not appear to question as to how enlisted, Mr Johnson and his Witness swears that he enlisted and served from the time he enlisted in 1861 there appears no evidence that he did not serve that year but three Witness swears that he did, the Applicants (Mr Johnson and Mr Stone) born of Guilford was respectable and old gentleman in every way in life to my best knowledge who served in Guilford during the war swears to his enlistment and that he faithfully performed all service and so did the sister of Mr Johnson Mrs Rachel Warfield who saw him during the war she swears positively that she well knows that he performed all these services Can your Honour believe that these three respectable and religious persons are all guilty of com- pounding a false oath - I would share your views on the ground his pension not delayed, Mr Johnson says he believes that his duty to give your Honour all the information that he can but to give any Explanation upon the question he cannot even bring into view one solitary circumstance respecting the question for explanation I must now stop here and make my apology and ask your Honour's pardon for troubling you with this very lengthy act, which was all from the urgency of the Applicant who is a poor elderly man and and kindly and easily stirred to do his best to rid his support this question has been so long pending that I must think that your Honour would rejoice at the conclusion, will your Honour send Mr Johnson the whole or so great a part of a pension on any one month by what he has proved, will your Honour be so good as to write me your further will and pleasure on the subject by the next week of December.
I remain Sir, Sir, Respectfully
Yours truly
Frederick Douglass

Lexington Height June 23
Enc.
Hon. James S. Edwards Esq. Chairman of Committee City Washington
26 June R. Harland add evidence Chicago Tribune June

Quington Heights Gr. A. S. H. July. June 23 rd 1837
While James Edwards Esq r (Sir)
I have this day examined Mr. Ebenezer Johnson on the principles declared in your last letter to me of June 11 th . Mr. Johnson informs me that it is out of His power to give any explanation to the question for he cannot think of any one Circumstance that ever had taken place that should favour the statement. He informs me that he enlisted at the time that He was sworn for two years in Captain Peter Seel's Company and went immediately into the Service and continued so to do until his two years expired excepting the time when the Harbour was frozen over. I do believe that Mr. Johnson is incapable of giving any further Information concerning his services. Your Honour speaking of a record that no part of the Government can be induced to do them away that is a principle that no honest Service can deny, as to those returns that your Honour alludes to in those returns in my opinion there can be very dependence on its correctness, your Honour seems to give countenance to the same sentiment in your letter to me of the 8 th of August 1836, showing the same principle in those returns, on the books of the paytable, Mr. Johnson has not only sworn to his services as he himself has stated but proved the same by several respectable witnesses. Mr. Johnson prays me to request your Honour to have the Commission issued without giving your Honour further trouble on the Commission and send his pension on as soon as may be. He has been at very great expense in procuring his testimony in poor circumstances and is really stands in need of the benefit of his pension to comfort his declining
Remain Sir
Very respectfully
Yours Aff ly
Richard H. Arsenault

Eliza Johnson Justice Artman David Frazier
Witnesses Mr. Jan 27.
Mr. [unclear] Jan 30 Mr. [unclear]

Wimborne Minster Nov 27.
June 3
Mr. James Edward Lloyd Rushmore Park
Wiltshire
Wimborne Minster
Henry Johnson Justice Ashurst David Fraser

Washington Nights for December 26 th Week ending
Yours sincerely, [Signature]
Received of Mr. [unclear] the sum of [unclear] for [unclear] [unclear] [unclear]
853 will you please give me further information regarding the case of Mr David Fraser what further evidence is wanted to enable his family to write to me -

Dec Sturminster Newton Dorset Dec 6. 33
Wye
Wm James Edwards Esq Commissioner of Pensions
City Washington

Nov 66 Dear Sirs,
W. Washington Knight St. Anthony's Church West
1890 Brie

Considered, before I close I beg leave to mention the case of Mr. Charles Vernon who I believe is still in jail since wrote me a letter that you had not returned any money that he had which he had made a short supplemental affidavit stating that the interest on a similar or a similar then affidavit he made that he had not been a jailer nor had he a jailer for some time. Letter of the 23rd of March. But he found me that the expedition had not been completed with I then found a letter affidavit proving that he had not been a jailer for some time. He made an additional affidavit with the police which I sent you with his other letter which I then enclosed. He had not been a jailer for some time. For some time past there are other cases pending before the court and I may be sent an action to be returned.
Yours sincerely Yours J. P. [Signature]
Mr. Charles Vernon of 12 years prison... [faded text]

Oct 22 Windermere June 15 Lake Lake
172 The John James Smith Co Franklin Street New York New York

W. H. Dallinger, Esq., F.R.S., Finsbury Straight, E.C. 4, N. Yorks, Nov. 18 th 1884.

Windham N.Y. Feb 19 L
Yale
Miss Mary E. Brewster
Emerson Place
Wilmington

Springfield Sept. 23. 1851
Dear Sir,
Your favor of the 11th inst. was received, and in reply to inform you that the present Board of Directors, having met at the office of the President, have determined to continue the present officers for the ensuing year, unless otherwise directed by the General Assembly. The present officers are as follows: President, Capt. [Name]; Vice President, [Name]; Secretary, [Name]; Treasurer, [Name]; Directors, [Name], [Name], [Name], [Name], [Name], [Name], [Name], [Name], [Name], [Name].

remain in possession. It is in our power to have by us more or less of them who present the economy of these same any thing else before you to constitute the testimony for Mr. Johnson in all the W. Indies to those who had full in camp before you. I am sure you will be agreeable to all the rules of your department as to the propriety of your having them to be in the larger military field that be any communication of a position agreeable to the services that the present that the has performed. Mr. Johnson is a poor General but he was a really strong in his position. I am sure he will be able to give you the information you want but it will be a long time before you get it. I am sure that the first application discovered any weakness in the line that might be used against him but he can otherwise with you. I am sure that the present
I remain Sir Very respectfully Yours & etc. (Signature)
As you have been advised of the 15th of August 1824 and the 10th of February 1825 I am sure that you will be able to find the testimony of Mr. Johnson in all the W. Indies reporting his services under Capt. Bates. I am sure that you will be able to find the testimony of Mr. Johnson in all the W. Indies that Capt. Bates was in the after the first of the 1st of August 1824. I am sure that you will be able to find the testimony of Mr. Johnson in all the W. Indies before you. I am sure that (Signature)

Feb 1.
724.
Miss Mary Schuyler New York City New York

Livingston Knights & Co 811 South Jan 1 24 th 1837 M rs James Edwards Esq Else

and finally upon which it shall be sent in some quantity. I have been well acquainted with the W. Edward Sawyer for more than twenty years and so well knows that he deserves as good a character for business and loyalty as any man in New England and for being a good and useful citizen. I respect the power of the United States and I think that they have the right to use have given you all the information that you can be obtained. I would give you any information from New Bedford or else where by writing to the person or persons known of Captain Madison or your child from what you think is the best of it. I think that Mr. Roberts' writings upon all these subjects will give some information on the subject will your Honor be so kind as to make your returns as soon as they be as than appressed manifest great anxiety for the return of their human —
Washington D.C.
Very respectfully
Yours Affly
(Charles F. Hovey)

N. York.
1 July. 1882.
Oldel E. ... Ebenezer ...
Warrington ... June 28.
James ... Washington
1882

Conington Heights, Dr. & N.Y. Jan. 26. 1831
Hon. James S. Edm. Esq.
Sir
M c Elvany Johnson has this day received the Affidavit of his widowed Sister now liv- ing at Rochester in the County of Monroe State of New York Her Woman lived from her infancy in the Town of Old Guilford State of Connecticut where she continued to live with her parents until some years after the Revolutionary war and I am Informed that she lived but a very short time thereafter. Her Father was killed during her services and as will appear in my male inhabitants of all his services being performed under the eye of the notice, and she being a Woman three years older than her brother she must and did know that he performed these services her evidence must carry convincing proof with it and she lived in the City of New York where all her services had been performed. I trust your Honor will be fully satisfied with the evidence that I before you that had entitled to a full pension which I hope your Honor will send him as soon as may be my constant, In the course of the last week I send M c Elvany's supplemental Affidavit to your Honor.
Yours & Sir Very respectfully Yours & Y p
Rankin Norford

Wincanton No. 3 22 June
free
June 26
Respecting
Johnston
1792
James S. Edwards Esq. Commissioner of Pensions
City
Washington

Stratford-upon-Avon, 21 st June 20 th 1825.

although he was younger than either of these as he informs me all these facts may easily be seen by taking a view of their applications and I do think it is very wrong that when the law is to let such soldiers under the age of twenty-one without knowing their age and to leave and continue them in service until when they say any General desire to pay them one last because they are under the age of twenty-one your Honor and my self in Sangers would not say that was honest, I would further add that my petition to which they bring any business but Mr Johnson's activity and ingenuity has caused me to attempt to write these few lines to your Honor Humbly hoping they may be satisfactory that he may know how to receive his pension without any further trouble and expense should there be any further affidavits give your Honor satisfaction to be so good as to send me their former application and I shall be returned to your Honor in safety and that your Honor will be in consideration to the steps made so far and now waiting further as to give me a few lines from you for stating the particulars you want him to swear to in his supplemental affidavit Mr Johnson has made his affidavit and sworn to it before me I am now and have been for more than twenty years a Commissioner for taking affidavits and have had just the same certified by the County Clerk as has been made to say cost and that being your Honor might call for something for them, now Sir as the Johnson case has been very strongly proved by their testimony than his own I hope your Honor will close the case by sending him a pension your Honor will recollect a number of cases which I have had in and received pensions under similar circumstances with and any other proof had their own, now should your Honor request any thing further do not think it too much trouble to oblige me in giving me the particulars if you will and please in the subject and send me his former declaration it shall be returned to your Honor as it came from you but I as they for they hope the subject will be laid by your sending them his certificate.
Remain Honor and Sir
Very respectfully
your affec son
Reuben Sturtevant

Ebenezer Johnson
3. free
ends
1 Pennons
ton City
D. C.

Ebenezer Johnson
Lewington Freight W.G. June 4 th
free
Miss J. L. Edwards Commonwealth of Pennons Washington City D. C. Respectfully Ebenezer Johnson

Sir the reason of my righting is that Esq. Harsfand is Sick and Cannot right and in my poor way of under- take I am old and stand in need it is now almost 60 years Since I first applied for a pension. The first reason that I did not receive a pension was I did not state the day when I commenced then I stated the day - The second reason I was so young at the age of 14 years and I must have many witness then I went to Connecticut in Guilford and there I found my age one year older than I had in my one vickand and had positive testimony of my serving in the war all the time I had stated to the board of war and in the third place it came back in the last letter from the board of war but 13 years old when I commenced I do think there is some mistake about my age I have served my country 26 months and I do pray the board that they would consider my case I think I have done all the law requires I should be very thankful to the board if they would help me in my old age yours with respect
Lexington heights June 3-1834.
Ebenezer Johnson
P.S. I suppose the board have received the testimony I sent last fall of my age etc

ad Evidance Elmer Johnson Capt. Vail
Merritt Osborn Osborn's
mail single

1 Dec
Merritt Osborn Esq Osborn'sville Post-office Windham Greene County New-York
Mail Single

State of Connecticut
Comptroller's office
Hartford July 28 th 1834
On examination of the books of this office, it appears That in June & July 1777, ordered that a large detachment of the militia be made, and marched to the State of New York, among them, Brigadier General Andrew Ward, was ordered to detach one fourth of his Brigade, and on the 6 th of Aug t . he was ordered to Poughkeepsie to take command of the militia from this State. That on the 8 th day of July 1777 General Ward advanced Captain Peter Vail or Veil, Seventy Pounds to pay the bounties to his company marching to Poughkeepsie. That on the 26 th Nov r 1777, Captain Peter Vail exhibited his account for the expense of horses & transport his company to Poughkeepsie in July 1777, which was paid by the State, and charged to the United States. no payroll of said company in this office.
Certified by Roger Huntington Comptroller of Public Accounts

Hartford 23 July 1834.
Sir, annexed is all the evidence I can find of the service of Capt Peter Vail. The pay of said militia was made by the United States, and the paymaster of the continental army in that department, I presume, transmitted them with the rolls of the continental army, and very likely they are at Washington.
fees $1.00
Your most obt
Roger Huntington
see
83 I do think that what the Comptroller has above written goes strongly in support of the claim of Elmer Johnson R. Huntington

State of Connecticut
New Haven County Sp John Coan of the Town of Guilford of the Town of Guilford in the County of New Haven and State of Connecticut being duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath swear that he is well acquainted with Ebenezer Johnson formerly of the Town of the said Guilford but now residing in the Town of Saugerties in the County of Green and State of New York and has been acquainted him from his infancy well knows that he was a Soldier in the Revolution well knows that the said Ebenezer Johnson did serve as a Soldier at Guilford in the said revolutionary war well knows that he served a number of short terms say monthly terms in Captain Peter Seal's Company and further thinks six or seven terms and further swears that he well knows that the said Ebenezer Johnson enlisted into the Company commanded by Captain Peter Seal of said Guilford enlisted for the term of two years well knows that the said Ebenezer Johnson faithfully served out the term of two years and the said Company after said two years service closed some short time previous to the conclusion of the war I was a Soldier with the said Ebenezer Johnson in only one of these terms but since at Guilford and well knows that he faithfully performed the above said term sworn and subscribed this 19th day of August 1833 before me
Abel Rootes one of the Justices of the peace for and for the County of New Haven State of Connecticut
John Coan
State of Connecticut
New Haven County Sp I the above said Justice do hereby that I am well acquainted with the said John Coan well knows him to be a man of respectability and honor
Abel Rootes Justice as aforesaid

George Griswold Clerk of the Court of Probate for the District of Guilford in New Haven County & State of Connecticut — Do Hereby certify that Abel Rosseter who has subscribed & attested the foregoing Deposition a Justice of Peace for S. New Haven County, duly appointed & legally authorized as such to administer oaths and that I believe his signature to the foregoing to be genuine —
In testimony Whereof I have hereunto set my hand & Seal of Office this 20 th day of August A.D. 1833 —
George Griswold Clk.

State of Connecticut
New Haven County ss. Ira Kimberly of the Town of Guilford in the County of New Haven and State of Connecticut being duly sworn according to law doth on his oath swear that he is well acquainted with Ebenezer Johnson formerly of the said Town of Guilford County aforesaid but now of the Town of Langton in the County of Green and State of New York will know that the said Ebenezer Johnson was a soldier in the Revolutionary War. will know that the said Ebenezer Johnson did serve with this deponent at Guilford for the time of one month as a soldier in Capt Peter Vials Company and further this deponent says that he afterwards understood by those who had served with him that he had served a number of campaigns after serving with this deponent and this deponent further said that he firmly believes that the said Ebenezer Johnson did perform this after service sworn and subscribed this - Ira Kimberly
21 st day of August 1833
before me Reuben Elliott Justice of Peace
I certify that I am personally acquainted with the above named Ira Kimberly and that he is a man of truth & veracity and a credible Reuben Elliott Justice Peace Essex

George Griswold Clerk of the Court of Probate for the District of Guilford in New Haven County & State of Connecticut— Do hereby certify that Reuben Elliott who has subscribed the foregoing deposition is a Justice of Peace for New Haven County Duly Appointed & Legally authorized & qualified to administer Oaths, and that I am well acquainted with his hand writing and know his signature to the same to be genuine—
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand seal this 20 th day of August A. D. 1833
George Griswold Clk.

State of Connecticut
New Haven County ss. Jared Bishop of the Town of Guilford In the County of New Haven and State of Connecticut who being duly sworn according to law doth on his oath before me and say that he is well acquainted with Ebenezer Johnson formerly of the Town of Guilford In the said County but now of the Town of Springtown In the County of Green and State of New York well knows that the said Ebenezer Johnson was a soldier in the service of the United States In the Revolutionary war well remembers that the said Ebenezer Johnson was a soldier with him under Captain Peter Hale Company In one Campaign and firmly believes that he was in more than four with him but is not certain in how many. That he has always understood by others that he was In the said service for some time after all this service was performed.
Sworn and subscribed this 20 th day of August 1833 before me
William Spencer Justice of Peace
His place of abode for the County of New Haven State of Connecticut
I the said Justice do hereby certify that the above named Jared Bishop is a man of respectability and truth
William Spencer Justice of Peace

State of Connecticut New Haven County
I George Griswold Clerk of the Court of Probate for the District of Guilford in New Haven County & State of Connecticut Do Hereby certify that William Spence the Subscribing Authority to the foregoing deposition is a Justice of Peace for New Haven County Duly appointed, & Legally qualified as such to admin- ister oaths, and that I am well ac- quainted with his hand Writing and believe the signature to the foregoing to be genuine
In testimony Whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the said Office this 20 th day of Aug t 1883
George Griswold Clerk
Elmer Johnson Act. Clerk

State of New York
Green County ss. Ebenzer Johnson of the town of Swanton in the County of Green being duly sworn on his Oath deposes and saith that he has this day read the Office of Ruben Hosford Esquire and very carefully examined a Letter sent from the Honorable James S. Edwards Esquire to Ruben Hosford Esquire which Letter bears date June 1 st 1836 and in examining the same Letter this deponent says that he wants this deponent to explain or show why he should have been credited with two months service only in Captain Pease's Company in the year 1832 when it is stated under oath that he has actually served the greater part of said year to this position this deponent can't give an answer for he does not know why such a thing - Should be stated this deponent further swears as he has formerly done that he enlisted and faithfully served six regular monthly terms, and that afterwards he enlisted as a soldier in Captain Peter Pease's Company for the term of two years that he faithfully served out that time excepting the three months when the Harbor was frozen over and this deponent further swears as he has previously done that he was not discharged until the peace took place and this deponent has sent forward the affidavits of Messrs Coon, Kirtland, Kimberly and Pease attested to prove the same to the Hon. the Board and this deponent further says he never served only the six monthly terms and the twenty one months under the enlistment for two years under Capt. Peter Pease - and that the meaning of the two months service means he cannot say this deponent says that the same is not true unless connected with the other months which he did in the said two years service - Special stated there must be a mistake should there be any such error this deponent's letter of the eighth of August 1836 to Ruben Hosford Esquire is now lying before which I have very carefully examined which states that a pay or muster roll of Captain Peter Pease had been forwarded to this office from the State of Connecticut including the period from the 18 th of April 1830 to the first of January 1831 the reason why Captain Pease's account does not appear on the books of the paytable for Connecticut for the service specified is owing doubtless to some mistake in the correctness of it at the time embraced by this Roll Ebenzer Johnson appears to have served but two months but not as a officer this deponent further says that he well knows that there is a mistake as it only states that he served only two months because he continued

his Services faithfully from the time of his two years enlistment until discharged excepting in the winter when the Harbour was frozen over this deponent further says that he does not know that it is in his power to give any further information to the Honorable James S. Edwards Esquire than what is now before him with this affidavit this deponent further says that he is very sorry that the battle has not been consid- ered as gained when supported by four or five others as respectable as any in Community this deponent further says that he prays that the Honorable Commissioner will send on his pension to Ruben Hosford Esquire as soon as may be for he is a poor and destitute man and really stands in need of the benefit of his pension to support his family
and further saith not
Sworn and subscribed this 22 nd day of June 1837 Before me Henry Goslee a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for and for the County of Green State of New York
Ebenezer Johnson
I do here Certify that Mr. Ebenezer Johnson who has above subscribed his name to the above affidavit is a respectable man a man of truth and veracity
Henry Goslee
Judge as aforesaid

State of New York —

same forward by application to the Honorable the General Governor thereby their own rather the oath of office, from their services — This deponent swears as he has before sworn, in his former declaration that he served in the monthly service as he before stated, and that he also served the same service since in the same way, and by those who served with him, and by those who went forward and well know that he faithfully performed the service then, to the present time. Swears that after he had performed the said monthly service he again enlisted as he has before in his former declaration, that Capt Peter Ball in this deponent's was living, informed that a — Regular Captain's Commission from the Governor of a Company of Militia this deponent says that the said Captain Peter Ball corresponded with his deponent with her enlistment and until this deponent's enlistment under him for to serve on the Coast of Guiford and elsewhere for two years, and this deponent says that he did then and there enlist under the said Captain Peter Ball for the term of two years that they immediately went forward and they attended regularly as they were ordered and they only missed their regular sessions a couple of times, and he found the said Captain Peter Ball during the time of the service, and he says that he has had no official discharge and he knows that he is now free of it and he knows that if he had been discharged he would have been entitled to a discharge, and he is now in the service, and he knows that he is now in the service, and he knows that he is now in the service from and forward the same, and he knows that he is now in the service the Company caused it to be put up the Guard, this deponent says that Richard Taylor a Private in his company knew that Mr. Brantington Camp in the said Wood has been informed here that he believes that the Company was paid for their services by the General Government and the standing troops were paid by the State Government. This deponent says that he has made proof by his own vote and by the vote of Mr John Bean of Guiford a respectable man as he thinks, and there who was present and also here — and he will know that he did perform the service well

This deponent further says that he has proved the performance of the same service by his sister Phoebe Streater who was older than himself and since in Guilford during said time and will know that this deponent did perform this service the said something like two years service , now this deponent says that after fully proving these more than two years service he feels that meanwhile the correspondence will cease to be against him for his two years service and that thereupon with only a pension for his months service as adjudicated by the Comptroller of Pensions, this deponent says that he has been at great trouble in reference to his claim to Commissions to procure testimony and in something like one hundred and fifty miles, and that this deponent further testifies that when he went forward to the Judge of probate in Guilford for his Commissions of the articles that the said Judge in presence of the said several affidavits in presence of Richard Storer Esquire and my self and said then declared that he had never been any soldier during more than his service than this deponent and there remained so that but that he would receive a full pension amply by this deponent further says that if the articles now before the Comptroller is not sufficient to establish his service as a soldier in the Continental Army and that he will claim on them for more after deponent fully says that the Council in New Haven, Connecticut and that I am a poor pensioner likely would have cut them and really stands indeed for a service for his service as described this 21 day of January 1861 before us Henry G. Steele Esquire. Charge of the Court of Pensions that he said of the County of Greenfield and said that he is now a pensioner.
I have just finished that Mr. Garrison, who has done so much for some of the above of our friends down to the present time a number of articles both in the North and South, and I believe to all but as a last resort under rather than for some.
Henry Goshell Judge as of record

State of New York
Greene County ss Ebenezer Johnson of the Town of Sessington In the County of Greene and State of New York being duly sworn according to Law on his oath deposes and says that he has previously made an application to the board of War for to obtain a pension for service done the United States in the revolutionary war and that his declarations in both cases in every particular as he believes correct and true, and he further says that he did serve six monthly terms under those officers Heretofore named in his former declaration and that he was bound to take the place or places of those officers Heretofore named in his former declaration and this deponent further says that he has this morning received a letter from the Honorable James G. Edwards Esquire and in reading the same I am sensible that the Honorable Gentleman has a very correct idea of these military services, this letter I presented to Reuben Hoxford Esquire this morning on looking at the same he informed me that he could not see how the Honorable Gentleman could draw such conclusions that it could not be gained from any declaration I had disclosed in my former application that his reasons are and from any knowledge I have to warrant such an opinion, Mr. Hoxford I know in a very weak and feeble state and is unable at present to attend to any business in his office for strength and weakness. Due to the Honorable Commissioner, on the subject, he advised me to make this supplemental affidavit on the particular of your service as correctly as possible, and this deponent as well as Esquire Hoxford on reading his Honors letter, that he considered these terms of service as mere voluntary services of the inhabitants of Pitsford In nature of patrols to guard their own doors & kept both their & Kings from being the base this deponent further says that these monthly drafts were made up not only in the Town of Pitsford but in the County from so many as two to three or more from each military Company in Pitsford and also in the surrounding towns so many from each Company as would make out a Captain's Company and that under his Command they served until their monthly term expired when these troops were relieved by other drafts. In the same manner, that during their six monthly terms of duty they were subject at all times to military discipline.

and gave their regular duties during all my service and military duty in drilling the soldiers the roll called at night and morning and when our term was expired we were regularly discharged and after our term expired we received our pay which was little better than nothing paid us by our Captain that he believes these services under these officers were performed in the same manner as the standing forces performed theirs. And this deponent further says respecting his two years service under Captain Peter Seal that these monthly drafts were continued until the people of Guilford and the back towns were as he was informed tired with the practice and to remedy the practice Captain Peter Seal a regular military commissioned Captain enlisted a Captain's Company from Guilford and the several back towns for the time of two years that this deponent did enlist into the said Company under Captain Peter Seal for the time of two years and did serve in said Company as a soldier as he has formerly stated in his declaration, that the same rules were attended to by and under Captain Seal as in the monthly service and that after his time of service expired and after the war closed I received my pay which was little better than nothing paid me by my Captain. And this depo- nent says that he does not know that it is in his power to state any thing more respecting his service that he has made known that he did faithfully serve the monthly term he has also stated in his declaration the names of his Captains since during these services, he has stated the names of those per- sons who were drafted and that he was bound to take them for he has stated the names of the Captains he served under He has not only proved by his own oath these services but he has proved them by Mr John Go an as respectable a man as one General. And for he as he swears that he will know that I performed these monthly terms to his certain knowledge that he served with me one or two of these monthly terms and will know that I performed the others. He further swears that he will know that I enlisted for two years in Captain Peter Seal's Company and served as I have stated and there are two or three other witness- es who have made their affidavits as respectable men as live in Guilford as he believes. And this deponent further says that there

was no Regimental Officers there that this was only an Enlisted Company under Captain Peter Seal for the time of two years to guard the Coast at Snitford or thereabouts, as soon a regular Enlisted Company is organized as any Enlisted into the United States Service subject to discipline duty on guard and all Military Service I was never in patrolling party as the Honorable I Gentlemen Commissioner states in his letter to me, and this document further says that he hopes and trusts that this Supplemental Affidavit will carry a convincing proof to the Honorable Commissioner that what I have stated is true and such as will convince him that I am entitled to a full pension for two years service which he has transferred as he has formerly stated in his declaration should not this be sufficient this document says that he will attend to anything further in his power which may be required by the Honorable Commissioner. I have had known the State he is entitled to a full Certificate without any further expense on his part and wants the benefit of his pension - you mean by the Town Clerk Certificate of Snitford that I was older than you have stated -
Second and subscribed this twentieth day of June 1834 before me Richard H. Hays a Commissioner for taking affidavits in and for the County of Green and State of New York.
Charles Johnson