Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 36639, for Phinehas Johnson, Connecticut

SERVICE
NUMBER _____
Dear,
Johnson, Phoebe S. 36639
CONTENTS

✓ 3162. 4.
Connecticut Roll
Phinehas Johnson Capt Pond
Private Connecticut line, 6 years. In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut at the rate of eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 8 th of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 30 th of Sept. 1818 and forwarded to Nathaniel Smith Esq. Woodbury Litchfield by Connecticut
Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1818 $ 39. 25 Semi-ann. all'ee ending 4 Mar: 1819  48. 00
Ans 4 Mos. 27/30. $ 87 25
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued
Oxford Ducharme
Gain'd with orig. n Aug. 1883. C.E.P.
Phinehas Johnson Connecticut line 6 years Private Revolutionary War 1818

State of Connecticut ss Woodbury in the County of Litchfield
On this 8 th day of April 1818 before me the subscribers one of the Judges of the Superior Court of the said State, personally appears Phinehas Johnson Jun r resident in the Town of Oxford in New Haven County in said State, who being by me first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the late act of Congress entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land & naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary war" That he the said Phinehas Johnson Jun r enlisted into the Continental army in the first part of the month of May 1777 in the Company commanded by Capt Charles Pond in Col. Deming's Regiment, afterwards commanded by Col. Return J. Briggs, and that after the dissolution of Col. Briggs's Regiment he was transferred to the 2 d Regiment commanded by Col. Swift, and continued in the service of the United States until the 9 th day of June 1783 when he was discharged from service. That he gave his discharge to the person who purchased his bounty land & it is not now in his power to produce it, and that he is in reduced circum- stances and stands in need of it.

assistance of his country for support, and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services except the Deposition of Calibban an die which is herewith transmitted - The Deposition & petition before whom been known to me - Sworn to declare before me the day & year aforesaid
W. H. C. ... Nathaniel Smith ... Judge of the ship - Court
I Nathanial Smith Judge do as aforesaid do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Phoebe Atkinson but did serve in the revolutionary war as stated in the preceding declaration, against the common enemy And I now transmit the proceedings & testimony whereby I had before now to the Secretary for the Department of War. Pursuant to the directions of the aforesaid act of Congress. Nathanial Smith a judge of the sup le Court. Woodbury
I Fredrick Wotcott, clerk of the 5. Superior Court within the County of Litchfield in the State of Connecticut do hereby certify that the Honble Nathan Smith is an Judge of said Court - that the above signature is his hand writing, & that the Seal hereto annexed is the Seal of said Court.

Smithson Johnson
Copy
B.162
March 10/19
[Large stylized signature or initials]

At a County Court, held in and for the County of New Haven, in the District and State of Connecticut, on the 5th day of July 1820, the same being a Court of Record, and having a Seal, by virtue of the laws of said State.
PERSONALLY APPEARED, in open Court, Phinehas Johnson a resident in the town of Oxford in the County of New Haven in said State, and exhibited and subscribed the following Schedule, and made Oath that the same is a true and perfect Schedule of all his income and property, necessary cloathing and bedding excepted, viz:
  One Cow of the value of 18.00   Two Small Hogs 8.00   The use & improvement of a small unfinished Old House 18 by 28 feet on the ground, and also the use of three acres of very poor rough land which is not sufficiently productive to sustain my Cow, the fee of the above real Estate has for the last 12 years been owned by Mr Johnson - a life Estate in which is in myself - The yearly value of which is about   9 Old Kitchen Chairs 17 1/2 1.53   2 Do " Tables 2.00   4 Do Chests 50 1/2 2.00   Some other small articles of House hold furniture not exceeding in value $3 3.00   $46 1/2 53 
And that I am justly indebted to various people thirty Dollars - and have nothing due to me, and that I have no income but that of working and by the day for such persons as may give me employ
Phinehas Johnson

District and State of Connecticut, ss.
Be it Remembered, That in the County Court, held in and for the County of New Haven , in the District and State aforesaid, on this 5 day of July 182 8 , the same being a Court of Record, and having a Seal, under the authority of said State, personally came and appeared in open Court, Phoebe Johnson aged fifty nine years, resident in the Town of Asford in the County of New Haven in said State, and being first duly sworn according to Law, doth on his Oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War, as follows:
to wit, that he enlisted into the Company of Capt Charles Pond and Col - Demmings Regt and Gen. Parsons Brigade Connecticut Line Col Demmings was commanded by Col. Meigs the Regt was called the Weatherbury Regt - And that he enlisted during the war and served six years & that he was at the Battle of Brimfield and was retained under Genl. H. Wayne, & was at the taking of Stony Point by storm, & also at the action at James Town in Va. & was also at the taking of Fort Connally at Fort Ticonderoga (sic) & was then in the Infantry under the Marquis de la Fayette
that the original Declaration made by him, for the purpose of obtaining a pension under the Act of Congress of the 18th of March 1818, was dated the Eighth day of April  AD - 1818; that in pursuance thereof he was entered in the list of Pensioners, and received a Pension Certificate No. 3182 And I do further 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 hereunto annexed, and by me subscribed. And I do further declare that my occupation is that of a day labourer
for such as may give me employ, And that when I enlisted into the Revolutionary Army I was an apprentice to the Blacksmith trade & was sixteen years old which trade I did not obtain in consequence of entering into the Army & family residing with me in my family my wife & one son who is in his nineteenth year & has always been a sickly child & is not able to perform labour to any amount, my wife is sixty three years old & is much out of health her name Lois Johnson on half the labour is as much as I can do
all which is subscribed by me the day and year aforesaid.
Phoebe Johnson
Sworn to, and declared in the Court aforesaid. Whereupon said Court is, on satisfactory proof exhibited in Court, of opinion that the total amount in value of the property contained in the aforesaid Schedule, is 46 Dollars and 53 Cents, and doth order these proceedings to be entered in the records of said Court.
Abel Root Judge etc

Trust District of Connecticut, ss.
I, Henry C. Hagg Clerk of the County Court in and for the County of New Haven in the State and District of Connecticut, do hereby certify that the foregoing and the Schedule thereunto annexed, are truly copied from the records of said Court: and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of said Court that the total amount, in value, of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule, is
40 Dollars and 53 Cents.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the Seal of said Court on this
fifth day of July 182 0 Henry C. Hagg 
I, Isaac Mills presiding Judge of the County Court in and for the County of New Haven in the State of Connecticut, do hereby certify that Henry C. Hagg is Clerk of said Court, and keeper of the Seal and Records thereof; and that the preceding Certificate, under his hand, and the Seal of said Court, is authentic, and in due form of Law.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in
this fifth day of July 182 0
Isaac Mills Chief Judge of said Court

Rev. and 1812 Wars Section WKS/cel am
March 19, 1929
Mrs. Alice W Platt 47 Ohio Avenue Norwalk, Connecticut
Madam:
I advise you that in the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 56639, the date of death of the soldier, Phinehas Johnson, is not shown.
In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, the name of person paid, and possibly the date of death of the Revolutionary War soldier, Phinehas Johnson, S. 56639, you should apply to the General Accounting Office, Records Division, Washington, D.C., citing all of the following data:
Phinehas Johnson, Certificate No. 3162, issued September 30, 1818, rate $8.00 per month, commenced April 8, 1818, Act of March 18, 1818, Connecticut Agency.
Respectfully,
E. W. MORGAN Acting Commissioner.

36 639 Rev INVALID.
File No. 86,639
Phinehas Johnson Rev Rev
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 259
[Arrangement of 1870.]
md-19-1901 Milton E. Sobel Ansonia Ch.
Apl-7-1902 W m R. Baldwin, Friendship
1912, Apr. 24. To Dr. Mr. Genl. U.S.A. F.W. For Tombstone.
1929-Mar. 19- Mrs. Alice W. Platt adv. how to obtain date of death, M.E.C.
1929 Apr. 17. Photo to Mrs. Edward J. Perry. A.N.Y. St. Lawrence

Phonetic spelling not done
Correct to Nathaniel Smith Woodbury 3 ft. Litchfield Clerk of Litchfield Con.

The Depositions of Babb Londa & David Londa taken at the request of Phoebe Johnson of the town of Oxford who appeared before the Honorable Nathaniel Smith in an application before said judge of the said Johnson to obtain a pension from the United States under the act of Congress entitled an Act to provide for certain Persons engaged in the land & naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War Charles Brannell justice of Peace taken before me this 14th day of March 1841

I Caleb Lander of the town of Oxford in the county of Franklin State of Connecticut of Seventy five years of age do Depose & say That I have known Phinehas John Johnson Jr of the town of Oxford ever since he was a youth & have lived within half a mile of him the whole time except with his wife in Milford I know that he was In the Continental Army in Col. Mays Regt nearly all the war I think & have seen his Discharge -
I verily Believe him to be a man in poor & indigent circumstances & needs the assistance of the country for his support -
I also Believe that said Johnson is a man of truth & veracity Caleb Lander
David Lander of the town of Oxford of said law- ful age Depose & say That I know the cir- cumstances of Phinehas Johnson Jr of said Oxford & I verily Believe that he is poor & indigent & needs the assistance of his country for support & I Believe said Johnson to be a man of truth & veracity - David Lander

In Nottin County to wit Oxford 2 nd April 1875
Personally appeared David Lander & holds Lander signers of the within Deposition & made solemn oath that they verily believed the facts stated in said Depositions were true
Mason me
Charles Bunnell Justice of Peace

Rev. Mr. Baldwin
Commissioner of Pensions
Dear Sir
In "Connecticut Men
in the Revolution", p. 660, "Censuses of Pensioners, 1840," appears the name of Phineas Johnson, age 79, of Oxford. Will you kindly add a copy of the record of any added facts you may possess regarding him?
Thanking you in advance for your courtesy, I am
Yours truly,
Wm R. Baldwin Friendship, Vt., Mar. 1, 1902.

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April 6, 1929
Acting Commissioner of Pensions Washington, D. C.
Sir:
Cash - 85 cents. FINANCE DIVISION BOOK-KEEPER'S DESK APR 8 1929 BUREAU OF PENSIONS
Please furnish photostatic copies of four (4) pages from the Revolutionary War pension claim of Phinehas Johnson, S. 36639. To be certified.
Signed:
Mrs Edward J. Perry, 185-Orange St. Ilion N.Y.
Received payment April 6, 1929
Maurice E. Enrick Rev. & 1812 Wars Section.
Eighty-five Cents ($85)
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April 6, 1922
LIBRARY DIVISION MUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK APR 10 1922 MUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK
Acting Commissioner of Pensions Washington, D. C.
Sir:
Please furnish photostatic copies of four (4) pages from the Revolutionary War pension claim of Ebenezer Johnson, S. 36232. To be certified.
Signed:
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Del's offe - July 5, 1820 - 2 p -
Offic. of Caleb Condon - Apr 2 - 1812 - 2 p
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April 6, 1922
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Night-life Centre ($2.50)

47 Ohio Ave., Norwalk, Conn., March 13, 1929.
To The Bureau of Pensions, Washington, D. C.
Dear Sirs:-
Will you kindly give me the following information?
Phineas Johnson served in the Revolutionary War from 1775-83 and received a pension under the Acts of 1819. He was receiving a pension in 1840 according to the Connecticut Record of Men who served in the Revolutionary War. Can you give me the date of his death ? It is not on his tombstone and I am very anxious to find out what it is. If you cannot give it to me can you tell me where I may obtain it?
Thanking you in advance for the courtesy shown me in this matter, I am,
Yours truly,
(Mrs.) Alice H. Platt