Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 8,767, for Cave Johnson, Virginia

SERVICE
Va.
Johnson, bare
NUMBER
S. 8767
CONTENTS
carded.

Ohio 25, 1853
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Care Wilson
of Scotts in the State of Kentucky who was a private in the 2nd command by Captain Johnson of the 2nd command by Col. Garrison in the Virginia line for 1 year
Inscribed on the Roll of Kentucky at the rate of 40 Dollars 11 Cents per annum to commence on the 14th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 5th day of Dec 1833 and Henry Wilson
Arrears to the 14th of March 100.00 Semi-annual allowance ending March 10.00
$110.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by David Boyd Clerk Book E Vol. 7 Page 15
Dir. to Pension Agt. June 16, 1847.
To Ohio from 4 March 1847. 6 July 1847. Notification to Pensioned, Burlington Ky
Date of death not on file

I have been deeply mortified at your declining to pass favourably in the case of my uncle, Col Cave Johnson. If you can not allow the 60% to which I really can not see either danger, or bad example give him 60% per annum & if you can not give 60% give 40%
If there is a service in the world entitled to a preference it is the kind set forth by Col Cave Johnson who can read his papers & not be con- vinced of its truth? What more? You know such services were performed in this country from 1775 till '63 & no day - let me know be yours respectfully
Rh. Johnson 7th Oct 1873

State of Kentucky
Scott County Feb. September 16 th 1833
On this day, personally appeared in open court before the Justices of Scott County Court now sitting, Gave Johnson a Resident of said County County. (But his witnesses in this County) aged 72 Years who being first duly sworn According to law. Doth in his oath make make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of "enrups" passed June 7 th 1832
That in the year 1798 - in the month of Sept. the day he cannot recollect he volunteered his services under Lieutenant General French of the regular army to serve in supplying the soldiers with tobacco & other necessaries, that he was engaged in Orange County Virginia & marched to White Plains in N. York & went with the army from this point to West Point on the Hudson River - & after remaining with the army at this point a considerable time having accomplished the object of his 5 th Lieut Genl French he returned to Orange Virginia after having served as aforesaid at least two months

That in the month of April 1879 the D. Cav. Johnson removed to Kentucky & was placed under the command of Capt Robert Johnson & the 2 d appli- cant was among those who built the first house in Bryans Station & remained stationed at sd Bryans Station till the close of the Revolu- tionary war in 1783. & after & during this whole period, altho he was not in active service yet he was either in & about sd fort to guard & protect it, or he was scouting & protecting the frontier that when the Indians would come in & steal horses, or kill people he with others were always ordered required to pursue sd Indians which service was always severe & perilous. that the sd fort of
Bryans Station was often left very weak & destitute of men to guard it. he recollects that he sd Cav. Johnson was left with very few others to guard sd fort with a very few men to protect the women &

children say when Col Beman commanded an expedition ag t the Shawnee towns in 1779. & the other under Genl Clark in 1780 & this service of guarding the fort was as perilous & as severe as the service of an active campaign that in this kind of hard, actual perilous & dangerous service from the month of April 1778 to the close of the war in 1783, this applicant served at least two years - besides a tour of six weeks as ensign in the company of Capt Robert Johnson his Brother Father of Col Andrew Johnson under Genl George Rogers Clark in the year 1782 in the fall of the year commencing in Sept of that year & reached to Piqua in in now Ohio ag t the Shawnee there This applicant could detail his services in scouts & skirmishes with the Indians during this service at Boyet's Station & its vicinity as aforesaid

But he is advised that he has been sufficiently explicit
That he is not not on the Pension Roll of any state & he relinquishes all claims to a Pension except under the act of 7 th June 1832
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand in open court Apr 16 1833 Care Johnson Attest  A. Smith
State of Kentucky Fayette County
We Robert M Johnson and John Bryce , Congymen residing in the County aforesaid do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Care Johnson who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be seventy two years of age that he is upstanding and beloved in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion. In witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands and subscribed the day & year aforesaid
Apr 16 th 1833
R. M Johnson made oath to the foregoing in open court John Bryce affirmed A. Smith
Robert M Johnson John Bryce

I do certify that Col. Care Johnson who has this day made a declaration in open Court in Scott County to obtain a Pension is my uncle I have known him all my life I have drawn up for him his Decla- tion & from tradition, the whole of it is familiar to me so far as his services in Ky. from my earliest infancy & youth when I began to take notice of such events & I believe the statement as much from this tradition as if I had been an eye witness to it all. Uncle Care Johnson has been for about forty five years a member of a Baptist Church & I hazard nothing in saying that he stands as high as any man in our State for honor honesty, & veracity. I will agree to take for him the full pension of a soldier, altho he served part of the time; as Ensign R. H. Johnson 16 th Sept. 1893 George Town Ky over

Sworn to before me this 17 th day of Sept 1833
William Johnson J.P. Pitt County Ky
Chas. Johnson Statement in case of lot Cave Johnson

Ph. u. Johnson
Statement in
case of Col
Cave Johnson
Johnson to before me this 11 day of J. H. B. 33 William Johnson J. P. J. H. B. 33

July 7, 1936
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BA-J/EEL Cave Johnson-S.8767
Bess M. Kidney 910 Franklin Avenue Brookville, Indiana
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War records of James Smith, born in Franklin County, Pennsylvania, died in 1812 in Kentucky; James Dunn, born in Ireland, came to America in 1769 and died in 1818 in Franklin County, Pennsylvania; Hugh Dunn, born in Ireland, died in Lawrenceburg, Indiana in 1804; and Cave Johnson, born in Orange County, Virginia, later lived in Boone County, Kentucky, and Dearborn County, Indiana.
Because of the great demand for Revolutionary War data and the limited trained clerical force available for furnishing such information, it is impossible to comply in full with each request pertaining to soldiers of that war. The record of Cave Johnson is furnished you herein, as found in the papers on file in pension claim, S.8767, based upon the military service of that soldier in the Revolutionary War.
The date and place of birth and the names of the parents of Cave Johnson are not shown.
Cave Johnson volunteered in Orange County, Virginia, in September, 1778, under Lieutenant Samuel French in the regular army, to engage in serving supplies to the soldiers, in which service he remained two months at White Plains and West Point, New York, then returned to Orange County, Virginia; in April, 1779, he moved to Bryant's Station, Kentucky, and was placed under the command of his brother, Captain Robert Johnson, and assisted in building the first house at that place, and lived there until the close of the Revolution. During said period, he was in service at various times as Indian spy and scout and in many skirmishes with the Indians, both at the fort and on the frontier until in 1783, about two years and six weeks in all: the six weeks was a tour beginning in September, 1782, as ensign under Captain Robert Johnson (his brother) and General George Rogers Clark to Pickaway, Ohio, against the Shawnee Indians.
He was allowed pension on his application executed September

16, 1883, in Scott County, Kentucky, at which time he was aged seventy-two years and resided in an adjacent county to said Scott County, name of county not given. In 1847, he had moved to Boone County, Kentucky. It is not shown that he ever lived in Dearborn County, Indiana. He was referred to as Colonel Cave Johnson; no explanation for the title was given. It was stated that he had been a member of the Baptist Church for forty-five years.
It is not stated that soldier was ever married.
There is no claim for pension on file based upon the services of Captain Robert Johnson, the brother of the soldier. The Honorable Richard M. Johnson, who lived in Georgetown, Scott County, Kentucky, in 1833, was a son of Captain Robert Johnson and a nephew of the soldier.
Very truly yours
A. D. MILLER Executive Assistant to the Administrator.

1926-Oct. 26-Hist. to Mrs. Geo. F. Schleicher MIT
1928-Sept. 27, Hist to
Miss Lida Ramey M.E.E.
1930 Feb. 21, Hist. to Fonda Glass Jones, A.N.Y.
1933 July 7- Hist to Bess M. Kidney E.I.
Rehr
8767
INVALID.
File No. 8767
Care Johnson
Bin. Rev. War.
Act: June 7th 1922
Index: Vol. 1st, Page 196
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Leone Harrison of Ky
Is the transfer of his pension to Ohio.
Story. See June 15/47 Pension office
Mr Ewan

State of Kentucky
Boone County ss.
On this 7 th day of June 1847 before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace for the said county of Boone personally appeared Cave Johnson who on his oath declares that he is the same person who was formerly a Private in the army of the Revolution that his name was placed on the Pension Roll of the Kentucky Army at the rate of Forty dollars Per annum commencing on the 4 th of March 1831 that he now resides in Boone County State of Kentucky where he intends to remain and wishes his Pension to be Payable in the City of Cincinnati State of Ohio in future Cave Johnson Sworn and Subscribed to before me this day & year aforesaid
A Boyle JP B.C.
State of Kentucky
Boone County ss.
Be it known that before me A Boyle a Justice of the Peace in and for the county aforesaid
Personally appeared D M Scott and made oath in due form of law that he is well acquainted with Cave Johnson who signed the above affidavit and that he is the same real Cave Johnson named in an original Pension Certificate now before me given at the war office of the United States
The 5 th day of December 1847
Secretary of war
Sworn and Subscribed to before me this 7 day of June 1847
A Boyle JP B.C.
D. M. Scott

State of Kentucky Boone County ss.
I A Boyle a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid and upon whom the foregoing affidavits were made Do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with the within named D M Scott who has subscribed his name to the within affidavit and known to the same is a Man of truth and veracity and is inclined to full credit when under oath Given under my hand as Justice of the Peace for the County aforesaid this 7 th day of June 1847 A Boyle JP B.C.
The Blots and the Encave of the word word and in the foregoing Page were done before signing A Boyle JP B.C.
State of Kentucky
Boone county To wit
I J. G. Hamilton Clerk of the Court of Boone County do certify that A Boyle is a justice of the peace in and for said County duly commissioned and sworn that his com- mission bears date 19 th day of January 1843 and continues during life or good behavior and that his signature above written is genuine Witness my hand the seal of said Court this 7 th day of June 1847 J. G. Hamilton Clk.

Rev. & 1812 Wars Section.
MMHF
February 21, 1930.
Fonta Glass Jones, 1315 Poplar Street, Atlantic, Iowa.
Dear Madam:
I advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 8767, it appears that Cave Johnson volunteered in Orange County, Virginia in September 1778 under Lieutenant Samuel French of the regular army, to engage in serving supplies to the soldiers, in which service he remained two months at White Plains and West Point, New York and then returned to Orange County, Virginia.
In April 1779 he moved to Bryant's Station, Kentucky and was placed under command of his brother Captain Robert Johnson and assisted in building the first house at that place, and lived there until the close of the Revolution. During said period he was in service at various times as Indian spy and scout and in many skirmishes with Indians, both at the fort and on the frontier until in 1783, about two years and six weeks in all, the six weeks being a tour beginning in September 1782 as ensign under Captain Robert Johnson (his brother) and General George Rogers Clarke to Pickaway, Ohio against the Shawnee Indians.
He was allowed pension on his application executed September 16, 1833 in Scott County, Kentucky, at which time he was aged seventy-two years and a resident of an adjacent county to said Scott County, the name not stated. In 1847 he had moved to Boone County, Kentucky.
It is not stated whether he was ever married.
This information was obtained, as stated in first paragraph of this letter, from papers on file in his pension claim and not from a printed volume.
Very truly yours,
EARL D. CHURCH, Commissioner.

M.E.E. Copied by A.D.Y. from letter by M.M.H. Dated Oct. 26, 1926.
September 27, 1928.
Lida Ramey, Louisville, Kentucky.
Madam:
I advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 8787, it appears that Cave Johnson volunteered in Orange County, Virginia in September 1778 under Lieutenant Samuel French of the regular army, to engage in serving supplies to the soldiers, in which service he remained two months at White Plains and West Point, New York and then returned to Orange County, Virginia.
In April 1779 he moved to Bryant's Station, Kentucky and was placed under command of his brother Captain Robert Johnson and assisted in building the first house at that place, and lived there until the close of the Revolution. During said period he was in service at various times as Indian spy and scout and in many skirmishes with Indians, both at the fort and on the frontier until in 1783, about two years and six weeks in all, the six weeks being a tour beginning in September 1782 as ensign under Captain Robert Johnson (his brother) and General George Rogers Clarke to Pickaway, Ohio against the Shawnee Indians.

He was allowed pension on his application executed September 16, 1833 in Scott County, Kentucky, at which time he was aged seventy-two years and a resident of an adjacent county to said Scott County, the name not stated. In 1847 he had moved to Boone County, Kentucky.
It is not stated whether he was ever married.
The Revolutionary War records of this bureau fail to afford any information in regard to a Benjamin Stephens or Stevens as described by you.
Respectfully,
WINFIELD SCOTT, Commissioner.

MMP Miss Wilson uses this, as it is done in claim - I could not say Continental as it does not appear that way. She said she wanted not just Continental or jacket as the only served 2 mos. for that service
October 23, 1926
Mrs. George J. Schleicher 403 Terrell St., Cuero, Texas
Madam:
I have to advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim S. 8767 it appears that Cave Johnson volunteered in Orange County, Virginia in September 1778 under Lieutenant Samuel French of the regular army, to engage in serving supplies to the soldiers, in which service he remained two months at White Plains and West Point, New York and then returned to Orange County, Virginia.
In April 1779 he moved to Bryant's Station, Kentucky and was placed under command of his brother Captain Robert Johnson and assisted in building the first house at that place, and lived there until the close of the Revolution. During said period he was in service at various times as Indian spy and scout and in many skirmishes with Indians, both at the fort and on the frontier until in 1783, about two years and six weeks in all, the six weeks being a tour beginning in  beginning in

September 1782 as Ensign under Captain Robert Johnson (his brother) and General George Rogers Clarke to Picka- way, Ohio against the Shawnee Indians
He was allowed pension on his application executed September 16 15 , 1833 in Scott County, Kentucky, at which time he was aged seventy-two years and a resident of an adjacent county to said Scott County, the name not stated. In 1847 he had moved to Boone County, Kentucky.
It is not stated whether he was ever married.
Respectfully,
The above named Capt. Robt. Johnson was the father of Col. (Honor- WINFIELD SCOTT Commissioner. able) Richard M. Johnson a resident of Scott County in 1833 & three whom intercession this claim was allowed
(So much of the rev. being in a fort on frontier)
h 5.9 17/9.95 6 210.00 5.27

Rev. John Johnson Kentucky Edward Pension of Wash
refer to Mr. Edwards. Oct 15, 1833
advised for further small.
Core L. B. Moore H. B. Moore
Mrs. R. M. Johnson Georgetown Ky.

Kentucky Pension agency Louisville June 21. 1847.
J. L. Edwards Esq Comm. of Pensions Washington
Sir
In reply to your note of the 16.
Inst. leave Johnson a pensioner now on the roll of this agency at the rate of $40. per annum now under the act of June 1832 was last paid up to the 4 day of March 1847
I am with most Respect
Your obedt. Servt.
J. M. McWhorter Pen. Agt.

Col Edwards will see that it is impossible after 90 years to go more into detail. alas how unfortunate how western veterans who served for nothing & performed such arduous service
allow what you please. My uncle cannot go into any additional detail if you cannot permit let it remain till I come on to the City
Rh. C. Johnson

War Department Pension Office October 1. 1833.
Dear Sir,
I have examined the case of Col. Cave Johnson, and I herewith return the paper, in order that the terms of service may be specified, if proper, as the enclosed printed instructions direct. I can have no doubt but that it is a very fair claim; but you know that I am obliged to be governed by the rules in such cases. Frequently have strong cases of this description been presented to the Secretary of War, and he has as often refused to relax the rules. He is not now here, and I would lay the case before him, although I very much doubt whether he would be disposed to depart from the regulations now in this case.
I have the honor to be With great regard Your friend & Obt. Serv t J. L. Edwards
Hon. R. W. Johnson Great Crossings Ky

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the Investigation of the Matter and after hearing the Interrogatories presented by the War Department that the above named applicant was a Resubinary Soldier and served as he states, and the Court further Certifies that it appears to them that Geo Boyer who has signed the preceding Certificate is a Clergyman Resident in said County and that Richard M Johnson who has also signed the same is a Resident in said County and is a credible person and that their Det- erminant is entitled to credit
I the undersigned Clerk of the Court of Scott County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the Matter of the application of Cave Johnson for a pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 19 th day of September 1833
Attest R. B. Ford Clerk

Bess M. Kidney 910 Franklin Avenue Brookville, Indiana
Brookville, Ind. April 6, 1936
U.S. Dept of Interior Bureau of Pensions Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir:
Please send me the Revolutionary War record of James Smith, born 1737, Franklin county, Pennsylv- ania, died in Kentucky in 1812, probably in Washington County. If a soldier, probably

enlisted from Franklin County, Penn. In Kentucky he lived on Cane Ridge in Bourbon County and also in Wash- ington County.
Wives - Anne Wilson - died in 1778 Margaret Rogers Irwin - d - 1800.
Also the record of James Dunn . Born in Ireland and came to America in 1769. Died in 1818 in Franklin Co. Penn. Probably in New Jersey or Pennsylvania lines.
Also the record of Hugh Dunn . born in Ireland. Married Mercy Dunn of Piscataway, New Jersey. Probably in Middlesex County, New Jersey Troops. Died at Lawrenceburg, (or near) Indiana in 1804.
Also the record of Cave Johnson . Born Orange Co. Va and later lived in Boone Co. Kentucky and later in Dearborn County, Indiana.
Thanking you very much. Very truly yours, Rosa M. Kidney Brookville, Indiana

U. S. Bureau Washington D. C.
Atlantic Iowa
Feb 17, '30
Recd
I am desirous of obtaining the Vol. and page of the Military Record of Cane Johnson who was placed on pension roll of May 1831. He was a private in Va. line.
Would you please supply me with this?
Respectfully
Fonta Glass Jones 1315 Poplar St. Atlantic Iowa

Cueno Texas, Aug 27. 19 26
Pension Dept— Rev. War Section
Gentlemen: Please give me data of service and all family data on file of Cave Johnson of Boone Co. Ky. aged 79 in 1840 Address Mrs. Geo. J. Schleicher. 402 Terrell St - Cueno Tex.

FINCASTLE CHAPTER LOUISVILLE, KY.
Dec. 1 st 1927.
Pension Office
Washington D. C.
Dear Sir:- Can you furnish me the record of the pension granted to Car Johnson , a Revolutionary soldier? He lived in Va at that time or rather was born in Va and died in Boone Co Ky. Has living there in 1840 al-

the age of 79. (Collins History of Ky) Have you any record of note  Benjamin Stephens who was born in Orange Co. Va and moved to Boone Co Ky about 1780 s . Thanking you in advance for your courtesy,
(Heirs) Lida Ramsey.
Registrar Timeville Chapter U. S. D. A. R.