Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 6120, for Jonathan Johnson, New York

SERVICE
NUMBER
New York
Johnson, Jonathan Lane, Elizabeth former widow
P. 6120
CONTENTS
See this woman's other husband, William Lane, New York S 42812

State of New York Ulster County
ss one thousand eight hundred
On this twenty fifth day of September personally appeared before the undersigned (one of judges of the County of Ulster) Elizabeth Lane a resident of the Town of New Paltz in the County of Ulster and State of New York aged Seventy Nine years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 4 th 1836 and the act explanatory of said act passed March 3 d 1837 that she was Married to Jonathan Johnson who was a private Soldier under Colonel Pauldwin or Pawlin in the year Seventeen hundred & Seventy nine five Months as a volunteer on the frontiers in the County of Green & Schoharie in the state of New York the name of the Captain not recollected also he served eight Months in the year Seventeen hundred & Eighty under Albert Pawlin Colonel & John Piercy Captain which term of service was performed at Sapanah Ulster County State of New York in both terms of service he entered & served as a volunteer and a resident of the Town of New Paltz & County of Ulster and further the said Elizabeth has no documentary evidence of the services of her husband she further declares that she was Married to the said Jonathan Johnson on the in December one thousand seven hundred & Seventy Nine that her husband the afore said Jonathan Johnson died on the ninth day of January one thousand seven hundred and ninety two and that she had by her

Said husband six children names as follows Jonathan Johnson Jr Mercy Johnson Andrew Johnson Peter Johnson Nicholas Johnson Jonathan Johnson and that she was married in May one thousand seven hundred & ninety five to William Lane (who was a pensioner on the United States pension rolls) and the said William Lane died in November 24 th 1882 and she is now and was a widow on the fourth day of July 1886 and still remains a widow as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed
Sworn & subscribed on the day and year 1884 above written before me Elizabeth her Lane Mark R.H. Hine 3 judge of Ulster county courts
Ulster County ss I Ruben H. Hine a judge of Ulster county courts do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Elizabeth Lane and know that by reason of bodily infirmities she is unable to appear in open court to make her declaration in order to obtain a pension for the services of her husband Jonathan Johnson it being sixteen September 25 th 1884 R.H. Hine 3 judge of Ulster county courts
We the subscribers do hereby certify that we are severally well acquainted with Elizabeth Lane the above applicant for a pension & know her to be a person of known respectability and her statements can be relied on as true Wells Lake John Howell Decm 19 th 1884
I do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Elizabeth Lane and she is a person of known truth & veracity and her statements are to be relied on as true R.H. Hine 3 judge of Ulster county courts

Rev. H. H. Hine , judge of White County courts

We the subscribers hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Jonathan Tompkins the Dependant within named and know him to be a man of Truth & Veracity and his statements are entitled to full confidence & belief in witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands
ABH Me Wells Lake John Howell
State of New York? Ulster County ss
I John Ferguson Clerk of the County of Ulster do hereby certify that Reuben McKein Esquire before whom the annexed affidavits purports to have been taken whose name is subscribed to the said affidavits, was at the time of taking such affidavits, a Judge of the County Courts, in and for the County aforesaid, dwelling in the said County, duly appointed, Commissioner and Sworn, and authorized to take the same And further that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Judge, and verily believe that the Signatures to the said affidavits are genuine,
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In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said County the fifth day of January 1839.
John Ferguson Clerk by Richard Peator Dep. Clerk.

Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
REJECTED
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P. O.
Elizabeth Sumner
Service:
former widow Jonathan Johnson
Enlisted: Wm. Lane , 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18
1888 11/15

V N. York Elizabeth Lane let. to R. H. Hine Hine 10. June 1839 to same 9. March 1840 Rejected
Act. 4 July 1836

Hon J. L. Edwards Washington City Dist of Columbia
77

New Patty Landing January 9 th 1889 Mr J. L. Edwards
Sir accompanying this communication is the applications of Elizabeth Elsworth & Elizabeth Lane applicants for pensions on account of the services of their husbands in the war of the revolution with respect to their characters they are both good and their statements can be relied on as correct and the character of their witnesses are also unimpeachable and thinking it unnecessary to multiply proof as to their credibility I have only asked the signatures of Wells Lake & John Howell Esq both well known to the Hon John C Broadhead and Tompkins one of the witnesses likewise is known to Mr Broadhead and I would beg leave to refer you to him for the information you may want and I would state further that Mrs Lane is the widow of William Lane who was a pensioner but she was married to him in 1795 Mrs Elsworth is poor & blind & has been so for several years should you wish to communicate with me you will please direct your letter to R H Hine New Patty Landing Ulster County N.Y. state of New York
R H Hine
J. L. Edwards

Mr. J. L. Edwards
Pension office Washington city

New Paltz Landing Jany 8th 1840
Mr J. L. Edwards.
Sir enclosed I send you the affidavits of Elizabeth Lane & Elizabeth Edwards both widows of Revolutionary Soldiers? and they both furnish the best evidence in their power the certificates of the Comptroller of this state of the services of the husbands accompany their affidavits they are both of them unable to attend the sitting of the court in this county as they live 16 or 18 miles from the court house and they are both of them infirm and both of them are needy Elizabeth Edwards never has been married since her husband's death and Elizabeth Lane has been married to William Lane a pensioner since her first husband's (Jonathan Johnson) death William Lane her second husband has been dead a number of years he died before 1836 & I believe two or three years should you want any other explanation of the papers if you will write a line to me directed to New Paltz Landing Ulster County State of New York you will oblige me yours with respect
W. H. Lane
J. L. Edwards

The Number and Amount of Certificates issued by the Treasurer of the State of New York for Wages and Mili- -tia Service Continued from Book VII.
   To whom given     1780. June 4 36475 Jon n Johnson Prov d — 15 — 1 / 2   1780. July 10 36472 " " " — 14 2 1 / 2   1781. August 17 36476 " " " — 8 10 3 / 4  
State of New York } Comptroller's Office } Albany Nov. 7 th 1839. }
4.75 3.33 7.08 3 / 4
I hereby Certify the above to be true Extracts from Books & now remaining in this Office and also that it appears from the same Book that the said Jon n Johnson served his first term, above named under Capt c John Washbrough, and the second term under the said Capt c John Wash- brough, and the third term under Capt c Peter Ramsay, and that in 1781. John Cantine was a Colonel.
Philip Schuyler Comptroller

State of New York } Rutten County } Is
on this twenty seventh day of December one thousand eight hundred & thirty Nine personally appeared before the undersigned one of the judges of the County of Rutten Elizabeth Lane a resident of the Town of New Paltz, in said County & State aged eighty years the fifth day of May last past who being first duly sworn doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the pension made by the act of congress passed July 4 th 1836 and the act explanatory of said act passed March 3 d 1837 that she was married to Jonathan Johnson who was in revolutionary war in the year seventeen hundred & eighty Nine five months under Colonel Paulding name of the captain not recollects and served on the frontiers in the counties of Rutten Green & Schoharie also in 1740 seventeen hundred & eighty & eighty one served under different officers & different times thinks one term of service Nine months under Colonel Paulding and John Piercy capt one under Captain Peleg Ransom and also under Captain John Harbrough much of the above service was performed at Papanack Rutten County as a volunteer and a resident of the Town of New Paltz and further the said Elizabeth has no documentary evidence of her husbands services she further declares that she was married to the said Jonathan Johnson in December one thousand seven hundred and eighty by Abraham Denison Esq. that she had by her said husband six children and her said husband died on the ninth day of January seventeen hundred & ninety two and the names of her children are as follows Jonathan Johnson when his father died was ten years old Mary Johnson was seven years old Andrew Johnson was five years old & a half Peter Johnson was four years old Nicholas Johnson was two years old and Jonathan Johnson was born a few days after her husbands death that she was married in May seventeen hundred and ninety five to William Lane who died November 24 th 1832 and she was a widow on the fourth day of July one thousand eight hundred & thirty Nine

and still remains a widow as will more fully appear by testimony herunto annexed and further this deponent states she has no record of her marriage the family bible having been burnt and the Esopus documents cannot be found in order to be examined here Sworn and subscribed on the day and year first above written before me Elizabeth J Lame mark
Reuben H d King Judge of Ulster County Courts
Jonathan Tompkins being duly sworn before the undersigned one of the Judges of Ulster County doth depose and say that he was well acquainted with Jonathan Johnson the husband of the above named Elizabeth Lame and was present when they the said Jonathan and Elizabeth were married he saw them married by Abraham Ten Broeck in the year seventeen hundred & eighty in December all the parties lived at that time in the Town of New Paltz and county of Ulster and state of New York at which place deponent and the said Elizabeth has resided ever since and the said Jonathan Tompkins further states that he was knowing to the said Jonathan Johnson serving five months at the north in seventeen hundred and eighty nine the name of the officers does not recollect also was knowing to him the said Johnson serving in the same company with this deponent since March under Albert Penhallow Colonel & John Piercy Capt and further he was out several times under Capt Harbrough & Peleg Ransom in the Militia of the state of New York the nine months service was rendered in Paspansburgh Ulster County in said state
Sworn & subscribed this twenty eighth day of December one thousand eight hundred & thirty nine before me Jonathan his Tompkins mark Reuben H d King Judge of Ulster County Courts

Abraham Palmateer being duly sworn doth depose and say that he was well acquainted with Jonathan Johnson and was knowing to his being married to Elizabeth Lane although not present when the ceremony was performed but was present at the wedding party immediately after the ceremony was performed and was knowing to their living together until Jonathan's death and having a family of children they were married in the year seventeen hundred & eighty and was knowing to said Jonathan Johnson being out in the service at different times under Capt. Harbrough and Harrison and Colonel Linton witness in eighty three years old Sworn & subscribed before me this 20th day of Decemr. 1889 A. H. H. in Abraham Palmateer mark
A. H. H. in presence of N. H. County Court
New Paltz December 29th 1889 I hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Elizabeth Lane the within applicant for a pension and that in consequence of bodily infirmity and old age she is unable to attend the sitting of the court in our county of Ulster she living sixteen miles from said Court house and further I am well acquainted with Jonathan Tompkins and Abraham Palmateer and they together with Elizabeth Lane are all people of respectability and their character for truth and veracity is good A. H. H. in presence of N. H. County Court

State of New York Ulster County
I, John Dugan in Clerk of the County of Ulster do hereby certify that Psalm St. Wine Esq before whom the foregoing affidavits of Elizabeth Lane, Jonathan Dampkins & Abraham Palmatier purport to have been taken was at the respective dates of the same a Judge of the County Courts of Ulster County and that his signatures to the said affidavits are genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the said County this 30 th day of December 1839
John Dugan in Clerk
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Elizabeth Lane widow of Jonathan Johnson & Abraham Palmatier William Lane
1839 1840 1841 1842 1843