Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 5666, for John M Johnson, North Carolina

SERVICE
NUMBER
N.C.
Johnson John M. Moses
R. 5666
Tabitha
CONTENTS

5666
P. O.
Tabitha Johnson
Service:
order of John
Enlisted: _____, 18 .
Discharged: _____, 18 .
Application filed: _____, 18 .
REJECTED
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18 .

Suspended
Oct 30 May '36
Plan W. R. King S.W.

GA Houston ML
Hon Geo. C. Whiting Pension Office D.C.
[Faint, mirrored bleed-through text from the reverse side of the paper] Subv. of Pension Geo. C. Whiting 1838 Andrew

No 15,431
Tabitha Johnson widow of John M. abt 1838 Ala.
Hon G. S. Houston Feb 3 rd 57 same Mar 3 rd 59

15.431 Tabitha Johnson Alabama July 7. 1838
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Ho of Reps 1st March 59
Sir Will you be good enough to furnish the information sought within & return me the letter of the applicant. If she is entitled to a pension I hope you will so advise me & furnish the forms & instructions
Yrs &c - Geo. Houston
Hon Geo. C. Whiting Pension office D.C.

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Know The State of Alabama, 36th District in Circuit Court of the County of Hancock, ss. On this 30th day of December in the year of our Lord 1856 personally appeared in open Court before the Court of Probate of Hancock County in the State of Alabama now sitting, Judith Johnson a resident of said County of Hancock in said State of Alabama, aged about eighty eight years, who being first duly sworn according to law, on her oath makes the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Acts of Congress passed, The 7th day of June 1832, The 7th day of July, 1838, The 30th day of March 1843, The 17th day of June 1844, & The 29th day of July 1848. Know all men That she is the widow of John M. Johnson deceased, (otherwise sometimes called Robert Johnson), that said John M. Johnson was some time a private soldier in the war of the Revolution and served in the State Troops & Militia of the State of North Carolina for two years and upwards in tours in different directions that he served at one time in the Company commanded by Captain Wilson (whose given name is not now certainly re- collected) but believed to be William) That he also served under Col. Sevier (whose given name is not remembered) but the same that Com- manded at Ferguson's defeat at Kings Mountain and also that he served under or with Col. Ben Cleland, but cannot say more particularly in specify the service, that the said John M. Johnson entered the service as a Volunteer in the County of Greene in the State of North Carolina some time early in the war of the Revolution and con-

tinued in actual service until the end or about the end of the War, for a period of two years or more - that she does not certainly know where her said husband resided when he entered the service, but supposes it was in said County of Green in the State of North Carolina where he entered the service and was discharged; that her said husband had a discharge which was long since lost in the burning of his mother's house; and that she has no documentary evidence of the date or of his service and knows of no person whose testimony she can procure who can testify to his service - that she has often heard him say that he had served under or with Col. Siler, Col. Ben Cleveland, & Col. Campbell, who fought at Ferguson's defeat at Kings Mountain.
That she was married to said John M. Johnson deceased (otherwise sometime called Moses Johnson) on the 10th of January about the year A.D. 1786, by a Justice of the Peace in the County of Lincoln in the State of North Carolina; that the name of said Justice is not now remembered; that she knows of no record or documentary evidence of said marriage, nor of any other now living by whom she could prove that the same took place otherwise than by reputation; that her name before her said marriage was Salitha Wapley; that her said husband (said John M. Johnson) died in Hancock County in the State of Alabama on or about the 8th day of February 1848; & that she is now a widow and has remained unmarried since the death of her said husband. That this application is made for the purpose of obtaining Arrear of Pension due said John

M Johnson and to affiant as his widow under the provisions of the several acts aforesaid.
Talitha her Johnson mark
Sworn & subscribed to in } open Court. }
Orrin Davis J. Probate H.C.
The state of Alabama, County of Hancock } ss.
I, Orrin Davis, judge of the Court of Probate of Hancock in the state of Alabama, do hereby certify that at a term of said Court of Probate in & for said County of Hancock held in and for said County on the day of 1856, that satisfactory proof was exhibited to said Court that John M Johnson (otherwise some time called Mose Johnson) late of Hancock County in the state of Alabama is dead; that he died on or about the 8 th day of February 1848; that he left a widow surviving him whose name is Talitha Johnson who is still living. I also certify, that the foregoing are the original proceedings of said Court in the matter of the application of the said Talitha Johnson widow of said John M Johnson deceased for the pension due said John M Johnson deceased & his said widow said Talitha Johnson. In testimony whereof I hereunto set my name & affix my private seal, there being no public or official seal yet provided for said Court, this 30 th day of December in the year A.D. 1856.
Orrin Davis Judge Probate H.C.