Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 5615, for Isaac Johnson, New York

SERVICE
NUMBER _____
New York.
Johnson, Isaac Hannah
P. 5615
CONTENTS

FAMILY RECORD.
MARRIAGES.
John Johnson & Ginney Conkling Was married in 1802 February 18
Isaac Johnson & Hannah Lemmeyer was married in 1775 November 9 -
MARRIAGES.
James Johnson & Sally Jane Slate was Married February 11 in 1832
Hannah Johnson & Amos Haste was Married December 1 th in 1832
Isaac Johnson And Anna Stone was Married February 9 in 1833
Extract from The Bible my Self Henry Johnson

FAMILY RECORD.
BIRTHS.
BIRTHS.
John Johnson Was born in the yr Of our Lord 1780 March 15
Ginney Johnson Was born in the yr Of our Lord 1781 October 10
Hannah Johnson Was Born in Y 1753 March 10
Jane Corblin Was Born in the Y 1798 November 10
Sally Jane Johnson Was born in Y 1810 October the 14 th
Chatharine Johnson Was born in y 1803 July 5
Isaac Johnson Jr Was Born in y 1805 March the 5
Hannah Johnson Was born in y 1807 August 15
Jacob Johnson Was born in y 1810 January 18
James Johnson Was born in y 1811 July 10
Elizabeth Johnson Was Born in y 1813 September 25

Ulster County State of New York
ss. We John Johnson and Ginnery his wife of the town of Plattekill being duly sworn doth depose and say that the accompanying record being the family record of the family of John Johnson and in part of his father Isaac Johnson and that the same has been a family record for more than thirty years and that the record there entered of the marriage of his father Isaac Johnson to Hannah Lemmon, he believes to be true as he the said John Johnson entered the same down by the direction of his father and mother who have ever resided with this deponent for years until the death of the said Isaac and that his mother yet resides and lives with him and that the aforesaid record is in fact a record of the family of Isaac Johnson and John Johnson and that the death of the said Isaac Johnson is recorded in the same bible out of which this leaf is cut on a leaf set apart and headed "deaths."
Subscribed and sworn this 16 th Day of June 1841
Sworne and Subscribed before me } John Johnson Henry Palmer } Ginnery his Johnson Justice of the peace } Mark

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no 5157.
Hannah Johnson wid of Isaac Johnson
Mar 10 1775
First wife May 1815
5615

State of New York } Ulster County }
ss on the fourth day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty personally appeared before me the undersigned one of the judges of the Court of common pleas in and for the county of Ulster aforesaid Hannah Johnson a resident of the town of Plattekill in said county of State aforesaid aged eighty seven 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 That she is the widow of Isaac Johnson who was a private in the militia of the war of the Revolution That in the winter of 1776 there was an alarm for men to go to New Jersey and that he the said Isaac Johnson went and staid six weeks under the command of Captain Tansom and in the year 1777 he listed for three years Months and staid the said time and was at the taking of Burgoyne and from that time to the close of the war was what was called a minut man and served as such under command of Colonel Paulding two weeks on and four weeks off or one month on and two Months off which of the two this deponent cannot recollect but further states that he was guarding the frontiers on the western part of Ulster County at least as much as two years for he was often called out on an alarm at his time for staying home She further declares that she was married to the said Isaac Johnson on the ninth day of

November seventeen hundred and seventy five That her husband the aforesaid Isaac Johnson died on the eighth day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and Thirteen and that she has remained a widow ever since that period as will more fully appear in reference to the proof herunto annexed
Hannah her Johnson mark
Sworn and Subscribed
before me this 30 th day of May 1840. Abraham A Deyo one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Ulster
State of New York
Ulster County } I Abraham A Deyo one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County do certify that the above applicant Hannah Johnson by reason of bodily infirmity cannot attend the said Court. Abraham A Deyo one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Ulster

State of New York Ulster County } ss:
I John Driessen Clerk of the County of Ulster do hereby certify that John Lambert, Richard Gannan & Otis Church Esqrs before whom the foregoing or annexed Affidavits of John Johnson, Jonathan Thompson and John LeMunyan, purport to have been subscribed and taken were at the the respective dates of the same Justices of the peace in & for the County of Ulster duly elected & sworn and that their signatures to the said Affidavits are genuine. I do further certify that Ruben H. Hine & Abraham A Deyo Esqrs before whom the foregoing or annexed affidavits of Abraham Palmatier and Hannah Johnson purport to have been subscribed and taken were at the respective dates of the same Judges of the County Courts of Ulster County duly Commissioned & sworn and that their signatures to the same as above are genuine.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said County Court, this 11 th day of June 1840
John Driessen Clerk

Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
REJECTED
5610
P. O. _____
Hannah Johnson
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18 .
Discharged: _____, 18 .
Application filed: _____, 18 .
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18 .

N. York
Hannah Johnson
let. to C. Drake 10. Sept. 1840
To same March 2, 1841.
" " May 7. 1841
" Hon J. Van Buren July 6. '41

W Van Burin
Has the honor to enclose certain affidavits & proofs in support of the application of the widow of Isaac Johnson who was a soldier of the revolution
It is stated in the Communication to myself that the Clergyman who officiated at the marriage is dead.
Washington July 2 1841
Hon J L Edwards

Isaac Johnson further proof in favour of his widow application for pen- sion.
Gloucester Dec 20 th
£
FREE
Hon. J. Van Buren W.D.

11 H. J. Van Buren A.C.
FREE
3
Charles Drake Esq. Plattsburg
Dear John - Further proof in favour of his views appreciation for his time -

Ulster County } ss. Jonathan Tompkins. State of New York } of the town of Plattsburg County of Ulster and State of New York being duly sworn doth depose and say that he was well acquainted with Isaac Johnson and that I was well acquainted with him during the revolutionary war and that in addition to the time heretofore qualified to by me, that Isaac Johnson, (the same person who married Hannah Pennington who is now his widow and has not been married since the death of the said Isaac Johnson) did serve with me in a company of militia under Captain John Percy for the term of three months in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy six, in the fall of that year and that we were quartered in and near Wawarsing at the house of Cornelius Van Dyke in the County of Ulster in the State of New York
Sworn to this 16 th day of June 1841
Witness present Henry Palmer
Jonathan X. Tompkins his mark

State of New York
Ulster County Clerks Office ss I George A Gay Clerk of the County of Ulster Do hereby certify that Hervey Palmer Esquire the person before whom the annexed affidavit, was taken and whose name is written thereon was at the time of taking the same a Justice of the Peace in and for said County dwelling in said County duly elected and sworn and fully authorized to take the same and further that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of said Justice and verily believe that the signature as mine on the annexed affidavit, is genuine In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said County this 21 st day of June 1841.
Geo A Gay Clerk
Yours at as early an hour by mail Directed to P.O. Box 111 Ulster Co. N.Y. as your correspondence will allow Caleb B. Smith

and subscribed before me this 16 th Day of June 1841
Harvey Palmer { Justice of the peace
He Is a Man of truth and veracity
Harvey Palmer
bottom Line instead of Cornelius Depue is Cornelius Vanoy
The clerk of the county of Ulster will attach a certificate to their affidavits that I have a justice of the peace & return the same to you at as early an hour by mail directed to P'keepsie Ulster Co NY as your correspondence will allow and I am Yours truly Chas. Bell

Plattsburg NY
June
Paid 6
George A. Gay Esq Clerk of Ulster Co Kingston N.Y.
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no 5757. Aug 24 1840 Plattsburg N.Y. August 24 1836 July 4 Hon. Johnson
FREE J. L. Edwards Esq Pensions Office Washington City D.C.

Plattville 21 st Aug 1840, J. L. Edwards Esq Sir
Enclosed
I have the honor to transmit to you the enclosed application of the Widow Johnson for the ben- fit of a pension, and you will have the goodness to report to me the decision of the Department in relation to her application. I would state to you that I have not been able to find any proof in the Comptrollers Office in relation to the services of Capt Asa Drake and I am informed that the books containing the Levies prior to 1780, are lost - if this be the case you will see that it will be out of my power to find any proof there. In relation to the records of the Church under the Rev. McHale. I would say to you that I have not yet been able to get the Church Clerks certificate but yet having had an opportunity to visit him but the books contain I am told no records of marriages of those who were not members, I will get the clerks affida- vit stating the facts and forward to the Dept. at the earliest opportunity.
Respectfully Your obed Servt Charles Drake

Hattiesburg MS
Jan 26
Jan 30 1882
Miss.
Good Hope
Hannah Johnson
L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City D.C.
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Plattsburg 26 Jan 1842
L. K. Edwards Esq.
Enclosed are some man- proof in the Application of Mr Johnson for a Pension, which with that already in the possession of the Dept we trust will be deemed satisfactory. Yours obediently Chas. Drake

County Clerk will attach a certificate and return this by mail to John Johnson Plattsburg N.Y.

Plattsburgh NY 19 Jan.
Clerk of Ulster County Kingston N.Y.
No. 6
George A. Gay, Clerk, &c. by Deborah Doolittle Dep. Clerk.
State of New York. Ulster County ss. On this day personally appeared John Seubert, a Magistrate on Oath, being first sworn, to me known to be the person described in and who executed the foregoing Certificate, and acknowledged that he executed the same for the purposes and consideration therein expressed. Given under my hand and the seal of said Court this twenty first day of January 1841.

State of New York.
Ulster County Clerk's Office p. 2
I George A Gay, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Ulster County, Certify that John Lambert is a Magistrate in Vorthin, and that the foregoing Certificates, purporting to be his are genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my Seal of Office, and Subscribed my Name this twenty first day of January 1841.
George A Gay. Clerk, &c. by Richard Kautor Dep. Clerk.
19 Jan 41 George A Gay Clerk of Ulster County Kingston N.Y.

Ulster County State of New York & town of Poughkeepsie I William Garrison of said town Deposeth and say that I am personally acquainted with John Johnson who is the son of the widow that applies for a pension & further saith that I have a Subscription list in my possession & the name of the said John Johnson was put down on the said list Johnston in stead of Johnson & further saith that I have also seen his name Spelt Johnston on different Receipts & on Other Receipts his name is Spelt Johnson which is the proper way to Spelt his name.
William Garrison
Sworn & Subscribed before me this 21 Day of January 1841 John Lambert Justice
I Certify that I am personally acquainted with the above mentioned Deposeant & that he is entitled to credit & belief January 21 st 1841
John Lambert Justice of the peace

Ulster County State of New York A Betsey Lemmon of the town of Newpaltz Deposeth and say that I am well acquainted with Hannah Johnson the widow of Isaac Johnson and that I was acquainted with her in Seventeen hundred & seventy five & that I was at their infare the day after their Marriage in the said County of Ulster in Milton but I was not at the Marriage but heard them & others say they was married this was in the year 1775 I also Recollect the said Isaac Johnson & my brother in law Thomas Lemmon went to the north it was said they were going on towards their Burgine way & other services against the British Thomas Lemmon returned sick & died & Isaac Johnson returned after was taken her Betsey Lemmon sworn and subscribed before mark the 30 th Day of Decmbr 1840
John Lambert Justice of the Peace in & for Ulster County
I certify that Betsey Lemmon the above mentioned Deposition is Entitled to credit & believe
Decembr 30 th 1840
John Lambert Justice

Ulster County State of New York I John Lemunion of the town of Newpaltz Deposeth & say that Isaac Johnson & my brother Thomas Lemunion in 1777 both listed for 3 months & to the best of my knowledge they went in July or August to the north to joine the Regiment to head Burgaine & his army They where gone about 2 or three months before Captain Ransom went with his Company I know this to be true because Capt Ransom lived a neighbour to me Isaac Johnson going 2 or 3 months months before Capt Ransom is in my Opinion a good Reason for to believe that Johnson served under some Other officer before he served under Ransom as I have already stated in a former affidavit about the services of Johnson under Capt Ransom both in this State & in Jersey
Sworn & Subscribed before me this 15 th Day of January 1841 John Lambert Justice of the peace John his Lemunion mark
I Certify that John Lemunion the above mentioned deponent is entitled to credit to belief January 15 th 1841
John Lambert Justice for

2/27/1844 Plattsburg April
For
J. L. Edwards Esq. Commissioner of Pensions Pension Office Washington City D. C.
Mr J. L.
Stearns & Johnson

Plattekill 30 April 1841-
J. L. Edwens Esq
Sir,
Your reply in reference to the Application of Mrs Hannah Johnson dated the 10 th Sept 1840. requiring proof from the records of the church of which the Rev Mr Cross was pastor has been forwarded to you about the last of September which was an affidavit from the Rev Mr Niles stating that the records of the church in regard to marriages was lost from 1774 to 1777. From your letter of March 2 d . 1841. reporting the same information, leads us to apprehend that you have not received the affidavit of Mr Niles. And further might it not be possible that Mr Johnsons services were recorded in the book that is lost from the Comptrollers Office. And now it not be just to allow due credit to the affidavits from different individuals as to the time of service of the said Isaac Johnson, but if it is a rule, to allow no person to any unless their name is found in the Comptrollers Office, we then submit. And from the affidavits sent to you I have no doubt that the Isaac Johnson & Isaac Johnston both mean the same individual, you will if you allow this supposition, give Mr Johnson more time than 9 days. I am sorry thus to trouble you, yet an old and infirm widow much needs the justice of her country.
I am Respectfully
Your Most Servt
Charles Drake

The number and amount of certificates issued by the Treasurer of the State of New York for Services and Militia Services &c Continued from Books Nos 1. 7. 8. 8.
Jeremiah Tivern
  1782 Dec 31 7442 Isaac Johnston private 20. 10. 8   1781 August 17 36.669 Isaac Johnson Corp l 9 th Inf y 9. 8 2/3   1781 Nov 4 43.1112 Isaac Johnson private 1 - " 10 
State of New York Comptroller's Office Albany July 23. 1860
I hereby certify that the above are true extracts from Books Nos 2. 8 & 9 now remaining in this office and that the service for which the first certificate above named was issued was performed under Capt Joel Gillett in a regiment commanded by Colo Emanuel Mott, the second under Capt Peter Ransom in a regiment commanded by Colo John Carline, and the third under Lieut Philip Wolfram in a regiment commanded by Colo Alse Van Alstyne
M. H. Durand Dep. Comptroller
12 120 9

This Certifies that Hugh Jolly Sup t of a Chapin Col o I. Schuyler Regiment of Militia has this day delivered and mustered an able Bodied Man Namely Isaac Johnson duly enlisted to serve in the Army raised for the defence of the Frontiers of this State, till the first day of January next unless sooner discharged.
Albany 8 May 1782
Peter B. Ten Broeck D r M c Serjeant
State of New York Comptrollers Office Albany July 22 1840
I certify that I have carefully compared the foregoing and the endorsements thereon with an original paper now on file in this office and that it is a true transcript therefrom and and of the whole of said original and of its endorsements.
M c Intire Dep. Comptroller

This may certify that I. Isaac Johnson have rec d of Elizer Meast Five pounds New- York Money for which Sum I sign over the within Certificate with the transfer as witness my hand
Isaac Johnson
April 23, 1783
P. Bingham

State of New York Ulster County ss,
I Do Certify That I am the son of Isaac Johnson of Deceit and that I always lived with him till his Death he Died May 8 th 1813 and I Remember Several Remarks he made to me he told me how they got Burgoyne's prisoners so that they could not get any  8 any water to drink he said there was a guard set 8 1/3 Over a stream of water and they sent a woman 10 to get water and she begged to them not to shoot a poor woman for they were most gone with thirst she was forbid but she tried to get some the guard shot her through the hand they did not want to kill her, he told me he was set guard over the margin no & was told to let no man come in without Orders a d general came up to go in he told him to stop he still was come on told him again to stop off he came one 7 step further or he would blow him through he cocked out his gun and presented it at him and off he had Come one step further he would have shot him he also told me that after Burgoyne was taken they were about six in a clump I also heard him say three women and a man lived in a log house & they had provided water up Cranber and a small distance off their was another log house and the Indians made an attack on it and killed one man & three women & one young woman taken off with them and then they attacked this log house they was provided with 3 or 4 guns and set fire to the house and with this water they put out the fire several times two girls loaded the guns their father and he shot at them when the water failed in putting out the fire they put it out with milk about the time the milk was gone there was a soldier

came on a hill and could see the Indians round the house by the light of the fire and he fired on them and hollered come on my boys here they are and it started them they opened the door & let the man in and the girls went out to the spring and got water and put out the fire and saved themselves This was done on the frontier in Utah County also said he was on the frontier Lieutenant Potter and himself and together with a file of men were sent by the Colonel to burn Old house off a certain District To see what they could spy they went part of the District and they heard a noise and some thought it was the noise of guns some thought it was the noise of water The Unit got scared and run back The Unit told what he had heard and seen says of cannon and fighting he said they were about two miles off from the place where they was sent so they called up him what he had seen or heard he said he heard nothing only some noise like the noise of water falling so they sent Capt Ransom and say he my father went with them and they went to the old house and went around it and see nothing only a full of water said he would rather be with Capt Ransom for he was not a coward June 6 - th 1840
John Johnson
Sworn and Subscribed before me
this 6 Day of June 1840
John Lamb best justice of the peace
I Do Certify that I am acquainted with the above Deponent and that he is a man of good character and entitled to credit and belief June 6 th 1840 John Lambert Justice

The number and amount of certificates issued by the Treasurer of the State of New York for Services and Militia Services &c Continued from Books Nos 1. 7. 8. 8.
Isaac Johnson
  1782 Dec 31 7442 Isaac Johnson private 20. 10. 8   1781 August 17 36.669 Isaac Johnson Corpl 9 days 9. 8 2/3   1781 Nov 4 45.1112 Isaac Johnson private 1 - " 10 
State of New York Comptroller's Office Albany July 23. 1840
I hereby certify that the above are true extracts from Books Nos 2. 8 & 9 now remaining in this office and that the service for which the first certificate above named was issued was performed under Capt Joel Gillett in a regiment commanded by Colo Comm d Marmaduke Willett, the second under Capt Felix Rawson in a regiment commanded by Colo John Cantine, and the third under Lieut Philip Wolfson in a regiment commanded by Colo Abner Van Alstyne
W. H. D. D. D. D. Dep. Comptroller
182 120 9

Ulster County New York State ss. Jonathan Tompkins of the Town of Plattsburgh County of Ulster And State of New York being by me duly sworn doth depose and say that he was well acquainted with Isaac Johnson and that he was at his wedding and saw him married to Hannah Sennuyan, on the ninth of November seventeen hundred and seventy five, and was married by the Rev Mr Case the said marriage was consummated in the town of Newpaltz, and further that this deponent saw and was with him guarding the frontiers on the west part of Ulster County in the town of Marwaring two months in the year seventeen hundred and seventy six, and served there under Lieutenant Nathaniel Potter, and further that the said Isaac Johnson was in the service and done effective duty at the taking of Burgoyne in seventeen hundred and seventy seven, in the com- pany and under Captain Ransom, and that he was then assisting in guarding the prisoners one month, and further that Hannah Johnson the widow of Isaac Johnson is well known to this deponent, and that she has never married since from the death of her husband Isaac Johnson.
Subscribed and sworn to the 23 rd day of May 1840
Jonathan X. Tompkins mark
Before me - - - - -
Richard Garrison justice of the peace

Water County Pa
I do certify that I am personally acquainted With Jonathan Tompkins the within deponent and that he is a respectable old gentleman and entitled to full credit and belief —
Dated State College May 23 rd 1840
Richard Garrison J. M. Likewise Commissioner of deeds

Jonathan Tompkins Affidavit

State of New York
Ulster County ss I do certify that I am personally acquainted with Isaac Johnson and he was a minit man in the Revolutionary war and in seventeen hundred and seventy six in the winter he was called out on a alarm under captain Ransom to go to the state of Newyorses to gard a gainst the British and he went and stade six weeks and Returnd home and in seventeen hundred and seventy seven he listed for three months in taken of Burgoyne and went and helpt tak him and stade out his time and in seventeen hundred and seventy eight we was clast to gether six in a clas they had to take turns two at a time and the two stood tell the other two come and relea them and soon and when on alarm they all had to go which was a great many times the Indians was very trouble som they run off a grate many places and kild a grate many people This was in the west part of Ulster county We was under captain Ransom and lieutenant Nathaniel potter and and under Colonel Paulding we stud in that situation tell the war ended he was in actuel servis for one year and more from seventeen hundred and seventy eight tell the close of the war I was at there wedding and saw them marred it was in year seventeen hundred and seventy five in the fall of the year and Isaac Johnson dyed in Eighteen hundred and thirteen and Hannah Johnson has ben a widow ever sence she was the wife of Isaac Johnson deceased and she is my sister they was maried by the Rev Stephen case it took place in the town of New paltz Ulster County
Subscribed & sworn to the 8th day of June 1840 before me
John his  X Lemunyan
Rev Church Judge of the Peace

I Abraham Palmateer do certify that I am well acquainted with John Lemmon the individual mentioned and subscribing the within certificate and know him to be a man of truth and veracity and of good moral character and his statements are to be relied on and entitled to credit
Sworn & subscribed this 9 th day of June 1840 before me
Abraham Palmateer Notary Public of Dutch County, Courts