Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 5626, for James Johnston, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass
Johnston, James
R. 5626
Mass Sea Service
CONTENTS
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Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
5696
P. O.
1878 Mann
James Johnston
Service:
REJECTED
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
1852 m o Howard Dec 13 1852
Application filed: _____, 18
drafted at York M o 1864 Capt Thos Callie 3 rd enlisted 1866 Ship Grand Park
Alleges: not 6 mos
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

Maine James Johnson
rejected
not 6 in diam
see letter to Howard
12 Oct 1832
✓ 6 26

7142. James Johnston Application for a Patent Declaration
See the Deposition of Michael Bowsdown
Rejected
copy of application

State of Maine
County of York ss. In open court, before
On this twentieth day August personally appeared the court of Probate
now sitting at in the County of York Limerick James Johnston
a resident of
Hollis in the County of York and State of Maine aged Seventy
years, almost who being first duly sworn according to law doth, on his oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7, 1832. That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers & served as herein stated. I was drafted at York in the County of York & State of Maine in June 1779 Captain Thomas Cutts was our captain cannot recollect the Lieutenant or Ensign I enlisted for three months & served my time out in said Company. We marched immediately after being drafted to Portland in Maine where we served out our time from thence we went to Townsend by water where we landed and was inspected after inspection we went aboard and went to Bagadosee so called. I cannot recollect the Colonel Major the Major was Daniel Littlefield & he was drowned in Penobscot Bay. After Littlefield was drowned our Major was Sawyer whose christian name I cannot recollect on landing we had a rough skirmish but we drove the enemy. in which Our Generals was was Pelay Wardsworth of Portland after wound  in which skirmish Major Sawyer was killed after Sawyer was killed we had Cousans for our Major whose christian name I cannot recollect. Afterwards several large ships from Halifax came in and drove us up the River where we landed and made our escape and came to Portland Maine from which place I went home having no further duty to perform  do . In May 1780 I enlisted aboard the Ship Grand Turk commanded by Captain Symmons whose christian name I do not recollect. The Sail masters name was Welch the other Officers names I do not recollect. I enlisted for four months. We sailed from Salem Massachusetts in the month of June I think to Quebec Bay where we cruised in said Bay and the Bay of Shalore for the space of three months and from thence was we went to New York where we cruised the time out & then we returned to Salem Massachusetts when our time expired & I came home. I have no discharge nor never had any I was born in York in the State of Maine in the year 1763 in January from York I removed into Hollis in which town I have resided for the last forty four years past. I do not know that I can prove any of the time I served. I do not know of any one that was out with me that is alive.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present & declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State.
Sworne to & subscribed, the day & year aforesaid
James Johnston

me that is mine,
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, & declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State.
Sworn to & subscribed, the day & year aforesaid.
James Johnston
We Joshua Proberts a clergyman residing in the town of Leominster and Ezra Cole residing in the town of Leominster hereby certify that we are well acquainted with James Johnston who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be seventy years of age; that he is reputed & believed in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the revolution, & that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn to & subscribed this day & year aforesaid
Ezra Cole
And the said court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter & after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the abovenamed applicant was a revolutionary soldier & served as he states. And the court further certifies that it appears to them that Joshua Proberts who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman, resident in the town of Leominster Maine and that Ezra Cole who has also signed the same, is a resident in the town of Leominster and is a credible person, & that their statement is entitled to credit.
Wm. Cutter Allen Register of the Court of Probate of said do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the court in the matter of the application of James Johnston for a pension. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office this twentieth day of August 1839 Wm. Cutter Allen Register of Probate.
James Johnston
Wm. Cutter Allen Register of Probate

Deposition of Michael Bowdon to be used in the appli- cation of James Bowdon for a pension -

I Michael Bowden of Waterville in the County of York State of Maine do hereby say that James Johnston now of Hollis, & formerly a Lieutenant of Militia in Waterville now aged about seventy years, was known to me when a boy and was from the town of York in the County of York. That at the siege of Penobscot in the time of the revolution about the year '79, the said James Johnston was a soldier in the Massachusetts Militia in the company commanded by Capt. Thomas Cutts of which company Joseph Field was first Lieut. & Simon Grover second Lieut. in a detachment from York County under the command of Major Daniel Littlefield, who was drowned at the said siege of Penobscot by his boat being destroyed by a shot from the enemy. and Capt. Sawyer, as I understood, being the first Captain then succeeded in command that the said Siege including the time of organizing the company going returning, detained the detachment of Soldiers or most of them about the term of three months Service.
Michael Bowden York & Waterville, Aug. 22 1832 The above named Michael Bowden made solemn oath to the truth of the above deposition before me John Bowden in Justice of the Peace State of Maine
York County ss-
Jeremiah Bradbury, Clerk of the Judicial Courts for said County of York certify that John Bowden is a Justice of the Peace as above stated and that the above signature purporting to be his is genuine
In witness whereof I hereunto set my name & affix my official seal this twentysecond day of August Anno Domini 1832
Jer. Bradbury Clerk of the Jud. Courts York Co.