Rev. War Pension File of Isabella (Campbell) widow of William JOHNS (1844); Chester County, PA

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Isabella Johns pension record info


State of Pennsylvania, Franklin Co., dated 20th day of May,A.D. 1844. 
At this time she was a resident of Horse Valley, Letterkenny Twp, 
Franklin Co. She was 87 years old

"said William John was a private soldier in the Revolutionary War--the said 
William John her husband to the best of her knowledge first enlisted in the 
service of the Continental Congress in the year 1776, in Chester County in 
the state of Pennsylvania, under Capt. Patterson and Major Montgomery--he 
served one year or upwards and was regularly discharged. The said William 
John again enlisted at the said county of Chester in the year 1778 under 
Capt. Samuel Dean, in the service of the United States and served till the 
end of the war when he was regularly discharged. The said declarant Isabella 
John believes the first discharge of her said husband was consumed with their 
house and all their effects, the same having been burnt by the British at 
Chester County between the times of his said two terms of service; her said 
husband was lying at their home after his return from his first term of 
service with the camp fever, when a company of the British coming into view, 
this declarant assisted him to the woods, from whence they saw the destruction 
of their house as afore said. The second discharge of said declarants husband 
was lost, as she supposes in moving after the war. This declarant says she has 
heard her husband say that he was in the battles of Trenton, White Plains, 
Brandywine and was wounded in the cheek at Long Island. That he marchedmarched 
when out in the service at the times of his several enlistments through Jersey, 
New York and Pennsylvania and to the north to Quebeck. The said declarant says 
that she has no documentary evidence whatever to show her said husband's 
service, or in support of her claim, except the certificate of her marriage--
the said declarant says her maiden name was Isabel Campbell and she was 
married to William John on the 13th day of September in the year of our Lord 
1774, by the Rev. william Curry in Chester County aforesaid. That her husband 
the aforesaid William John died in Horse Valley, in Franklin County, Pa. on 
the seventh day of October in the year 1826 and that she has resided there 
ever since."




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