FENTRESS COUNTY, TN - MILITARY - James Johnson, Revolutionary War Pension Application --------------¤¤¤¤¤¤-------------- Taken from the American Revolutionary War pension application of James Johnson b. May 10, 1759 - d. March 30, 1838 Inscribed on the roll of East Tennessee at the rate of 36 Dollars .66 per annum to commence on the 4th day of March 1831. ----------------------- Certificate of pension issued: arrears to 4th of March 73.32 semi-anl allowance ending 4th Sept 18.33 ---------- 91.65 Revolutionary claim Act June 7, 1832 ----------------------------------------- State of Tennessee, Fentress County, on this 28th day of January 1833 This day personally appeared before the worshipful Justices of the Court of Pleas and quarter sessions for the county aforesaid now setting, which is a court of record, James Johnson a resident citizen of the County of Fentress in the state of Tennessee aged 73 years agreeable to his record as kept by his parents and himself in his bible, which is now destroyed, and after being duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following Declarations in order to obtain the benefit of the act of congress passed the 7th day of June 1832. That he entered the service of the United States in Caswell County, North Carolina a private to serve a nine month tour, the precise time as to date of entering said service not recollected, but it was the month of May and about 12 or 14 months before the Battle of Stono. (NOTE: War records show that the Battle of Stono was fought June 20, 1779, thus probably entered service about April to June 1778.) Applicant understood that said call of nine months men were to be balloted for out of the different captains companies, but when the different companies met at John Hughes in said county of Caswell the field officers nominated and appointed seven men out of the captains company to which applicant belonged, namely William Whites company, the other six men that were appointed to serve out of Captain White's company were William Allen, George Anderson, James Wadkins, John Wadkins, James Swinee, Thomas King, and the men that were appointed in the different captains companies met at the house of William Prowel's in said county of Caswell and there chose Robert Mone captain. There he was put under said captain and Col Arch Little and major Dixon, his first name not recollected, and adjudent Mikel McMullinshehe. They were marched from said Prowel's to Moons Creek in said county and stationed there four or five weeks and from there to Peytonsburg, Virginia and then stationed there about two or three weeks, and returned to Moons Creek, joined no other troops and was furloughed until the last day of the next March with an understanding that when we met that the time we had served was not to count as part of the nine months tour, but previous to the time our furlough was to expire, there was a call for militia and a great part of us nine month men went out on that tour, but this applicant did not; and according to the stipulations of applicants furlough he met at the house of col William Monis in said county of Caswell and was there put under a major Tatum, his first name not recollected. There was about twenty of us nine months men of Caswell county put under major Tatum a great part of them being then out on milita tour, applicant marched off under Tatum and joined head quarters at Golphins in South Carolina and there joined general Lincoln's Army stationed there a few days and marched on through the country to many places under general Lincoln until the expiration of applicants tour. They marched to a place about five miles from Stono, and camped about four weeks at the camp ground before the noted Battle at Stono applicant was in said Battle on the left wing Lt Charleton commanded the platoon that applicant was in when he was marched into battle, said Lt was shot through the belly and died this was time of the mess of applicant, killed in the Battle to wit Thomas Searls and Benjamin Haguewood, applicant in the third regiment of North Carolina Troops and being of a remnant of the nine months men was frequently transferred from one captain to another in the regiment to supply the occasional losses that happened in different companies, McCajah Parker was adjutant of the regiment that the applicant served in . . . . . .few days after the battle at Stono applicant was marched with the Army on to general Bulls, stayed there about two weeks and then marched to Bacons bridge, stayed there a few days and thince to Moncks Corner and thince to Charleston and stationed there about one month and we was then marched to Sulivans Island, applicant and some few more about forty five in number we was then under capt Barnby, stayed there about one month, and marched back to Charleston and there stayed until we was finally discharged on the last day of November onsuing after the Battle of Stono, the dates not remembered (NOTE: this would have been November 30, 1779) applicant received a privates discharge at the Barracks at Charleston expressing that it was for a nine months tour agreeable to an act of assembly his discharge expressed that he was of the third Regiment and of the north Battalion we of the nine months men were called the new serves and was not mixed with the militia but served with the regulars and when we nine months new serves were discharged our sergeant William McClarty called us out from among the regulars and we were discharged accordingly by him for a nine months tour having served two months previous to that last tour for which he had no discharge; being all the service rendered by him in the War of the Revolution against the enemy of his country. Applicant from the information of his parents was born the 10th day of May 1759, about eight miles from Murfreesboro in North Carolina near Virginia line, he is not certain the name of the county. Lived there until 14 years old and then moved to the place where he lived when he entered the service (Caswell Co., NC) and continued there until three of four years after the end of the Revolution and then moved to Lawrence Co (Laurens) South Carolina, stayed there about ten years thence to Pendleton County in said state, there about nine years thence to Buncombe County, North Carolina, stayed there near seven years and thence to where is now Fentress County, Tennessee, where he has lived ever since. Applicants discharge has been lost a great many years and he knows of no military evidence and knows of no person by whom he can prove his services nor any particular circumstances connected with it, further than is believed from his own tradition, applicant can prove his character as a soldier by William Smith and Daniel Spurlin and others -- they being his neighbors, he hereby relinquishes every claim to a pension or annuity except the present and discloses his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state. Sworn to in open court this 28th day of January 1833 County Court, January Session 1833, J.H. Richardson, clk State of Tennessee, County of Fentress James Johnson (his mark) ___________________________________________________________________ Copyright. 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