10-23-2002

Transcription of 1832 Pension documents for Zopher Johnston/Johnson:

(Note:  The spelling of the surname is typed as it is shown in the documents.

Sometimes the “T” is included and sometimes it is not.  Spellings and
punctuation are not changed.)
 
WE JOHN HARDEN AND HUGH CARTER RESIDENT CITIZENS OF
GREENE COUNTY TENNESSEE DO HEREBY CERTIFY THAT WE ARE
WELL ACQUAINTED WITH ZOPHER JOHNSON WHO HAS SUBSCRIBED
AND SWORN TO THE FOREGOING A DECLARATION FOR A PENSION
AND WE BELIEVE HIM TO BE  SEVENTY YEARS OF AGE  AND IT IS
REPORTED AND BELIEVED  IN HIS NEIGHBORHOOD THAT HE WAS
A SOLDIER OF THE REVOLUTION AND  WE CAN ASSERT
THAT OPINION  SWORN TO AND SUBSCRIBED  IN OPEN COURT
THIS 24TH DAY OF OCTOBER 1832.
 
                                (SIGNED)                                               JOHN HARDEN
 
 
__V. SEVIER                                                                         HUGH CARTER
 
 
 
AND THE SAID COURT DO HEREBY DECLARE IT AS THEIR OPINION
AFTER THE INVESTIGATION OF THE MATTER AND AFTER  INSPECTING
THE INTEROGATORIES PRESCRIBED BY THE WAR DEPARTMENT,  THAT THE
ABOVE NAMED APPLICANT,  ZOPHER JOHNSTON,  WAS A REVOLUTIONARY
SOLDIER AND SERVED AS HE STATES.  AND THE  SAID  COURT
FURTHER CERTIFIES THAT IT APPEARS TO THEM THAT JOHN HARDEN AND
HUGH CARTER  WHO HAVE SUBSCRIBED AND SWORN TO THE ABOVE
CERTIFICATE  ARE CITIZENS OF GREENE COUNTY AND ARE CREDIBLE
PERSONS AND THAT THEIR STATEMENT IS ENTITLED TO CREDIT.
                                                                SIGNED:                R.  MALONEY  (SEAL)
 
                                                                                                J. (??)  BROWN  (SEAL)
 
                                                                                                M. SIMON(??)   (SEAL)
 
 
 
 
STATE OF TENNESSEE
GREENE COUNTY
 
I ANDREW PATTERSON CLERK OF THE COURT  OF PLEAS AND QUARTER
SESSIONS IN AND FOR SAID COURT DO HEREBY
CERTIFY THAT THE FOREGOING CONTAINS THE ORIGINAL PROCEEDINGS
OF THE SAID COURT IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICANT  OF ZOPHER
 JOHNSON  FOR A PENSION.  IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF I HAVE HERE UNTO
SUBSCRIBED  MY NAME  AND AFFIXED MY SEAL OF OFFICE
 IN GREENEVILLE THIS 25TH DAY OF OCTOBER 1832.
 
 
                                                                                SIGNED:                                A. PATTERSON
 
 
                                                                                               

STATE OF TENNESSEE  
GREENE COUNTY                                               OCTOBER  SESSION 1832
 
 
ON THIS 24TH DAY OF OCTOBER 1832,  PERSONALLY APPEARRED
IN OPEN COURT BEFORE THE JUSTICES OF THE COURT OF PLEAS AND
QUARTER  SESSIONS FOR SAID COUNTY
ZOPHER JOHNSON  A RESIDENT CITIZEN OF SAID COUNTY AGED
SEVENTY YEARS  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  7TH JUNE  1832.     HE  WAS BORN
ON THE FORKS OF DELAWARE IN PENNSYLVANIA BUT THE COUNTY HE DOES
NOT REMEMBER AND  HE ENTERED THE SERVICE  OF THE UNITED STATES
UNDER THE FOLLOWING NAMED OFFICERS AND SERVED AS HERE IN AFTER STATED, TO WIT-
HE ENTERRED THE SERVICE AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR HIS BROTHER JOSEPH
JOHNSON WHO WAS DRAFTED TO SERVE A TOUR OF DUTY IN THE
MILITIA IN FREDERICK COUNTY VIRGINIA IN THE SUMMER OF 1781 FOR
THE TERM OF THREE MONTHS UNDER CAPT. GILKINSON, LIEUTENANT
ASHBY AND WAS IN THE   REGIMENT COMMANDED
BY MAJOR SCOTT AND COLONEL DARKE. AND SERVED HIS TOUR OF DUTY
AT AND NEAR WILLIAMSBURGH VIRGINIA  AND HE REMAINED
IN THE SERVICE UNTIL AFTER THE SURRENDER OF LORD CORNWALLACE
AT YORK TOWN VIRGINIA AND WAS THEN DISCHARGED BY CAPT GILKINSON
WHICH DISCHARGE HE  RECEIVED   AFTER HE RETURNED
HOME AND HE WAS OUT FROM THE TIME HE ENTERRED
THE SERVICE THAT TIME UNTIL HE RETURNED HOME  FOUR MONTHS
AND TWO WEEKS.   NEARLY ALL THE TIME HE WAS OUT
THAT TIME HE WAS IN THE HOSPITLE  ATTENDING THE SICK AND WAS IN
 THAT EMPLOY DURING THE SEIGE OF YORK TOWN  THEN HE
HEARD THE GUNS NIGHT AND DAY DURING THE SEIGE.  AFTER THE SEIGE
HE RETURNED HOME AND IN A VERY SHORT TIME
THE PRISIONERS  WERE SENT UP TO WINCHESTER  NEAR  WHERE
HE RESIDED.    AFTER THE PRISIONERS CAME TO WINCHESTER
HE WAS AGAIN DRAFTED TO GUARD THE PRISIONERS AND THEN A SECOND
TIME ENTERRED THE SERVICE AT WINCHESTER ON THAT DUTY. UNDER
CAPTAIN __EATH (??)  AND GUARDED THE PRISIONERS AT
WINCHESTER UNTIL THEY WERE MARCHED FROM  THAT PLACE AND THEN
WENT WITH THE PRISIONERS TO POTOMAC RIVER AND THEN TO   HAGARS
TOWN IN MARYLAND WHERE THEY  MET ANOTHER GUARD WHO RECEIVED
 THE PRISIONERS AND HE THEN WAS PERMITTED  AND DID RETURN  HOME
AGAIN.  AND HE WAS THEN IN SERVICE  BEFORE  HE RETURNED HOME
SOMETHING MORE THAN TWO MONTHS BUT THE  PRECISE TIME HE CANNOT
STATE  WHICH MAKES THE WHOLE OF HIS TIME IN SERVICE AT LEAST
 SIX MONTHS AND TWO WEEKS.    HIS DISCHARGE IS LONG AGO  LOST
SO THAT HE CANNOT  NOW  PRODUCE IT.
HE HAS LIVED IN GREENE COUNTY  WHERE HE NOW LIVES  FOR FORTY YEARS
OR MORE  AND MOVED FROM NEAR WINCHESTER  TO THIS COUNTY .  HE
HAS NOT ANY DOCUMENTARY EVIDENCE  TO PROVE HIS SERVICE  AND DOES
NOT KNOW  OF ANY WITNESSES TO PROVE  HIS SERVICE  EXCEPT THE
AFFIDAVITS  HERETO ANNEXED  AND THERE IS NOT ANY
RESIDENT MINISTER IN HIS NEIGHBORHOOD  TO CERTIFY FOR HIM.
HE HEREBY RELINQUISHES  EVERY CLAIM TO A PENSION  WHATSOEVER  EXCEPT THE
PRESENT  AND DECLARES  THAT HIS NAME IS NOT ON THE PENSION ROLL
  OF ANY STATE OR ITS AGENCY.   SWORN TO  AND SUBSCRIBED IN OPEN
 
COURT  THE DATE ABOVE.
 
 
V. SEVIER (SEAL)                                                                                “Y”
                                                                                                ZOPHER JOHNSON
                                                                                                                “MARK”
 
 
 
 
 
 
                                (Comment:  it looks like the “signature” of Zopher Johnson is by
                                the same person writing the statement.  And the word “mark”
                                indicates that Zopher could not write his name and thus signed by
                                “mark”,  “Y”.)