Frederick County Virginia

Zopher Johnston
Submitted by Stevie Hughes

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”.)

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