State of Virginia

County of Washington ~ On this day personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace for the county of the aforesaid, Aggy Johnston a resident of the county, Who in due and solumn form of law, doth, on her oath, declare that she is seventy-one years of age and the sixth born child of her father and mother, that she is the Daughter of William Blanton, a solider of the Revolution, and she thinks, from the State of Virginia that her father the said William Blanton served under Genl George Washington at Braddock’s defeat, that he served to the end of the Revolutionary War. As she thinks from what she has heard him say, in the Virginia Continental line, that said William Blanton never applied for pension, that he died about the year 1817, that his widow Hannah Blanton died in the year 1833, about the last of Oct. or Novr., that the said Hannah at the time of her death left the following named children, to wit. John who is dead, Elizabeth, dead, Vincent, dead, Rutha, dead, Joel, dead, Mary, dead, Hannah, dead, Claiborne, dead, that the said Aggy Johnston is sole and only living heir at law of said William Blanton and Hannah his wife, She alleges that the said William served the war through, to the end thereof, and became entitle to Bounty land, and a reward of Eighty dollars promised by Congress.   If said service ???? the claims, she prays it may be granted to her. She will address proof of service.

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                                                                                            Aggy X Johnston        

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Sworn to and subscribed before me the 19th day of April 1855.

                                                                                        Noble S. McGinnis J.P

Affidavit of Aggy Blanton Johnston, daughter of WILLIAM BLANTON American Revolutionary solider.  Transcribed by: Jenelle Blanton Wilcox August 2002
Source: National Society Daughters of the American Revolution Library, Washington D.C. Microfilm Department.
Researched July 2002 by Jenelle Blanton Wilcox
Virginia State Library, Richmond, Virginia
National Society Daughters of the America Revolution (DAR), NSDAR Library, Washington, D.C.
Copyright 2003 Blanton Family Historians