Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 23,929, for John Marshall, New Hampshire
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Continental (N.H.)  Marshall, John   W. 23,929

Mass.                                         Sarah

Navy. of Rev. & War. 1812.

Hellen Marshall also applied
as widow of said John. See papers
within not allowed.
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State of New York

[illegible] County Ss.  On this ninth day of April 1818 before me the Subscriber, one of the Judges of the Court of Common [illegible] in and for said County personally approved John Marshall aged sixty two years, resident in the town of Greenbush in said County, who being by me first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the provision made by the late act of Congress "entitled" An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War; that the said Marshall enlisted at Cambridge in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts as a private soldier, on or about the first day of May 1775 in the company commanded by Capt. Michael Towns in the Regiment commanded by Col. [illegible] Bridge, in the Massachusetts line; that be continued to serve in said Corps in the service of the United States until the last day of Dec 1775 when he was discharged from service in Cambridge aforesaid, and that he was in the battle of Bunkers Hill so called. And that he, at said Cambridge, immediately after his aforesaid discharge, enlisted into the company commanded by Capt. Benjamin Mann in the Regiment commanded by Col. Reid, New Hampshire line and that he continued to serve in the service of the United States until some of the first days of January in the year 1777 when he was discharged from the service at a place called Mount Independence, in the now State of Vermont. And that he is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his Country for support and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services.

John Marshall

Sworn to and declared before me the day & year first above written.
L.T. [illegible]
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John Marshall informed of his intention of Marriage with Sarah March both living in Newbury. August twenty fifth seventeen hundred and eighty one.

I posted said intent as the Law directs.

Edmund  Lawyer Town Clerk

I hereby certify that the above is a true copy of the original record with the exception of the date which is expressed on the record in fair legible figures as follows, August 25, 1781.
Ezra Hale Town Clerk

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Essex Town of Newburyport. March 9th 1039. Then personally came Ezra Hale above named Clerk of the Town of Newbury, and made oath in due form of Law, to the truth of the above written declaration by him [illegible] in [illegible]
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Declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the 5 section of the Act of Congress of the 4th of July 1836
State of Maine
Somerset County.  On this seventeenth day of January in the year Eighteen hundred and thirty-nine personally appeared before the Hon. Drummond Farnsworth Judge of [illegible] in and for the county aforesaid at a special Court of Probate [illegible] in said county Sarah Marshall a  resident of said [illegible] aged seventy nine years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision make by the Act of Congress passed July 4, 1836. That she is the widow of John Marshall, who was a private in the army and a seaman in the navy of the United States during the Revolutionary war and who at the time of his decease was Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States; that her said husband according to the best of her knowledge and belief served on year on board the [illegible] armed ship "Hancock" under Commander [illegible] during the year seventeen hundred & seventy seven; that she often heard her said husband in his lifetime tell of his service in the navy & that during their cruise they went to Spain; and after that he enlisted into the army and served several years but she is not able to state the names of his officers. She knows that he belonged tothe army at the time she