Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 2725, for Alexander Martin, New Jersey
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(3-1776)                                                

SERVICE                                                  NUMBER

New Jersey       Martin, Alexander          S. 2725
N. J. Sea Service
Privateer                                                  carded
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CONTENTS
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13.012
Ohio
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Alexander Martin of Hamilton in the State of Ohio who was a Private and Artificer Fluter in the Company, commanded by Captain Seely of the Regt commanded by Col Martin in the New Jersey line for 22 months.

Artificer      12 mos.       72.00
Sailor            3 mos        12.00
Private of      7 mos        23.33
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                                       107.33
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Inscribed on the Roll of Ohio.
at the rate of 107.33. Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March 1834.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 13th day of May 33.  and sent to Thos [Thomas] J. Henderson. Cincinnati, Ohio.
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Arrears to 4th Mar '33.                           214.66
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept.}        53.64
                                                1833.}     _______
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                                                             $268.33
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{Revolutionary Claim,}
{Act June 7, 1832.}
Recorded by Wm R. Palmer  Clerk;
Book E.  Vol. 8. Page 16

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1888
July 19 G F Cary history              Pri

78


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Date of death not in AB.
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The State of Ohio}
Hamilton County} Jct.
On this twenty second day of August personally appeared in open Court before the Honourable the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas within and for said County now setting Alexander Martin a resident of the City of Cincinnati in the County and State aforesaid 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 June 7, 1832 that he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated James Debail Col commanding Artificer at Morristown, New Jersey where he then resided and was engaged in the Blacksmithing business for the army subject in all cases of immergency [emergency] to bear arms and continued [{in} crossed out[ for one year- and was honourably discharged.
And again entered the service under the following named officers Sylvanus Seeley Capt John Roberts to Lieut. Oliver Spencer Majr Ephraim Martin Col at Chatham N. J. and marched from their to Elizabeth Town farms where they had a severe skirmish with the enemy and for which his Captain Seeley and Majr Spencer were both promoted to the office of Col and continued in the said Company for three months the term for which he enlisted and was engaged in protecting the County from the incursions of the enemy and was then discharged and again entered the service in what was called the flying camp at Springfield New Jersey, under the following named officers.  Job Brookfields Captain Hugh Caldwell First Capt. Johnson Captain John Satin and served four months in the said service and what was then called monthly terms
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and was engaged during that time in the Battle of Springfield and Monmouth in the first named battle he was commanded by Captain Johnson and at Monmouth by Captain Laiton [Possibly Captain John Layton] and Lieut Hugh Caldwell and continued to serve on scouting parties the service to which his Company was attached until honourable discharged. the name of his Col at Monmouth was Seely,  And again entered the service at New Brunswick as an able bodied sailor on board the Gun Boat Hornet under the command of Thomas Hyler and continued to serve with him until his death which was caused by his being poisoned and then entered with Captain Jackson the commander of a large Galley and continued to serve with him until discharged having served under both commanders about three months. their business was to keep the disaffected from supplying the enemys ships with provisions.  And after his discharge went to Baltimore and engaged as a seaman on Board the Privateer "Jolly Tar" commanded by Isaac Harrison and sailed from thence to the Jamaca [Jamaica] Islands were [where] they were captured by the Jason Frigate and sent back to New York where they were confined in the Jersey prison ships in the same fall Cornwallis was taken and continued their five months and 15 days
[{He hereby} crossed out] that he has no documentary evidence and that he knows of no persons who [{se} crossed out] can testify to his service except the depositions of those herewith sumitted [submitted] He hereby relinquishes every claim what ever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state.
Sworn & subscribed the day & yr aforesaid Danl [Daniel] Gano Clk PT    Alex Martin
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I Amos Ward a resident of Columbia township in the County and State aforesaid hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Alexander Martin who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that I believe him to be seventy years of age and that I served with him in the Army of the Revolution under Captain Seeley, (afterwards Col Seeley)  and believe that he was in the Battle of Springfield and that the statements made in his declaration relative to his land service I believe correct and true and that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he now resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that I know that fact.
Sworn and subscribed the day & year aforesaid
Danl [Daniel} Gano clk PT     Amos Ward

I Jacob Broadwell senr [senior] a resident of the City of Cincinnati in the County and State aforesaid hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Alexander Martin who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that I believe him to be seventy years of age that I knew him while in the army of the revolution and know that he was in the Battle of Springfield; that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he now resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that I know that fact "Sworn & subscribed the day & yr aforesaid            Jacob Broadwell
Danl [Daniel] Gano
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I John Rose a resident of Anderson township in the County and State aforesaid hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Alexander Martin who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that I believe him to be seventy
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years of age that I served with him in the army of the Revolution under Captain Sylvenus Seeley and was with him at the Battle of Springfield and afterwards at the battle of Monmouth & further I believe the statements made in his declaration relative to his land service are correct & true that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood were [where] he now resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that I know him to have been such
Sworn & subscribed the day & yr afsd [aforesaid]
Danl [Daniel] Gano              John Rose
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Interrogatories proupounded [propounded] by the Court to the Applicant

1 Where & in what year were you born
Ans [Answer] In Morris County N. Jersey in the yr. 1742
2 Have you any Record of your age if so were [where] is it  
Ans [Answer] I have the family bible where in my age is Registered
3. Where were you liveing when call in to the service where have you lived since the Revoly [Revolutionary] war and were [where] do you live now
Ans When calld [called] in to the service I lived in Morris County in New Jersey since the Revolutionary war I have resided in the States of New Jersey, Kentucky & Ohio I now live in the City of Cincinnati
4 How ere you call'd [called] into the service were you a substitute & if a substitute
Ans One month of the time I was a substitute for my Brother David Martin for the rest of my land service I was drafted & volunteered in the sea service I [{volunteered} crossed out] enlisted
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5 State the names of some of the Regular officers who were with the troops where you served such continental and militia regiments as you can recollect and the general circumstances of your service
Ans.  I Recollect Col. Martin Col Lindley Col Spencer Col Seeley Col Ford Genl [General] Caldwell, the general circumstances of my service are contained in my declaration
b.  Did you ever receive a discharge from the service and if so by whom was it given and what has become of it
Ans I did receive discharges from my officers but they have all long since been lost
7. State the names of person whom you are known in your present neighborhood and who can testify as to your character for veracity and their belief or yr [your] services as a soldier of the Revolution.
Ans Edward Dodson Luther Rose James Findlay Oliver M Spencer
Sworn & subscribed the day or year aforesaid
                              his
             Alexander  X  Martin
                             mark
Danl [Daniel] Gano
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And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War department that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he states  And the Court further Certifies that Amos Ward Jacob Broadwell and John Rose who has signed the proceeding certificates are Citizens of the County & state aforesaid and are credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit
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The State of Ohio}
Hamilton County} ss

I Daniel Gano Clerk Pro Tem of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County do hereby certify the foregoing contained the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Alexander Martin for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed  the Seal of Said court at Cincinnati this 22nd of August 1832
Danl [Daniel} Gano
Clk PT

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Alex Martin 
No 6195
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August 25, 1932
BA-J/AWF
S. 2725

Mrs. C. H. Worts, Jr.
127 May Avenue
Ft. Smith, Arkansas

Dear Madam:

     Reference is made to your letter requesting the record of the Revolutionary War pensioner, Alexander Martin.

     The data furnished herein were obtained from the papers on file in pension claim, S. 2725,based upon the Revolutionary War service of Alexander Martin.

     Alexander Martin was born in 1762 in Morris County, New Jersey, the names of his parents are not given.

     While residing in Morristown, New Jersey, he served with the New Jersey troops, as follows: from early in 1777, one year as an artificer under Colonel James Debail; three months as private in Captain Sylvanus Seeley's company, Colonel Ephraim Martin's regiment, and four months as private under Captains Job Brookfield, Johnson and John Laitin, a part of this four months was in Colonel Seeley's regiment.  He was in the battles of Monmouth, Elizabethtown and Springfield.

     He entered at New Brunswick on board the gunboat Hornet and served as seaman under Thomas Hyler, and on a large galley under Captain Jackson, length of service three months.  He entered at Baltimore on board the privateer Jolley Tar and served as seaman under Isaac Harrison, sailed to the Jamaica Islands, where captured by the frigate Jason, sent to New York and held in the prison ship Jersey, in the fall of 1781, five months and five days.

     After the Revolution he moved from New Jersey to Ken-
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tucky and thence to Ohio.

     He was allowed pension on his application executed August 22, 1832, then a resident of Cincinnati, Ohio.

     He stated that he served one month as substitute for his brother, David Martin, but did not specify the month.

     It is not stated whether Alexander Martin was married.

     In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, the name of person paid and possibly the date of death of the Revolutionary War pensioner, Alexander Martin, you should address The Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, Washington, D. C., 
citing all of the following data-
Alexander Martin
Certificate number 13012
Issued May 6, 1833
Rate $107.33 per annum
To commence March 4, 1831
Act of June 7, 1832
Ohio Agency

Very truly yours

A. D. Hiller
Assistant to Administrator
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BRIEF objections to the admission of pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of Alexander Martin which require further proof  or explanation.

I.  Does the declaration show where the applicant resides?  Yes

II.  Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides?  Yes

III.  If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so?

IV.  Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served?  No

V.  *Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades i which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled?  Yes

VI.  Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations?  Yes

VII.  Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832?  Yes

VIII.  Has the Court given their opinion?  Yes

IX.  Has the Clerk given his certificate?  Yes

X.  Is the Clerk's seal affixed?  And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished form any other seal?  Yes
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XI.  Has the appicant obtained the evidence of a clegyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service?  No

XII.  If the clergyman's affidavit has not been  produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it?  No

XIII.  If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had?  The living witness is met

XIV.   If the applicant has produced a witness or witnesses as to his service, has the magistrate who administered the oath certified that he, she, or they are persons of credibility?  Yes
Has the official character and signature of the magistrate been certified by the proper officer under his seal of office?  Yes

XV.  Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age as to have a personal knowledge of the applicants service?  Yes

XVI.  Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct?  Yes

XVII.  Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily?  And, if not, which of them is not so answered?  Yes


                 EXPLANATORY NOTES.
QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words: "Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades; For — year —  months, and — days, I served as a —  For —  months and — days, I served as a  — ; and for such service I claim a pension.
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It is important, in all cases, to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, As the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months, it too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable

†Quere  XIV.  Proof of Service.
In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the
Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimant's entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office. 

†Quere  XVI.  Mode of authenticating papers.

In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which, contains the affidavit, or other papers authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.

# Should prove service as an artificer

12 Mar Art
  3
  4
  3 Sailor
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No 6.195 c 13072.

Alexander Martin
Hamilton County
Ohio

Adm from 1777
12 Mo. Artificer--_------------72.00  
  7 Mo. Private Infantry-------23.33
  3 " Sailor---------------------12.00
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                                              107.33





Thomas J. Henderson 
Cincinnati
Ohio
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Cinc [Cincinnati] Feby [February] 25th, 18433

Sir

I herewith return you the application of Alexander Martin for a pension ammend and with the proof required by you letter of introduction which I hope will prove satisfactory

  Very Respectfully
  yr obt Humble svt  [Your obedient Humble servant]
Thomas J. Henderson

J. L. Edwards Esqr}
Pension office}

please direct you answer to me
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REVOLUTIONARY WAR RECORDS SECTION. 3-525
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Washington, D. C.,  ______________, 19______

In reply to your request of ________, received _________ for a statement of the military history of Alexander Martin a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR,  you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.
S. 2725
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[column headings]
DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. I LENGTH OF SERVICE. I RANK. I OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. I STATE.
[Secondary headings under] [OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.]  CAPTAIN. I COLONEL. I
early 1777 I 1 yr I Blacksmith in the Artificers I James Debail I N. J.
3 mos I Pvt I Sylvanus Seeley I Ephraim Martin
[{1 1778} crossed out] I 4 mos I Pvt I Job Brookfield  Johnson  John Laitin I in Flyn Comp. I
and see below I Jan 80 I June 80 I June 78
Battles engaged in , Elizabethtown Springfield Monmouth
Residence of soldier at enlistment,  Morristown, N. J.
Date of Application for pension, Aug. 22, 1832,  His cl. al.
Age at date of application, b. Morris o. N. J. 1762.  Names of par [parents] not given
Remarks:  It is not stated whether he was married.
cert. at New Brunswick
He also served as seaman on Gunboat-Hornet under Thos Hyler and under Caps Jackson on a large Galley, for 3 mos and then as Seaman at Balt on Privateer Jolley Tar under Isaac Harrison captured by the Frigate Jason at Jamaica & confined in Jersey prison ship at New York in the fall of 1780 and continued there 5 mos. 15 days.

Respectfully,
There is no ref the wife or died but Bro Daniel Martin 1 mo
J-285C
Commissioner.
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Fort Smith, Arkansas
Aug 5, 1932.

Pension Bureau
Revolutionary War Dept.
Washington D. C. 

Please send me a copy of your record of Alexander Martin-
Revolutionary War- who enlisted in Morristown N. J. in 1777 an applied for pension in Cincinnati Ohio 1832.  Would like name of wife & children-

Mrs. G. H. Wortz Jr-
127 My Ave
# South Ark-

[Stamp]
RECEIVED
AUG 15 1932
RECEIPT SECTION 
PENSION FILES SUB-DIVISION


18 Received A. G. AUG 10 1932

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RECEIVED 
AUG 11 1932
OLD RECORDS DIVN.
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]STAMP]


RECORD
SEP 3 1921
DIVISION
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Rev MH  924 East Eighth St.
Pueblo, Colo.
Aug. 28, 1921

Department of the Interior
Bireau of Pensions
Washington, D. C.

[Stamp] 
Pension
 Sep 
 U 2 S
 1921 
Office

Gentlemen;

I am seeking credentials that I may join the D. A. R., and shall greatly appreciate it id you will send me the history of: 
William Slayback, soldier of Revolutionary War who enlisted from Middlesex Co. N. J. born 1759, Middlesex Co. N. J. died Oct 31, 1836
(over)
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also of 
Alexander Martin b. Morris Co. 1762.
enlisted Morristown, N. J. date of application for pension Aug. 22, 1832, at Cincinnati, & served as seaman on gunboats, captured in Jersey prison ships at New York for 5 mo. 15 days ending in fall of 1781.
Thanking you for histories requested, I am 
yours Respectfully, 
Estella R. H. Johnston.
(Mrs. W. S),
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If these histories require postage, of course I shall send it when I know how much to send.
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MASONIC TEMPLE                 PHONE 2 ON 66

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{Pension
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Rev War
M Ele
Mail

[{J. J. Dones} underlined]
DRY GOODS, CARPETS, SHOES, HATS AND 
                      FURNISHINGS

NEW HOLLAND. O. Oct 22 1916

Dept Interior
Washington D.C.
Dear Sir
Will you hereby give me full information of Alexander Martin Revolutionary Soldier-who died April 29, 1846-aged 88 yrs-Our records less except above on tombstone at Pleasant Ridge-Ohio.  The following descendants entitled to membership in D.A.R. request papers of information be sent.
Mrs. Cora S. Dones
New Holland, Ohio
Very Truly
Cora S. Dones
{Mrs Estella R. Johnstone}
Mrs Emma Slaback Heath}
924 E. 8th St
Pueblo-Colorado

only one record sent & that to writer C. S. Dones.
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[Stamp
{PENSION
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    1901
OFFICE.}]
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Waupun, Wisconsin,
Nov. 20, 1901.

[Stamp {O. W. E. N. DIVISION
NOV 26 1901
RECEIVED}]                  GHW

Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir:  Will you kindly ascertain for whether Alexander Martin, native of New Jersey, afterward resident of Guilford Co., North Carolina, served in the Revolutionary War.  It is supposed that he was Colonel of a regiment and fought at Brandywine and Germantown.
Also Stevens Thompson Mason, native of Virginia, thought to have been Colonel and later General in the Revolutionary War; on Jeremiah Mason,

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This is not soldiers the record should review have been sent in 
reply to this letter
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native of Connecticut, and
supposed to have been
Colonel in the same war.
Thanking you in advance 
for the granting of information 
which will be of value to me, I am,
Yours respectfully, 
Celia W. Martin.


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     OFFICE.}
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Decr {December] 13, 1901
Celia M. Martin
               Maupun Wis
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1916. Nov. 13. Heist to Cora. S. Dones and 
1921 Sept 26       ""           " Mrs. W. S. John-
ston-Eu
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1932-Aug. 25-list to Mrs. 
C. H. Wortz. Jr. Any

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2725
Rev War
INVALID

File No.      2725
Alexander Martin
Privt Rev War

Act:  June 7  1832

Index:--Vol. A ,  Page 235

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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The State of Ohio
City of Cincinnati J sct

Personally appeared before me Thomas J. Henderson a Notary Public within and for said [{County} crossed out] City Alexander Martin who being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he entered the service in the early part of the year 1777 as an artificer and served the periods mentioned below and in the following grades as an Artificer twelve months as a private seven months and as a sailor [{and as} crossed out}  on board the Gun Boat Hornet three months as is shown by his declaration and for such service he claims a pension 
"Sworn and subscribed this17. day }
of Jan [January] A.D. 1833}  Alex Martin

Thomas J. Henderson
Notary Public


The State of Ohio}
Hamilton County j set  Court of Common Pleas
                                 February     Term 1833

We Oliver M Spencer a clergyman residing in the City of Cincinnati in the County and State aforesaid and Thomas J. Henderson residing in the City, County and state aforesaid hereby certify that we are well acquainted
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with a Alexander Martin who has sworn and subscribed to the above declaration and affidavit that we believe him to be seventy years of age that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn and subscribed to this 25th day of Feby [February] AD 1833
Owen Spencer
Thomas J. Henderson
Danl [Daniel] Gano Clk PT

I Daniel Gano Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas within and for the County of Hamilton aforesaid do hereby certify that the above and foregoing contains the additional proceedings of said Court in the matter of the application of Alexander Martin for a pension

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this 25th day of February A.D. 1833

Danl ]Daniel] Gano

Clk PT

[Seal affixed on left]
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The State of Ohio
Clermont County J sct

Personally appeared before me the undersigned a Justice of the peace within and for said County Neamiah Ward of the County aforesaid to me well known who being duly sworn deposes and says that he entered the service of the United States as an artificer in the early part of the year 1777 at Morristown New Jersey under Col. James Debail at which time he well knew Alexander Martin the applicant named in the annexed declaration who entered the service about the same time [{time} crossed out] with himself and worked in the same shop and under the same officer and that the said applicant continued to serve at the same place and under the said Col Debail for twelve months and was honourably discharged and this deponant from the knowledge he has of the said applicant verily believes that the other statements of service contained in his declaration are correct and true.

Sworn & subscribed before me}
this 12 day of January 1833}     Nehemiah Ward

James Ward JPESS

The State of Ohio}
Clermont County J sct

And I James Ward-a Justice of the Peace within and for said County do certify that
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the above deponant Neamiah Ward is a credible person and that his statement is entitle to credit

Given under my hand and seal this 12th day of January. 1833
James Ward   JP   seal

The State of Ohio}
Clermont County} js  I Jonathan D Morris Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas within and for said County do hereby certify that James Ward Esquire before whom the within and foregoing affidavit of Neamiah Ward appears to have been sworn and subscribed to and who also signed the above certificate  certifying to the credibility of said Ward was at that time and now is one of the acting Justices of the Peace within and for the County of Clermont aforesaid duly commissioned and qualified and full faith and credit is due and ought to be given to all his official acts as such and the signature purporting to be his is genuine

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court at Batavia this 14th day of January AD 1833
J. D. Morris Clerk