Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 10304, Martin Cort, New York
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State of New York
Schoham County
On this fourteenth day of September in the year of
our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and thirty seven
personally appeared before me Henry Shapen a Judge of
the court of Common Pleas in and for said county
of Schoham which is a court of record Martin Cort a resident of the town of Sharon in the County of Schoham in the State of New York aged Seventy nine 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 provision made by the act of Congress passed
June 7th 1832
That he the said Martin Cort enlisted in the army
of the United States and served in the Line under the
following named officers
That he the said Martin Cort was Enlisted in the
County of Albany on the 6th day May 1779
for nine months in Capt Hamtramik's company
in the regiment commanded by Col Dubois
that he served in Capt Hamtramiks company in
Col Dubois regiment in Schoham - from thence
they marched to the Mohawk river near Montgomery
County - from thence they marched to Fort Hamik -
from thence they marched back to fort Plaine on
the Mohawk river - that he served in Fort Plaine
until the first Day of January 1780 that he was honorably Discharged in Fort Plaine from the Service by Col Dubar by word
That he hereby relinquishes ever claim whatever to a
person or annuity except the present, and Declares
that his name is not on the pension Roll of the
agency of any State
This deponent says on his oath that he is unable to
appear in the Schoham County on the account and reason
of bodily infirmity that he has been so for a number of years
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State of New York
Secretary's Office

I certify that it appears by the Military Register in this Office that Martin Cort was enlisted as a soldier in Capt. Hamtramck's Company in the fifth New York Regiment commanded by Col. Dubois on the 6th day of May 1779 for nine months and was discharged on the first of January 1780

Archd [Archibald] Campbell
Dep. Secretary

Albany Sep 7 1837
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Albany April 13th 1858

George C. Whiting Esquire
Commissioner of Pensions

Sir,

Enclosed you have a paper, on which Mrs Ann Eliza Cort claims to draw the amount due on the 4th of March last, one years pension, her pension certificate being illegally withheld by Hynds and Brown, residing in the immediate neighborhood of the pensioner, will such paper warrant payment of the same.

Very Respectfully
Your Obt Servt
Cornelius Glen
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Treasury Department
Third Auditor's Office
Feby 12th 1857

Sir,
I return the papers enclosed in your letter of the 4th [ ] in reply have to inform you that the pension of Martin Cort, (as is supposed from the papers your enquiry is relative to & not Martha Cort as stated in your letter,) appears tohave been paid at the Albany N.Y. Agency, under act of June 1832, at $26.60 per annum, to 4th of September 1840.

The arrears do not appear to have been paid.

Very Respectfully
Your Obt Servt
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George C. Whiting Esquire
Commissioner of Pensions
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[ ] Reps May 16th 1838

J. L. Edwards Esq

Dear Sir

Enclosed I send you a letter asking certain information in relation to two pension case - 

Be pleased to give me an answer thereto that I may advise my correspondent thereof -

I have the Honor to be your obedient servant
R. McClellan