Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B. L. Wt. 1408-300, for Absolam Martin, New Jersey
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8 -- 1776)
SERVICE
New Jersey

CONTENTS
Martin
Absolam

NUMBER
L. Wt. 1408-300- Capt
Issued Sept 10 1790
No papers
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Rev. War Section
Record Division.

Mr. Edgar R. Harlan,
Historical Department of Iowa.
Des Moines, Iowa.
Sir:
Nov. 12, 1921.
In response to your letter of the 26"" ultimo, you
are advised that this Bureau is unable to furnish the
history of a soldier of the Revolution, unless a claim
for pension or bounty land has been made on account of
his services and a careful search of the records fails
to such claims on file on account of the services of
John and William Boice of Pennsylvania.
Warrant No. 1408, for three hundred acres of bounty
land was issued Sept. 10, 1790, on account of the Revolutionary
War services of Captain Absolam Martin of
the New Jersey line. There is no further data on file
as to said officer, owing to the destruction of papers
when the War Office was burned in Nov. 1800, where the
bounty land claims were on file. It is not appear
that pension was claimed on account of his services.
Very respectfully,
the
Commissioner.
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RECORD
DIVSION
OCT 29 1921
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HISTORICAL Department of Iowa
TRUSTEES
CREAM B. EVANS
JUDGE SILAS M. WEAVER
JUDGE BYRON W. PRESTON
JUD
TRUMAN S. STEVENS
JUDGE THOMAS ARTH:
JUDGE FREDERICK F. FAVILLE
JUDGE LAWRENCE DEGRAFF
HON. W. C. RAMSAY.
SECRETARY OF STATE
RON. P. E. MCCLEN
NAHAN
SUPT PUBLIC INSTRUCTION
U. S. Bureau of Pensions,
Revolutionary Section,
Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir: -
Misterial Department of Juma
┃ FOUNDED BY CHAS. ALDRICH
EDGAR R. HARLAN, CURATORon
October 26, 1921.
I wish to obtain the pension record of Captain
Absolom Martin, of New Jersey. I especially wish to secure
any record of his parents or family. I believe he
died in Martins Ferry, Ohio.
I also wish the Revolutionary service of John
and William Boice, of Pennsylvania.

J/ LSW
Sincerely yours,
EIR Hallen