Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 4,785, for Martin Roberts, Virginia
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(3-1776)

SERVICE    
Va  

Roberts, Martin  
Elizabeth

NUMBER
W. 4785

CONTENTS
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19732
Martin Roberts
Petition for
Pension
July 6th 1828

(1)
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State of North Carolina  On this 16th day of April 1828
Rutherford County personally appeared in open court
being on ---- of word, for the county aforesaid, Martin
Robets a resident in said County aged seventy years who being
first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make
the following declaration in order to obtain The provision
made by the Acts of congress of the 18th of March 1828 and the
1st May 1820 that he the said Martin Roberts enlisted for
the term of two years sometime in the spring of the
year 1776 or 1777 in the State of Virginia Chesterfield County,
in the company commanded by Capt. (Captain) Ralph Faulkner
in the regiment commanded by Col. (Colonel) ---Genl (General) Martinbery
who was succeeded as he thinks by Col (Colonel) Josiah Parker, in the 
line of the State of Virginia in the continental establishment
that he continued to serve with the expiration of
the said time when he was discharged from service
at the Valley Forge; that he hereby relinquishes his every claim
whatever to a pension, except the present; that his name
is not on the roll of any State except from a declaration
heretofore sent to the war department and returned as
not allowed. That he did apply to the judge of the superior
court for the County of Rutherford about the year
1819 or 1820 who informed him that as he owned and
paid taxes for land he could not obtain a pension
And in pursuance of the Act of the 11th of May 1820 I
do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the
United States on the 18th day of March 1878 and that
I have not since that time by gift, sale or in any manner
disposed of my property or any part thereof with
intend thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself
within the provisions of the Act of congress entitled an
Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the
land and naval service of the United States in the
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Revolutionary War (illegible) on the 18th of March 1818
and that I have not nor has any person in trust
for me, any property, or securities, contents or debts
due to me; nor have I any income  this I have what
is contained in the schedule hereunto annexed and by me
subscribe to wit
Six head of hogs $6     1 Tea Pot $. 50
Two yearlings        6      1 Coffee Pot. 75
one Pot                 .75     5 Knives and forks 1.50
Two bake pans    1.25     2 Water Pots    .37
One loom            4.00     1 Churn          1.50
5 Pewter Plates    1.50      1 Axe  1 Matlock 2.00
1/2 doz cups and saucers .50    1 Mucking hoe .50
1 earthen dish   .50          2 ploughs 1 set of (illegible) 2.75
3 Pewter Spoons .37          Total 38.50
1Pine trunk         1.00
1 Pine table         1.50
4 sitting chairs     2.00
1 Pair day irons    2.00
That since the 18th of March 1818 he has sold no property
except one cow. That he has had fifty acres of land
more or less, sold by the Sheriff to satisfy a debt due to
Adley Hamilton contracted for articles in the store
for the use of his family previous to the year 1818
and eight head of hogs sold by John b Boyse constable
to satisfy a debt due (illegible) L Grasey for a debt contracted
bona fide and thru head of battle so to by said Boyse
to satisfy a debt due David Bearington.  Sworn to and declared
on this 16th day of April 1828  Martin Roberts
Sworn to in open court
April 16th 1828
I braton CLk
by
Y F Berchett D.C
I John Bouse swear that some time in the year 1824
I sold as constable, eight head of hogs the property of
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Martin Roberts to satisfy a debt due Jason L. Graves and three head of cattle to satisfy a debt due David Covington and that the sales were fair
John C. Boyce
Sworn to in open Court
April 16th 1828
I. Craton Clk By T F Birchett D.C.

I Abbey Hamilton swear that Martin Roberts land was sold by the Sheriff of Rutherford to satisfy a debt due me, contracted in the year 1817 as well as now recollected for articles in the store
A Hamilton
Sworn to in open court
15th of July 1828
Isaac Craton Clk

I William Carson Sheriff of Rutherford County swear that I sold a tract of land supposed to belong to Martin Roberts containing fifty Acres, more or less, on an execution in favour of Adley Hamilton at a fair and publick sale
W Carson Shffr

Sworn to in open court 18th of July 1828
Isaac Carton Clk

I Isaac Craton Clerk of the County of Pleas and quarter sessions for the county of Rutherford North Carolina do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the records of said court and that the affidavits thereto annexed were sworn to in open court; and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said court, that the total amount in value, of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is thirty eight dollars and fifty cents. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court on the 19th of July 1828
Isaac Craton Clk
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Noah Roberts
19 June 1854
1854 August 17
Transferred from beginning
to Washington D.C.
A.H. Markland Attorney

33.239 District Columbia
North Carolina Ash. (Crossed out)
Martin Roberts
of Cleveland in the state of N.C.
who was a forage master in the (blank) commanded
by captain (Illegible) of the (blank) commanded
by (blank) in the Revolution
for two years
Inscribed on the Roll of Asheville
at the rate of 600 Dollars 00 Cents per annum.
to commence on the 4th day of March 1831(illegible) 30th
October 1834,
Certificate of Pension issued the 10th day of May
1834 and sent to
A.H. Markland
Arrears to the 4th of
allowance ending Pres.
Semi-Annual
Deducting former Pays
under Act 18 March 
#96 per annum
Recorded by (Illegible)
Book Vol.
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5118
Elizabeth Roberts
Wid of Martin
NC
Ad July 7 1838
Married 1787
died 1834
Allow $80 per ann

D. Reinhardt
(illegible) 
NC
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State of North Carolina
Lincoln County   On the 2nd day of March 1839
personally appeared before the subscriber a justice of the
peace in and for said County, Elizabeth Roberts late of the
County of Rutherford in the state aforesaid aged seventy years
who being duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make
the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of 
the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 7th 1838
entitled an act Granting half pay and pensions to certain
widows.
That she is the widow of Martin Roberts late of
Rutherford County in said state, who was a soldier of the Revolutionary war, as she has been informed and believes, that from
some memorandum found among her late husbands papers
she believes he enlisted for two years in the army of the
United States in Chesterfield County in the State of Virginia
in December 1776 or 1777 in Captain Ralph Faulkners
Company in the 5th Virginia Regiment, which Regiment was
consolidated with the 6th and 7th Regiments and was commanded
by Col (Colonel) Josiah Parker, That he was in the Battle of
Germantown, Princeton and at the taking the hessians at
Trenton.  That after having served out the term of his
enlistment he was discharged near Valley Forge; That immediately
after his discharge, her entered the staff department
and received the appointment of Forage Master at head
quarters, he continued to serve in this department until the
end of the war in 1783, when he retired from the army.
That her husband in consequence of his services was placed
on the pension list roll of the North Carolina agency in
January 1829 and continued to receive his pension she believes
eight dollars per month until his death, for a more
accurate description of his services she would refer to the
documentary evidence furnished in obtaining his pension
furnished to the department on his application.
She further declares she was married to her late
husband Martin Roberts in the village of Fast Landing
in Kent County near Dover in the State of Delaware
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on the 10th day of May 1787 that she resided in the said
village of fast landing until she had three children and in
the year 1797 she with her husband and children moved
to the County of Rutherford State of North Carolina that they
lived within 25 miles of Lincolnton, that her husband died
at their late residence on the 30th day of October 1834 that
the time of his death has been proven when she applied
for the amount of pension due her as the widow of her late
husband Martin Roberts
That she was not married to her husband Martin
Roberts prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage
took place previous to the first of January 1794 at the time above stated
Elizabeth Roberts X her mark

Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year
last above written before me
D Reinhardt JP

State of North Carolina Lincoln County 
John Roberts of said County personally appeared before me David
Reinhardt a justice of the peace in and for said County and
being duly sworn according to law says he is a son of the
applicant above Elizabeth Roberts and is aged forty nine
years that he recollects removing both his father and mother
from the village of Fast Landing in the State of Delaware
that his father Martin Roberts applied for a pension for his
services in the staff department in the Revolutionary War
shortly before his death, that he was informed the late (illegible)
certified or deposed to the service of his father 
in the staff department which he expects will be found
among the Documentary Evidence connected with his
application in the proper department at Washington City
that his mother Elizabeth Roberts has been deformed
of the use of her limbs and has not been able to
walk for the last four years Sworn to and Subscribed
this 4th day of March 1839    John Roberts
D Reinhardt JP
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State of North Carolina Lincoln County
I David Reinhardt a magistrate in and for said
County hereby certify that the above applicant
Elizabeth Roberts is unable from bodily infirmity to appear in
court to take the oath of Identity given from under my hand and
seal this 4th day of March 1839
D Reinhardt JP

I Henry Cansler Clerk of the Court of pleas and quarter
sessions for Lincoln County certify that David Reinhardt
above named is a magistrate in and for said county and
that his several signatures to the above are genuine In testimony
where of I have here unto affixed my seal of office and
subscribed my name this 1st day April 1839
H Cansler
Clerk of the Court of Lincoln County
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Martin Roberts
Married May
1787
Elizabeth Roberts
bornd April
the 29th 1768
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT
Second Comptroller's Office
Feby  (February) 4th 1842

Sir:
Under the date of the 6th of April 1838, entitled "An
act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain
Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury
of the United States," The children of Elizabeth Roberts,
Decd (deceased) a Pensioner on the Roll of the N. Carolina Agency at
the rate of Eighty Dollars and ------- Cents
per annum, under the laws of the 7th July 1838, has
been paid at this Department, from the 4th of September
to the 19th of October 1840
Respectfully yours
Albion JE Parris
Comptroller
To the Commissioner of Pensions, 
Present.
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State of North Carolina
Cleveland County
On this 6th day of September
one thousand eight hundred and fifty four, personally
appeared before the Court of pleas and quarter
sessions of said County and State aforesaid, now sitting
John Roberts, a resident of said County and State
aforesaid, who brings first being duly sworn according to
law both on his oath makes the following declaration
in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made
by the act of Congress passed July 7th 1838 granting
pensions to certain widows of officers and soldiers
who served in the war of the Revolution that he is
the son and one of the heirs at law of Elizabeth Roberts
who was the widow of Martin Roberts who was a
private soldier and served sum two years in the Virginia
Continental lines and after the expiration of which service
he joined the staff and served under General ------
as quarter master or ----Master, for two three or
four years until the end of the war as deponent as
heard his said father Martin Roberts often say that
the said Martin Roberts was allowed a pension in his
lifetime under the act of March 1818 at (illegible) six
dollars per annum for his first services in said
Revolutionary War as a private in the Virginia line
that the said Martin Robert died on the 30th day of
October 1851 before he ever availed himself of the
benefit of the provision made by the Act of
Congress of the 7 June 1832 that deponent together
with his other Brothers, has recently claimed the benefit
of the act 7th June 1832 and it has been allowed
and a certificate of pension issued under aid Act
in right of the said Martin Roberts for Six Hundred
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Dollars per annum: Having lately procured the evidence
of my said Fathers services that entitle him to the benefit
of the said Act of 7 June 1832 at a grate (great) deal of expence (expense)
and trubles (troubles), that deponant mother the aforesaid Elizabeth
Roberts, widow of the said Martin Roberts.  Did in her
lifetime apply for and obtain a pension under the
aforesaid Act of Congress of the 7 July 1838 for
the services of her said Husband Martin Roberts as a
private in the Virginia line no evidence of her
Husbands other services having been then filed
Deponant makes this declaration claiming an
increase of pension for or in right of his said
Mother Elizabeth Roberts, which she was entitled
to at the time of her first application had she
have been prepared with the evidence now on
file in the pension office all of which evidence
deponant now claims the off and asks for
an increase of pension in right of his said Mother
Elizabeth Roberts from the 4th of March 1836 to
the 19th day of October 1840 the day of her death.
This deponant asks in right of himself and his
other brothers to wit James Roberts & Noah Roberts
the only surviving children of the said Martin &
Elizabeth Roberts
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written
Before  John Roberts
Sworn to in open court September the 5th 1833
S. William Clerk
Know all men by these presence that we James Roberts &
Noah Roberts do appoint John Roberts our elder brother
our Agent and Attorney by these presents to take up
investigate prosecute & collect any amount of pension
that may be due or increase of pension that may be due or increase of pension that may be
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due us in right of our Mother Elizabeth Roberts
for us an in our names and stead hereby ratifying
whatever our said brother & agent shall or may
do lawfully in the prosecution & collecting of the same
Hereby revoking all others imployed (employed) in said claim
James Roberts
Noah Roberts

signed sealed and delivered 
in presance of 
N.E. Roberts 
(illegible)

State of North Carolina Cleveland County
Be it known that on the 5th day
September 1854 before the
subscriber a justice of the peace in & for said county
personally appeared James Roberts & Noah Roberts above named and acknowledged the foregoing power of
Attorney to their act and deed in testimony whereof
I have hereunto set my hand the day and year last
above mentioned
J.R. Logan J.P.

State of North Carolina Cleveland County Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions September session 1834
I certify that satisfactory evidence was produced in said court by the
oath of Joseph Hardin & John Binders
to prove that John Roberts James Roberts
and Noah Roberts are children 
and only surviving heirs of Martin
Roberts & Elizabeth Roberts his wife
and I further certify that satisfactory
evidence was also produced before said
court to prove that Martin Roberts
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died on the 30th day of October 1834
and that Elizabeth Roberts his widow
died on the 19th day of October 1840
I further certify that John R. Logan
Esq. whose name annexed to the power
of attny made by James Roberts
and Noah Roberts is his genuine signature
and full faith and credit is due to
all his official acts as such
In testimony where of I have
hereunto subscribed my name
and affixed my official
seal this 5th day of September
1854
S. Williams Clk
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August 14, 1939
Mr. P Cleveland Gardner BA-J/MCS
Box 11 Martin Roberts, W.4785
Shelby, North Carolina
Dear Sir:
Reference is made to your request for information relative to
Revolutionary War soldiers, Martin Roberts, Hugh Quinn and Peter Quinn.
Revolutionary War data furnished by this office are obtained from
claims for pension and bounty land made to the United States and based
on the military service of soldiers in this war.  A careful search of the
records fails to show such claims on file on account of the service of
any soldiers named Peter and Hugh Quinn.
The data which follows were taken from papers on file in the pension
claim, W.4785, based on the Revolutionary War service of Martin Roberts.
The date and place of birth of Martin Roberts and the names of his 
parents are not shown.
Martin Roberts enlisted at Chesterfield Cour House, Virginia, in
the spring of 1776 and served two years as private in Captain Ralph
Faulkner's Company in Colonels Muhlenberg's and Josiah Parker's Virginia
Regiment, and was in the battles of Trenton, Princeton and Germantown.
He served as foragemaster in the Quartermaster Department from August 5,
1780, until August 1, 1782.
He was allowed pension on his application executed April 16, 1828,
as which time he was living in Rutherford County, North Carolina, aged 70 years.
Martin Roberts died October 30, 1834, in Rutherford County, North
Carolina.  In that year his post office address was Swangstown, Rutherford
County, North Carolina.
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Martin Roberts opened a merchandize store at Fast Landing (which
was later called Leipsic) in Kent County, Delaware.  On May 10, 1787, he
married there, Elizabeth Durborow who was born April 29, 1768 and was the
daughter of Daniel Durborow of Fast Landing.
Martin and Elizabeth Roberts moved to Rutherford County, North
Carolina, within twenty-five miles of Lincolnton in 1797.  Three of their
children were born before they left Delaware.
On account of the Revolutionary War service of Martin Roberts, hi
widow, Elizabeth, was allowed pension on her application executed Marach
2, 1839, at which time she was living in Lincoln County, North Carolina.
Elizabeth Roberts died October 19, 1840, and was survived by the 
following children:  John who was the eldest child and was forty-nine
years of age in 1839, James and Noah, and in 1854 all were living in
Cleveland County, North Carolina, and Noah's post office was Swangtown.
In 1829 reference was made to a daughter who was living in Rutherford
County, North Carolina, but her name was not given.
One William Roberts was living in Chesterfield County, Virginia in
1827 and he stated that he knew Martin Roberts when he served in the
Revolution, relationship not shown.  In 1827 on Perry G. Roberts was post
master at Buffalo, Lincoln County, North Carolina; in 1828 one Joshua
Roberts was living in Buffalo, Lincoln County, North Carolina; in 1852
one J. W. Roberts acted as witness for the soldier's sons, John and James
Roberts, and one Rufus Roberts was justice of the peace in Cleveland
County, North Carolina; in 1854 one N. E. Roberts served as witness in
Cleveland County; the relationship of these men to the soldier, Martin 
Roberts is not shown.  In 1885 one M. H. D. Roberts of Durbro, North
Carolina, stated that he was an heir of the soldier, Martin Roberts.
There are no further family data.
Very truly yours
A. D. Hiller
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator
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Add evidence case
of Martin Roberts
N C 1832 ad

A H Markland
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Washington City May 8th 1854
Hon S. P Waldo
Court of Pensions
I enclose herewith a certificate
from Octavius Pickering son of Col Timothy Pickering
showing most conclusively that Martin Roberts was in
service more than two years as a Forage Master i
the war of the Revolution.  I also return Pension
Certificate No 33.239.  I hope the case will be al-
lowed for a full pension & certificate sent to me
I am Sir Very Respectfully
your Obt. Svt
A. H. Markland
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38740
Martin Roberts dec
A.C
act 7 June 1832
(illegible) 2 yrs (illegible) (illegible) 
$600 per annum deducting $96 per an under act 18 Mch 1818, comg 4 March 1831 & endg 30 Oct 1834, (illegible) to Jon Roberts Jas Roberts & Arab Roberts, only survg. children
(illegible)

A. H. Markland 
Present
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Department of Interior;
Washington, August 17th 1854
Sir:
in regard to the payment of the pension
awarded to Martin Roberts, which was the subject of your note of this morning.  I have to state
that under the peculiar circumstances of the
case the pension may be paid at the agency
if this city if in your opinion, it is entirely
proper to do so.  I desire however that
it shall not be regarded as a precedent in
any further cases which may arise but that
every such case should rest upon the facts
peculiar to itself.
(illegible)
Very respectfully
your obd servant
R.W. Clelland
Secretary

S. Cole Esq
Actg Comm. of Pensions
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Department of the Interior
Pension Office
Washington D.C. Feb 7th 1883
Return this letter with your reply
O.W. f. N Div.
Mls   Ex'r
Rev W.d. No. 4783
Martin Roberts
Co. Pvt   Reg't Va. Line


Madam:-
In response to your letter 
making claim to arrears of pension for the service of Martin Robers as Forage Master in the war of the Revolution,
I have to advise you that there is no
law under which this office can grant
your claim.
Very Respectfully
Opls Clarke
Commissioner

Mrs. M. W. D. Roberts
Darbro, N.C.
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5078
 North Carolina, Asheville
widow Elizabeth Roberts of 
Martin Roberts
who died on the 30th Oct 1834
of      in the State of N. C
who was a Private in the     commanded
by Captain      of the           commanded
by VA in the Virginia
line for two years. 
Inscribed on the Roll of Asheville 
at the rate of 80 Dollars 00 Cents
per annum, to commence on the 4th day of
March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 22 day of
Febry 1840 and (illegible)
Arrears to the 4th of
Semi-annual allowance ending
All inside envelope
Revolutionary Claim
Act July 6 18
Recorded by P D Addison
Book A Vol. 2 page

(illegible) Act
1832
See Letter to
(illegible)
May 2, 1854
Widow claim for
increase rejected
John Roberts Oct 3 1854
Let to (illegible)
7 March 1857
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J F Birchett
(illegible) 8 Sept. 1834
20. 0 41
North Carolina
Martin Roberts
Of Rutherford Cty in the State of North Carolina
who was a private in the company commanded
by Captain Faulkner of the Regiment commanded
by Colonel Parker in the Virginia
line, for the term of two years
from the spring of 1776 to 1778
Inscribed on the Roll of North Carolina
at the rate of eighty Dollars per month, to
commence on the 14th day of January 1829
Certificate of Pension issued the 27 of January
1829 and sent to Perry G.
Roberts. Esq Buffalo N. Carolina
Arrears to the 4th of March 1829 $13.67
$13.67
Revolutionary Claim,
Acts March 18, 1818,
and May 1, 1820
Recorded in Book C
Vol 8th page 46
JFB
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Know all men by these present that
we John Roberts and James Roberts sons and heirs at
law of Martin Roberts. Residents of Cleavland County
in the State of North Carolina:  Do hereby irrevocably
constitute and appoint John Y. Bryant of the City of
Washington our true and lawful Attorney for us 
and in our name place and stead to claim recover
and receive for us any sum or sums of money
due and unpaid to or on account of our father the
aforesaid Martin Roberts of any overages or
increase of pension on commutation pay on the account of
his this said Martin Roberts service in the way of
the Revolution under existing pension laws to
file such evidence as may be required make
such arguments as may be necessary to secure and
collect such sums of money as may be found to be
due in aforesaid and to receipt for the same as
our said Attorney hereby ratifying and confirming
all that our said Attorney may legally do as cause
to be done in the promises for testimony whereof
we have hereunto set our own hand and seals this 31st
day of July 1852
John Roberts seal
James Roberts seal
R.B.Price
J W Roberts
State of North Carolina
Cleveland County
Be it know that on the 31
day of July 1852 before the
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undersigned a justice of the peace in and for said
County duly authorised by law to administer oaths
personally affirmed, John Roberts and James Roberts above
names and acknowledged the foregoing powers of attorney
to be their act and deed. In testimony where of I
have hereunto set my hand the day and year last
above named
Rufus Roberts J.P.

State of North Carolina
Cleveland County
J. Silas Williams Clerk
of the County Court of Cleveland County and State afore
said do hereby certify that Rufus Roberts is a
justice of the peace in and for said County duly Commissioned
and qualified and that his signature above written
 is genuine and that all his official acts is entitled
to full faith and credences
Given under my name and the
seal of said County this 19 Day
of Agust 1852
S. William Clk
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State of North Carolina
Cleeland County
June 4th 1854
Sir
I am few weeks since my 
brothers Janes and John employed
a gentleman by the name of A. H. Markland
of Washington City in my absence to
prosecute an increase of pension in
right of our father Martin Roberts
who was a hero of the Revolution War
I learn he has obtained an increase
of some amount.  Will you please be so
kind as to inform me by a letter
what amount was allowed fathers former
pension was $96 per annum, let me 
know if Mr. Markland is a citizen of
Washington City and if he is
N.C.
I am Respectfully Yours
Noah Roberts
Mr. L.P. Waldo
Commissioner
of Pension
Washington City
D.C.
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Hon. P.B.Porter Secretary of War
Washington City
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Buffalo Lincoln County N. Carolina Nov 14th 1828
Dear Sir
I again send you the enclosed papers with regard to
Martin Roberts case you stated in your last
that it would be necessary for him to prove
to what regiment and line of the army he belonged
before he could be entitled to a pension.  His situation
both as it respects his health and funds for (illegible)
his going to Virginia to procure evidence of his
services.  What proof has been heretofore obtained
I have gotten by writing to gentlemen in Virginia
knowing the delay of such communications and the
inattention that strangers and disinterested persons
pay to such things I feel like it would be useless for
me to commence again writing in order to gain proof
of his services for in all probability he would be beyond
the reach of publick (pubic) benefit before it could be obtained
I again enclose you the affidavits of Mr. Robert and
William Wouldridge that you may have them and
his own together.  There is no doubt that Martin
Roberts was in the army during the war after his
time of enlistment was out as stated in one of his
former declarations and moved in a part say Mr. Pickerings
statement and was foragemaster for head quarters till the
end of the war.  If they were asked of them I suppose all his fellow
citizens that know him would say they believe his statements with regard
to his services were true.  It has not been through intemperance
or any practice of any kind of view that has brought
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to his present indigent circumstances to state the true
cause would be useless.  He is respected by the moral and
religious pirates of the community who know him I am
entirely uninterested in the decision what I write is
from a wish to see the old mans necessities relieved
believing that his services have been such or should recommend
him to publick (public) favor  I remain your obedient servant.
P.G.Roberts
Mr. P.B.Porter Secretary of War
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Buffalo Lincoln county N.6 [illegible] 18th 1828
Dear Sir
I again send you this supplementary affidavit of Martin Roberts, amended. I knew at the time I forwarded the affidavit before that the date of his enlistment must have been in 1776 to embrace his engagements that he stated he was in but as he had not been positive to the time only stating as well as he then recollected I thought it would not be material for the facts of what engagements he was [illegible] that he could not be mistaken in the affidavit. [illegible] believed must show that he enlisted in 1776 to embrace the battle which he stated he was in.

your most obedient servant,
Perry G. Roberts

Honorable P.B. Porter 
Secretary of War
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Payment to be made at Ashville by [illegible] agent for paying pensioners, in the Agency of North Carolina

Recorded in the pension Office, Page 12, in Book C, Volume 6, page 72, by Clerk,  [illegible] [signature]
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Department of the Interior
Claim for Military Service
I certify that, in conformity with the law of the United States of the 7 June 1832, Martin Roberts, dead, late of North Carolina, who was a Private and forge master in the Revolution was entitled to a pension and having died on the 30th October 1834, his only surviving children, John Roberts, James Roberts and Noah Roberts are entitled to the amount at the rate of three hundred and twenty one 66/100 dollars per annum, from 4 March 1831 to 30 October 1834, when  [illegible] former payments was  [illegible] 18 March 181. at the rate of Ninety six dollars  [illegible] annum.

Given at the Department of the Interior this second day of May one thousand eight hundred and fifty four

Examined and countersigned
[signature]
Secretary of the Interior

[signature]
Commissioner of Pensions
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33.239
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Delaware Smyrna Tuesday 5th February 1839
Sir,
I acknowledge the need of your letter of yesterday concerning a letter to you from James Roberts of Rutherford county in the state of North Carolina, son of Martin Roberts and Elizabeth, his wife, one of the daughters of Daniel [illegible] long since dead, "stating that his father Martin Roberts is dead and that his mother Elizabeth survives and is now a widow. That "father was a revolutionary soldiers, and that his widowed mother is entitled to the benefit of the provisions of the pension [illegible]  as proving her marriage satisfactorily at the Pension office of the Board of war.

I Jacob Stout do certify and make known to whom it may concern, that according to register of my birth I was born on the fifth day of October in the year of our lord one thousand seven hundred and sixty seven in [illegible] state of Delaware at a little village on Duck Creek called [illegible] , distant about six miles from [illegible] the seat of government that from childhood till grown up, I resided at said village and was intimate with the children of Daniel [illegible] , went to school with them, and grew up with them, that about this period two strangers came to the village and opened a store of merchandize - the one Enoch Wills and the other Martin Roberts. They continued in trade till Wills married a Miss Becky and Roberts married Elizabeth [illegible]  daughter of Daniel [illegible] aforenamed. Miss E. [illegible]  was entitle in free to a farm and trust of land which she and her husband sold and [illegible] and sale and removed to the south. Mrs. Roberts gave birth to one or two children before their removal. This marriage can be as well established and any other marriage in that it took place fifty years ago. If a [illegible] be sent here under the advice of the Hon. Thomas Clayton in [illegible] from this state, (who is acquainted with me and my hand [illegible]) the marriage will be established beyond a doubt. I refer to my sisters Sarah Cowgill and Martha Cowgill, both widows and to John Husbands the elder, all three of whom are known to Hon. Th. Clayton and I am sure vouch for their credibility. [illegible]  no opportunity of a communication with my sisters or Mr. Husbands, I have an unshakeable confidence that they will testify to the marriage of Martin Roberts and Elizabeth [illegible]  who  more than forty years since removed from Delaware to the south.
very respectfully,
Jacob Stout
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Congressional
War Department
Office of the Judge Advocate General
Washington
Civil Affairs No. 2
July 8, 1930.
Honorable Earl D. Church,
Bureau of Pensions. Attention: Mr. Roberts.
Dear Mr. Commissioner:
In compliance with the request of the Honorable Charles A. Jonas, House of Representatives, there is transmitted herewith a copy of a petition in re claim of James Roberts, accompanied by letters from Mr. Jonas which are self-explanatory.
Sincerely yours,
[Signature]
W. A. Graham,
Lieutenant Colonel, J. A. G. D.,
Chief, Civil Affairs Section No. 2.
[stamped] Pension Office Jul 10, 1930 U. S. 
[stamped] Revolutionary & 1812 Wars Bursar[?] of Pensions
Jul 12 1930
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Chief's Room
Soldiers
Jul 13 1930
Division U. S. Bureau of Pensions
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[handwritten]
Washington City April 20th 1854

Hon Loren P Waldo
Commissioner of Pensions

I enclose herewith an order of Court showing the day of the death of Martin & Elizabeth Roberts of North Carolina, and also the names of the heirs now living. I claim for the heirs of Elizabeth Roberts an increase of the pension allowed her under the act 7th July 1838. Martin Roberts was a Forage Master attached to Headquarters from the year 1778 to 1783, and as evidence of that fact you will find among his papers on file an original letter from Timothy Pickering, A General dated March 15 1826. Mr Roberts furnished that evidence in the year 1827 when it could not have been to his advantage to do so, inasmuch as he had already served two years in the Continental of Virginia which was sufficient to have entitled him to the pension under act 1828. I hope sir you will give the matter a thorough investigation and refute the same to me.

I am Sir Very Respectfully
[indecipherable]
A. H. Markland
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