Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 2733, for Roger Martin, Pennsylvania
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Service                                  Number

Penn.         Martin, Roger     S. 2733
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Contents                                    carded
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2879
Pennsylvania
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Roger Martin
of Columbia Co. in the State of Pennsylvania who was a private in the _______ commanded by Captain _________ of the regt. commanded by Col. Murray in the Pennsylvania Militia for 15 months.
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Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania at the rate 50 dollars per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March 1831.
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Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1832                      75.00
Seni=anl. allowance ending 4 M'ch1833   25.00
                                                               $100.00

{Revolutionary War}
{Act June 7, 1832.}

Recorded by J. M. Duffield  Clerk
Book D      Vol 6    Page 70
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No. 2489

Pennsylvania
Suspended Oct 29, 1832

to Jn. Cooper
Danville, Penna.

Objection No. 14.
Page 11.

Admitted 7 Dec. '32
Private  15 mos.

$ 50.00

Pensioner
Danville, Penna.
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Brief in the case of Roger Martin 
Liberty (Township) County of Columbia in the state of Pennsylvania.
(Act 7 June, 1832,)

1.  Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge?  Court.
2.   If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?
3.   How old is he?  78
4.  State his service, as directed in the for annexed.
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Period/Duration of Service/Rank/Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.

In 1777/6 (months)/Private/Col. Murray
In 1778/9 (months)/Private/Col. Morrows

5.  In what battles was he engaged? Skirmishs with Indians at Fort Freeland.
6.  Where did he reside when he entered the service?  Northumberland County Pennsylvania
7.   Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls?  Living and traditionary.
8.  Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? Correct.

Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
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                          James Wehing Examining Clerk
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2733
Rev War
INVALID

File No.  2733

Roger Martin
Priv.  Pa.   Mili. 

Act:  June 7,  '32
Index:-Vol.  A,  Page 235

(Arrangement of 1870.}
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Columbia County ss

    Before the subscribers one of the Justice of the Peace in and for said county came William Stadden who being duly sworn doth depose and say that in the year 1778 Roger Martin enlisted in the company of Captain Joh Berry...  and that he was enlisted for nine months and that he the said Martin was drafted from said company into a Detachment for the (illegible) of Fort Fristand which was attacked and burned by the Indians - that he saw and knew said Roger Martin during the (illegible) at Fort Fristand.  Deponent being himself one of the Detachment and was wounded by the Indians at the time the fort was taken and burned and further this deponent saith not.   

                                              William Stadden
                                                         X
Sworn & Subscribed
before me this 
31 day of July AD 1832
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Rudolph Sechler J.P.
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State of Pennsylvania
Columbia County ss

    I Jacob Everly Prothonotary of the County of Common Pleas of Columbia County aforesaid do certify that Rudolph Sechler Esq. before whom the within affidavit was taken was and still is and acting Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Columbia aforesaid duly commissioned as such and to all whose official acts as such due faith and credit is and ought to be given as well in Courts f Justice as elsewhere in testimony whereof & that the signature of the said Rudolph Sechler Esquire is the proper hand wiring of the said Rudolph Sechler Esq. & witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said court at Danville this seventh day of August AD eighteen hundred & thirty two.

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                                 Jacob Everly Proth. 

    I Rudolph Sechler one of the Justices of the Peace before whereof the declaration of William Stadden was taken as a certificate of pension and that his declaration is entitled to credit.
    Witness my hand the 20th day of November 1832.
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                               Rudolph Sechler
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2689

Roger Martin


Admitted 

Private 

15 months

$50.00
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2689
Roger Martin

Admitted Private 15 mos.
$ 50.00

Pa. Militia

Capt Martin Col. Murray

Pensioner
Danville, Pa.
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State of Pennsylvania
Columbia County  ss

    On the seventh day of August A.D. 1832 personally appeared in open court before Seth Chapman Esquire President & his associate Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the County aforesaid now sitting Roger Martin a resident of Liberty Township in the County of Columbia aforesaid aged seventy eight 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 7th, 1832.
    That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated; He entered the company commanded by Captain John Martin of the Pennsylvania Milita he thinks in the year 1777 & served in the same term of six months in the County of Northumberland in the state of Penn. this company was called out for the defense of the county against the Indians.  Our Headquarters were at Murray's Fort Chillisquaque Creek but was ranged through the back part of the county in search of the Indians.  Colonel Murray was stationed at Murray's Fort & deponent thinks had the Command of John Martin's Company.  Deponent further states that in the beginning of the year 1778 he thinks, he enlisted in Captain John Campleton who was stationed on the west branch of the Susquehanna in Northumberland County, Penna.  While deponent was serving in said company he was sent from Boone's Fort at the mouth of Muddy Run with a detachment for the relief of Thuland's Fort which was in danger from the Indians; before the detachment arrived at Fruland's Fort, it was taken by the Indians who made an attack on our detachment, killed driven out or thirty three, deponent made his escape to Colonel Morrow's Fort from where he joined his company & served out his nine months.  
    Deponent was born in Chester County Penna. in 1756, but has no record of his age, He resided in Chillisquaque Township Northumberland County when he performed the services above mentioned & has lived in for three years in Cumberland County Penna. from when he returned to Northumberland County & since the division of that county in 1813 has resided in what now is Liberty township Columbia County.  Deponent was a volunteer for the first tour & enlisted for the second tour deponent has already stated the names of his officer of the circumstances of his service.  He never received a discharge, that he recollects of    (next page)
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deponent has no documentary evidence & knows of no person whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his services except William Stadden whose disposition is hereto annexed.
    Deponent hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declare that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state.  
     Deponent is known to Geo. Bilmyer, Martin Bilmyer, Colonel John Murray & Samuel Bond.  Liberty township is Columbia County Penna.  John Bryson & Nathaniel Vincent Esq. of of Northumberland County, Penna. who can testify to his character & subscribed the day & year above.
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Jacob Everly Proth.                 Roger Martin

    We John B. Patterson a clergyman residing in  Terry Township in Columbia County aforesaid & William Dale residing in Liberty township in the same county hereby certify that John B. Patterson has reputation & William Dale personally are well acquainted with Roger Martin who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be seventy eight years of age; that he is reputed & believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution, and we concur in that opinion.
Sworn & subscribed this day & year aforesaid.

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Jacob Everly Proth.       Wm. (illegible)
                                      William Dale

    And the said court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting interrogations prescribed by the war department, that the above applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states.  And the court further certifies that it appears to them that John B. Patterson who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman residing in Derry Township in Columbia County aforesaid and that William Dale who has also signed the same is a resident in Liberty township in the same county, and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit. 
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Seth Chapman (seal)
William Montgomery (seal)
Leonard (illegible) (seal)

    I Jacob Everly Esquire Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of Columbia County aforesaid, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings f the said court in the matter of the application of roger Martin for a pension.
    In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of the said court at Danveille this seventh day of August A.D. eighteen hundred & thirty two.  
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Jacob Everly Prothon.
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This application was returned for want of a certificate of credibility of Wm. Stadden the witness by the Justice before whom the deportation was taken.  That certificate is now placed on the deportation - In addition to this the war department is informed that Wm. Staddon the witness in this case, is the same Wm. Staddon who is applying for a pension and is a resident of Liberty township, Northumberland County, Penna.
The War Department will please to inform the subscriber resident in Danville Columbia County of their decision on this application.  
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                         Geo. A. Frick