Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 41793, for Joshua Martin, North Carolina
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SERVICE
N.C.

Martin, Joshua

NUMBER
S.41793

CONTENTS
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(left panel)
Discontinued.
Notification sent to Alex Murphey Esq.
26 Feby 1820 Greensboro
North Carolina

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(2,438)
North Carolina

Joshua Martin private
North Carolina line
Captain Nelson
76 three years
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War

Inscribed on the Roll of North Carolina at the rate of eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 28th of April 1818

Certificate of Pension issued the 7 of September and sent to the care of J J Daniel esquire Guilford County North Carolina

Arrears to 4th of September 1818       33.86
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Marth 1819  48.
                  $81.86
4 mos/30

{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818.}

Sent to T. Leary Clk
of Rockingham Cy

Rockingham
for JJ Daniel Judge of Guilford Cy  NC
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Joshua Martin
28 April
N.B. Not entitled to Bounty Land from the U.S.

Admitted 1818
Free
Calhoun
Secretary of War
Washington
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Rockingham 
4 May 1818

Free
Hon.ble
John C. Calhoun
Secretary of War
Washington
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State of North Carolina
Guilford County
28th day of April 1818
 
     Personally came before me JJ Daniel one of the Judges of the Superior Court of Land Equity, Joshua Martin of the County aforesaid who being duly sworn deposeth & sayeth that he entered the Continental Service in the month of May 1776 & was regularly discharged in May 1779 having listed for & served three years.  He belonged to the fourth North Carolina Regiment of infantry in the Continental Services during the Revolutionary War.  His discharge was sent on to get his land warrant and he has not seen it since.  Jno Nelson was his first Captain & the second was Griffith and McCord of the 2nd North Carolina Regiment.
     Joshua Martin further sayeth that from his advanced age (being sixty one years old) and from his afflictions, he is in need of the assistance of his Country, his circumstances are reduced, he having possession of a small piece of poor land, containing 100 acres, and all his children left him but one boy 13 years old as he is the only person to help him work for subsistence.
                     Joshua X Martin
                      (X his mark)
Sworn to before me
JJ Daniel JPGC
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At the same time came Andrew Witty who being sworn deposeth & sayeth that he saw the discharge of Joshua Martin on his return from the Continental Service during the Revolutionary War.  He further sayeth that said Martin is in reduced circumstances & the statement made by said Martin is true as he verily believes.
                       Andrew Witty
Sworn to before me
JJ Daniel JPGC

At the same time came Samuel Hunter who deposeth & sayeth that Joshua Martin is well known to him & he verily believes he stands in need of the assistance of his Country from his reduced circumstances.
                 Saml. Hunter
Sworn to before me
JJ Daniel JPGC
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             28th April 1818

Sir:
     I am of opinion that Joshua Martin should be placed on the pension list by virtue of the last Act of Congress.  He appears to have been a soldier in the 4th & 2nd N. Carolina Regiments of Infantry & serviced three years, his Discharge is in the land office or lost.  He is in reduced circumstances.
     I have caused the Seal of one of the Courts in which I (illegible) to be affixed to this Certificate.
                    JJ Daniel Judge
                    of the Superior Court
                    of Laws & Equity for
                    North Carolina

State of North Carolina
Rockingham County

Superior Court of Law
April Term 1818
     I Thomas Leary Clerk of said county hath caused the Seal of my office to be hereunto affixed.
           T. Leary Clk
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The claimant must address the testimony of two credible witnesses
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Copy of Record
Nov. Term 1820

2438

Not entitled
Q.L.E.
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State of North Carolina
Guilford County

Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions
November Term AD 1820

On the 21st day of November in the year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred & Twenty personally appeared in the Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions for Guilford County, being a court of Record for said County Joshua Martin aged Sixty four years resident in Guilford County who being first duly sworn according to Law Doth on his Oath Declare that he served in the revolutionary war as follows (to wit)
That he enlisted in the county of Guilford State of North Carolina in the Spring of 177_ for the Term of three years in a company  commanded by Capt. John Nelson which company was attached to the fourth regiment of the North Carolina line and commanded by Col. Thomas Clark, that he continued to serve in the army of the United States until his above mentioned term of Service has expired, when he was discharged near Albany in the State of New York.
     I Joshua Martin do solemnly swear that I was a resident Citizen of the United States on the 18th Day of March 1818 and that i have not since that Term by Gift Sale or in any other manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisionary
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of an act of Congress entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land & naval Service of the United States in the revolutionary War passed on the 18th Day of March 1818 and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me any property or Securities, Contracts or debts due to me nor have I any income other than that is contained in the Schedule hereto annexed & by me subscribed.

Schedule
One hundred acres of land valued by the Public Assessor under a late act of Congress at one Dollar Seventy five cents per acre, one old horse & one mare.  Eleven head of hogs, two sheep, 2 pots & 1 oven 1 dish 2 small basons 3 pewter plates 13 spoons 1 pole ax 1 matlock 2 hoes 1 smoothing iron 1 knife 3 forks 2 pr. pot hooks 1 shovel plough 1 plough mold cash on hand Eight Dollars and has debts due him to the amount of thirty eight Dollars forty five cents that he the said Joshua Martin is by profession a farmer but from age & bodily infirmities he is unable to perform much labour that he has no family except one son Ezekiel W Martin aged fourteen years in good health, that he the said Joshua Martin at ___ Term of Rockingham Superior Court 181_ before the Hon.ble ___

who then presided as Judge of said Court made a declaration in order to obtain the benefit of any act of Congress passed on the 18th day of March 1818 and received a certificate from
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the War department of the United States, dated the 17th day of September 1818 and Numbered 2438.
             Joshua X Martin
                (X his mark)

Sworn to & Declared on the 22nd day of Nov. 1820 before the Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions for the County & aforesaid

Test.
Jno Hanner GCC
     The value of the property exhibited in the opinion of the Court is worth $226.84.
                 Test.  Jno Hanner GCC

I John Hanner Clerk of the Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions for the County of Guilford do certify that the foregoing oath & the Schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the records of said 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 two hundred & twenty six dollars & eighty four cents.
     In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of Said Court this 22nd day of November AD 1820.
                      Jno Hanner GCC
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Those declarations were filed & recorded but mislaid;  otherwise they would have been sent on at an earlier date.
                        Alex Murphey Cl
                       12th April 1821
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41793
INVALID
Revy
File No. 41.793
Joshua Martin
Pri Rev War

Act:  18 March 18
Index:- Vol. 3, Page 307

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*

Division of Veterans' Administration

NAME  Martin, Josiah
GRADE Private
LINE
Virginia

WARRANT NUMBER 12369
ACREAGE 100
ISSUED March 26, 179?
to Francis Graves, assignee