Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W 5338, for John Martin, New Jersey
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New Jersey       Martin, John           W5338
                                        Sarah
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Let. to J.F. Randolph Mar.
27 1837
Notification to the Agent
corrected and returned 29th
March 1837

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New Jersey 588
Sarah Martin
Widow of John Martin

who died on the 15 Jany. 1834
of Middlesex Co. in theState of N. Jersey
who was a Prv. & Serge in the (blank) commanded
by Captain (blank) in the (blank) commanded
by (blank) in the N. Jersey Mil.
line for 6 months Private               20.00
            18  "          Serg't                 90.00
                                                     _________
                                                     $110.00

Inscribed on the Roll of N. Jersey 
at the rate of $110 Dollars ---Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March 1834.
(illegible).   15 January 1834

Certificate of pension issued the 14th day of March 1837 and sent to James. F.
Randolph N. Brunswick, N. J.

Arrears to the 4th of March '37             660.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sep. "       55.00
                                                             __________
                                                                 $715.00

Recorded by D. Brown clerk
Book -----Vol.1     Page 149
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17050
NEW JERSEY

John Martin
of Piscataway in the State of New Jersey
who was a Sarg. & Private in the company commanded 
by Captain Hill of the Reg. commanded
by Col.  Forman in the New Jersey
line for Sergeant   18 mo.                   $90.00
              Private.      6 mo.                      20.00
                                                             ________
                                                             $110.00

Inscribed on the Roll of New Jersey 
at the rate of 110 Dollars ----Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March 1834

Certificate of Pension issued the 3rd day of July
1833 and sent to Hon. J. F. Randolph
                                                   Present

Arrears to the 4th of march 1833           $220.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending Sept.  "           55.00
                                                                   _______
                                                                   $275.00

Recorded by Viral Luce Clerk
Book E Vol. 3 Page 121
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1310
New Jersey

Sarah Martin widow
of John Martin a
Pensioner

Admitted
Sarg. 18 months
Private 6 "

James F. Randolph, Agt.
New Brunswick 
N.J.
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Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the 3rd Section of the Act of Congress of the week 4th July 1836

State of new Jersey
Middlesex County
     On this twenty first day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand and eight hundred and thirty six, before the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County personally appeared Sarah Martin a resident in said County, aged seventy seven years, who being first duly sworn according to law on her oath makes the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress passes July 4, 1836:  That she is the widow of John Martin late of the County and State aforesaid, deceased, who was a private & Sergeant in the Militia in the service of the Revolution, and received a Pension for such; that the papers upon which that pension was granted are, she presumes, on the files of the War Department, and to them she respectfully refers in support of the present application.
    She further declares that she was married to the said John Martin in the month of December seventeen hundred and seventy nine, or in the month of January seventeen hundred and eighty, she is not absolutely certain in which month, as she has now no record of the marriage, but she is not mistaken as to one of those months, for a child was born of the fruit of that marriage on the seventeenth day of October seventeen hundred and eighty.
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...They were married by the Rev. Mr. Roe of Woodbridge long since dead:  that her husband, the aforesaid John Martin, died on the fifteenth day of January one thousand eight hundred and thirty four, and that she has remained a widow ever since that period as will more fully appear on references to the proof hereunto annexed.  In the absence of a record of her marriage which she has not, and of the testimony in any shape of the officiating clergyman she refers to the strong circumstantial evidence of that marriage, in the record of the birth of the children of that marriage, which is herewith.
Sarah Martion

Sworn to and subscribed the
day and year aforesaid before
  Peter P.  ----yon Judge

    Whereupon theCourt were of opinion that the said Sarah Martin is the widow and legal representative of John Martin, deceased, that they were married in the month of December seventeen hundred and seventy nine, that the said John died din January 1836, and that the said Sarah has not since intermarried.

I Nicolas Berrraew (?) Clerk of the common Pleas -?- for theCounty of Middlesex New Jersey hereby certify that the foregoing are the official proceedings of said Court in the matter of the application of Sarah Martin for a Pension.
   In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal of Office this twenty fifth day of January one thousand eight hundred and thirty seven.
          N.l. Boor---s. Clerk
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State of new Jersey
Middlesex County

     Before me Peter P. Runyon one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said County personally appeared Fanny Burnet a credible person who being duly sworn upon her oath saith that she in in the seventy third year of her age, that she is the daughter of the Rev. Bret Roe formerly the pastor of the Prebsyterian Church in Woodbridge New Jersey, that she lived with her father at his residence in Woodbridge until she arrived at the age of twenty seven years was in her young days well acquainted with John Martin and Sarah his wife then residents in and members of the congregation of which her father was Pastor.  that she well remembers their marriage which took place in her father's house and in her presence the marriage being solemnized by her father that the marriage took place in the month of December one thousand seven hundred and seventy nine recollects several incidents which happened at the marriage which makes it certain she cannot be mistaken remembers their first child named Simeon was born within a year from the time of their marriage.  This deponent further says that she had no knowledge of any record made by her father  that inquiry has frequently been made for a record of marriages but none to her knowledge or belief has ever been found.  that she is still acquainted with the said Sarah Martin widow of the said John Martin and knows her to be a worthy and credible person and that her statements may fully credited (?) and believed.
Fanny Burnet

Subscribed and sworn the 25th day of Feb. 1837
before me Peter P. Runyon,
Justice of the Peace
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The Names John Martin and his wife Sarah Martin and the Names of their Children

John Martin was born in the year four Lord 1757
     (April 18th added above)
Sarah Martin his wife was born July 19th 1759

The Names of their Children
Simeon Martin was born October 17th 1780
   (some illegible words above this)
Mary Martin was born December 4th 1782
Elizabeth Martin was born November 18th 1785
Benaja Martin born March 19th 1788
Sarah Martin was born July 9 1790
John Martin was born April 26 1793
William Blumefield Martin was born November                                                                   
                                                            20th 1796
Luther Martin was born March 9th 1800
Michael Martin was born August 1802
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State of New Jersey 
Middlesex County
     On this twenty fifth day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty seven before me a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid personally appeared Benajah Martin, known to me as a credible person whose testimony is to be relied upon, also being duly sworn on his oath saith that he is the son of John Martin late of the County aforesaid, deceased, and Sarah Martin, who is living, the widow of said John; that his father, the said John Martin was a Pensioner under the law of 1832, and departed this life on the fifteenth day of January eighteen hundred and thirty four, that his mother Sarah Martin, survived him, and is now living (being?) his widow, and having been married since his death;  that at the request of his mother, he has made enquiry of the successor of the Rev Mr. Roe for the parochial record of marriages solemnized by the said Mr. Roe, if any such there was and was informed that none such was in existence.  He has also enquired for records from the archives of the County of Middlesex in which they were married, and was informed that none such were kept at that time.  He has been unable, therefor  to discover any record of the marriage of his late father and his mother, but he is acquainted with a record of the births of the children of said marriage in the hand writing of his father that his own birth and age are therein set down and he always believed and has been instructed to believe it to be the true and authentic family record according.....
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....to its purport.  that record is to be transmitted as he understands, with his other's application for a pension, to the War Department, with this affidavit.
Benajah Martin

Sworn and subscribed the day
& year aforesaid before me
   Peter P. Runyon
Justice of the Peace

I Nicolas Boor---- Clerk of the County of Middlesex do hereby certify, that Peter P. Runyon before whom the foregoing affidavits of Fanny Burnet and Benajah Martin is a Justice of the Peace duly commissioned and sworn, and that the signatures thereto are in his own hand writing.
   I testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office this twenty fifth day of February one thousand eight hundred and thirty seven.
       N. Boor--- Clerk
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State of New Jersey 
Middlesex County
     On this sixteenth day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two personally appeared before the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for the county of Middlesex and state of New Jersey in Open Court and now sitting the same being a court of record John Martin a resident in the Township of Piscataway in said County of Middlesex aged seventy five years who being duly sworn according to law and examined and interrogated according to the instructions of the War Department, doth on his doth make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the actor Congress passed June 7th 1832
That is to say
That he was born on the eighteenth day of April in the year 1757 in the township ofPiscataway and county of MIddlesex and State aforesaid and will be seventy six years of age on the 18th day of April next if he lives so long - Has a record of his age in his family bible and from the recollection of his mother, the original record of his age being lost or destroyed during the Revolutionary war - Has always resided in the township of Piscataway aforesaid since his birth and never any where else -
    He entered in the service of the United States in the latter part of the year 1775 as a volunteer militiaman in the company com.....
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.....manded by Captain Thompson Stiles and Lieutenant James Turns (?) as he thinks and was called out to Long Island for the purpose of disarming  the the  disaffected (?) inhabitants - this tour continued for three or four weeks as he believes. After his return from Long Island, he engaged in the service as a minute man, and was almost constantly out exercising with the company to which he was attached and which was commanded by John Bray but whether as captain or Lieutenant he is unable to say - This continued for as much as two months - He then and in the in the month of June 1776 enlisted in the five months service in the company commanded by Capt. John Webster and Lieutenant Hugh Dunn and Squire Martin and Colonel Forman - He immediately marched to New York where the company was for a short time when they were  ordered to Hoboken on the Jersey side of the Hudson. From this they marched to Bergan Point were they fired upon a British -?-  of war the lying in New York Bay.  The fire was returned and his company returned to New York and thence to Long Island was put under the command of General Greene - continued on the Island until the  american (?) army left it after the battle - the company to which he belonged was not fully engaged in that battle but were only in......
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...a skirmish with the british - Afters the battle was in New York a short time when he was ordered to Fort Washington where he remained with his company for two months or thereabouts and from there marched to White Plains where he remained till the battle of White Plains.  Was in that battle and from the White Plains marched to Havirstown (?) and thence to  Hackensack in Bergen County N. Jersey and his company then marched to the Hudson opposite Fort Washington - This declarant  being at that time on the sick list remained at Hackensack - Shortly after this his term of five months expired and he returned home - Shortly after  his return home he with some others formed a volunteer company and engaged by turns in patrolling the shore along the sound between Amboy and Woodbridge and in that section of the county. In this service which continued for about a month he served his regular tours - After this he joined as a volunteer the company of militia commanded by Captain William Manning in this service he was out generally every other month and (smudged word) at a time and whenever there was an alarm was always called out - His company  was then under the command of Major Edgar and part of the time under Col. Brown and part under Col. Webster.  Towards the close of the war Capt. Manning resigned and the company was then com-.....
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...manded by Captain David Durham.  In this company this declarant served from the time he entered it till the end of the war serving almost every other month - He served at Elizabeth Town Woodbridge and in the vicinity of -?- and at Freehold in Monmouth county at Springfield - Was at Monmouth at the time of the battle of that place but was not in the actual engagement as his company was not called out - Was at the battle of Elizabeth Town and in various skirmishes  during the war - The county through which he marched lay between the places above mentioned - Served as a soldier during the whole war more than five years never as a substitute but always in his own behalf after the five months served as a sergeant till the end of the war.
     He has no documentary evidence of his service or any written discharge therefrom, but is well known to Gabriel  M---ry and also to James T.  ---- the former of who served with him in the five months service and the latter in the other services and both of whom are still living and can testify to his service as a soldier of the revolution - He is also well known to the Rev. Halloway Hunt a clergyman who resides in his neighborhood and also to William B. Manning who resides in the same place and both of whom.....
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....can testify to his character for veracity and their belief of his services as a soldier of the revolution.
  And he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state -
John Martin

Sworn and subscribed
in open court the
day and year aforesaid
   Thos. Hance, Judge

   We Gabriel Mundy and James T. Dunn of the county of Middlesex and State of New Jersey hereby certify that we are well acquainted with John Martin the foregoing applicant that we believe him to be of the age he represents himself in said declaration, and we further certify that we know him to have been a revolutionary soldier, having at  different times served with him in the war of the revolution - We also certify that he is a man of veracity and we have the most entire confidence in the whole statement made. by him in relation to his said services.
Gabriel Mundy
James T. Dunn

Sworn and subscribed in
open court the day and
year aforesaid.
    Thos. Hance Judge

We Hallway Hunt a clergyman residing in the Township of Piscataway in the county of Middlesex N. Jersey and William B. Manning residing in the someplace hereby certify.....
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...that we are well acquainted with John Martin who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing declaration that we believe him to be of the age of seventy five years and upwards that he is a man of veracity and is reputed and believed in the neighborhood in which he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion.
Rev'd Halloway W. Hunt
Wm. B. Manning

Sworn and subscribed
in open court the day
and year aforesaid -
   Thos. Hance Judge

  And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and putting the interrogatories subscribed by the War Department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states.  And this court further certifies that it appears to them that Halloway W. Hunt who signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman a resident in said county of Middlesex and that William B. Manning,Gabriel Mundy, and James T. Dunn who have respectively signed the preceding certificate are residents of said county and are credible persons and that their statements entitled to belief.
   Thos. Hance
JD. Cantrett
H Ford

   I Nicholas Booraern Clerk of the court of Common Pleas in aforesaid county of Middlesex do hereby certify the original proceedings of said court in the matter of the appli......
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John Martin


Certificate to be sent
to James L.  Niv--- (last name smudged)
N. Berne (?)
N. Jersey
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...-cation of John Martin for a pension.
  In Testimony where of I have hereunto set my hands and seal of office this ninth day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty three 1833 -
                  N. Booraen Clk.
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  Was pension granted in 1831 or 1833 to John Martin or Sarah Martin, his widow.
   He was an officer  the Revolutionary War from Middlesex Co. N. Jersey.
   He was 1st. Lieut. in "Hurds Brigade" and also a Lieut. in 4" Battalion of 2" Establishment C.ontinental Army.

F.G. Col---
Atlantic -?- -?- (very faint writing)
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Jan 22 - 98 Mr. F.G. Colform
                      City

(center part)

5338

Revy WIDOW, &c.

File NO 5338

Sarah Martin
Wid. of
John Martin
Serg't. N.J. --

Act: July 4th ' 36,  -?- 3d (page missing)

Index:-Vol. M, Page 3
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John Martin, New Jersey
Vol - Act 1832, at $110 -
per annum

 Be pleased to say to
what time he was paid ?

Penn. Office'
Mar 27 '37

Died 15 Jan 1834 paid to
that period.

JH
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John Martin
application for
pension




Certificate to be sent
'toJ. F. Randolph
N.B.  N. Jersey
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Supplementary affidavit of John Martin

Personally appeared before me the undersigned Judge of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for the county of Middlesex in open court John Martin the foregoing declarant who being duly sworn on his oath deposeth and saith that by reason of old age and the consequent loss of memory he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his services, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the following  periods and in the following grades that is to say, For the period of two months in the latter part of the year 1775 and beginning of 1776 as private For the period of five months in the five months service in the year 1776 as a private  For the period of four months in the year 1777 as a Sergeant for the period of four in the year 1778 was a Sergeant, this was in service July and August, and September or October of that year - For the period of four months in the year 1779 as a Sergeant For the period of four months in the year 1780 as a Sergeant, he is feeling satisfied that he served longer as a soldier of the revolution and more than two years in the whole but can't ascertain the periods months and for this service he claims a pension, He further under his said oath saith that the service above.....
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...mentioned was in an embodied corps by competent authority and that he was in the field and in actual service during the periods above mentioned - the places where he served and the officers under whom he served are mentioned in his foregoing declaration.
John Martin

Sowrn and subscribed
in opne Court this
17th day of June 1833
Peter P. Runyon Judge
Thos. Hance
Ichabod Potter

I Nicholas Booraern Clerk of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for the county of Middlesex in the State of New Jersey do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original and supplementary proceedings had before said court in the matter of the application of John Martin for a pension - In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of said court this 17th day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty three.
     N. Booraern Clerk
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John Martin


Admitted
Sergeant 18 mo -
Private       6 "
                 ________
                 24



James F. Randolph
Present
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State of New Jersey
Middlesex County
      Personally appeared before me the subscriber one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the said county of Middlesex John Martin who being duly sworn on his oath saith and deposeth that by reason of old age and the consequent loss of memory he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his services but (ink blots)  his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below and in the following grades.  In the winter of 1775 and 1776 he volunteered and served one month as a private under Capt. Stub (?) and Lieut. John May and was matched to Long Island to -?- the Tories.  In the spring of 1776 he enlisted and served one month as a private under Lieut. John May - was stationed principally at Raritan Landing.  In June 1776 he enlisted in the five months service and served five months as a private under Capt. John Webster and Lieut. Hugh Dunn (?) and Squire Martin and Col. Forman regiment made the march and performed duties in his papers set forth particularly under the said officers. In  June 1776 he volunteered and served as a private under Captain Robert Ross a private for one month in guarding the shore and patrolling the coast. In July 1776 he was regularly enrolled drafted classed and ordered out and served two months as a Sergeant under Captain Manning and Major Edgar at Elizabeth Town.  In the year 1777 he was ordered out and served four months as a sergeant under Captain Manning Major Edgar and Col. Cron at the Woodbridge Station guarding the lines and watching the enemy - then on Staten Island. In the year 1778 he was ordered out and served four months as a sergeant  under Captain William Manning and the same field officers near Elizabeth Town and Woodbridge performing similar services - during this period he was at Monmouth Battle not in the battle....
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....was engaged in that vicinity.  In the year 1779 he was ordered out and served four months as a sergeant under Captain Davis Dunham Major Edgar and Col. Cron and was stationed at Woodbridge and guarding along from Blazing Star around the mouth of the Raritan River.  In the year 1780 he was order out and served four months as a sergeant under Capt. David Dunham and Lieut. James Dunn and Col. Cron and was in the Woodbridge Station guarding in the lines watching the -?- -?- of their enemy and confident he was not much more and served more than two years but cannot make particularly specify  - and  -?- the services above set forth he was wholly engaged in the service of his country and was not engaged in any civil pursuit and for the services claims a pension.
John Martin

Sworn and subscribed this 
twenty seventh day of June
AD 1833 before me.
   Peter P. Runyon Justice of the peace

Middlesex County
     Personally appeared before me Peter P. Runyon one of the Justices of the peace in and for said County John Bray who being duly sworn deposeth and saith the the above named John Martin was a soldier attached to a company in which I was Lieut. in the year 17767 an on expedition to Long Island under the command of Col. Nath'n Hease for the purpose of disarming the Tories and that he served until our return again in New Jersey being five weeks.  And that he was a soldier in a Minute Company that I raised in the year aforesaid at Raritan Landing for about the space of two months and from the best information I have had he is a man of respectability and truth and I believe he served during the Revolutionary War was stated.
John Bray

Sworn and subscribed
before me the 27 June 1833
   Peter P. Runyun Justice of the Peace
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I Nicholas Booraim Clerk of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas of the County of Middlesex do hereby certify that Peter P. Runyon is a Justice of the Peace of the saiid County ofMiddlesex duly commissioned and that the signatures purporting to be his in his his own proper hand writing.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this twenty seventh day of June in their of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty three.
      N. Booraim clerk
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Martin, John       Private          Lamb's Artillery
                                                   (New York)

7517                        July 28, 1790
                           to G.H.V. Wagenen, assignee